Chen Cheng came to the extreme west earlier than Lin San and the others, but he never came to the north, but stayed in the Hezhong area to join the longitudinal company.

The political center of the Golden Horde was in the south, and in the north there were only forests and long winters, which were absolutely unsuitable for human existence.

In the vicinity of the city of Donlin, later Yekaterinburg, hundreds of thousands of Bashkirs lived.

The Bashkirs can also be said to be a bitter people, they dominated one side in the early years, and the Bulgarians who had been bullied did not dare to come east. But when Meng Yuan moved westward, those who were killed by Meng Yuan only dared to disperse in the forest.

Their complex beliefs and ethnic composition caused them to be at odds with each other, and eventually gradually declined.

After the decline of the Mongols, they were exploited by the Bilm and Novgorodians in turn, and the Uzbeks in the south used them as a logistics base.

However, it is precisely because of the complex situation and the weakness of the Bashkirs that they have left a respite. From a hundred years ago, Bashkir City, the largest city originally built on the banks of the White River, has become a trading center for the surrounding powers, and it has gradually developed.

The city of Bashkir is about a thousand miles southwest of the city of Tanglin, and it was the center of Bashkir life. But just 400 miles south of Tanglin City, there is also a Bashkir settlement, which is also the Chelyabinsk of later generations.

Lin San and their arrival in Tanglin City violated the interests of the Bashkirs, and they also wanted to expel Lin San and them, but they were repulsed, and they could only acquiesce to Lin San's existence.

Through the surrounding tribes, Chen Cheng already knew about Lin San's existence. But because of the arrival of winter, he is not worried about their safety.

Because in winter, the weather is cold, and it is difficult to replenish. Although the Turks and the Slavs were in conflict, wars were constant. But here it has been more than a hundred years, and there has never been a war in winter.

Hearing that the Grand Duke of Moscow forced the Novgorod Principality and the Bilm Principality to form a coalition army, and instead wanted to take advantage of the winter to wipe out Lin San and them, Chen Cheng was anxious.

Don't be surprised, Lin San, who is all within easy reach, has no local intelligence network at all. But Chen Cheng has now turned those yellow-skinned Mongols, Uzbeks, and even those Turks into allies of the Ming Dynasty.

Now Zheng Heng and the others are still enjoying the local beauties in Broken Leaf City, and only occasionally go out to train, relying on Chen Cheng's achievements from coming over a few months in advance.

The Mengyuan people have been frightened by the Ming people, and the Ming muskets have no opponents at all in this era, and no one is willing to face them.

Moreover, compared with the Ming people, those pagans who exude a foul smell are what the Mengyuan people hate more.

It has been almost a hundred years since the fall of the Golden Horde, and those stinkers who bite from them today and from them tomorrow have long made a group of elders of the Golden Horde hate it to the core.

Just a few years ago, the self-proclaimed Slavs had almost stormed Batu Saray, the capital of the Golden Horde, forcing a band of Turks and Mongols to cede a large area of fertile land around the eastern bank of the Volga (Kazan).

The Ming in the south were dealing with their enemy, the Western Chahatai Khanate, and now the north was starting to deal with those stinky people, whether it was the Eastern Chahatai Khanate or the Golden Horde, most of them were supportive.

One of the key reasons for this is that the Ming taught them cotton cultivation five years ago.

There are large areas of fertile land and pastures in the middle of the river, but more often than not, the Gobi Desert. Although cotton also has a demand for land and a great demand for water, the most important thing in the river area is the river and land.

In later generations, it was a famous cotton-producing area, and now Zhu Zhanji has only advanced this matter by a few hundred years.

There is no need to rob anymore, the merchants of the Ming Dynasty will take the initiative to send all kinds of exquisite fabrics, silk, tea, and porcelain.

Most of the tribal elders organized their own convoys and started a transportation business. It is also because of them that the grain and grass that Daming has prepared for three years this time can be transported to the river.

Moreover, what was originally prepared was enough for 300,000 troops, two or three years of food, but now the number of people is less than half, which is equivalent to half of the food Daming took the initiative to give them, as long as they transported the remaining half to the periphery of Broken Leaf City.

This relationship of interests is more stable than any alliance, especially those tribes who have taken refuge in the Ming Dynasty and regard the Ming as the suzerain, and have gained more benefits.

Chen Cheng can now mix in the river, and even wooed the Uzbeks who were originally hostile to the Ming Dynasty, mainly relying on this kind of benefit delivery.

Without interest, how could the Uzbeks be willing to send more than 5,000 cavalry to help him fight a battle.

Fighting is a death.

And in addition to the Uzbeks, who are the most bitter now, other tribes also have their own needs, and he can also put together this army of 10,000 people.

It's a pity that there was no plan at the beginning, and he didn't receive orders, so he didn't dare to borrow troops from Zheng Heng.

Otherwise, with only 5,000 Ming musketeers, Chen Cheng would be confident in repelling the Slavic coalition.

He was very clear about Zhu Zhanji's layout of Lin San and them, and he also knew that Zhu Zhanji attached great importance to the Han people settling in this extreme west.

But no matter how important they are, Lin San and they are just a bunch of civilians, if they ask Zheng Heng to borrow troops and miss the emperor's major affairs, even Zhu Zhanji can't protect him.

Of course, it is more likely that Jung Hyung will directly drive him out.

Even the promises he made to these tribes now were still on his own without reporting.

He also knew that doing less and making fewer mistakes and doing more mistakes would be wrong, but he couldn't watch Lin San and them being wiped out.

Now his greatest hope is that Lin San and the others can withstand the attack, otherwise, they can only wait until they capture Samarkand before they can avenge them.

The northwest region is vast, and when he got the news, he was in the Uzbek tribe in Daqing Lake, which was 5,000 miles away from Tanglin City.

And that's just the distance on the map, in fact, many places have to cross rivers and detours, making the journey even more difficult.

Even if they were all cavalrymen, they could not travel more than three hundred miles in a day. Now he can only do his best and obey the destiny of heaven.

But the situation was more optimistic than he thought, although Lin San and the others were just ordinary people, they were all physically strong and young, and most of them were originally bandits and bandits.

These people may usually be greedy for life and afraid of death, but in this place where they have no support, they can only huddle together and resist together.

And the Slavs, although hardy, are only relatively speaking, they are also human beings, and they also need adequate supplies, and when there is nothing to eat, they will also starve to death and freeze to death.

After being besieged for more than half a month, although they almost had to storm the camp several times, a large part of the wooden wall and the horses were burned.

But at this time, everyone will work together to kill the enemy.

They don't know how many enemies there are, they are all from those tribes. But they knew that as long as the defenses were breached, none of them would survive.

This is not a personal vendetta, this is a struggle between different peoples for their lives and for their territory, and it must end with one side being wiped out.

And the bitter cold here also makes everyone afraid, if there is no stable supply of affairs, they will run out, and they will definitely not survive.

What's more, that Master Mao has already controlled all the horses, and no one can ride them.

They are now counting on the enemy's limited supplies and not being able to support them for long. After coming here for a few months, they know very well that the surrounding tribes are all bitter, and no tribe can supply food for tens of thousands of people for a long time to fight.

They also sent people to the south to ask for help, but they didn't know if the four people sent out would be able to get out of the forest alive.

Although the situation was tense, but after many days of tug-of-war, Lin San's losses were not large.

One is that they are all strong and strong, and they are ready to work. The second is that their weapons are advanced, whether they are spears or long knives, they are sharper than the enemy.

In the end, the cotton armor on their bodies is solid, ordinary bows and arrows cannot penetrate, and the enemy's swords are only a cut, or they will die.

Most of the enemies they faced had no cotton clothes, and they lacked fabric, so they could only wrap cotton in animal skins for warmth.

In the face of Da Ming's knives and guns, they will lose their combat effectiveness as long as they are injured.

When they set out, there were exactly five thousand people, and there were more than four hundred young women. In these months, there have been several battles, more than three hundred people have been lost, and four or five hundred more have been sent back, and four thousand two hundred.

Together with the attachés sent by the various ministries of the imperial court, they were barely able to fight with a force of 4,400 men.

Even the women, all these days, are mobilized, lighting fires, cooking, and treating the wounded.

More than 100 people have died and more than 300 have been injured in the past half month.

But the enemy was even worse, losing more than two thousand men in these days.

This was thanks to the fact that they had fifty muskets in their hands.

Because of the cold, the bow and arrow are not powerful, but the musket does not lose its power because of the temperature.

And most of the time, this kind of musket can't kill people directly, but it will seriously injure the opponent. If one person is injured, it takes at least two people to treat them, which also consumes a lot of their strength.

And this kind of lead bullet is not easy to bear, there is no special herb, as long as it is shot, the wound will deteriorate, and almost all will be tortured to death.

The death of these people brought greater fear to the enemy, and the morale of the enemy became more and more low.

This kind of morale of eliminating the advantages of one over the other greatly affects the enemy's offensive momentum. And from the enemy's dress, Mao Yanliang also saw that the enemy was not a tribe.

During these days, he arranged for the musketeers to shoot specifically at a small tribe, causing the enemy's morale to waver.

Although there is a lack of intelligence, it is impossible to understand the relationship between the enemy camp. However, just by the fact that a tribe wanted to leave a few days ago, and they started killing each other, you can know that the enemy will not hold out for long.

However, everyone was still worried, because most of the enemy's forces had not moved, and they could fight with less than four thousand men, and there were hundreds of women, and there was still little hope of relying on these people to repel the enemy.

Although two soldiers of Yulin Weixue were sent to the south to find reinforcements, it was still unpredictable when the reinforcements would arrive and whether they would arrive.

On this day, it snowed heavily, and the sky and the earth were even more solemn.

The cold weather made the enemy dare not linger in front of the formation, except for the time of attack, they also retreated to the large camp five miles away.

Mao Yanliang sent people to observe the enemy's camp, they had enough animal skins and tents, although they were not as warm as the wooden houses in Tanglin City, but these people were very resistant to frost.

I don't know the details of the other party, and the number of people is at a disadvantage. Mao Yanliang didn't dare to arrange an attack on the camp at night, and if he didn't force it to the last step, most people still thought it was safer to stay in the camp.

It was also on this day that the spies reported that the enemy seemed to be withdrawing.

Mao Yanliang couldn't believe it at first, and sent several teams of people out in a row, and the news he got was like this.

Gao Yang'er and they went to see it in person, and finally determined that the enemy had really withdrawn.

If it is a regular soldier, at this time it will be known that there is a reason for the incident, and then a team of people will be arranged to follow them, and a team of people will expand the search area and determine the reason.

But they didn't dare, so they could only return to the camp in a daze. At this time, even Mao Yanliang couldn't command them.

Until the evening, countless cavalry appeared in front of everyone along the river. The whole village was in a panic.

Although there were many enemies at the beginning, most of them were infantry, and they were more like guerrillas.

But now, in the snow-colored light, countless cavalry came along the frozen river, and the fear was all the more desperate.

A rocket rose and lit up a piece of heaven and earth, and the four Yulin Weixue soldiers who were sent out walked in front on horseback. "Inform Master Mao that Chen Langzhong has brought the Uzbeks to save us."

The camp was boiling, and everyone looked at each other, some of them couldn't believe their ears.

Mao Yanliang looked at Hou Qiang, who was a little surprised, and stood on the wall and asked, "I have only sent you for a few days, thousands of miles apart, how can I find reinforcements?" Who is Chen Langzhong? Where did these reinforcements come from? ”

"Chen Langzhong has long known the other party's attack plan, but the road is far away, and it took half a month to get to us. Master Mao, we are not surrendering to the enemy, Chen Langzhong is His Royal Highness's henchman! ”

Mao Yanliang was stunned in his heart, Chen Langzhong, who can be called His Royal Highness's confidant, only Chen Cheng in his impression is Gongbu Langzhong. Although this person is only a five-grade langzhong, because he controls the Xiamaqiao Farm for His Royal Highness, everyone in the capital knows about it.

At this time, a carriage slowly stopped on the ice, and Chen Cheng got out of the carriage under the light of the torches of several guards.

Chen Chenglang laughed and said: "Mao Zongqi, it's freezing this day, why don't you open the gate of the village and let us drink hot soup." ”

Seeing the person who came clearly, Mao Yanliang was overjoyed, and there was no longer any suspicion. "Open the gate of the village and greet Chen Langzhong."

Mao Yanliang is just a small general banner of Jinyiwei, but he has also been fortunate to see Chen Cheng a few times, and the appearance of Chen Cheng, a celebrity in front of Zhu Zhanji, gave him a feeling of escape.

When the gates were wide open, he trotted out to meet them. "Chen Langzhong, I almost lost my life here!"

Chen Cheng laughed and said: "These Slavic stinkers don't know the height of the sky, and they dare to do something to you. Now the imperial court can't spare manpower to deal with them, stay until next summer, and see that I don't let people burn their Moscow! ”