Yingsow River Prairie (Bainbrook Prairie in later generations).

When Sun Xiurong led his young soldiers to enter the Yingshu River Basin along the Beiyingshu River, a heavy snow came unexpectedly. Fortunately, there were many guides who were familiar with the path sent by Da Xi Chounu. Otherwise, it would be extremely difficult to find a road without traps in this place about a hundred miles long and about thirty miles wide in the snowy weather.

In the middle of the grassland wetlands, near the later Swan Lake, Da Xi Wenming took the noble chiefs from his tribe out for five miles.

After heavy snow, birds and beasts gathered, flowers and plants flourished, and countless rivers, rivers, and water puddles were everywhere. When the North Yingsau River was frozen, it was still a thin layer. When the river reached the main stream of Yingsau River, all the rivers, lakes, and water puddles in the wetlands were frozen firmly.

This is the real hometown of Yanqi Horse.

Sun Xiurong and the others walked down from a high place. When they approached the Swan Lake, a large area of ​​white tent was hidden in the snow, almost integrated with the snow, that is, the smoke on it exposed their existence.

There must be a livestock shed surrounded by wooden fences near each white tent. Yanqi horses, Western Regions green cows, camels, and big-tailed sheep are all wrapped inside. It looks like a big circle outside, and the inside is divided into sheep pens, horse pens, cow pens, camel pens, and a small number of sheds, which are prepared for the animals to be produced.

Da Xi Wenming looked at Sun Xiurong and his party with a smile, but in fact he was very shocked.

After the heavy snow, the temperature in the core area of ​​Yingsu River dropped sharply, but the Thunder Ye Jun, wearing "strange" clothes, was still walking on the post road in an unusually stern manner under the leadership of the Chou Nu.

On the snowy day, the wide-eaves iron helmet of Sai Ye Jun had a layer of white-haired sheepskin. The hem of the sheepskin could protect the entire neck, and some iron pieces were sewn inside. In fact, it was the neck-protecting armor that Sun Xiurong himself invented.

The outturned wool seemed to make Da Xi Wenming realize that this "Tang Army" led by the descendants of the Khitan rebels had a little intimacy.

In fact, due to the obstruction of the Tianshan Mountains, the Yingsauchuan prairie in the basin is not very cold, at least far from the Nibuchu prairie in the previous life. If the temperature is lower, Sun Xiurong will definitely ask the young soldiers to put their sheepskin short jackets outside, but it seems that they do not need them at the moment.

I haven't seen the grand scene of Swan Lake, but the steam rising in some parts of the lake makes the surroundings completely in a dreamlike illusion, making people feel strange in the illusion.

Not counting the hillside pastures, the Yingsauchuan wetland grassland area alone is over a thousand square kilometers, allowing three thousand herders to live here.

Da Xi Wenming did the same. His tribe originally had only 5,000 tents. After destroying the Shi Nishi tribe, he obtained tens of thousands of tents. Since then, all the women and children of the original Shi Nishi tribe were given to his subordinates. Dingkou has reproduced very quickly in recent years, but in fact, the entire tribe has already exceeded 20,000 households.

Currently, there are two thousand households of his core tribe centered on Swan Lake. These two thousand households are aristocrats above centurion. There are Turkic slaves grazing cattle, sheep and horses for them. They are the regular army of Daxi Civilization. One thousand people patrol everywhere on a daily basis, and one thousand people stay away from Daxi Civilization.

Daxi Wenming destroyed the Shi Nishi tribe, one of the five major right wings of the former Western Turkic tribe, with a small foreign Xianbei tribe, in one fell swoop. Naturally, he had a great prestige in the tribe, and now he was even no less than the Murong Tuyuhun in the past.

But in Da Xi Wenming's eyes, his military strength was not worth worrying about in front of the Tang army. When he was in the grassland on the western foot of the Qilian Mountains in Hexi, he had seen the Tang cavalry under Geshuhan, a commander of the military commander of Geshuhan. After seeing this, the Hexi Jiedushi asked him to move to Tianshan. He agreed without saying a word, because he knew that Geshuhan could destroy his entire tribe with three thousand cavalry.

But the Shattered Ye Army, who looked both like the Tang army and the standing army of the nomadic tribe, gave him a complex mood.

This emotion made him look forward and fearful.

At present, the news that he was preparing to move his clan has spread like wildfire. The Tang Dynasty did not express too much about this. For them, due to the existence of the Yingsau River Grassland, a castle at the level of military town was set up in Yanqi. If there were no tribes on the grassland, there was no need for Yanqi Town to exist.

Of course, without the Daxi tribe, other tribes will soon come to fill the gap. Although the Yingsow River Grassland is not as good as the Yili River Valley Grassland, it is also an extremely high-quality grassland near the Tianshan Mountains.

If it was a simple Tang army or a simple elite of the nomadic tribe, it would be a way for Xi Wenming to deal with it, but after facing Sun Xiurong alone, he seemed to feel a little unaware of his ability to start.

Today, Daxi Wenming wore a pointed sheepskin hat, with two pendants wool ball knots hanging from both sides of the hat. This time, his braids were not scattered, but were braided into two thick braids hanging on his shoulders. The sparse goatee beards of the Xianbei people made Sun Xiurong seem to see what happened in the Nibchu Prairie.

A man standing next to Da Xi Wenming attracted his attention. He saw that the man was about thirty years old, tall, but wearing a Tang suit, just adding a short sheepskin jacket to his upper body.

When the man saw Sun Xiurong, he seemed to avoid his eyes and lowered his head without saying a word.

With the introduction of Da Xi Wenming, Sun Xiurong learned his name.

"June Ma, this is my military advisor, Helian Fuyun, also from Tuyuhun Tribe."

"oh?"

Sun Xiurong's reaction obviously tasted like inquiry, and Da Xi Wenming naturally heard it. He smiled and said, "Let's go back to the big tent and talk, there are the best lamb and milk tea there."

In the end, the only big tent that could be entered with Da Xi Wenming and Sun Xiurong was Helian Fuyun.

The three of them knelt in front of the stove burning sheep dung. The tent was filled with smoke because there was no chimney. However, the three of them seemed to be used to all this, and sat around in front of the stove with a knife cutting lamb, drinking milk tea that had just risen.

Unlike milk tea that contains salt or sugar in later generations, Daxi Wenming from the grassland of Qilian Mountains placed some local spices in the milk tea, which made Sun Xiurong taste strange.

In addition to milk tea, there are naturally wines produced in the Western Regions. After a long journey, Sun Xiurong ate without hesitation. Da Xi Wenming looked at him with a smile, and occasionally took a few bites, while Helian Fuyun secretly observed him while eating.

After he was full of wine and food, he drank another bowl of milk tea with no spices but a little honey. Sun Xiurong said to Da Xi Wenming: "Khan, is this military advisor also from your subordinate?"

Da Xi Wenming looked at Helian Fu Yun, then smiled, "It would be great if my troops could have such a military advisor. Oh, this matter is related to the governor?"

"oh?"

"Governor, a few years ago, you dared to face the Tubo cavalry of Larudoji in Hunu Town with more than a hundred men. After this incident, the Tubo people finally realized that there were also the contributions of the Tang army, so they ordered to move to Helian troops near Aksaichen to attack Hunu Town..."

After he said this, Sun Xiurong naturally remembered Nie Feng's words, but he just nodded and did not expose the matter.

"Gao Xianzhi, a powerful general in Yutian Town, actually crossed Jiandeli Ancient Road at the risk of a volcanic eruption and came to the back of the Helian cavalry. In the end, the Helian team lost a lot, half of them died in battle, and half of them became prisoners..."

Sun Xiurong smiled and said, "Can the military advisor be there too?"

Da Xi Wenming nodded, "Yes, after these people came to Yutian Town, they all became slaves of the Tang army. Some of them helped the Tang army feed horses, and some were placed in the mines by the government. The military advisor was a famous strategist of the Helian tribe. He was proficient in the four languages ​​of Xianbei, Qiang, Tubo and Tang, so he was naturally left by Gao Xianzhi."

"But the military advisor was a herdsman, so he naturally couldn't get used to life in the city. He left a letter to Gao Xianzhi and ran away. He came to Yingshuochuan. I was familiar with him before, so he naturally accepted him."

"Governor", Helian Fuyun took over the conversation at this time. He spoke in Tang Dynasty, with a full-mouthed and full-mouthed manner, without any sense of being a beginner. "I want to hide it from you. In the past, when the King of Tuyuhun moved from the distant northeast Yingzhou, there were several major surnames besides the Murong clan, among which Helian and Bai clan were the most prominent. The three noble surnames were in-laws. After the Tubo people came to the West Sea, Tuyuhun was defeated and the tribes were divided. The former Murong clan married the Tubo princess and led various tribes in Lusue City in the name of the nephew of the Tubo king."

"The remaining tribes were also moved to various places by them. The Murong tribe and the Qiang tribe were mixed with each other, while the Bai tribe and Helian tribe moved half from the West Sea and Qilian Mountain Ranch to the old place of Xiangxiong. Before that, we all believed in shamanism. After the Tubo people intervened, we naturally believed in Bon religion. I heard that the governor had specially opened a shamanism sacrificial place under the snow-capped mountains, and placed the spiritual positions of the soldiers who died in battle there."

"After I learned from Hu Shang who came here, I was very eager to see the governor's sacrificial dance. Today I am lucky to see the governor's real person."

Who is Sun Xiurong? Naturally, he would not be deceived by him in a few words. In his first life, he was the commander of the cavalry company. He patrolled along the Erguna River for a long time and naturally learned modern reconnaissance techniques. When he saw Helian Fuyun's eyelids beating slightly from time to time, he knew that this person seemed to be trying his best to hide something. Perhaps before he arrived, he and Daxi Wenming were discussing an extraordinary event, but he was interrupted by his sudden arrival, but he had not recovered from the nervousness and excitement just now, so he would have such a performance.

"oh?"

The experience of more than a hundred years has allowed Sun Xiurong to develop a calm face.

“…….”

Not long after, Helian Fuyun finally finished speaking. It was nothing more than what he saw and heard in Qilian Mountains. He was so clear about how to defeat Gao Xianzhi in one quarter. Finally, he said: "Great Khan, Governor, I'm a little tired, so I'll take my leave first."

Sun Xiurong nodded, stood up, and sent him outside the tent. His figure soon disappeared on the edge of Swan Lake. With his arrival, several people appeared near his tent, with shadows and illuminated. They couldn't see clearly. Those people seemed to suddenly emerge from the snow fog, which looked very strange.

When he entered the tent, he asked, "Khan, didn't the military advisor come alone?"

Da Xi Wenming nodded, "He is a noble man from Helian's tribe. After surrendering to Gao Xianzhi, Gao Xianzhi, who had originally followed him, returned it to him."

"Then Gao Xianzhi didn't blame him for leaving?"

"No, before that, due to the planning of the military advisor, Gao Xianzhi moved some of the herdsmen of Helian to the northern foot of Kunlun Mountain. At that time, many Tubo cavalry who came to block the attack were killed. After making this contribution, Gao Xianzhi let him leave."
Chapter completed!