Chastity Layman

The world is full of fragrance in April, and the Qilian Mountains are covered with snow.

On April 23rd, it was supposed to be the season when the earth returned to spring and the livestock were busy giving birth, but at this time the West Sea was in chaos. Fu Yun fled westward all the way, burning the green grass that had grown along the way. The dead grass in autumn and winter was ignited by the fire, turning it into a prairie fire, and burning all the fresh green grass that had just grown into ashes.

The shepherds were forced to drive their cattle and sheep, and fled westward in panic with their wives, children and parents.

Fu Yun's cavalry galloped across the northern shore of Qinghai Lake, and sent an order to all the Tuyuhun herdsmen along the way to retreat immediately, take everything with them, and retreat westward, and asked them to burn all the supplies that could not be taken away, and even burn grass. They were all burned.

The newly born cubs are killed directly and thrown into the river.

Fuyun's messenger cavalry described a terrible scene to the shepherds they met. To the east, the Tang people brought the traitors from Tuyuhun and the party members were killing them. Wherever they passed, there was no grass left, and the Tuyuhun was higher than the wheels. The men in the country would be killed, and the children who were shorter than the wheels and could walk were kept and trafficked to the east as slaves. Those who could not climb were directly thrown to death. Some Tang soldiers even used these young children Grilled meat.

Qin Sanlang, the coach of the Tang army, is a murderer, and he likes to eat the hearts and livers of young children. He dug out the hearts and livers alive and fried them with sheep tail oil, sprinkled with pepper and cumin. He has to eat ten sets of hearts and livers every day, and he also likes to eat human brains. He directly digs out the skulls and sucks living human brains with a reed tube...

The grassland is vast, but news is blocked.

For many herdsmen, apart from their own family and tribe, they will not come into contact with other people hundreds of miles away. Adult men may go to wars and plunder to go out to see the world, but women and children may live forever. Will not leave the tribe.

Even those old people who are lucky to have survived, some of them have gone to war many times, but their knowledge is actually very limited. Even if someone has been to Liangzhou, Lanzhou, Shanzhou and Minzhou, it is difficult to really get in touch with and understand the Central Plains.

They believed Fu Yun's messenger's words.

The herdsmen are sometimes simple and straightforward, but they are also ignorant and barbaric. These herdsmen feel that Fuyun Khan will not lie to them, because some herdsmen who have gone to war, when they go to war, When attacking the enemy's territory, they often do things like burning, killing and looting.

There will even be massacres of cities and villages, and sometimes in the boring aggression, they will also shoot and kill those Han people for fun, and even bet on competitions, etc., so they think that the Han people will definitely do the same, even more ruthless than them, because the Tang State in the east is stronger , then they must be more ruthless.

Intimidation and fear are sometimes more effective than the truth.

Fu Yun only used simple intimidation from Tang people, and the herdsmen along the way fled one after another.

In order to prevent those demons from getting supplies, the herdsmen killed all the young animals that could not keep up with the team, and slaughtered some old animals, skinned them and took them away.

He rode on a horse, put tents on the camels, and drove the cattle and sheep all the way west.

More and more herdsmen gathered together.

Mantou Mountain.

This is one of the royal families of Tuyuhun, the fiefdom of King Gaoning.

King Gao Ning's contemporary patriarch, Yifu Abao, is just like his name, he looks like a mountain leopard, with a leopard's head and eyes, majestic and mighty.

A scribe in a Confucian robe rode over, "Your Majesty."

Abao was worried, "How many people are still here?"

"At least one of the third is still there." The scribe replied, "Tang Qi will arrive at any time, we can't wait any longer, let's withdraw first."

Abao shook his head, "The people and horses are the foundation of our tribe. If there is no population, there will be no territory, and the tribe will be gone. My Yifu tribe has been getting worse every year, because the number of people is getting smaller and the number of livestock is getting smaller and smaller. If I abandon those men and horses, it will only be more difficult for Yifubu to stand up in the future."

"We Han people have a saying, if you keep the green hills, you don't have to worry about running out of firewood." The scribes remonstrated.

But Abao didn't listen to him. Although he was the famous king of Tuyuhun, he was actually not from the same clan as Khan Fuyun. Fu Yun is a native of Murong Xianbei. During the Sixteen Kingdoms, he moved from Yan State in Liaodong. Because it was the Shu branch of the Murong Xianbei tribe who moved out and came to Qinghai in the northwest, it was always called A by the Yifu tribe who went to the north earlier. Chai Lu.

The Yifu tribe is also from Xianbei, but they are a branch of the Xianbei Yifu tribe.

In the turbulent era of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, they moved to the northwest earlier than Tuyuhun. Later, when Tuyuhun came, three generations of Tuyuhun, Tuting, and Ye Yan established a foothold in Qinghai Lake. They not only conquered many Qiang tribes, but also defeated Yifu and other Xianbei tribes who came here earlier.

From then on, the Yifu tribe fought with the Tuyuhun family. After three hundred years, they almost integrated into the Tuyuhun royal family and became one of the thirteen royal families of the Tuyuhun. It also became the most famous royal family in Tuyuhun because of people's ability to conquer and fight. It once captured Hexi for Tuyuhun and controlled the Hehuang Valley.

That was also the most beautiful time for the Yifu tribe. Kwalu Khan even directly entrusted the current Shanzhou, Kuozhou, Taozhou and other places to the Yifu family as fiefdoms.

It's just that Tuyuhun's expansion touched the core interests of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Northern Wei Dynasty fought several times with large armies, and finally defeated Tuyuhun several times, and took back Hexi and Hehuang Valley.

The Yifu tribe also suffered heavy losses, especially the Shangdang Wang Changsun Guan of the Northern Wei Dynasty who chased all the way to Mantou Mountain here. Yifu and the Northern Wei Army of the Changsun fought in a decisive battle here. Yifu hasn't recovered from it for a hundred years.

The Hexi Corridor, the fertile soil of Longyou and Hehuang, they have never been able to return to.

For hundreds of years, the Yifu Department has used Mantou Mountain as its family base camp. It is to warn its descendants to be brave after knowing their shame, hoping that one day they can repeat the glory of the family and tribe.

Abao is an ambitious and capable contemporary owner of Yifu. He succeeded King Gaoning, and after inheriting the tribe, he worked hard to train tribal warriors, and at the same time built a tribal caravan to fight with the eastern dynasty. For trade, he even vigorously recruited some down-and-out scholars from the Central Plains, or those who fled the war.

During the Sui Dynasty, Abao recruited many scholars and scholars from Longyou and Hexi, and reused them to serve in his own tribe, authorized them to manage the tribe for himself, and took the opportunity to recruit many Han people, and paid a lot of money to invite them Less artisans. With his efforts, Yifubu has recovered a lot in recent years.

In the previous battle of Longyou, Ah Bao did not send troops.

Fu Yun was attacked and defeated, but he did not participate.

Now Fu Yun escaped from his territory, wanted to burn his grass, and asked him to take the tribe to evacuate, but Ah Bao hesitated.

After years of hard work, if they retreat like this, it will seriously damage the vitality of the tribe.

More importantly, Abao has been in business for many years, and he thinks that the tribe is also strong and strong. The soldiers are brave and brave, and there are many Confucian scholars and scholars who give advice.

He wanted a fight in his heart.

ready to move.

He wanted a victory, a huge victory, to revive the Yifu family.

"Can I not run?"

The middle-aged scribe, surnamed Li, fled from Hexi at the end of the Sui Dynasty. He was the brother of Li Gui, king of Xiliang, and had a deep hatred for Li Tang. Back then, in order to stabilize the pass, Li Yuan first pretended to call Li Gui his brother and brother, and then asked him to attack Xue Ju, the overlord of the Western Qin Dynasty in Longyou.

But when Xue Ju was defeated, Li Yuan immediately turned against him and asked Tu Yuhun to attack Li Gui.

In the end, he secretly colluded with An's, a powerful family in Hexi, and wooed the powerful and powerful gentry in Hexi, and finally rebelled and overthrew Li Gui's family.

Li Shi is Li Gui's cousin. His family was overthrown and he was forced to go into exile in Tuyuhun. Later, he met Abao and assisted him wholeheartedly, only to avenge the Li family.

Li Shi wanted to defeat Tang Jun more than anyone else, but facing Abao's question, he could only shake his head.

"The cavalry of the Tang Dynasty is sharp, and the Khan has already fled after two defeats. Now people are in panic, but the Tang army is holding on to a new victory, like a snow tsunami, and it is irreversible. We might as well retreat for a while, and then counterattack after its sharpness has passed. Lure the enemy deep, and then strangle."

Ah Bao stroked his short needle-like beard and narrowed his eyes.

"This is Mantou Mountain. One hundred and sixty years ago, Wei Lord Tuoba Hong sent the Great General Shangdang Wang Changsun Guan to attack the West. He fought with me Tuyuhun on this Mantou Mountain. My Yifu tribe fought bloody battles with the Wei army for seven days. Seven nights of non-retirement, the king Shiyin did not arrive for a long time, and I, Yifu, killed 20,000 children in that battle..."

"This blood debt has been recorded for 160 years. When each generation of Yifu tribe chiefs inherits the family business, they will be solemnly informed of this debt. They all hope that their descendants will be able to recover this blood debt in the future. The heads of the soldiers of the Tu Dynasty built a Jingguan, watered the pasture with their blood, so as to comfort their spirits in the sky, so that they can rest in peace."

"It's been too long, generation after generation, one hundred and sixty years. I'm afraid that if I continue like this, I won't have another chance." Abao rolled his eyelids as he spoke, revealing his eyes.

"Brother Li, help me, I don't want to withdraw, I want to fight Tang Jun here, and I want to pay them a blood debt of 160 years." The more he said, the more excited he became, "If you can defeat the frivolous Tang Jun here, then We can take advantage of the situation to fight back, fight back to Longyou, seize the land of Hehuang in Shanzhou, where we can graze horses and sheep, with such fertile valleys, our Yifu tribe can quickly recover and grow."

Li Shi thought for a while, "Your Majesty, it is Qin Sanlang who came here, with a total of 20,000 riders, and Murong Shun, King of Daning, has also joined him, leading 10,000 riders to follow the expedition."

"King Daning? Murong Shun has been a Han dog in the Central Plains for too long, and his bones have already softened. As soon as the Tang people came, he immediately knelt down. Besides, his mother was originally a Han, and Murong Shun was not considered at all." Authentic Tuyuhun people and Xianbei people." A Bao was very disdainful towards Murong Shun, "He's here, so I just happened to clean him up together."

"The Great Khan defended against danger in Kushan, with a hundred thousand horses, he was still defeated in one battle. Your Majesty, think twice!"