In the face of the drought that is a fact, the Mongolian steppe, large and small, many tribes and races, seeing that the drought is becoming more and more severe, the pasture grass is withering day by day, and all disasters have no signs of improvement. The thirst is getting worse and the harder to resist. They were terrified, realizing that death had come, that the Immortal Heaven had abandoned them, and that they could not wait for death, and that they had to act quickly and move to a place where there were water and grass.

But the problem is that the grasslands are in a total drought, and even the already small amount of water and grass on the grasslands occupied by powerful tribes has begun to dry up and struggle, so where can they move?

In the Yanyun area, I heard that there is no drought, and some are grass grazing. I heard that there was no big drought in the hometown of Western Xia. But I can't go. Last year, he escaped by relying on his cleverness to escape quickly and luckily to escape the double robbery of pirates and the impoverished and crazy Liao army.

With the virtue of the Khitan people, they will not care about these races on the grassland that do not belong to the Khitan people and are also the people of the Liao State. In order to get the much-scarce horses and livestock and restore the life and strength of the nomads, the Liao State did not hesitate to snatch the light from the tribes that dared to migrate to the vicinity.

There is no doubt that whether it is the desolate and domineering Liao Emperor, or the Liao nobles such as the Yan King, they will do it brutally and decisively.

In the eyes of the Khitans, Zahuben, including the Jurchens, were not people, they were all forces and even enemies that the Khitans wanted to monitor and systematically weaken year after year. Now that the Liao Kingdom has reached an unprecedented level of difficulty, embarrassment and danger in ancient times, it is the time to be anxious, how can it be possible to suddenly have mercy and treat Zahu as a human being?

Heading west?

The Gobi in the Western Regions doesn't need to think about it, but I am afraid that it will be more arid and more desperate. And the people there are more savage and easy to rob, horse thieves and sand thieves are simply their daily life.

So the Zahu in Outer Mongolia further north immediately took advantage of the melting snow to move north with green grass and livestock to eat, and hurriedly moved to Beihai.

And the tribes in the south that originally belonged to the powerful and wealthy people on the grassland occupied the relatively warm and better south, and it was bitter at this time.

If they also want to migrate to the vast North Sea to survive in the summer, it is too far away, and they have walked through the long arid road north that has been eaten up by the tribes in the north, and all the livestock and people have died.

In a hurry and even in despair, suddenly there was good news on the grassland: there was a large no-man's land in the northwest of the Song Dynasty, where there was a lot of rain this year, and for some unknown reason, alfalfa and many other kinds of pasture grass grew abundantly and could not be eaten all.

This is indeed great good news for the steppe tribes.

The powerful and huge Song Western Army was gone, and the area of the Song State was undefended. Then, the New Western Army in the west was already weak, and it was threatened and pinned down by the Liao Emperor's forces who moved to the hometown of Western Xia, and it was even more powerless to look eastward, and it didn't bother to manage the no-man's land. And the new border passes hastily formed in the Song Dynasty in the east are not much stronger. Moreover, with the cowardly nature of the Song court and did not dare to do much to the outside world, I was afraid that it would not dare to provoke the nomads, and it did not dare to send troops to drive many nomadic tribes to forcibly move to no man's land for temporary grazing and survival.

It's great, it's a great way to go.

That's it.

The small tribe reacted the fastest, immediately relocated first, and also escaped from the dangerous place as soon as possible.

This danger is not only the threat of drought, but also the murderous annexation of large tribes.

Just as the landlords of the Song Kingdom took advantage of natural disasters to exchange (annex) large tracts of land for the victims with a small amount of living food, when natural disasters hit the grasslands, the big tribes would also take the opportunity to annex the small tribes, on the one hand, to plunder the wealth of livestock, and on the other hand, to vigorously reduce the population and reduce the consumption of food and water under the natural disasters. The big tribe will brutally slaughter the people of the small tribe, even if he or she is a poor fellow or even a relative. Every time there is a natural disaster, that is, when the small tribe perishes or even completely extincts, many tribes or races in the grassland suddenly and mysteriously disappear in history, a big reason is this, at this time, knowing that there is a way to live, how can the small tribe still be stupid and not run fast?

The big tribe is accustomed to sharpening their knives, and as soon as they learn that the small tribe in the target still wants to escape, how can they let it go, and it is naturally unstoppable to immediately organize forces to hunt down and kill the small tribe, but the tribal nobles are not without tricks. They all have experience in dealing with man-made disasters under this kind of natural disasters, and their big move is to form alliances with other small tribes to fight together.

But it was destined to be a bloody death journey.

There are reasons such as the lack of preparation of the large tribes for the battle situation, the underestimation of the enemy, or the surprise attack, etc., which are counter-slaughtered and swallowed up by the small tribes that have formed an alliance. Of course, it is more that small tribes suffer. Because the big tribes will also form alliances to form more powerful forces to clean up the small tribes together.

Small tribes form alliances and fight desperately to fight their way out.

On the one hand, the big tribes form an alliance with internal intrigues, each with its own calculations, all striving to weaken the allies and strengthen themselves more, and on the other hand, they are unscrupulous and jointly killing and robbing the small tribes.

This kind of frenzied annexation of small tribes by large tribes was impossible to engage in wantonly before. The Liao State did not allow too powerful tribes to appear in the grasslands, and if one dared to appear, they would immediately use military might or directly slaughter and loot or play more taxes, so that the tribe fell into poverty and could not afford to support so many people and had to disintegrate, and further forcibly dismantled into small tribes.

Now it's different.

The Liao State was not only threatened by the small power of the Jin State, but also degenerated into an agrarian nation so poor that no horse could undertake expeditions and control the vast grasslands. The Liao State was too busy to take care of itself. The miscellaneous beards on the grassland are free, and they can finally do whatever they want.

Many ambitious people saw the weakness and decay of the Liao State, and saw how the little Jurchen tribe changed from a miserable person who was wantonly slaughtered and looted by the Liao State as a prey to a happy country that rebelled against the Liao State. This deeply touched and inspired them, and they immediately had the same ambition. Little girls can really do, what can't we do?

This ambition further exacerbated the massacres and annexations under natural disasters, and intensified the intrigue between the powerful ones. There are even more tragic man-made disasters under natural disasters.

Small tribes either went extinct or fled. The remaining big tribes have no annexation target, and there is no need to form an alliance, and as soon as they eat blood-red mouths, they turn their greedy eyes to their allies, and stage various conspiracies, deception and calculations between each other, while swearing blood for the alliance and brothers, they suddenly turn their faces and wave their knives, fight each other, plunder and even annex.

The remnants of the small tribe who were lucky enough to escape the annexation must have died along the way, and after the old man and the injured who could not bear the long journey, they finally escaped to the vast uninhabited land in the northwest of the legendary Song Kingdom, and they were pleasantly surprised, there was endless water to drink?! The eyes are full of lush weeds, and if you look closely, there are too many grasses that you know or don't know, but you can also judge that they are excellent pastures! The flowing sound of water, the green vitality, this is a grassland paradise!

This must be the best place of refuge prepared by the gods (immortals) to take care of us and stay alive.

The barbarians looked up to the sky and roared, rejoicing, so excited that they couldn't help themselves, as if they were crazy. Then, there is more and more devotion and gratitude for the various gods of their respective faiths.

When the Zhejia army, which was alone in the southward area of the steppe people, saw the embarrassed barbarians who had migrated, they were ecstatic at first: women, livestock, war horses, weapons, craftsmen, furs, gold and silver treasures, all the wealth that was most lacking and most wanted in Hedong, actually took the initiative to send it to the door?

How can this not be robbed?

When it doesn't work, it suffers from it; If you don't take it, you will be to blame.

The barbarians who dare to flee here must be unlucky people who have been slaughtered and annexed by large tribes on the grassland, and they have no way to survive before abandoning the grassland and desperately trying to survive here. Just look at their embarrassed looks. That's right..

Hurry up and send troops to rob it.

Because of the lack of war horses, there were only a few horses raised by the Song State to act as cavalry and ranger posts, and they could not chase and kill the barbarians who fled from the horses, so they sent a large army to quietly surround and annihilate them in one fell swoop with many infantry. This kind of foot-to-foot riding is the best skill of the Western Army.

After the plague of pirates, after emergency formation, rectification and training, it was possible to find another 20,000 regular troops approved by the imperial court, as well as a large number of reserve troops, and there was no shortage of troops.

The time, the place, the people. All the conditions for a robbery seem to be in place. Everything, also well conceived in advance. It's not hard to do.

But that's not the case anymore.

Because the Zhejia army was immediately shocked to find that the barbarians who went south into the no-man's land were far more than those they had explored before. The so-called good thing turned out to be the collective action of the steppe barbarians, looking scattered, but in fact, it was a vast and endless tribal contingent that came in an endless stream, and if it provoked one place, it would immediately arouse the vigilance of other tribes, and then there was no need to think about it. With the temperament of the steppe barbarians, they will inevitably form an alliance with the army to take revenge and take the opportunity to loot the Broken Army.

After further inquiry, it turned out that it was a great drought in the grasslands, not only forced by the annexation between tribes and bloody fighting.

He was taken aback, and quickly ordered the troops to come back and hold the city and crop defense area, and issued an emergency mobilization order for the war to the headquarters. Because he knew that disaster was coming, and under the great drought and natural disasters, countless grassland barbarians would frantically migrate to occupy the no-man's land. Whoever dares to obstruct or infringe will be torn to pieces. He was born in the northwest, grew up in the northwest, guarded the border in the northwest for many years, and knew too well the characteristics of nomads.

robbed some of the benefits, but the ecstasy in Hedong became panicked.

Fortunately, the barbarians did not retaliate and attack the Zhejia army, one is not good at attacking the city, and it is chaotic, there are too many tribes and races, there is no subordination, the old feud and the new feud in recent days are entangled, there are many contradictions, each is nervous to guard against other tribes, and cannot unite and gather huge forces; The second is that he came after a difficult trek, he was too tired and weak, and he had no strength or heart to fight. They just want to find a place to settle down and rest and live in peace. Moreover, the Zhejia army had just suffered from piracy, and they were also terribly poor. There is nothing to rob and rob. It's not worth it to spend a lot of lives on a siege for a little bit of tatters. The small tribe was already too small in population, and it had folded so much southward that it could not afford to waste manpower.

These objective factors are: But subjectively, the steppe beards of this era are indeed so unbearable, lack of courage to play with their lives, not the only brave men of the Mongolian cavalry that swept the world later, the Jurchen is indeed the atmospheric transporter of this era, and seems to concentrate all the advantages, ferocity, greed, unyielding, and ambition of the northern barbarians

The no-man's land is large enough to accommodate each of these small tribes in a beautiful land. The Fourth Division of the New Western Army in the west really had no intention of dealing with this side, and ignored it at all. The government offices of the Song State and the new western frontier area of Shanxi in the east were frightened. The barbarians are coming! The steppe savages have finally invaded our jurisdiction and want to occupy this no-man's land. It's horrible.

Xin Xingzong, the former famous general of the Western Army and the deputy envoy of Shanxi Frontier Defense, was so nervous that he swallowed his spit.

He was hastily transferred to this side at the end of last year by the commander of the whole road who originally worked with Wang Yu to encircle and suppress Tian Hu, and was responsible for the unified command of the various officials and soldiers in the new border area to guard the west. Of course, only God knows whether he will be able to command the armies of the state capitals, the so-called New Frontier Army. How could the scholars and doctors take a martial artist like him in their eyes and directly manage the troops of his department, how could Xin Xingzong be able to command it however he wanted. What's more, Xin Xingzong is just a deputy position, and there is also a positive position held by a civil official.

The only thing Xin Xingzong could command more freely was the 10,000 soldiers from the soldiers who surrounded and suppressed Tian Hu.

The responsibility is too great, but the actual power is too small, and if something happens, he has to carry it, and he must be the first to carry the black pot. There are so many steppe barbarians all of a sudden, if something happens, can he still have a good one? How can he not be nervous and heartwarming

What made him happy was that the barbarians didn't make trouble, none of them came close to grab something, and there was internal strife among the barbarians.

First, the poor or slave warriors of several tribes suddenly rebelled and slaughtered the noble lord and the warrior army loyal to him, robbed him of power and wealth, and succeeded.

This stems from the fact that the steppe tribes were slavery, and the vast majority of their wealth was owned by large and small nobles, and a small part of the population was freedmen, who had no more than a broken tent, a horse, a few sheep or a dozen sheep or, better yet, a cow. The vast majority of the remaining population were slaves, destitute people who worked for the nobles to feed their cattle, and one can imagine how miserable it was in the harsh steppe. It's just a matter of staying in peacetime, and getting used to being dazed and nightmarish, but at this time, the terrifying natural disaster came, and the people were fierce in order to survive, and they went south to escape and suffered many bloody battles and suffering, and they became more and more ferocious and violent, and the heart would be wild in this kind of escape, and it was inevitable to abandon the old men and run away alone when it was critical, so how could they still be as fearful and obedient to the nobles as before, not to mention that they saw how the noble old men were cowardly, rotten and incompetent on the way to escape, and how they were slaughtered like pigs.

Under the bewitchment of the gods who want to rob the wealth and power of the nobles by the warriors who propagated the grassland catastrophe and angered the gods by the unkindness of the old men, coupled with the longing for too long in the bottom of my heart to have endless livestock, my own cattle and sheep that I can't put away, and the luxurious and warm fur that I can't wear. In order not to starve to death in despair, to be whipped to death or abandoned by the old men at will, to starve to death on the grassland, or even to be eaten by hungry wolves, the slaves impulsively followed suit, and behaved more actively and fiercely than the initiators.

With the beginning and demonstration, it immediately triggered a large-scale tribal infighting.

Just after the peace, it was another bloody storm.

The aristocracy of these small tribes were replaced by the murderous massacres of their subordinates in the turmoil.

During this period, there were also voluntary mergers or forcible mergers between tribes, and the unmoved tribes had to follow suit in order to protect themselves, which led to a comprehensive merger and annexation, and soon new large tribes were formed. The battle was fierce and tragic. until equilibrium is reached.

But the new rulers didn't stay complacent for long.

The severe drought in the grasslands has dried up the rivers and lakes in the land where water and grass were abundant, and the grass and trees have died, forcing the large tribes to migrate in a hurry.