"So the group of people from the east are very powerful?" Wang Camel no longer sat in his original position, carrying his big teapot, as well as roast lamb shanks and dough cakes in wicker baskets, drove away Wei Laodao's fellow guys, sat opposite Wei Laodao and asked in a low voice.

"I'll tell you, the horses ridden by the ruthless men who came over were all one leg higher than our horses, and they were covered in armor when they rushed into battle, and they were covered in armor along with the horses, and they ran like thunder, and their carts, my grandfather, were connected end to end in a circle, like a city wall......" Wei Laodao's voice involuntarily amplified, and his arms were still gesturing while talking.

"Full body armor? Even the horses are armoured? Isn't that the Iron Cavalry? The Xuanjia Army in the Tang Dynasty in the past? "Wang Camel's ancestor was from the Jingsai Army, and he had heard a little about the former army, but his voice inevitably rose in surprise.

"What are you talking about? What Xuanjia Army? The shopkeeper Zhang was originally sitting on the high place behind the counter, where the entire lobby of this teahouse could be seen clearly, Wang Camel was one of the few Han tribal leaders in this land, he was naturally concerned, and when he saw Wang Camel talking for a long time with the man with a knife-faced face, he thought about it, and walked over by refilling the teapot.

"I said shopkeeper, you walk silently, aren't you used to being a thief at night?" Even if it can be called familiar, I have never seen such a person who overhears other people's conversations and has doubts, and Wang Camel naturally has no good temper.

"No wonder, no wonder! Brother Camel, Brother Camel guards this tea shop, and he can't go anywhere, so he has to listen to some strange things to relieve his boredom...... "Since you want to know something, you have to make amends if you can't say that the shopkeeper is guilty," It's my fault, Brother Camel, this brother is free of money in the tea shop today, okay?" ”

Why not have free refreshments? What's more, what the two said was not something that needed to be kept secret.

"Then thank you to Shopkeeper Zhang!" Wang Camel clenched his fists in vain, which was regarded as thanks, "It's just that the shopkeeper Zhang is really not clever in doing this, and if he encounters a robber in the desert, I'm afraid he will have to use a knife to speak." ”

"Brother Xie Camel is considerate," Shopkeeper Zhang naturally understood that the other party was not cheap, but reminded himself that there were many taboo things in this land, he blinked his small eyes, and said with a smile, "Look at the faces of the two brothers, it's not that kind of guy, is it?" ”

Everyone is willing to listen to good words, not to mention that this shopkeeper who is smiling at everyone is sincere.

"I'm most annoyed by you businessmen...... Wang Camel and this shopkeeper have met several times, although they are not familiar, but they also understand that the other party will not harm themselves. Besides, most of the people who go to business are well-informed, and it may be easier for Wei Laodao to figure out the context if there is one more person in the matter, which is a major matter related to the life of the family.

With Wang Camel's soft words, Wei Laodao didn't care about himself, and beckoned the shopkeeper to sit down together.

casually described the things he just said, and the shopkeeper couldn't help it, "Brother Old Knife, what is the style of those people's armor?" Can you see clearly? ”

"Hmm...... Plate armor? No, no, it's not plate armor, it's not chain mail anyway, the whole set of armor is black and yellow, it looks ugly, but the defense is very good, and the arrows of the eagle archers are powerful, right? You can't shoot through those armors! Wei Laodao pondered for a moment and said carefully.

"Black and yellow armor? I've never heard of ......" Shopkeeper Zhang was also confused, and he was silent for a while before he continued: "Chain mail can prevent knife cutting, but it can't prevent spear stabbing and it is difficult to prevent bows and arrows, since it's not plate armor, it can only be scale armor, but why it makes a piece of black and a yellow, I don't understand!" ”

Indeed, the armor of this era is either as gorgeous as the Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty, or it is black, at least it looks weighty, which can shock people.

"Their kind of armor is very inconspicuous at a glance, but when multiple people get together, it feels like a terrible ghost, which is very intimidating......" Wei Laodao continued to recall the details of that day, at least he had to judge who the other party was, his own guy died, he always had to know why he died, right?" I remembered an incident in which their warriors all had black and yellow veils on their faces and their eyes tied with black sand...... It's like a sand pirate. ”

In a place like Luntai City, almost everyone knows how terrible the sand thieves are, and those guys usually cover their heads and faces with veils and the like, and they are of all races, and they stand guard near the trade routes to ambush anything they fancie.

"No, they are not sand thieves, I'm sure at least, sand thieves can't have so many neat equipment......" Wei Laodao is a straightforward man, although the other party killed his men directly or indirectly, but he is unwilling to do things that splash people with dirty water, "They have complete discipline, not like a caravan, but like an army, that's right, both men and women, young and old, want to be an army, a very elite army!" ”

"Old knife, you just said that there are women and children in their team? It's not uncommon to have women in the army, but with children? That's not right! Wang Camel didn't speak for a long time, but he keenly discovered the details of the omission.

"No, no...... Wait......" The shopkeeper Zhang Da, who had been bored for a while, stopped the argument between the two, "It's right to have children, and there are women and old people, right?" Old knives? ”

“…… Shopkeeper Zhang, you? Wei Laodao was a little confused, and scratched the beard on his face with his hand, "I have seen both women and children, but I haven't noticed that there are old people." ”

"Well, Brother Old Knife, when the Gregorians or Qarluqs recruited you, did they say what the name of the other party's leader was?" The excitement of the shopkeeper Zhang also came.

“…… I only know that the other party's banner is Donggui and Luo...... Oh, I seem to have heard that the leader of the team is called Bartol, and he is very fierce...... I said, shopkeeper Zhang, you businessman don't want to sell the news for money, do you? Hang people's appetite from the ground! Wei Laodao pondered for a long time, and finally remembered a person's name, but the mysterious mystery of this tea shop shopkeeper really annoyed him, so he couldn't help but complain.

"That's it, shopkeeper Zhang, you're not happy, what do you think? Say it! Have you ever seen a fist with a sand bowl? The king camel next to him couldn't bear it anymore, and directly gestured at the fat shopkeeper with his fist.

Of course, there is no intention of making trouble, just a joke, it is not a simple thing to open a teahouse in the center of Luntai City, and the few "flower arms" (1) standing at the door of the teahouse are not so easy to mess with.

"Hey...... That's it, that's it......" The shopkeeper still took a sip of the tea bowl first, "Before the snow fell last year, I received a few Sassanians who ran through the Hanhai, and they mentioned the name Bartol. ”

"Huh? Sassanids? How so? The king had never heard of the Sassanids, and asked curiously.

"The Sassanids, a great tribe in the west, you know those green-eyed dancers, right? They are the Sassanids. It's just that they claim to be Iranians, and the Great Qin (Rome) in the west calls them Persians. "Shopkeeper Zhang is a well-informed person in the end, and he can make a group clear in a few words.

"Ahem, I'm confused, I don't care about the Sassanids, Iranians, Persians, I just want to know what the origin of that team is, my fellows' lives can't be lost in vain!" Wei Laodao was impatient, these two guys asked back and forth, but half of them were useless.

"Brother Lao Dao, don't worry," the shopkeeper Zhang comforted, "The Sassanids have a city called Rai on the southern shore of the Magyar Sea, and last year those merchants said that this Bartol once led a team to stay there for a short time, when several forces in the city of Rai tried to rob them together, and as a result, thousands of people were killed by this Bartol, and it is said that the blood shed soaked a piece of land south of the city of Rai into a swamp. ”

The news from hearsay is naturally a bit exaggerated, and the shopkeeper Zhang naturally understands, but it does not prevent him from saying so, after all, there is always a reason for everything, and it is impossible to come out of nowhere.

"That's all? Anything else? Wei Laodao took a big sip of the tea bowl and asked a little impatiently.

"Of course, the Sassanids had come all the way from Kashgar across the Hanhai with their caravans, and when they set out from the city of Rai, that Bartor had already led the caravan, and they had heard a lot of rumors on the way. It is said that in Herat, and in Mashhad, this Batory killed at least 40,000 Turks, and this time it was not civilians, but the army! You know the black water, right? There was a section of the river that was stained red, and the corpses thrown on the bank fed the wolves nearby! "Maybe the people who open the teahouse are more able to speak, and this shopkeeper is no exception.

The two people who were watching were a little dumbfounded, they knew the fierceness of the Turks, it can be said that they grew up listening to their elders talk about the battle between the Han and the Turks when they were young, and now they have been killed at least 40,000 at one time! And not civilians, it's the military!

Wei Laodao was a little stunned, no wonder the Yijia people and the Gelulu people united to recruit them to fight, "Brother Zhang, you have said so much, do you know the origin of the other party's centaurs?" ”

As soon as Wei Laodao's words came out, Wang Camel also showed a concerned look.

There is no way not to pay attention, seeing that this centaur is coming east, whether this is an enemy or a friend, there must always be a judgment, whether to stay in the current grassland and not move, or should you avoid the scourge of war?

"According to the Sassanids, when they were in the city of Rai, this Bator's team still had a flag with the name "Don!"

"Don?!"

"That's right, many of them are Han Chinese, descendants of the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty in the past! I just don't know who this Batoll is, and whether it's the same person as that Luo! ”

"Anxi Army?" Although Wei Laodao was also mixed up in the Western Regions, he didn't know what happened a hundred years ago, let alone the past when the Tang Dynasty was strong.

However, Wang Luo's eyes lit up, he is a descendant of the Jingsai Army, the two are still related, and he has a sense of intimacy in his heart for no reason, "So it's the team of the Han people?" Or even the military? ”

"Brother Camel, don't say brother, I didn't remind you, even if you are a descendant of the Anxi Army, you may not necessarily recognize you, the robe of the Jingsai Army in the past!" Shopkeeper Zhang rarely said a word of conscience, and then lowered his voice and said, "Not to mention...... Did you know? The Dingyan army and the Qarluqs were mobilizing their troops at the same time, what were they doing? ”

"You mean ......"

"Maybe they're just going to join forces to deal with the man and horse that Brother Lao Dao said!"

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(1) Flower arms, specifically referring to the vocabulary, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the major guardians supported and hired the family Ding nursing homes, most of which came from the military. In order to prevent desertion, the army of that era would tattoo words or patterns on the hands or faces of soldiers as marks, and these people could naturally leave the military after being hired by large households, but the tattoos on their bodies could not be eliminated, so they all liked to tattoo their bodies to cover up their marks. These people are generally very strong, and the short brown clothes they wear in summer are a kind of clothes with sleeves, that is, the tattoos on the arms will be exposed, so they are called "flower arms". Shi Jin, the "Nine-Striped Dragon" in the Water Margin, is a flower arm.

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