"Alone?"

"That's right, it's me, because I'm the Khan of the Zarut Ministry!" Nezi smiled: "I will send a valuable gift and plead with the victor." If they still won www.biquge.info't let me go, you will kill me, send my head to the victors, and put all the blame on me, so that they will forgive you, and the Zarut will continue to survive! ”

"What?" Hatchie's hand shook, and the hot milk tea suddenly spilled on him, but he seemed to be unconscious: "Father, how can this be, how can I-"

"What's wrong with that?" Neqi smiled: "In order to be able to save me, you gave away your wife and son, and you did your duty as a son and a subordinate." Now I have given my life for you and the tribe, and I have only done my duty as a father and a Khan. Isn't that fair? ”

"But, but we can stand on the side of the Jurchens, or on the side of Liu Jinong, and everyone will fight together, and we will definitely be able to win?"

"But we don't know who will win in the end!" Neqi shook his head: "If we are on the side of the losers, not only will I and you die, but the men of the tribe will die, and the old people will also die, and only the women and children who are not taller than the wheel of the car will survive, and even those who survive will become slaves of others; Even if we can stand on the side of the victors in the end, the Jurchens or the Ming army will use the people of our tribe as cannon fodder, and at least half of them will die, and there will be no spoils. Do you think that's good? ”

Hatch bowed his head sadly, as Nezi said, in the world of the prairie, whether victory or defeat, the fate that awaits the weak is tragic - defeat brings destruction; And victory is not much better, most young men will die as cannon fodder, and only a little bit of the residue will be shared. Compared to these, exchanging Neqi's life for the survival and continuation of the tribe is undoubtedly the wisest choice.

"Alright, alright!" Neqi patted his son's thick shoulder: "Don't be sad, this is just the worst-case scenario, and I don't have to die!" ”

"Father!" Neqi raised his head, his eyes were slightly red: "I just don't understand, why did it happen like this!" ”

"Hatch!" Nezi's face became serious: "Why does the goshawk eat the hare?" Why do wolves eat sheep? All this is destined by immortality, the strong must conquer the weak, and if the weak want to survive, they must be more cunning and cruel than the strong, to the enemy, but also to themselves, understand? ”

Suddenly, the curtain of the tent was blown open by the strong wind, blowing over the teapot on the fire pit, and the tea in the pot was suddenly spilled on the ground, Hatch hurriedly got up to clean up, but Neiqi did not move, he looked at the wind and snow outside, sighed and said: "Presumably at this time, the Jurchens and Liu Jinong are marching in the wind and snow!" ”

Daningwei

When the vanguard of Liu Cheng's army arrived at Daningwei, the sky was not completely dark, and the soldiers could see the uplifted mountains in the west, and the guides instructed that there was the Qilaotu Mountain, the east was Nuru Huer Mountain, and the Laoha River, the southern source of the West Liao River, flowed from the south, and the Daling River valley was to the northeast along the river valley, and the Great Wall of Yanshan was the Great Wall of Yanshan for more than ten days to the south, and the north was Zhili when it crossed the Yanshan Mountain. After the Ming Taizu destroyed the Yuan, he established the Daning Wei in this place, guarded Liaodong and Jingshi, and set up Guangning Wei in Liaodong, connecting the two border areas of Daning and Liaodong, so that the defense line of the Ming army advanced to the edge of the desert, but the good times did not last long, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, in order to relieve his worries and enhance his own troops, went north to Daning to coerce the king of Ning and the guards to move south, and gave up this important defense area, since then the Ming army has never controlled here, and it has become the pasture of Wuliang Ha Sanwei, And now it has become a paradise for the Mongolian left-wing departments.

"Hey!" Du Guoying sighed, stretched out his hand to brush off the dust on a stone pillar in front of him, with the help of a little afterglow, you can see that the upper end of the stone pillar is a remnant image of Guanyin Bodhisattva, presumably left by the soldiers and civilians of Daningwei, but after nearly two hundred years of wind and sand, most of the lines have been worn away, leaving only a little trace. At this time, a cold wind blew towards the north, making people feel more and more cold, and the soldiers jumped off their horses one after another to take shelter from the leeward place. People are saying it's colder than before, and maybe it's going to snow again.

However, the sky did not continue to darken, and the sky in the north was grayish. When a strong northerly wind blows, it rolls up a shower of snow. Many Mongol soldiers said that it must have been snowing from the north, and the wind swept the snow into the air and blew it again. In the blink of an eye, the snow spots became bigger and bigger, swept from north to south, the sky and the earth were completely swallowed by the wind and snow, and the soldiers and horses moving forward were immediately swallowed by the wind and snow, and people jumped off their horses one after another, hiding behind the horses, and while tightening their wrists with the reins, they entered Beijing and stuck to their mounts. The sound of snow and tiny hail hitting the saddle and baggage was like arrows falling. At this time, no matter how brave the samurai is, they can only bow their heads and face the power of nature alone. It wasn't until midnight that the wind and snow gradually stopped, and the exhausted people set up their tents and fell asleep.

Du Guoying didn't dare to sleep, he summoned his generals, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, now we have encountered a storm and snow, and the soldiers are tired. But the more this is the case, the more we can't be careless, we have already penetrated deep into enemy territory, and enemy troops may appear at any time. Which of you would like to lead a scout and scout the surroundings? ”

These generals are all experienced in a hundred battles, although they are very tired, but they all know that Du Guoying is right, the more you must be careful at this time, otherwise if you are not careful, the whole army will be wiped out, a thin and tall Mongolian general Zuo asked in a deep voice: "Then in which direction?" ”

Du Guoying got up and looked around, sat down again and said: "The west is the road we came from, the south is Yanshan, the east is Nuru Hu'er Mountain, and there are many vehicles and livestock in the left wing, so you should go along the Laoha River, you just go northeast along the river, you don't have to go too far, just walk thirty miles!" ”

"Yes, sir!" The Mongolian general stood up and was about to leave, but was stopped by Du Guoying: "Hazar, the weather is bad, you take two hundred horsemen, and if there is a situation, you will release rockets to warn!" ”

"Yes!" The Mongol general, who had the same name as the ancestor of the Korqin tribe, nodded and turned to leave. Du Guoying breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and said to the generals: "Wake everyone up, camp in the ruined city, be prepared!" ”

Hazar ordered all the soldiers and horses, and then walked all the way east along the valley of the old Ha River, because of the wind and snow, the ground was covered with a thick layer of snow, which covered any traces, although it was already night, but the moonlight shone on the snow, even the clouds in the sky could be faintly seen, the gloomy and hazy moonlight passed through the clouds, shining on the cavalry, a little more gloomy atmosphere, as if the legendary undead walked in the world.

It was already the middle of the night, and the scouts were still moving, and most of them were in a half-asleep state, only knowing that following the tail of the horse in front of them, the formation had become crooked, like a huge python. The first few scouts were so tired that he kept pinching his hands so hard that he couldn't keep squeezing his hands with pain to keep himself awake in order not to fall off his horse or ride into the ditch. Suddenly, he saw a white shadow approaching in front of him, and he realized that it was a man or a group of horsemen, and he listened closely, but could not hear any sound, for the thick snow had absorbed the sound of the horses' hooves. He hurriedly took out the horned bow from the bow bag, held the bow in one hand, and reached for Hulu to draw the arrow with the other.

Almost at the same time, the shadow of the opposite horse had entered the land of an arrow, and saw a figure on the horse's back, bending his bow and holding an arrow in his mouth, and before the scout could wind the arrow, he was hit by an arrow in his throat, and fell off the horse screaming. His screams woke up the scouts behind him, and he suddenly lost his sleepiness, and saw that the knights on the opposite side rushed over with arrows, and hurriedly pulled out his horse and turned around and ran, and the arrows flew from behind and on both sides like raindrops, and people kept falling from their arrows.

The knight who had shot the scout ran to the side of the arrowman, jumped off his horse, drew his sword, cut off his head, tied his hair to the horse's tail, and rode his horse in pursuit, dragging the head on the snow, leaving a trail of dark red blood.

"Quick, hurry up and release the rocket!" Hazar shouted as he turned and bent his bow to fire arrows at the pursuing enemy behind him. At this time, the pursuers had already cut horizontally to both sides of Liu Chengjun's forward from both sides, and fired arrows at the enemy who had not yet prepared in the rear. Noticing that none of the enemies were armoured, only a leather coat, Hazar hurriedly shouted: "The enemy is not armoured, and they all use heavy arrows or duck-billed arrows!" The arrows of the duck-billed arrows he said were like duck's beaks, flat and sharp, and if the arrow was not armoured, the one who was hit would die immediately if he pierced the bones and cut the flesh, and was mostly used to hunt or shoot unarmored targets on weekdays. When the knights heard Hazar's order, they did as they did, and saw the arrows flying, and the raiders, whether they were shot by the arrows, fell to the ground, and their heavy bodies fell to the thick snow with a muffled sound.

Fiercely counterattacked, the raiders drove their horses a little more away, looking for an opportunity to outflank and cut off the Hazard column. Obviously, their horsepower was much better than that of Liu Chengjun's forward, who had marched all night. Hazar also saw this, after releasing a rocket to warn Du Guoying, he ordered to shrink the formation, line up in a circle so as not to be cut off by the enemy, the two sides continued to shoot at each other, and people continued to fall under arrows, although the formation of Hazar's department was dense, and there were more arrows, but they were at least wearing cotton armor, lock curtains, and leather armor inlaid with iron sheets, so there were many fewer people who were killed and wounded. The raiders also began to realize this, and they began to shrink their formation and began to retreat. The raiders also found that the enemy was no more than a few hundred horsemen, and there was no armor, and they also recovered from the initial panic and began to counterattack.

This group of raiders was the queen of the Bahrain, Naiman, Aohan, Karaqin and other left-wing tribes of Inner Khalkha, covering the migration of their troops to the Liaohe Hetao area to avoid Liu Cheng's troops. Although the number is only two or three hundred, they are all warriors selected from each department, and their parents, wives and children are behind them. At this time, although they found that the enemy was wearing more armor and was very fierce, they did not panic, nor did they flee in all directions, but slowly retreated on the one hand, and turned back to the enemy to release arrows, they were all first-class marksmen, knowing that the enemy was covered with armor and bows and arrows were difficult to hurt, so they shot arrows at Liu Chengjun's mount and face throat and other places that could not be covered by the armor, and at the same time attracted the enemy from the dense group formation, attracted to the woodland with more complex terrain behind them, and did one-on-one, a few against a few small-scale fights.

When the scouts saw the enemy retreating, their courage was greatly increased, and they hurled their horses after the scattered enemy, shouting their whistles. Hundreds of horses' hooves trampled on the snow, stirring up clumps of snow mixed with dirt and splashing everywhere, suddenly revealing a large black shadow on the white snow, like a huge ink painting. Hazar led more than 30 horsemen, and was struggling to catch up with the more than 10 horsemen in front, he had excellent eyesight, and saw clearly that the man who was the leader of the enemy had several eagle feathers in his fur cap, and the fur coat and hat on his body were luxurious, and knew that this person was either the famous eagle archer on the left wing, or the chief Taiji, so he raised his right hand and shouted: "Whoever can hold this man, whether he lives or dies, will be rewarded with 100 silver coins and 3 horses!" ”

Everyone responded violently, and suddenly their morale was greatly boosted, and they drove their horses hard, and suddenly shortened the distance a little, Hazar was about to bend his bow and shoot an arrow, and the one behind the enemy horse suddenly turned around and turned back with an arrow, Hazar only felt a cold in his ears, and then heard a muffled sound behind him, he looked back, but it was an arrow from the throat of the rider behind him, and the other party was also using a duckbill arrow, and the force was extremely great, just shot the neck without armor, and immediately cut half of the neck from the horse, and blood spurted out, The corpse that splashed the body of the others and tilted its head to the side did not fall off the horse, but rose and fell on the horse's back, which looked quite weird.

This was Hazar's answer to the righteousness of Hazar since he was a child, and he was suddenly killed by an arrow, and he could not help but be furious, and he fought hard to beat the horse. Then a hill of small trees and shrubs appeared in front of him, and the enemy was divided into two groups, and most of them fled into the open forest, while the nobleman with the eagle feather on his head continued to flee with the knight who had shot Hazar Antar just now.

"These people must want to lure away the pursuers and cover the nobles to escape, you take half of the people to pursue in the forest, and I will take half of the people to capture the Eagle Ling nobles and the murderer who killed my Anda!" Hazar ordered in a loud voice to his deputy, Tashhai. Tashhai answered, and led more than a dozen horsemen into the forest. It was early winter, and the leaves in the forest had already fallen, and the heavy snow had broken a lot of branches, leaving only a few sparse thick branches, and the moonlight shone through the cracks in the branches, falling on the silver-white snow, which looked very bright. Tashhai let his men line up in two sparse horizontal columns, only to see half an arrow between them, sweeping through the woods. He took out three arrows from Hulu, one on the string, one between his fingers, and one in his mouth, and looked intently for the enemy's tracks, when he heard the sound of horses' hooves on the branches of the trees on the ground, and the sound of creaking. (To be continued.) )