Qilian Mountain!

With the meltwater of the snow-capped mountains, the pastures of the Qilian Mountains are rich in grass and raise a large number of livestock, and at the same time, there are also large and small tribes breeding here. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Qiang people are an ancient ethnic group in western China, according to legend, 5,000 years ago, the ancient Qiang of the Yan Emperor fought with the Yellow Emperor tribe, and after the defeat, the Yan Emperor led most of his tribe to merge with the Yellow Emperor tribe to form the Huaxia tribe (Han nationality). A small number of ancient Qiang people migrated westward because of the Qiang people, not a single ethnic group, and there were different ethnic tribes.

They often live in high mountains and are known as the "peoples of the clouds", where the mountains and steep terrain make them easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Not to mention attacking, just by going up the mountain, altitude sickness can take many lives!

For example, Feng Xiaobao's mountain division, the first month of training is to adapt to altitude sickness, and at this time, many people have fallen ill and even died, which is not child's play.

The Qiang tribe of the Xili clan lives on the Lianyun Peak on the north side of the Qilian Mountain, and the Ganzhou and Suzhou of the Tang Dynasty are condescending, looking down on the Longyou River West of the Tang Dynasty!

In the first year of Zhenguan (627), Tang Taizong divided the whole country into 10 provinces, and the west of Longdi was Longyou Road. In the second year of Ruizong Jingyun (711), the west of the Yellow River was divided from Longyou Road as Hexi Road, leading 7 prefectures of Liang, Gan, Su, Gua, Sha, Yi and Xi. Hexi and Longyou are divided, and it is customary to refer to Helong as Helong, which is basically the eastern capital of Gansu and Xinjiang after the Yuan and Ming dynasties. The Helong region is the key hole of the Silk Road and occupies a very important position in terms of strategy. If Tubo controlled Helong, it could cut off contact with the Western Regions and serve as a springboard for attacking the Tang Dynasty's henchman. The strategy of the Tibetan slave owners to attack the Tang Dynasty was to first encroach on the border military strongholds, and then focus on breaking through Longyou, blocking Hexi, isolating the Western Regions, and then aiming directly at the political center of the Tang Dynasty.

The Qiang tribe of the Xili clan is the vanguard of the Tubo people, and is the ally of the Tubo people, adhering to the will of the Tubo people, invading the Hexi region, robbing caravans, attacking settlements, burning, killing and looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

Go and fight him, they will run back to the mountain, the Tang army needs to attack the mountain, that is, dry staring.

The mountain is steep, and it is not easy to attack, no matter how difficult it is to go up the mountain, you can't even find the road, and you can't deploy any siege equipment in front of the stockade, and the food you bring can't last.

Don't beat him, they will see the right time to go down the mountain, and slash you every time, making you feel pain in your heart and lungs.

Therefore, the Qiang tribe of the Xili clan lives happily, and when the things are gone, they can grab it, and live a good life without hard work, and the Tang Dynasty sent people to appease them, willing to give them some silver to let them stop making trouble, but they ignored the good intentions of the Tang Dynasty, so the first battle of Feng Xiaobao's mountain division had to deal with the Qiang tribe of the Xili clan who didn't know what to do.

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The army marched in Qilian Mountain, and there were many people, like a giant dragon winding and fast, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

But manpower is poor, Feng Xiaobao rode on a horse, looking at the tall and majestic snow peaks in the distance, no matter how many soldiers there were, it was just a drop in the ocean, and he felt a sense of powerlessness.

The mountains and valleys are steep, the river valleys are deep and narrow, the terrain is undulating rapidly, and the altitude difference is huge, some can reach 3,000 meters.

At that time, there was no development, and there were quite a lot of steep mountain walls. The terrain is cross-cut and fragmented, coupled with the high mountains and dense forests, lush vegetation, poisonous snakes, and numerous leeches, it is extremely difficult to cross the valleys and mountains.

According to the army's tactics, the foot of the mountain was escorted by a team of horses, and a base camp was established, where supplies were stored for logistical support.

After that, they opened roads in the mountains and built bridges when encountering waters, and with their training skills, the officers and men flew to the cliffs, crossed the glaciers, fought poisonous snakes, and fought leeches.

If there is no road in front of you, use a machete to cut the road!

Encountering a turbulent river, the bank of the river is craggy, the river water hits the bank, splashing up thousands of piles of snow, it seems to be insurmountable, our army's engineers quickly "erected" a rope bridge on the river, and the officers and men are like warriors of the Dadu River, borrowing a single rope to climb across the river.

Feng Xiaobao is no exception,

Whoosh, we are a flying army, even if the mountains are high and the water is deep.

The dogs carried by the troops were carried over in harnesses, and some smaller mules, blindfolded and tied to them, were hoisted over.

In mountain warfare, horses play a small role, but mules are responsible for transporting supplies.

The officers attached great importance to logistics, and set up a military station every distance to replenish supplies, otherwise there would be no war without supplies.

The officers and men of the 1st Mountain Division acted quickly and confidently, and they already had a route map, which was the credit of the staff officers who carried out reconnaissance in advance.

The officers and men had undergone rigorous training in mountain warfare, possessed a strong physique and tenacity, and with the help of their previous training, they were surprised to find that the march in battle was even easier than the training.

Fighting a war is bloody training!

Only rigorous training in peacetime can produce such results, and the discovery of the enemy's path is nothing more than that, which boosts the morale of the army to a certain extent.

Feng Xiaobao and Jing Dongling walked together, and couldn't help but ask a question: "The road is so difficult, why can they (the Qiang people) still take horses down the mountain to rob us Tang people?" ”

There is indeed a doubt, if the Qiang people have no horses, they are toothless tigers, but every time they go down the mountain, there are horses, which is a bit strange.

With the ability of our mountain division, they have walked so hard, and the tribesmen have brought horses down the mountain, thousands of horses, how did they get it?

"There are thousands of roads in this mountain, and there must be one that can go down the mountain, we are not residents here, we don't know so much!" Jing Dongling's answer made Feng Xiaobao nod yes.

The terrain is like this, there are countless forks in the road, and there are also earthquakes, mudslides, mountain collapses, and landslides that can cause the road to change, even if you have a guide.

Even if you are well trained, you sometimes have to make a choice: because the road is diverging, and the end of both roads is in the clouds, no one knows which way to take, and the two spearheads sent out walk for two hours and then return, and then everyone chooses a possible path, and ends up walking for three hours, and the wrong way.

The path leads to the bare rock wall, surrounded by mountains, and it feels like sitting in a well and watching the sky.

Looking at the terrain, everyone pinched their noses, no one said anything, and walked back silently.

No one was on horseback, and at most a few mules and dogs were with them, and it was hard to imagine that the tribesmen would be able to pull horses down from the mountains to the plains to beat us!

Overnight on the mountainside, because there are many clouds and fog in the mountains in the morning, the low clouds in the air are connected with the slopes and highlands into fog, the visibility is generally less than one kilometer, and the humidity is so high that everyone is wet from the inside out.

Manpower is poor after all!

People made bows and supplies that are prone to wet damage in bags and kept them carefully.

"Up, up, up!" After climbing the mountain road for five days, everyone was stunned when everyone climbed out of a mountain gap. (To be continued.) )