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The strong wind stomped on Li Siyuan's face with drizzle. He kicked the horse's belly lightly and crossed the river with water. Next to him, Li Keyong, the leader of the Shatuo tribe, pulled the cloak on his body, murmured and cursed the damn weather. His harrier eagle stopped on his shoulders, and the wind wrinkled the feathers, making it look as depressed as Li Keyong.

The north wind rises and the dead grass flies.

He secretly hoped that the wife who was following behind could hold on. Even if the weather was sunny, it would not be a good thing to ride outside the border for a long time. Now, it had rained for ten days, and the vast grassland had already turned into a swamp, with mud and rivers everywhere. This situation made people feel like they were in the south of the Tang Dynasty, and the water networks were everywhere. At this time, Li Sizhao and the others must be sitting next to the brazier in the tent, drinking warm horse milk wine.

Li Siyuan envied them. His own wet robe was extremely thick and sticky to his body. It was wet and uncomfortable. His neck and shoulders were pressed by the weight of the armor. What was even more uncomfortable was that he had already had enough of the taste of dried salted fish and fishy dried mutton.

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

"The Tatar Camp has arrived!" Li Keyong looked at the camp ahead with his eyes and shouted loudly: "God bless them, they finally didn't move."

Li Siyuan heard from the Shatuo Black Crow Army brothers about how Li Keyong, the flying tiger, shocked the Tatar warriors with one stone, and told how the Tatars followed their orders when the Shatuo tribe was in the north of the country. Now, he has finally arrived in the Tatar camp in person.

Along the way, many Tatar herders had already transferred to the pastures and went further south to spend the winter. Many people were worried that the Tatar chief had also gone south, but fortunately they had not left yet. Maybe they could borrow more food this time, at least they could hide from the heavy rain here.

Li Siyuan came to the Tatar camp for the first time, but this was not the first time Li Keyong came. Since they crossed Yinshan, Li Keyong finally gathered thousands of Shatuo people, and then gathered a lot. During this period, he recruited many small Uighur tribes. The Shatuo tribe restored to the scale of more than 10,000 people. However, so many people were extremely short of food and grass. They fled from Daibei to Yinshan and lost all their supplies. The newly recruited small Uighur tribes were actually the old and weak who were defeated and robbed by other tribes, and they also had no food and grass to rely on the Shatuo tribe, which had a lot of reputation in the Yinshan area for many years.

Li Keyong has borrowed grain from the Tatars several times over this period, but not much each time. Although it is only August, the weather is gloomy. An experienced old man said that it may snow early this year, and maybe the first snow may come after the rain. In any case, life will be even more difficult after the snow. Li Keyong wants to take advantage of the first snow to borrow grain from the Tatars that are enough for winter.

Li Keyong once told Li Siyuan and other subordinates that although the Tatars had a bad reputation, they had always been friends with the Shatu people. Now that the Shatu people are dead, they will provide us with help. As long as some cattle and sheep spend this winter, it is enough.

Before leaving, Li Sizhao once told Li Siyuan about the identities of the Tatars. The Tatars were actually like the Shatu people, hundreds of years ago, all affiliated tribes of the Turks. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties and Sui Dynasty, the Tatars were also called Shiwei, and even the northeast of Mobei, in the northeast of Tiel, Khitan, and in the northwest of Mohe and Goguryeo.

Shiwei originated from the Donghu and was the same as the Khitan; it was the Khitan in the south and was named Shiwei in the north. Its residence was located on both sides of the middle and upper reaches of Heilongjiang River and the Nenjiang River basin. It was based on hunting, and it often caught marten, raised cattle and horses, ate meat and coated skin, and also planted wheat, millet, and □; in the summer, the city lived in the winter, and the water plants were chased. The leaders of each tribe were called "Mohedu", and they were not in charge of each other. From time to time, they sent envoys to the Northern Zhou Dynasty and paid tribute to the Northern Qi Dynasty. Later, they were divided into five tribes: Nanshiwei, Beishiwei, Boshiwei, Shenmodashiwei, and Dashiwei, and each did not belong to each other. The customs and habits were slightly different, and they were all subordinate to the Turks.

In the early Tang Dynasty, the grassland was turbulent, and Shiwei was also involved in the grassland war. The Turkic power declined. Tiel rose, and many tribes of Shiwei began to move westward. Then the Uighur Khanate rose, and Shiwei became a subordinate of the Uighurs and went further southward. Decades ago, the Uighur Khanate destroyed the country and the Khanate destroyed the Uighur Khanate, they soon returned to the western part of the Tianshan Mountains. At this time, the Khanate took advantage of the decline of the Tang Dynasty and repeatedly attacked Shiwei, causing the Shiwei tribes to either move westward and southward, or be conquered by the Khan, and regrouped.

Shi Wei moved south and westward, among which Wusugu tribes and Xishi Wei and other troops had moved to the vicinity of Zhenwu in the Yang of Yinshan due to the war. After being frustrated in military terms, they seemed to have not returned to their original place. They were called Yinshan Shi Wei together with Heichezi Shi Wei.

The Tang people collectively referred to the tribes in the northern Mo area that moved south and west as the thirty surname Tatars, not only Shi Wei, but even collectively referred to some other tribes in the northern Mo area as their names.

What Li Keyong wants to see now is the Usugu tribe and Heichezishiwei, who are stationed in the north and south of the mountain. These two tribes have formed an alliance called Yinshanshiwei, but the Tang people are used to calling it Tatars.

Wei of Yinshan was attached to the Tang Dynasty, accepted the rewarded official positions of the Tang Dynasty, and was under the jurisdiction of Zhenwu Army and Datongjie. Before, the Shatuo clan had always been the boss of Wei of Yinshan.

"Siyuan." Li Keyong ordered, "You ride a horse to the back and pass on the orders to remind the officers to restrain their subordinates. I will not allow any life or any idea of ​​attacking Tatar women. I will not run around without any trouble, and I will not talk to them at will."

"As for the order, sir." Li Siyuan turned back to the back team, passing through many brothers, each of whom was muddy and exhausted.

In the back team, Li Siyuan found Liu. She wore a long red cloak, a sable hat on her head, and sat on the saddle listlessly. Around her, there were 100 female sword guards led by Jing Niang, a silver mask, guarding the surroundings.

"Madam, the Tatar camp has arrived." Li Siyuan smiled and stepped forward.

Mrs. Liu looked up and the rain warmed her black hair, and several strands of it hung down. "Is it finally here? It's great. I hate the continuous autumn rain."

"It's good to get to the camp. The Tatar camp is right in front of you. You can drink the horse-milky wine tonight in front of the warm fire."

The same cold voice came from behind the mask of Jingniang beside him, "The Tatars are a barbaric tribe. When they got married, when they agreed to each other, the man stole the woman, and then sent cattle and horses as betrothal gifts, and the man and the woman returned to the woman's house together. After being pregnant, the woman followed her husband to the man's house. When their parents died, their bodies were placed on trees. When these Tatars were in the north of the desert in the early years, they set up houses on trees in summer, and in other seasons, they made wood into rooms on ox carts and covered them with Weishi. People lived in it. The Tatars further north went to the mountains to live in the soil cave in winter. The Wei tribe in Yinshan now specialized in robbing women from other tribes as their wives. In the past, the Shatu tribe was strong, and the Tatars naturally respected us, but now we are weak, and we are afraid that the Tatars would not really be so kind and would only help food and grass directly."

"The current Tatar in Yinshan, Moheduhebule, is a good person. He was a brother who had a charity with the adults in his early years." Liu smiled, "The relationship between Shatu and the Tatar tribes has always been harmonious and there will be no trouble."

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 back and pass the order, Commander Jing. Take good care of his wife."

After passing on the military order, Li Siyuan followed the army to the Tatar camp. He had heard that although the Yinshan Tatars were mainly the Usugu tribe and the Heichezi tribe, there were actually many small tribes of all sizes, including many small tribes of the Uighur Khanate. The entire Yinshan Tatar Alliance had a total of more than 200,000 tents, and a population of hundreds of thousands of slaves, which was a huge tribe. Among them, the Usugu tribe and the Heichezi tribe each had more than 30,000 tents.

For such a large tribe, Li Siyuan outlined the scene of a huge mud castle on the grassland in his heart. But in fact, when he approached, he realized that the Tatar tribe in his heart was actually very bad.

It is not so much a castle, but rather a refugee camp.

There are tents everywhere, besides cattle and sheep, there are more pigs, and dirty pigs are everywhere in chaos.

There are not many tents. There are only a few thousand tents. In the center of the camp, there is no momentum in the momentum of more than a dozen huge tents.

Li Keyong brought a thousand riders. He was building a tent next to the camp.

Li Sien was washing Li Keyong's war horse, "Sir, is in the big tent." He told him, "He told you to come."

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

"The Tatars are not our Shatu tribe. They say they are the leaders of the alliance, but in fact they are still the tribes. Even the Usugu tribe and the Heichezi tribe are the same, but they are composed of various tribes. Although Hebule is the alliance Mohedu, he has three deputy Mohefu under him. They are only the common leader, but the tribes' own affairs are handled by them themselves, and even Hebule has no right to manage them. The camp here is actually just the people of Hebule tribe, with five thousand tents."

"I feel that this trip may not go smoothly." Li Siyuan shook his head, "I'll go see the adults."

Pushing open the door of the big tent that was not erected, bent over and entered the tent. Before him, Li Keyong had already brought more than twenty Shatu officers into the house and sat in front of the brazier in the tent. The water flowed down his boots and formed small ponds. The wide tent was mixed with charcoal ash, feces and the smell of dogs, which was very unpleasant.

Hebule leaned against the brazier, and behind him there was a row of Tartar men with long hair, and several Tartar women with tray hair poured wine for everyone.

Moheduhebule of the Yinshan Tatar tribes alliance was a stout man with gray hair and a graceful face. Although his beard was gray, his face was rosy and did not look old at all. He was wearing a cowhide armor, and his two strong arms were shining, revealing his bulging muscles. Behind him were more than twenty Tatar nobles with long hair, all of whom were the leaders of the Tatar tribe.

As the leader of the tribe who received the reward of the Tang Dynasty, Hebule had an official position given by the new emperor, the third-rank general of Huaihua. This official position was the same as the champion general, but was just the Wusan 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, General Guide, General Guide, General Guide.

However, when compared with the armor of these generals, the armor of these generals seemed much shabby compared with the armor of Shatuo generals such as Li Keyong.

Li Keyong and Hebule and others drank with each other. When they were half drunk, Li Keyong stood up and said, "Mongol Tatar tribe was inviting to accommodate my tribe and let me live here. We are very grateful. We shouldn't have trouble with everything, but now the winter is approaching, but there is no food for the tribe to survive the winter. Tens of thousands of women and children have no food, so they can only come to Mo Hedu for food, and hope to help each other."

Hebule smiled and said, "My father and I are sworn brothers, and I have been friends with Eight Bibles. Shatu and my Tatars are brothers. Now that Shatu is in trouble, I should help each other."

As soon as he finished speaking, Hutu, who was one of the three Mohefu and the leader of the Heiche tribe, smiled unevenly and unevenly: "Flying Huzi is joking. Who doesn't know that the Shatu tribe is powerful and doesn't even take it seriously, so how can there be no food? If there is no food, I heard that the Shatu tribe has been recruiting soldiers and horses since it left the frontier, whether it is the Uighurs, the Xi people, or even the Tiel, the Turks, or the Tuyuhun. That is the only one who comes. When you first came, there were only more than a thousand people, but now there are more than ten thousand tribes. Without food, how dare Feihuzi recruit such a large number of people?"

Seeing that Hutu was hostile to Li Ke's words, He Bule hurriedly said, "Ignore and don't talk nonsense. Feihu son and son are in trouble. We should help you."

Hutu was unwilling to stop the matter, "As the leader of the alliance, don't want to turn your elbows out. Clan Li said that he had no food, but he kept recruiting soldiers and horses. Isn't this really no food? Besides, he had borrowed grain several times before, but Clan Li came to borrow again and again. After borrowing grain, he turned around and went to recruit soldiers and horses. I wonder what he planned?"

Li Keyong was speechless for a moment and kept recruiting troops after entering Yinshan, naturally in order to make a comeback and make a comeback. But now, when Hutu asked this, he didn't know how to respond.

"The head of Li clan leader has tens of thousands of people, and there is a lot of food, supplies, and it is difficult for our minister to provide for a long time. When we hear that the general is lofty, why not do it in a big way?" Hu Tu said coldly. Seeing that Li Keyong did not answer, he said again: "If the head of Li really wants to borrow food, it is not impossible, but it cannot be borrowed for nothing. Why not, the head of Li clan leader uses armor and weapons as collateral, what about?"

Li Keyong kept silent when he heard this. Armors and weapons were the foundation. If the weapons and armor were used as collateral, wouldn’t they become fat sheep who could make mermaid meat?

The banquet ended unhappily and they all left.
Chapter completed!