"Will it? Could it be that the Han Chinese are inherently inferior to the Mongols? Gao Guiying's little face turned red, as if she was a man, "I don't think so, if the Han people all practice martial arts, when it comes to heads-up, they should be far stronger than the Mongols, right?" ”

"The two armies are facing each other, not fighting alone, tens of millions of cavalry are urging, and the individual force is almost negligible," Li Hongji swallowed his mouth of white water and continued: "Tumubao, have you heard of it?" Warat did not have tens of thousands of cavalry, while the Ming army not only had the same number of cavalry, but also hundreds of thousands of infantry, but the result was ......"

"The change of the civil fort", ordinary people may not know the detailed process, that is the shame of the Ming army, it has an impact on the Ming court, especially the important towns on the nine sides, the people can feel it personally, since then, the Ming army is officially psychologically afraid of the Mongolian cavalry, the Mongolian cavalry knocks on the pass and loots, as long as the military town is not besieged, the border pass and the imperial court, most of them ignore it, let the Mongolian cavalry eat enough and leave calmly, Hulu Mountain is so close to Yansui, Gao Guiying has never seen the Mongolian cavalry, at least heard of the glorious achievements of the Mongolian cavalry.

"Hongji, then tell me, why are the Mongol cavalry so powerful?"

"First of all, strength, the Mongols don't do agricultural production, they don't have wotou rice, they eat beef and mutton, drink mare's milk wine, mainly these meats, they have an advantage over the Han people in terms of physical strength, and they don't see much of a gap in peacetime, if it is a cavalry confrontation, this gap may be fatal," Li Hongji is not preaching the supremacy of Mongolia, and the Mongolian cavalry is invincible, "Of course, this is still one of the small reasons." ”

"And what's the reason?" Gao Guiying didn't think about dealing with the Mongol cavalry, she was just bored.

"The Mongols live in bitter cold and do not engage in agricultural production, so it is difficult to prepare enough food for men and horses, and a heavy snow or drought may wipe them out, and they will have no way to survive except robbery."

"So they robbed us Han people?" Gao Guiying was so enthusiastic by Li Hongji's words, the blood on her little face surged, and she no longer held her chin, and the only bit of charm was gone.

"It's not just about robbing the Han people," Li Hongji didn't preach ethnic hatred, he just used it as a story to attract Gao Guiying's attention with a little exaggeration, "In fact, they first robbed the cattle, horses and sheep of other tribes on the grassland, so the Mongolian Plateau often fights endlessly, and it is much more chaotic than ours, but the disasters on the Mongolian Plateau are the same everywhere, even if they kill all the people of other tribes, there is still not enough food." ”

"Isn't that the man who lives on the steppe very dangerous?" Gao Guiying's anger calmed down a little, the war on the grassland had nothing to do with Hulu Mountain after all, and she even hoped that the more chaos on the grassland, the better, so that the Mongols would not have time to plunder the Han people.

"It's really dangerous," Li Hongji said with a smile: "So the Mongols fought for their own survival, and fought for survival for a long time, which trained their strong combat effectiveness, on the contrary, if their combat effectiveness was slightly weaker, they would die out in the boundless grassland, and even the entire tribe would be eaten to the point that there was no scum left." Li Hongji thinks that the living conditions of nomads are a good interpretation of Darwin's theory of evolution.

"No wonder the Mongolians are so brave and ruthless, everyone who has seen the Mongolians say that the Mongolians not only exude the smell of mutton, but even their eyes are quite cold, and they draw their knives when they don't agree with each other."

"Well," Li Hongji has never seen the Mongols, but he has only seen them on TV in later generations, "In fact, the Mongolian cavalry has strong combat effectiveness, and there is another reason, that is, the soldiers have no worries." ”

"Why? Don't you have to die in war? What if the soldiers die, their mothers-in-law, and their children? Gao Guiying was puzzled, "Since there are often wars on the grassland, aren't these orphans and widows bullied by others?" How could the soldiers have no worries? ”

"Don't worry about this," Li Hongji said with a smile: "Every Mongolian soldier is killed or disabled, his wife and children will be raised by others, and they will take good care of them, just like their own wives and children." ”

"It turns out that the Mongols also have affection and righteousness for their own people," Gao Guiying suddenly found that something was wrong, treating other people's sons as their own, so there was no problem, the key was the mother-in-law, "you mean ......"

"Gui Ying, you think well, once a Mongolian soldier dies in battle, not only the child becomes someone else's, but even the mother-in-law and aunt are the same," Li Hongji knows these customs of the Mongols from historical novels, "so the Mongolian soldiers never care, they just move forward bravely when they fight!" ”

"You ......" Gao Guiying's face changed, and her phoenix eyes were full of anger, just as Li Hongji was talking about meat jokes.

Li Hongji laughed and didn't look at her face, "Gui Ying, the Mongols came to Han to plunder, what else is there besides property?" ”

"Women, every time the Mongols knock on the gates, they will take away a large number of Han women," Gao Guiying faintly felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't connect the two for a while, "Could it be that the Mongols are all lustful?" ”

"Definitely," Li Hongji wanted to shake his head, but lying on the bed, it was inconvenient to move, and it was a little difficult to even shake his head, "The Mongols robbed Han women, not to be lustful, but to reproduce the population." ”

"Don't they have women themselves?" Gao Guiying has no objection to this, in fact, Han women, in the final analysis, are also tools for family inheritance, if a woman marries, if she can't give birth, it is a violation of the "seven outs" rule.

"They themselves have women, but who thinks they have more children?" Li Hongji said faintly: "On the grassland, there has never been any tactic in war, that is, there are many people to win and few people, and tribes with small populations are often annexed and bloodily slaughtered for no reason, and in order to make their tribes stronger, they can only increase their population. ”

"I see!"

"They traveled thousands of miles to take Han women back to the grassland, not to mention their own women, as long as they can give birth and raise, they don't have to worry about no men," Li Hongji took a sip of tea, and the humidity on Hulu Mountain was small, and his mouth was a little dry, "So Mongolian soldiers never have worries about the future when they fight, and they never worry about their wives and children." ”

"Is that really the case?" Gao Guiying blinked at her good-looking phoenix eyes, "Hongji, you won't be making me happy and deliberately making up these things on the grassland, right?" ”

"How so?" Li Hongji said in his heart, it's true to make you happy, "This is the real state of survival on the grassland." ”

"Ao," Gao Guiying sighed, "Compared to the Mongols, we Han people are indeed much luckier!" The Mongols often came to the border to rob the Han people, and she originally had a deep hatred for the Mongols, but after listening to Li Hongji's words, this hatred was much more indifferent, and instead of it, it was novelty and even sympathy.

Maybe Gao Guiying waited very thoughtfully, maybe it was the herbs of Hulushan that had a miraculous effect, but in four or five days, Li Hongji was able to walk on the ground, although he couldn't be Gao Guiying's sparring partner, but being able to get out of bed still made Li Hongji very comfortable.

At the beginning, Gao Guiying often held Li Hongji's arm, and later when it was better, Gao Guiying directly stuffed him with a stick and asked him to walk on crutches.

Gao Guiying hoped that Li Hongji would get better soon, so that she could accompany her in the practice of real knives and real # guns, but the eldest brother told her that once Li Hongji recovered, he might leave the Gao family, and she hoped that Li Hongji would never recover, so that he would not leave Hulushan.

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There is no sunlight for several days, the sky looks very dark, as if it is low, the north wind is blowing stronger and stronger, and the cold envelops the entire Hulu Mountain, and it may snow at any time.

Except for Li Hongji, all the people in the Gao family took action, even Gao Yigong, who has always been idle, was also under the supervision of the eldest brother and the second sister, and was so busy that he was sweating like rain, this was to prepare for the survival of winter, although he was reluctant, he did not dare to be lazy.

The cabbage in the garden should be harvested back, and the sheep in the sheepfold need to be taken care of, and go to Hulu Mountain to pick up some dead branches.

In the evening of this day, the sky was indeed filled with snowflakes, first melodiously flying, then goose feather snow, hexagonal snowflakes and hail flying together, the ground and the roof were white, and the branches of the trees were also hung with snow, from below, it looked like a black and white ribbon.

Gao Guiying was chatting in Li Hongji's west wing with his hands in his sleeve, listening to him talk about all kinds of flower boats on the ten-mile Qinhuai River, but at this time he ran outside the house, "Ah, it's finally snowing, this year's snow is really late!" When she saw the snowflakes, she felt an indescribable excitement.

"Gui Ying, are you ready for the winter?" Li Hongji was in the back and also came out of the west wing.

Gao Guiying raised her little face, let the snowflakes float on her face, and then touched it with her little hands, but the snowflakes were gone, "It's all ready, dry firewood, grain, Chinese cabbage...... It's been done a long time ago. ”

"Hey!" Li Hongji sighed, he didn't have Gao Guiying's leisure, Han Jin'er was alone at home, I don't know if I have prepared my belongings for the winter, my injuries have not healed, once the snow closes the mountain, I am afraid that I will not be able to go back in a short time.

"Hongji, what are you sighing for? Heavy snow can bring rain, not only do you not have to worry about draught in winter, but next year, maybe there will be no more drought! Gao Guiying blinked her beautiful eyes, "I know, but I'm worried about my sister-in-law at home?" ”

"When I left, there was almost no food left at home, but only a dozen copper coins ......"

Gao Guiying had to accompany her silently, and said for a long time: "Sister-in-law knows that it is not easy for you to be outside, and I won't expect you to go home for the time being, besides, Shuangxi has already gone back, he should be able to help!" ”

It's useless to think about these again, he is a hundred miles away, and he will definitely not be able to return home for a while, but the hip injury is completely healed, but the lawsuit is not over yet, Li Hongji is still a fugitive now, and he is worried that Han Jin'er is also in vain, seeing Gao Guiying's face is red from the cold, he said: "Guiying, it's cold outside, let's go inside!" ”

"Hmm!" Gao Guiying nodded obediently, and as Li Hongji entered the West Wing, she knew that Li Hongji was not in a good mood, so she naturally wouldn't appease him.