Chapter 1090 Fan Qi
The autumn of the eleventh year of Zhenguan.
The first bend of the Yellow River's nine bends, the scenery in autumn is beautiful, the Yellow River flows slowly through here, turning a huge bend, this bend is like drawing a Tai Chi.
The autumn wind is cool in the morning, even with a hint of chill. Kang Luo is a young herdsman from the Maiwa Sangli tribe. He is not yet sixteen years old this year.
A few years ago, his father followed the leader of the tribe to obey the call of Bie Cong Woshi, the leader of the Party Xiang Bie Cong, and rode on a war horse with his two older brothers. They went to attack the Tang people who came to Songzhou. When the battle started, he died under the crossbow of the Tang cavalry.
Later, the entire Dangxiang Qiang went to war with the Tang people, but in less than half a year, all the ministries were defeated one after another. The defeat was indeed a shame for the Dangxiang Qiang people, but it also made them truly feel the great strength of the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains. In the end, the Dangxiang tribes surrendered to Datang one by one, and the Maiwasangli tribe was also the first Qiangluo tribe to surrender with Bie Cong Woshi.
Bie Cong Woshi was named the governor of Yanzhou, and Libuli was named the governor of Nuozhou.
Later, the leaders of the eight tribes, including Tuoba Chici and Xifeng Bulai, also joined the Tang Dynasty successively, and Tuoba was even given the national surname Li.
After the Dangxiang ministries were attached to the Tang Dynasty, the life of the Maiwa Sangli tribe next to the Songzhou border returned to calm, and even became lively because it was an important channel for Songzhou's foreign trade.
Bie Congwoshi also teamed up with Qin Qiong, governor of Songzhou, to mine gold mines nearby. Kang Luo's father died in the previous war, as did his two elder brothers. Qiang families like Kangluo are more caring, and a sum of money is distributed to them every year. In addition, the young Kangluo joined the gold mine transportation team to and from Songzhou and Maiwa.
He ran with the gold mine transportation team for a few years, and changed from an ignorant boy to a tall Qiang man who could ride and shoot. His mother married her young children according to the tribal tradition after his father died. His uncle reorganized the family, gave birth to a few more children, and the family slowly prospered again.
Kang Luo, who was growing up, was almost at the age of getting married. After the family prepared to help him get married, they gave him livestock, cattle and sheep, and let him set up his own family.
But the Tubo people called suddenly, but at this time, Qin Qigong, the governor of Songzhou, died of illness.
The patriarch led everyone to flee into the mountains. Not long after, he heard that Qin Weigong, the son of Qin Qigong, was coming. Soon he sent people to find and contact the Qiang tribes, so that everyone could gather and prepare to wipe out the invading Tubo people.
The old patriarch was a little hesitant, and his uncle was also reluctant to part with the young children in the family. Finally, Kang Luo and a group of friends on the gold mine transportation team bravely stood up. He has often traveled to and from Songzhou in recent years. The Qin family and Datang who have been here for several years like it very much.
Especially after his father and brother died in battle, the Qin family took the initiative to give them pensions, and asked the gold mine to give them money and food every year, not to mention the stability of the past few years, which made their small tribe's life better and better .
Last year, their tribe paid fifty pieces of otter skins, one thousand cattle, one thousand yaks, five hundred horses, ten thousand catties of wool, seven hundred and fifty taels of silver, and five hundred taels of gold to the Governor's Mansion of Songzhou last year. .
They couldn't believe that they paid so much tax. Of course, although they paid a lot, everyone was not too dissatisfied, because over the years, with the convenience of trade routes, a border market has been established here, and there are gold mines in the mountains. , there are pastures in the river valley, and there are many workshops and shops. Every family is not only herding cattle and sheep, but also starting a business, and even buying shares in mines.
What they pay is less than one-twentieth of their income. The more taxes they pay, the more they have earned in recent years.
Just like the Kangluo family, now they have more than 50 horses, more than 300 cattle and yaks, more than 1,000 sheep, more than 20 camels, and ten dogs. There are shops in the market Every year, he buys and sells furs. He has shares in the mine. He has already turned around and changed a lot. He has become a wealthy herdsman who does not worry about food and drink, and is not afraid of disasters.
There are not only tents, cattle and sheep, but also courtyard houses built with rammed earth.
But when the Tibetans came, they were forced to abandon their family business and flee into the mountains, and even the once busy Maiwasangli border city was dead.
Kang Luo and his companions all have a good impression of the Tang State and the Qin family, but of course they hate the Tubo people.
Some elderly people and those men with their families are still thinking about gains and losses, worrying about their families, but in the eyes of the young Kang Luo and others, there is a strong sense of pro-Tang and an unconcealable passion for fighting. Willing to shrink in the mountains.
When the Dukes of Qin and Wei called, they responded immediately.
The Sangli tribe was originally just a small tribe. It has expanded rapidly in recent years. Every family is very rich, with herds of cattle and horses, and even many slaves. The few years of rest and recuperation have also greatly increased the number of newborns in this tribe.
On the day when Minister Wei's envoy came to deliver the order, Kang Luo signed up with a group of fellow tribe youths. In the end, their tribe gathered a hundred warriors, most of whom were young men like Kang Luo, and some young and strong men. Most of the people are people who have been running to Songzhou for many years, some are from the caravan, some are from the mines, in short, they are all pro-Tang and hate the invasion of Tubo.
They packed their bags, stepped on their horses, and then traveled through the mountains and forests familiarly. According to Duke Wei's order, they did not go to Songzhou, but went in the opposite direction, riding westward all the way across the mountains and bypassing the Tubo army. Came to the meander.
Kangluo has been here before, and it is 180 miles away from their tribe. This river bend is also the place where Songzhou goes north to Tuyuhun and Longyou, west to Dangxiang Hequ and Bailan, and southwest to Tubo, so it has long been here. A bustling ferry side market has been formed, and there is even a Yellow River pontoon bridge.
On the morning when he left home, his uncle silently took out a set of leather armor and fastened it on him. Fragments of magic stone knife rope and a few other things.
The Qiang people are brave and warlike, and they have long been accustomed to fighting, grabbing pastures, fighting for livestock, and even plundering enemy tribes after a catastrophe, or resisting other people's plunder.
Only this time, it was not to plunder other tribes, but also to compete for pastures, and I didn't even know if it could be regarded as resisting other people's invasion and plunder.
This is an order from the Songzhou government on the other side of the mountain. They are fighting for Datang.
Mother said as she sent him to the side of the road, "God bless you."
After thinking for a while, he said, "May the Emperor Luoyang of the Central Plains bless you."
Uncle led Ma Duo to see him off, and finally said goodbye.
As he got older, Kang Luo became more and more distant from his uncle, who had a good relationship with him.
"I'm leaving, take care of my mother and my brothers and sisters for me."
"Um."
Uncle nodded, handed him the reins, and finally took out a package from his arms, "This is yak meat floss, and a bag of fine salt, you take it with you."
Although his mother had prepared dried meat and salt in his luggage, Kang Luo still took it, and then bid farewell to his uncle.
It took Kang Luo and his party three days to bypass the Tubo army and arrive at Hequ, where they quickly gathered more Qiang warriors.
There are also military officers and lieutenants from Songzhou here. They were ordered by Duke Qin Wei to reorganize the troops of various ministries, so that they can unify their command, organization, and even unified orders and so on.
Kang Luo's one hundred Sangli tribal fighters were finally incorporated into the Biecong tribal army. They were divided into one team of one hundred, one regiment of two hundred, one battalion of five hundred, one battalion of one thousand, and one battalion of three thousand. The establishment of the first army has reorganized one after another military battalion team.
Under the leadership of a Tang captain, Kang Luo held his right hand high and clenched his fist, swearing an oath to a bright red flag with Tang characters.
The ceremony is very simple. Follow the knight, first swear in the Qiang language, then in the native language, then **** your finger and drop some blood into a bowl, and finally the bowl of blood is sprinkled on their military flag, the ceremony Even if it is done.
Then he got a streamer, a wooden sign, the streamer was a piece of cloth on which it was written in Chinese characters which army, battalion and regiment he belonged to under the Dangxiang Fan Army under the Governor's Mansion of Songzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and the wooden sign was his Identity information, Kang Luo from the Sangli tribe in Maiwa Township, Songzhou Prefecture, aged 16, with a height of 6 feet 5 and other physical characteristics.
The Tang officer who took them to take the oath also became the deputy envoy and coach of their thousand-man battalion. He was responsible for training their thousand-man horse. They all live in relatively close areas, but they are still relatively mixed and need training.
Starting from identifying the flags of each army, different colors, different patterns, and different beasts and rare birds represent different troops, and even flags of different shapes such as rectangles, squares, triangles, and swallowtail flags also represent military camps, etc. Different levels.
After recognizing the color and shape of the flag pattern, start to recognize the semaphore commands, such as the flag leaning forward means attacking, etc., which must be memorized.
Immediately after that, I started to learn the sound of drums and horns. In addition to hearing the drums and marching forward, and sounding gold and retreating, I was also very particular about what drums represented what military orders, what horns meant and what.
For the young Kang Luo, these trainings were new to him. Although the Qiang people are brave, they are usually honed and coordinated by the tribe during shooting and hunting, and there is no such strict set of things.
Not to mention training to the back, but also to practice military formations.
Kang Luo, like many Qiang soldiers, was confused. He was relatively good. Some of them were thick and burly.
The Tang coach is very strict, he likes to swear, he can swear at you for an hour without repeating words, he can not only swear in Chinese but also in Qiang, and he can often make people go crazy Lose.
Although the coach scolded them every day that they are the most stupid people in the world, stupider than pigs, and not as smart as those grazing sheep, but they finally completed the training quickly amidst the scolding, although this quickly used for about a month or so.
"The ugly barbarians are fleeing towards Hequ in a panic. Our task is to stop them here. Our 100,000 cavalry don't need to fight the ugly barbarians alone. We just need to stop them here and fight for Qin Taiwei." Just two days!"
According to the words of the coach, this battle will be very easy, and it is to take credit for taking advantage of Datang.
Kang Luo also felt very confident. After all, they had 100,000 cavalry, and after the training of the officers of the Tang Dynasty, he felt that they had been reborn as a real Tang army, so they should be very easy to deal with Tubo. relaxing.
(end of this chapter)