"This time, it seems that it is really going to win Banshengdi and Qingcheng. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

"There are so many people, so many."

People were talking about it, and Zhao Wen's face was ugly.

Some people have lost their loved ones, or have no relatives at all, and they follow the brigade with an attitude of indifference. Some people hope that the merchant army can take down the territory as soon as possible and bring their relatives to live together.

These captives said that they were farming for He Yusheng, which was considered slave labor, but He Yusheng was not bad for them, they were well fed, and there were collective dormitories to live in, and if the whole family was captured, they would be given three huts to live in, and they could start to calculate their wages after a year, and the wages were not low.

This kind of life is much better than farming for the Mongols in Banshengdi, at least without worrying about being humiliated or beaten at will.

Coupled with the guidance of Kong Minxing and other farmland and water conservancy personnel, the captives obviously found that they were more comfortable in farming and would have higher harvests.

The most important thing is that a large amount of cotton will be planted in the future, according to the promise of Yusheng personnel, the wage of planting cotton and picking cotton is much higher than that of planting vegetables and wheat beans, and even more than several times.

Cotton is difficult to collect by machine, hundreds of years later, Xinjiang and other places still hire a large number of people to harvest cotton, workers in Shaanxi go to Xinjiang to pick cotton every cotton picking season, and in a short time can earn income that cannot be earned for more than half a year.

In this era, cotton planting and cotton picking is also a highly profitable industry, in Kong Minxing demarcation of cotton fields are the most suitable plots to select, in later generations here is also one of the few cotton production land in Inner Mongolia, light and daily management of cotton growth is extremely important, insect pest control is also extremely important, cotton picking technology and time, is also very important.

If it weren't for the particularity of cotton, it would not be until now, people in many places in Daming are still used to wearing linen instead of cotton cloth, let alone wearing thick cotton jackets with cotton in winter.

Just a real padded jacket is worth the months to earn.

With the promise of planting and picking cotton next year to raise wages, the captives were sure and even full of hope for the future.

Zhao Wen is different from others, his family is very wealthy, and he has never lacked clothes and clothes. Now, of course, he also knows the suffering, and has his own plans and ideas for the future, but it is imperative that Zhao Wen hopes that Zhao and Rong will no longer be obsessed, if the Zhao family is still tied to the Mongols, it will end up ruined.

"There are really a lot of people......" Despite the heavy concerns, when he arrived at the riverside of Xiaoheihe, Zhao Wen couldn't help but sigh.

There are tents everywhere along the river, and one tent represents about ten to twelve people, and the tent in front of you is simply not visible at all.

Li Shanxin said a little mysteriously: "I heard a few auxiliary soldiers chatting and said that the auxiliary soldiers of each fort have almost been exhausted, leaving only the most basic fort guards, and the farmers are almost all over because they are farming. Only the copper mine is very important, and there are no people from there. ”

"That's going to have to be tens of thousands."

"Pretty much." Li Shanxin said: "They said that this is the final stage, as long as you take the estuary and take the best attack point from Xiaohei River to Banshengdi, the rest is to lay down Bansheng City and Qingcheng." ”

Zhao Wensi pondered: "No wonder even the Lancer Regiment has been transferred back from the west. ”

"There is a cavalry regiment to take over their defense of the sleeve and Ordos." Li Shanxin looked indifferent, not worried about the old master at all.

Most of the captives have the same attitude as Li Shanxin, they are farming in Mongolia, and the bullying and injustice they encounter are no less than in the mainland, although the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are not as much as in the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty at least does not have to worry about being beaten by the drunk Mongolian herdsmen at will, and even being put on their feet with ropes, and pulled far on the grass as a joke, and when the Mongolians are happy, the kidnapped people are also drenched in blood.

In addition to the White Lotus cultists who voluntarily ran and the people who fled, there were also quite a number of Han people in Banshengdi who were plundered by the Mongols when they hit the grass valley before, and they had no good impression of the Mongols, and the previous resistance and dodging were just a subconscious dodge and panicked reaction, of course, there were many people who felt that they were instigated by Zhao, Rong and other Han merchants, which made many people look at Zhao Wen very unfriendly, fortunately, Zhao Wen also had a group of good friends around him, otherwise it was likely to end badly.

Across the small black river, which is more than ten zhang wide, you can clearly see the situation on the other side.

Hundreds of paces away on the opposite bank are a large number of tents, and there are also flocks of sheep moving around the tents, and some shepherds are shepherding sheep or horses with long poles.

I don't know if it's a delusion or if it's really as everyone feels, but the shepherd on the other side feels listless and can't lift the appearance of God.

Occasionally, there will be dozens of Mongolian cavalry in armor riding horses close to the river, looking at the other side of the river, the river water is very clear, you can see a lot of swimming fish, there are many people fishing with iron forks by the river, and even using water to catch, for many Han people who have lived by the river since childhood, this thing is not difficult at all, for the Mongolians these things are simply offensive, they do not want to get close to the water, and will not go to catch river fish, seeing the Han people playing and fishing by the river, the cavalry is obviously very angry, but there is no cavalry to shoot arrows to drive away, A river could not stop them, but the muzzles of the cannons on the cart formations of the chariot battalions by the river were the weapons to contain the anger of the Mongols. Even in anger, these Mongols knew that their bows and arrows were far from being comparable to those artillery, this was a lesson learned with blood and life, and no one would risk their lives again.

A few hundred paces from the riverbank, a herd of yellow-fured camels lay on the ground, their huge tents were set up, and the herdsmen made fires with dried reeds by the river, and cooked porridge and mutton in copper pots in front of the big tents, and the smell of meat filled the air.

In front of the tent was an iron spear with a bull's head and a sheep's tail on its head, and on either side of the spear were a few nak'er in iron armor, their eyes melancholy and frightened, and at their side were several hounds tied to them, which saw too many people on the other side, and barked vigorously.

Batteltaiji was seen stepping out of the tent and stepping on top of the blanket at the door.

A group of Taiji stepped out with him, and people also saw a large number of armored cavalry, some Taiji seemed to have turned out the iron armor captured from the Song people out of the moldy storehouse, this estuary seems to have gathered the last strength of the Mongols with a heart, under the convening of the old Battell, not only the five Taiji have come, bringing the strongest armor soldiers, and even the Taiji of the Tumut tribes who are shrinking in the area of Qingcheng have also come a lot, they did not bring too many herdsmen, but just brought their own elite soldiers and strong generals as much as possible.

……

After dark, the south bank of the Little Black River is still filled with fragrance, the cooks begin to cook at dusk, before it is dark, the men and prisoners and the soldiers from all over the country are in place, tents are all over the mountains, and you can see the star-like lights for a long time along the river.

In addition to the 30,000 men and men, there were two regiments of infantry, one regiment of artillery, and one regiment of cavalry.

This is an incomparably large team, because it has to cross the estuary head-on and attack Bansheng City and Qingcheng together with the Guihua Fort in the west, the military division has concentrated a considerable number of troops here to ensure that Qingcheng can be conquered at the first time and determine the dominance of this grassland.

As for whether Xi Lingse will take the initiative to give up and flee to Mobei, the military secretary does not have too much worry.

After all, Qingcheng is the ruling center of Tumut, this kind of city is not to give up just to give up, and there are not many ruthless people who can give up the foundation as an altar and jar casually, and there are not many in any era.

Even if they wanted to escape, Yang Sisun and Zhu Dayong were also copying the northern back road to Qingcheng along the Daqing Mountain Range, and the military division did not rush to storm the estuary, just to give the Mongols some illusions.

When Bateltaiji and others looked out a few hundred meters away from the mouth of the river, Zhang Han also saw the old Mongolian man, he admired the remnants of the blood of these Mongolians at the moment of survival, although it was not much and so reluctant, but he also had some pity, if the old Taiji on the other side knew that the reason why they could still put on a posture of resistance was because Zhang Han deliberately relaxed the time of the attack because of the advice of the military commander, then what would these bloody Mongolians think, and what kind of expressions would they make......

The Chinese tent was in the middle of the tent area, less than a mile from the river.

Zhang Han rode a horse through the brightly lit tents, the tent areas were one after another, but the distance was far away, the various areas were well arranged, from food and lodging to sanitation and treatment were in good order, each company, each brigade, and each regiment were separated, and even the people lived according to certain rules.

In this case, even if some miracle happens, Genghis Khan's descendants suddenly come to attack with tens of thousands of people, and layers of resistance and counterattack will teach them what is a serious army camp in minutes.

……

Sun Yao pinched his brows, the tent was filled with a strong smell of tobacco, almost everyone in the army was smoking guns now, and Sun Yao himself was no exception, but smoking and being smoked by the smell of tobacco were really two different things.

Zhang Han himself endured it, and he was also a big smoker in later generations, but in this world, he can't break his precepts with his status and status, otherwise he won't have cigarettes, he will hold a cigarette pot in his hand like everyone else, and his image will be ruined.

Fortunately, people who don't smoke don't have nicotine dependence, and Zhang Han just has some psychological temptations, which are easy to overcome.

He was also very smoky, but he still sat in the chair in the middle of the chair seriously, and there was no uncomfortable expression revealed.

"Our army is now extremely frontal." Sun Yao said: "Just like Tian Ji horse racing, now the central battlefield is our strongest part, whether it is the support of the people and the cooperation of the soldiers, it is the strongest part of the three battlefields, and what we have to deal with is the rest of the five Taiji Namur, as well as the Xi Lingse Department, which is estimated to add up to about 70,000 Ding, excluding the old and weak herdsmen Dingkou, the prime-aged herdsmen will not exceed 60,000 people, this is the strongest force of the Tumut Department, as long as the resistance in front of you is crushed, victory is imminent." Now the only thing to worry about is the north and west, we use an infantry regiment and a cavalry regiment to isolate Mobei and Tumut, once Xi Lingse decisively abandons Qingcheng and reaches a tacit understanding with Tushetu Khan and other Mobei tribes, the two sides will join forces, it is still very likely that our troops in the north will be crippled......"

"As for the elimination of ......" Sun Yao smiled slightly and said: "There is no force on the grassland that is qualified to boast that it can wipe out our and Yusheng's regimental structure, it may be consumed and disabled, but it will never be wiped out. ”