Chapter 316: Raid
As the day fell, a small tribe by the Qingshui River had already risen with curling smoke.
There are many small tribes like this on the grassland, although they nominally belong to a certain Otok under a certain Nuoyan, but unless they are conscripted in wartime, they still have their own ways in peacetime, and sometimes they even fight over water sources and pastures. What is special is that this small tribe, although it is nominally under the household of Yongshebwan, has always maintained closer ties with the Khan's court, because the daughter of the tribal elder Qinggeltai Zoya was kept by the princess Turuletu, the daughter of Dayan Khan, as a female companion.
And just a few days ago, the lord of Ordos, Legusi Aklahu, personally escorted Princess Turuletu and Zhuoya here. After sending off that group of people, Qinggeltai was busy non-stop, from roasting whole sheep to mare's milk wine, from the best tea to the vegetables that he had finally traded with the Ming people, he was eager to give all the best things in the whole tribe. Turuletu had come to relax, and although the hospitality of these herdsmen was far inferior to that of the Khan's court, it still made her happy.
As the only daughter of Dayan Khan Batu Munk and Manduhai Dahatun, and the youngest child, Tululetu did not have to practice riding and archery like those brothers, coupled with his cool appearance and his mother, Batu Munk always held her in the palm of his hand, and even after she married into the Oirath Ministry, she returned to the Chahar Khan court angrily because she couldn't stand her husband's indifference, and after being angry, she had no choice but to let people wander around. At this moment, Turultu and Zoya rode after the two newborn lambs, and when she was happy, she sang aloud.
The blue immortal sky and the red glow made its edges, and the cyan immortal earth and the green grassland made its edges.
The jade-colored immortal sky, the silver clouds, made its trimmings, and the young men who flew like silver eagles were the most beautiful dresses in the sea of green waves and flowers...... Although she had known that the princess was the best at singing, Zhuoya couldn't help but stop and turn her head to listen to the high and bright voice, and thought of the princess's husband who was obsessed with women. When the song "Praise of Immortality" was finished, she said with a smile: "Princess, your singing voice can simply move Immortal Heaven!" ”
"What's the use of being able to move the Immortal Heaven, you can't move those whose hearts are like iron stones." Turuletu looked at the wildflowers that were trampled by the horses' hooves on the way he came, and suddenly felt a little sad, "Even a woman like my grandmother who has been praised by countless people, and I can't do without my father's Khan, what am I!" Father Khan didn't say it in his mouth, but in his heart he wanted me to go back early, and you know what the second brother said? He actually thought that I was jealous of those women for a man who didn't have me in his eyes at all! He didn't want to think about it, I was the pearl in the hands of my father Khan, my mother's favorite princess, how could I be so unbearing! ”
"Princess, the second prince is just joking with you."
"You still say good things for him, don't you think he looks at you with all the **? He already has five wives, do you want to be the sixth? ”
"Princess!"
The atmosphere between the two women suddenly changed from sad to joking, and in a moment they rode their horses and chased each other on the grassland under the setting sun. However, at this moment, Zoya suddenly heard some strange noises, hurriedly reined in her horse, and when she looked around, she noticed that many small black dots appeared on the eastern horizon. She hesitated at first, but when the sound of the horses' hooves drew nearer, and she could even see the blades in the hands of those men, she came to her senses in an instant. However, just as she was speeding up to Turuletu and was about to speak, she saw long arrows slash through the sky above her tribe, falling into it in arcs.
"Zoya ......"
"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"
After Zoya shouted loudly, she immediately grabbed the reins of Turuletu, and the next moment realized that the two of them alone would not be able to run far anyway. Seeing the confusion on the other side of the tribal camp, Turuletu suddenly thought of Na Yusong and Temur, who had been with him for many years, and suddenly instinctively took back the reins from Zoya's hand, turned his horse's head and galloped over.
The tribal camp was already in chaos at this time, no one expected that it was a Ming army that appeared here, and the other party moved too fast, not at all like before there was a chance to react, most people only had time to pick up their bows and arrows and shoot the first arrow, and then ushered in the waist knife that fell on the head. The tribe's horse pen was the first to be attacked, and hundreds of horses fell into the hands of the enemy in an instant, which made Qinggeltai, who wanted to have people report to Turuletu and Zhuoya, completely dead.
In his early years, he also learned some Chinese characters from a Han slave, and even quietly went to Xuanfu and Datong in the Ming Dynasty with a caravan, and he was also a knowledgeable person among the Mongols. The Ming army marched north to kill the herdsmen and take the merits, which has not happened for many years, even if the generals who are bold and reckless, that is, to lure the herdsmen to take the bait on the grounds of opening the horse market, and then set up ambushes and kills people as side work, but if they really want to lead their troops out of the border, then few people dare to take such a risk. Therefore, when he barely organized a resistance for a while with a scimitar, and even shouted a few times in Chinese, only to find that no one paid attention to him, he suddenly felt his heart sink gradually.
"Then Song, Temur!"
When Turuletu's familiar anxious voice came, his face changed dramatically, but it was this distraction that he didn't notice that a rider and a man and a horse jumped over the wooden fence in front of him, and it was like a divine soldier falling in front of him, and immediately Xue Liang's knife slashed head-on. He instinctively dodged for a moment, but then he felt his head light, and all his thoughts were frozen in that moment. When his head hit the ground, he vaguely heard the last voice in his life.
"You think it's a street fight?"
It was Channing who shouted that it was not a fight. Although he had made great achievements in Shacheng before, he did not give up at all to continue to make contributions, and this time he patted his chest and took over the errand of the striker. This way the killing will come in, and he even has time to count his severed heads one by one, but he can't bring credit. Therefore, when he directly rushed through the camp, he led his team back in a big turn, and happened to see two men in the prime of life pushing a woman on a horse, and he immediately raised his sword to kill him.
This time, however, unlike the hastily crushed men who had come to ruin, the two prime-aged herdsmen intercepted him as if they had gone mad, and with a single knife they took his mount with ferocity, and in a few moments they forced him off their horses. Fortunately, he quickly followed the two of them under his head, and he finally got out.
Looking at the woman running away on horseback, he took the bow that hung beside his mount. But before he could draw his bow and release the arrows, he saw the woman's body shake, and the man fell off the horse. He covered the pergola with his hand and looked on tiptoe, and when he saw the direction of the arrow, he could not help but grin.
"Shoot the man before the horse...... Tsk, Lord Xu is more pitiful than me. ”
Muttering this, he turned around and saw that the people with Scarface and more than a dozen other elite guards of the government army were surrounding the two strong men, like an eagle playing with a, you stab me and me, he suddenly frowned, took down the bow and arrow, and shouted sharply: "What are you rubbing, hurry up and kill people and clean up the battlefield, do you want to let the good things be shared with others!" ”
Sure enough, it's Akito!
Na Yuesong and Temurqiqi's faces changed greatly, but just as they were struggling to support themselves back to back, suddenly there was a sound of arrows breaking through the air, and then Na Yuesong covered his shoulders and knelt down on one knee in pain. With this flaw, Scarface immediately rushed up with the others, and with two muffled snorts, there were suddenly two more corpses on the ground.
"Lord Xu is good at archery!"
Xu Xun, who slowly relaxed the bowstring, heard this compliment from Shenying in his ears, and thought to himself that this time he had finally worked with one arrow and did not miss the auxiliary car again. Therefore, when An Da Niu, who had gone out to check on the horse, came back and reported that the woman had fallen off the horse and fainted, he didn't pay much attention to it, and only ordered to continue to guard the surroundings and not let anyone go.
It wasn't until it was completely dark that the battle was over. Facing Wu Dahai, who reported his own casualties, he learned that seven people were killed and sixteen people were injured, but fortunately, he was not seriously injured, Xu Xun couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief - after all, in this situation, it is impossible to divide troops to escort the wounded back, and serious injuries are almost equivalent to waiting for death. Therefore, when Wu Dahai asked about the next disposition, he glanced at Shen Ying, and then said lightly: "Kill all the men, and the women will take care of them first." I don't care if I want to search for the loot, but if there is a conflict over the loot, then don't blame me for the marching method! Also, move fast, we can't afford to delay here for too long! One hour, one hour later, set off immediately! ”
Killing all the men and leaving the women behind has always been the only rule of the tribes on the grassland. And Xu Xun had already done this once in Shacheng before, and now he has seen the fate of those soldiers and civilians who were exiled from Xuanfu, and he has no psychological burden. And after Shenying heard the woman's command to take care of it first, she raised her eyebrows thoughtfully, and bowed slightly at one of her henchmen.
This time it's an adventure with a head, fighting and killing all the way, so that the next person has a chance to vent!
Not long after this military order was passed down, someone reported: "My lord, the woman who was shot on the mount by you said that she asked to see you!" ”
Xu Xun had already forgotten about this stubble, frowned slightly, and Qian Ning on the side came up with a smile: "My lord, I just went to see it, that Mongolian woman has smooth skin and tender flesh, unlike those five big and three thick, so I ordered them not to move without permission, and even her maid was let go to serve." At this time, it is still early, and the hot day is rushing and fighting, and it is easy to get angry, do you want to defeat the fire? ”
(To be continued)