Seeing that Han Wendang and other leaders made Chen Hai teased with interest, Fan Dachun was reluctant in his heart, and he could only obey the general trend. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although a large number of slaves were plundered in Yequ Mountain before, but the management was really rude, and he did not think of drawing up a detailed list, and the more than 2,000 slaves could not distinguish the old from the new in a short period of time, Chen Hai asked Fan Dachun to simply exempt them from hard labor, and then he took out 500,000 or 600,000 catties of grain from the warehouse, together with more than 3,000 acres of grain fields and four or five hundred cattle and sheep cultivated by the Yequ Lake, all of which were distributed to the slaves, so that these slaves could still have family property to keep after being exempted from hard labor.

Although he thought that these things would come to naught after the defeat, and he couldn't all run away with them, but seeing that his savings for many years were distributed to slaves who were holding life and death in his hands, Fan Dachun's heart was still crying blood, and he couldn't bear to look at it, so Chen Hai took Han Wen as them and finished these things in two days.

Most of the slaves were excited to be able to share the grain, the fields and the cattle this time, and many of the slaves were still short-lived, still thinking about their wives and children at home.

Chen Hai appeased this part of the people, and he would not stop those who wanted to leave Yequ Mountain and return to their hometown, but persuaded them to stay in Yequ Mountain for the time being, how could they wait until after the beginning of spring, the weather was not so bad, and then it was possible to walk back to their hometown alive.

In such bad weather, even if you bring plenty of food and water, ordinary people don't want to be able to cross the vast desert, even if they don't lose their way, in the event of a snowstorm, nine times out of ten they will freeze to death in the sea of sand.

Most of these looted slaves were herdsmen and cultivators who lived and multiplied in Pinglu and nearby oases, and many of them were business travelers who traveled through the Xixia Corridor and fought for wealth with their lives.

In such a short period of time, Chen Hai could only select more than a dozen people to act as the officials of Yequ Mountain, and after the horse thieves left, they took over the defense of the stone city in Yequ Mountain, and were responsible for the distribution of grain, fields, livestock and follow-up farming and animal husbandry affairs.

Fan Dachun and the others occupied Yequ Mountain, and also accumulated a lot of armor, although they were all mainland goods that elite horse thieves looked down on, Chen Hai also took them out, and asked these dozen people to pick some elite generals from the slaves to prevent demon beasts or sand wolves from breaking into Yequ Mountain in the cold winter.

Fan Dachun was full of opinions about Chen Hai taking out the surplus armor to arm the slaves, but the so-called three or four hundred slaves who were organized were strong, all of them were skinny and weak, and he could pinch seven or eight to death with one finger, and he could only be regarded as the lowest and most ineffective servant soldiers in the Xiqiang Kingdom, and he really didn't talk about any threat, so he couldn't help but keep silent.

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When the horse thieves were ready, they rode their horses through the vast sand sea and snow fields to the west, turning more than 800 miles southwest and arriving at the Songyang Lake Oasis.

Although the Songyang Lake Oasis is not the only way to pass through the Xiqiang Ancient Road, it is also within the scope of the Xixia Corridor, where streams flow down from the mountains in the south and converge in the wasteland at the northern foot to form the Songyang River.

And because the Songyang River is all rocky ridge terrain along the river, the river water infiltration is not serious, so it has been extended to the north more than 400 miles away to form a medium-sized lake with a width of tens of thousands of acres. The lake is surrounded by sparse trees and grass, and even though it is covered in snow and ice in the cold winter season, you can still feel the vitality that is not found in the depths of the vast sea of sand.

The Songyang Lake Oasis is much larger than the Yequ Mountain, but because the Songyang Lake Oasis is located within the scope of the Xixia Corridor, although the Xiqiang State is unable to send elite soldiers and horses to garrison for a long time, it is strictly forbidden for other forces to be involved, and will regularly send sweeps, so except for the occasional herdsmen who will stop there, there is no horse thief force that has the ability to occupy this place for a long time.

When Chen Hai and the others arrived at Songyang Lake, the other 17 horse thieves had already gathered here, and a tall black flag was raised on the shore of Songyang Lake, and in addition to embroidering the pattern of the eagle's head and human body, the word "Black Mountain" was also written on it; Fan Dachun was the last to know the news, and because Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er suddenly intervened and entered, they were delayed in Yequ Mountain for three or four days.

Horse thieves in the depths of the vast desert, and catch up with the harsh winter season, although the long-staple horses produced by the Golden State, in addition to the strong endurance, but also resistant to the cold, but in the coldest season of the year in the Golden State, the horses in the field of long-distance marching, the loss is also large, in order to ensure that when the charge, the horses have sufficient strength, each horse thief has less to say that there are one or two empty horses ready to ride.

In this way, tens of thousands of horse thieves and 20,000 or 30,000 horses suddenly filled the lonely and barren Songyang Lake to the boiling of people and horses.

It is unlikely that there will be much trust between the horse thieves from all walks of life, and when they rushed to Songyang Lake, Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er also found a place with abundant water and grass from a distance and stationed them at a certain distance from other horse thieves.

In order to avoid unnecessary vigilance and misunderstanding, the horse thieves of Yequ Mountain thought that Fan Dachun was the leader, and Ning Chan'er and Chen Hai claimed to the outside world that they were just the leaders of Yequ Mountain.

Fan Dachun took the letter left by Hu Bilai after his death and went to meet with the other horse thief leaders to discuss the future action arrangement.

No one knew what accidents would happen in the vast sea of sand, or perhaps Hu Bilie and the others had temporarily changed and turned elsewhere, Hu Bili and the others did not show up, and the other horse thieves did not feel anything unusual; Fan Dachun rushed over to meet the other horse thieves leaders with fear, but when he returned, there was no.

The other horse thieves didn't take Yequ Mountain very seriously, and even doubted whether the Yequ Mountain gang had the courage to participate in this big case that was destined to shock the eastern regions of Jinzhou and Hexi, and some horse thieves even suggested that Yequ Mountain be leveled two days earlier.

Now that Yequ Mountain has sent troops as scheduled, others are embarrassed to take Yequ Mountain, but they don't pay much attention to Yequ Mountain, but they just want more than 400 people from Yequ Mountain to stay in Songyang Lake temporarily and follow the large army to act together, and the relatively difficult and dangerous outposts, reconnaissance and blockade of the West Gorge Corridor and other things have not allowed Yequ Mountain to send people to participate.

Fan Dachun couldn't hide his guilt and returned to the camp, but he still brought back some very important information.

The eighteen-way horse thieves, with the Montenegrin Department, the Guhushan Department and the Moyue Lake Department of the three road horse thieves are the strongest, among which the Montenegrin Kou is the strongest, and the coalition army formed is called Montenegro, headed by Kong Peng, the leader of the Montenegrin Kou, and jointly decides the affairs of the operation - Hu Bili and others also contacted the horse thieves in the name of the Montenegrin Kou in the early days - Fan Dachun also received the name of "Captain General" back.

It's just that the Montenegrin coalition formed is really very loose, just to facilitate the unified action of this vote, and the internal binding force is far from as strong as imagined.

Two days ago, a group of horse thieves who arrived at Songyang Lake ahead of schedule couldn't hold back and acted without authorization, robbing a caravan that crossed the Songyang River and was about to go to Hexi.

At this time, the caravan that also set off for Hexi was destined to be tempting.

Although the horse thieves who acted without permission had more than 400 horsemen, and their strength was even slightly stronger than that of Yequ Mountain, which poured out of the nest, they failed to completely annihilate the guards and merchants of the caravan, allowing many people to escape, and at the same time leaving too many traces that were not dealt with, which was enough to alert the team sending relatives to Hexi.

The chariot and horse team from Hexi had already set off from the Crescent Lake Oasis in the south of Yequ Mountain, but after becoming aware of the movement on the side of Songyang Lake, it did not continue to move forward, and now retreated in the direction of Crescent Lake.

In addition to sending outposts to the deeper part of the northern flank, the Hexi chariot and horse team also sent envoys to gallop directly to the Western Qiang State, asking for reinforcements to respond.

Songyang Lake is more than 4,000 miles away from the Pinglu Oasis, and even if the Xiqiang State receives the news and sends reinforcements to respond and act as quickly as possible, it will take ten days and half a month for the vanguard soldiers and horses to join the family sending team in Hexi.

Now there are two opinions within the horse thieves:

Some of the people advocated a direct attack on the Crescent Moon Lake to snatch the gifts and dowries of the alliance between the Dong clan in Hexi and the Xiqiang Kingdom, and everyone divided the matter; these people who advocated this point were all horse thieves who came from afar to participate in this matter, so they thought of a quick victory and a quick victory, so as to save a lot of dreams at night.

Others advocated ambushing the soldiers and horses sent by the Xiqiang State, and then robbing the relatives in Hexi.

In the vast sea of sand, even if the Hexi family sent off the team to the east in a hurry, they had to travel tens of thousands of miles to return to the border pass in Hexi, they had enough time to pursue, so they wanted to rely on the rare opportunity to assemble with more than a dozen horse thieves, and they wanted to do a big vote while the soldiers were strong and strong. And the Xiqiang State sent reinforcements in a hurry, it was difficult to assemble a large army, and the dispatch was extremely hasty, and they did have an opportunity to ambush them halfway.

This point is mainly advocated by horse thieves near the Xiqiang Kingdom, who also need to consider the bloody revenge of the Xiqiang Kingdom and the Hexi Dong clan after robbing the family sending team.

The Dong clan in Hexi is quite far away from this side, especially after the marriage alliance was destroyed, the Dong clan's soldiers and horses went out of Tieliuling in the west, that is, they invaded the boundary of Jinzhou, and they still had to consider the possible retaliation of the Xiqiang State in the future, so they thought that while robbing the road, they could wipe out part of the elite troops of the Xiqiang State as much as possible, so that the Xiqiang State was unable to send troops to the desert to retaliate.

"Black Mountain, Guhu Mountain, and Moyue Lake, who advocated ambushing the Xiqiang State reinforcements first?" Chen Hai frowned and asked Fan Dachun about the details of the proceedings.

The horse thieves on all roads are led by Black Mountain, Guhushan Mountain, and Moyue Lake, and how to fight is actually the final say of these three families, and the other horse thieves can only get a piece of the pie and fight soy sauce, and they don't have much right to speak.

"Black Mountain and Moyue Lake both advocate burying the reinforcements of the Xiqiang State and then robbing the Hexi chariot and horse team," Fan Dachun also said with some resentment, "Gu Yushan advocates that the Hexi chariot and horse corps was really robbed, and everyone divided the property. Everyone is headed by the Black Mountain Kou, but they came out to rob their homes and houses just for their property, so why bother to fight with the elite soldiers and horses of the Xiqiang Kingdom?"

In the past, Fan Dachun would probably advocate attacking the reinforcements of the Western Qiang State.

The weaker the Xiqiang army is, the more comfortable they are in Yequ Mountain, but at this time, Fan Dachun's life is in the hands of Ning Chan'er, so they are unwilling to make any more extraneous branches.

However, in the current situation, no matter how it is fought, Yequ Mountain has no right to speak, and can only advance and retreat with the large army.

"Why don't you rob the Hexi chariot and horse team first?" Ning Chan'er pursed her lips and said nonchalantly, "As long as the Yuecheng County Lord is caught, even if the news can't be blocked, as long as the Xiqiang County Lord still wants to work hard to form an alliance with the Dong clan and maintain the dignity of the Pinglu royal family, he will inevitably send troops to rescue, how to fight when the time comes, where to fight, or maybe whether he can fight, it's not up to us to say?"

"But what the big boss said also makes sense, why didn't those elm pimples think of it?" Fan Dachun patted his head and said, "I'm going to go to Kong Boss and tell them about it." ”

"It's not bad tonight," Chen Haihun said nonchalantly, "Let them quarrel first, and it's not too late to talk about it tomorrow." ”

Ning Chan'er guessed that Chen Hai wanted to buy Dong Ning and them an extra night, but she glanced at him and didn't break it.