webnovelvip Chapter 653
Chapter 653
Chapter 653
After marching for half a day, I saw a group of cavalry approaching from a distance.
Lin Xuan didn't know friends or foes, so he quickly ordered the team to stop and prepare for battle.
However, he was not too worried. There were about a thousand cavalry on the opposite side, and there was a flat river all around, so there was no possibility of an ambush.
The cavalry on the opposite side stopped about four or five hundred steps away from Lin Xuan and the others, and several people broke away from the team and came towards Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan took out the binoculars to look, and when he saw Solange coming, he put down the binoculars.
Solange should have come to meet him.
"General Manager, the Great Khan sent me to meet you." Solange came up to him and said, clasping his hands on the horse.
While speaking, Solange came to a large number of soldiers behind Lin Xuan.
Because Lin Xuan ordered to prepare for battle, he was full of murderous spirit at this time.
Solange was overjoyed, it seemed that this army was the elite of Tang Dynasty.
If the loss of this army is greater, I am not afraid that Datang will not continue to send troops.
Lin Xuan and Solange came to greet each other for a while, and the army continued to set off, heading for Mobei.
Xue Yantuo lives in Mobei.It was originally a part of Tiele, another species of Xiongnu. At the beginning, it lived with the Xue clan, and later annihilated and merged with the Yantuo clan, called Xue Yantuo. The official system and customs are roughly the same as those of the Turks.
Because of enduring the brutal rule of Jieli Khan.Yinan led his tribe to resist with force, and Jieli sent a large army to suppress it, but was defeated by Yinan, and many of Jieli's tribe joined him.
However, the strength of Eastern Turks was much stronger than that of Xue Yantuo, so Yi Nan had to ask Datang for help.
However, Li Shimin was beaten to Chang'an by the East Turks just after he succeeded to the throne. He has always regarded the Weishui alliance as a shame.
In order to restrain the Western Turks, he worshiped the barbarians as the pearl Vija Khan and bestowed them with drums and banners.Yinan accepted the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, and established the Xueyantuo Khanate, which was established under the Yudujun Mountain in the desert (now the Hangai Mountain in the Mongolian People's Republic). country.
Since then, the relationship between Xue Yantuo and Datang has been war and harmony.
In the evening of the next day, the army arrived at the Desert Yudujun Mountain.
Although the famous nomads live in no fixed place, the royal courts generally stay relatively fixed because they occupy the best place.
Solange pointed to the small town in the distance, and said, "In front of the chief executive is Xue Yantuo's royal court, and the Great Khan is waiting for the chief executive at the gate of the city."
Lin Xuan looked at the small town in the distance, frowning slightly.
The small town is very dilapidated, even a small town like the Tang Dynasty can't compare.
But this shows that the nomads are making progress. The reason why they can't even compare with the small counties in Datang is because the grasslands lack stone materials.
In the Yuan and Qing dynasties, why were nomadic clans able to occupy the Central Plains?
Although it was related to the weakness of the imperial court at that time, the big reason was that the nomads were constantly learning Han culture.
Although nomads are not good at siege, anyone who knows Yuan and Qing knows that no matter it is Mongolia or Manchu, when they seized the world, they had a long-term experience of confrontation with the Central Plains dynasty.
They even occupied part of the city. The imperial court at that time was relatively weak. During the long-term tug-of-war, they gradually learned to defend and attack the city.
In addition, they continue to learn the advanced technology of the Han nationality to upgrade their weapons and equipment.
Take Genghis Khan as an example. Many people know that Mongolia's iron hooves are almost invincible, and they all went to Europe at that time.
But why the Mongolian cavalry is so powerful, few people know.
In fact, Genghis Khan suffered a lot in the early wars against Xixia and the Kingdom of Jin, and Xixia even failed to defeat him until his death.
At that time, the Kingdom of Jin and Xixia had mastered many advanced weapons of the Central Plains Dynasty
The Mongolian army dominated by cavalry is good at field battles and short at siege.At that time, the Kingdom of Jin and Xixia had already begun to use such advanced weapons as trebuchets, battering rams, ladders, ballistas, and rockets. and explosive firearms.
As we all know, Genghis Khan liked to slaughter cities very much in wars. Genghis Khan, who suffered from these weapons, began to pay attention to craftsmen.
Whenever a place is captured, special preferential treatment will be given to the captured artisans, and they will be gathered to manufacture weapons and war equipment.Therefore, the Mongolian army quickly mastered the siege technology in the Central Plains.In order to give full play to the role of siege equipment, Genghis Khan also appointed gunner Wanhu and set up a special artillery unit, commanded by his eldest son Shuchi. This is the first professional artillery team in the world.This artillery unit played a huge role in the three Western Expeditions and the subsequent battles against Song, Dali, and Koryo.
Jin Aizong, the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty, once said: "Mongols are always victorious, relying on the horsepower of the north and relying on the skills of the Central Plains."
By combining the technical advantages of the Central Plains with the cavalry advantages of the grassland, the Mongolian army has not only a strong mobile combat capability, but also a strong offensive capability, and its combat effectiveness has reached the point where it has no opponents at that time.The reason why the Mongolian army was able to sweep across the Eurasian continent is inseparable from its overwhelming advantage.
The learning ability of the Mongols is indeed very strong.After the Yuan Dynasty unified China, it also used the navy of the Southern Song Dynasty to establish the most powerful naval force in the world at that time, and went to sea twice to conquer Fusang.
A nation has not only walked out of the grassland, into the city, but also into the sea.This is why the Yuan Dynasty was able to become one of the greatest dynasties in Chinese history.
Now that Xue Yantuo has gone to war to build a city, if a figure like Genghis Khan appears, the harm to the Han people will be too great.
Although this possibility is very small, who can say clearly.
Approaching the gate of the city, Lin Xuan saw a dark-skinned, middle-aged man with a beard around 40 years old, leading a group of people waiting at the gate of the city.
Su Rongzabu, who was following Lin Xuan, introduced the identity of the middle-aged man in a low voice.
This person is Xue Yantuo's great Khan Yinan.
After what happened last time, Su Rongzabu completely resigned to his fate.
Confiding a lot of Xue Yantuo's secrets made Lin Xuan more confident about this trip to the grassland.
"Sir, the Great Khan is already waiting, you see?" Solange rode his horse to Lin Xuan and said, looking at the soldiers and horses behind him.
Lin Xuan nodded, ordered the troops to stop, put Xue Rengui in charge of the army, and led Cheng Chumo and a group of soldiers to the gate of the city.
There was still about a hundred steps away from Yi Nan, Lin Xuan took the lead to dismount, Cheng Chumo and others dismounted one after another seeing this, and a group of people came to Yi Nan on foot.
"Lin Xuan, the marching chief of Dingxiang Road in the Tang Dynasty, has seen Zhenzhu Vija Khan." Lin Xuan bowed neither humble nor overbearing.
Although Yi Nan is the lord of a country, he is nominally a vassal of the Tang Dynasty and a servant of the Tang Dynasty. Seriously speaking, Lin Xuan's status should be higher than him.
Yi Nan's mouth twitched when he heard Lin Xuan call him Zhenzhu Vija Khan.
This title was bestowed on him by Datang, but in fact he did not approve of it, and no one usually called him that.
(End of this chapter)