Yegu Chash had 2,500 cavalry under his command, but the Wuhuan cavalry was only 500 men, and there were 1,000 Northern Tartar herdsmen, 300 Shengfan cavalry, and 700 Yueshi cavalry. Among them, the Wuhuan cavalry is the most elite, equipped with light armor and horse guns, and one person and two horses; The Northern Tartar herdsmen are all half-herdsmen and half-cavalry, with different weapons in their hands and uneven clothing, but they are familiar with the grassland climate and have strong survivability, and when encountering sandstorms, there is no loss of a thousand cavalry; The number of Shengfan cavalry is small, and they are mainly responsible for carrying baggage and ensuring supplies; The Yue's cavalry was the most unbearable, if it weren't for the fact that Yegu Chash killed a few Yue's officers who were shouting to flee, I am afraid that all the seven hundred Yue's people would have fled when they encountered a sandstorm.

So when encountering the "rout" led by Guan Cheng, the Yueshi people shouted: "Heavenly General (the honorific title of the vassal state for the Wuhuan general), it's time to rest, even if people don't rest, the war horses have to rest." The wind and sand are so strong tonight that you have to camp in the forest to avoid the wind and sand. ”

Before Yegukash and the others could see if there was any danger in the Thorn Forest, they heard a Tartar cavalry shouting: "There is gold, there is gold." Several Tartar herdsmen immediately ran in.

Yegu Chash was suddenly shocked and said, "You can't go in." However, the Tartar herdsmen did not listen to him, and heard several Tartar herdsmen shouting: "A few money-grubbing dogs have run away!" The ground was full of their things, gold and silver, and armor and blades, and the dogs threw away their swords, guns, and spears. ”

Yegu Cash was furious, these herdsmen were really untamable, the military discipline was poor, and the battle was very bad. He was about to get angry, but he saw a Wuhuan soldier and his mount suddenly fall to the ground together, he was shocked and was about to draw his sword to prepare for battle, but saw that the soldier immediately stood up, touched the horse's neck and apologized: "Master Qianfu, our war horse has been chasing for a whole day, and if we continue to chase it, it will be exhausted to death." ”

The other soldiers also took the opportunity to boldly say: "Master Qianfu, we are only a few thousand people, even if we catch up with the crown prince of Hangou, we can't kill their tens of thousands of troops." ”

"Yes, the centaurs are tired."

"Everyone is too tired, let's rest for the night, sir."

"If a man does not rest, so must the horse."

Yegu Cash knocked his head, he guessed that Xuanyuan Zixun was ahead, but looking at the tired eyes of the soldiers around him, and seeing those tired war horses, he finally couldn't bear it, and ordered: "Everyone should dismount and rest, don't enter this forest - Ememuha, come here, how can there be a forest here?" ”

Amemuha was the commander of the Northern Tartar herdsmen, who was originally the patriarch of a small northern tribe who was canonized as a commander for following Ligotus first. Cunning and fearful of death like a hyena, Ememuha was the first to flee whenever he was in danger, so his soldiers are now the most intact of the former tribesmen.

Naemmehatse came up and explained with a smile: "Returning to the Heavenly General, it is said that six hundred years ago, there were thorn trees everywhere in this northern part of the country, and this thorn tree was the national tree of the Roland people, and the Roland people forced us Tatars to plant thorn trees in various places. ”

Yekuchash was curious: "Is there anything good about the thorn tree?" It's better to weigh more fruit trees. ”

Ememuha continued: "The thorn tree is drought-loving and cold-tolerant, in the spring thorn bud willow is a famous dish, in the summer thorn flower can also be cooked, in the autumn the thorn fruit can be made into wine or dried fruit, used to cook meat is particularly delicious, in the winter you can cut some branches to make firewood, the end of the ground is a treasure." ”

Yekuchash was also surprised, he did not expect that this ordinary thorn tree would be so useful, no wonder the Roland people loved the thorn tree so much, so he asked, "Isn't the thorn tree covered in thorns?" Why did all of your people go in? ”

Ememuha laughed: "Lord Tianjiang, you may be a little mistaken, the thorn tree on our grassland is different from the thorn tree of your Wuhuan Empire, it only has some thorns around the thorn fruit on the top of the tree, but there are no thorns on the trunk and branches. Therefore, even though everyone entered the forest, they would not be stabbed. ”

Yegu Chash asked, "But why haven't I seen it in the north of the Jialan River?" ”

"Because there is no firewood in the wasteland, thorn trees are often cut down when they are burning fires, so much so that in many places the thorn trees are cut down," said Ememuha. In particular, this kind of tree grows very slowly, and it takes three years for a sapling to grow and a person to become tall. ”

There are many dead grasses and tender grasses in the thorn forest, and even some of the war horses of the Wuhuan people unconsciously entered the thorn forest to eat. Yegukash didn't stop him, but just said: "The Wuhuan cavalry is stationed outside the forest, and the rest of the people can go into the woods to rest, don't go too deep into the forest." ”

"Yes." The soldiers said.

Among the foreign soldiers, the Wuhuan soldiers naturally obeyed his orders, but the rest of the soldiers of the various races only obeyed the orders on the surface, in fact, they dismounted and entered the forest one after another to collect their belongings and armor.

The reason why the different races united to attack the Holy Han was that the Holy Han Empire had continuously suppressed the surrounding countries since its establishment, resulting in smaller and smaller living spaces for the khans and tribes. Naturally, from the perspective of the Holy Han Empire, their oppression of foreign tribes is understandable, and they are also for survival, but also for the prosperity of the country and the nation. After all, after three hundred years of reproduction and life in the Shenghan Empire, land annexation has become increasingly serious, and the reason why Emperor Taiqian created the Yajin granary and forcibly requisitioned the people in the five cities of Saibei was to reduce the pressure on domestic arable land. There is only so much land in the world, and the Shenghan people are prosperous, so they naturally want to occupy more land in the surrounding areas, so they continue to cause border conflicts.

The second reason is money, the Wuhuan Empire promised the vassal states that if the Shenghan is forced to lose money, it will be distributed according to the proportion of troops sent by each country, and the more troops sent by the country, the more wealth it gets. And the property and women looted by various countries belong to the soldiers of each vassal country, and the Wuhuan Empire no longer distributes them.

The Shenghan Empire of the Central Plains Dynasty has high mountains in the north, dense forests in the south, Canghai in the east, and thousands of miles of yellow sand in the west. In terms of the single equipment of the Shenghan soldiers, the standard equipment is leather armor, three swords, cherry helmets, cloaks, and robes, but in some foreign armies, even officers cannot wear leather armor, and soldiers only have a weapon and a uniform color coat, and some armies actually require soldiers to prepare their own marching rations. For example, the herdsmen of the Northern Tartar Tower, at a glance, could not tell who the centurion was, unless they reported their own home. Therefore, for the greedy behavior of the Tatars and the Yueshi people to snatch the gold and silver of equipment, although the Wuhuan people are disdainful, it is understandable.