"Jia Qi! Jia Qi! These Tang dogs have Jia Qi, we have been fooled!"
Shimili was being chased and had no choice but to form an array against the hills beside Manaizi Hu, hoping to fight his pursuers.
What made him vomit blood was that as soon as the pursuers saw his formation, they blocked him from all sides and then did not move forward.
They attacked, but the organization on the other side retreated. They wanted to leave, but the other side surrounded them again.
They continued like this without fighting or walking for about an hour, when the danger suddenly came.
As the shouts of Tang Dog's armored cavalry rang out, Shimili looked to the west in horror on the hill, and his heart dropped to the bottom.
In the distance, as Tang Dog's unique conch horn sounded, a Tang armor rider appeared wearing white cloth-covered armor, a double-layer composite iron stomach on his head, and holding a gun more than ten feet long.
Looking from a distance, under the sunlight, the metal nail caps on the silver-white armor stomachs of the armored knights reflected bursts of dazzling golden light.
The red tassels on the iron stomach are fluttering in the wind, and are extremely conspicuous by the silver-white armor stomach. It is like a tall bush with red flowers on its head, rising and falling with the strong wind.
Although there were only two hundred riders on the opposite side, Shamili knew that his side was doomed.
On the grassland, armored cavalry is actually not terrible, because it has a shortcoming, that is, although its explosive power is excellent, it cannot last long without endurance.
In layman's terms, if you encounter armored cavalry, you can't defeat them, but you can run away, and you can even tire them to death.
But once the armored cavalry has light armor and unarmored cavalry like Tang Dog today, it will be the representative of invincibility.
Shi Mili looked back at his side. Most of them were unarmored cavalry...well, maybe it would be better to call them armed herdsmen. Not to mention that he only had more than 4,000 cavalry. Even if he had 8,000 cavalry, it would be difficult to stop him. Live the opposite thunder blow.
Ta-ta-ta!
Three war horses galloped towards Shimili and the others. One of the horses was not carrying a heavy armored cavalry, but a monk wearing plain white robes. What he held in his hand was not a long hard bow, but a silver-white pole. A large flag embroidered with golden swastikas.
This silver-white-gold swastika flag is the symbol of the Six Dharma Sect. Only when a monk of great virtue or above is present, such a flag can be flown in the team.
The other two cavalry were escort cavalry wearing light armor.
The monk continued to gallop until he was only a hundred steps away from the front row of Shamili's cavalry, and then he stopped.
Then he raised his feet and stood up on the horse stirrups very lightly. The horse did not move or even neigh. The man and the horse worked together in perfect harmony.
"In response to the Supreme Wisdom and Perfect Dharma King of Heaven and Earth, His Holiness, Kindness and Mercy, I have pity on you who have gone astray. At this time, you have to abandon your weapons and dismount. If you know you have returned from the lost path, you can still be saved by the Supreme Heaven. Those who persist in not understanding will surely enter the eighteen levels of endless hell. !”
It turned out that they were here to persuade them to surrender, and they were very useful. When the white-clothed monk said this, the cavalrymen from the first few tribes looked at me and I looked at you. Many of them actually put down their weapons, rode their horses aside, and then Dismounted.
In an instant, the front row of Shamilili began to become confused. Some who wanted to surrender or convert had already begun to dismount, but their relatives or tribesmen were unwilling, so disputes immediately broke out, and there were even some who would not deal with them on weekdays. , taking this opportunity to curse.
In the chaos, a trusted confidant suddenly rode forward, ran thirty or forty paces, and rushed straight towards the monk in white. The guard next to the monk in white was already prepared.
Before Shi Mili's cronies could get close, the cavalry guards blocked him diagonally. He opened his bow and fired two arrows, one of which hit accurately.
But the confidant also had armor. He used his superb riding skills to get rid of the interception of the escorting cavalry, and endured the severe pain as he approached the white monk.
However, the monk in white didn't panic. He planted the silver and gold swastika flag on the ground and sat back on the horse to explore for something. Shimili's cronies seized the opportunity and shot out an arrow.
Ding dong! Phew!
The henchman shot the monk in white clothes, but the monk in white clothes roared angrily and only shook a few times. It turned out that the monk's clothes also had armor inside. The blood stained the monk's clothes red, but the injury was not serious.
Almost at the same time, the monk in white finished his roar and took out what looked like a crossbow.
With a "boom" sound, the machine gun sounded, and the confidant was accurately shot.
This time, the armor he was wearing could no longer protect him, because it was a divine arm bow, and the distance between the two sides was only thirty or forty steps, so it would be impossible to withstand it without wearing three layers of armor.
Blood was splashed all the way, and the war horse, which had lost control of its owner, screamed in panic and gradually ran away.
This time, everyone was startled, and some small tribal leaders who were not very firm in their stance realized in horror that if the supreme monk who preached the Dharma was shot to death, they would not be allowed to be buried with him.
As a result, things immediately changed dramatically. A large number of secret cavalrymen who were originally being chased and had nowhere to run took the initiative to surround the white monk to prevent anyone from coming up to assassinate him.
The situation on the battlefield also became more chaotic. It didn't look like a war, but more like herdsmen attending a local shooting ceremony.
"Pei Tongyuan, go in person and lead the cavalry straight to the core of the enemy's cavalry on the hill!"
Lu Sanlang looked at the secrecy flag on the mountain with a sinister look, and continued to issue orders.
"Yin Li's left wing Qian Hu and forward Qian Hu surrounded them from both sides to ensure that they could not escape.
Bathimianqi's personal guard Qianhu was ready to pursue.
I personally went into battle, and all the hussars followed a certain family. After the hussars opened the gap, they all chopped Shimili, the one who carried the Buddha, into a pulp! "
The general of this cavalry team of nearly 4,000 people was the unsatisfactory Lu Sanlang. Who could tell him that he had been a traitor.
Zhang Gao didn't have a bad feeling towards Lu Sanlang, but other members of the Donggui Sect were unwilling to contact him, which made Lu Sanlang unable to get ahead.
So when Bai Congxin and Huang Yingda were ordered to go to the grassland to 'transmit the Dharma', Lu Sanlang also went with him after begging Zhang Yan.
Among this cavalry team, the only real Zhou army cavalry were the 200 valiant cavalry who were considered armored cavalry by Shimili, and the 400 light armored hussars who had always been the main force of the assault.
The rest of the unarmored and light armored cavalry are all Nipu Yinli Khan, the prairie cavalry under my command, Zhang Shengren.
Zhang Yan planned to build 120,000 grassland households, but now, 40,000 households have been built in Bashmi, Yinli, Naiman, and Xiajiasi in the west, and 40,000 households in the lower Khitan tribes in the east, a total of 50,000 households.
The people being pursued by them now are those who are not willing to surrender from the Meiliji tribe, also known as the Merqi tribe and the Zubu tribe.
These people were a major force on the grassland. Forty years later in history, the Khitan people's palace of Zubu was established based on them.
But now they have become the most determined tribe on the grassland to fight against the Six Methods Sect.
Because before that, they were devout Buddhists, the same as the Khitan people.
After Bai Congxin, Huang Yingda and others went to the grasslands to help 'transmit the Dharma', the most intense resistance they encountered was not those herdsmen who still believed in primitive animism, nor those who believed in Nestorianism, Manichaeism and other religions. Sectarian.
On the contrary, those who had believed in the Buddha before were extremely hostile to the teachings of the Six Dharma Sect, thinking that they were distorting the meaning of the scriptures.
All right! Kafirs can convert, but heretics must die, right?
After Lu Sanlang finished setting up, he was ready to go, but the head of Qianhu who was guarding Qianhu by Bathimianqi beside him was not happy.
As the first grassland people to seek refuge with Zhang Xiang, the Bashmi people had the highest status among the grassland peoples of Zhang Xi, which could almost be regarded as a dualistic empire.
Not only did Zhang Yan have many Basimi guards, palace servants and even eunuchs around him, but among the 120,000 households, only the Basimi Ten Thousand households were given the title of Personal Guard Ten Thousand Households.
Anqi means hunter in the ancient Turkic language. It comes from this cavalry of thousands of households. In the battle of Zhang Gao's expedition against the Gaochang Uighurs and Huangcaobo's defeat of Saktu, he made great contributions as a large army to explore the cavalry army, and was called The honorary title added.
Even after that, the entire Anqi guard family was given the surname An, and all officers above the banner chief (fifty household chiefs) were given the surname An.
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The remaining warriors who performed meritorious services were allowed to choose surnames among Han surnames such as Liu, Li, and Wang.
When it comes to integration, naturally the big Han surnames such as Liu, Li, and Wang are more suitable. If you choose a small surname, people will know where it comes from, which will affect the effect of integration.
In addition, these grassland ethnic groups also like people with the surname Li and Liu.
Lu Sanlang snorted coldly. He knew what the Anqi Qian household leader was thinking. Didn't he just think that he was a close associate of the Khan and should not accept the command of a low-status general like Lu Sanlang?
Lu Sanlang didn't say much, and directly put his hand on the Yuci Hengdao at his waist, and then stared at the Anqi Qianhu head with his hawk-like eyes, and cursed in his heart.
'Damn it, Huang Yingda can command you, but I can't, right? I am a descendant of the four towns of Anxi who followed the saint back east. '
Being stared at by someone like Lu Sanlang was still very stressful. Anqi, the head of the Qian household, hesitated for two or three breaths, then looked at the Khan-given sword on Lu Sanlang's waist, and finally lowered his head. He bowed his hands and accepted the order and left.
This situation often occurred after Bai Congxin and Huang Yingda arrived on the grassland.
Because the tribes on the grassland recognized the brand name Nipu Yinli Khan, not Emperor Shaoming of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
And Zhang Yan now does not have enough benefits and deterrence to make these grassland tribes surrender to him like they surrendered to Tang Taizong.
Bai Congxin said in his secret statement to Zhang Yan that if there were no Six Methods Sect as the binding agent, he would not be able to succeed.
Either Zhang Hao would have to lead his troops out of the fortress by himself. Either the Zhou cavalry must first defeat the 30,000 households of Bashimi, Xijiasi and Naiman, otherwise they will definitely not cooperate.
And now that 30,000 households are so cooperative, the Liufa Sect has played a very important role.
Because it allowed the grassland tribes under Zhang Gao to find the greatest common denominator between them and the Han Dynasty, and they could barely become a family in their hearts.
When Shimili saw the hundreds of people who quickly changed their stance on the hilltop, his nose became crooked with anger.
He roared and loudly ordered his personal guards to attack, to punish those traitors who dared to change sides in front of the formation.
It seems a bit unclear, but in fact there is nothing you can do about it.
These tribes, when the Khitans were strong, accepted the leadership of the Khitans to a certain extent.
After the Khitans were defeated in succession in the Central Plains, they stayed in Hangai Mountain for a generation, preparing to accept the arrival of the new boss.
As for why it is necessary to find a boss, can't you just do it yourself?
In fact, it is not possible. It is bitterly cold on the grassland and there is basically nothing except cattle and sheep.
From ordinary wheat beans, iron pots, and cloth to more luxurious flour, refined salt, sugar, tea, and even more luxurious brocades, porcelain, and various spices, these all come from outside.
At the same time, the animal furs, various medicinal materials, and even live cattle, horses and sheep that they themselves could not use up all needed to be consumed by Han.
So unless they were willing to live like primitive humans, there was no way they could isolate themselves and just herd.
In the past, when the Khitan people were here, these were all taken over by Khitan merchants and Han merchants living in the Khitan country. Now that the Khitan people are gone, they themselves have to worship new masters.
Of course you can grab it, but if you can't beat it, there's nothing you can do.
But no one thought that with the new master, there would be Six Methods Sect, which would end their lives!
Prairie men are generally a bit of a bastard, and they belong to a very small minority.
Zhang Shengren understands this very well. The Mongolians in Hohhot, Baotou and other places are no different from the Han people. Those who cheat and rip off customers are completely experienced, and there are many such people.
But in Aershan, Hailar and other places, there are many more honest people.
When talking, you can feel a sense of simplicity and honesty, and his thinking is completely in a straight line, so that you can quickly guess his thoughts, but if he gets angry, he will express his anger very strongly.
Once the grassland aristocrats and common people of this kind became devout believers in the previous Buddhism and encountered the current sect such as the Six Methods Sect, which has indeed greatly changed the Buddhist scriptures, their resistance immediately arose.
They can't figure out the rest, but they can keenly feel that there is something wrong with your Buddhist scriptures!
But no matter how powerful a person is, can he survive a sword? Therefore, Shi Mili must immediately stop the rebellion of those tribes.
If he didn't express his position, these thousands of people who had gathered together just because they refused to convert would be scattered immediately.
However, he had just given the order, and before the cronies around him were dispatched, they heard horns blasting in the distance, drums shaking the heaven and earth, and two hundred Tang Dynasty armored cavalry with white armor and red tassels began to form a formation and move forward slowly.
Shimili didn't dare to punish the betrayers now. He quickly ordered the messengers to pass on the order and let the horse archers distributed on both wings harass them. Don't let these armored cavalry run away.
Although hundreds of knights rebelled, Shimili's control was still good. After receiving his order, at least a thousand knights rushed out from the front, spread out like a big net, and surrounded the trotting armored knights. past.
Lu Sanlang snorted coldly, "Order Anqi's personal guard Qianhu Chang to send out three hundred hussars to attack and drive away those annoying flies!"
The head of Anqi Qian's household was not very happy at first, but this time he saw that Lu Sanlang still relied on them to clear the way for Jia Qi, and he immediately became happy again.
He drew out a shining Persian scimitar and shouted loudly behind him: "Disciples of the Supreme Heaven, the bravest eagles of the Great Khan, attack!"
The soldiers behind him let out strange screams like apes and wild wolves, and immediately rushed out.
These Bashmi people accumulated a large amount of equipment during the rise of Zhang Yan.
They are currently the only two thousand-household hussars among the 40,000 households in Moxi. The remaining ten thousand households have at most two or three hundred households of hussars.
The so-called hussars are cavalry who do not wear pierced armor or cloth armor, but only wear light ring mail or cowhide armor. Their main fighting method is to rely on the explosive power of their horses and charge forward to fight with carbines and sabers.
Therefore, the most critical equipment of the hussar is not the light armor on the body, but the war horse under the crotch.
These war horses are third- and fourth-generation mixed-bred folded horses bred by Hexi Xiedan, Guzang and other military horse farms. Although the weight-bearing capacity is a little different, the biggest advantage is that they have very good instant acceleration capabilities.
In the distance, the unarmored cavalry of Shamili were still shouting and provoking back and forth around the slowly trotting knights. Sometimes they shot a few arrows and missed, and sometimes they looked like they were about to pounce on them.
Soon, they also saw three hundred Bashmi hussars surrounding them, but these Bashmi hussars were not nervous.
Because the two sides were still far apart, they were even in the mood to scold those guys who believed in evil spirits.
However, before they had finished scolding them, they suddenly heard the sound of fierce horse hoofbeats, and saw the cavalry on the opposite side suddenly seemed to take off, rushing towards them at an extremely fast speed.
In an instant, the Bashmi hussars increased their speed to the maximum, and at a distance of two to three hundred steps, they gave the opposing horse archers a small surprise.
Just like a cheetah chasing a herd of antelopes on the grassland, the Bashmi hussars had a clear goal and caught up with the target very quickly.
In panic, the arrows fired by the Shimili horse archers were basically inaccurate. Even if they were accurate, the soft arrows fired by the horse bows without the speed bonus of the war horses could not penetrate the light armor of the Basimi hussars.
With only one attack, more than a thousand military archers were beaten and scattered all over the ground.
At this moment, the two hundred knights also entered the position where they began to accelerate.
An overwhelming barrage of arrows were shot at them, but they caused almost no damage. The cloth-covered armor lined with fine steel sheets was simply not something that six or seven Dou Ma Bows could break through.
Eighty steps! The charging distance is up! Pei Tongyuan held high a silver-white flag to mark the direction of attack for his soldiers, and then there was a neat shout, and two hundred armored cavalry rushed forward.
The horse's hooves pushed the soil on the ground into the air, and the horse's sharp blade reflected a frightening silver light.
The Shimili cavalry who had been shooting around them immediately moved away from the road and retreated to both sides, as if they were not here to block them, but to greet the two hundred Han family cavalry.
Shimili screamed, there were two thousand riders in front of him! However, no one dared to intercept him. They seemed to be waiting for him to be killed by these Tang people before they could take refuge without any psychological burden.
He didn't have time to give any orders, and he didn't have the determination to lead people to charge towards these armored riders. At this moment when he didn't know what to do, the two hundred armored riders rushed up the hillside, which was not too steep.
"Run!" Someone shouted. Before the four hundred hussars led by Lu Sanlang launched a charge, the ragtag group of soldiers under Shimili were defeated like a mountain.
