Chapter 303: The tribes move south
On March 21, on the third day after Xia Yangjun left Fushi and returned to Daliang, Gongshumeng, Gongshuchi and his son led 20,000 Wei troops in Shangjun to Fushi to join the coalition forces.
According to what Gong Shumeng said before, his army in Shangjun was indeed only 120,000. He abandoned the 40,000 troops deployed in Qiyuan and Diaoyin areas, and the remaining 80,000 were deployed in the north.
Among them, there were eight thousand Baitu blockades, three thousand Baiyi, two thousand Chiyi, five thousand Zhenlin, and three thousand Gaowang. A total of 21,000 troops were stationed in these five places.
Another eight thousand troops were divided into four groups, stationed in four areas of the northern Great Wall. The remaining more than 50,000 troops were mainly deployed in Fushi, Yangzhou and Gaonu. Among them, the county was the most under Fushi, with a total of 30,000 troops.
But at the moment when Shangjun was beaten into a sieve by the Hu people, the Wei army in Baiyi, Chiyi and Gaowang were almost completely destroyed. Only two or three thousand troops deployed on the Great Wall were left to flee back to Fushi. After more than half a month of guarding the city, only more than 10,000 people were left to break through to Gaonu. The rest of the Baitushu in the northeast and Zhenlin in the northwest were also lost contact between the two places. At present, the troops in Gongshumeng had only less than 40,000 left.
It can be said that more than half of the northern army of Shangjun are currently injured or killed. If Li He had not led reinforcements in time, Shangjun would have fallen completely sooner or later.
In view of the current battle situation, Gong Shumeng proposed his suggestion when discussing with Li He: he was the first to send people to investigate the situation in Baitusai and Zhenlin. If the local garrison is still holding on, try to contact him.
In response, Gongshu Meng said to Li He with confidence: "I believe the soldiers under my command, they must still be sticking to it."
Li He nodded and sent Gao Yun and Hou Yun to lead 500 surprise troops to investigate the situation of Baitusai and Zhenlin.
Later, Hu Hai also put forward his guess: "Fumeng should have retreated to Gaowang area."
Baitusai, Zhenlin, Gaowang, these three outposts equivalent to Shangjun are very close to the residence of the Yizhan tribe and the Ulan tribe. Among them, Baitusai and Zhenlin are both built on high plateaus, but Gaowang is located on the plain grassland. Further north is the Thousand Mile Grassland.
Therefore, judging from the location, Fu Meng retreated to Gao Wang, which made him more convenient for him to gather reinforcements from the two major tribes of Yizhan and Ulan.
Li He also believed this, so he sent Hu Hai to Gaowang area to investigate and monitor Fu Meng's every move.
Facts have proved that Hu Hai is worthy of being a Hu person and knows the habits of the same clan very well. After his husband retreated from his skin, he really retreated to high hopes.
On the day when he retreated to Gao Wang, Fu Meng sent someone to ask for help from his mother tribe. He remained silent these days, just waiting for the Yizhan mother tribe to send reinforcements.
During this period, the five leaders, Pulan, Cheng Han, Yushan, Wuhuan and Yufu, had already brought the soldiers back to their respective tribes, which surprised the tribesmen: Didn’t the soldiers in the tribe follow Pilo to rob the Xia people? Why did they come back?
Faced with the doubts of the tribe members, Pu Lan and the other two did not dare to tell the truth, and also warned their soldiers in advance.
How dare they say that in order to survive, they surrendered to the Xia people and were forced to kill Pilo by the Xia general.
Pilou is the son of Lao Fuyu, the leader of the Yizhan tribe. If this matter is spread, how could the Yizhan tribe spare them easily?
Is it really the only way to surrender to the Xia people?
Could it be that they really want to abandon the grasslands where they lived for generations and move to Shangjun, the Xia people?
To be fair, Shangjun is also very suitable for their grazing life, but the problem is that once the tribe members are moved to Shangjun, they will be controlled by the Xia people in disguise and will never get real freedom again. Although the grassland is actually controlled by the three major tribes of Yizhan, Wulan and Daye, in order not to arouse the crowd, the large tribe will somewhat restrain themselves and will not bully small and medium-sized tribes too much.
On the other hand, the Xia general asked them to be Weirong of Shangjun for 30 years. Simply put, they wanted to go to war for the Xia people, and even fight with their fellow tribes, without any room for refusal.
Some people may say that since they have brought the soldiers back anyway, wouldn’t it be over to ignore the Xia General?
However, things were not that simple, because they were forced by General Xia and indeed killed Pilou, and in front of one or two thousand warriors, they presented Pilou's head to General Xia.
If they betrayed their faith and refused to move their tribes to Shangjun, then as long as the Yizhan tribe reported to them, the five tribes would be all over.
After hesitating for a day, Cheng Han brought several confidants to the Yushan tribe and met Yushan, the leader of the same fate.
The day when Cheng Han arrived at the Yushan Tribe, the Yushan Tribe was packing up tents and driving away the flock of sheep, looking like it was about to move.
Seeing this, Cheng Han asked in a low voice after seeing Yushan: "Do you really plan to move your tribe to the territory of Xia people?"
"Otherwise, what else can it do?" Yushan said with a wry smile: "You and I have killed Pilou, and Yizhan will not let us go."
Cheng Han hesitated and said, "Actually, it's not necessarily true. The Xia people's army is very strong. I don't think Fu Meng will be able to defeat him. If Yi Zhan loses, they may give up the investigation..."
"What about the future?" Yushan shook his head and said, "Even if Yizhan may pardon you and me in order to jointly resist the Xia people, what if the Xia people are defeated? Instead of worrying about being retaliated by Yizhan every day, I would rather take my tribe members to join the Xia general."
"Then I was controlled by General Xia and fought for him?" Cheng Han said with a frown.
"So what?" Yushan smiled and suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Didn't Xia General say that Shaoliang is vast and sparsely populated, and he has too much food to eat. He joined him. You and my tribe, and you will never have to worry about freezing the sheep to death in winter and causing the tribe to starve the next year..."
“…”
Cheng Han was silent.
I have to say that this is indeed one of the two benefits that attract them the most.
Another benefit is that the summer will provide them with free grazing pastures.
The two were chatting when suddenly a soldier from the Yushan Tribe came to report: "Chief, the people from the Panshan Tribe are moving south, please do not stop us."
"Panshan? The tribe that chirped?" Yushan was stunned for a moment, and then immediately understood.
Obviously, the Panshan tribe also went to Xia people.
There was no way, their leaders and most of the soldiers were captured by the Xia people, and there was no room for resistance.
After thinking about it, Yushan walked out of the camp and personally met the elders of the Panshan tribe who led the tribe to migrate south, and asked them: "Where is the Panshan tribe preparing to move to?"
Sure enough, the elders of the Panshan Tribe couldn't say it, and they looked a little panicked when they looked at Yushan.
Until a warrior from the Panshan Tribe spoke a few words to the elders, the elders immediately opened their eyes wide and looked at Yushan no longer panicked.
Yushan knew as soon as he guessed, the warrior from the Panshan tribe must have been released by the Xia people. This person told the elders about their killing of Pilou.
They were all grasshoppers on the same rope, so the elders of the Panshan Tribe naturally would not panic anymore.
Sure enough, an elder of the Panshan tribe changed his previous attitude and said bluntly: "I am Panshan to move south, will the Yushan clan stop me?"
"No." Yushan shook his head and said, "I, Yushan, also want to migrate south. I hope that you and my tribes can take care of each other on the way. If Yizhan hears anything that is unfavorable to you and me, you and me can unite to fight against each other."
"Okay!" After several elders of Panshan Tribe conspired, they immediately agreed to the matter.
After all, what they were most worried about was that the Yizhan tribe learned about this.
On that day, the Yushan tribe quickly packed up the things in the tribe and went south with the Panshan tribe.
Cheng Han bid farewell to Yushan and returned to his tribe in a depressed mood.
The next day, the members of the two tribes of Pulan and Wuhuan also passed by the place where Cheng Han was located. Cheng Han went to meet Pulan and Wuhuan and chatted for a few words.
Like Yushan's view, Pulan and Wuwan were also afraid of being retaliated by Yizhan. In comparison, it was not an unacceptable condition for their thirty years to be the Shangjun of Weirong, Shaoliang.
What’s more important is that Shaoliang, who surrendered, had food in his hands. As long as he could get food from the Xia people, their tribe would not have to worry about the flock of sheep frozen to death in winter and the people of the tribe starved in the coming years. What’s the point of fighting with the same tribe?
Since Yushan, Pulan and Wuhuan moved their tribes one after another, Cheng Han could no longer bear it, so he immediately ordered his tribe members to pack up their things as soon as possible and move southward.
On the way to the Shangjun, they learned that Fu Meng was defeated by Fushi and led the defeated army to retreat to Gao Wang.
I have to say that this made Cheng Han scared, and at the same time he, Yushan, Pulan, Wuhuan and others secretly rejoice.
To be honest, they did not expect that the Xia army was so fierce that even the skin sage occupied by Fu Meng was defeated. Thinking about this, even Cheng Han no longer had any resistance - what's wrong with surrendering to the strong?
In just ten days, several tribes such as Panshan, Yushan, Pulan migrated southward, like this consistent migration, and they all moved in one direction, which would inevitably cause questions from other tribes.
Soon, this incident reached Hu Meng's ears.
The warrior Erzhu, who was under Fumeng, said indignantly: "It can be confirmed that these tribes have defected to the Xia people!"
After saying that, he asked to lead troops to intercept him.
Fu Meng thought for a while and agreed.
After all, the Xia army that defeated him was already very strong. If these tribes turned to the Xia army, the Xia army would definitely be stronger.
So he ordered Erzhu, Wugan and Wumen to lead five thousand soldiers to intercept them.
When these five thousand soldiers intercepted several tribes such as Panshan, Yushan, Pulan, etc., these tribes who were already guilty immediately gathered together to keep warm.
Although Erzhu, Yugan, Yumen and others had a large number of 5,000 cavalrymen, the number of soldiers from Panshan, Yushan and Pulan was even greater. In addition, the belief of protecting the tribesmen, if the fight really happened, the Jaegan and Yumen would lose a lot of soldiers.
Just when the two sides were in a stalemate, the soldiers of the Hai tribe who were wandering around Gaowang saw this and immediately reported to Hu Hai. The latter soon led nearly 5,000 cavalrymen of the Left Guardian Army to support Panshan, Yushan and other tribes.
During this period, Chi Yu was also happy to see the members of his Panshan tribe retreating here safely.
There is nothing to say next. Five thousand left guards and several tribes joined together, and the cavalry had exceeded 10,000, and the five thousand people on Erzhu did not dare to act rashly at all.
Of course, even so, Fu Meng would not allow these tribes to move to Shangjun. After receiving the news from Erzhu, he immediately led a large army to intercept it.
Unfortunately, Hu Hai had already reported this to Kushi. Not long after Fu Meng led his army to arrive, three thousand Liang cavalry and two thousand heavy cavalry arrived, and then tens of thousands of coalition forces led by Li He himself.
Looking at the Xia army's seemingly connected to the sky, Fu Meng's side could not even defend the tribes, let alone blocking those tribes.
On that day, the coalition forces won without fighting. Not only did they take back several tribes such as Panshan, Pulan, Yushan, Chenghan, Wuhuan, etc., but they also recovered Gao Wang. Unfortunately, Gao Wang's Wei army had been wiped out before, leaving only a sentry camp, which was better than nothing.
Not long after, this incident spread throughout the grassland. A powerful Xia army defeated Pilou and Fumeng, and forced several tribes such as Panshan and Pulan to surrender.
Shaoliang and Li He, a country name and a person name, also spread to the grassland and into the ears of the three Hu people tribes of Daye, Yizhan and Ulan.
Chapter completed!