One year old and one withered, this is the law of nature, seeing that it is going to be late autumn, and the green ocean can no longer be seen on the grassland. The cold wind blowing from the north already makes people feel a deep chill.

Far north, on the edge of a river, a large army of horsemen, exhausted, halted their horses. The person at the head turned out to be a beautiful woman. At this time, she was more haggard than the people around her, but she still forced her composure and said, "Let's spend the night here today!" ”

Hearing this, everyone dismounted, and although they were exhausted, they still took care of the war horses first. However, the horse feed they carried with them had already been eaten, and the war horses had already lost weight by gnawing on the grass. Originally, when they set off, there were two horses for one person, but now there are many people who only have one horse left.

"We have taken such a long detour, we are almost to the northernmost part, Jianyu has long been thrown off, and now what we have to do is to return to the Ming Kingdom safely." The woman saw that the morale of the team was not high, so she forced a smile and said, "We have made great achievements, and the emperor will give a heavy reward." On the other side of the Naturalization City, there are sturdy houses, so you don't have to worry about heavy snow, you don't have to worry about starvation......"

She naturally led the rest of the cavalry to return to Hailanzhu from the north, and when the cavalry of the Horqin tribe heard her words, they couldn't help but have more expectations for the future, and their morale had obviously recovered a lot, and their movements were also sharp. Just by the river, wash yourself, wash the war horses, set up camp and prepare to rest.

At this point, there is still some time before the sun sets. The Korqin people all lay down in small tents to rest, or several people together burned small fires and roasted hard horse meat to satisfy their hunger, while talking.

"If we meet Jianyu again in the future, I guess they will definitely find us desperately, right? If you stab them all of a sudden, you must have hated us to death! ”

"Definitely, they have always believed in our Horqin tribe, and this was suddenly betrayed by their allies, and they will definitely be hated even more by others!"

"When you say what is there, this is every man his master! Don't forget, in the past, our Horqin tribe and Jianguo were also enemies, but Jianlu was really strong, and then we had to form an alliance! ”

"What's wrong with the alliance, didn't you see Jianyu also casually found an excuse to destroy several tribes? Tell you, Jianlu is a wolf, hungry and hungry believe it or not, it will eat our Horqin tribe? ”

“……”

The encampment of the Horqin army, especially the encampment of this cavalry army, is far from being as strict as the new army of the Ming Kingdom. Most of them are clansmen, and they have traveled so far, and now there is no threat from Jianyu behind them, and they are relaxed, chatting and talking, as if they are not soldiers at all, but have returned to their herdsmen's identity.

Some of them seemed to be overwhelmed by this action. But more people are very open-minded and have answered those who can't get by.

"Either way, we'll be able to go back safely. Seriously, I think that our grasslands should be like Guihua City, let the Han people farm the land, and we graze, so that if combined, there will be no cattle and sheep freezing to death, and the plague will cause us to suffer a catastrophe! ”

"Yes, in the past, every winter was so difficult, but in the future, it will be fine, and there will be no need to worry about it before!"

"It's true to say this, in fact, after I heard about it before, I envied those tribes who took refuge in the Ming Kingdom, and felt that our Horqin tribe and Jianlu were too close, and it was impossible for them to be accepted by the Ming Kingdom. Thinking that it was impossible for Jianyu to give us the same treatment as the one in the Naturalization City, I was annoyed in my heart. What I didn't expect was that the patriarch had already calculated and led us to this road! ”

“……”

Their conversation is more about the vision of the future and the yearning for a better life. No more worries about starvation, no more worries about murderous captives. Chatting and chatting, they were all happy, and their morale had obviously improved a lot.

The setting sun sprinkled the grassland with a golden afterglow. There was peace in the camp. Hai Lanzhu lay in his simple tent, chatted with Emperor Chongzhen for a while, and after telling him about today's situation, he just withdrew from the chat group, but suddenly heard something moving outside, which was a little abnormal.

Before she could go out of the tent to check, she heard hurried footsteps. Suddenly, Hai Lanzhu's heart sighed, she hadn't seen Jianyu's shadow for many days, she should have gotten rid of it, could it be that Jianyu had calculated the distance on his side and made a detour to chase after him?

As soon as she lifted the curtain, she saw a clansman in front of her, with a serious expression, and even said with a little worry: "Don't beg, a dead body was found in the river, coming down from upstream!" ”

As soon as she heard that she had not found any traces of Jianyu, Hai Lanzhu breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, she was also curious, how could there be dead bodies in such a remote northern river?

Thinking so, she also forgot her tiredness, and immediately hurried to the river with the messenger.

At this time, by the river, many clansmen had gathered, and when they saw Hai Lanzhu coming, they all got out of the way.

Standing still by the river, Hai Lanzhu really saw dead bodies floating in the river, which were already floating on the water, obviously not the kind that had just died.

"Don't beg, there's still one over there." One of the tribesmen pointed to the upstream and said, "I have sent people to look along the river, and these corpses do not look like people from the Khalkha tribe, they were all killed and thrown into the river." ”

If they want to take a detour to return to the Ming Kingdom, they will naturally not take the sphere of influence of the Khalkha tribe. Of course, in the northern steppes, not only the Mongolian tribes, but also many other small tribes live.

Hai Lanzhu looked at it intently, and saw several dead corpses, which seemed to be men in the prime of life, some had no heads, some had no hands and feet or something, and it could be seen at a glance that it was an unnatural death.

At this moment, a clansman returned from the upstream position, quickly came to Hai Lanzhu, and said with a serious expression: "Don't beg, there are still a lot of corpses, floating down the river." Something must have happened upstream, and there were dead bodies in the river, men, women, and children. ”

Hai Lanzhu's face was very grim when she heard this, she didn't say a word, she stretched out her hand to ask for a horse from the clansman, and quickly went upstream to check the situation with her own eyes.

When she saw what the people said, and saw that there were still many children's corpses in the river, she was immediately a little angry. The tribal fighting on the steppe has always been there. However, women and children are not usually killed. The growth of the tribe is inseparable from women and children, after all, women can give birth to children, and children grow up to be warriors of the tribe.

But what kind of tribal war is this, so cruel to the enemy, that even women and children who are silent can be killed? And judging from the scars of the corpses, it seems that they are not just killing, these corpses were tortured before they died!

So, Hai Lanzhu ordered to send a scout horse to the upper reaches to see what the situation was. On the camp side, they should take a break and be on guard at the same time, waiting for the news to come back.

These soldiers of the Horqin tribe were very angry about this. They lost their previous ease and stopped chatting, and they all took time to rest so that they could cope with the next possible situation.

Waiting in silence, waiting with a little nervousness. In the night, the vigilant rangers were released far away. But until the next morning, everyone got up, and there was no return.

When Hai Lanzhu saw it, she couldn't help but be a little worried. If it weren't for the long way and they didn't have time to return, then they might have encountered some danger.

At this time, Hai Lanzhu couldn't help but regret it a little. Or you shouldn't be nosy, your first task is to return to the Ming Kingdom with the remaining 700 or so horsemen to reunite with your family.

She was a little uneasy, but she managed to calm herself and used her rounds to distract herself.

All the people of the Horqin tribe have already packed up, and if you take away the traces of the fire in this camp, you can hardly see that there has been a camp here. They comforted their war horses, and they didn't speak to each other, but when they saw Hai Lanzhu coming, they would politely salute.

You can see that everyone is a little nervous or uneasy. But no one thought about going back soon, they were just waiting quietly.

The sun rose higher and higher in the east, and suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves was faintly heard. Almost all of them were sensitive, and immediately turned their heads to look upstream of the river.

Sure enough, on the undulating grassland, four or five horsemen were exposed. Although it is far away, it can be recognized at a glance that the tanma who went out last night has returned.

The crowd suddenly stirred, and they all gathered around Hai Lanzhu, leaving a passage, watching Tanma go straight to Hai Lanzhu's side.

"Don't beg, fifty or sixty miles away from here, there is a small lake, which should have been a place where small tribes gathered, but now it has been completely destroyed, and there is ...... There were also a number of children stuck in stakes, presumably alive. "Judging from the traces, it seems that the slaughterers have gone north, but the number of people should not exceed a hundred, and it will only take about half a day to walk!" “

After saying that, he pointed in the direction again. Hai Lanzhu looked in that direction for a while, as if she wanted to see who was doing this in a distant place?

"Don't beg, this tribe looks like it should be the tribe of the Briya tribe." Tanma looked at Hai Lanzhu and looked at the north, and added, "Such a ferocious and vicious method will definitely not be done by the same clan, and it is estimated that it will not be the Khalkha tribe who will come." Most likely, only the Kriya will be able to do it! ”

In this far north, the Buriya people are Mongolian, and they share the same language family as the Korqin people. The Koliya are a Turkic language family, which is a completely different ethnic group from the Buriya. This detective's analysis is the most likely.

When Hai Lanzhu heard this, she was very angry, and immediately waved her hand and said, "Let's go, let's take a look first!" ”

The other tribesmen were very angry when they heard this, and they had been waiting for her, and when they heard her order, they immediately turned on their horses, surrounded her, and went up the river.

During the day, the march on horseback is less than half a day. Sure enough, there is a small lake here, and the surrounding environment is very good, which is a suitable place for grazing. What is incompatible with this beautiful scenery is that not far from the lake, a tribal camp has been burned, and on wooden stakes some people who have been tortured to death, or children are stuck in wooden stakes, and they will not be able to see ......

Everything in front of him was even more tragic than what Tanma had described before, and the methods of the perpetrators were simply outrageous!

These Horqin people are all selected elites, they can escape from the pursuit of Jianyu and ascend to heaven, and they are the elite of the elite. They inspected the scene and affirmed Tanma's words, that is, there were less than 100 perpetrators, and they would go north with the looted things in a way that would not take more than half a day.

"Don't beg, catch up and see, what kind of person is treating women and children so inhumanely!" Someone couldn't help it, and immediately asked Hai Lanzhu.

When the people on the side heard this, they immediately followed suit.

"Don't beg, we have more than 700 riders, and they are only less than 100 riders, right?"

"This kind of person is simply not a human being, don't beg, go and kill them and avenge them!"

“……”

The tragedy of the scene made Hai Lanzhu a little afraid to look at it, she couldn't bear to look at it, she had lived for more than 20 years, and it was the first time she had seen such a murderous person. Hearing that the clansmen were asking for battle, she couldn't help it, and immediately waved her hand and said, "Go, catch up!" ”

At this order, all the Korqin cavalry immediately turned on their horses and chased north along the trails left by the assailants.

Although angry, this cavalry is an elite after all, but it has not lost its mind, and pursues it regardless of it. Before the main cavalry, their own scouts galloped forward and on both sides, acting as the eyes and ears of the cavalry.

When night fell, Hai Lanzhu's department had to stop to rest. The horses that were scattered also returned one after another. The scouts on both sides didn't find anything, but when the scouts returned, they brought back news of the assailants.

"Don't beg, catch up." As soon as Tanma said this, all of a sudden, the guards on Hai Lanzhu's side immediately came over to listen, "Those people are camped about twenty miles away from here, about eighty horsemen, escorting more than a dozen carts. Looking at it from a distance, some were wearing cylindrical curly hats, and some were wearing black hats, which they had never seen before. Seem...... Seems to ......"

"What seems like it?" When Hai Lanzhu heard this, she hurriedly asked.

Tanma replied with some doubt: "It's a little far away, and the light is not good, so I can't see it very clearly." Vaguely, it looks a bit like Xiyi! ”

"The kind of person who looks like a ghost?" When a guard heard this, he couldn't help but interject and ask.

After asking, seeing Tanma nodding, he suddenly realized again: "No wonder, it turned out to be them, no wonder they do these bad things like evil ghosts!" ”

When the people on the side heard this, they asked Hai Lanzhu for battle.

It's only been eighty years to ride, Hai Lanzhu didn't hesitate, and immediately nodded and said: "Okay, pass the order, everyone have a good rest, tomorrow dawn, surround them, don't let any of them go!" ”

"Yes, don't beg!" All the people around who heard the order responded almost in unison, and it was clear that they were a little impatient.

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