Chapter 314 I am the Good Shepherd
The herders usually don’t care about land ownership, they care about the right to use.
For the herdsmen who live in a place without a fixed place, they do not have any plots of their hometown that are difficult to give up.
The reason why this settlement is now is that it happened to meet a suitable place for farming and a summer and winter ranch that is not far away. Therefore, a group of people from the tribe came here to settle here. .
For the herdsmen living in the swimming, this is just an easier attempt to live, but in Gerris's view, it is a spark that drives the Turks toward a new era.
Just as he could not allow the changes in the Arnon Valley to be extinguished by Renard, he would not allow the farmland planted by the herders to disappear easily.
Geris did not have a grudge against the Georgians, he just wanted to reverse the general trend in the Anatolian region.
The morning mist is retreating into the folds of the Armenian Mountains, with yellow grass and new buds surging in the wind.
The migrating herdsmen dragged out winding dust from the bottom of the valley, and the sound of the flock of sheep was wrapped in the crying of babies, and were crushed into dispersed whispers by the mountain wind.
Standing on the hillside, overlooking the herdsmen who were about to escape the war, Gerris said casually to Arslan beside him: "I heard that the herdsmen are used to taking goats." Raise with sheep. ”
When asked about his expertise, Arslan naturally nodded.
"Goats like to eat tender branches. They always look into the distance and will slowly move with the flock, while the sheep will follow the goats."
"I heard again Sheep like to eat tender grass. When they see grass, they have to eat grass roots. If they leave the sheep in the ground, they will eat it until no grass grows? "
"Yes, so we I will raise goats together, and I will drive the goats to a certain place, so that the horses and cows will eat grass first. Of course, not only that, the sheep's hooves may be able to dig out the snow layer, but they cannot break the ice layer. In winter, If there were no horses to clear the way for them, the sheep would starve to death and freeze to death."
That was said, but Arslan couldn't understand Gerris's intention for a while. It was really what he said. Some are out of nowhere.
Then he heard Gerris on the side said, "No matter how cruel the Turks are in the eyes of others, to me, they are just a group of sheep."
"I want you Yuktu to become The goats in the flock become horses that open the way in the herd, so that they can take the flock away from the pasture that will be eaten. "
The so-called pasture that will be eaten is in the Arslan Understanding does not refer to the land, but to the way of life.
Nomadic lifestyle is not an efficient way of life, it is just a compromise between people in non-agricultural areas, a means to use animal husbandry to obtain dairy products and thus survive.
For herders, they are always full of compromise and escape.
Now that we have arrived in Anatolia, this Roman land should naturally bid farewell to the past lifestyle.
But sheep can only lower their heads and eat grass. They can't see the distance, and they won't know that as long as they raise their heads, they can eat the tender branches full of juice.
So there should be goats mixed in and take other sheep out of their past lives. "And you, I heard that many shepherds would pick out a sheep."
Arslan was quite excited when he heard this.
Some shepherds will pick a big ram from the flock, cultivate its leadership style, educate them on how to understand human instructions, and make them both majestic and majestic.
In this way, when the shepherd sends out a whistle and command, the leading sheep can follow the shepherd's pace with the flock, not only leave a piece of grass, but also transfer the pasture to avoid natural disasters. Find a place where water and grass are abundant.
When Gerris talked about the top, Arslan already knew his status and his unforgettable mission. "I am a good shepherd, and the good shepherd has sacrificed his life for the sheep. The hired worker is not a shepherd, nor is the sheep his. When he saw the wolf coming, he left the sheep and ran away. The wolf grabbed the sheep and drove it away."
"I have other sheep, not from this circle; I have to bring them, and they must listen to my voice, and they must form a group and join a shepherd."
As he said this, Gerris patted Arslan on the shoulder, and his hands grinded the weathered rock surface on the side.
In the wind in the mountains, Gerris's robe was blowing, and in a while, only he and Arslan would stay here to wait for the return of the herdsmen. .
[May the great shepherd who brought the sheep rise from the dead, and by the blood of eternal covenant, through the great shepherd, fulfill all good things of you, and let you do His will, and by the way of pursuing your will The shepherd, do what he pleases in us, and may glory be given to him forever and ever. 】
【Amen】
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The scale of the war and the actual military force invested on the battlefield have always been very difficult to conclude.
Even in the 20th and 21st centuries, due to various tactical needs, economic and political conflicts, the actual number of troops invested, the number of casualties, and the overall number of staff reductions on the battlefield will not be very accurate.
In ancient times, this problem was even more obvious.
In the Battle of Red Cliff, Cao Cao's army claimed to be a million, which was essentially a strategic fraud against the Eastern Wu. For the Eastern Wu, who lived in Jiangdong at that time, the Central Plains was undoubtedly the center of the world and an incalculable place for wealth. .
After all, there were no Google or Baidu in ancient times, which could make people have a rough understanding at a glance.
But in different cultural atmospheres, soldiers may not necessarily report too much, in Western Europe, where knight culture is strong.
It is the norm for soldiers to report underreport.
First of all, the two brothers Roger and Robert, led the three hundred Norman Knights to conquer Sicily.
There were eighty people from the Templars, defeating the 30,000 Saladin army.
For Western European culture, it is always beneficial to blow the number of soldiers on its own side.
Strategically, this can reduce the enemy's vigilance, lure the opponent into the field, and further exert the courage and impact of Western European knights... Fortunately, the enemy is defeated in the field that one is good at.
From the subsequent hype, there are few people here, so if you lose, it is worth it, which is convenient for you to push the blame and not to lose your honor.
If you win, you can blow the knights participating in the battle into gods and descend to earth, thereby increasing your prestige.
In this way, when examining many history recorded in Europe, we often see scenes of dozens of people fighting... As for those peasant soldiers or knight entourages, they are not worthy of showing up.
But the Anatolia area obviously does not follow the rules of Western Europe.
For example, the Suleiman Sultan of the Rom Sultanate directly claimed that he had taken 400,000 Turkic soldiers to encircle Georgia...
This number is for most people in this era. Very bluffing.
After all, everyone really doesn't know the number. They only know that 400,000 is a quite exaggerated number, and it is difficult to determine what this number actually means.
As a person from the 21st century in his previous life, Gerris knew what 400,000 meant.
Rom Sultanate, as a former Crusader battle, became an elite monster who was kicked on the way to pass the level. If it can really bring out 400,000, why is this?
In fact, it is unknown whether the total number of Turks in the entire Rom Sultanate is 400,000.
The Kingdom of Georgia showed relatively restraint and conservativeness, and its military power was only 90,000.
It should be understood that as a country that mainly relies on agriculture, Georgia's population may be twice as big as that of the Rom Sultanate.
According to Garys' estimates, it is between about two million and four million, not more or less.
90,000 vs. 400,000, and those outside the field don’t know the numbers, basically all agree that Suleiman Sultan wants to win.
However, the result was unexpected. The Rom Sultanate lost a lot on the battlefield, and even terrifying news that the Sultan himself was killed.
For a time, the strategic fraud that Suleiman had previously carried out directly retaliated against the Muslim side at this time.
Whether it was the Turks in Rom's native country, or the other Emirs that depended on Rom, they all felt that the situation was irreversible.
With the fact that the troops on their side have not decreased significantly, they all look for their mothers to go back to their homes.
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I really can't escape. If you are close to Georgia, you can directly kowtow to the Georgians to admit your mistakes, change your home, or even convert your letters on the spot.
A battle achieved an unprecedented victory, and the Georgians naturally rushed westward and chased after him.
Avoid the Roma Sultanate again gathering troops in a short period of time.
According to the Georgian side's plan, at least we must pursue Erzurum, if possible, and conquer the city.
The front was advancing westward, and in order to satisfy the supply of the army, a large number of small troops began to scatter, collecting various food from nearby villages, thereby filling the consumption of the tens of thousands of Georgian troops.
For farmers, land is everything to them. Even if they avoid military disasters, they dare not go far. What's more, this is the season when the geographical grain is about to mature and the harvest is about to be harvested. .
The peasant group naturally did not dare to go far, and then they hid in the mountains and forests and felt like they were stolen and witnessed their farmland being ruined with their own eyes.
For the Georgians, the main body of the army among them is not a very elite army. In fact, most of them are peasant soldiers drawn from various rural areas in Georgia.
It is also a good time for the Georgians to send troops at this time.
Faced with the wheat that began to turn yellow everywhere, at least 20,000 Georgians received the order of Georgian king David Soslan to seize food from the territory of the Roman Sultanate!
Get as much as you have!
The climates of the Sultanate of Rome and Anatolia are different from those of the Mediterranean in the Levant region, and they are not like sowing in winter and harvesting in spring.
It is the spring sowing and autumn harvest that people in the Celestial Empire are more familiar with.
The wheat in the field is yellow now. Although it has not yet reached the most suitable season, if it is forced to harvest, it will not smell good in terms of yield or taste, but it will also be full.
The main body of the army is the Georgians, so naturally they will not care about the taste. Facing those fields that are unguarded, they are like locusts.
Many of the weapons in their hands were transformed from farm tools. They just held the sickle and collected as much as they could.
I can't collect it all, and I let the cattle, sheep and horses seized along the way be sent to the fields to eat and drink.
David Southlan naturally never read "The Art of War" but "a wise general is a wise general who eats the enemy, and eats the enemy for one bell, and he is twenty bells." He also understands it.
For the army, "the cost of internal and external expenses, the use of guests, the materials of glue paint, and the delivery of chariots and armors will cost a thousand gold a day."
Instead of being stingy with money at this time, Georgia needs to spend a lot of energy to transport supplies from the rear, it is better to eat the enemy.
So he also directly told the farmers and soldiers who had harvested this year, the food harvested and the cattle and horses seized from the territory of the Roma Sultanate.
Except for eating and drinking by yourself, as long as you pay it to the army and let friendly troops eat it, you can offset the land tax for the coming year one by one.
Equivalent to saying that no matter how much food is cut, all of them are the peasant soldiers themselves.
As a result, the morale of the Georgian side became even higher, and a large number of soldiers were divided into squads of 100 people and began to spread around.
Howanis is the captain of one of the 100-man teams.
Strictly speaking, he is not actually a Georgian. His ancestors trace back several generations, so it is not certain that they should be an Armenian talent.
In fact, the name Hovanis is the corresponding pronunciation of John in Armenian. In other words, calling him John is also OK.
As a Howanis, whose ancestors had Armenian descent, his family had to go to Georgia to seek asylum in the face of the Turkic invasion.
And now that I finally returned to my hometown under the leadership of the Georgians, it is naturally an endless joy.
Facing the farmlands of those villages and Armenians, he was a little merciful. In addition to harvesting some of the food with his subordinates, he at least did not destroy the farmland, leaving a part of the amount that could be spent in the winter.
However, when facing the Turks, Howanis hated him deeply.
I think back then, if it weren't for the Turkic invasion, he might have been an Armenian lord!
Why did you want to run to Georgia to live under someone else’s roof!
Snatching people's wealth is like killing their parents. Facing this country's hatred and family hatred, he dared not to face the Turkic cavalry. But it was more than enough to let him take people to abuse Turkic women and children and burn the Turkic farmland.
After some search, Howanis noticed that there was a Turkic settlement not far from Erzurum.
In this way, he naturally had to take the soldiers there.
The September wind chiseled across the Anatolian Plateau, etching the irrigation canals left by the Romans into palm lines on the earth.
The iron-gray clouds pressed from the direction of the Black Sea, but were torn into flocculation by dry air when they touched the plateau.
A beam of light passed through the gaps of the clouds and landed on a mountain pass between the two high mountains.
Looking in that direction, it seemed that there was a man standing at the mountain pass, waiting for a long time.
The brilliant light shone on him, making the other party feel inexplicably sacred, unlike the person in the mortal world.
(This chapter ends)