Family Rise: Beginning with Grandfather.

Chapter 573 Scare them!

The soldiers lay together in groups of three or five. They took off their saddles and spread them on the ground, sitting or lying down.

Bonfires were burning and broth was cooking in iron pots.

There is no shortage of firewood here, as just cutting down some trees will be enough for them. There is no shortage of water here, as there is an unknown small river not far away.

They also have a lot of horse meat and wild beast meat. There are still many wild beasts in the snowy land.

Such as tigers, bears, wolves, wild boars and so on.

However, with so many people and so many horses, they still caused great damage to the area within ten miles around.

By the time daybreak came, the jungle within ten miles around had turned into a mess. Fortunately, there were no environmental protection laws in this world, and there were no environmentalists to condemn them.

As soon as the sky was getting light, Yang Zhengshan led his army slowly towards the tribe that they had discovered yesterday.

The tribe that Yang Minghao explored yesterday was not large, with only a thousand people in total.

Such small tribes are probably not tribes of the Wulianghu people. They should be tribes that are independent of the Wulianghu people and the snowfields.

How can a small tribe resist the attack of tens of thousands of troops?

The army arrived and the battle was resolved in less than half an hour.

Men, women, young and old were all killed by the butcher's knife. Perhaps a few crying babies were spared, but Yang Zhengshan would not care about those babies.

Those babies wouldn't survive long in such an environment.

As long as they leave, it won't be long before groups of wild beasts come here and have a good meal.

This small tribe provided few supplies, mainly dried meat and wild vegetables. They had more than 2,000 cattle and sheep, more than 300 horses, and only a dozen kilograms of salt.

It can be seen that this is an extremely poor tribe.

Yang Minghao also found some wild mushrooms and stewed a pot of soup with the dried wild vegetables and mushrooms.

"Dad, try this, it's better than meat!"

Yang Zhengshan took the ceramic bowl and drank slowly.

Well, it is indeed better than jerky.

They are just ordinary wild vegetables and mushrooms, with no other seasonings added except salt. How good can they taste?
But in the eyes of today's soldiers, this is a rare delicacy.

A bowl of light vegetable soup tastes better than that mutton hotpot.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the setting sun and said, "We should still be in the north of the Chici tribe. We have to continue walking west for nearly 2,000 miles before we can enter the territory of the Wuliang tribe!"

The Wuliang tribe is the royal tribe of the Wuliang royal court. Simply put, it is a tribe directly under the Wuliang royal court. Among them are tribes belonging to the Wuliang clan, as well as small and medium-sized tribes that are dependent on the Wuliang clan.

"These two thousand miles should be much easier to walk, as it's all flat grassland!" said Yang Minghao.

Yang Chengxu said: "But we still need to replenish supplies. The supplies we got today are too few, and there is no food, only some dried meat!"

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, "Before we reach the Wuliang tribe, we cannot reveal our whereabouts. Every time we attack a tribe, we must ensure that no one is left alive!"

The reason why they had to bypass Mount Menghe from the north was not just to cross it. If it was just to cross it, they could just take the dangerous path in the mountains with Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze. Why would they have to run so far into the snowy plains?

Yang Zhengshan wanted to launch a surprise attack on Yemi City.

Only when Ye Mi City is completely unprepared can he capture Ye Mi City in one fell swoop. Otherwise, even if he arrives at the gates of Ye Mi City, it will be difficult to capture Ye Mi City in a short time.

After all, Yemi City is the royal capital of the Wuliang Royal Court, and the height of the city wall there is no lower than that of Chongshan Pass.

After another night of rest, the army began to march along the edge of the snowfield towards Yemi City.

At this time, Wutuo outside Linyuan City finally received the news that the enemy troops had penetrated deep into the heart of the royal court.

At this time, the Hushan River outside Linyuan City had been filled up. Wutuo had ordered the army to attack the city for five days, but in five days, they had never climbed up the city wall of Linyuan City once.

Wuto was already troubled by the siege, and suddenly he received news that the enemy was causing chaos in the heart of the royal court, which made him even more angry.

"How did those enemy troops enter the heart of the royal court?"

In the tent, Wutuo asked with a gloomy face.

The dozen or so officers from the Wuliang royal court in the tent all looked confused; they had no idea about this matter.

At this time, Uto's trusted general Aguche said, "My king, the enemy may have come from Mount Menghe!"

"Isn't Mount Menghe guarded by Tang Wuxi?" Wuto asked in a cold voice.

"Tang Wuxi only guarded the Menghe Mountain Gate. There may be other small paths in Menghe Mountain, or it may be possible to go around it from the north and south sides!" said Aguche.

Wuto's face was gloomy. "The north of Menghe Mountain is a snowy land. Even if they want to bypass it, they can't do it so quickly. As for the south, that is the territory of the Tatars. If they bypass it from the south, the Tatars will definitely know it!"

Aguche said: "Then we can only take the small road!"

Wu Tuo said, "A small road! Even the idiot Tang Wuxi said that there is only one road through Menghe Mountain, the Shanque Road. Now the army of Chongshan Town has passed through the small road!"

Tang Wuxi suspected that Yang Mingzhen and his men came from Beiyuan Town, but Wutuo knew very well that absolutely no army from Beiyuan Town could get through.

Because at this time the soldiers of Beiyuan Town were retreating step by step, the Wulianghu cavalry attacked cities and captured strongholds along the way. Although the fighting was very hard, they had indeed broken through many garrisons and guard posts.

Duan Qirui still underestimated the Wuliang Royal Court. He thought that Beiyuan Town could withstand the all-out attack of the Wuliang Royal Court, but he overlooked one thing, that is, Beiyuan Town was seriously short of soldiers.

At this time, Wutuo had already mobilized an army of 300,000. He selected young and strong men from many tribes, including a few hundred from small tribes, one or two thousand from medium-sized tribes, five or six thousand from large tribes, and twenty or thirty thousand from some vassal tribes.

This kind of redeployment of young and strong people will not even affect the farming and grazing of these tribes.

In comparison, Beiyuan Town only has 120,000 camp soldiers, namely the town flag camp and the reinforcement camp. In addition to the camp soldiers, Beiyuan Town should have more than 300,000 military households, which means that more than 300,000 people can be conscripted.

But in reality, among the 120,000 soldiers in Beiyuan Town, only 60,000 of the town's standard battalion can be considered elite, and the actual number of soldiers in the remaining 60,000 reinforcement battalions is less than 60%.

As for the conscription of military households, that is even more nonsense. The military households in Beiwon Town have been seriously deserting, and there are less than 40% of soldiers in the garrison. Don't think that the Iron Won Guard where Wang Bin is located is very poor. In fact, all the garrisons in Beiwon Town are similar to the Iron Won Guard, and most of them are even worse than the Iron Won Guard.

At least during the years that Wang Bin was in Cheorwonwei, he did not encroach on the military households' farmland, nor did he forcibly requisition their food, and he certainly did not treat the soldiers as slaves.

So for the military households in Cheorwonwei, Wang Bin was actually a good official.

In fact, the former Chongshan Town was similar to the current Beiyuan Town. When Yang Zhengshan first entered Chongshan Town, there was a serious shortage of military households in Chongshan Town, and the combat effectiveness of the town's standard camp and the reinforcement camp was also very poor. Therefore, Zhang Shouwang led his army to attack Fushan City and was defeated.

But later, Lu Chongde and Liang Chu took charge of Chongshan Town. They obtained a lot of money, food, weapons and horses for Chongshan Town, and worked diligently for several years to improve the combat effectiveness of the town's standard camp and the reinforcement camp, thus destroying the Donghai Hu tribe in one fell swoop. Later, Ji Feiyu became the general of Chongshan Town. Ji Feiyu wanted to rebel, so he naturally tried every means to improve the strength of Chongshan Town. In addition, Lu Chongde was there at the time, so Chongshan Town did not decline at that time, but was slowly improving its strength.

After that, Ji Feiyu rebelled and Chongshan Town suffered heavy losses, but Yang Zhengshan took over Chongshan Town again.

It has been eight years since Yang Zhengshan took over Chongshan Town, and Chongshan Town has become so powerful.

Although Duan Qifeng has been running Beiyuan Town for more than 20 years, he did not actually curb the decline of Beiyuan Town, but only slightly delayed its decline.

Now that the Wuliang army is attacking, the various reinforcement camps are fighting back and forth at the beginning, but as the servants under the command of the various lieutenant generals were killed, all that is left is a group of mobs.

The longer the war lasted, the more obvious Beiyuan Town's defeat became.

Up to now, although Duan Qifeng can still defend Linyuan City, all the generals have been defeated, and he seems to be isolated and helpless in Linyuan City.

Under such a war situation, Beiyuan Town couldn't even withstand the Wuliang army, so how could it have the strength to penetrate deep into the heart of the Wuliang royal court?

"Send a message to Tang Wuxi, asking him to immediately dispatch troops to encircle and suppress the enemy forces that have crossed the Menghe Mountains!" Wutuo ordered in a cold voice.

Aguche hesitated for a moment, but still said: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that Tang Wuxi will not dare to mobilize troops at will. After all, he still has to guard Menghe Mountain!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Tuo's anxious mood immediately calmed down a lot.

Indeed, compared to the Menghe Mountain Palace, the enemy forces that have penetrated deep into the heart of the royal court are not the most important.

It's just a small path. It's impossible for tens of thousands of troops to penetrate deep into it. At most, the enemy troops can only penetrate tens of millions.

But if Menghe Mountain Palace is lost, the army of Chongshan Town will continue to flow into the heart of the royal court.

"Then send a message to the Wanggu and Tatar tribes, asking them to recruit another 30,000 young and strong men to encircle and suppress the enemy forces from Chongshan Town!" Utuo ordered again.

"Here!"

Aguche responded.

Although the Wanggu and Tatar tribes were the main forces in the southward attack on Beiyuan Town, they still had enough strength to recruit another 30,000 young and strong men to fight.

Wutuo's idea was not wrong. He let the Chici tribe continue to guard the Menghe Mountain Palace, and then let the Wanggu tribe and the Tatar tribe recruit young and strong people to encircle and suppress Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze's troops.

But he overlooked one thing, that is, Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze would not stay there and wait for their encirclement.

The news he received was five days ago, and now Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze have entered the territory of the Wanggu tribe. They have even massacred four tribes in the Wanggu tribe and are now heading towards the Kerait tribe further west.

Yang Zhengshan ordered Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze to kill indiscriminately and continuously attack the tribes of the Wuliang royal court, but the only requirement was not to get close to Yemi City.

The reason for such an order was to prevent Ye Mi City from entering a defensive state in advance, closing the city gates, and preventing Yang Zhengshan from launching a surprise attack.

In the northeastern part of the Kerait territory, in a tribe called the Zhierjin clan.

Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze are leading the soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

This tribe called Zhierjin is a large tribe with a population of 30,000. Although 5,000 to 6,000 young and strong men have been drafted, there are still several thousand young and strong men in the tribe.

However, these thousands of young and strong men were like paper in front of the soldiers from the left and right camps. In just two hours, most of the entire tribe was slaughtered by the soldiers from the left and right camps.

"Where shall we go next?"

Yang Mingzhen was sitting in front of a felt tent door. There were three corpses behind him, and corpses were scattered all over the ground in front of him.

Yang Chengze grabbed the water bag and drank a sip of water, saying, "We have to race against time now. The Marquis has only given us two months, and we have to go to the north of Menghe Mountain within these two months."

"We have spent more than twenty days!"

Yang Mingzhen asked: "So?"

Yang Chengze took out a map, pointed to a location on it and said, "It doesn't make sense for us to just attack these small tribes!"

Yang Mingzhen looked at the map, his eyes lit up, "You want to attack the Kerait tribe's banner?"

Yang Chengze shook his head. "No, the Kerait tribe's banner is a city. We only have cavalry and cannot attack the city!"

"Our goal is not to attack the Kerait tribe's territory, but to scare them!"

He grinned, his eyes full of evil amusement.

Yang Mingzhen stroked his sheep's horns and thought about it, "Maybe we can give it a try. If we are fast enough, we can reach the Kerait tribe's flag area before those fleeing young men!"

They had just arrived at the territory of the Kerait tribe yesterday, and had just attacked the Zhierjin clan today. Although they had tried their best to surround and kill them, many young and strong people of the Zhierjin clan still escaped.

If they were fast enough, there was a good chance that they would reach the Kereyid tribe before they received the message.

Yang Chengze shook his head. "No, don't forget, the Kerait tribe may have innate warriors. Even if there are no innate warriors, a warrior who is only half a step into the innate realm is not something we can handle."

"Once a warrior appears that we cannot deal with, our soldiers will suffer heavy casualties. Our losses will be huge!"

After all the massacres along the way, their losses were actually very small, with less than three hundred soldiers killed and less than five hundred seriously injured.

Now every time they attacked a camp, they had to leave behind a thousand soldiers to take care of the wounded and horses.

"We will go around the Kerey tribe's banner area, and then fight our way to the Alaman tribe in the west."

"Perhaps the Marquis has already gone to Yemi City by now. By then, we may be able to reunite with him!"

Yang Chengze talked about his plan.

Yang Mingzhen thought about it and agreed: "Well, then we will implement your plan and just go around the Kerait tribe's flag area and leave!"

After the two men had agreed, they began to order the soldiers to cook. After lunch, they headed towards the banner area of ​​the Kerait tribe.

Although they are not in a rush, they are still working hard.

At this time, their war horses had already been replaced. The war horses brought from Chongshan Town were either dead or collapsed from exhaustion.

They also slaughtered all the exhausted war horses and left no ones for the Wulianghu tribe.

The war horses they ride now are all looted from those tribes.

It’s just that the physique of these war horses is not very good and cannot compare to the war horses before them.

(End of this chapter)