In the desert, there is only one truth that the various tribes believe in, the strong is the king, for Luo, only by relying on the strong can they survive, and Daqin is the most powerful in their minds, in just over a month, there are nearly 100 small tribes driving their cattle, sheep and horses, like the Red Cloud Mountain, their arrival has greatly increased Li Ang's labor and troops, but it has also caused huge food pressure.

In a month, Chen Lang used all his money to buy the surplus grain of several large tribes in the desert in a short period of time, supporting the growing population outside Hongyun Mountain. For Li Ang, the basis for ruling the desert is food, and as long as there is enough food, the desert can become the real territory of Great Qin.

"The current surplus is almost untenable." In the big tent, Chen Lang finally saw Li Ang, who had not seen him for a long time, and told him about the trouble he encountered, the grain he bought from several large tribes nearby was almost unbearable, and the people he sent to Wanzhou to buy grain were ambushed by a group of horse thieves ten days ago, although there was no loss to people, but all the grain was robbed.

"There's no need to rush." Li Ang glanced at the somewhat anxious businessman, and still gave him a small scroll in his hand, "Wanzhou has already mobilized officials, craftsmen and grain to come over, and the elite troops of the Anxi Protectorate will come with them, and they will arrive in half a month." ”

"Starting tomorrow, food rationing will take place." Li Ang glanced at Chen Lang, who was holding the paper scroll with a relieved face, and said coldly, "Those horse thieves who ambushed your grain team, I will personally clean them up." ”

Li Ang did not let Chen Lang reveal the news of the arrival of the regular army of Great Qin to those tribal leaders and the people, and he wanted to see the food shortage for half a month. What did those tribes do, and how many of them really belonged to the Great Qin Land.

After the rationing of food. Just as Leon had predicted, the undercurrent began to surge, and some people began to take the lead in making trouble on the construction site of the city, and Leon dealt with it in a very simple way, and he was willing to continue to work and stay. Those who did not wish to work could leave, but there would be no shortage of rations for them.

"Daddy, why are we still working here, look at those people, they don't work, don't they still have to eat and drink." Under the sun, Arley looked at his father, and wondered why he wanted to keep himself working, along with his brothers and uncle.

"Cubs, there is nothing to eat for nothing in this world, don't look at them happy now. They will suffer greatly in the future. "I glanced at the people who were pointing and laughing at the builders in the shade. Bu Su said to his son, "Do your job, go to the military tent at night, learn more Chinese characters, and become a Han in the future." ”

"Dad, why do we want to be Han." Arley picked up a piece of wood. He asked his father, he didn't know why they were Han, and as he spoke, he looked at a few brothers in the distance who were not yet very old.

"When we become Han Chinese, we are no longer barbarians, we can eat well, get dressed, there will be no more stench on our bodies, we can live in the city, and we no longer have to be in the field with the wind and sand. Sleep with cows and sheep, as long as you don't break the law. The headmen can't beat and scold you at will. Bu Su glanced at his son, shook his head and replied.

"The Chinese dialect is good, what's the name?" Li Ang, who was inspecting the progress of the construction of the city, heard the conversation between the father and son from afar, in the desert, Chinese is one of the common languages, and there are not many people who understand it, but there are many people, but there are fewer literate people.

"Your Excellency." Seeing Li Ang dressed in black, Bu Su pulled his son to kneel, "Xiaodi's name is Bu Su, this is my son Bu Lei." ”

"Get up, what you just told your son is right, there is nothing to eat for free in this world, and if you want to get it, you have to pay." After Li Ang let the father and son stand up, he looked at the work they were doing and nodded, "I can see that you are an honest man and you are doing a good job, from today onwards, you will be the foreman here." ”

"Iron Wing, write their names to your tribe." Leon looked back at Tie Yi behind him and commanded.

"Thank you, thank you, your lord." Bu Su pulled his son and knelt down again, and his name was written into the Tieyan Department, so that in the future, as soon as the officials of the Great Qin Zhang's household registration arrived, they could join the Han nationality and become a Han Chinese.

"Daddy, that person's eyes look so scary, I looked at it, and my legs were a little weak." When Leon was far away, Ah Lei said to his father beside him.

"Bastard, that lord is General Li, a god who killed a thousand horse thieves by himself." Bu Su taught his son the disrespectful language, and patted his head, "Remember, you will be called an adult in the future." ”

"He is General Li, how did I hear the third uncle say that General Li is so tall and his hands are so thick." Arebi asked, looking surprised.

"Don't listen to your third uncle's nonsense, do your job." Bu Su drove his son aside, to be honest, he was still a little dizzy in his heart now, he really met a nobleman, God bless, he muttered in his mouth, and got to work again.

Looking at the small number of people who had built the city, Li Ang turned to look at the tribal men gathered in the distance, his eyes were cold, since these people themselves gave up this opportunity to express their loyalty to Great Qin, then they couldn't blame him for being ruthless in the future.

"My lord, those people are just cheap, in fact, as long as they take a whip, they will work obediently." Seeing the grim look on Li Ang's face, Tie Yi's heart jumped and he said on the side.

"No, let them go." Li Ang waved his hand and left the place where the city was built, looking at his background, Tie Yi unconsciously shuddered, he had a feeling that those people would be miserable in the future.

The impact of the lack of food is not only reflected in the construction of the city, but even the mixed tribal alliance army is also in chaos, those soldiers who were incorporated later because the days are still short, under the greeting of the original heads, they immediately returned to the original tribe, for these people, Li Ang directly asked Huang Yuan and Dugu Xiao to take them to train the troops for some days, directly disarmed these people, drove them to those who did not want to work, and raised them in captivity, and those leaders were cut off their heads and hung on the flagpole to show the public.

At night, Li Ang glanced at the soldiers selected by Huang Yuan and Dugu Xiao, and jumped on the war horse. He had already found out the thieves who had plundered the grain and set up camp in the mountain pass two hundred miles away. There were three hundred people in all, and they were just a small group of horse thieves, and Li Ang concluded in his heart that these people had been instigated by others to dare to rob the grain team, and the purpose was just to

The reaction, though just some poor cannon fodder. But they still have to pay the price for their love.

In the dark, the sound of horses' hooves shook the earth, listening to this sound, Chen Xiaodie couldn't help but feel cold in her heart, she knew that the executioner-like man had gone to kill again, she didn't understand, in that man's eyes, what human life was, why he would treat human life as the same as weeds, and kill if he wanted. No mercy. Glancing at the few heads carried on the flagpole in the camp, she hurried back to the tent. She thought she hated, even hated the man.

Galloping in the wind, feeling the sound of the wind whistling in his ears, Leon calculated the distance, and for more than a month, he was often absent from the camp. It's just that he and Feng Shatule have traveled hundreds of miles in a radius, drawing maps, and it is not boastful to say that he knows the terrain of hundreds of miles around here more clearly than the people who live here.

Li Ang restrained the horses, and the cavalry behind him also stopped, and when he turned around, Li Ang looked at Huang Yuan Tule and said, "Wrap the horse's hooves in a thick cloth." Slow forward. On his command, five hundred tribal soldiers dismounted and wrapped their horses in thick coarse cloth. Then he rode across the creek, and at less than half the speed of his gallop, ran toward the distant mountain pass.

Less than ten miles from the pass, Leon dismounted, led his horses with his troops, and ambushed them on both sides of the valley, and then he himself took Fengsha and Tule to the sentries of the horse thieves at the pass.

In the col that can accommodate about four horses in and out, the horse thief has set up two guard towers, there are four people on each guard tower, the guard is extremely careful, looking at the position on the guard tower, Li Ang frowned, these two guard towers are not far away, it is difficult to pull them out one by one without being noticed, he looked back at Tulfeng Sha, "You two go over there, remember to move cleanly." ”

"My lord, are you alone?" Seeing that Leon was planning to take out a watchtower alone, Feng Sha and Thule couldn't help but be a little worried.

"Assassination, I'm better than you." Leon said to the two of them, and then a man had snuck to the watchtower on the right, climbed up the steep slope, and when he was close to the spire of the watchtower, he jumped lightly and landed firmly on the top of the watchtower, and after glancing at the position of the four horse thieves inside from the edge, he looked at the watchtower on the other side, where the sand had climbed to the edge of the watchtower, with a short knife in his mouth, and Thule was in the shadow under the watchtower, aiming there with a crossbow.

From time to time, Tulle looked at Leon on the other side of the watchtower, waiting for the signal of his attack, and finally Leon, who was lying on the top of the watchtower, hooked his feet to the arch wood on the top of the watchtower, and the whole person drooped silently.

When Tulle saw this, he immediately looked back at himself to clear the target of the watchtower, and after counting three times silently, he pulled the crossbow machine, and in the short time that he silently counted three times, Leon, who was lying upside down, had already broken the neck of a horse thief in the watchtower where he was, and turned over and landed in the watchtower.

In the sound of the soft whistling strings, the two horse thieves who were standing close were nailed beyond recognition by the crossbow fired by Tulle, and the arms of Feng Sha, who were lurking under the watchtower, rose into the sky, jumped into the watchtower, the short knife in his mouth fell, copied in his hand, and cut the throat of the horse thief closest to him, and then at the moment when the other horse thief came to his senses, he strode and punched him in the mouth, and then Tulle's rewound crossbow arrow penetrated through the back of his head and ended his life.

When the dust on Feng Sha and Thule's side settled, the battle here was over, and as soon as his body landed in the watchtower, he had already jumped into the air, his feet twisted around the neck of the horse thief on the left, and the short knife in his hand slashed through the throats of the other two horse thieves at the moment when his body was parallel to the air, and he had killed three of them before the rabbit fell to the ground.

With his hands on the ground, Li Ang let go of the horse thief who was strangled by his feet, and with a muffled sound, he looked to another place, only to see that Feng Sha and Thule had also cleaned up the four horse thieves who were guarded, and stood up, after Li Ang got off the guard tower, he let Huang Yuan and Dugu Xiao lead the people into the mountain pass.

The night was dark and the wind was high, and after looking at the quiet horse thief camp tent in the mountain col, after Li Ang made a gesture, Huang Yuan and Dugu Xiao let out their soldiers in a team of fifty people, along both sides of the mountain pass, outflanked them, and then began a silent night attack, tonight Huang Yuan and the soldiers they brought were all good shooters in the tribal alliance.

Each of them carried two barrels of feather arrows, all of which were painted black with ink, and in the dark night wind, it was impossible to see clearly, and only when these fierce black feather arrows came in front of you, you could vaguely see clearly, but by then it was over.

The coalition soldiers on both sides of the pass began to pour out the black feathered arrows, and the rain of arrows fell into the camp of the horse thieves, and with the screams, the horse thieves woke up, but they were greeted only by the rain of black arrows, and they did not know how many people were attacking them in the dark.

In the screams, the horse thieves shouted loudly, trying to join their nearby companions, but their voices only became the guides of the coalition soldiers, and the endless rain of arrows destroyed the morale of these horse thieves, and all they could do in the dark was to blindly swing their swords, they only had three hundred people, and the tribal coalition that sneaked into the col and attacked them was five hundred, they were not opponents in the first place, and now they did not even have a chance to resist.

When the rain of arrows fell, there was no sound in the pass except a wail and a groan. The coalition soldiers lit their torches and walked to the camp of the horse thieves with knives, they wanted to deal with the rest of the people, hiding under the corpses of their companions, and there were more than fifty uninjured horse thieves, they wanted to pretend to be dead and escape, but those coalition soldiers who came from afar, but they were stabbing every dead or wounded body, so they had to resist, desperately, they killed dozens of tribal coalition soldiers, and then they were cut into meat sauce.

Looking at the enraged coalition soldiers, a dozen people kept waving their knives at the corpses of the resisting horse thieves, Leon shook his head, these people were still too far from the soldiers, a soldier would kill the enemy, but he would not abuse the enemy's corpse.

Half an hour later, Leon frowned in disgust as he looked at the coalition soldiers who had looted the carcasses of the horse thieves, and after giving the order to the owl, he left the coalition soldiers who took pleasure in killing.