Chapter 4: Heroes of Heaven and Earth
In 710 A.D., the capital of the Western Regions of the Tang Empire.
In the long yellow sand, more than a dozen camels stood in groups.
Under the dunes, a burly veteran in armor knelt on the ground and shouted, "Is there anything else alive?" ”
"Are there any people alive?"
A sandstorm wiped out a caravan of hundreds of people.
The veteran kept rummaging through the pile of dead people, trying to find the survivors.
Soon, he found a man dressed as a Turk. The Tang Empire is inclusive and tolerant of cultures, goods, and people from all countries. There were many Turks in the army of the Tang Dynasty, and there were also a large number of Turks living in business in Chang'an.
It is not surprising that Turks appeared in the caravan escorted by this army.
"Hey, wake up!" The veteran patted the man on the head.
The survivor breathlessly spat out a syllable: "Water..."
"Water?" When the veteran heard his words, he said happily, "Okay, I'll get you water!" As he spoke, he was going to look for a water bag on the corpse.
Just then, something smashed into his arms. He opened it and saw that it was a hydration bag.
A young man in the leather armor of the Tang Army said, "Give him a drink!" ”
"Good!" The veteran saw the young man "Great, see another alive!" ”
"There's another one over there!" The young man pointed to the monk on the sand dunes and said, "Of the dozens of monks, only one survived." ”
"What can I do?" The veteran fed the Turkic a few sips of water, screwed on the plug of the hydration bag and threw it to the young man. "Just the four of us, it's impossible to bring this camel caravan back to Chang'an."
"Save people first, and then slowly figure out a way!" The young man walked to a raised sand dune and began digging.
"Heroes of Heaven and Earth!" The young man was worried: "The first ancient world is this ancient battlefield of cold weapons. Luckily, the sandstorm had already passed by the time I came.
Otherwise, if I wasn't hacked to death by the Turks, I would have been buried alive by the sandstorm. ”
If it weren't for the burning sensation in the air, Qiao Guoqiang would definitely think that he was dreaming.
"Didn't Lao Tzu just go back home, and actually let me travel to the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty?"
"The current plane "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", the host identity is a grassroots officer of the Tang Anxi Army." The system is about to publish the task again.
"Main quest: Ensure that the camel team arrives in Chang'an. Side Quest: Protect the territory and the people, and kill the sand bandits, horse thieves, and anyone else you encounter on the road. ”
"Mission Restrictions: No Firearms!"
"I'm not allowed to use a firearm?" Qiao Guoqiang frowned and said, "Is it a modern firearm?" ”
"Yes!"
"That's it?"
"Yes, no firearms!" The system determines
"Good!
Peeled the sand off the ground and looked at the body. Another hopeless one...
Judging from the situation of the plot, there are only three survivors in this camel team, and now he is added to four.
The reason why he examined the corpse was naturally not to save people, but to find something that could be used. Weapons, arrows, and water.
After picking up the corpse for an hour, he got a good horizontal knife in addition to three water bags, a few waist wrenches and the like.
"The second year of Shenlong!" This is Wu Zetian's year name.
This knife is a bit like a straight knife in Japanese swords, but the blade is 7-8 mm wider and a little more than a millimeter thicker. The most important feature is that the blade area is only one-quarter to one-third of the width, while the width of the blade of a Japanese sword is two-thirds of the blade.
The Tang Dynasty armies faced armored Hu cavalry and infantry, and the Japanese samurai faced opponents wearing bamboo armor or peasant ashigaru who did not even have bamboo armor. The horizontal swords of all the Don Army are more focused on armor piercing, and the katana of the Japanese samurai is more focused on cutting meat!
recalled the plot of "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", Qiao Guoqiang hung the Tang knife on his waist. "I really need a knife for foot combat!" Although there are a lot of cold weapons in his space, how can this knife be an antique?
Then I rummaged over the sand dunes for a while and found a Han-style longbow. The grip is narrow and thick, the walls of the bow are wider than the handle, and then narrower again at the ends. If you don't look at the ends, it's like a double-ended oar.
"A longbow for foot combat?" Qiao Guoqiang thought about it, the army of the Tang Dynasty had a bow and arrow equipment rate of 100 percent, and the infantry used this kind of longbow, which was not hung in peacetime, and was only hung in wartime.
"Close!" The thought flashed and was put directly into the space of the system. The initial volume of the system space was only one cubic meter at first, but after several crossovers, it was enough to fit a multi-storey residential building into it.
"Hey!!" The veteran shouted below, "Brother, is there anyone alive?" ”
Qiao Guoqiang replied, "No!! ”
"That? Just the four of us? ”
"Yes!" Qiao Guoqiang turned out a waist card from the entity, "Zhiguo Captain Sun", and there was a weapon of three meters and five meters long next to the corpse. He walked down with the thing that he didn't know whether to call a gun or a spear, and asked the old soldier, "Whose is this?" ”
"This is Captain Sun's horse lance." The veteran recognized the weapon, and said with some envy, "That's his treasure, in exchange for a tiger skin." ”
"Such a baby, huh?"
"That's it!!" The veteran emphatically said, "This is a lance! It takes five years to make one, and only three out of ten can be formed. It's all owned by the Jiangmen family. Captain Sun exchanged a tiger skin from a loser. ”
"It's a pity, Lao Tzu won't use it!" Qiao Guoqiang walked to the corpse with the horse lance, "Let it stay with the master!" ”
"Hey, you're right!" The veteran said, "Let's find a way to get out first, and we have to go to Chang'an." With this long lance, it is inconvenient! ”
"Inconvenient?" Qiao Guoqiang was silent and put the horse lance in. Then he found a few more horizontal knives, bows and arrows, and spears and put them in.
When you return to the real world, these things can be exchanged for an 8-figure net worth at will. As for the historical accumulation of items or C14 identification, the system will solve it, which is one of the benefits of the system...
A few days later, the group arrived in a small town to the north. The "Turk" who woke up said that he would go to the city to find out the news.
Soon, he came out of the town.
"Eighteen miles of stacks are in the east, why do you keep going north?" Lao Bao (a veteran who drove camels) asked as he ate naan.
"I want to go east too." Captain Li leaned on the camel, ate naan and said, "However, the road is full of horses and Turks, and we can't walk through the three and a half of us." ”
"yes!" Lao Bao said, "I still have a useless bald monk, and I know how to chant scriptures all day long!" ”
"Hey, monk!" He said to the monk who was copying the scriptures, "Recite the scriptures to me too, and I will also transfer them!" ”
"Head north first!" Captain Li said, "When you go to Xigahaizi, there is grass and water there, which makes people and camels feel grateful." ”
"It's time to rest!" Lao Bao agreed.
"Gotta hire a knifeman." Captain Li spoke his mind.
"Hire?" Lao Bao was embarrassed and asked, "How much silver do you have to spend?" ”
"It's better than dead!"
"That's right!" Qiao Guoqiang said. "Just a few of us, not to mention the horses and the Turkic cavalry, just the larger wolves are enough to choke."
A few days later, Qiao Guoqiang and Lao Bao were taken to an oasis by Captain Li.
The source of the oasis is a lake surrounded by fir wood. Lieutenant Li's four subordinates made their home here.
They made walls out of logs, made joints with mud and moss, and sat on the roof with bark, and built several wooden houses here.
"Obviously filmed in Kanas, why is it actually the Ili River Valley in this world?" Qiao Guoqiang couldn't figure it out, so he simply didn't think about it.
Watching Lao Li greet his old brother, Qiao Guoqiang sneered in his heart, "A bunch of damn things." "These guys resisted when their superiors ordered them to execute the Turkic captives, because the Turks were women and children.
But they didn't think that those women would give birth to children for the Turks, and those children would come to attack the territory of the Tang Dynasty when they grew up, killing people, setting fires, raping people, and abducting innocent Tang people to be slaves on the grassland.
If they didn't kill them, they actually did it to their former robes brothers in order to save those captives.
Are not the robes that die by their swords the husbands, fathers, and sons of men?
They are worthy of their own hearts, but those people should wear linen and filial piety. And those captives who were released by them, and they would be grateful?
No!
History tells us that all aliens are white-eyed wolves!
The Uighurs, the Persians, and the Great Cannibals are all beasts who are afraid of power and do not have virtue! By the time of the Anshi Rebellion, the Uighurs would have sacked Chang'an and Luoyang and returned to the steppe with hundreds of thousands of women and belongings, while the Persians and Great Cannibals would sack Canton until they were wiped out by the Yellow Nest.
Well~ In a few hundred years, there will be another wave of cannibals to loot Quanzhou!
If it weren't for the sake of these people to protect the camel caravan back to Chang'an, he would want to kill these traitors now!