stubborn thief

Chapter 261 Countercurrent
The leader of the serfs who incited internal strife was named Buchi.

Butchi is a poor woman who was born in Sumang.

The meaning of this name is similar to the Han people's Zhaodi, which means that she is the eldest sister in the family, and it also means that the parents want to have a son.

Her parents were originally the servants of Master Su Mang. When she was eight years old, the family could not pay the interest on the debt, so they gave her to Master Su Mang as a slave.

Master Su Mang was not bad to her, he got a flock of sheep for her to raise, and specially built a two-foot-high earthen wall for her in the sheepfold to protect her from the wind.

Most people in the world have their own hobbies, and Master Su Mang is no exception. He likes to manage the territory and reproduce the population.

Su Mang doesn't breed himself, and he doesn't have a son until now, but he likes to let slaves breed the population to promote the prosperity of the territory.

He doesn't like monks because monks will affect the prosperity of his territory. First, men will become monks to reduce the labor force. Second, monks will also choose Ming concubines, which will further affect the population of the territory.

Over time, men and women in the territory are artificially balanced.

Su Mang can't stop the monks from choosing the concubine Ming, but he can stop the monks from becoming monks.

This has resulted in a situation where there are more men than women in the territory.

But Chi kept the sheep for Master Su Mang for five years. Due to the population problem, Bu Chi's name had good wishes, so Master Su Mang assigned her to his first husband in Longda.

The first husband was four brothers, all of whom were slaves. After they got married, the four brothers took turns staying at home, and the other three brothers went to work for the noble lord. Life was hard and poor, and they could only maintain a very low standard of living.

The victory is that the five people of the husband and wife get along harmoniously, and their lives are fairly passable.

But just making do with living has become a fantasy.

Because of Bu Chi's marriage, in Master Su Mang's eyes, it was a marriage exchange.

Su Mang married a woman, and Long Da also wanted to marry a woman, but after only three years of marriage, Bu Chi had already given birth to two dolls for Master Long Da's slaves, and she was pregnant with a woman who was married by Long Da. I got sick and died.

Master Su Mang lost a lot of money, seven of them refused to accept and eight of them were angry, and wanted to gather people to fight against Master Long Da to get Bu Chi back.

I'm not in the wrong for Master Long Da to think about this matter. But Chi has already given birth to two children, so he simply sent her back to Su Mang's territory.

In this way, Buchi had a second husband in the Sumang territory, this time three brothers.

This time, Bu Chi didn't have such good luck. The three brothers beat her or scolded her. Bu Chi's life was dark, and she felt that she would go to see the Buddha soon.

I just don't know if I can see it.

But Chi also has two younger sisters and four younger brothers, and her situation is similar. The three sisters have a total of fourteen husbands, and the four younger brothers have only one wife.

In this Danbei generation army that recruited slaves from all over the country, Buchi's two seven husbands were all in the army.

Their family can make up a dedicated team.

Thinking back when Master Dan Bei joined the army, the number of men under him was about the same as the number of men around Bu Chi.

There are not many women in the army. Most of the women are human-shaped mules, who serve as porters and carry luggage for the army.

But Chi doesn't do this. She is a shepherdess and once ordered by her master to enter Danba Manor to inquire about information.

She met the slaves of Danba in the manor. The young boy was crazy and excited, and he dragged her to talk about his wishes, about how Master Basang wanted to distribute the land to the slaves, let the slaves be their own masters, and make all the slave owners hungry die.

It's just a pity that Bu Chi is not smart, at least not as smart as Basang, she can talk about everything.

She told her master everything she knew.

So much so that the master's nephew was so angry that she took Master Danba back to the territory and tricked the young slave out into the cave.

But Chi didn't want to harm anyone, she just wanted to show kindness to the master.

Maybe Master Su Mang's kindness will waive her interest on the arrears this year.

Maybe the three husbands would be a little happier and stop punching her.

But right under her nose, the slave was punished by Master Danba with all the punishments she could imagine.

She was terrified, and when she closed her eyes, she would return to the dark cave with dim lights.

In the cave, Master Danba was so tired that his eyes were staring, he was panting against the wall, the corners of his mouth were raised, his face was stiff, he gritted his teeth and cursed softly, cursing that slave died too early.

Master Danba pointed to the half-skinned blood man and said, this is what happens if you believe those lies.

After that day, Butch was always looking for a voice.

She didn't understand that there were obviously many horrible scenes that she would never forget in her life, but she only remembered the sound of the skinning knife slipping from the master's hand.

The blade hit the stone, echoed in the cave, and echoed in the ears.

Butch always heard that voice.

When her husband beat her yesterday, she heard the voice again.

She knew that her husband would be angry. Among her second husbands, her elder brother was extremely loyal to Master Su Mang, and she always thought that she would be appreciated in this war.

He thinks he is fighting for Sumang's land, that he is also a part of Sumang.

But what a slave is is never in his own hands, it depends on what the master thinks he is.

On behalf of the army to reorganize the three departments and let them go home, it suddenly becomes very clear who is our own and who is untrustworthy.

The husband will naturally be angry. The three brothers should not have been assigned to this team. They have a family and a family. They should be thrown into the next battle by the master as the main force.

But Butch is also here, making them unbelievable.

Originally, this was a trivial matter for Bu Chi, but it was seen by the four ex-husbands who were also in the team. The seven men fought together, and then the seven brothers-in-law, two sons, and four nephews also joined in the fight.

In Bu Chi's ears, the echo of the skinning knife hitting the stone was coherent and loud, even accompanied by the voice of the skinned slave.

She must have been haunted by a ghost. The ghost repeated those excited and crazy words, saying that slaves should be their own masters, and in Danba, slaves can be their own masters.

In this valley full of slaves, she knew more than 20 men who fought with each other. Since men are so aggressive, why not fight others by themselves?

Butch didn't want any of the men to be killed, but she didn't know how to stop the men fighting.

The method was delivered to the door by itself, and the official Ruben who came to stop the riot was wiped across the neck by Bu Chi like killing a sheep.

Blood sprayed all over her face, and even the ghost chattering in her ear was frightened by her, and she dared not speak any more.

The fighting between the men stopped.

Bu Chi pointed to his husband, brother-in-law, son and nephews, and told them that they would all be killed when the master came back.

The husbands shook their fists, but Bu Chi didn't even hide. Seeing the knife in her hand, the three brothers were at a loss.

Then she repeated what the ghost said, and she wanted to lead them to escape to Danba territory, where slaves could be their own masters, get land and a better life.

The ex-husbands clapped and laughed and joined her. The four brothers have not had a wife for a long time since Master Su Mang snatched their wives.

Dan Bei Daiben selected these serfs who were prone to rebellion and created favorable conditions for Buchi. On the one hand, people had nothing to worry about, and on the other hand, they had no officers. It was difficult for the scattered slaves to deal with the more than 20 men around Buchi.

Not to mention, this woman always said that she heard something... It was creepy.

Dai Daozi searched all over his troops, but he couldn't find anyone who could understand the Western language. He also asked all the slaves, but there was also no one who understood Chinese.

But for such a special talent, the language barrier is not a problem.

A well-trained slave, the master knows what to do with just one look, not to mention Dai Daozi still has hands and feet.

It's just that his desire to set fire to the grain and grass fell through, and the brigade of slaves, led by Bu Chi, transported the grain and grass out of the valley overnight before finding another place to rest.

On the next day, Dai Daozi ordered the Tang cavalry team to escort the slaves to the Danba territory by detour, and returned to the valley with a few entourages.

You can't burn food, you have to burn something.

They set fire to the tents and everything that could be burned that had been left in the valley on behalf of the army.

Seeing the black smoke soaring into the sky, Dai Daozi was satisfied. The news of the attack on the grain storage camp in the rear would soon be known to the frontline enemy troops. He hoped that this would help Basang, Wailiangzi and others in Danba Manor.

At the other end of the Gaiqu River, it was a new day of fighting, starting with Danbei Daiben's order to withdraw his troops.

Xie Erhu, who was looking at the enemy's camp in the morning, found that the enemy's camp was empty, and immediately sent Mongolian herdsmen to investigate, and then started tracking and chasing in ecstasy.

Dan Bei Daiben knew that when the Mongolian leader saw the enemy fleeing, he would definitely launch a fierce pursuit, and the battlefield during the pursuit was chosen by them, and they could fight back when they wanted.

His target is not the Mongols.

The Mongols came and went, won or lost, and had no effect on the nobles in Kham. Basang was his goal.

All the nobles can't sleep at night because of this guy who took back the land and gave it to the slaves.

His plan is to see if Basang will chase him out. If he chases him out, he will kill him directly outside the manor; The manor, in order to completely defeat this stubborn slave army.

The biggest problem with this set of tactics is not to defeat the Mongolian soldiers, but in Danbei, it is not known whether the Mongolian army will chase them out, but the possibility of pursuit is very high.

After all, these Mongolian herdsmen seem to be quite poor.

Poor armies have a greater desire to beat the dogs in the water, and even more bluntly, they want to get the spoils of victory.

In fact, Xie Erhu's Mongolian shepherds are only small in strength, but their equipment level is among the best in Qinghai Mongolia.

In Haibei, a tribe like him can intimidate any Xifan tribe; but not in Kham, where there are big nobles who combine farming and animal husbandry, and they can already laugh at their poverty.

Compared with the Shaanxi Sanbian Qingqi of the Ming army, the Baili cavalry generally wearing a chain mail is not heavy, even lighter than Qingqi.

However, for the Mongolian cavalry, which is generally equipped with leather armor, and especially uses a large number of bone copper arrows, the chain mail is very heavy and has become frighteningly strong.

On the alpine grassland in the northwest of the Gaiqu River, over a hillside, King Baili's [-] Kang horse team launched a surprise attack on the pursuing Mongolian horse team with the momentum of a three-way encirclement.

Xie Erhu immediately realized that the enemy was retreating falsely, and quickly led his army back and fled.

In yesterday's cavalry battle, Xie Erhu's 32 cavalry cost [-] killed, [-] wounded, and [-] missing, killing [-] or [-] enemy cavalry, and the wounded don't count.

The inconsistency here is not that there are too many injuries, but that it is impossible to count the casualties of the enemy cavalry.

With their level of equipment, achieving such a result is already a glorious victory, but at the cost of using up the steel forged arrowheads from Jurwan on the cavalry's hands.

If you can't take advantage of the battlefield and control the battlefield, you can't get the spoils, and you can't even pick up the arrows you shoot.

Today they dare not confront the Duokang cavalry head-on.

It's not that they are timid, it's just that the productivity is too ruthless. If they use iron arrow clusters to strike iron armor, even if they are shirtless, some people will dare to fight with them.

But if you use bone or even stone arrowheads to strike iron armor, you can't beat it or you can't beat it. Courage is out of date and useless.

Xie Erhu's cavalry was driven into two formations, one in the northwest and the other in the southeast, and fled to the northeast of Danba Manor. Realizing that it was a fraudulent retreat, they did not exist and fought and retreated.

Crooked Liangzi was on the manor looking at the pipes he had picked up on the battlefield yesterday, when he suddenly saw the dust rising from the Mongolian cavalry in the distance, he was acutely aware that they were too panicked to run, so he hurried downstairs to call for Pao Ze to blow the horn.

He saw Bai Liduokang's cavalry behind the Mongolian cavalry, and he saw that the brigade behind the cavalry had already formed formation, leaving the large horizontal team and walking towards the manor.

The Han soldiers entered the defensive positions one after another, and the slave army slowly began to gather, and then they were frightened by the Mongolian cavalry that was being pursued, and they all lost their minds.

Fortunately, Xie Erhu also had a lot of combat experience, so he didn't let the cavalry attack the main formation, he jumped left and right before the fleeing cavalry, and finally assembled the soldiers and horses a hundred steps away from the manor, and led the cavalry to run from the right side of the manor to the left.

The Mongolian horse team ran across the front of the manor, and then went around to the rear, hoping to cross the trench from the side and rear without attacking the slave barracks in front of their own side, and then organize to defend against the enemy.

However, most of the Dokang horse team did not pursue them any more, holding their spears straight, and rushed towards the slave barracks unabated.

The hastily gathered slaves had to set up their spears, but before the enemy cavalry could get close, their calves began to tremble, and they rushed forward as if the ground was shaking.

Sporadic feathered arrows came flying at thirty paces, and the cavalry in the front row lowered their heads slightly, making an impact, but actually only held the reins, ready to turn the horse's head around ten paces later.

But they won.

The power overwhelmed the maximum limit that the slave infantry could bear, and the phalanx in front of the trench collapsed instantly. Some people dropped their spears and fled, and more people threw down their positions to stick to their positions, but their momentum was obviously affected.

Some cavalry raised their reins and crossed the ditch, crashing into a small gap of only three steps after a brief collapse. More cavalry turned their heads to the two wings, but turned back after only a few steps, ready to join the next attack.

The army formation has been broken, and the slave barracks in the corner of the corner set off a rout, throwing down their weapons and fleeing to the manor, and the rolling bead curtain is unstoppable.

At this moment, the light and heavy firecrackers on the frontal defense line of the Chinese army released huge gunpowder smoke one after another, and a row of projectiles of different sizes shot into the cavalry formation charging to break through the formation.

Before the gunpowder smoke dissipated, a large flag rolled up and burst out of the smoke. The armor skirts fluttered, and the warriors in the cotton armor with dragon patterns jumped over the trenches, raised their tasselless helmet guns high, wrinkled their noses and shook the flagpole, The flag with the character Liu on the red bottom is unfurled.

Behind him, figures danced and assembled from the smoke. 240 Han soldiers formed a horizontal formation in the rout of the two wings, leaning against the ditch, and took a step forward to meet the surging cavalry, holding up their spears. .

"Lion Army, line up!"

　good evening!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)