The land between Zhenyuanguan and the west bank of the Yellow River is indeed a rare fertile land. Even Xu Xun, who is not very familiar with farming, can tell the fertility and barrenness of the land when he sees the green wheat field with his own eyes, compared with the sparse wheat fields on the northwest road before. Therefore, when asked about the yield per mu of this acre, Wei Shengle stretched out two fingers, and he showed deep joy.

The yield per mu is one stone, which is the status quo of most fields today, that is, in places with fertile land such as Jiangnan, there will be two to three stones and four stones per mu. Because Xi'an was once the ancient capital of many dynasties, the land of Shaanxi has been cultivated for too long, and there is land everywhere that is not suitable for farming, especially the Loess Plateau, so even if there is a Hanhai sandbar in the Hetao Plain, it is still difficult to hide the value of those lands.

"You're doing a good job, it would be a shame if these lands were left uncultivated!"

Ever since he heard that Xu Xun had killed the deputy Qianhu Chen Zhan in the Black Mountain Battalion, and then ordered him to be put on display together with the murderer who murdered Ambassador Kuraba Nie, Wei Sheng had a very good impression of this Qin Chaping Beibo, and when he heard such a sentence at this moment, he smiled even more and his eyes narrowed, as if the deep wrinkles on his forehead had been smoothed out.

"With your words, I am relieved. It's just that if this town doesn't make up for people, let alone farming, even the people who guard the palace may not be enough. Besides, the Tartars in the set come and go like the wind, and it is uncertain how much these fields can be harvested, and it is a real pity that these fields end up cheaper than those Tartars or trampled by their horses' hooves instead of toiling for a long time! ”

"You're right, I should discuss this matter with Lord Yang, the chief of the trilateral system."

Xu Xun glanced at the hundreds of acres of wheat fields again, took a deep breath for a while, and stayed at the edge of the field, where he saw the junior colonel under his command leading the horse. As soon as he stepped on horseback, he saw a rider galloping over at the far pass of the town, and after a closer look, who else was Jiang Bin, the guerrilla general of Datong? He galloped near, and without waiting for the horse to stop, he rolled the saddle and dismounted, and said loudly: "Pingbeibo, there are military horses coming not far away, about one or twenty people!" ”

Because it was not a large force of military horses, the defenders on Zhenyuan Pass did not warn. Therefore, Wei Sheng, who was accustomed to seeing a small group of Tartars, said disapprovingly: "But there are only ten or twenty people, what is there to make a fuss about?" We have more than 100 people here, all of whom are elites brought by Pingbeibo, and if there are few people, they will be driven away, and if there are many people, they will be closed. ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at the wheat field with some pity. Then he sighed and said: "It's a pity that there are only a handful of people who understand among these tartars, and they will come to grab wheat with us when the autumn harvest comes, but most of them are directly trampled on the fields...... These haunting dog things! ”

Jiang Bin's eyes flashed when he saw that Wei Sheng had said so much, but it wasn't until Wei Sheng finished speaking that he whispered to Xu Xun: "Uncle Pingbei, there is a carriage in that group, which looks very similar to the Wang Da Fat Man and Cao Qianzong we saw before, and the person driving in front of him. Looks a little like him. ”

Wang big fat man? Wang Jingluo?

Although the view on the grassland is good, at most, people who can see the stars and faces, and they want to see it clearly, but things like carriages will naturally not be wrong with Jiang Bin's eyesight, and the tonnage of Wang Da Fat is extremely rare, and Xu Xun will not admit his mistake until Jiang Bin. So after a moment of silence at this time, he instructed Jiang Bin: "In this case, you should take a few clever people to the front to investigate." ”

"Order!"

Jiang Bin, a Datong guerrilla general, originally sent Xu Xun to Yansui Town. The mission is done. However, he sent all the way to Ningxia Town. And he came directly to Zhenyuanguan, and he also knew that Xu Xun would definitely be able to see it. Therefore, if people didn't catch him up, he was already relieved, how could he complain at this moment that Xu Xun sent himself like a pawn, and he wanted to behave more usefully. So, he picked up a few of his subordinates who he brought out this time, and he galloped forward like a gust of wind. …,

As soon as he left, he saw a group of guards coming forward to hug Xu Xun back to Zhenyuanguan, Wei Sheng asked Mo Feng thoughtfully: "Old Mo, what is the origin of this Jiang Bin just now?" It looks like Ping Beibo's personal guard, but he always puts up a fight in front of me, and he is respectful in front of that General Chen. ”

"You ask me, who do I ask? I was with this noble man when I was in Gansu Town, how do I know who else is under him? Mo Feng glanced back as he spoke, "Look at the posture of Jiang Bin who just galloped out with someone on horseback, as if that was the person who Pingbei Bo was waiting here on purpose." ”

"This is about the same, otherwise Zhenyuan Pass is a shabby place, and this kind of powerful person in the capital will be enough to stay for one day, but he has stayed for three days and has not left the posture."

However, when Wei Sheng accompanied Xu Xun to Zhenyuan Pass, he was dumbfounded. The young officer, who was twenty-five or sixteen handsome, but who seemed to have been blown in the north-west wind for the winter, and whose face still bore frostbite marks, and who was very capable, was not to mention for the time being—if he had such a subordinate, he would have laughed from ear to ear—but what was the matter with the man who was so fat that he was at least two hundred and fifty-six? Looking at this person's round body, hearing that Xu Xun actually called him the king of the big fat man, he couldn't help but glance at his fat belly a few times.

Wang Jingluo wiped a white and clean square scarf directly into gray, and drank two pots of water, which finally relieved the spirit that had been lost all night and most of the day. It's just that seeing that there are still outsiders, he just smiled and said: "Uncle To's blessing, Cao Qian and I have gone very smoothly this journey, and many of the people who have been brought out have all been brought back." ”

"Well, let's talk in the house!"

Although he attached great importance to Mo Feng and Wei Sheng, the two old Wang Yue subordinates back then, the current news was not trivial, he even Chen Xiong just nodded, and actually turned around and entered the room alone. When Wang Jingluo and Cao Qian followed, he pointed to the two simple stone piers and said, "You have worked hard all the way, sit down and talk." ”

Wang Jingluo hurriedly thanked him, but Cao Qian's ass sat down easily, but his fat man was cautious, so he finally let the narrow stone pier accommodate his fat ass. Seeing that Xu Xun was looking at him first, he couldn't help but glance at Cao Qian on the side, and seeing that he didn't mean to be in front of him at all, he coughed lightly.

"Ahem. Back to Pingbeibo, let's go out of Yansui Town and go to the red salt pond first...... That is the place where Mr. Wang made a fire to burn most of the tartars. There were originally Tartars guarding the boiling of salt, but this time, it was deserted over there, and there were only some traces scattered that had been there, but it seemed to be a small tribe, maybe it was the Tartars who had fought Shenmu Fort at the beginning. Because further west is a desert. Originally, for safety, we should turn back and walk near the side wall, but Cao Qian always said that the adult's secret order, we can only venture from the north of this desert, and finally run into ...... at the edge of the water source."

He paused suddenly, until now. Speaking of this encounter, he was still a little caught off guard. You must know that the reputation of the fire sieve in Shaanxi is simply greater than that of the little prince, since the beginning of the Tianshun period, this one began to frequently lead the army into the Kou, and his name can be heard at the end of three days during the Hongzhi period. Although Lian is quite old now, for a person like him who guards the border gates, although this person is a character who should gnash his teeth as soon as he hears the name, the kind of throbbing he really sees is needless to mention.

"Touched the fire sieve?"

Xu Xun looked directly at Cao Qian. Seeing that he nodded heavily, he pondered for a moment and then asked, "Since he was able to let you people come back safely, he must have said something substantial." "Yes, the fire sieve also let me meet Urusborot." Cao Qian ignored Wang Jing's slightly surprised eyes, stared straight at Xu Xun and said, "My lord, did the Tartar military horses harass Guyuan before?" ”

"That's right, after you took people out of Yansui Town, news came soon. The road is that tens of thousands of cavalry broke through the Jingyu guard and reached Guyuan. For a time, the three towns of Yansui, Gansu, and Ningxia all entered a state of combat readiness. Although the Duke of Di'an is only a trilateral general system, Guyuan is where Shaanxi Town is located. But he still took more than 1,000 people to Qingyang Mansion. ”

"......Sure enough," Cao Qian muttered to himself, then lowered his head and said, "The fire sieve said that after the third son of the little prince, Balsborough, received 30,000 households of Jinong on the right wing, he was not satisfied. Just the month before, the little prince's eldest son, Tuluborot, had died. The son he left behind is now less than ten years old, and the identity of Urusborot is not recognized now, so Balsborot, who is already 30,000 households on the right wing of Jinong, has actually become the most powerful heir to the throne! ”

These disputes among the Mongols, although Wang Jingluo said that he was familiar with the Hetao, but it was already an old year, so he sat there and listened with relish, however, Xu Xun's next sentence almost didn't make him jump for it.

"It seems that the third prince still has to thank me, if I hadn't beaten his second brother Urus Borot to the ground and locked people in the capital for a long time, the seat of 30,000 households in the right wing of Jinong should have been his second brother." Xu Xun paused slightly when he said this, and then asked bluntly, "Then this time, you can see Urusborot at the fire sieve?" ”

"See, he just married the widow of the fire sieve."

What a mess!

Wang Jingluo saw the fire sieve, and the character who could stop children crying at night in Shaanxi didn't pay much attention to him at all, but took Cao Qian away for a long time, and he didn't know what he was discussing, but it turned out to be these amazing news. A little restless, he peeked at Xu Xun, and saw that he was holding his chin with one hand, obviously in deep thought, he hesitated for a while, and finally stood up with his hand on the stone pier under him: "Uncle Pingbei, is it a way to avoid your humble duties?" ”

"No, I'll have something to ask you about the Hetao." Xu Xun stopped Wang Jingluo's words, and then asked Cao Qian again, "Since you know that tens of thousands of captives rode through Jingyuwei to Guyuan, and you talked about Balsborot, could it be that the tens of thousands of military horses this time are Balsborot's department?" ”

"Yes, the fire sieve said that Balsborot and the Xitao Warat tribes have discussed and borrowed from their place, so the number of people who enter the prison will not be too much, at most a few thousand, and when they have looted enough in the area of Pingliang Mansion and Guyuan, they should retreat along the original road, cross the river from the Helan Mountain area, and then directly march to the Hetao, and continue to use troops with the momentum after the previous plunder, if he is defeated by the fire sieve, and then from the place where Ningxia Town and Yansui Town are handed over, it is difficult to kill a horse pistol. He said that if the adults have the ability, then send troops to copy the defenders of Balsborought, he intercepts the strikers of Balsborought, everyone plays their own way, each with their own ability, he relieves pressure, and the adults get military merits, the best of both worlds! ”

"It's the best of both worlds!" Xu Xun sneered as he spoke, "He thinks I'm a three-year-old kid, so easy to deceive?" ”

The land of the Hetao is the old part of Wara, and then the fire sieve is entrenched, plus this place is close to the Yellow River, the water and soil are fertile, and there are salt ponds, it is the most convenient to enter the three towns of Shaanxi, so now the fire sieve power is not as good as before, and naturally can't help others to calculate his back garden. Although Xu Xun scoffed at the beautiful proposal of the fire sieve, he quickly calculated it in his heart. However, calculating the time, Balsborought's use of troops in Guyuan should not last long, and if he really plans to give the fire sieve a ruthless next, then it is indeed an opportunity now. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but take a deep breath. ..., Yang Yiqing has always been cautious in his use of soldiers, and his favorite use is bluffing, so this time he can easily see that Balsborough is also bluffing. It's just that Yang Yiqing, now as a trilateral commander-in-chief, will not be able to rashly lead his troops to attack as he did last time in Datong. Moreover, the opportunity is good, but you also have to guard against traps, and the fire screen is not a kind person!

"Then this time you went deep into the Hetao, in addition to the fire sieve, did you find other soldiers and horses?"

Seeing Cao Qian and Wang Jingluo shaking their heads in unison, Xu Xun stood up and walked out quickly without looking back. Wang Jingluo saw Xu Xun leaving, so he couldn't help but grab Cao Qian, who was about to follow, and said in a low voice: "I said Brother Cao, Pingbei Bo doesn't really want to fight, right?" If it's not good, it's going to be a big basket. ”

"If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger? Since the fight against the general system of the king, only the captives in the Hetao have attacked my three towns in Shaanxi, and the three towns in Shaanxi have no big victories, and now if there is a real chance, why not fight? ”

After Xu Xun went out, he saw Wei Sheng and Mo Feng, two old guys who were far more than a hundred years old, on the edge of the city wall not far away, hooking their shoulders and saying something, and the two messy gray hair were put together, which looked particularly dazzling under the sun. After looking at it for a while, he shouted, "Wei Sheng, Mo Feng!" ”

Seeing the two of them striding over, and the two guerrilla generals with completely different backgrounds and experiences in the distance were probing their brains, he asked in a low voice: "Now that the enemy of Guyuan is said to have turned to Longde, he will start to retreat from the eastern foot of Helan Mountain along the Jingyuwei, and it is very likely that he will bypass Zhenyuan Pass and cross the Yellow River in the near future. ”

"Willing to do it!"

The two responded almost in no particular order, and then you look at me and I look at you, and they were stunned at the same time. After a long time, Mo Feng spoke: "Forget it, I won't rob you, you have been in Zhenyuanguan for many years, and no one is more familiar with the situation around here than you." You take someone to the sentry, and I'll help you watch this town! ”

ps: I can't hold it anymore, and occasionally steal a lazy ......