Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 899

Midsummer.

The lotus flowers are blooming on Longhu Lake, the water is sparkling, and a crescent moon emerges from behind the clouds, casting silvery moonlight on the lotus leaves in the lake.

The night is cold as water.

Under the moonlight, the famous specialties of the Longhu Lake are the immature fish, the flower fish and the white flower, jumping out of the water from time to time, pecking at the lotus leaves, and there are even frogs croaking on the lotus leaves.

Amidst the cries of fish and frogs, there are many Wumeman rowing boats through the lake in the dark night. These Wumeman have lived on the three islands in Longhu for generations and lived by fishing.The Wumaman tribe used to live on the shore of the lake, but was defeated by other tribes and had to retreat to the island.

"Finally we're going back to Shiping again!"

On a wooden boat, a tall barbarian held his antlers on the handle of his knife, looking at the vast opposite bank in the night, feeling ups and downs.

The old land will be regained soon, the barbarian is very excited.

Wumaman's old territory on the shore of the lake, they called Shiping, it is said that Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms, conquered Juding in the south, looked at the clouds in the north, feared that the barbarians would lurk, and visited it secretly, and dug the soil at the place where the clouds reunited More than a foot, the ground is full of stones, which are shaped like plates, Kong Ming occupied clouds, and stones are the roots of clouds, and clouds are the color of literature. After more than a thousand years, there will be rules, squares and domains, and civilization is like Zhongzhou Yan.

I don’t know if this story passed down from generation to generation by the people of Wumai is based on Kong Ming, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, to put gold on their faces, but they did tell it that way, and the west bank of Longhu Lake is indeed fertile. The bottom is full of solid rocks, with a huge area, and it is everywhere. It is a very livable treasure land.

At that time, they leveled the land here, established a village, planted rice and vegetables, and went to the lake to catch fish and shrimp. There was lake water in drought and highland in flood, so there was no worry about drought or flood.

And here, there is no frost and snow in winter, and spring is not cold, summer is not hot, and autumn is not dry.

Longhu Lake ranks fourth among the nine great lakes in Nanzhong, much larger than Qilu Lake in the north.

It's just that every man is innocent, but he is guilty of being pregnant.

After all, Wumaman still failed to hold on to this treasured land, and was taken away by other barbarians. In the end, he could only retreat to the island in the lake, barely relying on the three islands, and passed on as a fisherman in the lake.

Losing the old Shiping land on the west bank, Wumeman's strength is not as good as that of the previous generation. At this time, Wumeman lives poorly on the three islands, with only three villages left, and the largest island, Moshuzhai, is only left. There are thousands of households.

The people who were expelled from the Wume tribe were the Jiuxin tribe. The Han people recorded that they lived by the mountains, forests and waters. But for thousands of years, the earliest Jiuxin tribe had migrated away long ago. Without strength, they could not hold on. That piece of treasure land, on the contrary, is Wu Mobu, because it retreated to the island in the lake, it has been here for thousands of years.

One crop after another came and went.

The weak prey on the strong, and only the strong live in the treasure land.

One after another, the barbarian tribes fought and robbed this treasured land by the lake, and the owners of Shiping changed one after another.

Later, the Heman tribe who moved from the north took control of this area, and later, the surnamed Cuan of the Han people who moved from the north to the south became the suzerain of Heman.

Now the son-in-law of the Tang Emperor of the Central Plains led troops to break through Juding, defeat Heman, and established a sea-connected governor's mansion from the north bank of the Red River to the Nanpan River.

As a result, Shiping was set up as Shiping County by the Tonghai Dudufu, and the barbarians here were all included in the Tang Dynasty. Even Wumaman on the three islands was placed in a Moshuli, with three villages under its jurisdiction.

A Yi, the leader of Wumaman, was also summoned to Shiping to meet with the officials of the Dudu Mansion, and was awarded the title of Lizheng in Moshuli, Longhu Township, Shiping County. The tender fish, white fish, flower fish, etc. were very satisfied, and even gave him the surname Duan.

So A Yi became Duan Yi, and his name and more than 1000 households on the three islands in the lake were registered on the household registration register of the Tonghai Dudu Mansion.

Not long after the army soldier left, the county began to send conscripts to collect grain. They were on duty, and one out of ten households was allocated to build cities and roads.

The county magistrate of Shiping County is a Tang, but the magistrate of the county and other officials, such as joining the army and Hu Zuo, were all selected and appointed by the Tang from the majority of the original barbarian tribes in Shiping. Those on the top of the tribe, this time they got an official position, started bullying them again justifiably.

The apportioned servants, money and food were all collected by them.

Wumaman even set up a mission to pay tribute to the special products of Longhu Lake, requiring them to hand in a lot of fresh white fish, etc., and asked for a lot of dried fish and shrimp, etc., which made Wume Sanzhai resentful.

Originally, ten households took one man to serve, but the big tribes passed on the difference to the small tribes. There were only more than 1000 households in Wumao Sanbu, and they only needed to send more than 100 men to serve, but the county conscripted them Several groups of people, or endless.

There are only a small amount of fields on the three islands, and Wumaman mainly lives by fishing. Now he not only has to hand over the fish, but also sends men to do labor, and also has to pay money and food.

Duan Yi tightly held the handle of the knife in his hand. Because he didn't have enough food to pay in the county, his son was whipped and shackled. He was shackled for three days, and he was almost killed by the shack.

So when he heard that Heman established a barbarian country in the south of the Great River, Duan Yi also thought about whether to take the tribesmen to flee and relocate, but later found that it was not easy to escape under the control of Datang.

The days are getting duller every day, and the oppression in the county is getting worse.

Duan Yi didn't even know whether the increase in apportionment was the original intention of the governor's mansion, or whether the county took the opportunity to embezzle, but the angry Duan Yi had already put this resentment and anger on the Tang people.

If the Governor's Mansion hadn't let those people become officials, and if the Tang Army hadn't supported them, these people wouldn't have dared to oppress them like this, so in the final analysis, they must be in the same group.

Do not die in silence, but explode in silence.

In the south, Hemanguo Shangdao contacted Wumobu. Manguo listened to Duan Yi's complaint and also listened to his expectations. Finally, he generously promised to assign Shiping to Wumobu in the future. Not long after, the envoy The second time he came, he brought him the letter of conferment from the barbarian emperor Meng Guchu.

He was granted the title of Inspector of Shiping Prefecture and Wu Mohou.

An order made Duan Yi go all out.

Small boats quietly and gently cut across the lake, wandering forward like a water snake, approaching the west bank of the lake.

His son Duan Ping was wearing a piece of leather armor and holding a small bow, which was given by the Barbarian Emperor. Actually, he didn't have many things, only ten sets of armor in total, but this was given by the Barbarian Emperor.

The barbarian emperor's army is heading north, and it is a great achievement for the Wume tribe to respond with troops.

The barbarian emperor's envoy told them that in the entire Tang people's so-called Tonghai Governor's Mansion, there are now countless tribes who are dissatisfied with the Tang people and their shameless lackeys, and they all hope that the barbarian emperor will kill them across the river, and the East and West Ercuan in the north are now willing to Abandon the previous suspicions and unite with the barbarian emperor to drive away the Tang people.

In this whole wave of counterattacks, Wumobu in Moshuzhai is actually just a small wave, but Duan Yi has long since refused to turn back.

The task given to him by the barbarian emperor was to sneak attack and take down Shiping.

After the arrival of the Tang people, they began to build a city at Shipingzhai on the west bank of Longhu Lake. They recruited nearby barbarians to build Shiping City. The new Shiping City was the Yamen City, also known as Tang City, because the Tang people sent by the Dudufu also came to do business, The Tang people who immigrated to the border all lived in it.

The outer city was also called Cangcheng. The Tang people stored all kinds of collected materials and merchants' goods in it, and sent troops to guard it.

Beside Shiping City, there is also Shiping Fort, but it is not a big, but quite tall stone blockhouse, with Tang soldiers stationed and beacon fires on it.

Shiping City has not yet been fully completed. It is said that the people of Tang planned to build a larger new city next to Yacheng Cangcheng, called Shiping East City. At that time, there will be markets, shops, Lifang houses, etc., and the barbarians will also I can live in it.

The Manhuang asked Duan Yi to take advantage of their advantages on Longhu Zhongdao and launch a surprise attack to seize Shiping, especially Shiping Fort, before they arrived.

Because although Shiping is not big, it is a main road here. It leads directly to Jianshui City in the Tang Dynasty in the east, Tonghai in the north, and Honghe River in the south. It faces Luopandian across the river. Ping.

A stone flat, for a governor and marquis.

Even in the future, the entire Shiping will be assigned to Wumobu as a fiefdom.

Compared with the Tang people who only granted him the post of Lizheng in the last bundle, the Barbarian Emperor is undoubtedly more generous.

Comparing the two sides, Duan Yi didn't have to hesitate at all.

He personally selected the young men from the three villages of the tribe, all of whom are brave and sturdy young men with excellent water quality, who are good at paddling boats. Shangwu, if they didn't retain any fighting skills, they wouldn't be able to stay on the island for so many years, and they couldn't hold on to the three islands long ago.

The summer breeze is cool.

The summer in Longhu is actually very cool. Even in the hottest time of the year, it is still cool at noon, and you can wear a smock in the morning and evening.

The men of the Wume tribe are actually used to being shirtless all year round, and a pair of coarse cloth shorts can be worn from the beginning to the end of the year, but for tonight's battle, Duan Yi specially made the warriors of the tribe wear leather armor.

However, this leather armor is actually quite rough and simple, and many of them are nothing more than a leather jacket, but after all, it has an extra layer of leather, and it is better than shirtless in fighting.

The main weapons of the Wuma barbarians are harpoons and short knives, which are their tools for fishing and killing fish, and they are also used as weapons now.

No wizard is required.

This section of the route is very clear to Yi and others, and they can know the direction of Shiping even with their eyes closed. Although they have lived on the island for a living by fishing for generations, they often go ashore to exchange fresh and dried fish for salt, cloth, needles and threads. .

Hundreds of small boats rowed to the shore silently.

One by one, the young and strong Wumabe came down from the boat, wearing leather clothes, carrying harpoons or hatchets in their hands, and quietly touched Shiping City.

Regarding the battle plan, Duan Yi had already drawn up it.

Taking advantage of the darkness and high winds at night, they quietly sneaked under the city and attacked and seized it.

(End of this chapter)