Almost all the Mongolian youths of the Zasak Department of the Central Banner of the Left Wing of Horqin followed Heta out, and only some women, children, and old and weak remained in the camp. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But even so, Cao Lei did not let his guard down.

More than thirty paces ahead, there was a sentry. It was a bearded Mongolian, about forty-five or sixteen years old, who dozed off under his horse's belly with a scabbard in his hand. After all, the Great Khan had led people to clean up the Rakshasas, so how could anyone still come to attack his tribe? At this time, the vigilance of the Mongols was not very high.

Cao Lei made a gesture, and a Ming sergeant picked up the crossbow machine, aimed at the Mongol, and gently pressed down the hanging knife.

A crossbow arrow shot out, piercing the Mongol's throat.

After all, Zasak's tribe was very large, and there was more than one sentry nearby. However, this was not difficult for the carefully trained Ming army sled soldiers, and after a while, all the Mongol sentries were silently wiped out.

Lying in the snow, the thick down jacket and cotton armor on his body are difficult to resist the severe cold, and a cold air penetrates into the body. However, for Cao Lei, the elite sled soldiers who have trained in the ice and snow, it is nothing at all. There is no target for the time being, and Cao Lei recalled the results of the past month or so.

Since the sled soldiers attacked, Cao Lei had at least 50 lives on his hands, some of whom were shot by him, and some were hacked to death by him with knives at close range. However, what is more strange is that a few days ago, when they were on guard at night, they met a group of strange people, who were not Mongols, but Han Chinese.

Cao Lei and the others are not merciful because the other party is Han, as long as they follow themselves on the ice field at this time, they are all enemies. Those Han Chinese were all shot and killed by the Ming army. Afterwards, nothing was found from them with identification, and they had neither directions nor waist plates.

However, those people seem to be good, and they all have weapons and hidden weapons on their bodies, and they seem to be masters. It's just that their martial arts didn't get a chance to play at all, and they were all beaten into a sieve with muskets.

Cao Lei stopped thinking nonsense and continued to stare at the yurt in front of him.

This year's winter was particularly cold, and despite the dried cow dung burning in the stove, it was still cold inside the yurt. In the steel knife-like north wind, the whole tent seemed to have become an ice cellar, and the people living in the tent felt that their whole body was frozen into ice lumps, and holding the lamb for warmth was the only way for the old herdsman Nazarik to maintain his body temperature.

"What the hell is weather! Damn the Rakshasas! Nazarik cursed the weather and the Rakshasas who were killing people and setting fires everywhere in the grasslands.

Originally, the winter of the Horqin Mongols was not so sad, after all, they were the tribe of the Empress Dowager, and they were the maiden family of Lafayette Bumu Butai. A few years ago, before the Qing army entered the customs, the Horqin people could follow the Houjin army into the customs and plunder, and each time they could get a large amount of booty. After the Qing army entered the customs, the Horqin people could no longer enter the customs and plunder, but Bumu Butai, who became the queen mother at that time, did not forget his mother's family, and every winter he would send a large amount of charcoal to keep warm.

But this winter, I don't know what's going on, there is actually a Rakshasa cannibal devil on the Horqin grassland!

It is said that the Rakshasa ogres from the far west are each red-haired and green-eyed, and they eat human flesh for food, and they are in the company of wild wolves, they especially like to eat the hearts and livers of children, and they throw leftover human flesh to wild wolves.

This winter, the Rakshasas actually went deep into the originally safe Horqin grassland to eat people! According to others, several tribes have been slaughtered, and the convoy from the capital has not been able to come.

Before the Chinese New Year, when the Jin merchants entered the Horqin grassland, they found a small tribe that was eaten up by wild wolves, and there was no living person in the tribe of more than 600 people, and there were bones left over by wild wolves everywhere. After the autopsy, it was found that most of the bones were hacked to death with knives before being eaten by wild wolves, and many of the bones were killed by Rakshasa firearms.

The Jin merchants hired a group of dead soldiers and bodyguards, and they followed the traces in the snow to track down the murderer, but the people sent out seemed to sink into the sea, and none of them came back alive.

Obviously, there was a disturbance among the Rakshasas on the Horqin grassland, and the timid Jin merchant convoy turned around and ran, but the charcoal and grain that were supposed to be sent to Horqin could not be delivered, which made the Nazarik family have to spend the winter in the bitter cold.

"Empress Dowager, why don't you punish those Jin merchants who are as timid as a mouse? None of those Han minions can be trusted! They are mercenary, they only know how to make money! To let them break through the blockade of the Rakshasas, they don't even have the guts! It's a shame that they make so much money from us, and they refuse to do anything! Nazarik scolded the Jin merchants.

In fact, Nazarik really blamed the Fan family, since the Fan family's convoy found the exterminated small tribe, they sent dead soldiers and bodyguards to investigate the matter. As a result, none of the people sent out came back. And the traces of the Rakshasa people's chariots and horses are on the way of the Fan family!

Since the rise of Houjin, the Fan family has traded with Lao Nu and Huang Taiji's father and son, and made a lot of money from it. After the Qing army entered the customs, the eight families of the Jin merchants were named the eight imperial merchants, and the Fan family was the first of the eight families.

But the Fan family is mainly to make money, and they can't do things like losing money and losing their troops! The Rakshasas were obviously on their way to the Korqin Division, would the people of the Fan family dare to risk their personnel and goods? So after careful consideration, the Fan family sent an envoy to take a detour to the Zasak Department of the Central Banner of the Left Wing of Horqin, and asked the Khan King and the Tower to send troops to escort the convoy.

That's how he learned that the Horqin grassland had caused trouble with the Rakshasas. As a result, last night, someone from another tribe came to report that the Rakshasas had attacked them! So Heta set out with the Mongol warriors, vowing to wipe out the Rakshasas who dared to attack them!

"Rakshasas? Bah! Aren't they Rus'? When our Mongol Empire was strong, they were torn apart under our iron hooves and divided into dozens of small states! What's going on now? How did the Rakshasas ride on our Mongols' heads instead? Is it that we Mongols are weakened like this? Nazarik muttered to himself.

The son of Nazarik also went out with King Khan and Ta. And his daughter-in-law, a member of a small tribe, returned to her parents' house during the Chinese New Year, but she has not returned until now, and it is likely that she was poisoned by the Rakshasas.

The family was left with the elderly Nazarik and his grandson, who had followed the Khan during the day and had not yet returned, and it was not known how the battle was going, whether the Khan had eliminated the Rakshasas. It is estimated that it has not been eliminated yet, and if the Khan King is defeated, he will definitely have returned with the warriors.

"Mom! I want Mom! The little grandson began to cry.

Nazarik's gray eyes showed sadness and helplessness, he knew very well that most of his daughters-in-law had been poisoned, and more than a dozen small tribes had been completely wiped out from the grassland, and the tribesmen were killed in the belly of wolves, and the daughter-in-law was probably among them.

After the Qing army entered the customs, the bravest warriors of the tribe went to the capital to enjoy the hardcore crops, and those who remained, except for the warriors responsible for protecting the Khan, were mostly old and weak, women and children.

The Horqin people used their warrior lives to lay the foundation for the glory of the Later Jin Dynasty and made great contributions to the unification of the Qing Dynasty. However, the Korqin people were regarded as traitors by the other Mongols and suffered from their eyes.

Now even the Rakshasas have come to the door, and they have actually jumped over the Buryats, the Oroqen and the Evenks who are closest to them, and have come to the Korqin steppe from near and far. According to the survivors, there are Han Chinese in the ranks of the Rakshasas!

Although Nazarik didn't understand how the Han people could get mixed up with the Rakshasas, it also explained why the Rakshasas came to the Horqin grassland to make trouble! It must have been instigated by those despicable barbarians! The Han barbarians hated the Korqin people, the hardcore allies of the Houjin, and they actually took refuge in the Rakshasas, betrayed the country to seek glory, and did not hesitate to unite with outsiders to kill the warriors on the grassland, which is really hateful!

"Damn the Southern Barbarians! Damn the Rakshasas! The Great Khan will surely kill you all! Even if you run away, the iron hooves of my Eight Banners will trample you into pulp! Nazarik suddenly looked fierce and scolded viciously.

The wind outside grew louder, and Nazarik, fearing that the stables would collapse, opened the thick curtain and prepared to go out to see how it was outside.

"Bang" a gunshot drowned out the whistling sound of the wind and snow.

Nazarik's chest burst with red blood, splattering blood staining his gray beard and falling like an empty sack of flour, his hands facing heaven as if praying to his immortal heaven before he fell to the ground.

Holding a rifled gun with a scope, Cao Lei, who was wearing a white cloak, sat up slowly, without any sympathy and pity for the old man who had just died under his gun. Who knows if this old man with a white beard will be one of the executioners who slaughtered the people in Jinan during the Chongzhen period, killed innocent people in Yangzhou during the Hongguang period, and participated in the three massacres in Jiading and the massacre in Nanchang? In short, for the Horqin people, Cao Lei felt that everyone should be killed.

Cao Lei took out the bullet box from his body, opened the iron bullet box, took out a bullet wrapped in silk from it, bit the tail of the paper bullet case with his teeth, poured gunpowder into the muzzle, then stuffed the bullet in, compacted it with a strip, and then broke the hammer on the bolt, took out the primer pot from his body, squeezed the primer into the medicine pool, and finally covered the lid of the combined primer pool.

Originally, Cao Lei thought that after this shot was fired, the Horqin people would definitely blow up the nest, but after a long time, there was no movement in the Mongolian camp. Since no new targets appeared, the other rifled gunners who were lying in ambush nearby did not fire and just waited quietly.

Probably because the wind was too loud, the sleeping Mongols did not hear the gunshots, so no one came out. (To be continued.) )