Kunbuha followed up with a question, and then he thought of it: "They are the ones who looted from the three states of Changhuan and Fu when the army just went south in the Year of the Rooster!"
The Year of the Rooster in the Mongolian calendar is the third year of Da'an in the Jin Dynasty. In this year, Genghis Khan led his troops southward and officially launched an attack on the Jin Kingdom, and the first target of the attack was the northern border
The three states of Chang, Huan and Fu are located on the outermost edge of the trench defense line.
At that time, these three states were not only the military support points that Daikin had been operating for decades, but also the most important animal husbandry and handicraft centers on the defense line. They were the output of horses and ordnance. Genghis Khan quickly captured the city by running a horse and overthrowing the soil.
After these three states, they not only seized the horses and ordnance accumulated by the Jin Kingdom over the years, but also plundered all the craftsmen here.
The total number of these craftsmen is about 5,000, and including their families, the number exceeds 20,000.
After obtaining these craftsmen, the Mongolian army made up for the final shortcomings in the production and maintenance of weapons and armor, and invaded the Central Plains with an invincible attitude. Most of these craftsmen also received preferential treatment from Genghis Khan. After being brought to the grasslands, they roughly
To be regarded as a "harraz" means that they are civilians rather than slaves.
Some people were once assigned yurts, cattle and sheep, and were allowed to marry and have children. In terms of treatment, I am afraid it is better than that at the Dajin Frontier Fortress. With these people as the core, they will continue to be filled with Han slaves captured over the years, at most
At that time, there were at least hundreds of thousands of Han people on the grasslands serving the Mongolian Nayans.
But this situation completely changed after the Mongolian army suffered a setback in the war and turned to the westward expedition.
On the one hand, most of the skilled young laborers among the Han'er craftsmen were ordered to accompany the army; on the other hand, the old, weak or ordinary people with no skills who were left behind were regarded as slaves, even if some had a slightly higher status.
, with the sharp shortage of living resources on the grassland, it was soon impossible to maintain the status of civilians.
There is nothing we can do about it, there is so much less meat on the plate, and thousands of ordinary Mongolian tribes have already been divided into three, six or nine, so who can care about Han'er?
After many Mongolians followed Genghis Khan and invaded the Central Plains, because they did not intend to occupy it for a long time, they massacred a large number of Han people in the places the army passed through, and captured every ten of the people who accompanied the army, and they were all treated as the most despicable Boul.
After returning to the grassland, the humiliation of being defeated by the Han'er aroused terrible anger in the hearts of the Mongols. They vented this anger on the Han'er in the grassland and inflicted ten times the brutality and cruelty on the Han'er, as if
This was revenge against the Han regime in the Central Plains.
Abel roughly estimates that at least 30,000 to 40,000 people were killed or tortured to death of freezing and starvation in the past two years.
Therefore, when the Great Zhou Dynasty began to restore the defense line in northern Xinjiang two years ago, a large number of Han slaves belonging to the tribes behind the Monan Mountains fled southward at all costs. Some even took their families and crossed hundreds of miles of uninhabited mountains, just to return home.
The territory of the Han family.
This move did not attract the attention of the Mongols at first. After all, people on the grasslands were panic-stricken at that time. There were more than three or five Mongolians from every thousand households who went south to join the Zhou Dynasty. Who would care about those humble Han slaves.
But soon the Mongols discovered that without the hard-working men, even herding cattle and sheep was not going smoothly. Most of the Han men from thousands of households on the southern edge of the grassland fled and could only do nothing, while the tribes deep in the grassland were
He kept a close eye on the Han people, used knives and whips to drive them like cattle and horses, and used continuous threats and insults to force them to run around and work hard.
Now it seems that these cattle and horses have begun to escape, or is it such a large-scale escape?
Where can they escape to? There is nothing nearby, only a long-abandoned Usha Castle?
Abel and his companions drove their horses away from the deserted dirt road and looked at it from a little distance.
Soon, he saw a group of Mongolian cavalry chasing after him.
This group of people should come from the Qianhu tribe in a remote place in the north. Judging from their appearance, they are Na Ke'er from Qianhu. There are not many people, only twenty or thirty riders.
Before their riding and shooting skills, the Han slaves had no power to fight back. The Han slaves who were at the end of the crowd were chased by the Mongols like they were hunting, and were shot down one by one by bows and arrows.
Due to the lack of iron materials, in the past two years, many Mongolian tribes have resumed the habit of using bone arrows and iron arrows together. When the bone arrows hit, they penetrate into the body, while the heavier iron arrows break through the target's body.
Bloody holes and even broken bones.
The man who was hit by the arrow screamed loudly and rolled on the ground. He was immediately caught up by the knights, who slashed and stabbed him with swords and guns.
Someone broke his leg while climbing up the ravine and was blocked in the ditch and stabbed repeatedly. Someone was stabbed but survived, so the Mongolians called on their young companions behind them to come up and chop them in the same manner.
In recent years, large-scale hunting has rarely been organized on the grasslands, and many fighting methods have been almost forgotten by young people. The Mongolian people are not willing to let go of this opportunity to hone their skills.
The stragglers were killed one after another, and the first hundred or so people were still fleeing. The Mongols laughed happily and urged them to continue chasing.
Seeing the embarrassed appearance of the group of men, Kunbuha shook his head and said: "I really don't know what they are thinking. Isn't it good to live? Why do you want to seek death like this? Are all the men stupid?"
After sighing twice, he found that Abel next to him had a serious face, as if he did not agree with what he said.
"I have seen Han'er who just wants to survive. But..."
Abel only said half of what he said.
He suddenly thought that he had not only met Han'er before, but also had Han'er's subordinates. When Naminfu was a hundred households, there was a Han'er in the tribe called Qian Wuhua. Qian Wuhua was very honest and loyal.
He followed Abel and fought everywhere, and then died like a worthless ant.
When he didn't spend money, he worked very hard, but the harder he worked, the more Abel looked down on him. He felt that he was weak and incompetent and as timid as a mouse, so he followed the Dangxiang first and then the Mongols.
No one dared to resist.
No matter how cowardly these guys are, at least they dare to run when the butcher's knife is wielded, dare to fight for their own lives, and would rather die on the road to fight for it... This is already a step above the kind of pure slaves.
Besides, maybe after struggling, there will be some good results.
It is said that Guo Ning, the Emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the Central Plains, was an ant fleeing under the iron heel of Mongolia earlier. Didn't he fight for it and lead hundreds of millions of people to stand up? On the contrary, the Mongols stayed in the grassland and spent several
It’s been a tough year!
Thinking of this, Abel shook his head violently.
Since the broken arm was injured, he may have drank too much, and he is easily distracted and thinking wildly. What does this situation have to do with tracking those two noble men? It is serious to bypass this place quickly and continue chasing the hoof prints!
As soon as Abul reminded himself, Kunbuha muttered: "Where is the fire? Why is there smoke?"
Before he finished speaking, several huge grass balls suddenly flew up from several undulating ravines nearby.
The straw balls were made of thorn branches as bones and bundled with withered grass. Each ball could be hugged by two people. When the straw balls were thrown up, they were already ignited. While they were still in the air, tongues of flame danced and burned into pieces.
A big red fireball!
The position where the fireball shot up happened to be right in front of, behind, and to the left of the Mongolian cavalry.
After they hit the ground, they either bounced and rolled, or scattered into small pieces that were on fire, and the sound of the fireworks became more and more terrifying.
The horses ridden by the Mongolian cavalry were obviously afraid of fire. They were not well-trained military horses, but ordinary items from the tribe. Wherever the fireball went, everyone was frightened. They screamed Herodically and stampeded wildly.
Jumping. Several Mongolians on horseback were thrown off violently. Some of them barely managed to escape from their horses and could only hug their horses' necks and shout repeatedly.
In the ravine where the grass ball was thrown, Lu Shu squinted and looked outside, laughing and saying: "There are many ways for A Duo!"
Beside him, Ado touched his head: "These are all old tricks, they are recorded in the book! In the chapter on ambush, on the fifth page, there are four battle rules, which you must memorize!"
In another ravine, Lu Wusi had already drawn his sword in his hand and swooped out.
