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Xi nationality, real name Kumo Xi.

A branch of the Xianbei Yuwen Department in the east of Xiben is also a branch of the Xiongnu. Khitan and Xi are of the same origin, both of which are a branch of Xianbei Yuwen.

In the twenty-second year of Tang Zhenguan, Chief Xi led the people to attach, and Tang Taizong placed the Raole Governor's Mansion in his place, and set up five states in Xi. The Rao Le Du Governor's Mansion was governed by the Yingzhou Dongyi Governor's Mansion, and Tang Xuanzong and Tang Zhongzong successively married the three princesses of Gu'an, Cheng'an, and Dongguang to three Xi Wangs.

In the early days, Xi and Khitan lived in the Huangshui and Tuhe River basins, the Xi people lived in the upper reaches of the Tuhe River, and the Khitan people lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Tuhe River. Huangshui is the Xilamulun River in the upper reaches of the West Liaoshui, and the Tuhe River is the Laoha River in later generations.

The Xi people lived in the Han border to the west and south, and the Khitan to the east and north.

Zhenguan Xi people attached, the Tang Dynasty set up the Raole Governor's Mansion in Xi, and the position of the governor was held by the chief of Xi, and the chief of Xi was given the surname Li by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Before the middle of the Tang Dynasty, from the seventh century to the ninth century, it was the heyday of the Xi people, and their military strength was on a par with the Khitan, and sometimes even stronger than the Khitan. Xi and Khitan are stronger than the northeast, and are called the two Tibetans by the Tang Dynasty. After the middle of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan became stronger and stronger, and the Xi people gradually fell under the control of the Khitan.

Xi has five major tribes, the Ahui Department, the Division and the Department. Oku's Lost Department. Department of Auditing. Yuan Qian folded part.

The five states set up by Tang in Xi were both Ahui Prefecture as the weak water prefecture, the Division and the Ministry as Qili Prefecture, the Ao Lost Department as Luohuan Prefecture, the Duji Department as Tailu Prefecture, and the Yuan Qi Folding Department as the Thirsty Ye Prefecture.

The Ahui clan was the chief of the five tribes. was given the surname Li by Tang.

King Xi's tooth tent is located in the Tuhe Impact Plain, that is, the upper reaches of the Laoha River in later generations, Ningcheng, Hebei. At the same time, this is the tooth tent of King Xi, and it is also the Zhongjing of the Liao Dynasty and the Beijing of the Yuan Dynasty.

The earth river in the first month has been frozen, and the tooth tent of King Xi is even more snowy and frozen.

Heavy snow has closed the road, and the sky and the earth are snow-white.

King Xi's tooth tent, Xi Da Chief Tu Dong Su lay on a wolfskin mattress, dying.

This King of Xi who has been in charge of the position of the Great Chief of the Million Xi People for thirty-three years. Now he is on the verge of death, and he is terminally ill. Day by day, skinny as wood, it looks like you will not be able to survive this winter.

"Ahem, ahem!"

After a violent cough, Tu Dongsu's face flushed sickly, and the whole person's spirit came up a little.

The old man turned his head to the side and asked, "Hasn't Shi Se come back yet?" ”

The people in front of the sickbed shook their heads.

Shi Se is the new leader of the Ahui clan of the Xi tribe, and he began to gradually take over the Xi clan as early as fifteen years ago, and Tu Dong Su completely handed over the power of the tribe to Shi Se eight years ago. However, Shi Se continued to taunt the Great Chief, but it caused his brother to be very dissatisfied.

Especially after Shi Se took over the Xi tribe and married the daughter of the Khitan predecessor Yili Jianye Luyun Deshi, he almost completely fell to the side of the Khitan. Today's Xi has almost become a vassal of the Khitan, and Shi Se obeys the Khitan's words.

Qu Zhu was very dissatisfied with this, and ten years ago, he began to unite some tribes in the Xi Five Tribes to oppose Shi Se.

Although there was Tu Dong Su alive, he relied on his prestige to suppress the Zhu, and did not let Xi fight the civil war. But by now, the entire Xi has almost been divided into two parts: east and west.

In private, the Xi people called Tudong Su the old chieftain, and Shi Se was called the king of Dongxi, and Congzhu was called the king of Xi.

When the Zhuzhu belt moved to the Luanhe River and Xuanshui area, close to Yanshan and Yinshan, they were more inclined to attach to the Tang Dynasty.

And Shi Se still occupies the upper reaches of the Tuhe River to the first line of Dushan and White Wolf Water, closely followed by the Khitan. This time, the Khitan and Tang fought in Liaoxi, and the Yelu family of the Khitan Diera Department sent a letter to Shi Se, who immediately gathered 10,000 Xi cavalry to Dushan to reinforce the Khitan.

Tu Dong Su coughed for a while, and finally gasped for breath and stopped. His eyes swept over the several major tribes in the tent, and he said slowly: "I heard last night that a fast horse came back in the snow, what happened?" ”

In such a season, the various departments of the Xi people are generally closed for the winter. But for several days in a row, tribal warriors rode horses and braved the snow to come to the tent. Tu Dong Su knew that something big must have happened.

"Big Chief, there's nothing to do, just rest in peace." The department and the department said with a smile.

"Don't fool me with this, although I am dying, I am not blind." Tu Dong Su struggled to sit up, "Did Shi Se have an accident in Dushan?" Although I was on the sickbed, I also heard that Datang had a new young handsome man named Li Jing, who was only in his twenties. Legend has it that he was invincible and invincible, and even the Shatuo tribe was defeated by him, and he heard that he defeated the Bohai Sea and recovered the Liaodong Peninsula. Now that the momentum is raging to Liaoxi, it is not easy to deal with. The Tang Dynasty was the first king with a different surname for decades, and he was only in his twenties, and he was neither from a famous family, nor from the royal family, but a self-made general. How can we deal with such a character? ”

"The Tang people have seized the Liaodong Peninsula, and now they come to fight Liaoxi, Liaoxi will not be able to defend it. If the Tang people on the Liaodong Peninsula did not win, Liaoxi could still fight to defend it, but now, it would be defeated in vain. Tell me how many of the 10,000 cavalry he brought with him, and ask him to withdraw immediately. ”

A young woman with a shawl next to her sat in front of the couch with a girl of six or seven years old, and interjected: "Father, Xi and Khitan are originally of the same origin, and they are brothers. One is prosperous, and one is lost. The Tang army is menacing and has already captured the Liaodong Peninsula, if he is allowed to take Liaoxi again, then what will happen next is not clear to his father? We Khitan and Xi anti-Tang Dynasty for 200 years, the Tang army has made a comeback, and it will never let us go. The knives are already on the neck, don't you resist? ”

Tu Dong Su glanced at the young woman with some disgust, and said lightly: "Men are in deliberations, and women have no part to intervene." You take Yue Liduo back, there are other people here to take care of you, and you don't need it. ”

The young woman was the daughter of Jerujundesh, the sister of Jerodza. Shi Se's wife. Their daughter, Tsukirito. has already made a marriage with Abaoji, the third son of Jeruza's assassination.

Tu Dong Su now regrets very much the relationship he did with Yun Deshi back then. It's not that this daughter-in-law is bad, but this daughter-in-law is too powerful. The son married a daughter-in-law and forgot his father, he was injured at an early age, and let his son start to deal with the affairs of the clan too early, and the son obeyed the wife's words. This daughter-in-law does have the ability, the son only knows how to ride horses and shoot arrows, and is very impatient with managing clan affairs, so he relies on this Khitan wife for everything. The most Lu later led to Xi becoming a vassal of the Khitan, which led to the dissatisfaction of many people such as the Zhu, and now Xi is divided into two Xi, East and West, which are almost split. It is conceivable that he is still alive at the moment, and Xi can at least maintain his unity on the surface. As soon as he dies, the two sons will definitely not tolerate it anymore, and at that time, the split between the East and West can no longer be stopped.

drove his daughter-in-law out of the city. Yi Gu lowered his eyes and said, "Old chief, the situation is not good. ”

In recent days. There were constantly cavalry rushing to King Xi's tent in the snow, bringing almost all the bad news.

First of all, on the side of Dushan, the Tang army had already set up a large camp under Dushan, and the confrontation had been fought for a long time, and Shi Se's soldiers and horses were pinned down in Dushan and could not come back. At the same time, according to information, the Tang army left Shanhaiguan and began to build a road along the coast leading to Liaodong. The Diera Department was forced to send cavalry to attack and sabotage, but instead fell into an ambush by the Tang army, and suffered a lot of losses several times. Seeing that the Tang army's road is constantly being repaired forward, it is possible that the soldiers and horses of Dushan will be ambushed by the Tang army.

And that's not even the worst news, the worst news is that yesterday a bloodied warrior arrived at the tent and reported a shocking news. To the south, a detachment of Tatar cavalry was coming from southwest to northeast, plundering several tribal camps along the way.

"Tatars? How dare they? Tu Dong Su was furious.

After hundreds of years of development, there are millions of people. However, the Tatars, who went south from the north of the desert, relied on the Tang people to take refuge in the Uighurs and other small tribes that destroyed the country, and their power grew rapidly, and now, there are even millions of people.

However, Tudongsu always looked down on the Tatars, believing them to be just an alliance of robbers and refugees from the steppe. Xi people are in the north of Yanshan and the east of Yinshan. The Tatars are in the north of Yinshan and west of Yanshan. On both sides, the well water does not interfere with the river water, and sometimes the Xi people will even go to rob the Tatars.

When did the Tatars dare to come and rob the taunts?

"How many of them are there?" The old chief felt that something was not quite right. Although Xi has weakened over the years, at least he still has an offensive and defensive alliance with the Khitans, and in this northeast, other tribes are unable to compete with them. If the Tatars were really so kind, they would not have been driven from the steppe all the way down to the Yin Mountain to seek protection from the Tang Dynasty.

"It is said that there are tens of thousands, maybe even 20,000 or 30,000. It's all cavalry, and it's all elite cavalry, armored cavalry! Yi Gu said worriedly. There are not many soldiers and horses, there are few standing armies, and only in wartime can soldiers and horses be mobilized.

Now the standing soldiers of the tooth tent have gone to Dushan, and there are only 500 guards left in the entire tooth tent, and the rest are 1,000 auxiliary troops, plus more than 1,000 reserve troops on duty. All together, there were only 3,000 soldiers in the tooth tent.

When Tu Dong Su heard that there were twenty or thirty thousand soldiers and horses, and they were all armored cavalry, his eyes immediately widened.

He muttered, "This is not a Tatar. ”

"The warrior who reported the news fought with them, and it was indeed a Tatar, and according to him he saw the banners and guards of the Tatar-Usu Guhebul and the Black Chezi Kutu. The Tatars invaded in a big way! Ikushi said.

"No, no!" The old chief shook his head bitterly, "The Tatars would never dare to do this, and now that they are here, it is not just them." They came with the Tang Army, and they were Li Jing's vanguards. The Tang army's elite cavalry is coming, and they are about to kill. ”

Yi Gu and the other Xi chieftains were stunned, but no one refuted the old chief's words, because this was a great possibility, otherwise, the Tatars would never dare to risk such a great risk to go thousands of miles and kill the tooth tent in such a snowy season.

All of this only shows one possibility, the Tatars came with the Tang army.

The elite of the Xi tribe, part of them followed Shi Se in Dushan, and part of them followed Zhu in the north of Yanshan.

Now there are only 3,000 soldiers in the tooth tent, and even if they are mobilized immediately, they can only mobilize another 3,500 herdsmen's cavalry. At this time, it was too late to immediately notify other tribes to mobilize troops and horses.

"Woooooo

A long horn sounded in the open snow, followed by a thunderous sound from the sky.

There was a rush of footsteps outside, and a Xi guard officer rushed into the big tent with a pale face, shouting in panic: "Oh no, a large force of cavalry was found in the south, and they were rushing to kill, looking at the number of people, there are at least 10,000 people!" (To be continued......)