To the west of Baolan, straight north of Yinchuan, on the north bank of the Wang River, along the foothills of Tuoba Mountain, is the most fertile part of the Tumochuan Plain, and was also one of the important birthplaces of the Tuoba clan.

From here, to the north, over the difficult mountain range, you can soon enter the area controlled by Tuhut, and to the east, over the new city of Baolan, straight east over the foothills of the foothills into the Eastern Xia Ulancha, across the Amma River to the south, into the Dingxia and Xia Prefectures. A few years ago, the main enemy of the Tuoba clan was the Tuhut tribe, because of the separation of the mountain range, the defense line was placed in the Tuoba Pass and Wuliangsu generation, and not enough attention was paid to this area, with the smooth passage of the Yinchuan trade road and the construction of Baolan New City in recent years, the opposite side became an important town in Dongxia in a blink of an eye, and Tuoba Weiwei only focused.

Previously, there were two veteran Tuoba clan thousand households stationed here, one on the left and one on the right.

Although over time, the number of households under the control of these two thousand households may have reached three or five thousand, but compared to the number of garrisons in Baolan City in Eastern Xia and the garrison in the inner bay of the Amma River, it is still too weak, not to mention that because of the prosperity of trade, there are often people who flee to move into Eastern Xia.

In order to use a limited lineage.

Two second-rate barbarian tribes migrated from the Tula River in the north were settled here.

These two tribes are the two branches of the Mountain no Kun tribe, one of the tribes of the Gaoche Alliance.

They had their fair share of glory, but with the rise of the Tuhuts, they were repeatedly defeated in wars of annexation, and in the end only seven or eight thousand remained.

For the resident Bo Dalu, the two twig leaders are no friendlier than the two Tuoba clan veteran Qianhu.

Among the two Tuoba clan thousand households, there are always some branches of old families.

For special reasons, these branches of the family cannot follow Tuoba Weiwei to make a fortune, but they have the inheritance of the nobility, there is no lack of family heritage, and some simply do business in Baolan. One of the two thousand-household officials also let his youngest son visit Bo Dalu in private, hoping that Bo Dalu would bless his caravan, and also said that he would also restrain his people and prevent them from making trouble in Baolan.

But the southward migration clan that has only settled in the last two or three years is completely a robber under the protection of the Tuoba clan's wings, and they will come to rob as soon as they settle down, they dare not rob the Tuoba clan, and after robbing Liu Yu to rob Dongxia, mainly to rob Liu Yu, after being touched on the head and bleeding, they will hide back to the Tumo River, recuperate from their injuries and then show up, and then rob after they appear. They also benefited from the wealth of the trade route, because they had been picking Liu Yu to start, but they also managed to recuperate, this time I heard that Bo Dalu led the troops south, Baolan City was empty, and the old Khan was also willing to support behind him, and immediately reached a consensus on looting, and the backup plan of the consensus was that once the looting did not succeed in Baolan, he would turn around and fight Liu Yu.

Tuoba is half conspiracy and half conspiracy.

There is nothing secret or secret about the news, they are just borrowing the hands of the two small clans to test it.

Afraid that the strength of these two small clans was not enough, they mixed some dingling high carts into it, so that the number of the entire army reached 10,000.

Dong Guozhang didn't know any of this news.

Although others are in Baolan, they don't want to serve the country all the time, and they wholeheartedly supervise Dia Bird, but except for getting up early every morning, going to the martial arts training ground to play slow boxing absent-mindedly, and asking Dia Bird what he sees, there is no other means, and people who pay attention notice that he is just getting earlier and earlier.

It was not yet dawn, and in the sound of Qizaza's footsteps, he got up early again.

Packed up a short fight, stopped the waist and tucked the black ribbon, rinsed his mouth slightly, and went straight out of the door, and he could see the column composed of guards on the main road, running towards the outer city one by one, covered in gold leaf.

This is the morning drill of the guards of Dia Bird.

Dong Guozhang asked, these guards gather every day before dawn, at least have to run more than ten miles, rain and shine uninterrupted, if one day their generals feel that it is not enough, or within a certain month of the year, they have to do targeted training, they will give twice or even more distance, sometimes fasten the belt behind the fast horse, the instructor whips the horse to master the speed, and after returning, in the morning, afternoon, including the evening, still arrange tactical training and study of books.

Although "walking" is often said to be a military ability and counts towards the selection of officers, the military often does not practice every day, and does not limit the posture and rhythm of soldiers.

It's not a day in Dongxia, and Dong Guozhang is used to seeing it.

He just had more or less sympathy in his heart, sympathizing with the soldiers of Dongxia, compared to the fish scale army of the imperial court, they were much more painful, sympathetic to the people of Dongxia, the soldiers sometimes shook the sky and shouted in unison, if there were more of them, they would wake them up from their sleep, and this also included Dia Niao and Qin He.

He turned his head and watched these teams pass by on the road, the sound of footsteps was like thunder, the shouts were deafening, and the city was also near and far, and in a blink of an eye, it seemed to have come to life from sleep, and said with a wry smile to the family members who served him: "Come to rich." This army runs around like this every day, yes, what is it called running drills, is it useful? Why don't you see them taking advantage of the good morning air to practice their fists and feet? ”

The family member came to Fu and said: "Who knows? Old lady, you got up a little early today, and Diao must be running at this time. You're going to wait so early for him, you're going to have to wait longer. ”

Dong Guozhang sighed vulgarly: "It's difficult to ask someone to do things." ”

With such emotion in his mouth, he asked Laifu again: "Do you say that he runs and exercises with the soldiers every day, or does he come out to show me the running exercises by watching me these days?" ”

Laifu "sneered", laughed half of the slam brake, and whispered: "Old lady." I think it's a pretend. As a king, isn't it selling oil cakes on the street, getting up early and doing good business, the ghost believes that he doesn't let women go, and he gets up so early every day, and finds himself guilty. ”

Seeing that the east courtyard had arrived, there were soldiers standing at the door.

He remembered the steps, he had to go to the room where the guards were on duty to hand over the cards, and let people lead him there, so he stopped his hand and stopped Lai Fu from talking, using many years of experience in low-level life, and spoke when passing by: "I felt early when I saw this place yesterday, and I stood here so early today." Don't run and practice. He buried a word, listened to the guard politely replied that the change of guard, yesterday was not his own or anything, smiled and went to the room where the guard was on duty, and when he arrived at the handover card, changed the card, changed the card, and did not want others to lead him, saying: "What to lead." The road is familiar. No problem, I'll go in by myself, if you want to lead the way, I won't go, every day is so polite. ”

He was here to come back and continue to speak to the guards.

This time, he turned back, took advantage of the conversation with the guards just now, and asked, "So, when you are not on duty, you also run and practice every day?" What about your king, running and practicing every day? It's been running for half a day now, and it's not even five days, can he get up? ”

The guard said, "The king? Sometimes I can't get up. If he doesn't stay up late and doesn't fight, he can get up, and if he stays up all night, sometimes he doesn't sleep at all, and comes back to sleep after exhaustion. ”

Dong Guozhang pretended to comment: "Tsk, tsk, is it hard? ”

He said this in his mouth, but he thought the other way in his heart.

Carrying his hands all the way in, he was thinking in his heart what Dia Bird had told him a few days ago, it seems that Dia Bird can really keep training with the soldiers.

Walking in, I saw several figures standing by the pavilion from a distance, one of them was holding a golden bow, roaring in his mouth, stretching his arms and pulling a full bow, it must be Dia Bird, and hurriedly ran over and shouted: "Ah Bird." You didn't run today. However, the person turned his head, and Dong Guozhang was stunned.

The young man was a bit like Dia Bird, but he seemed to be taller.

A woman stood by the pavilion and shouted, "It's Uncle Dong." I'm Ah Xue. ”

Dong Guozhang turned his head to look, only to see a tall female warrior, reflecting the light, there seemed to be the shadow of Dia Bird's sister, but she was energetic, not like a teenager.

Dong Guozhang was still a little embarrassed, and said repeatedly: "I thought it was a bird." ”

However, his eyes were fixed on the big golden bow, and he asked in disbelief, "Can you pull this bow away?" Ah Bird said that only two and a half people in Dongxia could pull away. ”

The boy laughed.

He said loudly, "Mr. Dong." Did my brother say two and a half people? It's just that I've had a lot of affairs for a while, and I haven't practiced martial arts well, so I fell behind him...... Two and a half people, didn't they leave me alone? We Dongxia, how can the heroes who pull one and a half times stop two and a half, but this thing is a bow, if you don't open it more than ten times, how can it be regarded as a can. ”

He threw his bow to the others, stretched his arms, and said, "On strength." I've never served anyone. ”

While talking, there were people coming to this martial arts training field, and when they came, they surrounded a few big frames here, and chose the bow above to test their strength, as if this bow was not their king's, and they were specially given to try their strength here, and often tried alone, and several people pointed at each other on the side, and finally a bearded young man came up, stretched out his hand and took Zhang Sishi's bow, but he didn't see that his arm strength was greater than others, only to hear him scream in his throat, and the people around him laughed.

Dong Guozhang couldn't help laughing.

However, I suddenly remembered that a person, although he could not be called a famous child, he knew who it was, it was the adopted son of that Dia Bird.

After staying for a while, Dong Guozhang vaguely knew why it was abnormal today, and they appeared here - as if they were going to fight.

Fight?!

I don't know where to fight?

To fight or not to fight in the end? Dong Guozhang was excited.

He felt that he had finally figured out what was about military affairs in Eastern Xia.