With the arrival of a large number of Seljuk troops, Lu Qi's sentinels had no room to move at all.

If this is the case, the observation of the enemy can only rely on the human eye.

Tang Decai leaned against a sheltered place at the corner of the No. 5 Stone Castle wall, took out a pipe from his pocket, and carefully took out a pinch of tobacco from his pocket, stuffed and compacted it in the pipe, and after taking a sharp breath on the brazier next to him, a satisfied look appeared on his bronzed face.

On his left hand side is the old guy Du Zhong, and it is okay to call Du Er. The name Eucommia was given by the teachings of the army. This Qilu man still had a bitter and hateful expression on his face, he was holding his longbow, and he was fiddling with a light arrow in one hand, intentionally or unintentionally. looked at the pipe in Tang Decai's hand with hot eyes, and looked like he was eager to poke Tang Decai out of countless holes with arrows.

Tang Decai was still smoking his pipe, ignoring the 'threat' around him.

admit gambling and admit defeat, and even more so for men in the army.

lost all the tobacco in his hand, it was Du Er's bad luck. "You, honestly hope that I will die. When I'm dead, the tobacco in this pocket is all yours. ”

It has not been a few years since the tobacco leaf sprouted in the native roots of China, and in these years, the ships traveling between the Central Plains and the Americas have brought back nothing but gold and silver, cocoa powder and tobacco.

Cocoa powder, of course, is used to make chocolate. It's just that Lu Qian's knowledge of chocolate in his previous life was only to eat it, and as for how to do it, he didn't understand it at all. I just know that I want to add milk/cream, and let the chef figure it out for himself. Before the advent of chocolate, cocoa hot drinks were also very good, and women liked them. Tobacco leaves, on the other hand, are exclusively available to men.

Starting from Jinling, the name of pipes and cigarettes spread all over the country, and the speed was fast.

After the first two years of testing, the planting area of tobacco is also rising, although the price of tobacco and cigarettes continues to fall, but this can not stop the enthusiasm of the people to plant tobacco leaves.

Although the fertility of this tobacco leaf is better than that of sugarcane, the nutrients required per mu are far from being provided by ordinary farm fertilizer, and if you don't want the fertility of the land to fade, you can only add soybean cake and bird droppings, and the planting cost is quite high. And in the event of disasters and insect pests, it is not uncommon to accompany a big hair.

But the people's enthusiasm for it has always been high. Obviously, it has been stimulated by the high price of tobacco leaves caused by the shortage of supply in the market in recent years.

However, there are preferential treatment for soldiers, and there are already options for tobacco in the supply of military supplies, and they can even take the initiative to buy it, but there is a limit on the quantity, and it is strictly resold and sold.

Tang Decai and Du Er are both old smokers.

As he spoke, Su Wei, the team of the Stone Fort garrison, walked up from below, wrapped in a military coat. Du Er immediately changed his goal and complained to him: "Su Tou, the supply ship will arrive soon, and the brothers will have no smoke and smoke, and Tang Decai's pickled stuff will still be there." It's an iron rooster, and he doesn't pull out a hair. ”

"Du Er. Are you sad about that? Before I came to Tianfang, I borrowed you twenty yuan. I should have told you to cut out your tongue! ”

Su Wei didn't say a word, and explained to this kind of veteran in the army, explaining that the imperial court was difficult to transport. stepped forward and kicked Tang Decai's ass hard, then snatched the pipe from his mouth, and after taking two puffs, "Stand guard well!" ”

Tang Decai didn't say a single, grabbed the pipe from Su Wei's hand, turned his head to look out from the observation hole next to him, and then shouted excitedly as if he had discovered a new continent: "Hey, look, their people are here." It looks like it's a lot, at least two ...... Well, three hundred. ”

"No, at least five hundred." Su Wei, who stretched out his head and glanced out, immediately corrected, "The five hundred people are all tribal light horses, and they are all good at riding horses. As soon as the words fell, Na Du Er had already struck the alarm bell.

Five hundred tribal light horsemen, wearing thin leather armor at most, and many of them had no armor, rushed from the Seljuk barracks to the port of Homos, and naturally divided into seven or eight small cavalry teams, one by one, with bows and arrows, shooting at the corresponding stone forts.

The task is simple and straightforward, that is, harassment.

The Seljuk bows and arrows are different from the European bows and arrows, compared to the European bows and arrows at this time, which can only rely on the weight of the arrows to pierce the enemy at close range, the Turkic compound bows in the hands of the Seljuks are in the same vein as the Khitan and the party cavalry bows, and at medium distances, with special armor-piercing arrows, etc., can still pose a threat to the armored cavalry.

As the elite of the Seljuks, the Ghulam cavalry is said to be able to fire five arrows in a row between drawing and drawing. Naturally, it is impossible to be accurate.

These tribal cavalry of the Seljuks were pure nomadic cavalry on the Persian plateau, and they were no different from those nomadic cavalry on the steppes of the northern part of the country under the Turkic color.

"That's a bad match." Tang Decai smiled, and watched with interest as the sharp arrows flying out of the stone treasure shooting hole at the bottom shot a Seljuk cavalry off the horse, those people really deserved to be 'comrades-in-arms', and immediately two people brought back the war horse to rescue. As a result, the meat buns beat the dog - and there is no return.

There are already arrows and crossbows waiting to be earned.

It was when he laughed that a sharp arrow of "whoosh-" went straight to Tang Decai's façade. Tang Decai was caught off guard, he never expected that there would be a master among those people who shoot arrows nonsense.

The arrow is like a meteor, straight to the façade. This is obviously a master eyeing him!

Tang Decai reacted consciously, but his actions couldn't keep up, at this juncture, a blink of an eye was a life.

At this moment, Du Er's fist smashed on his head, Tang Decai's whole body shrank down, and the arrow was inserted straight into the forearm of the arm that replaced Tang Decai's head.

Tang Decai, Du Er, and Su Wei were all stuck in the inner wall, and their drum-like heartbeats seemed to have just recovered, it was too dangerous just now.

"Old Tang, I saved your life, is it worth a bag of cigarettes?"

"Fart. Bloodshot and missing, you still want to smoke? ”

Su Wei grabbed the arrow on Du Er's forearm and pulled it out, but it was nailed to the iron piece, and the leather underneath was not even broken.

Yang Mi at the head of the city naturally didn't know what happened on the top of the No. 5 Stone Fort at this time. He was laughing at the roaring horses outside the city.

The Seljuks are playing a trick to exhaust the soldiers?

That's a really special idea.

The Seljuks, who had not experienced the blows of scattered bullets and earth-shattering thunder, had no idea how much firearms were used to increase their defenses.

"Let's go, I'll go down and rest." If the Seljuks want to play, they can play freely, Yang Mi is not accompanied. It was enough for Pei Yun to sit at the head of the city.

This scene was repeated in Homus Harbor, until half a month later, Gerschap received a report from his subordinates that all the equipment he needed had been fully built. The war of the Seljuks crossed the first stage and entered the second!