Dawn of the Empire

Chapter 164 The King Abandons the North Sea (5)

Haidu Khan reached an agreement with Yelubijie, and the Mierbo tribe sent 2 warriors, and 1 warriors were recruited from the tribe attached to Mierbo, led by Urgon Mierbo and Tachi Mierbo .After the [-] cavalry warriors gather, they will rush to Youzhou as quickly as possible.After getting this news, most of the tribal nobles who knew the inside story were overjoyed, not to mention the many benefits promised by Yelu Dashi. For the Mobei tribe and the Khitan army, war and grassland are inseparable. With the permission of the Khitan Kingdom, a trip to Grass Valley in the land of wealth in the south is worth years of hard work on the grassland.But the ordinary shepherds below, except for a few who think they have courage and want to get ahead, most of them are worried. They are worried that the expedition will delay taking care of their livestock, and they are afraid of dying in a foreign land.

Even among the tribal nobles, there are doubts.Haidu Khan's eldest son, Bo Shenghuo Mierbo, was one of them.Although he is very likely to inherit the position of Great Khan because of his son, he is a bit mediocre.There are several female slaves in the tent, who are not yet forty, and their eyelids and chins have drooped.Even his son, Tachi Merber, looked down on this useless father.

"Leaving the grassland of my hometown, sacrificing the lives of my people to fight for the Liao people is not worth it." Bo Shenghuo Mierbo subconsciously avoided Ta Chi's gaze, and said in a low voice: "At the beginning, the ancestors were killed. The enemy framed me, and my grandfather fled for his life alone. When we started our family business, we only had a dozen sheep. Now, we are the largest tribe in Mobei, with tens of thousands of warriors. There are countless cattle, sheep, camels and horses. What are you doing so much?"

"For the future of the Mierbo tribe. The leaders of each tribe want slaves, and the brave warriors want rewards. If they can't satisfy them, the tribe will rebel and the Mierbo family will perish." Tachi Mierbo He said coldly, it didn't seem like he was talking to his father at all.He gestured with great interest to the dagger presented by Yelubijie, slashed it twice in the air, feeling very comfortable, and said happily: "I heard that in Yunzhou, there are more or less such weapons."

"The Kingdom of Xia is stronger, its weapons are sharper, and its armor is better." Bo Shenghuo Mierbo lowered his head a little guilty, without any sense of his father's dignity.He stroked the sheep wool blankets from Xia with both hands. The goods from Song State were always not to the shepherd's liking, and the goods from Liao State were too rough to be as good as Xia State's goods.

"Xia Guo is our enemy." Tachi Mierbo's face suddenly darkened. What he couldn't tolerate his father the most was that he often spoke for the people of Xia Guo. It was probably because of this that his grandfather became more and more alienated from him. . "Dividing the free grassland into small pieces is equivalent to countless cages, cutting off the eagle's feathers, and encouraging the traitors of the tribe to commit chaos."

"But the shepherds say that once you settle down, the livestock won't lose weight easily. The shepherds will spend their time improving the pasture. In areas with plenty of water, they can grow good pastures and feed more livestock. After the grassland is divided, it is not easy for everyone to fight. In the Xia Kingdom, there is almost no case of people dying because of a piece of water and grassland. When you settle down, you don’t have to fear that the water and grassland in front of you will be seized by other tribes, and you don’t have to worry about sudden storms and snow on the road.” Bo Shenghuo Mi Erbo whispered stubbornly. "Even if it is the law of the weak, the weak should stand with the strongest."

After all, Tachi was his son and the future leader of the Mierbo tribe. Although he was somewhat dissatisfied with his mediocre father, Bo Shenghuo Mierbo still told him what he thought was right.Little did he know that his good-tempered character, in Ta Chi's eyes, was an expression of "mediocrity".

Hearing his words, Ta Chi was taken aback for a moment. He didn't expect that this father, who usually only hangs out with female slaves and lowly low-level shepherds, also had some thoughts.He was silent for a moment, and said coldly: "If there is no fighting, no fear, would the shepherds still willingly obey the Mierbo family? They would live like Xia people, and then obey the emperor's will." After finishing speaking Stand up, bow and leave.He was tired of this useless father from the bottom of his heart.

Bo Shenghuo Mierbo sighed softly, lowered his head, and murmured: "Natural selection, only the fittest survive. Maybe, I am worrying unfoundedly." He took a sip of 'milk' tea, and from He took out several large books from a corner of the tent, and flipped through them casually. On the scuffed cover, they were written in Xia Guozi, "The Mean of Justice", "Decrees of Mechanics", "Detailed Rules of Commerce and Taxation", "Words of Discourse" and so on. This Collection", "Zhengmeng", "Yan Tianshu", "Species in the World", "Pedigree of Good Horses" and other titles.Bo Shenghuo Mierbo is one of the few people in the Mierbo tribe who can know the characters of Xia Guo and Song Guo, but none of these can change his useless reputation.The shepherd went to bed early, but the dim light of the tent stayed on until midnight. Outside, there were several long howls of prairie wolves.

Whenever dark clouds cover the moon, the night on the grassland is extraordinarily dark.The lights of the tribe can only illuminate a small area around them, and after a short ride, there is darkness where you can't see your fingers.Tachi Mierbo had a quarrel with his father, rode a wild horse that had just been tamed, and galloped for more than ten miles in the grassland, surrounded by darkness, he looked up to the sky and breathed out the cold night air, suppressing all the discomfort Going down, just slowly returning, there seems to be green eyes of prairie wolves in the thorn bushes not far away, and they don't care. "Come on, I'll just shoot you to death with an arrow." He thought bitterly, deliberately put on full speed of the horse, waited for a while, the prairie wolf still didn't dare to go forward, and then urged the horse back to the tribe.

On August [-]th of this year, Zhao Xingde and his party spent in the village in the river.The big guys were eager to return home, so they didn't follow the routine of marching sixty miles a day, but drew a cockroach when they passed the post station and continued to move forward, keeping their horsepower on the road, as long as they found a camping place around dark. Sometimes they march more than a hundred miles a day.This place in the river is full of farming and animal husbandry, and it is autumn again. Outside the farmer's yard, haystacks are piled up high, and there is no shortage of food and pasture.In order to reunite with his family as soon as possible, the sergeant of the Chengying Camp, who has a lot of money to buy food and fodder, doesn't care much.

Although after more than a hundred years of immigration and reclamation, the population in Hezhong is still much sparser than that in Guanzhong. The owner of the camp is a retired sergeant, but he was conscripted two months ago.Although this family is a well-to-do farmer, there are not so many rooms to accommodate more than a hundred people, so the soldiers camped in a large barn and tied their horses beside them.Wang Tongdeng and others chatted enthusiastically about whether the retired sergeants recruited by Hezhong this time were going to attack Roma Sultan.

"It seems that this is not the right time to come back," Wang Tongdeng shook his head and sighed, "There is a law of calling for sergeants in the river, and the military mansion clearly wants to do a big job." He stretched out his hand to unfold the marching map, and held the oil lamp on it, Pointing to the southwest of the Amu Darya River, "Sultan Roma fought a fierce battle with the Lumei Kingdom and is recuperating. It would be worthwhile to give him a quick break at this time."

What Wang Tongdeng called the Law of Sergeant Calling was established since the founding of the country.Each battalion recruits its own number of retired sergeants, and then mixes them with active sergeants in half, which expands each battalion into two battalions.Each army was also expanded into two legions with unified bugles.In one of the legions, the complete command system of active generals, lieutenants, and centurions remains completely unchanged, and retired sergeants can quickly adapt to the barracks and can go out immediately.The General's Mansion dispatched General Quan and Marching Sima to train the other legion that remained in place. If the front line failed, this army could send reinforcements at any time, or stay behind to defend their homeland.If the war is protracted, then the second legion will recruit sergeants again before going out. In this way, retired sergeants will be continuously recruited, and a total of five times the number of standing troops can be expanded.If the fight continues, it is necessary to mobilize regiments to train the army. That is to say, Xia Guozuo's life and death are at a critical moment, and everyone, including the old and weak, women and children, may go to the battlefield.

"Yes, the merchants and post stations on the road also said the same." Du Chuijiao approached and said.He secretly rejoiced that he had escaped a big battle, while most of the young sergeants showed expressions of regret.

"Not necessarily," Zhao Xingde said hesitantly, "With such an important military situation, the marching commander must not make a fuss before the war begins." The Chengying Camp has also executed many times in Lumei to help the barbarians and the country of Ross. Military affairs, thinking of the big ship with siege cannons he saw in Zhenxi Fort, his gaze moved northward from Zhenxi Fort along the coast, and slowly moved to the mouth of the big river. The capital of Ross.

When Zhao Xingde first heard about the sergeant's double summoning law, he thought that such a mobilization seemed to be fueling, but after he became familiar with the operation of the army, he was no longer surprised.Because even if an army far exceeding the standing army can be mobilized in a short period of time, the logistics cannot support such a large number of troops.It is not just the number of sergeants that doubles the mobilization. For the treasury, the burden of military pay, military supplies, and the number of mules and horses has all been more than doubled. During mobilization, the wealth that the country usually saves is used like running water.This is not counting the transportation of huge troops and corresponding military supplies to the front of the battlefield, the countless losses and replenishments during the war, and so on.All in all, unless it is a last resort, Xia Guo will not waste its national power at will, and try its best to ensure the quality of the troops going out.And when the war penetrated deep into the territory of the Xia Kingdom, what the five governments considered was not the law of double call-up of sergeants, but the law of general call-up of sergeants and general call-up of regiment training.Among them, the Sergeant's Double Call Law requires the consent of the majority of the Huguo Mansion, the Sergeant's General Recruitment Law must be agreed by the majority of the Huguo Mansion and Zhu Guofu, and the regiment training general call law must be agreed by the majority of the Zhu Guofu and the tribunes of the states to be recruited. .

The sergeants were discussing livelyly. The hostess of the farm, Mrs. Meng Wang, came to entertain her with her two sons and daughters. Her son, Meng Bin, was about [-] or [-] years old, and her daughter, Meng Jiao.Although Hezhong's daughter's family is not as reserved as Zhongyuan, seeing so many young soldiers all of a sudden, there is an air of shyness.Wang Tongdeng peeked at her frequently.Mrs. Meng Wang enthusiastically served the hot broth to these young officers, while rambling: "My head of the family, I don't know if I can come back during the Chinese New Year." Brown eyes flashed A little apprehension.Zhao Xingde took out a Lumei silver coin from his pocket and gave it to the young man who helped.He casually smiled and said, "Look at the girls here, the sister-in-law of the Meng family is really blessed."

"Bodhisattva bless you," Mrs. Meng Wang took out dozens of round cakes from the rattan basket and pushed them in the middle of the table. They were filled with sugar hearts, which were moon cakes.A trace of sadness flashed in her eyes, "I can pull these three dolls into adults." The land here is sparsely populated, and the climate is sometimes very bad. It is often difficult to delay medical treatment in time when a child is sick.She gave birth to a total of seven children, four of whom died young due to various reasons such as epidemics, and besides these two, there was only one seven-year-old Lao Qi who was raised.