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Chapter 981 Torrent (Part )

Not only were the newly surrendered people sent out alone to carry out the suppression mission, but the tribes in the eastern part of the grassland that united with the Khan still accounted for the majority. As time went by, messengers kept rushing back to the depths of the grassland with the latest news.

Some people ran towards the direction of the Khan's camp, and more people first ran towards the pasture where their tribal leaders were stationed, or ran to the scattered small tribes of their subordinates according to the instructions of their own leaders.

For example, after receiving the news, Han Tuhu went straight to the north to report to his father Belgutai, and then continued to go north and rushed to the so-called Huoerhuna Yaobur area in the north of the grassland in one breath to mobilize all the forces that could be mobilized for Belgutai.

This place is not far from the mountain called Deliwenpantuo where Genghis Khan was born. Genghis Khan's gift of this place to Beilegutai as a share of land also shows his trust in Beilegutai.

Surrounded by the remnants of the northern slope of the mountain, there is a remote lake with a small camp by the lake. Hundreds of years ago, after the Jalayir people were defeated by the Khitans, a small branch fled to this area and lived together with the Mongolian Zhuerqin tribe who originally lived here.

Later, the Jurkin tribe gradually became stronger, and its leader Haidu turned the Jalayir people into slaves of the Mongols. When the Jurkin tribe was at its peak, it was known as the descendants of the eldest branch of Kublai Khan, and occupied the fifth and sixth wings among the thirteen wings arranged by Genghis Khan.

Their strength aroused Genghis Khan's fear, and then the entire tribe was wiped out. Genghis Khan thus seized the position of the main branch of the Nirun Mongols and turned the people of the Jurkin tribe into the private property of the Golden Family.

Muhuali, who now holds considerable power under Genghis Khan, is a Jalair and a descendant of the Bo'ole of the Golden Family.

But the grassland was so vast that the Yeken Mongol Ulus had never established a household registration system, let alone a census, so there were still many scattered small groups of Jalayir people who remained where they were, living in small grasslands and woodlands along the Qinlehuo River.

Because the living area is relatively small, the tribe camps in roughly the same place every winter and summer. Over the past 20 years, the camp, which was supposed to be a temporary structure, has gradually become a fixed building.

The location of the camp was very clever, right on a lakeside open space, flat and open, surrounded by dense vegetation, and deep swamps. In early autumn, the temperature had not yet dropped, and the surface of the swamp was steaming with green miasma. Except for particularly clever small animals, even experienced hunters who strayed into it would probably never be able to escape.

The Barhuti people who had responded to Beilegutai's recruitment and went south from the east coast of the North Sea did not know the horror of this swamp, which led to the continuous loss of manpower in the hunting activities in the past few months. Those who disappeared were all particularly skilled and daring.

Strictly speaking, the Barhut people were not Mongols, but a part of the forest people who were conquered after the establishment of the Mongol Empire.

In the past few years, the Mongolian army has been fighting in the east and west, and the battles have been thousands of miles away. The hundreds of thousand households in its headquarters can not keep up with the consumption. Some thousand households who originally stayed in the grassland had to send out children of the tribe who were only twelve or thirteen years old. When they arrived in Khorasan and other places, they were fourteen or fifteen years old and could be used for fighting.

The thousand households left behind in the grasslands were themselves under heavy military pressure from the Great Zhou. After the Mongol cavalry's reputation of being invincible in the Central Plains fell, they were increasingly unable to suppress their opponents in many military confrontations. The Mongol warriors who once spread fear like gods and demons were increasingly being seen through for their human nature.

We all have two eyes and one mouth, so whoever is afraid can come?

In order to reverse the decline, Beilegutai made great efforts to attract many forest tribes, selected young and strong men from them to form an army. In order to meet the requirements of the forest tribes, he kept giving up his own land to make room for good places with abundant water and grass, suitable for the forest tribes to live.

Unfortunately, the forest tribes that moved south did not necessarily live well.

These tribesmen were complete barbarians, at a stage where they only had language communication but no writing or culture. None of them knew how to farm or herd, and they relied entirely on fishing and hunting for a living, depending on the weather. They suddenly left their familiar environment, and except for the tribe leader who received a lot of rewards, the entire tribe lived a harder life than before.

The more this happened, the more the tribe relied on the work of hunters, and each hunter was an important support for the tribe. Without dozens of experienced hunters, it would be very likely that the Barhuti people would not be able to store enough food before the snow fell in winter, which would be a real disaster!

The Barhuti were naturally shocked and angry. They immediately forced the Jalayir people living here to send out guides to lead the way, trying to find their people in the complex swamps and woodlands. But the guides were useless, and the search failed. The disappearance of hunters continued to occur every now and then.

The territory originally occupied by one tribe was divided between two families, and conflicts between the two families were inevitable.

The Jalayirs were the first to be civilized among the Mongols, and their tribal strength, including population and livestock, was particularly weakened. In order to survive in this difficult time, they inevitably became cunning. The Barhuti went deep into the jungle, worked hard to set traps and hunt stoats and minks for their fur, and were often cheated when they exchanged materials with the Jalayirs.

Over time, the contradiction between the two families became increasingly serious, and conflicts often broke out. It was only thanks to Beilegutai's strict orders that the two tribes were able to live in peace.

Now, in the eyes of the Barhuti people, it is obvious that this is not simply the influence of the terrain, but the result of the Jalair people doing something bad in secret!
The simple tribal chief was furious about this, and the simple barbarian tribe had its own ways to vent the chief's anger.

When Hantuhu arrived at the camp, he saw that the outer perimeter of the camp, which the Jalayir people had built with turf and birch bark, had been almost completely torn down. The Barhuti people rushed into the camp from all sides, running and killing along the road.

Deep inside the camp, the last remnants of the Jalayir were still resisting, and the rapid clash of weapons and the shouting of anger could be clearly heard from the outside world. In the outer reaches of the camp, many old men, women, and children were also fighting desperately with the Barhuti.

But they were too weak and not as ferocious as the Barhuti, so any resistance was crushed. The Barhuti only had a few iron knives, stone axes, and wooden sticks, and they killed people as easily as they killed chickens and dogs.

When Han Tuhu arrived at the camp, the sun was about to set, and the remaining red clouds in the sky looked like the thick blood stains all over the camp. Han Tuhu was surrounded by corpses, some of which were still warm, with blood vessels still twitching, squeezing blood out of the wounds.

The hot blood splattered and turned into warm blood mist. As Han Tuhu walked along, the blood mist got on his face and body.

Han Tuhu looked around and saw corpses everywhere in the camp. Some of the Zhalayi people knelt down and surrendered, but the people in the forest were so excited about killing that no one paid any attention to them and continued to kill frantically with their knives.

A Zalayir man who looked like a Mongolian centurion had his stomach pierced. He struggled in the blood on the ground, and with every step he crawled, his intestines and internal organs flowed out, dragging behind him in a long line. A Barhuti man strode over, and the centurion wailed and begged for mercy.

Unfortunately, ignorance and barbarism are the greatest strengths of the people in the forest.

The Barhuti people waved the long swords in their hands.

The quality of the long sword was poor, and the blade was extremely blunt, so it was more like smashing into the neck than cutting into it. And since it failed to break it in one blow, the Barhuti swung the sword again and again. From a distance of several feet, Hantuhudu seemed to hear the sound of the neck bones being repeatedly broken, and he saw the centurion's eyes wide open, and his head rolling down.

"How dare these savages! He is the centurion of the Yekmongol Ulus!" Batuer behind Han Tuhu said angrily.

Han Tuhu was not angry.

In recent years, he has witnessed many thousand households of the Mongolian headquarters fighting each other. What does the killing between the grassland tribes in front of him count for?
The death of a centurion is not a problem at all.

If two years ago, the life of a Mongol decapitator was worth a hundred or a thousand lives of other ethnic groups, not to mention that many of the Jalayir people were Bo'ole from the Qiyan tribe, that is, domestic dogs. Among them, those who obtained the status of decapitator might be more honorable than ordinary Mongol decapitators.

But now things have changed.

In order to urge the Kangli, Boyawu and Kipchak people to fight for the Khan, the Mongol Empire could treat many of the Nirun Mongol tribes in the eastern part of the grassland as foreigners without hesitation, and indulge Yuli Timur and his ilk to lead the Western Regions army to kill them. In this case, what about domestic dogs?
Genghis Khan needed the bravest and most ferocious dogs, and he needed every dog ​​to bravely move forward, bleed and die for the Mongol Empire. Whether considering the carrying capacity of the grassland or the intention of the Han people to lure him into a fight, this time would soon come.

Because the previously recruited forest people suffered heavy casualties in the battle with the Zhou army, Beilegutai was very worried and suspected that the Barhuti people would be unwilling to continue fighting for him.

But what's funny is that at this time, the tribe in the forest became brute force and killed all the Jalair people who could have helped them settle down... The Nirun Mongols' headquarters did not have much surplus food, and without the help of people who were familiar with the local conditions, how could the tribe in the forest survive the winter here smoothly?

Responding to Belgutai's order and sending more tribesmen to fight southward became the only option. For this reason, sending away a fragmented Zhalai tribe was not worth mentioning at all.

Faced with the massacre that was not yet over, Han Tuhu suddenly felt the tremendous power contained in the grassland.

He also strongly believed that this massacre was the blessing of Eternal Heaven to Genghis Khan, which meant that Genghis Khan would be able to extract more power from the grassland, forming an unstoppable torrent to pour down on the powerful enemies in the south.

(End of this chapter)