Time: When one of the generals around Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty set out from Luoyang with his decree and the banners on behalf of the envoys of the Han Dynasty.
Location: Southwest of Hongbai Mountain, about fifty miles away from Yang Dongli's training camp, in an oasis called Kushuiquan.
The area of the oasis is not large, totaling only a hundred acres.
One of the springs, with a slightly bitter taste, flowed out. After supplying daily water for hundreds of people, it could not even support too many camels, cattle and sheep.
Therefore, in this Kushui oasis, there is only a small tribe of only seventy or eighty people living.
After excluding the young, old, and women, and even the young cubs who have just grown up, we can't put together more than 30 warriors in total.
There are actually many oases like Kushuiquan and small tribes living in them.
They are like stars scattered on the earth, scattered in the western area of the Taklimakan Desert. It is difficult, but like drought-resistant plants such as cacti and camel thorns, they survive in this area.
Until the desertification in this area became more and more serious, the springs gradually disappeared, and the oases they relied on for survival also turned into desert.
Only then do we leave here and go to the next place where we can thrive.
It is precisely because of their weak combat effectiveness that they often deal with danger in a way that does not enhance the combat effectiveness of their own tribe; there is an upper limit to this thing, and no matter how strong it is, it cannot get any stronger.
Mainly because this place is remote and desolate enough, and other people look down upon it.
There are also those who obey the strong. After discovering the danger, if the soldiers can protect the few possessions and move immediately, and then come back after the horse bandits leave, that will be the best result.
If it really doesn't work, then just obey.
Or put it another way to show their hospitality.
But the situation in Kushuiquan Oasis was a little different today, when a group of dozens of riders were spotted, speeding towards the oasis from the north.
At that time, he was riding on a poplar tree. After the young man on the branch of Changma saw the leader of the group clearly, he immediately choked back the words that told everyone to run away.
Instead, he shouted loudly with great joy:
"The bald thief Ali is here, everyone, come out and line up..."
The bald thieves came, and instead of running away or welcoming them, they actually lined up. The reason why such a scene occurred actually makes sense.
The losers in the training camp need to consume a lot of food every day.
There also needs to be a lot of meat inside to enable them to withstand high-intensity training.
In order to achieve this goal, Yang Dongli asked Lao She, Zhan Xiang, A Li and others to start trading in the surrounding small tribes with some troops.
And recruit some manpower from them to dig coal, dig iron ore, and then transport them back, etc.
The transactions and rewards paid were basically cloth, bronzes, etc.
As for bringing a group of people together, it is just to stop people from these tribes from having unnecessary ideas and ensure that the transaction proceeds normally.
After arriving at Kushuiquan, the white-haired girl Ah Li saw that many people here looked disheveled, and many of them obviously had various underlying diseases.
In addition, many of the cattle and sheep they raised also looked sickly.
So I couldn't help but take action, and used my own veterinary methods to treat the people and animals here with some simple herbs.
Before Ali appeared, the indigenous people living in Kushuiquan had no way of treating them when they got sick.
The tribal leader raised his head to the sky, smeared some sheep's blood on his and the patient's faces, and then danced towards the mountains in the distance, praying for the mercy of the gods.
If you can get through it later, you will naturally get through it.
If you can't survive it, just burn it on fire, or find a sand pit and throw it away.
But precisely because of this, and because their bodies do not have any antibodies to drugs, the effects of various herbal medicines are surprisingly good.
Anyway, after Ali finished the treatment and left some herbal medicines, the natives found that not only their own symptoms had improved a lot, but even the cattle and sheep were in better spirits.
Compared with the former, they value the latter more.
So, when Lao She, Zhan Xiang and A Li drove their horses into the oasis with 30 of their men, they were surprised to see sincere smiling faces.
What's even more outrageous is that the last time they were treated, they had to queue up.
Otherwise, they will just have them forked out without treatment. The reason is that these natives have accepted and become accustomed to the rules set by the bald robbers.
So, just in front of Ali and others, a group of people mixed with cattle and sheep appeared.
One after another, a long line formed in unusual harmony, winding directly for a distance of at least a hundred meters, obviously waiting for Ali to treat them.
That guy is like a modern-day clinic, like an old expert's clinic, which makes him feel quite happy.
Of course, Ali also understands that these people are so honest simply because they have enough power to destroy this place.
Otherwise, I would have been arrested by them long ago and become a slave for medical treatment...
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In the following time, Ali took action with Zhan Xiang and Zhan Xiang.
As for the old snake, he used some of the bronze he brought to make cauldrons and weapons, and discussed with the leader of the tribe how many sheep would be reasonable for one pot.
In addition, after a period of time, are you willing to send out some soldiers to go out with them to wipe out some small-scale sand bandits and bandits?
Regarding this point, Yang Dongli and others came up with a bad idea.
They thought that the natives under their command were almost done with training now; so when they went to train for actual combat against the horse bandits, they could bring along soldiers from some surrounding small tribes.
Anyway, they don't like many garbage-like things, but for the soldiers in small units, they are as good as treasures.
I was very happy to take it away while cleaning the battlefield, thinking that I had a great advantage.
Besides, what if we give them something better and give them some real benefits?
You must know that people have inertia in their thinking and behavior. In the first few times, they took advantage of some bald thieves; then when they become addicted and follow them to complete the mission, wouldn't it mean that there will be a lot more cannon fodder at once?
It's the kind of person who doesn't need to train, doesn't need to worry about food and equipment, and just brings his own dry food, weapons, and war horses.
What needs to be paid is just a promise to distribute part of the spoils after the war, or a promise to pick out the rest first and then distribute it to them.
Such a business can be said to be very profitable...
