The moonlight is like mercury on the ground.
There was also light in the tent, Tang Jian was sitting there drinking tea, but he couldn't sleep in the middle of the night.
During the day, he had collected a lot of information he wanted by tapping on the side.
Now he has pieced together this information, and he can roughly piece together the situation on the Taozhou side.
Zhang San, who has been promoted to the protector of Dingxi, is very good and lives up to the expectations of the imperial court.
First of all, he lured the black smelter to Jiangxin Island and uprooted the black smelter department with a population of more than 20,000.
Then, two months later, when the Yeli people were already paralyzed and careless, they suddenly sent troops again and annihilated and captured more than 20,000 herdsmen of the Qingyeli and other tribes who had entered the original Black Yeli Ministry.
This Zhang San even used the surrendered Qingyeli and other tribal warriors to form a Pingyi army of more than 2,000 people.
Now not only has he controlled the 300 miles of fertile grassland occupied by the former Heiyeli, but he has even led his troops to kill Bai Yeli's territory, and the reason for sending troops is to ask them to return the Han people who were taken away before.
Now Bai Yeli wants to negotiate peace, but Zhang Chao is still marching, Bai Yeli is gathering the rest of the ministries, and asking for help from Dang Xiangqiang, and at the same time asking for help from Murong Fuyun in Qinghai.
A border friction is about to become a big war between the two countries.
The situation was a little tense, but Tang Jian felt very comfortable.
During this time, he was in Qinghai, completely pretending to be his grandson, and he was extremely depressed.
Now, I finally raised my eyebrows and breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhang San is the unexpected chess piece, stirring up trouble in the embarrassing situation between Datang and Tuyuhun.
Tuyuhun's Yeli Department, which was their northeast town guard, but now there are seven Yeli Ministries, but nearly two have been wiped out.
"Will Murong Fuyun send troops?"
An official of the mission asked Tang Jian.
"It's just a border conflict, Murong Fuyun can send someone to mediate, if he dares to send troops over, then my Datang will never sit idly by.
Hexi and Longyou can all have elites, and they can drink horses at any time by Qinghai Lake."
Things are different now.
At the beginning, the Tang army had to fight on both sides and could no longer fight the Tuyuhun people.
But now, if they really want to fight, the Tang army can still draw another hand when defending against the Turks.
Just because the Tang Army doesn't want to fight doesn't mean it can't fight.
In the current situation, Tang Jian is very happy to see that Zhang San's side plays well, so he can re-propose some new peace conditions.
In order to promote peace, the imperial court does not want a full-scale Tang Tu war now.
As long as Tuyuhun can make concessions on the original conditions, then Datang is willing to restrain Zhang Chao in Taozhou.
The night passed.
Tang Jian went to meet Murong Fuyun, and this time he proposed a new proposal and conditions that had been carefully modified.
"The prince can not go to Chang'an to welcome his relatives in person, in order to show the harmony between the two families, Datang is also willing to order to restrain Zhang Wenyuan, the capital of Dingxi, so that he can stay calm and stop the friction on the border."
Of course, these are not without conditions.
Tang Jian's condition was that Tuyu Hun had to assign the territory of the original Heiyeli to the Tang Dynasty, because Heiyeli had violated the agreement last time and took the initiative to attack the Tang Dynasty first, and now that the entire Heiyeli clan is gone, this territory should naturally be allocated to the Tang Dynasty as compensation.
Later, Tang Tu lived in harmony, guarded each other's borders, and did not cross the border.
Trade between the two countries and share peace.
Such conditions are simply bullying, Tubo originally wanted to make peace with Tang, but wanted some population and land to come over, but if he didn't think about it, he would lose three hundred miles now.
Heiyeli's territory, among the seven departments of Northeast Yeli, is considered to be relatively large, and only Baiyeli's territory can be compared with it.
The loss of these 300 miles of land is also a great loss for Tuyuhun, and it is especially important that if the Tang army occupies Heiyeli's territory, then Baiyeli's land in Henan will be more dangerous, and the party departments of Hequ will also become lonely.
The Tang people are likely to unite with the small states of Bailan, Duomi, and White Wolf behind the party Xiangqiang.
Murong Fuyun said that he had to think about it.
After sending Tang Jian and the others out of the tent, Murong Fuyun asked the princes and servants under his command.
Tuoba Chi said disdainfully, "Zhang Chao of Taozhou is only 7,000 soldiers and horses, and he dares to go all the way south to go deeper, this is asking for his own death."
The Great Khan didn't have to worry, someone sent a letter back to my Tuoba Department, and asked them to send troops to destroy them together.
When the time comes, see how proud the Tang people are" Murong Fuyun was a little worried, "In case things get bigger, I'm afraid it's not good for me." ” "Don't worry, as long as the Great Khan doesn't send troops, then even if I send some troops from the Tuoba Department, it's just a border friction."
The location of the Tuobabu is indeed more convenient for support.
As the largest tribe of the Dangxiang Qiang, the Tuoba Department has nearly 20,000 horsemen, and the strength of one is equivalent to seven smelting forces.
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Their location is also next to the Yeli Seventh Division, and it is also close to Taozhou.
The tribe is in the southwest of Lintan, Taozhou, and the straight-line distance is only one hundred and fifty miles.
However, because it is separated from Taozhou by the tall Dieshan Mountain Range, in fact, from Lintan to Tuoba Department, you have to go west first, make a big bend, and pass through the territory of the Yeli Department.
West Qinling, Dieshan Mountain, and Minshan Mountain are all big mountains with snow all year round on the peaks.
In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, it belonged to Diezhou.
But at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, it was a nomadic land of the Tuoba Department.
On both sides of the Qiangshui River in the south of Dieshan, the fertile pastures are the territory of the Tuoba Department.
Further south, the Aba area of the later generations is the second largest tribe of Dangxiang Qiang, the territory of the fine sealing department.
The eight departments of the party are basically concentrated in the Jiuqu area, especially the area of the first bend.
Specifically, in the western part of Sichuan in later generations, the eastern part of Qinghai and Tibet, the combination of these three provinces was the sphere of influence of the Zhuqiang tribe, of which the Dangxiang Qiang was basically located in the northwest of Sichuan and the southeast of Gansu.
After Tuyuhun was destroyed by the Sui in Qinghai, he fled to the territory of the Qiang people of Dangxiang and survived.
Although Tuyuhun was originally a branch of Xianbei Murong, just like the Xianbei people of the Northern Wei Dynasty who entered the Central Plains to sinicize, the Tuyuhun Xianbei people have actually basically been Qiang, and the real Tuyuhun is far less numerous than the Dangxiang Qiang people.
The Tuyuhun people who migrated from the north were already somewhat sinicized, and they brought the culture of the Han people, etc., and brought the Dangxiang Qiang people, who were still in the era of tribal slaves, into the feudal era.
After so many years of assimilation, there is actually not much difference between the Tuyuhun people and the Dangxiang Qiang people.
The area of the Qiang River, which is occupied by the Tuoba Department, is a very important place.
The Qiang River is two mountains and one water, the north of the river is Dieshan, the south of the Yangtze River is the Minshan Mountain, along the valley of the Qiang River, there is a road that can lead directly to Hanzhong.
Moreover, the boundary leading to Zhuqiang from Longxi or Qinghai basically has to pass through the territory of the Tuoba Department.
The party and Tuyuhun are both prosperous and loss-making.
Tuoba Chici didn't have the idea of sitting idly by, the smelting force department suffered a big loss this time, and he didn't have time to be happy in his heart, because the Tang people had already been killed.
The Tang people seized the territory of Heiyeli, so that the Tuoba Department and Taozhou were no longer separated by high mountain peaks, but had already met in the western mountain pass.
Tuoba Chici clearly knew that the territory they were now nomadic in the Northern Zhou and Sui dynasties was controlled by the Central Plains Dynasty.
The Tang army destroyed Yeli, and the next one must be Tuoba.
He understands the truth of cold lips and teeth Tuoba was only more than 100 li away from Taozhou in a straight line, but it was 400 li away from Bai Yeli's camp.
It is a full thousand miles away from Qinghai Fuqi City.
At this time, Zhang Chao had already taken 10,000 soldiers and horses to the vicinity of Bai Yeli's camp.
Wang Fugui lifted the curtain of the tent and looked to the north.
He likes to look north, that's the direction of his hometown.
The afterglow of the setting sun gilds the clouds in the sky of his hometown with a layer of pale gold.
Looking at the clouds to the north, I always feel kind.
Zhao was busy behind Fugui, spinning cow hair into thread and then weaving it into cow felt.
Ever since she arrived on the grassland, she has not stopped, and every day before dawn, she has to get up and milk the yaks and sheep for the first time, and the master has more than 100 cows and more than 1,000 sheep.
She followed the hostess, the hostess's sister, her mother-in-law, and another slave, Wang, before dawn after milking her head.
At this time, the man and his children, as well as his father, were still in the tent and did not wake up.
At this time, they still have to divide the work, usually the hostess cooks herself, Wang is responsible for making ghee, and she is responsible for going to the river to carry water.
Ghee and carrying water are both quite heavy tasks, and sometimes Fugui will help her carry water, which makes her day a lot easier.
There are many families in this family, and they have to carry several trips of water, big cowhide bags, and bags for dozens of miles, which is very hard.
When the day dawned, the rice was cooked, and the ghee was ready.
At this time, they can finally rest for a while, and the host family eats food made of ghee and barley, while they can usually only eat some cheese or barley paste.
In the morning, if the weather is good, Wang and Zhao will go to the grassland to dry cow dung and pick up cow dung, which is the fuel for the Tuyuhun people to cook.
There are no trees in the grasslands, and cow dung is the best fuel.
When the weather is good, you have to go to the grassland to knead the wet cow dung into dung cakes, and then spread it on the grassland to dry, and when it is dried for a while, you have to carry it back.
Cow dung is picked up in the morning, and milk is milked again at noon.
At noon, there were usually only women in the tents, and the men went out to graze.
It will not come back until the sun goes down, the man is grazing outside during the day, Wang and Zhao will spin wool and wool with the hostess, the weaving technique is quite primitive and backward, a spinning cow, little by little the cow wool into thread.
In the evening, the cattle and sheep came back, and they had to milk the cattle and sheep once.
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Wang and Zhao are both in their thirties, one was originally a woman from Weizhou, and the other was a woman from Fangzhou, both Han people, with husbands and children.
But in the last war, he was taken captive by the Tuyuhun people.
In the end, they became spoils of war, and together with another Wang Fugui in his thirties from Taozhou, they were distributed to the herdsmen of the Tugu Hun Baiye Li Department.
In the blink of an eye, they have been living here for more than half a year, and they are slowly resigned to their fate, and even get used to life here.
Fugui was good to both of them, and the three slaves were warm to each other in this strange grassland.
Wang, who was dressed in sheepskin robes, came in from outside, his face a little excited.
When Wang was taken captive, the cloth skirt on her body had already been stripped away by the hostess, and it was replaced by this rough sheepskin robe for her.
Wang Shi leaned in front of the two of them, and said happily in a low voice, "I heard a good news, our Tang army has called." ” Fugui and Zhao's eyes lit up all of a sudden.
"Really" Wang nodded, "I also just heard it, I heard that it was the general Zhang who repelled the Tuyuhun Khan in Longxi last time, he is now the governor of Taozhou, and he brought 10,000 horses all the way over, what Heiyeli and Qingyeli have been uprooted by this General Zhang, and now it is less than twenty miles north of the Baiyeli camp."
As soon as they heard that it was General Zhang, who had repelled the Tuyuhun Khan, both Fugui and Zhao's faces turned red with joy.
There were many Han slaves in Bai Yeli's camp, and there has been a rumor in the camp that the last time Tuyuhun retreated last, it was because of a general Zhang Da who defeated Tuyuhun Khan.
There are all kinds of rumors about this General Zhang, the Han slaves, and the legend says that this General Zhang is over eighty years old, and it is said that he was a general in the Western Wei Dynasty, and he has long been in seclusion.
The last time Tuyuhun invaded Longxi, Beijing was empty, and the imperial army was fighting against the Turks in the north, and the other part was also transferred to Jianghuai to quell the chaos.
At the time of crisis, the emperor thought of this old general Zhang.
I heard that the grandfather of the current emperor, Li Hu, one of the Eight Pillars of the Western Wei Dynasty, was once the boss of this old general Zhang.
This old general Zhang used to be Li Hu's personal guard.
The emperor personally invited this old general Zhang out of the mountain and let him take command of the expedition to rescue the king of Qin.
So this old general Zhang, with only a few thousand young people in Guanzhong, marched all the way to Longxi.
On the way, he wiped out several party Xiang Qiang troops, and finally killed all the way to the city of Longxi.
General Zhang Lao picked up a big knife and rode alone to the Tuyuhun formation, calling for battle from Murong Fuyun.
The Great Khan Murong Fuyun sent eight generals in a row, but they were all cut down in front of the battle by General Zhang.
Murong Fuyun was shocked and did not dare to fight again, so he retreated and finally retreated.
These legends became more and more popular, and even later, there were legends that this old general Zhang also helped the Great Sui to win the world, and was respected by Emperor Wen of Sui as the backer king Yunyun.
In the hearts of these captured Han people, General Zhang is the Bodhisattva who saves the suffering, is the god, and the hope.
Hearing that General Zhang was coming, Fugui's excited eyes lit up.
"Is it finally saved?"
Zhao knelt happily on the ground and folded his knees.
The last ray of sunlight in the sky, swallowed up by twilight.
The sky was overcast.
By the Chishui River, the two armies faced each other.
On one side, there are 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty led by Zhang Jiashuaiqi, and the four armies on the left and right.
On the other side, there are six Yeli divisions, with 60,000 horses, 20,000 tribal cavalry, and another 40,000 servants.
Yeli has gathered all the young people, although the six departments still have a population of nearly 200,000, but 60,000 young people are also their limit.
Hexi.
Under the white banner of the Yeli Ministry, a group of Yeli knights immediately looked over.
Yeli really wore armor and a heavy face.
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