Chapter 364: War Erosion
The old peasant took the order in their place, and the steward led a few of his followers to the next stockade as soon as he swung his horse. The peasants got up from the ground, the old farmer said a few words, and a half-year-old child spread his legs and ran wildly into the stockade......
A similar scene was staged in the village everywhere, and the warriors of the white barbarians gathered in the main village from all directions, and the main village, which originally had only more than 2,000 residents, arrived in the evening of the next day. A full 30,000 warriors have gathered, and many more are gathering here from all directions with torches. Some on horseback, some on foot.
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Cangshui Village, which belongs to Yunxuan Tusi, has strengthened its vigilance since Lord Tusi sent troops to attack Xunyue Tusi's stockade, and during the day when doing farm work, people should be sent to guard in the distance, and at night the manpower patrol on the village has increased several times.
At midnight that day, all kinds of strange sounds suddenly came from the dark night jungle, and the perched birds flew in fright, and the wild beasts ran through the forest, and the strong men guarding the stockade raised their bows and arrows, and looked around in horror.
In the dark night, the mournful sound of suona, the desolate sound of the horn, and the rapid sound of the bang suddenly sounded. A torch lit up, and then countless torches, countless torches were like countless stars in the night sky suddenly falling into the red dust, and the whole village was surrounded by a sea of stars.
The bamboo bow in Zhaiding's hand fell to the ground with a "click", he was a warrior, he was never afraid when he faced a bear alone, and it was not because he was afraid of death at the moment, he was out of despair, he couldn't imagine that there were so many enemies, how could the village still be able to hold ......
Similar counterattacks were being staged in the stockades, and the out-of-town merchants with a keen sense of smell had realized that this war seemed unusual. Although the war has not yet spread to Yunjun City, they have already counted all their possessions in advance and began to flee the city.
No one noticed. The most loyal stewards of Wu Miao Tusi and Yunxuan Tusi also took some henchmen and loaded the mountains of gold, silver and jewelry accumulated by the two families for thousands of years on yak carts, sandwiched them in the ranks of merchants, and withdrew from Yunjun City.
Although the barbarians were also attacked, the losses suffered were not much compared to the white barbarians, because the barbarians were mainly nomadic. Their tribes are distributed in places with abundant water and grass, far away from the big cities and large fus, and their people are scattered. Therefore, the tribal warriors of Yun Xuan and Wu Miao first attacked the Bai Man, who was adjacent to them.
The Wuman tribes did not speak Chinese as commonly as the Baiman, and like the steppe peoples, most of them made clothes from cow and sheep skins, to be precise. The barbarians are the local aborigines. Most of the Baiman are monstrinized Han Chinese, which is also the reason why Baiman has a higher cultural standard than Wuman and an economic model based on farming and sericulture.
Because the area under his control is large, and his subordinates are nomads who live in pursuit of water and grass, his whereabouts are not very certain, and it is usually difficult to find him, but this time is different, because the Great Qi Qin is coming, Wu Miao has already sent someone to urge him. Although Yue Xianlan did not come, she did not return to the depths of the grassland immediately. Instead, he stayed in a tribe that was relatively close to Yun County, so Kaoru Yue easily found him.
"Haha, respected Xunyue Toast, what a rare guest, why did you come to me?"
When Xunyue walked into Yue Satinlan's stilted building made of bamboo and wood, Yue Satin Lan was sitting cross-legged, holding a pot of hand-grabbed mutton and chewing. The large piece of lamb with bones stewed was crispy, fat and salty, Yue Satin Lan grabbed the ends of the lamb bones with both hands, and her big face was almost buried in the meat, and her cheeks were full of greasy.
Xun Yue walked up to him, sat down cross-legged, and his face was extremely serious: "The old man is here to discuss with you about sending troops together!" ”
Yue Satinlan's big face was still buried in the flesh and bones, and she ate so much that Xunyue slammed her fist on the table and shouted: "Satin, you bastard boy, did you hear the old man speak?" ”
Yue Satin Lan raised her head from the flesh and bones, don't look at this big man's rude movements, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. It's a talent, a heroic face, and a beard like a halberd adds a bit of power to him, such a big man is far more like a big head of a tribe than Xunyue.
It's just that his expression is a little lazy, and his beard and cheeks are full of gruffy gravy, which inevitably affects his heroism. Looking at the age, this Meng Tusi is in his early thirties at most. It's no wonder that Kaoru Yue gets angry and calls him a kid.
Yue Satin Lan smiled and said, "Hey! You white servants have always looked down on us Wu servants, but I didn't expect you to be willing to join forces with us this time, and what is even more unexpected is that you Xunyue Tusi will actually come to see me, a junior, in person. ”
Xun Yue ignored his ridicule, and said solemnly: "You don't have to pretend, I know that your people have also been looted by their troops, according to your old guy's unwillingness to suffer, it's strange that you are willing to endure this breath." ”
Xun Yue paused, and then said, "You should be able to see that bastard Qincha wants to stir up trouble here. But this time is not an attempt by the Yun family and the Wen family to challenge the status of you and me. If I lose, do you think it will benefit you? ”
Yue Satin Lan smiled, grabbed a big towel and wiped her cheeks, wiped her hands again, threw the towel on the table, and said nonchalantly: "Wu Miao and Yun Xuan, the two idiots, thought that Xun Toast had grown old into a toothless tiger, but I know that Xun Toast's fangs and claws are still sharp, ...... Not your opponent! ”
Xun Yue said calmly: "Why do they dare to do something with the old man? Not necessarily because I think I'm old. It's because they have the imperial court behind them. If I endure this breath, I will never have to raise my head and be a man in Yunjun from now on, if I can't bear it, I am not afraid that they will join forces.
However, although the Qincha was greedy and cruel, he was not a mediocre person, and he was afraid that when they did it, they would already start to ask the court for troops. If the court sends troops, I will be alone, if I am swallowed, you will not have a good time at that time, there is no wood, you can't afford a house, you don't have neighbors, you don't have a good life! ”
Yue Satlan's expression was straight, and she said: "My neighbors are safe, and I am also safe, I understand this truth!" Kaoru Moon Toast wants to ally with our clan, yes! But I have one condition! ”
Xun Yue said: "You say! ”
Yue Satin Lan said: "I want your daughter Yan'er to be my woman!" ”
Kaoru Yue's eyes sharpened. Yue Yulan did not shy away from it, his eyes were very serious.
Kaoru Yue stared at him for a long time, and said slowly, "She is my favorite daughter!" ”
Yue Satin Lan said: "It's still the most beautiful golden flower in the Xunyue Tusi tribe!" ”
Kaoru Yue said: "You want to marry her." Yes, but she has to be a native woman (queen)! ”
Yue Satin Lan grinned: "Of course! My native woman died of illness last year, and she didn't even leave me a baby, Yan'er became my woman, not only will she be the native woman of my seven barbarian tribes, but if she gives birth to a son to me, he will do this toast in the future! ”
The barbarian man never drags his feet in his work. The matter of life and death is only between three words, Xunyue didn't say anything else, and directly stretched out her right hand. Said to Yue Satin: "A word is a certainty!" ”
"Smack!"
"Smack!"
"Smack!"
Three high-fives, more effective than the mountain alliance and sea oath, more authoritative than the national letter covered with the jade seal, the two most powerful tribes in the Yunjun region have officially joined forces.
Spark. It burned into a raging fire. Two raging fires merged into a night fire. On the third day of the alliance between Baiman and Wuman, the city of Yunjun was broken, and Wu Miao Tusi and Yunxuan Tusi fled in panic with Qincha Hong Seyan and fled into the Wen family's lair in the deep mountains.
A series of changes in the Yunjun region confused Yao'er, he didn't do anything he wanted to do, and everything developed according to the results he wanted, even more thoroughly and rapidly than he imagined.
When the city of Yunjun was broken. Haruka finally woke up, and she felt that she couldn't look like this anymore. She should have taken action immediately, she originally came to Yunjun to "light a fire", but now it has become a "fire extinguisher" to extinguish the sky-high fire ignited by Hong Seyan, a stupid pig!
When Yao'er decided to take action, she realized how difficult it would be for a person to do something in the midst of the chaos, which was not at all as simple as he and Chen Ruzhi thought when they were planning: wait for the contradictions to intensify, the barbarians rebelled, find their leaders, know the benefits, persuade them to suspend the army, and then use this to write a letter to impeach the imperial envoy, and with the help of the local backlash, force the queen to use the imperial envoy as a scapegoat to calm the anger of the world.
Now that the barbarians are really reversed, the first thing Yao'er has to do is to find their leader, which alone is not an easy task. There was chaos everywhere, and the soldiers that Wu Miao and Yun Xuan didn't have time to take away were reduced to pieces, and started a guerrilla war with the soldiers of Bai Barbarian and Wu Man.
The armies of these two sides are usually farmers, woodcutters, fishermen and herdsmen, and there is no combat discipline in the first place, plus all supplies need to rely on themselves, if the army is too concentrated, it will not be able to find enough food to feed their stomachs, so except for this stage of attacking Yunjun City, the armies of both sides are divided into pieces and fought in fragments.
This combat mode is very suitable for the tribes here, and the scale of such a battle is not small for these barbarian tribes, but in the eyes of Yao'er, who has long seen the battle of large armies, it is naturally not worth mentioning.
However, a battle of this scale is actually more suitable for the mountainous and river-heavy terrain of the local area, and the small force is flexible in its actions and convenient for supply, which is far from being comparable to the actions of the group army. The imperial court soldiers are afraid to use troops here, in fact, there are also concerns in this regard, your military superiority cannot be used here, and you will be dragged to death here by the ubiquitous guerrilla warfare.
This kind of scattered fighting everywhere has created great difficulties for travelers, especially outsiders like Yao'er, who have lived both on the land and land, and it is even more difficult to move an inch. After all, her preparation was not sufficient, she underestimated Hong Seyan's ability to get into trouble, and when she hurried to Yunjun, before she could catch her breath, Hong Seyan forced Xunyue to rebel.
Yao'er came back from hating the sky in the outer land, and she didn't understand the sense of superiority that lingered in the bones of people like Hong Seyan, the arrogance and contempt of the Heavenly Empire's envoys in the face of the barbarian race.
Yao'er spent two days trying to find Bai Man's Xunyue Tusi, but was suspected of being a spy by several groups of barbarian soldiers who did not understand the language, if it wasn't for her and Shen Ren's drunken skills, she would have been killed on the spot.
Yao'er Zhengjue had nothing to do, and the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed again, and the officers and soldiers of Qiongjun, Rongzhou, and Lingnan Province rushed to Yunjun to quell the rebellion.
Hong Seyan killed a horse pistol and came back with a bang.
In fact, the officers and soldiers of Qiongjun, Rongzhou, and Lingnan Province did not come so quickly, otherwise the troops of Xunyue and Yue Xianlan had already reached the border of Qiongjun, and they would not have withdrawn so smoothly.
After all, the imperial army was well-trained, and the generals knew the art of war. It is not comparable to the strength of these tribes who have only experience in small conflicts, as long as the imperial soldiers and horses pursue and block them in an orderly manner, their casualties will definitely be heavy.
Qiongjun, Rongzhou and Lingnan Province have indeed sent troops, but there are not many soldiers and horses.
When Hong Seyan decided to plunder the Baiman and Wuman cottages and launch a provocation against them, he had already asked for help from the generals of the garrisons of Qiongjun, Rongzhou and Lingnan Province, saying that he had found that the exiles suspected of rebellion were protected by the barbarians, and the barbarians had ill intentions and might attack the imperial court. The generals of the three places were asked to send troops to assist and suppress the situation.
After receiving the letter from the Qincha, the generals of the three places respectively sent a guard horse to Yunjun for reinforcements. Because it was just a precaution, and it was not certain that the barbarians would rebel, the purpose of sending troops was only to make a strong impression and intimidate the local people not to act rashly, so there were not many soldiers and horses sent.
But when they arrived halfway, Yunjun was already in a mess.
Hong Seyan fled to Wu Miao's cottage, sent a messenger to contact the reinforcements, and after learning the news of the arrival of the reinforcements, he immediately got in touch with them, and raised the banner, claiming that Qiong County, Rongzhou and Lingnan Province each sent 30,000 troops, a total of 90,000 troops in Fayun County, Bai Man and Wu Man did not know the details, so they had to retreat in a hurry.
The three men and horses who came to help were weak, and they only bluffed, and they did not dare to divide their troops to pursue, so as not to be taken advantage of by the barbarians, so the white barbarians and the black barbarians calmly withdrew their territories, and the court officers and soldiers also recovered Yunjun City bloodlessly.
This accident created an opportunity for Yao'er, since Bai Man and Wu Man had collected their troops and the soldiers and horses were concentrated in one place, it would be much easier for her to find the other party's toast. And now that the imperial army has the upper hand, it has also created the best opportunity for her negotiations, thinking of this, Yao'er immediately rushed to Bai Man's village.
Yao'er and Shen Rendrunk led their horses and stood on the hillside, silently looking at the paddy fields in front of them.
Standing on the high slope and looking down, the irregular paddy fields are more like broken mirrors, and the white clouds of the blue fields are still reflected in the water, but they have lost the poetic and beautiful atmosphere, because the originally neat bunches of rice in the paddy fields are now twisted and crooked, some of them are lying down in the water, and some are struggling to raise their heads, which looks desolate. (To be continued......)