Chapter 11: Danhan Mountain (4)
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And the tribal chiefs beside them suddenly stepped back. Only Duan Piyan and Wen Qiao stood in place for some reason, like two lonely reefs left after the tide receded. After a while, Duan Piyan seemed to react, he scolded viciously, and pulled Wen Qiao to walk backwards.
The platform on the top of Danhan Mountain is not particularly open, and everyone retreats like this. The outermost circle of the position had almost stepped on the gray rock wall at the edge of the cliff, and the soles of the feet were about to fall a few inches more, but the people in the front row did not stop for a while, so they crowded each other into a mess.
Wen Qiao's wide robe sleeves were torn by someone in this chaos, and even the small crown on his head was loosened, and the wisps stuck to his sweaty forehead, which looked very wolfish. He finally stood still in the crowd and complained a little angrily: "Brother Pi Yan, what's wrong? What the hell is this going on? ”
Wen Qiao's envoy this time was to declare his support for the western lord Yilu when necessary, and to maintain the balance of power between the two powers within Tuoba Xianbei. But he has been coming to Danhan Mountain for three days, and in addition to going up and down the mountain every day, he has watched a whole three days of pretending to be a ghost. After each sacrifice, the great chiefs such as Luguan and Yilu went back to their own places and ignored Wen Qiao, so that he had no chance to use the technique of combining vertical and horizontal at all. Even Wen Qiao, who was very well cultivated, couldn't help but feel a little anxious in the face of this situation, and couldn't help but get up at this time.
But Wen Qiao just complained, but his voice came far away with the mountain wind, and it was terrifyingly loud. He immediately closed his mouth and looked around, only to see that every chief around him showed an extremely rare solemn expression, and the entire platform on the top of the mountain was already silent to the point of silence!
Wen Qiao's face changed slightly, it was obvious that something would be born on this festival, and it was obviously what he had expected. He took a slight step back, glanced at Duan Piyan, and tugged at his sleeve. But Duan Piyan didn't care about Wen Qiao, he stared at the center of the platform, and only raised his hand to make a silent gesture.
At this time, a considerable area of open space was vacated in the center of the platform on the top of the mountain, and the fierce wearing hideous masks under the Wei clan scattered in all directions, isolating the chiefs and commanders from the clearing. Still on the left side of the clearing were the Lu Officer and his guards, numbering a hundred men; On the right are Yilu and his guards, also a hundred. The two sides confronted each other across the stone platform where Wei was standing and by a blazing bonfire.
Lu Guan and Yi Lu were the two masters of Tuoba Xianbei and the East and West respectively, and the troops under the control of Lu Guan were more than 200,000 cavalry, and the Yi Lu force was much inferior, but it was also able to mobilize more than 30,000 cavalry. After the death of the previous generation of Dadan Yu Tuoba Yihui, Lu Guan and Yilu each gathered their own strength and confronted each other, and the small tribes under them fought many times, and they were only a stone's throw away from the full-scale civil war of Tuoba Xianbei who mobilized hundreds of thousands of horsemen.
However, in this ceremony, they were limited to the deep-rooted customs of Tuoba Xianbei, and could not lead the army to climb the mountain. The Hu people in northern Xinjiang have always had a tradition of worshipping mountains, such as the Great Xianbei Mountain, where Tuoba Xianbei originated, and the Red Mountain, where the Wuhuan people once lived, are regarded as sacred places with special significance. Danhan Mountain is the place where the great hero of the Xianbei tribe set up the royal court, and in modern times, it is the place where the Xianbei Dashan sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven and earth, and also has a very high status in the traditional belief in gods and witches, and almost all the Xianbei people are convinced that the army can not be stationed here, otherwise it will disturb the ancestral gods.
Wen Qiao heard some rumors from the Xianbei nobles who were in charge of receiving him yesterday, and it was said that at this moment, the army to which Luguan and Yilu belonged was almost all staying at the foot of Danhan Mountain, dozens of miles away. According to the requirements of the shrine maiden Wei Shi, who presided over the ceremony of worshipping the heavens, there were only 100 guards and servants who accompanied them up the mountain.
Although the number of 100 servants is small, it is also a rather difficult force. Wen Qiao still remembered that Tuoba Yilu came to Jinyang for the first time last year, and only with his subordinate chieftain Dugu Zhi's 30 servant warriors, he dared to provoke Yue Shigong, and even boasted that he was willing to fight against 300 Jin soldiers with 30 people. At that time, the Jinyang Army had not been established long ago, and it was unable to cope with it for a while, and finally solved the problem by relying on dozens of strong crossbows to shoot.
Although Wen Qiao is a civilian official, he has been in the army for a long time, and his vision is very extraordinary. From the eyes and small movements of these servant warriors, he could be sure that the hundred servants led by Lu Guan and Yilu at the moment were definitely much stronger than the thirty souls under the arrows at that time. They are all specially selected from tens of thousands of strong warriors who can be ten or even hundred. For example, the behemoth standing behind Yilu is Yilu's personal guard general, Li Ning Tower. This giant man once guarded the Assassin Mansion in the Battle of Jinyang, and intimidated thousands of private soldiers of the four wealthy families with the power of one person, and his courage was like a ghost. On the side of Luguan, no matter how strong Tuoba Xianbei is in the east, there must also be extraordinary people who are brave and fierce.
Now the two hundred men were getting closer and closer to each other as they led their steps.
For some reason, Wen Qiao suddenly felt a heart-wrenching nervousness. He didn't care if it was rude to break the current silence, he suddenly grabbed Duan Piyan's shoulders and said loudly: "Brother Piyan, is it ...... Is it ......?"
Duan Piyan didn't have time to answer at all, because the two hundred warriors belonging to the two eastern and western divisions of Tuoba Xianbei raised their heads to the sky and roared like wolves. At the same time, two hundred long knives suddenly came out of their sheaths, the sword light was as cold as snow, and the murderous aura that penetrated the bones swept through the entire Danhan Mountain summit platform!
In the next instant, the two teams of samurai slaughtered together.
At the end of the Danhan Mountain Sacrifice Ceremony, presided over by the witch and witnessed by the leaders of the eight surnamed countries and the tribal chieftains who attached them, this bloody battle opened the prelude to the dispute over Da Danyu.
Wen Qiao has seen many lives and deaths, but he has never come up close to watch such a fierce strangulation in his life. Armor crashed violently, deformed, blades collided so that sparks splattered, thick blood spilled through the air, severed limbs twisted and twitched to the ground, and shuddering and terrifying screams followed...... These suddenly burst out in front of Wen Qiao's eyes, almost making him a little dizzy.
Wen Qiao suddenly understood that both Yue Shigong and Wen Qiao himself had misestimated the customs of the Tuoba Xianbei people.
Tuoba Xianbei originated from Donghu, which was originally just a small nomadic tribe in the vast desert mountains and wilderness of the north of the hidden capital. In order to compete for more abundant pastures and land more suitable for tribal exhibitions, they fought against the harsh natural environment and neighboring tribes, and unswervingly migrated southward for hundreds of years. In this long journey, they have experienced unimaginable tragic battles, countless hardships and obstacles, once faced the danger of the annihilation of the clan again and again, and again and again with the fierce and strong bloody way of killing, and finally stepped on the bones of countless losers, occupied the homeland of the Huns, and became the overlord of the grassland.
How could such a barbarian tribe that rose in northern Xinjiang obey the principle of respect for the strong, like the sluggish Great Jin court, relying on rhetorical debates in the court to decide major affairs? How could Wen Qiao be given a chance to make a statement? Whether they are barbaric or uncivilized, Tuoba Xianbei will not follow the ideas of the imperial court at all. For hundreds of years, it has always been violence that has supported their continuous expansion, annexation, and becoming a powerful tribal alliance, and when deciding the ownership of Da Danyu, it can only be used with naked, undisguised violence!