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After the battle, Liu Yunniang rode a jujube red horse through the field full of corpses, and Jian Ji and the Niangzi army followed closely behind, with indifferent expressions.

The earth was littered with iron hoof marks, the grass that had just sprouted sprouts had been trampled into the dirt, and the ground was covered with countless white feathered arrows, and blood-stained broken knives and spears.

She rode into battle, the dying horses struggling their heads and screaming at her, and some of the wounded soldiers who were not dead were moaning and praying.

A large number of men with tomahawks in their hands roamed the battlefield, and they were specially responsible for mending knives. It not only replenishes the wounded enemy soldiers who are not dead, but also replenishes the wounded friendly soldiers who have been seriously injured and difficult to treat. The only difference is that when dealing with enemy wounded, no matter how light or severe, as long as they are wounded, they will be cut off by an axe. If it is their own people, they will be treated differently, the minor injuries will be carried away for treatment, and only those who are seriously injured and difficult to treat will give them a good time and pierce the heart with a dagger.

They were followed by a group of teenagers who pulled arrows from the corpses and loaded them into baskets for reuse. Broken metal parts of knives and guns will also be recycled. There are also younger teenagers who are tasked with carrying away the dead allies and digging pits for burial.

In addition to the corpses scattered all over the grassland, many cattle and horses also suffered disasters.

There were dead cattle and sheep everywhere, estimated to be hundreds or thousands, and these cattle and sheep were also full of arrows, and Liu Yunniang knew that they had died in the chaos of arrows during the initial raid.

The camp was on fire and burning, wisps of black smoke billowing and gushing. Straight up to the low sky.

In a camp of wolves. The knights of Shatuo galloped back and forth. Wielding the whip in his hand, he drove the surviving survivors away.

Tatar women and children seem to have accepted the fate of the defeat after the defeat, from the most Lu in the desert north all the way to the Yin Mountain, in the hundreds of years of migration, they have experienced countless battles, the law of the jungle, they have long been accustomed to the rules of the steppe. The loser will be reduced to the slave of the winner.

But even if it's a slave. The women and children walked with an unruly anger and self-esteem.

Liu Yunniang stared at them with deep eyes, and in their bodies she remembered Sha Tuo a few years ago. When Shatuo was defeated and fled to Mobei, they were the same as them. Perhaps this is the biggest difference between the grassland tribe and the people of the Central Plains, she clearly remembers that when the first dynasty was in the north, those among the Han people were reduced to slaves, and many mothers were expressionless and lifeless. The staggering steps pull the crying child. The same is to become a slave, and the Han slave is more desperate and numb. The Tatar slaves, on the other hand, were angry and unyielding.

His own man once said that the Han people are actually a pack of sheep, while the grassland tribes are wolves and tigers. At the end of the Jin Dynasty, the Wuhu went south, and the Hu people called the Han people two-legged sheep, which was their food.

Although Liu Yunniang felt that these words were bloody and cruel, she felt that they were not unreasonable. Shatuo has faced the threshold of life and death several times, if it is replaced by the Han people, it may have been wiped out, but the Shatuo people will get up faster when they fall. It's just that sometimes she feels that what her husband said is not all right, most of the Han people are weak, such as the ruler of the Tang Empire, the emperor and prime minister of Chang'an, etc., one is weaker than the other. But there are also heroes among the Han people, such as the Qin king Li Jing, who led a group of weak Han people to defeat Shatuo, Khitan, Goguryeo, and surrender Xi and Tatar and Bohai.

Even if he made a comeback and strengthened the Shatuo Department again, his own man, who was known as the King of Shatuo, had a deep fear in his eyes whenever he mentioned Li Jing.

Liu Yunniang saw a Tartar boy galloping towards the river, and a black-armored Shatuo warrior blocked his cloud path and forced him to turn around. The rest of the cavalry surrounded him in the middle, whipping him in the face and driving him away.

Another knight galloped behind him and whipped him on the back until blood stained his thighs. Another threw a whip around his ankle, causing him to fall to the ground, and at last the tartar boy, who was only thirteen or fourteen years old, could only crawl, and they became bored, and shot an arrow through his back in a smug and cruel laugh.

Li Siyuan, the capital of the rampage, greeted her in front of a newly erected tent on the riverside.

He replaced it with a set of ornate armor of a newly captured Tatar nobleman, a set of blue-dragon-style full-body plate armor worth a thousand yuan, with sharp edges and corners. He wore a soap-colored burqa over his armor, and his iron gloves, shins, and helmet were made of dark gray stamped steel. When he got this set of armor, he immediately dedicated it to Li Keyong, but Li Keyong gained a lot and got more than ten sets of such exquisite armor. After the end, Li Keyong took out thirteen sets of armor as prizes, so that the generals under his command competed, and the thirteen victorious people could take one.

Li Siyuan shot down the vultures hovering in the sky with one arrow, and with one arrow and two vultures, Li Keyong directly asked him to choose a set of armor.

Li Siyuan strode forward and saluted Liu Yunniang's right hand on the breastplate, "The king is waiting for Mrs. Hou in the tent." ”

"The county king is not injured, is he?"

"A little flesh wound." When Li Siyuan and Liu Yunniang were together, they couldn't help but have a puffing heart, and their mouth was a little dry. His face was hot, and he didn't dare to look directly at his stepmother, "It's not in the way." Today, the adults killed the two sons of Hebule with their own hands, but unfortunately Hebule and Kutu ran fast, but even if they ran away, after this battle, the Yinshan Tatar Alliance will also be intimidated by the prestige of the adults and submit to my Shatuo. ”

When Shatuo's army was defeated and fled to the outside of the country, it was the Tatars who took them in. Moreover, the Yinshan Tatars and the Shatuo people have been friends for decades, and they have been married for generations. As early as the time when Shatuo was not opposed, Shatuo guarded Daibei, and the Tatars had always been under the management of Shatuo.

It's a pity that the original brotherly alliance is now intertwined.

The Khitans attacked the tribal camp of the Tatars in the north of Yinshan, and Hebule and Kutu led 10,000 Tatar cavalry to return north to the grassland. Almost all of them were wiped out.

She didn't know what words to use to describe this battle. It's not going to be a just war anyway.

But it can't be simply said that Shatuo is treacherous. Because although the Tatars took Shatuo first, the Tatars colluded with Li Jing and prepared to attack them. Although they are self-preservation, it is also contrary to faith to attack the Tatars.

Speaking of which, the grievances and hatreds between the two tribes are only because they are involved in the battle of the Tang Dynasty.

It's on the banks of the creek not far from the tent. A girl much younger than Liu's was crying high-pitched and shrill when a thirteen or fourteen-year-old Shatuo boy who was even much younger than the girl pushed her down on the grass and raped her on the spot. On the side, there were even hundreds of Shatuo warriors sitting or standing, pointing and smiling. Liu Yunniang was no stranger to this, and she knew in her heart that that young man must be a Shatuo warrior who participated in the battle for the first time.

The Shatuo people are naturally brave and advocate fighting. By the age of fourteen, every Shatuo boy will officially join the army and become a soldier. And when this warrior kills the first enemy on the battlefield. According to tradition, after the war, a beautiful young captive girl would be given and she would officially become a Shatuo warrior, which was a coming-of-age ceremony.

I am the woman of King Shatuo, Liu Yunniang rolled her eyes and reminded her of her identity. Although she did not agree with this Shatuo tradition, she could not disagree with it. She pursed her lips, hardened her heart, and rode towards the camp.

"The Yinshan Tatars are completely wiped out this time." Li Siyuan also saw the scene over there, he was slightly distracted, he had also experienced the experience of that young man today, but the woman at the beginning was a Han woman, and she was still the daughter of a county order. It seems to be very beautiful, but now the memory is a little blurry, I only remember the white and delicate, but I don't remember what the woman's face looks like. He thought about it seriously, but suddenly found that the blurred face suddenly showed Liu's appearance. He was shocked, and glanced at Liu, his face hot. Biting the tip of your tongue hard, the pain restores your mind. "Although Hebul and Khutu have fled, the Tatars are finished. The Khitans attacked the Tatar tribal camp north of Yinshan, and now the 10,000 elite light cavalry led by Hebul and Kutu have been destroyed by us, and they can no longer turn over. ”

"To conquer the Yinshan Tatars, we can add two to thirty thousand Tatar light horsemen."

The Shatuo army was not only of the Shatuo people, but also many Han Chinese, Sogdians, Uighurs, Tuyuhun people, and even Dangxiang people, Khitans, Xi people, Goguryeo people, and Tatars. Although the Tatars were just enemies, the conquered Tatars would fight for them.

This is war, and war is what it is.

"What's next?" Liu Yunniang asked.

"A plan has been discussed between the king of the county and the Khitan and the four towns of Hebei, the Khitans will attack Li Jing's western Liaoxi Province next, the four towns of Hebei will attack Moying, and we will attack Beiping on the first line of Yanshan." Li Siyuan said that although several companies have joined forces, they are still full of vigilance against each other. It was impossible for Liu Yue to agree to let the Shatuo army enter Youzhou through the military capital pass. Li Quanzhong would also not agree to the Shatuo Army entering the Yiwu Army through the Flying Fox Road.

Although this alliance was a joint dispatch of troops, in fact it was still a separate army, and the troops were divided into multiple routes.

Behind her, the raped girl made a heartbreaking sound, a sobbing cry of despair, and an endless stream of clouds. Liu Yunniang grabbed the reins and turned the horse's head, "Tell them to stop." She ordered Li Siyuan.

"Ma'am?" Li Siyuan was a little embarrassed.

"You hear my orders." Liu Yunniang's face was a little pale, and she couldn't let herself turn a blind eye to that girl. "Tell them to stop." She loudly ordered directly to Jing Niang, the leader of the sword concubine behind her, and her tone was sharp: "Jing Niang, you immediately take the sword guard to inspect the camp, and I don't want to see rape happen again." ”

Jing Niang was also a little hesitant, "Madam, you are kind and kind, but these are the customs and traditions of Shatuo, which have been passed down from generation to generation. ”

By the river in the distance, the girl was still crying, and her desperate cry seemed strangely strange to Liu's ears.

"She is a Tatar woman, and now she is a slave of Shato." Li Siyuan hesitated and persuaded, "Madam, it is her honor to be the first woman to become a Shatuo warrior. ”

"That's true." Jing Niang also responded.

Liu Yunniang sighed secretly in her heart, "I have taken a fancy to this girl, and I want to recruit the sword guard, from now on, she will be my person." ”

Hearing this answer, Li Siyuan and Jing Niang both breathed a sigh of relief, if they just took a fancy to this girl, instead of changing Shatuo's tradition, then this was not a difficult thing.

"Yes, ma'am." Li Siyuan kicked the horse's belly and rode the horse over.

"You go and bring her." Liu Yunniang took off the silk cloak on her body and handed it to Jing Niang.

"As you wish." Jing Niang took the cloak, and when she looked at Liu, her eyes were full of admiration, this is a lord worthy of service.

Li Siyuan and Jing Niang went over together, and the group of Shatuo cavalry shouted a few words in surprise, and then the young man handed over the girl on his body. Whether it is Li Siyuan or Jing Niang, it is not something that these people can refuse, not to mention that they brought the request of their wife.

Jing Niang pulled up the girl, put Liu's cloak on her, and then led her to Yun Niang.

The girl's eyes were red and swollen, her expression was dazed, her whole body was trembling, and her hair was stained with blood and dirt.

"Jing Sanniang, treat her injuries, and then give her a bath and put on the clothes of the sword guard, and she will be your subordinate sword guard in the future." After Liu finished speaking, he instigated the jujube red horse.

The makeshift camp was no better than the battlefield, and on the way, they saw many teenagers doing their own coming-of-age ceremonies. Every time, Liu Yunniang grabbed the reins, sent Jian Ji to stop it, and took these teenagers as her sword guards.

Some Tatar maidens were full of gratitude to Liu and said words of blessing, but there were also many maidens whose eyes were full of resentment, and did not accept her kindness, still seeing her as an enemy.

"Madame, you will cause the warriors to be dissatisfied." When Liu stopped again and watched Jing Niang directly bring back more than a dozen girls this time, Li Siyuan couldn't help but persuade. He had already understood that the Liu clan didn't really want to take away the sword guard, but just used this reluctant reason to stop the rape.

"I have to do it." Liu Yunniang insisted.

When he returned to the camp tent of the Chinese army, Li Keyong was sitting in the sweat tent that Hebul had too late to take away, Li Youjin was sitting aside, and several Shatuo generals were also there.

Li Keyong got up and smiled at Liu: "Madam, just now my uncle came to complain to me, saying that Madame stopped my Shatuo warrior from performing a coming-of-age ceremony?"

Liu nodded, and explained the matter concisely and directly, but in her words, she insisted that she did not want to destroy the tradition of Shatuo, but to accept those girls as sword guards.

Li Ke flashed with one eye, and he couldn't laugh or cry: "Madam, that's a custom that has been passed down from generation to generation in our Shatuo. A warrior of Shata grows by killing enemies and conquering women. ”

Liu also knew that his reasons were a little too reluctant, and said: "Conquering a woman is not raping her, let alone raping her in public." I think this custom can be changed, and the defeated women can be rewarded to brave young warriors, but they should be gentle and loving, and treat them as their own women, rather than being so unmerciless and unsympathetic. ”

Li Keyong smiled at his uncle Li Youjin, "What Madame said also has some truth, since Madame doesn't like it, then pass on the order and do what Madame says in the future." We are not as good as we were in the past, and some customs do need to be changed. (To be continued......)