57. Co-optation

"Fire!! It's on fire!! ”

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"There's an enemy attack!!"

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"Don't mess up, don't mess up, grab a weapon and protect yourself!"

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"Woo woo, grandma, daddy, I'm afraid..."

When the flames bloomed in Ataibu, the entire tribe instantly became chaotic.

There were many figures, and in the light of the fire, men and women were in a mess, and children were crying.

"Mounted cavalry!"

"Charge!"

On the periphery of the tribe, Zhang Qi looked at Ataibu, whose fire was gradually burning, and gave a cold order!

Three mounted cavalry mounted flat guns.

The horse's hooves are as fast as thunder on the ground!

Knock knock.

Knock knock!

The sound of manic horses' hooves was like a drum beating in people's hearts, which made Zhang Qi and the people around him shake their spirits.

The three mounted cavalry rushed into Ataibu, and the distance of more than 100 meters made the speed of the horse under their crotch soar to the extreme.

Under the firelight.

The mounted cavalry were like gods descending to earth, and in the Atai Division, more than a dozen people were knocked into the air, and then fell to the ground fiercely.

The charge of the heavy cavalry was pleasing to the eye.

It's just that this kind of pleasing to the eye is for one's own people.

Heavy cavalry into battle, Ataibu chaos is even more terrible, those emotionless killing machines have spears in their hands to provoke one steppe man after another, whether he is a child, or a woman or an old man.

Zhang Qi took out the saber on his waist and pointed directly at Ataibu: "Enter the battle!" Those who surrender will not die! ”

"Rush!"

Da-da-da-da.

The fangs hidden in the darkness opened their bloody mouths, and hundreds of horses entered the battle, bringing with them the murmur of death.

"Those who descend will not be killed!"

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"Those who kneel on the ground will not die!"

Under Zhang Qi's instructions, every soldier who rushed into Ataibu shouted loudly, the panicked tribe could not organize any effective resistance, and the rain of arrows was not lethal at all.

Most of the strong people in the tribe were recruited to Shan Yuting, and now only a small part of the strong people in the tribe are still in the tribe, and the rest are just old people, children, and women.

As the flowers of slaughter bloomed more vividly, more and more people in the tribe fell to their knees.

Even the usual high-ranking tribal magnates fell to their knees and begged for mercy.

Zhang Qi They came too suddenly, no one thought that someone would come out to attack the tribe in winter, which has not appeared in the grassland for a long time, especially after the military minister Shan Yu succeeded to the throne, the pilgrimage from the Han Dynasty is more and more year by year, although everyone is still living hard, but they can also live.

Bang, another corpse was picked up by Ma Gui, the blood had already stained his furniture bright red, and it looked like a demon from hell in the light of the fire.

Some people took advantage of the chaos to escape the tribe, and the Kusset hoplites and champion archers were not vegetarians, and their bows and arrows were more accurate than the other.

No one can leave the tribal range.

Gradually, the unrest in the tribe subsided, and everyone on the ground fell to their knees or died, except for the war horses under Zhang Qi's crotch, who were standing.

"The servant army hunts for those who are hiding, and the female soldiers are on guard."

Seeing that Ataibu had been controlled, Zhang Qi loudly stopped the killing of others, he came to ask for a population, not a corpse.

Thirty or so horsemen began to search the yurts on horseback, and the women aimed their bows and arrows at those kneeling on the ground.

"Who is the noble man of Ataibu, stand up!"

Zhang Qile rode his horse and played two laps in the same place.

No one in the tribe dared to speak, except for the sound of whimpering.

"I'm asking once, who is the noble man of Ataibu!"

Zhang Qi's voice was raised and his tone was cold.

"I... I am.."

At this moment, an old and powerful voice sounded in the crowd of people who were kneeling on the ground.

Then an old man with a white beard stood up from the ground wearing a simple thin coat.

"Uluatai has seen this nobleman, I don't know..."

The old man who stood up asked Zhang Qi cautiously.

Zhang Qi looked at him and said in a deep voice: "Which ones are your family members, which ones are your subordinates, let them all stand up." ”

"Yes.... Elegant. ”

Ulu Atai couldn't guess Zhang Qi's thoughts, the situation was stronger than people, so he could only listen to Zhang Qi's wishes.

"Atai's sons, get up."

Uluatai shouted a few words into the crowd, and then dozens of people stood up one after another.

There are men and women, old and young.

Zhang Qi nodded, beat the horse to a ragged woman, picked her chin with a long knife in his hand and asked, "Have these people who stood up bullied you in the past?" ”

The woman was dazed and speechless for a while.

Frightened, Zhang Qi let go of the long knife against her chin and turned to another woman.

"Have you had enough to eat in the past?"

Zhang Qiju asked condescendingly.

The woman who was picked up her jaw was cowardly and didn't dare to look at Zhang Qi, and shook her head slightly: "Eat.. Can't get enough to eat. ”

"Well, dare to tell the truth, yes, there is a reward."

Zhang Qi released the long knife against her jaw with satisfaction, and shouted behind him: "Come a female soldier, give her food!" ”

Then Zhang Qi asked several people in a row, and every time he got an answer, whether it was good or bad, he asked people to distribute food to the people being questioned.

Ataibu's stunned eyes were stunned.

But Zhang Qi continued to stage the same drama as if he didn't see it.

Until he inquired about the first few people, Zhang Qi still picked up his jaw with a long knife: "Eat enough?" ”

The latter shook his head.

"Haha, good, reward."

Zhang Qi withdrew his long knife, looked at all the people who were kneeling on the ground and asked, "What about you?" Hungry? ”

Most of the people who fell on their knees were shaking their heads, it was a fact that they could not eat enough, and the food in the tribe was first supplied to the magnates of Atai, followed by the young and strong, the war horses, and finally the turn of the herdsmen at the bottom.

"Hahaha, since you can't eat enough in this tribe, what are you still doing, come to my tent, there is enough food!"

Zhang Qi laughed.

With a wave of his hands, dozens of arrows shot at the nobles of Ataibe who stood up.

There was a scream for a while, and then the female soldiers stepped forward to mend their knives one by one.

Ataibe, who had just relaxed a little, became nervous again, and everyone's eyes were full of fear.

Zhang Qi clapped his palms, and the eagle stepped forward with a familiar horse.

"Go, gather all the bread and divide it."

"No."

Without hesitation, the eagle unified the bread that everyone was carrying, and then distributed it to the Ataibu herdsmen who were still kneeling on the ground.

The hard dough was divided into several pieces, and each person shared some of them, and the herdsmen in Ataibu were stunned again, they really couldn't understand what Zhang Qi was doing, but with food in their hands, everyone's hearts seemed to be a lot more settled.

"This food is for you, from today there will be no Atai Ministry, all of you are my Zhang Qi's people!"

"I said, everything under my account has enough food and food, and if it's not enough, I'll take you to grab it!"

"Now, those who are willing to follow me get up, and those who do not want to continue to kneel down, and when we are gone, you are getting up."

In the night, Zhang Qi's language was sonorous and powerful, and as his words fell, after a brief silence, a herdsman named Ataibu stood up.