The area and population of the Cangbei grassland are far less than that of the Yinshan grassland in the core area of Jinguo, but there are also many small and medium-sized tribes and scattered herdsmen on it.

The grassland overlord Jin State was defeated and lost its prestige for a short time, coupled with the previous Jin army's previous actions of plundering thousands of miles for grain and grass logistics, many small tribes naturally chose to submit to the Xia State.

Located near the border city, the life after the annexation of the five departments outside the Saiwai, the nomadic tribes in Cangbei can see it.

The biggest natural enemy of the grassland is the climate, the cold winter white hair wind blows through the grass, food shortage, cattle and sheep are difficult to live.

But in the extremely torturous winter on the grassland, the five departments of the border city are no longer serious, this is the advantage of relying on the Xia Kingdom.

They treated the subordinate tribes as human beings, allowed trade exchanges, and exchanged the worthless wool and leather on the steppe for grain and tea.

The silage technology promoted by the Tiangong Institute of the Ministry of Industry of Daxia has been verified and popularized in the five parts of the Saiwai, and the effect is very good.

It's really poor at home, and helping the government to graze on the grassland can still survive, but the sheep they are driving are not their own.

"There are more and more warriors in the Xia Kingdom, and there is a great demand for meat, although you raise more cattle and sheep, the silage technology passed down by Xiahou will be awarded to the faithful. In less than five years, you will be able to buy a piece of land in Cangbei and border cities to build a house, so that future generations can live a settled life without worrying about food and clothing. It doesn't matter if you want to continue to stay in the grassland, the immortal masters and gods of Great Xia will also take care of the pasture......"

The herdsmen who had enjoyed the policy of the five departments outside the Saiwai followed behind the envoys of the Xia State and used their own personal experience to persuade the grassland tribes in Cangbei.

This is a little preferential treatment given by Zhou Bai to the five tribes outside the Saiwai, they can expand the scale of the tribe at this time, as long as they can recruit people.

The population and power of the Cangbei grassland are too scattered, and Daxia is temporarily unable to manage, so it is a good choice to support agents.

But when many small tribal leaders rushed to Cangbei City with leather, lambs and other tributes, Zhou Bai braved the snow to go north.

The gift given by Jin Guo for this defeat was not small, and the war horses that were originally in short need were instantly abundant.

It was Zhou Bai who personally led 10,000 horses, one person and two horses, and went north into the grassland for 3,000 miles to meet Huo Feiguang.

He now regrets the order to intercept and kill Hu Yanhe, in case something happens, he will break a real cavalry general.

The soldiers of the summer army, who have lived south of Cangshan for a long time, have difficulty adapting to the cold winter of the grassland.

Even if these ten thousand horsemen have already experienced forging, their blood and qi can resist the cold, but they can't bear it after a long time, and even the golden people are mostly shrunk around Yinshan at this time.

On November 20, after the war horse froze to death and suffered frostbite, Zhou Bai had no choice but to order to return.

After that, for half a month, there was still no news, if it weren't for the soul blood of the Taoist officials left on the side of the Daolu Division, knowing that the Taoist officials around Huo Feiguang were not killed, maybe Great Xia would have to set a list of martyrs.

On December 6, the clouds were gloomy, there was no wind and no rain, and it seemed that the sky was about to snow.

The first batch of 30,000 relocated county residents have followed the county guard Yan Luo to settle in Cangbei City in the past few days, making the city finally more lively.

The smoke curled up, and the military and civilians helped to repair the houses and city walls, and no one complained, and they worked hard because they knew that this was to build their own homes.

After 300,000 Cangbei people moved south, most of them have become accustomed to the life of Cangnan, and those who are willing to return to their hometown in the first batch at this time must love this land deeply.

The county government opened the government, and officials at all levels were busy with the work, coordinating various specific matters such as grain distribution, naturalization, and house distribution......

For a time, the order was in order, and the Daxia Law Open gradually extended to the Cangbei region, and Cangbei County itself also condensed the core of the Law Open that showed a light red.

Even if it is gray and white when it comes out of the city, it is finally beginning to establish a formal rule, and there is already a dragon and tiger law in the center of the city.

Many small tribes in the grassland, in order to find a place with abundant water and grass, and to withstand the white and black plagues, will worship a soil shaman.

Some of these earth shamans have reached the level of initiation, and some can only use the most superficial "blood method", but there is no doubt about their high status.

This time, Zhou Bai summoned the Cangbei grassland tribes, and there was a requirement that the worship must come with the chief.

At first, these shamans were still a little dissatisfied, thinking that it was arrogant for a foreign king to behave like this.

But since entering Cangbei City, some of their self-confidence and self-confidence have been completely destroyed, and the ordinary soldiers on duty alone have a sense of danger.

Great Xia warriors? Does the acquired realm have the power to fight?

The shamans knew very well that this was not an exaggeration, and that if they did not have the cover of their subordinates, they could be beheaded in an instant.

The pressure of this Great Xia Fadu staring at them was far from being able to bear, as if he had any shady actions and would be targeted and suppressed.

And if they are not mistaken, more than one official of Great Xia has mana, and under such a strict law, it can actually accommodate the cultivation of officials.

On the grassland of Cangbei, the shamans put down their pride and self-esteem, and pulled the chiefs to surrender one after another.

Don't ask for anything else, just want to be recognized by Great Xia, and it is best to get an official and a half-position, and have a share of dragon and tiger luck.

In the center of Cangbei City, in a properly restored official residence, Zhou Bai once again met with the chiefs and shamans of the Cangbei tribe.

Even if a group of people are gathered to meet each time, the same meeting is still carried out more than a dozen times.

It can be seen from this that the Cangbei forces are scattered, and there are almost no medium and large tribes of more than 10,000 people.

Of course, this is related to serving as a buffer zone, no matter how weak Daxu was before, he never allowed Jin Guo to completely control the Cangbei grassland.

"I will not recruit you to conquer the kingdom of Jin, nor will I annex your warriors...... As long as the Great Xia is the suzerain, and the cattle and mutton are regularly fed, they can enjoy various rights and interests such as trade and trade, silage technology, and assistance to tide over disasters. ”

Originally, the five departments outside the Saiwai had already said these benefits, but when Zhou Bai gave them iron orders and copper orders, and immediately organized the first trade, these chieftain leaders were completely relieved.

Flocks of lambs, in exchange for salt, iron pots, tea, and large quantities of rice and wheat grain.

You must know that these things, although they have also traveled to the Cangbei grassland before, most of them have been taken directly by the Jin State, how can it be their turn easily.

How it will develop later, the chiefs dare not say, but it is certain that in the winter of the second year of Tongzhi, the clansmen will die a lot less.

Some people will say that the Jin State is the grassland regime, but so what, can the Jin State court let the northern Cangbei settle through the white disaster and eat a few full meals?

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Bai summoned a group of earth shamans alone, and he could see at a glance that many of them were pseudo-transcendent and had not yet officially entered the Tao.

But Zhou Bai still made a promise that as long as he completed a series of tasks and helped Great Xia slowly take root in the grassland, he would promise to be named by the Daolu Division and give him luck to help him cultivate.

In the afternoon, the goose feathers and snow fell, and one by one the chieftain shamans sincerely bid farewell to Zhou Bai and left Cangbei City.

After today, except for a few tribes that are too far away, all those who have not come to see them have been included in the scope of the crackdown.

If you want to conquer the world, it is extremely important to form a sufficient number of cavalry, so recovering Cangbei and controlling the grassland is an inevitable step for Great Xia.

If he wants the steppe nomads to stop their southward invasion and realize the actual management of them, Zhou Bai believes that there is actually a way.

One of them is to develop wool textile industry and animal husbandry, exchange wool, leather, and meat from the grassland for materials from the Central Plains, and achieve effective and sustainable trade.

As long as there is money and food, they will not starve to death, and the grassland people really want to fight every day, not necessarily, ordinary herdsmen also want to live a stable life.

The second is the promotion of feed storage technology and planting feed, so that the nomadic production model has disappeared semi-or even completely.

After the herdsmen were settled, and the shamans cooperated with the intervention of the Great Xia immortals and gods, they could resist most disasters such as the White and Black Plague, so why couldn't they be managed as cultivators.

The cultivators did not dare to mess around, because the land was there, and the herdsmen would not dare to mess with it in the future, because the divided pastures would not be easily changed.

After the current victory in the national games, most of the Cangbei tribes are willing to obey the arrangement and carry out Zhou Bai's two-step planning and transformation, but there are still a small number of stubborn.

They either don't believe in the Central Plains government, or they are subtly influenced and controlled by the Jin State, but no matter what the reason, they have to bear the consequences.

To conquer the steppe, in addition to favors and correct systems, thunder means are also indispensable.

Originally, Zhou Bai wanted to hand over the matter of cleaning the Cangbei grassland to Huo Feiguang, and the successive achievements have made Huo Feiguang enjoy a good reputation on the grassland.

Great Xia needs a god of war to make the Hu people fearful.

But now that he has to return to the court, Huo Feiguang has no news, so he can only arrange another general.

"Jiao Tu, Chu Kai, Gao Hu...... It's almost meaningless for anyone to go. ”

Just when Zhou Bai was frowning and tangled, the Taoist official who was in charge of contacting Huo Feiguang's side finally came with the news.

"Junhou, Captain Yao has led his troops to the northern boundary of Cangbei County, and he should be able to arrive in the evening!"

Zhou Bai took the summoning jade slip, and when he looked at the detailed information inside, he couldn't help but smile on his face.

No wonder he didn't dare to cast a spell to transmit from a distance, Huo Feiguang, this kid, actually raided Huyanhe seven times all the way, and finally chased the ghost to the foot of Yin Mountain, and carved words on the big bluestone.

Six big characters: King Jin escaped here.

Later, in the process of returning to the south, he made a lot of publicity along the way, saying that he had left a monument to the escape of the golden king, which provoked many nobles and herdsmen to inspect the bluestone and found that it was indeed the case.

Hu Yanhe learned that he was destroyed in time, but after he returned from defeat, another embarrassing deed was completely spread.

In the end, I thought about it and knew what would happen to Hu Yanhe and the Jin Kingdom, no less than 100,000 Jin soldiers were sent out to pursue, and most of them were private soldiers of the nobles with big surnames, just because Huo Feiguang slapped the face of the entire Jin Kingdom.

If it weren't for Huo Feiguang leading the pursuers on the boundless grassland and coming back after several circles, maybe the second war in Jinxia would be at risk of breaking out again.

At night, Zhou Bai went out of the city for ten miles and greeted him in the snow.

Of the 3,500 horsemen at the time of the expedition, there are now only 2,000 horsemen left, and nearly 100 of the precious horses have been lost, which can be described as a heavy loss.

All of them were covered with frost, and the dark red frozen blood condensed all over their bodies, these were indelible proof of merit.

"The last general is incompetent, let King Jin escape." Huo Feiguang knelt down on one knee and was very frustrated to confess to Zhou Bai.

Zhou Bai glanced at the tired cavalry soldiers and patted Huo Feiguang on the shoulder: "You have done a good job, the people of Great Xia are proud of you, this time it is just to humiliate Hu Yanhe, and next time it will be the real Le Shi Gong." ”

Zhou Bai didn't understand that Huo Feiguang's behavior was influenced by him, and during the time he was by his side, the deeds of famous generals in a certain world were said more than once.

Xian then climbed Yanran Mountain, went to the plug for more than 3,000 miles, carved the stone to Ji Hangong, Ji Weide also.

On December 8, Zhou Bai crowned Huo Feiguang as the general of Wupinpo, responsible for the clean-up of the Cangbei grassland.

The livelihood of Cangbei County is mainly based on the county guard Yanluo, who is responsible for the follow-up resettlement, tuntian, and trade.

In general, in terms of military affairs, Zhou Baijia sealed Jiaotu as the governor of Cangbei and had an overview of Jin matters.

The troops left in Cangbei County and the grassland have 10,000 forbidden troops, 10,000 cavalry, and 30,000 garrison troops, which are completely enough to deal with large-scale battles, not to mention that Hu Yanhe is now too busy to take care of himself, where would he dare to commit Daxia again.

……

On December 10, Zhou Bai led his army to return to the dynasty victoriously.

The warm winter sun hung high in the sky of the national capital, reflecting on the joyful faces of the people of Daxia, welcoming the warriors of the expedition to return triumphantly.

The people beat gongs and drums, and the city sang happily, and they were extremely proud, because the majestic army in front of them was the soldiers of Daxia.

The nobles and captives of the Jin Kingdom can only be seen as monkeys now.

On the central street, the cheers like waves resounded in the sky, and the people held brocades in their hands, took out drinks, and competed to welcome the returning heroes. All kinds of flags fluttering, and the endless rhythm of carnival have already squeezed the passion that the city can carry to the extreme.

Dingzhou is located in the northern frontier, from the weakening of the country in the past hundred years, suffered from the Saiwaihu people how many times, especially the strong Jin State, can be said to be the nightmare and shame in the hearts of Dingzhou people.

Today, however, their prince washed it all away with a complete victory.

After that, even if Jin was a kingdom, he didn't dare to bully Daxia who was just a Hou country.

"Xiahou! Xiahou! Xiahou! ”

"I'm Daxia, mighty! My Great Xia Martial Army is invincible! ”

However, in this fanatical atmosphere, Zhou Bai went to the Martyrs' Temple first, and the victory was not only his credit, but also the credit of all the soldiers.

The eulogy is sad and tragic, and Zhou Bai personally worships in order to fulfill his promise and sacrifice his life for the country to enter the blessed land of Great Xia.

The middle pole hall, the victory court, the merit of the award, but also the summary.

"In this battle, the forbidden army killed 5,806 people, and the demon army killed 725 people...... 33,000 enemies were annihilated and more than 42,000 were captured...... A total of more than 32,000 qualified horses were seized......"

"Huo Feiguang is a second-class Longbei male...... The herald ordered the army to be expanded and reorganized, the forbidden army increased by 20,000, the garrison army increased to 200,000, and the horse army increased to 20,000......"

In March of the third year of Tongzhi, the Great Summer and Spring Enke was held, and a total of more than 200 people were admitted.

In the summer flood of July, the Ningjiang Naval Division launched an all-out offensive against Dingxi, annihilating more than 30 large and small ships and destroying five ports.

In August, the second call-up was abruptly canceled, and Heavenly Court did not explain why.

In September, there was another starfall anomaly, with thousands of meteors piercing the sky, and even bloody rain falling for seven days and seven nights, and the pattern of the extraterritorial battlefield underwent major changes.

(End of chapter)