Section 1 "Savages"

The area around Nong'anta was originally a place where Ula and Yehe people and Horqin people traded grain and property, since the annexation of the Ula Department by the Jianzhou Department and the relocation of a large number of Ula people into the Guannei, this area was depressed, except for a small number of people living in Nong'an City, the rest of the place was almost empty, and now in the cold winter, it is even more rare, Nong'anta yearns to go north to Ula Lake, a little north is Ula Mountain, that is a large area of land where Ula people have lived for generations, there are grasslands, lakes, rivers and hills, and in spring it is abundant water and grass, The land was fertile, but now it is white.

The Tarai and his party chased for a long time but did not see a single shadow, the wild man and the Turai dismounted and walked to the front, checking the traces on the snow, and the unshaken Ao Bai followed them and kept asking questions, and the wild man coped without saying a word, and the Bayalas were a few hundred paces behind them, carefully guarding with bows and arrows.

"Brother Savage, you won't lead the wrong way, why haven't you even seen a shadow of a person after chasing for a long time, the Chahar people won't know that we are coming and run early!" Ao Bai was very disappointed and felt that there was no hope for today.

The wild man said dissatisfied; "Don't call me a savage, tell you again, my name is Li Yu, you can also call me Yuzi."

"Brother Savage, no, Brother Li Yu, this name is too ugly, it looks like the name of a Ming country." Ao Bai said with a hippie smile: "You said there are Chahars, but where are they? Even if they did, there would have to be footprints, and nothing had been found so far. ”

"Don't you see the snow in the sky? The footprints had already been buried, and traces could only be found in the snow, where the snow was uneven all the way forward, and there must have been vehicles and cattle walking by, and there were newly broken branches and crushed weeds on the side of the road. Thurai also felt that Aobai had spoken too much, and waved his hand to tell him to stop.

The three of them walked forward for a while, and Ao Bai couldn't help but ask again: "Brother Savage, have you really killed a tiger alone?" ”

Li Yu replied angrily: "It's not that I want to kill the tiger, it's that the tiger is chasing me and wants to eat me, and I was lucky to kill it, do you think I really dare to live impatiently alone to provoke it." ”

Ao Bai laughed: "I say, who dares to fight a tiger alone." Brother Tulai, have you ever heard that one of our Eight Banners killed a tiger alone? Thurai shook his head and ignored him, but called the people behind him to come over, everyone took a rest, and took out dry food for Li Yu to eat.

Ao Bai cried again; "Brother Savage, no, Brother Li Yu, why don't you have braids, it's just ugly."

It was then that Turai and Bayara noticed that the wild man had short hair and braids. Bayara, who had been in the vanguard in the morning, said regretfully: "It's a pity that such a good boy doesn't have braids, it's so ugly that he can't find his wife when he comes to us." ”

Baya Labing, named Iron Spear, circled around Li Yu and said very seriously: "It's okay, the braids will grow in two years, anyway, I have many sisters, as long as you are willing to pay the bride price, I will marry my sister to you." Then these Bayalas surrounded Li Yu and laughed, Li Yu was so red-faced by these guys that he was at a loss, and Turai hurriedly played a round: "Some of our people in the Eight Banners who lost their braids in the war are shaved anyway, and the braids can grow sooner or later." ”

Along the way, Turai turned around and asked where this guy came from, but Li Yu himself couldn't figure out where he was, he only remembered that his name was Li Yu, he was eighteen years old this year, and he lived by working for Yeh and the Mongols in places that he couldn't figure out, and he was often cold and starving, and then after he was taken in by Kuru, he forgot everything else, and he didn't even know who his parents were. Aobai and the other Bayalas were overflowing with sympathy, and tears were about to fall, this guy was so pitiful. Turai knew in his heart that this savage must have had a miserable life to get this disease, he had seen something worse than Li Yu, he didn't have any injuries after a battle, he just couldn't recognize his parents, wife and children, but this is better, he is strong, capable, not worried, and a little stupid, this is a good blank to be a soldier, and it must be the best Baya soldier to practice well, and he doesn't care if he has braids or not.

Turai said with a smile that as long as we have the ability to make military merits in our Dajin country, the Great Khan will give land and Aha, and there will be a good life, and those with outstanding military merits will be awarded the worldly position, which is an iron rice bowl that can be enjoyed by future generations, and there is no need to worry about starvation in the future. Turai patted Li Yu on the shoulder: "Come with us, I dare say that in less than three years, you will have your own land and aha, and you will have a career, then you will not have to be cold and starving, and you will still have the ability to help your people." ”

Bayara immediately understood what Turai meant, and one by one the hippie smiles encouraged Li Yu to mix with them, and the bullseye said that the more he looked at Li Yu now, the more pleasing it became, although his sisters were already married, but his wife had a sister who was not married, and he could go back to his father-in-law to discuss and marry his little sister to Li Yu. Iron Spear also immediately stated that if Li Yu wants to marry her sister, the bride price can be considered less or delayed, Iron Spear suggested that Li Yu should make a decision as soon as possible, there are not many good girls, and Li Yu is eighteen years old, and if he doesn't have a family, he will be an old bachelor, he pointed to Ao Bai and said, Ao Bai This kid is only sixteen years old, but his children are almost two years old, but look at this guy, he is still a child.

Everyone said that Li Yu's face was flushed, and Thurai saw that the time was almost up, and if he continued to talk nonsense, it would be over, so he quickly changed the topic. Turai told everyone that the snow was not heavy now, and that a further search would lead to Lake Ulla, and that if the Chahars had not been found, they would return to Nong'anta at full speed to join the army. If they can't find the Chahars, they're lucky, and if they do, they'll beat them up, because they're just as good as the thieves.

He told everyone that the Chahar soldiers had not been beaten, and the king of Khan had taught them a hard lesson in the past, and he pointed to the west and said: "Don't look at the Chahar Khan is the Great Khan who owns the whole of Mongolia, and the territory is large and the population is large, but they talk about lineage and bloodline, as long as it is from their Mongolian royal family, even if it is a wreck, it can be distributed to pasture, population and livestock, and it is difficult for others to get ahead no matter how great their merits are, so the Mongols are timid to fight - let you do the bloody thing, and the meritorious service will be rewarded to Taiji and Nuoyan, and no one is willing to change it." In that year, when we attacked Tieling, which was guarded by the Ming army, Chahar Khan collected money from the Ming State and sent Zaisai Taiji, who was known as the bravest Khalkha, to bring 10,000 people to fight us, but we were crushed by three or four thousand people of our Daishan Dabeile, and that Zai Sai Taiji and his sons were so frightened that they hid in the sorghum fields, and we came out and surrendered as soon as we searched. That Chahar Khan also had the face to send people to our Great Khan to ask for his release, and when he heard the old people, the letter was on the letter: 'Baturu Genghis Khan, the lord of the Mongol kingdom of 400,000 people, asks the 30,000 British lords on the waterfront if they are safe. Listen, everybody, what a tone that is. Our Great Khan unceremoniously dragged the messenger out and killed him, but the Chahar Khan didn't even dare to let out a fart, and they were locked up with us for a year, and in the end it took the Khalkha people 10,000 cattle to ransom them back. So if we meet the Chahar people today, it means that we are lucky and have military merits sent to the door. ”

Tulai's words made everyone's blood boil, and Ao Bai wanted to immediately come out and let him cut him with a knife, only Li Yu did not understand the reason, and said very unexpectedly that he only wanted to recapture the cartload of property that the Chahars had stolen from their tribe. However, Li Yu also said that the Chahar people should be beaten, because the Chahar people like to strip other people's clothes when they fight, both the living and the dead.

After talking for a while, and the horses had rested enough, Turai urged everyone to go on the road, and he estimated that the army of the three and four beylers had almost arrived at Nong'anta, and that a large camp should be set up there if nothing else, and that his small group would have to rush back to the camp before dark, or only camp in the wilderness, which would have been fatal on such a cold day. He planned to hurry up and chase for a while, and if there was no abnormality, he would have to rush back.

Determined, Turai ordered all the horses to mount and search and advance northward at a rapid marching speed, with Bullseye taking Li Yu as the vanguard and keeping within five hundred paces ahead. Ao Bai wanted to follow Li Yu again, and was pulled back by Turai, Ao Bai was still too tender, not to mention Baya Rabi, even if he was far from Li Yu, he could only cause trouble in front.

The speed of the Bayara soldiers increased suddenly, and the lake of Ula was soon reached, but still no anomalies were found, and the Chahars disappeared as if they had gone underground, and Turai began to consider letting everyone go back, and Ao Bai complained again, thinking that the wild men had taken the wrong way. Turai thinks this is normal, everyone has been near Nong'an Tower for so long, and the Chahar people are not stupid, they don't run away.

When he was hesitating whether to go back, the vanguard in front was shaking a small red flag, which was a signal that "there was a thief coming", and Turai's heart sank, and the bull's eye did not issue the arrow but desperately waved the flag, obviously the situation was not ordinary. Turai hurriedly asked everyone to put on their armor and prepare their bows and arrows.

When Turai arrived, the bull's eye was already neatly draped, and he was looking into the distance with a bow and arrow, and Li Yu was also holding his longbow in his hand. Bull's eye pointed to a row of footprints for Turai to see, "Big head, this is what we just discovered, and it has only been a short time, it seems to be left by cavalry, it is a regular cavalry, not a common man on horseback." I was afraid of alarming the other party, so I didn't use the arrow. ”

Turai dismounted and leaned down on the snow to observe carefully, the bull's eye was right, the footprints were very new and had not been covered by the snow, they were left, this was by no means left by ordinary people riding horses, the iron palms of the horses were all exactly the same uniform, and the footprints were neatly arranged and extended to the north, obviously marching in formation; The footprints of the horses walking side by side are of different shades, and they should be ridden by one person and two horses. Li Yu also picked up an iron-headed arrow that fell on the snow and handed it to Tulai, who checked it with his hand, looked at the shaft of the arrow again, and then said to everyone with a wry smile: "After chasing for a long time, I didn't catch up with the gang of people who robbed Nong'an Tower, but chased Chahar Khan's iron lance Konot cavalry out, and now there is something to look at." ”

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Turai held the arrow and said: "This kind of arrow is a heavy arrow, you have all used it, and you know that it can wear armor in a hundred steps, this is not something that ordinary people can afford, and the Chahar people are also very poor, and most of the arrows used by ordinary people are arrows with animal bones or stone sharpening, and the arrows used by ordinary soldiers are at most pieces of iron with sharpened iron." Li Yu nodded sympathetically, he used the arrows of ordinary Chahar people, and there were only a few iron-headed arrows, which Uncle Kuru left for him to use to deal with fierce beasts.

"As far as I know," said Turai, "only the Bayala soldiers of Chahar Khan, the cavalry of the Iron Lance Konot, led by his ten sums, had the opportunity to be equipped with such arrows. The Mongolian script on the shaft of this arrow also reads - the Chinese army Konot, this is the elite of Bayala of the commander of the Chinese army of Chahar Khan, Deshenzhuang, from the footprints left, there are about fifteen or six people on the other side, one person and two horses. There are only eleven of us, less than them. And the weapons are not complete" He casually pointed at Li Yu, Li Yu was indeed very shabby, his weapons were the longbow and a dozen arrows sharpened by himself, and the rest was an iron fork and a double-edged plate axe given to him by Uncle Kuru, and the armor didn't dare to think about it.

Ao Bai immediately shouted: "No, it's thirteen, Brother Tulai, you miscalculated." ”

Turai said solemnly: "That's right, you can't count one if you haven't fought, and there are wild people who don't have armor and can't be counted as one." ”

Ao Bai was very angry and didn't squeak, Li Yu didn't care, he still wanted to take back his belongings, as for who to fight and how, he didn't care.

Turai glanced at everyone and asked sharply: "Everyone is a brother of the same banner, life and death for so many years, we can now retreat to Nong'an Tower, or we can catch up with these elites who beat Chahar, what do you say." ”

The Iron Spear did not hesitate; "Beat them, the Chahars are cowards, so we won't run."

Bull's eye held up his spear and shouted: "We are the white-armored Bayara who is one in a hundred, what kind of ability is it to fight the common people of Chahar, if you want to fight, you will fight the elite." ”

Bayara's soldiers came in spirit, shouting and shouting to kill, Ao Bai also held a knife and coaxed hard, even Li Yu couldn't help shouting.

Seeing that everyone's morale was coming, Turai immediately ordered that the iron spear lead two people on the left, the bullseye belt two on the right, Li Yu and Ao Bai took the rear, and the others followed him forward. Before leaving, Turai called Li Yu over, took out an arrow from his sack and handed it to Li Yu, this is a treasure - they are all heavy iron-headed arrows, Li Yu took it excitedly, and carefully loaded it into his quiver.

With the arrangements in place, Turai set off with everyone.

The Bayara soldiers galloped all the way, and after a while they saw a few small black spots on the snow in front of them, and they sped up their horses, and the small triangular yellow flag with red borders was blown by the wind, and the snow had stopped, and it was a good time to fight. Getting closer and closer to the black spot, the silhouette of the other party is getting clearer and clearer, and the fifteen Chahar cavalrymen have already put on iron armor and are lined up in a neat row.

At a distance of eight hundred paces, Turai gave a loud order to stop advancing and change horses, and the Bayara soldiers, who had long been familiar with it, skillfully reined in their horses, stopped neatly, and immediately turned over and dismounted, keeping their eyes on each other, while quickly checking their armor and weapons.

The other party has already started to start, and it is gradually accelerating. The Bayara soldiers moved very fast, and when the opponent started less than a hundred paces, the Bayara soldiers had already changed horses, and one by one they rode on their horses with bows and arrows. Turai turned back and said, "The savages and Aobai stay to watch the horses, and the others follow me." As soon as his legs clamped the horse's belly, he rushed up, and the others immediately followed. Ao Bai, who was left behind, cried and mourned, shook his head helplessly at Li Yu, and continued to fiddle with the bow and arrow in his hand.

Li Yu turned a blind eye to Aobai's actions, his eyes were fixed on the front, he had fought a few times in the past, but it was with Kuru and the Varkha or Mongols who robbed them of their food and property, and generally the weapons used were sharpened wooden sticks and arrows with arrows, which could drive the other party away, and sometimes simply sent the other party something to send them away, trying not to hurt the other party; And the other party is generally the same, if you can grab it, you can grab it, and if you can't grab it, no one wants to solve the deep hatred because of hurting the other party; If you use weapons such as iron-headed arrows, iron spears, and axes, it will be a big battle to fight with your life, but this situation is very rare, Li Yu has only experienced two or three times in total in the tribe of Kulu for two years, like today Li Yu is crazy to find the Chahar people desperately, just because the other party killed his own people, and also robbed them of the property they relied on to survive, if they don't work hard, and like Turai they are elite cavalry wearing iron armor and using sophisticated weapons in the battle of life and death Li Yu has never seen it, Li Yu doesn't want to fight this kind of battle, He just wants to take back what belongs to him, these Chahar people are not the ones who robbed him, Li Yu doesn't want to hurt them at all, let him stay and see that Ma is exactly what he wants, as for the military exploits and world positions that Turai talked about, Li Yu doesn't understand and doesn't want to understand. Li Yu was leisurely stomping his feet to keep warm, while watching Ao Bai scratch his ears and cheeks in a hurry, shaking his head and tail, Li Yu felt that this little guy was very ridiculous.

Turai and the others are getting closer and closer, both sides have completed the acceleration, and Turai shouted: "Bayara, attack!" The Bayara soldiers echoed in unison, and pounced on each other with horizontal swords. The opponent almost used the same tactics, such a close distance, the queue of the two sides was relatively loose, and they were both covered with iron armor, and the bow and arrow and the riding spear were not very useful, it was better to directly use the sword to fight hand-to-hand, depending on who was more ruthless.

The two sides staggered in an instant, each swept sideways at the opponent's vital parts. Turai stared at the opponent, it was a strong man with a full beard, the knives of the two collided together and made a piercing sound, Turai's strength pressed the other party, the long knife smashed the opponent's blade, and slashed towards the man's neck, the man rolled off the horse from the side with a scream, dodging the knife, but the Baya soldiers on the side of Turai did not let go of this opportunity, and took advantage of the moment when the guy fell off the horse and lost his ability to resist, before his feet touched the ground, the long knife slashed through his neck, and a large stream of blood immediately spurted out, The horse rushed past the Turai with the corpse in tow.

The first round of confrontation passed in the blink of an eye, one person on each side was cut off, everyone is an elite, and it is not easy for anyone who wants to take advantage, but this is not good for Turai, the number of people with yellow flags and white armor is at a disadvantage, and now it has become fourteen dozen and ten people, according to such an exchange ratio, Turai will soon have to flee for his life. Ao Bai looked anxious, jumping and shouting on the side, cheering for his own people, Li Yu suspected that this guy was more tired than the ten people on the battlefield.

Li Yu watched it with relish, he compared the situation on the battlefield, and pondered what Uncle Kuru taught him in his mind, those Chahar cavalry were stronger in his eyes, and the riding skills of a single cavalry were obviously higher than those of the Jin cavalry, but the training was obviously insufficient, and there was basically no cooperation between them. And the Chahar people have to use their skilled riding skills to barely cope with the opponent, fortunately this is a small-scale battle, if there are more people, the Houjin cavalry will cooperate with the tactics to fight, the Chahar cavalry is not an opponent at all.

The two sides turned their horses' heads, and the second round of confrontation began, and the two sides staggered, this time two Chahars were a little smarter, and took advantage of the numerical advantage to flank a Jinguo Baya soldier and swept the opponent off his horse, the Bayar soldier was obviously injured, clutching his stomach and screaming on the ground. The iron spear on the left flank tricked up his hand to keep his two companions in front of him with their spears trying to block each other's attacks, and he took the opportunity to shoot an arrow at close range, piercing one of the Chahar soldiers in the face. In this round, each lost one person again, and the number of people between the two sides became thirteen to nine, and Turai became more and more disadvantaged.

Li Yu looked at it and shook his head, it is better to use riding and archery tactics from the beginning, not to fight hand-to-hand with the opponent, but to use accurate riding and shooting to deal with the opponent, although it is not lively enough, but it is always much better, it is really not good to escape, and now it is difficult to escape if you want to escape together. Li Yu is now starting to worry about Tulai - Li Yu is disgusted with the Chahars who rob them of their belongings, and in his heart he still hopes that Tulai and them will win.

Li Yu was thinking about how to deal with this situation, but he felt that his surroundings suddenly became quiet, and when he turned around, he found that Ao Bai, who was screaming at the top of his throat just now, was gone-this guy wouldn't run away first. Li Yu looked forward, only to find that Ao Bai had slipped to the edge of the battlefield silently and sneakily, he wanted to stop Ao Bai, but it was too late.