Chapter 1324: Utilization

Outside Taiyuan City, Yang Guang held a bowl.

"Wishing the warriors of our Great Sui to return in triumph. Drink!"

"Drink!"

"Drink!"

"Drink!"

More than a hundred people shouted three times, and then drank the wine in their bowls in one go.

"Set off!"

Wang Yan carried his horse spear on his shoulder, waved his hand, and more than a hundred people turned over and got on their horses. Wang Yan reined in his horse and turned around, looked at Xiao Mei who was seeing him off, smiled gently, and then turned around and rode away.

"Drive!"

A lot of shouting sounds rose, and the team of more than a hundred people set off, but it had earth-shattering momentum.

Because it was one man with two horses, one horse was tied to another, and Wang Yan was one man with three horses, all of which were absolute fine horses. With more than two hundred war horses galloping together, there was a vast and mighty momentum.

Xiao Mei watched the team go far away. When she turned to leave, she saw Yang Guang and Yuwen Huaji looking over, so she bowed gracefully and then left silently...

Yang Guang and Yuwen Huaji also withdrew their gazes, continuing to look at the smoke and dust going far away...

Wang Yan didn't have any intimate relationship with Xiao Mei. The words that should be said had already been said on the way over, and Xiao Mei also knew how to do things. As long as there was no definite news of Wang Yan's death, no one would move Xiao Mei, she just needed to do things steadily.

Actually, there was nothing to do, just doing some business, finding some people for weaving and printing and dyeing, and waiting for Wang Yan to come back from the war to study the printing and dyeing formula.

In addition, buying some land, finding scholars from poor families to teach the children of the tenants, and letting the tenants raise chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs, could be considered a success. How to do it specifically still had to wait for Wang Yan to come back to do research...

The team of more than a hundred people and two hundred horses rested in Yanmen Pass for a day, ate and drank enough, and slept well, then directly rushed out.

Wanting to go to the grassland is not that simple. After all, this is a border area, and the Turks are not stupid; they also have arrangements here. So Wang Yan and others wanted to go out, they had to move quickly and directly break in.

This was the first battle...

The cavalry team formed a wedge formation, headed by Wang Yan, without stopping, directly crushing the Turks and hard-hitting their way out.

The garrison of Yanmen Pass was stunned; it was too fierce. Wang Yan's horse spear danced, and some Turks were picked up into the sky, very fierce.

Such an easy battle, even only a few people were injured, no one died in battle, and they easily broke through and disappeared into the Gobi of Shuofang...

The Turks are a powerful enemy, but historically, when the Central Plains dynasty was prosperous, the fate of the surrounding barbarian tribes was not very good.

At the beginning of Yang Jian's reign, he split the huge Turks, making them divide into two parts, East and West, and they fought each other endlessly, and they all paid tribute to Sui, which was quite effective.

A prosperous and unified Turk, the Great Sui might not necessarily be able to defeat them. After all, between Sui and Tang, it was the peak of the Turks. Before, Yang Guang was trapped in Yanmen, and later, Li Shimin had the Weishui Alliance.

However, the system of the Turks is there, and there is no way to achieve complete unification. They are a nomadic nation, with various Khans, and under the Khans, there are various grassland nobles. They are a form of federal alliance.

When fighting, everyone gathers together; when not fighting, everyone lives their own lives. So commanding the grassland is also because the power is the greatest and they have won over the majority.

They can fight winning battles together, but they cannot fight losing battles together. After failure, there must be internal strife when they go back. After all, there are a lot of Khans on the grassland, a lot of hills, all have their own interest pursuits, and no one is convinced by anyone.

The Central Plains dynasty has always utilized this point to divide and win over the grassland. When it comes to playing tricks, the scholar-officials of the Central Plains dynasty are not bad at all, fooling these foreign barbarians like fools.

Of course, there must be strength before this, so that people dare not easily use force. In the final analysis, strength is the foundation. Talking with lips and tongues is just because the cost of war is too high, and the Central Plains dynasty is not willing to move troops easily, so the best strategy is to attack the strategy, and attack the near and make friends with the far.

Although the current Turks pay tribute to the Great Sui, the relationship between the two sides is actually not stable, and overall they are seeking coexistence in confrontation. The Turks always have small-scale harassment and looting. Once the Great Sui asks for crimes, it is the people below who did it. Our national conditions are special, and the Celestial Empire should understand more.

So under such circumstances, Yang Guang sending Wang Yan to attack the grassland had legitimacy.

He did not start a border conflict, but attacked the grass-head kings who did not obey the teachings and did not respect the Great Sui. Just open the local county annals, and there are all legitimate reasons for sending troops.

As for who Wang Yan killed after he went over, that is two things.

After all, Wang Yan and others don't know the way, and don't understand the Turkic language. It is inevitable to kill the wrong person, which is also understandable...

In order to survive in the wild on the grassland, Wang Yan prepared very fully.

Various seasonings for eating and drinking, as well as relatively precious materials such as tea and sugar. Dry food was not brought much, after all, can you lack food and drink on the grassland? Beef, mutton, horse meat, and even wolf meat if you are lucky, in short, eating meat every day.

Tea is for relieving greasiness, sugar is for supplementing the body's sugar, both are necessary things for long-term activities. There are also various medicinal materials for cooking, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, etc. These things are the most, solving the problem of eating well.

In addition, there are some first-aid herbs, ointments for treating falls and injuries, etc., which is the maximum medical condition Wang Yan can achieve. Try to ensure the living force as much as possible.

The rest is nothing more than clean clothes for changing, needles and thread for sewing and mending, weapons and equipment, things for collecting water, military tents for camping, rainproof coir raincoats, fire-starting fire-folding, fire stones, etc., utensils for boiling water and cooking, and so on.

In addition, Wang Yan also configured a lot of incense bags for repelling mosquitoes and insects. It is midsummer now, and it is not so comfortable to act on the grassland.

At the same time, in the period before departure, Wang Yan also trained flag language, talked about tactics, and conveyed the essence of Mobile Corps Commander warfare. They are destruction, not hard fighting.

In war, what Wang Yan likes most is actually Mobile Corps Commander warfare. Using a small amount of troops to make the enemy unable to sleep and eat, spending huge amounts of money, but also suffering huge losses, thinking about the enemy general's frustrated and helpless appearance, feels interesting.

Of course, he doesn't always like it, just occasionally Mobile Corps Commander for a while, move his muscles and bones, find the feeling of galloping on the battlefield, looking at hundreds of thousands of troops as nothing, and coming and going freely, which is enough.

After passing this long-lost freshness, he likes to farm and develop, and then with the momentum of the king, ride his face and crush. That feeling of relaxed temple calculation is also quite good...

"Governor, this place is boundless, where are we going?"

Breaking into the Gobi, the team pulled into a long line, divided into front, back, left, and right, all within the range of sight, separated by two or three li.

The team moved forward slowly, everyone was confused, not knowing where to kill people.

After all, they came out to burn, kill, and loot, but they couldn't see anyone at all. Where can they kill?

Especially at this time, the scorching sun was hanging high, the heat waves were rising, and the distorted air in the distance could be seen with the naked eye. Everyone was sweating profusely, but they didn't dare to drink water in large gulps. Because they didn't bring much water, only enough to quench their thirst, not enough to drink freely, not to mention the horses to take care of...

This Governor Wang Yan was also nothing special, he even set an example.

The Governor is the commander of a hundred. Since the Han Dynasty, the power of the Governor has become more and more declining. The previous Governor could manage the military and political affairs of one side, and the Great Governor was even more awesome, doing the duties of the Marching General Manager. Now the Great Governor only commands more than a thousand soldiers, and the Governor has become a pitiful commander of a hundred.

He was riding on a horse, his body rising and falling with the horse's steps, wearing a bamboo hat on his head to shade the sun. Although it was very hot, he had a feeling of being at ease.

"Don't be anxious, you have to be good at observing. The grassland is too big. If we want to find people, we have to observe all the traces. Only by following these traces can we find the places where the Turks live."

"Just like hunting?"

"Exactly." Wang Yan looked like he was teachable, "Now we are hunters, looking for our prey, wanting their lives."

He pointed to the traces on the ground, "Look at the ground, there are some sheep footprints and sheep dung. Generally, grazing is within ten li. If we follow this, we can not only find the Turks, kill cattle and sheep to eat a full meal, but also find water.

This is what you must learn. Do not think that since most of you will die anyway, it doesn't matter; what you learn can be put to use. Those who can survive this round will at least become a squad leader, and if you can survive the next round, you will at least be a platoon leader. Relying on the Prince of Jin, and then asking the Prince of Jin for a little help, you brothers will all be regional commanders in the future, marry three wives, have eight children, and set up dozens of acres of land at home. Isn't this life good?

Brothers, if you can live, don't die. We came out to fight for fame and wealth, not to die. Only those who survive can live a good life. Although I won't die, I will definitely take care of your family, but how can it be as good as you going home to enjoy the days yourself? Isn't this the truth? All of you, cheer up, don't have a dead and unlucky look."

"Come, Wang Da, don't shrink your neck, tell me, which side is north now?"

Wang Yan boredly tested the knowledge of the soldiers under his command, distinguishing directions and analyzing traces. These are the most basic conditions. Only by doing these can you not get lost, find people, and find water.

Just chatting like this, after crossing a slope again, a yurt appeared in front of everyone, and the barking of the livestock dogs could be heard clearly.

"What are you doing in a daze? Go up, they will run away in a while. Leave a living mouth, we still have to find others."

So a group of people shouted and rode their horses to rush down, pulling out long smoke and dust, dispersing and surrounding that side.

Wang Yan rode his horse that was trotting, strolling down.

When he arrived at the place, the two men, four women, and two children here had already been controlled.

Yang Guang's arrangement of personnel was still very thoughtful. There were soldiers here who could speak Turkic. Listening to Wang Yan's instructions, they interrogated these few herdsmen and obtained information about the water sources in the surrounding area and the locations of other people nearby.

Wang Yan was very polite to them, did not beat or scold them, and even the soldiers under his command who wanted to have fun with the four women were kicked by him.

He said: "We can't really burn, kill, and loot all the time. We also have to absorb the Turks for our use. Do you think their days are good? No. Their cattle and sheep grazing and horse herding, they can't eat a few mouthfuls of meat. Zhao Laoer, you ask them, how is their daily life."

So, under Zhao Laoer's translation, everyone understood what kind of state this family was in.

The cattle and sheep they raised only belonged to them in a very small part, and more were taxes, which had to be handed over to the head of their tribe, and they had to exchange for other living materials, etc. In winter, there would be a large loss.

As for fighting, it was all the head of the tribe sending people to summon them. They had no room to refuse. If they didn't go, they would be killed, or they would be made to do heavy work until they were exhausted to death. Their women, cattle, sheep, and children would also be taken away.

On the grassland, the greatest wealth is cattle, sheep, horses, and women. One is production and living materials, and the other is necessary for the reproduction of the tribe. Men are of course very important, but they are not important.

Wang Yan was letting the people under his command understand the people on the grassland, find a commonality, and unify the class.

After all, Han people are actually not much better than those on the grassland. They farm the land and have to pay heavy taxes, face various risks, and be exploited and bullied by the big families in the local area.

But at the same time, it doesn't delay the Han people from looking down on the people on the grassland, because they are all barbarians. In this respect, the Han people are still very confident.

Wang Yan sent people to catch the two men who were grazing outside, and drove the cattle and sheep back. He also sent people to the nearby water source to take water to drink for the horses and cook.

It was really killing cattle and sheep to be happy, and everyone ate very happily. Wang Yan personally cooked, and the taste was quite good.

This family on the grassland felt very distressed, but it didn't delay them from eating happily while trembling, and they hadn't eaten so coolly until now.

And Wang Yan also said that what they ate was the tribe head's, not their sheep. Later, let them lead the way, go and kill the head, and distribute the cattle and sheep to everyone. Everyone sends warriors to go out to fight with them.

Wang Yan thought so, but whether it should be executed like this depends on whether these grassland people understand the teachings.

If they understand, Wang Yan will support them to become a new force on the grassland, thereby making the situation on the grassland more chaotic, and move them to the vicinity of Yanmen Pass to promote mutual markets. If they don't understand, then it will be no grass, killing until someone understands.

In short, they are all afraid of power and not virtuous, and they must kill the grassland people until they are afraid.

Kill first, then govern.

This is a simple and dry method. After all, if they are not honest even after killing, let alone not killing.

This is also the reason for many massacres. When the Central Plains dynasty is strong, it kills others; when it is weak, it is killed by others.

Fortunately, this family was very convinced by Wang Yan's words and very cooperative. After eating and resting, the three men left one child, and the remaining three men were armed and mounted, becoming guides and following Wang Yan and others to fight... ===== CHAPTER 1325 =====