The ancient city of Ke is indeed as stated in the field war, strictly speaking, it is more like a military city than a city inhabited by the people.

Even some merchants who dared to walk between the two countries during this period of war rested in a post station further south from the ancient city of Kecheng, far away from the main battlefield of the two countries.

There are still many Xia people like Yeli Zhan in the ancient city of Kegu, and the Liao and Xia people live here together, almost as if they are about to merge into a new race, and it is difficult to distinguish between you and me.

On the way, Ye Qing and the others encountered a large number of grain and grass baggage convoys, but now they have been left far behind, after they enter the ancient city of Ke, the convoy of baggage and other utensils, I am afraid it will take a day or two to reach the ancient city of Kegu.

In the strict sense of the barracks, there are naturally blacksmith shops, armor forging and other shops, and the owners of these shops are basically run by the Xia people, after all, in this period, the Xia people's skills in forging are indeed much stronger than those of Jin, Liao and other countries, so the craftsmen of the Xia people are also very sought-after in the Liao country.

The sound of clanging is endless, and along with the war, it must be the loss of weapons and armor, as well as the increase of personnel and materials, so the original ancient city of Ke, with the increase of the army, has almost formed a new city of considerable scale.

Anyway, the soldiers who fought in the war had money, but there was no place to spend it, and even whether they had a life flower was still unknown, so most people were holding a mentality of having wine today and getting drunk today, which also made the taverns and brothels here more developed, and even more lively than the city of Hara they passed.

Groups of Liao cavalry passed by them, and they would look at each other's equipment, and Ye Qing and the others finally met the real camel cavalry after arriving at the camp prepared for them in the field battle.

Although the number of people is not very large, it can still be seen that the Liao people obviously use camels as their special forces.

Ye Qing finally saw Temujin's resoluteness, and as soon as he settled everyone, he immediately took Ye Qing and the begging Shilie gods and slaves, and under the leadership of Ye Lizhan, they boarded the beacon tower outside the city and looked at the vast grassland further west.

"After the grassland is the Gobi Desert, the grass here is not good, not abundant, and there is very little rain all year round, so being able to occupy a favorable city with a water source is basically equivalent to gaining an invincible position." Ye Lizhan pointed to the endless green grassland and continued: "The Khorezm Sea that your lord passed through a few days ago, in fact, the other end of the sea is completely desert Gobi, which is difficult to pass. So although we are fighting wars here, we can pass through the merchants and trade and so on safely and smoothly, as long as you pay enough money, or take some goods to pay off the debt. ”

"How far are the Khorezmians from here?" When Temujin put down his gaze and looked into the distance, he asked solemnly with the hand on his forehead.

"More than 100 miles away, there is a large battalion of theirs, with more than 100,000 troops. But each time they would only send an army of about 10,000 men to fight us, and they had never sent all of them all at once in so long. "Wild Warfare has to answer all questions.

"Where is their royal city?" Ye Qing frowned and asked.

"I heard from some merchants that we are about seven or eight hundred miles away from their royal city, Yulongchi, and we need to cross a river called Amu Darya to reach it, and in between, there are three big cities, none of which are heavily guarded." Ye Lizhan hurriedly took the map from the hands of his subordinates behind him, spread it out and pointed out: "Three adults, please look, this is the nearest Keman City to us, and then this is Ifa City, Malhan City, and there is also a monastery ...... in Malhan City here." ”

"Temple?" Ye Qing frowned, foreign monks are completely unaccustomed to the soil and water here, how can a Central Plains culture such as a temple be bred on such a soil.

"Roughly speaking, but it's not the kind of temple in the Central Plains, it's ......." Ye Lizhan faced Ye Qing's puzzled gaze, scratched his head and said with some embarrassment: "They call it a god, a sun god, or a fire god, but they don't worship Zhu Rong...... In short, the last general doesn't really understand, that's what it means. ”

Ye Qing nodded clearly, what Ye Lizhan said should be Zoroastrianism, but no matter what, the beliefs, religions, cultures, and other systems here are completely different from those of the Central Plains.

After stepping off the beacon tower, Temujin deliberately slowed down, and after glancing at Ye Qing, the two of them distanced themselves from others.

"Do you know anything about that?" Temujin asked.

"A little bit, but it still needs to be verified, so I don't even know if it's true or fake now." Ye Qing frowned and said.

With the vastness of the Khorezm Sea almost subverting his geographical outlook, and the scene he saw when he passed through the Tianshan Mountains along the way, Ye Qing began to wonder if the era he lived in was the same era as the Song Dynasty in history.

Therefore, at this time, especially when it is possible that a sentence will affect how Temujin fights, he does not dare to talk irresponsibly at will, and still hopes that it is more appropriate to get some definite evidence.

Temujin nodded: "Take a rest today, and then give you three days to figure out the route to the west for 500 miles, and see if it is as the field war said, before crossing the Amu Darya River, we only have three big cities and a barracks in front of us, how about it?" ”

"Okay, no problem, I'll leave early tomorrow morning." Ye Qing nodded without hesitation.

"Remember, we only have three days, if it is a long time, once some of the merchants we meet along the way go to Khorezm from the ancient city of Khorezm, our movements will inevitably be known to the Khorezm people, so we need to rush forward for a hundred miles before the Khorezm people know about our existence." Temujin squatted down and made a few marks on the green grass and said.

Looking at the direction of Temujin's last circle, which was the large area of the Khwarazm barracks that he had just mentioned, he nodded and said, "I understand, we will find out how long it will take for Keman, Ifa and Malhan to help." ”

"There must be a water source here, since they can camp here without relying on the city, it must have its own unique geographical advantages, otherwise, they are so consuming with the ancient city of Ke, and the daily cost is not a small amount." Temujin smiled knowingly, nodded and said.

Discussing with smart people is much easier and simpler, as long as you start, you can basically know what the other person is thinking and wanting, so Temujin has become more and more confident.

Ye Qing also looked at Temujin and smiled, his idea coincided with Temujin, that is, to advance the battle line for a hundred miles, directly turn the fortress-like ancient city into a large battalion of grain and grass in the rear, and then cruise in the grassland, Gobi or desert, using the advantage of cavalry, not for the purpose of attacking the city, mainly to annihilate the enemy's living forces, and strive to disintegrate the defense line of three cities and one battalion built by the Khorezm people in the shortest possible time.

Once the interlocking defense lines of the three cities and one battalion collapsed, then even the royal city of the Khorezm people, who was thousands of miles away, would be equivalent to appearing unguarded under the noses of Ye Qing and the others, but it was just a little farther away.

Moreover, more importantly, once Ye Qing verified that the three cities and one battalion were an interlocking line of defense, and it was also the only defense line that the Khorezmian people could scare the Liao, it was enough to illustrate a problem, that is, the main attack of the Khorezmian people all along was a bluff, but in fact, they did not invest as many troops as imagined in the direction east of the so-called Amu Darya River.

In this way, it can be completely determined that the three cities and one battalion are the illusion of a huge war deliberately set up by the Khorezmian people, and once that time comes, then the defense area of the three cities and one battalion of the Khorezm people can be allowed to gallop by Ye Qing, Temujin and others.

This is not something they imagined out of thin air, but from the sentence of field warfare, the entire battalion is stationed with 100,000 troops, but each battle is a war with a scale of only about 10,000 people, they can keenly judge that there must be a problem with the frontier of the Khorezmian people, otherwise, no matter how stupid a general is, it is impossible to send only one-tenth of the troops to fight the enemy every time, leaving 90,000 people in the camp and not being able to play with cubs.

So there must be a reason for this, either because the troops are insufficient, or because they have any scruples, and this is why Temujin gave Ye Qing three days to let Ye Qing investigate, and he wanted to complete a series of tactical actions before the merchants arrived at the ancient city.

The frontier garrison is no better than a city far away from the war, so after nightfall, Yeli Zhan only took the generals of the Liao people and held a simple welcome ceremony for Ye Qing and others, and then in front of all the Liao generals, he took out the order that Ye Qing gave him about Beifu, and read it out in public: Everyone obeys the orders of the coalition army, and those who violate the order will be beheaded.

As the order was read, Mo Xiaobao and Mu Huali appeared in front of Ye Qing and the others with a disgraced face.

"Say." Temujin looked back and frowned.

"Great Khan, as you and Lord Ye expected, the scouts who were ambushed ten miles outside the city caught dozens of suspicious merchants out of the city this afternoon." Although Mo Xiaobao was disgraced, there was indescribable excitement in his expression.

Ye Qing smiled, and when he looked at Mu Huali, Mu Huali also nodded slightly at him, indicating that there would be people who had been cruising outside the city this night, blocking suspicious people who were heading in the direction of Khorezm.

Ye Lizhan and many generals of the Liao people were at a loss, not knowing what Ye Qing and Temujin had found, and they didn't know what Mo Xiaobao was playing.

It's just that when they went out, they saw a group of people in the open space like bundled animals, and they all looked at Temujin and Ye Qing in amazement.

"Your Excellency...... This...... They are all the people of Kegucheng, I still know this, and my nail leaf yesterday was still the ...... he helped me repair. A general next to the field battle said.

"These are the spies we started preparing to go to Khorezm as soon as we entered the city, and when they met us, they all ran away, so I had to arrest them all first." Mu Huali explained.

Ye Lizhan turned his head to look at Ye Qing and Temujin, no wonder after they entered the city, he never saw Mo Xiaobao and Mu Huali again, it turned out that as soon as they entered the city, they began to move, but they didn't expect that even they were kept in the dark.

"It's not that I want to deliberately hide from you, but it's too late to tell you, not to mention that I'm afraid of leaking the news, no, as soon as someone catches it, they will tell you immediately." Ye Qing patted Ye Lizhan on the shoulder and said.

Ye Lizhan nodded helplessly, and his heart was also a little embarrassed, he couldn't imagine that Ye Qing and Temujin were so cautious and cunning, and they began to prevent their news from spreading as soon as they entered the city, no wonder people can become generals who are more powerful than themselves, and it is no wonder that in the orders given to him by Her Royal Highness the Princess, they emphasized several times that they are not allowed to tell anyone that there are coalition forces that are coming to the aid of Kegucheng.

"So what do these people do now? Summarily or ......? Ye Lizhan asked Ye Qing and Temujin.

"Leave it to me and see if I can find something useful." Ye Qing said again, but this time he looked at Temujin.

Temujin nodded silently, he understood what Ye Qing meant, he hoped to be able to find some useful news for him tomorrow from these spies of the Khorezm people hidden in the ancient city of Kegu.

"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Temujin's tone had a hint of murderous air in it.

Ye Qing nodded clearly, and then turned around, Mu Huali immediately ordered someone to take those spies away again, and soon after, in the corner of the tent not far away, painful begging for mercy, screams, and even scolding and crying began to appear.

The summer with long days and short nights will be very tiring for people who are active in the Tianshan Mountains, the sky is dark late, but the light is early, so Ye Qing looked at his watch helplessly, and then began to wash with cold cold water, as the heavy fatigue on his body was washed away, Ye Qing, who was in a slightly better spirit, signaled that Jia Shi did not have to follow him out of the city, but only took Mu Huali and a dozen personal soldiers, and then set foot on the road to the west again when the sky was hazy and not bright.

The sun behind him had not yet risen, and a touch of fish belly white had just crawled out of the eastern sky in a hurry, Mu Huali used stiff Chinese to tell Ye Qing on horseback about the results of last night's interrogation.

Because it was too late, Ye Qing didn't bother to wait, so he asked Mu Huali to tell himself early this morning.

"Seventeen were killed, and fourteen were left to confess, but they will not appear in the ancient city of Kegu in the future, and some of these people know about the merchants we passed through on the way, which ones are doing business with the Khorezmians, so they stay and wait to testify against those merchants." Mu Huali bumped along with the horse.

"Where do they go to report the news?" Ye Qing asked.

"The camp of the Khorezmian people, they can only go to the camp of the Khorezmian people, and they can't enter further west, and the Khorezmian people don't believe in them very much. The last general thought that the Khorezmian people were afraid that they would curry favor with both sides, so they would tell us what they had seen. Mu Huali said analyzing.

"In this way, the people of Khorezm must have a secret that they have not seen, either they have been playing tricks, or they have some unavoidable hardships. Before the sun set, they rushed to the vicinity of the Khorezm camp and secretly checked for a chance to get close to their camp at night. Ye Qing shrugged his shoulders, and then Hai Dongqing on his shoulders flapped his wings and flew, and the wings swept over the back of Ye Qing's head, who was not wearing a helmet, which actually made Ye Qing feel a faint pain, and the little rabbit cub was too hard.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, just a change.