After escaping for such a long time, there were many fallen herders along the way. They drove cattle and sheep and followed the Taiji team to the west.
These cattle and sheep are their lifeblood and the hope of survival for the family. They are reluctant to leave cattle and sheep.
In fact, the lives of herders are very hard, and they are reluctant to slaughter cattle and sheep and eat meat.
Only before winter, we will take advantage of the fat and kill sick cattle and sheep that are destined to be unable to survive the winter and are not fat enough.
Even if there are festivals, more than a dozen herders killed a sheep, so everyone will split the matter.
Their food is all dairy products, which are supplies that can be provided repeatedly.
Dairy products occupy an important position in the diet of herdsmen. They preserve the squeezed fresh milk and make it into milk tea, horse milk wine, cheese, milk tofu and other foods.
These dairy products are not only easy to preserve, but also provide rich in protein and calcium. They eat these things for most of the year.
Cattle, alpaca and horse are equivalent to the fields of Han farmers. If they eat the fields, how can they survive? So what they eat is dairy.
Those who can eat beef every day are at least at the level of the shepherd. Maybe it’s Tabu Nang.
Dairy products are certainly not enough, they can only add to the hunting income.
In addition to self-raising livestock, hunting is also an important way for herders to obtain meat.
They catch and hunt marmots, deer, fish, hunt yellow sheep, wild boars, roe deer and other wild animals. The fleshiness of these animals accounts for a large proportion of their diet, and hunting can also exercise their military capabilities.
In addition to wild vegetables, mushrooms, and herders' diets, plant food also include millet, grass seeds, wild fruits, wild vegetables, rhizomes and fungi.
These foods provide the necessary carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals to help replenish nutrients that are not available in grains and dairy products.
In fact, herders also farm. In spring, they use wooden sticks to plant the ground and lit grain seeds in small holes, mainly millet. The climate of the grassland cannot grow other crops. They do not have corn seeds with short growth cycles.
After sowing, then trample the holes flat.
When you come back in autumn, you will see how much you collect.
If you are eaten by birds and eaten by wild animals, you will be considered a waste of life. You really rely on the gods to make a living.
These foods are for life-saving purposes and are reluctant to eat them at all, and they are all treasured.
Because meat lacks salt and spices, it cannot be preserved for a long time. Beef jerky will also become moldy and spoiled during rainy periods. Only granular grains can be preserved for a long time and can help you when you are most hungry.
Food can generally be preserved for twenty or thirty years.
Huoerchi was anxious and sweating was all over his head, and he turned around and looked behind him.
On the distant hillside, the camel cavalry wearing gray armor, holding long weapons, were almost killing the Dulbert cavalry that had been above them.
They rushed down from the mountain, while the Dulbert cavalry attacked from the back, and they did not occupy any advantage. Moreover, the camels were extremely heavy, and their power was even stronger.
The worst thing is that they lack iron armor protection, and their leather armor rate is only 20%.
Everyone on the other side was wearing armor, and they were all heavy cavalry.
How can I fight this battle?
In less than half an hour, there were not many left of the Dulberts.
Erkeilden had three arrows inserted into his body, spitting blood in his mouth, and was run back by the only one left.
He was hunched over in the saddle, and his vision gradually blurred.
The personal cavalry team of Muqingfu has crossbows, and it is a modern composite bow-style pulley crossbow with a buttstock. It is very accurate and has a long range.
Although there are not many, they are extremely harmful. Those crossbowmen are precise shooters, specializing in shooting officers. This thing is a full metal tailless arrow with great kinetic energy. It is like playing through armor.
"Taiji, please hold on, catch up with the tribe brigade, and find Erma (doctor) to apply medicine to you." The coer turtle shouted anxiously. "Don't fall asleep."
In the end, the remaining more than a thousand soldiers flocked to him and ran westward.
The camel soldiers behind them chased each other reluctantly.
Although the speed is not as fast as the war horse, the camel will be caught up sooner or later. The war horse must have a rest for a while when running at this speed.
Mu Qingfu led his men to rush over some lonely herdsmen and shouted at them: "Stand on the side and don't block the way. I don't have time to capture you. Wait for the people behind to accept you."
After he finished his yelling, he rushed over with a large group of camel cavalry, leaving a large number of herders in a daze.
"Harry (husband), what should we do?" Huerchi's Busigui (wife) asked anxiously. She didn't know if she would be shot to death if she continued to escape. The grassland never believed in tears, and there was no virtue of kindness here.
Huoerchi struggled for a long time, but decided to drive all the cattle and sheep to the side of the road, stop and wait for the cavalry behind to accept them. He heard that these soldiers and horses of Yang Fan, the Great Khan of the South of the Moon did not implement the Wheel Method.
They will not steal your wife, daughter, cattle and sheep. As long as you don’t resist, the safety of the family will be safe.
Many bachelors from Monan fled to Yang Fan and knelt down. The fact that Nairen Bater gave his wife to the bachelor had spread throughout the grassland like wings.
Huoerchi and his family trembled and squeezed into a ball, squatting on the side of the road and hugging their heads.
This was what the subsequent cavalrymen ordered them to do. Even the ferocious Mongolian bites the wolf dogs and dared not bark. They were not stupid, and knew that this would bring disaster to the owner's family.
Taze Tashi no longer cared about his subordinates and was defeated like a mountain of defeat.
Now those who can follow him are young and strong men and women over fifteen years old and under thirty-five years old in the tribe. The others have already set aside, and along the way are herders and cattle and sheep who have fallen behind while escaping.
Many wheels of the Lele car ran off and fell over the roadside, and many women and children were crying. Their men were already chasing Taiji.
After running a hundred miles along the lake shore, he was about to breathe a sigh of relief when suddenly a cavalry appeared in front of him.
Daze Tashi looked carefully and saw that the "Balim Cavalry Regiment" was written in two Chinese and Mongolian characters on one banner.
His heart sank, one of the twelve tribes of Tumert, was the Bahrain cavalry.
The road ahead was blocked.
Taze sighed in his heart, ran for seven hundred miles, fought more than a dozen battles along the way, and tens of thousands of people died, but he still couldn't escape. He was blocked here.
The cavalry on the opposite side lined up in five dense rows, blocking the way.
Camel cannons, with black holes pointing in their direction.
Their scalp was numb.
They did not have camel cannons, only the majority of the Junggars and the Hoshuot people had this thing. But it did not prevent them from knowing the power of this thing. They fought with Mu Qingfu several times in the early days when they ran away.
At that time, Mu Qingfu still had gunpowder in her hands, causing huge damage to them.
Every time a volley shot, dozens, hundreds, or even hundreds of people would be smashed. Whether it was people or war horses, they were all minced meat on the ground. After a few rounds, they would be beaten to collapse and flee in all directions.
Along the way, the more they fought, the lower their morale became.
Both sides confronted each other silently, and the atmosphere was extremely strange.
There were more than 5,000 people on the side of Dalai Tush who were strong soldiers. As time went by, more and more people followed him. Cattle, sheep and livestock also gathered in large quantities.
As there are more people, Taze's confidence has also increased.
There was only one regiment opposite. After more than a dozen battles, they knew that there were only more than 3,000 people.
Chapter completed!