Saliana got his first horse after taking refuge in the Qi Kingdom.

Well, in fact, this horse doesn't belong to him yet, it's just that he is good at riding, and if he has more horses, let him use it for a while.

Horses were strategic materials in the Qi Kingdom, and all captured goods had to be handed over after the war.

However, Saliana also knew that with his riding skills, he would definitely be assigned to the cavalry company at that time, and the horses he captured would definitely be given priority to him, so the former Jurchen Tartar cared for this newly acquired mount as if it were his own war horse.

Saliana is now more and more proud of his choice to defect to the Han Chinese on the battlefield.

Because he surrendered on the spot, he also led other surrendered Jurchen armor soldiers as a melee soldier to participate in the trench counterattack, so after the war, he was designated as a commoner and had five more credits.

At that time, he was still fifteen credits away from the civilian class, and then he participated in the Qi army's campaign to recover southern Liaoning and the expedition to Goryeo - Lushun, Changsheng, Gaizhou, Fuzhou and other battles all participated, killing the Jurchen and Goryeo heads all together, before the start of this campaign, he was only two credits away from the civilians.

A few days ago, I deceived Park Nam Yi into opening the first beacon, which is a credit.

Killing the Beacon Guard is another credit.

So the civilian identity has been obtained, Saliana officially obtained the qualification to be a man in the Qi country, although the military status is still in the Blue Army Brigade, but after the war, as a civilian veteran, he applied for a change to the cavalry unit of the New Army, which will inevitably be approved.

Everyone else understood this, so a chassar company commander preemptively transferred the Qi civilian Saliana to his company as a guide under the pretext of needing a guide.

also asked the clerk in the company to give him a Han name: surnamed Sa, Minglian.

Well, it sounds like it's just a matter of removing the word "A" from the original name, but the clerk says that the meaning of the name is very different.

The word "incorruptible" in Chinese characters means incorruptible and upright.

So it was so happily decided.

Sarian had previously been a close confidant of Bo Ji, and was very familiar with the terrain of Liaodong and the way of life of the Jurchens, and he could always find the Jurchen horse grazing land.

The day before yesterday, when he was leaving a village, Salen had found dozens of horses grazing here in a small valley nearby, and the company commander was so excited that he asked him to pick one for use first.

At the same time, Sarian was also responsible for acting as a veterinarian for the horses of the company, and the company commander promised that if he could help everyone reduce the rate of horse loss, the company commander would personally apply for two credits for him.

Saren suddenly realized that he was not too far from the civic class—it only took ten credits for a commoner to become a citizen.

And citizens, in the country of Qi, there is another name: Guoshi!

Countrymen are the cornerstone of this country!

This sentence, Xu Shiyang has to say it every time he goes to the company to inspect!

"Lao Sa!" The company commander shouted loudly, interrupting Salian's musings.

"Lord......, company commander, what's the matter?" Salian, who was immersed in his own thoughts, almost called the company commander master according to the rules of the original Tartar.

Fortunately, he didn't call it out, enslavement of civilians is a capital crime in Qi country, and when the company commander heard such a title, in order to clear himself in front of the gendarmes (suppression soldiers), he had to punish him for at least a few credits.

The good things that you have earned by working hard are too much of a loss to lose for a title.

"Look, where can we go if we go further?"

The company commander spread out a map on horseback, trying to point out the way to him.

But Sarian didn't even look at the thick piece of paper - he couldn't read.

The former Tartar looked up at the terrain, and then said in a very affirmative tone: "We have already passed the line of Yaozhou, and we will go to Haizhou by following the pipeline for a maximum of a hundred miles." ”

"Are you sure?"

"Sure, there are a lot of good villages ahead, this is the Dajin ......, no, this is the best and richest village in the Tartars, and it is not easy to make up for the next one."

"But it's too dangerous." The company commander frowned and said, "The mission briefing said that there are heavy Tartars in Yaozhou, and there are more in Haizhou, and it will not be safe after Yaozhou." ”

"If the company commander has a heart, I know a few small roads, let's avoid the main force of the Tartars, and it will not be difficult to deceive one or two villages." Saren said, "If the company commander doesn't want to fight, we can go back now." ”

This time he came out, and Salian had earned enough of his own work, and he had some silver in his horse's coat, which he had taken from the Tartar and from his family.

The money needed to be handed over, but the imperial court (now the Qi people refer to the imperial court itself, not the Great Zhou) would convert a part of the food stamps that passed and send them back.

In other words, economically, Salian's participation in this operation is no longer a loss.

He really doesn't care if he continues to fight or not.

Anyway, he won't rob the population this time, he can't catch a slave if he wants to.

The company commander was still pondering, he was a little undecided—in recent days, the Tartar sentry that often appeared next to the troops had become rare, so the Tartar village seemed particularly easy to deal with.

Giving up this kind of fat on the side of the mouth is really hard to make up your mind.

"If you can't make up your mind, let's have a small meeting."

This is an article in the general regulations of the Qi army, which is common to all arms of the army and navy.

Anyway, there are many meetings in Qi State, and everyone is used to it.

"Call all the platoon commanders, let's have a little meeting!"

A company of cavalry of the Qi army has a formation of 100 cavalry, and the so-called platoon is actually the establishment of a column of cavalry when the group charges, that is, thirty people, and the company commander himself also serves as a platoon commander, so a cavalry company has only two platoon commanders.

Including the company commander and Salian, who was familiar with the place, a total of four people held this small pre-war meeting.

It is not difficult to find two people out of a hundred, and the meetings of the Qi army usually go straight to the point, so after the company commander gathers the people, he directly spreads out the choices and hardships he faces in front of everyone.

"If you want to continue the attack, everyone will give an explanation, and then talk about why." The company commander said.

"Keep fighting." The platoon commander of the second platoon (there is no platoon commander in the first platoon, the commander is the company commander) said with a grin: "Since the Tartars have shrunk, we will not fight for nothing, and the credit is always too much." ”

"Did the Tartars really shrink down, or did they withdraw their fists and prepare to hit us harder?" The third platoon commander asked, "I think it's more like the latter, there are actually more Tartar cavalry than us, and they have no reason to shrink now." If it's the latter, we're too deep, but it's easy to be surrounded by Tartars. ”

There is some truth to that.

However, if this is the case, then it is even more impossible to go back directly.

The most important duty of the light cavalry is tactical reconnaissance, which is the focus of the chaser drill code, and the cavalry company commander remembers this very well as a middle- and low-level officer who has received special training in a short-term officer training course.

Since it is suspected that the enemy is gathering forces, how can you turn around and go back without gathering enough information?

"Contact nearby allies."

The company commander finally made up his mind:

"Let's find a way to lure out some of the Tartar cavalry, and grab enough live to go back to the trial."