This time, Shen Leng and the others returned to Dongjiang, in fact, there were not many people, and more than half of the pro-military camp escorted the tea master and them back, and the rest of the people were only two or three hundred, and the number of people in the team was small, but the speed of march was fast.

Shen Leng is a person who is difficult to describe, if you say that he is lazy, there are few people who are more diligent than him in practice and study, if you say that he is not lazy, he will never ride a horse when he can take a carriage when he is in a hurry.

People who don't ride horses regularly will have a sense of novelty that allows ordinary people to know what it's like to sit on horseback for a day.

So this time I came back and Shen Leng borrowed a lot of carts from the Northern Xinjiang Army, and it was much easier for the soldiers to sit in the carriage than on horseback, but such days would also seem boring, the climate here was bitter cold, and most of the time the soldiers were huddled together to keep warm.

The most important thing is that there is no military post supply in the northern Xinjiang snow field, and he has to worry more about the problem of hunger, but Shen Leng can't be sure how long the northern Xinjiang army will confront each other on the Mituo River, the sky is high and the earth is far away, and the logistics supply is also very difficult, and there are still harassment and attacks by the original black army defeated soldiers along the way, so he didn't bring out much grain and grass from the barracks.

Walk all the way to the southeast from the north of Xinjiang, leave the bank of the Mituo River to walk nearly a thousand miles to get to Gedi City, after Gedi City is the Xifengkou camp of Daning, and it will take at least two months to return to the camp of the Dongjiang Navy Division from the Xifeng Pass.

Along the way, Shen Leng was also afraid that the soldiers would be wasted, and spent most of the day on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and after noon, Shen Leng felt uncomfortable, and took the soldiers to hunt on horses, there were a lot of stupid roe deer here, but Shen Leng felt that there was no fun, so he decided to catch some things that were not easy to catch, such as ...... Wolf hunting.

The wolves on the ice field are more ferocious and cunning, they will follow the convoy, but they will not act rashly, they will of course avoid large groups, but they will never let go of three or five people or lone pedestrians.

Wolves are one of the beasts with the heaviest appetite for food in this world, and they are also the most ferocious, Shen Leng doesn't like wolves, and he decided to hunt wolves not because the wolf meat is delicious, but just a little challenging.

By dark, the cavalry slaughtered a pack of wolves, and the wolves on the ice field were more ferocious than the wolves elsewhere because there was less food here.

After dark, Shen Leng set up camp in a birch forest, even though it was a snowless day, the north wind swept away, and the snow on the ground rolled up as if it were a heavy snowfall, and the snow flakes hit their faces like throwing knives.

"The people were divided into three teams and took turns to be on duty for the night."

Shen Leng asked the convoy to stop at the edge of the birch forest, and the carts formed a circle, with dark whistles set up around them.

Shen Leng sat down on the edge of the fire: "This area is not peaceful, our troops are not arranged, many small tribes are now living by looting, not only them, many of the black border troops that were defeated at the beginning have become horse bandits, small tribes rob business travelers, and horse bandits rob small tribes." ”

Shen Leng said while adding firewood to the fire: "From here to Gedi City, basically the business travel has been cut off, so those people from small tribes have begun to migrate, and they have to survive, and the horse bandits are better, after all, there are tribes that do not leave."

Chen Ran said: "I'm looking forward to the blind horse bandits, after all, we didn't get any benefit from going back this time, alas...... The first time I went on an expedition and returned empty-handed, I wondered if I didn't fit in. ”

Shen Leng said: "What else do you want?" They all went back with Lao Wang, and it was better than anything else. ”

Chen Ran said: "I know you're right, but ...... You see, if we go to our own Anyang dockyard, we can still take two ships out, and we can go to our own arsenal and get some supplies out, this ......"

He sighed: "That's it, I don't want to, go to sleep." ”

Shen Leng: "People can't be too greedy, what do those horse bandits have."

Is it? What else is there besides Mado? Are some horses worth our hands on? I am a dignified general of the Eastern Xinjiang Naval Division, a group of generals, because some of the horses in the hands of the horse bandits can't walk, and the word goes out to make people say that our sailors have never seen the world and will rob everything. ”

"If those horse bandits are rich, they can get a lot of gains, but they are all poor and have no meal."

Shen Leng shook his head: "Go to sleep, go home steadily." ”

An hour later, just after the hour, outside a horse bandit's camp, Shen Leng and Chen Ran quietly poked their heads out of the dry grass, and beside them was the corpse of a horse bandit's secret whistle.

Shen Leng looked at Chen Ran and complained, "Didn't you say that you could sleep well?" For this, the horse is worth not even sleeping? You are also a dignified four-grade general, can you have a higher vision. ”

Chen Ran: "I'll make ...... Who couldn't sleep and kicked me up? ”

Shen Leng: "Look at you, you don't like to listen to it." ”

Chen Ran: "I ......"

Wang Kuohai, who was next to him, lowered his voice and said: "To be honest, I really don't like this kind of small thing, it's not interesting at all, fighting with tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of black warriors on the battlefield with real swords and guns is that it is energetic, just dealing with a group of horse bandits with hundreds of people, staying up all night without sleeping...... I really don't like those hundreds of horses. ”

Shen Leng looked at the moonlight, at this time the horse bandit should be sleeping soundly, he stretched out his hand and pointed forward: "Fight quickly." ”

Wang Kuohai was still muttering: "I really don't want to go to this small scene, I killed the black warriors just to grab a few horses, alas, ......"

Hearing Shen Leng say a quick decision, Wang Kuohai jumped out at once, and directly knocked down the wooden wall of the horse bandit camp with a huge shield.

"Kill horses and rob black warriors!"

That loud shout.

Shen Leng covered his face.

Dawn.

There are more than 1,000 war horses in the team back to Dongjiang, and it looks magnificent behind the carriage team, Wang Kuohai lying in the carriage is still hanging outside below his calves, who called him so tall, longer than the carriage, this guy is sleeping incense, snoring and snoring.

Chen Ran was sleeping next to him, but he couldn't sit up because of the noise, watching Wang Kuohai snoring with his mouth open, and touching around there was nothing suitable, and he couldn't wait to pull off the stinky socks on his feet and stuff them in his mouth.

Chen Ran jumped down from the carriage and ran to a car in front of him, and after getting into the car, he squeezed Shen Leng to the side, Shen Leng was asleep, opened his eyes and looked at it in a daze: "Huh? Didn't you say that you sleep with the big guy, that the big guy has a mind like the sea and can keep warm. ”

Chen Ran: "He still has a tsunami-like snoring." ”

He lay down next to Shen Leng: "Just for more than a thousand horses, do you say it's worth it, trap me...... I'm telling you, I'm going to sleep well tonight, and I'm not going to fight the bandits' den, no matter how sweet it is. ”

Shen Leng: "Whoever beats is a dog, sleep." ”

Chen Ran: "You're right, whoever beats is a dog!" ”

The day passes quickly, and the night falls.

The camp of a small tribe was so blazing with fire that at least hundreds of horse bandits suddenly rushed into the small tribe, and they howled like the wind, rushed in and began to set fires, and all those they came in were slashed to death.

These black border troops who were in this area after the battle with Daning had no way out, they didn't know whether they were safe on the way back, and they didn't know if they would be executed by military discipline according to deserters after they went back, so they could only start horse bandits outside.

They rushed back and forth between the tribes, snatching some horses and food and women today, and robbing them again in another place tomorrow, and the tribes who lived in an area for generations were also unlucky, they avoided the Northern Expedition of Pei Tingshan, the general of the sword soldiers in Eastern Xinjiang, and did not avoid the black border army that they thought were their own people.

The camp was full of ghosts and wolves, and in the light of the fire, there were murders everywhere.

Outside the camp, Shen Leng poked his head out of the grass: "Wangwang...... Woohoo, woohoo. ”

Chen Ran nodded: "Wang." ”

Then Chen Ran beckoned back, and the soldiers who were ambushed in the grass immediately pulled up the war horses that had fallen to the ground, and they quickly swept on the back of the horses and killed them behind the horse bandits.

Shen Leng looked at Chen Ran: "Wangwangwang......"

Chen Ran frowned: "What you said just now, Wang Wang, Wang Wang, I understand, you said Chen Ran, greet everyone, go up, I said obey, you really didn't understand." ”

Shen Leng sighed: "I said I wouldn't fight." ”

Chen Ran: "If you fight again, it's a pig." ”

Shen Leng: "The pig is okay, you fortunately didn't say that it was Wang Ba who fought again, how can Wang Ba be called?" ”

Chen Ran: "Wang Ba should be ...... Who are you talking about? ”

On the morning of the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, there were already as many as five or six thousand horses behind the carriage procession, and the number of carriages was also forty or fifty more.

On the carriage, Chen Ran squeezed beside Shen Leng again and yawned: "Okay, I can't fight again tonight." ”

Shen Leng: "Hmm...... Can't fight anymore. ”

Chen Ran: "What is it to fight again?" ”

Shen Leng: "Is it interesting?" ”

Chang'an City, the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, His Majesty's will was officially announced in the court, the Sheng family was arrested because they were involved in a big case, and the case was handed over to the Tingwei Mansion and the Criminal Department for trial, and Han Zhaozhi was the main official.

All the lords of the Sheng family, all the family property was sealed, and all the business of the Sheng family was also thoroughly investigated in the whole Daning, and the largest business of the Sheng family was in Eastern Xinjiang, so the emperor ordered Shen Leng, the general of the water division, to be the minister of the Qin Mission, to raid the business of the Sheng family in Eastern Xinjiang.

After this decree was read, the entire court was quiet for a while, although on the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the Sheng family was raided, but His Majesty's will did not come down for a while, which did not mean that the Sheng family was completely finished.

After this decree is handed down, everyone knows that His Majesty is going to start working, and this is not the end, this is the beginning.

Shen Leng resumed his military post as a general and restored the title of duke.

This sentence made many people begin to regret it, although they did not fall into the well, but they deliberately distanced, not everyone's vision is so high and far, and not everyone can resist the pressure.

At the court.

After His Majesty waited for the boat to read out the will, His Majesty stood up, walked to the bottom of the edge of the high platform, swept his eyes over the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, and after a slight pause, he said: "There is one more thing I want to announce, next year, I will let the East China Sea Division go on an expedition to the Sang Kingdom, so I will add some more ...... Shen Leng, the general of the East China Sea Division, led the military affairs of the Eastern Xinjiang and controlled the five provinces, including Bohai Dao, and Yan Kaisong, the general of Bohai Dao, was also controlled by Shen Leng and ...... also includes Meng Chang'an, the general of the Eastern Xinjiang sword soldiers. ”

After a pause, the emperor continued: "When preparing for war, the five civil and military departments in Eastern Xinjiang, Shen Leng can all deal with the situation, and has the right to arbitrarily decide on the spot. ”

The emperor exhaled slightly: "If there is a violator of the order, slack, Shen Leng will deal with it as appropriate, and cut it first and then play...... To the positive three products. ”