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The wind struck Li Siyuan in the face with a drizzle, and he kicked the horse's belly lightly across the swollen river. Next to him, the patriarch of the Shatuo clan, Li Ke, tugged at his cloak and muttered a damn curse. His harrier hawk rested on his shoulder, and the wind wrinkled its feathers, making it look as depressed as Ricke's.

The wind is protruding, and the dead grass is flying.

He secretly hoped that the lady who followed behind would be able to hold on, even if the weather was fine, it would not be comfortable to ride outside the plug for a long time. Now, it has rained for ten days, and the vast grassland has already turned into a swamp, full of mud and rivers. At this time, Li Sizhao and the others must have been sitting by the brazier in the camp tent, drinking warm mare's milk wine.

Li Siyuan envied them, his own soaked robes were so heavy and sticky to his body, wet and uncomfortable, his neck and shoulders were crushed by the weight of the armor, and even more uncomfortable, he was fed up with the taste of salted dried fish and fishy mutton jerky.

Ahead, a continuous tent appeared in the wind and rain, flags fluttering, and it looked a little hazy through the intertwined slanting wind and drizzle.

"The Tatar camp has arrived!" Li Keyong looked at the camp in front of him with one eye, and shouted loudly: "God forbid, they finally didn't move their nest." ”

Li Siyuan listened to the brothers of the Shatuo Black Crow Army tell how the Flying Tiger Zi Li Ke used to kill two birds with one stone to intimidate the Tatar warriors, and how the Tatars obeyed their orders when the Shatuo tribe was in the north in the past. Right now. Finally personally came to the camp of the Tatars.

All the way up. Many Tatar herders have already moved to their pastures and moved further south to spend the winter. Many people were worried that the Tatar chieftains had also gone south, but fortunately they had not left. Perhaps, this time, they will be able to borrow more food, or at the very least, they will be able to shelter from the heavy rain here.

It was the first time Li Siyuan had come to the Tatar camp, but it was not the first time that Li Keyong had come. Ever since they crossed the Yin Mountain. Li Ke used the most to gather thousands of Shatuo people, and then collected a lot. During this time, many small Uighur tribes were recruited. The Shatuo tribe has restored the scale of more than 10,000 people, but so many people are extremely short of food and grass. They fled from Daibei into Yinshan, and their baggage was lost. Most of the newly recruited Uighur tribes were old and weak after being defeated and plundered by other tribes, and they also had no food or grass to rely on the Shatuo tribe, who had been quite prestigious in the Yinshan area for many years.

During this time, Li Ke borrowed grain from the Tatars several times, but each time he did not borrow much. Although it is only August, the weather is gloomy, and experienced elderly people say that it may snow earlier this year. Maybe the first snow could come after this rain. Anyway, a little snow. The days will be even harder. Before the first snowfall, Li Keyong borrowed enough grain and grass from the Tatars to survive the winter.

Li Keyong once told Li Siyuan and other subordinates that although the Tatars did not have a good reputation, they had always been friends with the Shatuo people. Now that the Shatuo people are in trouble, they will help us. As long as some cattle and sheep survive this winter, it will be enough.

Before leaving, Li Sizhao had told Li Siyuan the identities of these Tatars. The Tatars, like the Shatuos, were a subordinate tribe of the Turks hundreds of years ago. When the Tatars were in the Sui Dynasty in the north and south, they were also called Murwei, and even Mobei, in the northeast of Tiele and Khitan, and in the northwest of Yan and Goguryeo.

Murwei originated from Donghu and was the same as the Khitan; In the south is the Khitan, in the north is the room Wei. The residence is on both sides of the middle and upper reaches of the Heilongjiang River and the Nenjiang River Basin. Hunting as a business, more mink, cattle and horses, meat and clothing, but also planted wheat, millet, □; In the summer, the city dwells, and in the winter, the water and grass are chased. The head of each department is called "Mo Helu", and they do not belong to each other. From time to time, envoys were sent to the Northern Zhou and Northern Qi to pay tribute. Later, it was divided into five parts: the South Chamber, the North Chamber, the Bowl Chamber, the Deep Late Chamber, and the Great Chamber, each of which did not belong to each other, and the customs and habits were slightly different, all of which belonged to the Turkic service.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the grasslands were turbulent, and Murowei was also involved in the grassland wars. The Turks declined, Tiele rose, and many tribes of Murwei began to move westward. After the rise of the Uighur Khanate, Murwe became a Uighur vassal and moved further south. Decades earlier, after the destruction of the Uighur Khanate and the destruction of the Uighur Khanate, the Uighur Khanate returned to the western Tien Shan Mountains shortly thereafter. At this time, the Khitan took advantage of the weakness of the Tang Dynasty and repeatedly attacked the Murwei in the north, causing the Murwei tribes to either move west and south, or were conquered by the Khitan and regrouped.

Murowei moved south to the west, among which the Wusugu Department and the West Murowei Department, because of the war has been transferred to the vicinity of Zhenwu in the Yang of Yinshan, and it seems that they did not return to their original place after being militarily defeated, and they are called Yinshan Murowei with the black car Murowei.

The Tang people collectively referred to these Mobei tribes who moved south and westward as the Thirty Tatars, not only referring to Murwei, but even some other Mobei tribes also referred to them by their names.

Now Li Keyong wants to see the Usugu tribe and the Heichezi Murwei stationed in the north and south of the Blocking Mountain, and the two Murwei tribes have now formed an alliance called Yinshan Murwei, although the Tang people used to call them Tatars.

Yinshan Murowei was attached to the Tang Dynasty, accepted the official position of reward from the Tang Dynasty, and accepted the jurisdiction of the Zhenwu Army and the Datong Festival. Previously, the Shatuo clan had always been the boss of Yinshan Murowei.

"Siyuan." Li Keyong ordered, "You ride to the back, pass the order, and remind the officers to restrain their subordinates, I will not allow anyone to do anything in life, let alone fight the idea of a Tatar woman, and you are not allowed to run around without trouble, and you are not allowed to talk to them at will." ”

"Yes, my lord." Li Siyuan turned back to the direction of the rear team, all the way through many brothers, all of whom were muddy and exhausted.

In the back team, Li Siyuan found Liu, who was wearing a long flaming red cloak and a mink hat on her head, and was sitting in the saddle a little listlessly. To her left and right, there were a hundred female sword guards led by Jing Niang with a silver mask.

"Madame, the Tatar camp has arrived." Li Siyuan stepped forward with a smile and said.

Mrs. Liu looked up, and the rain warmed her black hair, and a few locks of it hung down. "It's finally here, it's great, I hate this autumn rain."

"It would be nice to get to the big camp, the big camp of the Tatars is in front, and tonight you can drink mare's milk wine in front of a warm fire."

Jing Niang on the side made the same cold voice behind the mask. "The Tatars are a barbaric tribe. When they got married. When the two families make a promise, the man steals the woman, and then sends cattle and horses as a dowry, and the man and woman return to the woman's house together, and when she is pregnant, the woman goes to the man's house with her husband. And when their parents died, their bodies were placed on trees. In their early years in Mobei, these Tatars built houses and nested in trees in the summer. In other seasons, the ox cart is bent into a wooden room, covered with a Wei mat, and people live in it. The Tatars further north went into the mountains and lived in the earth in winter. The Murwei tribe of Yinshan now robs women from other tribes as wives. In the past, the Shatuo people were strong, and the Tatars naturally respected us, but now we are weak, and I am afraid that the Tatars will not really have such a good heart, and they are willing to help food and grass all the time. ”

"The current Mohe Hebula of Yinshan Tatar is a good person, and he was a brother with the adult in his early years." Liu said with a smile. "The relationship between Shatuo and the Tatars has always been harmonious, and it will be fine."

Li Siyuan nodded. He could see that Liu's smile was not very natural when he said that. He kicked his boots and drove the war horse under his crotch forward, "I have to go to the back to give orders, Commander Jing, take care of Madame." ”

After the military order was transmitted, Li Siyuan walked with the army to the Tatar camp. He had heard that although the Yinshan Tatars were dominated by the Usugu and the Black Chezi, there were actually many small tribes, large and small, including many small tribes of the Uighur Khanate. The entire Yinshan Tatar Alliance, with a total of more than 200,000 tents, and hundreds of thousands of slaves, can be described as a huge tribe. Among them, there are more than 30,000 accounts each in the Usugu Department and the Black Car Division.

With such a large tribe, Li Siyuan sketched a scene of a huge civil castle on the grassland in his heart. But in fact, when he got closer, he realized that the location of the Tatar tribe in his heart was actually very bad.

It's more of a refugee camp than a castle.

There were tents everywhere, and in addition to cattle and sheep, there were more pigs, and everywhere there were filthy pigs messing around.

There were not many tents, but thousands, and in the center of the camp, a dozen or so huge tents were a little larger, and there was no momentum.

Li Keyong brought a thousand horsemen, and at this time he was setting up a tent next to the camp.

Li Sien was washing Li Ke's war horse, "My lord is in the big tent." He relayed. He called you over. ”

Li Siyuan smiled and said, "This place is actually the sweat tent of the Tatars? It's like a refugee camp. ”

"The Tatars are not our Shatuo tribe, they say they are the leaders of the alliance, but in fact the tribes are their own hands. Even the Usugu and Heichezi tribes are the same, but they are made up of various tribes. Although Hebul is the alliance of Mo Hedu, there are three deputies under him, Mo Hefu, they are only co-masters, but the affairs of each tribe are handled by themselves, even if they are Hebule, they have no right to control. The big camp here is actually just the men and horses of the Hebulben tribe, five thousand tents. ”

"I don't think it's going to go well." Li Siyuan shook his head, "I'll still go to see the adults." ”

Push open the door of the large tent and stoop into it. Before him, Li Keyong had already entered the house with more than twenty Shatuo officers and sat around the brazier in the tent. The water ran down the boots and gathered into small pools. The wide tent was mixed with the smell of charcoal ash, feces and wet dogs, and it smelled terrible.

Hebul leaned against the brazier, behind him a row of long-haired Tartar men, and several Tartar women with coiled hair poured wine for the crowd.

Mo Hehebul of the Yinshan Tatar Tribal Alliance was a half-hundred-hundred-year-old burly man with gray hair and a pale face. Although his hair is gray, his face is ruddy, and he does not look old at all. He was dressed in a cowhide armor, but his two strong arms were bare, revealing his bulging muscles. Behind him sat more than twenty long-haired Tatar nobles, all of whom were leaders of Tatar tribes.

As the leader of the tribe who received the reward from the Tang Dynasty, Hebule had an official position given by the new emperor, and he was the general of Huaihua. This official position is the same level as the champion general, but it is a martial arts rank specially used by the imperial court to reward foreign leaders. The Tatar leaders beside him also served as General Huaihua, General Guide, General Huaihua Zhonglang, and General Zhonglang of Guide.

However, the armor on these generals is much shabby compared to the armor and cloaks on the generals of Li Keyong and other Shatuo generals.

Li Keyong and Hebule and others toasted each other, and the wine was half-drunk, Li Keyong got up and said: "The Mongolian Tatar Department has taken it in, and we are grateful to let my tribe live here." It shouldn't have been troublesome, but now that winter is coming, there is no food and grass in the clan to survive the winter. Tens of thousands of women and children have no food, so they can only ask Mo He for food with a cheeky face, and hope to help each other. ”

Hebul said with a smile: "My father and I are righteous brothers, eight friends, Shatuo and I Tatar are brothers, now Shatuo is in trouble, I should help each other." ”

As soon as the words fell, Hu Tu, who was one of the three Mo Hofu and the leader of the Black Car Clan, said with a smile: "Feihuzi said that he was joking, who doesn't know that the Shatuo clan is strong, and he doesn't even put Datang in his eyes, how can he have no food?" If there is no food, but I have heard that since the Shatuo people came out of the fortress, they have been constantly recruiting troops and buying horses, whether it is the Uighurs or the Xi people, or even the Tiele, Turks, and Tuyuhun, that is the one who comes, and when you first came, there were only more than 1,000 people, but now there are more than 10,000 people. Without food, how dare Feihuzi recruit people on such a large scale? ”

Seeing that Kutu was hostile to Li Ke's words, Hebule hurriedly said: "Ignore it, don't talk nonsense, Feihuzi's father and son are in trouble, and we should help each other." ”

Hu Tu didn't want to stop there, "Mo Helu, as the lord of the alliance, don't turn your elbow out. Patriarch Li said that he was poor and had no food, but he still kept recruiting troops and horses, how could this really be no food? Besides, he had borrowed grain a few times before, but Patriarch Li came to borrow it again and again, borrowed grain and turned around to recruit troops, so I don't know what to do? ”

Li Keyong was speechless for a while, and after entering Yinshan, he kept recruiting troops and horses, naturally in order to make a comeback and make a comeback. But now, being questioned like this by Kutu, he doesn't know how to respond.

"Patriarch Li's troops are tens of thousands, and there is a lot of need for grain and grass, and it may not be possible for my department to supply for a long time. Hu Tu said coldly. Seeing that Li Keyong didn't answer, he said: "If Patriarch Li really wants to borrow grain, it is not impossible, but it cannot be borrowed in vain." Why don't you use Patriarch Li as collateral with armor weapons? ”

Li Keyong was silent when he heard this, armor and weapons are fundamental, if the weapons and armor are mortgaged, then won't they become fat sheep who can be mermaids?

A wine feast broke up unhappily and they left.

Although Hebule has the intention to help Li Ke, Kutu's words are not completely unreasonable. Li Keyong kept asking them to borrow food and recruit troops, which made Hebul also a little worried, and now asked them to take some weapons and armor as collateral, but he refused at all, which made Hebule also dissatisfied. (To be continued......)