Those elites of the Chahar Department all gathered around, and when they saw this scene, some of them guessed something with flexible minds, and they couldn't help but tremble with excitement.

Dong Ce coughed lightly at everyone.

Along the way, he already has a very high prestige among these Chahar elites, and everyone is very convinced of him. As soon as he coughed, the already noisy team immediately fell silent. Dong Ce didn't say nonsense, just pointed to the mountain of armor and said loudly: "This is one of the promises that this official gave you before!" There is armor and weapons, a pair of armor for each person, a bow, 200 arrows, a waist knife, and a spear! No one is missing! ”

"Come on, come and get it!"

Dong Ce shouted loudly.

As soon as the words fell, a huge cheer erupted in front of him. The cheers continued for a long time before they gradually subsided, and Dong Ce said loudly: "Okay, don't scream!" Hurry up and get it! What's the point of that? Follow this official, and you will have a bright future in the future! It is also uncertain that the armor on his body will be replaced with gold armor and silver armor. ”

According to Dong Ce's instructions, three hundred Chahar Road elites lined up in a neat line and came to collect them in turn.

Along the way, Dong Ce also trained them from time to time, although it was impossible to achieve much effect in a short period of time, but at least their discipline was much stronger than before. If there was such a thing when he first came under Dong Ce's command, it must have been a swarm of people rushing forward to grab it.

An hour later, each of the Chahar elites had received their own armor and weapons.

They were almost impatient to put on their armor, with swords hanging from their waists, spears in their hands, and double forks hanging from their waists on the other side.

They looked at these things on their bodies, and one by one they were overjoyed, and reached out and gently stroked the armor as if they were caressing the most precious jewels.

These armors are all cotton armor of the Ming Dynasty, weighing about twenty catties, and the spear is about four or five feet long, which can be used in foot and cavalry. The waist knife is also of the Ming Dynasty, of course, this waist knife is still far inferior to the Cossack cavalry knife built by the Panshi Fort under Dong Ce. The bow is a foot bow, much longer and larger than the horn bow used by these Chahar herdsmen, and the strength of the bow is naturally much greater, of course, the range is also longer, and the power is also greater.

For these Chahar elites, it was like a dream now. They had never seen or touched it in their lives, and they had never even heard of such a fine armor and such a sharp weapon. The armor and weapons they had seen from the nobles in the clan before, and those precious and important collections of the nobles, were not as good as those in their hands now.

There is no way, because the smelting technology of the Chahar Department in this era is too backward, and there were originally some smelting foundations, but after being driven to Dacaotan by Huang Taiji, the original techniques, craftsmen, tools, etc., were almost lost. Now the Chahar Department on the Dacao stall has almost no way to produce armor, and the few metal armor weapons are either bought from Da Ming through some channels or captured on the battlefield.

In Dong Ce's eyes, these cotton armors are not very good, and there are many armors in his hands that are better than this cotton armor. For example, the green cloth iron armor that weighs about 30 catties according to the standards of later generations, and the whole body heavy armor that weighs more than 60 catties. This waist knife is not very good, it is far worse than the Cossack cavalry knife, and this bow is about the same. But in his eyes, these armors, which were just ordinary, were already extremely rare in the eyes of the elites of these Chahar tribes, and they were extremely rare.

Dong Ce kept his previous promise and equipped them with full armor, which also deepened the trust and respect of these people for him.

In fact, changing the clothes of these 300 Chahar elites was something that Dong Ce had already considered when he was in Dacaotan. After all, walking on the road with 300 people who knew at a glance that they were strong Mongolian men was too eye-catching, and maybe it would cause some trouble. Moreover, now that there are soldiers on the ground in Shaanxi, these 300 people are dressed in armor, equipped with weapons, and trained a little, it is a very strong cavalry team, and in case of any war, it can also play some role.

After staying outside the Suzhou Acropolis for a night, on the second day, Dong Ce set off with them. At this time, the three hundred elites of the Chahar Department who had all changed their costumes were walking on the road, and at a glance, people knew that this was the champion of the Ming Dynasty, and they would not doubt their identity at all.

On August 17 of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Dong Ce and others arrived in Ningzhou, Qingyang Prefecture.

It had been about a month and a half since he left Dacaotan, and the team he led had traveled three or four thousand miles to arrive here. Calculated that the distance from Dacaotan to Datong Town has been a little more than halfway, and if it goes on like this, in October, it should be possible to return to North Hebei Road.

On the official road in the northwest of Ningzhou City, Dong Ce and others were blocked, because there was a large area of black pressure on the official road in front of them, and I don't know how many homeless people were blocked there.

Not only are there on the official road, but the fields on both sides of the official road are also full of homeless people, and at a glance, I am afraid that the number will be at least thousands.

At this time, Dong Ce and the others were only three or five miles away from Ningzhou, and within this three or five miles distance, thousands of displaced people were congested. They were all ragged, yellow-skinned, and numb, and some of them gathered not far from the city walls of Ningzhou City, as if they were ready to rest or settle down here. Others, with their families and mouths, carried a branch in their hands, and continued to walk in the northwest direction.

Dong Ce looked at it, these displaced people seemed to come from the southeast of Ningzhou.

Bai Zhongqi, who was beside Dong Ce, looked at this scene and wrinkled his brows tightly, and muttered softly: "The scourge of the rogue is really not shallow." ”

Dong Ce glanced at him, nodded slightly, sighed and said, "It's a pity that these innocent people are suffering. ”

Along the way, they also encountered a lot of displaced people, basically from the southeast, and most of them fled to the northwest.

In the past few days, Dong Ce has also found out a lot of news.

It turned out that one of the rogues who were originally only entrenched in the Guanzhong area actually spread to the vicinity of Ningzhou, and the officials and troops fought several battles with the rogues around Ningzhou, but unfortunately the result was quite unsatisfactory.

Gushan deputy general Ai Wannian, and deputy generals Liu Chenggong, Liu Guozhen, guerrilla Wang Xi and others combined 3,000 troops, was ambushed by the rebel army in Xiangle Town, Ningzhou, thousands of people died, deputy general Ai Wannian, deputy general Liu Guozhen was killed in battle, and the other two generals led the remnants of the defeated generals to break through.

These news were learned by Dong Ce on the way over. The big battle that took place near Ningzhou was in June, and he was still in Dacaotan at that time.

At present, the Liukou are no longer near Ningzhou, but the wars between the Liukou and the official army near Ningzhou are almost a devastating blow to the economic foundation of the people, and I don't know how many people have become displaced because of this. At present, most of the displaced people in front of Dong Ce are from the surrounding areas of Ningzhou.