The desolate night is accompanied by sobs.
Zhang Qi, Hui and the others were hanging at the back of the team, while Ying was at the front responsible for leading the newly joined slave army.
The women hugged the children on the horses tightly. The horses they rode were different from Zhang Qi and others. They had no saddles and only a piece of animal skin. If they didn't clamp the horse's belly tightly on the way forward, it would be easy to fall off the horse.
There were gold belts for murder and arson, there were no remains for repairing bridges and roads, the old saying was true, and the harvest of this tribe alone far exceeded Zhang Qi's expectation.
That is to say, he does not have a base yet, otherwise the harvest would be even greater.
There's no point thinking about it now, let's get on our way first.
As the sun peeked out of the sky, the sky and the earth began to light up.
Because there were so many people and they had just plundered a tribe, Zhang Qi and the others were not very fast. They only walked a few kilometers in an hour.
Zhang Qi is not in a hurry. What time of year it is now, and with Shan Yu's summons, the danger level on this grassland has been greatly reduced, and even if they encounter the outgoing Xiongnu army, they are not without the strength to fight. of.
At least these women on horses are also good bait and human shields.
We drove leisurely along the road. The grassland in winter was particularly quiet, and the Daxinganling Mountains to the east gradually revealed their edges and corners as time went by.
That's Zhang Qi's destination.
It stretches more than 300 kilometers from east to west and about 1,200 kilometers from north to south. Its complex terrain and flourishing ecological community make it a natural refuge for dirt and evil.
As long as they go deep into it, even if the Huns want revenge, they will not be able to find their target.
In the mountains and forests, the role of cavalry is not very great, but these NPC soldiers can exert greater combat effectiveness.
After walking for about a few hours, the endurance of the women on the prairie horses was about to reach its peak. From being robbed to now, they had not had a drop of water for nearly ten hours. They were okay, despite the hardship, they could hold on through gritted teeth. The top can also become the starting point, but children cannot.
A burst of crying is contagious. If one child cries, it will cause all the other children to cry.
Zhang Qi looked at the horizon and saw that the time was almost up, so he gave orders to the people around him.
"Fix."
The five riders rushed out and started to stop one by one.
After a while, the whole team stopped by the river.
Zhang Qi led people to shuttle among the women. All the women were trembling involuntarily. It was this man who took away everything from them.
Panic and uneasiness arose in every woman's heart, but no one dared to resist. Last night's experience had told them that the only result of resistance would be death, and the child would die together with them.
Zhang Qi always had a gloomy face, giving people a feeling that he was on the verge of anger. No one dared to touch his bad luck.
"Twenty women form a circle, hurry up!"
Zhang Qi was swinging a whip, and every woman who was whipped could not help but cry out in pain.
Under the high pressure, the team quickly divided into a dozen large and small circles.
The women are on the periphery, the children in the middle.
As for whether there were twenty people in each pile, Zhang Qi didn't bother to count them.
After the women were sorted, Zhang Qi began to ride his horse through the circles, leaving behind a bag of shelled grains after passing each circle.
"I said, if you obey, you will have enough to eat. You can decide how to eat and divide the food. But for those who dare to resist, not a word!"
"die!"
More than two hundred women and more than three hundred children were divided into more than a dozen large and small circles. After Zhang Qi dropped a dozen bags of grain, he stopped paying attention to this area, and the rest Hui Hui took care of it.
What he wants to do is to reward those incited slaves. Although they don't play a big role, who told him that now is the time to employ people. It doesn't matter what cats and dogs they are, as long as they can move.
The NPCs went to supervise the women and children, and Zhang Qi asked Ying to lead the slaves around the women.
Zhang Qi rode over, and Lu Mu and Ma San each led several horses. On the horses were the property plundered from the Xiongnu tribe.
There were forty-seven slaves in total, and each of them was starved, skinny and bones, with sunken eye sockets and protruding cheekbones, making them all look like evil ghosts crawling out of hell.
These slaves were very excited when they saw Zhang Qi coming and the things on the horse. Yesterday they were all a group of lowly slaves, but now they all have rewards that they can get.
All these are given by the people in front of me.
"Owner!"
Zhang Qi nodded with satisfaction as the master shouted affectionately.
Since ancient times, money has moved people's hearts. It is an eternal truth that people die for money and birds die for food.
After waving, Lu Mu handed a skinned leg of lamb to Zhang Qi's hand.
The white fascia and red flesh swayed so much that the slaves swallowed their saliva.
"I said, those who are obedient will eat meat, and those who are disobedient will be eaten. Do you want to eat meat or be eaten?"
All the slaves knelt on the ground, their whole bodies pressed into the snow.
"Great Master, we want to eat meat."
"Hahaha, okay!"
"From now on, you will be my army of servants under Zhang Qi's tent. As long as you obey, you will have wine! Meat! Money! Women! They will all be yours!"
"Lu Mu!"
"The old slave is here."
At this time, Lu Mu played the role of an old dog beside Zhang Qi very well, with an extremely humble appearance.
"Ten pounds of beef and mutton per person, three furs, and a hundred Chinese baht!"
Zhang Qi waved his hand.
Lu Mu bowed to the end: "No."
Meat and fur are hard currencies on the grassland. After the slaves received the reward, their eyes towards Zhang Qi became even hotter. As for the Han Baht, even though this was a Xiongnu place, the money could still be circulated, and each tribe also had Will recognize these coins.
The exchanges between the grassland and the Han Dynasty were not limited to plundering and being plundered. There were always large and small mutual trades around the Great Wall. The Huns wanted the items of the Han Dynasty, and the Han people also wanted the cattle and sheep on the grassland.
The forty-seven slaves Zhang Qi treated them equally, and everyone was given the best beef and mutton. The slaves were grateful, Zhang Qi nodded slightly, and then distributed a large amount of gems and crystals to Bo and others.
They had been following him for so long, and they all put in a lot of effort last night. It made no sense that the slaves all had rewards but they didn't. A team was not worried about being few but about being uneven. Zhang Qi understood this very well.
Although these people would not complain to him even if he didn't give them anything, habits were formed, and Zhang Qi was afraid that one day he would really get used to treating them like this, and it would be too late to regret it.
Sharing the spoils and food, Zhang Qi created a huge reputation in the hearts of the slaves. If they were still dominated by Zhang Qi's force before, then now, these slaves have the idea of fighting for themselves. .
It won't take long before Zhang Qi is confident that he can train these slaves into a good team of dogs.
