"You have taken away all our food, why don't you take us with you? We can't live without cattle and sheep!" Gesang shouted, waving his arms.
When she yelled like this, she wanted to express that she was a grassland shepherd, and the reason why she appeared here was that she had been robbed of herds and herds. What she said was that she could no longer live without herds, so she might as well go to the army to do it. a soldier.
This excuse is not very clever, but in a hurry, there is no more suitable excuse to find. This reason can at least explain his identity and why he is here, without exposing the fact that Zhang Changan and others are scouts of the Tang army.
The leading Khitan monk heard this and saw Gesang's clear and beautiful face. Although his eyebrows and eyes were not fully opened, he could be called a beauty's embryo, and immediately believed the other party's words to a certain extent.
He said coldly: "Those who approach the army camp without authorization will die! Now is the time of war, and the conscripting of your cattle and sheep is the intention of the king of the grassland, and no one can stop it. However, I think you are still young, so it is not impossible Give you a way out."
In all fairness, when violence is needed, grassland people are much more brutal than Central Plains people, because life is difficult, and one does not know what the next year will be like after this year, so they can fear death for cattle and sheep.
But the human heart is fleshy. When there is no need to be violent, grassland people are often extraordinarily open-minded, especially as a monk with an extraordinary status, when facing a weak and beautiful woman, the nature of men makes them not So harsh.
Zhang Chang'an and the others had already planned to make a move to break out of the siege, but upon hearing this, it seemed that the situation had turned for the better, so they suppressed their temper for the time being.
In order to follow the Khitan food raising team conveniently and deal with the Khitan rangers on the road, they all changed into shepherds' attire and made the necessary camouflage on their faces. This is really not a difficult task for the monks and students of Chang'an Practice Academy.
Now as long as Zhang Changan and the others don't speak, no one will be able to tell that they are not grassland people. They restrained their aura and behaved like ordinary shepherds, showing fearful and simple expressions.
Seeing that things were turning around, Gesang quickly put on a naive look and asked, "How can we live?"
The head monk has a good cultivation and is also a person of status in the army. He looked at Gesang with a greedy and wretched look in his eyes, and said with a smile: "You can be my slave, if you serve me well , naturally you can live without worrying about food and clothing. And your clan companions can also live in the army."
This is a very fair deal, and for a woman who lost her cattle and sheep and can no longer be called a shepherd, and cannot continue to live at all, this is simply a gift from heaven. Being able to follow a monk with a good cultivation base will definitely lead to a good life in the future.
As for the price to be paid... On the grassland, what things don't need to be paid for? In the era of wars and disasters, as long as you can live, what is it worth paying this little price? Being able to attach to a powerful warrior is itself the dream destination for many grassland women.
Gesang tried his best to put himself into the imaginary role, and said happily and nervously: "As long as I and my people can have food, Gesang is willing to dedicate himself to serve the master."
The leading monk laughed, and with a wave of his hand, he announced the change of identities of Gesang and others, and led them into the river valley camp.
The other monks had no objection to this, nor did they feel that there was any problem. People with status and status on the grassland certainly own a lot of cattle and sheep, which is a symbol of wealth, but in addition, the number of slaves they own is also a manifestation of status. Any powerful grassland warrior will have his own Slaves.
Since the leader took a fancy to the girl named Gesang and was willing to take her as a concubine, it was nothing serious to keep Gesang's clansmen as his slaves in captivity based on his status.
In this way, Zhang Changan, Gesang and his party entered the camp of the Khitan food raising army in a grand manner.
On the way, they learned that the Khitan monk was named Warwick. Among the monks in the Khitan army, although he was not the highest in status, he was also a top-notch one. He overlooked most of the monks.
Zhang Chang'an and others also learned that in this food-raising team, there are three monks at the beginning level of the God Envoy Realm and one monk at the middle level of the God Envoy Realm. The task is to ensure the safety of the food-raising team.
Apart from these four, Warwick's cultivation was at the highest level.
When Zhang Changan was in Hexi, his cultivation base was in the middle stage of Qi training. After going through the Yangguan experience, he went to Chang'an Practice Academy for more than half a year. At the eighth level of Qi training.
But it was still a level behind Warwick, so he didn't have the will to act rashly.
Warwick quickly arranged the identities for Gesang, Zhang Changan and others. The former is naturally a personal servant girl with an extraordinary status, but since it is daytime, it is unlikely that they will do anything dirty, and the latter is an ordinary slave. It was their job to feed the horses.
Because of the difference in status, Zhang Changan and others were separated from Gesang, but he didn't care, but kept his identity and mission in mind, and began to observe the entire camp without showing any traces as much as possible.
Not long after, Zhang Changan learned from eavesdropping on the Khitan fighters' conversation that they would leave here tomorrow morning, and all the food raising teams would return before dusk today, with a total of 50,000 people!
Being imprisoned is a hopeless situation, but Zhang Changan is not discouraged, on the contrary, he is a little excited. He knew very well that if the previous news was successfully passed on to General Shangguan, the other party would launch a surprise attack on this camp before sunset today at the latest.
As long as there are no accidents, Zhang Changan and others will not be life-threatening at all, and Gesang doesn't have to worry about losing his virginity. Maybe they can do something in the camp to cooperate with General Shangguan's actions. After all, there are fifty thousand soldiers here.
In the afternoon, Zhang Changan suddenly discovered a phenomenon that surprised him.
In this Khitan military camp, there are quite a few people who practice the Quanzhen concept and have no space to release the door! They are not the same as them, they are mixed in as slaves, but serious Khitan monks and fighters! The reason why they were able to confirm their identities was because Zhang Changan found that even Buchen was there!
"There are indeed many people, but not many."
The Khitan warrior was dressed impeccably, pretending to admire the horse Zhang Changan was washing, and said in a low voice: "I have already done the calculations, and I also met with the monks from Wukong Shimen. We have hundreds of people in the barracks. Most of them Their cultivation has not yet reached the Qi refining stage, and they are mainly grassland warriors."
Zhang Changan lowered his head, forcefully suppressed the shock in his heart, and whispered, "How did you get in here? Didn't you go after the Khitan food raising team?"
Buchen smiled and said: "I did go to track down the Khitan grain raising team. Coincidentally, I met a believer in Quanzhen Temple - I saved his mother who was seriously ill before, and he was a centurion, so it was logical for me, Came here as a Khitan warrior."
Zhang Changan suppressed the turmoil in his heart and said: "How many believers have you developed in Khitan?"
Buchen sighed: "It's really not many. There are only a few hundred people in the 50,000 army, and there is only one in a hundred. The time is still too short. If we give us another three to five years, the Quanzhen Temple and Wukong Shimen , at least 10% of the shepherds in the grassland can be controlled.
"Did you know that the lives of ordinary people in the grasslands are very difficult, far more difficult than those in the Central Plains. And the more people suffer in life, the easier it is to develop into religious believers, because they have desires and demands, and they need spiritual comfort and spiritual comfort. To be free, one needs to see hope, even if that hope exists in the illusory afterlife.
"What's more, our Quanzhen Temple and Wukong Shimen, under the instruction of King An, are more or less able to do some medical skills... Many grassland people are really barbarians, and they don't have the ability to cure diseases and save lives. There are too few doctors. Well, in the words of King An, this is the result of an underdeveloped society. So as long as we can cure diseases and save people, it is actually very easy to develop believers. They all regard us as gods... "
Zhang Changan was not in the mood to listen to Buchen's words. As a student of Chang'an Practice College, he valued the strategy of the battlefield more, so he said eagerly: "If nothing happens, General Shangguan will definitely be killed before sunset. Since you and I are in the Khitan barracks, Just do something about it...”
Before Zhang Chang'an finished speaking, Buchen answered, "Create chaos in the barracks, and cooperate with the army to destroy this Khitan food raising team?"
This is a very good idea, and it works.
Hundreds of people face tens of thousands of people, it seems that they have no fighting power, but if they are facing a large army raid, they only need to create a little chaos in the rear, and they can quickly disintegrate the fighting spirit of many Khitan fighters and make outstanding contributions to the battle situation .
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But this is not Zhang Changan's idea.
He said tightly: "As long as General Shangguan arrives, this Khitan army will definitely be defeated. We don't need to add flowers to the cake. What I want to do is to make a more long-term plan..."
As Zhang Changan expected, at dusk, Shangguan Qingcheng led his army to raid the river valley.
The Khitan food raising team who "had a good harvest" did not expect to be attacked by the Tang army's fine cavalry here. They were all in high spirits, preparing a bonfire in the camp to celebrate, and all of them were arrogant and lazy.
Suddenly he heard the warning from the monks, before the Khitan fighters had time to form a complete battle formation, Shangguan Qingcheng led more than 30,000 fine cavalry to the river valley.
There is no suspense in the battle.
Not to mention that the more than 30,000 elite cavalry under Shangguan Qingcheng's command were all elites dispatched by Li Maozhen in various armies, only the students who rushed into the army from Chang'an Practice Academy, all of them were warriors and elite monks on the battlefield.
Such an army, even if it is not as good as the previous Spike Army in terms of cooperation and affinity with Shangguan Qingcheng, it is far from being able to compete with the non-Khitan eight direct troops.
Together with the strength of the famous military generals, Shangguan Qingcheng marched forward bravely with his trilogy, easily broke through the hastily formed formation of the Khitan army, and turned the valley area upside down.