Chapter 237: Rare Winter in the Northwest, the Crisis of the Xiongnu and Qiang Tribes! 1/5

Because Zhou Tianzi gradually became stronger, the northern princes began to secretly hate the Wei State, eager to eat its flesh and bones, and cook their muscles and bones.

At the same time, the border of Zhao is located in the far north!

"Kill!"

"For the sake of the tribe, kill!"

On the grassland, a team of 100,000 cavalry in white armor is fighting with a cavalry of about 200,000 cavalry wearing sheepskins and holding scimitars.

The white-armored cavalry is the cavalry of the Zhao State, and the sheepskin cavalry is the Huns!

The weapons of the Zhao State are all bronze, wearing white leather and bamboo armor, while the Xiongnu except for a small number of people who use bronze scimitars, most of them still use bones to make spears, and the equipment level is not a level.

In the face of more than 200,000 Hun cavalry, the 100,000 Zhao cavalry did not fall behind at all, tearing apart the Hun cavalry formation like a devastating force.

An hour later, the Xiongnu threw down seventy or eighty thousand corpses and returned to the endless grassland, and the Zhao army lost forty or fifty thousand and cleaned up the battlefield in situ.

The Xiongnu are powerful, the princes know, but the Xiongnu weapons are backward is also known to the world, the Xiongnu only know nomadic plunder, for the manufacture of weapons, not at all, these scimitars are still exchanged for a large number of cattle and sheep in the Central Plains, and the death is expensive.

This is an unwritten rule, any vassal state can sell weapons at will, but it is never allowed to sell to the Xiongnu, and even if it does, the price is twenty or thirty times the usual.

Not only the Xiongnu, but also the Qiang people in the west, treating foreign races, the princes are all united front.

Why so? One is that the heart of the non-my race will be different, and the other is that the Qiang and the Xiongnu are strong, the Xiongnu are already fighting very crazy, if you add copper weapons, it will be repaid.

And many princes thought that the Xiongnu had a lot of people, otherwise they would not have more than 200,000 or even 300,000 or even 300,000 every time they stepped into the Central Plains, so every time they defeated the Xiongnu, they did not dare to continue the in-depth pursuit, for fear of being besieged and killed by the Xiongnu army.

If they knew that the Xiongnu were all soldiers, and the total population was no more than one million, they would not be afraid of the Xiongnu invasion.

I have to say that the Great Wall was also built in this world, all to prevent the invasion of the Xiongnu, but the countries built their own countries, and they were not connected.

Meanwhile, on the Westland steppe, the Kara tribe!

"Phew!"

"Boom!"

Here the war horses are neighing, and tens of thousands of war horses are galloping.

"Gula, our tribe's horses will be handed over to you, I hope you can bring a lot of food!"

"Yes, as you said, there are people who need many, many horses, and I can bring all the good horses of the tribe."

On the side of the horses, five or six middle-aged men with long beards wearing blue, yellow, red and other colors on their heads and homemade linen gowns were talking to men in their thirties.

This young man is none other than Gula who traded war horses with Wei at the beginning!

And these middle-aged men with long beards were the leaders of the surrounding tribes, who came to Togula to help them sell horses.

When Gula heard the words of these leaders, he couldn't help but recall the words of the King of Wei at the beginning, "How many horses, I want them in Wei!" ”

"Well, definitely!" Gula said with a firm expression.

"Okay, I believe in the reputation of the Kara tribe, if they are all sold, I will reward you!" A tribal leader said with a serious and sincere expression.

"No thanks, the Kara tribe is happy to help others!" Gula said with a serious face.

With Gula's assurances, the chieftains soon left.

After these leaders left, Ka Qigu, the leader of the Kara tribe in his fifties, walked with small steps, frowned at Gula and asked, "I, the warrior of the Kara tribe, can you really sell all the war horses?" You know, you can't sell it cheaply, those leaders aren't so easy to fool! ”

Gula looked solemn, and after careful consideration, he replied, "I can sell it!" ”

Ka Qigu smiled, stretched out his hand and patted Gula on the shoulder, "Warriors of the Kara tribe, I hope you can succeed, if you sell all the war horses, you are the benefactor of the surrounding tribes, the hero of the Kara tribe, all the time, you are the future leader of the Kara tribe, believe in you, you can bring the Kara tribe to a stronger state!" ”

Gula was taken aback and a little stunned, "You, Chief?" ”

Ka Qi suddenly interrupted: "Don't worry about anything, come on, Gula Warrior!" ”

Gula felt the pressure and nodded heavily.

A few months ago, a rare winter fell in the northwest, countless cattle and sheep were frozen to death, cattle and sheep froze to death, which means that the nomads could not get rations, in desperation, they had to unite with the tribes and step into the Central Plains to plunder, but unfortunately, the Yan country next door was not vegetarian, and 200,000 Qiang warriors were defeated by 250,000 iron cavalry of the Yan country.

There is nothing to eat, and you can't grab it, so you can only sell horses in exchange for rations, but you don't know who to sell your horses to, and Yan definitely doesn't need it, because Yan has its own horse breeding land, and even if you need it, you won't want it, after all, you just invaded Yan and sold it to Qi and Chu, but the two countries are extremely greedy and the price is too low.

And six years ago, Gula got a lot of grain from a country called Wei at a fair price, so many leaders hoped that Gula would go to Wei again, and regarded Gula as hope, hoping that Gula would bring a lot of food and let the clansmen survive this year!

After a period of time, Gula led the team and brought 1,000 Qiang warriors, 50,000 good war horses, 10,000 inferior horses on the road, and took away half of the grain stored by each tribe as dry food for eating on the road.

Time passed slowly, and Gula entered the Qi country with the Qiang warriors and 60,000 war horses, crossed the rivers and plains, and headed for the target Wei country.

Because Gula entered Qi in the name of commerce, Qi would not stop it, and in this era, there was no concept of tariffs.

Two months later, in the nineteenth year of Zhengyun, March 8th!

Palace, study.

"Your Majesty, Jingzhou Taishou Chongsheng spread the word, saying that there are more than 1,000 Qiang people with tens of thousands of war horses approaching Xihe County, and they have been stopped by officers and soldiers, and the leader calls himself Gula, from the Kara tribe, and this time he came to Wei to trade war horses with Wei!" Xiao Liuzi respectfully bent down and reported to Wei Liyu, who was reviewing the recital.

"Oh? Gulla? Wei Ya fell into memories, and remembered for a moment that he had indeed traded war horses with a Qiang people, and at that time it was only a thousand war horses.

"Where are the people now?" Wei Li asked softly.

"It's still blocking at the pass, and the county guard of Xihe County doesn't dare to let it in, for fear that the Qiang people will enter the city and plunder!" Xiao Liuzi replied again.

Now the Jingzhou Taishou has been replaced, and the original Yangzhou Taishou has been replaced, and the Xihe County Shou has also been replaced with Lantu, the former Qinghe County Shou, the former Qingguo Prime Minister, and the current Yangzhou Taishou is called Meng Fei, who is Meng Ge's younger brother.

PS: "Monthly passes, recommended tickets, rewards, a few in one stop!" ”