Sam looked at the sworn Luo Tao in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a little doubt in his heart. He said: "Friend, it's not that I don't believe you. No matter how powerful one person is, he can't be the opponent of a thousand people. The Eagle Tribe only needs to send two thousand people."
Man, Bortala can't resist, I think we'd better leave, you Kyushu people also say that the best strategy is to leave."
Luo Tao looked at Sam and felt both touched and funny in his heart. He was touched that this Qiang elder did not leave him. What was funny was that the elder of Bortala would give up his territory so easily.
"Elder, you don't have to worry. Take me to Xiaoyanling and I will be able to defeat the Eagle Tribe."
Seeing what Luo Tao said, Sam nodded and said: "Okay, friend, I believe you, I will take you there."
Luo Tao nodded, and suddenly asked: "Elder, do you have iron ore here?"
"Yes." Elder Sam responded.
Luo Tao was stunned. He didn't expect that there was iron ore on this grassland: "Is there a lot of iron ore?"
Elder Sam responded: "What's the use? It's not good iron. You've also seen our scimitar break when it was cut on the armor of Baiyun Kingdom. It's useless."
After hearing what Sam said, Luo Tao thought to himself: What is not good about iron is that you are not good at craftsmanship.
He thought this way, without explaining it clearly, and just said: "Elder, as long as you have iron ore, leave this matter to me."
Elder Sam was stunned, and in a trance he saw a burst of colorful light on Luo Tao's body: This... this is the immortal coming to Bortala, how come he can do everything?
Thinking like this, he felt excited in his heart. With a wave of his hand, he ordered the tribesmen to pack up their tents, cattle, sheep, and several large carts of gold and silver grain, and move towards Xiaoyanling.
The Small Wild Goose Ridge is located east of Bortala. It is the remnant of the Daying Ridge, the remnant of the Kunlun Mountains. It is a cousin to the Kunlun Mountains. The Small Wild Goose Ridge is not considered high, but it is still considered a place on the endless grassland.
The high ground can overlook a hundred miles in radius, and it is a dangerous place with the pass at its back. It is precisely because of the dangerous place that the wandering remnants of the Later Han Dynasty chose Xiaoyanling as their stronghold.
The leader of the remnant soldiers in Xiaoyanling was named Feng Tianhu. He was originally a deputy general in the Xuance Camp of the Forbidden Army of the Later Han Dynasty. When the Later Han Dynasty destroyed the country, he led a group of remnant soldiers to fight and flee, and finally arrived at the territory of the Qiang people.
In Xiaoyanling, a large flag of the Tianhu Army of the Later Han Dynasty flutters in the wind.
Under the big flag, a dozen gray tents were spread on the hill like mushrooms after the rain, and two watchtowers stood tall, somewhat like a military camp.
Suddenly a trumpet sounded, and the soldiers shouted: "General, there are Qiang people coming, and there are quite a few of them."
Feng Tianhu was stunned, raised his sword, and asked: "How many people are there? Are they armed?"
The soldier responded: "It looks like there are thousands of people. We can't see the weapons clearly, but they have driven a lot of cattle and sheep."
"They are driving a lot of cattle and sheep. Are they here to trade?" Feng Tianhu frowned and thought. The two thousand of them fled from the Hou Han Dynasty to the Qiang region. The most worrying thing is that there is no food and grass supplies. Now someone is driving cattle and sheep.
He was excited and timid at the same time. He didn't like these Qiang people. Who knew what evil they were harboring in their hearts!
"I don't know, General, let's go take a look?"
Feng Tianhu nodded and shouted: "Okay, let's take a look. Damn it, we're still afraid of these people. Line up a line, take all the guys with us, and let these people see our morale!"
War drums beat and horns sound.
Feng Tianhu summoned more than a hundred strong men, neatly dressed, and lined up in front of the big tent. The momentum was quite majestic.
Seeing the group of Qiang men approaching, Feng Tianhu shouted: "Which tribe are you from? What are you doing in Xiaoyanling?"
Sam and Luo Tao stopped their horses. They looked at the neat armors of the elite soldiers behind Feng Tianhu, and couldn't help but gulped.
"General, I am the elder of Bortala, and I am here to do business with you!" Sam said.
Feng Tianhu responded: "What do you want to buy? What did you bring? We have to pay for our goods."
Sam looked at Luo Tao, who nodded, and Sam waved his men to place the carts of gold and silver grain and grass that had been looted from the Baiyun Kingdom in front of the formation.
"General, there are five carts of grain and a cart of gold and silver here. You can send someone to check." Sam shouted.
Feng Tianhu tilted his head, and a school captain behind him galloped toward the Qiang tribe.
The captain glanced at Sam and Luo Tao, took out a dagger from his boot, and plunged it into the grain bag. Golden rice grains overflowed. He walked to the gold and silver toilet and took out a gold ingot.
Put it in your mouth and bite it, and you will see a clear row of teeth marks.
"Take it, that gold ingot is given to you." Sam said to the captain.
The captain smiled, pulled up the bridle and ran towards his home.
"How is it? Are things straight?" Feng Tianhu asked.
The captain threw the gold ingot in his hand to Feng Tianhu and said: "The grain and gold and silver are all real, but there is a young man sitting next to the elder. It seems that he is not a Qiang person. He is dressed like a Kyushu person."
Feng Tianhu nodded and said, "It doesn't matter who he is, as long as he can do serious business with us." As he said this, he turned to Sam and shouted: "Tell me, what do you want?"
Sam was also unambiguous and said bluntly: "We want armor, weapons, and crossbows."
Feng Tianhu was shocked by what Sam asked for. This armor and weapons were okay, but this crossbow was a weapon for the Han army to protect themselves. If they were given to these Qiang people, self-protection would become a problem in the future. He said
He opened his voice and said: "How many armors and weapons do you want? I can't sell you bows and crossbows."
Sam cited the price he had discussed with Luo Tao before and replied: "This large cart of grain can be exchanged for twenty spears and twenty steel knives, or ten pieces of armor. Ten crossbows are also a large cart of grain.
This cart of gold and silver needs to be exchanged for a hundred spears and a hundred steel knives, or fifty armors and fifty crossbows."
Feng Tianhu listened to the price mentioned by Sam and thought to himself: This price is quite right. These five carts of grain plus one cart of gold and silver are two hundred spears and two hundred steel knives. You can exchange the armor for one cart and save money.
There is no harm in giving them some swords and guns, and as for giving them ten bows and crossbows.
But he thought that even though he thought so, he still had to deal with the price: "It's too expensive, the price is too expensive. Can a truck with fifteen long guns and fifteen steel knives be OK?"
Elder Sam replied: "Prairie men don't negotiate prices when doing business, they all have a fixed price!"
Feng Tianhu saw that the soft ones were too weak and wanted to try the hard ones again, so he shouted: "You are wearing so many things, I will directly send troops to rob you, it is not a net profit!"
Elder Sam said loudly: "Then the eagles, rabbits, and mice on the grassland will know that the people in Xiaoyanling are bandits. No one will do business with you on the grassland, and you will starve to death here."
Sam's words hit Feng Tianhu right in the heart. He was most afraid of two things here: first, being surrounded and suppressed by Jiangzuo Army and Baiyun Army, and second, being isolated by the Qiang people.
Seeing that Feng Tianhu was caught in a weak spot, Elder Sam continued: "If you can't come up with so many weapons, you can use a blacksmith to exchange them. One blacksmith is worth a large cart of grain."
Hearing what Elder Sam said, Feng Tianhu was shocked again. He did have a blacksmith in his army, but this blacksmith could find rare items on the grassland, and no matter how high the Qiang man's bid was, he would have to ask the blacksmith himself.
Feng Tianhu hesitated again and again, but decided to call the blacksmith and asked: "Li Gen, those Qiang people want a blacksmith. If you go, you will definitely have no worries about food and drink. Are you willing to go?"
When Li Gen heard that he was going to the Qiang tribe, his head shook like a rattle, and tears burst out of his eyes: "General, I won't go. Those Qiang people are barbaric. I won't go.
No, I won’t go, I still want to go home.”
Feng Tianhu waved his hand and muttered: "If you don't go, I won't go. I won't sell you. I'm crying!" As he said this, he shouted to Sam: "If you don't change, the blacksmith won't.
Change."
Sam looked at Luo Tao, who said, "Then ask him if he can rent one for a month, or let our people learn it."
Sam nodded and shouted to Feng Tianhu: "Is it okay to rent it for a month? If it's not okay, can we send someone to learn it?"
Only then did Feng Tianhu realize that these Qiang people wanted to learn skills, so he immediately refused and said, "No, I can sell you things, but not the blacksmiths." He, Feng Tianhu, was not a fool. Iron smelting in this grassland was a core technology.
Only by monopolizing this technology can they gain a foothold on the grasslands.
Seeing Feng Tianhu's direct refusal, Luo Tao and Sam rode towards Feng Tianhu: "General, let's take a step to talk."
Feng Tianhu ordered two personal guards and ran towards them.
The five people met and rode around in a circle before stopping and speaking.
Luo Tao said bluntly: "General, how long do you plan to stay in this grassland?"
Feng Tianhu said with a serious face: "Does it matter to you how long we stay here? Why do you ask? Besides, you don't seem to be a Qiang person."
Luo Tao smiled and said: "I am indeed not a Qiang person, I am from Kyushu. The reason why I asked the general is because I feel that the general does not want to stay on this grassland all the time. Moreover, this grassland is not like the land of Jiuzhou, and there is no grain. It is not suitable.
You don’t have cattle or sheep for farming, so staying here isn’t a long-term solution.”
Feng Tianhu looked at Luo Tao, his eyes a little more cautious, and said: "Speak directly, what do you mean? I, Old Feng, hate people who beat around the bush."
Luo Tao said: "Let's join hands and establish an alliance on the grassland. The grassland will no longer be oppressed and enslaved by Kyushu, and in return, the grassland tribes will help you restore your country and return home!"
Feng Tianhu's throat twitched and he said: "Grassland Alliance? Restoration of the country? Are you dreaming? Not to mention how elusive the restoration of the country is, if the tribes on this grassland are to form an alliance, do you know how many tribes there are on this grassland?
? There are so many! Let them form an alliance. It’s so whimsical.”
"What the people want." Luo Tao said one word at a time, "General, have you ever heard of these four words? The grassland has been suffering for a long time. As long as someone rises up, the alliance is bound to win."
Feng Tianhu smiled disdainfully: "How many of you are there? These are all your clansmen, let alone the queen."
Sam raised his hands in the air, and a group of Qiang warriors wearing white cloud armor immediately emerged from the crowd, flashing a row of dazzling silver light.
Feng Tianhu was startled and said: "You...how do you have the armor of the Baiyun Kingdom? Are you colluding with the Baiyun Kingdom?" As he said this, he already drew his sword in his hand, and the personal guards on the side also defended him when they saw this.
Luo Tao said: "Don't be nervous, we took this from the soldiers of Baiyun Kingdom."
"You killed the soldiers of Baiyun Kingdom?" Feng Tianhu's personal guard asked in shock.
"Yes, not only that, we also defeated the Eagle Tribe, and their son of the Eight Heavenly Kings is now my slave." Luo Tao pointed to Hel in the crowd.
Feng Tianhu sheathed the sword: "It's just you? I'm afraid there are only 700 strong men in your tribe, right? You came to us because you were afraid of revenge from the Baiyun Kingdom and the Eagle Tribe, right?"
Luo Tao smiled and said, "General, can you lend me your sword?"
Feng Tianhu smiled disdainfully: "I'll give you this knife for a piece of gold."
Luo Tao said nothing, took out a piece of gold and threw it to Feng Tianhu. Feng Tianhu also threw the saber to Luo Tao happily.
Luo Tao took the sword, summoned his strength and let out a low shout, and a stream of purple energy came out from his body. Hearing a muffled "bang" sound, the cowhide scabbard exploded into pieces, and the blade in the sheath shattered like a biscuit.
One place.
Feng Tianhu and others were startled, looking at Luo Tao in horror, with trembling lips: "You...are you a member of the world?"
Luo Tao nodded and said: "That's right, you can see if I can bring the various tribes in the grassland together."
"You...you" Feng Tianhu blinked and stammered.
"What's going on, General, do you want to ally with us now?" Sam asked.
Feng Tianhu took a deep breath and looked at Luo Tao in front of him: "No matter how powerful you are alone, you are not the opponent of the entire grassland. You...you..."
"Then how can the general trust me?" Luo Tao asked.
Feng Tianhu looked to the left and right and had no idea for a moment. He only said: "Your Eagle Tribe has been annexed, so I will believe you."
"Okay!" Luo Tao said loudly, "A gentleman's words are hard to catch up with. What about these grains, grass, gold and silver?"
"Just like you said."
Feng Tianhu said this, clapped his horse and ran towards the military stronghold. He rode the horse all the way, and when he reached the big tent, he turned over and dismounted. His feet gave way and he almost fell to the ground. He touched his forehead, and he was already dripping with blood: "
What a monster." He said this, picked up the steel knife of the guard on the side and shook it, but the steel knife did not move at all.
"Damn it, give them the weapons quickly."
The dusk is getting darker, and the grassland on the way home is golden. The men of Bortala are playing with their spears and armors, and they are all in high spirits.
Luo Tao looked at the group of men and smiled, fiddling with the crossbow arrows in his hands, as if he was thinking about something.
Sam asked from the side: "Friend, are you sure you can conquer the Eagle Tribe?"
Luo Tao smiled with a picturesque look on his face: "Our goal is not just to conquer the Eagle Tribe, this entire grassland will belong to Bortala!"
Eagle Tribe.
A bald man with a nose like an eagle held a machete in his hand and chopped off the head of the person in front of him.
"Descendants of the eagle, pull out your sabers, use the blood of cowards to honor the heroic spirits of our ancestors, and follow me to the battle with a fearless heart. Warriors, kill all the livestock that insult the eagle, and nourish us with their blood.
of grassland!”
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" A group of men from the Eagle Tribe shouted loudly.
The army of three thousand eagles was directed towards Bortala.
