"Drive! Drive! Drive! Kill! Kill all these Tatars! The Yueshi are the real masters of this grassland!"
The northernmost part of the Tatar grassland, because it is close to the Western Region and is also close to the Great Yueshi, has always been the place where troubles are most likely to occur. The Tatars here are not as scattered as in other places.
On the contrary, along the northern border of the Tatar grassland, there will be a Tatar tribe of ten thousand people every hundred miles, which serves as the defense line of the Tatar grassland and also serves as the first line of defense against invasion by outsiders.
The tribes that were originally divided here undoubtedly had the most miserable life in the entire Tatar grassland.
Since the water grass here is not fertile on the grassland border, it also makes it difficult for the border tribes to feed themselves by grazing.
Each tribe is also extremely poor. If it were not assigned here by the royal court, no tribe would be willing to take the initiative to station here.
After all, in addition to the hardship of life, they also have to constantly guard against the invasion of foreign enemies, which also makes them feel haggard.
In this direction, there is only one person that can be called a foreign enemy by the Tatars, and that is the Yuezhi who were driven out of the grassland by the Tatars.
Before surrendering to Yunzhou County, the Tatars and Dayue clan had already fought a war.
Although Dayuezhi was defeated, the Tatars did not have a hard time. It can be said that they suffered heavy losses. This also led to the lack of military strength when they attacked Yunzhou County and their defeat so quickly.
Both sides, who were afraid of being injured, undoubtedly started to recuperate and recuperate in a tacit understanding. This was the case for Tatar and the same was true for Da Yueshi.
It's just that their methods of recuperation seem to be somewhat different.
The Tatars went south and wanted to make up for their wounds and losses by plundering Yunzhou County and even attacking the Song Dynasty. The Da Yuezhi advanced deeper into the Western Regions. The Kushan cavalry swept through small countries and absorbed their population, slaves and wealth. Food to repair one's own wounds.
There is no doubt that Da Yueshi succeeded, but Tatar failed, and even lost himself.
However, the Tatars, who received the support of Yunzhou County, then benefited from the convenience of mutual trade and began to quickly recover from their wounds. However, the cattle, sheep, and horses of their border tribes were much less than those in other parts of the grassland due to territorial reasons. In terms of mutual trade, Naturally, I suffered a loss!
However, these tribes were not stupid. They quickly thought of a good way based on the mutual market and their position, so that they became a middleman.
They first exchanged the donated cattle and sheep for the right to trade.
Then use this qualification to buy things from the exchange market.
What they bought was not cotton clothes, charcoal fire, or even food.
Because they are on the grassland border, they will not actually suffer too much white disaster, and their demand for these things is not high.
The only thing necessary may be tea. After exchanging a small amount of tea in the mutual market, these tribes exchanged a large amount of exchange qualifications for green salt, snowflake salt, and even porcelain.
Then they transported these things to the Western Region, yes, the Western Region!
Of course, they can't go in openly. After all, it can be said that it is the territory of the Great Yueshi. But the Western Region is so big, it is impossible for the Great Yuezhi to place guards everywhere. These tribes stay at the border all year round, so they naturally know where to go. Sneak in.
So naturally, they slipped into the Western Regions with the salt and porcelain obtained from the mutual market.
And these two things are undoubtedly treasures in the Western Region!
Not to mention porcelain, since the passage from the Central Plains to the Western Regions was blocked, exquisite porcelain from the far East has become a famous product only in the hands of the royal families of various countries.
It can be said that every piece of porcelain is priceless.
Due to the terrain, the Western Region is extremely short of salt.
Except for a few salt wells, most people in the Western Regions eat a salty stone. This stone can replace salt, but it is poisonous, but people cannot live without salt.
Therefore, even if they knew it was poisonous, the people in the Western Region could only eat this. Only the royal family and the big nobles could enjoy the good salt produced in the salt wells. The small nobles and wealthy households could only use the salty stones as seasonings like the common people, or else We can only hope that the above can sort it out this year.
So when the Tatar people came to Yiwu with their faces covered and displayed green salt and snowflake salt, they immediately caused a sensation.
And these goods immediately brought them a lot of benefits.
Among them, porcelain was replaced with a large amount of gold and silver.
They used the gold and silver exchanged for these goods to purchase horses, cattle, sheep, and even pepper and other spices in the Western Regions, and then supplied them to Yunzhou Prefecture.
So of course they expanded the amount they could purchase.
As a result, these tribes on the border will become extremely rich every once in a while.
During this period, countries in the Western Regions had some crooked ideas.
It's a pity that they don't know that these are not lambs that can be robbed at will, but hungry wolves!
When they showed their ferocious faces, these Tatars also showed their fangs.
So the evil-minded person failed.
The Tatar tribe on the border made a good living by relying on the business of reselling goods.
Until that day, at dawn, the Maka tribe was suddenly attacked by masked men. They rushed into the tribe in groups and killed everyone they saw!
Although their faces could not be seen clearly, the people of the Maka tribe immediately determined from the words they spoke that they should be members of the Da Yuezhi.
"The Da Yueshi's bastards are here to kill us! Let's fight with them!"
They had expected the current situation at the border. Although it was sudden, they were not surprised.
The Khan of the Makha tribe quickly formed his own bodyguards and gathered personnel to organize resistance. On the other hand, he sent people to the rear to send messages to the rear as usual and also asked for help from the surroundings.
Because they are on the same border, the tribes divided into the border have made an agreement to form an offensive and defensive alliance. If one tribe is in trouble, other tribes will immediately come to rescue.
It is through unity that they can survive in this border area.
But soon Maka Khan discovered that the Great Yueshi cavalry this time was a little different from the previous ones. First of all, their horses were not the Dawan horses currently used by the Great Yueshi, but the same short-legged horses as on the grassland. , although the words they shouted Da Yuezhi were very stiff.
The most important thing is that even the Da Yueshi don't have so many iron weapons, but this cavalry actually has them all!
All-iron weapons also mean that their weapons will be suppressed by the opponent.
Sure enough, soon, some warriors of the Maca tribe armed with bronze weapons and bone clubs were completely unable to match the cavalry armed with iron weapons, and the battlefield quickly fell into a disadvantage.
Seeing this situation, the elders and nobles of the Maka tribe told Khan to retreat quickly. They themselves were obviously not the opponent, and they wanted to preserve the vitality of the Maka tribe first.
Maka Khan agreed obediently, but just when they were about to retreat, they suddenly found that they were blocked by the same masked cavalry behind them.
"Kill them all! Don't let anyone escape!"
The leading knight spoke harsh Yuezhi words and launched an attack on them.
There were wolves in front and tigers behind. The Maka tribe was obviously completely surrounded by the opponent. Maka Khan felt helpless, and then waved his scimitar and shouted:
"Kill! Fight with them! Even if you die, you have to take a bite of their flesh!"
As the saying goes, a sad army will win, but that is when the strength is not much different.
Although the desperate charge of the Maka tribe caused a lot of damage to the cavalry, they were still defeated. After killing all the people of the Maka tribe, the masked cavalry quickly cleaned up the scene and removed the possible He quickly cleaned up all the exposed things and left the place quickly.
When the troops from other tribes arrived at the original location of the Maka tribe, they only saw ruins and the corpses of Maka tribesmen all over the ground!
There was not even a single person left alive!
However this is only the beginning.
Since the beginning of the Maka tribe, the same incident happened four more times in the next half month!
A total of four medium-sized tribes with a strength of 40,000 people were exterminated. Finally, this aroused the attention and panic of the border tribes, who quickly reported the matter back to Yunzhou City.
At this moment, in Yunzhou City, Zhao Jun had just returned from fishing with the prince when he saw that his new concubine, the princess of Yelang Kingdom, was waiting for him in the front yard!
After thinking about it for a moment, Zhao Jun understood why the other party was here. He raised the corners of his mouth slightly, said a few words to the prince brother, and the two parties parted ways.
Then Zhao Jun strode towards his newly adopted little wife.
I guess I finally couldn't bear it anymore.
He originally thought they could endure it for a while longer, but he didn't expect to look down on them.
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(End of chapter)
