Chapter 1329 The Great Migration of Peoples
Countless figures filled the heavens and the earth, and the primitive tribes helped the old and the young, and under the vigilant gaze of the warriors of their own tribe, they bypassed the town of Broken Leaves, and immediately rushed into the Green Mountains, that is, the Pamir Plateau in the later generations, and went straight to the Western Regions.
Although Broken Leaf Town is small, it is also a military town, not gnawed by these nomads, around this, dizzy looking at the countless migratory nomadic army, it is still enough for the sand guards and the town guard of Broken Leaf Town Lu Yang was terrified, looking at the wolf smoke rolling next to him straight to the sky, Lu Yang couldn't help but shout at the sky in shock.
"What the hell is going on?"
Pan Youqing, the head of the household department, calculated correctly, Constantinople is too far away from Chang'an! To send more than one million people to attack the Tang Dynasty and win this battle of dignity, even if it relies on the national strength of the Fujian and Tang Dynasties, the food and salaries of the three continents of Asia, Europe and Africa are also a little insufficient, so Li Jie did not plan to use conventional tactics, here, he imitated the Huns of the year and adopted an extremely cheap tactics.
More than 300 years ago, the Roman Empire on the Tiber River collapsed in the hooves of the Huns, however, even if the Hun Emperor Attila had hundreds of thousands of fierce iron horses, the Huns alone could not destroy the Roman Empire, what really destroyed the Roman Empire was the hundreds of ethnic groups that were driven by the Huns and forced to flee their homes.
Millions or even tens of millions of people poured into the territory of the Roman Empire, and so many foreign peoples not only destroyed the original power of the Roman Empire, but even replaced the native race forever.
Historically, the great migration of ethnic groups has been from the cold north to the warmer and more habitable south, but this time Li Jie went the opposite way, from the south of Bulgaria gathered from Western Europe, after the most cruel barbarian warriors from Northern Europe, facing the various ethnic groups that migrated from the Siberian steppe, the Min and Tang armies killed in the opposite direction.
Taking the ancient Scythians' Eurasian passage, this army set out along the Black Sea coast, and then went straight to the Caspian Sea, destroying all the cities it passed through, robbing the tribes they passed, robbing them of their cattle and sheep, killing all their men, and selling women and children into slaves, all as the Hun Emperor Attila did.
The horror brought by this almost made the Cypriots, Scythians, Slavs, and even the Rouran, Yue, and Tocharians who had not surrendered to the Great Min in the Black Sea and Caspian Sea all feel the heartfelt fear, and they were forced to abandon their homes that they had stolen from the aborigines and leave their homeland.
The catastrophe caused by this political cause led to a new round of great migration.
Unlike in the past, instead of seeking a better life in the south, the migratory peoples were forced to return north to their ancestral territories.
During this great migration, even the Sogdian states surnamed Zhaowu and the nine surnamed Sogdians, who were subjugated to the Hezhong Protectorate, were all subjected to the seedlings, and countless Caspian nomads were driven into the Sogdian homeland, and all the burning, killing and plundering of their homeland were vented on the Sogdians, forcing more people to leave their homes.
Li Jie placed his base camp on the northern shore of the Black Sea, and the grain and grass from the two river basins, Asia Minor and Egypt were transported to the northernmost part of the Black Sea through the Mediterranean, from here the power to push the whole of Central Asia and Eastern Europe was issued.
Even the Norse Vikings, Magyars, and Germanic people who received his gold and joined the war in a daze were within the range of being driven out, and once they embarked on this road of no return, they would never think of turning back!
The Vikings and Germanic peoples had never traveled so long, and it was not that no one rioted to go back.
However, all the people who turned around really turned around and fell into hell forever, once they broke away from the large team heading northeast, no matter who it was, they were immediately set as a target by Li Jie to loot, and there were immediately new latecomers who pounced viciously like wolves and tore them to pieces.
From the beginning of the Black Sea to the end of this road, Broken Leaf City, thousands of miles of roads are full of floating corpses, towns, tribes have turned into a scorched earth, crows, vultures and wild dogs have eaten the corpses even to the point that their eyes are red, even if they see a living person, they dare to go up and peck at it.
This situation forced all the participants of the great migration to go to the northwest, and the team snowballed from hundreds of thousands of people to millions of people, and may even reach two million, or even more, after all, it is impossible for the Min and Tang armies to accurately calculate how many people they drove out, and some tribes have abandoned their land and migrated to the northeast before this terrifying army of conquest arrived.
However, after all, this era was still at the end of the Xiaoice Age, and the Dnieper River area where Russia was located in later generations was too cold, coupled with the intentional control of the Min and Tang Dynasties, after arriving in the Tianshan Mountain Range, this migratory army rushed into the Western Regions.
What Broken Leaf Town saw that day was just a beginning, and within a few days, it was even more connected from end to end, and countless Central Asian migration armies entered the Green Ridge, and Broken Leaf Town was still broken by the great migration crowd on the seventh day.
The Western Regions, the first unlucky is the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains of the Shache country, after a long journey over the Tianshan Mountains, these ethnic armies from Central Asia have almost run out of food, just Shache is at the end of the Silk Road, connecting Central Asia, is an important transportation hub, the country in the Tarim River irrigation water and grass is abundant, agriculture is developed, the people are rich.
This is simply a piece of fat in front of these hungry wolves, Shache is only 5,000 soldiers, a charge will be annihilated in the rolling attack of the Central Asian nomadic cavalry iron hooves, the entire Shache City is plunged into a sea of fire, the thousand-year-old country is in ruins.
This is just the beginning, along the north and south of the Silk Road, the raging war burned all the way to the east.
The northern foot of Kunlun Mountain, Shule City.
It has been under the direct jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, one of the earliest established military towns among the four towns of Anxi, Shule Wangcheng, an important stronghold of the intersection of the north and south of the Silk Road controlled by the Tang Dynasty, and is the frontier of Qiuzi Town, where the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate is located, and the geographical location is particularly important.
The fighting here was especially fierce.
The Anxi Iron Army set up a strong crossbow at the head of the city, as well as the longbow of the Western Regions of Shule soldiers and horses, and the arrows shot from the top of the city were like locusts, so that the soldiers of various ethnic groups in Central Asia rushed to the city to rush to the ground, and the corpses were densely stacked in a layer, and the arrow shafts that were shot up were inserted in it, and the wind blew, and the stone city platform that had been dyed red seemed to grow a reed.
Around this, the nomadic soldiers who rushed into the Western Regions seemed to be inexhaustible, and the arrows that flew down like raindrops, these from the vast Black Sea steppe, the Caspian steppe, were as lowly as feet of dirt, and the tenacious but like the weeds that broke through the ice The nomadic warriors still rushed to the city with simple leather shields and wicker shields.
The chopped poplars were built into rudimentary ladders, and the ant-like Central Asian light cavalry kept lying upward with their scimitars, and the rudimentary city walls were soon covered with their figures.
More than 600 years ago, in the eighteenth year of Zhongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, in this Shule City, Geng Gong, the general of the Han family, led hundreds of people, in the Northern Xiongnu invasion, the Western Regions were all killed in a coup d'état, and the entire Western Regions almost fell.
Now the Anxi Iron Army guarding Shule City, also has the courage and courage of the ancestors, the Anxi Mo knife team cut the nomadic wolf soldiers who pounced on them like mowing grass, and the unarmed soldiers with horizontal knives almost completely ignored the defense, and even the wisps of the iron army who were pierced through the body by the nomadic wolf soldiers' knives and guns shouted and pushed more than a dozen frightened and screaming Central Asian barbarians to roll the city wall together.
The shouts shook the snowy peaks of the Tianshan Mountains in the distance.
On another hillside not far from Shule City, the same cavalry of the Anxi Iron Army was stagnant there.
Three thousand iron horsemen gathered on the hillside, the horses were anxiously digging their hooves, and the soldiers were also anxiously rubbing the hilts of their swords, listening to the roars of their comrades, eager to immediately plunge into the war, killing his head and bleeding like a river.
Generals, generals, and three thousand soldiers all looked anxiously at the hillside, where their leader, the Anxi Metropolitan Protector Cheng Ting, had always stagnated, looking forward with binoculars.
Cheng Wuting's hands holding the binoculars were trembling, there were more than 4,000 Anxi Iron Army plus Shule soldiers fighting at the head of the city, and the reinforcement cavalry he brought over was 3,000, and the Central Asian wolf soldiers besieging Shule Town were not 200,000!
At the beginning, he followed the eldest grandson Wuji to lead the army to raid the Beijing Division, and the eldest grandson Wuji was released by Da Min alone, and he was placed under house arrest in the Beijing Division for several years.
Later, in order to deal with the Persian rebel prince Belus, Li Jie was released back to the Tang Dynasty with him, when his father Cheng Wuting recognized the protection of Anxi, relying on his father's protection, Cheng Wuting rejoined the army, and later Cheng Mingzhen died of illness, and there was really no suitable candidate for a while, Li Zhi simply promoted him to Anxi Duhu.
The day he returned to the Western Regions from Hengros City, he had a premonition that sooner or later, one day, the tentacles of the Min and Tang Dynasties would probe into the Western Regions, but he didn't expect that it would be in such an irresistible and tragic way.
After pondering for a long time, Cheng Mingzhen finally reached the hillside, and Cheng Yang, the captain of Zhenwu under his command, immediately greeted him anxiously, and asked eagerly: "Dadu Hu, when will we charge?"
"Don't rush, pass on the order of Ben Duhu, withdraw the army back to Qiuzi!"
Seeing Cheng Mingzhen turn over and get on the horse, Cheng Yang couldn't believe his ears.
However, the Anxi Iron Army, the order must be carried out, despite the reluctance of the stomach, the three thousand iron horsemen still followed Cheng Mingzhen to the east, galloping wildly, listening to the sound of the bloody battle behind him, Cheng Wuting's heart was like a knife, if he was only a general of the Anxi Protectorate, he would not hesitate to rush into the enemy formation with his command, even if the whole army was wiped out and killed on the battlefield, he would not hesitate.
But he is the protector of Anxi!
The purpose of the Tang Empire's establishment of the Rest Capital Protectorate is to use this strong shield to resist the sword rain of all Western alien races outside the Central Plains, so as long as he is still breathing, he must do his best to keep the foreign world out, even if it is only delayed for a few days, a few hours, and a few minutes!
Qiuzi Town, closed the door and confined, but more than a dozen knights of the Anxi Iron Army carrying the red neck flag rushed out all the way, rushed into the Yumen Pass, and went straight to Chang'an.
The Western Regions are in an emergency!