It's a new year, and as soon as the spring grass sprouts, the Hechi Tibu begins to build the city. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although the preparations were well done last year, the project was tricky as soon as it started. Although it is already spring, the earth is thawing, and everything is full of life. However, even in late spring, the nights are very cold, and the temperature often drops below freezing. At such temperatures, the strength of the cement is greatly reduced, and not only that. The surface of the earth has been unsealed, but it is still frozen below three meters, and a shovel can only add a white mark at most.

It was far more difficult to build a new city in Ejina than Zi Nao, but Burhan still underestimated the wisdom of the ancients. In order to catch up with the transfer of the autumn grazing of the Turks (the summer grazing area of the Turks is in the middle and upper reaches of the Irtysh and Ob rivers, and the winter wintering area is near Benchagan-Kobdo. The elders of the Hechiti tribe came up with a lot of ideas. In order to build the foundation, people first dig deep trenches, bring in water from the river at a distance of less than three meters, and then drive cattle to work in the icy water using ploughshares. In order to prevent the structure of the foundation from being sealed and thawed by frozen soil for a long time, the Hechiti people combined steel and cement for the first time, and the entire foundation was framed by steel bars and then stuffed with cement stones. When the walls are exposed, the low temperature is the biggest obstacle, which seems to be difficult for the Chiti people. The old people of the Hechiti Department piled up cow dung cakes and lit them, and the smog that rose enveloped the entire construction site, and Burhan had personally experienced that the temperature difference between the inside and outside was at least about 6 degrees. The city wall is off the ground, how much is covered with felt, and a bonfire is lit outside to wait for the cement to solidify, it is with these methods that the Hechiti people were actually born on the seemingly vast land of Ejina, so that a giant city rises from the ground, I have to say that this is a miracle. The contribution of those elders was unquestionable, and Burhan even asked Monlik to compile their experiences into a book for posterity.

From spring to summer solstice, as in previous years, nomadic steppe tribes will migrate with water and grass. Part of the Turghut tribe moved to pastures along the Ob River, while the other part moved to pastures near Lake Benchagan, which is closest to the Hechiti tribe. Because the pastures of the two sides are separated by a Gobi Altai Mountain, although it is not a high mountain, it does provide a guarantee for the city building plan of the Hechiti tribe, and at the same time, it also limits the nomadic range of the herdsmen of the Turghut tribe to a certain extent, which makes Heishui City (because the new city was built on the site of the original Heishui City in Western Xia, so people also call it Heishui City. It has always been a secret for the Turk tribe, but after a long time, the two sides will also communicate, and at this time, the Hechi Ti tribe can't hide it even if they want to.

As more and more Turks came to the vicinity of Blackwater City to exchange for daily necessities with the wealthy Hechiti tribe, the two sides became more and more contacted, and the Turks felt more and more strange about the vicinity of Blackwater. From a distance, Blackwater City does not look like a big city, and it is the same as the previous Tuweizi, that is, the former Tuweizi is now a stone weizi (the stones picked up from the Gobi are piled up, giving people a visual illusion when viewed from a distance. And people don't care too much.

Some herdsmen even joked about this, "What do you say is going on with Ejina over there in the Hechiti Division?" A do-good man asked his partner this, and then someone jokingly said, "What's that?" Probably because Ejina's earthen fence was dilapidated, and the Hechiti people were afraid that their women would not be able to bear the loneliness and run out to steal the man, so they replaced it with a stone fence! The man's answer immediately drew laughter. A large part like the Turkut looked down on Hechiti, and in their eyes even the Khalkha Mongols, with a population of more than one million, were not taken seriously.

And for the Hechi Ti Ministry, it's good that they have such a mentality! In this way, Blackwater City can be built better, and it will scare them a lot when the time comes, and it will be the case later. As the walls of Blackwater City continued to grow in height, and its scale became more and more grand, the Turkuts who came to replace the items found out when they suddenly broke out of a giant city in front of them. At that time, the Turks were stunned, the walls of Blackwater City were ten meters high like the Purple Mud, but his defense was even better. Over the years, the Hechiti Department has "hired" many craftsmen from the Ming court, and the good equipment they have built, such as ballistas, bed crossbows, bows and arrows, and even the Huihui cannon of Genghis Khan's era, are equipped on Blackwater City for the first time. Therefore, the first feeling that Blackwater City gave to the Turks was terror.

Standing in front of the new city that has stretched its body, Burhan is full of emotion. The harsh environment of Ejina; The difficulty of construction; The huge amount of work is not comparable to the purple mud. Even so, in half a year, it took only half a year for Hechiti people to rise from the ground, and the efforts, sacrifices and innovations made in it all contained touching.

Because the new city was built on the site of the original Blackwater City, people also called it Blackwater City. She will use her strong arms and strong physique to protect the Hechiti tribe from being disturbed, and her people and property from being plundered.

After the opening of Blackwater City for more than ten days, Toduo, who received the notice, thought at first that it was a herdsman who came to make fun of him, but later more and more people returned, and he had to pay attention to it.

After a few days of travel, the deduo finally came to Ejina, where after more than a year of the transformation of the Chiti department has changed too much, although the sand date trees on both sides of the river have become dense, of course, the scenery along the river is also much more beautiful, but the deduo has no time to enjoy. He saw a fortified city standing not far away, what does this mean, and he suddenly lost his breath. He hurried towards the northern city of Blackwater City with 500 guards.

The soldiers defending the city did not dare to be careless when they saw the dust raised in the distance by the roaring of war horses, and one soldier said, "Put down the iron bar." ”

Rumble! An iron fence weighing more than 300 catties fell to the ground and sealed the main entrance. This does not affect the entry and exit of the people, both sides are equipped with side gates, which are shorter than the main entrance, and can only be used for pedestrians to enter and exit, if it is a carriage and horse, it needs to be unblocked by the main gate. When he arrived at the north gate, he found that the passage for the cavalry had been sealed off by an iron bar, and the hatred of the city and the Hechiti tribe was even worse, and he whipped a soldier who was defending the city in the face with a whip, and the soldier was still using a spear as a defensive gesture, but his cheeks were still bleeding, and the bright red blood had stained his shirt red, and the guards were as if they were completely ignorant of their duties. When the city defense team dared to come to the rescue, they were replaced and went back to treat their wounds.

Seeing that this person was so domineering, a captain of the Hechi Ti Department also said angrily, "Who dares to make trouble in Blackwater City, my Hechi Ti Department?" Still hurt my guards, do you really think that the Hechiti Department is easy to bully? As he spoke, a large number of soldiers blocked the door with spears in their hands, and the tips of their spears pointed directly at the vital point of Toduo's line.

"Blackwater?" The anger in Toduo's eyes has reached a limit, there are not a few Turk vassals, no matter where he goes, he is not good wine and meat, and he has what kind of woman he wants to sleep with, but this Hechi Ti has embarrassed himself several times, this time he is even more silent and out of a city, and now a small gatekeeper actually shouts at himself, is it unbearable! "You guys have a big breath! A little slave dares to talk to me like this, can't he find death? Do you know who I am? ”

As soon as the words fell, I heard someone in the city shouting, "Deduo!" "I took a look and found that it was the old enemy Kali. When such a thing happened outside the city, of course, some soldiers reported it to the guard general of Kali, and others were afraid that he would lose his flowers, but as the iron core of Alat and Burhan, he was not afraid! "You're wrong, he's an officer, not a slave." Although he looked down on Tuoduo, he spoke very politely in order not to exacerbate the contradictions.

Seeing that the main person in charge was coming, he dismounted and pointed to the city wall and asked, "Kali, let me ask you, what are you doing here?" "I knew that the Turks would find out and come to ask, and Burhan even thought of the lines for Kali. Unhurriedly, Kari followed the answer that Burhan had told him earlier: "Oh! You didn't see the walls being built! ”

"Nonsense, I don't know how to build the city walls? I'm asking you, what are you building the walls for? Probably tired, Toduo put his hands on his waist and waited for Kali's answer.

And Kali just smiled: "Our old earthen enclosure is dilapidated, and now we want a stone enclosure to resist the cunning wolves who don't know what to do." There is something in Kali's words, and everyone understands the meaning, and Toduo is no exception.

Probably in a hurry, Toduo said three "yes" in a row, waved his hand and commanded the soldiers to enter the city and said, "Okay! Your wings are stiff, you can not take our Turks in your eyes, and today I will let you know how powerful the Turks are. Come on! Tear it down for me. "Joke, this city is made of stone and cement, how can you simply tear it down? It is estimated that it is angry, but Kali doesn't think so, if he really lets him do it, it will be the biggest insult to the Hechi Ti Division, he also waved his hand, and he heard the sound of soldiers running on the walls around the urn city.

After only a few breaths, Toduo was stunned, and he scolded the soldiers, "What the hell are you doing!" Let you dismantle and look at what you are doing, and not let you die! The soldier next to him tugged at the corner of his coat with his hand and motioned for him to look up. When he looked at it, he also had the same virtue as the guards, and the urn city was surrounded by archers, and they were all full of bows, but he was afraid that if he gave the order of Kali, he would immediately turn into a hedgehog. He slowly put away his scimitar to avoid misunderstanding, and slowly retreated towards the outside of the city. He hurriedly got on his horse under the service of his own soldiers, and said vigorously, "Okay, good, good, very good, I am not your opponent today, you just wait for the revenge of the Turks!" With that, the team dispersed and fled from this unfortunate place. The men of the Hechiti tribe waved flags on the city walls, and described the deduo in the most vivid language. The first confrontation between the Turghut tribe and the Hechiti tribe was defeated, and Kali did not dare to be careless, perhaps the army of Orlekin was not far away, and he immediately ordered someone to draft a document and send it to Zini Nao as soon as possible, and inform the leader Alat and Gongzi Burhan to know.

After receiving the documents from Kali, Alat did not dare to be careless, although the Hechiti tribe occupies the moral position in this matter, but after all, it is a vassal tribe, and if Turghut is to blame for this, then the other tribes may not dare to help. Therefore, Alett convened the nobles to discuss the matter, and finally decided on the tribe and carried out the migration as soon as possible. As long as the army arrives in Blackwater City, I believe that Orlek will not dare to force it. In recent years, the Hechiti Department has been building roads and cities, which has made a huge noise and attracted the attention of various ministries. Especially with the addition of nearly 1,000 Hui tribes of Alimu's relatives, even the Ming court began to pay attention to this emerging tribe on the grassland. In order to prevent the looting of Zi Nao and Ji Lantai by the Tao and the Ming Court, Alet still left a small part of the people and troops stationed there, and took all the slaves, after this incident, it was necessary to strengthen Blackwater City.

It's the same as what Kali thought, Toduo personally took people to Duoleyan with Orlekin to cry, Dugan was most unaccustomed to him like this, so he preconceived the judgment that he must have caused trouble himself, and he knew to find Orlekin to wipe his ass, phew! What a thing.

After listening to Todo's words, most of the people who had the same idea as Dugan were disdainful of working with Todo, if it weren't for Orlekin's sake, he would have died I don't know how many times.

It's the same with Orlekyin, at first he thought that it was another ghost, but later he also got general information from the soldiers, which needs to be paid attention to, but he still needs to listen to the opinions of the nobles before he can decide.

"Great Khan," a slightly chubby nobleman stepped forward and spoke, "I think that in this matter, we need to show our presence in Turgot, after all, we are still the suzerain. Over the years, the Hechi Ti Department has become more and more disagreeable, and if it is really as Toduo said, we must act, and we must ask the intentions of the Hechi Ti Ministry, and we can't go on like this. Otherwise, how can we command other vassals? Seeing that someone agreed, Toduo immediately jumped out to add fuel and vinegar, and was scolded by Erleke.

The noble man just said well, but everyone still felt that if it was a simple question, it might not work, and it seemed to be a little troublesome to send the army, mainly because they all accepted bribes from the Hechi Ti Department all year round, and it would be a little too much to say if they didn't intercede for them at this time. In short, the general opinion of the nobles was that they could not be harsh, and when they saw this situation, they could only obey the nobles, so they sent the elder Dugan to the Hechiti Department to take a look, and at the same time conveyed his views to Orlekin, hoping that they could do it themselves. Speaking from the heart, he Orlek really didn't want to have a conflict with the Hechiti tribe, and this time he asked him to send troops, but he didn't understand, now the Turkut tribe has been dragged by the descendants of Ding Ling people and can't move, if he really wants to use troops against the Hechiti tribe, it means giving up the abundant water and grass along the Ob River, so where is the summer pasture of the Turks?

A month later, Dugan arrived in Blackwater City in the Hechiti tribe. Seeing the tall city wall, he suddenly found that the Hechi Ti Department was no longer the Hechi Ti Department he knew, and he also knew that he was wrong to blame Deduo this time. It's right to take off the duo, I knew that I should let Orleke bring troops over, and it is best to destroy the Hechiti department. Over the years, the Slavs have advanced eastward, and Dugan has dealt with these Maozi a lot, and often a wooden village needs hundreds of people to be conquered by the Turgot Department, not to mention such a fortified city, and he is full of regrets in his heart! It's come to this, let's take it one step at a time!

In general, the courtesy of the Hechi Ti Department for the elder Dugan has met the extreme! People say that when things are abnormal, there must be demons, and that's right. Burhan had already guessed the purpose of Dugan's trip, and it seemed that it was the end of autumn, and the Turkut tribe would still migrate to Kono. This is a threat, originally thought to be a war letter or make some non-point requests, but I didn't expect to just send Elder Dugan to question one or two. This is easy to do, when he comes for a month, Burhan wants to eat and drink well, and he wants him to eat and take, but he doesn't give him a straight word, so he hangs him and lets him stay in Blackwater City for half a year first. And here in Blackwater City, it's still the same what to do! To put it bluntly, it's procrastinating for time.

"I want to see your leader, Alet, he needs to give me an explanation." Dugan waited a little impatiently, he had been in Blackwater City for half a month, except for all the nobles of the Shanghe Chiti Department who were drunk at the reception banquet, he never saw Alet again, and even Burhan and Wu Rizhao disappeared, but the other nobles were not in charge, and they were looking for it in vain.

The guards guarding the big tent were a little helpless, this noble man from the Turghut tribe came to the big tent of the tribe seventy-two times a day to find the leader, and he was not too annoyed! "I'll tell you honestly, all the nobles who can take charge have arrived in Zini, and it is estimated that it will take another month to come back." Burhan hid in the tent and snickered, apparently the guards were all false.

This is very bad for Dugan, he wants to report the matter here to the Great Khan and Orlek urgently, but he has been indirectly under house arrest, although he eats and drinks well, but his heart is like Spiegel.

One day, Dugan, who had been planning for a long time, didn't even bring his entourage back to Kebu, and Alert felt bad when he found out, so he hurriedly sent Wu Rizhao to bring all the supplies and the entourage left by Dugan to Kebu.

A month later, the rangers of the Turghut patrol found the frozen Dugan, and after identifying himself, the soldiers sent him to Doreyan in the Turghut tribe of Kodo, and Dugan was somewhat unrecognizable to Orlekin who saw that he was almost a snowman. He stepped forward and pulled away his stray hair, barely recognizable. "Elder Dugan, what's wrong with you? What about your entourage? What about the guards? Hearing Orlek ask about it, Dugan burst into tears unexpectedly. He slurred his mouth and said, "Khan! I... I fled back. The retinue and guards are still in the Hechi Ti Division! ”

When he heard this, he immediately became angry, it seems that Dugan was placed under house arrest as soon as he went to the Hechiti Ministry, and at the same time, he was even more convinced that there was something wrong with the Hechiti Ministry, otherwise what would they do with Dugan under house arrest?

"Great Khan! When I arrived at the Hechiti tribe, I found that Ejina had built a great city, a particularly large city, several times larger than the city of Shache (the capital of the Yarkand Khanate), and it was also higher. Inside, there are all kinds of defensive equipment, weapons, armor and staffs. Obviously, there is a heart of disobedience! After listening to Dugan's narration, he and Orlekin sat down on the throne at once, thinking, "I still can't avoid it!" The ministers also bowed their heads silently, but they were obedient for a few days, and now they can justify their name.

He Orleke immediately convened the nobles to discuss the matter, and finally decided in the condemnation of the nobles that he would use troops against the Hechiti Department next year. Those nobles received the benefits of the Hechi Ti Department and didn't help them speak, isn't it a little inauthentic? Of course not! Everyone is selfish, under the persuasion of Toduo, the Hechi Ti tribe is like a lamb to the slaughter, people can't wait to divide this feast, where will they offend most of the nobles for the sake of the Hechi Ti tribe?

Just when the Turks were preparing for war in the early spring, Wu Rizhao also led a team to arrive in Kudo. And Orlek didn't see him because he saw him, the gift was accepted, and the person could go. Wu Rizhao realized that a big war with the Turgot Department was inevitable, but fortunately, the Hechiti Department had developed a lot of internal lines over the years, and he might be able to escape this catastrophe!