The Yuyuling River (Xilin River) flows out of Hongshan, passes through the King of Shinshu, and then winds northward, and finally flows into the famous Klulun River in the northern desert.

The main river on the Xilingol Grassland in later generations was the Yuyuling River. When the river stayed from Hongshan, there were low hills and wide valleys along the way. After thousands of years of erosion, a vast and high-quality pasture formed.

There are about fifty miles up and down with the Great Tank of King Wu (Xilingol League) as the center. There are occasionally mountains and forests on both sides of the Yuyuling River, and most of the places are flat valleys that are four or five miles wide.

Originally, this was the core ranch of Dugu tribe, but after the arrival of the Thunder Ye Army, they immediately reclaimed 100,000 acres of land along the two sides of the straits and quickly planted rye, alfalfa and vegetables.

The location of King Wu's tent is high on the north bank of the Yuyuling River. It turned out to be a hill covered with pine trees near the river. After the ancestors of the King Wu arrived here, they flattened the top of the mountain and then set the tent on it.

The entire hill is about 3,000 acres in radius, and the top is three or four hundred acres, and the height of the mountain is about fifteen feet.

The initial King of Fog obviously did not realize that the tribal fortifications could be built around this hill, but only regarded it as a high ground to avoid floods.

On the top of the mountain, the King of the King is in the middle, surrounded by about a hundred smaller tents, which are all small nobles of the Dugu tribe similar to centurions. At the foot of the mountain, there are about a thousand tents in units of herders, and they are also herders who have been loyal to King of the King of the Dugu tribe for generations.

A thousand tents are divided into several layers around the hill. The nearest one is at the foot of the mountain, and the farthest one is near the river. From the foot of the mountain, it looks about four or five miles away in a fan shape.

If it weren't for the once powerful Eastern Turkic Khanate at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, and the Xueyantuo, the latter Turkic Khanate would have been a flash in the pan, and tribes like the Jun tribe that were deep in the core area of ​​the southern desert grasslands would not be able to survive alone.

By the same token, if the Zhou Dynasty did not have Wu Zetian, the Tang Dynasty would be interrupted for a period of time, and for fear of inappropriate ranks, they would kill famous ministers and honors (such as Cheng Wuting, Hei Chi Changzhi, etc.). Tribes such as the Jun tribe, Xi tribe, and Khitan, which were close to the Central Plains, would mostly become semi-registered tribes like the governor's office of the Suoyechuan.

Various reasons have led to the current situation in the community.

After the ceremony of worshiping the sky was completed, the Dugu tribe was filled with joy.

For the grassland tribe at this time, as long as the young and strong descendants of Juedu serve as the tribal chief, no matter whether he comes from a patriarch or a matriarch, there have been three female chiefs since Juedu. The tribe that advocates force naturally knows that this will not last long.

Qu Tuyu thought so too.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Qu Tutong family came from the Jun tribe. The Qu Tu family was the personal guard of King Wu for generations. Of course, the Ketuyu family of the Khitan was also the personal guard of the Dahe family for generations, and finally controlled the Dahe family, but Qu Tuyu was obviously not such a person.

The sect has never produced a talented and stubborn person. Even Sun Wanrong has never produced such a person, so wouldn't he fall into such a situation?

Since Sun Xiurong left the Western Regions, his performance along the way, his ability to call on the surrounding tribes after arriving at the Tsuku tribe, and his own charm of "transmitting the gods", all made the Dugu tribe breathe a sigh of relief.

Qu Tuyu completely handed over the power of Dugu's tribe.

"How many males in the tribe have household registration?"

"Report to the Khan, the total household registration of my Dugu tribe is about 5,000. If there are too many males, I have also heard of some Khan's actions in the Western Regions. If it is fifteen years old..."

"No, this place cannot be regulated according to this situation. The Khitans in the east, the south, and the Turks in the west are too powerful, not to mention that the court's attitude towards us is extremely unclear. If we still recruit those over fifteen years old, it will definitely be too late..."

"That……."

"If this is the case, how many people can gather the household registrations of more than one male in the tribe who are over 18 years old and under 25 years old?"

"In this case, there will be at least two thousand households."

"Then around the big tent now..."

“Included”

"In other words, can we recruit one thousand households?"

"Yes"

"Well, all two thousand households have been recruited. As the standing army of my Khan, this time we came here, we brought another three thousand sets of military uniforms and armor, which just happened to be able to equip a unit of three thousand people..."

"Then Yuwen Department and Loushi Department?"

"Give me instructions first and ask him to report the household registration of more than one male in his family first. If it is a fifteen to eighteen years old, I guess, these two should not be too many, it's okay, it's enough to have a thousand people in total."

In the big tent, Sun Xiurong was talking to Qu Tuyu.

"The people from Dugu's tribe are collected quickly. These people will be included in the Pogra Division in the future, including the Sui Ye Jun..."

"That Dugu tribe..."

"You give me instructions first. I see that the Yilijin created by the Khitans has a lot of rules. In a few months, I will convene the Wu tribe again, and Ben Khan will personally appoint each tribe Yilijin. In the future, there will be only one Khan in the Wu tribe, and the rest of the tribe are Yilijin, which is like the Khitan. Ben Khan also serves as the alliance Yilijin."

"Ben Khan also serves as Yilijin of the Bogra tribe. I will recommend you to serve as Yilijin of the Dugu tribe..."

Qu Tuyu knelt down with gratitude as soon as he heard this.

In the past, he was just a descendant of the last King Juedu's personal guard. Although he had some prestige, it was completely impossible to be the chief of the entire tribe. But the situation is very different now. The Khan used the "Yilijin" of the Khitans to cover up this point. With his prestige, it was entirely possible that Yilijin of Dugu's tribe could justify his reputation.

Sun Xiurong helped him up.

"After gathering up the people I just mentioned, I will divide them into two groups. By the way, how were the 1,000 regular military food and salary near the big tent supplied in the past?"

"Reported to the Khan, the Dugu Ministry supplied half of it, the Yuwen Ministry and the Loushi Ministry combined for the other half, and in fact, the agreed cattle, sheep and horses were driven near the large tent at the beginning of each year and handed over to the standing army's family for breeding. In winter, some harvested hay was transported by large trucks."

Sun Xiurong frowned slightly.

Since we came here from a foreign land that was thousands of miles apart, it is naturally unlikely that we would carry too much food, and it is not realistic to use Hu merchants to transport food. The food is too heavy, so it is far from making money for Hu merchants. Moreover, transporting so much food, it is necessary to cross many tribes along the way, so it is not easy to get safely.

"Before this autumn harvest, I could only eat a lot of meat and dairy products. Fortunately, I brought a lot of tea, otherwise I could only rely on meat and dairy for half a year. Moreover, this meat may not be enough..."

Then he asked, "How many cattle and sheep are there around the standing army?"

"In the past, it was configured according to the number of two thousand standing troops. Although there are only one thousand people at present, it is also configured according to this number..."

"But now three thousand Shattered Ye Army and two thousand standing troops have been added, and five thousand have increased..."

"Shan, the Sacred Ye Jun has planted food now. If God blesses you in your life, it will be done in September and October. There will be fewer cattle and sheep needed after that. The cattle and sheep near the big tent are configured in one year, which can actually meet the needs of 4,000 people for half a year."

"Take the Khan's new establishment this time, each department should congratulate you. If it is not good, it can send cattle and sheep for next year in advance. In this way, it will just meet the needs of adding new military strength."

Sun Xiurong nodded, "Okay, go do this quickly."

...

After about ten days of work, all the people from Dugu's tribe moved here. According to Sun Xiurong's plan, they all lived around the big tent, centered on the big tent, and roughly extended one hundred miles in front, back, left and right.

In this circle, the most core is Sun Xiurong’s newly established Bogra division and then Dugu division. However, according to Sun Xiurong’s idea, they are not clear-cut, but are mixed with each other, and will all become part of the Bogra division in the future.

This is about 3,000 square kilometers, about 4.5 million mu of acres. In fact, the pastures here are extremely excellent. Five acres of land can feed a sheep. If 3,000 households calculate based on ten acres of land and one sheep, it only takes three million mu, which is enough to feed the newly arrived herders.

However, Sun Xiurong also captured three thousand Helian tribes. The Tuoba tribe lost the herdsmen of the young and strong man and compensated them all to the Sai Ye Jun. If they were added, it would be barely enough.

Even so, with the arrival of Xueyantuo tribe and Bogra tribe, the ranch of the junta tribe was still a little cramped, but there were still some idle ranches nearby.

To the south, as the Xi tribe, the pasture near Dalopo (lake Dalinor in the later generations) in the Khitan buffer zone can meet the needs of at least one tribe of 3,000 households. To the northwest of the big tent, the official pasture Daligang Ai Ranch set up by the later generations of the Qing Dynasty can feed at least 5,000 herders.

It was originally a ranch of the Qipi tribe. After the Qipi tribe headed south, due to years of war, there were only a small number of Payegu and the Patriarchs of the Pugu tribe nomads. If they were taken down, the scope of the Wan tribe ranch could be greatly expanded.

However, the Bayegu tribe has defected to the Uighurs, and the Pugu tribe is Dongyehu of Usumishi Khan. Neither of these two parts can be compared with Sun Xiurong at the moment, so I can only wait for the future.

As for the east of Hongshan, it has been firmly occupied by the Khitans and is not easy to obtain.

Of course, there is also the Xi tribe in the south.

Compared with the Khitans, the Xi tribe, like the Khitan tribe, did not reorganize the tribe, and was still the primitive primitive slavery with the primitive Khan, the commander of thousands and centuries as the core. Although it is now more powerful than the Khitans, the connection between the five Khitan tribes is looser than that of the eight Khitan tribes.

This provided Sun Xiurong with an opportunity, not to mention that the tribe of the Lord of the Emperor, which was next to Dieda Lobo, had been weakened not long ago.

However, these are not what Sun Xiurong needs to consider now.

What his men have to consider is to survive!

After the herds moved here, Sun Xiurong immediately selected 3,000 young and strong men under the age of 25, regardless of marriage or not. Half of them were devoted to the construction of the "Grandmaster's Office", and the other half immediately went into training.

The same was true for the Sui Ye Jun, with half of the men on guard and half of the men also engaged in the construction of the project.

After discussing with Xi Yuanli, he planned to build many rigorous fortifications around the big tent.

A simple city wall made of fired bricks is set up around the large tent on the top of the mountain. In Sun Xiurong's plan, there is naturally no need to be a few feet tall like Talas, or even the mainland. He only needs to build a low wall with a height of about six feet wide, and people can stand guarding it on it.

A trench was dug halfway up the mountain. There were channels for drainage outwards at every distance. The trench was equipped with rolling stones, where people could stand to shoot. There was also a trench cave leading to the depths of the mountain at every distance.

Such a place is also a camp.

This is the second line of defense.

There is naturally the third line of defense at the foot of the mountain. The same low wall that is wide and high is divided into four city gates, the city gate and the Tibetan military cave located on the side of the mountain. The location of the top of the mountain gate is staggered, making the enemy confused.
Chapter completed!