Sometimes, Qian Wubing really envied Zhang Yong, Yang Yiqing and others, and envied their qi-nurturing skills. The so-called face does not change color when Mount Tai collapses in front of them, which probably refers to people like them who have great ambitions.
He didn't even blink an eyelid. He couldn't really learn this skill.
Just like now, Luo Shui said that there was a big news. After he heard it, his eyebrows still jumped involuntarily. What other big things are happening in Anhua right now? They are just hunting down King Anhua's gang members.
But Luoshui could not find out these things from the desert. The only news that could be found from the desert was the news from the Tatars.
Putting down the rebellion is a civil war, and resisting the Tatars is a foreign war. Since we can't catch up with the quelling the rebellion, if we can get some credit for resisting the foreign enemies, it will be a worthwhile trip. Qian Wubing's heart suddenly seems a little bit...
Get excited.
Luo Shui glanced left and right with his eyes. Looking at the situation, it seemed that Qian Wubing had to retreat, and the matter seemed to be very confidential.
Qian Wubing snorted slightly: "If you have any news, just tell me directly. I believe in them more than I believe in you. They are all brothers of the Zhenfu Division. What are you worried about?"
Luo Shui smiled awkwardly, and then he dug around in his sheep-smelling robe and took out a palm-sized sign. He respectfully presented it to Qian Wubing.
"What is this?" Qian Wubing frowned and looked at it. The brand was neither gold nor iron. It looked like it had been there for some years, and there were a few characters engraved on it. It looked like it was probably seal script or gold inscriptions.
However, Qian Wubing probably recognizes these words, but Qian Wubing doesn't recognize them.
"I don't know what it is. I don't know what it is. This is a token that someone gave to me. It is said that as soon as they see this token, people in the court will know that they are my subjects of the Celestial Empire and not barbarians who are regarded as enemies by the Celestial Empire."
Got it!"
"Huh?" Qian Wubing rubbed the brand with his hand a few times, but he became more and more confused: "What exactly is going on? Please tell me clearly. In this fog, are you challenging my patience?
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"The thing is like this. It started two months ago. Just after the New Year, there were several snowstorms over the Tatars. Many horses and sheep froze to death. Walking in this desert has always been...
It would be most appropriate to pretend to be a fur trader and take advantage of this opportunity to visit the Tatars during this season..."
Following Luo Shui's narration, Qian Wubing seemed to follow Luo Shui and his party back to two months ago.
If you want to be popular on the territory of the Mongols, it is not enough to be a fur trader. On the grasslands, the only people who are more popular than these Han traders from the south are veterinarians. Jinyi Weili, who followed Luoshui out of the fortress, happened to be
There was someone who was proficient in this art, which made their career go particularly smoothly as soon as they came out of Lingzhou.
After staying in a small tribe with only a few dozen people for two days, they took some of the fur goods they had purchased and continued walking north. In this season, the tribes on the grassland were all wandering in the direction of abundant pasture.
It was no exception. After a winter of nourishment, oases of all sizes began to show their vitality. Luoshui and the others' goal was a medium-sized oasis about a hundred miles ahead. According to his estimation,
, there, you should meet some small tribes, maybe, they will get some unexplored news.
After almost three days of delay on the road, when they saw the oasis in the distance, something happened that shocked Luoshui and the others.
At the oasis, the dust was flying and the sound of killings was loud. It had suddenly turned into a battlefield. On the battlefield, two groups of Tatars were killing each other with great joy. What surprised him even more was that these two groups of Tatars were killing each other.
, one is actually a cavalryman, and the other is a foot soldier.
Although the number of the cavalry is relatively small, it seems that there are only four or five hundred people, but judging from their movements, they are definitely not stragglers or herdsmen cavalry gathered together by several tribes of herdsmen. It is just a simple look.
After a while, Luoshui could conclude that these cavalry were definitely the elite of the Tatars.
As for the Tatars on the defensive side, except for a few cavalry, most of them were foot soldiers. They held leather shields and formed a very strange formation, surrounding the oasis. Looking from the direction of Luoshui, the oasis
There were many women, children, and other things inside. It seemed that they were protecting these people. From this point of view, it seemed that the tribe that arrived at the oasis early was attacked by the Tatars later.
In the confrontation between foot soldiers and cavalry, in this regard, Ming Dynasty did not know how much it suffered from the Tatars. Without the assistance of sharp firearms, facing such four to five hundred elite cavalry, if there were three thousand foot soldiers, it would not be possible without the help of sharp firearms.
In the case of a city, a tie is considered a victory. Of course, a tie means withstanding the impact of the cavalry without being defeated. If the cavalry does not want to fight, it will just run away, leaving the two pawns behind.
One leg cannot catch up with four legs.
And those foot soldiers seemed to be about the same number. Luo Shui and others were lying on the sand dunes in the distance, watching the two groups of Tatars fighting each other with a spectator mentality, no matter who won or lost.
, none of them care too much, the only thing he cares about is to know what is going on and whether it has any impact on Daming.
The development of the battle situation somewhat surprised him. Not only did the Tatar cavalry fail to defeat the battle formation of these Tatar foot soldiers, but after several attacks, they were suddenly divided by the formations of these foot soldiers, forming small groups of more than a hundred people.
, forming a foot soldier formation that Luoshui had never seen in his life, surrounding more than a dozen Tatar cavalry to fight. Without the distance advantage of the cavalry, in this case, there is no other end than being annihilated.
Hundreds of Tatar cavalry were quickly killed by the foot soldiers. When the foot soldiers were finishing their blows one by one on the cavalry who were not yet exhausted, Luo Shui and others were ready to leave while marveling.
This is because they did not intend to take prisoners, which is rare in the battles of the Tatar tribe. Looking at their methods of killing everyone, it is not necessarily a safe thing for these Han people to appear in this place at this time.
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Then, when they turned around, they saw a group of Tatars with short swords and leather shields standing not far from them, looking at them coldly.
"You were captured by the Tatars? Then how did you come back intact?" Qian Wubing heard something fishy. This makes no sense. Even their fellow tribesmen, the Tatar soldiers, were all killed without any trace of them.
He was so compassionate, these were obviously Han Chinese, how could they let him go?
Luo Shui's face suddenly became a little weird, his eyes were a little dazed, and it seemed that even he himself didn't quite believe what he said: "The reason why we can come back alive is because these Tatar soldiers are basically