A hundred miles away, even at the speed of the horse team, it will take at least more than an hour to reach here, Battle is very calm, simply calculate the range of dust, group march, especially the group march of the horse team, looking at the dust in the distance, basically, the number of people can be determined, about ten minutes or so, a basic number appeared in Battle in his heart, he whistled, beckoned his men, turned over his horse, and walked towards Baotou.

On the way, Battle did not come back directly, along the way, looking for a few higher earth mountains, on the Loess Plateau, there are not many towering mountains, dozens of meters, hundreds of meters of earth mountains, is the most.

The soil and mountains are not high, and he can even ride a horse up the mountain, but he can make on-the-spot observations with the help of telescopes, until he has assigned all his personnel, and he is not far from Baotou.

There is still less than 10 miles away, and Battle didn't stay too much, so he was left alone, so it was better to inform Feng Yuxiang of the news of the arrival of the horse bandits as soon as possible.

20,000 or so, the location is 100 kilometers north of Baotou, Feng Yuxiang listened to Battle's introduction, frowned, this distance, horses march fast, at most 3 hours can be reached, at this time, the time is only noon, from the sunset, there are still 8 hours, Baotou is located at a high latitude, and it is more than May, almost seven or eight o'clock in the evening, it will be dark, is it possible, these horse bandits will attack Baotou during the day?

Feng Yuxiang couldn't believe it, but if this was the case, these horse bandits were too stupid, although they had worked hard to put up the light bulb today. It won't work, but they will do it more comfortably, and if they attack this heavily guarded camp during the day, they will be surrounded by iron walls.

"I've told them to keep an eye on it, I'll go over and take a look!"

"Bring a few more people over. Crucifix those horse bandits for me! ”

"Yes!" Battle led a dozen or so people and went out again, and Feng Yuxiang's eyebrows never stretched, and then, the news came all the way, and the other party's speed was very fast. But more than 100 miles away, it slowed down, the smoke and dust became not so high, and slowly moved forward, using twice the speed of before. Eventually, about 70 miles away from Baotou, it stopped.

If you change it to something else, 35 kilometers, that is, 70 miles, ordinary people can't see anything at all, but for Baotou, which has a telescope and a building with a height of at least 50 meters. It was simply a bright target, on the high platform, including Feng Yuxiang. The main officer of Baotou, one person with a telescope, looked at the bandit camp not far away, there was no order at all, if, he had a group of soldiers on hand. In addition, Baotou's existing and modified bulldozer with iron plates has been added. With only 2,000 men, he was able to finish off these bandits. Unfortunately, there are no ifs.

"Everything is ready!" Feng Yuxiang said to Yang Yuanzhao.

"It's done!" Yang Yuanzhao nodded and said, the importance of lighting, he knows very well, fortunately, after more than half a year of accumulation, Baotou has quite a lot of hole cards, electricians are also one of them, recruited from all over the place, with Truss cultivated and learned, there are almost more than 300, directly with the help of steel pipes, digging up, erecting wires, as long as it can ensure a few days of use, and it is not long-term use.

After listening to this, Feng Yuxiang nodded, and said: "The bandits will not attack directly, I estimate that it will be night, and it is estimated that before that, we will send out a scout horse, when do we not know the barbed wire?" ”

"It's dark, we have special tools, with a little light, we can set it up in an hour at most, but on the staff, there will be a little more!"

Feng Yuxiang nodded and said: "Okay, then it will be arranged in the dark, except for the necessary security personnel, the rest can rest and eat in shifts, tonight, it's up to us!" ”

The atmosphere in Baotou at this time can definitely be called tight inside and loose outside, most of the personnel, do not know that there are so many horse bandits outside Baotou, only some are more prescient, it seems that from the current atmosphere in Baotou, feel something, but not strong.

After all, in the past almost a year, they have spent a lot of comfortable time, working according to the regulations every day, and only a small number of people who need to go out of the city, or whose family members are in other places, will feel the difference.

Baoken Company concentrated its personnel in Baotou, not by coercive means, sticks and carrots, coercion and inducement, but most of the personnel around Baotou were concentrated in Baotou.

Horse bandit camp, originally, in Tongshan's plan, 10 teams of horse bandits, should be divided into three or four parts, and then attack Baotou respectively, but unfortunately the bandits are scattered under the sand, the trust between each other is very low, in this case, let who attack first, let who attack later, the first to attack, there may be casualties in the above considerations, but under certain circumstances, you can grab things first, Baotou only has a few hundred soldiers left, in their opinion, the flood can also be drowned.

In the end, the choice was the dumbest and the fairest march, and they all came to a place of 70 miles from Baotou, first set up camp, and then waited until late at night to attack again.

With a wry smile, a trace of depression flashed in Tong Shan's heart, if it wasn't for sure, the militia was still in Taiyuan, and he might not be able to come by dismantling his wings, he would even give up this raid, and the glimmer of premonition in his heart told him that this time, it didn't seem to be very optimistic.

After the bandits camped down, hundreds of horse bandits, divided into three different directions, towards Baotou, they did not dare to approach the inside of Baotou, but from all directions, Baotou was looked at, in the end, there was no big discovery, those lamps and lanterns, are placed near the turret, 500 meters of the turret, just the place where the light can play a thorough role, with the height of the turret itself, plus the height of the iron shelf, of course, there is also Yang Yuanzhao designed, with a light-concentrating lamp tube, to put it bluntly, It is a silver mirror with a strong reflection effect, which can concentrate the light and project it to the front.

The movements of the horse bandits, in the eyes of the observer on the high platform, are almost unobstructed, on the high platform, you can almost see at a glance, the huge Baotou, even in the whole of China, can be called a huge city, not to mention in the northwest border, how much knowledge the horse bandits have, looking at the prosperous and huge buildings, the most important thing is that they do not even have city walls, wide roads, under the hooves of their horses, maybe they will tremble, they are almost certain, they will be richly paid.

The news was summarized to 10 people in command here, some anxious horse bandit leaders, and even proposed to attack first while the other party was unprepared, which was rejected by Tong Shan and Zhang Mazi, they are not experienced in attacking the city, but they also know that a city as big as Baotou, even if there is not much protection, but attacking during the day will still produce huge casualties, they are horse bandits, not an army, and there is no organizational structure.

Starting from Yinshan, organizing these more than 20,000 people, these commanders can suffer a lot, the horse bandits are used to being scattered, and there are hundreds of teams, and finally combined together, they can't fight or scold, even if it's a collective action, it's also procrastinating, if it's not for the clear location of Baotou, just this march of hundreds of miles, it can completely drag people down, he regrets it very much, why put the location of the alliance in Yinshan, if it is not good to put it in the current position.

Tong Shan is just thinking about it, near Baotou, it is too eye-catching, tens of thousands of people want to hide from Baotou, this is almost impossible, surprise operations and strong attacks, this is completely different things.

Fortunately, now it seems that Baotou does not have much defense, in a sense, as before, they should not be found, the horse bandits began to rest, because the night is about to attack, so the horse bandits did not set up camp, just spread the horses, let the horses eat a little grass, recuperate the horsepower, the night charge also needs to rely on the role of the horse, in addition, belong to the elite of the various commanders, also dispersed, 10 commanders, almost unanimously issued a killing order, from they camped down, until dark, Anyone who passes by here must be killed, whether it is an ordinary caravan or the same bandits.

Time passed minute by minute, and the sun gradually tilted westward, and finally, when the afterglow of the sun finally disappeared in the distant sky, and the night replaced the day, and began to control the whole world, Baotou, which had not been moving, began to move.

1,000 workers who have undergone various trainings, they carry special barbed wire, with the help of various tools, began to wind on the wooden sticks that have been prepared, the length of the side of Baotou is almost 48 miles, but the number of barbed wire, Yang Yuanzhao prepared 2400 li, which is equivalent to 50 times the length of the entire Baotou side, a barbed wire fence is about eight and nine, so down, almost an average of 6, some key places are seven lines of defense.

On the side of the horse bandits, the personnel have all withdrawn, the night is a natural shelter, today is still a cloudy day, not even the moonlight and starlight, they can't see the five fingers, they go back to rest, the other horse bandits did not move, the 10 commanders have said that they will not act in unison until the third watch.

When the last barbed wire fence completed the winding, the outermost circle, more than a dozen workers began to hang a special barbed wire, although each stick, only four lanes, each and each one, but there is a bell, this is the outermost reminder of the line of defense, in the barbed wire array, there are some individual bunkers all over the place, digging very deep, and there are iron plates and ventilation holes above, these selected individual soldiers, will listen to the movement of the underground here, to prevent the horse bandits from sneaking attack, once something happens, they will directly shoot to remind, Prepare for a surprise attack hidden under the cover of night.

In short, the Baotou side has done everything that should be done to the mechanism, and the bandits also feel that it is foolproof, and both sides are waiting for the arrival of the final battle. (To be continued) R580