Chapter two hundred and eighty first ghost outside the fortress
w The howling wind flew by unbridled, whipping up countless amounts of sand and slamming it onto the withered trees, making a crackling sound. The sun in the sky seemed to have consumed too much light in the summer that had just passed.
, exuding a hazy yellow halo and shining a little bit of brilliance.
This is outside the Great Wall outside Longxi County on the northern border of Da Qin.
This is the territory of the Qiang people who have always been entrenched outside Longxi County and followed the Yuezhi to invade Longxi County of the Great Qin Dynasty several times.
Here, in the past hundreds of years, few Qin people were willing to set foot.
Because, just as this vast but barren land behaves like this now. Although it is almost September, in the land of Guanzhong, you can still feel the residual heat of summer, see green trees, and smell
Different floral fragrances. In the southern part of the Qin Dynasty, the sun is still scorching hot at this moment. This season, in the eyes of the people of Qin, is the harvest season.
However, in the desert outside the Great Wall, there are no other colors or things except the withered yellow color that seems to cover the sky and the earth and the windy sand that covers the sky and the earth for several days.
However, today, for the first time, traces of the Qin people appear in the area that has rarely or never been visited by the Qin people. And the appearance of the Qin people has also created a new chapter in this vast land with nothing but dry yellow and windy sand.
The land brings different colors and things.
That is the bright red color of blood and ruthless killing.
This is a small oasis on the edge of the desert. This small oasis is less than one mile in radius. It is home to one of the countless Qiang tribes living in this vast and barren land.
This tribe is called Yu, and it is one of the countless tribes of the Qiang people. I don’t know how many years ago, the ancestors of the Yu tribe snatched this lush oasis from the leaders of other tribes. So the Yu tribe is here
This oasis began to flourish and thrive until today.
This oasis has water sources and shrubs. It is the richest piece of land within dozens of miles around. Especially on the edge of the desert. Especially now that it is almost September, this oasis with water sources and shrubs is even more...
A rare treasure land in this vast land.
There are fully 10,000 people in the Yu tribe, and among the 10,000 tribesmen, there are nearly 3,000 strong ones. The tribe of 10,000 people may not even be ranked in the middle among the entire Qiang tribe. But within a radius of a hundred miles, it is definitely ranked among the top.
The largest tribe in the world, with a strength of nearly 3,000, allowed the Yu tribe to become the dominant tribe within a hundred miles in just a few short years.
Thirty percent of the Qiang people are strong and strong, which is also an extremely terrifying ratio among the numerous large and small tribes of the Qiang people.
Being strong means being able to ride a horse and control strings, which means being able to have more power to resist foreign lands. Whether it is tribal hunting or foreign conquests, it plays a vital role for a tribe.
It's noon now.
Streams of smoke rose into the sky from the oasis where the Yu tribe was located. This oasis was in a depression, surrounded by low hills, so the raging wind and sand had little impact on the Yu tribe.
few.
You can see in the distance that a large number of cattle and sheep are leisurely eating the green grass that has a slightly greenish-yellow color. Children are running carefree and laughing.
In the desert outside the Great Wall, there is rare green. Coupled with these leisurely grazing cattle and sheep and carefree children playing, it is a fairyland-like beauty on earth.
Suddenly!
On a small sandy slope several miles away from the oasis where the Yu tribe is located, several black shadows appeared without warning on the highland composed entirely of golden sand, and a golden light shone on it.
The reflection of sunlight flashed away.
After a while, the dark figures of those knights disappeared on the high ground again. It seemed that they had never appeared before.
Several cattle and sheep that were grazing seemed to be alarmed by the light reflected from the distance. They raised their heads alertly and looked towards the high ground. After finding nothing, they hooted a few times in a low voice and began to bury their heads again.
Green grass on the ground.
Winter is coming, if you don't eat it now, you will have to eat dry grass without any moisture in the next few months.
In a depression not far from the high ground where the shadows of several cavalry had just appeared, countless cavalrymen wearing black armor and exuding a murderous aura gathered in that depression in the leeward direction.
The murderous aura inadvertently revealed when their eyes flickered, making these knights in black armor look like a group of demons coming out of hell. All the war horses were muzzled, and all the knights gathered silently.
Together they silently swallowed the hard and cold dry food with the water they brought with them.
In the center of this group of black-armored knights, there was a tall man with a long scar on his face standing proudly.
Whenever the black-armored cavalry gathered around him looked at this sturdy man, their eagle-like eyes could not help but shrink slightly, and then hurriedly stepped aside.
It was a complicated look filled with reverence and fear.
There was a sound of horse hoofbeats, and the sound was quickly approaching this hollow land.
Hearing the sound of horse hooves, the thousands of black-armored knights gathered in the mountain stand stood still, minding their own business eating dry food and drinking water. In the center of the black-armored knights was a burly man who seemed to be the leader.
Then he glanced at the two black-armored knights who had been squatting at the mountain pass with his sharp eyes that seemed to have a sonorous voice.
The two black-armored knights didn't seem to notice the leader's eyes at all, and were listening intently. They even stopped chewing the unfinished dry food in their mouths.
After a while, a black-armored knight on the left nodded carefully to the other person next to him. The black-armored knight received the signal from his brother, stood up quickly, glanced outside and squatted down.
"General! He's one of our own!" A hoarse voice came from the mouth of one of the black-armored knights.
As soon as he finished speaking, several black-armored knights who had just appeared around the Yu tribe's green space rushed into the mountain col with their bodies covered in wind and sand.
Five people in total.
After the five black-armored knights, whose heads and faces were covered with black cloth and only their dark eyes were exposed, entered the mountain col, they all tightened their reins. The horses under the five people stood up one after another. Before the hoofs of the raised horses fell, the five people on the horses stood up.
The knights have all landed.
The mouths of the five-man war horses were also sealed!
After landing, the four black-armored knights led their horses towards one side, where there were prepared dry food and drinking water. Only the black-armored knight was carrying a long package on his back while removing the cloth from his face.
, while walking towards the leader standing in the center.
"Brother Long! How about"
Seeing the black-armored knight approaching, the black-armored leader, who had always had an expressionless face, took two steps towards him for the first time and asked in a deep voice.
"General Jing, there are many barbarians in that tribe, and there will certainly not be too few people who can control the strings. Now we have less than 3,000 men under our command. I thought that we should wait for the 2,000 soldiers escorting the goods to gather and then fight again."
Certainly!"
As he spoke, the black-armored knight unfolded the veil on his face, revealing an ordinary face that couldn't be more ordinary.
"Brother Long, we have been wandering around this desert for several days. If we don't get supplies, I'm afraid our brothers won't be able to hold on for long. The two thousand people escorted the more than 10,000 captured barbarians and cattle and sheep, and they only left for seven days. Now,
We have penetrated three hundred miles into the land of the Qiang people. The wind and sand have been so strong in the past few days, even if there are any marks left by us, they have been completely damaged by the wind and sand. I am afraid that I will not be able to wait for them to come!"
General Jing's eyes flashed with hesitation, and then he spoke.
The identity of the person in front of me is too sensitive. Even with his current status, he would not dare to be disrespectful to him at all. Among the entire team, they are the only five people who no one dares to offend, even if he has this name.
The leader above is no exception.
Because they are all personal guards of His Majesty the current emperor and members of the Longwei Mansion!
This group of black-armored knights was under the command of Jing Yun, who set out from Xianyang to Longxi to plunder. These black-armored knights were all composed of rangers or retainers gathered together from various aristocratic families in Xianyang.
After Jing Yun and others separated from Huben's army, they marched westward along the north bank of the Weishui River Gorge until they reached Lintao County in Longxi County. The route they took was actually the Weishui River Road.
When Jing Yun came out of Xianyang, a total of 5,000 people from various noble families, led by Jing Yun, went out to plunder the Qiang barbarians outside the Great Wall. In addition to Jing Yun, a group of brothers who had previously followed Jing Yun to help Li Si secretly all followed him.
Following Jingyun, he left Xianyang.
Also following were five Dragon Guards!
These five dragon guards have two tasks. The first is to monitor the plundering of Jing Yun and others to prevent these people from going crazy and plundering Da Qin's own people, and of course, to evaluate the amount of loot. The second
The task is to draw a topographic map of the Qiang territory outside Longxi. Mark the suitable marching routes and mark the locations of various grasslands, oases, deserts and water sources.
All of this is naturally to prepare for the future march.
Now in Xianyang, the nobles of the Fan family, the Su family, the Fang family and other old Qin families have gathered the second batch of people to go out and plunder. They are just waiting for Jing Yun and others to return with their loads before setting off again.
Jing Yun led five thousand miscellaneous people. After arriving in Lintao, they walked westward along the county road across the Zhidi Road of Longxi County and entered the territory of the Qiang people.
So far, they have entered the Qiang territory for twenty days!
In twenty days, these five thousand stragglers, under the leadership of Jing Yun, had gradually grown from fighting on their own to become elite warriors who commanded and enforced orders. The transformation and progress were not unpleasant.
But this transformation and progress is based on the blood of tens of thousands of Qiang barbarians in the entire western Longxi. Jing Yun and others are like ghosts, wandering around hundreds of miles of land, ranging from a dozen to hundreds of people.
Tens of thousands of Qiang tribesmen were massacred by this group of disciples who came out from the Qin Dynasty to plunder wealth.
These more than ten tribes, large and small, brought with them nearly 100,000 cattle, sheep and horses, and more than 20,000 Qiang slaves. Among these 20,000 people, there were more than a thousand strong Qiang people.
The harvest is not small!
However, behind the capture of more than 20,000 people, there were the deaths of nearly 10,000 Qiang people! (To be continued) m
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