Chapter 1083: Grassland Situation (Part 1)

Huyanda did not stay long after returning to the Chifeng camp. After training several horses in two days, he led a large group of people to leave Chifeng again. At the same time, he sent people to Longhua to learn about the construction of the new territory. Although he said that he was not in a hurry to capture the horse king, he actually wanted to catch the horse king as soon as possible.

The reason why he said that, in addition to the reasons he said, there are several other problems. One is that he did not expect to find the horse king so quickly, so there were not many people around him. The second is that his horse preparations were still insufficient, so as soon as he returned to the camp, he immediately trained all the horses to prepare for the capture of the horse king.

Just when Huangfu Chaobo and Gongsun Zan were preparing to accumulate strength to deal with the attack of Yuan Shao's Wei army in Hebei, the adults of the Xianbei tribes gathered on Danhan Mountain, where the Xianbei royal court was located hundreds of miles north of Bingzhou. This was the most complete gathering of the adults of the Xianbei tribes after the death of the Xianbei Great Chanyu Tan Shihuai.

The Xianbei today is no longer the same as when Huangfu Chaobo traveled! After Tan Shihuai died, Helian succeeded him. Although he was very different from Tan Shihuai, he was still able to maintain the nominal unity of the Xianbei.

But after Helian's death, the Xianbei tribes on the grassland were no longer unified in form.

After Helian's death, the entire Xianbei was completely divided into several major tribes. Among them, the royal court was controlled by Budugen, the strongest Xianbei leader in the central and eastern parts. His subordinates had the support of dozens of tribes, including Yigan, Guyin, Kudi, Suqin, Shifujin, Chixiaodou, etc. Budugen had a population of about 200,000 accounts and a force of about 250,000, including 50,000 palace account cavalry and 200,000 ordinary cavalry. His subordinates included Fuluohan, Xieguini, Tietou, Chida and other generals. His tribes were distributed in Taiyuan, Yanmen and other places in Bingzhou.

Further east of the royal court is the sphere of influence of Kebi Neng, another great man of the Central and Eastern Xianbei. After failing to compete with Budugen for the royal court, Kebi Neng had no choice but to lead his army and the tribes that supported him to retreat eastward in a panic, and controlled the large grasslands in the north of Daijun and Shanggu in Youzhou to the east of the royal court; Kebi Neng was slightly weaker than Budugen because he failed to compete with Budugen for the royal court, but it was only a little bit worse.

Kebi Neng's subordinates had the support of more than ten tribes such as Nalou, Fuyu, Xiyun, Afugan, and Tiele. There were less than 200,000 tents in total, and the number of troops was about 200,000, including 50,000 palace tent cavalry and 150,000 ordinary tribal cavalry. These 50,000 palace tent cavalry were Kebi Neng's reliance in the fight with Budugen, so even if he failed, he could still control the east of the royal court and the tribesmen of 200,000 tents. Kebi Neng's subordinates included several generals, including Zhu Luohou, Suonu, Nalouyu and Tiefuzhen.

Further east of the Central Xianbei was the control area of ​​the Eastern Xianbei, which was still divided into three tribes, Suli, Mijia and Queji, as before the split.

If there had not been the great army a few years ago, Suli's strength would have been comparable to that of Budugen, who controlled the royal court. However, because of that damn war, Suli's strength had dropped by 30%. Although he was still the strongest among the Eastern Xianbei, he had less than 30,000 palace soldiers and 120,000 ordinary tribal cavalry. The tribes he controlled were only several large tribes, such as the Yuwen tribe, the Murong tribe, the Chulian tribe, the Qujin tribe, and the Fumeng tribe. The tribes were distributed in Youbeiping and Yuyang in Youzhou.

After the war that year, several small tribes defected to Mijia and Queji, which greatly damaged Suli's strength. Today, the Suli tribe has only 150,000 tribesmen, which is no longer the same as the more than 200,000 tribes at the beginning. Fortunately, the loss of Suli's generals in that war was not big, and the highest loss was only a captain of ten thousand men. However, the entire Suli tribe had only more than twenty captains of ten thousand men. Suli was heartbroken to lose several of them in one battle. Now his generals include Suli's younger brother Cheng Lugui, his confidant Mengcha, Murong Cheng, and Zhemu Ke.

The Mijia tribe was originally the second most powerful tribe in the Eastern Xianbei.

It was supported by the Tufa tribe, Qifu tribe, Youlou tribe, Yufu tribe and other tribes, and had more than 100,000 tribesmen. Although its strength was only half of Suli's, it had 20,000 palace cavalry, which was the basis for him to compete with Suli for several years without being annexed by it. Fortunately, a few years ago, Suli suffered a great loss at the hands of General Baima. Many tribes betrayed Suli and joined his tribe, which increased his strength by nearly 20,000 tribesmen, and the gap with Suli was shortened a lot.

Today, the Mijia tribe has a total of 120,000 troops, including 20,000 palace cavalry and about 100,000 ordinary tribal cavalry, and its strength has greatly increased. The tribes are distributed in Liaoxi and Youbeiping in Youzhou.

The Queji tribe is the weakest of the three eastern Xianbei tribes. It only has the support of several slightly larger tribes such as Tuoba, Duan, Doulu, and Nalu. There are about 80,000 tents and about 70,000 troops, including only 10,000 palace soldiers and 60,000 ordinary tribal cavalry. The tribes are distributed in Liaoxi and Liaodong in Youzhou.

The defeat of Suli a few years ago also allowed him to increase 10,000 tents and troops by several thousand people. However, the Queji tribe is still the weakest of the three eastern Xianbei tribes. If it weren't for the fact that the more than 70,000 troops would greatly damage the strength of the enemy who forcibly annexed him, the Queji tribe would have been annexed by several other adults long ago.

The Western Xianbei split into more tribes. In addition to the Putou tribe in Wuyuan and the north of Yunzhong and the Qianman tribe in the grasslands north of Yunzhong and Shuofang, there are several large tribes in the north of Liangzhou, which are all Xianbei tribes with hundreds of thousands of people. However, the Western Xianbei have never participated in the struggle of the royal court, so this time is no exception.

After He Lian's death, the Xianbei royal court finally fell under the control of Budugen after a fierce struggle. The failed people left the royal court and developed in the east and west. Putou and Qianman are two of them. However, they did not compete with Kobineng for the central grassland, but led their people into the control of the Western Xianbei.

With the support of Yifu, Yuchi, Pilou, Niedie and other tribes, Putou had 100,000 people in the tents and 100,000 soldiers, including 20,000 palace cavalry and 80,000 ordinary tribal cavalry, which were deployed on the vast grasslands north of Yunzhong and Wuyuan. Budugen, who was surrounded by enemies on both sides, did not dare to send troops to attack the 20,000 elite palace cavalry, for fear that if the war went wrong, Kobineng would raid his lair.