Chapter 838 Subtle Changes
As soon as the sky dawned, the valley became lively.
People kept coming from all directions to bring groups of horses to the meeting place.
"The horses are well kept. They are almost foaming at the mouth." Qiao Tan picked up various horse gear from the ground and said casually.
"You only know how to run, but you don't know the suffering of the horse." The man who gave the horse caressed the horse's head lovingly and said.
The horse turned its head and nuzzled him gently.
Qiao Tan looked a little disgusted and cursed: "How many times have I gotten up in the middle of the night to feed your horse feed, but now you don't remember me. You are such a beast."
The herdsman laughed and turned around Gone.
A group of horses came from afar, bringing over the horses that had been raised for a day or two, and then taking away the horses that were exhausted after running for a long time.
Long-distance travel is like this. You can't go very far with just one horse. Even with two horses, there is a big gap in the mileage that can be covered on the first day and the second day, let alone the third and fourth days.
Strictly speaking, for a horse team like them carrying a large amount of luggage, three horses per person is not enough. It is best to have five horses, or to carry less luggage.
The officers stood elsewhere talking in low voices.
This is past Xinping, only sixty or seventy miles away from Pingcheng.
Since yesterday, they have encountered increasing resistance, chasing and intercepting them everywhere. As a last resort, the eight thousand cavalry were divided into three parts, each led by a commander, to disperse and harass.
There is only one mission: to create chaos.
It's hard to win when facing an enemy head-on.
This is not an empty prairie, but an area suitable for grazing and farming with villages, forts, and cities everywhere. The whereabouts cannot be kept secret, and it is difficult to achieve suddenness except at the beginning.
So, they are now facing a large number of enemy forces chasing and intercepting them. The exact number is not known, but there must be more than 10,000 cavalry, and there must be a large number of infantry waiting in the cities and villages. Optimistically, maybe 30,000 to 40,000 people have been restrained.
The most important thing is to create chaos and panic, such as what they are about to do...
After changing the horses, Yin Xi personally led the team, and three thousand people mounted their horses. Rushing out.
The grasslands in summer are particularly beautiful. When running through the wide and flat river valleys, the cool breeze and the fragrant green grass make people want to stop and quietly appreciate the beauty of nature.
However, the fighting between humans quickly destroyed this tranquility and beauty.
Drums sounded in the manor, and the young men retreated behind the thin earth wall, bows and arrows drawn, and nervously looked at the cavalry coming from afar.
It’s against Tiangang!
In the past, they were the only ones riding south, while the Jin people hid behind the wall and waited, but now everyone has been transferred, they are guarding, and the Jin people are running around to attack.
There were several messengers in the village, but when they saw the Jin cavalry from a distance, they ran away and rushed to the cavalry garrison to report the whereabouts of the Jin army.
Yin Xi was unable to stop him. After leading his army around the manor, he found that there was no gap to exploit, so he sent someone to shoot a letter up and then drove away.
The letter was quickly picked up and handed over.
After reading, the old man in his fifties was silent for a long time.
The others looked at him quietly and did not rush him.
After a long time, the old man handed the letter to others and sighed: "In the past, Wang Kuxian lived in Pingcheng, and he and Tuoba Liwei were canonized by China and the DPRK. One was named 'Jin Wuwan Guiyihou', and the other was 'Jin Xianbei'. "Gui Yihou", the two swore an oath to help each other. At that time, the status of Pingcheng Wuhuan and Shengle Xianbei was equal..."
"However, the descendants were unfaithful, and the gold seals of the Jin Dynasty were all sealed. The descendants of Ku Xian were like slaves of the Tuoba clan. As Wuhuan's power declined, even Pingcheng's hometown was moved to a large number of Xianbei tribes. From then on, the Tuoba clan was granted the title of Great Chanyu and Dai Gong. He is already the lord of the grassland..."
Everyone was a little confused, what are these old almanacs doing at this time?
During the Later Han Dynasty, the Wuhuan people migrated to various places, from the northeast to the northwest, and could be seen everywhere. Only Dingxiang and other places were directly controlled by the Han court, and the Wuhuan people were not allowed to move in.
So, when Tuoba Xianbei moved south and westward, he took a fancy to these counties that were not occupied by the Wuhuan tribe, and poured in one after another. When the Han court was forced to relocate its people and abandon their land, These counties became the paradise of Xianbei people.
Since then, Xianbei of Shengle and Wuhuan of Pingcheng have formed an alliance.
But the alliance is destined to break up. Now, the Wuhuan people have been reduced to subordinates of the Xianbei people. This is what the old man laments.
"Don't look at me." The old man smiled and said: "In this area of Pingcheng, the Xianbei people are the minority, and the Wuhuan people are the majority. But we have to wait and see."
"Sir, do you want to expel Xianbei?" someone asked subconsciously.
The old man shook his head and said: "Actually, if you really want to talk about it, there are no Xianbei, Wuhuan, or Xiongnu. He said that the Tiefu Xiongnu who stationed in Yanmen back then were half of Wuhuan blood. , but now also known as Xianbei, "Dugu tribe", I can't tell the difference, and you can't really tell the difference-"
The old man pointed to the millet fields, hemp fields, mulberry groves, and orchards outside the manor wall, and said, "It's just about what we do for a living. In the past, there were old and new suspicions in Shengle. Of course, there were factors such as genealogy and family disputes, but the biggest reason Aren't there still old nobles who don't like the way we make a living?"
"Then why don't you ask Mrs. Qi? She promised to re-employ the newcomer." Someone asked. "The King of Liang in the Jin Dynasty raised his troops to the north and relied on the Jin court for help. Isn't it better than relying on Mrs. Qi? The Jin court is the biggest newcomer." The old man laughed.
These words shocked everyone.
Since Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty, due to successive years of famine and war in Bingzhou, a large number of Jin people have gone northward and entered the grasslands to seek survival. The more contact they have with the Jin people, the less they, like the Wuhuan people, look down on the rustic nomadic Xianbei people. Although they were mainly nomadic decades or hundreds of years earlier, this is not earlier than the Xianbei people. Entering a state of half farming and half grazing?
If Xianbei wants to develop and grow, it must go south, so it must reuse the Wuhuan people in Pingcheng area, which is a large number. This will of course cause dissatisfaction among the noble tribes in the west. The dispute between the old and the new is a topic that cannot be resolved.
Mrs. Wang was born in the Wang family of Guangning and is a descendant of the Wuhuan Gui family. Although she wanted to avenge Tuoba Yulu of the old party and help Yulu's son Shi Yiqian come to power, she failed because of the Jin court. With direct help, she now has many options.
The simplest thing is that she can form a political group with the new people as the leader and the old people as subordinates, with Pingcheng as the foundation. It doesn't matter whether this newly formed force is dominated by Daijun Wang Feng or Tuoba Shi Yijian.
Of course, the latter is better, as it can win over Tuoba Xianbei forces as much as possible.
After all, the western adults see them as Wuhuan people, but the Jin people see them more like Hu people. In fact, the Wuhuan people don’t really want to leave the alliance of Dai. Everyone can live together, It would be even better if they, the newcomers, are the leading political force.
"Don't spread the letter to outsiders. Just guard the door and observe secretly." The old man finally said: "I think the soldiers from the Eastern Expedition will be back soon."
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Tuoba He Na is really in a dilemma now.
He received news this morning that Helan Aitou led 30,000 horses to the east, marching along the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, defeating two small tribes one after another, and recruiting more than ten surnames to surrender, and his momentum became increasingly prominent.
Essentials were sent one after another from the direction of Dongmugen Mountain, requesting that Ding Zhuang who was sent to the south be taken away to defend against the enemy.
Tuoba Hena didn't agree, but he didn't refuse directly either. Instead, he patiently tried to persuade him repeatedly, but not many people listened.
This is actually not my fault.
You said you want to resist the Jin army, okay, we have recruited a group of strong men to serve as soldiers for you, and sent some old and weak women and children to drive cattle and sheep with the army to provide you with supplies.
But now the situation has changed.
Helan Aitou knew that fighting was going on in the south and that the fighting in the east was also very fierce, so he picked the right moment and selected 30,000 elite troops from each department to rush towards them. What do you want us to do?
Being surrounded by enemies on three sides in the south, east and west, with troops divided everywhere and fighting everywhere, this is the biggest dilemma, and it can even be said to be a desperate situation.
It would be okay if it was a foreign enemy. If we can't defeat it, we won't surrender, and we may even stab ourselves internally, but now it's a standard civil war.
Taking refuge in Tuoba Yihuai or Shi Yijian is not unacceptable to the tribal adults, but this is the most fatal thing.
Once they were desperate and figured it out, the old party sent envoys to Shengle to accept the money, and the newcomers went south to Xingbei to beg for surrender. The Tuoba Alliance evolved into two groups, Yihuai and Shiyiqian. And he is bound to be out.
At that time, it is estimated that they will only have to rush eastward to Ruyuan, where there are still a few small tribes that firmly support them, and with the Yuwen clan as their backing, they may be able to get a chance to breathe. But to be honest, it was already on its last legs. If Yi Huai and Shi Yiqian didn't make a big mistake, He Li and he would definitely have no chance of recovering the country, and they would probably be annexed by the Yuwen clan in the end.
Disaster! Disaster! Disaster!
Tuoba Hena walked around anxiously in the mansion, still unable to make up his mind.
In the evening, a servant suddenly came in and reported in a low voice: "The Hegu clan led the people to the west and headed for the Nuozhen River branch."
"What?!" Tuoba He said Startled.
The He Gu tribe was ordered to go eastward last year to attack the Wang family in Guangning. There were some losses, but not big.
We lost a lot of people in April this year, and recently returned to the grassland more than a hundred miles west of Dongmugen Mountain to recuperate.
Tuoba He didn’t know that they couldn’t offer much to compensate He Gu. They might have resentment in their hearts, but why did they suddenly defect to Tuoba Yihuai?
Thinking again that under the pressure of the Jin army, more and more people in the south were turning to Shi Yijian, Tuoba He felt a chill.
I don’t know how this battle ended up like this.
In his expectation, they should have gathered elite soldiers from various departments and fought bloody battles with the enemies including Shao Thief.
Even if he failed in the end, he would not lose his blood, and he would have a heroic spirit in his chest.
But why did it become like this?
You are fighting a military war with the Shao thief, and the Shao thief is fighting a political war with you, and all the people are rebelling against each other...
"Urge the east side again, it's time to return to the army." He hesitated for a long time. After that, Tuoba Hena said: "Recruit another group of soldiers and horses. I will personally lead the troops north and repel Helan Aitou first."
In a vague way, he seemed to have a feeling of familiarity.
Mother seemed to have said the same thing when she took He Li on the eastern expedition, to fight back all the way first, and then concentrate on the decisive battle with Shao Thief.
But now they have not been able to completely defeat the Jin army on the east route. Helan Aitou's 30,000 elite cavalry have arrived from the west. They still need to repel this route first so that Tuoba Yihuai cannot continue poaching corners before they can concentrate. Focus on dealing with Shao Thief.
The more enemies we fight, the more we fight, and the less we fight...
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