Chapter 054: Take the Khitan
Three days later, Khitan.
On the map, the territory of Khitan is like a foot walking westward, bounded by the Xiliao River, with the sole of the foot in the south and the calf above the ankle in the north.
The Khitan people lived by water and grass and multiplied their population. Although they were not as beautiful as brocades, they had plenty of food and clothing and enjoyed themselves. The Khitan people advocated reproduction, and both men and women regarded the reproduction of offspring as their top priority. Therefore, most of their foreign campaigns were focused on competing for women.
Mainly, this is also the fundamental reason why the Khitan can always recover quickly after experiencing two devastating blows from the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty.
A month ago, under Luo Yi's instigation, they decided to invade the Sui Dynasty, letting their war horses gallop across the Sui land, killing the people of the Sui Dynasty, and seizing the women and property of the Sui Dynasty.
The entire Khitan has a population of about 500,000. The Xiwandan tribe is the most powerful tribe in the Khitan. It lives in the front of the "foot sole". It is bordered by the Xi tribe to the west, the Xi tribe to the north, and the Sui tribe to the south. It is surrounded by the north-south Tuo tribe.
The Hechen River passes through it, and there are low hills and grasslands on both sides of the river. The rich pastures feed nearly 100,000 people of the Siwandan tribe.
I saw that the Xiwandan tribe is located to the west of the Tuohechen River. On the endless grassland, groups of horses, cattle and sheep are wandering around leisurely. White felt bags are scattered in an orderly manner along the river, and bursts of smoke are slowly spreading.
The slowness, together with the wild geese flying in the sky, bring out the magnificent beauty of the grassland.
However, just when the people of Xiwandan tribe were preparing dinner in peace.
"Xilulu!"
A burst of rapid and loud hoofbeats suddenly sounded. On the distant horizon, a black line gradually became thicker. A faint sound of thunder came over. The ground trembled under my feet. After a long and loud horn sound, no less than 40,000 people could be seen.
Countless Sui cavalry seemed to be messengers from hell, carrying unmatched power, like the sky was shattering and the earth was shattering, and tsunamis and waves rushed towards the Siwandan tribe.
Among the surging army, under a dazzling red banner with the word "Sui", Yang Tong, wearing Mingguang armor and holding a split sky spear in his hand, led Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Niu Jinda, and Yuchi Gong to the front.
Looking at the tribe in front, Yang Tong said solemnly: "Every man who crosses the wheel will be killed, and all women will be made slaves."
"Yes!" The four generals responded and returned to the team.
"Kill" the horse at Yang Tong's feet to speed up.
The terrible movement had already alarmed the people of the Xiwandan tribe. After the soldiers who stayed behind hurriedly gathered, they all trembled with fear when they looked at the red tide of cavalry.
Today's Khitan is empty internally. They are just second-rate characters in the Khitan. How can such a terrifying army be comparable to them?
"Run away, run away!"
As a Khitan man shouted in panic, the entire tribe was in complete chaos, and a large number of Khitan men and women fled in all directions.
I saw the bow in Luo Shixin's hand stretched into a full moon.
Whoosh!
A sharp arrow instantly penetrated a Khitan soldier who was trying to escape, and the bloody massacre began.
The mighty Sui cavalry rushed into the tribe like tigers and sheep, and their sharp lances penetrated the bodies of the Khitan soldiers, killing them wantonly.
The entire battle was a one-sided massacre. The Xiaoguo Army was already the elite of the world, and there was no way a mere Khitan tribe could contend with it.
After Yang Tong, who was at the front and killed them for a while, looked at the several Khitan soldiers who mustered up the courage to charge towards him, he swept his eyes as sharp as a knife and rushed out on his horse.
In the blink of an eye, several people were killed and knocked off their horses.
"Spare my life, spare my life!" Looking at the Sui Dynasty cavalry who were killing people, suddenly a white-haired old Khitan man knelt on the ground, kowtowing and begging for mercy.
Yang Tong said loudly: "The Khitan forgot the lesson of the first year of Daye, and after less than thirteen years, they invaded our territory of the Great Sui Dynasty. Today, I, Yang Tong, will kill all of you bitches in the name of the Great Sui Dynasty.
To uphold the majesty of the Sui Dynasty."
"What?" The old man fell to the ground with a pale face.
Yang Tong's eyes were cold, and he penetrated the old man mercilessly. This man was not a kind person. It was not that he did not want to invade the Sui Dynasty, but he was old and could no longer walk.
"Kill!" Not far away, Yu Chigong held a horse in his hand, like a killing machine. Anyone who came close would be killed or injured.
In just a short moment, the entire Xiwandan Tribe flowed into rivers of blood and mountains of corpses. All adult males were beheaded. As for the women and children, they knelt on the ground and trembled one by one as the army deliberately avoided them.
In less than an hour, the massacre had subsided. The Tuohechen River had been dyed red with blood, and corpses were scattered all over the west bank of the river. The men and elderly people of the Xiwandan tribe were almost killed, and groups of women and children were driven towards hundreds of people.
There were as many as 40,000 to 50,000 people gathered in the camp, and their cries were loud.
Yang Tong looked at the Xiwandan tribe that had been pacified and said in a cold voice: "The Raging Wave Army is looking for the recently killed sheep to barbecue. The Kuanglan Army and the Tsunami Army gathered the animals and put them all into pens. The Xuanjia Army is searching for gold, silver and jewelry.
It’s okay to eat, and it’s okay to kill! No one can play with women, and those who violate it will be punished by military law.”
Some things can be allowed, but the sex aspect must be kept tight. Once this devil is released, it will be difficult to lead the army in the future.
"Here!"
"Your Highness, do you really want to give cattle, sheep and horses to the Xi tribe?"
Half of the Khitan's cattle, sheep, and horses are the price of borrowing the road. At this time, looking at the cattle, sheep, horses, and cattle all over the mountains and plains, Jinda said reluctantly.
Luo Shixin agreed very much: "That's right, why should I give it to those bastards from the Xi tribe?"
Although Qin Qiong did not speak, he still had the same expression. The number of cattle, sheep, and horses that came with the soldiers was more than two million.
Who wouldn’t feel sad if you just gave away half of it?
Yang Tong said: "It's just talk, do you really believe it?"
"Ah?" The four generals were stunned and overjoyed.
"Ah what?" Yang Tong smiled faintly: "I, the Sui Dynasty, will fight to the death with the Turks sooner or later, and the Xi people are the lackeys of the Turks. Can I rest assured that they will survive on top of us? After this big battle is completed, we can turn around.
Get rid of them!"
"There is also the Xi clan!"
"And Shiwei!"
"And Mohe!"
"And Goguryeo!"
"Silla!"
"..."
Several generals reminded Yang Tong one by one, as if they were afraid that Yang Tong would forget. Their voices were full of murderous intent.
"Stop!" Seeing several people killing embryos endlessly, Yang Tong asked: "I ask you, do you know how big the Sui Dynasty is? Do you know how big the world is?"
The four generals were speechless.
"See for yourself!" Yang Tong handed over a hand-drawn drawing. This was a three-dimensional map of the Eurasian continent that he drew based on his own memory.
The big rivers, the mountains, and the undulating coastline were very intuitively presented to the four generals.
"Oh my God! There's a map like this?"
"Oh my god, the world is so big?"
"Da Sui is actually so small?"
One and two were stunned.
"That's right! The world is very, very big! It's so big that you can't imagine it." Yang Tong felt that the key reason why his tribe had not expanded much territory in ancient times was that they lacked understanding of geographical knowledge. In layman's terms, it means: they did not go into the mountains.
I don’t know how far the rivers and lakes are. I haven’t seen the vast ocean, and I don’t know how vast the world is.
At this time, the four generals were stunned for a moment, so they introduced: "How big the entire world is, we need to conquer it generation after generation. Let's not talk about the far away ones. Just talking about Liaodong is so big that it is unimaginable.
To the north of the Liaohe Plain, there is the Nenjiang Plain, and to the north of the Yalu River, there is also the Songhua River Plain. The three plains can be collectively called the Liaodong Great Plain. If this great plain is developed and utilized, the grain produced every year will supply our country.
There is no problem for the entire Sui Dynasty. What's more important is that this great plain is flat and fertile, so there is neither drought nor floods to worry about."
The fourth general's breathing suddenly became rapid.
"Actually, I'm not greedy either!" Yang Tong pointed to the source of the Taier River at the intersection of the Turks, the Lin people, and the Shiwei, and said: "Starting from the Taier River, build a Great Wall along the mountains of the Daxingan Mountains to Daqing Mountain and Yinshan Mountain.
, and then extended to Wuyuan, Dunhuang, and Yiwu. Then it was built in the southwest direction to Shanshan and Qiemo County. On the Liaodong side, starting from the source of the Taier River, a straight line was drawn to Ha Erbin. From there, it was built again
As for Vladivostok and the Haidong Peninsula, we will build a separate Great Wall on the Thirty-nine Parallels, which is the narrowest, and let Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje fight behind the small peninsula."
In ancient times, there were more civil wars than foreign wars. The eastern section and the western section of the Great Wall were built. Once the world was unified, many of the internal Great Walls lost their function. Building them was a waste of people's and financial resources. Generally speaking, the only ones defending were our own people.
If Yang Tong wants to build a Great Wall, he should build a Great Wall that truly protects his own people. Now the north of the Great Sui Dynasty is almost all rebels, but it doesn't matter. Anyway, the Great Wall was not built in a day. Now build the Great Wall in your own territory first, and then deal with a Turkic lackey.
, just build a section to the west, and sooner or later the entire country will be protected.
"There is so much land outside the Great Wall, it would be a shame not to let it go." Yuchi Gong said reluctantly.
Yang Tong sweated profusely, this guy was more greedy than himself.
"It's not that we don't want it. This envisioned Great Wall is to protect our tribe from invasion by foreign enemies before expanding. The second reason is that many places are not suitable for survival now and are too cold; the third reason is
Our tribe’s population is insufficient now, and the Great Wall is built too far, so defending it will be a burden.”
Yuchi Gong nodded and said: "Then let's all work harder. When we get home, we will work hard to have a baby with our own mother-in-law."
"puff!"
"puff!"
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Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, and Niu Jinda laughed wildly.
Yang Tong smiled and said: "Jingde's idea is worthy of everyone's learning! After returning home, first find a real wife for Shixin."
Qin Qiong agreed: "It should be so."
The next morning!
Yang Tong defeated the He Dahe tribe in a battle and massacred nearly 10,000 Khitan men who tried to resist. All the remaining men were captured. These people were free labor. It would be a pity to kill them before they were exploited. Yang Tong was not afraid of their escape.
, because in addition to the fighting force, there were tens of thousands of militiamen who invaded the grassland, and the role of these people was to clean up the battlefield.
After destroying the He Dahe tribe, they then moved eastward and destroyed the Songli tribe and the Tuwanhou tribe. In just ten days, more than 100,000 Khitan people were killed. All the remaining Khitan people were captured, and only a few went north.
Flee to Shiwei, or flee south to the Xi tribe.
The Khitan invaded the Sui Dynasty in a moment of arrogance, but it brought disaster to themselves
In this massacre, the Sui Dynasty annihilated the ancient Khitan nation that had occupied Liaodong for countless years at a very small cost, captured 300,000 people, and seized millions of cattle, sheep, and horses, including the best.
Chapter completed!