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After the battle, Liu Yunniang rode a maroon horse through the corpses all over the field, with Jian Ji and the Detachment of Women following closely behind, with a calm expression.

The ground was full of iron hoof marks. The grass that had just sprouted was stepped into the soil. Countless white feather arrows were inserted into the ground, and the broken swords and guns were covered with blood stained with the ground, making it hideous and terrifying, like the hell of the infinite.

She rode into the battlefield, and the dying war horse struggled to moan at her, and some of the undead wounded soldiers were moaning, and some were praying.

A large number of hair-driving men with tomahawks were wandering around the battlefield, and they were specifically responsible for the final blow. They not only finished blows the undead enemy wounded soldiers, but also the serious injuries and difficult-to-treat friendly troops. The only difference is that when dealing with enemy wounded soldiers, no matter how serious the wounded soldiers are, as long as they are injured, they will be chopped off their heads with an axe. If they are their own people, they will be treated differently. Those who are slightly injured will be carried away for treatment. Only those who are seriously injured and difficult to treat will give them a pleasure and pierce the heart with a dagger.

Behind them was a group of teenagers who pulled arrows from the bodies and put them into baskets for reuse. The broken metal parts of the sword and gun were also recycled. There were also some younger teenagers whose mission was to carry away the dead friendly forces and dig pits and bury them.

In addition to the corpses everywhere on the grassland, many cattle and horses also encountered disasters.

There were dead cattle and sheep everywhere, probably hundreds of them, and the cattle and sheep were also covered with arrows. Liu Yunniang knew that he died in the raid during the initial raid.

The camp caught fire and wisps of black smoke rolled upwards, rising into the low sky.

In a messy camp, the Shatu Knights ran back and forth, waving the long whip in their hands, driving the survivors to leave.

The Tatar women and children seemed to have accepted their fate after their defeat, and they lasted from Mobei to Yinshan. During the past few hundred years of migration, they have experienced countless battles and the strong prey on the weak. They have long been accustomed to the rules on the grassland. The losers will become slaves to the winners.

But even though they became slaves, these women and children still had unruly anger and self-esteem when walking.

Liu Yunniang stared at them with deep eyes. She remembered Shatuo several years ago. When Shatuo was defeated and they fled to the north of the desert, it was the same as them. Perhaps this is the biggest difference between the grassland tribe and the people in the Central Plains. She clearly remembered that in the first days of the north, many mothers among the Han people who had been reduced to slaves, and many mothers were expressionless, dead, and staggeringly pulling the children who were crying. They also became slaves, Han slaves were more desperate and numb, while Tatar slaves were angry and unyielding.

His own man once said that the Han people were actually a group of sheep, while the grassland tribes were wolves and tigers. At the end of the Jin Dynasty, the Five Barbarians went south. The Hu people called the Han people two-legged sheep, which was their food.

Although Liu Yunniang felt that these words were bloody and cruel, she felt that it was not unreasonable. Shatuo had faced a barrier of life and death several times. If it were the Han people, it might have been destroyed, but the Shatuo people would have gotten up faster after falling down. However, sometimes she felt that what her husband said was not completely right. Most of the Han people were weak, such as the ruler of the Tang Empire, the emperor and prime minister of Chang'an, one was weaker than the other. But there were also heroes among the Han people, such as the Qin King Li Jing, who led a group of weak Han people to defeat Shatuo, defeat Khitan, destroy Goguryeo, and subdue Xi, Tatars and Bohai.

Even if he makes a comeback and strengthens the Shatu tribe again, his own man, known as Shatu King, always mentions Li Jing, and his eyes are filled with deep fear.

Liu Yunniang saw a Tatar boy rushing towards the riverside, and a black leather-armored Shatu warrior blocked his cloud road and forced him to turn around. The remaining team of cavalry surrounded him in the middle, whipped his face with a horse whip, and drove him to flee around.

Another knight ran behind his back and kept whipping his back until blood stained his thighs. Another man waved his whip and rolled his ankles and threw them to the ground. Finally, the thirteen or fourteen-year-old Tatar boy could only crawl. They felt bored and shot through his back with an arrow in a burst of smug and cruel laughter.

The rushing commander Li Siyuan greeted her in front of a newly tent set up by the river.

He changed into a set of gorgeous armor from the newly captured Tatar nobles, which was a set of blue dragon-style full-body armor worth thousands of stagnant, with clear edges. He covered a soap burqa on the outer part of the armor, and his iron gloves, grey and helmet were made of dark gray stamped steel plates. When he got this set of armor, he immediately presented it to Li Keyong, but Li Keyong gained a lot and obtained more than ten sets of such exquisite armor. In the end, Li Keyong took out thirteen sets of armor as prizes, so that the generals under his command could compete, and the thirteen who won could win one.

Li Siyuan shot down the vultures hovering in the sky with one arrow, and shot two vultures with one shot. Li Keyong directly asked him to choose a set of armor.

Li Siyuan strode forward and bowed to Liu Yunniang's breastplate with his right hand, "The king is waiting for the wife of the marquis in the tent."

"The prince was not injured, right?"

"A little bit of flesh hurt." When Li Siyuan was with Liu Yunniang, his heart was pounding and his mouth was dry. His face was hot and he didn't dare to look directly at his adopted mother. "It's not a problem. Today, the adults killed Hebule's two sons with his own hands. Unfortunately, Hebule and Hutu ran fast, but even if they ran away, after this battle, the Yinshan Tatar Alliance will be intimidated by the power of the adults and surrender to me, Shatu."

When Shatuo was defeated in Daibei and fled outside the border, the Tatars took them in. Moreover, the Tatars in Yinshan had been in love with Shatuo for decades and had been married for generations. As early as when Shatuo was not the opposite, Shatuo guarded Daibei, and the Tatars were always under Shatuo's management.

It’s a pity that the brotherhood of the past is now in war.

The Khitans attacked the tribal camps of the Tatars in the northern part of Yinshan. Hebule and Hutu led 10,000 Tatar cavalry back to the grassland. Li Keyong led his troops to follow and pursue, and raided in the dark night. Hebule was caught off guard and almost wiped out the entire army.

She didn't know what words to describe this battle. Anyway, it wouldn't be a just war.

But we cannot simply say that Shatu is betrayal, because although the Tatars took Shatu in first, the Tatars colluded with Li Jing and were ready to attack them. They were the best at first. Although they were protecting themselves, it was against the truth of the Tatars anyway.

After all, the grudges and hatreds between the two tribes were just because they were involved in the battles in the Tang Dynasty.

Just by the river not far from the tent, a girl who was much younger than Liu was crying loudly and sharply. A thirteen or fourteen-year-old Shatu boy who was even much younger than that girl pushed her down on the grass and raped her on the spot. On the side, there were even hundreds of Shatu warriors sitting or standing, pointing and laughing. Liu Yunniang was not unfamiliar with this. She knew in her heart that the boy must be the Shatu warrior who participated in the battle for the first time.

Shatu people are born brave and advocate combat. Every Shatu boy will usually officially join the army and become a warrior when he is fourteen years old. When this warrior kills the first enemy on the battlefield, according to tradition, he will get a beautiful young captive girl after the war and officially become a Shatu warrior on her. This is a coming-of-age ceremony.

I am the woman of King Shatuo. Liu Yunniang turned her eyes and reminded her of her identity. Although she did not agree with this Shatuo tradition, she could not object. She pursed her lips, hardened her heart, and rode her horse toward the camp.

"The Tatars in Yinshan were completely destroyed this time." Li Siyuan also saw the scene there. He was a little distracted. He had experienced the experience of that young man today, but the woman was a Han woman and the daughter of a county magistrate. She looked very beautiful, but now her memory is a little blurry, she only remembers the whiteness and tenderness, but she can no longer remember what the woman's face looks like. He thought about it seriously,

But he suddenly found out in horror that the blurred face suddenly showed Liu's appearance. He was shocked, and the afterglow glanced at Liu, his face became hot. He bit his tongue hard, and the pain made his mind regain his mind. "Although Hebule and Hutu both ran away, the Tatars were finished. The Khitans attacked the Tatar tribal camps in the north of Yinshan. Now the 10,000 elite light cavalry led by Hebule and Hutu were destroyed by us, and they could no longer turn over."

"We can increase the Tatars of Yinshan Mountain to two to three thousand Tatar light cavalry."

The Shatu army was not only the Shatu people, but also many Han people, Sogdians, Uighurs, Tuyuhun people, and even Dangxiang people, Khitans, Xi people, Goguryeo, and Tatars. Although the Tatars were still enemies just now, the conquered Tatars would fight for them.

This is war, and war is like this.

"What's the next move?" Liu Yunniang asked.

"The prince has discussed a plan between the Khitan and the four towns in Hebei. The Khitans will attack Li Jing's western Liaoning Province in the next step. The four towns in Hebei attack Mo Ying, and we will attack Beiping on the Yanshan line." Li Siyuan said. Although several families joined forces, they were still full of guard against each other. Liu Yue would never agree to let the Shatu army enter Youzhou through the military pass. Li Quanzhong would not agree to the Shatu army enter the Yiwu army through the Feihu Road.

Although this alliance was a joint force, it was still a group of troops, and the troops were divided into multiple groups.

Behind him, the girl who was raped made a heartbreaking sound, which was sobbing with despair, and continued to go down the clouds endlessly. Liu Yunniang held the reins tightly, turned her horse's head, and said, "Let them stop." She ordered Li Siyuan.

"Madam?" Li Siyuan was a little embarrassed.

"You heard my order." Liu Yunniang's face turned pale. She couldn't turn a blind eye to the girl. "Call them to stop." She loudly ordered the commander of Jianji, the leader of Jianji behind her, with a sharp tone: "Jingniang, take the sword guards to patrol the camp immediately. I don't want to see the rape happen again."

Jingniang was also hesitant, "Madam, you are kind and kind, but these are Shatuo's customs and traditions, passed down from generation to generation."

By the river in the distance, the girl was still crying, and her desperate crying sound seemed strange and strange in Liu's ears.

"She is a Tatar woman, now a slave to Shatu." Li Siyuan hesitated and advised, "Madam, it is her honor to be the first woman of a Shatu warrior."

"It's true." Jing Niang also responded.

Liu Yunniang sighed in her heart, "I like this girl and want to recruit Sword Guards. From now on, she will be mine."

Hearing this answer, Li Siyuan and Jingniang were relieved. If they only liked this girl instead of changing Shatuo's tradition, then this was not a difficult thing.

"Yes, madam." Li Siyuan kicked the horse's belly and rode his horse over.

"Go and bring her." Liu Yunniang took off the silk cloak from her body and handed it to Jingniang.

"As you wish." Jing Niang took the cloak and looked at Liu's eyes full of admiration. This is a master worthy of serving.

Li Siyuan and Jing Niang went over with him. The group of Shatuo cavalry shouted in surprise, and then the young man handed over the girl on his body. Neither Li Siyuan nor Jing Niang could refuse, let alone what they brought was the wife's request.

Jingniang pulled up the girl, put Liu's cloak on her, and then led her to Yunniang.

The girl's eyes were red and swollen, her expression was dazed, her whole body was trembling, and her hair was stained with blood and soil.

"Jing Shisanniang, treat her injuries, and then take a shower and put on the sword guard's clothes. From now on, she will become your subordinate sword guard." After Liu said that, he instigated the Zhuhong Horse.

The temporary camp was not much better than on the battlefield. On the way, they saw many young men performing their coming-of-age ceremony at all times. Every time Liu Yunniang tied the reins, sent Jian Ji to stop them, and took these young men as their own sword guards.

Some Tatar girls were full of gratitude to Liu and said blessings, but many girls had resentment in their eyes, did not accept her kindness, and still regarded her as an enemy.

"Madam, you will arouse the dissatisfaction of the warriors." When Liu stopped again and watched Jingniang bring back more than a dozen girls, Li Siyuan couldn't help but persuade him. He had already understood that Liu was not really trying to collect the sword guards, but just using this kind of forced reason to stop the rape.

"I have to do this." Liu Yunniang insisted.

When he returned to the Central Army camp, Li Keyong was sitting in the tent of the khan that Hebule had no time to take him away. Li Youjin sat aside, and several generals of Shatuo were also there.

Li Keyong stood up and smiled at Liu, "Madam, my uncle just came to complain to me, saying that Mrs. stop me from performing the coming-of-age ceremony of Shatuo Warrior?"

Liu nodded and briefly and directly told the story. However, in the words, she insisted that she was not going to destroy Shatuo's tradition, but to take those girls as sword guards.

Li Ke flashed with one eye, a little amused: "Madam, that is a custom passed down from generation to generation by our Shatuo. A Shatuo warrior grew up by killing enemies and conquering women."

Liu also knew that his reasons were a bit too reluctant, saying, "Conquering a woman is not to rape her, nor should it be rape in public. I think this custom can be changed, and the women of the defeated tribe can be rewarded to brave young soldiers, but they should be gentle and caring to them, treating them as their own women, rather than ravaging them without mercy."
Chapter completed!