Chapter 95: Xhosa Raiders (8) Chess Game (1)
In the spring of the fourth year of Zhaoxiang, just when the Great Qin State and the Khanate of the Khonah continued to confront each other, Sun Xiurong, who was in Surrey City, suddenly made an amazing decision.
He did not tell Su Xijie the whole decision, but the intuition suddenly popped up in his mind after Su Xijie left.
In fact, although the Great Qin State roughly borders the Wuhu River and the Great Shi Kingdom, there is still one special feature.
Ashgabad!
In later generations, Ashgabat was the capital of Turkmenistan. The northern foothills of the Kopet Mountains where it is located is also one of the best places in the entire Turkmenistan. This place is located in the Hetao area of Persia, which is somewhat similar to the Central Plains dynasty. When the Central Plains dynasty is strong, the border will be pushed to the Yinshan line, and when it is weak, it will retreat to the Lingzhou (Ningxia) and Yunzhong (Datong).
After Sun Xiurong fell in love with the mild climate of Tuoba Lu, the former king of Tuoba Lu, migrated to Ashgabad with people who were willing to follow him, he soon gained a foothold there.
However, Kopet Mountain is a mountain range that spreads east and west for more than a thousand miles. The west is Barcanabad near the port of Kizil, and the east is Mulu City, where the Governor's Mansion is located.
Let a Christian-believe country occupy Ashgabat, which is what the cannibals today are willing to see, otherwise their defenses would directly border the Qin Kingdom on land.
The way of buffering is to be familiar with any dynasty at any time, and it is nothing like that in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.
At the westernmost point, there was the former Navy Minister of the Dowathan Kingdom, who later surrendered to Simbad, the general of Gebosilin. With Sun Xiurong's acquiescence, he occupied Barkanabad and opposite the port of Kizil, where the port of Hazard was located, he built his sailing base.
Simbad started sailing again. In recent years, he did not oppose the Great Food Country with the Hurami faction as in history, but instead started business honestly and has become a rich man. In the past, when he was in Dhabasidan, he had a good relationship with the Xhosa Khanate, Azerbaijani and Armenians. Now when he was in business, he is naturally still as good as a fish in water.
(Hasim, Simbad, the Persians who sincerely accompanies Bosilin in religion. As soon as Bosilin dies, they immediately raise the banner of rebellion)
After many years, he has become the second most important tycoon in the Qin Dynasty after Kutba.
Such a long mountain range, its hillside is also a good pasture. It is obviously impossible for a country called Dobassan to occupy it all. There is also a large oasis east of Ashgabat and west of Mulu City. The jurisdiction of later generations, Jiezhanhe City, is larger than Mulu City, and is naturally firmly controlled by the giant zombie.
During the Persian Empire, in order to resist the nomadic peoples in the north, they built a Great Wall similar to China in the eastern end of Dorbastan and the area of the Kopet Mountains, and built a pass at the dangerous point of the Kopet Mountains, but the pass was built two hundred miles east of Ashgabat (Daregaz later).
In the Jezhan River, Mulu City built a castle and migrated Persians to settle down. After Persia declined, Mulu City became a forefront for the Great Cannibal to further explore the river, and the Jezhan Castle beside him became his big rear. If Ashgabat was in the hands of the Thunder Ye Army, the Great Cannibal would obviously not dare to regard it as a big rear.
But the cannibal is obviously very proficient in buffering.
After the Tang Dynasty swept across the Western Turks and overwhelmed the Turkish Khanate, which was the successor in the Kaiyuan era, a large number of Turks went south to surrender to the Great Cannibal. For these skilled archers, the Great Cannibal naturally came without any hesitation. They were previously placed in the mainland, such as Mashhad, Neshapur, etc., because at that time the entire northern foothills of the Kopet Mountain were in their hands.
After the death of Bingbosilin, the Leaf Army took the opportunity to occupy Dobastan and Ashgabad. In this way, it would be unstable to regard Jezhan Castle as its own rear. However, the newly appointed governor, Gazhanwar, one of the three emirs of the Great Food Empire, also had a trick. He concentrated most of the Turks who continued to be nomadic in the Great Khorasan area near Jezhan Castle.
Near the Gizhan Fort, including the Kopet mountain pasture, there were at least 15,000 square kilometers, which was enough to feed these Turkic people. By the fourth year of Zhaoxiang (762), the Turkic herders in this place had nearly tens of thousands of households, and could dispatch 5,000 tribal cavalry for the Great Food Kingdom at any time, which was a considerable force.
Such power must naturally be in the hands of one's own people.
During the era of white-clothed food and food, the governor who controlled Khorasan was named Assad, but also established a second-level governor under Khorasan - the governor of Hezhong. The governor of Hezhong at that time was named Nasr. He was a descendant of a Western Turkic royal family. Later, he was defeated by Sun Xiurong, who had first arrived in the Hezhong area (see the Battle of Jizak).
After the rise of the black food and food, Nasr was naturally deposed, but his family and tribe members were still there. After Gazelvar took office, he appointed Nasr's son, a young man named Asunasr, as the governor of Jezanburg (the third-level governor's jurisdiction), and commanded the Turks there.
When Sun Xiurong led the Snowy Ye army to attack Hezhong for the second time, he defeated Hassan, the second-ranked man under Gyebo Silin, and captured the adopted son of Gyebo Silin. The Turkic people Zhishuwujie, who stayed in the Snowy Ye army for a short time, and later ran to the Dashi Kingdom. For such a person who is familiar with the Snowy Ye army, Gazheval naturally refused to blame him and continued to use it.
He asked Zhisiwujie to assist Ashinaser in Jezburg. As soon as Zhisiwujie arrived, he immediately suggested that Asshinaser form a three thousand standing army, or three thousand be formed completely according to the regulations of the Blue Noble Qinshi troops of the Western Turkic Khanate (the elite troops, Kimak also intended this. Later, the foundation of the Qinshi people was laid, similar to the Korchin troops and the Chixue troops of the Mongolian Empire).
Jiazheval acquiesced the existence of this scene and also provided them with weapons. In his eyes, Ashinasr's father Nasr was once defeated by Sun Xiurong, and the young and strong Turkic tribe also suffered a lot in that battle. Zhihu Wujie also suffered losses in his troops and generals. These two people should have a deep hatred with the people of the Qin Dynasty.
Therefore, it was very safe to place the two of them near Jezanburg.
For this relatively concentrated Turkic group, Gazheval did not force them to believe in the Great Food and Education, but all the nobles like centurions and above naturally converted.
The Sacrifice Army officially entered the river about fifteen years ago. In recent years, this Turkic group has been in peace with the surrounding forces. After Gazheval was defeated by Ma Lin last time, they did not take the opportunity to make trouble and demand independence, which made Gazheval trustworthy.
However, it was not a big deal to raise such a nomadic tribe by his side. After Gazelvar returned to Mulu City, he immediately asked Asinasir to dispatch three thousand elite cavalry to Mulu City to serve in the military, and asked him to provide another 5,000 war horses.
This almost emptied the family fortunes that Ashinasl and Zhihuwujie had saved for many years. They wanted to support their three thousand standing troops and also provided three thousand cavalry. In other words, 60% of the families of ten thousand herders had to serve in the military!
The additional 5,000 war horses were provided, so that their war horses would not have any backups. Once a war occurred and the war horses suffered a lot of losses, they would have to stay dormant for at least three years (the war horses matured at the age of two, but they would have to be domesticated for three years).
However, Asnasir did not hesitate at all and followed the orders of Gazheval. For him, without Gazheval, his family was still a shepherd slave in Herat (Nasir was the governor of the White Clothing and Dashi, and Dashi would definitely be demoted to a slave after he came to power).
But he wasn't completely unsuspecting.
After a few years of being with the Sui Ye Army, Zhihu Wujie naturally learned all the rules of the Sui Ye Army. The three thousand standing troops he personally trained were all trained from young soldiers, while the three thousand cavalry sent to Mulu City were the old and weak in the tribe (for the great cannibals, being able to ride horses and shoot archery is enough), and his foundation is still there.
However, since this army was personally selected and trained by Zhi Shiwujie, the soldiers' feelings for him were much deeper than Ashinas. At this time, both the Eastern Turks and the Western Turks were already passing by, let alone the Turks who had been in Persia for nearly a hundred years?
The noble bloodline of the Blue Turks has long been a legend. To put it bluntly, Ashinasr is just a secret stake placed by Gazelvar next to Zhisiwujie. Therefore, near the Castle of Jezan, in fact, the situation where Ashinasr controls the herdsmen, civil affairs, and Zhisiwujie is in charge of the army.
Others don’t care about the Blue Turks, but Asnaser himself cannot ignore it. He is naturally dissatisfied with this scene. However, he has been a shepherd slave in Herat since he was a child, and has long experienced the coldness of death, so he has never endured it - he can’t send it, and the three thousand elite standing troops are in the hands of others.
What's more, the Zhishi family is also one of the Blue Turkic tribes, and they are all descendants of Canglang. Who can be so noble than who?
The scene near the Jezanburg obviously cannot escape the eyes of the Censorate. For the Qin State, although millions of Han people were introduced from Youzhou, the most Turkic tribes in the territory were the most popular. There were naturally a large number of Turkic people in the Censorate, which was easy to penetrate there.
However, although the decline of the Blue Turks does not mean that Ashinasr also thinks so. He is a descendant of the secret room. Now Princess Yu Zhu, one of the concubines of Sun Xiurong, the king of the Great Qin Kingdom, is a descendant of the Khan of the Tumen country. It is considered to be the same ancestor. Moreover, Princess Yu Zhu's son Sun Zhao is still of the same generation as him.
As the nominal Khan Ashinazhong and his son were completely dismissed, the last royal family of the Ashina clan on the Eurasian prairie became part of the old paper pile, but Sun Zhao, who was named Prince of Pingyang, gradually became a close object in the eyes of Ashinaser.
(At this time, countries close to the Black Sea, such as the Khanate of Xhosa, the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Bulgarian Khanate, were very cruel in handling their political enemies. They all chose to blind them and exiled them to the Khlsong swamp. There were several Roman emperors, and many of the Khanate of the two Khanates, Ye Hu, were treated like this)
This is because, on formal occasions, Sun Xiurong gave his older sons the title of Prince, but in private he would also give his name according to his mother's origin.
At this time, almost all the grassland tribes adopted the Turkic official system, and among the Turkic official system, there were three most noble ones, namely: Ye Hu, Kill, and Special Forces, and they were all not allowed to be the sons of the Khanate. Of course, by the end of the Khanate, due to their weak strength, even the Black Turkic Uighurs who were looked down upon by them in the past could be named Ye Hu. That was another matter.
For example, Sun Zhaojian was given the title of "Tengri Special Forces" because his mother was the Turkic Princess Ashinawan, which was the general meaning of "the real Blue Turkic descendant", which was obviously to allow his son to command the Turkic tribe that is the most crowded on the Eurasian prairie at the right time.
Tengger, the sky, the so-called Blue Turks, the descendants of the Blue Sky are also.
Chapter completed!