Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

"Is it from our own?" Seeing that the soldiers of the Song Army were sitting on the horse in front of them, the dozen or so young people froze there.

"I'll go out and have a look!" said the young leader.

At that moment, the youth leader stood up from his hiding place and ran forward.

"Who are you?" He shouted before reaching the soldiers.

Soon, several Song Army generals in front rushed towards this side.

The youth leader's face changed slightly, but he still stayed here and did not leave.

"We are soldiers of the Forbidden Army!" A thirty-year-old general in front laughed loudly.

"Soldiers of the Forbidden Army?" The young leader was taken aback.

"We are from the Eighth Army and the Ninth Army of the Imperial Army!" said the middle-aged general.

He came in front of the youth leader, took out his token, and handed it to the youth leader for inspection.

"Sure enough, it's the general of the Forbidden Army! General, hello!" A smile appeared on the young leader's face.

This gold medal can't be fake! Moreover, the opposite is a standard Han Chinese, not a fake foreign barbarian at all! It is said that he is a person from the Chang'an area of ​​Guanshan, and it just so happens that this young leader is also from the Chang'an area! Therefore, the young leader felt very cordial!

At that moment, the leader of the youth beckoned, and after a while, a dozen other youths also ran over.

"Can you ride horses?" asked the middle-aged general.

These dozen or so youths nodded! They are in Liangzhou, which was originally the territory of the Xixia people, and there are many horses left behind, so they all know how to ride horses.

"That's really great! We've been traveling for half a month, and now we're going to Liangzhou to rest for a day! Come with us!" the middle-aged general laughed.

"Haven't you asked the general Gao's name?" After riding on the horse, the group of horses headed towards Liangzhou City, the young leader cupped his hands.

"I am Yang Zheng, Commander of the Eighth Army of the Forbidden Army! This is my brother Liang Hao!" He pointed to a slightly shorter general beside him.

"So it's General Yang and General Liang! What are you going to do in Tubo?" the young leader asked curiously.

"It's okay to tell you, we went to Tubo to buy horses! All the more than 30,000 war horses were brought back from Tubo!" Yang Zheng laughed.

"Buy horses from Tubo?" The young leader showed a surprised expression on his face.

"The Tubo people have a lot of horses! In fact, they don't buy horses, but exchange horses. They use tea to exchange horses from them!" Yang Zheng said.

Tubo is where Tibet is now! The Tubo people are the Tibetans of later generations!

Historically, in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the Tubo people once established the vast Tubo Empire! After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong Li Shimin had to win over the Tubo people and marry Princess Wencheng to Tubo. The famous Potala Palace was built by the then Tubo King Songtsan Gampo to marry Princess Wencheng! Yes, from the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Tubo Empire began to collapse.

By now, the Tubo Empire has already been divided into dozens of tribes, large and small!

Historically, it was not until after the rise of the Mongols that Mongols annexed Tibet, and then at the end of the Mongol period, the power of Buddhism in Tibet increased greatly. It was not until the Ming Dynasty that Tibet established a unified political regime! And now Tubo is extremely messy!

"Can tea be exchanged for horses from the Tibetans?" The young leader was even more surprised when he heard about this for the first time.

"Actually, decades ago, we Da Song had done such a deal with the Tubo people, exchanging tea for horses! Now we just pick it up again!" Yang Zheng laughed.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a tea horse exchange between the Northern Song Dynasty court and the Tubo tribes. At the most, in the Song Shenzong era, 20,000 war horses could be exchanged at a time! However, after Song Huizong Zhao Ji came to the throne, the Daxing Huashigang, the world was in chaos, and the tea and horse trade between the Northern Song Dynasty and Tubo also stopped! The Tubo people needed tea, so they started to do business with Dali, and many of their tea came from Dali!

"I heard that the Tubo people are very vicious, will they invade our Great Song Dynasty?" the youth leader asked.

"Don't worry about this! Tubo has a small population, and the largest tribe has only 20,000 to 30,000 people! We have 100,000 young people in Liangzhou City, and all the people are soldiers. As long as they are brave and brave, they are not afraid of them! Moreover, Liangzhou is far away from Tubo. It is still far away, and it is impossible for the Tibetans to leave their own tribe and come here to invade! If they leave their own tribe, they will soon be swallowed up by other tribes!" Yang Zheng said.

The young man nodded.

"Actually, you can have more contacts with the Tibetans! Send people to give the Tibetans special products from our Han people, so that they can experience the prosperity and civilization of our Han people! After a long time, some Tibetan tribes may take the initiative to join us in the Song Dynasty! The Tubo tribes are fighting endlessly, as long as we win over a part of the Tubo tribes, we have a reason to enter the whole of Tubo and completely incorporate Tubo into our territory of the Song Dynasty!" Yang Zhengdao.

Tibet has been sparsely populated since ancient times. After liberation, the population of Tibet was only 2 million. Now the various tribes in Tubo often fight with each other. The living conditions in ancient times were very difficult. Up to now, the population of Tibet is only 300,000 to 400,000! Compared with the Han nationality with a population of tens of millions close to 100 million, Tubo is nothing! Moreover, Tubo has not yet established a political regime at this time. Although most Tubo people believe in Buddhism, there is no unified sect! In this era, the Potala Palace has long been destroyed in the flames of war. The Potala Palace of later generations was re-established by Tubo Buddhism in the 16th century!

Yang Zheng and Liang Hao entered Tubo this time, on the one hand to carry out the tea and horse trade, and on the other hand to investigate the situation in Tubo!

They went all the way forward, seeing the rolling wheat fields, they were very excited!

They all know that this year is a rare harvest year!

"Brother Yang, I'm feeling homesick! After leaving my hometown, I haven't been back for almost six years." Liang Hao looked at the wheat field in front of him and said with emotion.

"We can go back after Jurchen is destroyed!" Yang Zheng said.

"Actually, I really want to see how my hometown is doing now! It should be a bumper harvest year in my hometown, right? Parents should be okay?" Liang Hao said.

The two entered Liangzhou City with emotion along the way, where they were warmly welcomed by the young people! Now throughout the Great Song Dynasty, especially in Guanshan, Hanzhong, and Sichuan and Sichuan, the status of soldiers is extremely high, and the heroic deeds of the army are spread all over the world. All young people want to join the army! They are naturally happy to see soldiers.

After that, the team stayed here for a day, and then continued on their way.

From Liangzhou to Lingzhou, from Lingzhou to Xiazhou, Yinzhou and other places, there are harvest scenes everywhere, which makes people happy!

On June 20, they returned to Datong!

Here, the youths of the Datong Production and Construction Corps have already started harvesting wheat, and countless soldiers are also helping the youths harvest wheat together. There are busy scenes everywhere!

When more than 30,000 war horses were brought here, the soldiers were very pleasantly surprised when they saw the war horses and knew that they were bought from Tubo!

Yang Zheng and Liang Hao arrived outside Datong City, and Yue Fei, Yue Yun and others had already come out to welcome them.

"Marshal!" Yang Zheng, Liang Hao and others hurriedly got off their horses and saluted.

Yue Fei nodded, and he also got off his horse, and he came to the horse behind, observing and sizing up carefully.

"Marshal, these are carefully selected horses! This time we brought good tea from the south of the Yangtze River. The Tubo people like it very much. They brought out the best horses in the tribe! They also said, How many tea leaves like this do you want!" Yang Zheng laughed.

"That's right! These horses don't seem to have very big skeletons, but they must have good stamina!" Yue Fei observed carefully for a while, and said.

"Yes! Their stamina is much better than Xixia horses!" Yang Zheng said.

"This is more conducive to long-distance raids!" Yue Fei said.

Yue Yun beside him was also observing the horses at the moment, and said with a smile: "Commander, this year we can add another 20,000 cavalry! The number of our cavalry will be close to 80,000!"

When Yue Fei came from Yanyun, he brought 40,000 cavalry, and Zhang Xian brought another 20,000 cavalry! Now they have bought war horses from Tubo, plus the war horses gathered from all over Xixia, based on the scale of one man and two horses, they can also form more than 20,000 cavalry! In the era of cold weapons, the role of cavalry far exceeds that of infantry, so Yue Yun is also very happy now.

"Both of you go back to rest. When tomorrow morning, you and Yue Yun will go to Yunnei State together!" Yue Fei said after walking among the horses for a while.

"Yunnei Prefecture?" Yang Zheng was taken aback, then nodded hastily.

"Ah!" Yue Yun was extremely surprised!

"Yunnei Prefecture is an important place in the northwest, you must guard it for me!" Yue Fei said.

This Yunnei Prefecture is an important city in the Liao Kingdom. It is located in the northwest of Datong, probably in the area of ​​Guyang County, Tuyou Banner, and Tuzuo Banner in Inner Mongolia. During the Jin Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, Yunnei Prefecture was an important military town! If you want to attack Datong, you must first attack Yunnei Prefecture! Previously, Yunnei Prefecture was still occupied by the Xixia people, but when Zhang Xian went north at the beginning of this year, Yunnei Prefecture had been defeated, and now there are thousands of troops stationed there! The city there is dilapidated and needs to be repaired.