Five hundred and seven timely rescuers
Only then did Li Kui wake up, yes, now is not a sad moment, but a critical moment facing the catastrophe of extermination.
The only source of income for the Guyin steppe tribes was the robbery of their enemies, so the nomads were the most murderous armed force in the world, and they wanted everything, because the steppe lacked everything: iron, cloth, food, and even young men and women and craftsmen. The old and weak women and children are a burden, they don't want to let go, and the solution is to cut each other's necks with a knife. Burn the tents of the houses and tents where you pass, so that you can have grasslands where you can graze.
At present, all the able-bodied men in the endless department have been lost, and these 100,000 old and weak women and children are lambs to the slaughter in the eyes of the three tribes of Dongqi and Lou Fu Lin Hu. After dividing up the prisoners of war and the rest of the booty, they will surely take advantage of the situation, divide all the endless pastures, plunder all the cattle, sheep and horses, and then take the boys, girls, young women and young women of the tribe into slavery, and kill the rest of the old people and children who are too young. This is the law of survival of the steppe peoples.
Thinking of this, Li Kui straightened up his waist and ordered, "Pass my order, clean up your outfit overnight, and the whole clan will camp early tomorrow morning and migrate to the Kuirong grassland."
"But the princess ......" The personal maid naturally understood the princess Suri's proposition, and at this critical juncture, the doubts in her heart were also the confusion of many subordinates, so she couldn't do it without asking: "The Kuirong grassland is now the land of the defense of the country, let's just go, in case ......" What she wanted to say was "What if the defense of the country treats us as enemies?" I thought about it and finally didn't say it.
"I see what you mean." Li Kui sighed lightly: "Send someone to contact Zhaogong, he promised to help me, I hope he, as Zhou Xiang, can keep his promise." Save 100,000 of my people from fire and water."
"Yesβ" The maid breathed a sigh of relief.
On this night, the Endless Old Camp fell into an unprecedented panic.
All the tents were lit up all night, and all the cattle, sheep and horses were neighing, feeding and preparing for the long journey in the morning. All the utensils in the tent had to be loaded with ox carts and tied up, and the women and children were constantly shuttling from tent to tent.
Li Kui was even more busy with her feet in the air, and she didn't close her eyes all night. He hastily buried his husband, and before he could wipe the tears from his cheeks, he gave orders in the king's tent and urgently assigned all the affairs. The great migration of 100,000 people from west to east had to be dealt with by herself in one night, and she kept talking to different people and giving orders, her voice was hoarse, and she didn't have time to drink a sip of water.
Externally, in addition to contacting Zhao Bohu to pave the path of defending the country and seek refuge; I also have to send people out in advance to survey the path to the Kuirong grassland, is there an ambush or anything...... Internally, it's even more complicated, and it's hard to say.
Rao was in such a tense and hectic moment, but there was still an unexpected fork.
Several women came to Li Kui crying: "Princess, it's not good! Our teenage children were invited to put on their horses together, and rushed out of the camp, saying that they were going to find the Donglu Raccoon for revenge. Isn't this going to die? We don't have a man, we can't afford to lose our son, right?"
"Take me and stop them back!" Without the slightest hesitation, Li Kui stood up and rode on the little red horse and galloped towards the camp gate.
Luckily, it wasn't too late. At the gate of the camp, five or six teenagers and half-grown children were riding a fast horse, and they were entangled with the gatekeeper and several women. The women, apparently the mothers or sisters of these boys, grabbed their horses one by one, and one woman was simply lying under the hooves of the fifteen-year-old boy at the head, shouting, "If you want to go, step over the corpse of your mother!"
The young man's face was angry, and his childish face turned red, but he had no choice but to take the reins of his horse and go around in circles there.
"What are you going to do?" Li Kui immediately stepped forward and asked sharply.
"The princess is here...... the women looked as if they had seen the savior, and their faces were delighted.
Li Kui got off his horse in a huff, walked to the young horse at the head, and shouted with a raised face, "Dismount me all!" If you dare to say a word, you are not a person without end."
The teenagers looked at each other, and finally got off the horse in twos and threes. Li Kui asked the young man at the head, "Are you Aga?" You tell me, you guys
What are you going to do out of the camp?"
"Then you need to ask? Avenge our Abba!" The other teenager replied in a hoarse voice.
"Revenge?" Li Kui let out a wry smile, and her sharp gaze swept over the childish faces of the teenagers one by one: "How to report? Where is the East Lynx? Did you know? Even if you find it, how do you report it? With you single-handedly a few half-sized sons, what else can you do but send them to death?"
"Then avenge Abba, or it will be an endless seed!" Aga shouted with his neck straight.
"And what about your grandma? What about your sisters and sisters? Who will protect them?" Li Kui raised her tone and yelled, "Do you know? Eighty percent of the sturdy men of our tribe are gone, and you don't need to go to the East Lynx, they will immediately come to the door and pursue our clan on the grassland. Your grandmother will be killed, and your sister and sisters will be plundered back to their tents by the cavalry of the East Lynx to be bed warmers. But what about you? Are you with them?"
A barrage of questions left Aga speechless, and the teenagers looked at the women with tears in their eyes.
Li Kui patted the shoulders of the teenagers one by one, and said earnestly: "Children, you not only have Abba, but also Grandma, Sister and younger siblings, your Abba is gone, you must grow up, protect your family, and grow into real warriors as soon as possible. It's useless to fight alone, and the tribe needs you!"
"Princess...... Aga is wrong!"
"We're wrong, too!"
The teenagers knelt down one after another, the women wept silently, Li Kui cleared her throat and choked up, "Tomorrow we will move the clan, whether we can escape depends on whether the immortal heaven protects us." Let's go back to your account and get ready!"
"Yes!"
As the crowd dispersed, Li Kui looked at the blue night sky and sighed softly, "The morning star is coming out, I hope everything will go well tomorrow!"
The sun climbed the hill, and after a chaotic rush of dismantling tents in the early morning, the endless 100,000 people finally embarked on a long journey eastward.
100,000 people, hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and horses are like a sea, surging boundless under the vast blue sky. Li Kui roughly divided the men and horses into three parts: the first wave was the only remaining four or five thousand sturdy knights guarding the old camp, exploring the way in front of the head; The second wave was the male and female population of the endless tribe and the large caravan of goods, cattle and horses; The rest of the third wave depended on the slave population and the herds of cattle, sheep and horses, and marched in accordance with each other.
After walking for a long time, the autumn day is high, and the weather is gradually getting a little hotter. The personal maid cautiously asked, "Princess, it's noon, do you want to let the brigade stop and rest?" It's all the old and the weak, and the children are tired!"
"No!" Li Kui said categorically: "Maybe there will be the pursuers of the East Lynx behind us, and once we are bitten, the lives of our 100,000 people will be over!" Order, only two meals a day, morning and evening, no sharpening at noon, and continue to march!"
"Yes."
"Wow-" The maid had just galloped away, and the little fox who was lying obediently in the nurse's arms just now in the ox cart next to her suddenly opened her mouth and cried, and the nurse couldn't coax her.
Li Kui was anxious and impatient: "What's the matter? Didn't you just feed it? Why are you crying again?"
"Princess, Xu is...... Maybe it's hot, right? When the slave and maid open the canopy, it may be better."
"It's all useless, I don't know how to prepare these things in advance." It was hot and irritable, and after another morning of trekking, Li Kui was very irritable.
Suddenly, she felt a very unusual vibration coming from beneath her, and when she listened closely, there was a faint muffled sound like thunder coming from the herd of cattle and sheep behind her. It's cavalry! She came to her senses, straightened up and stood on her horse, shouting, "Quick, speed up! The vanguard of the Eastern Lynx has caught up!"
The first wave of knights galloped on horseback, the second wave of tribal men and women also stirred, and the third wave of cattle and sheep rose from the end of the herd, as if thousands of troops were coming. Li Kui faintly felt fortunate in her heart, the reason why she put the herd of cattle, sheep and horses last, she had such a thought. In the event that the Lynx people chase after them, they will first loot the slaves, cattle, sheep and horses, perhaps giving the tribesmen and women more time to escape.
It's a pity that she miscalculated this time. The knights of the Eastern Lynx did want to plunder the third wave of cattle, sheep and horses, but not all of them, but only divided one-third of their forces to enclose the herd, and the remaining 20,000 men and women were still chasing after the endless men, women, and children.
Even though Li Kui ordered the ox carts loaded with goods to be discarded, it was still too late. The cavalry of the Eastern Lynx Division caught up with the second wave at lightning speed, and the first wave had no end in sight, and the encirclement was gradually forming.
The sound of countless children crying in their mothers' arms could be heard from the endless crowd, the women stared with wide eyes and fear at what was about to happen in front of them, and the teenagers as big as Aga clenched their scimitars at their waists, biting their lips and ready to unsheath them.
One of the nearest lynxes had raised his butcher's knife and slashed at an old man with a sinister grin, and the women closed their eyes in fright. Hearing only a "poof", the man's body shook a few times, and he fell under the horse, with a copper arrow stuck in his chest!
"Look, the army of the Zhou people!" Aga's eyes were sharp, and he pointed in the direction of the east and shouted loudly.
Everyone looked at his fingertips, and saw red battle flags rolling across the green fields to the east, and a large group of red-cloaked iron horsemen rumbling to the sound of bull horns.