In the process of Liu Haojia's journey, he also encountered two and a half small tribes. Two of the small tribes were too alert, and they hurriedly put away their felt tents until the army approached, and drove their cattle and sheep to run in the direction of the grassland, which was very embarrassed!

Liu Haojia didn't let people chase after him, but under the leadership of those instructors overnight, he went to the two tribes to extort ten sheep and two cows each, opened meat for the small ones below, and then let them go.

The other half of the tribe is a small tribe that is very clever, and they found it as soon as they showed up at night, and then they rolled up their belongings and fled! I couldn't even catch their tails at night, so I could only count half.

Liu Haojia has no intention of chasing and killing such a small tribe, because they are too poor and pitiful, not even young and strong, most of them are old and weak, women and children. Even if he wants military merits, he won't attack the old, weak, women and children.

The grassland looks quiet and peaceful, but in fact, the living conditions inside are brutal! The real good pastures are all in the hands of those big tribes, and many other small tribes depend on them for survival. There are also some wandering tribes that have no pasture at all, and they survive in the gap between the big tribe and the small tribe.

The three small tribes discovered by Liu Haojia belong to this kind of wandering tribe, they have no grassland at all, and can only risk living quietly in the no-man's land between the Ming army and ***. Whether it is the annexation of other tribes, or the Ming army looking for trouble, or even a white disaster, these small tribes will disappear into the grassland in an instant!

So the people on the steppe are fierce and fearless because they have to be fierce because of the death they face all the time! Otherwise, wolf plagues, white plagues, wind plagues, droughts, wars, and any other factor will make them die without a place to bury!

And this harsh environment has also given rise to a lot of strange rules, such as brother to brother. The meaning of brother and brother is that when the elder brother dies, the younger brother will marry his sister-in-law home.

This kind of behavior is considered by the Han people to be a manifestation of immorality, but in fact it is a kind of mercy in the grassland! Because under such harsh living conditions, those women and children cannot survive at all, and they can only survive by marrying their children! Therefore, the strange rules of each place are caused by their special local environment.

In this way, Liu Haojia led the soldiers to march leisurely on the prairie, conducting exercises every few days, and even conducted a live-fire training in the middle, the target was a group of yellow sheep that drove in at night!

Under the intense fire and artillery strikes, this group of unlucky yellow sheep had broken limbs, and the casualties were not counted! The last flock of thousands of yellow sheep only ran out of a few dozen! This is still Liu Haojia's virtue of a good life, and he didn't plan to kill them, otherwise none of them would be able to escape!

After beating the yellow sheep, Liu Haojia ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, and the yellow sheep killed were given food to the soldiers! Of course, the soldiers were thunderous with joy after hearing the order, but when they cleaned up the yellow sheep, they all had bitter faces! Because many of the yellow sheep hit by the artillery are simply a mess of minced meat, and they can't be cleaned up!

That is, the yellow sheep that was hit by the fire gun can still be regarded as a corpse, but there is another problem here, that is, the lead bullet must be dug out, otherwise the meat will not be eaten! However, in order to eat fresh meat, the soldiers still gritted their teeth and cleaned up the carcass of the yellow sheep, peeled and fur and ate two meals!

But just as the soldiers were tidying up the yellow sheep, there were already vultures hovering in the sky, and even wolves were peeping at the edge of the battlefield! It's just that there are too many people, so they don't rush over. As soon as the soldiers left the battlefield, scavengers and birds, large and small, completely covered the battlefield, and the minced meat left behind on the battlefield was enough for them to feast on.

In this way, Liu Haojia led the team to practice while walking, and finally approached Datong Town. He calculated the time, and estimated that he would be able to approach Zhangjiakou in about ten days, and when he arrived in Zhangjiakou, the task of patrolling the border would be completed. However, he did not plan to announce this to the soldiers, because he hoped that the soldiers would be alert until the end.

That night, after the soldiers set up camp as usual, Liu Haojia inspected the camp as usual, served dinner, and then prepared to rest. But what he didn't know was that there was a large army approaching in the distance!

This team is all composed of Mongols, and all of them are young and strong, and many of them are wearing uniform leather armor, which is known at a glance that this is a team composed of regular troops and Mongolian herdsmen.

There were three men in the team riding side by side, and at first glance they were the leaders of the troops. All three of them have a traditional Mongolian hairstyle, which is a shaved scalp with only two tufts of hair on the sides.

It's not that Mongolians like fancy dress, it's also forced by reality! Because the Mongolians live from water and grass, they are always in a state of water shortage, so there are very few bathing times. In this way, it is easy to breed parasites, so cutting the hair to a minimum can minimize the attack of parasites and make it less susceptible to infection.

In fact, this is not only the case for the Mongols, but also those tribes who lack water and cannot bathe regularly will shave their heads. For example, this is how my money rat tail in the Qing Dynasty came about!

These Tunguska savages have lived in the old woods for generations, and they can bathe a few times a year, so they are not prone to illness. Otherwise, depending on the medical conditions at the time, once an infectious disease occurs, a tribe can be destroyed!

All three of them were tribal leaders, and the one on the left had two large gold rings on his ears, his name was Bahunai, and the one in the middle was thicker, and his name was Haqi. The guy on the right, you're much thinner than the other two, and that's Ansger.

The three of them walked forward with confidence, and at the same time they were chatting about the raid on Liu Haojia tonight. These three people were invited by Hu Zhiyu and Zhang Yuanfeng, and they were going to raid Liu Haojia's camp tonight and try to kill Liu Haojia.

Although the three of them are all leaders of the tribe, they are obviously led by Haqi in the middle, because the other two tribes are stationed far away from here, so they can only be stationed in Haqi's tribe when they send people over, and Haqi provides them with cattle and sheep food, and these materials must be compensated in the spoils of war, so he naturally gets the leadership!

Then Hatch was heard saying, "You have all heard the report just now, and they have withdrawn from their night's harvest, and it seems that they are ready to set up camp."