Chapter 54: Bonfire Night Talk

After a while, I saw a group of people over there get on their horses and say goodbye to Xu Tianchang and the Mongolian man who had just shouted, and the Mongolian man ordered someone to bring some captured war horses and armor weapons to them. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The man headed by Info thanked them and headed north with the men on horseback. After they walked away, Xu Tianchang didn't know what to say to the big man, and the big man nodded, and let the cavalry under his command continue to clean the battlefield.

Xu Tianchang walked back and said to Li Yao: "Let you see the smile, the people on this grassland have always been rough and arrogant, just left the warriors of the Xi tribe, they followed us to pursue the Jin soldiers today, fought very bravely, and finally eliminated this group of enemies, the homes of the Xi people were very miserable by these Jin soldiers, they are in a hurry to go back, please I thank you on their behalf." But speaking of which, we have to thank you too!"

Li Yao replied: "Brother Tianchang, you are too polite, I'm afraid that even without us, you will definitely be able to wipe out these golden soldiers, we are here, I'm afraid it will add a lot of chaos to you!" Xu Tianchang shook his head and said: "No, if you hadn't blocked them with a cart, I'm afraid that the people I brought to intercept might not be able to catch up with them." ”

Dugu Jian asked, "Brother Xu, I still have questions in my heart, what the hell is going on? How can you fight with Jin Bing? Aren't they the rulers here?" Xu Tianchang looked at everyone's curious eyes and said, "This matter is a long story, I will tell you in detail in a moment." Now let's ask you first, where are you going?" Li Yao pointed to the pile of carts and said: "I was ordered by my father to go to the grassland to buy horses, Brother Dugu and Sister Lin'er encountered a strong enemy a few days ago, and today they got rid of the pursuers and were preparing to return to the Central Plains. ”

Xu Tianchang knew that there must be a lot of stories here, but he didn't ask in detail, just nodded, and asked Li Yao again: "That Yao sister, where are you going to buy horses?" Li Yao replied: "We plan to go to Mandarin Duck Bo to find Xi Ren and buy hundreds of horses." Xu Tianchang looked at Li Yao and replied, "Why didn't you say it earlier? The ones who left just now are the Xi people there!"

"Ah, who are they?" Li Yao didn't expect. Xu Tianchang said again, "But most of them don't graze much now, but mainly farm like our Central Plains, and today their tribe has been plundered by these golden soldiers, I'm afraid that there won't be enough horses to trade with you." ”

"What then? It took me a lot of effort to get this errand from my father, and I don't want to mess it up. Li Yao said with some annoyance. Xu Tianchang smiled slightly, looked around, and replied: "Since this is the case, Sister Yao, there are also a lot of horses in this tribe I belong to, let me tell the patriarch, how about selling them to you?"

Li Yao said happily: "Really, Brother Tianchang, thank you so much!" Xu Tianchang said with a smile: "Well, we have fought a few battles with Jin Bing recently, and we have won a lot of horses, and they are all high-quality horses. Then I will talk to the patriarch and sell you these good horses. Li Yao's face was happy, but Zhang Linxin asked very strangely: "Brother Xu, hearing you say this, I am becoming more and more curious, in the Great Song Dynasty, many people talked about the golden change, even now, we fight with the Jin people, and there are fewer wins and more losses." But you can defeat the Jinren, why on earth is that?"

Xu Tianchang shook his head and replied with a smile: "Miss Zhang, do you know, although the Jin people are indeed very brave and good at fighting, but the Great Song Dynasty is not without the strength to fight, but there are no war horses and it is impossible to organize a large group of cavalry, which makes it suffer many losses." And on the grassland, they can only bully and bully the weaker Xi people, Bohai people and Goryeo people, as for the Mongols, they are eagles on the grassland, and the Jin people can't afford to mess with them. ”

"Why is this?" everyone looked at Xu Tianchang with a look of curiosity and a little disbelief.

As we all know, since Jin Taizu finished Yan Agu and became the emperor, in the past 20 years, the destruction of the Great Liao, the battle of the Western Xia, and the attack on the Great Song Dynasty can almost be said to be invincible, invincible, and rarely meet opponents in the world, even if the only few victories of the Great Song Dynasty, they can only be regarded as filled with human lives, or they are not at war with the soldiers and horses of the Jurchen tribe, but with various ethnic groups similar to the Jurchens, as well as the army of Liu Yu of the pseudo-Qi and so on.

Now that everyone heard Xu Tianchang say that Jin Bing couldn't afford to provoke the Mongols, they naturally couldn't believe it. In everyone's thoughts: If the Mongols were really so powerful, then where would the Jin soldiers dare to invade the Great Song Dynasty in the south, I am afraid that they would have transferred their soldiers and horses to the grassland to fight the Mongols a long time ago. Xu Tianchang saw the disbelieving expressions on everyone's faces, pointed to the steppe in the north and said: "You may not know that now the entire steppe in the north is in charge of the Mongols, and their leader, called Hebule, is the Great Khan of the entire Mongols. ”

Seeing that everyone was listening to his own story, Xu Tianchang continued: "Hebule Khan is burly, dignified, brave, and has high wisdom. As early as the time when the two countries of Jin and Liao went to war, the Great Khan of Hebul took advantage of the situation to unify the entire steppe. Just four years ago, the Jin Emperor Wu begged to return to heaven, and the new emperor Wanyan Hera ascended the throne, he was young and vigorous, and decided to destroy the Mongols. At that time, he sent the Taishi Wanyan Puluhu to lead troops to attack the Mongols, in a vain attempt to punish the Great Khan of Hebule. But the Great Khan of Hebul was worthy of being a goshawk on the steppe, and it didn't take much effort for his people to defeat the Jin soldiers led by Wanyan Puluhu and return. ”

"There is such a thing? I really can't imagine that the Jin army, which is so powerful, can't defeat a tribe so much weaker than them like Mongolia?"

Xu Tianchang continued: "The last victory, in fact, does not mean anything, later we learned that although the Wanyan Puluhu is the Taishi of the Jin State, but in fact it is also a wine bag and rice bag, the soldiers and horses he led are not the elite of the Jin people, at that time, the elite soldiers and strong generals of the Jin State were placed in the Central Plains, and the Great Song Dynasty fought, so the soldiers and horses sent here are just the guards who guarded the city and the like, so we can win so easily." ”

"I see, no wonder so many soldiers and horses of our Great Song Dynasty can't beat tens of thousands of Jin soldiers, but this Mongolian Khan defeated the Jin people so easily, it turns out that this is the case. Brother Tianchang, what happened later?" Li Yao said with a sudden realization.

Later, this incident made Jin Guo lose a big face, but for a while, Wanyan Hera had no choice but to withdraw his troops and go back, and the steppe was quiet for a few more years. But just a few months ago, Wanyan Hera sent one of his subordinates named Hu Shahu to bring an elite army back from the Central Plains to conquer the Mongols. ”

"Then I'm afraid that this Hebule Khan won't be so easy if he wants to win the battle, right?" Zhang Linxin asked.

Xu Tianchang smiled and nodded, "The Great Khan of Hebule knew that the cavalry composed of herdsmen under his command must not be the opponent of this Jin army, so he adopted the method of luring the enemy deep and clearing the wilderness, not confronting the Jin soldiers head-on, and only sending a small group of soldiers and horses to harass them. And this Hu Shahu Wanhu thinks very highly of himself, and feels that he has so many elite soldiers and strong generals, and it is not easy to capture a small Mongol? Without looking for a guide, he led the army into the steppe so recklessly, looking for the assistant of the Great Khan for a decisive battle. But he wandered around the grassland for more than two months, but he didn't find the Great Khan's soldiers and horses, but because of the Great Khan's attack tactics, his grain and grass were exhausted, and the Jin soldiers were also exhausted. At this time, he had to prepare to withdraw his army, and after the Great Khan got the news, he ambushed the road they had to pass through to withdraw his army - 'Hailing', and when the Jin soldiers walked there, they were sleepy and tired, and the cavalry under the command of the Great Khan took the opportunity to kill the Jin soldiers. That battle was really dark, and the blood flowed like a river. Hu Shahu was only spared, and under the protection of a few of his subordinates, he escaped, and the remaining Jin soldiers were almost completely wiped out!" )