Chapter 19: Migration

Liu Jing didn't give Helanda too much time to think, and Helanda didn't let Liu Jing wait for a long time, and came over early the next morning to make a statement, expressing his willingness to fully cooperate.

Helanda did not break his promise, and as soon as he finished speaking, he immediately went to the camp where the men of the tribe were imprisoned to do the ideological work of the people.

Judging from the reports of the people who passed by, this Helanda is a smart person, and he knows that he can't tell everyone the reason for the migration, but only tells everyone that Bailijian and these people have found a very suitable place to take everyone over to live a good life.

At first, most people didn't believe it, but when Helanda vividly described the topography and environment of that place, everyone began to believe it. According to the description brought back by the returnee, that place is the Yinchuan Plain described by Liu Jing.

Bai Lijian and Liu Jing looked at each other and smiled, this Helanda can also be regarded as a talent, although he is a little greedy for life and afraid of death, but his eloquence is first-class, not like a grassland person at all, more like a Central Plains person.

With Helanda's strong support, the whole process of preparation for the migration became extremely smooth, and the families quickly packed all their daily necessities, then put on the carriage, and began the migration road in a mighty way.

At this time, the ranks of the Bailijian horse bandits also grew a little, and ten people were selected from the Han slaves and Helanda's tribe to form a cavalry team of fifty people. Bai Lijian personally served as the captain, and Liu Jing and Mangula were the deputy teams. The fifty were divided into five sheshes, each under the jurisdiction of five sheshes.

Sha Qianli was still isolated by Bailijian and did not get any position. Unconsciously, Sha Qianli's status has gradually fallen behind others.

With this group of fifty cavalry, the migrating team was on the road with peace of mind. Along the way, the cavalry team constantly sent sentry cavalry to investigate everywhere, always maintaining a high degree of vigilance, and did not dare to relax in the slightest.

The speed of migration is very slow, mainly because of the herd of cattle and sheep. The movement speed of the cattle and sheep is inherently slow, and the movement of large groups of cattle and sheep is too large, and it is too difficult to maintain a certain forward speed at all times, which greatly limits the migration speed of the entire team.

Seeing that it took three full days to walk out of fifty miles, Bai Lijian really couldn't help it. This speed is too slow, which will give the Helan tribe enough time to react, and once there is really a large army to crusade against Helanda's tribe, the entire migration team will be wiped out.

Bailijian ordered the slaughter of cattle and sheep, and slaughtered all the older cattle and sheep in the herd. This order was opposed by the majority of the tribe. Cattle and sheep are more important to them than their own lives, and without them, they would not be able to survive on the grassland.

However, Bailijian ignored it, and gave a strong order, slaughtered the cattle and sheep, and then roasted them on a smoked fire and stored them as the tribe's grain storage.

People on the grassland do not have the habit of storing grain, which is related to the fact that the materials on the grassland are not abundant.

After a large number of slaughters, the original herd of more than 1,000 cattle and sheep is now less than 800, including more than 200 calves and sheep. After the downsizing, the herd of cattle and sheep is much smaller, it is much easier to drive, the time spent on grazing is greatly reduced, and the speed of migration has suddenly increased a lot.

When the procession reached the eighth day, the sentinels, who had set out early, finally discovered the first tribe. According to the description of the sentinel, Helanda judged that this tribe was a medium-sized tribe among the Helan tribes, and there were hundreds of tribes under its jurisdiction, each of which had five to a dozen people, and the total number of people was about seven or eight hundred.

Mangula, who had been holding back for a few days, saw that he had finally found the target, so he couldn't bear it anymore and was eager to try. The rest of the people were also excited, and they did not show the slightest timidity because of the big difference in strength.

"Childe, shall we go and do it?" Mangula leaned over to Bailijian's side and asked excitedly.

Bai Lijian didn't answer immediately, but glanced at Liu Jing beside him. Liu Jing understood and said: "The other party is strong, and our number is too small, so it's better not to cause trouble." ”

"What are you afraid of, they are crowded, but they are too scattered, we can eat them one by one." Mangula excitedly waved the scimitar in his hand.

"And how do you guarantee that no one escapes?" Liu Jing said angrily: "As long as one of them runs out to report the news when we attack, we can immediately gather a team of hundreds of people, what should we do then?" What about these women and children? ”

"If you can't run away, we are horse bandits, and it is a burden to carry these people." Mangula said with a look of disgust.

In the past few days, I have been migrating with these people, the speed of travel is too slow, and all kinds of messy little things are constantly happening, which makes Mangula very uncomfortable, and I can't wait to get rid of these drags as soon as possible.

Mangula thinks about things from the perspective of horse bandits, his thoughts are not wrong, these people are indeed a bit cumbersome. But from Bailijian's point of view, these people are the guarantee that the horse bandits can continue to operate in the future, otherwise a team of horse bandits without roots will be completely eliminated in the vast prairie with only a few small losses. Therefore, Bailijian will not easily discard them no matter what.

Bai Lijian didn't blame Mangula, nor did he explain too much to him, what he encountered now was only a small trouble, if he couldn't even solve this little thing, if he would manage more people in the future.

With the only little historical knowledge he had in later generations, Bai Lijian roughly knew that this period was the darkest period in northern China, and all kinds of Hu people went south to compete with the Han people for living space. The Han and Hu people live together, and their different living habits and beliefs have created contradictions between all parties.

Don't look at the current Zhao State has ruled the north for a while, and the former emperor Shi Le has also made a lot of efforts, but in the face of the contradictions between Hu and Han, it can only be temporarily eased, but there is still no good solution. And the current emperor Shi Hu is a very brutal guy, and soon the north will inevitably fall into chaos again.

No matter how the regime changes in the north, the war has always continued, and the Hu people basically rule the north, and the Han people have no place here, and will always be the object of oppression. Bai Lijian is even more aware that in the tribes further north, many Han people are raised as two-legged sheep, and they will even be used as military food, and they are not regarded as adults at all.

Bai Lijian knew that with his current ability, he could not change anything, but if he had enough strength to protect himself, he could at least take in more refugees and give the Han people in the north a harbor to rely on.