This cavalry was organized by Zheng He, the pastoral supervisor of Zhangye Qun.
Since Zheng He held a meeting with the rancher players, everyone has come to a unified understanding that the battlefield must be placed outside Zhangye!
If the Tubo invaded Zhangye, the Shandan Racecourse located to the east of Zhangye would not be spared.
In order to defend their ranches, thirty rancher players, together with their employees, formed a cavalry unit.
In order to rebuild the ranch as quickly as possible, ranchers and players not only recruited Han people who were good at riding horses and herding in Zhangye City, but also recruited a large number of Qiang people in the mountains of Zhangye under the leadership of Zheng He.
These Qiang people living in the mountains originally did not have a good impression of the Tang people.
The Qiang people are an ancient race. From the Eastern Han Dynasty to the early Sui Dynasty, they were the main opponents of the Han government in the northwest region.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Xianbei people rose up in the northwest and established the Tuyuhun regime. Some of the Qiang people were absorbed into the Tuyuhun Kingdom, and some of them lived together with the Han people in Longyou.
The Tang Dynasty also set up a separate position to protect the Qiang Xiaowei to manage the Qiang people in Longyou and Hetao areas.
After the rise of the Uighur and Tubo regimes, the Qiang people declined even more, and the position of the Qiang Protector Colonel was merged and given to the Hexi Jiedu Envoy concurrently.
This also means that the Qiang people have changed from the overlords of the northwest to a minority, and are oppressed by Han and other ethnic groups in Longyou and other places.
The Qiang people are a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural people who are good at raising horses. In order to rebuild the Shandan Ranch, Zheng He focused on the Qiang tribe near the Qilian Mountains.
Zheng He first took the rancher players to trade with the nearby Qiang tribe, trying to hire these Qiang people with supplies.
But I didn't expect that these Qiang people were very wary of the Han people. When they heard that they were being asked to work, they refused to agree.
Later, when Zheng He inquired in Zhangye, he learned that the previous pastoral supervisors had used this trick to lure the Qiang people in the mountains to come down and raise horses for the imperial pasture, but in fact they treated them as slaves and detained them in the pasture.
He refused to let them go back.
Some herders are even more evil-minded and will raid the Qiang tribes in the mountains, capture young Qiang men and women, and sell them to the Renyazi market.
Nowadays, the Qiang people near Shandan Ranch are afraid of the Han people, and they are even more afraid of the Han people in the ranch.
Although Zheng He was angry, there was nothing he could do. He was about to leave, but he happened to encounter a difficult cow in the Qiang tribe.
This Qiang family went to the clan leader's house for help, but the clan leader had no good solution for the cow's dystocia. He could only brew some herbs according to ancient methods, hoping to help the cow give birth smoothly.
At this time, Zheng He, who was about to leave, stood up and said:
"Chief, I have a solution."
The chief looked at Zheng He. This cow had an abnormal fetal position. He, the chief of the nearby tribe who was best at raising it, had nothing to do. Could it be that this Han man had something to do?
However, it was difficult to give birth anyway, so the clan leader simply treated the dead horse as a living horse and took Zheng He and his entourage to the Qiang man's home.
Cows are important productivity tools, and a cow in its fertile period is worth thousands of dollars.
The Qiang family was extremely anxious. Zheng He touched the cow's belly and found that the fetus was not in the right position.
He said to this family:
"Go and boil a large pot of hot water."
Then he said to the players who were traveling with him: "Go get my surgical bag and the hemostatic gauze."
The Qiang family immediately boiled water. Zheng He spread out the surgical tools and said to several ranchers who were passing by:
"There happens to be a demonstration. Let me show you how to help the cow give birth."
"First of all, we must do a good job of disinfection. Hot water can disinfect some bacteria. This is a very important step."
Zheng He ordered people to disinfect the yard with hot water, and then fixed the dystocia cow on a bench.
"The next step is to correct the fetal position. Use sterilized hands to enter from here. This calf is in a transverse fetal position. We need to push the calf in with our hands."
Zheng He thought about the scene when he was an intern on a dairy farm and assisted his mentor in midwifery. As an outstanding disciple of his mentor, Zheng He helped five cows give birth smoothly in one day!
Zheng He's hands gently adjusted the fetal position. Then he took out the forceps and pulled out the calf in one go.
Zheng He immediately began to check the calf and found that the calf was purple and blue due to dystocia and lack of oxygen.
Zheng He's actions had shocked all the Qiang people present, especially the Qiang clan leader. He knew how dangerous a miscarriage was, with a high probability that both the calf and the cow would die.
Unexpectedly, Zheng He actually used that strange tool to pull the calf out.
The owner of the cow even cried with joy. Although it was a pity that the calf died, the cow is the most important asset of the family. As long as the cow survives, there is still hope for the family.
Zheng He grabbed the calf's hind legs and began to slap the calf's butt hard.
The calf mooed and spit out the amniotic fluid stuck in its mouth.
The cow heard the calf's cry and raised her head to look at Zheng He.
Zheng He quickly placed the calf on the cow's belly. The calf instinctively stuck out its tongue and began to suck milk.
Both the cow and the calf were saved!?
At this time, the Qiang people cheered, lifted Zheng He up, and thanked him in this ancient way.
Next, Zheng He treated several animals in the Qiang tribe, helped trim the hoofs of a lame cow, and helped the tribe breed a horse.
Now Zheng He's status in the Qiang tribe was greatly improved, and the clan leader took out the wine from his collection to entertain Zheng He.
Zheng He took advantage of the situation and brought out the wine brewed by the player's wine cellar. Now the guests and hosts were having a great time, and they were all drunk.
The next day, the nearby Qiang tribe knew that Zheng He was a super veterinarian and invited him to go to their tribe to treat cattle and sheep.
Zheng He walked around the nearby tribes. When he was about to leave, each tribe brought a group of young men to accept Zheng He's employment and follow him to the Shandan Pasture for grazing.
Zheng He treated these Qiang people as promised before. They could go home to visit relatives every month, pay them regular wages, and teach them some animal husbandry knowledge.
Zheng He's prestige among the Qiang people was at its peak. This time when the Tubo army attacked, Zheng He went to the nearby Qiang tribe.
The Qiang people were also an oppressed ethnic group in Tubo. Zheng He quickly recruited more than a thousand Qiang cavalry.
Now that Yu Chixin ordered the army to set off, Zheng He led the two hundred knights in the pasture, plus a thousand Qiang riders, and first attacked the Tubo camp.
Although these one thousand and two cavalrymen are not regular troops, the Qiang people are good at riding and shooting, and their folk customs are sturdy.
Zheng He asked people to put up the flag representing King Jianning, and then took the lead and said: "Follow my command, charge, charge, charge!"
The cavalry rushed towards the Tubo camp. The Qiang riders' bows were like the full moon, and rain of arrows fell into the Tubo camp.
The horse is moving so fast, the bow is like a thunderbolt!