Chapter 4: Healing: Twenty-Three: Memory Awakening
At this time, my memories are no longer broken, and all my memories have been repaired. All the problems that had bothered me were solved as my memories were restored. The blankness in my memory came to my face with everything I saw in this room.
That memory started in Lop Nur.
That year, there were 20 of us gathered together to cross Lop Nur. But the existence of Lop Nur is a hellish experience given by Heaven to travelers. In the daytime, Lop Nur could not find a place where the sun could not shine, making people feel like they were tormenting in a furnace for a day. The temperature in Lop Nur is very different. The day is the height of summer, and the night is winter, no wonder there is a legend of eating watermelon around the fire. The boundless cold was pervasive, freezing people's hearts. But this is only the beginning of the nightmare. Next, we experienced difficulties and obstacles that we had never experienced before. Until that day, we saw the storm rolling between heaven and earth, and we were swept into the black storm together. At that time, all I heard was a heart-rending cry, and I felt like I was being skinned, cramped, and filed. And then I didn't know anything. When I woke up, I was in a strange place. At the time, I didn't know where I was or how much time had passed. When I woke up, I saw a mirror-like lake, reflecting the abrupt mountains of sixteen strange peaks. That's how I started my practice, and as I practiced, I searched around and found those companions.
Later we learned that this was the Bogda, the mountain of the gods. Bogda is the language of the steppe, and in the Han Chinese language, it means sacred mountain. Bogda is a steep mountain, and no one on the steppe has ever entered the mountain for generations, not even the bravest falconer. Therefore, there have always been many magical legends about Bogda. We know that we have entered a strange time and that there is no going back. Started the right business. In the process of operation, we have gone through hardships and hardships, and four people have paid for their lives. But those who survived finally built a sacred mountain. We form the Council of Elders. All the affairs of Bogda are handled by sixteen elders. All instructions are given by the Council of Elders.
At the foot of the Bogda Mountains is a small river that nourishes the grassland. Later, we rescued a group of people, and let them move to the foot of the mountain and settle here. After settling in Bogda, they took in the homeless and helped all those in need, regardless of ethnicity or nationality. Soon, a mixed tribe was formed at the foot of the mountain. Later, when Da Liao heard the news, he sent officials to take over the tribe and demand that the tribe pay taxes. But the officials of Da Liao were driven away. Then the Great Liao sent an army to conquer the tribe. At that time, there were only a few hundred families in the tribe, and all the young and middle-aged men were only three or four hundred, and they had to face a thousand-person team of Liao. But everyone was not afraid, in order to defend their homeland, they moved forward one by one, and annihilated this thousand-man team in a battle. Soon, the Liao State sent 20,000 troops. This battle laid the cornerstone of Bogda, and the three hundred Bogda warriors completely annihilated the 20,000 troops of the Liao State overnight, so that the so-called invincible Da Liao no longer dared to send troops to commit another offense, and had to admit the existence of Bogda.
That year, after the envoys of the Western Xia went to the Great Song Dynasty to pay tribute, they returned to the Western Xia with all kinds of property rewarded by the Great Song Dynasty, but not long after entering the territory of the Western Xia, all the belongings and the team of more than 1,000 people escorting the envoys were robbed by us. This was an important turning point for Bogda. Soon after the gold, silver, and cloth that the Great Song court had rewarded the Western Xia for being transported back to Bogda, the Western Xia army also followed. This time, the army of Western Xia encircling and suppressing Bogda was also 20,000 people. The Council of Elders decided that this battle would be fought with the prestige of Bogda, so it was to fight a tough battle with the Tanguts face to face. The Council of Elders sent six elders to lead the army at once.
In this battle, all the men and women between the ages of eighteen and fifty in Bogda participated. More than 3,000 men, led by five elders, fought against the Tanguts on the other side of the river, while women, led by another elder, were partly guarding the river, and partly in charge of long-range artillery fire. Because the Bogda's long-range artillery was farther than the Tanguts' artillery, the Tangut artillery was blown up by the Bogda woman's artillery as soon as it was erected. In this battle, the Bogdas who fought on the other side of the river were divided into five parts, and the four elders each led 300 men to quietly cross the river the night before, and hid in the hidden caves that had been prepared long ago. The rest of the people were led by me, and they set up a posture against the river to confront the Tanguts. On that day, after the start of the battle, the big shield in front of us blocked the rain of arrows of the Tanguts. The Tanguts first sent a cavalry of 1,000 men to attack us, but our close-range artillery bombed the Tanguts on their backs and quickly retreated. At this time, the women on the other side of the river began to bombard the rear of the Tanguts with long-range artillery, and the dense artillery fire forced the Tanguts to rush forward. The Tanguts got a little closer, and our close-range artillery began to wield. At first, the Tanguts wanted to outflank us from both wings, but the four elders led people to kill us from four different directions, and the Tanguts became a mess at once. With a wave of my hand, I took the lead in driving the chariot towards the Tanguts. Everywhere the chariots were, the Tanguts were either dead or wounded. In less than half a day, the Tangut people were completely finished, and only one or two thousand people fled back. This is still my order not to chase, to let these people go back to report the news, and let the Tanguts send more troops over. Otherwise, none of these Tanguts would have thought of escaping.
Soon after this battle, the Tanguts sent an army of 100,000, which was almost the elite army of the Tangut over the whole country. But that's what the Presbyterians want. When the Western Xia invaded for the first time, the Council of Elders decided to beat the Western Xia to the heart, so that the Western Xia people were not only unable to commit it again, but were afraid when they heard the word Bogda.
This time, Bogda has changed his tactics. Two days before the arrival of the 100,000 troops of Western Xia, when the elders asked everyone to move things to the mountain, there was a kind of nervousness in everyone's hearts that they had never felt before. Although everyone is not afraid, they all know that the next battle will definitely be hard. All of them are almost ready to die. After everyone moved their furniture to the mountain, the Presbyterian Church let everyone return to their homes. Although they did not understand the purpose of the Presbyterian Church, everyone believed in the Presbyterian Church. So they went back to their homes and prepared for battle, as the Council of Elders had arranged.