Lu Shu and A Duo grew up in northern Xinjiang and were extremely familiar with the grassland situation. So the two of them were stunned for only a moment and said in unison: "They are the remnants of the Tata'er tribe!"
The so-called Tata tribe was a Mongolian tribe that was active in the southern and northern deserts before the rise of the Nelon Mongols. Below them, the Tutu Heiligut Tartar, Alchitar Tartar, Chahan Tartar and other tribes all had strong soldiers. People in the Central Plains often refer to the grassland peoples as "Tatars". This "Tatar" is said to come from "Tataer", which shows that the Tatar tribe was originally very powerful.
When the fourth ancestor of Genghis Khan was Hebul Khan, the Tatar tribe had enmity with the Nilon Mongolian tribes, and the two sides continued to attack, kill and loot each other. During the period of Genghis Khan's great-grandfather Anba Khan, the Tatar tribe designed to capture Anba'i and send him to the Jin Dynasty. The Jin Dynasty nailed Anba'i to a wooden donkey and executed him. Later, the Tatar tribe poisoned Genghis Khan's father Yesugei.
During the Cheng'an period of the Jin Dynasty, the power of the Tata'er tribe reached its peak, and it once sent troops to harass the Jin Kingdom. At that time, the Jin Kingdom was still strong, so Prime Minister Wan Yanxiang led a heavy attack. The Tatar tribe was defeated by the Jin army, was defeated and fled, and was attacked by the coalition forces of Genghis Khan and Tuoli Khan, and was destroyed from then on.
Because the Tatar tribe had great potential in the grasslands, Genghis Khan on the one hand, quickly and quickly took the sisters of the Nattar tribe as concubines to show his kindness and generosity; on the other hand, he secretly ordered his subordinates to send the men of the Tatar tribe to Kill them all, divide the women and children into slaves, and eradicate the roots.
Unexpectedly, this order was accidentally leaked by Belgutai, which caused the Tatar tribe to continue to resist. The war lasted for a long time and the Mongolian tribe suffered heavy casualties.
Even after Genghis Khan turned his attention to the Naiman tribe, the Klei tribe, and his ally Jamuka, the continued strangulation of the Tatar tribe in the eastern steppe continued. A large number of Tatar people had to flee the grassland and seek refuge in the Kingdom of Jin. There were many Tatar people in the so-called Yi army of the Jin Kingdom.
When Genghis Khan launched the Western Expedition, Mongolia's control over the grasslands was slightly weakened, and many Tatar tribes wandering around got a chance to breathe. Some larger-scale remnants once returned from the pine desert and dared to compete with the Mongols for pasture. The activity areas of the scattered remnants also expanded.
Seeing that these people were walking around freely in the field and flopping in the mud of the lake without even making a sound, they must be familiar with the road to be able to carry out such a sneak attack. Obviously, it was that generation that the merchants had been wary of before.
But looking at the appearance of these people, they don't look like they often take advantage of Han merchants.
The richness of the products in the Central Plains is dozens of times greater than that of the grasslands. In recent years, due to the continuous inflow of materials from the Southern Dynasties, the vitality of the Great Zhou Kingdom has been rapidly recovering every day, and the gap between the Central Plains and the grasslands has become more and more obvious.
Not to mention the monopoly profits in the hands of the government such as salt, iron, livestock, etc., as long as a merchant with ordinary wealth is brave enough to take a trip to the back of Monan Mountain, he can easily earn several times the profit.
On the contrary, because the ironware, porcelain, cloth, and silk commonly used by the Han people are far superior to similar products on the grasslands, if these people often rob Han'er, then there will definitely be traces.
At least he would be wearing a few cloth robes, so he wouldn't look like a beast wrapped in fur, right?
At least the ones in the quiver shouldn't be bone arrows, right?
How stupid would they have to be if they were still so poor after robbing Han merchants one after another?
Is it difficult to take an isolated merchant and extort some benefits? Just a little bit would be enough for them to live comfortably for a while, right?
"Unless..." Lu Shu's face looked a little ugly.
"Unless this group of Tatar people are the stupidest kind! Yeli Yasi deliberately kept them around Gouluo to use them to intimidate the Han merchants who came to the market, so as to ensure that the Han merchants would not dare to Wandering around and revealing the secrets of his big business with us! These people are just killing knives!"
"Ye Li Ya Si, this old boy is not a good thing!" A Duo said bitterly.
"This guy can do business with us behind the back of the Golden Family. It's not a good thing in the first place! What's wrong with raising a group of Tatar people?" Lu Shu shouted: "Is this what matters now?"
"What's most important?"
Lu Shu patted himself and took out the inner pocket of his sleeve: "I carry it with me
All the money and gold and pearls have been taken away, what about you? "
"I have no belongings with me. The most valuable thing is your sword... it has been taken away. Even my thicker clothes have been taken away."
"All the money was taken away. What do you think they did with our lives?"
Both of them were familiar with the customs of these grassland tribes. They were stunned for a moment and said in unison again: "Tomorrow is the seventh day of the lunar month, the day when the red magpie takes flight. They want to keep us as prey for hunting tomorrow!"
Thinking of this, both of them broke out in cold sweat.
The two of them had been beaten up and captured before. Although they didn't know what would happen to them, they were able to maintain their courage. This is all because young people who grew up in war-torn times have a tendency to be generous in their character. They have seen many dangerous situations, and they don't always want to show off their shit to others.
But not being afraid of death does not mean that you want to die. It was just that they were caught off guard before, but now they anticipated the danger, and the two of them were not willing to wait for death.
The two of them ate the remaining potatoes without saying anything more, and then fell asleep on their backs.
The Tatar people's fuss around the bonfire did not last long. Perhaps, after all, their entire clan was the sworn enemy of Genghis Khan, and they were used to hiding their voices. As night fell, everyone scattered back to their tents, and not long after, snoring could be heard from everywhere.
At the zenith of the moon, the moonlight was shining, and it could be seen that no one in Tenjian was talking or moving. Only the Wu Lachi holding chicken heart iron laos were patrolling inside and outside the camp. Occasionally, they approached the stable where Lu Shu and A Duo were. The horses were bleating at first. When they got closer, they saw the two lying in the thatch, as if they were fast asleep.
Wu Lachi walked further away, and the two of them slowly stood up again. Using the cover of the thatch pile, they continued to dig out a wooden board with signs of decay at the edge of the stable.
The sand was hard, and the two of them had no common tools in their hands. Soon their fingers were bloody and their nails were cracked.
According to the original custom of the Mongols, there is no need for stables at all. The horses were grouped into groups of four to five hundred and were arranged around the camp to eat and sleep in the open air. Over the years, due to the increasing exchanges with tribes in the northeastern interior and the Central Plains, the value of horses has become higher and higher, so many small tribes have begun to learn to build stables to maintain more delicate ponies or pregnant mares.
However, their technology is rough and they live only by water and grass, so they don't spend too much energy on it. The wooden boards are not rammed deeply into the ground. Lu Shu and A Duo worked hard for most of an hour, and the whole board shook slightly.
Lu Shu took off his robe, tied up the entire board, then lay down on the ground and kicked hard. After three or five blows, the wooden board cracked and broke. Because it was wrapped in a robe, the sound was not harsh. At first glance, it was not possible to tell where the break was.
The two of them did not act rashly and returned to the thatch pile, continuing to sleep soundly. When Wu Lachi passed by for inspection again, the two of them covered their heads and faces with both hands and rushed towards the broken part of the board.
With a series of clicking sounds, the two of them knocked out of the stable and rolled on the ground. Ignoring the pain all over their bodies, the two jumped up and ran to the pasture not far away where the horses were resting.
These horses were all saddleless and could not be driven by ordinary people. However, Lu Shu and A Duo still had their roots in northern Xinjiang. They each hugged the neck of a strong horse tightly, jumped on it, and urged the horse. Walk!
The two of them spurred their horses with all their strength and ran far away in almost the blink of an eye.
It wasn't until Li Xu left that the angry shouts of the Wu Lachi came.
Uncle Lu looked back and vaguely saw figures moving around in various campsites, as well as dogs barking one after another.
The next moment, Wu Lachi, who shouted the loudest, screamed loudly. He was obviously killed by the leader. The barking of dogs became more intense, and the sound of horse hooves began to roar.
The Tatars gave chase. Lu Shu heard the sound of the whistle, he hugged the horse's neck and pressed his body as close to the horse's back as possible.
