Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Battle of Extermination (I)
The Absi tribe is also the majority of Tiele, located in the northwest direction of the Sijie tribe, composed of more than 20 small tribes, of which the headquarters where the tooth tent is located has about 10,000 people, which is the largest tribe of the Absi tribe, located in the middle reaches of the Swan River.
Originally, Abs and Sijie were one family, and it was called Sith Jie, and although the Abs and Sijie were officially separated decades ago, the two families have always been close and maintained through the closest marriages.
However, just eight years ago, through a series of sowing discord, the Xue Yantuo Department finally succeeded in turning the Absi Department and the Sijie Department against each other, and the Xue Yantuo Department continued to instigate the Absi Department to attack the Sijie Division, weaken the power of the Sijie Division, and create conditions for its eastward expansion.
The governor of Albus was called Mutt, about fifty years old, and his daughter married the governor of the Sijie tribe, and although the two families were sons-in-law, Mutt was always eager to occupy the steppes of the Sijie tribe, annex their population, and reunite the East and West in his own hands.
Inside the tent, Governor Muth, who weighed nearly three hundred pounds, was preoccupied with breakfast, and he had to eat six meals a day to satisfy his huge appetite.
He spent most of his morning meal in the morning, breakfast in the morning, lunch, lunch, dinner, and night food.
His ambition is as great as his appetite, and once he has eaten and drunk enough, he will begin to think about how to seize the land of Sijiebu.
He was not in a good mood these days, a few days ago he took advantage of the absence of Sal in the tooth tent to send a thousand cavalry to attack the Sijie tooth tent, but he was met with stubborn resistance from the opponent's army, and the commander he sent was actually shot, and the other cavalry fled back in panic.
If I am in a bad mood, my appetite will be bad, and I will be very annoyed at every meal.
"Dudu, the mutton patty is here!"
A soldier placed a plate of freshly fried mutton patties on the table, and Mutt was in good spirits, this was his favorite dish, the dough was fried loose and soft, with a thick layer of mutton foam inside, which was extremely delicious, and the fresh and sour Luohan soup, and the roasted yellow and tender veal, etc., were all good dishes that made him appetite.
This is also thanks to the capture of a Han cook from the Sentinel in Lingzhou, which allowed him to enjoy so many delicacies in the world.
While eating the cake, he said vaguely: "Go and tell the little fat man that I want to drink Luohan soup at noon, and he is not allowed to make excuses, otherwise be careful of his head!" ”
The little fat man mentioned by Mutt is naturally Shi Tong who was captured from Fengzhou, and he was exempted from the pain of labor by virtue of his special ability to cook, and became the special imperial chef of Absturdain, but his treatment was not much better?
Shi Tong has only one thing every day, he is tired from morning to night to cook and make cakes, he is not afraid of being tired, but he is closely monitored, needless to say that he is monitored when he cooks every day, he is also monitored when he eats and sleeps, and even goes to the toilet and is also monitored, which makes him miserable, and he was caught after running away twice, if it wasn't for Mutt's liking of his cooking, he would have his head cut off a long time ago, but a whipping was inevitable.
He was whipped hard yesterday, and he was angry that he didn't make Luohan soup, but Mutter refused to let him go.
A fierce man strode into the kitchen, slashed an axe on the board, and said viciously: "The governor wants to drink Luohan soup at noon, if you don't do it, use this axe to cut off your head, chop you into eighteen pieces and feed them to the dogs!" ”
Shi Tong didn't dare to talk back, and muttered for a while: "What's the difference between me and a dog?" ”
"Less, it's not far from lunch time now, hurry up, if you can't make lunch, I'll whip you another thirty lashes."
Shi Tong was really scared, he didn't dare to make any more emotions, and hurriedly began to prepare the ingredients, and the big man was holding his arm next to him, watching him coldly busy.
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In the morning, Guo Song sneaked into a forest, which was not far from the Absi Tooth Tent, and he could clearly see the silver-white egg-shaped tent more than ten miles away by climbing on the high trees, and there were thousands of tents of all sizes distributed on the surrounding grassland, they were the direct tribe of Dudu Mute, about 12,000 people.
The goal of Sijie's cavalry was to destroy this tribe and then annex more than 20 other tribes, and the Absi tribe disappeared, and Sijie became the second largest Tiele tribe after the Hui, enough to compete with the Xue Yantuo tribe that was expanding eastward.
This war seems to have happened by chance, but it has a profound background, and the forces of Gelulu used the power of the Xue Yantuo tribe to continue to expand eastward, which not only threatened the safety of Lingzhou, but also seriously threatened the interests of the Tiele tribes of the grassland.
Therefore, joining forces to prevent the eastward expansion of the Xue Yantuo Department has become the choice of the Tiele Division, and this war is an action of the Sijie Department and the Absi Department, but the way is a bit special, it is to form a de facto alliance by annexation.
Guo Song suddenly heard a clanging sound in the south, and he listened attentively, as if someone was cutting wood.
He hid his horse and, under the cover of the bushes in the forest, galloped south.
After running a hundred steps, he saw the situation of logging, about hundreds of people were swinging axes to cut down trees, most of them were dressed in rags, most of them were Han Chinese, about twenty soldiers sat under the big trees to rest and eat, they were overseers, it was almost noon, and the overseers were a little tired.
At this time, Guo Song suddenly saw a familiar figure, sure enough, it was him, another logistics officer who was taken away with Shi Tong, everyone called him Xiao Ding.
Guo Song was immediately overjoyed, and when he saw Xiao Ding, Shi Tong must also be in the Absi Department, but Shi Tong was not seen in the crowd.
Then the gong struck, and when it was time for a break, the lumberjacks laid down their axes and saws, and walked briskly to an open field, where their lunch consisted of a piece of dried horse meat and a bowl of soup, and nothing else, and the meal was very poor.
Xiao Ding had just passed by a bush, and suddenly a black shadow flashed out and dragged him in, without waiting for him to shout, the black shadow covered his mouth and whispered: "Don't shout, I'm Guo Song!" ”
Xiao Ding's eyes lit up, he recognized Guo Song, and he was immediately ecstatic in his heart, he was saved.
Guo Song let go of his hand and asked in a low voice, "Why isn't Shi Tong with you?" ”
"He was favored and went to work as a cook for Abstud, and he did not have to do hard labor."
Guo Song thought for a moment and asked, "Are the soldiers guarding you outside?" ”
"That's them, twenty men in all, and their horses are outside."
Guo Song's eyes rolled, and he had a plan in his heart, and he said to Xiao Ding: "You shout, run deep into the woods!" ”
Xiao Ding was startled, "If you run away, you will be killed." ”
"With me, they can't kill you, just run, see how I kill them all."
"Alright! I run. ”
Xiao Ding's heart was crossed, he stood up and ran out of the bushes and shouted, "I'm quitting, I'm going back to Lingzhou." ”
He shouted several times, turned and ran into the depths of the forest, and the guards were furious, and immediately a dozen people got up and chased after him.
Guo Song used the cover of bushes and woods to move quickly, killing the soldiers one by one, and in less than a stick of incense, more than a dozen soldiers who rushed into the woods were all killed.
Outside, six soldiers were gathering for dinner, unaware that something had happened in the forest.
At this time, Guo Song went around behind them, pounced into the crowd like a leopard, raised his knife in his hand, cut off the heads of the two of them, and hacked two more to death with his backhand, killing four people in the blink of an eye, and the remaining two soldiers were stunned.
Before they could react, the black shadow had rushed to their eyes, only to see a flash of cold light, both of their throats were slashed, and they fell to the ground.
Hundreds of lumberjacks were stunned, and Guo Song said loudly: "Don't be afraid, I am also Han, and I have come to rescue you back to your hometown!" ”
Hundreds of lumberjacks cheered in an instant, and Xiao Ding also ran out, and at this moment, a rapid horn sound suddenly sounded in the distance, which was the horn of the assembled army.
'Uh-' The horn sounded very quickly, and the Abs had already sensed that danger was coming.
Guo Song's face changed suddenly, and he immediately shouted to everyone: "The Sijie cavalry will be killed soon, you guys quickly hide in the forest and come out after the war is over." ”
"This strong man, are we going to flee for our lives to the south?" A middle-aged man asked.
Guo Song said again: "Sijie Dudu promised me that after the war, let everyone go back to Datang, now you can't go south, you will be killed by mistake, hiding in the forest is the best way, everyone go quickly!" ”
Everyone no longer hesitated, picked up the soldiers' knives and axes and fled into the forest, and Xiao Ding also fled with everyone.
Guo Song galloped north, and in a moment he found his war horse, he put on a flame headdress, put on a black coat of Albus's cavalry, his face was blackened by the pot, turned over his horse, and with a clamp between his legs, the war horse ran out of the forest.
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