Chapter 866: Onward in the Great Mountain
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The 100,000 Mountains are not really 100,000 mountains in this area, but just a symbolic name, in order to describe the vastness of this mountainous area, in this mountainous area, there are dozens of mountains above 10000 kilometers alone, counting the surrounding area, 100,000 mountains have a radius of hundreds of square kilometers. The danger is not only the high mountain and the road is dangerous, rugged and difficult to walk, but also the more frightening thing is that there are many miasma filled places in the mountains and forests, and people who are not familiar with this mountain area, once they accidentally enter these places, they will have ten lives will be reimbursed. Even the Qiang people are afraid to go to some places.
The Qiang people who live in this mountainous area have become a country of their own for many years, no matter the changes of the dynasties outside, the hundred thousand mountains are always as calm as ever, and for countless years, the rulers who want to conquer this mountain are not nothing, but after the loss of troops again and again, everyone realizes that if they want to trample the tribes in this mountain under their feet, the price they have to pay is completely disproportionate to the harvest. No ruler would pay a great price for what seemed to them a barren mountain and hundreds of thousands of unruly barbarians.
So he recognized the rule of the tribal chiefs over this mountain, and even spent money and rewarded these barbarians so that they could stay in the mountains in peace and not come out to make trouble.
Successive Qiang chieftains also followed this law, that is, to keep their homeland, and not to covet the world of flowers and flowers under the mountain, because once out of the mountain, the Qiang people will lose their greatest weapon to resist the enemy -- geographical advantage, until the generation of Mata, the huge empire began to decline, all over the country, Zhongyang is not out of Luoyang Baili, the empire has its name, which makes Mata see the opportunity, unlike other chiefs, Mata went out of the mountains to study when he was young, and knows more clearly than any past chieftain outside the mountainThe chaos outside the mountains made the ambitious Mata determined to get out of the mountains and open up another new world for the Qiang people.
King Ning's timely wooing and Mata hit it off, and he could easily obtain a state land, and it was a wealthy Qingzhou, which made Mata overjoyed, regardless of the opposition of other elders of the Qiang tribe, and resolutely led his troops out of the mountain, after 50,000 Qiang soldiers went out of the mountain, he made contributions in one fell swoop to help King Ning defeat Luoyang Qiu Zhi's army and occupy Qingzhou.
In Mata's view, the Qiang people are trapped in the mountains, there is no room for development, only come out, there is a chance to develop, after occupying Qingzhou, the former Qiang soldiers did begin to change guns, they have standard weapons, not as diverse as before, they have a unified uniform, with the whole body armor that they couldn't think of before, all of them make Mata full of confidence, even if the mainland is changing, but Mata strongly believes that as long as his 50,000 Qiang soldiers are there, It is impossible for anyone to take Qingzhou from their own hands, on the contrary, they can take advantage of the current chaos on the mainland to expand their own power, and take advantage of the chaos to get a piece of the pie.
But obviously, although Mata is familiar with the history books, he is wiser than any Qiang chieftain in history, but compared with these long-standing politicians on the mainland, his heart is not black enough, not ruthless enough, and the ruling mode of the Qiang clan in his body makes King Ning succeed in one blow, after killing Mata, the 50,000 Qiang soldiers of the Qiang tribe immediately fell into chaos, taking this opportunity, King Ning got his hands on it, co-opted, and bought a large number of Qiang generals, elders, and most of the Qiang soldiers, and for a group of people who refused to obey the female servant, they were killed. The Qiang generals who came down the mountain have a lot of wealth under the mountain in recent years, enjoying a luxurious life that they never thought of before, the previous ruthlessness has long been worn out by luxury, and the Qiang people who have lost these no longer have the same momentum as before, under the soft and hard of King Ning, they have thrown themselves to King Ning.
And the ambitious Mata is already a pile of bones at this time.
Although the Qiang soldiers began to decline, but some of their inherent traditions are rooted in their hearts, even King Ning, will not touch this bottom line, at this time, his grandson, that is, his son and Ma Lanhua's son Qin Ping has become the most important weapon, Mata has no son, only Ma Lanhua is such a daughter, and now, Qin Ping has become the only heir of the chieftain family, Qin Ping, who is still in infancy, sat on the position of the patriarch, in the name of Qin Ping, King Ning subdued most of the Qiang elders, The wealth he brought with him also gave him ample funds to buy off most of the Qiang elders, and after a few months of King Ning's entry into the mountains, he quickly stabilized the Qiang form, which had become somewhat chaotic due to Mata's death.
Ninety percent of the 36 cave owners of the 12 major villages of the Qiang nationality sent envoys to the Taluo village, which originally belonged to Mata and now belonged to King Ning, to express their submission and loyalty.
Tarot Village, living in the Tarot Mountain of 100,000 mountains, Tarot Mountain is not the highest among the 100,000 mountains, but it is definitely the most dangerous, there are five smaller peaks around Tarot Mountain, these five small peaks have become the first barrier of Tarot Village, and Tarot Mountain's original abrupt uplifting, so that it has no other way except for a big road uphill, on the way up the mountain, according to the mountain to build a checkpoint, can be called a man to block the pass, ten thousand people can not open, Tarot Village since its completion, has never been breached, His home village was never directly exposed to the front of the soldiers.
Now Taluo Village has become the station of King Ning, 20,000 elite soldiers of the Southern Army are stationed in Taluo Village and the other five peaks, and most of the important elders of the Qiang people have also been moved here by King Ning, nominally, of course, in order to prevent the Dingzhou army from entering the mountain to endanger the safety of these elders, so let them move to Taluo Village to plan safety.
King Ning, who is accustomed to living in a luxurious palace, is not very accustomed to moving to Tarot Village, the climate here and everything is too different from the mountain, the body of King Ning, who has been hit hard, is already very weak, and after going up the mountain, the body is even weaker, but fortunately, they have been preparing for a long time, at least in terms of diet, for the time being, it is still guaranteed that there is not much difference from the mountain, but with the blockade of the Dingzhou army, such days must not be too long.
Although his physical condition is not as good as day by day, King Ning must also hold on to his sick body, at least in front of those Qiang elders, he cannot show the slightest weakness, although his son is not young, but he still looks immature, unable to support the overall situation, on top of dealing with Ma Lanhua, King Ning is extremely annoyed, if he killed Ma Lanhua with a knife at that time, why would she become a hidden danger that worries King Ning now?
Shang Haibo stated conclusively in the letter that Ma Lanhua had nothing to do with Luoyang, according to his estimates, Ma Lanhua must have fallen into the hands of Dingzhou, if this is the case, then King Ning can conclude that Li Qing will not let go of this opportunity, Ma Lanhua must have dived into the 100,000 mountains now, and is watching himself in the dark, secretly accumulating strength, hoping to give himself a fatal blow.
If those Qiang elders who usually seem to be happy and convinced of themselves know that Ma Lanhua is still alive, how many people will be loyal to them and follow them all the time? King Ning has no bottom in his heart, and King Ning, who knows his body well, is determined to clear all possible obstacles for his son before he dies, so that his son can stand firmly in the 100,000 mountains in the future, control the Qiang people, and plot to fight the mountain again one day.
The night was already very deep, and King Ning was still standing in front of the sand table, thinking about countermeasures. The house where he lived was completely made of stone, wide and tall, and the torches in the house burned to the core, illuminating the inside of the house, but compared to the special bright candles of the previous Ning Wang's Mansion, of course, it could not be the same day, the house was lit with more than a dozen of these torches, and the smoke was relatively large, although it had been a long time on the mountain, but Ning Wang was still not very accustomed to it, and his eyes were often smoked red.
"Your Highness!" Zhong Ziqi stepped through the door.
"You're back!" King Ning raised his head and rubbed his eyes, "How is Ma Hong?" ”
Ma Hong is a powerful elder in the Qiang people, and is also one of the twelve village masters of the Qiang people, and the Niujiao Village under his control is the first big village with 100,000 mountains leading to the outside of the mountain.
"It has been deployed, Your Highness, in addition to Ma Hong's own clan soldiers, we have also deployed our own three thousand elites in Niujiaozhai, with Niujiaozhai as the center, and set up three defensive points, which are foolproof." Zhong Zi Qi Dao.
"Mahon is still obedient, right?" King Ning raised his head and said.
Zhong Ziqi said: "Obedient is obedient, but he is too greedy, and he wants us silver, weapons, armor, and even women, everything."
"Give it to him!" King Ning didn't think about it, and said directly, "These things are nothing, as long as he firmly holds this first line of defense, I will give him whatever he wants, Zi Period, here, you also have to be more careful, and slowly control Niujiaozhai, so that this place is finally completely controlled by us, and in the future, we will send troops outside the mountain, and we will use this as a base."
"Your Highness let go of your guard, I've already started arranging!" Zhong Ziqi nodded.
"Well, Ziji, come and see, Shang Haibo promised to give us weapons and supplies, but there are too few passages to the 100,000 mountains in Bozhou, and it is not easy to transport them to Tarot Village, which is too far away!"
"Yes, Your Highness, but no matter how difficult it is, we can't give up, even if we can only bring a very small amount of things at a time, we have to work hard for this, because this is not only a matter of weapons supply, but also a morale issue, let our soldiers see, let those Qiang people see that we are not isolated, and our foreign aid will do their best to support us."
"You can see it thoroughly!" King Ning nodded and said, "That's right, I've asked Tai'er to set up a special department to deal with these transported materials. Letting him control these materials is also to facilitate him to have more contact with these Qiang elders, presumably those greedy elders will run more diligently to Tai'er for these things."
"Your Highness is far-sighted!" Zhong Zi Qi Dao.
King Ning sighed, "I only have one thing to worry about now, and that is Ma Lanhua, if this woman doesn't die for a day, we won't be able to really stand in the 100,000 mountains."
"Your Highness, don't worry, I will find her and kill her." Zhong Ziqi said ruthlessly.