Although it was getting late, for the sake of safety, the Mongol army retreated to the west bank of Silverpebble Beach before setting up camp. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, it was already in the middle of the day, and the brute who had been fighting for a day was also exhausted at this time, and it was listless to set up tents, and many people were hastily filling their stomachs with dried meat, and they slept directly around the campfire.

The scout also dutifully monitored the movements on the periphery, after a day of dreary warfare, the barbarian soldiers and barbarian generals were somewhat low-willed, and they didn't know if they would have such an unhurried confrontation the day after tomorrow.

Although it was not a rainbow when it went out, it was much better than the current situation.

Meng Zhan looked at the chaotic scene, loudly scolded the leaders of the tribes, scolded the barbarian soldiers lying down, rearranged the camp, and sent more scouts to patrol along the river bank to guard the nearby movements, and then beckoned the generals to go to the Chinese military tent together.

Tuoba Yan is a calm veteran, he has already looked at the hole cards of the Mughal Department, and has made up his mind to confront this side, if he does not have the courage and determination to fight to the death, the confrontation will continue meaninglessly, and the situation will only be more unfavorable to the Mughul Department.

Meng Zhan thought that while the situation had not deteriorated, it was better to withdraw his troops as soon as possible and withdraw to the western foot of Yaoshan for defense.

The momentum came like a rainbow, and after only a day of boring fighting, they were about to withdraw, and the generals naturally had a lot of unwillingness in their hearts, and in the end they were still overwhelmed by the combat power and made the decision to withdraw the troops, but after the meeting was dispersed, there was a faint sound of smashing things in the Chinese military tent, which showed that Meng Zhan was also very angry and depressed in his heart.

Tie Kun returned to his tent with a gloomy face, turned around twice on the spot, and sent someone to invite Chen Hai over, but after a while, it was Yao Wenjin who opened the curtain and entered.

Yao Wenjin saluted respectfully, his clan uncle was too tired to fight for days, and he was too tired to go to bed, so he slept first as soon as he returned to the garrison, if there was nothing important, he thought that he would come over tomorrow to meet Tie Kun.

Inside the big tent, the pine resin torch was burning with beeps and peels, and the line of fire was bright and extinguished, illuminating the ugly face of Tie Kun's blue and black, and after a while, he breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "Cao Gong has worked hard for days, and he should rest early." ”

After listening to Tie Kun's instructions, Yao Wenjin turned around and went. But he didn't go far, he looked at Tie Kun's tent from afar, and after a while, the lights went out, and then he hurried back.

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After two days of travel, the army finally returned to the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain.

Looking at the Xilu Valley City, which was still under construction, Chen Hai sighed in his heart.

The demon barbarians have always lived in pursuit of water and grass, and they really have no talent for building cities, and most of the hundreds of thousands of Terran slaves are digging underground palaces, which makes the construction of this city at the mouth of the valley very slow;

Of course, among the tens of thousands of human slaves, there are many qualified craftsmen, but the leaders of the barbarian tribes, Mu Tu, will not use these human craftsmen with confidence.

Walking slowly on the mount, looking at the slaves with envious or numb expressions, passing by with a load, Chen Hai wanted to rescue these bitter slaves, but now is not the time for him to dare not be compassionate, now to see if Tie Kun can win the opportunity for the Iron Cliff Department to build a city and build a defense line at the southern foot of Yaoshan Mountain.

As long as the Iron Cliff Department can be relatively independent, he will have the means to quickly improve the strength of the Iron Cliff Department - whether it is secretly providing heavenly machine weapons, helping the Iron Cliff Department to form its own artisan battalion, mining iron ore in the depths of Yaoshan Mountain, and casting precision wrought iron tools on a large scale, all of these can only be implemented after the Iron Cliff Department has a relatively independent status.

Only by rapidly developing into the chief tribe of the tribes under the Mengwu tribe can the Tiekun have the opportunity to replace the Mengzhan and Mutu to lead the soldiers of more than a dozen tribes at the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain......

After returning to Yaoshan, the first thing Meng Zhan did was to send dozens of elite scouts, disguised as ordinary demon herdsmen or traveling merchants, carrying mounts and vultures, and infiltrating the territory of the Kereh and Tuoba tribes in two ways, so that they could monitor the scale of the two reinforcements, their location and the speed of their advance at any time.

Subsequently, the Mongol War sent several messengers to the city of Heishi Khan and several tribes who were friendly with the Mughal tribe, and the letters they carried were either fierce or affectionate, intended to win reinforcements for Yaoshan.

After doing everything he had to do, Meng Zhan sighed slightly, thinking that he was really old, if the time went back to a few decades, he would either fight with the enemies of the Keree Department and the Tuoba Department, or directly lead the troops to withdraw from Yaoshan, and would never obey the clamp of Mu Ke, a traitor, how could he stay here and resign himself to fate?

When all the messengers disappeared from view, Meng Zhan turned around and walked towards the big tent he belonged to in the city, and with every few steps, his momentum would increase a little, and by the time he sat on the tiger skin chair in the handsome tent, he had completely changed from the slightly rickety old man just now to the generation of heroes who dominated the Hanhai Grassland.

Tie Kun, who was summoned to the big tent in advance, saw Meng Zhan's appearance like this, and knew that Meng Zhan was determined to defend Yaoshan to the death, and he was even more worried in his heart.

Sure enough, after Meng Zhan glanced at the leaders of the various tribes in the tent, he glanced at Mu Tu with a solemn expression, and said to the generals: "I have two bad news and one good news to tell you now, I don't know which one you want to listen to first?"

There was silence in the tent, and the tribal leaders with different expressions in the tent did not mean to answer, and everyone could vaguely guess something.

"Well, our men on the prairie lick the blood, if you are idle, I will tell you the bad news first. The second bad news is that this year, our Black Stone Khanate has suffered a serious setback, and there is no gain, and all the tribes are extremely dissatisfied with this, but they are also passing on each other's responsibilities, and as a result, everyone broke up unhappily at the tribal meeting held by King Zuo Sheng in Black Rock City more than a month ago, so we may not be able to wait for reinforcements...... There was an uproar in the tent, and Meng Zhan said that he also paused deliberately at this time, waiting for the generals in the tent to fully digest the two bad news.

When the noise faded away, Meng Zhan pressed his hands weakly, calmed everyone down, and said with an impassioned expression: "However, we are not completely without a chance, if we can excavate the underground palace, the great array of heirlooms and countless ancient relics will fall into our hands, and then the Kelie Department and the Tuoba Department will not be our opponents, and they will even surrender to our knees." At that time, we will be the most powerful tribe of the Black Stone Khanate, and we can directly rely on Yao Mountain to build a majestic city comparable to the Black Stone City on the south bank of the Hanhai Sea, and the steppe thousands of miles on the south bank of the Hanhai Sea will become our rich habitat......

As soon as the words fell, the tent was about to boil, and I felt that Meng Zhan had finally made a decisive battle with some courage. Since there were no reinforcements coming, the ancient relics excavated from the underground palace should have been separated by the Mughuls and the tribes, rather than being dedicated to Black Rock City for no reason.

Mu Tu didn't say anything, at this time, all the tribes needed to help defend Yaoshan, and they had to give everyone some sweetness.

Tie Kun asked in a calm voice: "If we can successfully excavate the ancient relics, we may be able to become stronger, but the reinforcements of the Kelie Department and the Tuoba Department will only take half a month at the earliest, and in half a month, we will never be able to dig through the underground palace." When the time comes, we will be faced with more than 100,000 elite soldiers of the enemy race, and we will only be able to hold on to the elderly, women, and children who have no combat effectiveness.

For a moment, there was silence in the tent. Although the prospect is tempting, it is impossible to pass this hurdle in front of us, and everything is wishful thinking.

"Urge those damned slaves to speed up their progress, a few dead slaves are nothing, and we will be able to capture more slaves next winter, as long as we can dig up the dungeon as soon as possible, everything will be worth it. A tribal leader covered in black armor said.

"How early can it be, three months or half a year?" Tie Kun asked, "When the time comes, we can only build a city five or six meters high with this city wall, and under the siege of hundreds of thousands of enemies, can we hold it for three months, or half a year?" Even if two or three hundred thousand old and weak women and children can retreat to the city to defend it, food will not become a big problem, but everyone is trapped in the city, and the underground palace more than ten miles away, how can we arrange for people to continue digging?" How can we ensure that while the enemy clan is besieging the city, they will not organize slaves to dig up the underground palace and take away the ancient treasures that may exist in the underground palace first?"

"Tie Kun, you have been taken captive by the human race and used to be a slave for a few years, have you already been frightened?

"If I didn't have the guts, my Iron Cliff wolf rider wouldn't have beheaded two thousand enemy barbarians at Silverpebble Beach. Hitomi Kuroki, you have the courage to cut off 2,000 heads of the enemy, and then talk nonsense like this to me! Perhaps, you can make a big account with me, and you can do it alone!" Tie Kun said angrily.

"That's enough!" Meng Zhan slapped the table fiercely, stopped the two of them from arguing, looked at Tie Kun, and asked, "Tie Kun, what do you say?"

"It is absolutely not advisable to defend this lonely city at the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain alone, we must build more small fortifications outside the valley to completely block the passage into the valley of the underground palace, and ensure that the excavation of the underground palace will not be interrupted because of the attack of the enemy. At the same time, I also want to lead the Iron Cliff Department to the southern foot of Yaoshan Mountain and build another city. The south foot and the west foot are only more than 110 miles together, and then the two cities can be horns for each other and watch each other, and between the two cities, there are valleys such as the Ape Jump Gorge to communicate, at this time you can organize slaves to open up a simple passage along the Ape Jump Gorge within half a month, and no matter which city is in danger, the two places can support each other. At this time, the enemy's strength is much stronger than ours, but if we are forced to divide our troops to besiege the two places, and we must guard against reinforcements that may come from Blackstone City at any time, it will inevitably be difficult to take care of the head and tail, and there will be no way to concentrate on storming one city......"