The Sixth Valley of Tubo, or the Sixth Valley of Tubo that was later formed, was named after the valleys south of Liangzhou City, where six rivers originating from the Qilian Mountains flowed.
These six rivers rush down from the Qilian Mountains, bringing abundant water sources for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry to the territory of the Liugu Department.
The erosion of rivers has carved out valley plains hidden in the mountains in this multi-valley area.
The six rivers from south to north are: the flood source valley where the Gurang River is located.
The Huangyang Department where the Huangyang River is located.
Zhulu Department where Zamu River is located.
Yangfei Valley where Jinta River is located.
The Zhao family tribe where Xiyinghe is located.
The Zongge tribe where Dongdahe is located.
Among them, the Shen family in the Yangfei Valley, the Zhao family in Xiyinghe, and the Han clan in the Zongge tribe in Dongdahe are the descendants of the Longyou soldiers in Hexi Province.
Of course, the Liugu tribe south of Liangzhou is the Liugu tribe in a narrow sense. They occupy this land with rich water and grass, and because they are relatively close to Liangzhou City, they often use these Liugu tribes instead. All the Mo Mo tribes.
The complete Sixth Chapter of the Momo actually also includes the Momo tribe in the Hehuang Valley, that is, the Shan, Kuo and Hesan prefectures where the Longyou Jiedushi is located.
This large land is home to more than 600,000 people of all ethnic groups. Together with the most representative Liugu tribe, they are collectively known as the Liugu tribe of Tubo.
In the future, Zhebuyou Longbo, Panluozhi, and Jisiluo all emerged from this fertile land.
In the Daliu Valley tribe, in addition to the powerful Shen family of Yangfei Valley, Zhao family of Xiyinghe and Dongdahe clan, there are also Zhang family, Ma family, Xing family, Lan family and Wang family.
As well as the Du Lun, Su Lun, Cui Yan and other tribes that were more severely Tubo-ized.
They have associated their family's Han surname with Tubo official positions, so apart from their bloodline, they may have been completely Tuboized.
At the same time, it was only when Zhang Zhao came to this era that he realized that Zhang Yichao's report to the Tang Dynasty that he was a descendant of the officers and soldiers of Longyou in Hexi Province who were trapped in Tubo in the past was not nonsense.
Because we cannot only regard these families with Han surnames as the descendants of the officers and soldiers of Longyou in Hexi Province according to the understanding of later generations.
Because at that time, the Tang Dynasty was a world empire. This is no exaggeration at all.
Among the soldiers of the Tang court in Longyou, Hexi Province, in addition to the Han people, there were also a large number of Tuyuhun people who were called retreating Hun people, Tubo people who took refuge in the Tang court, Yangtong people, Qiang people, Dangxiang people, etc.
They are all descendants of the soldiers of Longyou in Hexi Province, otherwise they would not bear the title of Amo people, who represented the servants and slaves of the Tubo Empire.
The Tubo people in the real snow-covered plateau would definitely not call themselves Amo.
Therefore, Zhang Yichao said that the war was formed after the soldiers of Hexi Longyou captured Tubo. This is not an exaggeration, but a fact.
And do they recognize themselves as Tang people? In fact, I admit it.
In the fifth year of Huichang in the Tang Dynasty, that is, in AD 845, the Tubo noble prime minister Shanzhou Jiedushi envoy Shang Nujiu and the Luomenchuan attack envoy discussed the fear of heat war.
Discussing the fear of heat caused the six tribes in the end to be subordinated, and Shang Mingnuo spread the word about the Huihehuang Valley and Liugu tribes, and discussed the sins of fear of heat.
He said: "You are people from the Tang Dynasty. If Tubo has no master, then you should return to the Tang Dynasty together. Don't be hunted like foxes and rabbits for fear of heat!"
That is to say, the maidservant Shang said to the Liugu tribe, you are originally from the Tang Dynasty, but now Tubo has no master (weak), why not return to the Tang Dynasty quickly, and stop being servants and minions like foxes and rabbits for fear of heat!
As soon as the proclamation came out, all the tribes in the Liugu tribe who followed the theory of being afraid of heat gradually ran away.
At that time, there was a stalemate between the fear of heat and the maidservants of the Shang Dynasty. If the Liugu tribe didn't think in their hearts that they were from the Tang Dynasty, they would never run away.
So looking at it this way, it seems that after the defeat of Lun Kere and Shang Nunuo, the return of the Liugu tribe to the Tang Dynasty seems to be a foregone conclusion.
The Tang court only needed an edict and a little comfort, and hundreds of thousands of people from the Liugu tribe in the Aimo area went to Hu and returned to the Tang Dynasty. It was a matter of course!
Moreover, the Liugu tribe was hard-working and good at fighting, and they still remembered their homeland after decades of being conquered by Tubo. The Tang court appointed its loyal people as Jiedu, governor, etc., so the northwest region would be as stable as Mount Tai, and they could even recruit people who were good at fighting to strengthen the imperial army.
If Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty had a Shence Army dominated by the Liugu tribe, he would not have been repeatedly insulted by Li Keyong and Li Maozhen.
Li Maozhen's unexamined sentence was widely circulated by public opinion. What happens from now on? But he pressed Zhaozong's face to the ground and trampled on him.
So why didn't Li Tang convert the sons of soldiers from Longyou, Hexi, who had been under Tubo rule for decades, to return to the Tang Dynasty?
This is the result of the combined effect of the Tang Dynasty's kings who had a shallow vision and no imperial spirit since the Anshi Rebellion, as well as the PTSD caused by the feudal towns and the special political structure of Liangzhou.
The political situation in Liangzhou has always been very strange. The largest population here is the Momo people, but they do not have much political and economic power.
Politically it was controlled by the Han people in Liangzhou, and its economy was controlled by the Sogdians who were transformed into Tubo.
Historically, the Guiyi Army actually took control of Liangzhou City after driving away the Tubo people. However, in view of the disaster in the vassal town, the Tang court was afraid that a huge Hexi Longyoujie town would appear to the west of Chang'an, so it made things difficult for them at every turn.
Although from the perspective of later generations, this was Tang Ting's sincerity that failed the Guiyi Army, but in this era, Tang Ting's actions are understandable.
Even if Zhang Yichao is a loyal minister and is extremely loyal to the country, what about Zhang Huaishen? Where is Zhang Huaiding? And what about other powerful figures in the Guiyi Army?
The Tang Dynasty, which was on its last legs due to the separatist feudal rule, could not afford the emergence of a large feudal town in Longyou, Hexi Province.
So in addition to transferring 2,500 Yunzhou troops to Liangzhou from the territory of the Tianping Army Jiedushi, the Tang court also strongly supported the Momo people around Liangzhou to cause trouble for the Guiyi army.
But it's a pity that they only knew that Aomo was a local snake in Liangzhou, and that he was brave and brave. They never thought that this was a group of people who longed for the court's comfort, but were sensitive and didn't know where to go!
These officials and Tianping soldiers sent by the Tang Dynasty did not regard the Fumo people as their own people at all. They always regarded them as miscellaneous barbarians and Tubo slaves.
If necessary, they can be encouraged to cause trouble with the Guiyi Army, or even start a rebellion. If nothing happens, they can shout around.
After the Guiyi Army was driven away, the Liangzhou officials of the Tang Dynasty paid no attention to the Liugu tribe. They were busy occupying the hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land and pastures around Liangzhou that had been vacated after the Guiyi Army retreated, and even called them "Momo" to their faces. People are Tubo slaves.
But having not received the slightest comfort and receiving no bullshit benefits, he started to let himself go.
Originally, they had been in Tubo for decades, and they had only the last glimmer of hope for Tang Ting.
Now that the Tang court does not care for them, they are neither Tubo nor Tang people, and for a while they have lost their sense of belonging.
From then on, various tribes began to merge rapidly and unite with each other. They no longer wanted to be loyal to the Tang court, and they even began not to regard themselves as Tang people.
After being released, the various ministries of Fumo attacked and killed court officials, robbed passing merchants and even tribute envoys from the rebel army and Ganzhou and other places going to the court, cutting off the connection between the court and Liangzhou, and increasingly becoming an important factor in Liangzhou's instability.
In view of this situation, in the eleventh year of Xiantong, Zhang Yichao, who was in Chang'an, wrote to Tang Yizong.
At the end of the period, the common people were originally trapped in Longyou in Hexi Province and lost their sons. The country abandoned them and refused to accept them, and they became tribes. Yesterday I had to untie my braids and had to caress them softly. How could I turn the rice beams of foxes and rabbits into thorns for jackals? '
As the great hero who regained Hexi, Zhang Yichao certainly knew the actual situation in Momo and the consequences of the imperial court's neglect.
However, Tang Yizong and the courtiers were worried that Zhang Yichao was thinking of continuing to fight for Liangzhou with the imperial court, so Tang Yizong used words such as "temporary expediency" and "not a permanent system" to prevaricate Zhang Yichao.
Zhang Zhao didn't know how his great-grandfather would feel after receiving such an answer. Anyway, after this, the situation in Liangzhou took a turn for the worse.
After completing the grouping and self-identification of the ethnic group, the six tribes of Ammo often cut off the communication between Tang Ting and Liangzhou.
In the end, they directly entered Liangzhou City and killed Lu Pan, the Tang Dynasty's Lingwu Jiedu envoy and Liangzhou Jiedu envoy. The Yunzhou Tianping army had to cooperate with Fu Mo, and both sides controlled Liangzhou.
If Zhang Huaishen, the second governor of the Guiyi Army, had not captured Liangzhou again and suppressed the Shoumo forces back to the Liugu tribe south of Liangzhou, the Yunzhou Tianping Army and their descendants would have been in decline long ago. melted.
It is pitiable, hateful and pathetic. Later generations still know that Anxi's Baifa soldiers also know that Zhang Yichao defected to Hexi and returned to the rebel army as the Northwest Guzhong.
But the descendants of the officers and soldiers of Longyou in Hexi Province could only carry their identities as Tubo slaves and disappear completely, and no one would remember them anymore.
. . . .
To the north of Liangzhou, Mingwei garrisoned the fortress. This place was about 20 miles south of Minqin County, Liangzhou in later generations, and about 100 miles away from Liangzhou City.
It was now the end of August, and Zhang Zhao stayed in Baitinghai for almost a month before packing up his army and heading south to Mingwei Fort.
The reason why Zhang Zhao was so cautious was to find out the situation in the Liugu Department of Ammo.
He now has 7,000 troops, of which at least 5,000 are standing troops. When he was in Anxi, Li Shengtian in Khotan used the whole country to provide this. After returning eastward, Zhang Zhao was responsible for it alone.
If Liangzhou cannot be completely controlled, it will be impossible to support the five thousand standing army.
Rushing into Liangzhou City can indeed convince people with your strength, but it is not that easy to completely control it.
Because Zhang Zhao wanted not only Liangzhou, but also Shan, Kuo, He, Lan and other states within the scope of Longyou Jiedu.
"Military envoy! Cao Wantongxi, the leader of the four Sogdian surnames in Liangzhou, has arrived outside the city!"
While Zhang Zhao was writing and drawing on paper and asked Guo Tiance to compile the comprehensive information and analyze it himself, Murong Nobunaga came in and made a report.
"Military envoys, Li Jianhou, the official of Liangzhou, Liu Shaoyan, the ambassador of Hexi Jiedu Yamen and Duzhi, and Cui Huxin, the Ya soldiers of Hexi Jiedu, all know that Cui Huxin has come to see us!"
"Military envoys, Shen Zhihai, the leader of the Yangfei Valley in the sixth phase of the Qi Dynasty, his son Shen Nianban, Zhebu Jiashi, the chief leader of the Hongyuan Valley, etc., are here to see us along with Master Shanyuan of Dayun Temple in Liangzhou!"
Before Murong Nobunaga went down, Li Cunhui also came in.
Everyone's faces suddenly lit up with joy. The three major forces in Liangzhou, the Han people, the Sogdians, the leaders of the Mo Mo, and the transcendent Buddhist representatives all came. It seemed that the time for Zhang Zhao to conquer the forces in Liangzhou was not far away.
"Let's go, put on full display, let all the soldiers be dressed in armor, and let's go together to welcome him!"
Zhang Zhao stood up with a big smile. He was going to greet him. It sounded nice, but in fact he wanted to show off his strength.
Outside the Mingwei Fort, the natives of Liangzhou, led by Bai Congxin, were stunned as soon as they arrived in front of the fort.
In front of them, there were at least three to four thousand troops outside the Mingwei Fort, and they were clearly arrayed in armor.
On both wings were elite horse archers wearing green leather robes. They all rode horses with the tips of their ears pointed toward the middle.
The horse has a strange appearance that is a bit cute, and its body has a streamlined shape that is very suitable for running. The inverted triangle muscles on its chest are very obvious. It is obviously a very good war horse.
The green leather robes of the horse archers are half open, so you can clearly see the black painted armor underneath.
The ones on the left are all wearing Chinese-style chain mail, and the ones on the right are all wearing Persian-style chain mail.
All the horse archers are holding a very strange kind of spear with a cylindrical tip, a saber on the left, and a horse bow on the right. They are all very sophisticated and well-maintained weapons.
In the middle of the horse archers is a large phalanx of heavily armored soldiers. The left formation is wearing iron armor, all painted black, and the red rope piercing the armor leaves is particularly conspicuous.
The soldiers held long spears, and most of the people in the front row carried two bows. They were filled with fine iron arrows from Hu Luli.
The weapons of the right formation are similar to those of the left formation, but the armor is a kind of superior armor that looks lighter. There are little golden lights flashing on the armor surface, as if it is a kind of bubble nail.
As a veteran of Hexi Jiedu Yamen, Cui Huxin also discovered that there were no soldiers with double bows behind them, and almost everyone had a horn bow and crossbow.
Obviously, regardless of their melee capabilities, this group of at least 1,500 soldiers must have terrifying long-range strike capabilities!
Thousands and five hundred soldiers! It seems that light armor is more precious than iron armor. Cui Huxinzhi heard that only the elite Jiedu Ya soldiers from the Central Plains can achieve this kind of fully armored soldiers.
The whining horn sound sounded, and the Liangzhou natives who were shocked beyond measure suddenly discovered that under the various horn sounds, the horse archers on both wings first drove their horses and spread out to both sides with beautiful little steps.
Then the soldier in the middle slowly moved to both sides, leaving an eight-person wide passage in the middle.
The reason why it is so clear that it is eight people wide is because at that width, eight people could stand side by side.
There was no sound of drums or horns as these soldiers moved, and Cui Hu was deeply shocked again.
He didn't know anything else. He only knew that the armored soldiers on the opposite side would definitely be invincible in battle. They could move without horns and their formations would not be chaotic at all. This was the first time he had seen them so far.
After the soldiers stepped aside, a conspicuous red color suddenly appeared in front of everyone. This red color was divided into two groups.
On the left hand, he holds the shining Mo Dao. The tip of the Mo Dao sparkles in the setting sun.
The one on the right is holding a very strange long-range weapon that looks like a crossbow or a bow.
"櫜鬬 clothes, this is 髜鬬 clothes!" Liu Shaoyan suddenly shouted out.
Next to him, Shen Nianban, the eldest son of Shen Zhihai, the leader of Yangfei Valley, looked at Liu Shaoyan curiously.
"Old man, what do you mean by 櫜鞬 clothes?" Old man does not mean father in later generations of Sichuan and Chongqing colloquialism, but refers to an old man.
In the past, Liu Shaoyan would not have been able to say a few words in anger, but this time he was no longer in the mood to care about it. He sniffed his sore nose and sighed with emotion in front of his fingers.
"Look at the boys, have you seen the red foreheads and red robes on their bodies? With the lower body hakama slaves, black patent leather boots and arrow bag, this is the dress of my Tang Dynasty! How does it look good?"
Shen Nianban wanted to say it didn't look good, but the majestic red warrior uniform and the shining cold sword shocked him deeply.
As a teenager, he thought deeply, even imagining in his mind that he must be the most powerful man in the Liugu tribe when he puts on such a majestic military uniform.
Moreover, in this era when dyeing is extremely difficult and most people live in black and white, it would be against your will to say that this kind of red uniform does not look good!
Just as Shen Nianban nodded, he suddenly saw that his father beside him had straightened his eyes. Shen Zhihai didn't notice that his son was looking at him, because there was a buzzing sound in his mind.
Shen Zhihai suddenly remembered that many years ago, when he was a child, his grandfather had to wear a Tibetan leather robe with the right hem, but he always liked to talk to himself next to him, and sometimes he would use a kind of She looked at him with unclear eyes.
The past events of decades ago and the look in his grandfather's eyes became clear in Shen Zhihai's mind.
He trembled his lips and said the words he often heard his grandfather say when he was a child, "China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia, and because of the beauty of uniforms, it is called Hua."
Liu Shaoyan heard this, Li Jianhou heard it, and Master Shanyuan of Dayun Temple in Liangzhou also heard it.
The three people turned their heads in surprise, and for the first time they took a serious look at Shen Zhihai, whom they regarded as a slave of Tubo. An unknown emotion jumped among the four of them.
Boom! Boom! Neat footsteps sounded, and everyone in Liangzhou discovered at this time that the elite warriors wearing red scorpion uniforms also separated to both sides. In the passage they gave way to, a total of 500 armored cavalry appeared.
The armored knights wore black armor, each armor leaf was carefully taken care of, and the horse's vest was also woven from fine armor leaves. Both men and horses had visors, with only two pairs of eyes exposed.
Moving slowly, like black clouds in the sky, they were pressing towards everyone.
This kind of tall war horse, with a shoulder height of more than five feet three inches (1.65 meters), is the best armored riding war horse and is extremely oppressive.
And among the hundreds of black armored knights, two knights wearing golden armor were holding a dilapidated Tang Sanchen flag and a dilapidated banner in front of them.
A golden god general wearing dazzling golden armor, a golden phoenix-winged hood on his head, a golden Vajra visor on his face, and holding a horse spear, slowly moved forward alone.
"preparation!"
"preparation!"
"preparation!"
Strange words and strange intonations suddenly sounded, and the soldiers on the opposite side began to slightly raise their heads and look at the sky.
Everyone in Liangzhou couldn't help but look at the sky. The setting sun had already set, and a little bit of residual light shone on the horizon, making the whole thing look a little dark.
"Let it go!" came a loud shout!
put? What to put? Zhebu Jiashi, who was completely shocked and felt like a bumpkin, shook his head in confusion, not knowing what this meant.
Sudden! He saw the most shocking scene in his life!
While the final sounds of the words were still flying in the sky, the strange spears in the hands of those horse archers suddenly sprayed out golden flames.
They intertwined countless golden fire dragons in the mid-air, which were brilliant, fiery and gorgeous, and the world seemed unreal for a moment.
Zhebu Jiashi's legs softened and he fell to his knees with a thump. He didn't even feel his knees being scratched by sharp stones.
Shen Nianban beside him didn't fare much better. He sat down on the ground and started breathing heavily.
The sound of reciting Buddha's name came from beside him. Zhebu Jiashi looked up and saw that it was Master Shanyuan of Dayun Temple who was clasping his hands and chanting the Great Sun Tathagata's Purifying Mantra in a low voice and quickly.
However, Master Shanyuan closed his eyes and seemed to be swaying a little.
"Isn't it possible that God Haotian has arrived? Or perhaps Emperor Xuanyuan, the supreme emperor, is here! Is a born saint the one who can relieve my daughter Zang Li's misfortune?"
The person crawling on the ground and roaring wildly was Li Jianhou, the patriarch of the Guzang Li family.
Emperor Xuanyuan was the emperor posthumously conferred on Laozi by Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty. The royal family of Li and Tang Dynasties originated from Longxi, and people from generation to generation had married with Hu people.
After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, they were afraid that others would say that the Li family was a barbarian, so they simply recognized Lao Tzu as their ancestor and directly promoted this great thinker to the high position of emperor.
The Li family in Longxi of the Tang Dynasty came from Li Jianhou's aunt, Li family. Naturally, her aunt Li family also recognized Laozi as their ancestor.
After a while, the sky full of silver flowers dissipated, and a young man in white robe galloped from a distance, with a very elegant white horse and silver spear.
He held the somewhat old Sanchen flag, and thousands of soldiers collectively chanted "Wind!" '
"The Vice-King of the Great Treasure of the Great Jin Dynasty, Ju'er Khan of the various tribes in Anxi, who conquered Suiye, Ningyuan, Hezhong, and Tianzhu and returned to the rebel army, Zhang Jun, ordered me to welcome you all. Please come with me to see you!"
Frightened to death, Zhang Zhao had seen for the first time today what it felt like to be frightened to death.
After he finished this 'welcome ceremony', before both parties arrived at the Mingwei Fortress, Li Jianhou, the head of the Guzang Li clan, ran over crying to save Zhang Zhao's horse's leg, eh! No, he hugged the legs of Zhang Zhao's horse and burst into tears.
"It has been one hundred and seventy years since Liangzhou fell into Tubo in the second year of Guangde. Day and night, we have been waiting for the troops from heaven to arrive, like a baby waiting for its parents.
In the early years of Xiantong, Guzang Li family welcomed Zhang Taibao to Liangzhou for the first time. In the fourth year of Qianfu period, they welcomed Zhang Situ to Liangzhou. Today, the old man welcomes Zhang Junjun to Liangzhou again. He does not avoid the swordsmanship, but only hopes that the Nine Bends of the Yellow River will return forever. Chinese! "
Upon hearing this, Zhang Zhao quickly got off his horse and helped Li Jianhou up.
In the early years of Xiantong, Yizong of Tang Dynasty, Guzang Li welcomed his great-grandfather Zhang Yichao to regain Liangzhou for the first time.
In the fourth year of Emperor Qianfu of Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Huai, the second envoy of the Guiyi Army, went deep into Liangzhou. Although he was a member of the Li Tang clan, his sincerity can be seen from time to time.
"Again and again, but not again and again, Li Weng asked, unless all seven thousand soldiers like Zhang Zhao are killed in battle, no one will be able to take Liangzhou from us again, and the Nine Bends of the Yellow River will return to the Han Dynasty forever! "
"Descendants of the Tianping Army in Liangzhou, respectfully invite Zhang Jun's envoy to enter the city to show off the glory of our Han family!" Liu Shaoyan pulled Cui Huxin to his knees in confusion.
"The four Sogdian surnames in Liangzhou welcome the Great Khan to the city!" Cao Wantong was almost paralyzed with fear. When he thought that he had tried to bargain with such a person who had thousands of soldiers, his legs suddenly softened and he knelt faster. !
"Hongyuan Guzhebu Jiashi respectfully welcomes Zhang Jun's envoy into the city!" Zhang Zhao did not expect that the Tubo Zhebu family, who he thought would be the strongest opposition, would kneel down so quickly.
You must know that historically, the Zhebu family, also known as Zhebu Jiashi, was the first person to unify the Liugu tribe.
It was also in his hands that the Central Plains Dynasty completely lost control of Liangzhou, but unexpectedly, this guy was actually very excited about Zhang Zhao's arrival, the kind of yearning and excitement he felt when seeing a tyrannical leader.
"I dare to ask Ambassador Zhang, you are here on behalf of the imperial court. If so, may I ask the imperial court whether we are Tang children or Fan slaves? If not, may I ask Ambassador Zhang, how should we be dealt with?"
However, the father and son of the Shen family of Yangfei Valley, who were Han Chinese, did not kneel down to invite Zhang Zhao into the city. It seemed that Shen Zhihai was still a little resentful.
Zhang Zhao took off the bag on his head and stretched out his hands to take Shen Zhihai's hands.
"Look, Mr. Shen, the people in front of you are all the survivors of the Tang Dynasty who were trapped in Anxi and the river in the past. In terms of suffering and resentment, who can suffer more than the descendants of the four towns of Anxi?
An isolated city thousands of miles away was filled with white-haired soldiers. They defended Anxi alone until all their parents and ancestors were reduced to a wave of dust, and until not a single one of the hundreds of thousands of brothers and sisters was left alive.
But they never ask others whether they are Tang'er or a slave, because each of them knows in their hearts that they are Tang'er!
Shen Weng, are you willing to join us and be a Tanger who knows where you came from and where you are going? "
Tears suddenly burst out of Shen Zhihai's eyes. He held Zhang Zhao's hand and knelt down with his legs.
"Shen Zhihai in Yangfei Valley, please ask Commander Zhang to lead us to return to the Han Dynasty. Not only my Shen family, but also hundreds of thousands of ownerless souls in the Hehuang land, please Commander Zhang to save them together!"
