Yi Song

Chapter 268 The last afterglow on the Mobei grassland
Ular Mountain is located on the east side of the lower reaches of the Luju River (Kulun River) and on the west side between Hulun Lake (Hulun Lake) and Yuerhai (Bell Lake).

This is the place where the Eight Divisions of Dilie, the Five Divisions of Wugu and the Hei Che Shi Wei Division meet. The water and grass are lush and green. In the past, cattle and sheep were everywhere here, like white clouds in the sky, floating slowly.

Today, the place is a mess. Nearly 10,000 corpses were lying on the grass, with armor and weapons scattered everywhere. Groups of cavalrymen carrying red tiger flags passed through and took away the ownerless horses.

The injured horses were stabbed to death without hesitation, cut into pieces with knives and axes, and then loaded into high-wheeled carriages with blood on them, and swaying away.

There were also groups of high-wheel vehicles, with people following them, walking through them and looking at the corpses. What belongs to one's own side is carried on a high-wheel vehicle with a white flag. Those belonging to the coalition forces of Dilie, Wugu and Black Cars moved onto high-wheel vehicles without flags.

Hundreds of greedy vultures lingered in the air and refused to leave for a long time. The brave ones couldn't hold back and swooped towards a promising corpse, hoping to bite off a piece of plump meat.

As soon as they rushed to a height of ten feet, dozens of people on horseback and on foot opened their riding bows and foot bows and fired at the vulture.

Crossfire, this vulture loaded with arrows truly kills the bird for food.

A quarter of an hour later, another hungry and dizzy vulture rushed down, and then met the same fate, landing on the grass.

Someone sang an ancient folk song, distant and sad, like the quiet Luju River, flowing with the sweat and tears of the people who have lived on this land for thousands of years.

"Buddha, in just three to five years, this red tiger flag will float forever in the Mobei grassland. One hundred thousand people who control strings will issue orders and prohibitions. Even the Khitan people will not dare to face its edge."

"Yes, during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, there was a saying, 'The emperor should be the one with strong soldiers and horses. I would rather have the seed!' My boss, do you think Liu Erlang will directly send his troops southward to recapture Yanyun and march on the Central Plains?"

The Jugas tribe in the Qianhe (Yenisei River) basin and the Oranggai tribe in the North Sea (Lake Baiga) have few tribes and are located in remote locations, making it difficult to pose a threat.

Fang Tianbao and Wang Buddha secretly communicated and found that this newly-established system was based on the warriors who followed Liu Erlang in the north and south as the core. According to the Eight Diagrams, the Eight Banner Guards were divided, and then the left and right wings, ten thousand households, ten hundred households, and ten Shihu is governed layer by layer.

A new system with force as a deterrent, political system as the framework, interests as the core, and education as the basis was quickly established, quickly gathering hundreds of thousands of tribesmen under the Red Tiger banner.

The Red Tiger Cavalry did not dare to neglect, and responded with all their strength like a lion fighting a rabbit. One team faced the enemy head-on, one team outflanked the enemy, and one team attacked from the flank.

The three alliances of Di Lie, Wu Gu and Hei Chezi Shiwei were the last army to resist the Red Tiger banner on the Mobei grassland. They tried their best and gathered more than 20,000 people to fight against 60,000 Red Tiger Cavalry troops on the battlefield in front of them at the foot of Ular Mountain.

The three coalition forces of Di Lie, Wu Gu and Hei Chezi were defeated. Fang Tianbao and Wang Buddha, who have been collecting a lot of information in the past few days, know that almost all the Mobei grasslands, except for the Nianba Ge tribe in Jinshan (Altai Mountain) in the west, belong to the Red Tiger banner.

What shocked Fang Tianbao and Wang Buddha even more was that Liu Erlang adhered to the principle of three parts military, three parts politics, and four parts economic and culture. While killing tribesmen who surrendered to the grasslands, he quickly overthrew the previous old system and established Create a whole new system.

Fang Tianbao squinted his eyes and thought for a long time, and finally shook his head.

The disadvantaged coalition launched a tragic charge. The unbridled passion on the Mobei grassland drove them to launch a futile attack on the powerful enemy.

Fang Tianbao and Wang Buddha rode their horses and stood not far away. They looked at the battlefield in the distance, remaining silent in shock.

Tens of thousands of cavalrymen fought fiercely on this grassland with a radius of dozens of miles. Now dust returns to dust, dust returns to dust, everything is as expected.

It seems to be very effective so far. There may be some twists and turns in the middle, but it won't make big waves.

Liu Guozhang rode his horse and stood on the hillside of Ular, looking at this land. The singing lingered in his ears, like the wind blowing from Jinshan (Daxinganling), more like the eagle high in the sky, patrolling all things.

"Liu Erlang would not be so rash. First, he had just settled in the Mobei Grassland, and the Nian Bage tribe and the Wanyan tribe were watching on his flanks. If he tried to compete with the Khitans with all his strength, both sides might suffer, and in the end he would take advantage of the Wanyan tribe or the Nian tribe. Ba Ge Department.

Secondly, Liu Erlang sent his troops from the north and went south from the Yin Mountain in Mobei. Even if he unified the world, he would be regarded as a barbarian invading Xia. The idea of ​​righteousness in the world is erratic. Sometimes it doesn't work, but sometimes it works very well.

Liu Erlang always makes decisions before doing anything, and he will definitely not make the above mistakes. "Wang Buddha glanced at Liu Guozhang in the distance in surprise, and asked softly and hesitantly: "My boss, you said Liu Erlang would hold back and return to the Central Plains first to continue to control the Western Army. When the time is right, will the north and the south join forces again? "

Fang Tianbao shook his head, "I don't know either, let's take a look."

The two of them were discussing privately in the back, while Liu Guozhang was also thinking about his thoughts in the front.

It is the most appropriate time to pass through the Mobei Grassland at this time.

In the previous hundred years, the Khitans controlled the Mobei grassland, but their Longxing land was in Shangjing and Zhongjing, that is, the Huanghe River Basin (Salamulun River, Laoha River and Xiliao River), and their ruling center was in Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures and northeast.

The Mobei grassland can only be controlled by various means, divided and disintegrated, and no part of it is allowed to grow. Troops are regularly sent to burn, kill, and loot, and harsh reduction measures are implemented to prevent the rapid growth of young people on the grassland.

However, in the past two or three decades, the Northern Liao court became corrupt and its control over local areas gradually declined. The same is true for the Mobei grassland. After the Wanyan tribe led the Jurchens to rise and sweep across the Northeast, the Khitan rule suffered a heavy blow.

At this time, the Mobei grassland was still a mess of scattered sand, but there were signs of disputes among the heroes. This place is like a cruel poison-raising vessel. After decades of bloody fighting, Temujin finally emerged.

He almost entered the Mobei grassland at the right time. He first used the elite of the Western Army and the abundant supplies of the Song Dynasty to recruit a group of Monan cavalry. During the attack on Xixia, he gathered a group of elite cavalry through the waves.

Then it relied on the vast wealth of the Song Dynasty, the internal support of the Zhenwu Department, and the famous Red Tiger that Zhenwuhuan had fought on the Mobei grassland in the past ten years.

Under the banner of pursuing Brother Richard, they swept all the way, just like a snowball, growing bigger and bigger.

Son of Heaven, he who has strong soldiers and horses should do it!

This is especially true on the grasslands where the weak eat the strong. The stronger you are, the more people will join you. Coupled with political, economic and cultural means, the current situation can naturally be achieved quickly.

The next step, the most important thing is to consolidate.

Liu Guozhang looked from a distance and found that the corpses on the grassland had been cleaned up. Groups of high-wheel vehicles were slowly driving farther away, preparing to bury the dead separately.

The number of high-wheel vehicles with white flags is less than one-third of those without flags.

This is a big win.

Where should the next big victory be?
The high-wheel vehicle drove further and further away, leaving only a mess on the grass, useless scraps of clothing and armor, and twenty or thirty dead vulture carcasses.

The vultures, which were not suppressed by arrows, swooped down, and the feast just now disappeared. They pounced on the corpses of the same kind without hesitation, and started to bite each other.

For these vultures, this is a small feast.

More than ten fast horses came galloping from the north.

The standard-bearer guard behind immediately separated a group of cavalry and went up to meet them.

After a while, Zhang Meng came forward and reported, "Commander Jie, General Suppressing Evil has sent urgent military information. The Wanyan Department has made a big move."

At this time, the setting sun was shining slantingly, and the orange-red light spread on the grassland, like a layer of red gauze covering the green sea, which was particularly dazzling.

(End of this chapter)