Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 362
There is no agricultural foundation, sparse population, lack of weapons, and no defense. The population disperses in spring and summer and gathers in autumn and winter.

This is an alternative version of a Central Plains tribe.

The so-called alternative is just one word "poor"!
The only good news that Zhang Zhe received from the chat with Ma Yuzi was that almost all adult men in Yunshang County can ride horses.

The biggest bad news is that after the spring of next year, the [-] small tribes who surrendered to the Waqiang people will send one of them to plunder Yunshang County.

At least five hundred rides!

My own soldiers who have just mounted horses may not be the opponents of those who grew up on horseback.

Raising food for the winter, repairing city walls, and training county soldiers are all extremely important matters.

Although the imperial court didn't give Zhang Zhe a penny, and Zhang Zhe had money himself, but in Yunshang County, even if he had money, he couldn't buy anything!

But now the most troublesome thing for him is food! Food for 2 people in the winter!

The Waqiang people also suffered from drought this year, and they all went to the southwest to grab food. Where is there any leftover food to ask the Central Plains people in Yunshang County to help?
Counting on the food from the fifth and sixth uncles?Even if all the grain trucks of the fifth and sixth uncles were given wings and flew to Yunshang County, it would only be enough to feed 2 people for a few days, and those were potatoes and sweet potatoes used for growing grain.

Zhang Zhe also thought that he could carry one hundred kilograms of goods across here every day.But one hundred kilograms a day is useless!
He was thinking wildly here, with a worried expression on his face, when Sanqi happened to walk over with some warm pancakes.

"Lang Jun, don't worry. If you go to the country, do as the Romans do. When you get to the place, don't worry about it. Let's eat first!"

Zhang Zhe gave a wry smile, took a piece of cake, and took a bite bitterly.

"Do as the Romans do, it's easy to say, do you want me to take the whole county to rob like the Waqiang people?"

He suddenly froze by himself, grab?Go grab it! ?

He could not support 2 people by carrying [-] kilograms a day, but he could bring [-] of the five-jin waist knives at once!No, don't need a waist knife. The axes on Moubao and Mouduo are lighter and have more goods.Compared with using a knife, people who have not experienced war are more comfortable with a one-handed axe.

And once the ax goes down, it's basically over, so don't worry too much about the opponent still having room to resist.An ax made with modern technology can't be carried by ordinary armor. It doesn't matter whether the Hu people have leather armor or not.

An ordinary hatchet with a wooden handle only weighs one catty. He can bring over two hundred a day, prepare to equip 2000 people in ten days, and then pull them out to fight with people!It's better than starving to death in the city, right?

As for who to steal?Zhang Zhe already had a goal in mind.

"Horseman!"

"My lord~! The little one is here," the old man was eating steamed buns, and almost choked on himself when he called out abruptly.

"When you came here, did you find an oasis in the sea of ​​sand? How long did you walk?"

"Back to my lord, I did find one in the oasis, but we ran into it by mistake. We were lost for half a month before, and we walked in the sea of ​​sand for a full month. My lord, it is too easy to get lost after entering the sea of ​​sand. gone."

After asking this question, Zhang Zhe summoned Sanqi and other servants to discuss together.

"We horses have to rest here for at least five days, and then we need three more days to walk the ancient road. Even if we are lucky enough to walk in a straight line in the sand sea, it will take ten days. It will take another two days to get out of the sand sea and reach the county town. "

"A total of more than 20 days!" Zhang Zhe explained his plan, "Except for the five days of rest here, everyone has to eat and drink on horseback, including myself! Our riding skills on the cloud may even A child is not as good, if you meet a barbarian cavalry team, I am afraid that it is not a gift, you have to practice your riding skills!"

Seeing everyone nodding, Zhang Zhe explained one more thing.

"When practicing riding, ask everyone to practice how to throw on the horse, such as an axe!"

Except for Sanqi and Ganxiu, the other three looked at each other strangely, but this was the Patriarch's order, so they could only nod in the end.

The night in the wasteland is very bright. It is November [-]th, and the huge moon illuminates the wasteland into a silvery white.The temperature on the wasteland also keeps dropping as the moon rises.

Seven or eight fires were raised in the boulder circle, and Zhang Zhe's simple tent was located in the middle of the two fires.

When a fire is lit here, due to the cover of the boulder, people don't have to worry about being seen from a distance. At night, people can't see the smoke rising.

Gao Deshu and Xie Lun inspected the entire highland several times, and finally confirmed that only the previous exit can go up and down the highland.

They placed four guards at the exit of the high ground, and pushed a relatively smooth boulder to the top of the ramp, ensuring that a few guards could roll the big rock into the ramp as long as they exerted force.

Before Zhang Zhe fell asleep, he also took a look at the ramp.

"Four people, how about dividing into two groups, one group is in the light, and the other is in the dark. The light group stares at the outside, and the dark group stares at the light group. What do you think?"

Xie Lun and Gao Deshu were taken aback, how could the Patriarch do this?
After a night without dreams, Zhang Zhe slept very well.

Obviously, Tamer did not find any trace of them last night.Tracking them in the dark and dealing with the people they met was not so difficult.

What's more, Zhang Zhe and his party had already left the ancient road and turned to the no-man's land in the northwest.

It is no longer possible to light a fire during the day, and the smoke will give away their whereabouts.

While Zhang Zhe was gnawing dry food, two flocks of birds flew past the top of the high ground.

"crow?"

Zhang Zhe recognized a group of dozens of smaller birds, which represented ominous crows.

"My lord, the other three are sand vultures. People say that where there is death, there are crows and sand vultures!"

Looking at the direction the birds were flying to, Zhang Zhe silently put an end to the Li family, Shangguan family and Luo family.

"Patriarch, has Tamer gone back?"

While asking Zhang Zhe, Geng Liang looked at the boundless wasteland around the highland.

"Maybe we went back, maybe we're still looking for us," Zhang Zhe shrugged indifferently. Before that, he was going to use some "tricks" to scare the opponent, but now that he has the advantage of the high ground, he doesn't care that Tamer will Wouldn't really attack him in broad daylight.

"But what is certain is that he will be able to find traces of our turning and changing direction by the side of the ancient road today."

In fact, Tamer came earlier than Zhang Zhe expected.

Before noon, a cavalry force of more than 200 people quietly entered behind a hill about three miles away from the high ground, led by Tamer.

Regarding the fact that Zhang Zhe used the loophole in his words to earn a large number of horses for nothing, Tamer was almost mad with anger.But he couldn't immediately send someone to hunt down Zhang Zhe and his party.

Tamer knew very well that there must be spies sent by General Qin Guan around his station.If the officials of the state of Zheng go forward, he will send troops to follow behind.

After the incident, anyone who wasn't a fool would know that Tamer killed him.

If the people of Zheng turned their backs because of this and delayed the Great Khan's plan to plunder the three northern countries, Tamer's whole family would have to be buried with that little face of Zheng.

He endured it until nightfall, and then he chose the most loyal [-] clansmen and chased them along the ancient road.

Will the people of Zheng, who are not familiar with the place, leave the ancient road and wander around in the wilderness?Obviously not, he thought!Tamer even estimated that when he chased the other party to the camping place, it should be when the other party slept the most.

But he was only halfway through the chase when he bumped into a camp on the side of the road.

The flustered Central Plains accent came from the darkness, making Tamer think for a moment that Zhang Zhe didn't go too far.Three hundred cavalry rushed into the camp immediately and began to kill and kill.

But soon Tamer found that he had found the wrong person. There were not many horses in this camp, and there were some women.But Tamer didn't stop, because these Central Plains people would reveal their whereabouts afterwards.

There were only ten or twenty foot guards in the camp who were capable of fighting, and they still held iron sheets in their hands. Tamer's tribe didn't pay attention to these people at all.

But after the battle, Tamer unexpectedly found that he had lost six clansmen and more than 20 people were injured.These guys on foot turned out to be very sturdy.

After interrogating several people from the Central Plains who knew Beibei dialect, Tamer got the news that Zhang Zhe was continuing to travel west, so Tamer ordered them to be killed.

He chased along the ancient road for a long time, but he didn't even see a single person.

Obviously, those Zheng people had left the ancient road and entered a camp somewhere in the wasteland.

Although the moon was bright, it was not enough for the warriors to see the horseshoe prints on the ground.

It wasn't until after dawn that the scouts dispersed, and he finally found the trace of the other party turning northwest by the side of the ancient road.

Now, those damned Zheng people have jumped up to a high ground like mice.

That highland is the terrain that the prairie people dislike the most, and the surrounding area looks impossible to climb, and he doesn't even know how the other party got up, so Tamer is going to wait until the mice come down from the highland by themselves.

The highland is surrounded by endless wilderness, only this hill three miles away from the highland is the only and best ambush location.

Soon, these mice will be down soon.

Ganxiu put down the binoculars in front of him, he saw a face in the binoculars just now, it was really the tower that he met in the field before.

"About 300 people!" Zhang Sanqi's Wu Renji is now more convenient to use, "I counted them one by one, and a few Hu people made a fuss and asked a guy to give my Wu Renji an arrow. Hehe, it's a pity that it's too far away."

Zhang Zhe got up and glanced at the short hills in the distance, without a trace of worry on his face.

"Old Gao, you take ten people and keep guarding the ramp!"

"promise!"

"Old Xie, you lead a team of people ready to meet Lao Gao at any time."

"promise!"

"Stop, you continue to observe each other with binoculars."

"No~!"

"The rest of the people feed the horses, don't be lazy, the grass in the boulder circle will become fodder!"

The sun in winter is not hot, but warm.

This made Tamer and the others who were hiding behind the low hill feel drowsy.

They waited until noon, but they didn't see those lazy Zheng people setting off. They are still lying on the high ground, what are they doing?
Tamer heard the whispered curses from the clansmen behind her, and the flame in her heart continued to rise.

If the opponent is a general, Tamer can wait patiently for half a month without any problem.But at the moment his target is just a despicable little boy from Zheng.

This little boy is not only dark-hearted, but also extremely lazy.How could the brave Tamer be laughed at because of his laziness?
"I swear that I will cut off your limbs with my own hands, and let you cry to death~!"

When noon had passed, there was actually a curl of smoke rising from the high ground.

"Damn it!" Someone said angrily to Tamer, "Tamer, these Zheng people must have thought that we had already left, so they started roasting in peace. Let's kill them and burn the red branches Shove their asses in!"

Tamer gave the man a cold look.

"Did you see how they went up? The attack route is not clear, let's run under the opponent to take arrows?"

"They're down!"

Someone is calling in a low voice.

Tamer hurriedly lowered her head, and then looked in the direction of the high ground.

Sure enough, two people led their horses and came out from a "stone wall". It turned out that the passage was there!
The two Zheng men seemed to be practicing their riding skills and ran around the high ground a few times.This level of riding skills made all the Beibei people present laugh contemptuously.

Not as good as your own children!
After turning around a few times, Gan Xiu and Geng Liang led the horses back to the high ground through the ramp.And in the ramp at the moment, a few soldiers were stepping on stones and stuffing things into the gaps in the stones beside the ramp.

Where Tamer could not see, on the high ground 20 meters from the exit of the ramp, a large number of stones were stuffed among some boulders, forming a semicircular defense line as tall as a person.

Tamer was mobilizing the clansmen behind the low hill.

"Let's wait patiently until night. Everyone has seen it. It's a trail. The two Zheng men had to lead their horses and walk out one by one. The terrain was not good for us. But the Zheng men thought we had let them go. Hehehe, may the Canggu God bless them!"

The Beibei people laughed softly.

The seventeenth moon is still very round, but there are many more clouds in the sky.This makes the moonlight on the wasteland bright and dark.

When the number of bonfires on the high ground became one and became weaker and weaker, Tamer finally stood up.Now in the middle of the night, he believed that everyone in Zheng had already fallen asleep.

He took 270 and three tribesmen, removed all the things on his body that would reflect the moonlight, and walked slowly to a place that was only more than ten feet away from the high ground.

The place where they were lurking happened to be the projection of the high ground under the moonlight, so that the people above could not see them clearly for a while.

In this kind of terrain, war horses were not needed at all. Tamer asked the 21 injured tribesmen to stay behind the hill with all their war horses.

"Tamer, I observed in the middle of the night, and I can be sure that they have two sentries, showing their heads every 150 breaths." It was Sakhamba who spoke. One of the famous centurions, but also a good archer.

"One for you, one for me! Let's launch at the same time!"

"No problem, when you draw your bow is when I shoot!"

On the high ground, Ganxiu was using his precious telescope to carefully look at the hundreds of people lying down below with great interest.

"These barbarians are all red in the baby, hehe, that one is still picking his ass!" Of course he didn't understand that this is called infrared thermal imaging.

When Ganxiu saw the two leaders standing up quietly and bowing their bows, he immediately gestured to the two soldiers around him.

The two soldiers immediately picked up a dummy each, and stretched out their "heads" slowly.

"Buzz~!" There were two deep bowstring sounds, accompanied by the sound of breaking wind, and the two dummies were hit by arrows at the same time, one in the head and the other in the neck.

The two dummies collapsed at the same time without making a sound.

(End of this chapter)