This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 126
That night Wang Dong ate instant noodles and slept in the bushes at the foot of the mountain wrapped in his military coat. When he got up the next day, he took Wang Hui's fish charm, led his horse and headed north.

After walking all morning, Wang Dong finally saw a group of more than ten soldiers approaching from a distance.

When Wang Dong saw the other party, they also saw him and moved towards him. Seeing that it was too late for Wang Dong to run, the system didn't give the task anyway, which meant that at least there was no short-term danger in contact with the other party, so Wang Dong simply took the initiative to pull him away. Walked towards them on horseback.

When Wang Dong came a dozen steps away from them, a man who looked like a small officer on the opposite side stopped him loudly.

Wang Dong stopped and saw the officer leading someone over.

Taking a closer look, the officer's waist and hips are Tang Dao, about 1.6 meters tall, not tall but very strong, he looks like a small weight, and his force value is not low at first sight.

Wang Dong quickly opened his arms, and at the same time said honestly: "I'm a boy who drives horses. When I encounter war horses on the road, I run away. Are you going back to the city? Can you take me with you?"

A soldier next to the young officer went straight to the horse's belly bag, searched it, and then turned around and said to the officer in Chinese with a strange accent: "Captain Cao, we found nothing."

Only then did Wang Dong realize that the officer on the opposite side was a captain.

In the Tang Dynasty, there were about 1000 people in the army of Zhechong Mansion. For units below the mansion, 300 people formed a regiment, and 50 people under the regiment formed a team. The team was divided into ten people and one fire.As the chief officer of the 50-man team, Li Zheng is already considered a standard grassroots officer in the Tang Dynasty.

Captain Cao heard that Wang Dong wanted to follow them, and he didn't seem to want to be a burden, but the soldier who searched the horse's belly bag just whispered a few words to the people around him.

Wang Dong was a little surprised when he heard that man's words, because the soldier and the surrounding soldiers did not speak Chinese, but Qiang.

He was explaining to other soldiers that Wang Dong was a horse dealer in Qiang language, but the soldiers around him seemed to be enlightened when they heard the words, and chattered in Qiang language.

Wang Dong couldn't help thinking back to the situation of Longyou Qiang people in Tang Dynasty that he had seen in the materials before traveling.

As an ancient nation that appeared in the land of China since ancient times, the Qiang nationality has gone through a long history and was already a very large nation long before the Tang Dynasty.Moreover, they communicated deeply with the Han people. In the Han Dynasty, many Qiang people and Han people lived together. From the Eastern Han Dynasty, through the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the turbulent period of 300 years, just like the Han people, the Qiang people also lived together. Struggling to survive among various forces, and because the ethnic population is still smaller than the Han nationality, the Qiang people have no chance to reintegrate into a nation after being split like the Han people, so the Qiang people were divided into different lands during the 300 years of turmoil. More than a dozen branches were forced into various forces to become ethnic minorities, such as Dangxiang Qiang, Xianbei Qiang, Tuyuhun Qiang, etc., and under the assimilation of various forces, it was difficult for them to communicate with each other at this time. , will be completely assimilated into other ethnic groups, and many Northwestern ethnic groups in later generations have the Qiang blood in their history.

Since there are Qiang people in various forces, it is normal for the Qiang people to exist in the Han dynasty. Moreover, during the Tang Dynasty, many Qiang tribes had been affiliated with the Han dynasty for a long time. In some areas, they were treated as Han people and collected the same taxes. Granted fields and served as slaves.Longyou is an area where various ethnic groups live together, so it is normal to have several Qiang soldiers.

Because of his language skills, Wang Dong could barely understand some of the ancient Qiang language they spoke, and found that several people were discussing whether they could ask for some money if they brought Wang Dong back.

Cao Dui on the side frowned and watched them discuss.After a while, the rest of the soldiers also came over, and everyone chattered around in the Qiang language. Only then did Wang Dong realize that these soldiers were all Qiang people. No wonder the Cao team was so angry. Word.

Seeing that the soldier who searched him just now seemed to be the backbone of this group of Qiang people, Wang Dong quickly walked into the crowd, took out a piece of silver and handed it to the man, "Master, my family has some property in Shanzhou. If you escort I'll go back, and I'll definitely give you money."

When all the Qiang people saw the silver, their eyes lit up, and they all commented that this businessman was indeed rich.

The young soldier also looked at Cao Duizheng expectantly, Cao Duizheng had an ugly expression on his face, but at this moment he only had these Qiang people under his command, and he didn't dare to offend, so he finally said with a stinky face, "Forget it, just follow." , let’s go quickly.”

The soldier replied: "Yes." He quickly took Wang Dong's money, handed it to his companion, and nodded to Wang Dong to express his gratitude for the money.

This reaction made Wang Dong feel a little good. Probably this group of Longyou Qiang people also suffered a lot of discrimination in the Zhechong mansion, so they had no chance to collect money for oil and water. If they had the opportunity to take money, they were actually quite polite.

The crowd set off under the urging of the team leader. A Qiang soldier led the horse and served Cao team and rode on it. But Wang Dong saw that no one was riding a horse except the team leader, so he just kept a low profile and led the horse. Let's walk together.

Not long after walking, the sun rose to the middle of the sky, and the surrounding temperature also rose a little. Everyone was dressed thinly, and they could only rely on walking to keep warm. At this time, they finally had a rest to keep from freezing, so they decided to take a rest and eat immediately .

Wang Dong saw a few soldiers set up an iron pot, put a handful of snow into it to make water, and then took a large pile of frozen meat from a bag and threw it in. Another Qiang soldier picked up dry grass and branches as fuel, and put it in the pot again. Some grains and salt are added to make porridge.

Naturally, this kind of food is not refined. When the water boils, everyone will start to eat it when it is half-cooked. Captain Cao came over to get a big bowl of meat first, and then the Qiang soldiers below dared to serve their own food.

Wang Dong saw that the young soldier who was the leader of the Qiang people was carrying a bowl and was going to eat aside. Wang Dong had a good impression of him this morning, so he hurried over to talk to him.

Seeing Wang Dong approaching, the young man didn't hide his words, his attitude was very friendly.

After a few words, Wang Dong knew that this group of people was indeed a Longyou Qiang near Shanzhou. They had lived with the Han people for hundreds of years. Although they had not been fully assimilated, they knew how to deal with the Han people. The dynasties got along with each other. After the Tang Dynasty issued the land equalization policy, their tribes also went to record and register, got a piece of public land to cultivate, and then served corvee like the Han people, so they were selected as the government army.

The young man claimed that his name was He Luo, but he was actually the fire commander in the army, which surprised Wang Dong.

In the Tang Dynasty, many ethnic minorities joined the army, but most of them were soldiers from Jimi Prefecture. In the regular army system of the Tang Dynasty, it was only the children of well-known and well-known families who had the opportunity to serve as officers of the regular army in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that their entire tribe is at the bottom of Shanzhou society, and He Luo is actually able to be a small official with the head of the army, which shows that this person still has some skills.

Asked about the current situation and how a dozen of them got here, He Luo looked at the team leader in the distance and explained in a low voice.

It turned out that they were all the army of the Zhechong Mansion in Shanzhou. Half a month ago, there was a civil strife in Tuyuhun. General Hou Junji came to Shanzhou to organize troops to intervene. After entering the territory of Tuyuhun, although they did not encounter large-scale resistance, they still encountered some stubborn The harassment of anti-Tang nobles in Tuyuhun.

And their regiment was very unlucky, because they were delayed on the march, and more than 300 people fell behind the brigade, and became the target of a Tuyuhun nobleman with many tribes. Was robbed and slaughtered.

The two Qiang people were originally relatively united, so although they lost a few lives, they gathered together and fought their way out. After breaking out of the encirclement, they met Cao Zheng, the leader of the team.

This Cao Zheng is a fierce general who has achieved several military exploits. He is skilled with swords and horses in battle. He single-handedly escaped from a night attack by the Tuyuhun tribe that day. A group of them got together and are now thinking about how to escape back to Shanzhou. go.

Wang Dong was a little surprised, "Why did your regiment fall behind?"

"Hey," He Luo said helplessly, and said, "Our captain and brigade commander were both killed in the attack on Tuyuhun a few months ago. This time we rushed to the expedition, so we transferred a Zhechong prefect Shi, named Wang. Yes, I will come to act as a temporary brigade commander, but Wang Changshi was delayed all the way, we all entered the territory of Tuyuhun, but he was still in Shanzhou, we had no officials, and it was very inconvenient to communicate with the friendly army along the way, so we had to stay Waiting for him, I didn't expect that there would be trouble after waiting."

(End of this chapter)