In the desert of the month, the weather began to get hot, and the small group of scouts of the dragoon army ran almost all over the desert for more than a month, drawing maps and preparing for war. Under the leather whip, more than 10,000 coolies built a straight road from the desert to Wanzhou

In just two months, more than two thousand of them died.

This bloody practice aroused the anger of the Confucian officials, who protested to Leon, but Leon ignored them, and the dragoon soldiers drove the officials away, while the coolies continued to build roads under the scorching sun, and they once broke out into a riot.

But the desert soldiers who guarded them did not hesitate to cut off the heads of all those who made trouble.

"Roads are built from bones, and using the bones of outsiders is better than using the bones of Han people." Li Ang finally replied to the Confucian officials, "Go and do your own work, don't talk to me about benevolence, I don't like to hear it." ”

The Confucian officials were helpless about Li Ang's toughness, and more importantly, for such a thing, the people of the desert recognized it as normal, which made the Confucian officials waver for the first time in the way of the sage they had learned before.

"Chang'an's order has come down, and the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate has begun to mobilize troops, and the Metropolitan Governor wants us to secure the road." Ma Jun found Li Ang, "The 10,000 heavy motorized infantry of the Jinling Metropolitan Protectorate will arrive in a month's time, do you have any plans?" ”

"There are only 10,000 heavy motorized infantry, and no cavalry?" Li Ang glanced at Ma Jun and asked with a frown.

"Nope." Ma Jun spread his hands and said, "The Governor means that we will use these thirteen thousand people. Kill the horse thieves in the desert, he still feels that he has given us too many troops. After all, we still have 20,000 tribal alliances. ”

"Basically, there are enough people, so before those infantry arrive, crush the horse thieves who are watching and force them to the 'Prairie Fire'." Li Ang looked at Ma Jun, and there was a coldness in his voice.

"Now that nearly 60,000 horse thieves have gathered under the banner of 'Liaoyuan Fire', you have to force the remaining ones to watch to him." For Leon's words. Ma Jun was a little puzzled, he didn't know what this old friend was thinking.

"In the past two months, there has been almost no movement in the 'Liaoyuan Fire', if there is no one to secretly support his food and grass." Li Ang looked at Ma Jun, his eyes flashing with coldness, "Do you think a mere horse thief can raise so many people and horses?" ”

"You mean the Tielers." Ma Jun's brows furrowed, and when he heard Li Ang say this, he also felt that something was wrong.

"I was just trying to guard against the Tielers, but now it seems that they are really dishonest." Leon looked at the map. "If my guess is correct, the horse thieves who have gathered are also training."

"You're going to smash the horse thieves who are watching one by one. Drive them there, and increase the burden on the Tielerians, and force them to strike. Ma Jun had already thought of Li Ang's idea, with the strength of the Tiele people, they couldn't support those horse thieves for too much grain and grass for long.

"The coalition of horse thieves who gathered in a hurry used force with us, just looking for death." Leon nodded. "They also need time to regroup, and they don't have time to take care of it now that we send troops."

"In the next month, I plan to sweep away all the 40,000 horse thieves scattered everywhere." Li Ang looked at Ma Jun, "Those scouts under your command should have almost touched the terrain, right?" ”

"You can do it at any time, but you need to requisition the horses of those tribes so that you can stay mobile." The Ma Jun agreed to Leon's plan, and he and the Dragoons had come to fight.

"Well, call all the guerrillas and thousands of households to the big tent of the Chinese army." Leon punched the map, and the next month would be his first large-scale assault under the command of a large army.

The majestic sound of the horn echoed in the wind. The dragoon soldiers who were training the tribal alliance were all overjoyed when they heard the horn. They handed over military affairs in an orderly manner to the tribal officers who had been promoted during this time, and returned in an orderly manner according to their respective formations

When they arrived at their respective barracks, they put together their armor and weapons.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Ang looked at the officers present, unfolded the map of the whole desert drawn by the dragoon scouts, and drew the offensive route in the places where the horse thieves who were still watching were entrenched.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you have any objections now, please raise them." Looking at all the officers present, Li Ang asked in a deep voice, every officer sitting here has a good military education, and they are a group of real soldiers.

Looking at the offensive line drawn by Li Ang, the officers present began to exchange opinions with each other, and after a while, they did not express any objection to this offensive line.

"This expedition will be a standard Ranger assault tactic, in addition to the war horses for combat, each person must bring two camel horses, and no battalion will be assigned to a tribal officer who is familiar with the desert climate." Leon said in a deep voice, "Do you have anything to add?" ”

"If there is no addition, then each of them will go back to the camp, train the soldiers, and we will set off tonight." Glancing at the officers who had not replenished, Li Ang clenched his fist and struck it on his chest, "Great Qin Wuwei." ”

"Great Qin Wuwei!" After the officers tapped their cuirasses and responded to Li Ang's military salute, Yuguan withdrew from the Chinese army's tent.

As the sky grew darker and the last hot meal had been eaten, the soldiers of the Dragoons began to hang arrows, weapons, armor, and the essence of their own horses on the camels and horses provided to the desert tribes outside the city.

As the most elite light cavalry of Great Qin, the dragoons are not like the tiger and leopard cavalry or the black cavalry, they are equipped with long weapons for horses, and they only have three weapons, a longbow with a range of up to 1,000 steps and a 0.5 meter, and a repeater crossbow that can pierce armor within 150 steps

and a light saber with a curved arc.

Each person has six barrels, twenty-five longbow arrows, and ten barrels and ten removable repeater arrows. The dragoons emptied almost all the arrows brought by the baggage team before, and for the dragoons, who used long-range strikes as their main tactics, bows and crossbows

It is their main weapon, after all, the Shanzi light armor they wear weighs only eighteen catties, and it only protects the vital points on their chests.

looked at the iron wings and the group of leaders who came to see them off. Leon handed over the defense of the land after his departure to them, and asked them to continue to supervise the construction of the roads. They were allowed not to obey the orders of the Confucian officials in this matter.

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After building the city wall, Chen Xiaodie looked at the cavalry team in the distance, thinking that she was going to kill someone, she didn't know what was wrong with her, and she would care about that person's affairs. For a moment, she froze.

"Fluttershy." Chen Lang walked up to the city tower and looked at his niece, the expression on his face was a little hesitant, Li Ang refused his follow, but changed to a cooperative way, which made him a little hesitant, and he finally hit his niece with his idea, in his opinion, if this

If his niece can marry Leon, then his relationship with Leon will be very different.

Voices are heard. Fluttershy came back to her senses, and she looked at her uncle's strange expression. couldn't help but be stunned, she didn't know what was going on, so that this uncle, who has always been able to do things, was so hesitant and slurred.

"Uncle Three, what do you want to say to Fluttershy?" Looking at her uncle's hesitant face, Chen Xiaodie asked quietly. Her parents died early, and she was not a man, if it weren't for this third uncle who took care of her since she was a child, she might have married out of the Chen family and given to someone she didn't know

became a wife and a concubine.

"Fluttershy, it's time for you to get married." Looking at the beautiful niece in front of him, Chen Lang finally opened his mouth, "You are almost twenty years old, you will not follow the third uncle for the rest of your life, in fact, General Li is a good person." What if you marry him? ”

"Third uncle, didn't you say you wouldn't mention this matter again?" Chen Xiaodie interrupted her uncle's words. Looking at this man who brought her up since she was a child, there were indescribable complex feelings in his eyes, for the sake of his future, he still had to give her up, in the end, but

He had the right to do so, and if it weren't for him, she might have been forced by the elders of the family to marry someone she didn't know.

"Fluttershy, will you help Uncle Three this time?" Chen Lang looked at his niece with a sad look in her eyes, and finally relented and said everything, which is also a good thing for Fluttershy, she will understand later! Chen Lang excused himself in his heart, but he forgot that he was like this

For his niece, it is a kind of betrayal and abandonment.

Looking at her uncle who opened her mouth to beg her, Chen Xiaodie suddenly laughed, and her laughter was a little sad, "Third uncle, I promise you." She laughed softly to herself, "Isn't it a bad thing to marry a young general?" ”

"Fluttershy, if you make sense, if you figure it out." Listening to his niece's words, Chen Lang raised his head and said again and again, but when he saw the eyes that suddenly became unfamiliar, he froze, and then he knew that the niece before was dead and was standing now

All he had in front of him was a stranger.

"It's late at night, the third uncle should go back and rest early!" Chen Xiaodie gave a salute, although the ceremony was comprehensive, but it did not have the kind of care that should be in the words, but it seemed to be saying something that had nothing to do with her.

"The third uncle knows that you must hate the third uncle in your heart." Looking at the niece in front of him, Chen Lang muttered, "But the third uncle doesn't want to do it either." Talking to himself, Chen Lang turned around and walked down the city tower, and the long shadow in the moonlight suddenly looked a little old, betrayed for a high position in the future

There are many people with family affection, but they can be treated calmly, and there are only a few people who are unmoved in their hearts.

Looking at the somewhat old figure, Chen Xiaodie felt a little unbearable, she wanted to say a few good words, but those words were finally blocked in her throat, and she couldn't say anything, and only after the old figure completely disappeared from her sight did she cry,

From now on, she was alone.

Under the moonlight, the three thousand dragoons galloped slowly through the desert, and they were going to attack nearly twenty horse thieves' dens in succession in the next month, and tonight, they were going to break through a horse thief's lair one hundred and twenty miles away before dawn came

After about two hours of marching, Leon halted his ranks, and they dismounted on foot, climbed over a hill, and appeared directly behind the horse thief's lair.

In the dark woods, the dragoon soldiers led their horses through the paths, each of them looking calm, so calm that the tribal officers who accompanied the army thought they were veterans of countless battles. In fact, at present, in the Great Qin Army, except

Except for the border army of the Beiting Protectorate and the border army of the Anxi Protectorate in the river, most of the troops of Great Qin have no battlefield experience, but their training is enough to make up for everything, high-intensity training and the iron-blooded tradition in the army for one hundred and fifty years, let them be right

Yu Killing has an unusually calm state of mind.

After more than an hour, the dragoons came out of the mountains and forests, and the night's march had already made them feel tired, although they could still attack immediately at this time, but Leon did not like impatient action, and he gave the order for the whole army to be repaired,

Only the most elite scout cavalry were sent out to reconnoiter the movements of the horse thieves' lair, which was less than ten miles away.

The accompanying tribal officers looked at the dragoons who fell asleep almost immediately on their horses, and arrived a little incredulous, they didn't understand why these soldiers of Great Qin could actually say that they could sleep and once the order was given, except for the soldiers on guard, it

Everyone else closed their eyes at once, but in a few moments they heard snoring.

As the most elite existence in an army, the work of scouts is always the most dangerous, but every soldier still aspires to become a scout, because it represents duty and honor, and for an elite army like the Dragoons, scouts are almost all hundreds

Pick one of the best.

After dismounting and approaching the horse thief's lair, these elite dragoon scouts began to investigate what the officers were interested in, such as the defensive structure of the camp, the location of the outlying sentinels, and so on. A few scouts even went straight into the camp of the horse thieves and dealt with him

As far as we are concerned, a horse thief camp with a simple fence and antlers cannot be called a real barracks at all, but a group of tents on a larger scale.

More than half an hour later, after leaving the observation post, the scouts returned to their own camp and returned the information they had collected to Li Ang and the others. Looking at the structure of the horse thief camp drawn by the scouts, Leon couldn't help but be surprised by these scouts, he didn't know who the dragoons were

How to train scouts, it was possible to do this, but he was soon relieved, the founding emperor of Great Qin was likely to be the same person as him, and it was not uncommon for the Great Qin Legion to master military training skills beyond his contemporaries.