On the hill, there were several mud huts, all burned black, and the rotting bodies had been buried, but the smell was unpleasant.

Lu Ning stood next to a green tree, looking at a small village at the foot of the mountain opposite, it was not far from here to the small village in a straight line, but the mountain road had eighteen bends, and it still took some effort to walk over.

The cold wind blew, and Princess Luodian on Lu Ning's side couldn't help but shudder.

The climate of Qiandi is really changeable, as if it suddenly cooled down, and the sky was gloomy, and I didn't know if there would be snowflakes.

However, in this area, the trees are evergreen.

Lu Ning untied the big slug on his body and threw it to her.

There was a sound of footsteps behind him, and a sturdy young man walked over, it was Zhang Xing, the deputy commander of the Quanzhang battalion who came out with Lu Ning, he was the grandson of the old man Zhang Dingnan, who joined the army when Lu Ning was in Zhangzhou, but Zhang Xing didn't know about this origin.

Zhang Xing had just led his soldiers to bury the bodies of the slain villagers, and his face was full of anger at this time, and the bodies of several corpses showed that the deceased had been brutally tortured before he was killed.

"Let you come out in winter clothes." Lu Ning looked at Zhang Xing's slightly thin clothes under his leather armor.

Qilu cotton has been widely promoted, and some of the winter clothes of the forbidden army have begun to use cotton, of course, it is not popular, mainly for the three battalions of Hebei, Hedong and Jingshu.

However, the three battalions of the Red Tiger Army in Guizhou also temporarily allocated some cotton clothes.

"My lord, I'm not cold!" Zhang Xinglong was fierce, and stomped his feet, and asked a little excitedly, "Do you want to do it now?" ”

It is more than ten miles away from Shiqian Village, and more than 20 miles away from Qiuyushan Military Village, where the Red Tiger Army is newly stationed.

Qiu Yushan is the place where Lu Ning has already scouted and selected the garrison, which is enough to clamp down on Shiqian Village, if the Qiu Yushan Military Village is not uprooted, as long as the ghosts and barbarians have a little brain, they will not dare to go east.

Qiuyushan Military Village, there are 1,500 Red Tiger Army, and there are more than 3,000 Chongzhou Tutuan recruited by Hubaz from Dazhai and Xiaozhai in the east.

At the peak of Chongzhouman, it was known as 30,000 brave and strong, of course, the water was not small, basically the middle-aged men were counted in, and now Shiqian Village was plundered, and the strength was greatly weakened.

But against the ghosts and barbarians, in addition to the more than 3,000 native soldiers who followed the Red Tiger Army's actions, Laozhai also organized local regiments, and the middle-aged men who did not go out to fight were organized, plus thousands of native soldiers from all over the villages and villages came to help.

In fact, in Qiuyushan to settle down, Lu Ning also has the intention of luring the ghost barbarians to attack, the Red Tiger Army is ambushed, and the heavy work of camping is handed over to the local soldiers, who knows, the ghost barbarians don't have much awareness of reconnaissance intelligence at all, Qiuyushan is only more than 20 miles away from Shiqian Village, and it is a critical place to clamp things, but when the military village is settled, the ghosts and barbarians are not aware of it.

Although Lu Ning was a little disappointed, he could only follow the original plan and began to lead the light steps out, preparing to sweep the surrounding small villages controlled by the ghost barbarians.

These small villages are divided by the barbarians, some large and small ghost master tribes are similar to the ghost heads of the small head people, and become the masters of these small villages, some of them directly plunder the natives of the village as slaves, and some of the ghost heads see that their own village is fertile, so they migrate their relatives here to reproduce.

The ghost tribes are mostly loose, so these ghost heads have actually become little ghost masters in a sense.

In fact, the big and small ghost masters are also arguing fiercely now, because of the appearance of the Central Plains military horses, the cannibal ghost department that invaded the east was almost killed, and some ghost masters had the idea of retreating; Some ghost masters want to make peace with the people of the Central Plains, but they must retain the right to settle in Jiangdong; There are also some ghost masters, threatening to drive the Central Plains people out of Guizhou like the six departments of Nanzhao back then, and most of these ghost masters who want to fight with the Central Plains people are not far from Wujiang, and if the clansmen can migrate into Jiangdong in a big way, it will be of the greatest benefit to them.

Although the ghosts and barbarians who Lu Ning personally caught these quarrels were not very clear, Lu Ning had a certain understanding of the current state of the ghost masters.

But the ghost barbarian tribes, no matter how they quarreled, if they wanted to send back the plundered Jiangdong natives, none of the ghost masters had such intentions.

Even if they have the idea of retreating and have returned to Jiangxi, they will not return the captured slaves, and the idea of returning to their homeland and breaking the eastward invasion is that the Central Plains military horses, do they dare to enter Jiangxi? Into the Rosch Ghost Land?

Therefore, if it is just to expel the ghosts who are still stranded in Jiangdong, it is obviously not a goal worth gratifying.

At this time, looking at the earthen village at the foot of the mountain in the distance, Lu Ning said to Princess Luodian: "The new little ghost of this village is called Michi, and he brought twenty-three relatives to become the Nuoge of this village, and the original more than 30 households and more than 100 people in this village have become their Nuoxi. ”

Nosse is worse than slaves, because the ghost barbarians are actually like a more backward tribal system than slavery in the strict sense of the word, and the "Nossi" they plunder are often livestock, rather than slaves who exist as laborers in the longer term.

Princess Luo Dian looked at Lu Ning in some surprise, she didn't know what Lu Ning meant by saying this to herself.

But wrapped in a big coat, it was very warm, and she said softly: "Thank you! ”

Lu Ning was stunned for a moment, only to know that she was talking to herself about Dayu, pointed to the earthen village, and continued: "After I arrested Michi, I want you to come forward and ask him to go back and send a letter to the big and small ghost masters, just say that you have been named the Great Bimo of the Golden Gu Department by the Qi State, and the Qi State supports you and fights for power with Tuohewu, I want to see what the big and small ghost masters say." ”

The name of this princess of Luodian should come from their tribe.

However, the tribe of Princess Luodian has long been divided, and the tribe of Xiaobimo, who is loyal to Princess Luodian, has either been expelled or left by itself, or has been plundered as slaves of the Tuohewu tribe or other ghost tribes.

Now the Central Plains Dynasty canonized Princess Luodian as the Great Bimo of the Jin Gu Department, and only challenged the legitimate ruling rights of Toheu.

Speaking of which, even the ghosts and barbarians are also very eager to be recognized by the neighboring powerful dynasties, especially the recognition of the Central Plains Dynasty from the east, which has the most gold content.

Lu Ning said as he looked at Princess Luodian's expression.

But seeing Princess Luodian stunned for a while, after a while, she nodded: "I, I will speak." But there was no expression of joy.

Lu Ning now has a little understanding of her, knowing that this little girl has heard some allusions to the Central Plains, so what kind of Central Plains Dynasty wants to canonize her as a big Bimo or something, this kind of excuse for the Central Plains people to move troops, she should be very clear.

Moreover, temporarily decomposing the contradiction between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Ghost Barbarian Tribes into the contradiction between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Tuohewu Division is even more of a trick to divide and attack.

Moreover, this kind of canonization is not at all canonized by a barbarian general.

Therefore, this little girl clearly knows that she is just using her previous identity to make up nonsense to deceive the ghosts.

Lu Ning smiled, and didn't explain much, and said in his heart that if it goes smoothly in the end, what if you are the queen of all Luo Shi's ghost departments?

"You, in the future, kill me and kill me?" Princess Luo Dian's long brown eyelashes blinked and looked at Lu Ning.

Lu Ning smiled bitterly: "No." In this little girl's opinion, in order to win the battle, she indiscriminately used the name of the Emperor of the Central Plains, so that she claimed to be canonized by the Emperor of the Central Plains to the Luo Shi ghosts, and in the end, it was nothing, but in the end, it was possible to kill her and destroy her mouth, and frame everything for her nonsense.

However, if she can ask, it shows that she really doesn't have a bad impression of herself, and she doesn't think she is such a bad person.