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Chapter 18 Excuses to stay away

"Yes, my father-in-law." He Bai said again: "There is another thing for the son-in-law. Because he grew up in the Han area since childhood, he did not know how to live by water and grass everywhere. When he went to war, he wanted to take his subordinates to Yuyang with him. He was familiar with him. I wonder if his father-in-law had any advice."

Qiu Liju laughed and said, "You Han people want to learn the nomadic life of living by pursuing water and grass. It is the same as the Wuhuan people who want to learn the settlement and farming of the Han people. If you don't have more than ten years, you won't learn it. There are quite a lot of water and grass in western Liaoning. It means that my Wuhuan people are already semi-settled grazing, so you don't have to learn nomadic life. Anyway, there will be still a long time in the future, so learn slowly. But if you want to take it, it doesn't matter. After next spring and summer, I will divide a fixed grassland in the north for you, and you won't have to compete for the grasslands of other tribes."

He Bai was overjoyed, but he didn't show any expression on his face and thanked him: "Thank you, my father-in-law. I have finished it and will lead my troops to set off tomorrow morning. After tomorrow morning, I will no longer say goodbye to my father-in-law in person..."

On the second day, He Bai took Anova, led Fu Xing, and Chengzhang to lead more than 800 people to migrate westward. As soon as he left Qiu Liju's tribe for more than ten miles, He Bai couldn't control the joy in his heart and sang loudly.

Chinese singing styles different from the Eastern Han Dynasty floated on the Wuhuan land in western Liaoning. Anova was very happy to listen to He Bai's strange singing, not far from his father's sadness, and his eyes were slightly curled.

The migration of nomadic tribes is not easier than that of the Han people. There are many items carried by the migrants, but the nomadic tribes have a ride with cattle, carriages and horses, so it is relatively easier. Compared with the migration of nomadic tribes, it is more similar to the advancement of the Han army. Along the way, He Bai learned a lot of knowledge about camping under the guidance of the Wuwan tribes.

When playing the Three Kingdoms game in later generations, the number of troops was often counted as ten thousand people, and ten thousand people was just a small unit. However, since He Bai came to the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he found that ten thousand people were already an extremely large number.

The less than 8,000 slaves under He Bai's name scattered on the field, with a diameter of more than one mile and a radius. In addition, more than 30,000 fat sheep, more than 10,000 horses, more than 4,000 war horses, and nearly two thousand cows, almost four or five miles of land. If it weren't for the special selection of four hundred elites and riders around the periphery, perhaps most of the eight thousand slaves would have fled in less than two days.

Of course, this is just a joke. Because on the grassland, you are never polite to escaped slaves. Every slave has a unique seal on each tribe, and you can tell whether you are a free citizen or a slave at a glance. Moreover, even if a relatively hostile tribe captures an escaped slave, in order to warn the slaves of the tribe, they will kill the slaves with torture, snatch the heads, bury the skins, bury them alive, and other tortures, and will never be sheltered.

Therefore, although there were only about 30 Han people in the Hebai tribe and the ruling class of the Wuwan people, these eight thousand slaves did not dare to escape. Anyway, they would die, so it would be better to follow He Bai, the master, to live.

As long as you make military achievements, you may be promoted to the free people in the tribe. Although they have no property, they are at least free. At the same time, their lives are guaranteed and they will not be killed easily. If you make great contributions, you may be given to the tribe and become small slave owners. In the end, you must also make great strides towards the direction of the big slave owner.

The four hundred elite cavalry are the regular elite cavalry specially selected by He Bai. They also ride white horses and use the white horse as their name. Although they are still slaves, He Bai grants them freedom to them. As long as they make military achievements in the future, they can transform into free people with all their families.

According to He Bai's regulations, after they become free people, each person can be assigned ten sheep, two cows, two horses and a tent as an industry. This condition is much better than other tribes. The slaves were ecstatic after hearing this. Who would still think of escaping? Moreover, since the day of the migration, cheese will be full, and a pound of mutton can be distributed every three days. This food is no worse than the free people and horsemen of other tribes, so who would think of escaping?

The daily itinerary of the nomadic tribe is 30 to 40 miles, which is almost the same as the one-day itinerary of the Han army, so the Han army could not chase the nomadic tribe without cavalry.

However, since the whole people were full, He Bai allowed the slaves to ride on horseback. With reasonable rest, the itinerary reached seventy or eighty miles, twice as fast as other tribes. The six hundred miles journey arrived within eight days, and arrived in Yuyang just before the snow came.

He had just arrived at the Wuhuan land on the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain in the northern border of Yuyang. Wuyan, who had heard the news, hurried to greet him with a hundred cavalry. After seeing He Bai's tribe, he was very surprised and said, "I just received a message from Uncle Qiu Liju. I don't expect that Brother He Bai will arrive today. How fast did you come."

Wu Yan is a 7-foot-5-inch man in his early thirties, a little shorter than He Bai. He Bai laughed and said, "The snowy day is coming soon, either today or tomorrow. If I don't get faster, I won't be able to walk on the road for a month."

Wu Yan laughed loudly and asked He Bai's tribe to set up camps in a place near the water, and then hold a welcome bonfire party for all the fallen tribes. Ethnic minorities are interesting, and whenever there is something, the whole nation will celebrate, sing and dance. In later generations, such scenes were very rare.

At the banquet, Wu Yan said: "Na Ke Suoer was defeated by Brother Tadun for several consecutive games, and was blocked by me in a narrow area in Yanshan Mountain. He imitated the Han people's construction of earth, stone and wood villages to guard. Unless he was willing to leave most of his subordinates and escape from the small road, he would definitely not be able to escape. I wonder how many days will Brother He Bai have to rest before he will go to the battle?"

After careful inquiry, He Bai knew that he could not attack forcefully. If he could attack forcefully, Wu Yan would have attacked long ago, and He needed to wait until he came. He Bai passed through a field battle in Youbeiping, and had some knowledge of some ancient combat situations with the long-distance migrants over the past eight days.

The wars in ancient times and later generations are different from those in the game. In the game, soldiers are the same value, and the two armies fight to the death, and they are called again after fighting. The real national wars in later generations are similar, because the military service system is relatively perfect, and more demands on firepower are required, and they will pay more attention to various resources.

But it was different in ancient times. The lives of elite soldiers were relatively precious. They would never fight decisively without being sure or having to fight. Because killing one thousand enemies will inevitably lead to 800 losses. And they only have so many soldiers and horses. Once they fight, they will be done.

Moreover, no matter how elite troops are, the casualties cannot be too large. Once the number exceeds 30% or 40%, it will cause the total collapse of the entire army. Sometimes, just the vanguard of a large army is annihilated, and the entire army may be defeated. Therefore, there are often reports of beheading 1,000 and defeating 10,000 enemies. Just like in the Battle of Youbeiping, the 30,000 joint army of Wuhuan will definitely not exceed 3,000 casualties, and the entire army will be defeated.

Also, there will not be too many troops loyal to the general. If all this elite force is killed, even if you capture a hundred times the number of people, you will not dare to believe it easily, and it will not be able to resist the original one-percent of the people.

Even in the later Liberation War, the Kuomintang army that joined the Communist Party was only absorbed into the People's Liberation Army after many choices and timely ideological education. Moreover, their attitude towards the cause of liberation was far less firm and loyal than the veterans of the Long March and the Anti-Japanese War.

He Bai's kindness to these eight thousand slaves had just begun, and his prestige had not yet been established, and his language and command were very unsatisfied, so he decided not to fight first, and then talk about it after one or two months of training and ideological education in later generations.

Wu Yan had a rough understanding of the situation of He Bai's tribe, and he also had no good idea about the Kesuoer tribe, which was guarding the village, so he agreed to He Bai's opinion and fought again after the beginning of spring.

In the following days, He Bai, Fu Xing and Cheng Zhang began to conduct a survey and count the slaves of He Bai's tribe. He Bai was surprised to find that there were more than 2,000 Han slaves in the tribe. However, because they were plundered for a long time, most of them had been plundered, and only hundreds of people had been plundered in recent years.

Although they are both Han people, He Bai is the largest and only slave owner in the tribe. They are also one of their own property. They can take appropriate care of them, but they cannot indulge them too much. After all, the Han tyrants in the Han area at this time also had countless slaves and servants at home. If you enter the village, you should follow the customs.

There are 823 people in the entire tribe, with 7,756 people in Dingkou, of which about 1,400 young and strong men aged 1,400. If a man who is aged 12 to 60 and a woman in the middle of the tribe, there will be an army of more than 4,000 people. Of course, this is unrealistic. The maximum force will be about 2,500.

If He Bai trained in later generations, he needed a large number of grassroots officers and soldiers, but according to the ancient rough training method, fourteen people were enough. After discussion, He Bai decided to spend one month training to train a template of 140 people, then expand to 1,400 people, and finally expand to the entire tribe.

So he first picked out fourteen slaves who knew Chinese as auxiliary officials, and then selected one hundred and forty young slaves with agility and strong acceptance ability to come, and began He Bai's military training plan.

In a few days, He Bai was sadly discovering that the training methods of later generations were not very useful to the Wuhuan people in this world. Because they were born knights, not infantrymen, and the initial infantry queue training of new recruits in later generations was almost useless to them. Instead, they trained their originally not very smart brains. It seems that they should keep the Han army that will train in the future.
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