Slavic warriors are of course very powerful.
These fifty men were not regular soldiers, and only twenty of them had half-armor. The other thirty were wearing only clothes. But what they faced was the elite of the eleven elite Han troops.
spies.
"Huh?!!! What kind of team is this?" Xiao Qi Ding Yun looked up at the aggressive team in front, his mind filled with doubts.
A noble knight leading fifty cavalry?
These don't seem to be Slavic spies, so what do they do?
Ding Yun shook his head and abandoned the distracting thoughts in his mind, raised his crossbow and moved forward, shouting: "Kill everyone else and capture the noble knight."
"Whoosh" sound. Ding Yun and the spies raised their crossbows and pulled the triggers towards the Slavs. Then he threw away the hand crossbow, took out his bow and arrow, and shot at the Slavs.
The spies are not said to be expert archers, but their accuracy is also top-notch.
Eleven crossbow arrows hit eleven people. Five of them were shot dead, three fell off their horses, and three were wounded.
"Fight back." Catherine, who pulled down her mask and couldn't tell the difference between male and female, raised her knight's sword and shouted.
"Whoosh!!!!" The archers on both sides started shooting at each other. The Han soldiers were few, but their accuracy was better, and they were heavily armored.
In addition to the three Han army spies whose horses were shot and stumbled, eight spies, including Ding Yun, rushed into the Slavic soldiers' formation.
At this moment, there are still about twenty Slavic soldiers who can fight, and most of them are wearing half-body armor.
"Avoid this knight." Ding Yun shouted, and led seven men into the flock. After a killing spree, he killed all the Slavic soldiers, and then surrounded Catherine.
Three of them were killed and the rest were wounded. But compared with the results, the price is negligible.
Catherine couldn't believe what her eyes saw. Although his bodyguard is not a battlefield elite, he is also a Slavic man and is proficient in riding skills.
Fifty people fought against eleven people, and the whole army was wiped out?
"Woman?!" As he got closer, Ding Yun noticed Catherine's gender in subtle ways, and raised his brows slightly.
"I'll do it." Ding Yun raised the blood-stained steel knife in his hand, galloped forward on his horse, and slashed at Catherine.
"Ah!!!!" Catherine yelled with all her strength, waving her knight sword in her hand and resisting.
A "ding" sound. The swords clashed, and the huge force knocked the knight's sword away from Catherine's hand. Ding Yun jumped up from his horse, pounced forward, and threw Catherine off the horse.
Catherine was dizzy and her body seemed to be falling apart. After Ding Yun took control of Catherine, he pulled up her visor, his eyes lit up and he said, "She is really beautiful."
"Tie her up. Take your brother's body and leave here immediately." Ding Yun turned around and shouted.
"yes."
The spies shouted yes. After cleaning up the battlefield, Ding Yun and others took Catherine, who was tied up by Wu Hua Da, and headed south.
...........
Zhang Zhen and Lu Yanxun are the forwards.
Hundreds of thousands of Han troops dispersed and headed toward the Xitao Plain in a loose formation.
Wu Nian, Wang Gui and Zhang Sheng were in the rear group and had just left the Great Wall.
"This is the Mu Us Desert." Wu Nian was not in a hurry. He happened to pass by the Mu Us Desert again, so he got off his horse and looked up to the front.
When he stopped, the men and horses stopped. His followers, Wang Gui, Zhang Sheng and others also dismounted and walked to his side.
"According to the guide, this desert is not very big. There are rivers and oases in it. I heard it was not like this before."
Wang Gui put his right hand on his hips and looked up at the desert.
Wu Nian knows better than Wang Gui. The Mu Us Desert will be a legend in later generations.
It’s the same as returning farmland to forest.
It is a model for the country to manage the desert, which is almost disappearing. They were replaced by shrubs, green grass, and sand-proof trees.
In the Qin and Han Dynasties, this place was still a place with fertile water and grass. It turned into a desert only because of overgrazing, probably by the Huns.
Looking at the desert ahead, I remembered that later countries had managed it until it almost disappeared. Wu Nian has many ideas in his heart.
"After we retake the Loop, we will plant vegetation here. Let this desert disappear."
Wu Nian raised his hand and pointed at the desert in front of him, and made bold words.
"Uh!!!" Everyone present was shocked, and Zhang Sheng blurted out: "Planting vegetation can also make the desert disappear?"
"Why not? It's like returning farmland to forest. Moreover, the management of this desert is related to the management of the Yellow River. The water in the upper reaches is clear, and the water in the lower reaches is of course clear. In this Mu Us Desert, how much sediment enters the Yellow River every year ?”
"First, plant tall trees on the periphery of the desert to prevent wind and fix the sand to stop the expansion of the desert. Then plant cold-resistant plants to turn the sand into soil bit by bit."
"As long as we use the spirit of Foolish Old Man to move mountains, we can turn this Mu Us Desert into a place with fertile water and grass within a hundred years."
"You can graze here, and you can farm in Xitao, Qantao and Houtao. It is the real Jiangnan beyond the Great Wall."
Wu Nian turned around and smiled at Zhang Sheng and said.
Only then did everyone realize that Wu Nian was not joking, but really planned to do this. Everyone fell silent, but soon their blood boiled.
As everyone knows.
Our Emperor is omnipotent. If he says it will work, then it will work.
Loess turns into green mountains.
The desert becomes a grassland.
It only takes a hundred years.
"If the Hetao area can be used for both grazing and farming, it can feed millions of people and breed war horses. It will be of great benefit to our country's border defense."
Hojo Ushimasa's face showed joy, he bent down and said with his hands in hand.
"There is no need for border defense. I just want to control the desert. Once I have calmed down the world and captured the Hetao, I will send my troops northward, deep into Mobei, and sweep away the Slavic forces from Asia."
"The Great Wall and the Loop will have no defensive function by then."
Wu Nian said with a smile. There was a secret passage in his heart.
I drew a line for my two sons.
In the future, the three continents of Asia, Europe, and Africa will all be Han territory, so there will be no border defenses.
Everyone was stunned again, but they believed Wu Nian's words.
"Yes." Everyone's blood continued to boil, and everyone responded loudly.
At this moment, the sound of rapid horse hooves sounded from behind. Wu Nian looked back and saw an imperial guard speeding towards him.
After arriving in front of him, the Ouchi guard dismounted, knelt down on one knee and said: "Your Majesty, General Zhang has captured Princess Catherine, the daughter of the Grand Duke of Bavaria."
"Why did you capture a princess?" Wu Nian was surprised. The two armies were fighting, with hundreds of thousands of troops facing each other. Why did the Slavs lose a princess?
Wu Nian was confused, but it was not a bad thing. He shook his head and said, "Bring it up."
