Chapter 961: Sushen Tribe

Since Wu Yi secretly subdued the tribes near Langyankou, he guarded Langyankou, just like staying at home, except that he was not accompanied by his family.

For several months, he had not experienced any harassment. On the contrary, if there was any unusual movement in the northern tribes, these small tribes could still serve as a barrier and inform the public.

When Wu Yi spread the news, he was praised by the county governor again and again, and he was completely promoted to a glorious captain of a thousand men.

However, it was useless. The practice of benefiting without spending is an old trick of the dynasty. In addition to a title, not even a grain of food was sent over.

In name, the salary was thirty taels, but in reality, not even half of it was given, just like Wu Yi was nominally a captain of a thousand men, but he had only five or six hundred men under him.

Moreover, even this half was delayed in various ways, which was simply an insult to Wu Yi. No wonder people say that good men do not join the army and put their heads on their belts. Such treatment is really chilling.

In fact, many people in the northern army guarded the border not for that little salary, but really to defend their country. After retirement, it is easy to find a job in the county, and the country will reward you every year after retirement, which is the motivation for many people.

A few months later, it was already winter, the plum blossoms on the ridge were about to break, and the water in the pond gradually turned into ice. The red leaves all fell, and the green pines were renewed. The light clouds were flying and snowing, and the withered grass was flat on the mountain. The cold light was everywhere, and the coldness made the bones cold.

The north wind was howling, and it was time to live in the fortress. In this kind of weather, if you go out without being careful, even your ears and nose can be frozen off. The limit of human beings is extremely fragile in this ice and snow.

The reason why many dynasties, including the Daji Dynasty, have been unable to unify this place for a long time is the terrain restriction. There are many mountains and steep terrain. It is a bottom-up attack. After reaching the limit, the soldiers will fall ill due to poor breathing.

In addition to this obstacle, it is the bitter cold that freezes people. If the war starts in winter, even if the protection is done well, it will result in killing 800 enemies and losing 1,000 of their own.

The cold is also a natural disaster for the Northern Tartars, but generally speaking, their physique is much better. Unless their food shortage is unbearable, the two sides will not go to war.

That being said, it is common sense, but who knows if it is common sense this year. In order to determine their situation, Wu Yi and his group were there, traveling light and with only ten people.

The purpose of this trip is to go to a large tribe near Langyankou, called Sushen, one of the five major tribes of the Northern Tartars. They occupy a huge inland lake with hundreds of thousands of people. With the power of the tribe, they can gather 100,000 people, and their strength should not be underestimated.

Given the importance of the geographical location of Langyankou, let alone a thousand people, it is not impossible to guard 10,000 people. However, the high-level officials of the Northern Army are worried that there are too many defenders at Langyankou, which will cause dissatisfaction among the Sushen tribe. Therefore, the defenders at Langyankou basically do not exceed a thousand people.

One more thing, the name of the tribe Sushen is the name given to them by the dynasty, which is a transliteration. If it is translated according to their own statement, it should be more appropriate to call them the Golden Eagle Tribe. Many families raise golden eagles.

As mentioned earlier, the Sushen tribe occupied a large inland lake, and it was a rare freshwater lake, which was second to none in the entire continent. As the saying goes, the land and water nurture the people. The existence of the inland freshwater lake made the Sushen tribe very different from other tribes.

Other tribes were nomadic peoples, but the Sushen were fishing and hunting peoples. They lived in a relatively fixed place and would not migrate because of water and grass. It was said that their agricultural level was not inferior to that of the Daji Dynasty.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier. One step down could sink the entire sole of the foot. It was no longer suitable for riding a horse, so everyone dismounted and pulled the horse.

In fact, this was not the biggest snowstorm. After the biggest snowstorm fell, it could even wipe out a tribe in one night. You couldn't see that there were still creatures under the snowstorm.

A little more beautiful, it was called snow burial, but it still couldn't hide the cruelty. This is the power of nature.

Wu Yi and his party braved the cold, slept in the rain and ate in the wind. When they were traveling, there was no such change. After living in the snow field for many days, even Wu Yi's body, which had been cleansed and strengthened, was a little bit overwhelmed.

As they were on the road, they saw a city that was no different from the city in the dynasty in the south. In order to resist the severe cold, the thickness of the city wall was several times that of many cities in the dynasty.

Wu Yi and his party entered Yuecheng as a caravan that had missed the deadline. The snow covered the city. There was no one else, only an old soldier, who was sleeping under the sunny wall, leaning against the wind, with a red face from the cold.

Qin Tianbing approached and shook him, calling: "Sir." The old soldier suddenly woke up, opened his eyes in a daze, shivered, and spoke with a strong smell of alcohol.

In such a ghost weather, they could also meet Wu Yi and his party. In order to thank Wu Yi and his party for saving their lives, the old soldier took Wu Yi and his party to an inn to stay, invited them to eat, and ate together without any taboos.

"Why is the commander guarding the city gate alone?" Qin Tianbing asked after the old soldier drank three cups of wine. On the surface, Qin Tianbing was the leader of this trip, and Wu Yi was a servant.

The old soldier smiled and did not answer, as if he did not hear anything, but just kept drinking.

Qin Tianbing asked continuously, but did not get an answer. Not to mention Qin Tianbing, even Wu Yi felt that the old soldier was a little confused at this moment.

The owner of the inn heard the conversation and came over to Wu Yi and others and said: "This is old man Wulu. He was also a famous man in the past. He was also a chief of the Mouke. But now he is old. The adults recruited soldiers and did not choose him, so he became like this."

Mouke is a form of organization within the Sushen tribe. Three hundred households form a Mouke, and ten Moukes form a Meng'an. The Meng'an Mouke system is a primitive form of organization and a primitive bureaucratic system. With this system, the Sushen tribe has already opened up a gap with other small tribes.

Moreover, compared with the defects of the Daji Dynasty, where the soldiers and generals did not know and the troops were trivial, the Sushen soldiers under the Meng'an Mouke system were dispatched quickly and coordinated closely during wartime, which beat the Daji Dynasty by several levels.

However, even so, the Daji Dynasty could not learn from the Sushen tribe.

The Daji Dynasty ruled the nine states and hundreds of millions of people. Such a primitive system could not eliminate disputes and contradictions. It would rather be ruthless and deliberately break the mountains and rivers to separate the same cultural area, which is better than division.

Others were sighing for the old soldier's experience. Although the other party was a foreign race, the feeling of rabbit death and fox grief was still unavoidable. If I were old in the future, I might have the same result.

Wu Yi is different from the rest of the people. He focuses on the issue of "the Lord recruiting soldiers". After all, the purpose of their trip is for this!