Chapter 33 Drinking water from the Banjuni River

In the summer of 1203, when Temujin lamented his ill-fated fate at the Banjuni River, a heavy rain suddenly hit, and the raindrops as big as eggs made Genghis Khan and his comrades scream strangely. The suffering and desperation of his youth returned to Temujin's mind, but as before, when facing the suffering and desperation, Temujin regained his confidence after sighing.He and his comrades said: "The wind and rain will always pass, and the sun will definitely come. Changshengtian will always stand by our side!" This is spiritual food, which is different from material food.Temujin and his comrades faced a sea of ​​bitterness: Although the Banjuni River was called a "river", it was actually just a few mud pits. Fortunately, they had few people and few horses, so the water was barely enough to drink.As for food, they don't keep up with the last meal.

One day, they sat around for a meeting, the horse was frowning and drinking water, the summer heat hit, they were naked from the upper body, talking about the situation and pattern of the grassland world.It was such a comical picture that anyone who walked by and heard the rags talking would think they were crazy. Temujin was full of enthusiasm and encouraged everyone's morale. He said: "Although there are not many people now, but based on my influence in the grassland world for many years, as soon as I make a movement, people will follow immediately." Asan, a Muslim businessman who had just defected to him, said "Allah" and said: "I believe in you. Although I have not been here for a long time, I have seen strength and future from you. You are the most admired by 'Allah'." people."

Zabal is a Hui Hui from the Western Regions. A few years ago, he traveled thousands of miles to the Mongolian grasslands. When he saw Temujin, he was deeply attracted by Temujin's personality.His square eyes stared motionlessly at Temujin, and he clenched his hands tightly, giving the impression that he could drink all the water in the Banjuni River at a command from Temujin. Mu Huali, Boershu and the others followed Ah San's words and said, "My Khan, God bless you. If you have any plans, just tell us. We will follow you to the death!" Temujin said: "I discussed it with Khasar, and I have a very good plan, which can defeat King Khan and eliminate the Kret tribe."

Everyone was in a mess, because defeating Wang Khan and eliminating the Kret seemed a bit nonsense at this time.Unless they have the unworthy courage and the immortality of steel. Temujin stopped their mutual discussion with gestures, and said: "I said that as long as we take action, many tribes who left us will return. I am very confident about this." The crowd started to commotion again, and Temujin signaled them to stop discussing, but he didn't speak, but looked at the mud pit with green light in his eyes.Everyone looked in the direction of his eyes: "My Longevity!" A wild horse was looking over there, eyes full of sympathy.

Several people had already stood up, swallowing their saliva.For many days, they haven't touched any meat, and they are almost like rabbits.Temujin quietly gave the order to besiege, and everyone, including Ah San, who was thin, picked up bows and arrows.They spread out and approached the wild horse silently from eight directions. The wild horse seemed unaware of the imminent danger, and looked at the group of salivating athletes with affection.He Sa'er was the first to approach, and he had set the arrow on the string. With his shooting skills, the wild horse was destined to be the one in his bag.But when he fully drew his bow and was about to shoot, the wild horse suddenly moved. This movement was like a bullet popping out of the barrel. Everyone felt a gust of wind in front of them, and the wild horse flew past Ah San and disappeared without a trace. .

Ah San was out of her wits, dumbfounded. Everyone was disappointed and sighed.Temujin tightened his belt and said: "It doesn't matter, the meat of wild horses is unpalatable, even worse than the sauerkraut in the Kingdom of Jin. Let's get some tree bark. Ah San, don't you still have some fox skins?" ? Take it out and pull out the fur, it is said that fox fur is very nutritious.” Ah San trembled, and went to get his fox furs, which he was planning to exchange for mink and squirrel furs, but he came at an untimely time, so his fox furs changed from hard currency to food.

The next day, they had another meeting together to discuss how to deal with Wang Khan. Halfway through the meeting, Hesar suddenly said "Hey" and looked into the distance.Everyone followed his eyes and said "hey": the wild horse that ran away yesterday reappeared in the same place, exactly the same. Everyone got up wherever they wanted to have a meeting, and wanted to catch wild horses for the second time.Temujin stopped Ghasaer and said, "It's too cunning, we can't get close to it, do you think an arrow can hit it?" Hesar estimated the distance and said, "Yes, but the distance is too far to kill it."

Temujin said: "It doesn't matter, it can't run after being injured, we can catch it." He Sa'er took out his bow, put on an arrow, took a little aim, and shot the arrow.The wild horse neighed and shook its head. Everyone knew that it had been hit.To their surprise, the Mustang didn't run away, but stayed where he was, still watching them. This provocation made all the men angry, everyone shouted and swarmed up like hooligans fighting.The wild horse still didn't move. The group of people drew their knives and stabbed the wild horse all over the body. The wild horse didn't neigh.

No one thought about the weirdness of the wild horse, they skinned it right away, cut up the meat and grilled it.After eating so much that they almost broke their stomachs, everyone burped sourly and ran to the Banjuni River to fetch water to drink.At this moment, Temujin raised his cup and said to the crowd: "From now on, I will share joys and sorrows with all the soldiers. If you break this oath, you will be cast aside like this stinky ditch." After finishing speaking, he drank it himself first. He took a sip, and then handed it to the people around him. Everyone took turns, and when the last person was there, there was only a puddle of mud left in the cup.

After drinking, everyone swore that they would never leave Temujin. This is the "Banjuni River Pledge" in Mongolian history. These 19 people later became Temujin's core force, and they were called the "Banjuni River faction". After drinking the Banjuni River together, Temujin and Khasar formulated a strategy to win King Khan. This strategy is cunning and not bright. "Fight poison with poison". Temujin has clearly realized that if Wang Khan is not killed, he will always be the second child in the grassland world, and this second child's position is not so stable, and he may end up being eaten by Wang Khan's sudden psychosis at any time.He wants to reverse this ending, he wants to be the boss of the grassland world!