Ding Tian's Ancient Life

Chapter 225 Steppe Cavalry

When Ding Tian arrived, the others had already arrived, and Wang Zuo was calmly asking General Gao to assign military affairs, while he himself was wearing a silver-white battle armor, a big fur cape, and holding a simple-looking sword in his hand , carrying a long bow inlaid with rubies on his back, and a quiver on his straddle, with a lot of white feathered long arrows in it.

The whole person is like the rebirth of Chang Shan Zhao Zilong, with an aggressive spirit!

Seeing Ding Tian come in, he pulled him over: "I will order Bai San'er and the others to escort you back in a while."

"I don't!" Ding Tian shook his head firmly: "Now that the enemy is coming, I ran away, what happened? A deserter?"

"What nonsense?" Wang Zuo sullenly, lost the patience of the past: "What kind of identity are you? Are you a soldier or a general? What are you running away from? A small jailer should be in charge of the cell, not the charge!"

"Whatever you say is right!" Ding Tian looked straight into his eyes: "But if I don't leave, you are still a prince, why don't you leave?

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"I am a prince, why should I go? I have received the great favor of the country, and it is my duty to protect my family and the country. The soldiers fought bloody battles, but I turned around and ran away. Am I a prince? Shame on my ancestors!" Wang Zuo said with a cold face: "You are different, you are a civil servant, and it is not your duty to go to battle to kill the enemy, you pack up quickly... don't pack your things, go back to Dingjia Village... no, just go back to Beifeng Mansion.... "

The wall of Dingjia Village is high, but not as high as the wall of Beifeng Mansion!

Beifeng Mansion was not surrounded by the enemy even during the last war, and the city walls were much taller and stronger than the protective walls built by rural farmers themselves.

Also, much more in safety!

"Why don't you tell me to go directly to Beijing?" Ding Tian snorted, "It's safer there, safer than any city in the whole country!"

"Uh... that's right... If you want to hit the capital, there are probably not many places that have not been breached..." Wang Zuo really thought about the capital.

"Don't think about it." Ding Tian couldn't hold back, and rolled his eyes: "The other side has an army of [-], who is an enemy twice as strong as ours. You still want to send someone to escort me back? If I lose it now If you run away by yourself, who am I?"

Wang Zuo was anxious: "This is not the time to lose your temper. When there is a big fight, who can take care of whom?"

Ding Tian was also in a hurry: "I just won't leave, what can you do to me? I will stay and fight against you, and we will die together!"

In the last sentence, he purposely lowered his voice, gritted his teeth and said, "Can't life be at the same time, can't death be at the same time?"

Wang Zuo was shocked!

I couldn't speak for a while.

Ding Tian said again: "Besides, I have my own business to attend to, so don't think about sending someone to get me away."

After speaking, he ran away.

The people in the Chinese army tent were discussing how to deal with the enemy. Fortunately, the messengers are now everywhere, and General Gao is dispatching troops. There are many people coming and going in and out of the Chinese army tent. No one could hear their conversation, especially when they lowered their voices.

After Ding Tian ran away, he went directly to the prisoner camp. After all, he was a policeman. Are the prison guards also policemen?

After he went, he directly asked a few captives he was familiar with. One of them was a guy named Timur, who was more prestigious among them, and he was also the one who told the big guys, don’t run away, It is already very good for the Han people to take them captive like this. They are given food and drink, and some people come to see them.

In addition, they are herdsmen on the border, and they can speak some Chinese. Ding Tian poured chicken soup for the soul twice, and everyone felt that what Ding Tian said was too reasonable.

Now, Ding Tian came to them: "I said, Timur, are you lying to me? Didn't you say that you can't survive?"

You just came to fight Caogu, but now there are [-] troops approaching, what are you not pioneers? "

Timur and the others didn't know about this, and they were shocked when they heard Ding Tian's words: "How could that be? Several tribes left for the foot of the mountain as early as July, leaving only poor herdsmen like us , a family with only a few horses, sheep and cows, they looked down on us, and they would not allow us to follow. If we stayed on the grassland, we would freeze to death. Winter came, and sure enough, my family members all froze to death... …Otherwise I wouldn’t have come here….”

Aguda also said loudly: "I, Aguda swear to Changshengtian, we are not lying!"

"Then how did the [-] troops come here?" Ding Tian said angrily, "We give you food and drink, we also treat you to a doctor, and live in such a warm yurt. This is how you repay us? After a while, the prince gets angry and kills you one by one. Behead! I'm here to save

You guys, tell the truth! "

After living together for more than ten days, this group of people has long hugged each other to keep warm, and they are familiar with each other. If they can live, who wants to die?

If they really wanted to die, they wouldn't brave the storm and come to the Han people's city to fight grass during the Chinese New Year. In the final analysis, isn't it just to survive?

But as long as they can survive, herdsmen like them, what else can they lie about?

One by one they swear and swear, barbaric language mixed with Chinese, and they all speak very sincerely.

Ding Tian naturally knew that most of what they said was true, but...he deliberately said sadly: "Then what happened to the [-] barbarian soldiers from outside? Don't say you don't know? Even if you didn't know before, you should now Now you know?"

These people have been fed chicken soup for the soul by Ding Tian, ​​so they are naturally convinced by him. One of them was a big man who almost starved to death when he came here. When he came here, his appetite was too big. He can eat half full, but he can only make up for the bottom, humming when he is hungry, or Ding Tian, ​​who asks people to give him an extra corn bread and a chopstick of shredded pickles for each meal, so he barely eats it half full.

Suddenly, something came to mind: "Ding Siyu, Batu has something to say."

"Tell me!" Ding Tian remembered him, Batu, he was a strong man, but he was starved to death. Fortunately, these days, he has regained his energy.

"Batu once drove the sheep to the tribal lord. His tribe is very large, but according to him, it seems that he wants to merge with another Bayan tribe. Together, the two tribes can have about [-] soldiers. Horses... But their tribe has a lot of cattle and sheep, so it's a bit difficult to find a place to spend the winter... Maybe it's them? The Bayan tribe and the Bateer tribe have united?"

"Why do you think of their two tribes?" Ding Tian asked Batu, "Are you from the Bateer tribe?"

"I'm not, I'm just an ordinary herdsman. People from the Bateer tribe are the closest large tribe to here." Batu said: "And they left late, if they didn't find a place to spend the winter, I'm afraid they will... After the sheep freezes to death from starvation, the whole tribe will have nothing to eat, so while there is still some food to eat and the horses are still alive, come grab one...Maybe next year will be better...." There is no New Year's habit on the grassland, they all After the winter, it is considered as the second year. After the ice and snow melt in spring, the green grass everywhere, although the cattle and sheep will be hungry and lose weight in winter, but when spring comes, they will quickly fatten up.

On the grasslands, cattle, sheep, horses and women are the wealth. Only with yurts can they survive the winter safely, otherwise they will have nothing to eat, nothing to wear, and nothing to keep out the cold.

Although what Batu said was incomplete, Ding Tian understood what he meant. The two tribes left a bit late and couldn't find a place to spend the winter. In addition, there was a white disaster on the grassland this year, which became more serious in the twelfth lunar month. It's only New Year's Eve to help people, and seeing that next spring will make it impossible to survive, why not take advantage of the fact that the army is still strong and strong, and come and grab it!

They have no backup... the backup is stuck in the winter shelter.

So their 10 people are [-] hungry wolves!

And compared to Timur and others who have been hungry for two or three days, those people who came here are probably full of stomachs. They will definitely make marching rations from frozen cattle and sheep, and their combat effectiveness must be stronger than that of Timur. They are tall.

"Ding Siyu, these two tribes actually don't have many cattle and sheep. They have more horses, because the horses next to this side are cavalry...you can come and go quickly..." Timur said A person with a brain blushed when he said it: "So they should all come..."

"Cavalry!" Ding Tian slapped his hands, "Is it?"

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Without his "hmm", Ding Tian understood that in the era of cold weapons, the mobility of cavalry is the best, especially for ethnic minorities like grassland barbarians. They grew up on horseback since they were young. It is cavalry, and because of the vastness of the grassland, it is very common for these guys to have one person with two horses or three horses.

They can ride a horse, spare a horse, and use a horse to carry some supplies, and gallop here...

Ding Tian got this information and ran back to tell Wang Zuo. At the same time, they were having a meeting, and those people were not far from the camp, and they had already begun to set up a refusal outside.

"It seems that we can only resist forcefully, and send people to the camp of the Chinese army to report the situation of the war, and we must wait until the reinforcements arrive!" General Gao said with a stern face, murderous, "We must not let them attack the county! "

Bypassing their line of defense, these people have to grab enough!

How many years has it been?These people just make a comeback….

"General, we don't have many firearms... there are very few firearms, flying crows, etc., which can withstand the cavalry..." General Wang Yu raised some questions about armaments there.

To distribute armaments to everyone reasonably, even the cook has to work hard.

After hearing his words, Ding Tian had a new idea: "The opponents are all cavalry, afraid of firearms..."

The Qing Dynasty inherited the Han Chinese system of the Ming Dynasty, and also inherited the anger of the Ming Dynasty. However, Niujiao County is a newly built county, and there is no artillery to defend the city.

And in Ding Tian's view, the development of firearms here is not very advanced, but it is much better than the Braid Dynasty in another time and space.

It's just that the Pioneer Camp is a camp that is easily breached, so there are no "heavy weapons" here, and there are no cannons. All they have are small things like Shenhuo and crows, and they are not equipped with too many of them. .

Ding Tian looked at Wang Zuo: "I'm going out for a while, I'll be right back, you send some people with me, I have something to do."

Wang Zuo thought that he wanted to transfer his family, so he immediately agreed.

Bai San'er led his men and followed Ding Tian out of the camp on a fast horse, heading straight for the county seat.

On the way, everyone was simmering with anger, especially when they arrived at the county government gate, Bai San'er's anger was about to burst out of his eyes.

"What's wrong with you?" Ding Tian looked at Bai San'er: "Who messed with you?"

"Ding Siyu, even if the lord is... you can't leave the lord and run away by yourself? Even if you leave the lord and run away by yourself, don't tell us to follow you? It is not our duty to protect you, we are to protect the lord. Guard." Bai San'er had a straight face, almost unable to suppress her anger.

"Do you think I ran away by myself? I took you to protect me?" Ding Tian laughed: "If I wanted to run, I would have already run away, and I don't need to run with a group of reluctant guys like you." ?”

Bai San'er's nostrils were almost breathing fire, "Then why did you bring us here?"

"Of course I have my reasons." Ding Tian walked into the gate of the county government: "You will know in a while."

After finishing speaking, he raised his legs and entered the county office. County magistrate Xu was no longer wearing his magistrate uniform, but changed into a leather armor, and was cleaning his machete. It seemed that he was about to go to battle to kill the enemy .

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