When the first ray of dawn shone on the earth, the Usha tribe had already quieted down. The ground was covered with stiff corpses, with blood flowing everywhere and frozen into purple-black ice.
Some people were counting their property and food and taking away everything that was easy to carry away. Some people were burying their dead companions under the sandy slope. Some people were feeding the stolen camels and war horses with beans, hay and other collected concentrates. Others were Someone was screening the prisoners.
Not all of these captives from the Usha Tribe are the people of the Usha Tribe, some of them are plundered slaves. These slaves include Han people, Qiang people, people from the Western Regions, Sogdians; and even Xianbei people who belong to the same ethnic group, because they failed in the annexation battle and became slaves.
These horse thieves who attacked the Usha tribe freed all the slaves and gave them food, weapons, and women. After the slaves received the food, weapons, and slept with their mistress, they suddenly had the courage to resist. It was not that they did not dare to Resistance, but in the past he was weak and did not dare to resist, but now he has this gang of brutal horse thieves as his backer, so he treats his old master even more cruelly than the horse thieves.
These slaves soon figured out the origins of these people. They were two teams of horse thieves who were well-known far and wide: one was a Shanshan people with a long history, and it was said that they were descendants of the leader King Shanshan. This King Shanshan was not the real one. Tatsuya, instead, the Northern Wei Dynasty appointed Han Ba, King of Shanshan. After the Northern Wei Dynasty was divided into two, Tuyuhun took advantage of the civil war in the Northern Dynasties to occupy the isolated Shanshan. From then on, the descendants of Han Ba took their loyalty to them. The Shanshan people became horse thieves and continued to fight against Tuyuhun. Because they came and went like the wind, Tuyuhun was still unable to completely annihilate them.
Another group of horse thieves is a newly rising force. This group is mainly Han Chinese, well-equipped and capable of fighting. They appear to be horse thieves, but in fact they are the Guazhou Army sent by Mai Tiezhang, the general manager of Guazhou.
At first, Mai Tiezhang felt that the five thousand soldiers in Guazhou could not cope with the complex situation in the Western Regions. When Yang Ji arrived in Dunhuang and asked for an expansion of the army, Yang Ji asked him how to raise an army. His answer was to farm the fields on the one hand and pretend to be a horse thief on the other. After going to rob Tuyuhun and other countries in the Western Regions to expand his army, he asked 60% of the slaves handed over by the six major families in Dunhuang to cultivate 60% of the fertile land "donated" by the six major families. He hoarded all the food obtained, and then led his troops into Shanshan and started the horse banditry. career.
Since Wang Bian, the governor of Guazhou, had both military and political skills, Mai Tiezhang simply left all affairs of Guazhou to Wang Bian, and he became a horse thief wholeheartedly. Not only did he achieve the goal of using war to support war and using war to support the army, he also continued to Continuous fighting has tempered an elite division. Perhaps he was addicted to being a thief, so even when he confronted Tuyuhun in Yangguan, he continued to lead his troops as a thief himself. As for the defense of Yangguan, he left it to the deputy general manager Qian Shixiong.
As for how to create more trouble for Tuyuhun, Mai Tiezhang hasn't figured it out yet. He plans to make a decision after meeting Yang Ji. After all, the purpose of the Sui Dynasty is just to engage in an arms race with Tuyuhun and defeat Tuyuhun through a long-term confrontation. The people's livelihood, if he is exposed in advance, the battle between the Sui Dynasty and the taste will become clear, which will not be of any benefit to the country or himself. But if you find a descendant of Han Ba and cause destruction in his name, then there is no need to worry at all.
Tuyuhun is a tribal country like the Turks, and there are also great internal disputes; the original owners of Tuyuhun were the ancient Qiang people living here. After they were conquered by Tuyuhun, they were ruled for a long time, but in terms of population, they were far smaller than At first, the Xianbei people only had a few thousand households. Because of this, the Xianbei people were always prejudiced and wary of the Qiang people. Such differentiated treatment naturally caused conflicts between the main tribe and the vassal tribes, and between tribes.
If you can use your identity as a descendant of Hanba to expand the scope of destruction and allow more Tuyuhun tribes to refuse to save other tribes for their own selfish interests, it may be possible to ignite disputes among the Tuyuhun tribes and cause huge turmoil; in this kind of internal Under the unstable situation, Tuyuhun will not be able to let go of the war with the Sui Dynasty. This will not only facilitate the arms race, but also weaken Tuyuhun's war potential through civil strife and weaken the young Khan's little prestige.
In this way, before Tuyuhun resolves its internal disputes, the Liangzhou military can respond calmly and the pressure of confrontation is greatly reduced. If we think optimistically, Tuyuhun, which is besieged internally and externally and under great pressure, will break out into a great civil war and collapse into self-destruction.
Mai Tiezhang was originally a ruthless character who was not afraid of heaven and earth. Yang Ji gave him great authority and made up his mind. He discussed it carefully with Wang Bian and Qian Shixiong and finally decided to continue to use Mai Tiezhang, who was familiar with the situation. The leader of the horse thieves, and imitated Yang Ji's method of freeing slaves in the Great Lakes area to strengthen the team of horse thieves, and at the same time used these barbarians of mixed origins to conceal their true identity.
But even so, because this mission was different from the previous plundering of resources, Mai Tiezhang and others still did a careful job of keeping it secret in order to conceal the Tuyuhun spies. He first sent his son Mai Mengcai to discuss secretly with Sima Yinshi, the general manager's office. After obtaining consent for this matter, the 2,500 bravest and most loyal soldiers were re-selected from the army, and it was said to the outside world that they were to reinforce "Xizhou". The mission was not made public until southern Illinois.
The army climbed over the remaining mountains of the steep Mo Mountain (Kuluktag Mountain), and entered the north of the Sansha Desert from a place that the Tyuhun people could not imagine.
Mai Tiezhang was just like Yang Ji at the time. While annihilating the scattered tribes, he also inquired from various slaves about the location of Han Ba's descendants. After chatting, he found out that this leader named Han Liu was indeed a descendant of Han Ba. Mai Tiezhang originally just wanted to buy some war horses and camels from him, and exchange the robbed women for "naming rights." Unexpectedly, Han Liu heard that Mai Tiezhang was going to do some big business in Shanshan, and he immediately became interested. Not only did he half-sell and half-give away his war horses, but he also joined forces to make five of the property and women he grabbed.
Mai Tiezhang sneaked into Shanshan this time, hoping to turn him upside down. With the local snake like Hallyu joining in, there would be countless pairs of eyes and ears, making the success rate even higher. How could he not agree?
He agreed to Han Liu's request, and said very generously that the money, grain, and slaves would be increased to five. The cattle, sheep, horses, and women that he snatched would all belong to Han Liu. He was so happy that Han Liu patted the iron staff on the shoulder. Call "good brother".
So the real horse thieves and the fake horse thieves went hand in hand and joined forces to launch a bloody sweep of the Tuyuhun tribes in Shanshan.
"Hahaha, wowhaha..." Han Liu, who had a hairy face, was holding a Mo Dao, looking at the herds of cattle and sheep seized from the Wusha tribe, laughing loudly, and in the blink of an eye, he saw the chief and the leader's house again. The treasures found and the pretty women made me laugh again.
Mai Tiezhang, his second son Mai Zhongcai, Wang Bian's son Wang Jun, and Qian Shixiong's son Qian Jie stood not far away and whispered.
"Uncle, we always clean up some small tribes in Sansha Daqi, and the damage to Tuyuhun is really pitiful. We now have enough war horses, camels, and a lot of slaves. My nephew thinks we can go south. ." The gentle Wang Jun suggested to Mai Tiezhang.
"What do you think?" The three little guys followed Mai Tiezhang. The three fathers all hoped that their children would grow up in the war, so Mai Tiezhang did not say anything directly. Instead, he asked the younger generation for their opinions and was prepared to listen to them. opinions, good suggestions will be adopted, and shortcomings will be pointed out.
In fact, this method of leading the new with the old is one of the reasons why there were so many famous generals in the Great Sui Dynasty. First of all, the Great Sui Dynasty was not long after the founding of the country. Before the Great Sui Dynasty, there were hundreds of years of chaos and constant fighting between the north and the south. Therefore, the children of military families fought against each other. He practiced riding and shooting since he was a child, went into battle at a young age, and then spent the rest of his life fighting and being tempered into steel. As long as they are not dead, they can easily pick out a few generals who have fought in hundreds of battles.
For example, Yang Su, a disciple of a general, started fighting in his teens, and then fought countless battles throughout his life, eventually becoming a military god who made his enemies fearful. There are also Gao Jun, Han Qinhu, Daxi Changru, Helou Ziqian, Shi Wansui, Changsun Sheng, Tu Wanxu, Yu Juluo, Yu Wenshu and others. They are also "good at riding and shooting, good at reading military books, and followed the military in their teens." "My father joined the army." After decades of fighting, they were lucky enough to survive the war, and each of them became a famous general and marshal.
Mai Zhongcai looked at Han Liu who was laughing not far away and asked: "What should I do with him? Get rid of him?"
"Now is not the time to get rid of him, just because he has a lot of people and is familiar with Shanshan. With him, he can not only help us confuse the Tuyuhun people, but also be a real help. What I mean is that first Lead them to do it. When he feels that he is in danger, I'm afraid he will lead his people and run away without us telling them to break up. By then, it won't be too late for us to do it ourselves." Wang Zhao said this and looked at Shen Yibu. Mai Tiezhang spoke softly and asked, "What do you think, uncle?"
Mai Tiezhang said with a smile: "Although he is a bit stupid, he and his soldiers are very smart in fighting. I admire them all."
"Uncle, I think this man is a bit reckless, but he doesn't look like a fool. Is he willing to be an enemy of Tuyuhun?" Wang Zhao frowned.
"How could you not be willing?" Mai Tiezhang's eyes sparkled, he touched his chin and said with a smile: "As long as we fight a few good battles in the future, the huge profits will definitely make them lose their eyes, and wait until the Tuyuhun army is triggered When we pay attention, he can only follow us all the way to the end. He can't retreat even if he wants to, otherwise he will face the end of being annihilated by the Tuyuhun army. Moreover, Shanshan will belong to me sooner or later in the Sui Dynasty. How can we allow such a group of horse thieves to exist? ? We share weal and woe, and we have the responsibility to rescue them from the mud."
Mai Tiezhang said while walking towards Hanliu.
After a while, Hanliu ordered some wounded soldiers to escort cattle, sheep, horses and women, take the newly joined slaves, take away half of the property, and then rush towards their lair. As for himself, he led the other horse bandits towards Mai Tiezhang and dived deep along the edge of San Shao Da Moraine. The two groups of people were like two catfish rushing into a school of sardines and began their journey. The trouble-making journey!
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