The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 80
But it was said that Yang Tong came out of Yunnei, and his [-] cavalry, led by scouts who were familiar with the terrain in northern Saibei, moved quickly.

As soon as you walk out of the Great Wall, there are large tracts of grasslands and rolling hills.On the grassland, Turkic tribes appeared sporadically. These herdsmen lived by water and grass, and their nomadism was uncertain.

For these Turkic tribes who appeared on the road, Yang Tong was not polite at all, and directly launched a surprise attack.

repeating—

Encirclement, annihilation...annihilation, encirclement.

Seeing that there were not many young and strong guards in the tribes, he urgently ordered Jiang Xingben to send troops to annihilate and plunder the Turkic tribes near Baitan County.

To this hungry wolf-like nomad, Yang Tong showed no kindness or mercy.

And when the Turkic tribes were destroyed, a large number of people in the Central Plains were rescued.

Listen to them!

The Central Plains men who were captured to the grassland could only sleep in the cattle pen and the sheep pen. In order to prevent them from escaping, the Turks did not give them enough food, which was inferior to pigs and dogs.They survived because the Turks treated them as cattle and sheep slaves and grazed them.

Hearing this, Yang Tong was furious, and asked Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong to continue westward, while he took the people and livestock and killed them in the direction of Baitan County. He and Jiang Xingben went west and east, killing a life passage .

After that, turn around and head west again.And Jiang Xingben is responsible for maintaining this channel and responding to the rescued people in the future.

After joining Qin Qiong and Yu Chigong again, they continued to kill all the way.He also issued an order to the rescued people to drive all their cattle, sheep, horses and property to Baitan County.

Forced by the situation, these people in the Central Plains have all learned how to drive cattle and sheep to graze, and driving cattle and sheep is their specialty.

Yang Tong rescued them from the fire and promised to resettle them. They worked extremely hard to do this kind of thing within their power, and swept away all the cattle, sheep, horses and property of the annihilated tribes.

If he encountered a tribe without the people of the Central Plains, Yang Tong would tie his belongings to the animals, and then drive east for a while, letting them walk along the grassland by themselves, and then Jiang Xingben from the rear would take them back to Baitan County.After that, some people passed by from the west and brought them back to Baitan County along the way, so that the army could always go into battle lightly, and made a lot of money.

In just a few days, no less than a hundred Turkic tribes were destroyed by them.

In these tribes, there are very few young and strong men, and they all say that those strong men have followed the Great Khan to the south to hunt grass valleys.

Although Yang Tong couldn't bear to kill these old and weak people, he snatched all the cattle, horses and sheep, and killed them all that he couldn't take away.

Cattle and sheep are the necessities of Turkic people's life. If they kill cattle and sheep, they will lose their way of life. Without cattle and sheep, they will lose their livelihood.

The army roasted the beef and mutton at night, wrapped them up and put them on the horses' backs, and continued to gallop away after completing the supplies.

The rest stayed. These Turks, old and weak, have livestock meat to maintain their lives for a while, and they will be fine for the time being, but after eating, they will fend for themselves, and now it is September, and winter is coming. God knows.In short, the Turkic people will be very sad this winter, they will dwindle due to hunger and cold, and many tribes will weaken and die out.

At this moment, if you look from the sky, there are surging red waves everywhere in the vast area of ​​thousands of miles.This kind of red is not only the armor of the Sui army, but also the blood of the Turkic people!

This is the largest revenge operation after the Siege of Yanmen.Countless tribes were harassed by the Sui army, and countless Turks became their ghosts.

After conquering the Turkic tribes, eating roast mutton and roast beef, and eating roast humps, it was a rare relief during the hard march.

Rest in Turkic tents at night, take away the dried meat found in the tribe during the day, and drink two big leather naans with horse's milk or goat's milk and camel's milk.

Wherever the Sui army passed by, the Turkic tribes did not have a running horse and camel, and no cattle and sheep to eat grass. Even in the back, the Sui army did not need to do it themselves, they only had to drive the Turkic men to kill.

As for the people in distress in the Central Plains, they had horses to travel eastward, and the Turks couldn't catch them no matter what.

After the Sui army left, what was left was a dead grassland and weeping tribes.

Those women and children are crying, without their cattle, horses and sheep, they don't know how to live the next day.What's more, the Sui army has already attacked Saibei, so what happened to their husband and son who went south to fight Caogu!
The entire grassland is immersed in sorrow and fear!Some Turkic old people also brought back long-forgotten memories: the violent Sui army slaughtered the entire grassland, blood flowed into rivers, and corpses littered the field!
The army rested at the bank of Qifu Lake for a day, and divided into three columns and marched west along the Jinhe River. The scouts were in charge of contacting them. They burned, killed and looted all the way.Like locusts crossing the border, kill, rob, and burn.Wherever he went, there were countless casualties and blood flowed everywhere.This place is slowly approaching the Turkic Monan Khan Court, and any kindness of a woman will ruin the event.

After another day, the Turkic generals who stayed behind in the Khan Court came to intercept with their cavalry, but how could they be the opponents of the murderous Sui army?
Every time Yang Tong didn't hesitate, he went straight to kill.

Send light cavalry first, and then hide behind light cavalry with heavy cavalry.

After the Qingqi shot, when the two armies approached, the heavy cavalry suddenly rushed out, and calmly smashed the Turkic Qingqi into pieces, and then the Qingqi surrounded them to fight and kill them.

Thousands of people Qingqi, just like this was solved by the Sui army in a few strokes.

After Yang Tong defeated the Turkic army, he didn't pursue them, but grabbed the slightly injured Turkic soldiers and continued to head westward.Now you can ignore them to report to Khan Court, or to Shahuguan to report to Shibi.

Because it is less than a hundred miles away from the Khan Court, he had the advantage in terms of time. When Shibi came back to his senses, he had taken down the city-like Turkic Khan Court without any pressure.Defending the city has always been the strength of the Central Plains army, but attacking the city is precisely the weakness of the Turkic people.

Turkic Monan Khan Court.

Finally received the exact news.

Although some sporadic "rumors" were sent back before, they were not detailed information at all.Those rumors are just that there is a ghost cavalry on the grassland. Wherever they passed, the cattle and sheep died, and all the people in the tribe died.

The herdsmen all said that they were the swords of Changshengtian, and that Changshengtian was dissatisfied with them and came to punish them.

They didn't even know where the army came from, how many people there were, and where they came from.

And now, they finally know.

This so-called Sword of Longevity belongs to the army of Sui Dynasty.There are tens of thousands of them, all capable cavalry.

At that time, Yang Tong didn't try to hide his whereabouts any more, he made people fly the flag of the Sui Dynasty and his handsome flag in a dignified way!After poisoning the tribes he met, he spread rumors among the Turkic people, saying that the Shibi army had been defeated and that millions of Sui troops were about to arrive.

In just a few days, legends about them spread like the wind in the south of the Yin Mountain outside the Great Wall.

"It's Yang Tong, king of Qin in the Sui Dynasty, who came here with a large army."

"Our Turks betrayed the Sui Dynasty that supported us. After Yang Tong wiped out the Great Khan's southern expedition troops, he led the Sui army to retaliate. Many Turkic people joined them and led the way for them."

The Sui Dynasty and the Turks have coexisted peacefully for more than 20 years, and the Turks have been the dogs of the Sui Dynasty for more than 20 years. The strength of the Sui Dynasty has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people!
Shibi Khan's army going south did not respond, but the Sui army came in retaliation, causing panic to spread on the grassland like a plague.

And more and more information about Yang Tong, more and more detailed.

In the Sui Dynasty, Hebei Dao Shang Shuling, the champion general, and Qin Wang Yang Tong led [-] cavalry. In his army of death, there were tens of thousands of Turkic warriors following them.

Each of their warriors has three horses.

They ate raw beef and drank horse blood.

They came to punish the Khan court nobles who betrayed the Sui Dynasty,

Not only did they not harm the civilians, but they also distributed the cattle and sheep of the nobles of each tribe to the poor.As long as you are poor, don't be afraid.

This last point is indeed true.

There are also distinctions among Turks, rich and poor, high and low. Most Turkic commoners raise a few sheep and horses to make ends meet, but Turkic aristocrats own tens of thousands of cattle and sheep.They usually hired Turkic people to raise horses for them, and slaves looted from the Central Plains as cattle slaves and sheep slaves to graze for them.

Those who are close to the Khan Court are all the territories of the Turkic nobles, and there are more and more common people in the Central Plains who are in distress. Some were robbed when Shibi went south that year, and some were paid tribute to the Turks by Turkic lackeys like Liang Shidu and Liu Wuzhou. The total sum of the forests was no less than 20, and Yang Tong asked them to ride horses and drive cattle and horses along the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain to return to Baitan County.The extremely slow sheep were all given to the Turkic herdsmen, and they were allowed to divide them by themselves, and then spread rumors about being kind to the Turkic civilians, which meant to reduce the pressure on the road and the pressure of attacking the Khan Court.

Yang Tong learned this trick from a little devil, and he is equally hypocritical, hypocritical and deceitful.

And the more than ten thousand young men who were captured by him were the cannon fodder for attacking Hanting.

(End of this chapter)