burning nations

Chapter 6

"In fact, I only had one wish back then, to have a prairie of my own, to ride a horse, hug the woman I love, and let obedient hounds run on my prairie. There is a matouqin to play, and kumiss to quench my thirst. Walk through my life in style."

A few years later, Ye Lixiao, Khan Ye Lixiao, who ruled the Wanli Grassland, commented on his childhood aspirations in this way.

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Flattering Zhangwu for 30 years, the desert grassland, the sky is high and the land is wide, the water is clear and the grass is fragrant.

Every son of a herdsman would ask his father as long as he can remember: "Awu, oh, how big is the grassland?"

Fathers always tell their children: "Changshengtian creates grasslands, and the grasslands are infinite. As long as there is Changshengtian, there will be grasslands."

The words have been passed down from generation to generation. Generations of prairie boys grow up, ride horses and bend bows, follow tribal leaders to rob more pastures, follow tribal leaders to plunder more wealth, until they die in battle, or die of old age.Over and over again, over and over again, the destinies of the grassland people were created, and the menacing hostility of the grassland people was also cultivated, and the fruits of violence grew.

The prairie boy has only three things in his life: robbing, herding and dying.

Violent national characteristics and limited social resources have led to the tradition of "sons killing fathers, brothers killing brothers, and admiring the strong" of the grassland people.

This has also led to the current iron man empire that dominates the grassland. Every time the regime changes, rebellions will arise, and blood will flow like a river!
Inside the Iron Man Empire, the Iron Man tribe is the core of the empire, but there are many non-Iron Man tribes in the empire, and the river where Ye Lixiao is located is a large tribe in the Iron Man Empire.

The river people originated from the western frontier area of ​​the ancient empire. They are one of the many nomadic peoples who lived and grazed at the junction of the two empires of Calradia and Obasan.Until the collapse of the ancient empire, the He people gradually moved eastward, gradually merging and annexing other ethnic groups, and finally grazing in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.Until the rise of the Iron Man and the launch of the Western Expedition, all the tribes in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains were defeated by the Iron Man, and they followed the Iron Man one after another.As a large tribe, the He people were forced to migrate to the Monan area, and then stayed in the Monan area.

Nomads have no calendar, or no unified calendar, which makes it difficult to clearly organize the records of various tribes.

About ten years ago, the old Khan of the Iron Man Empire Borjijin* Maduna died of illness, and then a civil war broke out within the empire with three factions, Prince Tulungu, Prince Mokomo, and Prince Xialadin competing for the Khan position. Afterwards, the prince Tulunguo won, followed by the traditional killing of the brothers, liquidation of the brothers' tribes and punishment of the tribes that stood in the wrong team.

This is a tradition, but unfortunately the people of the river pressed the wrong treasure and stood on the opposite side of the tulun bone.

But Ye Lixiao's father, the leader of the Heren Tribe, did not sit still. He made a major decision that violated the ancestral system.

Yeli Tugonalo led the Heren tribe and 34 tribes of different sizes that were attached to the Heren tribe, with a total of more than [-] to [-] men and women, [-] cavalry, and millions of cattle and sheep, and went south to join the Zaku Empire.

Tu Lunjiao was naturally furious at the decision made by Yeli Tugonaro, and Zhao Ju was naturally surprised by the decision made by Yeli Tugonara.

So Tu Lun Gudian led one hundred thousand cavalry to go south to crusade against Yelitu Gonala.

So Zhao Ju took Tong Guan as the main general, and Liu Fa, the commander-in-chief of the Shengding Army, as the deputy general. He commanded Shengding, Shengjie and other 30 troops to go north to meet Ye Litu Gonala.

So the Zaku Empire and the Iron Man Empire broke out in a war south of Yinshan for the Heren Tribe.

This is the number of battles against the Iron Man Empire in the military history of the Zaku Empire. Tong Guan also can't remember how many times he fought against the Iron Man Empire, but it was Tong Guan's happiest battle!
The strength of the Zhagu army lies in the infantry, in forming formations, in the formation of a copper wall and iron wall by the heavily armored warriors, and in the formation of a movable steel wall with the infantry!The Iron Man Army is the opposite. Their strength is cavalry, and their strengths are fast, ruthless, annoying, and sticky!The iron cavalry can surround the infantry of the Zaku army for several days, but if there is a little flaw, no matter how many Zaku troops there are, their corpses will be scattered all over the field!

And this is the consequence of the lack of cavalry.

And this shortcoming was made up by He Ren, and Zhagu's army was perfect.

In the Battle of Yinshan, Tong Guan defeated Tu Lunjiao, beheaded [-] Iron Man cavalry with [-] casualties, in exchange for an epic victory.

Zhao Ju was happy because she was happy, but after she was happy, Zhao Ju began to think about how to arrange for the people who went south to join the river.

Is it all races, keeping their customs, and relocating them in a unified place?

Or should they all be broken up, and all households should be organized to get rid of the three or four million people?

Zhao Ju asked Tong Guan for his opinion, and Tong Guan gave Zhao Ju a [-]-word memorial after careful consideration on the spot.

Tong Guan analyzed Zhao Ju from five points: First, is the empire short of three or 40 people?Gyeonggi, Henan, Hebei, Longyou, Jiannan, Shannan, Huainan, Qianzhong, Jiangnan, and Lingnan have a population of nearly 4 million. With black households, the total population may be more than 5 million, or even 6 million!
Second, does the empire lack cavalry?Very short!Because of population growth, a large number of pastures have been converted into farms; and because of economic development, a large number of domestic herdsmen choose to settle in cities and change their living habits.The current empire not only lacks horses, but also lacks cavalry!It even reached the point where the advanced cavalry who had ridden a horse recruited batches of infantry for long-term riding training.

Thirdly, Yeli Tugonalo was the first group of large tribes in the Iron Man territory to go south to join. His treatment will determine whether there will be more leaders attached.

The eloquent and eloquent words gave Zhao Ju a kind of joy like enlightenment, and finally decided to deal with it according to Tong Guan.Ye Litu Gonalo was granted the title of "General Zhenyuan", Fengzhou and Shengzhou in the Qiantao area were combined into the Grassland Army, and Ye Litu Gonalo was appointed as the "Jiedu Envoy of the Grassland Army" to guard the two prefectures.However, the Tiande Army, Zhenwu Army, and Huangsai Army and many military camps in the former two states were either merged into the Grassland Army and returned to Litu Gonaluo for control, or they were transferred to other places for garrison.

I have to ask why Zhao Ju or Tong Guan would give up the two states of Fengsheng to He people?It is because the two states are not only the frontier, but also the limit pushed northward by the Zaku Empire.The entire Hetao area is almost flat, and the only line of defense that Zhagu's army can rely on is the Yellow River and only the Yellow River.Zhagu's army was not only unable to jump northward across the Yellow River, but also unable to hold the front line of the Yellow River. This was due to the right time and place, but more because of people.

The defense line of the Yellow River was not strong, and the iron men repeatedly broke through and plundered the middle and back sets, which made it impossible for the Zhagu army to carry out stable agricultural production, build water conservancy and accumulate strength, which led to insufficient supplies and the empire could not increase troops to the front set. It's all in the hands of the Zaku Empire.

When it was not given to Heren, the front set of Fengzhou Shengzhou was like a sentry tower, and the middle set of Lingxiayou three states for three to five thousand miles was like a main road, until the six states of Yin, Sui, Yan, Qing, Yuan, and Hui. It is a defensive position.

However, the distance between Yanzhou and the Imperial Capital is only five or six hundred miles. If the Iron Man Cavalry goes south along the Luoshui River, they will reach Tongzhou within three days, Liyang in half a day, and the city of the Imperial Capital in one day!
This is like a knife falling from the head of the emperor of the Zaku Empire every year, depending on whether the knife is bloodletting or amputation.

Zhao Ju understands that relying on the 40 to 1 people of the He people is very difficult to stop the iron man cavalry, so he tried his best to provide assistance, with an annual assistance of more than [-] million dinars, including agricultural and animal husbandry technology, talents , tools, building fortresses, building cities, directly providing iron ore and active equipment for the imperial army, and commercial exchanges are more subsidized, which is almost a nurturing aid.

But Yeli Tugonalo understood that there is no free mare's milk on the grassland.In addition to donating or selling a large number of horses to the Zaku Empire, he called Ye Lixiao, the imperial heir, and sent him to the imperial capital as a hostage.

The prairie man is very precocious, understands his mission and accepts it calmly, but he misses his homeland when he leaves.

Ye Litu Gonala saw him off at the door, and the teacher, Elder Hu Li, also came to see him off. The brothers who were at odds with Ye Lixiao also put down their opinions and sent him off. Ye Lixiao's mother crooked a spoonful of milky white Mare's milk spilled to the sky and fell to the earth.

Ye Lixiao was not originally called Ye Lixiao, this Zhagu-style name was temporarily given to him by Yeli Tugonara, but Ye Lixiao took this name and plunged headlong into this splendid era.

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Ten days later, Zhao Ju specially granted Ye Lixiao a mansion in the northern urban area and a manor in the northern part of the city, and rewarded him with thousands of gold, silver, precious stones and jade without any restrictions.

But the Zaku Empire society is not so friendly!
After hundreds of years of fighting and fighting, the Zhagu people who died at the hands of the iron man have gone, and Ye Lixiao has to bear the anger of the Zhagu people himself.

So Ye Lixiao went to the streets on the first day, before he had time to marvel at the blooming flowers of the ancient city of Dijingzha, and before he had time to take a closer look at the prosperity of the ancient city of Dijingzha, he was beaten up.

"Kill this yellow-haired dog!!!"

Shi Xiu swung his fist and smashed Ye Lixiao's face, immediately threw Ye Lixiao's feet up to the sky and stared at his eyes, and all the noble boys immediately surrounded him and punched and kicked Ye Lixiao.Ye Lixiao's guards desperately defended the lord, and were also beaten to the point of curling up on the floor, or blocking in front of Ye Lixiao's body.

Just when she was about to die, Shi Xiu suddenly heard a loud roar!
"You all give me a hand!!!"

As she said that, she saw a person jumping over, Shi Xiu only saw a shadow, and then a gust of wind blew past her face, then she felt a pain in her chest, and she retreated eight steps in a row.

Then I saw this person pulling or kicking, or pushing or throwing, driving away all the youngsters of a certain kind.

Use only between breaths.

Seeing the person coming, Shi Xiu was furious, completely ignoring the noble upbringing and shouted: "Tan Yang! Lin Yang! You two are sick!! What are you doing to me?!"

After Lin Yang finished beating the man, Tan Yang stepped forward slowly to help Ye Lixiao up, and blocked him behind him.

He said coldly to Shi Xiu: "Shi Xiu, enough is enough. Uncle Shi will be angry if you hurt him today. Your Majesty will never let you go if you killed him today. The Shi family must bear the blame!"

Shi Xiudao: "Do you know who he is?!"

Tan Yang replied loudly: "The first-rank general of the empire, the general of Zhenyuan, the son of Ye Lijiedu of the grassland army, Ye Lixiao is also."

This question made Tan Yang suspect that Shi Xiu was mentally retarded. He took Lin Yang for a stroll, and when he came back, he happened to see Shi Xiu and a group of people beating up a person. Looking at the guards' different clothes and golden hair, Tan Yang concluded that this person was Ye Lixiao, and hurriedly dragged Lin Yang to rescue him.God knows if Yelitu Gonala will lose his mind when his son is punched to death in the street.

Lin Yang then said: "Listen to me! From now on, Ye Lixiao! It's me, Lin Yang! A friend of Lin Yang in Qinzhou, Lingnan! Who dares to touch my friend! I will never let him go!"

"Good Lin Yang! I can't beat you! Farewell!"

If you can't beat him and leave, although it's embarrassing, it's the truth.

Ye Lixiao wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, imitating Zhagu people and clasped his fists to thank: "Thank you for saving me."

Before Tan Yang said anything, Lin Yang said very enthusiastically: "What's the matter, it's just a duty to help when you see injustice! Don't worry, as long as you are in the imperial capital, Lao Tan and I will cover you from now on, who dares to touch you and me Beat it back for you!"

"My name is Lin Yang, and this is my best friend Tan Yang."

So Ye Lixiao became friends with Tan Yang and Lin Yang.

(End of this chapter)