Li Chao led an army of 20,000 to patrol the border in the north, and the Xi people were very uneasy when they heard the news.
The Xi people, originally called Kumo Xi, when they arrived in the Sui Dynasty, began to omit the word Kumo and called it Xi.
In Daddy's territory, Li Chao was in no hurry to leave.
He sent a group of light horsemen, led by several guides, to the north to the territory of the Xi people.
Li Chao didn't want to suddenly go north to Xi Jing and cause misunderstanding among Xi people.
It would be bad if they misunderstood that Li Chao was here to solicit it.
Send someone to say hello first, it's best to have a contact. continued to go north for the time being, and Li Chao was not idle.
The construction of the castle in Daddy's territory is just short of manpower, and Li Chao has 20,000 people, how can it be wasted.
So, Li Chao gave these soldiers a full daily schedule.
Wake up in the morning for morning exercises, and then train in the morning.
In the afternoon, they help to quarry, dig and cut wood.
In the evening, Li Chao personally gave lessons to the officers.
Ordinary soldiers can't be idle, and they have to take lessons for an hour.
Take literacy classes, learn battlefield first aid, learn some simple Hu language, learn some geographical knowledge, learn tactical sign language, etc., anyway, you will not suffer a loss.
"Has this Xi person lived in Yanshan North for generations?"
After a busy day, it's also a good idea to have a barbecue by the campfire under the stars.
The deer that you hunt by hand during the day are extremely delicious when roasted.
Eating venison, Zhu Zhendong asked.
In fact, the vast majority of people in the army, for people outside the Tang Dynasty, are called Hu people, but the specific ones are not clear, for example, at present, they only know that it is Xi people in the north, but they don't know where this Xi people come from and how they are inherited.
Li Chao is quite clear about this.
While turning the deer row in his hand, he said, "The Xi people used to be called the Kumo Xi tribe, which originated from Donghu, and after their Xianbei Yuwen Department, they were the same as the Khitan, they were all of the same race and different tribes.
Later, they split their backs and formed a clan. ” Yuwen Department is a branch of Xianbei in the east, and Xianbei comes from Donghu.
Of course, there are also people who say that the Yuwen Department is actually from the Xiongnu blood, but as early as five hundred years ago, they called themselves Xianbei, and in the next few hundred years of development, they were completely Xianbei.
The Xianbei were once powerful for hundreds of years and were the most powerful tribe in the north after the Xiongnu, but they also weakened later, weakened in the battle with the Northern Wei Dynasty, and finally defeated and annexed by the Turkic rebellion they ruled.
Later, most of the Xianbei people were annexed by the Turks, and only a few of the Xianbei people remained.
For example, Tuyuhun, Kumoxi, and Khitan, these were all branches of the Xianbei people.
Now, after their own twists and turns, new tribes have been formed.
Tuyuhun was the merge of the Murong tribe with the Qiang people after the westward migration, while Kumoxi and the Khitan were separated and independent.
"There are eight in the Khitan, and five in the Xi."
"Who is the Khan of the Xi Nationality?"
Zhu Zhendong asked again.
"The Xi people have no khan, and there is no king, after they were separated from the Khitans, they operated alone, and now they have formed five major tribes, each of which has a minister, called Tong Jin, who presides over the affairs of the tribe.
The five departments are the alliance, and because the Ahui tribe is the strongest among the five departments, the Ahui clan has always been the chief of the alliance, and the five departments are subject to its moderation. ” "Isn't the chief of the Ahui tribe the Khan?"
"It is said that it is controlled by it, but in fact, the ministries are quite autonomous."
Basically, the Xi people are still in the era of relatively primitive tribal alliances, and even if they are the chiefs of the Ahui tribe, their control over other tribes is quite weak.
The five departments of the Xi nationality, the Ahui Department, the Division and the Department, the Ao Lost Department, the Du Ji Department, and the Yuan Qi Folding Department.
These five tribes are the five blood clans.
The five questions are distributed in the weak Luoshui, Laoha River Basin, that is, in the later generations south of the Xilamulun River and north of Yanshan Laoha River Basin, living a hunting life of shooting and chasing water and grass.
The scale of the livestock industry is not small, and the Northern Wei Dynasty once captured more than 100,000 Xi people, horses, cattle, sheep and pigs.
The Xi people are mainly herding and hunting, and their military strength is not weak.
"How many people are there?"
Li Chao was not impatient, but praised the butcher Zhu, knowing that this is the way to win.
"The specific population of the Xi people is not clear, but it is certain that there are hundreds of thousands, about seven or eight hundred thousand.
Mainly in the Sui period, the Turkic civil strife, and then the Sui chaos, the Xi people had a rare period of development, and the population grew rapidly. ” "It's only seven or eight hundred thousand."
Zhu Zhendong said with a smile, seven or eight hundred thousand, I heard that there were nearly one million people in more than 20 counties in Jingzhao in Chang'an before.
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"Don't underestimate these seven or eight hundred thousand, the seven or eight hundred thousand nomadic tribes outside the gate are also different from the seven or eight hundred thousand people in our Central Plains.
They were a nomadic tribe, a people on horseback, and everyone was a soldier, every one was a warrior.
A population of 780,000 means that they can mobilize a maximum of about 200,000 fighters. ” Seven or eight hundred thousand people, it is indeed not much.
But 200,000 soldiers, this should not be underestimated, especially these 200,000 are still fierce cavalry warriors.
"Then if we go north this time, will the Xi people belong to the imperial court?"
Until now, the Xi people are still attached to the Turks.
When Jieli was the Khan, they were attached to the Eastern Turkic Jieli, and after the Tongye Protector came, they turned to serve the Tongye Protector.
In several wars between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks, Xi, like the Khitan, basically obeyed the call to participate.
"This time, that time.
Now that Tong Ye Hu is too busy to take care of himself, as long as Xi Ren is not stupid, he should know who to attach himself to now. ” It is four hundred miles north of Li Chao.
On the banks of the Tuhuzhen River, the chieftain's tooth tent of the Xi Ahui Department.
The Great Chief Su Zhi was frowning.
As early as a few days ago, Su Zhi had received news from the south that a Tang army of tens of thousands of people was heading north and reaching the border.
Next, news about the Tang Army came one after another, and the information became clearer and clearer.
The Don army had 20,000 horses.
The commander of the army was the Tang Dynasty Shangshu Ling, and the Yanyun Jiedu envoy Li Chao.
At first, when he heard that it was only 20,000 horses, Su Zhi didn't think much of it, but when he heard that it was Li Chao, the envoy of the Tang Yanyun Festival, who was in charge of the troops, Su Zhi was a little panicked.
As the chief of the Ahui Ministry, Su Zhi is only in his early forties this year, which is when he is young and strong.
He has been sitting on the position of chief for ten years, and in the past ten years, the Xi people have grown under his leadership.
Even he broke the loose alliance form of the past five and began to impose the integration of the Xi people.
Under him, he had the first standing army of the Xi people, 800 cavalry guards.
He even set up a conference of five permanent representatives at his residence.
Although the Xi people are integrating step by step and their strength is constantly improving, he still knows that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and he knows that in this world, there are still Turkic, Tang and Goguryeo.
After he inherited the position of chieftain, the Turkic forces were strong, but the Central Plains was in chaos, so he chose to attach himself to the Turks without hesitation.
But now, the Turks are in turmoil, and the Tang Dynasty is strong.
This is something that was unimaginable in the past.
Li Chao, last year in Daibei, wiped out 100,000 Tuli soldiers in a war.
Among the 100,000 soldiers, there were thousands of Ta Xi warriors.
This year, not long ago, 50,000 Goguryeo troops were annihilated.
This strength made Su Zhi also frightened.
And now, Li Chao actually led his troops north.
What is this to do, to avenge them for the invasion of Tang with the Turks "What are you afraid of, it's just 20,000 Tang troops, if he dares to come, we will destroy them."
It was Kodu, the son of Suzhi, who spoke.
The young warriors of the Xi tribe can fight ten of them for one.
But Su Zhi was not happy when he heard it, he said coldly to his son, "Do you really think you can destroy 20,000 Tang troops?"
"Is 20,000 Tang troops a lot, and our Ahui Department can gather 80,000 soldiers."
"Eighty thousand warriors are good, but they have to be the youth of the whole clan.
And the 20,000 Tang Army is just a drop in the bucket of the Tang Dynasty. ” Kedu was not convinced, "We can gather all the five warriors of the Xi tribe and get together, and 300,000 is no problem." ” Su Zhi sighed, this son is blindly paying attention to fighting.
But many times, it's such a simple thing.
"Do you know who is in command of these 20,000 horses?"
"I know it's Li Chao, so what, before Li Chao fought with the Goguryeos, 100,000 people fought 50,000, and in the end he lost tens of thousands, it is said that he was almost captured by the Goguryeos, and that's it."
Su Zhi smiled angrily, the battle in Pingzhou, who doesn't know now.
Li Chao fought 50,000 Goguryeo with 35,000 men, and he already attacked the crowd with a small number, and there were 20,000 recruits.
And the 50,000 Goguryeo are all elite cavalry, Li Chao not only has few soldiers, many new soldiers, but also mainly infantry, but in this way, Li Chao finally defeated the Goguryeo people, and they were all annihilated, and none of them let go.
Although this victory also relied on 60,000 reinforcements from Binh Duong, this battle was quite against the sky no matter how you look at it.
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This battle only shows how clever Li Chao's command of the army is.
"Li Chao not only has 20,000 soldiers and horses, he also has firearms.
Goguryeo's last great defeat is said to have suffered a great loss from this firearm, and I heard that this firearm is like the thunder of the gods. ” Su Zhi didn't want to fight Li Chao.
Not only because of Li Chao's reputation, but also not because the Tang Army had firearms.
He thinks longer.
"The Turks are in chaos now, Tong Yehu can't even clean up a Xue Yantuo Yi man, and now his own uncle is rebelling against him in the Western Regions, on the contrary, the Tang Dynasty is getting stronger and stronger, and this time he defeated the Goguryeo people, I'm afraid that next, the Tang Dynasty will fight back, we must think about the long term."
"Father's meaning" can be incomprehensible.
"Isn't what I said enough to understand that we can't afford to provoke the Tang Dynasty, the Turks themselves are a mess, we have to think about it, it's time to switch to the Tang people."
"Dependent on the Tang People" "The strong are respected, since the Tang people are the strongest, then we naturally rely on them."
"If you want me to say, let's just not attach ourselves to anyone, what's the point of being a pawn for others, let's listen to ourselves."
"If you don't have the strength, you just want to be the boss, that's looking for death."
Su Zhi angrily reprimanded his son.
"Newspaper" "The Tang envoy has arrived, just twenty miles away."
Su Zhi stood up and said to his son, "Go, come with me to meet the Tang envoy." t1706231537: