Chapter 246: Hiring Khitans

"There's a dancing sun!"

Park Kyung-tae was stunned for a moment, then grinned, sat down very calmly and continued to drink and eat meat.

Yan Shun said with a smile on the side.

"Lao Pu is definitely a brother in life and death who is worth befriending. He fainted to death at that time, and he only had half a life left, and all he was thinking about was 'Shanhou' in a daze. ”

Li Xingzhou said, "No matter how much power and wealth you have, you can't exchange for the brotherhood of life and death." ”

Yan Shun nodded.

"The love of living and dying together is sometimes even better than family affection."

This place is very remote, Li Xingzhou estimated the time, and it was almost dawn to go back.

"Alright, I'm leaving."

Li Xingzhou stood up.

"Remember the orders I gave you!"

"I don't dare to forget it!"

The three of them came out of the cave and walked out of the woods in three ways.

To deal with a shrewd and powerful tycoon like Li Hunyun, everything must be done with caution.

In case he finds out, not to mention anything else, Yan Shun and Li Baishi will definitely die.

Although the two of them are strong in martial arts and have extraordinary skills, no matter how strong they are, they can't compete with the big killer weapon of "power"!

So this kind of thing is still left to people with brains like Wang Sili to do.

It's the best.

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A drum and horn sounded, this is the order of Zuo Yiwei's fully retired officers and soldiers to assemble, and they will conduct a unified battle formation drill.

In ancient warfare, the most important thing was the "battle array".

In this era when communications are underdeveloped and command on the battlefield is quite difficult.

If there is no strict training in battle formations, it will be a blind fight to go to the battlefield.

That is, the "rabble" with little combat effectiveness.

The battle formation tactics of the Tang army are quite rich and changeable, and all kinds of troops perform their own duties, and they are in a position to open up the formation on the battlefield, which is as fixed and flexible as the formation of modern football.

Among the major arms, infantry is the main combat force of the Tang Army, and different arms such as Mo knife, regimental card, martial card, and crossbow soldier have come to the battlefield to start a battle, like a bulldozer rolling down.

In addition to launching long-distance raids and surprise attacks, the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty served as the main force of surprise troops.

In large-scale battles, it is actually used for "two flanks sweeping formation".

The elite cavalry of the cavalry is like a "winger" on a modern football field.

It was an absolute sharp knife that tore through the enemy's defenses.

The order sounded, and the whole army moved together.

Normally, each regiment and unit conducts training in individual military techniques, and the battle array drill is like a modern military exercise, and it is a great opportunity to show its demeanor and strength to fraternal units.

At the same time, all the soldiers of the Xunfu who were strong and brave couldn't stand their own collectives the most, and they fell off their chains in the large-scale battle array drills.

For example, there is absolutely zero tolerance for things like being late for assembly and loose queues!

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The efficiency of work in the army is first-class, and the formalities for promoting an officer in the firing line are completed in less than half an hour.

If this is at the local level, the person who won the first place in the scientific examination wants to be awarded an official position, and various selections are assessed at various levels, and finally there must be a backstage to complete it.

Despite this, if there is no idle official position, you still have to wait, and then you will engage in a soy sauce profession like a school scrivener.

The military is indeed a high-risk and high-reward place, a world of the strong.

With strength, it is not difficult to stand out.

Li Xingzhou thought to himself, if I caught the conclusive evidence of Li Hunyang, I could use Princess Taiping to impeach him.

If it's just a personal grudge, that's fine.

But this time, Li Hunxuan made a conspiracy for me to die.

The delay in sending troops to rescue the defeated soldiers and displaced people led to the tragic death of many people at the hands of the Turks.

He was originally a feudal official, and he should take it as his responsibility to protect the territory and the people; But because of his own personal grudge, he killed so many people......

That's his sin!

Later, Li Xingzhou and Persimmon arrived in front of Zuo Yiwei's main tent and found that it was lively, as if a small celebration banquet was being held.

Ma Sui, Lin Yun and others were there, and there were some Zuo Yiwei officers and generals, about twenty or thirty people.

"Oh, Shanhou came just in time!"

As soon as Ma Sui saw Li Xingzhou and Persimmon, he came to his strength and said loudly.

"Come and have a glass of our celebration wine...... It's rare, I've been with the army for so long, and it's the first time I've drunk alcohol! ”

"Yes, come on! The best new wines! ”

Others also warmly invited.

"Who is this for?"

Li Xingzhou asked.

"Just kidding, of course it's for the five of us!"

Ma Sui smiled unashamedly, "This is a real feat, we all went into battle to kill the enemy in person!" ”

Wang Tian took over the conversation and said.

"Lin Yun killed the most! There was no way, his horse was fast, and as soon as he rushed into the enemy formation, he saw no one else, only his spear slashed right and right, rushed forward and killed later, and the Turkic soldiers chopped him like a pile of watermelons! A few of us followed him, picking up the dead fish that had wilted! ”

"Hahaha!"

A crowd laughed.

Lin Yun smiled humbly.

"Not as exaggerated as he said, and I killed thirty-seven."

"Poof......" Several people squirted out a mouthful of wine.

"Thirty-seven, you're too little?"

"Ma Sui, who ranked second, only killed nine!"

Li Xingzhou smiled.

"Don't you hear that he's deliberately showing off?"

A group of martial artists got together, drank wine and talked about military affairs, but they were also happy.

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The stone forest is a unique scenery on the fertile grassland.

It stands in the northeastern part of the fertile grasslands, which are filled with these columnar blocks of huge granite.

Legend has it that this is the place where the Xianbei people of the fertile grassland started, and they are the best horse people.

Of course, the composition of the Xianbei tribe is very complex, and some people do believe that the Khitan is a descendant of the Xianbei Yuwen Department in the eastern part of the Donghu system, from the "remnant species" of the Xiongnu, and the Yuwen Department is even more so.

From the first year of Yongyuan to the seventeenth year of Yongyuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu were broken by the Han general Geng Kui, after Beidan fled, Xianbei entered the hometown of the Xiongnu, and the Huns who did not flee joined Xianbei with "more than 100,000 falls".

However, more than 100,000 Huns did not continue to take the Huns as their name, and "all called themselves Xianbei".

Since then, in the long-term mislocation with the Xianbei people of the original Donghu species, due to the influence of mutual marriage, the difference is less and less obvious, although it has a main source in the formation process, it is still multi-source and multi-stream.

The Khitan people flourished day by day and developed southward.

Emperor Wen Xuan of Northern Qi Gao Yang personally led a large army to attack the Khitan tribe in the south in the fourth year of Tianbao, capturing more than 100,000 people and hundreds of thousands of livestock.

The Khitan tribe suffered heavy losses, and was later harassed by the Turks, so "the tribes were scattered, and they were not retro eight tribes".

At the beginning of the Sui Dynasty, they were attached to the Sui Dynasty and the Turks, and gradually recovered, nomadic herding in the western Liaoning region, and the tribes usually "chased the cold and summer, and followed the water and grass to live."

In the first year of the Great Cause of the Sui Dynasty, when the Khitan people went south to the Yingzhou area, they were attacked by the Turks under the command of the Sui generals, and 40,000 people were captured and suffered heavy losses again.

Today, the Oga clan in the Stone Forest area has been completely exterminated and replaced by a ...... It's a Khitan warrior.

In the early 6th century, the Khitan were still in the tribal stage, and in the early Tang Dynasty, they formed a tribal alliance and submitted to the Turkic Khanate in Mobei.

In the second year of Tang Wude, the chieftain Dahe Duluo led an army to attack Pingzhou.

Wude sent an envoy to Chang'an in the sixth year to pay tribute to Tang Gaozu famous horses and abundant mink, but his political position still tended to be that of the Turkic Jieli Khan.

In the second year of the Zhenguan reign of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the Great Hemo Society led the tribal alliance to turn its back on the Turks and annex to the Tang Dynasty.

The emperor of the Tang Dynasty once gave the Khitan leader Qiqi, which later became a symbol of the power of the Khitan Khan.

In the third year of Zhenguan, he was placed in the state by the people of the Murwei and Khitan tribes.

Between the Khitan and the Tang Dynasty, there were not only tribute, entry and trade, but also war and plunder. Later Tang Taizong took the Khitan people as the governor of the Song Desert, and the Dahe Cave Brother as the governor of the Song Desert, and gave the surname Li.

However, during the reign of his grandson Dahe Abgu, he began to harass the Tang Dynasty border with the Xi people and was captured in Luoyang.

Tang Gaozong took the grandson of Brother Ku Moli as the general of the left guard, the assassin of Danhan Prefecture, and was crowned the king of Shun County.

Another grandson, Li Quanzhong, was the general of Wuwei and the governor of Songmo, and succeeded to the eight Khitan departments.

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The Khitan warriors, in fact, were also a branch of the descendants of the Huns, but they were stronger and more brutal.

They abandoned the way of life of the horse people and roamed between the grasslands and the mountains and forests.

Relying on hunting and looting for a living, it has become a people with a unique mountain culture and predator culture.

The Moleng Stone Forest on the fertile grassland has beautiful scenery.

There are tall birch trees and a windbreak with silvery trunks.

The huge stone pillars scattered everywhere are strange and contrasting, or in groups of three or five, or single pillars.

Strange shapes, some are like beautiful girls looking at the moon, some are like flying horses running to the sun, some are like mothers and sons, and some are poking the sky with long swords.

In the middle of the vast stone forest, a large round stone plate base is engraved with the totem imprint of the Ohga clan.

It was the place where they sacrificed to the heavens, but now it has become a sacred place for the Khitans.

The same sacred place that the Oga clan used to worship the sun and thank the heavens for giving them food and land.

The Khitan warriors used it to sacrifice heaven and earth and praise victory.

Li Xingzhou looked at the spectacular and magnificent scenery in this area, and was a little intoxicated for a while.

"The Khitan worships nature and believes that there are gods in the sky."

"Their strength is given by the gods, so they are very devout to the gods."

"Since we are here, we need to respect the thoughts and customs of others. When you see them later, don't be too rude. ”

He admonished.

Li Baishi replied in a long tone: "Got it! ”

Looking at her expression, she didn't care at all.

The Khitan people have such a legend about their ancestors.

A "heavenly maiden" who has lived in the heavenly palace for a long time feels the boredom and loneliness of the heavenly palace, and she drives a green ox cart down the river from the "flat pine forest" along the river.

Coincidentally, an "immortal" rode a snow-white BMW from the "Mayu Mountain" along the Tuhe River to the east.

The green cow and the white horse met at Mt. Konoha at the confluence of the Huangshui and Tuhe rivers.

The goddess and the fairy walked away the green ox, loosened the reins of the horse, and walked opposite each other.

The two fell in love with each other and combined, and multiplied eight sons, and then the clan gradually flourished, and was divided into eight divisions, including the Siwandan Division, the He Dahe Division, the Fufuyu Division, the Yuling Division, the Rilian Division, the Pi Xuan Division, the Li Division, and the Tuliu Yu Division.

It is located in the south of Huangshui and north of Huanglong.

He often contributed to the Northern Wei Dynasty with the name Ma Wenpi and carried out trade.

Every march and spring and autumn sacrifice, must use white horses and green oxen to show that they will not forget this cloud. This is undoubtedly the most authoritative and accurate account of the legend of the green ox and white horse.

A sharp whistle from a distant sentinel suddenly resounded in the sky. pointed

Leigh's cry tore through the firmament, piercing the sky like a needle piercing the sky.

With that terrible alarm, countless tall and strong warriors appeared from behind the stone forest.

Some of them hid behind stone pillars, some in ambush in the jungle, and some in the grass.

At this moment, along with the alarm, it appeared at the same moment.

From hundreds of trickles, it condensed into a huge rolling torrent in an eye.

Countless black-pressed human heads, heavy weapons in their hands.

With a thick face and fangs, the bloodiest fighting spirit and murderous aura are fierce on the face.

It's a Khitan warrior!

In that battle that once made Li Xingzhou unforgettable.

One by one, the savage fighters who showed their most fierce and unyielding strength.

Once again, they held their weapons aloft and suddenly appeared in front of Li Xingzhou.

Tall, mighty, fierce, tenacious, all the words to describe a strong warrior can be used on them.

The sturdy and thick bodies, the exposed coarse chest, the heavy and thick giant axes, the heavy hammers, and the bloody eyes full of murderous intent.

In the heavy exhalation, a terrifying pressure was sent to Li Xingzhou and his companions.

Thousands of Khitan warriors quickly lined up in a huge infantry phalanx on the grassland.

They stood like cavalry, separated from each other.

This makes their formation even more intimidating and intimidating.

The archers were much less lethal to them.

Khitan warriors were natural infantrymen, they had no cavalry, no long-range marksmen.

Close combat is their only way of fighting, and it is how they make their enemies fearful.

Li Xingzhou will never forget that the original war of grain protection was only 500 Khitan soldiers.

How many casualties were inflicted on up to 4,000 troops. Their strength is shockingly strong.

And today, at least three thousand Khitan warriors appeared before his eyes.

This is almost the total number of all the warriors of the Khitan.

This shocking scene instantly formed a huge murderous aura.

It rolled into a swirling wind and twisted fiercely towards Li Xingzhou.

At that moment, Li Xingzhou was fearless, but a faint smile appeared on his lips.

He said: "It seems that the reception scene is still very grand. ”

Li Baishi said in a deep voice.

"The Stone Forest is a Khitan holy land, and for decades, no one dared to approach it easily. To them, everyone who came near on the day of their sacrifice was an enemy. ”

"No wonder there are so many Khitan warriors here, it is estimated that the warriors of the whole clan are here. Today is the day of their sacrifice? ”

Li Baishi replied: "A Khitan sacrifice takes three days, and the sacrifice is made once a month. ”

Li Xingzhou blurted out.

"So they spent a tenth of their lives in sacrifices?"

He was now beginning to understand why the Khitan warriors fought so fiercely and fearless to death.

Such a long time in life is devoted to the worship of the gods.

The Khitan's spirit of fanaticism has reached an unparalleled level.

Li Xingzhou didn't speak, his eyes were deep and distant, and fell on the big men made of steel in the stone forest in front of him.

He exclaimed, this was the most powerful soldier he had ever seen.

He admired, and it was the most fearless soldier he had ever seen.

They regard the battlefield as their home, and the death of war as glory.

And they, at this moment, stopped in front of them, gasping for air.

Staring at himself fiercely with a pair of fierce eyes, it was like a pack of wolves seeing a lamb to the slaughter.

This was the first time he had seen a Khitan warrior, and before that, he had only heard of the prestige of these warriors.

Li Xingzhou is right, each of them is equivalent to a warrior!

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