My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 146 Do you think I am a kind person?

It was midsummer, and among the shallow grass, dewdrops accumulated in the middle of the night hung on the grass tips. Then pairs of feet stepped on the ground. At a glance, the team stretched for miles, with flags held high and flying.

In the blowing wind, Su Chen understood what it meant to face the scorching sun but be chilled by the wind.

There is no snow at this time of year. Looking into the distance from horseback, you can see high mountains standing against the blue sky. The mountainside to the top of the mountain is covered with white snow. The snowfield is not as desolate as imagined.

"This place has a nice view."

After entering the snowy field, Su Chen still liked the surrounding scenery quite a bit, but Anuhu, who had lived here for many years, interrupted Su Chen's fantasy.

"The general doesn't know. In midsummer, the scenery here may be beautiful. Once winter comes, the beautiful scenery will turn into a terrible hell. When encountering the cold and severe snowstorms, which will last for more than ten days, the livestock will die of cold and starvation. , the tent will be crushed, and most of the family will freeze to death at night. In winter, it is difficult to catch prey, and there will be no livestock to feed, so many, many people will die."

"Then have you ever thought about building a brick house? It's much stronger than a tent."

"This... slave-making people don't know this craft, and the Yan merchants who come here for trade are not willing to transport heavy objects like bricks and stones to such a long distance."

Su Chen came here to follow Zhuge Liang's strategy of stabilizing the rear. He would definitely not be able to kill all the slaves, so turning them into sharp weapons was the best strategy.

What's more, slaves have always had a tradition of fighting for the Yan court, so it is much easier to recruit them.

In the afternoon when we arrived, the sun gradually faded, and the wind here became stronger and stronger, making people feel chilly. Many soldiers held their arms and shivered from the wind.

At this time, in the distance of the shallow grass field ahead, a horse team of dozens of people was running over. These people were wearing fur coats and fur hats. Two fox tails or mink tails hung on their shoulders from behind the fur hats. The troops who came over dismounted one after another, clenched their fists and pressed their shoulders, and half-kneeled.

In the language of the slaves, Jili Gulu said a lot.

Anuhu acted as a tongue-in-cheek and translated for Su Chen: "They are the tribe of prisoners and beggars. They are members of the chief leader. They came here specifically to pay homage to the general of the Yan State and to invite the general to visit the tribe as a guest."

"Ask them why Na Yan Duo didn't come to greet me." Su Chen blew away a few horse hairs on the back of his hand.

After listening to Anuhu's translation, those people quickly explained that Nayan Duo and the big leader were probably drunk and sleeping in the tent, so they could only come over.

"Haha, okay, the big leader is really thoughtful."

Su Chen smiled, whipped off his riding whip, and urged the horse to move forward. When he reached the other side, he ordered these people to lead the way for the army. Dian Wei walked to the side of the black horse and lowered his voice: "My lord, these people Sure enough, there was something wrong, I kept secretly checking the number of people around me."

"Ah."

Here, Su Chen just responded softly, asking Dian Wei not to alert the enemy, and only invited Ma Dai to whisper a few words to him, who then fell behind the team on horseback, and then galloped away in the wilderness.

Soon, the shallow grassland gradually disappeared and turned into a hard-soiled tundra. The temperature dropped sharply and was much colder than before. Fortunately, we saw a camp with a pine forest in front of us, with smoke rising from the cooking pots and surrounded by fences to guard against tigers and wolves. Around it, only one side is roughly estimated to cover an area of ​​about two miles.

From a distance, I saw a group of slaves waiting outside.

These raw slaves were almost the same as those in Yanjing, but their behavior was more wild. When they saw the soldiers and horses coming from afar, the leaders clenched their fists with one hand and pressed their shoulders, and they all knelt down and saluted.

"Anuhu, wake them up."

Su Chen got off his horse and walked toward the other party in military uniform. In the words translated by Anuhu, the leaders stood up and laughed boldly, making welcoming gestures to invite Su Chen into the camp.

"Where's the beggar?"

Su Chen asked, and Anu Hu also translated. After receiving the answer, he frowned, but still reported to Su Chen truthfully: "The prison beggar is still sleeping in the tent."

"Anuhu, you said these people want my life, what will you do?"

"Impossible. Although the big leader doesn't like outsiders, he is also a hero who gave birth to slaves. He will not do anything irrational." Su Chen looked around the tents. The women who gave birth to slaves were busy in the tent. When he saw Su Chen, his eyes changed. The child dodged and turned aside, hiding behind his mother and secretly revealing half of his face.

Along the way here, I didn't see an old man outside. Occasionally I saw one, but he didn't come out of the tent.

Then, Su Chen said something that surprised Anuhu.

"Then what if the beggar is dead?"

"Then I will kill the traitor!" Anuhu lowered his voice, "The five thousand warriors I brought will also fight for the general!"

Su Chen didn't answer him, because he had already reached the big tent, and there were several leaders standing outside, but there was an extra slave in front of them, who looked like he was dressed in a higher status, but Anuhu saw the man in his hand. Big Ax, with a look of surprise on his face, then an angry look on his face, and yelled at the other party in raw slave language.

Tian Nu smiled and slowly stepped aside, revealing the scene in the big tent. The prison beggar's body was lying on the ground, with his head chopped off and hanging in the tent. Blood dripped down the broken neck and braid.

All around, ten tribal leaders were tied up and thrown to the ground.

"Ask where my envoy is." Seeing such a scene, Su Chen didn't feel even the slightest fright, and asked Anuhu to ask the other party expressionlessly.

"Haha... This general should still care about his own life."

Tiannu did not answer. He raised his hand and clapped a few times. The sound of footsteps suddenly sounded from the surrounding tents. Strong figures walked around the tents, drawing bows and arrows, or holding hunting knives and spears. come out.

boom!
The five hundred shield and halberd warriors raised their shields and halberds. The second row lowered their axes from their waists and held them in their hands. The two hundred slave soldiers brought in by Anuhu also responded, drawing their bows and raising their spears to alert the tribesmen on both sides.

"I really don't know whether to live or die." Su Chen closed his eyes and was too lazy to say anything to them. When he opened his eyes, he pulled out the 'Xue Jian' from his waist and said, "Dian Wei, kill!"

The word 'kill' fell for a moment.

Hundreds of short axes were thrown in three directions: forward, left and right. The flying axes were embedded in the armor-less chest, and blood splashed instantly. Almost dozens of people fell to the ground in an instant.

The slaves all around screamed savagely, "Wow!" and rushed towards the five hundred shield-halberdmen and the two hundred slaves like a tide. They hit the iron wall and slashed and stabbed with hunting knives and spears. The bow shoots arrows one after another.

Tian Nu looked excitedly at the shortlisted general of the imperial court. The man who was rumored to be invincible was about to die in front of him.In front of the field of vision, Su Chen was protected in the center. A tall and tall court general brandished his halberds and jumped into the formation from the tent, knocking down the slave warriors who tried to break the formation and fell to the ground.

"He has a warrior like you beside him, Jingu. Go and show your strength to the Yan people and let them know that you are the strongest on the snowy plains."

On the side, a giant tribal man named Jingu grabbed the leader's ax handed over by Tiannu, walked toward the defensive line, his steps became faster and faster, and then kicked the ground hard, slamming into the shield in front of him. wall.

"Haha, let them see how powerful you are!"

Tiannu screamed excitedly, but in the next moment when he was so excited, the huge figure rushed towards the shield, and then flew back. His heavy body pressed against the frozen soil and slid forward, landing at Tiannu's feet. Stopping in front of him, Jin Gu had a small halberd stuck on his forehead.

Dian Wei glanced this way. He couldn't even catch a flying halberd, which made him lose interest at all.

Tiannu looked at the corpse on the ground in shock, and his shock turned into anger. He yelled in Shengnu language, asking the surrounding Shengnu warriors to entangle the hundreds of people.

His last hope was coming soon!
……

On the wasteland outside the Qiu tribe, Gu Zhaowu, who was a reinforcement for Tiannu, was running away with his life on his horse. There were only a dozen or so cavalry left behind him.Spreading behind him was a rumbling group of cavalry. Xiqiang flying cavalry wearing plush fur hats and leather armor kept drawing their bows and shooting arrows.

Most of these cavalry are from the Yanshan Iron Cavalry, as well as the elite light cavalry from the princes' troops. Although they cannot be compared with Lu Bu's Wolf Cavalry for the time being, they are more than enough to deal with the original Yanshan Iron Cavalry, which only has a thousand numbers. Not to mention that the opponent was on the original battlefield of Yushan. He was already demoralized.

It was okay to bully the slaves who had no cavalry in the snowy field. Once they encountered the cavalry led by the fierce general, they were beaten to pieces as soon as they met, and they ran around in the wilderness.

The last Yanshan cavalryman was shot off his horse. Gu Zhaowu only felt a sharp sound of breaking wind, and a sudden sharp pain in his back. He fell off the galloping horse. He struggled to get up, and a big gun buzzed. She reached out and stood in front of him.

Ma Chao lowered his gaze and stared at him coldly: "Tie them up."

Two Xiqiang riders jumped off their horses, took out ropes and tied them up directly. After confiscating their weapons, they were led behind the horses' buttocks.

……

In the prison beggar tribe, fighting was resounding, and the tribal warriors were like a tide. Facing the five hundred shield warriors, they could not advance at all. Anuhu over there was not allowed to bring 200 people to join the array at this time, and then the shield warriors The line of halberdiers counterattacked with bows and arrows.

Tiannu's face turned yellow and white, and his mind was buzzing. He didn't understand how the warriors in the tribe could not defeat even hundreds of people with their wildness tempered by years of fighting.

Suddenly, he saw Su Chen, who was holding a blade in the array, smiling towards this side.

The next second, more waves of fighting sounded outside the camp. The footsteps and shouts of people swept in from all directions. Tiannu and other leaders were stunned when the figures of Yan soldiers pushed down the fence and rushed into the camp, flooding the camp like a tide. Passing the scattered tents, a veteran in white robes and silver armor came towards them with a horse and a gun drawn.

On the other side, Zhang Yi swept away the two slave soldiers blocking the way, and led more than a hundred people to fight towards this side.

Tiannu looked at the leaders on both sides, then raised his arms and drew his bow, aiming at the veteran who was charging towards him on horseback, preparing to break out towards the other side.

The arrow flew past, and with a bang, Zhao Yun swung his gun and knocked it away. He looked at the barbarian with an angry look on his face.

Both feet touched the horse's belly, and the white horse neighed and leapt into the air. The white robe flew away and the gentian buzzed softly. The tip of the spear pointed at the head of the raw slave leader.

Red and white sprayed out directly from the hole.

"Warriors of the Tiannu tribe, your leader is dead——"

Anuhu screamed loudly, and gradually, the charging Shengnu people around them slowly stopped. Without the tribal leader, they seemed to have become ordinary people, looking at the surrounding Youyan soldiers with fear.

“If you do something wrong, you must be punished, and then others will know the rules.”

Su Chen sheathed his sword and moved forward to join Zhao Yun. Dian Wei ordered around: "Kill all the slaves who participated in the ambush!"

The swarming crowd was replaced by Youyan soldiers who had just formed an army. The moment they heard the order, they thrust their spears and stabbed wildly at the raw slaves who had just been fighting.

As Su Chen walked towards the big tent, the entire camp fell into massacre. Anuhu opened his mouth and looked at the slave warriors lying in a pool of blood. He could not make a sound and did not even dare to move.

The five leaders were held down by several Youyan soldiers and tied up in extremely humiliating postures. They struggled hard and cursed Su Chen, Zhao Yun and Zhang Yi who came over.

Su Chen took the knife from a soldier's hand, stepped forward and slashed the leader who had scolded him the most fiercely several times. He stopped when blood spattered on his face, threw the knife to the soldier, and smiled at Zhao Yun and the other two: " To deal with barbarians, we must kill and fear them. The more ferocious we are, the less they will dare to mess around easily, and the more stable the people on the border will live."

Looking at the general with blood on his face, Zhao Yun gradually smiled and handed over a silk handkerchief: "Yun agrees with this point. Your tone and demeanor are more like Gongsun Zan. But there is one thing, you are better than him. Know how to consider the people."

"Those who come after us should learn from the experience of those who came before us."

Su Chen wiped the blood on his face and looked at the ten leaders who were tied up in the tent. They all stepped forward and knelt in front of Su Chen. At this time, Na Yan Duo also rushed over. He was tied up and thrown in the In the innermost part, the body was covered with scars from being beaten.

He knelt on the ground with his forehead touching the ground.

"That Yan Duo did not fulfill the general's order, please punish him!"

"Whatever I punish you for, you have done well."

Su Chen walked into the tent, and the soldiers moved the beggar's body outside. He sat down at the front seat. Zhao Yun and Zhang Yi also sat down on both sides. Soon, the sound of horse hooves was heard outside the tent, and Ma Chao and Ma Dai also When they came back, after the two came in and exchanged orders, they also threw the captive Gu Zhaowu in front of Su Chen.

"Please, General, deal with it!"

On the ground, Gu Zhaowu's back was in severe pain and he couldn't escape at all. He glanced around with his peripheral vision and thought of a way to save himself. He gritted his teeth and stared at Su Chen.

"I will kill you or behead you. Gu is a general of Great Yan and I will never surrender to you!"

"General Gu is a loyal minister and righteous man!"

Su Chen nodded in appreciation, and when Gu Zhaowu felt a hint of joy in his heart, Su Chen raised his hand and waved, "He is a cavalry general, so I trampled him to death with a war horse to show his loyalty."

Gu Zhaowu's eyes suddenly widened and he hurriedly wanted to speak, but was grabbed and dragged out by two Youyan soldiers who rushed over.

As the war horses neighed and several pitiful wails subsided, Su Chen waved to Yan Duo, asking him to come and sit down, and also asked the ten leaders to sit down as well.

"Since the prison beggar has been killed, the position of the big leader is vacant. I happen to have a good candidate to recommend."

Su Chen patted Na Yanduo's shoulder on one side, "He has been a slave soldier, fought in battles, and can speak the Yan language. I am very satisfied. Then let him be the leader of all your tribes. There should be no one." Are you against it?!"

The rebel warriors outside have been slaughtered. Each Youyan soldier stood outside the tent holding a bloody knife and looked in. Dian Wei grinned and stuck out his tongue, as if eating someone, and licked the edge of the sword. blood on it.

After the ten leaders tremblingly listened to the words translated by Anuhu, they came directly over, knelt down towards Su Chen, clasped their hands together and raised them above their heads, and then lay down on the ground.

Na Yan Duo, with an expression about to cry but no tears, trembled and became the new leader of the birth slaves.

"Very well, now I'm going to get down to the business of this visit."

Su Chen stood up and asked Na Yan Duo, the ten leaders and Anu Hu to follow. He walked out of the tent and camp and came outside. He pointed at the surrounding wasteland against the howling cold wind.

"You must remember the following words carefully, I will not repeat them a second time. From now on, many gentry and dignitaries will come here every year. You are responsible for protecting their safety, taking them to enjoy the snowy scenery, and taking them hunting. , experience your food, buy some leather goods and yams.

Of course, they will pay a sum of money as a reward. This money will not be handed over directly to you, but will be distributed to you after deducting taxes, and you will then allocate it to the guards, hunters, cooks...

...I will arrange the source of customers, starting with Longyang and Yanzhou. There are many wealthy families here. I will let you make money and live a good life, and what you pay is to continue to fight for me and create taxes. Gift!Understand? "

Although she didn't quite understand, Na Yan Duo still tried her best to pretend to understand.

"As long as you understand, clean up the camp, I'm going to stay here tonight!"

Su Chen dusted off his hands, turned around and left with Dian Wei.

(End of this chapter)