Chapter 515: heart fire

Chapter 515: heart fire

  Chapter 515 Heartfire

  On Gansong Ridge.

  The sweet pines all over the mountains and plains are blooming with small purple flowers, and the low sweet pine grasses are in full bloom, and the leaves are more oily and green.

   "The wolf species Dangchang Qiang is gone!"

   "Liang Miguang's head was found, it was on the top of the Jingguan. The body was thrown in the ditch like the other tribes, and it has long been unclear."

  Qingqi reported the situation in the narrow valley to Tuoba Sitou.

  As the nephew of Tuoba Chici, the leader of the Tuoba tribe, Tuoba Sitou is the chief general of the Tuoba tribe's expedition to Songzhou this time, and Tuoba Chici drew 20,000 horses for him.

  Tuoba Sitou intends to use this battle as his fame battle, who knows that even Qin Qiong's people didn't see him, so he lost 5,000 troops, and he didn't even enter the territory of Songzhou.

   "If you die, you will die. Liang Qin also founded the country and proclaimed himself king, and it has been handed down for two hundred years. It is unexpected that his descendants are so incompetent."

  Tuobasi's head felt a little nauseous, even bloated. He bent down and pulled a handful of Niconia pine grass, smoothed out the tiny rhizomes, threw it into his mouth and began to chew. This sweet pine is everywhere in the Qiang territory, and it is also a medicinal material. It can cure toothache, swollen feet, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting, and has the effect of relieving pain and opening the spleen. For the Qiang people, this small thing that can be seen everywhere , but it is a good thing like panacea.

   After chewing a handful of nard pine root, I finally feel refreshed.

  Although he said that Liang Miguang died as soon as he died, Tuoba Sitou was still very depressed. Speaking of which, Liang Miguang was also fooled by Tuoba Sitou. The Dangchang Qiang led by Liang Miguang was not actually from the Tuoba tribe.

  During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Yao Chang, the leader of the Qiang people, once established the Later Qin Dynasty, but few people know that the Qiang people also established a country, which is the Dangchang State.

  At the end of the Sixteen Kingdoms period, Dangchang Qiang established a Dangchang Kingdom with more than 20,000 households and a population of more than 100,000 in the north of Songzhou, in the Bailangqiang River Basin. They paid tribute to the Central Plains dynasties such as the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Liang Dynasty at the same time, and were able to survive in the cracks. From the time they were canonized and recognized by the Northern Wei Dynasty, they experienced nine generations and twelve lords, and were finally destroyed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty for more than 140 years.

   There is Shenlang Valley in the upper reaches of the Qiang River, where a group of Qiang people got their name from nomadic gatherings. It is said in history that Shenlang Qiang had tens of thousands of victorious soldiers in Wudu, with a population of more than 100,000. They are interlaced with Baima Qiang, so they are also called Wudusai Baima Qiang.

Dangchang Qiang was already a very powerful tribal group at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. After the establishment of Dangchang State, its territory was thousands of miles from east to west and 800 miles from north to south. Later, Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty conquered Dangchang Kingdom, changed its place to Dangzhou, and set up Dangchang county.

The Shenlang Qiangliang family, which was attacked by Tuyuhun several times back then, and went to find his father in the Northern Wei Dynasty to send troops to restore the country, was eventually destroyed by the Northern Zhou Dynasty who ruled the northern part of the Central Plains, and he was no longer needed as a buffer zone between the Central Plains and Tuyuhun. .

In the Northern Wei Dynasty, the canonized King Dangchang, Marquis Gansong, the Colonel of the Eastern Qiang, and the Duke of Longxi were finally defeated and moved to the south. After that, the strength of the Dangchang Qiang disappeared, and finally by this time, it had been reduced to Dangxiang Qiang Tuo. A vassal of the Ba family.

This time Tuoba Sitou was ordered to go out, so he sent someone to fool Liang Miguang as the forward, and promised that as long as he could capture Songzhou and bring Qin Qiong's head, the next step of the Tuoba family would lead the army northward to replace him. The Liang family regained Dangzhou and restored Dangchang Kingdom for the Liang family.

   This is of course a lie. It has been decades since Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty conquered Dangchang Kingdom.

When Liang Miding died, he repeatedly invaded the Longyou area of ​​the Northern Zhou Dynasty. After the Northern Zhou Dynasty wiped out the Northern Qi Dynasty, it was the time when the soldiers were strong and their self-confidence was bursting. The Dangchang Kingdom supported by the Northern Wei Dynasty does not need him to be a buffer.

  Since the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Dangchang Kingdom, experienced the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, and then the Tang Dynasty. Although the front line of the Qiang River was still a dangerous ditch and bad water, the imperial court has managed it for decades, and it can be taken wherever you want.

  Whether it is Dangxiang or Tuyuhun, these years they cannot cross the Xiqing Mountains and enter the Qiangshui River Valley, which is a strategic channel strictly guarded by the imperial court.

  Liang Miguang, on the other hand, wanted to restore the glory of his ancestors, so he took the whole family with him.

  The last 1,000 riders of the tribe acted as the vanguard, followed by 3,000 old and weak women, children and family members driving cattle and sheep.

   As a result, the entire army was wiped out at the Gansongling pass.

  The heads were sealed together with the soil to form a Jingguan, the headless corpses filled the Yigupogou, and the crows hovered all over the sky, enjoying this gluttonous feast.

Tuoba Sitou only raised a few banners, the loss is not big, but the vassal of 5,000 people disappeared like this, it is also a big event, Dangchang Qiang has always been a close force of his family, now it is gone like this, so in the family The influence and discourse power of their branch here will drop sharply.

   Maybe I will be punished by my uncle later.

   "The reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty came so quickly?" Tuoba Si asked angrily.

"It seems that there are not many soldiers and horses who ambushed Shenlang, only a thousand, and never more than two thousand. And judging from the traces, there are many Qiang cavalry involved in the ambush soldiers and horses, and even accounted for more. I guess it may be the Li family People, these damned guys really betrayed us!"

   "How is this possible?" Tuoba Sitou refused to believe it.

   "Lead the way, I'll go and see for myself."

  The horse crossed the pass, and in the narrow valley, a thick stench came to the face.

  Tuoba Si couldn't help covering his mouth and nose.

   Three days.

  Shen Lang and Qiang Liang's family have been dead here for three days. The corpses are all rotten, the corpses are flooded, maggots and flies are flying around, and crows and vultures are still eating this delicious food.

  Tuoba Si hurriedly stuffed another handful of Gansong grass roots into his mouth and chewed to cheer himself up a bit.

   More than a thousand heads, sealed with mud to form a Jingguan, stand like a watchtower in the narrow valley, and beside it, there is a huge stone tablet with a line of big characters carved on it.

   "Then what is written on it?" Tuoba Si, who could not read Chinese characters, asked.

  A Qiang soldier hurried forward, "The Qiangs are forbidden to cross Gansong Ridge, and those who disobey will die!"

  Tuoba Si nodded and couldn't help sneering, "It's really a big tone."

  But he laughed a few times, saw no one was drinking, looked up again, and saw the head of Jingguan, and the rotting corpse in the ditch, Tuoba Si couldn't stop laughing.

   More than 5,000 people who participated in the wolf species were wiped out here.

  Decades ago, Shenlang planted the Liang family, but it was still the king of Tanchang who ruled thousands of miles. In the past, their party and the Qiang were not as popular as others.

   "Do you want to restrain this Jingguan?" The subordinate asked.

  Tuoba Si looked at the terrifying heads one by one, the rotten ones could no longer tell the facial features, maggots came in and out from the eye sockets, and flies flew around in disorder.

  He took two steps back in disgust.

   "Let's keep it, let them be a witness for us, and remind everyone, don't be as stupid as Liang Miguang, Tang people are not so easy to deal with, don't take it lightly."

  In the first year of Wude, the Chi suppressed the Qiang and made rebellion. He and Xue Ju's rebel general Zhong Ju hated and invaded Hanzhong. The newly-built Tang Dynasty immediately appointed Dou Gui as the governor of Qinzhou, and sent troops to crusade, winning consecutive battles. In the third year of Wude, Dangxiang Qiang sent Balibu to attack Songzhou again, and the imperial court sent Dou Gui to send troops.

   And sent Jiang Shanhe, the governor of Fuzhou, to send troops to cooperate.

Before Dou Gui arrived, Jiang Shanhe had already defeated the Li tribe in Jiachuan, and then Dou Gui left Longyou, arrived in Lintao and entered Zuofeng, attacked Dangxiang Qiang from behind, forced the Tuoba tribe to return to defend the home, encircled Wei and rescued Zhao, and successfully repelled the Qiang people.

  It was only later that Datang focused on the Central Plains to fight for supremacy, which gave the party members another opportunity to seize Songzhou.

   In the first few battles, the party members did not take advantage of it, but the Tang army was actually limited in size, and it was only a small victory. It did not achieve an annihilating victory.

   I have suffered losses in the hands of Tang Jun in the past, but how can I suffer such losses.

At any rate, the Ministry of Li was also a small tribe with a thousand riders, but it was directly defeated by the general Qin Qiong of the Tang Dynasty and surrendered. The Liang family of Shenlang was also a lean camel that was bigger than a horse, and there were still more than 5,000 people. The result is dry here.

   Enduring the stench and walking around the battlefield, Tuoba Sitou had already sketched a picture of the situation of the battlefield in his mind.

   Ambush.

   Also ambushed twice at the same location.

   This is indeed an excellent ambush location, but there is no reason to fall into one hole twice, not to mention, the more dangerous the pass, the more vigilant you should be when marching.

  Participating in wolf species is so deadly.

  Not only angry, but also distressed by the loss of five thousand vassals.

  Tuobasi's head hurts.

  And he has already agreed with the previous judgment of his subordinates that the number of Tang troops who ambushed will indeed not exceed two thousand, and more than half of them are estimated to be members of the Pali family.

  This greatly increased Sitou's vigilance.

   Tang Jun is already so good?

   As long as there are less than a thousand people, and with more than a thousand newly attached Li Qiang, they can swallow their five thousand people in one go, and they are so clean that they don't let go.

  It took them three days to learn about the tragedy.

   "This is not an ordinary Tang army, the commander of the army is a master." Si Tou sighed, this is a fact that he doesn't want to admit but has to admit.

  Although this is due to borrowing the terrain and Shenlang Qiang's underestimation of the enemy, it may be possible to fight such a beautiful battle, but it is still incredible.

   "I estimate that the Tang people will not lose more than a hundred in this battle."

   This is another sad result.

  They ate your 5,000 forwards, but in the end, I didn’t have a **** at all. Not only did my strength not lose, but it increased a lot. I got more than 3,000 captives, more than 10,000 cattle and horses, and many bows, arrows, knives, guns and other weapons.

   Isn’t this sending weapons and food to the Tang people?

  Thinking that the people of Tang Dynasty had already driven a large number of cattle and sheep into the Songzhou village at this time, maybe they were excitedly celebrating the slaughter of cattle and sheep, and the head was full of anger.

  It just added a lot of difficulty to him.

  Damn Liang Miguang.

"Dug out Liang Miguang's head. I'll use his skull to make wine vessels, you **** bastard!" The older one is called brother and brother, but now, he feels that it is the greatest kindness to this guy to destroy his bones and ashes. His skull must be taken out and made into a wine vessel, so that he will never be reborn, otherwise it will be hard to understand what is in his heart. angry.

  (end of this chapter)