The soul is majestic and powerful in the east of Jiuzhou, and the sun rises in the sky gate.

The emperors of hundreds of generations were ordered to receive the order, and the peddlers from all directions went to Pengying.

This is a poem describing Mount Tai in the Five Mountains. The ancient emperors and literati and poets all had a special liking for climbing Mount Tai. They would climb the top and see the small mountains.

The tigers on Mount Tai are scattered on the Qilu Plain, facing the vast sea in the east, the rolling Yellow River in the west, and the waters of Wen, Si and Huai in the south, which are hundreds of miles in radius, majestic and majestic.

After Wang Bo raised his troops from Changbai Mountain, he learned that Zhang Xutuo of Qi County opened a warehouse to release grain, recruited troops from the government, and wanted to attack his team, so he pulled the team to the foot of Mount Tai in Lu County to station it, and joined forces with Meng Rang, with a total of 100,000 rebels stationed at the foot of Mount Tai, hoping to defeat the Sui army with the help of the terrain and the mighty spirit here.

Among these 100,000 rebels, most of them were incomplete weapons and incomplete armor, unable to maintain a unified color, chaotic flags, and completely miscellaneous army.

In the past, Wang Bo and Meng Rang defeated several local Sui troops, but they were both half-agricultural soldiers with lack of training. Most of them were temporarily formed, with low fighting spirit and did not pose much threat to the rebel army. However, this time the situation was different. Zhang Xutuo was a regular general in the army. He followed Shi Wansui, Yang Su fought against the Turks, suppressed the rebellion of the King of Han, and had many practical experiences. Although his reputation has not been prominent in recent years, he is indeed a general.

Moreover, this time Zhang Xutuo recruited many strong men in Qi County, discounted the slogan of defending the country and maintaining local peace, which won the morale of the army. He gathered 30,000 troops and excellent military equipment, and had three or four thousand war cavalry, and was coming in full force.

Wang Bo and Meng Rang climbed Mount Tai and looked into the distance to see the smoke and dust flying. The original cavalry and the neat and plain regular army were all stressed.

"Brother Meng, what are your opinions on the enemy?" Wang Bo asked on his own initiative.

"Brother Wang, I think that after we join forces, there will be a total of 100,000 troops. I heard that Zhang Xutuo only brought 30,000 people, which is a huge difference. Moreover, their soldiers and our soldiers all come from this Qilu land. It can be said that they are all from the same place. I don't believe that they are all newly recruited. His army can defeat our soldiers and horses, all with one head and two hands. Can we fight three against one? "Meng Rang is a bit rough and tall, and has learned some martial arts. He once represented the defeat of several local government soldiers and encirclement and suppression. He was arrogant and no longer took the Sui army seriously.

Wang Bo nodded slightly and said, "Our troops are indeed three times that of the Sui army. It is just a way to lead troops. It pays attention to military tactics and strategies. It is absolutely impossible to win if there are more people. Although Zhang Xutuo is not well-known in the army, he is also capable. We cannot underestimate the enemy. First, we send people to fight with the Sui army, try the weight of the Sui army, and then make subsequent arrangements."

Meng Rang agreed, "Okay, then according to Brother Wang's wishes, there is a powerful general in our army named Qin Ying. His father is a local boxer. He has followed his father to practice martial arts since he was a child. He has high skills and is good at sword skills. You might as well send him out to fight, kill several Sui army tigers and generals, kill the prestige of the Sui army, and promote the morale of our three armies."

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Luo Zhaoyun lifted the curtain of the car and saw a cluster of people coming to greet Lan Yinatag. After politely speaking, he led the way to the Pugu King's army ten miles away.

The Pugu tribe is a general term for ethnic groups. The real Pugu people are spread across the grasslands of hundreds of miles in a radius. There must be many small tribes of all sizes. The place Tag is going to is the Pugu King tribe, which is the large tribe where the Pugu chief and several nobles live.

Among the Tiel tribes, the Pugu tribe was the most powerful, and Xueyantuo was the dominant position among the Tiel tribe. However, the Xueyantuo people were warlike, and the Xueyantuo king of this generation was cruel and unpopular in Tiel. Therefore, some small tribes often united with Pugu and Uighurs to fight against Xueyantuo's oppression.

After half an hour of travel, the convoy finally approached the Pugu King's army. This was a dirt city, which was adjacent to a lake and water system rich in water and plants. A dirt city was built. The wall was only more than one person high. It was rammed with accumulated soil and was inserted with wooden stakes and barbed as a defense line.

There are high platforms, archers, etc. in some places, and there are archers with servants on duty. This outer land of several miles is already considered a fortress of a considerable scale.

Outside the Tucheng, cavalry continued to be dispatched and patrolled and guarded. After all, Kedun arrived, and there were many chiefs and nobles from the Tiel tribe coming to attend the event. It was extremely grand, so safety and vigilance should not be careless.

Tag's status was noble, and the convoy was successfully released. After entering the city wall, it was basically tent structures, one by one, and some herders' homes also had fenced courtyards. Most of the homes were a tent, bare, and the denser the more they went inside, arranged in an orderly manner, and the taller and more gorgeous the tents.

Along the way, I saw many men and women from tribes busy, some were cooking rice, some were chopping wood, and some were feeding horses. The clothes and shoes were mixed, not as many as the Central Plains. There were also the sounds of Hu Ba, Qiang flute, and horse-head fiddle floating in the tribe.

"You camp here, I'll go see Kedun!" Tagg told the leader, and under the protection of the guards, he went to Kedun's camp.

Luo Zhaoyun and Qingshuang got off the carriage and their bodies improved a lot. They wore grassland clothes and watched the nomadic chief village. In this scene, Luo Zhaoyun only saw a one-sided corner from some film and television dramas, which was not as real as one-tenth of this.

Qingshuang took a few steps and saw some vivid faces outside the camp. She couldn't help but whisper: "Look at their simple tribe, life is so simple and fulfilling, it's hard to imagine that they went to the battlefield, so barbaric, like tigers, leopards, jackals, going south to do evil, and always want to invade the Central Plains."

Luo Zhaoyun sighed: "The grassland tribes have no farming and cannot be fixed due to constant migration, resulting in insufficient education. They have a simple and barbaric side in their personality. They can still love their own families and tribesmen. They treat other ethnic groups and people in the Central Plains, so they don't regard them as tribesmen, and of course they won't be ruthless."

"I heard that women on the grassland will be disposed of as goods and will be given away at will. Moreover, the grassland customs are that when the father dies, his wife and his stepmother; when the brother dies, they will take their wives and their wives, and there is no ethical concept of the Central Plains."

Of course, Luo Zhaoyun knew these remarks, because many experts in later generations had analyzed the reasons, and the final result was related to protecting the family's property. The purpose was to not let the widowed stepmothers and sisters-in-law take away the family's cattle, sheep and children, and then continue to live in the family after marrying them. First, they could continue to take care of orphans and widows and not be bullied by people from other families, and second, they could protect the family business and not flow out.

"Well, this is a custom left by their generations, and it is related to the environment. We don't have to look at it with the Confucian thoughts of Central Plains!"

Qingshuang lifted a thread of silk on her forehead and asked, "By the way, how long are you going to stay in the grassland, and where are we going?"

"When the matter of Pugu is over, we will leave. We will not go back to the Central Plains first. Let's accompany me to Tuyuhun. When we meet Li Jing, Hou Jun gathers them there, and then secretly return to Chang'an from Tuyuhun. It is estimated that the Chinese New Year will be coming. We will deploy some things in Chang'an and return to Luoyang in the middle of next year to officially appear." Luo Zhaoyun knew very well that the Sui Dynasty wanted chaos in the world. He wanted to go to Tuyuhun in advance, win over the trustees he had set up a few years ago, test them, and then make arrangements in advance in Chang'an, waiting for the world to compete for prosperity, and focus on it.
Chapter completed!