Chapter 147: Gaoche Enters the Game
After Yu Jin finished saying this, Gao Huan and the others behind him also stared at the huge chariot nervously.
This is the Gaoche king's tent! Surrounded by the Gaoche cavalrymen who were waiting eagerly, Yu Jin's rebuke was still in Gaoche dialect.
After a while, there was finally movement coming from the huge carriage. A middle-aged man wearing a felt hat got off the carriage. He looked at Yu Jin who was holding the imperial seal. The other person's young appearance made him dazed for a moment.
King Miao suddenly remembered his youth when he was also an envoy of the Wei Dynasty. He faced his brutal grandfather Afuzhiluo. Facing the threat of death, the two envoys of the Wei Dynasty still refused to kneel down to Afuzhiluo and were finally imprisoned in the royal court of Gaoche for three years.
This left a deep impression on Gaoche King Mi'etu at that time, and made him realize that there were people in this world who dared to resist his powerful grandfather. The name of Dawei entered Gaoche King Mi'etu's mind, and from that time on, he asked the wise men on the grassland for everything about Dawei.
It was precisely because of the understanding of the power of the Northern Wei that the Gaoche King Mi'etu joined forces with the Northern Wei, defeated the Rouran Khan Futu, and allowed the Gaoche to gain an independent status.
When Gaoche King Miao suddenly saw this young man, he unexpectedly found that he had some resemblance to the Wei envoy with his head held high in his memory. While he was in a daze, the Gaoche warriors had already surrounded Yu Jin and others.
Yu Jin held the flag tightly, he remembered his grandfather's teachings firmly. As long as the flag was still in his hand, the Gaoche people would not dare to act rashly, because this flag represented the face of the Great Wei!
Gao Huan and Hou Jing had already drawn their swords. They stood on either side of Yu Jin, staring at the Gaoche warriors around them, ready to fight to the death at any time.
Yu Jin held up the banner high and said, "King Gaoche! Don't you know that disaster is coming?"
Gaoche King Mi'etu snorted coldly and said in fluent Chinese: "You Central Plains people only know how to exaggerate. If I kill you here, will Luoyang, which is far away, send troops? Even if Luoyang's troops come here, our royal court can still be moved."
Yu Jin felt more confident after hearing Gaoche Wang Mi'etu's fluent Chinese. He also said in Chinese:
"Of course the Wei Kingdom won't send troops, but the Rouran people can!"
"Anagui, the son of Futu Khan of Rouran who was killed by you, has been canonized by our Great Wei and is about to return to the Rouran royal court with his princess. You and he have a grudge for killing your father. After he firmly takes the Khan's throne, will he still let you Gaoche people go?"
When Yu Jin finished speaking, Gaoche King Miaotu's face also changed.
The reason why he killed Futu Khan of Rouran was not because the Gaoche people were strong, but because he took advantage of the power of the Northern Wei Dynasty and killed the other side by chance.
According to Su Ze's analysis of Jin, the overall strength of the Gaoche people is far inferior to that of the Rouran people.
If the Gaoche people were really stronger than the Rouran people, after killing the other side's Khan and winning a great victory, why didn't they attack the Rouran royal court and occupy better pastures?
However, the Gaoche people fled to the barren northwest of the grassland, which is clear evidence that the Gaoche people were not as strong as the Rouran people.
From this we can see that Gaoche King Mi'etu was a leader who could judge the situation. This was also the reason why Yu Jin dared to go on a diplomatic mission to Gaoche and dared to speak to the King of Gaoche in such a tone.
Gaoche Wang Mi'e suddenly looked at Yu Jin and asked in a bad tone, "If that's the case, why did your envoy come to the royal court?"
There is a play!
Yu Jin immediately switched to Gaoche language and said, "A month ago, 5,000 elite soldiers from the Rouran King's Tent plundered Hengzhou. They were defeated by the Yulin School Lieutenant Su Ze and his troops. The leader, Yujiulu Brahman, was captured. 1,000 people were beheaded and piled up into a Jingguan. In addition, 3,000 elite Rouran cavalry were captured."
Hearing this, the Gaoche warriors surrounding the crowd were stunned for a moment, and they all looked at the Gaoche King Miaotu.
Yu Jin raised the banner high and said to Gaoche King Mi'etu in Chinese: "The one we are marrying to is the overlord of the grassland, who can be a Rouran or a Gaoche."
When Gaoche King Miao heard this, he was a little skeptical at first, but then Gao Huan opened one of his pockets and poured out the contents.
These are dried ears, and they are decorated with earrings made of animal bones.
Gaoche King Mi'etu saw at a glance that these were the earrings of the elite cavalry of the Rouran royal tent. Looking at the bag of ears, Gaoche King Mi'etu no longer doubted Yu Jin's words. The elite cavalry of the Rouran royal tent were really defeated!
These earrings are a symbol of the Rouran people's courage. Unless they are killed, there is no way they can take them off!
Gaoche King Mi'etu was also a decisive man. When he defeated Rouran Khan Futu, he relied on his decisiveness before the battle. The Gaoche people were able to survive in peace in the northwestern grasslands entirely because of the internal division of Rouran.
Gaoche King Miaotu had also heard of Anagui's name and knew that he was an ambitious grassland warlord.
Once Anagui returns to the Rouran royal court and uses his prestige to integrate the Rouran tribes, and can also gain the support of the Northern Wei through the marriage of the princess, the Gaoche will not even be able to occupy this small area of the northwestern grassland.
Moreover, Anagui and himself had a grudge against each other for killing his father. If he were to take charge of Rouran, he would take revenge on him both publicly and privately.
At this time, the Gaoche people can only strike first!
"Gather troops!"
Following an order from Gaoche King Mi'etu, the elite cavalrymen in Gaoche's royal tent began to assemble first. Then messengers wearing hats with bird feathers conveyed the king's order to the surrounding Gaoche tribes. Each tribe had to send a sufficient number of cavalrymen according to its size. Thus, an emergency mobilization of the grassland began.
The mobilization speed of the grassland was also faster than Yu Jin had imagined. The cavalrymen from various tribes assembled with dry food, horses and weapons. They did not need to prepare food and fodder like the army in the Central Plains. The herds of livestock that followed the army were their food. If there was not enough, they could just rob the enemy.
This is the amazing mobilization ability of grassland civilization. When Su Ze received the report from the Yulin scout who was proficient in the Hu language and learned that the Gaoche people had already set out on the expedition, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. The first step of his plan was finally completed.
The Gaoche people have been dragged into the game, so now it depends on how the Rouran people react.
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After nearly half a month, Li Chong found that the situation was gradually improving.
News came back from other towns one after another that the Rouran people who had been harassing them had actually begun to retreat.
This result was beyond Li Chong's expectations. He cautiously sent messengers to inquire about the situation and ordered all towns to investigate the reasons why the Rouran people retreated.
Everyone in the Northern Expedition Army was excited about the Rouran people's retreat, except for one person.
"Why retreat?!"
Ever since Li Chong gave Anagui a certain degree of freedom, he has been actively contacting the various Rouran tribes.
On the surface, he was executing Li Chong's orders and ordering the tribes to withdraw in his capacity as the King of Rouran. In fact, he was using his capacity as the Khan of Rouran to ask these tribes to continue looting.
But now all the tribes began to retreat, which made Anagui very angry. It was obvious that if he persisted a little longer, Li Chong would surrender and let him return to the grassland. Why did he stop at this critical moment?
At this moment, a trusted messenger suddenly rushed into his tent and said to Anagui in panic: "Khan! The Gaoche people are attacking!"
what!
I am going back today. I will take a rest tomorrow. I will try to recover 8k first and pay off the debt the day after tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)