The advanced and backward civilizations are comparatively speaking, when rushing from Wuzhou to the royal court of the Kerebu Province, because of the heavy snow, Ye Qing's team of nearly 5,000 people was like walking in a no-man's land, and he basically didn't meet anyone along the way.

As most of the snow on the grassland had melted, the ruts and hoof prints made by horses' hooves, cattle and sheep, or ox carts and carriages, could not see the end for a long time, as if someone had drawn a line on the beautiful canvas without pity.

More than 100 people walk on the prairie because of the cold, so there is no time to feel the vast beauty, and even if the sun is high overhead, the temperature that can be provided is extremely limited.

Unlike when they came from Wuzhou, as they changed from a team of 5,000 to a team of 100 people, and after the wind and snow, some herdsmen on the grassland also began to walk out of their tents and go west, so they were not very lonely along the way, nor were they the only passers-by.

Even because of the small number of people, when the night falls to the middle of the night, there will be some small tribes on the grassland sneaking over to greet them, with the night guard Zhao Qi'er and others a burst of arrows to greet them, after the old Liu Tou and others rushed out of the tent, those small tribes who wanted to rob them have disappeared into the night, leaving only the sound of horses' hooves in their ears.

A caravan of 100 people is not a very forbearant business trip in the Prairie Mountains, but it is not small enough to be robbed by others.

So in the early morning of the next day, after Xu Qing, who had been following those small tribes last night, came back, he had been walking on the grassland for five or six days, and Ye Qing, who was already extremely irritable in his heart, waved his hand: Robbed their belongings and made us a veritable business traveler.

In an instant, Lao Liu Tou took the lead in letting out the unique howl on the grassland, and then a hundred people started to rob on the grassland, which can be regarded as a real warrior on the grassland in the eyes of Sang Kun and others.

Seven sheep, eight horses, nine oxen, and some salt and leather were the spoils of war they had finally caught after wandering the steppes for most of the day.

Looking at the eight horses and nine cows that bleated, looked at themselves with curiosity, and snorted, as if asking themselves: "Who are you", Ye Qing stroked his chin and said a little depressed: "This little thing is not worth escorting a caravan of more than a hundred or ten people, right?" I'm also stingy, and I don't have a sense of accomplishment at all. ”

"Why don't we keep chasing? Grab more? Old Liu Tou was still excited in his heart, and said excitedly.

Ye Qing's gaze swept over Lao Liu's head, and looked at the faces of Zhao Qi'er, Xu Qing and others one by one, also with novelty and excitement, as well as the pleasure after venting, and muttered: "Don't, I'm afraid that if I get addicted, it will be bad, and after returning to Lin'an, you will teach others badly." ”

Of course, when Ye Qing refused, he also had a hint of impatience in his heart, whether it was robbery or other criminal situations, it was actually extremely easy to tempt people to continue to commit crimes in their hearts.

What's more, in this grassland that is proud of robbery, even Ye Qing almost couldn't control the excitement after the first robbery, and wanted to continue robbing all the way.

Leaving behind the seven sheep, eight horses and nine cows who eagerly greeted them, and only took away the cart of fur and salt, which looked extremely cheap, Ye Qing and the others continued to hurry.

Soon after they left behind the bleating, mooing, and reluctant seven sheep, eight horses, and nine oxen, the aborigines, who were no more than a few dozen tents, emerged from the direction of the horizon again, and then either ran on their legs, or rode horses and oxen, and led their sheep and children and daughters-in-law, and began to gallop towards their tents.

After Ye Qing and the others even disappeared from their backs, it was just a small tribe with dozens of tents, and the biggest conflict in history immediately occurred, in their opinion, the property here now should be the ownerless things left by those robbers, so whoever grabbed it first would belong to whoever owned.

So a Tatar, who had fallen from his horse in his youth, and whose hind legs were a little lame, ran to his tent with his two sheep, and his daughter-in-law, who had not had time to run before the robbers came, was now snatched by his neighbors.

The lame Tatar watched his neighbor running into his tent with his daughter-in-law, and in his anger and bad legs, he fell on the buttocks of a sheep that was running faster than him, and before he could get up, he began to curse his neighbor who was taking advantage of the danger, saying that he would fight for the woman who was his wife before the robber came.

"Do you want sheep or me?" The woman kept patting the back of the man who was carrying her, and shouted at the cripple who was slowly getting up from the ground.

The lame man hurriedly loosened the rope of the sheep in his hand, and then began to pursue the neighbor who had snatched his daughter-in-law again: "Qu out you stand for me, I will duel with you!" ”

Ye Qing and the others would not know that the seven or eight or nine cattle, sheep and horses they left behind with kindness would eventually cause a tribe that was originally closely united to fall apart in an instant.

Naturally, he would not know that he easily let go of one just now, and later became one of the four adopted sons under Temujin's command: Qu Chu.

Everyone had cheap skins on their horses to resist the cold, and Ye Qing and Lao Liu Tou began to study how to go next, whether to follow the Yellow River until the junction of Xia and Jin.

Lao Liu Tou, who has been grazing and eating on the grassland for nearly two years, knows everything about the radius of a hundred miles or which influential tribes are there, but if he is out of the range of a hundred miles, if it is not for the sun above his head, I am afraid that he will not even be able to distinguish between east and west, north and south.

So before they found the Yellow River, all they could do was to follow the direction pointed out by Ye Qing and the rut marks on the grassland under their feet all the way to the west.

According to Ye Qing's plan, after passing through Hohhot, now Zhongzhou, and then to Baotou and Yunneizhou, they can basically find the Yellow River located in the south of them, and then continue westward along the Yellow River.

So along the way, while searching for the Yellow River in the vast grassland, they were robbed by small groups of Tatars, and then robbed others, and when they finally found the bank of the Yellow River, they had already dressed themselves up like a real caravan.

Along the way, what Ye Qing could tell was that if he didn't find the Yellow River, then continue south.

In short, he still hopes to be able to stay away from some very powerful grassland tribes, more than one thing is better than less, not to mention that with his own hundred people, I am afraid that if he meets a powerful tribe, it is not enough for others to rob.

The surrendered city should be called Lingzhou, and only in the Tang Dynasty can you feel the real strength of the Tang Dynasty here, unlike Ye Qing today, who always thinks that he is like a rat crossing the street, holding his tail and slipping forward in the corner.

But the surrendered city is just a name, and it is not because of the alias of the surrendered city, and the city has really been built here, so for Ye Qing, what can be referred to is that this is a place where water and grass are fertile, naturally, there will never be a small tribe standing here, it must be a big tribe that can firmly control this fertile grassland and enjoy it exclusively for them, and its strength will inevitably be much stronger than the tribe that they can fight back along the way.

Therefore, for Ye Qing, after traveling west along the Yellow River, he did not plan to stay more on the fertile grassland where the weather is getting warmer day and night, but the temperature difference between day and night is greater.

At the same time, what made Ye Qing even more anxious was that in the past nearly a month, they had completely lost contact with the outside world, and he couldn't be sure that once he entered the border of Western Xia, Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia, would judge whether there was a real business trip with the people of the Imperial City Division.

He urgently needs to know, what is the situation of Lin'an City now, and how is their Yuan Ri doing? Did the two beauties think about themselves?

As the rut marks on the grassland increased, and as the merchants who began to appear different from the Tatar costumes, Ye Qing's heart finally landed, at least they didn't bump around on the grassland like headless flies, and then continued to go north.

Starting from Lingzhou and going south along the Yellow River, for Ye Qing, while moving in the right direction, they can be regarded as walking out of the Tatar steppe, and then entering the Helan Mountain to the east of the Yellow River, stationed in the Western Xia with twelve supervising military divisions, a total of five defenders.

To the west of the Yellow River, there is the famous Ordos in later generations, which is still controlled by the Tangut people, with the important towns of Xia and Yanzhou.

Standing on the bank of the Yellow River, looking at the vast territory in front and behind, listening to the majestic sound of the turbid Yellow River, Ye Qing turned his head back and forth, and in his ear was Lao Liu Tou who explained to him: "When we have not yet crossed to the south, we agreed with the Xia people to take the Hengshan Mountain as the boundary, the northwest is the territory of the Xia people, and the south is the Suide army of Yan'an Mansion of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"And now?" Ye Qing looked at the Yellow River in a daze, and asked without reacting for a while.

"Now." Old Liu Tou smiled awkwardly and said: "Now it is bounded by the Wuding River, the north is Xiazhou placed by the Xia people, and the south is Suidezhou, the territory of the Jin people, so we have nothing to do." ”

"With the mountain as the boundary, the river as the frontier, and the city as the domain, but with my Great Song Dynasty as the map." Ye Qing involuntarily advertised someone's book, causing Lao Liu Tou and the others to roll their eyes for a while, embarrassed.