Three days later, Guo Song personally led an elite army of 60,000 people to march northward to Yunzhou. He appointed commanders Yao Jin and Li Bing as his left and right deputy generals, and Ma Weijiang as the rear army general. This expedition was also followed by Kang Bao
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The 60,000-strong army was all on horseback, and the logistics team consisted of 13,000 camels. The team stretched for more than ten miles, with flags fluttering and overwhelming, as the army marched all the way north.
This day was the 18th day of June in the fourth year of Zhenyuan. It was the day of great heat. Fire fell from the sky and the heat was unbearable. However, the 60,000 Jin troops followed the King of Jin on the expedition without hesitation.
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At present, the two major forces in the grassland, Sijie and Uighur, are fighting against each other. There are also some smaller Tiele tribes who are also fighting against each other, such as Dubo in the north, Xiugasi further north, Guligan near Beihai, and Pugu further east.
, Ba Yegu and Shiwei, etc.
The Uighurs and Sijie are bounded by Wudetun Mountain. Sijie lives to the west of the Wudetunshan Mountain. The Uighurs control the east of the Wudetunshan Mountain. Several major river systems in the Mobei Grassland are distributed in the territory of the Uighurs.
Controlling the richest grasslands and the richest pastures.
The Wudeshan Mountains are today's Hangai Mountains. They stretch for thousands of miles and have towering mountains. However, after hundreds of millions of years of weathering, there are more than a dozen large and small canyon passages in the Wudeshan Mountains, some of which are hundreds of miles wide.
, the smallest one is only a hundred feet long, and the narrowest point is even a sliver of sky.
This morning, a dusty team was passing through a canyon. This team consisted of more than a dozen people, each wearing ragged clothes and with tanned faces. They were leading more than 20 horses, which were loaded with luggage.
The luggage also looked old and dirty, it had not been washed in I don't know how many years.
This is a typical team of gold diggers. There are many such gold diggers on the Mobei grassland. They come from various ethnic groups, including Han, Tiele, Khitan and even Sogdians, with the majority of them being Han.
They moved around the grasslands, and without supplies, they made a living by stealing the sheep of the herdsmen. The herdsmen on the grasslands hated them so much that they were driven away wherever they went.
This gold mining team is the scout team led by Zhang Yun, pretending to be a gold mining team. They have been on the grassland for nearly half a month, and they have almost become a professional gold mining team.
There is indeed an old gold customer in their team, named Liu Ting, who is from Daizhou and claims to be a descendant of Liu Wuzhou. He is about fifty years old and has been gold mining for almost thirty years. He has a warm and hearty personality and is a short middle-aged man.
young man.
He is very famous in the grassland, and the gold diggers on the grassland call him Lao Ting. He is well-informed and has rich experience.
Of course Liu Ting wanted to help the Jin army. His only son served as a brigade commander in the Jin army. When the governor Li Dian found him, he agreed without hesitation.
"Guess, what is the biggest threat to the gold diggers? Let me tell you, it is not illness, prairie cavalry or the like, but wolves. Half of the gold diggers were eaten by wolves, not even the bones and dregs were left, so the gold diggers tried their best to
Form a team, with more than a dozen people like us being the most, and try to walk as close to the mountains as possible, and immediately flee to the mountains when encountering them. Although wolves can also go up the mountains, they are not as fast and fierce in the mountains as in the grasslands.
If you encounter a wolf on the road, no one will survive."
Liu Ting was very talkative and taught them all kinds of wild survival experiences along the way, which greatly benefited the scouts. Zhang Yun even decided to find someone to record Liu Ting's various experiences after returning. It would be very useful to the scouts.
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"Lao Ting, it's getting dark soon, let's camp!" Zhang Yun said with a smile.
"Okay here, light the bonfire and let's roast the yellow sheep!"
Today they hunted a yellow sheep. Everyone was so greedy that they waited for dark to barbecue.
The yellow sheep had been skinned and cleaned by the river. The people cut off the meat with knives and roasted it on the fire. They also drank the milk wine in large gulps.
While he was enjoying his meal, Liu Ting suddenly shouted: "Everyone, be quiet!"
Everyone fell silent. He listened carefully for a moment, then his expression changed, "No! The wolves are coming. Run up the mountain quickly, quickly!"
"What about the horses?"
"Leave the horse alone and run away!"
The bonfire lit by everyone was close to the mountain rock. He pulled out his knife and cut off the reins, then climbed up the mountain with all his strength. The war horse neighed in fear, turned around and ran wildly. In the blink of an eye, a pungent wind blew in his face.
I saw dense black spots rushing towards me, and there was a faint green everywhere.
There were thousands of wild wolves. They rushed over at lightning speed, rushed past the campfire, and chased more than a dozen horses. At this time, several horses were overtaken, and they neighed a few times before making no sound.
Liu Ting did not look back, and just urged them to escape to the mountain. A dozen horses were not enough for the wolves to fill the gap between their teeth. They would definitely come back, and they had to climb over the mountain before they came back. This was their only chance to survive. The wolves
Not knowing how to climb over the mountain, a dozen horses bought them half an hour. It was up to them to see if they could seize this short opportunity.
They climbed to the top of the mountain before stopping to take a breath. They were at least five or six hundred feet away from the valley.
"Do the wolves know we are climbing the mountain?" Zhang Yun asked.
Liu Ting nodded, "Of course I know. The general listened carefully and they have returned."
Everyone held their breath and listened carefully, and saw low roars coming from the valley, and the bonfire they had lit had been extinguished.
"Lao Ting, how did they put out the bonfire?" a scout asked curiously.
"They are very smart. I have seen it with my own eyes. They left a horse corpse and dragged the horse's hooves over the bonfire, and the horse put out the bonfire."
"Look! They're going up the mountain." A scout shouted pointing down.
Under the moonlight, you can clearly see dense black spots running towards the mountain.
"Don't worry, it's not their territory once you cross the mountain. They usually won't cross the border. Let's go!"
Everyone crossed the ridge and walked to the other side of the mountain. After walking for more than two hours, they finally descended from the east side of the mountain.
They had just walked less than a mile when the rapid sound of horse hooves came out in the distance, and then hundreds of black shadows appeared, surrounding them.
"It's Uighur riding!"
Liu Ting quickly told everyone: "They won't kill the gold diggers. Everyone, calm down and I will deal with it."
At this time, a captain stepped forward and shouted: "Who are you? Are you spies of the Tang Army?"
"How can we be spies? The spies of the Tang Army will not be as miserable as we are. I am a gold digger. Haven't you heard of me?"
Liu Ting spoke fluent Huihe, and the captain looked them up and down. They were all dark, thin, and in rags. They did not look like Tang army scouts, but just a group of gold diggers.
"Where are your horses?"
"We encountered a wolf. If we come over the mountain, the horses should be eaten clean by the wolves."
The captain laughed and said, "I was also talking about how those wolves ran so fast. It turns out it's you. Yes, you are very experienced. It just so happens that our Khan is looking for some Han people. It will be your luck to meet you."
The commander ordered: "Take them to the tooth tent!"
More than a dozen people were dragged onto their horses one after another, surrounded by Uighur cavalry, and galloped away to the east.
Zhang Yun never dreamed that he would actually come to the royal court of the Uighur people and see the legendary Bali City of Hanerduo. The royal court of the Uighur people is located on the bank of the Salingshui River, surrounded by layers of tents, with a radius of several dozen.
Ten miles away, the center is the royal city, but the Uighur Yazhang is not in the royal city, but next to the royal city. It is a large egg-shaped white tent, covering an area of several acres, and is surrounded by countless cavalry guards.
‘Woo——’
A low horn sounded, and a huge team came slowly. Countless people ran out of the tent and crawled on the ground.
The cavalry teams escorting Zhang Yun retreated one after another. They straightened their chests, clutched their spears, their faces were solemn, and their eyes shone with reverence.
Zhang Yun also guessed that this must be the Huihe Khan.
This is the new Khan of Huihe, the Zhongzhen Khan, who has been on the throne for less than half a year.
The team walked in slowly, and groups of neatly armored cavalry passed by in a row. They held spears in their hands and wore black iron armor, looking murderous.
After three thousand cavalry passed by, the chariot of Huihe Khan finally appeared. It was a wooden-bottomed chariot, five feet long and three feet wide, with eight pairs of large wooden wheels underneath and thirty horses in front.
A war horse draped in gold pulls.
The entire chariot is paved with gold and silver, and is studded with precious stones. It shines brightly in the sun and is very luxurious and dazzling. There are ten warriors in golden armor and spears standing around the bottom floor. It is divided into three floors. Huihe Khan
He sat on the highest seat.
The Uighur Khan is called Doros, he is about thirty years old, his face is pale, he holds a golden wolf-head scepter in his hand, his eyes are cold, like a sculpture, without any expression.
Not far behind him, there was an even more splendid chariot, which was only slightly smaller than the Khan's chariot. It was covered with colorful silks and satins, and at the top was a light gauze curtain, in which a woman seemed to be sitting.
"That is Princess Ye of Uihe, the granddaughter of Pugu Huaien."
Liu Ting lowered his voice behind Zhang Yun and said: "This woman has great power in Uighur. The alliance between Uighur and the Pugu tribe relies on her to connect."
Zhang Yun nodded. At exactly this moment, Uighur Khan Doros saw Zhang Yun. He raised his hand and the team slowly stopped.