Han Khan

Chapter 127, New Group
After a while, the Tumati man named Narisu turned to Zhang Sheng and said:
"Your Excellency, we, the Tumat people, are willing to serve you as our Lord. We only ask that you treat us with kindness. We are willing to herd, hunt and be your warriors!"

After that, all the Tumati people, like the Khitan people, knelt down to express their submission.

Zhang Sheng smiled slightly when he saw this. He liked people who knew the times. If they did not surrender, then he would continue to let them be slaves.

Zhang Sheng called Yan Zhi over to him and pointed at the loyal slaves and said:
"Yanzhi, in view of your loyalty and your many contributions, I now officially appoint you as the hereditary leader of the regiment. From today on, you can lead your scout battalion as the central army of the regiment you command."

Yan Zhi has always served as a guard scout.

He came from a Tatar family that fled to Dunhuang due to war. He had been loyal to Zhang Sheng for many years and made many contributions.

Now, he finally took the position of group leader.

After hearing the news, Yan Zhi was so excited that he immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang Sheng, saying with tears of gratitude: "I, your servant, thank you for your reward. I will swear allegiance to you until death!"

Then Zhang Sheng looked at the Khitans and Tumati, who were equally loyal and reliable, so he continued to announce:
"Ader of the Khitans and Narisu of the Tumati, I now appoint you two as the battalion commanders of the Jinhan people. Each of you can lead 300 households.

At the same time, I also grant you the power to appoint centurions and decanters on your own.

You two will serve as the left and right wings of the Yanzhi Regiment Leader and obey his management and command. Except for the 300 households, the rest will be incorporated into the Guards and the other two regiments as supplements. "

The two men were just ordinary tribesmen before, but they were appreciated by Zhang Sheng because of their sturdy stature and were selected by him to serve as officers and lords.

Now that they heard Zhang Sheng say that he would give them official titles, they were overjoyed!
Suddenly, the two of them knelt on the ground excitedly, kowtowed to Zhang Sheng and said:

"Your Excellency, we servants are willing to swear allegiance to you until death!"

They knew that this was a rare opportunity and if they could get Zhang Sheng's approval, they would definitely have a better future.

So they expressed their loyalty to Zhang Sheng without hesitation.

"Yanzhi, I'm leaving these people to you. Adel and Narisu will be your assistants. Lead and train them well. I want a brave and fierce army. Can you do it?"

The new leader, Yan Zhi, was overjoyed when he heard this. He looked at the slave warriors with shining eyes, as if he was looking at beautiful women stripped of their clothes.

Yan Zhi was of course very happy about it, so he immediately said:
"Slave, I will work hard to train the Jinhan people under my command and make them a regiment of tigers and wolves."

Zhang Sheng turned around and said to Boniek, who was extremely anxious just now:
Now there is a new group. With these people, are you still worried about not having enough manpower?" Zhang Sheng said calmly.

Boniek's worries faded immediately, but he still asked cautiously: "But, can these slaves be trusted?"

A hint of coldness flashed across Zhang Sheng's eyes, and he said:
"When reorganizing into ten-households, one-hundred-households and battalions, the Khitans and the Dubos should be dispersed and mixed as before.

If you don't obey, I will kill you. The bodies in the Dubo camps have not been dealt with yet, so we will deal with them together when the time comes!"

"At your will, Your Highness!" said Boniek, the captain of the guards.

After reorganizing all the captives in the Dubo camp, his subordinates reported to Zhang Sheng that among the Dubo captives, nearly four hundred households and more than one thousand people were not from the Dubo tribe, but the Guligan people from Beihai.

These Guligan people were once conquered by the leader of the Dubu tribe, Shulun Timur, and submitted to the Dubu tribe, but because they helped the Dubu people defeat the Khitan tribe and the surrounding Tumati tribe, they did not become slaves.

According to legend, these Guligan people were descendants of the Gaoche people (Tie Le), a subject people of the Xiongnu.

In the early Tang Dynasty, they were under the management of the Tang Dynasty, and the Yuwuzhou Military Governor's Office was established in the area where they lived to manage the Guligan people.

Later, it was conquered and ruled by the Turks. When the Uighurs and Kyrgyz ruled the northern desert, it was under the jurisdiction of the Uighurs and Kyrgyz Khanates. In Beihai, the Guligan people built houses with wood, migrated to the south before the winter every year, and moved back to the north in summer.

They mainly rely on gathering, hunting, horse breeding, fishing and growing some cold-resistant crops for their livelihood.

Zhang Sheng showed great interest in these Guligans and went to inspect them in person.

He found that the men here were all wearing thick fur and leather armor, and both men and women, young and old, had typical appearance features of high cheekbones, small eyes, sparse beards and dark eyes.

Nothing valuable was found. These people, whether they were the Huns, Tiele, Xianbei, Rouran, Turks or Uighurs, were all illusions.

As long as they were defeated and annexed by the Jin Han people, no matter who they were before, they would be disbanded and mixed with others and become subjects or slaves of the Jin Han people.

Among these Dubo captives, there were actually some tough ones. Upon hearing that all the people in the Dubo tribe were slaves of the Jinhan leader Zhang Shengteqin, more than a hundred of them flatly refused, looking fierce and ready to resist.

Zhang Sheng had no psychological burden about this and killed them all. Under the threat of death from sabers and spears, smart people knew how to choose and naturally bowed their heads to Zhang Sheng.

Among these captives, there were many craftsmen who were capable of making bows, smelting iron, forging and casting armor. Zhang Sheng also arranged for people to find them and their families separately and gather them together.

From now on, I will be a craftsman of the Jinhan tribe. Although I can use the blacksmith shop built by the system to produce high-quality unified bows, swords, spears, arrows and armor, it is impossible to rely solely on the system.

These talented craftsmen can repair armor and swords for the soldiers, and when they return to the Golden Mountain Temple, they will be incorporated into the blacksmith camp.

Zhang Sheng arranged for the Jin Han people to rest in the Dubo tribe camp for a day, but they did not relax their vigilance. Yan only led the scout group, which had now been expanded into a regiment, and continued to conduct reconnaissance in the surrounding area of ​​about 50 miles.

In particular, the investigation was carried out on the forest tribes engaged in hunting around Mount Tannu, from the coast of the North Sea in the east to the forest area of ​​Mount Tannu in the west.

Such as the Guligan people, Bayegu people (Barhu people), Buryati people (Buryati people) tribes around the North Sea, and the Oirat people near the Tannu Mountains.

These forest tribes live in the dense forests of the North Asian mountains all year round and are close neighbors of the grasslands.

They lived by hunting, lived in huts built from trees, wore clothes made of animal skins, and used sleds and skis as a means of transportation in winter.

Therefore, they are very tough forest dwellers.

But in the future they will be conquered by the Mongol Shiwei people, who now occupy the vast grasslands but have not yet formed a unified country.

You should know that the ancestors of the Mongol Shiwei people who are now spread across the vast grasslands were the Shiwei people or Tatars.

In fact, it was after the demise of the once powerful Uighur Khanate that they set out from the depths of the remote forests of the Great Xianbei Mountains.

They migrated westward along a long journey to the grassland area and merged with some Turkic and Uighur tribes on the grassland to form a new tribal group.

They were originally a tribe that lived on hunting and fishing, and later gradually evolved into a nomadic people who lived wherever there was water and grass. However, under the strong pressure of the Khitans, they were forced to migrate continuously to the central and western parts of the prairie.

In the long years to come, one of these Mongols and Shiwei families - the family of the Archers of the Black Tatar origin - will embark on a thrilling journey of conquest of the entire prairie.

At that time, no matter whether they were tribes in the forests or tribes on the grasslands, no matter whether their ancestors came from the Uighurs, Turks or the Tungusic tribes in the Luo wilderness (the Siberian wasteland), they would eventually be incorporated into the territory of the Mongols.

After the Mongol Golden Family established a unified rule, although each tribe still retained its own unique name, they all began to call themselves Mongols.

From then on, no other grassland tribe on this vast grassland could compete with them.

(End of this chapter)