Chapter 3 Liaodong Cavalry

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"Hahaha, I escaped."

The scarred face finally had a happy smile after the disaster.

The group of elite armored soldiers was too scary for him, but even though he was scared to death, he couldn't swallow his anger and cursed.

"Wait for me, I will go back and call people back, and kill you all."

Just then, a "bang bang" sound suddenly sounded on the muddy road.

"What sound?"

Scarred face looked around in fear, fearing that the group of armored soldiers would chase him.

Not long after, the sound became louder and louder, and it seemed to be getting closer and closer to Scarred face, and even the gravel on the ground was shaken up.

"This is the horse's hoof"

Before Scarred face finished speaking,

Suddenly, a horse covered in armor came out from the flank, with horseshoes nailed on its soles. It was the noise it made when it hit the ground.

There was also an armored knight sitting on the horse. Although he was slightly different from the armored soldiers who appeared in the village just now, his momentum was the same - he looked down on everyone.

Three or two breaths!

The armored cavalry had already rushed to Scarface, waving the long spear in his hand.

A ray of cold light flashed!

There was no obstacle, just as smooth as a sharp steel bar piercing a piece of tofu!

The cavalry spear easily passed through Scarface's chest, and with the roar of the warhorse, it lifted him up under the cold night sky and rode towards the village.

Scarface almost didn't see how the elite cavalry from Liaodong achieved such superb skills until his death.

[Liaodong Iron Cavalry]

[Weapons: Light cavalry spear, steel sword, ox-horn bow, piercing arrows]

[Armor: Ming-style iron helmet, Ming-style chain mail, animal skin arm guard, splint boots, Liaodong elite armored warhorse]

[Armor evaluation: Excellent cavalry, quick response, superb riding skills, skilled archery]

Carrying the body of the scarred man, the Liaodong elite cavalry stepped on the stirrups and stepped on the handrail to pay homage to Qin Hao.

"Good job!"

The horses and people were covered with iron armor, reflecting the cold light in the moonlight, and the murderous aura was revealed. Qin Hao praised loudly.

It is worthy of being one of the three elite troops in the late Ming Dynasty.

Thinking back to the time when Li Chengliang and Li Rusong, father and son, repeatedly repelled the invasion of Mongolian Tatars, and then in the Battle of Pyongyang, they annihilated the Japanese Konishi Yukinaga in one fell swoop, killing tens of thousands of people before and after, which can be said to be a great achievement.

However, success and failure are both due to Xiao He!

After the death of Li Chengliang and his son, this group of elite cavalry troops could not escape the fate of decline, and almost disappeared in the battles of the late Ming and Qing dynasties.

Qin Hao thought that if Chongzhen could recruit such a Liaodong cavalry, it would not be too much, 3,000 people would be enough, and perhaps they would not be defeated by Li Zicheng's peasant army so quickly.

Just as Qin Hao was thinking, the Mount and Blade system sent a task reward.

[Side quest - Eliminate bandits]

[A group of unknown bandits attacked the peaceful village. Although the villagers fought hard, they were not their opponents. Help the villagers eliminate these looting bandits and show their martial arts to the world. ]

[Task reward - Aserai elite shooter X5, villagers' favor]

Seeing the soldiers he had just obtained, Qin Hao couldn't wait to open the system panel to check his data.

[Aserai Elite Archer]

[Weapons: Grassland Recurve Bow, Piercing Arrow, One-handed Sword]

[Armor: Closed Helmet with Chainmail, Cloth Scarf, Studded Armor, Leather Armor with Chainmail, Animal Hide Arm Guard, Plywood Boots]

[Army Rating: Very Excellent Infantry Archer, Almost a Master Archer, Excellent in Damage and Endurance, Arrows are Weird, Accurate, and Deadly]

In the distance, Li Yi also supported Chen Hu and came to Qin Hao, and they all knelt down and said,

"Thank you for saving my life, sir."

The scattered villagers slowly gathered and walked towards this side after seeing the bandits being eliminated by the soldiers who suddenly appeared, and many of them still had tears on their faces.

Due to the majestic figures of the warriors, they only dared to peek from a distance and did not dare to get too close.

"Let's have a meal later"

Qin Hao stood next to the Liaodong Iron Cavalry and said to the two frivolously.

Man is iron and rice is steel, if you don't eat for a meal, you will be hungry.

It was still morning when Qin Hao came through, and now the moonlight is hazy. After a day's journey, he has not eaten anything and his stomach is almost sticking to his chest.

"Ah"

Chen Hu and Li Yi were startled at first, and then smiled tremblingly. Although they didn't understand what the adults in front of them said, they heard the word "rice", and they must be hungry.

The two hurriedly said in unison: "There is rice, there is rice."

"Li Yi, go and ask everyone to cook some rice for the adults."

Chen Hu was older after all, so he turned around and told Li Yi, and started to talk to Qin Hao.

"My lord, the cold dew is rising outside, let's go into the village and talk."

"Okay"

Qin Hao looked at his short-sleeved shirt and felt a little cold, so he agreed.

Following Chen Hu all the way to the village, Qin Hao had time to take a good look at this small village on the plain.

As far as the eye can see, there are more than 20 small mud and wooden houses arranged from the front to the back of the village. Judging from the appearance alone, it has a bit of the flavor of villages in eastern Fujian. The thatched roofs on the houses are in a triangular shape to facilitate drainage.

However, it is a pity that several houses were just set on fire by the bandits. The flames have not been extinguished yet. Several villagers are rushing to fetch water to put out the flames.

As he walked along, all the villagers who saw Qin Hao knelt down and saluted without exception.

At the same time, Qin Hao also heard the weak sobbing of several women, who must be the family members of the villagers who had just died in the battle.

It can be said that the whole village is now bleak, and he is still thinking about eating, which makes him feel a little guilty.

Seeing the expression of reluctance on Qin Hao's face, Chen Hu felt warm in his heart and bowed his head to flatter:

"My Lord, you are kind. Tonight, it is all thanks to you and the warriors that we can survive and not be degraded to pieces. The villagers are also spared from death and are not insulted."

"Don't the local officials care about it? What about the local general Youjiao?" Qin Hao asked curiously.

Seeing the appearance of the village and the clothes worn by the villagers, Qin Hao had guessed that the current location should be within the country, and the era should be before the Qing Dynasty, after all, he did not see the unique Qing Dynasty pigtail.

"You don't know, sir, this place is Dawan, and it is still a naturalized place. I practice medicine overseas, and the emperor is far away. How can officials care about it?" Chen Hu said helplessly.

If it weren't for the disaster in my hometown, the taxes of the gentry were too high and I couldn't survive, they wouldn't have crossed the ocean to seek a way of life here.

"Oh, I just came here today, but I don't know much about the situation."

Hearing Chen Hu say that this place is Dawan, Qin Hao is a little surprised. This time travel actually brought him here. Dawan is the treasure island Taiwan in the future.

In the pre-Qin period, it was called "Yingzhou", and after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Han Dynasty, it was changed to "Dongying"

During the Three Kingdoms period, it was also called "Yizhou", and from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Song Dynasty, Taiwan was called "Liuqiu".

In the Yuan Dynasty, it was changed to "Ryukyu".

In the early Ming Dynasty, Taiwan was called "Dongfan"; when merchant ships crossed the strait, they used the high mountains in the north of Taiwan as a mark to identify the direction. Because the mountains are like a cage for chickens, it is also called "Chicken Cage". Fishermen often repaired boats and nets in the western ports of Taiwan, and called the ports "Wangwan".

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Taiwan was called "Dawan", "Dayuan" and "Taiyuan". People along the coast of Fujian also called it "Maiyuan".

Because in the process of developing Taiwan, many mainland people were buried in fish belly due to wind and waves, or died in a foreign land due to water and soil incompatibility. Their situation was so tragic, so they named it "Maiyuan".

"Isn't the lord a Minyue person?" Chen Hu looked at Qin Hao with surprise.

Except for the fact that the lord looks a little weak, with black hair and black eyes, he looks like a Central Plains person, which is completely different from the group of red-haired ghosts that Chen Hu had seen before. Moreover, the lord had almost no difficulty communicating with himself. If he insisted that he was a red-haired ghost, Chen Hu still didn't believe it.

"Hahaha, you guessed wrong. I am from the Jiangnan area. It's just that my ancestors did not avoid the war and fled to the West. Since then, they have settled in the West and learned some dialects." Qin Hao explained slowly.

"Why did you come here?"

"It's a coincidence that I was the third son in the family. Before my parents died, they gave all their property to my two brothers and left a boat to me. I wanted to go back to my ancestral land to see if I could make a good living. I didn't expect to encounter a storm at sea and come here."

"So that's it, so that's it."

Chen Hu responded immediately, but he was absent-minded and seemed to be thinking about something.

"I don't know what year it is this year, and which saint is in power?" Qin Hao asked. This is the issue he is most concerned about at the moment.

If it was a prosperous or normal year, he would not have to start a dynasty for selfish reasons and let the people suffer innocently. At most, he would go to America to build his own empire.

"This" Chen Hu was obviously a little stuttering, not knowing what to say.

"It seems difficult?"

"Hey, I won't hide it from you, sir. People like us who have never been to school don't know the emperor's name.

But I do know that there is a great eunuch in the dynasty, called Wei Zhongxian, who controls the government and increases taxes every year, causing us to leave our homes."

Speaking of this, Chen Hu's face was full of hatred.

Wei Zhongxian?

Qin Hao thought to himself, this most famous eunuch in the late Ming Dynasty, according to this calculation, it should be 1621~1627, when the Ming Tianqi Emperor Zhu Youxiao was in power.

This period can be regarded as a great struggle!

All parts of the world are restless!

Nurhaci of the Great Jin has been rebelling for a long time. At the beginning, he raised his army with thirteen sets of iron armor and seven great hatreds to swear to fight against the Ming Dynasty. Now he is roaming outside the Great Wall.

After his death, his eighth son Huang Taiji came to power and changed the country's name to Qing. From then on, he led the Eight Banners of Qing to fight east and west, and soon unified Mongolia and conquered Korea. Then he began to attack the Ming Dynasty with all his strength.

The territory of Ming Dynasty was also in chaos, and natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and droughts occurred frequently in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hubei provinces.

A large number of refugees emerged, and bandit leaders such as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Gao Yingxiang, and Luo Rucai took advantage of the situation and recruited refugees. They roamed around and plundered between the Yangtze River, Huai River, and Han River, hitting the grassroots foundation of Ming Dynasty. It took less than a dozen years for the capital of Ming Dynasty to be conquered by the Dashun Army led by Li Zicheng, and Ming Dynasty ended from then on.

The Thirty Years' War in Western Europe was in full swing, with the Protestant and the Old Church, the imperial power and the religious power fighting each other, which directly made the European countries fight all over the ground, and the new route was temporarily quiet for a while.

This gave the Dutch a great opportunity. They bought Manhattan Island, which would later become the financial center of the United States, from the Indians in exchange for toys such as glass balls, and began to build the new Amsterdam Harbor.

At the same time, it also greatly increased their strength. When Western European countries were mired in war, they vigorously developed maritime trade and gradually became the coachman of the sea, wantonly spying on the unknown territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Only Japan in the east, under the leadership of the old turtle Tokugawa Ieyasu, won the Battle of Sekigahara.

He sat firmly in the position of the Shogun, ending the Japanese Warring States Period, which was full of talented people but chaotic, and began the last shogunate era in Japan - the Tokugawa Shogunate.

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