A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 1014 Eighteen Cavalry Sweeps Thousands of Troops

"Go, go, go!"

Ah Fa's group roared excitedly. Capturing three island barbarian warriors can advance to one level, and one island barbarian prisoner of war can be exchanged for three bolts of silk.
The opportunity to become an official and make a fortune is right in front of you.

As the leader of the group, Afa is young, strong and experienced. He wears a light leather armor, an iron helmet on his head, a walking stick in his hand, a horizontal sword on his waist, and a pair of bows and arrows on his back.

This piece of equipment is definitely very sophisticated for a native.

It was very hot on the coast of Moyi Island in July, and wearing a leather armor made Ah Fa extremely sweltering, and his red military uniform had already been soaked with sweat.

But he was very excited at this time, his eyes were red, and he led his group of ten people to follow the team flag closely.

Their tall team leader ran at the front of the team, followed closely by the flag bearer holding the team flag. The hunting team flag was so obvious, leading the team to follow.

The team deputy is at the end of the team carrying a Mo knife. He is also a military judge. Anyone who dares to disobey military orders or even escape during a battle will be punished on the spot with the Mo knife. Some may have a piece of their ear cut off as a warning. .

While running, Ah Fa fantasized about being able to leap forward and kill enough enemy heads in one go, so that he could advance to the next level.

If you are promoted to the rank of Rui Shi, you will get three more seasons of food and clothing a year. In a team, the sergeant is usually the flag bearer. The flag bearer must be tall, have outstanding martial arts skills, and be somewhat educated, because the flag bearer is also the team secretary and must assist the team leader in recording merit.

Afa has been in the Wu family for three years and has learned some culture. Now he can speak Mandarin fluently and can read and write hundreds of characters. He should have no problem being the flag bearer of the team.

As the flag bearer goes up, he becomes the team deputy.

That is to officially enter the ranks of military attaches. Even if you are from the lowest rank under the ninth rank, compared to soldiers, the status is very different.

Military attachés not only receive annual salary and monthly salary, but also receive subsidies for daily necessities and miscellaneous materials, land for rent, permanent land for officials, exemption from school service, and many other overt and covert benefits.

He heard,
After the Luzon Army is established, Luzon's officers will also receive manor fiefs granted by the Marquis of Luzon and become distinguished vassals.

In Moyi Town,

When the Panlaka people attacked, the general manager of Moyi immediately decided to abandon the town and evacuate the people into the Moyi walled earth fortress.

The Panrakans entered the town without any difficulty;
This made them very proud. It turned out that the Han people sailing tall ships only looked strong on the outside, but were actually very weak.

I don't even have the courage to fight,
The Panrakans occupied the town, excitedly plundering the things they had no time to take away.

Although there is nothing good,

But for these island barbarians, they all seemed to be good things. They had couches, Hu beds, desks, screens, and even those coarse porcelain and dumb pottery barrels, which made them fight fiercely and beat them bloody.

They wanted to empty out everything in the town.

Panlaka people were looting everywhere in the town;

It took three days for the robbery to finally calm down. There was really nothing left to rob.

At this time, the elders of each family, or representatives of the elders, entered the town and used this completely looted ruins as their temporary base camp.

In the ruined town, the elders sat cross-legged on banana leaves spread on the ground, forming a large circle.
Representatives of thirty-three big houses,
Looking at the Moyi Tu Fort not far away, he discussed how to capture this tall and round earth fort.
Talking,

They changed the topic and started arguing about the distribution of the spoils after the castle was breached.

We are having an argument,
Suddenly someone ran over in a hurry and interrupted the elders' meeting.

"No, there are many boats coming to the river.

There were many very big boats coming. They were very fast and had already arrived at the river. Many people got off the boats.

They wore strong animal skins and carried all kinds of sharp weapons.
There are people,
There were also people riding tall beasts, and they came over immediately to kill them. "

An elder scolded the man with bare feet and bare back, "The horses they are riding are brought by the Tang people from the other side of the sea."

Another elder asked, "How many people did they come?"

"There are many, many of them. The river bank is full of their big boats, and people are coming down."

The elders gnashed their teeth in hatred for this guy, and they couldn't even explain in a sentence why he was from which family in which house, and why he was as stupid as a pig.

"There shouldn't be too many people. These fools were frightened by the Tang people's big ships and horses."

"Maybe a few hundred people,"

"Hurry up and send an order to all the big families, asking them to quickly gather the warriors from their respective families to prepare for the battle,"

"Defeat those damn Tang people, capture them all, and seize all their ships."

"Let's make an agreement first. Whoever captures the Tang boat will get it."

"Yes, whoever captures the prisoner will also belong to him."

"No, the houses should be divided equally between each family after the war."

"It must be divided equally by the Presbyterian Church."

A group of elders started to argue again.

The Pankara clan has thirty-three big houses, each managed by elders. However, the clans above the big houses do not have clan leaders or management organizations like the Council of Elders, let alone such things as countries and alliances.

Since ancient times, each big house has managed its own family, and the elders of the big house are their respective leaders.
When there are important matters in the clan, the elders of each family will gather together to hold an elders' meeting.

Normally, everyone is in charge of their own affairs, and no one among the elders has a higher status or a lower status, so they do not interfere with each other.

This dispatch of troops was also a joint decision made by the elders at their gathering.
But there was no unified command for sending troops.

Each elder still rules his own big house, and each of them has his own clan chiefs who lead his own people.

This resulted in that although thousands of people were dispatched this time,
But it was very scattered and chaotic, and there was no unified command system. The previous sneak attack on the mines and towns of Moyi Castle was relatively smooth. After all, they were caught off guard. Their numbers were quite superior, and the manager of Moyi Castle did not underestimate the enemy.

But now Luzon reinforcements have arrived.

However, the elders were still discussing there slowly, and even went off topic again while talking.

They are still quarreling here,

Some families on that side of the river have already borne the brunt of the attack.
They can only be forced to fight,
But these tribesmen, who are united by families, fight on their own. The personnel and equipment are very mixed. A family is also a village.
The core family members in the village are the ruling class of the village and are the upper class people. Some of the common people gradually become the village's own farmers. They own houses and fields and are also middle class.

Further down are the lower people who rent the land from the upper people, who are also tenants and are called outsiders. The lowest class are slaves, who have no freedom or property. They are dependent on the superiors and live directly in the superiors' homes, so they are called family members.

This time the Panlaka tribe came together to attack,

The family is the basic unit. The clan leader takes his descendants of the superior people, and then recruits some side branches of the middle people, tenants of the lower people, and their slaves to go to war.
Similar to a knight going on an expedition, he must bring his own horses, weapons and food, as well as territorial militia and serf followers.

They obey the elders of their respective houses.

People from various families in the same big house are basically stationed together.
But they still manage their own affairs. Even if the families belong to the same family, there is no unified command.

The Yaman family is the constituent family of the Laregue family.
The Larege family is a tribe that lives by the Agate Lake in the east of the Panlaka River. It consists of a total of thirteen families.

The strength is still average.

The Yamang family lives on the northwest shore of Agate Lake, which is the largest lake on the island.

Their family's village has more than 300 people, including dozens of people in the patriarch's family, more than a dozen families of warriors, ordinary people, and more than 100 servants and slaves.

The current patriarch of Yamang is a muscular man in his thirties, dark but strong. He went to Luzon to do business with the Tang people, and was also the first to come into contact with the Tang people in Moyibao.

Before the arrival of the Tang Dynasty, the leader of the Yamang clan often rowed boats to trade on other islands. Of course, they would often appear as pirates and do some business without capital.

He is very good at water, good at boating, knows business, and has good martial arts skills.

He has twenty soldiers under him, who often follow him in business and robbery, and they are very tough.

This time he brought twenty warriors from the tribe, and dozens of middlemen, subordinates, and slaves from the tribe. He assembled a team of a hundred people.

They can be said to be the most numerous and elite among all ethnic groups.

But when the Tang ship suddenly arrived, the Han people jumped off the ship and landed, and fiercely attacked,
The Yamang camp, located near the river bank, bore the brunt of the attack.

Chief Yamang, who has always been famous for his fighting ability in the clan, was still taking refuge in the tent from the summer heat, with a woman in his arms.

That woman was the family member of the miner who came to Moyi Island with the ship that he had personally led to attack the Moyi supply ship and captured.

The prisoners on the ship were divided among the families involved in the raid.

Chief Yamang divided into several people,

This woman fell into his hands and was humiliated by him. If she didn't obey, he would beat her. After a few days of beating, her nose was bruised and her face was swollen. She was also intimidated and could only let him humiliate her.

"Enemy attack!"

"The Tang Ship is attacking!"

The tent was opened, and a warrior from the clan broke in.

Yamang pushed the numb woman away, picked up the big knife and walked out.

It was already a mess outside.

The cry of killing is everywhere,
There were also Tang warriors on horseback rushing around to kill.

In the Yamang camp, some servants and slaves were running around in panic.

The patriarch kicked a slave over,
"If you dare to run around again, you will die!"

"gather,"

The patriarch roared,

The people he brought finally had a backbone and gathered quickly.

His hundred people are pretty neat,

But soon the rumble of horse hooves came,
That cavalry was moving very fast,

I just heard the sound,
The cavalry has already reached the front,
The leader was tall and mighty, with a beautiful beard and beard, wearing silver armor and holding a green dragon halberd with a gold-painted pole.
"Anyone who stands in my way will die!"

The person who came was none other than Li Keyong, leading his eighteen Mohe Jingqi on a rampage, and no island barbarians could block their way.

Looking at the hundreds of island barbarians who suddenly gathered in front of me,
Li Keyong roared excitedly, and then led his men to charge straight over,

The horse makes Lu fly quickly,

The green dragon halberd stabs out as fast and fierce as a dragon.

What a fast horse,

Such a fast attack,
As soon as Chief Yamang gathered his hundreds of men, he saw the other party charging towards him.

This patriarch, who is also famous in the nearby sea area hundreds of miles away,
He quickly raised his knife to chop off the horse.

next moment,
A strong wind came,
The light flashed across,

Then the patriarch felt a sharp pain in his heart,
Then he saw that he was flying up, and the earth was getting further and further away from him. He was flying higher and higher,

He was stabbed,
He was even picked up,

Heaven!
What a powerful enemy, his last thought flashed through his mind, and there was no more sound.

Li Ke stabbed the island barbarian in front of him with a halberd, picked him up, and threw him away.

The body fell to the ground,

Li Ke killed the enemy with one blow, and his horse's momentum continued unabated, and he continued to charge.
The green dragon halberd picked off another person,
The mount knocked the two of them away,

The eighteen horsemen behind him followed closely and started killing each other.
In an instant,

One hundred members of the Yamang family were defeated by Li Keyong and his eighteen cavalry.

The cavalry rushed past, leaving no one standing behind them.

(End of this chapter)