Although the weather was sunny, the snow was thick under Shiguan Mountain, and the idea of trying to set fire to the mountain was unwilling to move in the thick smoke; Although the fire burned the mountainside of Stone Mountain into black-green scars, it did not spread to the top of the mountain.

What's more, the guns and grenades thrown from time to time in the stone fort on the mountain also made the Tartar soldiers who were close to the mountainside arson, extremely nervous, I don't know when, a black spot flew overhead, and Peng Di exploded under his feet, blowing himself up with a torch and carrying dry diesel grease.

In the ten days of encircling the mountain, the six artillery pieces were ordered to fire continuously, and the shells that flew up the stone mountain were repeatedly bombarded, although the battlement walls of the stone fort were smashed and cracked, and even began to be damaged, but the thick plaster still withstood the strong impact.

Although the mill and military house in the stone fort suffered more than a dozen shells, there were stucco slabs on the roof, but there were no major losses, and the personnel hid in the hidden hole under the fort wall, counting the falling shells to relieve their boredom.

After this battle, the tough reputation of yellow plaster may rise to a new height, and it will also let the border army towns and mainland merchants see its strengths. There is already a considerable scale of stucco production, which will naturally gradually bring down the expensive price, and it goes without saying that the market will be sold.

The Tartars besieging Shiguan would not waste a large number of troops at the foot of the mountain, and a group of cavalry advanced along the avenue to the south, and the thunderbolts buried on the avenue only slightly delayed the journey for half a day.

The Tartar cavalry, which used cattle and sheep to open the way as usual, quickly cleared the few jumping mines on the avenue and broke into the vicinity of the old Yangkou Tunbao, a newly built stone fort guarded by fire/guns and crossbows, so that the Tartars could not gnaw on it, and continued to search for the Xilong River in a hurry.

The gravel fort and Gansu Town, which were warned by the wolf smoke of the old sheep's mouth fire pier, naturally took strict precautions, and even a few tunzi in the east had time to gather the military households and retreat back into the fort city.

The Tatar cavalry, who forcibly broke into the two besieged tuns, with a small number of captures, set fire to the tunzi, and reluctantly retreated in the face of a large field covered with snow; After all, this has reached the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and as soon as the reinforcements of the Ming army arrive, the Ming army, which is fully equipped in the field battle, may not be able to taste the sweetness even if it is a Tartar.

The workshop area in the back mountain of Shiguantun, the newly built hilly workshop area in the northwest of Laoyangkou Tunbao, was burned down by a fire, but there were no casualties, and the Tartars were found nothing, and no grain was found.

Sent a ruthless collapse of wolf tiles, trying to surround Shiguantun, using siege tactics, but the mountain Xiao Ye ammunition is sufficient, food is not short, since he refuses to curl up and be beaten, as soon as the sky is dark, there are sergeants to touch the mountainside, against the campfire Tartar camp, snap a few grenades, the fried Tartar chickens and dogs jump, the whole night is not peaceful.

Even, standing on the stone fort, the sergeants blew the suona bit by bit, which puzzled the Tartars under the mountain, and then a few grenades were thrown over; After a long time, there was no grenade attack, and the sound of suona became a nightmare for the Tartars.

The goose sound and copper flute commonly used in the Ming border army array are very familiar to the Tartar soldiers, and in the future, this suona sound will make them more vigilant.

Outside the Madao Stone Fort, at the border of the grassland, more than a dozen Tartar rangers wandered in the distance, blocking the entrance of the canyon for twenty miles, and even penetrated into the Gobi Desert, in order to prevent Huang Hanxiang and them on the grassland from having the opportunity to support Shiguantun.

The careful Tartar rangers found the horse's hoof marks leading to the steppe in the depths of the ravine, and the two trailing marks, which were left by Wang Hu and them; But these faint traces hidden under the snow were ignored.

Maybe there was a Han caravan hiding, but it should have been more than ten days earlier, and there were no more marks on the mottled snow, indicating that even if someone had left early.

The Tartar cavalry, who acted with experience, did not take away a few miles of land into the deep ditch, and also gave Qin Shi the opportunity to return to the stone fort.

Huang Hanxiang's sergeant did not come, but Qin Shi and they came out of the Gobi Desert; The snow on the steppe melted quickly, and when they reached the edge of the Gobi Desert, the trailer had been thrown off the road, and a large number of captured war horses were turned into pack horses, carrying heavy goods back.

Along the way, the captured horse thief was very well-behaved, not only helping to take care of the supplies, but even suggesting the route back; A few horse thieves who were familiar with the terrain replaced the Tartar guides and led the team to take a shortcut back to the horse road stone fort.

With Wang Hu's help, Qin Shi removed the heavy machine gun from the bracket wooden wheel and installed it on the beam between the two horses; Beams tied with planks, fastened to the saddles of two horses, in front of which a sergeant rode to hold the reins.

In this way, once encountering the Tartars, Qin Shi can straddle/sit on the beam and meet the enemy with a machine gun; The only pity is that the machine gun can only turn the muzzle in small increments, and it can only fire laterally in one direction to the side, which is quite chicken.

Below the muzzle, the ammunition hand had to climb on the horse's back, reaching out to feed the machine gun, and the posture was very laborious, and Luan Fengying was exempted from the task and rode with the women in the team.

When the horse team came to the edge of the Gobi Desert, scouts reported that Tartar rangers had been spotted on the steppe in front of them, blocking their route.

If you don't rush through the grassland for more than ten miles, you won't be able to return to Madao Stone Fort, and Qin Shi is naturally unwilling to retract into the icy Gobi Desert; "Find out how many Tartar cavalry there are, and if there are less, we will rush over," the confident Qin Banner Officer ordered very neatly.

Wang Hu also agreed with this order, hiding in the Gobi Desert, may not be undiscovered, the team is moving slowly, once caught up by the Tartars, then the capture of their Niujiaofeng and his party will be in vain.

The three waves of scouts set off alternately, and soon found the Tartar cavalry on the steppe, only hundreds of people were nearby, and the range of scattering was not small, and there would be no more than fifty people who could rush up to block it at the first time.

"That's okay, the big guy packed up his rope and was optimistic about his war horse, Wang Hu, you take the lead first, and I will take someone to hold back," Qin Shi, who was clear about the movement around him, quickly arranged the sergeants, Wang Hu and they were one person and three horses, and there were five or six reins tied to the saddle of the prepared horse, followed by the war horses carrying goods.

In the middle were the horse-thief captives, who were on horseback, and had six or seven reins tied to their saddles; The women rode after the captives, taking nothing in their hands, and as long as they kept themselves from falling, it was a victory.

"Woo, woo," Qin Shishi, who had just walked out of the Gobi Desert, heard a long horn sound in the west of the grassland, and needless to say, the Tartar rangers spotted them.

"Quick, keep running forward, just run into the ditch," Qin Shishi, who was sitting sideways on the beam, twisted his body uncomfortably, and glanced at Luan Fengying in front of him out of the corner of his eye, "Night Owl Banner Team cover,"

With his shout, Wang Hu, who was beating the horse in front, raised the speed of the horse, and the rumbling horse team behind him also trotted, and the horse's hooves were splashed with snow; Only the sergeant of the Night Owl Banner Team, holding the rifle in his hand and following the flag officer's machine gun, slowly stopped.

The sergeant, who was the ammunition man, simply jumped off the horse, stood beside Qin Shishi, stretched out his hand and pressed the long bullet chain into the magazine, holding the bullet chain and waiting to enjoy the explosion of the machine gun.

"Stampede, trample," the more than 30 Tartar cavalry gathered in the sound of the horn, saw that someone stopped on the grass, ran closer to take a closer look, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the appearance of these people was Han.

The leather jackets worn by Qin Shi made the Tartar cavalry not recognize their identities, but if they dared to appear near the canyon, they would have to be killed, and the courage of the Han people must be suppressed with a scimitar and horn bow, which was the verbal language of the commander.

"Cheer, shout," the Tartars, who were not in a hurry to arrive from their distant partners, hurriedly formed a team of arrow-shaped horses, and rushed forward with a loud shout.

In their opinion, these Han people who stopped were obviously frightened stupid by themselves, and their legs and feet were weak and they were about to surrender on their knees; Kill them, and the fleeing horse team will not be spared, even if they burrow into a deep ditch.

Wang Hu's horse team carries a large number of war horses and goods, how can the Tartars let it go easily, no matter how worthless the war horses are, they are also a fortune.

However, the Tartars rushed to a distance of three hundred paces, and as soon as the scimitar was drawn from its scabbard, a long flame appeared in front of them, and a sudden explosion was heard; The Tartar, who heard the sound of machine gun, did not have time to tell what it was.

Three hundred thick bullets, in Qin Shi's arrogant shout, suddenly swept out, a pair of big hands that pressed the muzzle, shook the muzzle slightly, and controlled the landing point of the bullet.

"Poof, poof, bump," the powerful impact of the machine-gun bullet blew the Tartar horse team leader in the chest, and also flew out of the horse, touched the ground, followed by a cavalryman, smashed off the horse, and the two fell on the snowy and muddy grass.

The cavalryman who fell to the ground endured the stinging pain in his waist and turned his face to look at his chief, but he was shocked to see that the chief lying on the ground had a fist-sized blood hole in his back, which was already lifeless.

"Boom, boom, boom, burst, burst," the sound of rifles and machine guns resounded through the grassland, and after a short explosion, there were no living people in front of Qin Shi's eyes; The nearest tartar who rushed to their eyes, a hundred paces away, still held a dark horned bow, but the arrow did not know where it had been lost.

The dozen or so Tartars who arrived from a distance were so frightened by such a ferocious firearm that they ran away, and Qin Shi didn't dare to chase after them, so he could only give up.

After roughly cleaning the battlefield, pulling the five intact war horses that had been captured, the Qin Stone squad quickly left here, leaving behind a faint smell of gunpowder smoke in the air; The ammunition man's backpack was filled with warm shells.

Rushed back to Madao Stone Fort, after the horse team entered, the fort gate was immediately blocked by the triangular stone pillar, Qin Shi and Wang Meng met, and they were in a hurry to send someone to report the news of the encounter with Tartar here to the Baihu Office, but they were pulled by Wang Meng.

"No need, Shiguantun is there, the Tartars have been surrounding it for more than ten days, as long as we guard this stone fort, it will be the greatest support for the hundred households," Wang Mengxiao looked at the large number of materials that were being counted and put into storage, and patted Qin Shi's shoulder vigorously, "Okay,"

Not to mention anything else, it is a war horse, Qin Shi has to take the lead in the merit book of the hundred households, and others can't envy it.

"What about the women?" The captives said that they were thrown to Bailong Lake to dig stones, and for these women picked up by Qin Shi, Wang Meng had no experience in relocating, so he could only discuss with Qin Shi.

"Stay here first, find something to do for them, even if it's cooking, go back to the hundred households," Qin Shi thought for a while and said, "They were rescued from horse thieves, they have a bad reputation, and going home is a dead end, it's better to stay, I promised them to be military households,"

"Those horse thieves are captive, they will be arranged to work in the mill first, and we will watch them, and they will not be able to make a splash when they are dried,"

"Well, that's it, let's talk about it when it's over," Xiao Ye secretly expanded the military households, and the flag officers knew that especially those who had families and mouths would defect, and the hundred households were quite welcome, and Wang Meng would not object to Qin Shi's suggestion.

The canvas-covered machine guns were lifted up the fort wall, and even if there was a chain left, it was a great comfort to the sergeants as long as they were placed there.

Wang Hu, who returned to the stone fort, boasted happily, and told the machine gun over and over again at Niujiao Peak and the deeds of sweeping the Tartars just now, and even Wang Meng listened to it and began to stare around the machine gun.

There are seventy sergeants in the stone fort, plus the night owl flag team, it is completely possible to detour to the canyon, block the Tartars to fight a raid, and think about how to help Wang Meng, who is in Shiguantun, does not have much reaction to the gold, silver and medicinal materials in the warehouse.

What's more, the glimmer mirror in Qin Shishi's hand is a good thing, the only one in the hands of a hundred households, a treasure who can be farsighted at night, is in the Night Owl Banner Team. If you make good use of it, you will be caught off guard by fighting Tartar at night, and the possibility of success is not small.

After Qin Shi and the others had eaten a hot meal and rested for half an hour, Wang Meng eagerly came to the door and was about to speak, when a sharp suona sound came from the castle wall outside.

"Didi, Didi," in the short and piercing sound of suona, a group of sergeants were fully armed, carrying fire/guns and rifles on the fort wall, lined up behind the stone stacks of the women's wall, and even the prisoners who had just entered the mill were shouted and carried ammunition from the warehouse.

The Tartar cavalry, who suffered a big loss, naturally ran back to tell the commander, who was responsible for guarding the entrance of the canyon and was also in charge of the safety of the grain road, and led the cavalry to find the battlefield just now.

The corpses were everywhere, and the wounded horses were neighing, which made the arrogant commander furious, looking for the traces of the Qin Stone Horse team leaving just now, and slaughtered into the depths of the ditch with great momentum.

When they turned the corner of a deep ditch, they saw a tall stone fort, which made the Tartars cry out in surprise, this stone fort they had never heard of before, there should be a lot of good things in it.

Even if there is not much stuff, living in it in the cold winter is much more comfortable than being in a tent.

With the excited shouts of the commander, the Tartars rushed up, and the formation of nothing pounced on them, for the Ming people, this is their own territory, and there is nothing wrong with killing them.

However, when the commander who ran in front of him got closer and closer, he saw in confusion that the stone fort built at the foot of the mountain on the edge of the big ditch seemed to be too high, why couldn't he see the city gate?

The puzzled commander had a premonition that the situation was not good, and was about to wave his hand to stop the advance of the horse team, when a row of heads suddenly appeared on the high fort wall opposite, and a sergeant of the Ming army wearing felt hats raised fire/guns and rifles.

"Bah, bah; Peng, Peng," the barrel of the gun stretched out, spitting out a little firelight, and a long flame in the middle was facing the figure of the commander, "Tutu, Tutu".

Bang, pop, puff, puff, round shield, iron armor, and the hard head of the war horse were pierced and shattered under the impact of the rain-like projectiles, and the shiny plate armor on the commander's body was also chiseled out of a hole, which could be put into a wine cup.

The Tartar horse team gathered in the big ditch, due to the terrain, could not disperse much, encountered dense firepower, where was there anything to survive, less than a stick of incense, except for the Tartar cavalry who fled in the rear, the Tartars who ran in the front and the war horses together, the dead bodies almost blocked the bottom of the fifteen-step wide ravine, and the blood slowly flowed, and quickly formed ice edges in the cold wind.

The Tartar ran away, Wang Hu took two teams of sergeants, ran out of the stone fort and went down to the ditch, ignoring the corpses on the ground, first found the Tartar who was not dead, cut it with a knife, and then turned over the inspection and seized; Their harvest today, five achievements are equally shared by everyone.

Of course, after picking up valuable things, the tiring work of cleaning up the battlefield was done by those horse thief captives, which was also a deterrent to them.

Broken knives and armor, even broken saddle jackets, all had to be taken back to the stone fort, and the dead horses had to be dragged back, and if they were not needed, they would be sent to the mill for disposal, as Baihu had explained in his letter when he sent the stone mill.

These Tartar corpses that have been picked up and thrown in place, the wild wolves on the steppe can come tonight with the smell of blood, and it is not bad to find some trouble for the Tartars.

Wang Meng didn't believe that the Tartars had suffered a loss here, and they could still endure it quietly, and they laughed.

As soon as the idea of attacking the Tartars arose, he met the Tartars coming to the door, Wang Meng knew the importance of this place, and also dispelled the idea of dispatching the sergeant, as long as this stone fort was guarded, it would be a great achievement.

Shiguantun, in the Tartar camp at the foot of the mountain, the Huzun cannon finally couldn't withstand the use for a long time, and the gunner who cleaned up the chamber was negligent, and the gunpowder stuffed into it exploded.

This Shiguantun is not easy to fight, there are more firearms than last time, it seems that the gunpowder is also hoarded enough, and there is no sign of exhaustion until now.

Just when he was anxious, a ranger ran in the canyon, "Report, commander, the Ming army was found on the east side of the canyon entrance, and the commander was killed in battle," the ranger gasped and dismounted and knelt down, "Humbling down in the big ditch to the east, he found a fortress of the Ming army, and the commander was killed in the city, so that the Ming army was killed by firearms,"

"What? Fort City? The collapsed wolf suddenly widened his eyes, and Wo Haoge, who was standing beside him, also had a stiff face, no one could have imagined that the Ming army had built a fort under their noses in silence, and it was not a tiger plucking its head.

Only the three commanders standing behind the wolf tiles, with a faint joy in their eyes, the red man in front of the captain should finally return empty-handed; Collapsed Wolf Tile is on the same level as them, but with the favor of the Captain and the Little Prince, he really deserves to call the other Commanders.

"Return to the army, withdraw from the canyon immediately, I want to see which damn Ming army dares to build a fort on the grassland," Collapsed Wolf Tile didn't think much about it, and then gave the order to withdraw.

Compared with Shiguantun, the location of Madao Stone Fort has become a piece of rotten tendon between the teeth of the collapsed wolf, and if you can't chew it, you have to think about it, and your face in front of the little prince can't be smeared by a mere stone fort.

With the sound of the trumpet, the Tartar horses left their humble camp, pulled the remaining five cannons, and retreated into the canyon, even the corpses on the mountain road were no longer restrained.

The withdrawal of the army under the mountain so neatly made Xiao Ye, who was standing on the fortress wall, very surprised, according to his thoughts, the Tartars did not spend a month or two here, and they would not give up no matter what, after all, the two sides had become mortal enemies, the kind that would never die.

Xiao Ye, who was puzzled, explained a few words to Heizi, got off the castle wall, and rode straight to the stone castle of Jiazi, perhaps, Xin Weilin could see something strange.

Back at the Hundred Households, Xiao Ye told Xin Weilin what he had just seen; and Wang Ziliang, Xin Weilin, who was holding a book, put down the book, picked up the warm tea on the table, took a sip slowly, raised his head, and glanced at Wang Ziliang, and their faces were ugly at the same time.

"Baihu, perhaps, it was the Madao Stone Castle that made the Tartars find out, and their current goal is not here," Xin Weilin's words also made Xiao Ye feel shocked, and he suddenly stood up and stomped back and forth in the hall.

After turning around a few times, Xiao Ye looked up and looked outside, revealing a faint smile, "That's okay, Shiguantun is a land that hundreds of households want, and the Tartars can come if they want to, and the official can't get over it,"

"Madao Stone Fort, originally intended to be a place to gather troops and protect Bailong Lake, but the Tartars discovered it too quickly, and the mill there will be difficult to live in," Xiao Ye took out a roll of white stunned paper from the back room and opened it on the table.

This is a simple topographic map, which Xiao Ye has drawn in the past two years, and the terrain on it is not only what he personally visited, but also what his father-in-law told him, as well as the terrain described by Scout Detective and Shang Shetian, all of which have been drawn one stroke at a time.

"The north exit of Shiguan Canyon, that is, the entrance when the Tartars came, is fifty miles away from Shiguantun, twenty or thirty miles away from Madao Stone Fort, and six or seven hundred miles away from Bailong Lake,"

"Madao Stone Fort is a garrison point, where the terrain is narrow and difficult to walk, surrounded by deep ravines and large ravines, it is more desolate than Shiguantun, if the sergeant wants to deal with the Tartar attack, this officer has already dealt with it," Xiao Ye pointed to the map and said lightly, "Shiguantun is not a battlefield, it is the best,"

"Yes, the workshop area in the back mountain has been destroyed by the Tartars twice, and next time, I'm afraid the three major merchants won't be able to stand it, and those craftsmen won't come," Xin Weilin looked at the map and said.

"The place of training, it is better to stay away from Shiguantun, if a stone fort is built at the north entrance of the canyon, it will be better," Xin Lilin's next words made Xiao Ye look at him, this Xiucai, he has never even been there, so he dares to make a judgment, no wonder Li Xunwu called him a ghost, and he was not wronged.

"Then, why don't you build a pass in Shiguan and block the Tartars in the Shiguan Canyon in one fell swoop?" Wang Ziliang, who was a little puzzled, asked puzzledly, "Wouldn't it be better to do it once and for all?"

Xiao Ye smiled awkwardly and didn't speak, Xin Weilin looked at Xiao Ye with deep meaning, and didn't say anything, the rabbit died and the dog cooked, I think Baihu wouldn't be so stupid.

"The bird is hidden with all the bows, and the hundred households are bound to have too many masters," Xin Lilin put down the teacup casually, and no longer explained to Wang Ziliang, some words still have to go down and say, making Xiao Ye ugly in front of him, that is not his forte.

The master in his mouth, Xiao Ye knew that it was his father-in-law, and he wanted to build a pass last year, but Yang Tian heard the words and pointed at his nose and scolded him.

After Yang Tian's explanation, Xiao Ye suddenly realized that the matter of the pass was not something that could be decided by thousands of households, and even the command envoy had to report to the governor of Gansu and the governor's office of the five armies. The Governor's Office of the Five Armies has filed the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, and it is submitted to the court for discussion.

If it goes well, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War will send people down to investigate, and go back to the Ministry of Household to propose repairs or new construction, and wait until the emperor approves it, maybe it will be a year or two later.

This is not the end, who built the pass, how to share the cost of the court and the locality, and how much consumption during the period, there are all kinds of things, Yang Tianshou told Xiao Ye for an hour, Xiao Ye still doesn't know, this big pass, when can it be repaired.

What's more, when the pass is repaired, there will be garrisons, and where Hu Shibiao and Xiao Ye will be placed at that time, and whether the Tartars will let the pass be repaired smoothly are all headaches.

Therefore, in order not to drag himself down the mud pit, Xiao Ye did not dare to fight the idea of building a pass, and he could afford the cost of construction.

"At the north entrance of the canyon, it is the territory of the Tartars, and the construction of the stone castle will inevitably cause the Tartars to rebound, and in the future, there will be no less damage from the Wang Si Officials," although he didn't understand Xiao Ye's intentions, but since he decided to build a new stone castle, Xin Weilin had to consider the reaction of the Tartars.

"If you want to ensure the passage of ore in Bailong Lake, the stone fort at the north entrance of the canyon must be built," Xiao Ye pointed to the map, his face showing a little eagerness, "In the northwest direction, we will build a stone fort in the future, and finally bring Bailong Lake under the jurisdiction of Shiguantun,"

Such bold words made Wang Ziliang's eyes shine, and also made Xin Lilin's heart beat strongly.

"Brother Shi Dao, did you see something?" Xin Lilin suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and asked in a deep voice.

"The Tian family passed through Lao Yangkou last night, and a letter whistle was transmitted, the Gansu Town Official's Mansion, the command envoy Yamen, has been eyeing the Lao Yangkou Hundred Households, they suspect that Jiang Jie was assassinated and has something to do with this official," Xiao Ye smiled coldly, "That Jiang Jie, dispatched a sergeant to attack and kill this official, why won't this official fight back, what does it matter if he kills,"

The topic is clear, Wang Ziliang has no surprise, but Xin Weilin can't accept it, a hundred households with no product actually sent someone to kill the commander of the third product, how is this different from rebellion?

At the very least, it was a mutiny.

However, in the border army, due to arrears of wages and grievances and other reasons, it is rare for a sergeant to kill a superior, but it is by no means impossible, and the general government and the secretary only punish the first evil, and the accomplice is exempted.

In the summer of this year, the imperial court transferred the southwest border army to exterminate Liu Liu and Liu Qi's chaotic people, because of the matter of food and salary, the border army was slow to move, and the officers did not dare to force the sergeants to hurry no matter how anxious they were, and they are still circling around Ningzhou. "If people don't offend me, I won't offend people, Brother Sanxing, you are upright and upright, and you will get into trouble, Shidao is not the same, my family and military families have to fight hard with the Tartar in front of them, and there is no room for the slightest mistake,"

"This official made an oath in front of his father-in-law that he would never bring supernumerary troops into the side wall, this is the biggest bottom line," Xiao Ye said this, and Xin Weilin's face softened.

Xiao Ye's sergeants are fierce and fierce, but they dare not be a little arrogant against their own military households, although the number of people is small, but Xin Weilin can see that once the number of sergeants in Xiao Ye's hands reaches a certain limit, the gravel fort and even Gansu Town, there are very few soldiers who dare to fight with Xiao Ye.

The most important thing is the firearm in Xiao Ye's hand, although there is no artillery, but it is already too much for the Tartars to attack the Stone Mountain, and those elite Ming troops who are far away in Qingfeng Valley may not be more fierce than the Tartars.

"Guarding the border and protecting the family and the people is the greatest wish of this official, and he will not rebel against the court until he is in a desperate situation," thinking about the question in the stone mill picture, Xiao Ye frowned and said a promise.

Expanding the territory is a matter for the imperial court, far away from him.

And Xiao Ye's honesty also made Xin Weilin feel that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, he wanted to see that this young and fierce officer of the hundred households could take the right path at the best, at least not on a road of no return; At this point, it coincides with Yang Tianshou.

Since the Tartars hastily withdrew, Xiao Ye's flag team dispatched people to start cleaning up the battlefield, and these matters were handled by Xin Weilin and several flag officers.

The dead horses were drawn into the house, and the seized weapons were selected with some good scimitars, and the others, along with the shells that had been hit up the mountain, were all sent to the B-shaped mill; When it was his turn to clean up the remains of the Tartar soldiers, Xin Wei Linzhi called Kuroko.

"Officer Lei Qi, why did they pull the Tartar corpse to bury it? The head of the Tartar can be exchanged for military merit," Xin Lilin, who was in a wheelchair on the quarry mill fort wall and the road, pointed to the sergeant below, "They don't know? ”

"Xin Xiucai, they know, but Baihu had an order earlier, the corpse of the Tartar should be buried, so as not to cause plague in the hot weather and attract wild beasts, and the head of the Tartar is not allowed to be cut off," Kuroko said casually, he didn't bother to talk back and forth when he saw that Baihu valued this Xiucai; The sergeant who is busy below, he still has to go to the scene to monitor.

"Oh, there is such a thing," Xin Weilin nodded puzzled, "Since there is an order from a hundred households, then pull the corpse down the mountain and bury it far away,"

"Ah," Kuroko bowed, turned and retreated.

The battle of Shiguantun caused the shock in the town of Mobei, it is self-evident that the Mongolian Tatars have been going south to threshing grass for many years, and there has never been such a heavy injury; You must know that a qualified Tartar cavalry needs more than ten years of growth, and an excellent archer is one out of ten.

Even on the Mobei grassland, the various tribes attacked each other, and the battle scenes of more than 1,000 people were very rare; Even if there is an occasional battle with a few thousand people, in terms of the nomadic fighting style, when the winner is finally decided, less than one in ten is actually killed.

And Xiao Yebao went to the good news of a thousand households, saying that more than 300 Tartars were killed and countless people were injured, which was enough to attract the attention of his superiors.

Therefore, Xin Weilin is sure that even if most of the Tartars in Qingfeng Valley have not retreated, and the Thousand Households will soon have someone coming. And his heart, which had been tortured in the prison, was alive again.

Now, in a small-scale siege battle in a dozen days, the Tartars have suffered more than 300 casualties, and the side with fewer men and horses has killed the side that is ten times more defeated, and it is also a sergeant led by a young hundred households...... Imagine how Wang Ziliang and Xin Weilin, who were watching the battlefield in person, ignore it?

For Ximen Baihu, Wang Ziliang has returned to his heart, and Xin Weilin has also entered the stone castle and become Xiao Ye's arm, but it is not easy to become a real person.