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Chapter 1147 New Army
Uncle Shuzhen, who was reciting Buddha's name, faintly heard shouts in the distance.

"The camp is going to be broken today." He thought to himself, then got up and left the tent.

During the war, this place in the center of the camp was considered peaceful, with wounded soldiers sharpening knives and sewing armor outside the tents.

Uncle Shu Zhen walked eastward, walked more than a thousand steps, and finally saw Li Xia standing on the battle platform.

He hated Li Xia a little bit.

He had seen Li Xia's strength in the previous three wars, and at the most dangerous moment before, he had also seen Li Xia's inner strength through Li Xia's eyes, which was why he chose Li Xia.

He originally thought that he only needed to make a choice, and what was waiting for him was a reward and a sharing of benefits.

The result was not, what he got in exchange for his choice was to struggle in hell, and what he got for taking the risk was less than what he had been able to get at his fingertips since he was born.

Therefore, it is impossible for him, who was born noble, to fight for Li Xia.

"Kill Li Xia and welcome the real sweat on the grassland..."

When we got here, we could already hear those Yuan troops shouting to the east.

Shu Zhenbo raised his head and saw that his coward Xue Chang Huncha was leading more than a dozen people to the battle platform, and the elite guards near the battle platform were gone, and there were only some messengers around Li Xia.

"Huncha, are you going to kill him?" Uncle Shu Zhen murmured.

He ran forward for dozens of steps, then stopped suddenly and narrowed his eyes.

"Hun Cha?"

He saw that there were still a few long poles standing in front of the battle platform. Besides Manglage, there were also many heads hanging on them. There were generals of the Yuan army who died in battle, and there were also deserters from this side.

The wind blew, and a head was turned around.

Uncle Shu stared at it blankly, and realized that this head was his cowardly head.

Who is going to the battle stage?
Uncle Shu took a few steps forward, only then did he see clearly that the man on the battle platform was only wearing the armor of Huncha.

That person has a Mongolian appearance and is very familiar. It must be his Qixue, but he can't remember the other person's name.

The Yuan army in front was still shouting, "Warriors on the grassland, stop being driven like dogs, and return to the command of the Great Khan..."

Uncle Shu Zhen looked back and looked at the soldiers and horses that once belonged to him, but felt at a loss.

He didn't recognize them anymore.

The people were still those people, but without those commanders who flattered him, these soldiers instantly became so vague and unreal.

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A bearded man in black armor walked up behind Li Xia holding his knife.

"Khan, do you want to move back a little?"

"No need." Li Xia said, "Keep your line of defense."

"Here."

Only then did Li Xia shift his gaze slightly to the north, watching the dozen or so people return to the nearest defense line.

He could call each of them by name.

The name of the man in the long armor was Bapuqia, a Kipchak man. His grandfather still lived in the Volga River Valley, which was conquered by Genghis Khan during his western expedition.

During the Wokuotai period, the Kipchak people could no longer bear the cruel exploitation of the Jin family, and various tribes revolted.So the Mongolian Kingdom sent Batu Commander-in-Chief's eldest son army to the west to suppress the rebellion.

That was 20 years ago, Bapuqia was only six years old, and he watched with his own eyes that his father was trampled into mud by countless horses following the order of the Mongolian prince.

The prince was called Meng Ge, who later became the Great Khan of Mongolia by virtue of his credit for destroying the Kipchak and the friendship he formed with Batu during the war.

Bapuqia became an exorcist, trekking [-] miles from the distant Volga River to Harahelin, and was rewarded as a dowry to Shuzhenbo.

It is difficult to describe in detail how much suffering he has endured during this journey of thousands of miles.But in comparison, keeping camp here is not hell for him at all, and it can even be said to be easier than most of his life.

The dozen or so people in the back included Kangju people, Wusun people, and various tribes that Li Xia had never heard of.

Before that, Li Xia called them Mongols and had many stereotypes about them, thinking that they were the number "2" in the war.

However, during the 23 days of the siege, he learned that some of them believed in Muslims and some believed in Christ, and they were all very devout; the captives from Baghdad would be saddened that their civilization was destroyed, books were thrown into the river, and the river was stained with ink. Black; people from the Oryira tribe still hate the cruelty of Wokuotai; the herdsmen from the Orkhan River are impoverished because of Guiyou's big palace...

Ten years ago, the words "Great Mongolia" were vague to Li Xia.He only knows its strength and its vast territory, and he is full of fear and vigilance towards it.

And after ten years of continuous understanding of it, he can gradually see what its powerful back looks like.

He began to want to study the living conditions of the Mongolian herdsmen living under the rule of the Jin family, and chatted with many surrendered soldiers in detail, asking about their hometowns and their income from grazing.

Some people had froze their cattle and sheep to death due to the snowstorm, so they had to sell their wives and daughters in exchange for armor, hoping to gain spoils on the battlefield; The fathers of Kublai Khan once benefited greatly from the expansion war, but now, Kublai Khan’s war is either a civil war or a counter-insurgency, and the benefits brought to them are far less than before, so the life of the herdsmen has become more and more impoverished .

During the process, Li Xia killed many people, and the remaining soldiers became clear to him.

They are also people who are troubled by their livelihood...

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"prick!"

On the front line of the battlefield, the spear pierced out again, not neatly.

Fortunately, because there was a low wall in front of them, the number of yuan troops rushing in was not large, and they did not form a good array, so they were temporarily forced to retreat a few steps.

Generals of the Tang army strode past in the rear, mending the defense while boosting morale.

"Our reinforcements will be here soon. After this battle is won, the Hetao Grassland will be your home! You have all passed by there and seen the lush grassland there..."

These encouraging words have been said for more than 20 days. Many soldiers were looking forward to it at first, but after waiting for a long time, the so-called reinforcements have not come, and they are tired of hearing it.

That is to say, the horses were put in the rear for unified custody, and they were accustomed to obeying the orders of the captains of tens and centurions, so they thrust out their spears numbly and mechanically.

Fighting and fighting, the sun gradually reached its highest point, and it was noon.

The Tang army expected the Yuan army to slow down its offensive a little bit.

Today, however, the Yuan army attacked extremely ferociously. Not only did it not slow down its offensive, but it became more and more fierce.

Finally, a young Mongolian could take it no longer.

He shook his head and ran back directly.

"Don't go back!"

"Chaolu, come back to me!"

"Chaolu, if you don't come back, I'll kill you!"

The commander of the tenth yelled loudly twice, seeing that the young Chaolu was still running back, he raised his saber and wanted to kill him, but in the chaos, the Yuan army came to kill him, so he had to turn around to block him.

Chao Lu was already in a panic, but while running, he bumped into someone and fell to the ground.

When he stretched his hand, he reached into the wound of a corpse. He was startled and couldn't help crying.

"Get up! Didn't you say you are warriors? Didn't you shoot a deer when you were 13?"

"Let me go." Chaolu begged, "Ta Muren, we are a tribe, please let me go."

"Don't be a deserter, you hold the shield for me. You coward, for your sake, let you stay here with me, you won't die."

"If we continue to defend, we will die. Let's run away? Find the war horse and let's run back."

"Are you stupid?!" Ta Muren pinned his hand to Lu, and said, "Our centurion has thirty Han Chinese, and the marshal didn't choose them as centurions because he valued me. If we win, I am the commander, give me the best pastures and herds of cattle and sheep."

"I can't win..."

"Aren't you going to marry a wife?!" Ta Muren yelled, boosting morale again, "After this war, there were too many widows in the old land of Xixia and Hetao, you all want to marry a daughter-in-law, no dowry! The marshal said Yes, give us a match, no dowry!"

Chao Lu couldn't help crying.

He was 17 years old and dreamed of having a wife.

But the dowry on the grassland was too high, requiring 81 cattle, sheep, and horses each, as well as clothes and jewelry, but Chaolu was destitute, so he had to enlist in the hope of robbing a woman from the Western Regions.

Sometimes he felt that as long as he could get a woman, he would not even lose his life.

The reason why it has been able to defend until now is precisely because I heard from the soldiers of the Tang army that all soldiers in the army were married.

"But I can't win. I feel like I'm going to lose today."

"E Xiute, we have 5 people, and they haven't killed all 8 people. There is nothing we can't win." Ta Muren pushed Chaolu again, and said: "We will win when the reinforcements arrive."

"I've been talking for a month, run away, let's find the horses..."

"Enough! I told you that His Majesty the Emperor killed Mengge Khan. If he can have today's territory, I believe he can win..."

The horns of the Yuan army in front were loudly sounding, as if urging the offensive.

"Oh!"

A big rock suddenly fell down, hitting the two soldiers not far away, smashing the heads of the two soldiers.

There was chaos around, Chao Lu screamed in fright, struggled to get away, turned around and fled.

Ta Muren still wanted to hold him, but failed.

Looking up again, in the formation of Yuan army on the opposite side, Shi Tianze's banner and Zongwang Hulahu'er's banner are constantly advancing here.

"Kill!" The Yuan army shouted in the formation.

The ten commanders in front had gradually lost control of the situation, and several soldiers turned around and wanted to run away.

Ta Muren raised his knife and shouted, "Don't retreat!"

This time, he killed a deserter without hesitation.

However, more and more soldiers turned and fled...

Finally, even Ta Muren felt that perhaps the Yuan army was really going to break through this big camp today.

At this moment, dozens of soldiers from the forward selection battalion arrived in time to block the line of defense.

Ta Muren breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly heard someone from the south cheering.

He couldn't understand Chinese, so he turned his head and looked in the direction of Li Zengbo.

I saw someone rushing to the vicinity of Li Zengbo, and soon after, the banner was raised on the battle platform where Li Zengbo was.

Ta Muren opened his mouth and shouted: "The reinforcements have arrived! Hold on!"

At this moment, he seemed to see the sheep on the big meadow as white as clouds.

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"Our support has arrived! Right behind Kublai Khan..."

Chao Lu was fleeing towards the inside of the camp when he suddenly heard such a cry.

After running a few more steps, he finally stopped when he heard the cheers ahead.

Then he saw Bapucha coming over with a knife.

Without hesitation, Chao Lu quickly turned around and ran back to his defense line.

"Kill the enemy!"

He shouted, as if he saw a woman waving to him...

(End of this chapter)