In the sweltering woods on the hillside, a small group of Tatar soldiers hid under the dark trees. Their clothes were in tatters, their equipment was incomplete, and their faces and bodies were dirty and smelly. There were many mosquitoes in the woods, buzzing and biting them.
They were itching all over and muttering abuses.
This group of Tatars is a small group of Tatar soldiers that came out of the tunnel a few days ago. The leading Tatar is a short centurion named Adair. They all belong to the army east of Yanshan
The soldiers and horses of the Duoyan tribe of the Tatars. According to the order of the Tatar noble Dayan Khan Batu Munch, "the attack on the Ming Dynasty cannot be stopped for a day," Adair has been active at the forefront of the battle against the Ming Dynasty.
However, Adair's mind is not as rigid as other Tatar soldiers. He knows that the defenses of the Great Wall in the border towns of the Ming Dynasty are strong and the crossbows are sophisticated. Therefore, when harassing the border of the Ming Dynasty, Adair will not behave like this.
The other fools rushed to the front. He usually yelled the loudest and shouted the loudest, but he was definitely the most obscene one.
Although many people regard him as a coward and unworthy of becoming a Tatar warrior, Adair doesn't care. He doesn't want to die under the crossbows of Ming soldiers. Living is the last word. He doesn't want his wife and children to become
other people's property
According to Tatar rules, widows are not allowed to exist. If he dies on the first day, his wife will marry someone else the next day, and all the family property, the cattle and sheep yurt, and his pair of children will also become
property of others.
With a cautious and life-saving attitude, he successfully survived countless attacks on the Ming Dynasty's borders. And many of the people who became soldiers of the Duoyan tribe at the same time as him could feed a cow with the grass on their graves.
And he finally rose to the position of centurion step by step because he was senior enough and had been in the army long enough. Practice has proved that there is no need to kill enemies to establish military merit. As long as he lives long, all the veterans around him will die, and there will be no chance.
It naturally fell on his head.
After becoming a centurion, Adair no longer had to take risks. He could openly command his recruits to die, and he could openly stay at the back of the battlefield, waving his scimitar and shouting cheers with his loud voice.
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However, the Tatars have a good proverb: A traveler on the desert cannot always keep sand out of his eyes, and a herdsman on the grassland can never avoid stepping on cow dung. Since the noble Dayan Khan decided to use everything
After aggressively harassing the border of the Ming Dynasty and carrying out various sabotage and infiltration operations, Asbas, the great lord of the Duoyan tribe, actively responded to the call.
Night raids, traps, climbing cliffs and walls of the Great Wall, and even digging tunnels. Adele did not originally think that he would step on cow dung, but the facts proved that the proverb was correct and prophetic. When his boss Qianfu
Chang Batu told him that when he led a team to sneak into the territory of the Ming Dynasty through the dug tunnels and harass and destroy the military households and civilians of the Ming Dynasty, the Adair people were dumbfounded.
He could hide behind and be wretched when harassing the border, but when he entered the Ming Dynasty, where would he hide? That was their territory. And according to what he saw, this task was almost equivalent to a death sentence. Because during his more than ten years of military career
I have never seen anyone sneak into the Ming Dynasty and escape unharmed.
Maybe he could do some damage, but in the end he would definitely lose his life. This job was to declare his death sentence.
And when he learned the reason why he was finally chosen, Adair was even more furious. The reason turned out to be: Adair was thin and small, suitable for digging tunnels under the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty between the mountains.
Tunneling is really a huge and difficult project. Even if you find a location that can be excavated, it will take a lot of time and manpower to dig.
In order to prevent the defenders of the Ming Dynasty from discovering it, they not only had to create various disturbances to attract their attention, but the starting point of the excavation was also down the slope hundreds of steps away from the city wall. After the entire tunnel was dug, it was more than 600 meters long.
In order to reduce the amount of excavation as much as possible, only small passages can be dug, which are most suitable for thin soldiers to enter and exit. Therefore, for this reason, bad luck befell Adele.
Adair was so angry that he hated his parents for making him so short. Unfortunately, this kind of thing was a foregone conclusion. No matter how quick his brain was, he couldn't increase his height in such a short period of time that his boss would give up.
His order to lead the team. At this point, Adele had no choice but to accept his fate.
However, Adair thought very clearly that he would not be stupid enough to cause any destruction in Xuanfu Town of the Ming Dynasty. He would use his usual style, which was to live a humble life. So he made a decision. Once he entered
After arriving in the Ming Dynasty, he and his people wandered into the vast mountains of the Yanshan Mountains and never went out again. Although this mountain range is dangerous, the terrain is complex and there are many wild animals and fruits. They can survive for several months or even
A year or two and then look for an opportunity to go back.
Anyway, no one came to supervise whether his group was acting according to the plan. He could use the Feiyu he brought to report to his superiors. As for the content of the report, it was not up to him. He could even report that he was leading people to attack.
Even after landing in a military fort, they couldn't verify it.
However, the only thing to worry about is that Adair knows that this time it is not just his own team who came in. There will be two teams of people who come in after dark. And he needs to discuss with the people who come in later and communicate with each other.
Supervision. This makes his dirty plan likely to come to nothing.
In the early morning of that day, after they emerged from the tunnel covered in mud and water, according to the plan, they actually just hid in the nearby forest and waited for dark to join the other two teams that came in later.
That night, when they approached the tunnel entrance at midnight, they happened to see countless Ming soldiers shooting and slaughtering their own soldiers and horses coming out of the tunnel entrance. This almost scared Adele to the point of peeing. He took the people to hide.
He didn't dare to breathe out in the forest, his head was buzzing, and it wasn't until everything calmed down that Adair and his companions fled far away.
After hiding in the forest for a day, Adair actually felt happy. He felt that this incident was not necessarily a bad thing. Although the tunnel back was definitely blocked, and no one could get through the tunnel. But
His wretched survival plan can then be implemented.
In the woods, Adair and his forty men had a serious discussion. Adair gave his men two choices. One was to go out according to the original plan, attack Ming Dynasty military households, and kill Ming Dynasty people.
Then he was rounded up by the Ming Dynasty border troops
, sacrificed their allegiance for Dayan Khan. Secondly, after losing the assistance of other teams, the original plan changed from wreaking havoc to cautious action, hiding in the mountains to save lives first, and then waiting for opportunities to cause destruction. Everyone
Can live.
These two choices are life and death, and most Tatar soldiers know how to choose. Of course, there are always some ignorant fools who clamor about serving Dayan Khan to the death and killing the people of the Ming Dynasty.
The military households are going to wreak havoc and so on.
Adele was merciless, and he was never mean when it came to matters concerning his own life and death. He cut off the head of a guy named the most vicious with a knife. Then he ordered people to tie up three other idiots and forced them to
Everyone stabbed each of them with a knife.
In this way, everyone is tied together, and their hands are stained with the blood of their companions. Even if they return to the army in the future, they will have no reason to inform. They are all accomplices like themselves.
In this way, Adele 'unified' everyone's opinions.
In order to hide better, they decided to leave the mountains near the Longmen Great Wall and head west. To the west are higher mountains, deeper valleys, and denser forests. The most important thing is that they are further away from the border, and the Ming Dynasty soldiers
It's harder for horses to spot them. They can live better there.
So, they began to go west over the mountains and ridges. Until they saw a large bonfire and camp in the valley to the west of the mountain road on the hillside last night. Some of their men thought that the troops were coming to hunt them down. If so.
If so, I'm afraid the other party is conducting a large-scale search and the situation is worrying.
However, Adair didn't think so. After climbing up the hillside and watching it from a distance for a while, the camp was very lively. Everyone was barbecuing and eating meat. It was noisy. Moreover, the soldiers were all cavalry and wore armor.
The weapons seemed to be different from those of the border Ming troops they fought against.
But those were indeed Ming Dynasty troops, which made Adair a little confused.
After thinking about it, Adair decided to continue to wait and see to find out what the purpose of these Ming Dynasty soldiers was and what their identities were.
So, all day today, Adair and others hid in the woods on the hillside, waiting for them to get closer and take a closer look when it got dark.
The other party seemed to have noticed something. In the afternoon, a large number of people searched the valley where he and others camped last night for a long time, and then searched everywhere along the hillside. This put great psychological pressure on Adele and others. The other party had a large number of people, and the attack
You can't beat them, so you can only hide. Fortunately, the mountains are high and the forests are dense. It is impossible for hundreds of people on the other side to search for people like you. Moreover, they are obviously searching aimlessly and have no idea about their group.
It was hidden in the woods not far from them.
Finally, it got dark. The other group of soldiers and horses had no intention of continuing the search after dark. Amidst the sound of horns, all the teams withdrew and returned to the camp next to the mountain road on the other side of the mountain.
Adair decided to go find out and figure out who these people were and why they were so different from the soldiers and horses on the border of the Ming Dynasty. This may be the boldest decision he has ever made, and at the same time, he did not expect it at all.
, his decision will trigger a massive war. He, Adair, will also become a key figure in this war.