On the plain outside the valley where Xia Village is located, a team of ragged refugees are surrounded by elite Eight Banners cavalry.

"Those who surrender will not be killed!"

The Eight Banners Niulu couldn't wait to pull out the saber and threaten the group of refugees.

According to the Eight Banners Niulu's vision, the Eight Banners cavalry only needs to launch a charge and shoot a few arrows to scare the group of refugees.

The Eight Banners cavalry from the Sarhu battlefield in the late Ming Dynasty experienced many battles. In the wild, even if the Ming army encountered the Eight Banners, they would flee in panic, let alone a group of refugees.

However, the Eight Banners Niulu misjudged the combat effectiveness of this group of refugees.

This team of refugees who looked ragged, was extremely fierce. They hugged each other tightly and were not afraid of the attacks of the Eight Banners Cavalry. Instead, they stabbed the Eight Banners Cavalry in front of them with a spear.

The Eight Banners Cavalry's sabers hit the refugees' shoulders, sinking into five centimeters, and the sound of bone-cutting sounded. However, the refugees, who were ignorant of the pain, stabbed the Eight Banners Cavalry into the body of the Eight Banners Cavalry with a spear. The war horses suffered and overturned the Eight Banners Cavalry to the ground.

The landed Eight Banners cavalry were overwhelmed by refugees and were beaten to death.

The refugee leader carried a ring-headed sword and confronted an Eight Banner cavalry. He cut off the horse's legs with one knife, and the second sword ended the life of the Eight Banner cavalry, and was simply and neat!

Eight Banners Niulu's scalp was numb.

He had never seen such a fierce refugee.

This group of refugees was not afraid of death at all. While being killed by the Eight Banners Cavalry, they also had to try to replace the Eight Banners Cavalry.

Spears, ring-headed knives, and teeth are their weapons.

Madman, a total group of madmen.

"retreat!"

The Eight Banners cavalry were killed by refugees and fled in panic.

"Hu, Hu, Hu..."

The ragged refugee stood in the sea of ​​corpses and blood, gasping for breath, sweat mixed with blood flowing down.

"Master General, if we continue like this, our begging army will all die in this troubled time."

"Five hundred households, and there are only less than a hundred households left. When will we find a place to settle down?"

"A moment of breath still exists, you must protect yourself and let the Yanhuang bloodline pass on. This is to beg for life. At any time, you must not submit to the Hu people."

Qihuo Shuai supported his body with a ring-headed knife. After a while of rest, he led Qihuo Jun and continued to march westward.

For twenty days, this 500-household begging army has fought with the Xianbei people, Jie people, and Jurchen people, leaving less than a hundred people.

However, the beggars survived tenaciously.

The rag-like flags of the beggars were roaring, and the bloody setting sun stretched out the figures of these ragged refugees...

The Eight Banners Cavalry returned to the territory that had just been upgraded to a second-level village. Huang Taiji leaned on the tiger-skin chair, and the defeated Niu Luezhen knelt below.

"You mean you didn't even make a 100-home refugee landing, and you lost 32 cavalrymen?"

Huang Taiji's eyes were cold.

Niu Luezhen took 120 cavalry to fight, but lost one-quarter of his troops.

Huang Taiji's cavalry were elite soldiers who had experienced the Battle of Sarhu.

Niu Lue was sweating profusely: "Of course Beile, that refugee is extraordinary. It is very likely that he was the beggar army during the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China recorded in ancient books."

"Beggars for the Living Army?"

Huang Taiji originally intended to punish Niu Luezhen, who was not good at doing things, but heard that the other party was not an ordinary refugee, but a beggar's army, and fell into silence.

During the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China, the Xiongnu and Jie people raised up rebellions and killed and looted. Bingzhou was famine. Sima Teng, the governor of Bingzhou, led the people of Bingzhou, and more than 20,000 soldiers and officials to the valley of Jizhou, and called it "beg for life".

After that, the Quaihuo Army and its descendants wandered in the Central Plains, constantly resisting the rule of the Hu people and making friends with the Hu people.

The Qihuo Army has been active for almost 113 years and has been through several generations. Among them, Ran Min, the King of Wudao, who issued the order to kill Hu, was one of the descendants of the Qihuo Army.

Ran Min came to power to overthrow the Later Zhao established by Shi Le, a Jie native, and there were tens of thousands of begging troops providing force for Ran Min.

The Qihuo Army that repelled the Eight Banners Cavalry may not be Ran Min, because the Qihuo Army has dozens of generals, with a population of different, with the most only four or five thousand families, and the fewer ones are 500,000 families.

"The begging for life has the will to die and live to die. If you are defeated by them, you cannot blame you. Where did they go?"

Huang Taiji was also a little afraid of the Qihuo Army and did not punish Niu Luezhen for this.

The Jie people emperor Shi Le killed several leaders of the Qihuo Army, but failed to completely eliminate the Qihuo Army, and had to coexist with the Qihuo Army.

Huang Taiji may not have the military talent like Shi Le.

Niu Luezhen replied: "This group of refugees went to the valley on the west side."

"The valley on the west side has not been explored yet. You bring a small team of cavalry to investigate."

"yes."

On the third day after the battle between the Qihuo Army and the Eight Banners Cavalry, a team of ragged refugees came outside Xia Village.

This group of refugees lacked food and had a pale face and thin skin, but their eyes were murderous and their bodies had a pungent smell of blood.

Except for children, everyone is stained with blood, even the women among the refugees are no exception.

When the refugees arrived, they immediately alarmed the soldiers in Xia Village.

If it were just ordinary refugees, Xiacun would not have had such a big fight.

This refugee is more like a defeated army.

In the river near Xia Village, Zhang Hua was taking Hua Mulan to patrol the fishing and hunting hut.

Some fishermen have made rafts and board boats, and cast nets on the river to catch fish.

The specialty of Xia Village is carp, which is one of the important food sources for villagers.

Mulan sat on the rocks by the river, soaking barefoots in the clear river water, occasionally shaking the water.

Mulan looked at Zhang Hua, who was asking the fisherman with soft eyes, and was in a daze.

Zhang Hua needs to know the fishermen's output so that he can reasonably estimate whether the food is sufficient.

After the 300 refugees under Huang Chao's subordinates were recruited, more than 60 new plowing oxen were added in Xia Village, and the population of the village exceeded 1,000.

The villages established by Huang Chao's subordinates had 600 stones of grain, all obtained by Zhang Hua. The grain stock in Xia Village increased to 1,500 stones, which was still a little short of money because there were still refugees who were short of food entering Xia Village.

In addition to Chen Gong and Liu Qisu, who were in charge of the specific affairs, in order to improve the efficiency of the village, Zhang Hua selected 10 literate villagers as minor officials, in charge of documents, land, city taxes, civil engineering, etc.

A minor official hurried over and found Zhang Hua: "The village chief has a group of refugees, about eighty households, who want to settle in the village."

"Eighty households? The number of people is a little higher, but Chen Gong and Liu Qisu should have a way to resettle them."

"Sir, this group of refugees is extraordinary, all of them are murderous."

"Are they soldiers?"

"Not that, it's just an ordinary refugee."

“…”

Zhang Hua was confused. What refugee wanted him to go to the placement in person?

Zhang Hua brought Mulan to the entrance of the village. About 80 refugees gathered at the entrance of the village. Chen Gong and Liu Qisu were negotiating with the refugee leader.

Liu Qisu introduced Zhang Hua to the refugee leader: "This is our village chief."
Chapter completed!