Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 791

Moxi Grassland, Xuanchi, also known as Zhaisangbo in later generations.

Tens of thousands of prairie cavalry, with hundreds of thousands of livestock, are slowly moving forward.

The men regarded this as an archery meeting to show their strength. They rode their horses back and forth, showing off their riding skills, and won cheers from the few women in the team.

These women are to wash and cook for the men who are on the expedition, milk the horses, roll the leather, and pass the boring time on the way.

It's just that with them, along the way, the speed of the team can't be accelerated at all, at most thirty or forty miles a day.

The dense sound of horseshoes sounded, and a horse with colorful bells hung around its neck, and cavalry with colorful ribbons floating on the horses, quickly passed by the left side of the team.

The men who were showing off their skills just now quickly retreated into the team, while the women stared at the stars and started singing loudly. Some of the bold ones even twisted their bodies in a seductive pose.

Because this cavalry is the Zheng Ding who hindered thousands of households, it's not that they don't even have a status like herdsmen.

On the current grassland, after Zhang Ting established 12 households, the organizational structure and even the original tribal system have been broken to a certain extent.

On the surface, under ten thousand households are thousands of households, and under thousand households are hundreds of households, flags, teams, etc., but at the same time, herdsmen can also obtain another identity.

The most courageous ones can be awarded the titles of Gui Yilang and Disciplinary Knight.

The former is simply as long as the force value is high enough, and it is enough to be canonized by Tian Khan in the village archery ceremony.

The latter needs to learn the scriptures and related knowledge of the Six Law Schools, and will be awarded the title of Disciplinary Knight after taking an examination similar to the Han Dynasty imperial examination, and this is not canonized by the Khan, but selected by the Supreme Heaven.

Under Gui Yilang and the discipline knight, there are Jiabing, Zhengding, Zhuanding and Yicong.

As the name suggests, Jiabing is also a warrior who has more courage and can be given armor and horses by the Khan. Of course, if you have armor yourself, you will be given other rewards such as horses, weapons, bows and arrows.

Of course, whether it is Gui Yilang, punishment knights, or armored soldiers, there are not many in number. There are two or three in a hundred households, and the largest one is Zheng Ding.

Zhengding is generally used as unarmored cavalry archers or lightly armored hussars, but can be upgraded to armored soldiers through accumulated meritorious service.

Zhuan Ding, who is under Zheng Ding, is an auxiliary soldier with his own horse weapons.Tents and food are provided by Tian Khan.

They are a large number of unarmored light cavalry. They do everything, such as luring the enemy, feinting an attack, and feigning defeat. They are often used as cannon fodder.

As for the most basic level of obedience, that is to bring your own dog food, and you have to rush to do everything, not even auxiliary soldiers, no!Armed herdsmen who are not even considered cannon fodder.But you can also accumulate merit and go up to get a small amount of spoils.

Among them, the hierarchy is strict, but Zhang Ting made a slight change in the design from the military meritorious ranks of the Qin Dynasty.

Each level has its own level of power, and there are strict differences in equipment, salary, distribution of loot, and even clothing and food. The purpose is to turn these 12 herdsmen into a war machine that keeps going west.

. . . .

Bai Congxin's large tent stands beside the Xuanchi Pond, and further to the west, it is the site of the nine surnamed Ugus.

After the Gaochang Uighurs were defeated and Saktu's army was defeated, Zhang Tie did not choose to continue the pursuit, and he did not carry out a crusade against the four tribes of Ge Luolu and the nine surnamed Ugus who supported Saktu.

Although there were a small number of Ge Luolu and Oguz people, they later participated in the meeting that elected Zhang Tie as the Khan of Yili.

But this time Zhang Tie was elected as Tian Khan, Ge Luolu's four tribes and Nine surnamed Ogus, so no one was sent to participate.

It seems that Zhang Wei's move to strengthen the [-] households in Moxi has already made these guys feel threatened. Of course, they never thought about truly submitting to Zhang Kai and the Central Plains Dynasty.

Right now, Bai Congxin is surrounded by a group of staff officers. Most of these officers are from the Zhaowu Scholars' Mansion in Luantai, Zhongshu Province.

In the current Zhang Zhou, the Zhangtai Imperial Academy under the jurisdiction of Zhongshu Province is to train political officials, that is, to do administration in the central government.

The Qionglin Academy in Shangshu Province trains officials for specific local administration.

The Luantai Zhaowu Bachelor's Office is dedicated to training staff officers.

Most of the three are selected from the imperial examination, and the subjects of the examination will naturally have deviations.

At present, the Zhaowu Scholars' House is the most popular, because after coming out, the future is the brightest.

In fact, most of the current civil servants have relatively clean hands and feet. Corruption?That's the patent of warriors, you don't want to live if you dare to do it.

Moreover, in troubled times, civil servants are promoted slowly, and military officials only need a big victory, and they can immediately reach the pinnacle of life.

For example, Zhang Mei, a native of Qinghe, Hebei, who is currently busy with calculations, was a high school Mingjing the year before last. Because of her proficiency in calculations, familiarity with military books and courage, she was admitted by the emperor to the Zhaowu Academy of Scholars. Before that, Zhang Mei was just a A small official in the left storehouse of the county government.

Li Chongju, a native of Shangdang Mansion in Hedong, who is next to Zhang Mei, is also in a similar situation. He was also elected to the Zhaowu Scholars' Mansion after he passed the examination of Ming Jing because he was familiar with the art of war and had courage.

This time when Bai Congxin went west, Zhang Tie was not idle, and almost released half of the Zhaowu scholars in his hand to follow Bai Congxin.

Along the way, they calculated food supplies, observed the long-distance migration of war horses, and discussed the armaments for the Western Expedition. These precious materials will become the first-hand information for the future Western Expedition.

After Li Chongju collected all the information, he wrote down the pros and cons one by one, and then submitted it to Bai Congxin.

"Bai Gong, judging from the current situation, bringing women in the army will still affect the speed of marching and the morale of the army. In particular, it will easily cause jealousy. Although they can undertake tedious tasks such as washing and cooking, the loss outweighs the gain."

Bai Congxin rubbed his chin. After hundreds of years of chaos, even in the Central Plains army before the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were quite a few women accompanying the army.

Washing and cooking, serving as military prostitutes, women can also "sit on the table" just like the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

It is even more common among the grassland tribes marching, especially after the sage proposed the strategy of driving the horses, eating horse meat and drinking horse milk.

Due to the long journey, Bai Congxin added women to the army and asked them to do some jobs that men are unwilling to do, but now it seems that the effect is not good.

"However, the number of people we go to war will not be too many at one time. If we don't let women do those jobs, we will walk thousands of miles, and the warriors will become handymen, so don't fight."

Lu Sanlang thinks it doesn't matter, if you are jealous, you will be jealous. Anyway, these guys on the grassland, when they are not in the army, it is normal to be jealous of women.

The Shang Khitan Qianhu Dangjin in the tent raised his head in surprise. This guy was originally Du Chongwei's domestic slave. After Du Chongwei was killed, he was not pursued because he had no bad deeds. Later, he entered with the strength of his arms. Forbidden Army Hanhai Town, made ten generals.

Recently, I don’t know where the emperor heard his name, and after knowing that he was originally Xi Ren, he was sent to the Lower Khitan Wanhu to be a thousand households, and he was also an official post under the jurisdiction of Fengzhou soldiers and horses.

Dang Jin looked at Lu Sanlang in surprise, "Mr. Lu, how come there are no women to do these things? If you take down a tribe, you can take two or three hundred people abducted."

Lu Sanlang touched his chin in embarrassment, and couldn't help complaining secretly.

"Damn it, these guys are more like a prairie man than he is after just a few months on the prairie.

It seems that the problem can indeed be solved by looting. After the women and children of the family have gained a firm foothold, they can just pick them up. "

There was a crackling sound of the abacus, and Zhang Mei raised her head after calculating the consumption.

The abacus should be regarded as the most significant change that Zhang Bing brought to this era, just like the tea making method.

The abacus in history did not become popular until the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it was not the mature two-row calculation model of later generations, and it was still very cumbersome.

But after Zhang Ting arrived at this era, he not only 'invented' the abacus, but also wrote the shortcut formulas for calculating addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with the abacus, which played a great role in promoting the development of mathematics at this time.

Even Zhang Ting didn't know that the abacus he 'invented' would greatly promote the development of mathematics throughout Chinese history.

"Bai Gong, we set off from Yanran Mountain this time and traveled a full two thousand miles, but the food consumed was only one-fifth of the march in Han. The strategy of drinking horse milk and eating horse meat proposed by the sage is extremely feasible.

If we can still loot some supplies on the way, we can drive the horses and travel tens of thousands of miles westward with only one-eighth or even one-tenth of the consumption of Han. "

Zhang Mei was the best at arithmetic among these people. When he said this, everyone became excited.

Although this marching method of drinking mare's milk and eating horse meat is not very unusual, no one on the grassland has ever summarized it as a major event, and no one has raised it.

Now that it was proposed by Zhang Tie, everyone calculated and summarized it and found out that it is really feasible!
With this method, tens of thousands of miles is no longer the horizon, but a distant place that can be conquered, and the geographical distance can be drawn in at once.

"Report! Great victory!" A messenger shouted from outside, and Bai Congxin hurriedly led everyone out of the tent to have a look.

In the distance, the anxious messenger with wild pheasant hairs on his leather harness jumped off the horse scrambling without waiting for the horse to stop.

"General Manager, Lu Ketu, the leader of thousands of households guarded by Pioneer Xidubu, defeated the [-] allied forces of Ogus and Ge Luolu in the former site of the Duotanling Yinshan Dudu Mansion, and beheaded the head of Ogus Abu's exiled chieftain. There are more than a hundred nobles, big and small, six thousand prisoners, and tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses."

Dotan Ridge is the Talbahatai Mountain on the border between China and Kazakhstan in later generations. The former site of the Yinshan Dudufu is Tacheng in Xinjiang. After crossing this mountain range, you enter the Land of Seven Rivers.

Nearly 30 Geluolu nomads live in the southwest of Dotan Ridge, and further west are more than [-] Oguz scattered in the vast area from Lake Balkhash to the Caspian Sea.

If they are afraid of them, the road from Moxi to Talas will be smooth.

"Hahahaha!" Before Bai Congxin could speak, Lu Sanlang burst out laughing and asked the courier about the frontline battle report in detail, which made the courier extremely embarrassed.

However, although Lu Sanlang is not very knowledgeable, his son is really a general.

He only led nearly a hundred Gui Yilang, three or four hundred armored soldiers, more than 3000 Zheng Ding, and less than five thousand Zhuan Ding and Yi Cong. He defeated the [-] Ugus-Ge Luolu coalition army in one battle.

Judging from the capture and captives, it was not a simple victory, but a pretty beautiful battle of annihilation.

Bai Congxin laughed loudly, "Okay! Luktu's youth is better than blue, and his vanguard will do the work of our army.

Immediately notify Naiman Ten Thousand Households Protector A Luo Jia and Xia Jiasi Ten Thousand Household Protector Li Guizhong to come to my tent. "

In the ancient Turkic language, Ogus has the meaning of tribe, alliance, surname, etc. In a broad sense, the nine surnames of Ogus even include Xia Jiasi and the Naiman tribe. They are all relatives.

Now that the nomadic Ogus tribe in the land of the Seven Rivers, that is, from Ili to Lake Balkhash, has been defeated, the matter of annexing them is naturally on the agenda.

(End of this chapter)