Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

It was June, when the grass was green and the wildflowers were blooming.

In this season, the cattle and sheep will eat up and fatten up, and the shepherds will make cheese, kumiss, and honey, and go out to fish, hunt and store food by the way.

What a wonderful season!

But war may happen at any time, regardless of human will.

For thousands of years, prairie people have always finished their busy farm work, prepared hay for winter, finished hunting, and stockpiled winter food, and then gathered to go south in a big way.

But no one has stipulated that war can only happen in autumn.

To prevent autumn and autumn, I guard against a hammer!Trying to lose money, you have to interrupt your rhythm of life. In the busiest season of your farm work, you can kill them in one fell swoop and solve hidden dangers.

The Khitan people are busy with farming at this time, otherwise, at least one-third of the more than 20 people will die in the cold winter, or even more.

The arrival of the cavalry caught them off guard.

Three thousand warriors criss-crossed the pastures.Although they were not wearing armor, they used their skillful killing skills to keep chasing the scattered Khitans, shooting with bows, stabbing with spears, or slashing with knives, turning the entire pasture into bloody and dead bodies. Shura field everywhere.

More than [-] auxiliary soldiers spread out to the two wings, firing arrows from a distance, wantonly harvesting the Khitan shepherds who fled in panic.

The Khitans were completely in a state of bewilderment.

The women stopped milking and beckoned the children to hide in the tents.

The men frantically searched for bows and arrows, bones, and spears.

They knew exactly what a raid meant.

The slaves of Shiwei, Tatar, Ugu and other tribes who were captured and assigned to various tribes are still there. The Khitan people know better than anyone how their tribes were destroyed.

But it might be a little late...

Wielding his mace, Li Shaorong took the lead and jumped into a camp on his horse.

Some Khitan shepherds hurriedly got on their horses, intending to stop them.Li Shaorong was invincible with his mace in hand.

The five hundred riders following him were all veterans.

Someone used a bow to name the Khitan shepherds who rushed out, and wiped out any enemies who dared to resist.

Someone used a short blade to slash and kill the fleeing enemies, taking the opportunity to reap their lives in case they regained their composure and resisted.

Others rushed to the front of the tent and threw down lit torches, causing chaos.

The raging fire ignited, black smoke billowed on the grassland, and there was a mess of crying and screaming.

More than a thousand riders belonging to the Shan army rushed over from the west of the Hun River. They hadn't figured out the situation yet, so they let Li Shaorong lead people to break through, and then chased after their buttocks and slashed wantonly, without giving them a chance to distance themselves and shoot arrows.

Of course, the Cavalry also played bow and arrow, and played it very well.However, if you compare riding and archery, you will completely give up your own advantage in hand-to-hand combat, and you will not be able to magnify the enemy's disadvantages in melee combat, which is very unwise.

More than a thousand cavalry belonged to the Shan army knights, who were rushed in the middle, and then chased and killed by their tails, and they collapsed immediately.

Li Shaorong changed into a Khitan horse with sufficient horsepower in the air, and sometimes used a horn bow, sometimes a short spear, and sometimes an iron mace. After killing seven or eight people in a row, he rushed to the vicinity of the North Tower.

"Whoosh!" The last hair-haired chieftain was shot off his horse by him.

The city gate was slowly closed.

Li Shaorong rode his horse around, laughed and said: "In the past, you and others rode horses to fight against Bohai, Shiwei, and Tatars. Today, I rushed to fight. It's wonderful. Someone dares to come out and fight. Li Shaorong is waiting here!"

Outside the tall wooden building, there is an extremely low earthen wall.There is no sheep and horse wall, no city god, nothing.

Li Shaorong wanted to laugh when he saw it. Is this also called a city?
The sage once laughed at the houses that some Hu people lived in as "rabbit holes", saying that their cities were "earth cities built by cavemen".

Li Shaorong didn't know what a "caveman" was, but the earthen city in front of him was really bad, and he wanted the cavalry to dismount and attack.

There was no response from the city.

"There is not a single man in the whole city!" Li Shaorong spat, and led them away angrily.

They rushed to the wider grassland.

Look for the enemy's camp, burn, kill and loot.

Look for the soldiers and horses that the enemy can gather in the future, and destroy them in one fell swoop.

Look for the enemy's livestock for military use.

Of course Li Shaorong really wanted to break through the city and capture important Khitan figures.But he was very clear-headed, knowing that his side had few troops and many Khitans, so he should continue to pursue and fight fiercely at this moment, without giving the Khitans time to react.

Without assembled troops, it is nothing.

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Yue Liduo is taking the eldest daughter Zhigu, the eldest son Tuyu, and the second son Yaogu to make cheese.

She is a strict mother with high demands on her children.

Husband A Baoji is more concerned about the children's military strategy and martial arts, and of course Yue Liduo supports it.But in addition, she also asked the children to be familiar with people's livelihood, so she often took them to cut hay, feed horses, deliver calves, tan leather, make cheese, kumiss and so on, and sometimes even teach them how to grow millet.

When they grow up, they are noble people and don't need to work on their own, but you must know how these things come from.What is the production process like, and how much hard work the farmers and herdsmen have to put in.

If you don't learn this, you can't be a good tribal leader, because you don't know how every decision you make will affect the people below.

Is it okay to order the clans and tribes to donate livestock during the breeding season of cattle and sheep?
In the tense moment of preparing hay for the winter, you take the men out to fight, okay?

Tribal leaders can be cruel, tyrannical, and play with women, but you have to know the family background of your tribe and know what you can and cannot do.Once you understand this, you have already stepped into the threshold of a qualified leader.

Tuyu has a bad temper and doesn't like the work very much. After doing it for a while, he becomes half-hearted and looks around.

In his opinion, if you have the time, it is better to go to those Han officials to study and play chess.

He hated everything on the grassland, especially after listening to those Han officials talking about many things in the Central Plains, his heart felt like long grass, and he really wanted to go out and have a look.

Khitan is too poor, too barbaric, too backward, and has no meaning at all.

His father was very pleased with his attitude, because his father also loved the culture, regulations, and systems of the Han region very much.But his mother didn't seem to like him very much, which made Tuyu very melancholy.

"Sister!" Shulu Porun stumbled in, grabbed Yue Liduo's hand, and said, "The Xia people came in a surprise attack, and the ministries suffered heavy losses. What should I do? What should I do?"

Yue Liduo was in a trance for a moment, and various complex expressions such as surprise, regret, and fear appeared on his face, but they disappeared quickly.

She shook off her mother-in-law's hand and asked, "How many Xia people are here?"

The mother-in-law choked, and said, "A lot."

"How much is a lot?" Yue Liduo asked.

My mother-in-law couldn't answer.

Yue Liduo ignored him, ordered his followers to fetch bows, arrows and sabers, put them on one by one, and then left the yard.

Many dignitaries from Shulu, Chute, and Pinbu had gathered outside the courtyard. Everyone looked panicked, but they restrained themselves and waited quietly for Yue Liduo's order.

"What's going on outside?" Yue Liduo asked calmly.

"The Xia people raided the pastures. About 5000 tents were affected in the area of ​​the Hun River. From a distance, thick smoke billowed in and the losses were huge."

"There were also people from Xia in the west of the building. Du Yu of the Yao Nian clan was killed, and his followers fled back desperately, saying that their clan's thousands of tents were gone. There were tens of thousands of people, men, women, and children. I don't know how many people will be left. "

"I also saw Xia Qi rushing towards the northern swamp, which is the pasture of our Shulu Department."

"The pasture of the product department was also raided just now."

"Are you talking about the Shulu Department, Pin Department, and Chu Te Department? Now they are all in disaster, so let's think of a way."

"There are two out of three households, and most of the young and strong have been taken away. The rest of the people were probably killed by a wave of assaults. Now the only ones who can fight are the Shan army."

"The Shan army was also raided, and the loss was not small."

"The loss of the Shan army is nothing compared to ours!"

"Why isn't it a loss?"

"What do you mean by that? Isn't the Shulu Department the Khitan? A Baojike personally said that the Shulu Department belongs to the Khitan Ninth Department. Why, do you want to die?"

He was originally asking about the situation, but Chute and the dignitaries from the Pin Department became agitated as they talked, and they couldn't choose what to say.

This is also understandable.

From their point of view, the strength of the Shulu Department is the most intact. Not only has Ding Zhuang not been transferred, but the main force of the Shan army is also here.This is A Baoji's preferential treatment to his wife's natal family, and it is also a plan for his own future.

This kind of careful thinking is nothing in normal times.But right now, all ministries have been raided and suffered heavy losses, how can people not be jealous?
"Enough!" Yue Liduo scolded.

The voices of the arguing nobles were much quieter, but there were still a few people chattering and pushing each other.

Yueli Duo cast her gaze over again.

The voices of those people became smaller and smaller, becoming inaudible.

"Mother-in-law!" Yue Liduo shouted.

"Sister!" Porun seemed to know what her sister wanted him to do, and sighed in her heart, a little flustered.

"Take people out of the city, gather the soldiers of the Shan army who are scattered everywhere, and come back to rectify." Yue Liduo said: "After the rectification is completed, the whole army will attack and fight the Xia people."

"Sister..." The mother-in-law hesitated.

Yue Liduo suddenly smiled and said: "I will personally lead people to fight. The Shulu Department is my home, and the Shanshan Army is built by our brothers and sisters. If they are gone, I will not live alone. "

There are more than 6000 Shan troops in the city, and many generals and schools rushed over. Hearing this, everyone was in awe.

After the crowd dispersed, Porun's face turned pale, and she waited to persuade her, but she was slapped by Yue Liduo.

"Look at you, you usually have five or six people, with your entourage like a cloud, and you are so majestic." Yue Liduo scolded: "There are dozens of wives and concubines in your family, so I will ask you, you dare not fight with your life, what face do you have?" Shrugging on women? Are you still a man?"

Po Run blushed from being scolded and left in a hurry.

The city gate opened quickly.

Shulu Porun took a deep breath and left the city with three thousand cavalry.Not surprisingly, their movements caught the attention of the Iron Cavalry.

There was a blast of horns on the grassland, and hundreds of cavalry soldiers slowly gathered together.