Mongolia rides across the desert

The Jurchen aristocracy feared their rivals

On this day, an uninvited guest came to the Cheng'en Trading House in Yingzhou, this person was in his fifties, black-faced, big, and at first glance he was a big man from the north. If you open your mouth, you have to find the master, saying that there is a big deal. After a while, the man found the shopkeeper.

Dahan hugged his fist: Brothers have always been good?

The shopkeeper stared at it for a while, are you Brother Du? Why has it changed so much?

What's changed?

I've gotten fatter, I'm more energetic, and I'm younger than before.

Did my brother praise me, or did he say that I came too little?

Li Renxin hurriedly said, Oh, Brother Du, please sit down and drink some tea. Otherwise, you come home with me, it's not convenient to talk here, go to the house and let your younger brothers and sisters quarrel a few dishes, and I'll accompany my eldest brother to have a few drinks.

Listen to you.

Brother Du, how have you been in the past two years? I heard that your business in Yanjing is doing a lot, and you are marrying a sister-in-law, tell me about it.

Brother, my eldest brother will tell you the truth, in the past two years, the business has done well, and there have been a lot of experiences.

Du Youde did business because of the small capital, all of them were petty troubles, mainly buying some rice from the field, and then trafficking it to Jinan, Zhongdu, etc., and later opened a silk shop in Datong, Xijing. Two years ago, Fan Zuliang gave him 10,000 copper coins, and the business became bigger, and he opened a tea shop in Zhongdu. This time I came back to visit my mother.

Last autumn, in Yanjing, I met a person named Sushi Liezili. This person is the elder brother of the Jin army general Fushi Lie Ziren, who also served as an official in the army, but when he was old and injured, he went home. As long as the army is dispatched, he will join forces with his younger brother to provide some food, clothing, and so on.

I overheard that the marshal of the Jin army, Wan Yanxiang, was dispatching troops, so he became vigilant, bought tens of thousands of stone of rice, and sold it to him at a low price. While the two were drinking, he knocked on the side and asked how many people there were in the army and where they were going.

Fu Shi Liezi glared at him, why are you asking this?

He explained with a smile that the brothers and their family are in Henan, north of the Huai River, if they attack the Song Kingdom, they can find a way to dodge, can they still wait for death?

Oh, that's right, then don't worry. This time the troops were not transferred to the south, not to fight the Song soldiers, but to the north to fight the Mongols.

Mongol? What? Three heads and six arms? Still dare to fight with the Dajin Kingdom?

You don't know that. The Mongols grew up on the steppe, raised horses and sheep, and were especially capable of fighting, and sometimes our Jin army could not defeat them.

It's so powerful, I heard that when our Jin soldiers attacked the Song Kingdom, Tiefutu was invulnerable and could not resist, and the abductors fell like thunder and passed away. What did the Mongols have?

You don't understand this, I've seen it. The Mongol cavalry was more ferocious, and I would say for sure that this cavalry is the most powerful and invincible of today.

The heavy cavalry of the Mongol army was the elite of the army, mainly responsible for storming and pursuing. They are covered in armor, which is usually made of leather, or chain armor. The horses they rode were sometimes clad in leather armor. The weapons used by the soldiers were spears and a short scimitar or a mace, which they hung around their waists or placed in the saddle.

The heavy cavalry was followed by the light cavalry, which were more numerous, and they did not wear armor except for a helmet. The task of the light cavalry was reconnaissance, cover, fire support for the heavy cavalry, Su

Clear the enemy and follow the pursuit. The main weapon of the hussars was the bow. It was a very large bow with a firing distance of two hundred to three hundred yards. They carried two kinds of arrows, one was lighter, and the arrows were small and sharp, which were used for long-range shooting; The other is heavier, with large and wide arrows, which are used in close combat. Like the heavy cavalry, they also had a heavy scimitar or mace, or a lasso, and sometimes a javelin or spear with a hook on their head.

The Mongol cavalry was selected from among the best-trained soldiers of the time. From the age of three or four, they were sent to schools in the Gobi Desert for rigorous training in horseback riding and archery, so they had an amazing ability to harness horses and use weapons. For example, he can turn around and shoot enemies after him when he retreats quickly. The horses used by the cavalry were also extremely rigorously trained. It is possible to walk for days without eating.

It's the first time I've heard of such ferocity.

When you go to Shuozhou, you can meet the Mongols. Mongolians also love to drink tea from the south.

Du Youde went to Shuozhou again and brought a few carts of tea. The hard work paid off, and through Tachimu, he became acquainted with a Mongolian merchant named Ujin Mutai.

This man is a Tatar, the last time the Jin soldiers sent troops north, it was to fight the Tatars, and the king of the Qiyan tribe, Khan Temujin, assisted the Jin soldiers and defeated the Tatars, in that battle, he was seriously wounded, and others thought he was dead, but he was rescued by a peasant family.

After recovering from his injuries, he did not want to return to the grassland, so he made his home here.

Still, he knew about the fighting on the steppe

For more than a decade, the Qiyan tribe on the steppe rose rapidly, and other tribes elected Zamuhe as "Gul Khan", that is, the Khan of all Khans, and swore to be an enemy of Temujin. They formed a coalition of 12 armies and launched an attack on Temujin and Kerebu, but at Koyitian, the rabble led by Zamuhe could not withstand the fierce blows of the combined forces of King Temujin Khan, and in less than a day they collapsed, and Zamuh surrendered to King Khan. Subsequently, Temujin attacked the Tatar stronghold, and the Tatars were outnumbered and had to surrender.

Temujin took advantage of the victory to pursue and take the Tai Chi Wu tribe directly, and in the command battle, he was shot in the neck by the Tai Chi Wu general, but he still insisted on fighting. Early the next morning, the Taichivuls surrendered to Temujin.

The fall of the Taichigu tribe removed a huge obstacle to the further unification of the Mongol tribes by Temujin, and how many of his troops would be like archers? Jebel, ? Nayaa and others became Temujin's right-hand man in conquering the world.

In the autumn, Temujin concentrated his forces and attacked the king of Tohan Lingle, who had been fighting with him, and the father and son of the king Khan were defeated. He also led the army to fight with Wang Han of the Kereh tribe in the land of Helan Zhenshatuo. At the age of eighteen, Ogedai fought with the army and fought hard. At that time, Wang Han's army was outnumbered. The war went on quite brutally. In the melee, Wokotai fought a bloody way out and stood out of the encirclement. Rendezvous with Temujin.

The powerful Kereh tribe was destroyed, and Temujin attacked the Mi'er beggar tribe in the north, subduing the three tribes surnamed Maigudan, Totoli, and Chahun. It occupies the eastern grassland with abundant water and grass - Hulunbuir grassland.

Ujin Mutai told Du Youde that Temujin was a great hero, that he had now basically unified the steppes and was preparing for the establishment of the Great Mongolian State. He told his generals that in the future he would lead the Mongol cavalry to conquer the world.

A few days ago, Du Youde went to Qixia in Dengzhou, Changchun Zhenren Mound built a monastic place here, Emperor Zhangzong gave the plaque "Taixu Guan", called Taixu Palace, Qixia people commonly known as Bindu Palace.

A real person also told him: The minister of the Jin Dynasty said that the emperor of the Song Dynasty was neglected in political affairs, and the soldiers were weak and did not need to be worried, and the real enemy was Mongolia in the north.

This person had been to the Xia Kingdom, and soon found that the people of the Xia Kingdom hated the Jin Kingdom and were afraid of Mongolia, and they were all worried. He quietly complained to Du Youde that Temujin was great, and it was only a matter of time before Xia and Jin were destroyed at the hands of the Mongols.