Hassan, a shepherd, and his companions graze their sheep on the grassland around Nur. This is the time when the water and grass are fertile. Since the adults in the tribe all followed the call of LAN gley Khan at the beginning of the war, the cattle and sheep in the tribe can only be taken care of by women and children. The women of the tribe have to milk cows and pick mulberry fruits. The herding can only be left to these children in the tribe.
Hassan had just carried a lamb out of the flock back to his mother when he heard a sound of horse hoofs.
Hassan straightened up from the white sheep. They saw a group of cavalry in shining armor coming towards them.
"Who is bey''s guard or a famous milza?"
Hassan looked at the approaching cavalry with envy in his eyes. Hassan''s father was a soldier who served a milzan under the command of a Khan, but his father''s most valuable protective gear was just a rusty Tatar helmet, which his father bought from milzan with three lambs. Like the cavalry''s armor opposite, the Hassan family can''t afford it all their life.
"However, after this crusade against Ackerman, if my father has made contributions or captured the booty, he can change a brand-new helmet," Hassan thought.
At this time, he only hated that he was not over fifteen and could not participate in the Khan expedition.
But Hassan was not discouraged. He will be fifteen in two years. At that time, he will be the real man in the tribe. He can ride a horse, draw his bow, fight for the Khan, and capture a female slave from czar Russia or Ukraine for his mother.
Hassan was thinking that the cavalry had come close to them.
A knight on horseback came to Hassan and stopped. The horse came on Hassan''s face with a thick, damp and hot breath.
Hassan bowed down and said in the most respectful words, "Dear lords, Hassan, the shepherd, is willing to serve you."
When Hassan''s friends saw that the Knights stopped in front of Hassan, they all ran over and looked at the cavalry curiously.
The knight in front of Hassan immediately asked, "how far is it from begzisalai?"
Hassan''s voice was strange, because the knight''s Tatar language was not only stiff, but also very bad. But she replied in the most respectful voice, "there are more than a hundred miles, dear master."
With that, Hassan straightened up and looked timidly and bravely at the knight''s face.
The moment their eyes touched, all the pores in Hassan''s body stood up.
The knight is dressed in gorgeous small metal plate chain armor and Tatar helmet, a traditional Tatar noble knight. But his beard was golden and he was a white man.
"Thank you!"
There was a cruel smile on the corner of the Yellow bearded Knight''s mouth. He suddenly pulled out his machete and cut the stunned Hassan in half.
Hassan flew backwards out. The blood from his body dyed the wool red.
This knife is a signal. After the Yellow bearded Knight killed Hassan, the companions behind him quickly surrounded the other shepherds, and then fell with a knife. After a while, more than a dozen young lives dissipated.
The Yellow bearded Knight jumped off his horse. He wiped the blood off the machete with wool. He bent down and picked up Hassan''s hand. There was a thick callosity on the thumb of that hand, which was produced by practicing archery. Needless to say, if Hassan can live to adulthood, he will become a marksman.
The Yellow bearded Knight stood up and said to the others, "clean up. Kill half the sheep and surround the others."
Everyone said yes.
As a result, others took off the clothes on the dead body one after another, and then shook off the lice in the sheepskin jacket on the campfire. Some sheep were killed and skinned, and the bloody mutton was put on dozens of fires.
A smell of blood suddenly filled the grassland.
After about half an hour, a huge army appeared in the direction of the Yellow bearded knights.
Led by an army in green uniforms and flags. The design of this flag is very strange. It is embroidered with a huge pot. The soldiers lined up in two orderly rows, dragged their muskets on their shoulders and took neat steps.
Then came a team of undisciplined troops dressed in all kinds of clothes and weapons. They pushed and shoved together, talking and laughing as they walked - it was a world away from the team in front. Especially when they smell the smell of roast mutton, they are in a mess. Everyone took the biggest step one after another, surpassing the "comrades in arms" in green military uniform in front and running to the place of roast mutton. The man looked like a group of hungry ghosts when he saw the food.
The Yellow bearded Knight looked at the disorganized appearance of his companions, and his face showed an expression of disgust. He kicked over a big man running in front and shouted to everyone, "grab what! Look at yourself. What''s different from animals."
The big man who was kicked down grinned with a smile missing two front teeth: "Xie Miao, compared with you masters, aren''t we animals?"
Xie Miao''s nose twitched twice. He resisted the urge to give the big man two whips and asked him, "Captain, where are they?"
"In the back!"
Xie Miao nodded and rode away.
Without his suppression, this group of people became more presumptuous. Seeing this scene, the soldiers in green uniforms who had been walking in front stopped in the distance and began to cook.
Xie Miao came to the cavalry behind the hall. He first nodded to a knight in long chain armour, and then said to a black knight walking beside him, "Captain Chechen, we will arrive at bergzisarai a hundred miles away."
"Very good, Xie Miao." Chechen smiled and praised.
This team is the army of Chechen who set out from Kafa to begzisalai. At the end of the three-day emergency training, Chechen couldn''t wait to lead the army to march towards bergzisalai.
When Chechen praised Xie Miao, Fatima saw a little blood on Xie Miao''s horse and armor. Fatima said angrily to Xie Miao, "Xie Miao, you disobeyed the commander''s order and killed people?!"
Xie Miao shook the blood on his body as if nothing had happened.
"No, I didn''t disobey the commander''s order. These blood stains are not human."
Fatima was furious at this.
It is not the first time that this Tsar Russian named Shimon godonov has killed an innocent shepherd.
On the first day after leaving Kafa, Xie Miao, who was originally at the forefront of the army, broke into a Crimean village. He forced the villagers with a knife to contribute corn flour cakes, beef, mutton and vegetables. When they had enough to eat and drink, Xie Miao tied the village head and asked him to hit the cattle and sheep of the whole village and supply them as military food. Cattle and sheep are the livestock that herdsmen depend on for survival. Of course, the village head refused. He lied that there was no cattle in the village. Xie Miao certainly wouldn''t believe such a lie. Xie Miao took off the village head''s boots and roasted them with a red charcoal fire. After more than half an hour, the village head was really unable to endure the punishment. His feet and legs were all scalded and burned, not a piece of good meat.
The village head confessed that all the cattle and sheep in the village were grazing in the reed marsh by the river, and the purpose of Xie Miao was achieved. So without hesitation, he cut the throat of the village and killed all the people in the village.
When Cherchen led Hessen mercenaries to the village where there was no life for a long time, he saw the scene of corpses everywhere. Even Hessen mercenaries who were used to seeing the dead couldn''t bear to see it.
At that time, Fatima wanted Xie Miao to pay with blood. Even if she had left Crimea, Fatima still shed Crimean Tatar blood. It was Chechen who stopped her.
Chechen also sees the cruelty of people like Xie Miao. In fact, in a sense, Crimean people are also to blame. Those who committed atrocities in the team were Czarists, Russians and Ukrainians who had been sold as slaves. It is natural that they hate Crimea.
At the time of Kafa, there were Chechen''s suppression and Stepan Racine''s whip. These people could endure, but they left Kafa. Especially after Chechen led Hessen mercenaries to the palace, these people completely released themselves and began to revenge wantonly: they killed all Tatar herdsmen they met Plunder all the property that can be taken away - some small tribes have also suffered. When the heads of these small tribes saw the pot flag, they thought it was the messenger from Kafa (the pot flag is the military flag of the Sudanese soldiers. The reason is that the military rank of the Sudanese soldiers is named after the cooking vocabulary, such as the commander is called the chef, and the next level is called the soup maker. Each wing of the soldiers takes the pot as the symbol of honor. When the Sudanese soldiers are dissatisfied with a great Vizier or Sudan, the signal of the Sudanese soldiers'' anti reform coup is to overturn the pot.) , I didn''t expect death to kill them.
For all this, Chechen also took some measures. He changed the marching sequence of the team, so that the Sudanese soldiers walked in the front, and the soldiers adapted from slaves walked in the middle and were restrained by himself.
Fatima''s hand clenched the machete around her waist. How could she not be angry when she saw that Xie Miao was still killing her compatriots so recklessly.
Xie Miao of course saw Fatima''s actions in his eyes. But he was not afraid, but looked at Fatima provocatively.
The meaning of that look: "you have the courage to come!"
Seeing a conflict imminent, Chechen stopped between them.
"Enough!"
"Enough!"
Chechen shouted, and Stepan Racine shouted at the same time.
Chechen and Stephan Racine looked at each other, and Stephan Racine stepped back to show that Chechen was the real ruler.
Chechen said to Xie Miao, "Xie Miao, I know your hatred and ruthlessness. But our goal is bergzisalai, not killing. I have already made it clear to you that what I need is a loyal soldier, not a butcher. If you play with my orders again, I will deal with you according to the military law!"
"Commander, I have entrusted my life to you. I, shemiao godonov, will always be your most loyal soldier."
Xie Miao saw that Che Chen was angry and quickly dismounted to apologize. His hatred for Tatars was sincere, and his love for Chechen who saved himself was also sincere.
"Not again. Now go and receive thirty whips in front of everyone."
"Yes, chief."
Xie Miao was about to leave on horseback when Cherchen suddenly said to him, "your wife, I have entrusted Jewish businessmen to look for it in Egypt. I believe there will be news soon."
When Xie Miao heard Chechen say so, he jumped off his horse gratefully and kissed Chechen''s hand for a while.
"Commander, Xie Miao did this for the safety of the mercenary regiment. Now we have entered."
After Xie Miao left, Stepan Racine also defended him.
Chechen didn''t answer. He said to Fatima, "Fatima, Xie Miao is a Kursk. He originally had a happy family, a wife and two children. But the looting of the Tatars destroyed all this. His two children were killed by the Tatars in front of him because they were too young, and his wife was raped by two Tatars and sold to Egypt..."
Cherchen tries to defend Xie Miao in front of Fatima, but Fatima interrupts Cherchen. She said to Chechen, "Captain, you have changed."
"I''ve changed?" Chechen didn''t expect Fatima to say so.
What has he changed?
"Yes, you''ve changed," Fatima continued, taking it very seriously. "You''ve become scheming."
With that, Fatima stopped talking.
Are you scheming? Listening to Fatima say so, Chechen burst into a bitter smile.
In a dangerous place, how could he not be scheming. He must use money to keep Mahmoud Pasha on his side. Similarly, he must always reward money to Viscount Hesse and Kemal to keep them loyal to themselves; He must also give freedom and revenge to make the Czar, the Russians and the Ukrainians fight for themselves, and at the same time, show both grace and power to keep them in awe. In addition, in Kafa, I can only show kindness to those slave traders who are deeply disgusted, because these slave traders serve all Crimean Tatar nobles. If I offend them, I will offend all Tatar nobles, which is to add obstacles to my task.
"Maybe, Fatima. I have indeed changed. But I have no choice. At this stage, I can only continue. If I fail, they will die in Ackerman''s Christina sister and yelishei. I have no way back. From the moment I began to choose to come to Crimea, I have no way back." Chechen said mockingly.
Fatima heard Chechen say this and suddenly felt that Chechen was very poor. The pressure on his shoulder is so great, but he can''t understand him. Especially since the occupation of Kafa, Cherchen has to work hard for everything. His face was blackened by the sea wind, and his plump cheeks lost a lot.
"Captain, I will always be by your side," Fatima said.
"I know, Fatima. Thank you." Cherchen thanked Fatima and then said, "I will reaffirm military discipline. If there are any more meaningless killings, I will punish them severely, whether they are Hessians, Ukrainians, Russians or Turks."