April 20 of the fifth year of Longdao.

Qi State, Ji Province, in the fields fifty miles west of Gubeikou.

This belongs to Miyun County of Shuntianfu in Qi Province and Hebei Province, not far to the north is the Great Wall, and after the Great Wall you will reach the grassland of the Mengwu people, so it is an important garrison stronghold of the Qi State.

And because there are Miyun Reservoir and Chaohe River nearby, irrigation is more convenient, so after Qi took control of Ji Province, it also became one of the first areas to resume production.

From the end of the previous year to the present, Qi has resettled five tunken villages in this vicinity, with a total of more than 400 households and a population of more than 1,900, and more than 15,000 acres of land have been reclaimed in a year.

Because of the long abandonment, most of these fields are planted with alfalfa for a year to drive away weeds and fertilize the fields.

However, because the land here is easy to water, even if you only grow alfalfa, it is now a scene of abundant water and plants.

A Hudie, a soldier of the 4th Company of the Blue Brigade of the New Army, followed behind the company deputy and quietly walked through the lush alfalfa fields, along with eight other companions.

The company deputy is a Han man, who has just participated in the third short-term training course for officers as a veteran, and then was assigned to Ah Hudie's company as a trainee officer as a second lieutenant - the second lieutenant assigned to the field unit is not a company deputy officer, but the status of the Blue Army brigade is low, and a second lieutenant is not considered a low match.

"Alfalfa everywhere, huh? Don't grow food? Is there enough food for the imperial court? ”

Lian Ji held a grass stalk in his mouth, and muttered:

"But it's okay, with salt, these alfalfa are actually quite delicious, not to mention that they can also be used to raise horses, and our instructor said that this thing is the best pasture."

"Hey, you know what? The household department buys these things at the price of five catties of alfalfa for one catty of grain, and it is said that it is more profitable to grow this grass than to grow millet. ”

No one answered him.

This company deputy is quite trustworthy, and he will not deliberately wear small shoes for everyone because he hates the Tartar soldiers of the Blue Army Brigade, but he is a bit talkative, and often talks a lot to himself inexplicably, and as a result, the soldiers below don't know how to answer him at all.

"Hey, it's a bunch of stupid tartars."

Everyone talked to him, and even the dungeon felt a little interested, but they still kept muttering:

"That's why I don't want to come here, I want to go to Liaodong."

"Even being a new army in Liaodong is better than being a company deputy in the Blue Army Brigade, look at your stupid Tartars, I originally wanted to kill Tartars when I was a soldier......"

"Lord...... No, my lord. Ah Hudie suddenly interrupted Lian Vice's chatter: "There is a situation!" ”

It has been a long time for Ah Hudie to surrender to the Qi State, but he has only recently been recruited by the Blue Army to become a regular soldier, and the training time is not long, so he still retains a lot of the Jin Army's habit of calling it, but in the Qi State, this kind of title will take a beating at a time, and he must always be careful to avoid words that the Han people don't like to hear pop out of his mouth.

"What's going on?" Lian Ji turned his head to look at him with a look of disbelief.

"There is the neighing of horses." Ah Hudie's hand was already on the hilt of the knife at his waist.

Beside him, the other eight Blue Army soldiers had also begun to increase their vigilance, and some of the more experienced ones had already drawn their weapons and faintly formed a circle with their backs to the company and the lieutenant.

"Horse barking?" He put his hands on his ears, but he still didn't hear anything.

"Lord...... my lord, my lord, there are no horses in our farms, and all the land is made of cattle."

Ah Hudie reminded.

The number of horses owned by Qi is not small now, but horses are still very valuable, even if they are inferior horses that cannot supply cavalry, they can at least be used as artillery pack horses or for logistics troops.

Therefore, the price of horses supplied to the people is usually high, and the immigrants who came to the new territory of Qi to open up the country bought cattle from the bank loans, and it was really rare to see anyone buying horses.

Lian Ji thought about it, there really shouldn't be a horse's barking here.

Although he didn't hear anything, he believed that his Tartars were sensitive to the sound of horses.

What's more, they came out today to patrol, and of course they had to find out if they encountered problems.

So Lian Mate drew his waist knife, waved his hand lightly, let Ah Hudie lead the way, and trotted in the direction where he heard the horse's barking.

Ten minutes later, a group of ten people boarded a dirt bag in the north.

What they saw was a lush field of alfalfa, with a dozen horses and herds of cattle and sheep leisurely grazing alfalfa on it.

"Why so many livestock?" Someone was surprised.

Lian Deputy pointed to the dozen or so simple and dilapidated tents in the herd, and said in a gloomy voice, "Mughuls. ”

As we said earlier, this is at the foot of the Great Wall, and out of the Great Wall is the grassland where the Mughal people graze, and the distance is so close, the Mughal people take advantage of the fact that the landlord is not paying attention, and it is not a surprise to come here to graze.

That's weird!

Lian Deputy grinned and scolded: "Made, these are our fields! Why do we feed the alfalfa we grow to the Tartar livestock! ”

"My lord, what shall we do?" Ah Hudie asked.

"Destroy them! There are more than a dozen tents, at most thirty or forty strong men, and we will slaughter them, and the horses, cattle and sheep are ours! ”

Lian Deputy said unceremoniously:

"What's that called? God gave it, we will be punished if we don't take it! ”

The soldiers of the Blue Brigade laughed together, they preferred war to the company lieutenant, because all the future of these commoners and slave soldiers had to be won in war.

In terms of combat effectiveness, everyone is confident that the Mughal people of this era are not particularly outstanding in other aspects except for Maduo.

Their armor rate was very low, and they were not very united, and before the Great Zhou was defeated by the Jin army, the Mughal people did not pose a high threat to the Han Chinese.

That is, after the Great Zhou Dynasty moved south, the Mengwu people absorbed the manpower and war technology of the Shanxi and Han military princes, and it really became difficult.

Recently, however, the Han military princes in Shanxi have gradually felt that instead of continuing to take refuge with the dog-like Muguls who were beaten by the Jurchens, it is better to try to hug the thighs of the Qi State - at least they are Han Chinese like the Qi people, and it is easy to blend in.

Coupled with the fiasco of Liaoyang, both the Han and Jurchen people in Qi now look down on the fighting power of the Mengwu people.

Ten to forty, everyone is still very confident.

The only question is how to capture as many prisoners as possible and grab as many horses as possible.

"I'll take four people to the left, and five people to the right, let's fight on both sides and quietly touch it!"

The company retracted behind the dirt bag and whispered to his men:

"Then look at my signal and attack together!"

His signal is a red firework bomb, which can be used both as an offensive signal and as a notification to other nearby patrol teams.

The deputy hoped that the other comrades-in-arms would end the battle before they arrived, so that they would not violate military discipline and would be able to obtain more results.