The sky gradually brightened, and a thin wave of morning sun jumped out of the ridge in the distance, and then slowly rose. The mountains outside the fortress also began to wake up at this time, and the birds made a crisp bird call in the forest, and the breath of this early morning was so refreshing.

This scenery outside the fortress is rare to see in the Guannei. However, instead of endless meadows, it is a mountain range and dense forest, and in previous years, such a valley was inaccessible, after all, herders never put their horses in the valley.

But now, among the mountain streams in this valley, there are thousands of horses drinking in them, and most of these horses are mares, and most of them are extremely rare high-class mares, and if it were not for the hundreds of Mongols with bows and swords on their backs, perhaps such a large herd would really arouse the coveted of others.

Of course, if there are people in this valley.

Unlike on the grassland, it is normal to go into the mountains and not see people for a few days, or even more than ten years, after all, this place is not the same as Guannai, but the so-called "Mengdi".

Wang Pu sat quietly in the grass, watching a brilliant red sun leap up from the sky, his mood suddenly brightened.

I'm finally going home!

Wang Pu's eyes were full of longing for his hometown, two years ago, he went out with his boss, originally, he thought that after leaving the customs, he could also kill the Tartars, but he never thought that the Tartars didn't kill a few, but they called those Tartars brothers.

There is no way, in this meadow, he is not a soldier of the loyal army, but only a servant of the Wang family, a businessman. But fortunately, it was the Mongolian Tatars that came into contact with them, not the Jianzhou Tatars.

Since leaving Jiangbei two years ago, he and Wang Wenbai have been doing business in Mongolia and making friends with the Mongols, but what disappointed him was that although those Mongols were not convinced by the Jianzhou Tartars in their hearts, they did not want to offend them.

"Hey, that's fast!"

Looking at the sky, Wang Pu silently pondered, after learning the news of the Ming Army's Northern Expedition, he began to prepare to go home, but halfway through he learned the news that the Loyal and Righteous Army occupied Shanhaiguan, so he immediately turned around and rushed to the direction of Shanhaiguan.

Although they were dressed as Mongolians, they carried thousands of mares urgently needed in Jiangbei, in order to prevent these mares from being taken away by others, they traveled day and night along the way, and cautiously rushed to the direction of Shanhaiguan among the mountains and mountains.

Along the way, there is no risk, after all, the sparse population outside the pass, as long as you avoid the pastures, you can basically avoid the Mongols, even if you occasionally meet a few retail households, a random arrow shoots, the women in the bag have become the tools of those herdsmen to vent, as for the men, naturally one is not left, cattle and sheep have become everyone's rations. And after entering the mountains, even the retail investors on the grassland can't touch it.

"Apu, look here......"

I don't know when, Wang Wenbai stood next to him, pointed to a flat grass by the stream and said.

"There must have been people cultivating here in the past, but in the early years, there were constant wars outside this pass, and the people were either killed or fled at this time, and this place was also deserted!"

As a southerner, Wang Wenbai's figure is quite tall, but compared to the northerners, his figure is slightly thin, with a long beard on his face, and he exudes an aura that only a businessman has. Probably because I have been doing business on this grassland for too long.

"It's a pity that such a nice place......"

Wang Pu laughed, he pointed to the valley and said.

"However, now that the world is peaceful, there will definitely be a lot of people living here in the future, and they are all Han people."

"Hey, it's not easy to live with people!"

Sitting down on the stone, Wang Wenbai sighed.

"It's hard to leave the homeland, it's not a last resort, who wants to abandon everything at home and come to this gate to start over, in fact, what's wrong here? I can't think of people living the same way wherever they go. ”

How can there be one or two who can't think of it, even Wang Pu can't think about it, he also wants to go home, even if his mother, wife and children died under the butcher's knife of the Qing army, it still doesn't prevent him from wanting to go home.

That home is all he has!

Wang Pu nodded and said with a little deep feeling.

"Perhaps, this is people, who doesn't miss home?"

"Let's sleep for a while, we have to walk a lot at night, and the mountain road is not easy to walk."

Wang Wenbai patted him on the shoulder and said closely, although they are not relatives, but in the past two years, getting along day and night has made the two form a deeper friendship, and they have long regarded each other as relatives in their hearts. Even Wang Wenbai has already made up his mind, and after returning to Jiangbei, he will marry his cousin Xu to Wang Pu, he is a sincere person, but his life is a little harder.

Lying on the soft leaves, Wang Pu's heart was very chaotic.

The reason for the chaos is not because of anything else, but because he found that in his mind, the memory of hatred seems to be getting fading more and more, and when he first came to Mongolia, he dreamed of persuading the Mongols to attack the capital, and when the time comes, kill all the Qing prisoners in the capital, even if it is the women and children, the old and the weak, it is best to kill them all.

However, slowly, his idea faded, not because he didn't want to avenge his wife and children. It's because, after coming into contact with too many Mongols, he felt that those Mongols were not much different from him, and even the women and children in the Qing captives were also women and children, and he found that he couldn't do that.

Of course, this does not mean that he will not kill the Qing army, he can kill the Qing army without hesitation, but he is not willing to kill an unarmed woman or child.

People are always so contradictory.

And when Wang Wenbai made a decision, although the mission failed, he breathed a sigh of relief, after all, in this way, he didn't need to be as entangled as in the past, and he didn't have to think about the fate of those women and children, as for the rest, leave everything to God.

However, for Wang Wenbai, Wang Pu admired him very much, he turned his head and glanced at Wang Wenbai lying beside him, the child's palm-sized hair on the back of his head was much whiter, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes and brows were also very deep, and even his face did not show the slightest southerner appearance, but he made Wang Pu admire him so much.

Because he has never relented, Wang Wenbai can talk and laugh with the Mongols, thinking in his heart how to kill each other, how to lead the troops to fight them in the future, and then how to kill them, how to make this grass no longer look like leeks, cutting stubble and stubble.

Therefore, in the past two years, Wang Wenbai is not so much to contact those Mongol Beylers in Mongolia to test whether they are willing to attack the Manchus, but rather to say that he is there to probe the reality of the Mongols, to understand those Mongols as much as possible, and then find a way to cut them down and eradicate them, so as to prevent future troubles.

Even, along the way, Wang Wenbai also deliberately experimented with one - he chose those retail investors or small departments on the grassland, and tried it a little, and his method was successful. Even in the eyes of Wang Pu, who also knows Monti, his method may indeed be forever troubled.

It's just that the means are too vicious!

Unconsciously, Wang Pu thought of the excitement when he came out of the customs back then, at that time, didn't he want to eat his bones? Why is it that women are now upset? Is it because I became friends with these Mongols? Thinking of this, he looked at the Mongolian herdsmen who were tying long ropes and tying horses to ropes, those herdsmen were now Wang Wenbai's property, and in the grassland, the slaves with the lowest status were these herdsmen, these herdsmen had different identities, some were reduced to slaves because of debts, and some were punished as slaves because of breaking the law, and their status was very low. However, it is precisely because of their low status that they were bought by Wang Wenbai, firstly as a helper in business, and secondly to use these people to herd horses in the future. And along the way, thanks to these herdsmen, they were able to bring nearly 4,000 fine mares safely.

Maybe it's because I've been with them for a long time......

While thinking like this in his heart, suddenly, Wang Pu felt a hint of danger, and he who was still hiding on the ground stood up suddenly, and while looking left and right vigilantly, he shouted at Wang Wenbai.

"There's someone in the woods!"

Then Wang Pu shouted loudly in Mongolian again, and those herdsmen who were originally preparing to spend the night drew their swords and took their bows, and watched the mountains and forests with vigilant eyes.

Who is it?

Who's in the woods? Could it be that the Mongols are chasing after them?

Wang Wenbai naturally thought of the scattered parts on the grassland that he tried his knife, and it stands to reason that he wouldn't, it was quite neat at that time......

Just as he was thinking, suddenly, a bang rang out in the mountain forest, and when the bell sounded, the white smoke in the forest could be faintly seen.

When the gun sounded, several herdsmen fell in response.

The other party has a firecracker!

Just when Wang Wenbai's face turned pale with fright because of the sound of the gun, Wang Pu pushed him to the ground, and when Wang Wenbai was pressed to the ground, Wang Pu shouted at the shepherd slaves on the side, telling them to lie down and hide.

Guns are sharper than arrows!

Wang Pu, who was born in the military, naturally knew the stakes of the firecracker, and they were targeted, and they didn't even have room to fight back, so they were very likely to be knocked to the ground, and when he shouted for the shepherd slave to hide, listening to the sound of the gun in the forest, he suddenly made a bold decision.

He tore a piece of cloth from his clothes, stuck it in a branch, and hid behind a stone shaking the white cloth.

"Don't put guns, don't put guns......"

While shouting, Wang Pu was about to stand up, but Wang Wenbai wanted to stop him when he saw it.

"Pu, what are you doing here?"

At this time, Wang Pu, who had already stood up, did not pay attention to him, but waved the white flag and walked to the edge of the forest, when he walked to the edge of the forest, he saw a person coming out of the forest, although the person was wearing a green military uniform, but, looking at the fire gun in his hand, scenes of the past suddenly came to his heart. Looking at the people who were getting closer and closer, Wang Pu suddenly laughed, and then shouted at the people who were coming from the other end.

"Which part of you are?"