This knight wears ring armor made of fine iron, and the war horse under his crotch is taller and fatter than the average Mongolian horse. He must be an elite. How to fight against the few people on foot? There are several tricks taught in the military academy.
Unfortunately, every trick is a narrow escape; the best way is to escape directly to a place with high mountains, dense forests, and rugged terrain.
Except for the scattered warehouses in the surrounding area, there is nothing sufficient to prevent cavalry conflicts. As for the wooden fence against which he was leaning... Lu Shu heard the panicked shouting of many people behind the wooden fence, as well as the sound of horses snorting impatiently as their riders galloped back and forth.
There were many war horses, and the whizzing sound of arrows piercing the air could be heard from time to time. After the whizzing sound, there must be screams. The Mongols were forcing people out of guesthouses and warehouses. Anyone who moved slower would die immediately.
There is a high wall outside the reservoir area, and outside the high wall there is an arrow tower built by the Mongols themselves. It's very rough, but it can play a role in surveillance and defense. Now there are so many Mongolians rushing into the Kurdistan area and doing whatever they want. It is obvious that there is something wrong with Yeli Yasi, who is cooperating with us.
Perhaps this guy acted too openly and was exposed; it is also possible that the Mongolian high-level officials noticed the wavering of many thousands of families on the edge of the grassland and were determined to eradicate all uncontrollable factors.
The people who came to the Kurdistan area at this time were not Yeliyasi's subordinates, but the core force of the Mongolian Qiyan tribe. They may not have the intention to kill and plunder, but these people are so wild and untamable, and they are not convinced by the force of the Zhou Dynasty, so once they come up with the same tricks that the Mongols have used in the past few decades, click first What a group of people, and then get down to business.
When encountering such bad luck, there is no way to escape.
Lu Shu leaned over slightly, pressed his heels, and slowly moved his hands to his waist.
When he was eight or nine years old, after the defeat at Yehuling, he followed Guo Ning and fled to Tangluo, Hebei Province. He suffered a lot of hardships along the way and suffered physical damage, so he is still not considered strong among his peers. But he does not lack basic martial arts training, nor does he lack the determination to fight to the death against the enemy.
Sometimes in his dreams, he would remember that in the hilly area behind Wuyue Camp, he and his brother Lu Su supported each other with bloody hands, staggering up from the pile of dead people, and saw countless corpses covering the sight of the mountain. Inside, only Guo Ning was holding his weapon and looking like he was breathing down his head.
Now that Guo Ning is not here, he has to work hard on his own. There is nothing to hesitate about. As long as the Mongolian is not in a hurry to shoot arrows, and he gets closer, I will swing my sword violently and chop off the horse's legs first!
Just when he was about to fight hard, Aduo pressed Lu Shu's shoulder with his backhand and whispered: "Don't move!"
The faint sound of voices attracted the attention of the Mongolian cavalry. His gaze that had wandered in another direction suddenly returned, circling around Lu Shu and A Duo twice.
Now that the Mongols looked over, it was already too late to move. If you take a step or two forward, your body will be pierced by arrows immediately.
Lu Shu rolled his eyes fiercely, his body tensed up, and he didn't dare to move.
It seemed like the sound of hooves was getting closer.
Lu Shu wanted to look up at the Mongols and pretend to be harmless, but he was ashamed to find that he did not dare. All he could see was the ground beneath his feet and the drops of Han water.
On the other hand, Aduo took half a step forward and blocked Lu Shu with his body.
Because he had to accompany Lu Shu to the grassland for business, Aduo specially changed into the uniform of the miscellaneous tribe in the grassland, looking like a common little Tatar in the caravan. Lu Shu's clothes looked very plain compared to those of the wealthy merchants. Both of them were dusty and did not look threatening.
The Mongolian knight loosened his bow string, turned his horse around, and made a gesture while the horse jumped over the fence.
Behind the fence, two war horses suddenly charged forward. Each horse's saddle was connected with a rope. The rope passed through the horizontal railing at the top of the arrow tower, and the other end strangled the necks of the two caravan guards.
These two caravan guards are both very capable people. They can speak the languages of several tribes, are familiar with the roads, and have good skills. Therefore, they each have a group of people under their command. Ordinary merchants can't hire them without paying a high price. .
Zhao Xuan also hinted to Lu Shu that one of them was actually from the Recording Department of the Marshal's Mansion in the Zhou Dynasty. If there was an emergency, he could be trusted with his life.
When the Mongols suddenly broke into the Kurdistan area, the two of them immediately gathered their men to resist and killed more than ten enemy cavalry in a short period of time. However, they were outnumbered and both became prisoners.
At this moment, as the horses galloped, the two guard leaders were pulled up at once. The huge pulling force caused one person's neck to break immediately. The other man was very alert. His right arm was stuck in the rope around his neck, and he was probably trying to find a way to free himself from the restraints.
But after the rope was tightened, his whole body was pulled into the air, and his arms happened to be trapped and unable to move. He shouted loudly, his voice full of unyielding and anger.
Not far away, his escort subordinates also screamed in frustration. Seeing the leader being so humiliated, some young guards clenched their fists and rushed out of the queue, only to be forced back far away by the Mongols.
The Mongols were content to see such a scene.
They laughed and cursed at the people who had been driven to one place in the reservoir area for a long time. Then the knight in ringed armor calmly turned his horse back and slowly stabbed the guard leader's chest with the long knife in his hand.
The leader of the guard struggled hard, risking suffocation to break the rope, so that his whole body was shaking. The Mongolian knife was thrust in and out, widening the wound a lot.
Blood gushed out from his chest and abdomen, spraying on the Mongolian's knife-holding arm and on the horse's back. When the Mongolian knight was about to swing his last sword, the horse shook the mane on its neck angrily and ran away.
More Mongolians laughed strangely.
The corpses and blood in front of him, as well as the laughter in his ears, made Lu Shu feel dizzy. He had an indescribable weird feeling of anger and panic.
Lu Shu pressed on the wooden fence in front of him to prevent his body from shaking. His face turned pale and he asked in a low voice: "What should I do?"
Ado stared blankly at the people running around in the warehouse area, watching more and more people being gathered in one place, away from the largest warehouses.
Pushing forward a few decades, the Mongols were completely poor. Be it tea, salt, grain, cloth, medicine, ironware, treasures or daily necessities, there is nothing on the grassland, so they want everything, and they often give rewards that far exceed the value of the materials.
Many tribal chiefs fought to the death for the title of "Zhawu Tihuri" given by the Jurchens, because the Zhawu Tihuri of the Great Jin Kingdom could obtain material support from the Great Jin. Others can only exchange the cattle, alpacas and horses they have on hand for supplies. It often happens that a group of sheep are exchanged for a bag of medicine.
But with the rise of Genghis Khan, the Mongols went south to the Central Plains several times and had close contact with the Central Plains people for many years, and they began to learn from it. Although they have never developed production capabilities, they are already good buyers and understand the value of materials.
For example, the big warehouse they are hurriedly sealing and controlling at the moment not only stores medicinal materials and tea leaves, but also some rhinoceros skins and fish bladders, which are precious materials used to make leather armor and bows and arrows, because it is very important to open the road to Usha Castle. Only then were some specially prepared.
Zhao Xuan was supposed to be in the warehouse, but the Mongols galloped several times inside and outside the warehouse, driving out too many people.
A Duo tried to find Zhao Xuan and Lu Wusi, but never saw them. Seeing that another Mongolian was coming, they were about to drive the two of them towards the gathering place.
After gathering people in one place, the Mongols would check and plunder them one by one. This is also an old routine. A Duo suddenly regretted it. He found that he was not careful enough in his words during his trip north to avoid revealing his identity. If someone followed the clues and discovered Lu Shu's identity, there would be big trouble.
He suddenly turned around, took off the slightly luxurious sword from Lu Shu's waist, and buckled it on his belt.
"I am Ado." He said seriously: "You are Ado's companion."
Lu Shu was stunned for a moment, then nodded deeply: "Okay."
Not far away from them, Zhao Xuan saw A Duo's movements through the crowd. He immediately knew what Ado meant and nodded with confidence.
He was a merchant who traveled to northern Xinjiang, so in his early years he followed Monk Luo and became a bandit. His identity was the leader of the village in charge of money and food. Since serving as the defense envoy of Jinshan, he has been responsible for infiltrating the grasslands through commercial means, and has far more interactions with Yelu Chucai and Li Yun than with his immediate superior Qiu Huiluo. So many people half-jokingly said that Zhao Xuan was not the defense envoy of Jinshan, but the transport envoy of Jinshan, a civil servant responsible for wealth, money and food.
This is not Zhao Xuan’s first visit to Gouluo Salt Pond. There are at least ten Mongolians who know him both inside and outside the reservoir area.
Therefore, whether the Mongols were prepared, targeted, or acted recklessly, it would be difficult for him, a Zhou official, to hide in the crowd. It would be better to confess one's identity so as to attract the attention of the Mongols and thus cover Lu Shu and A Duo.
Now it seems that A Duo is smart enough and has given Lu Shu an extra layer of cover, which would be even better.
Zhao Xuan patted the two flustered merchants in front of him, smiled and said: "Excuse me, give way."
I'm back in Shanghai... This trip is too tight, and the time of traveling by car and plane is too long... Now my feet are swollen and I can't walk :(
(End of chapter)
