Yang Jiyuan is in the middle of the Great Lakes region and does not even know the follow-up arrangements of the imperial court. Naturally, it is impossible to know the situation of Datong City in Ganzhou, Bujia Khan's army, and Qimin Khan's army; but he is very open-minded now, since he can't control the general situation. In the same city, there is no need to worry, just focus on wreaking havoc. If Bujia Khan's army really enters Ganzhou, then they will hurt each other and see who can withstand it first.
In the early morning of the second day after Duan Wenzhen defeated Tiele's army, Yang Ji got up early. Although he did not attack Ashina Huaide's defense line that day, he sent troops every night to try to exhaust the troops.
While confronting Ashina Wilder, they also sent troops to kill all the tribes south of Har Lake, Har Wusu Lake, and Dele Lake. Although Ashina Wilder issued an order for all to withdraw north, The herdsmen were reluctant to abandon their slow-moving sheep, and their retreat was very slow. Therefore, most of them were killed and robbed by the Sui army and the Xianbei people.
In fact, with the current strength of Yang Ji and Murong Yan, it is not difficult to break through Ashina Huaide's defense line. However, the news of Tan Khan Khan and Yi Shibo has not been received for a long time. Yang Ji is worried that his sudden advance will be too strong, resulting in Tanhan Khan, who had 60,000 troops, turned around and went south. The two sides fought in a lose-lose outcome. Xue Yantuo, led by Yi Shubo, would only be advantaged in vain. However, with the current strength of the Xianbei tribe, they could not resist the 150,000-strong control force. Once the Xianbei tribe is annexed to Xueyantuo, the vast, fertile and populous Great Lakes area will belong to Xueyantuo.
Xue Yantuo's power was not what Yang Ji wanted.
When Yang Ji walked out of the tent, Wang Xingben and Murong Yan, who had been ordered to rob yesterday, had returned in triumph.
Some people were counting the spoils, some were feeding the horses with beans, hay and other collected concentrates, and some were screening the prisoners.
These captives are not all tribesmen, but also many slaves. These slaves include Tiele people, Xianbei people, Western Hu people, Qiang people, and even some Han people. These Han people were captured during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The captives came as descendants of slaves. But no matter which race they belong to, they are all slaves who live worse than cattle and sheep, and live a very humble life.
Compared with them, the slaves in the noble families of the Sui Dynasty were simply like people living in heaven. This is because the nobles of the Sui Dynasty have already passed the bloody period of primitive capital accumulation. Although the aristocratic families are still as greedy as before, they all understand the principle of "fishing from the lake". They are eating fish and raising fish at the same time, and will not drain the fish pond. Drain the water inside.
For example, Yang Ji's wife Dugu Min was very good at winning people's hearts, and she would give small favors to slaves and tenants during every New Year and festival. If someone wants to get married, they only need to report to the palace, and she will not only approve it, but also give them a gift; if there is an old man in the family, they will give this old man a gift every year. It is under her careful management that Yang Jijia's "Wangfu Group" is very stable and united. If you give them citizenship, they may not be willing to leave the Wangfu. In the same way, all aristocratic families with a little foresight also do this, and "big fights in and small fights out", "chicken crows in the middle of the night" and other tricks to deal with slaves, aristocratic families have long disdained.
Compared with the Sui aristocrats, the nomadic aristocrats are still in the bloodiest stage of accumulation, and the plight of the slaves can be imagined. And some slaves who were originally enemies, wives and children of enemies, suffered even worse conditions. But masters should not expect these slaves to be loyal.
Yang Ji no longer kills slaves these days, but organizes them into a slave army, with Xue Ju, who can speak Turkic dialect, and the royal soldiers as the generals and generals. Even if some people dare not resist the old master, when they receive Food, weapons, and under the leadership of the brave, they all have the courage to fight.
What's more, the slaves who were abused by their old masters were alone before, but it didn't mean that they didn't want to resist. Now that they had the Sui army as their backers, they were even more willing to treat their old master cruelly than the Sui army.
In fact, when Yang Ji saw that his troops were gradually dwindling in the battle, he had long wanted to recruit an army on the spot in the Great Lakes area to serve as cannon fodder. However, in order to stay away from Bujia Khan's army, the army could not stop. There is no time to recuperate, how can we reorganize the slaves? Another aspect is the fear that these people will turn into deadly poisons.
Now that he had stopped, he tried it. After the first try, Yang Ji found that the effect was surprisingly good, so he boldly expanded the slave army; besides, his own people were the leaders, so he was not afraid of their rebellion.
After gathering over the past few days, the slave army already numbered more than 3,000 people. What's rare is that these people are not only capable of cavalry, but they are also strong men who have survived in a cruel environment. With a little training, they can become cannon fodder with strong combat power and cruel temperament.
After looking at the more than a thousand slaves led by Xue Ju, Yang Ji knew that the slave army had reached 5,000.
But compared with Bujia's soldiers, his own strength is still too small. It would be better if there were more slaves, which would also give him more fighting power when Bujia Khan returns to his army.
It has been a long time since they entered the Great Lakes region. Bujia Khan must have received the news, and he did not know when his army would come back. He would never be reckless, and he would not even think of Tan Khan Khan's 60,000-strong army. If you want to go head-to-head, let alone Bujia Khan who has hundreds of thousands of troops, there is no chance of winning against such a behemoth.
Therefore, Yang Ji only had one idea on how to deal with Bujia Khan, and that was to escape, huh? It is a strategic shift to fight guerrillas and carry out the spirit of destruction to the end.
"Your Highness, what kind of bird do you think this is? It's so interesting." Just as Yang Ji was wandering in the sky, Zhang Chuchen and Liu Rumei ran over excitedly. They stretched out their hands and held a snow-white bird on their palms. Son.
"Are you very free? You actually played with birds..." Yang Ji, who was looking at him, couldn't finish his words. He suddenly stopped there, speechless. The four snow-white birds in the hands of Zhang Chuchen and Liu Rumei turned out to be pigeons.
"These pigeons have been released and will come back again. Look, look!" Zhang Chuchen raised his hands upwards as if offering treasures, and the two pigeons immediately flew out, hovering above her head for a while, and then flew to her On top of outstretched hands.
She said with a bright smile: "I have never seen such a cute and well-behaved pigeon!"
"Where did the pigeon come from?" Yang Ji felt his heart beating wildly, and he was even more excited than seeing a peerless beauty.
"Zhou Li Commentary" records: "There are six animals, six beasts, and six birds in the palm of a cook." Zheng Xuan of the Han Dynasty noted that the "six birds" are: geese, quails, quails, pheasants, doves, and pigeons. This shows that as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, some people were raising six birds, including pigeons, as delicacies. "Yue Jueshu" during the Warring States Period contains: "There are flower pigeons in Shu, which are like spring flowers." This is the first time that the image of pigeons was described in vivid language. The earliest record related to "Flying Pigeons Chuan Shu" is during the Chu-Han Dynasty. At that time, Liu Bang was chased by Xiang Yu and hid in an abandoned well. Finally, he released a pigeon to ask for help and was rescued.
It can be seen that "flying pigeons to send messages" have been around since the Han Dynasty. However, because people have always been mainly for food and kept them in cages, the value of pigeons for sending messages has not yet been fully realized.
Yang Ji must have eaten it, but he had never paid attention to food issues, and there was no need to send messages across thousands of miles before, so he didn't think of developing the pigeons' messaging function. Now that he has lost all contact with the outside world, he thought of this section. , but it was obviously too late; Zhang Chuchen and Liu Rumei never expected that Zhang Chuchen and Liu Rumei would bring such a big surprise. Although these few could not help him deliver the message, the pigeons in their hands were obviously tame.
How could Yang Ji not be excited about this important discovery?
"The pigeons were sent by General Wang to make soup for His Highness." Zhang Chuchen reluctantly and pitifully said to Yang Ji: "Your Highness, the pigeons are so cute, why do you eat pigeons? Let's eat rabbits today, okay? ?”
"Okay, okay, don't eat pigeons, eat rabbits!" Yang Ji nodded repeatedly and asked, "Go find me the people who tame pigeons and eagles."
Generally speaking, people who tame birds can only be found in grasslands, and they mainly tame falcons, falcons, and eagles. Those three can not only be used as hunting tools, but also help them herd sheep and watch wolves, like pigeons. This kind of little thing is almost untamed by anyone, and Yang Ji never expected to encounter it today.
"I'm going to ask." When Zhang Chuchen saw that Yang Ji had promised not to eat pigeons, he gave the two pigeons in his hand to Yang Ji, quickly ran to Wang Xingben who was handing over the prisoners, and went to Xue Ju to say something.
Xue Ju loudly spoke to the slaves in Turkic dialect for a while, and soon more than a dozen slaves walked out of the queue, and then led by Zhang Chuchen, walked towards this side.
"Your Highness, these are slaves who tame eagles, thirteen people in total." Zhang Chuchen said.
Yang Ji was a little surprised by this number, but when he thought that Wang Xingben and the others robbed the herdsmen migrating to Dele Lake as a whole yesterday, instead of just a tribe, he understood a little and asked: "Do any of you speak Chinese?"
"General, I can speak." A Qiang man replied in Chinese cautiously.
"Do you know how to tame an eagle?" Yang Ji suddenly became interested. Messenger eagles may not be as popular as carrier pigeons, but in this era of raptors flying around, they are definitely safer than docile carrier pigeons. Ten carrier pigeons can have two or three It would be nice if they only reached their destination, but most of them were probably killed by birds of prey in the sky. Although the Faith Eagle cannot be widely used, it is safer than the Flying Pigeon, and it is flexible. If trained well, it can also be used as a reconnaissance aircraft and positioning system.
"Yes! I can tame hawks and falcons." The Qiang man glanced at the pigeons in Yang Ji's hand and continued: "I have also tamed these pigeons."
"What's your name? Where do you come from?" Yang Ji heard that he spoke fluently, not like a native of the Great Lakes area.
"Back to General, my name is Jia Wude."
Yang Ji was immediately happy. The surname Jia, and any nice-sounding and meaningful words after it, were completely negated by the surname "Jia". His "Jia Wude" was quite good. In other words, it was "really good". Virtue. But no matter how you say it, it sounds like a Han Chinese name.
Just listen to Jia Wude continue to say: "I am from Liangzhou, and I have made a living by training falcons for generations. More than 20 years ago, I heard people said that there are fine eagles and falcons here in Jinshan, so I came here to look for young eagles. , but I was captured by Ashina Zuowu. Since I can tame eagles, I specially helped him tame the war eagle. When the general attacked the Zuowu tribe a few days ago, I didn't know it was the Sui army, so I followed the tribal people. I ran to the north and surrendered when I saw the Sui army’s flag yesterday.”
"Jia Wude, right?" Yang Ji nodded and said, "I am King Wei of the Great Sui Dynasty. I don't care who you were or what your status was before. You are my eagle slave now. As long as you raise a large number of eagle slaves who know how to travel back and forth." The falcons, falcons, and doves, I will not only restore your citizenship, but also remember your great achievements. Of course, if you dare to lie to me, I will let you know what life is worse than death."
Jia Wude was surprised and happy in his heart. He didn't expect that he was so lucky. Not only did he meet the Sui army, but he was also valued by the Sui army's general and King Wei. He quickly patted his chest and said: "Your Majesty, please don't worry. I don't have any other abilities, but domestication In terms of birds, he is definitely no worse than the grassland people. I am currently taming eight eagles, two falcons, and a small golden eagle. These pigeons are just for fun. If your Majesty doesn't believe it, I can immediately bring the falcons to your Majesty. .”
"Okay, take them over to General Wang and show me all the things you have tamed." Yang Ji has seen falcons, but eagles have only been seen in TV dramas, and they are still dressed like eagles. people.
After a while, Jia Wude and the group of eagle slaves came back with their own works. The others brought eagles. In addition to eagles, Jia Wude also had falcons, pigeons, and eagles.
Jia Wude first pointed at the two falcons that were more than 20 centimeters high and said: "Your Majesty, these two gyrfalcons are the most precious jade claws. They were dedicated to Ashina Zuowu by Xianbei more than ten days ago. Tribute. Their beaks and claws are as hard as iron hooks, they fly fast and high, and they can catch swans, wild ducks, rabbits, roe deer, pigeons and other birds and animals."
Yang Ji found that the fur of these two falcons was pure white, with brown spots on their abdomens, and their white claws had a metallic texture. They seemed to be Haidongqing, whom Jiannu respected as a totem. These two falcons were not afraid of strangers either. , when they saw Yang Ji looking over, they stared back without fear.
"Is it such an exaggeration? You can even catch swans?" Li Daliang said with some disbelief.
Jia Wude quickly explained: "What this general doesn't know is that this kind of gyrfalcon is fierce and unruly. Even if it is caught, most of them would rather die than surrender. It is difficult to tame them. When they are caught, they are not allowed to sleep, and they are not allowed to sleep." Let them eat meat and only give them water to drink, so as to smooth out their viciousness before training can begin. These two gyrfalcons have not eaten for more than ten days, so they seem to be in low spirits now."
"You haven't eaten for more than ten days and you're still alive?" Li Daliang asked in surprise.
"The Gyrfalcon itself is a very rebellious falcon, and the Gyrfalcon with white jade talons is the top grade among falcons, so it's normal for them to be rebellious. But if you feed them now, they won't eat it. If this continues, At most, he will starve to death in two days." Jia Wude said with a pained look on his face.
"Have you been the one feeding it all this time?" Jia Wude's words reminded Yang Ji of Wu Zetian's horse training anecdote.
Jia Wude nodded and said, "Exactly."
"I'll give it a try." Yang Ji handed the pigeon to Zhang Chuchen and asked someone to bring in a sheep. He killed it in front of two gyrfalcons and golden eagles, then cut off a piece of meat and put it there. He just looked at the mouth of Gyrfalcon who looked like he was about to die.
"Your Majesty, they won't eat anything now. It's useless. You..." Jia Wude was about to persuade him, but his eyes suddenly widened with a look of disbelief on his face. I saw the gyrfalcon that wanted to die take the piece of meat from Yang Ji's hand in one bite, and then swallowed it.
"This, this, this, actually succeeded?" Jia Wude looked at Yang Ji and the Gyrfalcon in disbelief. His mind was in a mess. He had been fighting wits and courage with them for more than ten days. The Gyrfalcon couldn't be tamed, but he was exhausted mentally and physically. . But now, Yang Ji, whom he only met once, was bribed in the blink of an eye.
Seeing that it was effective, Yang Ji continued to cut and feed the meat, while the other Gyrfalcon seemed to be affected by the traitor companions, so it screamed "Yo yo yo~".
It flapped its wings desperately, trying to fly towards Yang Ji, but its feet were fixed to the wooden frame and it couldn't take off at all. Yang Ji looked over and felt a bit of pleading in the other person's eagle eyes. He couldn't help but laugh, and personally helped it unlock the locks on its feet.
"Flutter~" The gyrfalcon flew into the air dragging a long rope, fluttered its wings and landed on Yang Ji's shoulder.
Yang Ji quickly cut the meat to feed, and as expected, this one also ate it.
"As expected of Your Highness, you managed to tame two feral species so quickly." Li Daliang stretched out his hand to touch the gyrfalcon, but was pecked. Unbelieving, he cut the meat to feed it, but the gyrfalcon's head was twisted. One hundred and eighty degrees, I never paid attention to Li Daliang again.
He saw that Yang Ji was busy and the two gyrfalcons were eating with gusto, and he couldn't help but grinned and cursed: "Even flat-haired beasts are snobbish."
Yang Ji smiled but said nothing, thinking that if you strike first, our positions will have to be changed.
"Your Majesty, this little eagle has survived for more than ten days. Can you try to tame it?" Jia Wude happily sent the little eagle over.
Perhaps with the Gyrfalcon serving as an example, the little eagle was unexpectedly bought by Yang Ji.
Yang Ji asked: "What should I do now?"
"Your Majesty, they have already recognized you as their master." Jia Wude said with a bitter smile that was both happy and disappointed: "Gyrfalcons and golden eagles are extremely loyal. Once they recognize their master, they will always follow their master and cannot be driven away. This is still true. When the chicks grow up, the gyrfalcons are three to four feet long, while the golden eagles are even longer.”
"Can I let them go now?"
"That's it."
"Then let me try." Yang Ji couldn't believe it, so he released a gyrfalcon first, and saw the gyrfalcon flying freely in the air for a few times, and then flew to Luo Yangji's shoulder and kissed him intimately. Rubbing Yang Ji's face with the bird's head. Seeing that the effect was good, Yang Ji released the other gyrfalcon and golden eagle. They flew in the sky for a while, and suddenly swooped down like sharp arrows, killing the two pigeons huddled on Zhang Chuchenxiang's shoulders. He pecked it to death, bit it and flew towards Yang Ji as if taking credit for it.
"(⊙o⊙)" Zhang Chuchen was stunned for a while and said angrily: "Pigeons are so cute, why do you want to eat pigeons?"
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