Ning Chan'er took away the nineteen horse thief leaders of Zhou Datong, first forced them to take the Reverse Spirit Powder, and after watching them one by one the True Yuan Reverse Pulse Xuan Vein Spiritual Trick and lose their combat effectiveness, she poured a little Reverse Spirit Powder into them, so that they could not destroy the True Yuan to heal their injuries. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Next, she rushed back to find Chen Hai, she was still thinking about the capture of this battle.

Due to the large amount of materials, as well as the middle and low-level elixirs and talismans, they were all consumed in the battle, and this time the capture was far inferior to the battle of Demon Moon Lake. A few Xuan-level magic weapons spirit swords, Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er couldn't look down on them, so they rewarded the generals who had made meritorious contributions in this battle; Ning Chan'er finally took two cultivation fires and left with seven or eight hundred years of demon pills.

All the generals and soldiers fell into the carnival of another great victory, Fan Dachun, Deng Tong'er, Han Wendang, and Guo Hongju were also elated, and Chen Hai's prestige was also raised to the extreme.

Even if the core generals can understand that Chen Hai's identity as a state envoy is fake, and Deng Tong'er can directly guess Chen Hai's true identity, these will not affect Chen Hai's prestige.

And this is definitely not something that Ning Chan'er can achieve by relying on a few Soul Devouring Pills and controlling a few Insight Realm powerhouses - not to mention that the Soul Devouring Pill in the bodies of Deng Tong'er, Fan Dachun and others has been cleared, but even if it is not cleared, it is still under Ning Chan'er's control, but it is impossible to control the middle and low-level military attaches below who are fanatically loyal to Chen Hai.

This is Chen Hai leading the generals of the army, creating a miracle-like victory that they could not imagine, and it can be said that it is a success, and it can almost be said that the horse thief's den in the depths of the desert in the northeast of the Xiqiang Kingdom has been wiped out.

If it had been three months ago, someone had run over to Fan Dachun and told him that something like this would happen in the next three months, Fan Dachun would definitely think that the other party had lost his mind.

Although there are tens of thousands of elite horse thieves under the command of Black Mountain Wuzun Kong Peng, and tens of thousands of elites who are likely to be pretended to be soldiers and horses of the Tibetan Qiang State, although the internal situation of the Xiqiang Kingdom may change badly at any time, but after many unimaginable miracle victories, even Fan Dachun, who is cautious by nature, has become extremely optimistic at this time, thinking that the future will be nothing more than soldiers coming to block and water to cover the earth.

However, the extreme optimism of Fan Dachun, Deng Tonger, Han Wendang, Guo Hongju and others is the heavy pressure on Chen Hai's shoulders.

The strengths and weaknesses of the horse thief are equally obvious, especially the soldiers and horses left behind, and there is no talent of a general who really knows the war, which gives him a chance to take advantage of - in terms of using troops, Chen Hai can be called a grandmaster-level figure, and the opponent is not at the same level as him at all, even if the army is the most elite, in Chen Hai's eyes, there are flaws everywhere, not to mention that there is no Dao Dan realm powerhouse that can really threaten Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er.

However, at this time, the elite army, even if the strength barely reached 20,000, was far from being elite, and among the horse thieves, there were not no people who did not know soldiers, but they were taken away by Kong Peng, the martial venerable of Montenegro, leaving a big hollow crotch that was deeply drilled by Chen Hai.

Next, especially when the Black Mountain Kou Army eased up, things were not so simple.

In particular, the Black Mountain Wuzun Kong Peng, in addition to having the cultivation in the early stage of the Dao Dan Realm, before the abandonment of the clan fled, he served as the captain of the Northern Army of the Xiqiang Army for a long time, and he has rich experience in managing the army and leading the troops, and the leaders of the horse thieves under his command are also old army leaders, and they are not so easy to deal with.

It is easy to defeat Montenegro City, considering that the situation in Xiqiang Kingdom will change viciously at any time, once the internal thief of Xiqiang Country contacts with foreign enemies, subverts the Ye royal family, and steals Xiqiang Kingdom, Montenegrin Wuzun Kong Peng will lead a large force of troops and horses to counterattack at any time, and when the offensive and defensive situation changes, the evolution of the battle situation will be more complicated.

The Moyue Lake can only raise forty or fifty thousand people in a short period of time, and any more will exceed the load, but more than a dozen small tribes, plus a large number of slaves released by the thieves, the number of people controlled by the elite army has exceeded 130,000, and there are still 20,000 soldiers and horses to raise, and a series of small and medium-sized oases around Montenegro must not be easily abandoned.

Otherwise, they will all withdraw to the Demon Moon Lake, and the thieves such as Kong Peng of the Xiqiang Kingdom will be able to directly drag the Demon Moon Lake down as long as they have 20,000 elite soldiers and horses stationed in Montenegro and can have patience for a year and a half.

Montenegro must be defended, but once the offensive and defensive momentum changes, the elite army will lose the initiative.

Moreover, the twenty small and medium-sized oases to which Montenegro belongs are not concentrated in one place, they are mainly scattered in a circular area with Montenegro as the center and a radius of 300 li, among them, the largest oasis Baishiyu is located more than 300 miles away from the south of Montenegro, and the area is less than 20 miles longitudinal and horizontal, only one-fifth of the size of the Moyue Lake Oasis - a large number of people, livestock, and resources are scattered in these 20 oases.

The Black Mountain Oasis itself is extremely small, only about the size of the Yequ Mountain, and the area covered by the savanna meadows is only four miles deep, and the reason why the Black Mountain is important is not only the steep terrain, but also the center of these twenty small and medium-sized oases.

Montenegro is not suitable for building a large city, and the sparse meadows that come out of two springs are not enough to shepherd one or two thousand cattle, let alone the water for living and farming after a large number of people gather.

It is necessary to build the city of Black Mountain, to rule the surrounding three or four hundred miles, and it should be built in Baishiyu, which is relatively rich in water resources in the south and has a meadow twenty miles deep.

Now that Montenegro City is completely crippled, if you want to repair it, there is no difference between it and reconstruction, so it is really better to build Montenegro New City to Baishiyu.

Only Baishiyu can garrison tens of thousands of soldiers for a long time, but a large number of horses and livestock still have to be scattered to other oases for herding.

At the same time, Kong Pengzhen can lead a large army to counterattack one day, and Baishiyu is also the first to bear the brunt, and he must defend Baishiyu first.

After much consideration, Chen Hai finally decided to let the army rest for a while, but began to move to Baishiyu in batches, where to find new fighters.

At the same time, when the horse thieves abandoned Guhushan, there were still a total of 20,000 or 30,000 slaves who were extremely weak and abandoned there in Guhushan and other villages.

Chen Hai could have ignored the abandoned slaves of these thieves for the time being, but because when the horse thieves moved to Moyue Lake and Guhu Mountain, they did everything possible to concentrate grain, grass, livestock and other materials to Moyue Lake and Gufu Mountain, if Chen Hai did not send people to concentrate these slaves in Moyue Lake or Montenegro, these slaves themselves would not be able to cross the vast desert, and they would be trapped and starved to death in those oases of large and small, seemingly abundant water and grass.

Whether it is Moyue Lake or Montenegro, what is lacking is still people - what Chen Hai has to do as soon as possible is to first concentrate the abandoned slaves scattered in the villages to Moyue Lake or Baishiyu.

And now it is the middle of the spring of the seventy-sixth year of Emperor Yitian, and the oasis in the depths of the desert can only be cultivated for a few months in a year, and the matter of farming and grazing will be restored as soon as possible. Otherwise, the grain gathered from Zhuzhai can only last until next year, and if there is no harvest this year, hundreds of thousands of people will face a great famine the year after tomorrow.

The current situation, Chen Hai has both immediate and far-term worries, if he does not solve these things well, the few victories accumulated before are just a tower made of sand and gravel, which seems to be gorgeous and magnificent, but it will fall down with a push.

Whether it is Fan Dachun, a general born of horse thieves, or many small clan leaders, no one is proficient in farming and water conservancy affairs, and many things can only be done by Chen Hai himself.

Fortunately, the horse thieves also have the need to repair the armor and build the walled city, and the requirements are not low, and the slaves of the villages are all gathered, and thousands of skilled craftsmen and craftsmen can be selected from them, which is an unexpected joy, saving Chen Hai the old nose, and it is also the key to making a large number of catapults in the early stage.

However, the time left for Chen Hai was too short, so short that he didn't have time to build a mechanical crossbow or take a mechanical chariot out.

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In addition to leaving more than 100 Han clansmen to lead more than 3,000 slaves who had just been liberated from cruel oppression to repair the city and engage in farming and animal husbandry in Montenegro, Chen Hai also led the baggage battalion and the last 2,000 horse infantry troops to move to Baishiyu in the south on the seventh day.

Three hundred miles, slowly, is only a two-day trip.

That night, Chen Hai and the others chose a stone valley to camp in shelter from the wind. There was no trace of them for thousands of miles, and there was no need for them to travel overnight, otherwise the consumption of the horses would be too great.

This stone valley is located in the depths of the vast desert, there is no water source, Chen Hai stood on a hundred-meter-high cliff, looking at the black sandstone layer that exposed the vast sea of sand on the left and right, thoughtfully.

"What are you thinking?" Ning Cicada flew over like a frightened rainbow.

"In addition to Shiyue Gorge, we have seen several stone mountain cliffs on the periphery of Montenegro, including many oases, the rocks are dominated by this kind of black sandstone, and I wonder if the bottom of many oases such as Montenegro is a whole large rock layer connected by terrain?" Chen Hai said.

"Yes or no, what's the difference?" Ning Chan'er asked puzzled.

"If so, and the entire rock formation under the 300-mile radius is relatively shallow from the surface, then the direction of the streams formed by the springs of the nineteen surrounding oases will be modified to make them centered on Montenegro, so that the water lost by the streams due to infiltration will be greatly reduced, and a larger oasis can be born!" Chen Hai said.

In the depths of the vast desert, whether it is glacial meltwater or leyline springs, the streams and rivers eventually formed will disappear into the depths of the desert due to seepage and evaporation.

"Ahh

In Montenegro and other places, the flow of water from the springs is not small, but the scale of the lakes and rivers formed is quite limited, in addition to evaporation, it is mainly constantly infiltrating into the sand sea in all directions -- if the underground near Montenegro is really connected, and the rock formations are relatively shallow from the surface, and many rivers are drained to the inside, it means that a large amount of water will be locked by the rock layers under the sand, and it will not continue to seep into the ground, and it will not be lost in vain.

The area of oases that can be nurtured near Montenegro in the future may be several times that of the past.

"How can I confirm your suspicion?" Ning Chan'er asked.

"In the sandy land near Montenegro, in addition to finding new water sources, you can also explore the depth of the underground rock formations, is this the case, if you can dig more than 100 manholes, it can be generally confirmed, and it is possible to carry out subsequent spring channel transformation. Chen Hai said.

Although the refining tools in Yanzhou are extremely developed, and the Xuanmen high-level cultivation flies through the sky and sweeps the earth, and the magic weapons created have the power of overwhelming mountains and seas, but they all serve a small group of people, and the civilian society is still in the stage of agricultural civilization, which can also be said to be caused by the huge fault formed by the sect lords, sects and civilian society in this world.

Chen Hai thought to himself that what advantage he wanted was that the huge and miraculous projects that he had seen and built on Earth were all created by ant-like civilians with the power of ordinary people.