Chapter 38: Beiyi Grievances

The Han people and the Beiyi have a long history of grievances, and now they are endless.

The kingdom of Beiyi is located north of Shenghan, sandwiched between the Black Forest and the Tartar Wasteland. After the Holy Han Empire went east out of Longmen Pass, it was the territory of the Beiyi people, the Yan people and the Shenghan people who fought for it all the year round.

The easternmost people are fishing and hunting peoples, although they can fight but the population is sparse, so the eight tribes of the Shen Ya are only scabies pain relief and no threat to the Shenghan, and the kings of the Shenghan County in the past dynasties only regard the eight tribes of the Yan Ya as a buffer with the Beiyi people.

The Beiyi people in the north are different, the Beiyi country is known as three points of mountains, three points of water, three points of fields, one point of swamp, and every year in December, there are six months to see the snow, hundreds of years ago the Beiyi people had humbly learned culture and knowledge from the Central Plains Dynasty, and because there are several gold and silver mines in the territory of the Beiyi country, so that it is located in the cold and bitter area but is extremely rich and abundant.

After the Beiyi Kingdom became rich for hundreds of years, the gold and silver mines were extinct and the country was poor, but the Beiyi people believed that the reason for the poverty of the Beiyi Kingdom was caused by the Han profiteers in the Central Plains. Twenty-nine years ago, a great plague occurred in the Holy Han Empire, and even the Great Dao Emperor was killed, and Emperor Taiqian succeeded him as emperor.

In the same year, the general of Beiyi, Pu Wangjing, overthrew the Li royal family of Beiyi and ascended the throne as king, and confiscated all the property of Han merchants in the country to fill the treasury, but it caused misunderstanding among the people in Beiyi, and the people of Beiyi took up arms to slaughter the Han people in the country. The surviving royal family of the Li clan of Beiyi and the Han people fled back to the Central Plains, imploring the kingdom to uphold justice and avenge the people.

At that time, the Shenghan Kingdom was tired, and Emperor Taiqian sent 200,000 troops out of Longmen Pass to expedition to Beiyi in order to divert domestic emotions and contradictions.

However, the Han army was defeated in three expeditions and three times, and the first time it was defeated in cold weather, the Han army had to withdraw its troops and return to the court, only freezing to death and frostbitten tens of thousands; The second time he was defeated by the main general and died violently, but according to legend, he was killed by the Beiyi assassins, and it is still an unsolved case; The third time, it was defeated by the sneak attack of the Xuanwu Army, so that the Xuanwu Army of the expedition was blocked and had no way to retreat, and the Xuanwu Army was annihilated by the enemy.

The failure of the third expedition led to a sharp drop in the morale of the forbidden army of the Holy Han Empire for nearly fifteen years.

However, the increasing taxes and serious land annexation of the Central Plains Dynasty forced the people to flee to the Kanto region to destroy forests and cultivate land. The people of the Tatar are in awe of the forest, and even cut down a tree must plant a tree, let alone destroy the forest for reclamation, so they often hunt and kill the Han people. The Han people who dared to go out of Longmen Pass were all brave people, and naturally rose up to resist, and they even got the secret support of Longwei at Longmen Pass, which intensified the fierce vendetta between the Han people and the Yan people.

The Xuanwu army of the Holy Han Dynasty attacked Beiyi, and the Yan people secretly joined forces with Beiyi, attacked the Han army's food team with black arrows, and took the opportunity to attack Longmen Pass, resulting in heavy losses for Longwei. The Beiyi army took the opportunity to surround the Xuanwu Legion of the Han Army on the bank of the Birch River, and tricked the Xuanwu Legion into relaxing its vigilance, and then the army attacked the camp and killed 120,000 Han troops by the Birch River, which was almost blocked by the corpses of the Han army. Every few hundred steps from the Birch River to Longmen Pass, the Beiyi people hung the corpses of Han soldiers upside down to humiliate the Holy Han Empire. From then on, there was no possibility of peace between Beiyi and Shenghan.

Longmen Pass Longwei was furious, and the soldiers went out of Longmen Pass to collect the corpses, but they were ambushed by the Beiyi army, and the Beiyi army broke through Xinye Mansion and slaughtered the Han people outside the Guan, so that the corpses of the people outside the Guanwai were all over the field.

This time, Wuhuan invited all the tribes of the world to crusade against the Holy Han and "uphold justice" for the Tartar Khanate, and the Beiyi State was the first to respond, and sent 100,000 troops to enter the Saibei Wasteland in a mighty way, and amicably "took over" the originally disputed Lake Charle on the border between the Tartar Khanate and the Beiyi State.

The Beiyi people who entered the Saibei wasteland burned, killed and looted all kinds of evil, turning the entire wasteland upside down, and the Tatar people all hated it, but the Tatar Khan King Li Gaotu could only swallow his anger and let it go.

The smell of dog meat and wine wafted in the air, Zhang Xiaowu forbade his nose, his eyes narrowed, and he had a plan in his heart. He continued to hide behind a waist-thick tree, slowly waiting for the other party to lower his vigilance, and heard the noise of the Beiyi people drinking and bragging around the campfire.

Three hundred years ago, the Li Beiyi Dynasty was founded, and comprehensively studied the Holy Han, spoke Chinese and used Chinese, and even the army imitated the Holy Han military system. The St. Han scout cavalry acted in a unit, and the infantry moved in a unit. Marching and camping in this barren mountain and wilderness can only be Beiyi scouts.

These Beiyi scouts are supposed to have snatched two dogs from the Tartar herdsmen, but they don't know if they will kill the Tartar herdsmen, after all, they often do this kind of thing. Zhang Xiaowu suspected that the herdsmen who were killed earlier were the ones who did it, and even the dog meat they ate was the herdsmen's hunting dogs.

Speaking of which, the Tartars are also pitiful, in the war, weak tribes and states can only become the tools and targets of the powerful state, and the Tartars are also suffering like never before.

A stout Beiyi scout is expertly flipping and roasting dog meat on a campfire, his craftsmanship is extraordinary, and the dog meat is bubbling with oil and exuding aroma. Others bragged loudly while drinking, and the Beiyi people liked to be noisy and lively.

At this point, their attention was all on the delicious dog meat and the skillful movements of the chef's soldiers, completely oblivious to everything around them, perhaps they had long since neglected them. The scout "cook" separated a piece of meat with a dagger, and gave filial piety to the scout captain, Beiyi's superiors and subordinates were strictly ordered, and even the commander was full of officials.

The scout captain took a bite of dog meat, stretched out his thumb, squinted his eyes and praised: "Asi! ”

The cook soldier laughed flatteringly, and then turned to continue the roast, while the others came up to cut the meat themselves, and the laughter and slapstick were incessant, and it was evident that they were now very relaxed. After the total annihilation of the Han army in Tucheng, there was no Han army in the eastern grassland, and some were just scattered soldiers, which was not to be feared.

During the day, they tortured and killed three wounded Han soldiers, and in their opinion, the eastern wasteland was already in their pockets, so why worry. So they ate roast dog meat with confidence and boldness, and even lost the alertness that scouts should have. Of course, they weren't scouts in the first place, but there were too few scouts, and these veterans who had been in the army for more than three years became scouts.

"Assi! Nomu Masida! A Beiyi man ate beautiful food and sang: "Jindalai Fruit Jindalai Fruit ......"

"Eat, drink, jump, jump, this is your last." Zhang Xiaowu stared at them deadly, gritting his teeth and sneering. He hid behind a tree and waited patiently for his chance, he had to kill the five Beiyi scouts tonight, because the Beiyi scouts were all cavalry, and once they found the slightest trace of themselves, two legs would definitely not be able to outrun four legs.

Now that the wasteland is almost uninhabited, the Tartar herders have either fled to the west, been plundered to the north, or fled south into Han Chinese territory in order to protect themselves. Therefore, Zhang Xiaowu judged that these Beiyi people should relax their vigilance, and he clenched the sharp spear and short knife even more, trying not to make a sound, for fear that the slightest noise would alarm the other party.

After waiting for a while, Zhang Xiaowu once again glanced at the group of Beiyi people who were drinking wine and staring at dog meat, and sure enough, he saw that they were more and more relaxed their vigilance, and the Beiyi people who could sing and dance were actually singing and dancing around the bonfire—all of them were drunk.

The first dog was eaten, and soon the second dog was also eaten in half, and the Beiyi people drank a lot of soju, and then began to set up simple tents. Several people talked and laughed loudly, and when the tent was set up, they fell asleep in the tent.

Soon, after the snoring sound came out of the tent, Zhang Xiaowu did not pass, he was waiting for the time, the sky had a slight light, it should be the beginning of Yin, and the time in another world was more than four o'clock in the morning, at this time Beiyi was sleeping soundly. He then got up and walked, picked up the embers, and lit fires around the tent.

The Beiyi people slept so dead that they woke up in a hurry after the fire broke out, and Zhang Xiaowu did not forget to add firewood and grass to the tent, and the fire became bigger and bigger with the help of the north wind. Zhang Xiaowu scolded with a cruel smile: "Come out, come out, burn you bastards, let you kill my brother, let you force my daughter-in-law to kill herself by jumping into the river, Lao Tzu will make you all roast pigs!" ”