manynovel Chapter 1180 The Return of Blood
Chapter 1180 The Return of Blood
Chapter 1180 The Return of Blood
When Wang Kuo led his troops north.
Dahan and others have led the Guiyi Army back to the south. They did not go alone. They contacted several tribes. After the last battle of Lanzhou, the Dangxiang people exploited the tribes too harshly, which really made people dissatisfied.
Among them, the Long family of Suzhou was persuaded by the Guiyi Army and followed the Guiyi Army south. The Long family of Suzhou was a descendant of the King of Yanqi in the Western Regions and had always been on good terms with the Guiyi Army.
The Long family originally settled in Ganzhou, but they were defeated in a battle with the Ganzhou Uighurs and were forced to withdraw from Ganzhou. Later, the Long family was ruled by the Guiyi Army and was forced to withdraw from Ganzhou.
The Long family was also oppressed by the Tanguts. This time, Aligu gathered a lot of Ganzhou Uighurs as tribesmen, squeezing westward to occupy pastures and kill herders, which forced the Suzhou Long family to move east. But Renduo Yading did not allow them to move east, almost wanting them to block the line and fight against Aligu and his men.
This eventually led to the Long family following the Guiyi Army back to the east in anger.
The Long family's tribe set out in a hurry, with more than 20,000 people following the Guiyi Army. Some of them were reluctant to leave their homeland and were unwilling to leave with the Guiyi Army.
The leader of the Guiyi Army was the big man who claimed to be a descendant of Cao Yijin, the governor of the Guiyi Army.
In fact, he is not, because now the bloodline of Cao's family, the governor of Guiyi Army, is needed as a name to call on all the clansmen.
The big man knew that he was actually an orphan without a father or a mother, and he was not even a pure Han Chinese. He knew that he had been raised by the clan leader since he was a child, and he also regarded himself as part of the Guiyi Army.
In fact, there were not many pure Han people in the Guiyi Army. They had lived together in Hexi for a long time, and he also intermarried with people of various ethnic groups.
The clan leader told him that he was proud of his Han blood. Although the most powerful country in the world might not be the Song Dynasty founded by the Han people, it was a country with a prosperous culture and wealth.
The clan leader told him that the Song Dynasty was the ancestral homeland of the Han people. No matter how far you are from home, don't forget that you came from this place.
When the big man took over the position of leader from the clan leader, he knew that he would be entrusted by the clan leader to lead his fellow tribesmen on a journey of hundreds of miles back home.
From then on, he changed his name to Cao Zhongshou, and led his clansmen back home as a descendant of the Cao family.
Before setting off, he took a handful of soil from Liangzhou and put it on his body.
Looking into the horizon from the northwest, it looks like returning geese.
Cao Zhongshou was indeed worthy of the trust placed in him by the clan leader. First, he returned with the Long clan that he had contacted. At the same time, he also took in various tribes along the way, and in the end the number of people reached as many as 60,000.
The Long family and the Guiyi Army split into two groups and returned eastward.
Along the way, many tribes intercepted the Guiyi Army, but there were also some who sympathized with the Guiyi Army's plight, and some who were afraid of being exploited by the Dangxiang people joined the Guiyi Army and returned together.
If they encountered someone they couldn't let go, Cao Zhongshou would pay to buy him off, because his hometown had already given up on him. No matter how much money they had, it was useless if they couldn't save their lives.
When they encountered someone who could not be bribed, they had no choice but to fight. On the way back, they experienced several fierce battles and annihilated several Dangxiang troops.
Cao Zhongshou led two thousand elite tribesmen to clear the way.
Fortunately, Renduo Baozhong did not pursue them closely and was even unwilling to kill them. Instead, Renduo Baozhong sent people to persuade Cao Zongshou and the Long family to return east, using both reason and emotion, and promised to give them a pasture west of Liangzhou to avoid Aligu's pursuit.
Cao Zhongshou did not reject it outright, but negotiated with the envoy of Renduo Baozhong himself.
He put forward many conditions and seemed willing to agree, but the tribe still marched back south day and night without stopping.
In fact, Renduo Baozhong's sudden mercy also saved the Guiyi Army and the Long family from death.
In fact, not only Cao Zhongshou, but the entire tribe remained unshakable.
They had been planning for this return trip for a long time, and everyone in the tribe knew that returning east was the only way to survive. Therefore, the men risked their lives to carve out a way for their wives and children.
They did not listen to the advice of the envoy Ninta Hosotada and were determined to return to the east.
When they were defending the Zhuanglang River Valley, the tribes here had exchanges with Song and Dangxiang. And this is an important passage of the Hexi Corridor.
The tribes had exchanges between the Song Dynasty and the Tanguts. They were both vassals of the Tanguts and also did business with the Song Dynasty. Therefore, they did not make things difficult for the Guiyi Army. However, when Renduo Baozhong saw that his persuasion was ineffective, he led his army to catch up.
At this time, the Long family and the Guiyi Army tribes were so eager to return south that their troops had been delayed for too long.
After Nita Yasutada's cavalry caught up, a fight broke out between the two sides.
After a fierce battle, the Guiyi Army and the Long family's tribe collapsed.
Cao Zhongshou led his troops to the rear, but was finally defeated by Nida Baozhong.
Cao Zhongshou was galloping on his war horse, followed by three hundred armored cavalrymen from the Renduo tribe.
"Don't let them get away!"
The sound of arrows breaking through the air kept coming from behind his head. Cao Zongshou was lying on his warhorse, wearing a layer of chain mail.
It must be said that the clan leader treated him well. After knowing that he was injured, he gave him this chain mail. Thanks to this chain mail, Cao Zongshou blocked several arrow attacks.
Now an arrow hit him and was stopped by the chain mail again.
However, Cao Zhongshou still felt pain, and he clamped his legs around the horse to urge it to gallop.
Cao Zhongshou looked around and saw that most of the 2,000 elite soldiers who followed him had been scattered or killed. Now there were only a dozen riders following him. In order to allow their wives, children, and clansmen to return to their homeland, these people were ready to die.
"Dead, all dead."
"They're all dead."
Cao Zhongshou couldn't help but burst into tears. At this moment, while crying, he gritted his teeth, stretched out his hand and waved the whip, making his warhorse go faster and faster.
But unfortunately, at this moment an arrow shot out and hit his horse.
His horse felt the pain and fell off immediately.
It turned out that these Tibetan soldiers of the Renduo tribe saw that they could not shoot through Cao Zongshou's body and knew that he was wearing armor, so they changed to shooting at his horse.
Cao Zhongshou turned over and fell to the ground. He used his right arm to support himself, but still could not withstand the huge inertia. In an instant he knew that his arm was broken.
His companions were galloping away on horseback, and when they saw Cao Zhongshou fall, they reined in their horses and turned back. Hundreds of Tibetan cavalrymen also surrounded them from both sides.
Cao Zhongshou said nothing, still enduring the severe pain in his arm, raised the bow with his left hand, and took out an arrow from the half-empty quiver with his right hand and put it on the bow. As for the others, they also dismounted and drew their swords or held bows and surrounded them.
A horseman from the Tibetan tribe came out and said to Cao Zhongshou, "You'd better surrender!"
Cao Zhongshou shook his head. Without saying a word, the other party immediately ordered the cavalry on both sides to pick up bows and arrows.
"Kill!"
Cao Zongshou glared at the other party and shouted.
The companions on both sides also roared in anger.
A moment later, Cao Zhongshou and more than ten riders were all shot to the ground.
On that day, corpses piled up like mountains in the Zhuanglang River Valley, and the river water turned red.