The Central Plains in September has only entered the Mid-Autumn Festival, and on the plateau, it is also covered with a thin layer of ice and snow. For the Tuyuhun people living on the plateau, they have not encountered a good year since the fourth year of the Great Cause.

That year, the Sui minister Pei Ju instructed Gao Che to attack Tuyuhun, and Tuyuhun asked the Sui Dynasty for reinforcements. Emperor Yang Guang of Sui took the opportunity to send troops, and in the following year, Tuguhun was destroyed, and Murong Fuyun fled. After this battle, the territory of Tuyuhun was all returned to the Great Sui, and Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty opened up the territory for thousands of miles, ranging from the east bank of Qinghai Lake in the east, to the Tarim Basin in the west, from the Kuruktag Mountains in the north, to the Kunlun Mountains in the south, and set up Shanshan, Jimo, Xihai, and Heyuan four counties. But after a very short period of control, the behemoth of the Great Sui swords and soldiers rose everywhere, chaotic, Murong Fuyun not only recovered all the lost territory, but also sent troops to support Xue Ju, fought with Li Tang, and repeatedly defeated Li Tang's idea of opening up Hexi, next, Xue Ju died of illness, and the Xue brothers did everything to fight a backwater battle, but the sky did not give it a convenience, and was defeated by Li Tang, with the entry of the Great Sui army, had to go away to Tuyuhun. The Sui army entered strongly, and Murong Fuyun knew that the enemy could not be defeated, so he retreated to the party in the southeast and joined forces with Tubo to seize its land, and the Tuyuhun people finally had a place to live.

But these more than 20 years have been fighting, at the beginning of the Tuyuhun army invaded Hexi, ransacked the merchants on the Silk Road, and fought the counties of the Sui Dynasty, which provoked the revenge of the Great Sui, and even the country was destroyed, and then the Great Sui was in chaos, and the Tuyuhun people returned to their homeland to fight the Sui people, but soon, they were forced to retreat by Li Tang and the Great Sui. At first, they fought with the Central Plains, but they couldn't fight, and they fought with the party again.

This is for the Tuyuhun people living on the plateau, it can be regarded as a hardship, knowing that there is a large area of grassland in Xihai County that no one grazes, but they dare not graze, for fear of suddenly killing a Sui army and rewarding them with a knife, but if they don't graze, what can they do? Farming? Who would? And can you farm on the plateau?

The old herdsmen can not take care of so much, not long ago, Tuyuhun and Tubo successfully divided the party, a rare calm calm, he took this opportunity to drive the cattle and sheep to find a pasture, watching the emaciated cattle and sheep frantically chewing hay, he leisurely breathed a sigh of relief, and then went on like this, and migrated to the south, where the war has ended, and this vicinity, but from time to time there are Sui army patrols, if you are not careful to cross the line, their cattle and sheep will become the food in the mouth of the Sui army, meet the Sui army with a bad temper, A severe beating is still light, and if you don't even die, you won't even die.

There were many people who had the same idea as the old herdsmen, and soon, people drove cattle and sheep to graze one after another.

The withered grass has been blown by the cold wind, and for the herders, the weather will be getting colder with the new day, and the days will be more and more difficult day by day.

Animals can still eat some hay now, but after October, they can only eat the hay they have hoarded, and if there is heavy snow that lasts for two or three months, not only will the animals freeze to death, but also many people will freeze to death.

For a long time, it was not food and war that restricted the development of the grassland population, but the cold living environment, but it also created the brave character of the nomads, who all survived in the ruthless environment and had tenacious vitality.

It is precisely because they grow up in a harsh environment that they have the aggressiveness of wolves, and it is a matter of course for them to respect the strong and the strong.

"The Khan has recently frequently recruited warriors from various departments, is it going to war again?" The early herdsmen start their day, and at this time there is still dry grass, which can fatten the cattle and sheep somewhat, even if they freeze to death in winter, they can also have a few more mouthfuls.

"Who knows?" His companion shrugged his shoulders and looked at the sheep with some distraction.

"I heard that the Great Khan wants to fight the Tibetan barbarians." The Great Sui called Tuyuhun a barbarian, but Tuyuhun also looked down on the uncivilized Tubo and other ethnic groups.

However, Tuyuhun did have this qualification to despise the Tubo people, after they entered the Qinghai Plateau, they not only brought Mongolian horses and advanced production methods, but also made rational use of the local geographical environment to develop animal husbandry production, especially the creative use of the natural geographical environment of the grassland around the lake and the islands in the lake of Xihai Lake, introduced Persian stallions, transformed horse breeds, and bred dragon stallions, especially the famous horse "Qinghai Cheng", which is a model praised through the ages.

Mongolian horses have the characteristics of cold resistance, strong disease resistance, tolerance to rough feeding, and strong adaptability. However, Mongolian horses belong to the steppe horses, with large and soft hooves, which are not adapted to alpine climbing, and are too unsuitable for high-altitude environments. Therefore, when Tuyuhun moved from the West China Sea, it needed to optimize its performance to adapt to the new natural environment.

"Book of Wei" contains: "Qinghai Zhou back more than 1,000 miles, there are small mountains in the sea, after the ice is combined every winter, put this mountain with good horses, to the spring harvest, the horses are pregnant, the foals born, the number is the dragon species, there will be many horses. Tuyuhun tasted the Persian grass horse, put it into the sea, because of the birth of a horse, can travel thousands of miles a day, and the people who pass down the Qinghai horse are also. This is to say that the dragon stallion bred by the Tuyuhun people, especially the "Qinghai Horse", is a high-quality horse breed bred after the Mongolian horse and the Persian horse are crossbred, and the main way of breeding and breeding is to use the Longju Island in Qinghai Lake for isolation and optimization. "Qinghai Cong" is vigorous and good at walking, running fast.

At this time, Tubo was still in the era of ignorance, and it was normal for the Tuyuhun people to look down on the Tubo people.

"What is there to fight the Tibetan barbarians?" The old herdsman said disdainfully.

"You don't know." A man with several hideous scars on his face said with a smile: "The Tibetan barbarians are poorly equipped, but the land they occupy is vast, and there are countless rich and beautiful grasslands, which are more livable than the West Sea. The Tibetan barbarians had extremely poor combat power, so the Great Khan planned to take the land of Tibet as his own and drive the Tibetan barbarians out. ”

The old herdsman slapped his knee and said loudly: "The Sui people are not easy to deal with, and they should choose the weak ones to fight." ”

Everyone laughed.

They live in a harsh environment, they don't care much about their own life and death, dying on the battlefield is lucky and glorious for them, which is also directly related to their short lifespan, most of the Turks do not live to be fifty years old, so dying on the battlefield is their best destination, which can bring great honor to their children and grandchildren.

However, like the Turks and other nomadic peoples, the morale of the Tuyuhun people is easy to be inspired, but it is also easy to fade, once the morale fades, the sense of honor of seeing death as home will suddenly disappear, the soldiers begin to fear death, begin to worry that their wives and children will become the property of others, they are unwilling to fight to the end, once the fear spreads, the army will soon be defeated.

This is an ambivalent psychology, and the pride of death and the fear of death without war are often a matter of thought, so the nomadic generals will do everything possible to boost their morale before the battle, including using the sound of a grand horn to motivate, and before the attack, the soldiers have to drink a bag of milk wine, so that the strength of the wine can be transformed into ignorant and fearless morale.

"Woohoo!"

At this moment, the ears of several huge hounds were propped up, and the limbs that had been prostrate on the ground suddenly stood up, looking vigilantly into the distance, and roaring continuously.

Suddenly, there was a slight tremor in the earth, and the cattle and sheep began to restless, and they stopped grazing. But these herdsmen are talking and laughing, they know what this means, this is the movement that will only appear when a large army marches, probably which tribe accepted the conscription of the Great Khan Murong Fuyun and rushed to the assembly place, these days there are constant wars, this kind of thing is not a new thing, it will be nervous at first, but after a long time, everyone is used to it.

After a while, a black line had appeared on the distant horizon, constantly squirming and thickening where heaven and earth met, and a solemn momentum rushed to the face.

"That's not right!" The old herdsman suddenly stood.

"What's wrong?" The old herdsman's surprise provoked a burst of ridicule.

"It's the Sui army, it must be the Sui army, only the Sui army has this kind of momentum." When the old herdsman was young, he was also a warrior in the clan, not only cut off the Silk Road trade route, but also fought with the Sui army many times, he understood too well the momentum of the army of the Great Sui Dynasty, which is a temperament that nomads do not have, what is this, he can't say, he only knows that it is very powerful and terrifying.

"The Sui Dynasty is in civil strife, how can the Sui army come here? You're thinking too much. ”

"Yes! You're getting old, and you're getting bolder. ”

The young people laughed and said that in this land, and even on the grasslands farther away, there was no respect for the elderly. In their eyes, the old people are a burden, whether it is the Turks or the Tuyuhun, they will not like the old people, even if the old people have made great contributions a long time ago, but they never talk about hard work.

The old herdsman knew that the young man of the tribe did not believe it, because he was like this when he was young, so he was too lazy to say anything, he glanced at the direction of the coming army, and did not care about the cattle and sheep, led the horses around him, and without saying a word, he stepped on the horse, turned around and fled.

"Haha!"

The old herdsman's behavior provoked bursts of ridicule and laughter.

"Boom~"

Soon after the old herdsmen fled, it seemed that the endless iron horses gave way to the cattle and sheep with great momentum, and went straight to the herdsmen, who were ten thousand times smaller than a drop in the ocean in the face of this kind of battle.

"Poof~"

A cluster of arrows burst through the air and pierced into the mouth of a laughing young herdsman. Crimson blood splattered out, his body trembled, his eyes had a little incredulous color, and then he froze forever at this moment, and his body fell from the ground weakly.

The herdsmen were stunned.

They could still see the mocking smile on the face of their companion the old herdsman, but at this moment, with the splash of blood and the cold light that swept by, a cold arrow cluster passed through the back of the skull from the mouth of the companion in everyone's stunned gaze. They could only see their companions slowly falling down in their pre-mortem movements, and the fluttering arrows.

"Enemy attack!"

After a moment of froze, the group widened their eyes and roared loudly. Hysterically trying to warn his people, but it was too late.

"Puff"

In the flash of the cold light, the high-speed galloping war horses directly knocked several corpses standing on their own, and then countless iron hooves stepped on, turning into a pile of red, dyeing the land red, and some cattle and sheep fleeing in panic were gradually annihilated by this group of iron horses, and the army did not pause for a moment from beginning to end.

Before the iron horse, the right Weiwei general, the public lieutenant of the Eguo State Chi Gong was wearing a black bright light armor, riding a tall and sturdy, pitch-black war horse, like a flowing black cloud, straight to the Tuyuhun tribe in front, the cold horse lance blade in the rising sun, flashing a chilling light.

The pitch-black war horse came too fast, even if the herdsman had come to his senses a little, he couldn't make any reaction, and the horse lance picked up the herdsman in front of him, and turned into a dark cloud wedged into the tribe's camp.

"Boom~"

In the heart-rending screams, the four or five herdsmen who were shrouded in the silver light of the horse lance didn't even have a chance to scream, they were shattered by the wild rolling clouds, and the herdsmen around them who had time to react were affected by the pond fish, the silver lance cloud was enchanting and abnormal, but when faced with it, it was terrifying, even if it was just a little over, it could bring a bloody storm.

"Roar~"

The Tuyuhun herdsmen who reacted let out a roar, and rushed towards the devil who suddenly killed them, but before they could form an encirclement, the war horses like dark clouds sprinted as fast as lightning, and a group of herdsmen's tooth-aching bones were knocked out in the sound of spitting blood.

Wei Chigong passed through the crowd so easily, he let go of the reins of the horse with his left hand, reached into the quiver, grabbed a few arrows, and didn't even use a bow and arrow, at the moment when he staggered with the crowd, he just shook his hand and threw it back, one arrow pierced through the body of one herdsman and stuck upside down on the grass, and the other three were each through two herdsmen before stopping castration.

"Wei Chi, you are so cheating!" Dancing the Mo knife, setting off a rain of blood, Niu Jinda was a little angry, since he felt the lethality of the Mo knife in the Tiger Killing Pass, Niu Jinda's weapon was also changed from a steel fork to a special Mo knife, which was wielded, and the horse lance of Wei Chi Gong was particularly ferocious.

But Wei Chi Gong in addition to a set of superb lance method, but also the ability to grab the white blade empty-handed, not only can snatch weapons, but also can fire hidden weapons, after he slaughtered the enemy within the range of the horse lance, he used the hidden weapon technique to attack from afar, and the lethality is naturally more than the Niu Jin Da around the empty Mo knife.

"You can too!" Yu Chi smiled honestly, and the arrows flew one after another.

"I won't."

"I'll teach you!"

Between the words, the two fierce men of the world moved forward, their heavy weapons with a domineering momentum, as if a strange wind was rolling up in the crowd.

Behind the two of them, there were five hundred elite guards close behind, each of them leaning slightly, and the light trumpet Mo knife in his hand did not do too many fancy movements, but kept repeating the chopping action, followed by the gap torn by the two generals, and constantly widened it.

"Boom~"

Only at this time, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves became clear, and the subsequent troops broke into the herdsmen's camp like a torrent of steel, and the herdsmen who were attracted by Wei Chigong and Niu Jinda were directly annihilated by the rushing steel torrent, and the horse's hooves that swept by quickly before they could not even resist were trampled into pulp.

The momentum of the charge did not stop, but under the leadership of Wei Chigong and Niu Jinda, they continued to rush forward with a brutal attitude.

The tents were washed away along the way, and before the tents could understand what was happening, they were trampled by merciless iron hooves, even if some powerful warriors reacted, but in the face of the overwhelming cavalry, there was no way, and the individual strength was negligible in front of the cavalry of this scale, and even the ripples could not be stirred up and were completely buried under the iron hooves.

However, the momentum of the charge could only go so far, and more and more frightened horses, cattle and sheep hindered their way to charge.

Xue Wanche, who was in the rear, gave the order with a sad face and a sigh of sorrow.

Originally, Wei Chigong was the commander of this army, but that guy felt that there was no need to talk about tactics and tactics to fight a sneak attack war, and there was no need for conspiracy. He disliked that the commander was not as good as the general, so he simply pretended to be sick, and then sent an eagle letter to explain the situation to His Majesty the Emperor, so the position of commander naturally fell to Xue Wanche, the commander of the Tenth Army of the Great Sui.

In fact, Xue Wanche doesn't want to be this commander and command the army, how can he go into battle and kill the enemy?

But Wei Chigong, this bastard, has received the grace of the saint and can carry the burden openly, and he is unwilling, this boss has to continue.

'Woo woo'

With the sound of three loud, desolate trumpets. The torrent of steel was divided into three, attacking the reacting herdsmen from three directions, and after passing through the grassland for a circle, it reunited about two hundred paces away from the herdsmen's camp, and then turned around and chiseled again.

From the appearance of Wei Chigong to the arrival of the army, it was only a few moments before and after, but most of the camp of the Tuyuhun tribe, thousands of herdsmen were gone.

The tribal chief ignored the horses, cattle and sheep scattered and fled, but gathered the surviving population, looked angrily at the morning wind, the battle flag of the word 'Sui' fluttering under the morning sun, and said loudly in Xianbei language: "The Sui army on the other side, why did you hurt my people? ”

"Old cow, what is this old guy talking about?" Wei Chigong asked.

Niu Jinda has been in Hanchang for a few years, but he can understand the words of the Tuyuhun people, but the language is no longer important, and he said honestly: "He scolded you for being a black and ugly bastard." ”

"Damn!"

In Niu Jinda's stunned gaze, Wei Chigong took off his big bow, bent the bow and arrows naturally and smoothly, and before the person on the other side could react, a sharp arrow had already broken through the air. In an instant, the sharp arrow tore through the spatial barrier, and in the stunned and angry gaze of the old man who 'scolded the street', the sharp arrow slashed his throat.

Amid the drumming noise on the opposite side, an angry Tuyuhun man charged in this direction.

"Kill all these pests!"

With Wei Chigong's order, locust-like arrows swept the ground, and after a short flight, they quickly fell, and four or five hundred Tuyuhun warriors completely disappeared from sight and turned into corpses.

"When you die, you dare to curse, except for women, those who are higher than the belly of a horse will be killed!" Putting away his bow and arrows, Wei Chigong gave a chilling order.

"Roar, roar, roar!"

With a roar of excitement, the Silk Road coalition army rushed like hungry wolves towards the trembling crowd that had lost its last protection.

Another round of killings, staged amid screams.

"This! Some, right? Qiu Shili looked at Xue Wanche.

Fighting a war is a man's business, and the act of killing the old and the young, in his opinion, is a little inhumane.

"General Qiu!"

Xue Wanche looked at Qiu Shili's angry face, patted him on the shoulder and said: "This is completely different from the civil war that happened within the Great Sui, we are now fighting against a group of wolf-hearted alien races, whether we talk about mercy or not, they are all invaders in their eyes, as long as they have the ability, they will use a hundredfold, ten thousand times to retaliate." Tuyuhun is a Xianbei people, and their ancestors almost wiped out the Han people, so they are enemies, damned enemies, and we don't need to be merciful to the enemies of the enemy. Kindness and righteousness are not enough for our people, how can Tuyuhun be entitled to enjoy them? ”

"From ancient times to the present, there are always some people who shout benevolence and righteousness, in order to embody the so-called 'Celestial Empire' demeanor to the alien race to emphasize benevolence and righteousness, and use the people's fat and ointment of their own nation to decorate the so-called state of benevolence and righteousness, and when someone objects, it will be sneered at by a large number of people. Influenced by this concept, even the extremely powerful Han Dynasty was no exception, and the two emperors of Wenwu before the Shengshang were no exception. Whenever there are small Turkic tribes in the frontier to kill countless people, burn countless villages and towns, my Central Plains Dynasty in the vast majority of the time has shown an extremely tolerant attitude, even if the emperor wants to send troops, but the resistance is unimaginably greater than the troops, and their arguments are quite ridiculous and pathetic, what do you say The Central Plains Dynasty is a big country, you can't bully others to bully others A small tribe, where do the people who say this put the suffering border compatriots? ”

"What's even more ridiculous is that whenever the people in the border areas are persecuted by foreign races, many of our scholars actually say that the foreign races are just asking for money, and they only need to give them a little money and goods to eliminate the scourge of war. And they can also send virtuous and noble people to influence them. What is it? is raising wolves, and when these vicious ambitions are insufficient, what they want is the country of the Central Plains Dynasty. When they invade, will they tell you about righteousness? ”

Qiu Shili was silent.

"Encountering an emperor who is a king in the inside, a domineering emperor in the outside, and a great dynasty that is supreme and unanimous in the outside world, is the luck of our Great Sui warriors and the people of the Great Sui, but it is also the misfortune of the foreign race."

Xue Wanche looked at the Tuyuhun people who were wailing under the iron horse and the blade, and said in a cold voice: "But the misfortune of the alien race has nothing to do with Lao Tzu, the more unfortunate they are, the more comfortable Lao Tzu will see." ”

"So what?" Chushli asked.

"Next, just carry out the destruction to the end, just kill it." Xue Wanche scolded and chattered and complained: "Wei Chigong, this bastard makes Lao Tzu unhappy, and Lao Tzu makes Tugu Hun unhappy." Lao Tzu can't beat Wei Chigong, can't he beat Tuyuhun people? Damn, I want to get sick too. ”

"......" Chushili was speechless.

Xue Wanche dismounted and said, "We are galloping here and need to be repaired." The order went down, and a day later he rode south. It is necessary to arrange for soldiers to patrol the Quartet, so that the Tuyuhun people will be miserable if they counterattack the sneak attack. ”

"Whoa!"

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