One hundred and seventy-one 50 strings turn the sound outside the plug
And two hundred miles north of Yuancheng, outside the pass, Huangyangyuan.
Looking north from the city gate tower at Huangyangguan, this grassland is undulating and soft as the back of a yellow sheep, hence its name. The bold herdsmen among the grassland people were greedy for the beauty of this piece of water and grass, and pitched their tents away from the city.
The place where the gate is closed is less than five miles away, and it is a distance that can be reached by trotting on horseback.
The soldiers at the border gate were strictly ordered not to go out to disturb the poor people on the grasslands. The soldiers on duty at the border gate often saw the daughter of a herdsman on horseback waving a sheep whip, with snow-white lambs surrounding her.
Among the sergeants, there were brave ones who were not afraid of Huangyangguan's whipping, so they also sent a whistle to the north.
Whenever the herdsman's daughter shyly turned her horse's head to drive the sheep to the north, there would always be a burst of laughter from the top of the city gate of Huangyang Pass.
The heavily armored general climbed onto the city gate tower, and the guards beside him cleared a path for him through all kinds of military equipment and debris defending the city.
However, since Huangyang Pass was breached last spring, this was the first time that the Yao people climbed onto the city wall of Huangyang Pass. The battlements were covered with arrow marks and knife marks, as well as the gray smoke and fire, even on the upper city.
The former soldiers had washed it once, and dried and black blood stains could still be seen in the gaps between the city bricks, which was enough to show how brutal the battle to siege the city in the spring was.
"General, you can find scattered rangers fifty miles further from Huangyang Pass in the north. These barbarians just went through a big battle in the spring. They abandoned Huangyang Pass and retreated north not long ago, but they never retreated far." The thin man next to him said.
Gao Mianhuang's staff officer was responsible for the geographical survey and marching reserve. He spread out a map next to the general wearing a visor and said, "Our southern camp is only fifty miles away from Huangyang Pass, and half of the scouts have already dispersed."
When we go out, the barbarians won't be able to escape their eyes even if the wind blows the tall grass."
"Spread them all out. Huangyangyuan is not a flat plain that can be seen for dozens of miles. Even if hundreds of scouts enter, it will be useless."
The tall and lanky staff officer saw the general lying down on the map and looking at it very inelegantly, so he also lay down and said, "General, the emperor's battle at Bingyuan City this spring, although it was a lose-lose outcome, in the end it was still
It is even harder for the barbarians to recover their vitality. The imperial court can easily raise 200,000 people from various states with a wave of their hands. However, more than half of the elite cavalry of all the tribes on the grassland were lost in the battle north of Bingyuan City. No matter how you look at the outcome, the outcome is still on the board.
Between five and five, why does the emperor..."
He didn't say any more, because the general was looking at his face through his visor.
In the north of Dayao, there were barbarians who had lived for generations for water and grass. People in the Central Plains laughed at them and called them barbarians, who wrapped themselves in furs for shelter, herded cattle and sheep to make a living, and drank blood from their hair.
There is no city on the grassland. The tribes divide the grassland according to the size of the population and power. All the barbarians live in tents next to their cattle and sheep. The most barren land in Jiangzhou can sow two crops of rice, while in the north
Even in the Huangyang Plain in the far south, one year of clearing and hoeing can only produce one season of millet.
In a bad year, the nobles on the grassland can still eat lambs and drink milk, but the poor herdsmen and slaves even use the oats that wild mice and horses eat to satisfy their hunger. A single winter can freeze to death a herdsman's livelihood.
With all the cattle and sheep, not to mention a precious slave, these desperate people had no choice but to go south in groups. Between starving to death and dying at the hands of the Yao people, many barbarians chose the latter to fight for their slim chance of survival.
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These bandits, who range from twenty to thirty to several hundred in number, are rumored to be full of people in southern towns.
The gold and thin silk of the earth, as well as women whose skin is smoother than silk, the gold and silver in an ordinary shop can be compared to the entire wealth of a great nobleman, all of which stimulate the nerves of these people whose eyes are so hungry that they turn green.
, they all took their horse-herding sticks, sharpened their rusty iron knives, and rode south.
Since the people on the grassland didn't care whether they lived or died, they looked for a way to survive on their own.
However, most of these longing prairie people were strangled outside the border by Dayao's cavalry. These bandits with few bows and arrows did not even have the bows and horses that the barbarians were good at. It took several days for slaves to ride for the first time.
They couldn't even loosen the reins on their horses and swing their swords, and the weapons in their hands couldn't break through the fine armor of Yao's cavalry. The Yao people even put armor on their horses! This made many herdsmen wearing Gebu clothes envious, and they were unwilling to accept it.
They died on the way south, and their heads were cut off and brought back to the frontier camp to be exchanged for silver rewards.
The remaining people luckily escaped being strangled by the cavalry at Yao's border and came to Yao's territory. The city protected by the city wall could not be attacked. These bandits had to loot the villages and towns that were weak and unable to defend themselves. Even so, many people
The income has far exceeded the pre-estimated estimates. If they can escape the pursuit of the state army and the border army and successfully return to the grassland with the wealth gained, the silk, silk, gold and jade brought back by the survivors will be enough for everyone.
The nobles were jealous when they saw it.
When these slaves and herdsmen stood shoulder to shoulder with the nobles on the grassland with the wealth they brought back from the south, the nobles who were enjoying roast lamb and kumiss in the big tent saw the silk, gold and silver worn by these people,
While jealous, he also had the idea of going south to plunder.
The enemies of the border cavalry were no longer the herdsmen and slaves who had no enough to eat. The barbarian cavalry wearing rawhide armor shot the wolf-tooth arrows made from wild wormwood at the unprotected throats of the Yao cavalry.
, and then brandished his saber, stared at the rain of arrows, and charged towards the Dayao cavalry, whose formation began to scatter. The cavalry, who were accustomed to killing herdsmen and slaves, had never seen a real barbarian cavalry, a prairie horse that was a head taller than their mounts.
He rushed into the formation effortlessly, and the swords of the barbarian cavalry on horseback slashed the throats of one person after another.
"According to the budget of the Ministry of Household Affairs, if the war continues until this summer, the expenditure on food and reserve forces will consume the national treasury's tax revenue for the next entire year." The general, who usually always says more words rather than less words, unexpectedly answered the staff officer's question.
Question, "Moreover, there are signs of spring famine in Jiangzhou this year. All the ministers in the court are worried about the emperor's Northern Expedition. Even if he and the barbarians are victorious, if the barbarians win, the court's gains will be limited. If it is really defeated,
Already."
The general stated a number categorically: "Ten years, within ten years, the northern states will be open to barbarian cavalry. Yao cannot afford to take such a risk."
The staff officer was also horrified. It was not that he was unaware of the news of the spring famine in Jiangzhou. It was just that Jiangzhou, which had always been so wealthy that it could use the financial resources of one state to exceed nearly half of the country's taxes in the Yao Dynasty, in people's inherent impression, it seemed that there would never be a famine.
, on both sides of the Longpu River, no matter how troubled times may be, they will not change the soft words of Wu Nong, the red-sleeved singer, and the babbling sounds floating in the sky above Wuhang City.
What made the tribal nobles on the grassland determined to form an alliance and go south was not only Emperor Yao's intention to conquer the north. In the fifth year of Emperor Lie's reign, a rare spring cold on the grassland that had not happened in a century froze to death almost the entire tribe's cattle and sheep, and there were no warm tents.
A considerable number of herdsmen and slaves also froze to death and suffered frostbite. The nobles with hundreds of households under their control could no longer receive support from the herdsmen.
The nobles at the top were also in a dilemma of not having enough to eat, and had to follow the example of the herdsmen and slaves and set their sights on the south.
The first to be breached was Huangyang Pass. This pass with a low wall held firm for five days under the attack of 20,000 slaves and herdsmen. There were 769 soldiers guarding the pass, including one captain and two
The captain fought hard and died, giving the army that rushed to Jinzhou time to breathe and gain a foothold.
"In this battle, Dayao suffered more than 40,000 casualties. Even the imperial guards and Jinwu guards guarding the capital were reduced in varying numbers. The barbarian cavalry was less than an arrow away from the emperor." The general stood up from the map.
Come and look to the north, "The emperor's ambition to conquer the north has not yet diminished, and the ministers in the capital and court are all frightened...,"
"General, general." The staff officer nearby lowered his voice and looked left and right. Seeing that the guards were dozens of steps away, he breathed a sigh of relief, "General, my subordinates, have you heard that the imperial court assigned the guards to the general outside?"
Death soldiers not only serve as guards, but if they have any inappropriate remarks, they must write them down and report them to the emperor."
The general under his visor seemed to be smiling: "If you are not a dead soldier who protects me, how can anyone complain about me to the ministers? Before you came to serve as a staff officer, the court might have found out what eight generations of your ancestors had done.
But your father, who is in the army and the head escort in the escort agency, asked you to study. Why did you come to the army to be a staff officer again? "
The lanky and yellow staff officer pulled at the loose light armor on his body, and rolled up his sleeves to reveal an arm like a hemp pole, "If these thin arms and legs really want to surrender to the army, they won't be hacked to death by barbarians in battle.
I have read many military books, just thinking that one day I can help our Yao have a better chance of winning on the battlefield."
"This winter, the barbarian cavalry will definitely appear under the city wall of Huangyang Pass." The general looked at a few black spots on the snowfield in the distance and said calmly, "The emperor's army has returned to the capital to rest, and the cavalry in the Jinzhou field battle
The army only has a meager 2,000 men, who are no match for the 1,000 mounted herdsmen."
The staff officer was worried about the remaining military strength of Jinzhou, "There are four battalions in Jinzhou, east, west, north and south. The northern camp has been overthrown by the northern barbarians. The remaining three battalions have less than 10,000 soldiers each, and there is not enough arrows, food, grass and medicine. Huangyang Pass
The city wall is short and not strong, so it can only rely on a few large cities to defend it, but the people in the villages and towns in the countryside will be displaced."
Bugles sounded from various military camps in Huangyang Pass, which was a daily drill. The staff officer looked under the city wall, and within a few breaths, the armored soldiers formed a formation with spears, spears and swords in their hands.
He was a scholar who could only talk about military affairs on paper. He could not lead the army to kill the enemy personally. He could only serve as a consultant to the general, but he also hoped that one day he could go into battle to kill the enemy.
It is indeed a blessing that my husband is Xu Guo.