The leader of the horse thieves captured by the Demon Moon Lake, no one is willing to surrender for the time being, even if there is no extra Soul Devouring Pill to control, it is impossible to use it with confidence in a short period of time, so they will first seal the Xuanmai Spirit Cave and imprison it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Compared with the leader of the horse thieves with strong combat power, there are not so many scruples about forcibly incorporating ordinary horse thieves into the army. Ordinary people have a herd mentality, and after a certain period of training, ordinary horse thieves are more likely to merge in, and in the chaotic battlefield, if they have no ability to get out of the aftermath, they can only participate in the melee, and these horse thief captives actually have no choice.

Of course, it is difficult to control it in peacetime, and from time to time three or five people will desert and flee into the depths of the vast desert, so it is necessary to form a law enforcement team and strictly enforce military law and discipline.

It's just that the generals under Fan Dachun, who were born as horse thieves, didn't know what military discipline was at this time, and it took a lot of time to slowly sort out many things.

In the following ten days, the soldiers and horses sent to Black Mountain, Black Falcon Cliff, and Jinxiangling to collect grain, grass, materials and slaves returned to Moyue Lake one after another.

Chen Hai was determined to build an elite city in Moyue Lake and absorb the nearby tribal forces in order to occupy a place in the future chaos, and the tens of thousands of slaves who were weak and had no courage to resist the horse thieves would no longer be a burden, but a valuable human resource for the construction and development of the exquisite city.

And the soldiers and horses who returned from the Black Mountain Village brought with them even more exciting news.

The tribes near the Black Mountain Village, who have endured the cruel oppression and exploitation of the Black Mountain Kou for many years but are powerless to resist, are greatly encouraged by the miraculous rise of the soldiers and horses of Yequ Mountain.

When the soldiers and horses of Yequ Mountain attacked the Black Mountain Village, there were tribes who couldn't hold it back and wanted to rise up, but they were still afraid of the brutality of the Black Mountain Kou, and they had great scruples in their hearts.

The scale of these six tribes is not large, and the total number of men, women, and children is more than 40,000.

These tribes have a deep relationship with the earliest batch of horse infantry generals selected from the descendants in the Black Mountain Village, and it can be said that the earliest batch of horse infantry soldiers and soldiers, a considerable number of people were forced by these tribes to be sent to the Black Mountain Village to be thieves.

These six clans jointly recommended the leader Guo Hongju to rush to Moyue Lake to contact the relocation of the Ju clan, and Chen Hai was waiting for this moment.

Guo Hong was sentenced to be more than forty years old, tall, dark-skinned, with the mid-stage cultivation of the spiritual realm, and also good at using the halberd, he was originally the concubine of the Guo family in Montenegro City, Kong Peng invaded Montenegro City, Guo Hong sentenced to surrender with the Guo clan, and moved out of Montenegro City with his clansmen, and lived in a small oasis nearby to chase water and grass.

Although the Guo clan people endured humiliation and surrendered, Kong Peng still had some face, did not openly slaughter the Guo clan, but did not give up the persecution of the Guo clan, in the past few years, the few martial arts cultivators of the Guo clan have been killed by Kong Peng for various reasons, and Guo Hong is the only one left.

It is precisely like this that Guo Hongjuan, who is forbearant by nature, also knows that he must make a decision.

This should be done sooner rather than later.

There is no shortage of grain and grass and other materials on the side of Moyue Lake, after all, six or seven thieves were desperately transporting grain and grass to Moyue Lake, and finally they all fell into the hands of Chen Hai and them.

From the villages of Black Mountain, Black Falcon, and Jinxiangling, two or three million catties of grain can be transported back, and in addition to a large number of livestock, which can support sixty or seventy thousand people until next year.

In order to avoid the possibility of dividing troops to harass the horse thieves in Guhu Mountain after getting the news, Chen Hai asked Fan Dachun to lead the cavalry battalion to patrol, in order to move the men, women and children of the six tribes to Moyue Lake as soon as possible.

The soldiers and horses, which are mainly composed of horse thieves, prisoners and slaves in the night canal, can only win battles, and they are proud when they win, but when they encounter a slight setback, their morale is easy to lose or even collapse.

The six newly annexed tribes, all of whom are half-cultivated and half-pastoral, are still martial in the depths of the vast desert, and can choose three or four thousand warriors to be incorporated into the cavalry battalion and horse infantry army, which will greatly improve the fatal shortcoming of the current army's lack of resilience.

And moving the six tribes into Moyue Lake can also be a group of generals selected by the six tribes, and these generals will be more loyal if they want to keep their homes and businesses.

The strength of the six clans is still too weak, and there are only nine martial cultivators who have cultivated above the Spirit Clearing Realm, so it is no wonder that they will not dare to resist because of the brutality and obscenity of the Black Mountain Kou.

The Black Mountain Kou is only the Black Mountain Martial Venerable Kong Peng, and they can easily destroy any of their tribes, and they must need a stronger force to rise before they dare to unite against the Black Mountain Kou.

However, in the depths of the vast desert, the human race is scarce, the monsters are rampant, and many tribes are facing a harsh living environment, and they all have martial traditions. Although the number of martial cultivators above the Spirit Realm is extremely rare—compared to densely populated farmland areas such as Yanzhou, this proportion can be considered very high—this is mainly due to the lack of martial arts inheritance, but there are as many as three or four hundred people of the tribe who have the cultivation foundation of the Xuan Realm, and they will be able to provide a group of high-quality basic military attachés for the cavalry camp and the horse infantry army, which is what Chen Hai urgently needs at this time.

With the addition of six tribes, the cavalry camp quickly expanded to 2,000 people, and the Mabu army was further expanded to 9,000 people, and more importantly, with the children of the six major tribes and the freed slaves, the vassals of Moyue Lake increased to 50,000 or 60,000 at once, which is already quite a weak force in the depths of the sparsely populated desert.

With such a foundation, Chen Hai officially built the Exquisite City in the Demon Moon Lake under the pretense of the name of the Great Yan State Envoy, set up the Exquisite City Lord's Mansion and the Elite Army Governor's Mansion, appointed Deng Tong'er as the Elite City Lord and the Left Captain of the Elite Army's Governor's Mansion, appointed Fan Dachun as the Deputy City Lord of the Elite City and the Right Commander of the Elite Army, and appointed Guo Hongju and Han Wendang as the left and right divisions of the Elite Army's Governor's Mansion, and first set up the banner of the Elite Army in the Demon Moon Lake.

At this time, even if there were people who knew the soldiers, they knew that relying on the advantage of the relatively elite cavalry army and relying on the strong village to form a battle was an effective way to fight against the catapult and spear phalanx, and Chen Hai was also sure of winning this battle, so he no longer hesitated.

Chen Hai ordered Deng Tong'er to lead 2,000 horse infantry troops to stay at the Demon Moon Lake, and lead the baggage battalion, the children of the six tribes and a large number of freed slave subjects, to jointly build a new Essence City, and at the same time continue to move the remaining materials of the six tribes to the Demon Moon Spirit, and continue to appease the nearby tribes, and jointly fight against the horse thieves who no longer seem so terrifying at this time.

Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er, together with Fan Dachun, Guo Hongjuan, Han Wendang and other generals, led 7,000 horse infantry troops and 2,000 cavalry battalions to Gushu Mountain, 700 miles away.

There are many painful lessons from Black Mountain Village, Black Falcon Cliff, Golden Elephant Ridge and Moyue Lake, although Guhou Mountain has gathered nearly 5,000 elite horse thieves, mainly from the left-behind soldiers and horses of the eight thief villages, but they do not have the courage to stay and fight with the elite army.

Guyu Mountain and Moyue Lake are very close to each other, and Guhushan has been staring at the movement of Moyue Lake, and when he saw that Moyue Lake sent troops, four or five thousand horse thieves abandoned the village and fled.

The thieves were frightened and had no will to fight, which was a good opportunity for Chen Hai and them to chase down the dead.

Moreover, the main force of 20,000 horse thieves in the name of the Black Mountain Army and the participation of the soldiers and horses of the Tibetan and Qiang States may be six or seven thousand miles away, and Chen Hai will certainly not easily let go of the Guhou Mountain Horse Thieves who fled in a hurry and had no strong will to fight.

Fan Dachun and Ning Chan'er led two thousand elite horsemen to pursue first, but they were not in a hurry to make contact, Chen Hai asked them to be sure to target and delay the fleeing Guhou mountain horse thieves, so that they could not sleep and eat, and could not get effective rest in the depths of the vast desert, which consumed their physical strength and spirit.

Chen Hai, Guo Hongjuan, Han Wendang and other generals led 7,000 horse infantry troops far behind, avoiding unnecessary detours as much as possible, reducing the marching distance, and saving the physical strength of people and horses.

This tactic was still learned by Chen Hai from the sand wolf pack, and the horse thieves were also accustomed to using this tactic to harass the merchant caravan, dragging the merchant brigade and the guards and horses to the most exhausted moment, and then giving a fatal blow.

Gushu Mountain is in the northwest of Moyue Lake, and nearly 5,000 horse thieves bypassed the front of Moyue Lake and fled to the southeast, intending to join the Black Mountain military masters in the area of Yequ Mountain and Songyang Lake, but in fact, they had to walk seven or eight hundred miles longer than the elite army.

At the same time, he had to bring the family members of thousands of horse thieves and two or three thousand strong slaves, and he was reluctant to throw away or burn a large number of goods, and used thousands of horses to transport them on the road together, and the marching speed in the depths of the vast desert was almost not how fast, and the next day he was in the south of Moyue Lake, and was bitten by Fan Dachun and Ning Chan'er with two thousand elite horses.

The Guhou Mountain Horse Thief wanted to rely on the strength of the soldiers and horses, and wanted to solve the two thousand elite horsemen led by Fan Dachun to pursue first.

Fan Dachun led his troops to evade, and with the help of the iron scale spirit eagle's wide field of vision of three or four hundred miles, in the depths of the vast desert, he circled with the Guhushan horse thieves -- when the horse thieves wanted to move forward quickly, the formation would inevitably be loose, and Fan Dachun would lead his troops to force up and threaten their flanks; while the horse thieves would wrap their baggage and family members in the center, and when the two wings formed a charging formation, Fan Dachun led his troops to avoid it far away, patrolling forty or fifty miles or even hundreds of miles away.

At this time, Chen Hai led the main horse of the 7,000-horse infantry army after marching in an orderly and slow manner three or four hundred miles away.

This is also the advantage of having the help of the spirit eagle.

With a strong demon body, the spirit eagle is not afraid of the cold wind that scrapes the bones like a knife, flying at a height of ten thousand zhang, there are several strong people in the Ming Realm in the enemy, but they also have no ability to kill the spirit eagle above the ten thousand zhang in the sky, they can't figure out where the main force of the essence is, but Chen Hai can rely on the spirit eagle, keep in touch with the main force of the vanguard cavalry camp and the horse infantry army at any time, and stare at the Guhou bandits.

Not only will the main force of the Mabu Army not lose its way in the depths of the vast desert, but the actual distance traveled will be much shorter than the twists and turns of the pioneer cavalry camp and the Guhou bandits, which ensures that the generals of the Mabu Army will not be physically exhausted.

Of course, there were twenty or thirty thousand catties of medium- and low-grade elixirs such as stone mistletoe honey seized in Moyue Lake, which also played a vital role.

By the sixth day, the Guhou Mountain Horse Thieves had only walked 1,7800 miles, and they were already exhausted, and they had to retreat to the nearest Black Mountain City, which was left empty, and waited for reinforcements. At this time, the two thousand elite cavalry led by Fan Dachun were also exhausted, and more than half of the five or six thousand war horses were exhausted, but the main force of the seven thousand horse infantry army led by Chen Hai still had sufficient combat power and went to the Black Mountain Village to surround it.