Chen Mazi looked at Wang Daniu with his eyes red. He was rewarded with one hundred taels of silver for killing a Tatar. If he died in battle, he would be compensated with two hundred taels of silver. At this moment, everyone's eyes were red.
"Fuck you~"
Wang Daniu gave Chen Mazi a hard knock on the head, and then gritted his teeth and said: "Tmd, my life is actually worth two hundred yuan. If you kill a Tatar, you can get one hundred taels of silver. This opportunity to make a fortune is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
slip."
"Sleep back and live in poverty for the rest of your life?"
"You can't even afford a wife if you sneak back, and you'll be a bachelor for the rest of your life?"
"Tnd, if you fight hard this time, you will be killed with a Tatar knife. At least you can get two hundred taels of silver for your family."
"What do you say?"
Everyone looked at each other, and everyone's eyes were blood red.
"Fuck it, two hundred silver is enough to buy my life. If I can kill a Tatar and pick up a backer, it will be a big profit. If I can survive by being lucky, I can turn around in the future.
Already."
Li Fugui spit hard and smeared it, and took out his kitchen knife. He wanted to use this kitchen knife to give himself a try. Even if he died in the hands of the Tatars, he would have no regrets. Two hundred taels of silver,
Death is worth it. Three taels of silver is enough to marry a wife, a few taels of silver to build a house in your hometown is enough, and an acre of land is only a few taels of silver.
"Yes~ I did it~"
"It's like carrying a head on two shoulders, and it's hard to pull a Tatar down."
"Damn~ If I just go back here, my father will beat me to death. With such an opportunity to make a fortune, there will be no shop like this in this village."
The others also started howling. They were originally a group of sheep trying to escape, but now they all suddenly turned into hungry wolves with red eyes.
"Uh~uh~"
"Everyone has gathered, everyone has gathered~"
At this moment, the sound of horns came from the military camp, and their commander summoned everyone again.
"Here we go, people from the Prince's Mansion should be here to promote it~"
"Go, go~"
When the scholar heard this, he quickly said to everyone, and after speaking, he hurried to the playground.
Just as the scholar said, after everyone gathered, the officials from the Prince's Mansion directly announced the big news to everyone. Those who knew the news in advance could feel calmer.
Those who had just learned the news immediately exploded. Everyone was in disbelief, thinking that their ears had heard it wrong. After repeated confirmations, everyone was like Wang Daniu, Chen Mazi and others, and their eyes instantly
reddish.
Even the generals and commanders of the Qianhu, Baihu, etc. armies on the general platform have red eyes. They also have huge rewards. The more enemies they lead, the more generous their rewards will be.
.
In an instant, the original fear of the Tatars and the fear of death on the battlefield disappeared. The people on the entire playground turned into a group of howling wolves, with red eyes, wishing to have a good fight with the Tatars right away.
In the field, even death has no fear or horror for them, because they know that even if they die, their family members will be able to receive extremely generous pensions.
Only the commanders quickly convened a meeting with thousands of households, hundreds of households, etc. under their command to discuss how to kill more enemies on the battlefield. The first thing they did was to start weapons and equipment.
The weapons and equipment issued by the imperial court were really poor. The iron-like knives could not kill anyone at all. The knives and armors donated by Miyun Iron Factory were really good things.
In the past, many guardsmen did not want these things at all, because once they took these armors and weapons, it meant they had to charge into battle, which meant they would die in front.
But things are different now. Each and every commander of the guard station took the initiative to find Liu Yu. They stalked and shamelessly wanted to become a vanguard force. They wanted to get these armors and weapons no matter what.
Really unable to get the weapons from Miyun Iron Factory, these people started to use their brains, what should they do without weapons?
Of course, I made it myself. I cut down the wood to make a wooden gun, which can be sharpened to stab people. I melted the iron weapon to make a gun head, which can also be made into a gun.
There are also some people who get some lime and other things everywhere. When they fight with the Tatars, they scatter a bag of lime and keep it to blind the opponent's eyes, and then they can easily stab the opponent to death.
Some people even find ways to get some highly poisonous things and apply them on the blades of knives, concealed weapons, etc., in preparation to kill the Tatars.
For the reward of one hundred taels of silver, people's wisdom is infinite and they will come up with all kinds of ways.
If you don't have weapons, you have to figure out your own way, whether it's stealing or borrowing. In short, everyone becomes a hungry wolf, studying with red eyes, licking their tongues, and waiting for food.
…
The three armies of the Ming Dynasty gathered towards the grassland armies in Gansu, Shaanxi, and Ningxia. Naturally, the grassland people had already received the news and were alert.
The mission of the east route army was to cut off the retreat route of the grassland people to the north and attack the Tatars from the east, so they were also the first to fight the Tatars.
Here at the Hukou Pass, behind the guard on the city wall, the guarding Tatars were chatting very leisurely, talking about the harvest of this southward raid.
Hukou Pass is the gap they opened this time when they went south. The terrain here is dangerous and looks like a huge tiger's mouth, so it is called Hukou Pass.
However, due to the disrepair of Hukou Pass and the major flood that occurred this year, they successfully opened this gap and went south to plunder.
The young prince Dayan Khan attached great importance to this pass, because it was the exit for their northward retreat. If the Ming army returned here again, it would not be easy for them to retreat northward smoothly.
Therefore, Dayan Khan also arranged for five thousand heavy troops to guard Hukou Pass.
When many people hear the word five thousand, they think that five thousand seems to be a small amount. However, the grassland people are all cavalry and are skilled with bows and horses. Five thousand grassland cavalry is enough to easily rush through tens of thousands of Ming troops to guard the Hukou Pass.
Definitely enough.
"The women from the Central Plains are so fragrant~"
"Isn't that right? Our leader hasn't gotten up yet?"
"I must have worked very late last night, and I couldn't get up this time."
"Daming is really a good place. There is food, salt, and iron pots. The things we grabbed this time are enough for us to eat for a long time."
"What a pity, now it's our turn to guard here~"
"What we robbed are small towns. If we can break through those big cities, then we will be really successful. There are countless gold, silver and jewelry, there are piles of salt and grain, and there are also the women of the Ming Dynasty nobles. I think
It’s exciting just to think about it.”
The gates of Hukou Pass were full, and groups of grassland soldiers gathered together, chatting in small groups. For them, the most exciting thing was to go south to plunder.
Pick up the scimitar in your hand and go south. As long as you can enter the colorful world of the Ming Dynasty, you will have everything. Kill all the men of the Ming Dynasty, snatch their women, and steal their food, salt, iron pots, and kitchen knives.
, everything that could be snatched away was taken away, and as for the things that could not be taken away, they were burned cleanly.
This kind of capitalless business, the pleasure of wanton killing and looting always makes people fascinated and yearned for it.
On the road leading to Hukou Pass, there are teams of convoys heading north. These teams are all escorting the looted materials. Car after car, loaded with goods, tied up slaves, and riding beside them.
The horse, the prairie man holding the whip, saw the one walking slower and hit him with a whip. There was laughter between them, while the tied slave's eyes were dull and tears were streaming down his face.
Watching her husband being killed, watching the home she had worked so hard to build being burned down, all her wealth being robbed, and even herself becoming a slave, one can imagine the situation at this time
Feel it.
"Pa~"
"Hurry up~ hurry up~"
Several prairie soldiers on horseback looked very dissatisfied as they looked at the slowly walking team.
Every time I go south, my favorite time is this time, the time when I return with a full harvest, but this time is also the most annoying time, because there are so many things to loot, and they can't do it like when they came, just like a gust of wind.
After going south, they had to slowly bring their loot back to the grassland, and the speed was very slow.
If in the past, they had time to retreat north slowly, because the Ming army was very Buddhist and would not dare to come out even if they were hiding in the city.
But this time there was something different. They already knew the news, and Ming Dynasty organized an army of 300,000 to outflank them from three directions.
Although Dayan Khan was eager to have a good fight with the Ming army and remove all the fig leaves of the Ming people, for the sake of caution, he was still making arrangements for evacuation.
The first thing to be evacuated was naturally the loot. Each of the raiding tribes began to arrange for people to evacuate the looted items of their own tribe to the grassland first.
As long as these trophies go back, they will have no baggage. Whether it is a good fight with the Ming Dynasty, or whether it is a matter of wind and rain, they will be able to handle it with ease.
The team in front of them belonged to the Tuva tribe. They were not many in number, only more than two hundred people, but they were packed with thousands of slaves and carrying thousands of carriages. They were evacuating to the north, preparing to take the spoils back to themselves.
tribe.
These grassland people seemed very wanton and happy, and kept talking about the wonderful moments of their trip south. However, they did not notice that on both sides of the road, thousands of Ming troops were already ambushing them, preparing to ambush them.
