In the middle of the night, gunfire suddenly broke out outside, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.
It sounds like the fighting outside is extremely fierce.
He knew that it was a surprise attack from Ma Quanyou's troops. Obviously, he had prepared everything. As long as he failed to catch Tuoba Lan, he launched an attack that night.
At dawn, the sporadic gunshots gradually subsided. Although Chen Xingchang had made preparations, he obviously did not expect that Ma Quanyou would fall out with him like this and invade in a large scale. Chen Xingchang's troops were scattered among three large tribes. Although the strength of the troops here
At most, they were eventually defeated and Chen Xingchang fled with a handful of guards.
Lu Ming and Tuoba Lan followed Chen Xingchang's fleeing team, both riding horses. Only Lu Ming and Tuoba Lan rode Xiao Hei, running long distances, but Xiao Hei was not inferior to the horse's foot power.
Lu Ming took advantage of the chaos and helped Datong and his acquaintance's family escape from the tribe. They agreed to meet at this oasis half a month later. They could now take refuge in a small tribe not far away.
In fact, Lu Ming could have taken Tuoba Lan to wait for Ma Quanyou's soldiers.
Seeing that Ma Quanyou was powerful and Chen Xingchang was weak, Lu Ming adjusted his original plan.
A few days later, Chen Xingchang and Lu Ming arrived at a mountain village with more than ten riders and an ox. This was a mountain village, but there were no adult men in the village. It seems that the mountain people were tough and unwilling to surrender, so Chen Xingchang was
Killed all the young and strong men.
Chen Xingchang stationed several hundred soldiers here.
Although Chen Xingchang's troops immediately launched a defense, they heard that people were panicking. First of all, there was not much ammunition.
Weapons and ammunition, in this barbaric land, will only become less and less as they are used, and there is no replenishment at all.
The bandits in Baihai have existed for hundreds of years, but they only make some home-made firecrackers, use home-made methods to make gunpowder, and make firearm projectiles.
In the afternoon, Ma Quanyou's pursuers arrived. There were more than a hundred cavalry. They were not in a hurry to attack. Naturally, they waited for Ma Quanyou's infantry brigade to arrive.
Seeing the miserable situation of the people in the village, Lu Ming's plan gradually took shape.
Lu Ming didn't want to see how the battle would turn out. He took a chance and took Tuoba Lan and Xiao Hei to sneak out and escape from here.
…
A thatched hut of a small tribe.
Lu Ming and Da Tong were gesticulating something, and they also expressed it with pictures. The meaning was to contact all the tribes here, large and small, to unite and drive away these cruel foreign rulers.
Da Tong naturally had a look of fear on his face and used branches to draw the spray of rifles and other firearms on the sand.
Lu Ming told him with gestures that sooner or later the terrible fire inside this thing would be emitted, and in the end, it would just turn into a melee with bayonets.
Datong didn't seem to understand and just shook his head.
The bronze-skinned woman standing next to Lu Ming suddenly screamed angrily.
She is the woman who was saved by Lu Ming. Now she has become a loyal supporter of Lu Ming. Lu Ming calls her Bronze Girl.
Obviously, Tongnu hated the brutal foreign invaders with deep hatred.
Datong shook his head helplessly, but finally agreed to contact various ministries first.
The copper girl then turned from anger to joy, and followed Lu Ming's example, expressing her appreciation for the copper with a thumbs up gesture.
Everyone "dismissed" the meeting, left the thatched hut together, and went their separate ways to follow their plans.
Next to Xiao Hei outside the thatched house, Tuoba Lan was standing blankly.
This is a small tribe with more than a dozen households and more than a hundred people.
Originally a vassal of the large tribe where Tongnu belonged, Tongnu's family still had some status here.
It was as if all the leaders of the Bronze Girl tribe had been killed, but her family had become one of the surviving families with the highest status.
"You, you came here to deal with Dahan, right?" Seeing Lu Ming, Tuoba Lan asked suddenly, with extremely complicated eyes.
Lu Ming nodded: "Yes, but I have no ill intentions towards you."
Tuoba Lan sighed softly, turned his head and ignored him.
…
When it was time to go to bed, Bronze Girl enthusiastically pulled Lu Ming and Tuoba Lan to a thatched hut, gesturing as if the three of them would sleep together.
This small tribe has only about twenty thatched huts in total. The free thatched hut allows three people to live together, which is considered the most noble treatment.
The other dozen or so members of Tongnu's family had to share a thatched house together.
Tuoba Lan looked more mournful than heartbroken, and lay down on the hard board covered with hay, like a corpse.
I probably feel dirty and it doesn't matter.
The water here is extremely precious, so sand is used to bathe, and at the end, a little water is used to wash the private parts.
Lu Ming also experienced the hot sand bath today, and I can only say that it was very refreshing.
The Bronze Girl came again and invited Lu Ming to sit on the hardwood hay bed. Lu Ming waved his hand, indicating that he was used to sleeping sitting up. After saying that, he sat on the floor and went to do his own business outside. He knew that the Bronze Girl sat down to chat with him, but he didn't want to.
After a while, Tong Nu felt bored and went to sleep.
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The war that broke out between Ma Quanyou and Chen Xingchang was very cruel, and the two sides fought fiercely several times.
Chen Xingchang also made a surprise attack on a tribe occupied by Ma Quanyou, where Ma Quanyou's last ammunition depot was kept.
Before they had time to remove much ammunition, they set fire to it and detonated it.
As both sides' ammunition became less and less, the powerful Ma Jiajun completely gained the upper hand, and the shining saber became a nightmare for Chen Xingchang's remnants.
Although in theory, the bayonet is actually more practical than the saber in hand-to-hand combat.
Chen Xingchang's well-organized infantry battalion of 500 people was also a full-man battalion reorganized after entering the desert. Because they ran out of ammunition, they raised a white flag and surrendered, but in the end these hundreds of people were brutally killed.
As a result, Chen Xingchang lost the last of his armed forces, and the others were missing.
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In the thatched house, Lu Ming looked at a picture in his hand. It was a picture of extremely wide hay leaves drawn with red rice soup.
There is no pen and paper here, and the tribesmen have no writing, but they use this method to simply record things.
This is a map of the distribution of tribes within the surrounding area of approximately hundreds of thousands square kilometers.
It is drawn according to the figures of Bronze Girl, Second Bronze, Third Bronze, etc., and the distance is marked by how many days of journey there are.
The location of the tribes definitely varies greatly, but they generally have a general appearance.
If you arbitrarily set the upper part of the picture as north, you can see that with the Bronze Girl tribe as the center, there are forty or fifty tribes of different sizes within these hundreds of thousands square kilometers.
There are seven large tribes, all of which are now occupied by Ma Quanyou tribe, which radiates management to all tribes.
Burakumin's access has not been affected. For example, the Copper Women's Department has made contact with the inside.
After all, Ma Quanyou felt that the big deal was settled and he became the only ruler here. The lives of these slaves had to return to normal before they could collect resources to support him and his people.
Ma Quanyou stationed more than a hundred people in the Tongnu tribe. Six of the seven tribes had more than a hundred people stationed there. In the tribe he regarded as the Khan's headquarters, there were more than a thousand people.
Ma Quanyou was very cruel. Basically, the soldiers who were seriously injured in the war with Chen Xingchang were dealt with directly, including those who might be disabled, and they were all executed to avoid having to support more useless people. So now, there are probably less than two
Thousands are left.
I guess the ammunition is almost exhausted.
Lu Ming pointed to the Oasis Copper Women's Club not far from this small tribe, and gestured. Today, Da Tong can almost completely understand what he means.
Surrounded by many young men with strong fighting spirit in their eyes, they all raised their fists, slapped their chests and howled when they heard Datong murmuring as a translator.
Three to four hundred strong warriors have been gathered from various ministries. Tomorrow, Lu Ming will prepare to attack Ma Quanyou's garrison of the Tongnu Division at night.
Before entering the desert, I never thought that the tribes here could be used to wipe out the two groups of rebels, and it would probably turn into a cold weapon war mode. Think about it, when Ma Quanyou and others retreated here, they never thought that such a thing would happen.