Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1172 Shatuo
"Which tribe?"

In the oasis camp, under a jujube tree, Xiao Yanwang interrogated a Turkic prisoner with two pumpkin hammers in his hand.

The man snorted coldly and refused to speak.

"Hehe, it's quite hard, but I don't know whether your kneecap is hard or your Tianling Gai is hard, but I believe it's not as hard as my hammer!"

After speaking, Xiao Yan Wang grinned, and the hammer with his left hand hit the thief's left knee directly.

Although it is only a few kilograms of short-handled melee hammer, if it hits a horse's head during a battle, a hole will be broken in the horse's skull, let alone a human's knee?The Turkic bandit screamed, his knee was broken, and he was half kneeling on the ground.

"Give you another chance, which tribe?"

"Bah!" The man was very stubborn.

"I admire you, I have to respect a tough Turkic man like you." After finishing speaking, King Xiao Yan also swung the hammer in his right hand, but this time it hit the other knee of the man, and the man screamed again , directly kneeling on the ground.

"Drag this stubborn thief aside."

"Give me a good time, give me a good time!" The man screamed again and again, and he still shouted in blunt Chinese when he was dragged away.

"Unfortunately, you have no chance." Xiao Yan Wang didn't turn his head, but turned to another Turkic prisoner. "Tell me, do you want to break the left knee or the right knee first?"

The man swallowed.

"Do not say?"

"I said, I said, we are from the Moon Department."

In the distance, a Turkic man yelled, "Bah, coward!"

King Xiao Yan smiled, then pointed at the scolding Turkic man, "Drag him here."

The Turkic man was dragged over and was still struggling to resist, but he was bound by the patrol team's tendon ropes, and the more he struggled, the tighter he struggled. This was the Qin army's special way to tie up prisoners. How could it be so easy to break free.Xiao Yanwang didn't show any politeness to him at all, he came up directly and hammered the man twice, breaking both kneecaps of this man.

With a broken kneecap, this person is almost doomed, a useless person, not even a slave, and the only thing waiting for him is to wait for death.

"It's not your turn to speak, shut up."

Two patrol members dragged down the painful and sweaty Turkic man and threw them together with the one just now.

Xiao Yan Wang turned his head and said to the guy who confessed just now, "Now you can continue talking, think it over before you talk, don't lie to me, you know there are so many people here, I will ask one by one, who told you Not the same, your end will be worse than theirs, I will dig out your eyeballs and throw them here to feed the wolves."

"I'm not lying, we are from the Moon Department."

"Chuyue Division? That's in the north of Gaochang. My emperor appointed the leader of Chuyue Division as Chuyuehou and the prefect of Shatuo County. Do you think I don't know the geographical direction of the Western Region?" There was a scream.

The hammer didn't hit his knee, but directly smashed his three toes.

"Speak well, speak clearly."

"We are really in the moon department, we swear to Changshengtian!" the man cried out in pain.

Xiao Dui was turning his head to discuss with his subordinate Zhang Laosan and other fire chiefs, "Why did the Shatuo people from Gaochang come to Kucha?"

The Chuyue tribe, also known as the Shatuo people, is a tribe other than the ten surnames of the Western Turks. It nomads in the northwest of Gaochang. It was once under the jurisdiction of Luntai established in the Han Dynasty. It is named Shatuo because of its large sand dunes. people.

The Shatuo Tribe took Zhu Xie as their surname. After the Daqin sent troops to attack the Shekui Khan and helped establish the Dulu Khan, the ten surnames of the Western Turks and other subordinate tribes basically all belonged to the Daqin.They went to Luoyang to pay homage to the Emperor of Qin, sent their children to Luoyang Guozijian to study, or served as guards in the inner government army.

The emperor demarcated the boundaries of the various ministries, established counties and counties based on their territories, divided them into feudal states, and granted them the title of duke and marquis, which can be regarded as bringing them into the Qin system.

In the past, the ten jins and sips were also enfeoffed as county princes, and the leaders of the rest of the tribes were mostly enfeoffed as marquises.

Most of their territories are counties.

In this way, together with the original Kucha, Shule and other Tianshan countries, as well as the Sogdian Zhaowu nine surname countries in the river, and the Tocharian countries, etc., an intricate system of Western Regions was formed.

After the Great Qin Emperor wiped out the original Shekui Khan, the local emperor of the Western Regions, the power of the entire Western Regions was also redistributed. The new Western Turkic Khan was actually just a puppet, and he could no longer really command the tribes.The countries that were controlled by the Western Turks in the past basically fell to the Great Qin.

The Emperor of Qin sealed off the territory boundaries for all the ministries, and the ministries were not allowed to cross the boundaries easily. This rule was very important for the Great Qin to rule the Western Regions.

But now, this horse with nearly [-] riders claims to be the Chuyue Department of Shatuo County in the northwest of Gaochang. Isn't it strange?

"Maybe this guy is lying, just ask someone else."

"I didn't lie, what I said is true, I swear to Changshengtian." The guy screamed in fright, even struggling to tear off his collar.

"On my chest, there is a sand wolf, which is the symbol of our lunar warriors."

Zhang Laosan cut open his clothes with a knife, and he saw a wolf on his chest. The characteristics of this wolf showed that it was a wolf that haunted the desert.

"Then tell me, why did members of the Chuyue tribe from Shatuoqi appear near the city of Kuchabachang, and wanted to rob and kill my Daqin caravan?"

I asked about ten more people, and all the answers I got were similar. They were indeed from Shatuoqi, and they were all Shatuo people from the Chuyue Department.However, these people did not follow the orders of their leader Zhu Xie Jinman to rob Qin and Shang. On the contrary, Zhu Xiejin led 72 tents to belong to Daqin. Because to the south of him is the Gaochang County of Daqin, and to the west are the heroes and princes of Yili[-] of Daqin. He is caught in the middle, so he dare not mess around.

The tribe had a small number of people, only [-] tents, and it was located in a poor territory like Shatuoqi, so they didn't have the strength to attack.

However, because of the poor environment of the Shatuo tribe, the people of the Shatuo tribe were known for their bravery and combat skills a long time ago. They often survived by fighting and looting.

Now that the Western Turks have fallen, the Shatuo people have also been delimited and cannot easily leave the border. The Western Regions have become more stable under the rule of the Great Qin, and there are no battles to fight, let alone opportunities to loot. Had a hard time.

As a result, many Shatuo men left their hometowns and went to other places to accept employment and become mercenaries.Either as a caravan guard, or as a guard for the leaders of other tribes and feudal states.

These 300 people are a group of Shatuo mercenaries who came out of Shatuoqi. They came all the way to Kucha, accepted the employment of a nobleman in Kucha, and became the nobleman's personal guards.

Then not long ago, they received a mission, and then, they ended up now.

(End of this chapter)