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Chapter 980: Forced (Part )

The spies then began to point and gesture, describing how rich the resources in the Han area were and how favorable the opportunity was now.

The Mongolians who had lived in the Han area had a broader vision than their counterparts who stayed in the grassland for a long time. And since they wanted to return to the grassland to report the news, they had also done some research beforehand, so when they talked about the gold, jade, silk, satin, spices, porcelain, food and drink in the Han area, they immediately shocked everyone.

The Kipchaks in the team were fine, but the Boya people were descendants of Khwarazm and knew how wealthy Khwarazm was back then. The reason why Khwarazm could build a city with a population of over a million was because there were countless merchants traveling east and west within its borders, filling the Khwarazm market with silk and porcelain from the East.

We all remember how precious those goods were. Merchants could easily resell them and make ten times the profit. Some merchants from the west even wanted to exchange them for an equal weight of gold!

However, as the hub of the land trade route, in the eyes of the Khwarezmians, those legendary countries, whether in the East or the West, were too far away. For hundreds of years, they were accustomed to the circulation of goods in their own country, but rarely thought about where they came from.

It turns out that these goods come from the Han country south of the grassland? So close, so close that you can reach out and touch it?

Yuri Timur was a young man with a mind full of fighting.

Unlike his ancestors who enjoyed long periods of peace and luxury in the court of Gur Khan, Gurtimur had admired the deeds of Khwarezmian hero General Tayangu during his expedition to Herat since he was a child. When the Mongol army surged across the Syr Darya, Gurtimur, at the age of fourteen, became one of the few brave generals who dared to confront the Mongol warriors head-on on the battlefield.

But later, because he witnessed thousands of tribal members being killed like grass in the battle and saw the horror of the Yekmongol Ulus as a war machine, Yuri Timur quickly became a loyal supporter of the Mongols and succumbed to the Mongols' seemingly endless desire for conquest.

Since this year, more and more warriors from the Western Regions have poured into the grasslands. Countless people have spread the news that the Khan is about to launch an attack on the Han tribes in the south of the grasslands with an unprecedented force. In this regard, Yuli Timur's father Tutuha has been somewhat hesitant. He does not understand how powerful those Han tribes in the south must be to make the Mongols unable to defeat them themselves and have to dispatch the surrendered people to fight desperately.

Yueli Timur thought differently.

He felt that if he wanted to integrate into the wolf pack and become a member who could eat meat instead of being eaten, he had to show his sharp teeth. The stronger the enemy, the more places the Mongols could use the newly surrendered tribes, and the higher the status of the people in the newly surrendered tribes, this was a simple truth.

Didn't you see that recently, the Boyawu and the Cuman cavalry led by him have wiped out the Mongolian tribes on the grassland who were secretly disobeying the Khan? This is the proof of his rapidly rising status!

Unfortunately, the Khan is so majestic that there are not many tribes that dare to be lazy and cunning under his gaze. If they want to show their sharp teeth, they will eventually fall on the real enemies.

Now he and his subordinates suddenly realized that the enemy the Khan wanted to deal with was the source of goods that had made Khwarezm rich for hundreds of years, the legendary mountains of gold and silver?
"We patrol this meadow area every day, and it was hard to come across a few clever ones!"

He turned his horse around excitedly and shouted to someone outside the team, "I should have said it earlier! Such an enemy is worth fighting no matter how strong it is!"

Han Tuhu, who was in the outer circle and dressed as a Mongolian noble, smiled and replied: "Yue Li Qian Hu is very brave, just like a Mongolian hero."

Hantuhu was the son of Beilegutai.

Before this, Beilegutai seized the Gouluo Market and fought with the troops led by the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty in Wusha Fort, and Hantuhu accompanied him throughout the whole process. After the defeat, Beilegutai felt ashamed to show off his power, so he threw many tasks to his son.

During these two months, it was Yuritemür who once again swept away the wavering Mongolian tribes, and Hantuhu was in charge of supervision.

Seeing Yueli Timur's eager application, Han Tuhu agreed verbally but sneered in his heart, and then showed the sneer outwardly, forming a faint grin at the corners of his mouth.

Why didn't you tell Yueli Timur about Han'er's prosperity earlier? Because only when these wild dogs discover it themselves will they find the prey particularly delicious and try to hunt it actively.

Countless members of the Boyawu tribe had their heads fed to the fish in the Yeli River and the Yayi River, and their bodies devoured by wild dogs at the foot of the Yulibeli Mountain. If Genghis Khan had not considered that the ancestors of the Boyawu tribe could be considered a branch of the Delejin Mongols, they would have been killed like other Khwarezmians.

The rest of them were all traitors who had enjoyed wealth and honor in Khwarazm but betrayed Muhammad Sultan. They were simply a bunch of shameless bastards. In Hantuhu's eyes, their status was the same as that of the Han slaves who had fled a while ago and the forest people who had responded to the recruitment recently. They were just superficially close to the customs of the Nirun Mongols.

Han Tuhu remembered that when Genghis Khan raised the nine-flag white banner on the banks of the Onon River, all the Mongols, including the various inhabitants of the grassland, felt that they would become one from then on and follow Genghis Khan to become the most fierce and noble conquerors in the world.

But after more than a decade, the continuous wars were not all victories, and failures taught the Mongols more. Many people, including Han Tuhu, understood that to defeat the powerful enemy in the south, rivers of blood would need to be shed. Of course, the people responsible for the bloodshed were the Kangli people, the Boya people, and the Kipchaks.

It is obvious that these latecomers will not have their own land on the grassland, but they will have to undertake a large number of tasks such as fighting, patrolling, and suppression. Moreover, as the atmosphere on the grassland becomes increasingly tense, the tasks they undertake become increasingly heavy.

No matter how loyal and active Yuli Timur was, it would not change anything. A dog barked excitedly, so what?
Although the grassland is vast, it cannot sustain them continuously.

The areas of the grasslands with abundant grass and water are limited, and have long been divided up by the Golden Family. The remaining grasslands are greatly affected by the climate and water sources.

From last year to this year, the grasslands experienced snowstorms in winter and droughts in spring. Even if the carrying capacity of many lands is still there, it is slightly lower than in good years. Unfortunately, the food obtained from the trade with the Great Zhou is very small.

After too many Qianhu Nayans went south to plunder, they could no longer do without the various luxury goods provided by Haner, so the large number of cattle and sheep they exchanged for were all things that could not be eaten or used, and were just shiny things that were useless to look at.

Under such circumstances, Genghis Khan continued to dispatch troops from the Western Regions. Tens of thousands of cavalry, tens of thousands of war horses, hundreds of thousands of civilians, and millions of cattle and sheep were rapidly consuming the existing reserves on the grassland. If it weren't for the previous battles that consumed many mouths to feed, famine would have started long ago.

In Helin, which was becoming more and more like a Han city, a lot of food was collected in advance and held in the hands of the Golden Family's dignitaries. Unless you exchanged it for real gold or silver or good pasture, you would never get it. In addition, paper money printed by the Han court would also work.

Many more tribes consumed their herds at several times the rate, until at some point Genghis Khan waved his hand and allowed them to unleash their greed and violence on their enemies.

What's funny is that Han'er is also trying hard to spread rumors at this time, trying to lure the Mongolian army to attack the defense line they have been building for several years. Do they think that in the brutal war of attrition, it will be the Mongolians who will die? It will be the Mongolians who can't bear the losses?

That's impossible. If Han'er does this, it will only reduce the trouble of the Mongolian nobles forcing cannon fodder to die. That's great, great!
(End of this chapter)