Chapter 206: Dawn Pursuit

Greasy or not depends entirely on personal taste, some people eat too much delicacies from the mountains and seas, and want to vomit when they see it, and some people eat wild vegetables and bran with relish, and feel sweet after eating for a lifetime.

The former is a crime, and the latter is born poor.

The leaders of the small Tartar tribes belonged to the latter group and appeared to be unrepentant.

Since he decided to outwit him, he couldn't be rude, Xiao Fan held back his anger and tried to restrain his violent urge to loot the tribe.

After Cao Yi's mediation, the two sides talked very happily.

After the emotional warmth, the sun has set, and the grassland is paved with a layer of golden afterglow.

The old man immediately ordered someone to set up a bonfire, and then cooked sheep and slaughtered cows.

The soldiers who had been hungry for a long time sat around the bonfire, staring at the whole sheep rolling on the fire rack with a pair of green eyes, and swallowing their saliva vigorously.

Before waiting for the roasting, everyone rushed up, pulled out the waist knife and divided the whole sheep corpse, one person grabbed a piece of meat and gnawed his mouth full of oil, like a group of locusts crossing the border, after a bang, only a pair of sheep skeletons were left on the fire frame alone exuding the brilliance of the forest.

Xiao Fan and Cao Yi were not polite, grabbed the mutton and nibbled it, barely half full, looking at the old man's stunned gaze, Xiao Fan was surprised to find that the food looked a little ugly. So he smiled embarrassedly, rolled his eyes, and a bad idea came to his mind.

"I'm sorry for eating so much of you......" Xiao Fan said in a sincere tone.

The old man looked blankly at the desolate and lonely sheep skull shelves on the bonfires, and squeezed out an ugly smile. - The people of their own tribe were robbed by the three thousand Ming army before they had eaten half a bite, and although the old man was hospitable, he really felt a little pain.

Xiao Fan patted him on the shoulder heroically and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I won't eat your sheep for nothing!" ”

After speaking, Xiao Fan stood up and said loudly: "Brothers, don't we have rice grain in our hands?" Take it all out! To our hospitable Mongolian friends......"

Cao Yi snorted when he heard this, and a mouthful of mare's milk wine squirted out, and then stared at Xiao Fan in disbelief.

The old man's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly waved his hand modestly.

Xiao Fan ignored Cao Yi's contemptuous gaze, and said with a calm smile: "My lord must accept it, we are the teachers of benevolence and righteousness, and we will never take a stitch from the masses, these grains are definitely not common to you, and they are much more delicious than mutton." ”

This is indeed a truth, the Mongols on the steppe only graze, not farming, and the value of grain rice in their eyes is definitely not lower than that of mutton.

Three thousand soldiers, each of whom has ten days' rations, add up to not a small number, hearing Xiao Fan's order, the soldiers stopped together, and then quickly reacted, everyone with a strange and complicated smile on their faces, each took their own rations from the horse, silently piled on the grass, and the grain was quickly piled up into a hill.

The eyes of the old men and the Tartars of the tribe grew brighter and brighter, and the eyes that looked at the soldiers changed from slight vigilance to gratitude and enthusiasm.

The old man looked at the mountains of grain, turned his head and was grateful: "Gurgling, gurgling......"

Xiao Fan asked Cao Yi softly, "What did the old man say?" I don't think there's something wrong, do you? ”

Cao Yi said disdainfully: "He's thanking you, saying that our arrival is a gift from the Immortal Heaven to their tribe, and we will be the most honored guests of their tribe in the future......"

Xiao Fan smiled modestly at the old man: "It's over, it's too much!" Ashamed...... Don't dare to be! Lao Zhang only needs to remember that our Ming army is a disciplined team, and we will never let the people suffer any losses, we are the teachers of benevolence and righteousness! ”

The old man's face was full of gratitude, and he said with difficulty in stiff Chinese: "Ren...... The Teacher of Righteousness. ”

Xiao Fan smiled with relief: "Yes! Teacher of Righteousness! ”

Turning to face the grateful Tartars, Xiao Fan said loudly: "Come, read with me, benevolence-righteousness-the-teacher." ”

The Tartars tried to shout stiffly in Chinese: "Benevolence, righteousness, ...... teacher"

The sound goes from small to loud, and finally loud and high-pitched. The cheers of the "Teacher of Benevolence and Righteousness" echoed melodiously in the vast grassland.

Cao Yi covered his face and sighed, "...... I really don't feel like I've seen anyone! Pockmarks are not called pockmarks, you are called a pit man! ”

Xiao Fan smiled with satisfaction and relief, and said softly: "Have you ever seen a person who was cheated so elated?" What a warm scene, it's simply a family ...... the military and civilians."

"I finally understand why the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty regard you as a scourge, you are really a scourge."

…………………… Mongolia is a hospitable nation, after Xiao Fan's poisonous rice was sent out, the Tartars reciprocated, and the whole sheep that had been slaughtered one by one, and the mellow and delicious mare's milk wine were moved out, and three thousand soldiers and hundreds of Tartars sat around the bonfire, watching the Mongolian girls sing and dance, drinking and eating meat together.

Everyone cheered until late at night, and the Tartars were finally put down by the three thousand soldiers and indulged in the deep land of the steppe...... As dawn approached, the bonfires on the meadows were extinguished, and the women had already gone back to their tents to sleep, while the men were so drunk that they could not sleep around the campfire, snoring incessantly, and the noisy prairie was silent.

Xiao Fan half-lay on a piece of felt and pretended to sleep for two hours, then suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyes were as bright as stars and glanced towards the east, which was now a white piece of fish belly, and the sky was about to dawn.

Xiao Fan yawned, stretched, then sat up and sighed, "It's time to go on the road, born to work hard......"

He did not forget that he still had a difficult and dangerous task, and that the 50,000-strong army of the Ghost Power Red might have captured Kaiping Mansion and might go south at any time, and he had to rely on these 3,000 soldiers to lure the 50,000-strong army of the Tartars outside the Shanhai Pass.

Pushing Cao Yi, who was sleeping next to him, Xiao Fan whispered to him to wake up the brothers and prepare to go on the road.

Cao Yi opened his sleepy eyes, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Do you want to say goodbye to the Tartar leader?" They're actually quite welcoming......"

"Don't do it, you'll soon find out that they're not welcoming to us......"

Cao Yi was stunned: "What do you mean?" ”

Cao Yi quickly understood what Xiao Fan meant.

After waking up the soldiers lightly, Xiao Fan calmed his face and commanded in a low voice: "...... Sneak on the road, don't shoot guns. ”

Soldiers: "............"

Xiao Fan then ordered: "Slaughter all the sheep raised in the Tartar captivity, and then take them away!" In the next few days, it will be our rations. Don't make a noise! ”

Cao Yi hesitated: "This is not very good, right? Tartars are actually good for us......"

Xiao Fan glanced at him and said leisurely: "Has Brother Cao heard the phrase 'If you are not of my race, your heart will be different'?" Besides, we don't know how far we have to go, to starve the brethren or the tartars, which one do you choose? ”

Cao Yi immediately stopped talking.

This is a war, a cruel war, it is impossible to talk about so many benevolence, righteousness and etiquette, Xiao Fan's approach is already very mild, and if he changed a ruthless general, while the Tartars were sleeping, he would have ordered their entire clan to be slaughtered.

At that moment, hundreds of soldiers pulled out their waist knives, and the cats first killed the dogs grazing by the Tartars, and then touched the back of the tribe, and quietly wiped the necks of hundreds of fat sheep and carried them to their horses.

Everything was ready, Xiao Fan was just about to give the order to go on the road, but in a blink of an eye, he saw sleeping Tartars lying all over the ground, and the joy and uncontrolled drinking and drunkenness of the night made them sleep very hard, and the snoring like thunder came and went.

Looking at the shabby Mongolian robes worn by the Tartars, Xiao Fan's eyes rolled, and his stomach began to gurgle again.

"Take off all the robes worn by the Tartars and take them away, move slowly, don't wake them up, hurry!"

All the soldiers froze together, staring at Xiao Fan in disbelief.

Xiao Fan said angrily: "Hurry up!" What a flute! It's just to take off their clothes, and don't you want you to sleep with them, isn't this little scale unacceptable? ”

The soldiers were full of cold, endured the awkwardness of their bodies, and in groups of three or four, they stripped the Tartars lying on the grass all over their bodies.

Fortunately, the Tartar women slept in the tents, and the men were drunk, and the soldiers moved very slowly, and no one woke up when they stripped them naked.

As a result, there were hundreds of naked [***] men on the grass for no reason, lying all over the ground, just like a movie scene, full of a charming atmosphere.

Xiao Fan turned his head, so disgusted that he didn't want to look at it anymore, waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to carry hundreds of dead sheep and hundreds of robes on their horses and hurry.

The three thousand soldiers were full of food and drink, packed before leaving, stepped on the war horses and roared all the way north, like three thousand locusts crossing the border, leaving hundreds of sleeping naked men......**************************************************** the silent grassland suddenly sounded like thunder, the sound of horses' hooves woke up the sleeping Tartars.

When they opened their eyes drowsy and dazed, the Tartars were shocked.

"Where's the clothes? Who stole my clothes? ”

"Sheep! Our sheep are gone! ”

"The Ming army is gone? It was they who stole our clothes! ”

The leader of the Tartars was also naked, clutching his lower body in shock and anger, standing shivering in the cold wind of the early morning steppe.

"These inferior Han people who are more vicious than snakes! Don't wait for the punishment of the Immortal Heaven, we will chase them now and fight with them! The old man covered his lower body, his lips trembled, and he didn't know whether he was angry or frozen.

When the naked men heard this, they were immediately furious, and whether they were naked or not, they returned to the tent and took their swords, turned their heads and ran towards the place where the horses were tethered.

Soon, hundreds of war horses galloped out of the tribe like arrows from the string, accompanied by the shadows of white flowers, and chased away in the direction where Xiao Fan and the others left.

The Tartar was a skilled rider and soon caught up.

Xiao Fan was facing the cold morning breeze, squinting his eyes and galloping on his horse, and a sergeant at the back of the team caught up and said loudly: "My lord, there are chasing soldiers behind!" ”

Xiao Fan said: "What chaser?" ”

"A bunch of naked men!"

Xiao Fan was startled, and looked back in amazement, only to see hundreds of naked men riding war horses, waving swords, chasing after them and shouting and scolding, the scene was very spectacular.

Xiao Fan's scalp was numb for a while, his handsome face was blue and red, and then he was angry and said: "The Mongolians are too shameless!" Running naked collectively in broad daylight is simply unethical! ”

Cao Yi on the side said with black lines on his head: "If you don't steal their sheep and clothes, how can they run naked?" Who is shameless? ”

Xiao Fan was stunned, and then said angrily: "...... Then they can't do that! Didn't they just steal a few sheep and a few torn clothes, as for being stingy? Hundreds of men chased me for dozens of miles with their bare butts, perverted-"

Cao Yi wiped his sweat: "............"

The taste of being chased by hundreds of naked men is indeed very uncomfortable, spectacular is spectacular, but it is definitely not fragrant and charming, anyway, now Xiao Fan has a feeling of wanting to die, he didn't expect the Tartar's reaction to be so big, in broad daylight, he actually caught up regardless of it, he knew that he shouldn't have stolen their sheep and clothes, and it was better to be hungry than to encounter this embarrassing situation.

Cao Yi wiped his sweat and said hurriedly: "Why don't you ...... Shall we give them back the sheep and clothes? It's fucking crazy! ”

Xiao Fan stubbornly turned his head: "No!" I'm going to order the sheep and the clothes! They are not afraid of losing face, what are we afraid of? We didn't have bare butts again! ”

"Three thousand people are being chased by hundreds of naked men all over the world, and we are also ashamed!" Cao Yi has a sense of honor as a soldier.

Xiao Fan pulled the reins with one hand and scratched his head with the other, thought about it, turned his head and ordered loudly: "The rear team changes bows and arrows and shoots backwards!" Stop the pursuers! ”

The last pro-army on the horse had already been chased to the point that their scalps were numb, and they hurriedly took out their bows and arrows, and then turned around on their horses, took their bows and arrows, and with a string sound, hundreds of sharp arrows shot out backwards.

The Mongolian naked man chasing behind was suddenly in a big mess, couldn't avoid it, and was shot down a dozen times, and the white flower shadow fell off the horse with a few screams.

Blocked by this rain of arrows, the speed of the Tartars' horses suddenly slowed down, and no one dared to ride too fast to step forward as a target.

As soon as the speed slowed, the distance between the two sides suddenly widened, and the Tartars had the intention to chase but were afraid of being attacked, so they had to reduce the speed of their horses, and shouted loudly while brandishing their swords.

A middle-aged man rode a few steps forward, brandished a knife and pointed in Xiao Fan's direction, muttering something loudly.

Xiao Fan looked back while riding a horse, and saw that the middle-aged man kept talking, Xiao Fan asked Cao Yi curiously, "What did that middle-aged naked man say?" ”

Cao Yi looked back and listened for a while, then said lightly: "It's nothing, it's just some threatening words, saying that we are like some vicious jackals, poisonous snakes, etc., and that we are so shameless and despicable, doing such a good thing, I hope that our leader,—— that is, you, will leave a name." ”

Xiao Fan was stunned for a long time, then suddenly turned his head and shouted behind him.

"Do good deeds without leaving a name! My name is Red Scarf,...... Five bars! ”

Three thousand people ran for more than an hour on horseback on the grassland, and finally left hundreds of naked men far behind.

The three thousand people all breathed a sigh of relief, Xiao Fan turned his head and kept looking behind him, and saw that the white and red figures of the Tartars finally gradually turned into small black dots, so he laughed out loud easily.

"Haha, you can't run away from me even if you strip naked!" Xiao Fan smiled proudly, he felt that he had won the first battle of his life on the battlefield, this was a very auspicious color, although this battle did not see the sword light and blood light, and the reason for the battle was also quite disgraceful, but winning is winning, the truth in the world is not only proved by fists, but running fast is also the king.

Cao Yi and the generals looked at the coach speechlessly, they really couldn't figure it out, how could Xiao Fan still laugh when such a humiliating thing happened.

Xiao Fan laughed for a long time, then laughed, pointed in the direction where the tartar disappeared and asked loudly: "Brothers, today's incident has given us great inspiration and profound lessons, do you know what inspirations and lessons are?" ”

Everyone shook their heads in confusion.

Xiao Fan coughed twice and shouted: "Today's lesson is: don't make friends with stingy people!" ”

The soldiers were puzzled.

The more Xiao Fan thought about it, the more angry he became, and said, "A few sheep, a few torn clothes, they chased us for fifty miles with their bare butts, are they!" Fifty miles! You say, you say, how stingy is this! It's just outrageous......"

The frustration and anger of being chased and run just now were all vented at this moment, Xiao Fan foamed at the mouth, chattering and scolding endlessly, but the soldiers who listened to his lecture were dumbfounded.

This...... Lord Xiao's words seem to have overturned all their previous values, and they are now very confused, could it be that the cause of today's farce is because the Tartars are wrong, we are right?

"Take them a few sheep and a few rags, that's to look up to them, I've never seen such a stingy person! No wonder the Mongols can't hold the country, how can such an indefatigable surname become a big thing......"

Cao Yi interrupted Xiao Fan's naked bandit theory with black lines, and said with a black face: "Lord Xiao, what should we do next?" ”

Xiao Fan was still stunned, then raised his head to identify the direction, and muttered: "Now our rations are enough to support about ten days, our task is to lure the army of Ghost Li Chi to Shanhaiguan, according to the military report, Ghost Li Chi should have captured Kaiping Mansion, we have been walking north, we must be able to meet the main army of Tartars." ”

Cao Yi said: "If we run into their army, how should we deal with it?" ”

Xiao Fan said distressedly: "To be honest, I really haven't come up with a countermeasure, maybe I'll come up with a way in the next few days, but if it doesn't work, let's just forget it, 3,000 people fight 50,000, this is not clear about looking for death." ”

The soldiers were cold...... With such a manager, I really don't know if it's their luck or misfortune...... Cao Yi said: "We should also send scouts to investigate the military situation at any time, so that we can respond to countermeasures." ”

Xiao Fan agreed: "Yes, just do as you say!" Brothers, let's go all the way north, in the direction of Kaiping Mansion, and pull out! ”

"Yes!"

(To be continued)