Chapter 1 The Omnipotent Uighurs

The snow on the Tianshan Mountains is very white, and has been white for many, many years.

It looked like this the year before last, it looked like this last year, and it looks like this today, as if time has stopped at this moment and has never changed.

It is just that when the sunset falls on the white snow, the change gradually occurs, and there is a process of transformation from silver to golden.

This process is not fast or slow, but the process of change is very firm until it is swallowed by darkness.

Sometimes, the proud swan will fly over the Tianshan Mountains, and finally become a small black dot or even disappear, as if it has gone directly to the kingdom of God.

The golden eagle is different. It usually does not fly over the Tianshan Mountains, but prefers to fly with the air flow between cliffs. Only when it finds prey will it retract its wings and fly down from high altitude.

Bar-headed geese are generally the main reason for the fall of golden eagles, because they are too obsessed with the formation. The bar-headed geese at the end of the formation were pinched to death by the golden eagles. The formation of the bar-headed geese is still not messy, but the wailing with a long tail tone is heartbreaking.

The sad process will not last too long. The remaining bar-headed geese will still line up in a straight line or a "human" shape under the leadership of the leading goose. They will stubbornly cross the last high ridge and burst into bursts of joyful cries, with short tail sounds and joyful meanings filling the Tianshan Mountains.

Grasshopper Lake is right under their wings and is also the end of their journey.

Yun Chu stood by the Grasshopper Lake wearing a marmot fur hat. Seeing the bar-headed geese arrive as promised, even a calm person like him couldn't help cheering and running in circles against the wind with his arms open, as if he wanted to hug these familiar or unfamiliar friends.

When the bar-headed geese lined up to land in the Grasshopper Lake, it was like a flock of planes landing. There was no panic or scramble. The landing was simple and orderly.

Yun Chu likes to watch the bar-headed geese trying to stretch their two red maple-leaf-like feet forward and slowly fall into the water. Their feet always create a few ripples on the calm lake surface. Before the ripples spread, the orange-red feet will enter the water to push away the waves and swallow all the ripples.

Then, the fat abdomen of the bar-headed goose will touch the water surface, rush forward for a while, and then float steadily on the water surface.

Amid the cheerful calls of the head geese, more bar-headed geese arrived as promised, and the Grasshopper Lake, which was as calm as dead water just now, immediately became lively.

It was not only this alpine lake that became lively, but also the grassland under the alpine lake.

And Yun Chu was the watershed between these two lively scenes.

One side was happy with the joy of reaching the end of the journey, while the other side was noisy with incomparable hatred.

The bar-headed geese finally calmed down, and the other side began to beat the drums!

The war began.

One group is the people of the Zhechongfu of Qiuci Town of the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty, and the other group is... I can't see clearly, but they are Hu people.

Under normal circumstances, when the Hu people fight with the Tang army, they will adopt guerrilla warfare, sneak attacks, and use more people to fight fewer people.

Today is different.

I don't know why these Hu people suddenly became very brave and wanted to fight a positional war with the regular army of the Tang Kingdom, which is about the same number as them.

Just look at the fluttering flags of the Tang army, the shining helmets and armor, the neat formation, and the huge shields and spears that they began to advance towards the messy crowd of the enemy.

Yun Chu already knew the final result of this war.

Yun Chu was almost tired of watching this scale and this form of battle. The battle scene of the Huihe people, where only God knew the outcome, was more beautiful.

As for the battle of the Tang army, the unchanging victory did not give Yun Chu, a spectator, any expectation.

Advance - hack to death - throw a sign - advance - hack to death - all enemies are dead, flee - take the sign - cut off the left ear - string the ears - loot money - return to the camp, this is the standard combat process of the Tang army, it is not interesting at all. The Huihe people are different. They will ride on horses and scream to kill the enemy. After hacking the enemy to death, they will jump off the horse, cut off the enemy's head and hang it under the horse's neck, take away any useful things from the enemy's body, and then ride on the horse again. The head under the horse's neck will swing around and continue to kill the enemy... until the enemy collapses, or they collapse and are harvested by others in the same way.

After the Tang army kills the enemy, they will bury the body.

The Huihe people are different.

Sometimes the Huihe people would put the captured enemies on a sharpened wooden pole and tie two stones to their feet. After a night, the wooden pole would come out of the enemy's mouth. At this time, the enemy would look up to the sky as if praying to God. Therefore, the Huihe people called this method "worshiping the sky".

Sometimes, the Huihe people would also cut the enemies into slices, fry them in sheep fat, and then distribute them to the families of the dead soldiers to taste. This is also famous, generally called "sacrifice".

Of course, it is also very beautiful to cut off the enemy's limbs, or only cut off three limbs, and watch a meat goblin crawling on the ground, but there are not many such times because the Tang people do not allow it.

When Yun Chu opened his eyes for the first time in this world, the Huihe people were servants of the Tang army.

I heard from my mother that it was only after the Tang army beat them seven or eight times, killed many of their people, and even the head of the Khan was taken back to Chang'an for exhibition by the Tang people that the Huihe people had the honor of becoming servants of the Tang army.

From then on.

Whenever the Tang army wanted to fight, the Huihe people would desperately help, and they only wanted to fight, not to ask for anything in return. Sometimes, even if it meant losing money, they would take the initiative to help the Tang army fight against other, bad, tribes.

They like this feeling of victory, and even enjoy it very much, although the Tang army generals repeatedly warned them not to hover on the horseback casually during the battle and make all kinds of beautiful movements. They only need to hold up the round shield, protect themselves, let the warhorse rush into the enemy formation, and disrupt the enemy's formation.

They still did not change their ways, and claimed that the Huihe people should hover on the horse like eagles in the sky. Otherwise, it would not be enough to show the strength of the Huihe cavalry.

The number of times they chopped the Turks was much more than the number of times they were chopped by the Turks before, and the number of times they chopped the rest of the Tiele tribe was also much more than before.

Since then, the Huihe pasture has become much larger, the number of cattle and sheep has increased a lot, and even the number of herders has increased a lot.

There are more victories, but they cannot show off their victories under the constraints of the Tang army. This has a great impact on the enthusiasm of the Huihe herders to watch the battle.

Gradually, everyone paid less attention to the battlefield.

Anyway, the Tang people always win in the end. Even if the Hu people can take advantage for a while, there will be more and more brutal Tang people coming to uproot the guys who just won.

Yun Chu scratched his itchy butt and turned his attention to the bar-headed goose that had just fallen into the water.

This time, the reason why he appeared near the battlefield was entirely because his tribe was going to help the Tang army fight again.

When the Huihe people fought, they always brought their families with them.

The reason why Yun Chu turned his head was because he was now a Huihe person and didn't want to laugh at his family members.

In a little while, in a little while, the Huihe cavalry will appear, and they will fight to grab the heads of the Hu people who were chopped to death by the Tang army.

The heads can be taken back to show off, or piled up into a human head tower to scare other Hu tribes, thinking that this group of Huihe people killed many enemies again.

Although there is always a missing left ear on each head, the Huihe people don't care, nor do they dislike it. Anyway, when a head rots, the first thing to fall off is the ear, so it doesn't matter whether there is that thing or not.

The thunderous sound of horse hooves has already sounded. It should be that the Huihe cavalry hiding somewhere has seen that the Tang army is about to win, so they decisively and bravely launched an attack on the last remaining enemy.

Yun Chu didn't want to hear the screams of the Huihe people being whipped by the angry Tang army generals, so he took the initiative to cover his ears.

The name of Grasshopper Lake was given by Yun Chu. The Huihe people have other names for this lake of 10,000 acres. He doesn't like it and doesn't want to remember it. Therefore, he gave it such an interesting name. It is enough for him and the bar-headed geese who come and go in autumn and spring to know it.

Yun Chu is actually a migratory bird. He has stayed in the Western Regions for thirteen years.

The bar-headed geese are back, and for him, it is a new beginning.

The green shoots that quietly emerged under the grass that was not eaten by cattle and sheep last year can be eaten.

Yun Chu likes those tender shoots. He pushed aside the weeds and pinched the green shoots with his hands, and pulled out a grass stem that transitioned from green to light yellow and then to pure white.

The grass stems were very plump and juicy, and there was a hint of sweetness with the fragrance of green grass in the mouth, but they could not be bitten with teeth. Once the grass stems were bitten, they would become bitter and completely cover up the hint of sweetness.

Just as he sucked off the sweetness on the grass stems, a big-tailed sheep that was more than one meter tall came over with graceful steps, snatched the grass stem from Yun Chu's hand, and swallowed it in two or three bites.

This big-tailed sheep with beautiful black eye sockets had a pair of one-and-a-half-foot-long spiral hard horns, plus a high nose bridge, so it was a ram, and also Yun Chu's favorite head sheep.

In this regard, Yunchu is very different from other Huihe boys. Yunchu likes the bravery, toughness and strength of rams, while other Huihe boys devote their love to the ewes with the fullest buttocks and the most charming walking posture in the flock.

Such ewes are not only liked by boys, but also by some adult men. Especially when the grassland is covered with heavy snow, many people will drag one or several sheep into the tent to hold them for warmth.

This is a very common thing, but the time of sleeping in winter is too long, and people are too lonely, so it is inevitable that many strange feelings will occur.

However, the strangest feeling is that Huihe people like to slaughter sheep the most, and the ewes that accompany them through the winter are often slaughtered first.

The legend of the goat-headed man has been spreading in the tribe for a long time. If a goat-headed man appears in any tribe, it is not a good thing for the tribe, because as long as a goat-headed man appears, the sheep in the tribe will die in groups, the grass will wither, and even the water source will dry up, and no more clean water will come out.

This legend has put a lot of pressure on the tribe, so that the more beautiful and fat ewes in the tribe, the faster they die.

The big-tailed sheep of Yun Chu's family is a well-known lamb-bearing ewe in the entire tribe. Only the ewes of their family have the beautiful body shape to give birth to qualified lambs, and rich lamb-bearing experience!

Therefore, when he herds sheep, he herds sheep differently from other teenagers. Others herd sheep to guard against wolves and lynxes, but when he herds sheep, he has to guard against those energetic teenagers in the tribe who have nowhere to vent!

Really, if he dared to take a nap while herding the sheep, one or two of their sheep would be missing... Although the lost sheep would still come back, Yun Chu still felt that his own sheep were not clean, so when he was herding the sheep, his eyes were always wide open.

Although he knew that after humans and sheep were together, it was impossible to give birth to a sheep-headed person due to reproductive isolation.

However, the Huihe people claimed to be the fastest, bravest, strongest, and most unrestrained horse heroes on earth. God knows where their ability bottoms out.

If Yunchu's ewe gave birth to a terrifying sheep-headed person, not only would their reputation be ruined, but his mother would no longer be able to exchange her own high-quality lambs for other people's fat sheep.

If the Huihe boys made Yunchu stay away, then the Huihe girls left Yunchu with an even worse impression.