He held a silver-white flag in his hand. When he waved the flag left and right on the watchtower, the three trumpeters on the watchtower blew the horns in their hands.

One, two, three, nearby watchtowers blew their horns one after another, and then the military drums also began to beat.

Amidst the sound of drums, the drummers affiliated with Taichang Temple played "Music of the Holy God and the Son of Heaven toward the Four Seas and Eight Wildernesses" in every corner of the camp.

This is the most flattering drum music created by Zhang Yan after he lost Taichang Temple and the tradition of elegant music in the mid-Tang Dynasty. Taichang Temple recruited musicians from all over the world.

The leaders of various tribes from the grassland lived in twelve-color tents, corresponding to Zhang Zhang's 120,000 grassland households.

They had already grown their ears from listening to this kind of drum music in Fengyun Pavilion, and of course they knew what they should do when this kind of music played.

Immediately, these leaders of various ministries hurriedly put on the robes given to them by the emperor, and under the corresponding flags, led their guards out of the camp area and galloped to the shooting ground beside Guiyi Bo.

Zhang Gaoduan was sitting on his Emperor's Sixth Chariot. In front of the chariot, thirty eminent monks of the Sixth Dharma Sect and above were holding magical instruments and chanting sutras and guidance.

The car drove slowly past the leaders of the grassland and Songmo tribes. They all chanted the Buddha's name and prostrated themselves on the ground.

Behind Zhang Yan's chariot was the Zuoyu Linwei Fenghuo Cavalry Battalion led by Qu Qilang and Qu Yanqing himself as escort.

Under the mighty banner of Zuoyu Linwei, three hundred cavalrymen wearing cloth-covered iron armor, but their horses were not armored, solemnly accompanied them with their horses held horizontally.

The horse swords in their hands are almost all high-quality products passed down from their ancestors. They are more than ten feet long, can be stabbed and hammered, and are strong and full of toughness. They are far beyond the ordinary sabers and inferior spears and hammers held by the cavalry on the grassland.

They are also top-notch Hexi Pegasus, with a shoulder height of more than five feet three inches. Compared with them, the horses on the grassland are almost as short as donkeys.

In addition to these three hundred valiant cavalry, there are also two hundred hussars from the Wind and Fire Assault Cavalry Battalion who are wearing chain mail without armour, wearing double iron armor, holding hard bows, and sabers hung on the sides of their horses.

Their chainmails were covered with a blouse made of brocade, which looked rich and strong. The knights were in high spirits and looked down upon the world.

Behind them were three hundred armored cavalrymen from Hanshandu led by Li Zhaoyuan. Li Zhaoyuan was the nephew of his aunt Li Ruoliu, and his father was Li Ruotai, Zhang Zhou's first generation armored cavalry general.

These three hundred armored knights and horses were all covered in thick armor. Only a pair of eyes were exposed. Not only were the horses under their crotches more than five feet tall at the shoulders, their legs were even taller than the mouth of a bowl.

Thick and very slender.

There are many people on the grassland who know how to read horses. They can tell at a glance that such a war horse is not only very powerful in carrying weight, but its sprinting speed, no, it should be said to be an instantaneous burst of speed, must also be terrifyingly fast.

As soon as these eight hundred horses came out, the leaders of the grassland tribes who had been buzzing just now fell silent as if they had been drugged to silence them.

When the three hundred knights came out, the leaders of the tribes in Yanran Mountain and Langjuxu Mountain in Mobei shut their mouths, because such knights wearing armor and horses without armor were naturally their nemesis.

Because these tribes were slightly closer to the Han Dynasty, they could still have a small number of warriors, but they were completely incomparable to the heroic cavalry of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

In particular, these valiant cavalry also possess powerful war horses and excellent horses. Once faced with each other, if ten prairie warriors can defeat one valiant cavalry, they are considered to have good combat effectiveness.

And when two hundred hussars wearing chain mail or chain mail came out, the tribal leaders from the north of Langjuxu Mountain to Beihai and Yuerhai all lowered their heads in fear.

They are not afraid of the armored cavalry, because it is difficult for such armored cavalry to reach the bitter cold land north of Langjuxu Mountain.

Even if they barely arrive, they can retreat calmly and wear out these armored cavalry just by dodging.

But these hussars are different. Their armor only weighs more than ten kilograms, which puts less burden on their horses. Moreover, they are better at fighting with bows, arrows and sabers.

Therefore, we can use grassland combat methods to deal with the grassland cavalry in Mobei. This was extremely confirmed two months ago.

Tuohei looked at the hussars and recalled the horrific scenes in his mind.

It is these cavalry who, under the guidance of the Menggu or Tuzala people, often appear elusively around the tribe.

Then, and then there was no more, their horses were faster, so they could easily catch up with the warriors of the tribe and hack them to death one by one.

Their bows are better and can often cause large-scale destruction at longer distances.

No matter how good their armor is, even if the heavy arrows shot by Mierqiren with a big bow, it is difficult for these knights to lose their combat effectiveness.

Compared with them, the horses of Merbegren, which are more tolerant of bitter cold and have better endurance, are as short as donkeys or even wild dogs.

Even the arrowheads grinded out of the hardest bones by the Mier beggars were unable to penetrate the iron armor of the Zhou people.

And their iron arrows can kill a warrior wearing cowhide armor with just one arrow.

These devilish cavalry of the Zhou Kingdom are simply not something that Mier Qiren can fight against.

The main targets of the armored cavalry commanded by Li Zhaoyuan were the Khitan, Shiwei, Dadan and other tribes in Dading Prefecture and Linhuang Prefecture north of Chengde.

These tribes are close to the Han Dynasty, and even armored cavalry can arrive quickly. Although it is easier for them to obtain iron armor and weapons than tribes in Mobei and Moxi, they cannot face armored cavalry at all.

No ability to fight back.

"The sage has issued an edict, and the four guardians of the Moxi tribe have come forward to see you!"

After Zhang Gao got out of the car, the servants nearby began to sing loudly, and the voices were passed down one by one. Finally, when they reached the hundreds of soldiers who were guarding him, they turned into thunderous roars.

Among the ten thousand households in the four tribes of Moxi, Li Guizhong was protected by the governor of Xijiasi, Gu Fengde was guarded by the governor of Yili, A Luocha was guarded by the Naiman governor, and Ashina Chu was guarded by the chief guard of all households in Basimi.

four people.

Leading the brave young men and beautiful beauties from ten thousand households, holding white oxtails and other tributes, they came to Zhang Zhang timidly, knelt down, and said, "Forty thousand households in the west of the desert are here to meet you."

Zhang Yan accepted their tributes one by one with a smile. These young men were all the sons or grandsons of the chiefs of 40,000 households. They came to serve as hostages according to the customs of the grassland.

Those beauties will also serve as maids in the palace. After serving for five years, most of them will be released back to their original tribes.

And after they return, as palace maids who have served the Supreme Heaven, their social status will naturally double, and they will basically marry the leaders of hundreds and thousands of families in various tribes.

Then ten or twenty years later, their sons will come back to Zhang Zhou's court as hostages and become the emperor's bodyguards, and their daughters will continue to come to the court as maids just like them.

This was passed down from generation to generation until all the prominent figures on the grassland were inextricably linked to the court of the Han Dynasty.

When it comes to promoting ethnic integration and tightly binding all ethnic groups together, I, Zhang Wushangtian, have to find a way.

Even Li Erfeng is not as skilled as Zhang Erfeng, because this is a method that has been summarized over thousands of years.

Zhang Gao accepted their tribute and gave back a large amount of brocade, cloth, refined sugar, high-quality tea bricks, etc.

The more of these luxuries, the better. Once they get used to it, they will never be able to live without it again.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhang Gao began to assign the great virtues of the Six Dharma Sects who had just been guiding him in front of his car to various departments, and gave them Buddha statues and Buddhist scriptures.

Temples can only be built in places where the great virtues assigned by Zhang Zhi and the statues of Buddha are given to them.

Only people from these tribes can serve as monks and officials under the great virtue, such as the chief monk, the chief monk, and the monk minister.

After the four tribes of Moxi, there are the (western) Zubu and Yechu of Monan, and the three tribes of enemy lie and ten thousand households come to see them.

After that, there were Menggu, Tuzala, Mierqi and Olang in Mobei, who had 10,000 households in the three tribes of Wei, and 20,000 households in the eight tribes of Upper and Lower Khitan.

The chiefs of the 120,000 households met one by one, but Zhang Gao only conferred the title of Lu Sanlang as the Protector of Ten Thousand Households in Zhebu, and Yelu Sizhong as the Protector of Ten Thousand Households of the Eight Khitan Tribes. The other tribes only gave one vote of one thousand.

household.

The meaning is obvious. Before they prove their absolute loyalty, these positions of great guardians of ten thousand households will still be vacant. During this period of vacancies, the affairs will naturally be coordinated by eminent monks who go to various ministries.

Later, Zhang Yan held the most grand local shooting ceremony and large-scale banquet at Guiyi Bo.

Leaders from various grassland tribes also jointly elected Zhang Yan as the Great Khan of the people of Moxi, Monan, Mobei, and Songmo at this conference!

When the mud-studded Ili Khan scroll that symbolized the Moxi grassland slowly fell, and the completely Han-style silver-white border with gold fringes, gold sun and moon and swastikas rose, Zhang Yan finally completed the most critical task.

step.

For the first time, he brought all the grassland tribes almost completely under the control of the central court.

Although this was still a dualistic empire between the Han and the grasslands, compared to the brutal killings of the Han Dynasty and the pseudo-dualistic empire of the Tang Dynasty, Zhang Zhou undoubtedly took a big step forward.
Chapter completed!