Chapter 42 Orion in the taiga forest

There is no doubt that the war created the Great Mongol Kingdom.So, Genghis Khan put the army above everything else.In order for the country to continue, it must always regard war as its purpose and meaning, just as a slaughterhouse regards killing pigs as its purpose and meaning.It is impossible for the energy expanded by the establishment of the Great Mongol Kingdom not to erupt to the outside world. After the spring of 1206, Genghis Khan stood on the Mongolian plateau, looking down on the world, looking for his enemies with sharp eyes. Looking for enemies is actually looking for the purpose and meaning of the existence of the Great Mongolia.

He soon found his enemy, the northern hunters of the Siberian taiga.Genghis Khan was deeply impressed by this group of unruly hunters hiding in the forest.Before the founding ceremony, he sent someone to inform the hunters. The hunters spat on the ground and said, "What kind of shit is Genghis Khan, let him entertain himself!" The Great Mongolian Kingdom is incomplete without taiga forest hunters, at least not worthy of the name. On the Mongolian plateau, this enemy is probably the only one who dares to confront him blatantly.He must make them bow their heads. From an ethnic point of view, these forest tribes all belong to the Mongolian race.However, due to their living environment and conditions, their lifestyles are quite different from those of Genghis Khan's Mongolians.They don't live in tents, but in simple huts built with branches, and they don't have livestock. In the endless deep mountains and dense forests, this group of healthy people live by hunting, and they look down on the herdsmen.I don’t know what the source of this thinking is, maybe they think that they also deal with animals, and the animals the herdsmen deal with are honest, while the animals they deal with are wild.

In 1207, Genghis Khan sent his eldest son Shuchi to lead 10,000 soldiers to attack the tribes in the Taiga Forest. The first military target was a forest tribe west of Lake Baikal. Jochi's vanguard set off three days in advance, and the vanguard's reconnaissance team set off six days in advance. When the main force of Jochi arrived in the Barragan Grassland, the vanguard had sent information saying that this tribe had left Balagan a few days earlier. The steppe retreated anxiously into the forest.It was a vast forest, shaded by birches, poplars, cedars, and firs, and the cavalry seemed to be mired in it.

Jochi said, "To the edge of the forest, we will hold a military exercise." The 10,000 cavalry began to take their positions at the edge of the forest, galloping around the forest, the horseshoes shook the ground, and the bright rhododendrons and thick moss in the forest trembled all over.Two days later, the tribal leader led his followers out of the forest holding mink and squirrel furs, piously declaring their allegiance to Genghis Khan. Jochi subdued a forest tribe without a single soldier, which was something that was unimaginable before.Jochi deeply felt the strength and greatness of the Great Mongol Kingdom, and he ordered the tribal leaders to lead them the way to conquer other tribes in the forest.The leader replied: "You don't need to tell me, I am Genghis Khan's guide in the forest, come with me!"

The guide in the forest came to the neighboring tribe first, and he exaggeratedly said: "Genghis Khan's cavalry can overwhelm mountains and seas, we are no match, let's surrender!" The neighboring tribe readily agreed. The forest guide led the Jochi Army westward to the Yenisei River Basin, where a tribe called the Kyrgyz lived.On the way of hunting, they saw the dust raised by the Jochi Legion, and they bit their tongues in horror.Without waiting for Jochi to negotiate, they dropped their arms and surrendered.They have the good character of "tweeting grace". When they surrendered to the Juchi Corps, they also pulled over large and small tribes in the forest.

Jochi's excitement can be imagined when the three major tribes in the taiga forest were eliminated without bloodshed.When he brought the leaders of the three major tribes to Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan was even more ecstatic. He forgot all the unhappiness of the forest hunters and said to the cautious tribal leaders: "You don't have to be afraid. A generous man, you were in an alliance against me, and I forget it now, and I hope you will forget it too." The tribal leaders lay on the ground, trembling with excitement.Said, they vowed to protect and spread the authority of Genghis Khan in the taiga forest.Genghis Khan happily said to the leader who surrendered first: "Then let's get married. I will marry the princess of my family to your son, and you will marry your daughter to the man of my family."

The leader didn't know what to say, a thousand words were not as impressive as lying on the ground shaking all over, so he just lay there trembling for a long time. Soon after, the last big tribe in the taiga forest also declared to surrender to Genghis Khan, and the entire taiga forest became Genghis Khan's pocket. In addition to being excited, Genghis Khan felt a little bit of regret, because his Great Mongol Corps did not get any training in front of these enemies. He had to look for the enemy again, or the target of training.Such an enemy is actually not easy to find at this time. In the east, there are still dense forests, which are forbidden for cavalry; in the south, there is the vast Gobi and the powerful Jin Kingdom. Gnaw its mind; in the west, it is the Uighur people, this is a mysterious country that makes people scratch their heads, and Genghis Khan doesn't want to take risks yet.He suddenly stopped his gaze on the east of the Uighurs and his southwest. There is a country there, which is said to be highly civilized but weak. It should be the most ideal enemy at this moment.

This enemy is the Xixia Kingdom.