Chapter 31: Qilin Saves Three Thousand Women
Taking advantage of this "Qingduan" operation within Xianbei, ten members of the Leopard Army have disguised themselves as vagrants from the Xianbei Duan, blended into the grassland of Xianbei's base camp, and monitored their every move. That period of Wu Muchen was a person with well-developed limbs and a simple mind, not very old, but not small. He kidnapped 3,000 Han women, in order to speed up the reproduction of the Duan Division, and wanted to win Xianbei through population advantage.
Han girls who were taken captive as tools of reproduction, between the ages of sixteen and thirty, were locked in a large circle surrounded by tents, and every two or three meters outside the circle stood a Xianbei Hu soldier.
Duan Wu Muchen, a humble beast, ordered his subordinates to take a group of 3,000 people to take turns to enter the circle to vent their beastly nature. Some of the Han women resisted the atrocities of the Xianbei people, and they were beaten all over their bodies and stabbed to death. From time to time, a few corpses were brought out in that circle and thrown at a random place......
In the afternoon of the same day, the 20,000 infantry mixed troops of the general Yang Mao arrived belatedly and were stationed in the dense forest west of Youbeiping and east of the Yishui River. There is no intention of attacking Xianbei at all.
At this time, Zhang Yiliang and his more than 200 tiger and leopard troops were ambushing in the hills of the Xianbei Duanbu, the Yuwen Ministry, and some small tribes, just waiting for an opportunity to attack Xianbei at night.
At about ten o'clock in the evening, the main cavalry of the Xianbei Duan Department actually gathered men and horses, loaded their baggage, and showed great signs of running away. Not long after, the Leopard Army lurking in the Xianbei camp sent news that Duan Wumuchen knew that the Jin army had arrived on the east bank of the Yishui River and decided to evacuate to the west.
Zhang Yiliang wore a mask of the Leopard Army, dressed in the black clothes of the Leopard Army, rode his fast horse to the Yang Mao military camp, and sneaked into Yang Mao's camp tent, that Yang Mao actually brought six or seven beauties with the army, and was watching those beauties dancing in the camp at this time.
Zhang Yiliang told Yang Mao: The Xianbei people are evacuating, and now they will be able to achieve a great victory by sending troops. The Xianbei people carrying the nomads and baggage must have no intention of fighting, and the fierce pursuit can completely destroy this Xianbei army.
Who knew that Yang Mao didn't think so, he only cared about drinking and watching the beauties, and threw a sentence to Zhang Yiliang: The task given to me by the Taiwei is to camp here, and the Xianbei cavalry is fierce and cannot fight. Zhang Yiliang was angry, pulled out the knife hanging in the account, killed him with one stab, and then knocked the women unconscious, sneaked out of the barracks, and went back to find another way.
More than 200 people from the Langya Tiger and Leopard Army are already ready on the mountain. The Xianbei people evacuated in full swing, and it was not until the second half of the night that they were completely evacuated. Suddenly, the more than 1,000 Xianbei soldiers surrounding the Han women opened the circle and drove the Han women out of the circle like sheep. It doesn't seem to be driving west, but toward the Yishui River in the east.
The group of savage Xianbei soldiers rode on their horses, brandished their big swords, and drove loudly, but anyone who saw those who could not walk and fell behind was cut down and killed, and rode on the horse and stepped on the corpse of the Han girl. Dozens of people were chopped, and three thousand Han women were driven to the Yishui River. The Xianbei soldier rode his horse and slashed indiscriminately, forcing the Han women to jump into the river......
It's not good, the Xianbei people want to force them to throw themselves into the river! Xiao Jian left the road: Young master, do it!
At this scene, the ten disguised leopard soldiers who witnessed it in the near distance were already full of righteous indignation, and they couldn't help it, so they picked up the guy and rushed over.
Zhang Yiliang said: Do it.
More than 200 Langya tiger and leopard soldiers picked up the treasure sword, beat the war horse, and rushed to kill it. The Xianbei nomads thought that it was the Jin army that was coming, and they were in chaos in an instant, shouting everywhere, "100,000 Jin troops are coming!
The Xianbei cavalry that had withdrawn wanted to come back to resist, but the Xianbei nomads here drove their cattle and sheep to flee westward. There was a great chaos on the west side of the Yishui River, with sheep, cattle, and horses running in all directions to the southwest and northwest, and tens of thousands of nomads rushing westward, colliding with the cavalry that had returned to help, babbling and scolding each other in Xianbei words.
The Xianbei cavalry was never able to come back to help, and the Xianbei nomads caught up with Duan Wu Muchen's baggage troops, so they went to snatch the baggage, and Duan Wu Mu Chen fled westward, embarrassed.
A thousand Xianbei Hu soldiers were suddenly attacked, and they were all martial arts masters, where could they withstand it, and the battle ended in less than an hour.
Three thousand Han women have been forced into the river for hundreds of people, and two hundred people have died under the knife of the Xianbei Hu people. The tiger and leopard army of Langya Sect rescued only more than 2,000 people. After Zhang Yiliang and Xiao Jianli led the leopard army to stay, the soldiers of the tiger army led more than 2,000 women to the north along the Yishui River, found the prepared sheepskin raft, and lined up to cross the river.
The women were rescued from the wolf's den, and the children who had crossed the river embraced each other on the east bank and wept bitterly. The women who had never crossed the river respected each other, and dozens of young girls took the initiative to help the Tiger Army, coordinating the older women to cross the river first. It was not until dawn that more than 2,000 people crossed the river and moved to the outskirts of Beiping.
After everyone entered a forest and ensured their safety, Ichirashi ordered everyone to hide in the forest to rest. Sent people to count the number of people, rescued more than 2,100 women, and more than a dozen people of the Langya Tiger and Leopard Army were killed in the battle and more than 30 were injured.
I don't want to fight this kind of battle again in this life, it's too traumatic to brain cells. Zhang Yiliang thought.
There was a guard general in Youbeiping, who was a native of Langya, and when he learned that more than 2,000 people had escaped, he ordered his troops to make thousands of buns and send them to the forest secretly by his henchmen. Zhang Yiliang gave buns to the women one by one, comforted them, and encouraged them to live strongly. The women only knew that it was the unicorn who called the beast hero to save them, and they rushed to kneel down and kowtow to Zhang Yiliang and the Tiger and Leopard Army. The mood has gradually stabilized.
More than 2,000 victimized women, their families were ruined, and their minds and bodies were severely destroyed, what should happen to these women? Zhang Yiliang had no choice but to face this difficult problem when people's hearts were appeased.
Train them into an army. With the hatred in their hearts, they are definitely a strong team when they practice to kill the enemy. However, their fate has been so tragic, they have been trained into an army to fight against the Hu people, and they will fight like they do today? No, this is too cruel, and fighting should be a man's business after all.
Bring it back to Langya Sect for resettlement? Langya Sect is such a small place, and it can't accommodate so many people.
Go to the south, the Central Plains is full of beacon fires, but the Nanban is relatively stable, where the land is vast and sparsely populated. The new environment is a good way for these more than 2,000 women to escape their nightmares and start their lives again, and it may be the best option.
Zhang Yiliang and Xiao Jianli, the commander of the Leopard Army, and Xiao Lian, the commander of the Tiger Army, discussed it, and they all agreed with the idea of moving two thousand women south. Gather the women together and do a mobilization. The woman who is willing to go to Jiangnan to live a new life will set off today, we will send people to protect it, and we will also give everyone travel expenses and settlement expenses. If you have relatives to go to, you can go to your relatives, and there are also travel expenses.
More than 300 people decided to go to relatives, and more than 1,000 were willing to go to Jiangnan. There are hundreds of girls in the team but they don't want to go south, they want to stay in the north and follow the Qilin hero to kill the enemy to take revenge, if the Qilin hero doesn't take them to kill the Hu people, they will kill them themselves, these girls, most of them are young girls under the age of twenty.
Zhang Yiliang repeatedly stressed the dangers of fighting the Hu people, and encouraged them to put aside their hatred and go to the south to live again. The girls were resolute and unwilling to leave, and after arguing for a long time, Zhang Yiliang compromised and agreed to lead them to kill the Hu people to take revenge.
In the end, the five hundred girls who remained could be arranged into a women's barracks. Looking at this group of children in tattered clothes, many of them are slim and beautiful like flowers. In their youth, they should have happy smiling faces and happy looks, but at this time they only saw two words - hatred. Zhang Yiliang was infinitely afraid, afraid that one day they would all die in front of his eyes.
The older women who went south and the girls who stayed behind wept and hugged each other bitterly. They are fellow villagers, sisters in distress, and those who suffer together can best understand the meaning of life and death. The girls comforted the sisters who were leaving: Don't worry, let's go! We will definitely take revenge, with the Qilin hero leading us, we will definitely take revenge, and when we kill that Wu Muchen, we will definitely go to Jiangnan to tell you. Go with confidence......
More than 1,000 Han women, with an extremely painful mood, went on the road with an inexpressible hatred. Destination: Changsha. There are several deserted villages there, and the Langya Sect has sent people to repair them. From now on, they have only one common homeland, called the north.
Under the protection of dozens of Tiger Army soldiers, the southbound team left the forest and headed south. The Leopard Army gathered the girls left behind, and each Leopard soldier was responsible for leading ten girls, and assembled outside Luoyang City five days later. The girls knew that when they stepped out of the woods, they were in danger. But what is there to be afraid of? In the ten days that they were taken away by the Xianbei people, they walked out of purgatory several times, and they were not afraid of life, but they were still afraid of death?
Zhang Yiliang remembered Mulan's words: Thousands of miles to Rongji, Guan Shan is like flying. Shuoqi spreads the golden watch, and the cold light shines on the iron coat. The general died in a hundred battles, and the strong man returned in ten years. He didn't fight many battles, and they were all battles that made his scalp tingle when he recalled them, but he had never been as trembling and walking on thin ice as he is today.
The leopard army took the girls to Luoyang, and Zhang Yiliang asked them to see more beautiful scenery of the rivers and mountains, and walk while recuperating. Zhang Yiliang and Xiao Jianli rushed back to Luoyang first. There are a few things that need to be done urgently. First, it is necessary to find a school ground for the placement and training of female soldiers, and find a secret and open place outside Luoyang City to build a military camp; second, it is necessary to purchase a sufficient number of war horses and equipment through the black market; and third, it is necessary to find a few instructors to improve the quality of the contingent in an all-round way.
The martial arts instructor is easy to find, and the Langya Sect grabs a handful. Cultural instructor, let Song Yi go. Zhang Yiliang thought. Song Yi is full of poetry and books, in addition to teaching culture, he can also teach talents, and it is also necessary to lay a good foundation for the quality of female soldiers.
Back home, Yiliang discussed this matter with Song Yi, and Song Yi readily agreed, she was extremely happy to be able to share Zhang Yiliang's worries. Kazura intends not to reveal any of his identities until this team has become an iron army. Song Yi also needs to hide her identity to go to class, and the two decide to come up with a nickname for Song Yi.
Song Yi patted his head and said, "I'm called Nightingale." You are a unicorn, I am a nocturnal bird, and the birds and beasts are in one pair.
Yes, if you are happy, I will send someone to make you a nightingale mask. You're our Nightingale teacher. Zhang Yiliang said.
What is the name of this female soldier? Song Yi asked.
This team is an integral part of the Leopard Army, how about calling it a female Leopard Soldier? Zhang Yiliang said.
Song Yidao: Isn't it better to call a tiger and a leopard to ride? These sisters have a deep hatred like the sea, and they will inevitably be as fierce as a tiger when they go to the battlefield.
It makes sense! It makes sense! It's called tiger and leopard riding. Zhang Yiliang also felt that this name was the most appropriate, so he decided on it.
The formation of the team can be set up with one battalion and three companies. Two hundred men in one company and two companies each, and one hundred men in three companies. Each company is divided into platoons, with 50 people in each platoon, and there are more than 20 people in each platoon.
The team number is here, and it has to have its own military flag. In addition to the general army flag, each company must also make a company flag. Zhang Yiliang asked Song Yi to help him design the military flag pattern. Song Yi drew several drafts, tiger heads and leopard heads, tiger patterns, etc., all of which were rejected by Zhang Yiliang.
This is also difficult enough for Song Yi, she is talented, but drawing a military flag for a team is not as simple as playing the pipa after all. When the two drafts were rejected, Song Yi locked himself in the study and spent a whole day making a new design plan. After staying up until the evening, I finally drew it: on a red square cloth, a circle was drawn in the middle, and a divine beast was drawn in the circle, with two heads in one body, a tiger head and a leopard head. The beast's front paws swooped out of the circle.
The meaning of the flag is: the earth is red with blood, and the common people are forced to become beasts, hoping that they will be as fierce as a tiger and as swift as a leopard.
Zhang Yiliang and Xiao Jianli spent two days running thirty or forty miles around Luoyang, and found an old military camp of the Jin army, twenty miles northwest of Luoyang City, which could be used as a temporary military camp. However, this was originally an infantry camp, and he could only complete the early training subjects, so Zhang Yiliang decided to wait for the basic training to be completed, and then go to the vicinity of Shuofang to practice horsemanship.
When he returned home and saw the sample picture of the military flag made by Song Yi, Zhang Yiliang was overjoyed, and he and Song Yi perfected some details, such as adding ears of wheat outside the circle, plus two crossed swords, which is very modern. Perfect!
The next day, Song Yi bought back the red cloth and sewed four military flags with needle and thread. One main flag and three consecutive flags. Zhang Yiliang was busy for a day, went home and found the finished military flag, and said a few times excellent, excellent. Then shut yourself in your study and think about things. The camp, war horses, tents, and weapons have all been found, but the women's military uniforms are a big problem, and the black market sells all the men's military uniforms, and it seems that the women's military uniforms have to be made by themselves.
The girls arrived in Luoyang one after another, and the leopard soldiers who led the team took them to eat a famous dish in the capital, bought a few good clothes, and went directly to the barracks in Lengyue Mountain in the northwest of Luoyang. The tents bought from the Huns were set up into more than fifty tents, one for ten people.
The personnel arrived, the team was arranged, and the women's barracks were numbered as the Tiger and Par Cavalry, an integrated battalion, three companies, two Dalian, and one small company. Even below the company, 50 people in a row, 10 people in a shift, each shift has a pot stove, every day on time and according to the amount of food and meat and vegetables, each shift makes their own meals. Not worthy of a dedicated fireman.
The training arrangement is from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. every day, three hours of physical training; from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m., cultural classes mainly teach "Liutao", "The Art of War", "Historical Records", "Spring and Autumn Warring States", "Shangshu", "University", "Zhongyong", "Analects", "Mencius", and in the afternoon, skill training: bows and arrows, guns and sticks, fighting, Han sword techniques, Xiongnu knife techniques, Xianbei knife techniques, and so on.
There were 500 female tiger and leopard cavalry soldiers, Zhang Yiliang was the commander, and Xiao Jian left as the head of the coach. The Leopard Army has 50 instructors, each training one platoon female soldier. Song Yi served as a cultural instructor. Officers and instructors above the platoon level in the army all use nicknames.
Xiao Jianli selected more than a dozen girls from the women who were born in a practicing family and had some kung fu skills, and temporarily served as company commanders. Platoon commanders and squad leaders also temporarily appointed more able-bodied girls. After three months of training in basic subjects, cadres were re-selected, from battalion commanders to deputy squad leaders, all from the female Haw Par Cavalry soldiers.
The recruits' military uniforms are temporarily replaced by the more convenient narrow-mouthed Hun Hufu, three sets per person, and the female soldiers first wear Hufu for training, and wrap the calves and arms with cloth belts during training to ensure the convenience of action.
The matter of tiger and leopard riding is over, and the year is also coming to an end. The female soldiers have more and more contact with Zhang Yiliang, and they have a deep understanding of each other, and their nightingale teacher always praises the power of the unicorn in the classroom, which makes the tiger and leopard rider female soldiers itch in their hearts, and they all want to see the true face of the unicorn hero.
Zhang Yiliang said to them: When you can get on the horse to kill the enemy and destroy Duan Wumuchen, I will definitely see you with your true face.