Chapter 1 The All-Powerful Hui
The snow on the Tien Shan Mountains is very white, white for many, many years.
It was like this the year before last, it was the same last year, and it is still like this today, as if time has stood still at this moment, and it has never changed.
It's just that when the sunset falls on the snow, the change gradually takes place, and there is a process of transformation from silver to golden.
This process is not fast, slow or slow, but the process of change is extremely firm until it is swallowed up by darkness.
Sometimes, the proud swan will fly over the Tianshan Mountains and finally turn into a small black dot or even disappear, as if going directly to the kingdom of God.
The golden eagle is different, it generally does not fly over the Tien Shan Mountains, but prefers to fly with the air currents between the cliffs, and only at the moment of finding its prey, will it shrink its wings and sweep down from the sky.
Bar-headed geese are generally the main reason for the fall of golden eagles, because they are too persistent in formation, the bar-headed geese at the end of the team are pinched to death by the golden eagle, and the formation of the bar-headed geese is still not chaotic, but a wailing sound with a long tail is heartbreaking.
The sad process will not last too long, the remaining bar-headed geese will still be led by the leading geese, one will be lined up into a word, one will be arranged into a "human" word, stubbornly from the last high ridge, it will burst out bursts of joyful chirps, the end is short, and the meaning of pleasure permeates the Tianshan Mountains.
Grasshopper Lake is just under their wings and ends their journey.
Yun Chu stood on the edge of the grasshopper lake wearing a marmot fur hat, seeing the bar-headed goose coming as promised, even if he was as calm as him, he couldn't help cheering, and ran in circles with open arms against the wind, as if he wanted to hug these familiar or strange friends.
When the bar-headed geese line up and fall into the grasshopper lake, it is very similar to a group of planes landing, there is no panic, there is no competition, and the fall is simple and orderly.
Yun Chu likes to see the bar-headed goose trying to stretch the two red maple leaf-like soles forward and slowly fall into the water, its soles always point a few ripples on the calm lake, and before the ripples spread, the orange soles will enter the water to push away the waves, engulfing all the ripples.
Immediately afterward, the bar-headed goose's fat belly will touch the water, and it will rush forward for a while, and then float smoothly on the water.
In the cheerful chirping of the head geese, more bar-headed geese arrived as scheduled, and the grasshopper lake, which was as calm as a backwater just now, immediately became lively.
It's not just this mountain lake that comes alive, but also the grasslands under it.
And the beginning of the cloud is the watershed of these two lively scenes.
One side is cheerful with the joy of reaching the end of the journey, and the other side is noisy with great hatred.
The bar-headed geese finally quieted down, but the other side began to beat the drums!
The war began.
One side is the people of Zhichong Mansion in Qiuzi Town, the Tang Anxi Army, and the other group is ...... I can't see clearly, it's Hu people anyway.
Under normal circumstances, when the Hu people fought with the Tang army, they would adopt the tactics of guerrilla attacks and sneak attacks, fighting more and fighting less, and running away if they couldn't fight.
Today is different.
I don't know why these Hu people suddenly became very brave and had to fight positional battles with a group of regular troops of the Tang State who were about the same number as them.
Just look at the Tang Army's battle flags fluttering, bright armor, neat formation, and began to hold a huge shield and hold a spear to advance towards the enemy's messy pile.
Yun Chu already knew the final outcome of this war.
At this scale, this form of battle Yun Chu is already about to get tired of watching, and the scene of the battle of the Hui people who only knows the outcome of the battle is even more beautiful.
As for the battle of the Tang Army, that kind of unchanged victory did not have any sense of expectation for Yun Chu, the audience.
Advance - hack to death - throw the sign - advance - hack to death - the enemy is dead, run away - take the sign - cut off the left ear - string the ear - loot money - return to the camp, this is the standard combat process of the Tang Army, which is not interesting at all. The Uighurs are different, they will ride their horses and scream at the enemy, and after hacking the enemy to death, they will jump off the horse, cut off the enemy's head and hang it under the horse's neck, and by the way, take anything useful from the enemy's corpse, and then ride on the horse, and the head under the horse's neck will continue to kill the enemy...... Until the enemy collapses, or the family collapses, and is harvested by others in the same way.
After the Don army killed the enemy, they would bury the corpses.
The Hui people are different.
Sometimes the Uighurs will put the captured enemy alive on a sharpened wooden pole, and tie two stones to their feet, and after the night has passed, the wooden pole will come out of the enemy's mouth, and the enemy will look up to the sky and seem to pray to the heavens, so this method is called "worship to the heavens" by the Uighurs.
Sometimes, the Uighurs will also cut the enemy into slices, fry them in mutton fat and give them to the families of the dead soldiers to taste, which is also famous, and is generally called - sacrifice.
Of course, it's also nice to cut off the enemy's limbs, or only three, and watch a meat grunt wriggling on the ground, but it's not too many times like this, because the Tang people don't allow it.
When Yun Chu opened his eyes for the first time in this world, the Hui people were the servants of the Tang Army.
I heard my mother say that after being beaten seven or eight times by the Tang army, hacking to death many people, and even the Khan's head was brought back to Chang'an by the Tang people for exhibition, the Hui was fortunate to become a servant of the Tang army.
Since then.
As long as the Tang army wants to fight, the Hui people will definitely help desperately, and only seek to fight, not in return, sometimes, even if it is upside down, they must take the initiative to help the Tang army fight against other, bad, tribes.
They liked this feeling of victory, and even enjoyed it, although the Tang generals repeatedly warned them not to hover on horseback casually during the battle, and make all kinds of good-looking movements, just raise the round shield, protect themselves, and let the war horses break through the enemy formation and disrupt the enemy's formation.
They still insisted on teaching and claimed that the Uighurs should hover and fly on their horses like eagles in the sky, otherwise it was not enough to show the strength of the Uighur cavalry.
The number of times the Turks were cut down was much higher than the number of times they were cut by the Turks before, and the rest of the tribes of the Tiele tribe were also cut much more often than before.
Since then, the pastures of the Uighurs have been much larger, there are many more cattle and sheep, and even the number of herders has increased a lot.
There were many times for victory, but under the constraints of the Tang army, they could not show off their victories, which dealt a great blow to the enthusiasm of the Hui herdsmen to watch the battle.
Gradually, people paid less attention to the battlefield.
Anyway, the Tang people can always win the final victory, even if the Hu people can take advantage of the moment, soon, more and more ferocious Tang people will come over and uproot the guy who has just won the victory.
Yun Chu scratched his itchy buttocks and refocused his gaze on the bar-headed goose that had just fallen into the water.
This time, he only appeared near the battlefield, entirely because his clan was going to start helping the Tang army fight again.
When the Hui people fight, they always drag their families with their families.
The reason why Yun Chu turned his head was because he was now a Hui person, and he didn't look at the jokes of his family.
After a while, it will be a little while, and the Hui cavalry will appear, and they will fight for snatching the heads of those Hu people who were hacked to death by the Tang army.
The head can be taken back to show off, or piled up into a tower of human heads, so that the other Hu tribes are afraid, thinking that this group of Hui people has killed a lot of enemies.
Although there will always be a left ear missing from every head, the Hui people will not care about it, nor will they dislike it, anyway, when the head rots, the first thing that falls off is the ear, and it doesn't matter if there is that thing or not.
The thunderous sound of horses' hooves had already sounded, and the Hui cavalry, who were supposed to be hiding somewhere, had seen that the victory of the Tang army was imminent, so they decisively and bravely launched an attack on the last remnants of the enemy.
Yun Chu didn't want to hear the screams of the Hui people being whipped by the angry Tang army generals, so he took the initiative to cover his ears.
The name of the grasshopper lake is from the beginning of the clouds, and the Hui people have other names for this lake of 10,000 acres, he doesn't like it, and he doesn't want to remember it, so he has such a very interesting name, as long as he knows it with the bar-headed geese who come from autumn to spring.
Yun Chu is actually a migratory bird, and he has been staying in the Western Regions for thirteen years.
The Bar-headed Goose is back, and for him, it is a new beginning.
Under the pasture grass that was not eaten by cattle and sheep last year, the green shoots that quietly emerged can be eaten.
Yun Chu liked those young shoots, and when he opened the wild grass and pinched the green shoots with his hands, he pulled out a grass stem that transitioned from green to pale yellow to pure white.
The grass stalk is very fat and juicy, and there is a hint of grassy sweetness in the mouth, but you can't bite it with your teeth, once you bite through the grass stalk, it will become bitter, completely covering the trace of sweetness.
Before sucking off the sweetness of the grass stem, a big-tailed sheep more than a meter tall walked over with the footsteps of Yunna, snatched the grass stem from Yun Chu's hand, and swallowed it in three or two strokes.
This big-tailed sheep with beautiful black eye sockets, a spiral-shaped hard horn with a length of two and a half feet, and a high nose bridge, this is a ram, and it is also Yun Chu's favorite head sheep.
At this point, Yun Chu is very different from other Hui boys, Yun Chu likes the ram's bravery, toughness, and great strength to carry things, but the rest of the Hui boys dedicate their love to the sheep with the fullest butt and the most enchanting walking posture.
This kind of ewe is not only liked by teenagers, but also by some adult men, especially when the snow covers the grassland, many people will drag one or several sheep into the tent to hold them for warmth.
This was originally a very ordinary thing, but the time to sleep in winter is too long, people are too lonely, and it is inevitable that a lot of strange feelings will occur.
However, the strangest feeling is that the Uighurs like to slaughter sheep the most, and the first thing to slaughter is often the ewes that accompany them through the winter.
The legend of the sheep-headed people has been spread among the tribes for a long, long time, and if there are sheep-headed people in any tribe, then it is not a good thing for the tribe, because as long as there are sheep-headed people, the sheep in the tribe will die in groups, the grass will die piece by piece, and even the water source will dry up, and there will be no more clear water.
This legend put very, very much pressure on the tribesmen, so that the more beautiful and fat the ewes in the tribe, the faster they died.
The big tail sheep of the Yunchu family is a well-known lambing ewe in the whole tribe, and only their ewes have the graceful body shape to give birth to qualified lambs, as well as rich lambing experience!
Therefore, when he herds sheep, he is different from other teenagers, others are guarding against wolves and lynxes, and when he herds sheep, he has to guard against the energetic teenagers in the tribe who have nowhere to vent!
Really, if he dared to take a nap while herding the sheep, their sheep would be one or two less...... Although the lost sheep would still come back, Yun Chu still felt that his sheep were not clean, so when he was herding sheep, his eyes were always wide.
Although he knew that after a person was with a sheep, it was impossible to give birth to a sheep-headed man because of reproductive isolation.
However, the Uighurs claim to be the fastest, bravest, most powerful, and wildest heroes on the earth, and God knows where the bottom line of their abilities is.
In case the ewe of the Yun Chu family gave birth to a terrible sheep-headed man, not to mention the bad reputation, his mother would no longer be able to exchange her own high-quality lambs for other people's big fat sheep.
If the Hui boys let Yun Chu retreat, then the Hui girls left Yun Chu with a worse feeling.