919 Attack of the Beast (5)
。 "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, but the Immortal Heaven is a walker on the earth, what new orders does the Falcon Khan King have?" Seeing the strange look on Rui Tangtingna's face, an elderly man in a robe sitting in the front row stood up and asked with a concerned face, His name is Becarut, and the grassland language means horse doctor, seeing him stand up, even as the eldest princess of Rui Tangtingna, he can't help but show a touch of caution,
Horses are sacred in the minds of the nomadic grassland people, not only the daily grazing and tribal warfare, but also the lifeblood of a tribe's continuation, in the prairie, there is a good horse can bring out a tribe, and an excellent horse doctor can prosper a tribe such a proverb, which shows how valuable the identity of the horse doctor is here in Dongting people,
And Becarut and his son are both horse doctors of the Dongting Dynasty for two generations, not only with a noble status, but also loyal to the Dongting royal family, standing up at this moment to say such a nonsense, is undoubtedly the best support for the current identity of Rui Tangtingna,
"What Master Becarut said is right" Rui Tangtina glanced at Becarut gratefully, before sweeping the confused faces of the people below with a confident gaze, raised the letter in his hand and said loudly, "This is indeed an order issued by the Falcon Khan King, but at this moment, it can also be said to be a gift to our Dongting people!"
"Gifts?"
The patriarchs below looked at each other, their faces frowning, the eldest princess has always been a thoughtful person, how could she not tell a lie to deceive everyone, but in this situation, the word gift is really difficult to understand
Rui Tang Tingna smiled brightly at the corner of her mouth, spread out the letter in her hand, and read it carefully
"Due to the deterioration of the situation on the northern border of Dongting and the arrogance of the people of the Northland, in order to avoid delaying the fighters due to the situation being reported, I, Dustan Falcon Khan, have full authority to give me the power to launch an active attack on the Northland if necessary, that is to say, His Majesty has allowed us to cross the border and take the initiative to attack!"
Hearing the words from Rui Tang Tingna's mouth, the leaders of the Dongting clan in the front row on both sides below were stunned for a moment, and then their faces showed joy.
"It's time to send someone to fight again!" the patriarchs sitting in the middle and at the end sighed, and their faces looked sad,
That means sending people from a limited number of tribes to join the war, and it is better to say that there are more than 50,000 people sitting in the front.
These small and medium-sized tribes, numbering only 30,000 or 40,000 people, can dispatch extremely limited troops, and can gain the least benefits in the war, they often charge ahead, and when it comes to the spoils of war, they can only get some large clans to pick the leftovers, war is really a laborious drudgery for these weak tribes.
What's more, when the former East Court marched south, almost all the soldiers they sent died in the south, which was a great blow to these small and medium-sized tribes.
The Falcon Dynasty showed a fierce army, so that the large and small tribes fled in a panic, and the big tribes maintained a wait-and-see attitude, and the situation was not good - they immediately moved north, while the weak small and medium-sized tribes were panicked, and each only sought self-preservation, and finally could only follow behind the big clans, and chose to follow the tide and surrender to the Falcon Dynasty,
However, it is different now, with the southward migration of several major clans, although the center of the grassland is under the jurisdiction of the Falcon Dynasty, for some small and medium-sized tribe areas with a population of only tens of thousands in the north, the ruling power of the Falcon Dynasty is relatively weak.
Often, only these tribes are needed.
It is enough to send someone to report the garrison point every month, which also leads to a kind of self-righteous idea within the small and medium-sized tribes, in the new water meadow, no one buys the face of the other party, and even some are still opponents who fought each other at the beginning, and fight for the water meadow again, and the chaos and rout on the northern border can be imagined...,
In the hearts of these small and medium-sized tribes, the Dongting royal family that pressed on their heads in the past has long ceased to exist, even if it is the eldest princess Rui Tang Tingna, in the eyes of these ambitious clan leaders, her identity is just the princess of the Falcon Dynasty,
The royal court meeting held this time, if it were not for themselves, they might be threatened by the attack of the Northlanders, and the leaders of these small and medium-sized tribes in the northerner region might not participate, and now suddenly at the meeting, when they heard the eldest princess announce that they would take the initiative to attack the Northlanders, they naturally seemed very reluctant
"Do you have any difficulties?"
Rui Tang Tingna's face was slightly cold, according to her fine intelligence, she naturally saw the thoughts of everyone below in her eyes, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart, the Vikia Falcon is indeed powerful, just an order to move south, it made the originally united Dongting split into what it is now, unlike these small and medium-sized tribes with worried faces, several big clans who moved south seemed very enthusiastic about this battle,
For example, the chief of the royal court affairs in the Dongting era, the Heru patriarch Wumu Asteron, was the first of these great patriarchs to arrive, and he came with 10,000 Dongting cavalry of his own clan, and then the Ryan Corona Patriarch of the third largest clan in the Eastern Court, he brought 7,000 Dongting cavalry, and then several major clans arrived almost with their respective armies.
Five thousand, six thousand, seven thousand,
The leaders of these swarming clans, as if they were not scruples to expose their family backgrounds, came with their own cavalry one after another, and they were not inferior to the speed at which they received the order of the king of Dongting
In just ten days, the number of cavalry in the Eastern Court quickly exceeded 40,000, although it could not be compared with the 100,000 cavalry in the heyday of the Eastern Court, but it was also quite shocking.
Most of these tribal leaders who chose to follow the trend and join the Falcon Dynasty at the critical moment have a pair of eyes that are good at seizing opportunities.
In their eyes, this war with the Northlanders may be a rare and valuable opportunity
The tribes that migrated south were settled near the northeastern border of Ryordian, where the climate was warm and rich in water and grass, much better than the bitter cold of the original land.
However, these two or three hundred thousand people have been settled, and it is almost impossible to be fair and reasonable, and there will always be people who complain that the other party's water and grass are more abundant, and the other party's territory is closer to the prosperous commercial area, especially the West Kugit caravan with a group of horses, which will pass through their new garrison area almost every few days, which is very exciting for these Dongting tribes who have been closed in the Dongting grassland for more than ten years.
The concept of commerce and trade in the East Court is quite weak, because of the geographical location to the north, and in order to cut off the threat of possible spying, the former East Court Dynasty has not accepted contact from the inland areas, when the fat man wanted to do business with the East Court people, he had to pass through the tightly sealed West Kugit, the north was bitter cold, and it was impossible to form an area that was enough to become a commercial center.
Comparing with each other, the various departments of the East Court found a common denominator,
That is, the West Kugit people were similar to themselves at the beginning, and the water meadows and settlements were not all equal, but after suffering a fiasco that almost wiped out the tribe,
In just two years, its military and economic strength quickly recovered to its original situation.
Even more powerful than the original, this basically reveals a reality, the Falcon Dynasty is still very fair in dealing with the vassal kingdom, and it has indeed achieved the same treatment as the West Kugit people, the only difference is that the West Kugit people have completely integrated themselves into the foreign wars of the Falcon Dynasty,
Therefore, the most meritorious rewards are obtained, and its development is the fastest.
In the first half of the year alone, the Kugit cavalry were rewarded with more than a million gold coins for the war against the Ryordian and the Rud, which would have taken at least thirty years to accumulate in the old days of herding,...,
For example, the Duowei Yan Division, which has been used as an auxiliary cavalry in the war many times, is not only second to none in strength in West Kugit, but has recently been rumored to be ready to build a Duo Acropolis on the border.
It was not the usual military fortress and the city fortress of the gathering area, but a city in the real sense, a city belonging to the steppe people, just like those enviable inland people, to build a beautiful and majestic and prosperous big city like a commercial center.
There will be residential areas, commercial areas, trade areas, and even a large port on the river, which is a city built by a steppe tribe, which is almost unimaginable for a tribe that has always been predominantly nomadic.
Because in the eyes of the nomads, there is only one center of the grassland, that is, the place where the royal court is located, where the tribes gather, and the meaning of building a city by itself is equivalent to a self-supporting gateway, which is an extremely strict act of betrayal.
Just when everyone was waiting to see the joke of the Duowei Department, the attitude from the Falcon Dynasty shocked them again, in order to congratulate the first city built by the Kujits, His Majesty the Falcon Khan personally allocated 500,000 gold coins as the first fund to build the city, which shocked the Dongting people again,
"War is a really convenient way to make a fortune!" The idea of this quickly came to mind the patriarch of the great clan who moved south in Dongting,
Under such a consensus, the order of the eldest princess Rui Tangtingna to take the initiative to attack was quickly implemented.
In the early morning of May 8, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses poured out of the camp, gray leather armor flowed and emerged in the deep mist, countless sharp scimitars seemed to add a glowing river to the earth, and the main force of 40,000 Eastern Court cavalry gathered in the Arcastrian marshes began to move, this rolling iron flow running straight towards the northern border, opened the prelude to the war between the Falcon Clan and the Northlands