Chapter 899: The moon is dark and the wind is coming

Chapter 899: The moon is dark and the wind is coming

  Chapter 899 Moon Heifeng Comes Brutally

   Midsummer season.

  Longhu Lake is full of lotus flowers, the water is sparkling, and a crescent moon emerges from behind the clouds, casting silvery moonlight on the lotus leaves in the lake.

  The night is as cool as water.

  The famous specialties in Longhu Lake are the tender fish, flower fish, and white flowers, all jumping out of the water from time to time under the moonlight, pecking at the lotus leaves, and there are even frogs singing on the lotus leaves.

  Among the fish leaping and the frogs singing, there are many Wumeman rowing boats through the lake in the dark night. These Wumeman have lived on the three islands in Longhu for generations and lived by fishing. The Wumaman tribe used to live on the shore of the lake, but was defeated by other tribes and had to retreat to the island.

   "Finally we are going back to Shiping again!"

  On a wooden boat, a tall barbarian held his antlers on the hilt of his knife, looking at the vast opposite bank in the night, his heart agitated.

  The old land will be regained soon, the barbarian is very excited.

Wumaman's old territory on the shore of the lake, they called Shiping, it is said that Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty in the Three Kingdoms, conquered Juding in the south, looked at the clouds in the north, feared that the barbarians would lurk, and visited it secretly, and dug the soil at the place where the clouds reunited More than a foot, the ground is full of stones, which are shaped like plates, Kong Ming occupied clouds, and stones are the roots of clouds, and clouds are the color of literature. After more than a thousand years, there will be rules, squares and domains, and civilization is like Zhongzhou Yan.

I don’t know if this story passed down from generation to generation by the people of Wumai is based on Kong Ming, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, to put gold on their faces, but they did tell it that way, and the west bank of Longhu Lake is indeed fertile. The bottom is full of solid rocks, with a huge area, and it is everywhere. It is a very livable treasure land.

  At that time, they leveled the land here, established a village, planted rice and vegetables, and went to the lake to catch fish and shrimp.

  Where there is no frost and snow in winter, the spring is not cold, summer is not hot and autumn is not dry.

  Long Lake ranks fourth among the nine great lakes in South China, much larger than Qilu Lake in the north.

   It's just that everyone is innocent, but pregnant is guilty.

  Wu Meman still failed to hold on to this precious land after all, and was taken away by other barbarians. In the end, he could only retreat to the island in the lake, barely relying on the three islands, and passed on as a fisherman in the lake.

Losing the old Shiping land on the west bank, Wumeman's strength is not as good as that of the previous generation. At this time, Wumeman lives poorly on the three islands, with only three villages left, and the largest island, Moshuzhai, is only left. There are thousands of households.

The people who were expelled from the Wume tribe were the Jiuxin tribe. The Han people recorded that they lived by the mountains, forests and waters. But for thousands of years, the earliest Jiuxin tribe had migrated away long ago. Without strength, they could not hold on. That piece of treasure land, on the contrary, is Wu Mobu, because it retreated to the island in the lake, it has been here for thousands of years.

   One crop after another came and went.

  The weak eat the strong, and only the strong live in the treasure land.

  Barbarian tribes fought and robbed this treasured land by the lake one by one, and the owners of Shiping changed one after another.

   Later, the Heman tribe who moved from the north took control of this area, and later, the Han people who moved from the north to the south, with the surname Cuan, became the suzerain of Heman.

   Now the prime minister's son-in-law of Emperor Tang of the Central Plains led troops to break through Juding, defeat Heman, and establish a sea-connected governor's mansion from the north bank of the Red River to Nanpanjiang.

  Thus, Shiping was set up as Shiping County by the Tonghai Governor's Mansion, and the barbarians here were all included in the Tang Dynasty. Even Wumaman on the three islands was placed in Moshuli, with three villages under its jurisdiction.

A Yi, the leader of Wumaman, was also summoned to Shiping to meet with the officials of the Dudu Mansion, and was awarded the title of Lizheng in Moshuli, Longhu Township, Shiping County. The tender fish, white fish, flower fish, etc. were very satisfied, and even gave him the surname Duan.

  So A Yi became Duan Yi, and his name and more than a thousand households on the three islands in the lake were registered on the household registration register of the Tonghai Dudu Mansion.

  Shortly after the soldier left, the county began to send conscripts to collect grain. They were on duty, and one out of ten households was given away to build cities and roads.

The county magistrate of Shiping County is a Tang, but the magistrate of the county and other officials, such as joining the army and Hu Zuo, were all selected and appointed by the Tang from the majority of the original barbarian tribes in Shiping. Those on the top of the tribe, this time they got an official position, started bullying them again justifiably.

  The apportioned servants, money and food were all collected by them.

  Wumaoman even set up a task to pay tribute to Longhu special products, requiring them to hand in a lot of fresh white fish, etc., and asked for a lot of dried fish and shrimp, etc. The large amount made Wume Sanzhai resentful.

Originally, one ten households were drawn to serve as slaves, but the big tribes passed on the difference to the small tribes. The three tribes of Wuma only had a total of more than one thousand households, and they only needed to send more than one hundred men to serve, but the county conscripted After a few groups of them, it's still endless.

  There are only a very small number of fields on the three islands. Wumeman mainly lives by fishing. Now he not only has to pay fish, but also sends men to work, and also pays money and food.

  Duan Yi tightly held the handle of the knife in his hand. His son was whipped and shackled for three days because he didn’t have enough food to pay in the county. He was almost killed by the shack.

  So when he heard that Heman established a barbarian country in the south of the Great River, Duan Yi also thought about whether to take the tribal people to escape and relocate, but later found that it was not easy to flee under the control of Datang.

  Days are getting duller every day, and the oppression in the county is getting worse.

  Duan Yi didn't even know whether the increase in apportionment was the original intention of the Dudu Mansion, or whether the county took the opportunity to embezzle. However, Duan Yi, who was angry, had already imposed this resentment and anger on the Tang people.

  If there was no Dudu Mansion to let those people become officials, and if there were no Tang Jun to support these people, these people would not dare to oppress them like this, so in the final analysis, they must be in the same group.

   Instead of dying in silence, explode in silence.

In the south, Hemanguo Shangdao contacted Wumobu. Manguo listened to Duan Yi's complaint and also listened to his expectations. Finally, he generously promised to assign Shiping to Wumobu in the future. Not long after, the envoy The second time he came, he brought him the letter of conferment from the barbarian emperor Meng Guchu.

   He was granted the title of Inspector of Shiping Prefecture and Wu Mohou.

  One order made Duan Yi go all out.

  Small boats quietly and gently cut across the lake, wandering forward like a water snake, approaching the west bank of the lake.

  Son Duan Ping is wearing a piece of leather armor and holding a bow. These are all gifts from the barbarian emperor. Actually, there are not many things. There are only ten sets of armor in total, but this is a gift from the barbarian emperor.

  The barbarian emperor's army is heading north, and it is a great achievement for the Wume tribe to respond with troops.

The barbarian emperor's envoy told them that in the entire Tang people's so-called Tonghai Governor's Mansion, there are now countless tribes who are dissatisfied with the Tang people and their shameless lackeys, and they all hope that the barbarian emperor will kill them across the river, and the East and West Ercuan in the north are now willing to Abandon the previous suspicions and unite with the barbarian emperor to drive away the Tang people.

  During the entire wave of counterattacks, Wumebu in Moshuzhai was actually just a small wave, but Duan Yi had long since refused to turn back.

  The task given to him by the Barbarian Emperor was to sneak attack and take down Shiping.

After the arrival of the Tang people, they began to build a city at Shipingzhai on the west bank of Longhu Lake. They recruited nearby barbarians to build Shiping City. The new Shiping City was the Yamen City, also known as Tang City, because the Tang people sent by the Dudufu also came to do business, The Tang people who immigrated to the border all lived in it.

  The outer city is also called Cangcheng. The Tang people stored all kinds of materials collected and merchants' goods in it, and sent troops to guard it.

  Beside Shiping City, there is also Shiping Fort, but it is not a big, but quite tall stone blockhouse, with Tang soldiers stationed and beacon fires on it.

Shiping City has not yet been fully completed. It is said that the people of Tang planned to build a larger new city next to Yacheng Cangcheng, called Shiping East City. At that time, there will be markets, shops, Lifang houses, etc., and the barbarians will also I can live in it.

  The Barbarian Emperor asked Duan Yi to take advantage of their advantages on Longhu Zhongdao and launch a surprise attack to seize Shiping, especially Shiping Fort, before they arrived.

Because although Shiping is not big, it is a main road here. It leads directly to Jianshui City in the Tang Dynasty in the east, Tonghai in the north, and Honghe River in the south. It faces Luopandian across the river. Ping.

  One stone flat, for another governor and Marquis.

   Even in the future, the entire Shiping will be assigned to Wumabu as a fiefdom.

  Compared to the Tang people who only granted him the post of Lizheng in the end, the Manhuang is undoubtedly more generous.

   Comparing the two sides, Duan Yi didn't have to hesitate at all.

He personally selected the young men from the three villages of the tribe, all of whom are brave and sturdy young men with excellent water quality, who are good at paddling boats. Shangwu, if they didn't retain any fighting skills, they wouldn't be able to stay on the island for so many years, and they couldn't hold on to the three islands long ago.

  The summer breeze is cool.

  The summer in Longhu is actually very cool. Even in the hottest time of the year, it is still cool at noon, and you can wear a smock in the morning and evening.

  The men of the Wume tribe are actually used to being shirtless all year round. A pair of coarse shorts can be worn from the beginning to the end of the year. But for tonight's battle, Duan Yi specially made the warriors of the tribe wear leather armor.

  However, this leather armor is actually quite rough and simple, and many of them are nothing more than a leather jacket, but after all, it has an extra layer of skin, which is better than shirtless in fighting.

  The weapons of the Wuma barbarians are mainly harpoons and short knives, which are their tools for fishing and killing fish, and they are also used as weapons today.

   No wizard required.

This section of the route is very clear to Yi and others, and they can know the direction of Shiping even with their eyes closed. Although they have lived on the island for a living by fishing for generations, they often go ashore to exchange fresh and dried fish for salt, cloth, needles and threads. .

  Hundreds of small boats rowed to the shore silently.

  One by one, the young and strong men of Wu Mobu came down from the boat, wearing leather clothes, carrying harpoons or hatchets in their hands, and quietly touched the bottom of Shiping City.

   Regarding the battle plan, Duan Yi has already drawn up it.

   Taking advantage of the darkness and high winds at night, they quietly sneaked under the city and attacked and seized it.

  (end of this chapter)