Just a few years ago, the Sui army also fought side by side with the Eastern Turks to resist the invasion of the Western Turks, so many East Turk herdsmen are no strangers to the Sui army, as soon as they saw the bright armor, a red army knew that the Sui army was coming, but although they reacted quickly, the time was still late, just after they started not long ago, a red cloud came on the flanks, and they could see that the weapons in the hands of the Sui army reflected the cold metal light.

"Buzz." The sound of a bowstring trembling rang out, and countless long arrows flew out of the red cloud, landing precisely among the fleeing Turkic herdsmen.

"Whew." The galloping Turkic herdsmen turned on their backs and planted their horses, leaving behind them a field of straw-like arrows.

In a rain of arrows, more than half of the more than ten Turks had been removed, and only seven Turks were desperately beating horses and running, the oldest of them was forty or fifty years old, and the youngest was only twelve or thirteen years old.

The Turks are wolves, the Central Plains people are sheep, in the minds of all the Turks, wolves eat sheep is a matter of course, I didn't see these Central Plains people also built the Great Wall, what is the difference between that and the sheepfold, as long as the sheepfold is broken, the sheep in the pen are naturally at the mercy of the wolf how to choose the mouth, now how is it the other way around, since the sheep in the sheepfold rushed out to eat the wolf, is there any reason for this, among the seven, the half-grown Turkic boy thought in confusion, if he was not running for his life, he really wanted to ask the father next to him loudly, Could it be that my father had told me that he was wrong?

"Stop! Stop it! The Sui army chasing after kept shouting. It's just that the Turks turned a deaf ear, and several Turkic herdsmen in the prime of life relied on their superb riding skills, and even shot arrows backhand in the back, but fortunately, the Sui army was fully armored, and the arrows shot by the Turks' soft bows fell vertically and did not cause much damage.

The Sui army chasing after him was furious. These Turks obviously had no intention of surrendering within the range of their crossbow arrows, and a Sui soldier in front of him pressed his hand hard, and a rain of arrows flew out of the Sui army, and the seven people who were running turned into hedgehogs in an instant, and fell off their horses.

"Whew." The Sui army, who was chasing these herdsmen, pulled the reins. The fast-moving red cloud stopped, several Sui soldiers jumped off their horses, stepped forward to check, and one of them returned to report to a general in his thirties in the middle: "Report to the general, a total of fifteen Turks, all dead. ”

Without waiting for the general to answer, a person who looked like a deputy general next to him sighed and said, "Alas." One hundred and fifty guan is gone, no, it's three hundred. ”

In order to let everyone have a more intuitive purpose for entering the steppe this time, the court issued a bewildered order, for each Turkic captured, the court had ten copper coins as a reward, a horse also had ten coins as a reward, and the same was true for other cattle and sheep, among which the officers got thirty percent and the soldiers got seventy percent.

As a government soldier. Even if there is no military salary in the war, only a small amount of subsidies, some people have to prepare their own horses and weapons, the state bears the material supplement of the battlefield, and their income depends on the rewards given by the court after the victory of the war. The soldiers were inevitably depressed, and the court's practice of directly converting the spoils of war into rewards undoubtedly boosted the morale of these government soldiers who entered the grassland.

In fact, it was true, because the Turks did not expect that the Sui army would suddenly take the initiative to kill the Great Wall, and the Eastern Turkic herdsmen who had been nesting for a winter rushed to the place with abundant water and grass with their own animals. And the closer you get to the Great Wall. The more ambiguous the weather, the faster the snow will melt. Of course, the water grass is the best, which means that they have sent themselves into the mouth of the Sui army.

Less than a month after the Sui army entered the grassland, more than 10,000 Turks had been captured, and hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock

People die for money, birds die for food, this sentence is right, for more than a month, the Sui army is like a tireless machine, as long as they see the Turks, everyone's eyes are red, whether it is people or livestock, in their eyes is a pile of yellow copper coins.

"General, this time we have captured seventy-five good horses, one hundred and forty-eight horses and foals, as well as fifty-one oxen and more than six hundred sheep."

This report finally made the generals who sighed before, show a smile, the value of these more than 200 horses and dozens of cattle is close to 3,000 yuan, and they are only 500 people in a building, and the death of a dozen Turks is really nothing, stabbed the general next to him, and said: "Cousin, we have made a fortune." ”

The general next to him glared at his cousin angrily, he really couldn't understand why his cousin had obviously inherited the title of his uncle Xinyigong, and his family was rich, so why was he so greedy for money?

These two people are of course Li Jing and Han Shi, both of them are now in their thirties, although there are many doubts about the cause of Han Baohu's death, however, Han Shi successfully inherited his father's title, both of them are Jiangmen families, and they have learned a belly of martial arts and the art of war, but unfortunately with the late Emperor Wen of Sui, he cultivated martial arts, but he did not have the talent to display, and now he finally found an opportunity to make contributions.

Li Jing was not carried away by the wealth in front of him, and ordered: "Immediately send scouts to search for a radius of fifty miles, so many cattle, sheep, horses, it is impossible for them to be owned by these dozen people, maybe there is a big tribe nearby." ”

"Yes, General!" A group of dozens of scouts separated, and a team of three people dispersed in all directions.

Han Shi was overjoyed when he heard this: "Cousin, what you said is true, there is really a big tribe nearby?" Regarding Li Jing's judgment, Han Shi is still very confident, just to confirm it.

"Of course, with so many horses, and no women or children, they desperately ran away after discovering us, knowing that they were going to die, just to lure us farther away, isn't there a big tribe or something?" Li Jing said lightly.

"Oh, I said, no wonder my cousin was unceremonious, and immediately shot them to death, three hundred guan was lost like this, it turned out that there were still big fish."

If the dozen or so Turkic people who died heard Li Jing's analysis, I am afraid that they would feel that they were blind to death, and they discovered their intentions so quickly, and their people would not have had time to transfer at all.

An hour later, a sweaty scout ran back from the opposite direction where the Turks had fled: "Report, General, there is a camp of the Turks about twenty miles away from here, and it is very likely that they have received news from our army, and are currently preparing to relocate, leaving two people to keep an eye on them." ”

"Okay, how many of them are there?" Han Shixi was so happy that he almost jumped up from the grass where he was sitting.

"General Hui, the tents are dense, there are about hundreds, according to the habits of the Turks, one tent can accommodate more than ten people, I'm afraid there are three thousand."

"Three thousand?" Han Shi frowned, there were only five hundred of them, although there were only five or six hundred middle-aged people among the three thousand, but the Turkic people, whether they were old people or children, could fight on horseback, five hundred against three thousand, even if they win, it would be a miserable victory, but if they let this piece of fat be shared with others, it would be too painful.

"Don't think about it, immediately send someone to inform the rear, let Lord Qu Tutong send someone to surround and annihilate him, and we will catch up and harass them first, bite them tightly, and prevent the Turks from escaping."

Han Shi was helpless, as soon as he informed Qu Tutong, they could only get some soup to drink, however, it was better to be able to drink soup than not to drink, Han Shi turned over and got on his horse, and the rest of the Sui army who were resting got the order and hurriedly stepped on horseback, under the sun, the Sui army of hundreds of people turned into a fluttering red cloud on the grassland again, letting the front roll away.

The capital, a peaceful scene, since the news of the victory over the Turks in December last year, the news of the border pass has few people cared, since the Turks no longer threaten the Great Sui, everyone should do whatever they want, after all, for the people, making money to support their families is the right thing.

It's just that the capital was immediately stirred by a major event, according to the queen's order, from April this year, all parts of the country began to draft, within half a year, all unmarried girls between the ages of thirteen and seventeen must be screened by the local government, and those who meet the standards will be sent to the palace to enrich the harem for the new emperor.

This news makes people happy and worried, however, it is not surprising, after all, every few years, the people have to choose a show for the emperor, many people originally thought that the first emperor would be drafted after the mourning period last year, after all, I heard that the new emperor put most of the palace maids back at home, if the harem is empty for a long time, even if the emperor did not speak, the queen should take the initiative to mention, so as not to be gossiped behind his back, and now the emperor has been on the throne for nearly eight months before the draft began, it is too late.

It's good if you don't choose to enter the palace, if you choose to enter the palace, one day you will fly on the branches, and suddenly the whole family will soar, although you are happy, what you are most afraid of is that after being elected to the palace, you will be released after your youth is exhausted, which is equivalent to raising a daughter for nothing

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