Chapter 3: Death and Life

So, soon, because of "invincible bravery" and "great military exploits", Counselor Lu Yong was sent to Xuanfu's Wanquan Right Guard - opposite Yehuling, which was the place where Genghis Khan's decisive battle to destroy Jin took place.

It stands to reason that the relationship between the Xuanfu and the opposite Warat Department has been generally maintained over the years. Although the imperial court once issued an order to stop trading with each other, that was thirty or forty years ago. In the past ten or twenty years, the horse market has been very lively in the open and secret, at first it was sporadic herdsmen and border people sneaking around, and then gradually became a scale, and even the military production of the military leaders who were supposed to supply the troops was gradually replaced by leather mules and horses here, and the civilian officials naturally quietly and fiercely swept the wool over and over again......

Lu Yong originally had about 400 people in one battalion, and then gathered four or five hundred people to expand the establishment of two battalions, and theoretically three battalions should have about 1,500 men and horses, but in reality there were only eight or nine hundred people named Huazi. Of course, this is also a common phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty - some deputy commanders are not as many as General Lu's soldiers!

Soon after all the troops of Lu Yong were stationed in Wanquan Right Guard, the civil officials seemed to "suddenly remember" that the imperial court had issued an order to ban the city, and they not only acted vigorously and resolutely, but also carried it out meticulously: the goods of the border people were confiscated, many people were whipped, and some were even caught in prison, and most of the land transported by the military leaders of all sizes were taken back after paying fines in various names, but the unwarranted losses also made them feel distressed and bleed, and the most wronged were the herdsmen who rushed over with cattle, sheep, horses and donkeys. I didn't see anything in the iron pot of salt and grain, and of course the livestock and skins were confiscated, and without exception and without any leakage, they were cracked in the yamen and beaten by a board, and they were reprimanded with righteous words: "The brave and invincible General Lu is a husband, how dare you be so rebellious?" Gu Nianhua foreign barbarians stubbornly open the net, dare to commit another crime, that is, there is no official, that is, the law is corrected! After beating and scolding, the person was put back......

Almost everyone knows what this is all about, but they can't say it bitterly - the reasons of the civil officials are high-sounding and open-minded, find a place to cry yourself! Otherwise, ...... "colluding with the northern captives", "plotting against the enemy", and "transporting grain to the enemy...... Any big hat buttoned down is a great crime of extermination, and you can't cut off a few heads!

Gradually, the loss of personal interests made the border generals' sympathy for Lu Yong slowly fade, and replaced it with dissatisfaction, and everyone sometimes discussed in private: Isn't it over if you endure it? You don't know what kind of world this is! It's all because you have to be more serious, now it's good, and everyone will be unlucky......

said almost everyone, talking about the Ming Dynasty, not including the Mongolian compatriots in the rectum.

The herdsmen who had not returned their blood and were beaten ran to cry to the tribal leader with their bloody buttocks, and the king of Warat, Naiqian Khan, was a little anxious.

Of course, Naiqian Khan had long known about the fact that the dozen or so unlucky people who stole chickens and lost eight or nine heads, and even knew how Lu Yong's "great victory" and even the title of general came about. However, like other similar incidents, the Great Khan did not take it to heart at all - what made him worry about more important things: winter was coming, and experience had told him that Changshengtian was still not happy, and that this year's snow disaster would be the worst in ten years! The herders' stockpiles of hay will soon run out, and when the savannah is covered with thick snow and ice, large numbers of cattle and sheep will starve to death. You can't watch the livestock starve to the point that the steppe wolves are cheap, and you have to rush to the horse market to trade with the Han people when they are fat and strong in the autumn. Iron is not produced in the prairie, and iron tools have always been the most popular trading items among herders, but the most important thing this year is salt, so be sure to reserve a large amount! In this way, the herders can slaughter and pickle the surplus livestock and preserve them, so that the whole tribe can survive the spring famine in the coming year.

When he first received the reports of the herdsmen, Naiqian Khan didn't pay much attention to it, and he didn't know if it was a new Han official who wanted to play prestige and squeeze some oil and water, and if it was excessive, there would be other officials to stop him - this is all common and common sense. But there was an endless stream of herdsmen who came to cry, and the king of Khan found that something was wrong and could not sit still, so he sent an envoy to the Han officials to reason.

When the Han officials put the messenger who had his nose cut off back, he said: "Shenwei is invincible, General Lu is a husband, and he will lead the tiger and wolf to plow the court and sweep the cave in a few days......" Naiqian Khan was furious. The Khan King gathered various tribes, large and small. In front of the chieftains, the Great Khan made an oath to break one arrow, and broke three arrows in public. In the end, he said: Lu Yong bullied people too much, and we Mongolians are not easy to bully.

It is impossible for the Great Khan of the rectum to understand that those Han officials really dare to vent their personal anger for the sake of greedy ink for one or two thousand taels of silver.

When he heard the news that Naiqian Khan's expedition had been raised high and all the departments of the grassland had begun to assemble, Lu Yong's face turned green with fright—he just couldn't hold back his mouth in anger for a while, made a few complaints, and lent him a few brains, but he also couldn't imagine that those civil officials could do such a thing to lure wolves into the house in order to trap him!

In fact, he still thought too simply. Trapping him is only a means, not an end - the purpose is to kill the chicken and make an example of the monkey, ask for his life, and show it to other generals: this is the end of disobedience to civilian education!

But at this time, it was too late to say anything: with his less than a thousand weapons, how could he resist tens of thousands of angry and red-eyed northern captives? The most lacking in virtue is that he is stationed in Wanquan Right Guard on the front foot, and Xuanfu on the back foot has transported thousands of stones of rice, beans, salt and vinegar - this is a lot of good food, and thousands of people can't eat it all! The grain officer is still the state judge, with a heroic and righteous face: "As a local parent, you must not let the warriors who defend the border for the country go hungry!" What else is needed, although the brothers said, wrap it on the lower officials...... "Lu Yong was ashamed, and he sealed Lu Yi with one hundred taels and two golden hairpins, but he was also strictly rejected by righteousness, and he was almost moved to the point of self-esteem...... Now I finally understand: it turns out that this batch of supplies is actually the supply and sweetness prepared by the dog officials for the Beiyu!

A dead end, no more physiology.

If you don't have these supplies, you might be able to go to the deep mountains of Yehuling in advance to find a mountain to hide. There is no oil and water, and the Beiyu will not spend time and life with a group of stinky people who are stumbling and piling up so many belongings with great fanfare, how can the Beiyu turn a blind eye? As long as you know, and you know with your toes, you will definitely be robbed - that is the great crime of cutting off the brains and not negotiating, even if you burn it to the ground, can the Beiyu let himself go, and the court can let it go!

You can't live horizontally or vertically!

Ask for help.

Lu Yong gathered his guerrilla generals together, and everyone understood the seriousness of the situation, so they gathered all the silver jewelry and silk at hand (don't ask where a group of singles' jewelry and silk came from) and handed them over to Deng Changjiang and other henchmen, and crossed the Yanghe River to ask for help from Wanquan Left Guard, Security Right Guard and other places.

However, it was too late.

Of course, even if he called for help earlier, he couldn't change Lu Yong's fate - the torrent of fifty or sixty thousand iron horsemen was definitely not something that could be stopped by a few soldiers called Huazi from the guards.

The shouts of killing, screams, and the clashing of iron blades in Yehuling gradually fell silent, and only one place remained: thousands of Mongolian warriors surrounded a dozen people, and it was obvious that they could not hold out longer than drinking a bowl of milk tea.

The Mongols revered the hero.

Naiqian Khan watched the bloody Lu Sixiang fight hard with Lu Yong's corpse on his back from afar, and was moved and waved his hand, so Lu Sixiang and the dozen survivors around him picked up their lives.

The battlefield where people shouted and neighed was completely silent, and Naiqian Khan finally understood the truth.

Naiqian Khan buried Lu Yong, and did not embarrass Lu Sixiang, did not persuade them to surrender, but just disarmed them, took them with the army, rushed all the way to Yanqing Mansion, and returned with a plunder.

Although the edge was broken, no matter how good the Mongolian horses were, they could not climb the high walls of Xuanfu, which was waiting for the battle. Under the brilliant pen of the civil officials, it is solid to unite and fight bloodily to kill the enemy, not to mention that there are still precautions and sufficient food. The anger of the saint who was snatched in front of him by the Mongols poured out all of it on Lu Yong, who was "brave and arrogant" and "greedy for merit and provocation" - of course the dead man would not defend himself, but even if he could speak, how could a martial artist who was illiterate be able to argue with those full stomachs?

Because of the heavy gifts, as well as the sympathy of everyone who knew that the rabbit was dead and the fox was sad, coupled with the name of the great victory and daring to fight on his head, Deng Changjiang was left behind by Ma Xing, the deputy general of Xuanfu.

Lu Sixiang followed the Khan King to the strange steppe.

Mongols heavy heroes. Instead of giving them slaves to the families like the other captives, the Khan gave them livestock. Later, after a fight against the wolf plague, they even acquiesced in the fact that they kept the weapons that were temporarily issued to them.

More than a year later, Lu Sixiang learned from the mouths of the border people that Lu Yong's house had been raided - the Khan thought that this news would stop these men from thinking about life on the other side of the Great Wall, and was thinking about finding them a few women to settle here from now on, so that the blood of the warriors could be passed on on on the steppe, but soon they found out that they were wrong again: they received a report at noon on a blazing day, their small camp was empty, the cattle and sheep were unattended, and the cry of hunger spread far away......

So the king of Khan led his men and horses to chase after him, and finally saw a figure in the distance at dusk.

Lu Sixiang knew that he would definitely not be able to outrun these guys who had grown up on horseback since childhood, so they simply stopped and waited for the punishment of the Great Khan. But they were also wrong: the king pursued them, without a rope to tie them up and a knife to kill.

I brought sour mare's milk wine, and I brought a lot.

As night fell, a large bonfire was lit on the grassland, and the rough and heroic singing rang all night.

In the distance, a lone wolf in the steppe seemed to understand the sadness in the song and howled.

The rising sun of the next day seemed to be moved, soft, warm, and sprinkled its light on these men who had once worn the sky together, and now they were drunk and crossed their legs.