In this quick ambush battle of one or two hours, more than 3,000 Ordos cavalry were killed, 5,000 were captured, and only 12,000 cavalry escaped in the night, while only about 300 people died on the side of the Khanting. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The more than 8,000 horses harvested in this battle made Chang Wei's eyes red, although he shot the enemy's main general and made the first contribution, but unfortunately his subordinates had no soldiers and only 100 horses, and the rest were divided between Ma Lie and Badu.

In the face of this kind of big victory, Ma Lie was still not satisfied, because the goal of killing Chahan Buhua was not achieved, but after galloping three hundred miles and fighting a hard battle, even if one person had three or four horses, the cavalry did not have the ability to continue fighting.

Chang Wei humbly asked Ma Lie for advice: "General, how did you train your cavalry tactics?"

Faced with this problem, Ma Lie said his life experience quite sadly.

From the age of ten, when he was taken captive as a slave, Ma Lie became one of the many herders under the enemy's command.

On the steppe, from north to south, there are high mountains, river valleys, grasslands and desert Gobi. The north is high and the south is low, spanning thousands of miles, and the climate difference is very obvious. Since ancient times, nomads have the habit of "living in pursuit of water and grass", and the herds and their herds run back and forth around the grasslands all year round.

When early winter comes, herders will move their families to the winter pasture, which is commonly known as the winter nest, which is the cold and windproof place selected for the herd in the cold winter season, usually a circular valley, basin, and sea child.

The following water sea, the Suer Sea, Tianruibo, etc., are the main, and when they are far away, they should run to the Hulun Sea and the Bell Sea (fishing sea). Countless herders and millions of livestock had to spend four long and arduous months in that place where drops of water had frozen their fingers.

At this time, they had to face not only the harsh weather, but also the invasion of other tribes and the raids of horse thieves. In the cold winter, the leaders will summon the herdsmen under their control, ride on war horses, pick up bows and arrows and scimitars, and run to the Great Wall, and enter the Central Plains to plunder, which is a tradition of nomads for thousands of years, the difference is only the number of times, the size of the scale.

In this case, whether ordinary people can survive or not depends on luck. Ten-year-old Ma Lie, with superhuman perseverance and martial bravery, survived tenaciously after experiencing countless hardships and pains.

Every March, when the weather begins to warm up, weary herders like migratory birds walk through the melting snow and drive their already emaciated livestock to spring and autumn pastures. During this period, they also had to go through several huge tests of spring cold, snowstorms and lambing. Like the lack of success experienced by farmers in the Central Plains, this season is the node of the survival of livestock, and it is also the turning point of whether herdsmen can earn income in that year.

After experiencing the test of life and death in winter and spring, the herdsmen dragged their families and drove herds of cattle and sheep to the picturesque prairie with abundant water and grass, this season from Hulunbuir and Xilin Gol in the northeast to Ordos in the southwest, from Horqin and Ulanqab in the east to Urad and Alxa in the west, the vast prairie outside the Great Wall is full of pastures.

Thousands of fine pastures grow on the seven grasslands with abundant sunshine, giving birth to abundant livestock resources, and from May to September is the best day of the year for herdsmen.

The grass grows and the warbler flies, and in September, the horses are fat, and it is a good time for war, and the leaders will gather soldiers to go south to the Great Wall and invade the Central Plains to plunder. Ordinary herders pack up their belongings and count their livestock, preparing for the migration to winter pastures before the heavy snow arrives in October.

Before the age of twelve, on the way to "live in pursuit of water and grass" every year, Ma Lie had to follow his master to migrate hundreds of times, traveling more than 3,000 miles.

On his twelfth birthday, it was a starry winter night, and on the way to the migration, the drunken master and enemy viciously whipped Ma Lie. Dragging a scar, Ma Lie hid outside the felt tent and did not cry.

He silently wrapped his wounds, and before dawn came, he took out the small dagger treasured in the sheepfold, and dived into the dark tent, killing the snoring enemy and his entire family, including the woman who had just given birth and the infant who was sleeping in swaddling clothes.

After killing people, Ma Lie did not hesitate or tremble, he prepared food, climbed on horseback, galloped under the mountains, above the Gobi, in the rugged sheep road, and fled in the yellow sand and ice and snow in the sky.

Along the way, avoid the silent herdsmen, the dense flocks of sheep, the lonely and tired horses, the alert sheepdogs, and the caravans that carry their belongings forward. All the past, all the joys and sorrows are all in the past, and from then on he is free from the shackles of propriety and shame and goodness to become a new and murderous man.

At the age of twelve, he took up his saber and killed the poor shepherds who had kindly taken him in, robbing them of their only possessions and food, and starving them to death in the winter, and at the age of thirteen he snatched the most beautiful woman of the tribe, stuck a sharp dagger into her white chest, and brutally raped her.

To this day, Ma Lie still remembers the deep tenderness in the girl's big gray blue eyes, and the heartbreaking despair, the cruelty that made him extremely happy, and made him realize his own existence, and only cruel killing could heal the pain in his heart.

At the age of fourteen, he officially began his career as a horse thief with twelve Han Chinese teenagers who were as humiliated as him, and in the spring of that year, they started from the Alxa grassland in the northwest, burning and killing and plundering all the way, each time it was a surprise attack, and when they won it, they killed all the people they could, with what they could take away, and those who could not be beaten never stopped, turned around and fled.

The ferocious and cunning name of the thirteen wolves of the steppe began to spread widely, and the Tatar nobles sent cavalry to chase and intercept them, but the more they pursued and killed, the more people under Ma Lie became, and they traveled 5,000 miles for a whole year, and when they arrived at the Hulunbuir grassland in winter, Ma Lie had three hundred of the most cruel and fierce young horse thieves.

In the cold winter of this year, they encountered more than a dozen defeated Jurchens, and with a wave of Ma Lie's sword, three hundred horse thieves swarmed up and killed the group of Jurchens who were still breathing, but the old Jurchen at the head slaughtered thirty horse thieves before they fell.

The records of marching and fighting and the secret books of martial arts found in their luggage became Ma Lie's starting capital, and with this, the horse thieves became more courageous, and their tactics were more swift and ruthless, and by the time he was sixteen years old, Ma Lie already had a thousand of the most ferocious and fierce horse thieves.

His subordinates included Han, Mongolian, Jurchen, Koreans, Wa, and some unknown people, but Ma Lie, who had a heart for his homeland, stipulated that they all speak Chinese.

When Maret was seventeen years old, Lin Dan Khan recruited warriors and prepared to reorganize the Tatar tribes. Ma Lie broke up the team, changed his name and surname to take refuge in a thousand households, with the characteristics of martial arts and swift soldiers, he made many meritorious achievements, but because of the identity of the Han people, Ma Lie was not reused, and he has been forbearant in disappointment.

Last year, Lin Dan Khan was defeated by Hou Jin, Ma Lie did not hesitate to kill the main general, and since then he has become a genuine thousand households under the Tatar Khan Court, in the process of Lin Dan Khan's westward migration, Ma Lie summoned the old department to restore the name, and relied on the means to maneuver between the ministries, obtained the Wuyuan City, and governed according to the law of the Han people, so that a small city was in order, and became the foundation for settling down.

When he was planning to expand his power, he happened to meet the 'Zongkang monk' sent by Changwei, the Duke of Qin, and the two hit it off, so they had a strategy of officially taking refuge in the Khan's court and conquering the Hetao.

Although the other party's brutal killing made Chang Wei feel uncomfortable, he could not judge Ma Lie's actions with moral standards, after all, this is the grassland outside the Saiwai where the weak eat the strong, and it is a place outside the law, and the things of the Han people in the Central Plains who have a set of rule of law society will not work here, and Ma Lie has only come up with the rules of survival after years of dormant exploration! The most important point is that Ma Lie kills all foreign races.

Regarding Ma Lie's legendary life experience, Chang Wei can only say one sentence, "The waves are magnificent!" (to be continued.) )