Late Tang

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Xi family, whose real name is Kumoxi.

A branch of the Yuwen Department of Xianbei in the east of Xiben is also a branch of the Huns.Khitan and Xi have the same origin, and both belong to the Xianbei Yuwen branch.

In the 22nd year of Tang Zhenguan, Xi chieftains who could be saved led the people to attach themselves. Emperor Taizong of Tang set up Rao Le Dudu Mansion in his land, and set up five prefectures in Xi land.Rao Le Dudu Mansion is under the jurisdiction of Dongyi Dudu Mansion in Yingzhou. Tang Xuanzong and Tang Zhongzong successively married three princesses, Princess Gu'an, Princess Cheng'an, and Princess Dongguang, to three King Xi.

In the early days, Xi and Khitan lived in the Huangshui and Tuhe River basins, the Xi people lived in the upper reaches of the Tuhe River, and the Khitan people lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Tuhe River.Huangshui is the Xilamulun River in the upper reaches of the Xiliao River, and the Tuhe River is the Laoha River in later generations.

The residence of the Xi people borders the Han territory to the west and south, and the Khitan border to the east and north.

During the time of Zhenguan, the Xi people were attached, and the Tang Dynasty set up Rao Le Dudu Mansion in Xijing, and the position of the governor was held by Chief Xi, who was given the surname Li by the Emperor of Tang Dynasty.

Before the middle of the Tang Dynasty, from the seventh century to the ninth century, the Xi clan was in its heyday, and its military strength was comparable to that of the Khitan, and sometimes even stronger than that of the Khitan.Xi and Khitan were both stronger than the Northeast, and were called the two Tibetans by the Tang Dynasty.After the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan became stronger and stronger, and the Xi clan was gradually controlled by the Khitan.

There are five major tribes in Xi, Ahui, Chuhe, Aoshi, Duji, and Yuanqizhe.

The five prefectures established by Tang Zaixi were Ruoshui prefecture under the Ahui department, Qili prefecture under the Chuhe department, Luohuan prefecture under the Aoshi department, Talu prefecture under the Duji department, and Quye prefecture under the Yuanzhe department. The disgraceful chiefs of each tribe were appointed as assassins, all of whom belonged to the Raoyue Prefecture, which was under the jurisdiction of the Dongyi Duhufu in Yingzhou.

The Ahui family was the chief of the five tribes and was given the surname Li by Tang Dynasty.

Xiwang Yazhang is located in the impact plain of the Tuhe River, which is the upper reaches of the Laoha River in later generations, in Ningcheng, Hebei.At the same time, here is King Xi Yazhang, Zhongjing in Liao Dynasty and Yanjing in Yuan Dynasty.

In the first month, the Tuhe River had been frozen, and King Xi's tooth tent was even more snow-covered.

The heavy snow has blocked the road, and the sky and the earth are white.

In King Xi's tooth tent, Chief Xi Dongsu was lying on a wolfskin mattress, dying.

This King Xi, who has been in charge of millions of Xi people for 33 years, is now on the verge of death.

"Cough, cough, cough!"

After a burst of violent coughing, suddenly Dong Su's face became sickly flushed, and his whole body became more energetic.

The old man turned his head to the side and asked, "Has Shi Se not come back yet?"

Everyone in front of the bed shook their heads.

Shi Se is the new leader of the Ahui clan of the Xi clan. He had gradually taken over the Xi clan as early as 15 years ago. Eight years ago, Tu Dongsu completely handed over the power of the tribe to Shi Se.However, Shi Se continued to ridicule the chief, which aroused great dissatisfaction from his brother Qu Zhu.

Especially after Shise took over the Xi family, and married the daughter of Khitan's predecessor Yili Jin Yeluyun Deshi, he almost completely fell to the Khitan side.Today's Xi has almost become a vassal of the Khitan, and Shi Se obeys the Khitan's words.

Qu Zhu was very dissatisfied with this, and ten years ago, he began to unite some tribes in the five tribes of Xi to oppose Shi Se.

Although Dong Su was alive, his prestige suppressed Qu Zhu and prevented Xi from fighting.But up to now, the whole Xi is almost divided into two parts, east and west.

In private, people in Xi called Tu Dongsu the old chief, Shise the king of Dongxi, and Congzhu the king of Xixi.

At that time, all belts and tribes moved to the Luanhe and Xuanshui areas, closer to Yanshan and Yinshan, and more inclined to attach to Tang Dynasty.

But Shise still occupies the upper reaches of the Tuhe River to the line of Dushan and Bailangshui, closely following Khitan.This time, Khitan and Tang fought in the west of Liaoning, and the Yelu family of Khitan Diela sent a letter to Shise, and Shise immediately assembled [-] Xiren cavalry to go to Dushan to reinforce Khitan.

Suddenly Dong Su coughed for a while, and finally stopped panting heavily.Looking across several big tribes in the tent, he said weakly and slowly: "I heard last night that a fast horse came back in the snow, what happened?"

In such a season, Xiren's ministries are generally closed for the winter.But for several days in a row, tribal warriors rode horses and braved the snow to come to the tooth tent.Suddenly Dong Su knew that something big must have happened.

"Great chief, it's nothing, you can just rest." Chu and Bu Qi Jin Yi Gu said with a smile.

"Don't fool me with this. Although I'm about to die, I'm still not blind." Tu Dongsu struggled to sit up, "Did something happen to Shise in Dushan? Although I'm on the sickbed, I also heard that there was a new young commander named Li Jing who was only in his twenties in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that he was invincible and invincible, even the Shatuo people were defeated by him. It was also heard that he defeated Bohai and recovered the Liaodong Peninsula. It is easy to deal with aggressively attacking Liaoxi now. The Tang Dynasty was the first king of a different surname to be named a king in decades, and he was only in his twenties. He is a self-made humble general. How can we deal with such a character."

"The Tang people have already captured the Liaodong Peninsula. If they come to attack the Liaoxi now, they will definitely not be able to defend the Liaoxi. If the Tang people do not have the Liaodong Peninsula, the Liaoxi can still fight to defend it. But now, it will be defeated in vain. Tell me, the one that Shise brought How many cavalrymen are left, let him withdraw immediately."

A young woman wearing a shawl and a six or seven-year-old girl sitting next to her sat in front of the couch, and interjected: "Father, Xi and Khitan are of the same origin, and they are a family of brothers. Both are prosperous and both are prosperous. The arrival of the Tang army Huo Hei has already taken the Liaodong Peninsula. If he is allowed to take Liaoxi again, don’t father know what will happen next? We Khitan and Xi rebelled against the Tang Dynasty for 200 years, and the Tang army made a comeback. They will never let us go. The swords are already It's on your neck, don't you resist?"

Su Dongsu glanced at the young woman with some disgust, and said in a low voice: "Men discuss matters, women have no place to intervene. You take Yue Liduo back, there are other people here to take care of you, and you are not needed."

This young woman was the daughter of Yeruyun Deshi, the sister of Yeruzach, and the wife of Shise.Their daughter, Yueli Duo, has already made an engagement with Abaoji, the third son of Yeluzaci.

Dong Su now regrets the relationship he had with Yun Deshi back then, not because this daughter-in-law is bad, but because this daughter-in-law is too powerful.The son married a daughter-in-law and forgot his father. He was injured in his early years and let his son start dealing with family affairs too early. As a result, the son obeyed his wife.This daughter-in-law is indeed capable, and her son only knows how to ride horses and shoot arrows, and she is very impatient with managing the family affairs. As a result, she relies on this Khitan wife for everything, which finally caused Xi to become a vassal of Khitan, which caused dissatisfaction among many people. The cited Xi is now divided into East and West Xi, which is almost split.It is conceivable that now that he is still alive, Xi can at least maintain his unity on the surface.Once he died, the two sons would definitely not tolerate it anymore. At that time, Dongxi Erxi split and could no longer be stopped.

After driving his daughter-in-law out, Yi Gu lowered his eyes and said, "Old chief, the situation is not good."

In recent days, there have been cavalrymen rushing to King Xi's tooth tent in the snow, and almost all of them brought bad news.

First of all, on the side of Dushan, the Tang army has set up a big camp at the foot of Dushan, and they have been facing each other for a long time. Shise's soldiers and horses were restrained in Dushan and could not return.At the same time, according to news, the Tang army left Shanhaiguan and began to build a road leading directly to Liaodong along the coast.The Diela tribe was forced to send cavalry to harass and destroy, but was ambushed by the Tang army instead, and suffered a lot of losses several times.Seeing that Tang Jun's road is constantly moving forward, Dushan's soldiers and horses may be ambushed by Tang Jun's backpack.

This is not the worst news. The worst news is that a bloody warrior rushed to the tooth tent yesterday and reported a shocking news.There is a Tatar cavalry team in the south, fighting from the southwest to the northeast, and has plundered several tribal camps along the way.

"Tatars? How dare they?" Suddenly Dong Su was furious.

After hundreds of years of development, Xi people have millions of people.But the Tatars, the Shiwei people who came from Mobei to the south, relied on the Tang people, and wantonly accepted those small tribes such as the Uighurs who destroyed the country, and their power grew rapidly. Up to now, there are actually a million people.

However, Tu Dongsu has always looked down on the Tatars, thinking that they are just an alliance formed by a group of robbers and refugees on the grassland.Xi people are in the north of Yanshan Mountain and the east of Yinshan Mountain.The Tatars are in the north of Yinshan Mountain and west of Yanshan Mountain.The two sides can be regarded as well water does not violate the river water, and sometimes the Xi people even go to grab the Tatars.

When did the Tatars dare to rob people?

"How many of them are there?" The old chief felt that something was wrong.Although Xi has weakened these years, at least he is still in an offensive and defensive alliance with the Khitans. In the northeast, all other tribes are powerless to contend with them.If the Tatars were really so kind, they would not have been driven from the grasslands to the Yin Mountains to seek protection from the Tang Dynasty.

"It is said that there are tens of thousands, maybe even 3 or [-]. They are all cavalry, and they are all elite cavalry, armored cavalry!" Yi Gu said worriedly.Xi people don't have many soldiers and horses, and there are very few standing troops. They can only be mobilized in wartime.

Now all the standing soldiers of the Yazhang have gone to Dushan, and there are only 500 guards left in the whole Yazhang. There are also [-] auxiliary troops and more than [-] people on duty.All together, there are only three thousand soldiers in Yazhang.

When Dong Su heard that there were [-] to [-] soldiers and horses, and they were all armored cavalry, his eyes immediately widened.

He murmured, "This is not a Tatar."

"The warrior who reported the message fought against them, and they were indeed Tatars. According to him, he saw the banners and personal guards of the Tatars Usu Gugbul and Heiche Hutu. The Tatars invaded massively!" Yi Gu said.

"No, no!" The old chief shook his head in pain, "The Tatars would never dare to do this. Now that they are here, they are not the only ones here. They came with Tang Jun, and they are Li Jing's forward. The cavalry is about to arrive, and they will kill them immediately."

Yi Gu and the other leaders of the Xi clan were stunned, but no one refuted the old chief's words, because the possibility was extremely high, otherwise, the Tatars would never dare to take such a big risk in such a heavy snow season Going deep thousands of miles, killing Ben Yazhang.

All in all, there is only one possibility, the Tatars came with the Tang army.

Some of the elite of the Xi clan followed Shise in Dushan, and some went to Zhu in the north of Yanshan.

Now there are only three thousand soldiers in Yazhang, even if they are mobilized immediately, they can only mobilize another three to five thousand herdsman cavalry.At this time, it was too late to immediately notify the other tribes to mobilize troops to come.

"Woooooo!"

A long horn sounded in the open snow, followed by bursts of thunder-like sounds from the sky.

There was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, and a guard officer of the Xi clan rushed into the big tent with a pale face, and shouted in panic: "It's not good, there are a large group of cavalry coming from the south, looking at the number... Look at the number of people... at least ten thousand people!" (To be continued.)