At night, the sky will be dark, and it is the time when people are sleeping at their best.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves, as if rolling through the muffled thunder in the sky, tore through the silence of the night, and the dozen or so soldiers of Tuoba Wei patrolling the pasture looked into the distance, and in the faint moonlight, they saw a black line like a flood peak appear at the edge of the forest.

"It's cavalry!"

The leading soldiers shouted, turned around and ran towards the camp, and the rest of the patrol soldiers suddenly woke up, and they didn't know who the soldiers were, they turned and ran away, shouting loudly: "The enemy is coming, the enemy is coming, the enemy is coming!" ”

The soldiers on the watchtower inside the ranch heard their shouts and immediately sounded the alarm.

"When! While! While! The sleeping soldiers were awakened by the sudden sound of the bell, and many of them did not have time to put on their armor, so they rushed out of the tent with their weapons in a panic.

At this time, the Great Sui Iron Cavalry had already slaughtered into the pasture like a flood, Niu Jinda took the lead, and the cold and shining Iron Mo knife was waved like a fly, killing into the chaotic enemy group, and more than a dozen thieves were cut down in an instant.

Under his leadership, hundreds of Sui troops pierced tofu like a sharp dagger, and in less than a stick of incense, they wedged into the enemy camp and split the thief army into two, and the thief army attacked from both sides, like two torrents hitting the reef, and was smashed to pieces.

Although Tuoba Wei's army lost the first hand and was only noticed by the Sui army when they touched the edge of the pasture, they were after all fierce and powerful troops in the Western Sea and the Western Regions for many years, with rich combat experience and keen insight into all kinds of sudden wars. Many generals spontaneously organized armies to meet the galloping Sui army.

At this time, but saw Niu Jinda kill a thief army that is getting bigger and bigger, the dark BMW seems to feel the master's rising fighting spirit, and constantly improve his speed, and when a thief army just reacted, a single horse has rushed to the front of the military formation, the faint glowing Mo knife seems to have the ability of ghosts and gods, and in an instant, the shield soldiers in front of it swept out a gap, and the BMW under the crotch did not slow down at all, and rushed into the flank in an instant. There, it was the weakest point of the thieves' defenses.

"Not good!" Seeing Niu Jinda's ferocity before, the generals here knew that there was no time to organize a defense, and hurriedly commanded the soldiers to line up in formation, sword and shield men, pikemen and archers in turn.

But seeing Niu Jinda rushing to the horse, the Mo knife in his hand stirred the wind and clouds, and the rain of arrows that broke through the air was knocked away or deviated by the Mo knife, and he couldn't hurt Niu Jinda and BMW for half a point, and the spearmen in the back row saw Niu Jinda approaching, and stabbed the spears out of the shield gaps, and the BMW suddenly hissed, kicked the ground, and rose into the air, avoiding the stabbing of the spear, Niu Jinda was in the air, and the Mo knife in his hand was from top to bottom, cutting through a terrible cold light, and killing seven or eight soldiers below instantly.

"Sigh Rule~"

The four hooves of the BMW fell to the ground, and the chests of the two elite thieves collapsed, and then the four hooves exerted force, Niu Jinda took the Mo knife away, and instantly broke through the encirclement, less than a hundred steps away from the general.

Several thief generals instinctively stepped forward, but saw Niu Jinda suddenly stand up on the horse, and with a horizontal knife, he slashed at the first thief, and let out a thunderous roar: "Death to those who stand in my way!" ”

The general instinctively raised the big knife to parry, but as soon as he entered the battlefield, he was full of firepower Niu Jinda's power was so great, this knife was cut down, so that the big knife weapon just touched the Mo knife, and it was bounced back by a huge force, and then the Mo knife was pressed down, and in the neighing of the war horse, even the people and the horse were smashed into a puddle of meat by Niu Jinda.

Before several other generals rushed up together, they were killed by Niu Jinda, and the generals didn't even have time to be frightened, Niu Jinda had already sat back on the horse, and the Mo knife in his hand slashed left and right, and the six generals didn't stop Niu Jinda for a moment, and they were all cut off the horse.

The surrounding thieves turned pale, they never thought that a person's courage was so powerful, it was too late to escape, after Niu Jinda cut six generals in a row, he broke into the group of thieves, and the Sen Han knife stirred up a bloody storm.

This series of actions is very long, but it happened in less than a cup of tea, Niu Jinda has already beheaded seven fierce generals in a row, among them, the pawns who died in the hands of Niu Jinda are as many as 100 people, not to mention these thieves, even the soldiers of the Sui army were stunned, they were encouraged by the main general, and their combat power doubled.

Niu Jinda ignored the spears around him, sat on horseback, his indifferent eyes were like knives, as if he was greeting the commander of the three armies kneeling, and exhaled and said: "Those who follow me prosper and those who disobey me die, and those who descend do not kill." ”

The cavalry of the Sui army was very methodical, they were in a team of 100 people, and quickly cut and surrounded the enemy army in the chaos, and when they heard the main general say this, they shouted one after another: "Those who surrender will not die, and those who surrender will not die!" ”

The main general of the thief army was killed by Niu Jinda at that moment just now, and the rest of the people looked at Niu Jinda in horror, obviously he was under siege, but the surging killing intent and power made no one of the thief soldiers make a noise, and no one dared to wave the weapon in his hand.

"When ......" a thief soldier who faced Niu Jinda couldn't bear the momentum, suddenly threw away his weapon, and silently bowed down to Niu Jinda.

The power of example is endless, and under the leadership of this soldier, more and more thieves surrendered their weapons, falling to their knees in patches, not daring to make unnecessary unfriendly movements.

Although Niu Jinda's heart was full of the pride of killing the enemy, the Sui army's military regulations were extremely strict, and if the enemy surrendered and did not resist, his own side deliberately killed on a large scale, and both the soldiers and the main general would be severely punished.

This military regulation did not exist before, but since the war was transferred from the outside to the inside, in order to reduce the loss of the Great Sui population, Yang Tong came into being, wantonly killing the soldiers of the domestic anti-Sui forces who had surrendered, and the main general was demoted to three levels and deprived of the title. In other words, if Niu Jinda kills and surrenders to the rebels today, his military rank will be demoted from General Zuo Weiwei to Zuo Weiwei, and the title of Duke of Rongguo that he has earned so hard will also be deprived.

Seeing that most of the soldiers had surrendered, Niu Jinda shouted: "Stop attacking!" ”

The Sui cavalry stopped attacking one after another, and at this time, only a few rebel generals with a few hundred personal soldiers did not surrender, and they were divided and outflanked by the Sui soldiers, and they were quickly wiped out.

Niu Jinda shouted and asked, "Where is Tuoba Wei?" ”

This is his most important task and has to ask.

But no one dared to answer him directly, and it wasn't until he asked three times that a junior colonel mustered up the courage to say: "General Hui, the big leader is very cautious, in order to evacuate at any time, he and his own soldiers never take off their armor and sleep, just now as soon as the alarm bell rang, I am afraid that they have already fled!" ”

Niu Jinda shouted angrily: "The first guard chases me!" ”

Although Pei Xingyan was ambushed at another exit, Niu Jinda was still not at ease, the soldiers of the Black Ice Platform had stayed in the Western Regions for so many years, but they couldn't find Tuoba Wei, the reason was that Tuoba Wei was too cunning, too cautious, and too afraid of death; Now it is the closest to him, and it is also the one who has the best chance to eliminate him, if he misses today, he escapes into Kunlun Mountain, it will be difficult to catch him in the future, and he will even organize a team of people and horses, and they will go like the wind to cause sabotage everywhere, so that people cannot be guarded against, and no one can arrest him.

At this point, Niu Jinda couldn't stand still, and immediately led a guard of soldiers to rush to the south of the pasture.

When Niu Jinda rushed to the exit, he saw that the ground was full of thieves' corpses and wounded soldiers, and even some old and weak women and children, who should be Tuoba Wei's family members, these corpses were full of arrows, and they fell to the ground like hedgehogs, obviously killed by Pei Xingyan's arrows.

And Pei Xingyan is now commanding a group of soldiers to escort the thief army, divided into several roads, and identified the corpses one by one.

Obviously, Pei Xingyan also realized that Tuoba Wei was difficult and a big trouble, so he was trying to find and confirm whether Tuoba Wei was alive or dead.

"Lao Pei, what's the matter?" Niu Jinda asked anxiously.

Pei Xingyan smiled bitterly: "You have also seen that these people are unwilling to surrender in life or death, and they are bent on breaking through, so I have to shoot arrows indiscriminately." ”

Niu Jinda asked closely: "What about Tuoba Wei?" Did you find it? ”

"I've heard that he's dressed like a regular soldier, and it's not recognizable yet, but I'm sure no one has escaped from here." Pei Xingyan said confidently.

As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier shouted: "General, I have found Tuoba Wei, people are here!" ”

Niu Jinda and Pei Xingyan hurriedly urged the horses to run up, only to see several soldiers moving several corpses piled together, and the bottom one was exposed, this person was hit by two arrows, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead.

One of the captives said tremblingly, "This is Tuoba Wei." ”

Niu Jinda said that he was overjoyed: "Turn him over and take a look, beware of him cheating to death!" ”

Several soldiers carefully turned the man over, only to see that he had a full beard and looked to be more than forty years old, but judging from his image and temperament, he was obviously not an ordinary soldier.

One soldier snorted, "General, this man is not dead, he just fainted." ”

Niu Jin Darling said: "Bandage his wounds, don't let him die easily!" ”

"Tuoba Wei is timid and cautious, this person may not be his stand-in......" Pei Xingyan was not very relieved, and asked dozens of prisoners of war to come forward to identify them one by one, and everyone said that this person was Tuoba Wei.

"General, this person is Tuoba Wei, and I recognize him when he turns to ashes." It wasn't until Jia Luohan also ran out of breath to identify and confirm that Niu Jinda and Pei Xingyan breathed a sigh of relief, they finally completed the task assigned by the Holy Lord perfectly, and were not escaped by the cunning Tuoba Wei.

In the early morning of the next day, Niu Jinda, Pei Xingyan, Yin Mingyue, and Yang Qinfang, who had cleaned up the battlefield, led the Sui cavalry to escort 4,000 prisoners of war, as well as countless gold and silver treasures, and returned to the military camp outside Sulanshu Fort in the afternoon.

When Yang Tong heard the news, he went out of the camp surrounded by hundreds of soldiers to check the prisoners of war, Niu Jinda stepped forward, returned the token to Yang Dong with both hands, and saluted: "Qiqi Shengshang, the last general has lived up to his mission, completed the task, and successfully captured Tuoba Wei, and I am here to give the order!" ”

Yang Tong took the token and asked, "What about the casualties of the soldiers?" ”

Niu Jinda replied: "Unfortunately, thirteen soldiers were killed in the battle, and more than 300 were slightly injured, which will not affect the next war." As for the serious injuries, not a single one. ”

Yang Tong was very satisfied with this achievement, and asked, "What about Tuoba Wei?" ”

Niu Jinda waved his hand, "Bring it up!" ”

Several soldiers pushed a makeshift prisoner cart onto it, only to see a Xianbei man sitting in the prisoner cart, with a bearded face and a cold gaze.

Yang Tong asked Xiang Jia Luohan, "Are you sure it's him?" ”

Jia Luohan hurriedly said: "It's this person! ”

"Old cow, cut him down." Yang Tong nodded, he didn't bother to play a game of cat and mouse, and he didn't want to be scolded by a person who was going to die. Anyway, the person has been caught, and the force has been annihilated, so it doesn't matter whether the other party is a descendant of the Tuoba clan or not. With a simple wave of his hand, he directly gave the order to behead.

"Whoa."

Niu Jinda didn't say a word, and under the fearful gaze of Jia Luohan, he stepped forward and cut through the simple prisoner cart with one sword, and then cut Tuoba Wei's head with another knife.

Crisp and neat.

Ignoring the frightened Jia Luohan, Yang Tong ordered: "The army will rest for one night and go to Heyuan tomorrow." ”

"Whoa."

The generals obeyed and ordered the soldiers to rest separately.

Soon, Li Keshi also came back to give orders.

He led 2,000 Xuanjia troops into Fuluochuan City, and under the identification of more than 30 local tycoons, he went door to door to arrest Tuoba Wei's comrades, including Tuoba Wei's clansmen and dozens of henchmen.

Li Keshi adhered to Yang Dong's style of doing things, and beheaded these diehard elements in the city square in front of the people of the city, winning applause from all over the city.

With the death of these people, the people only felt that their bodies and minds were relieved, and the evil forces that rode on their heads were finally finished, and they could live a stable life with peace of mind in the future, and therefore, the support for the Sui Dynasty that helped them solve their problems also reached an unprecedented height.

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Back to the big tent of the Chinese army.

Yang Tong said to the anxious Jia Luohan and many Fuluochuan tycoons: "I am a person who keeps my promises, and since I promised you, I will not regret it. Each of you will take a penny and a half of your family property and go to Luoyang to accept the arrangement of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and live in peace in the future. If you do it again, you're welcome. ”

"The grass people must change their faces and be new people." Jia Luohan and others have expressed their positions, through this incident, they have also seen Yang Dong's iron-blooded wind, how dare they do it?

What's more, most of them are indeed forced and have to. Now with the death of Tuoba Wei, although he has lost eighty-five percent of his family property, he has been freed.

Like ordinary people, they are no longer worried and can live a normal life.

"I'll give you a month to prepare." Looking at Jia Luohan and the others, Yang Tong continued: "During this period, you have to do one thing. ”

"Command, please."

"You have been active in the Southern Silk Road for most of your lives, and you are very familiar with the topography of the Qaidam Basin. I hope that you will be able to draw a more accurate and detailed map within these ten days. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Tong taught them the method again: "Many of your subordinates are familiar with the Qaidam Basin, and before disbanding them, organize everyone to map out a complete map at home that cannot be changed, and hand it over to Li Taishou." More than 30 of you, with your own team of maps, focused on discussing various controversial places, and finally formed a map that everyone agrees on. ”

Although the Qaidam Basin is rich in gold, silver, copper, money, salt, coal and other minerals, the terrain is complex, and there are many deadly places.

The key is to send people to investigate now, and it is too late to find out, and it may not be able to accurately map and map. And these tycoons have been back and forth in the Qaidam Basin for most of their lives, and they know the situation inside better than anyone else, and if they don't use their experience, it is simply a tyrannical thing.

"Whoa." Everyone hurriedly replied.

"Let's go back and prepare."

"The grass people are retiring."

Waiting for everyone to leave, Li Keshi praised: "This method of the Holy Lord is very wonderful, and the map formed by condensing the wisdom of all people and the strengths of all people will definitely be the most accurate map." ”

"That's what I thought, too." Yang Tong smiled and said, "General Niu, they have captured more than 4,000 captives, and I will also give you these free coolies." You tell them that as long as they have served for five years, the imperial court will grant them citizenship, become one of the thousands of people, and enjoy the same treatment as normal people. ”

"Thank you, Holy Lord." Li Keshi was overjoyed, what he needed most now was manpower.

However, the matter is not over, Yang Tong continued: "After my salt recipe is taken away, there will be a large amount of sediment. It's also a good thing, and you can't just throw it away. ”

"What's the use of all this clutter?" Li Keshi hurriedly asked.

"This is a good fertilizer that can make grain yields, if it can be dried and thrown into the paddy field, as long as the field water with fertilizer is not lost, after the water is clear, the field can be countless times more fertile; Throwing it on top of the seedlings will also make the seedlings thrive. If the land is fertilized first, and then the seedlings in the field are raised, the grain output will be doubled again, and the high-yield field should be able to produce six or seven hundred catties per mu. ”

"Six or seven hundred catties per mu?" Li Keshi's heart trembled, and he looked at Yang Tong in disbelief.

If the salt making technique of drying and purifying the Holy Lord is successful, it will be able to end the history of salt shortage in the northwest of the Great Sui and even in the whole world. How could he have thought that the waste left over from the salt was also a treasure, with a yield of six or seven hundred catties per mu, which was a high yield that he couldn't even imagine.

Yang Tong nodded and said: "The waste after salt extraction must be fertilizer to increase production, and the specific effect will not be known until it is put into use and crops are harvested." But I can guarantee that the fields that use this waste will yield only a lot more. However, fertilization should be done in an appropriate amount, and the time of fertilization should also be emphasized, otherwise the seedlings will wither. ”

"This Weichen knows, we will first open up a few acres of land to test, and then promote the world if we succeed." Li Keshi said excitedly.

Yang Tong said with a smile: "Do it well, as long as the salt and fertilizer are successful." Your great name of Li Keshi will be forever recorded in the annals of history and passed down for thousands of years. ”

"Thank you for your encouragement, Wechen will definitely live up to the trust."

In fact, even if Yang Tong didn't say it, Li Keshi knew that he would be famous for two things.