"Tututu, Tutu," Ma Dao Stone Fort, the heavy machine gun erected on the wall of the fort, rushed at the Tartar horse team that had just turned the corner in the ravine, and there were several rhythmic point fires, tearing the Tartar centurion who rushed to the front into two directly, and the blood mist sprayed.

Even the tall jet-black war horse under his crotch was instantly drilled into several bloody holes the size of a wine cup in his body by the thick bullets, and his front hooves were raised with a wail, and he fell to the ground with a bang.

The thirty or so Tartars who followed closely beside the centurion waved the weapons in their hands, and their mouths spat out a long mist, and before they could howl, they fell off their horses one after another with a series of ripping and tearing sounds of flesh and bones, just like the boss in front of them.

In a ditch ten zhang wide, on the ground full of gravel and sand, and in the thick snow, hundreds of Tartar cavalry fell, and the blood stained the white ground scarlet. This once inconspicuous deep ditch has suddenly become a monster with a wide mouth, greedily devouring the lives of its steppe masters.

The wolf tile that had just arrived, and the heat on the war horse had not yet dissipated, so he couldn't wait to send a team of 100 people, and as a result of several attempts, the casualties were worse than Shiguantun.

"Wow, I'm so angry," the whip in his hand kept whipping the guards under the horse, and the wolf tile roared loudly like thunder, "Surround it, surround it from both sides, it's all bull brains,"

In the shouting and scolding of the commander, a large number of Tartar soldiers jumped off their horses, stepped on the frozen snow that did not reach their calves, and climbed the hills on both sides.

The low hills surrounded by large and small ravines are extremely difficult to climb even if there is no snow, and now there is a lot of snow everywhere here, even if they get close to the stone fort, it is estimated that they will have to put hundreds of warriors in the snow pit first.

In the cold wind howling, the Tartar soldiers, who were shivering with cold, and more than a dozen of them with neat skills, easily climbed over the undulating mountains of more than five miles, and a ridge just emerged from their heads, and a few crisp gunshots were heard in the distance.

"Bah, bah," the Tartar soldier in a thick leather jacket dropped the horned bow in his hand, and blankly touched the blood hole in his chest, his body went limp, and he rolled down the mountain beam with a snort, setting off a faint white snow mist.

The Madao Stone Fort is built halfway up the mountain, and the tartars on both sides want to touch it, passing through the undulating white snow-capped hills, which are as eye-catching as ink spots on rice paper, and it is a good target for the sergeants.

After losing more than a hundred Tartar soldiers, the collapsed wolf tiles, which could not find the location of the cannons, sobered up, stared fiercely at the vague stone fort, turned the horse's head, stepped on the corpses on the ground that were not yet cold, and ran out of the ditch.

When spring comes, he will come again, and then it will be time for him to kill.

As soon as he left, the Tartar soldiers naturally stopped staying, following behind the captain's escort, Hulala withdrew to the grassland, and this winter was very cold, so he could only go to Qingfeng Valley first, and joined the large army to go to the Hetao.

A team of 100 Tartars who left behind the broken was apprehensively waving the white flag, and when they saw that there was no movement on the stone fort, they were overjoyed, hurriedly packed up the wounded, pulled a dozen war horses that were running in place, and left the big ditch that made them tremble.

As for the corpses and dead horses in the snow, the Tartars did not hesitate to abandon them, and followed the large group of men and horses to the east.

Madao Stone Fort, after the frozen hard battlements on the fort wall, Qin Shi poked his head out and looked at the grinning boss in the ditch where there was no movement outside; The thirty or so sergeants with shotguns and guns/guns on both sides stepped on the sliding bullet casings on the ground, and their eyes were round one by one, and so far, they had only fired two rounds of fire/guns, and their bodies were not yet hot.

"My mother, flag officer, your machine gun is too good," a sergeant from Henan, trembling and holding the fire/gun, approached Qin Shi, enviously swept the steaming machine gun, "Two hundred steps, the Tartar can't even rely on two hundred steps, so he just ran away,"

"That's, don't look at it, the big guy in the hands of our flag officer, that's given by a hundred households, it's as easy as doing a tartar to kill pigs and sheep," the sergeant who shrank behind the female wall on the side smiled at the cold wind, but halfway through the words, he was blown dry by the cold wind.

"Come on, it's not the first time I've seen it," Qin Shiqiang couldn't help but be shocked, and waved his hand nonchalantly, "Go down a few people, clean up the battlefield first, and when Wang Meng and them come, remember to change the fire/gun back, that rifle is our Orion squad,"

Under the supervision of Qin Shishi, sixteen or seventeen sergeants left the stone fort, bypassed the mountain road under the fort wall, and searched into the ditch with their guns lowered; All the weapons, dead horses, saddles, and other materials that were all over the ground had to be swept back if they were worthless.

Soon, Wang Hu and Wang Meng, who were on guard on the other three sides of the fort wall, hurriedly ran back, and the forty sergeants they brought with them were scattered in three positions, but they could only listen to the rumbling machine guns in the north, only Wang Hu and they shot and killed a few Tartars; Others, most of whom didn't even fire a shot, were so frozen that they had a straight nose.

"Good fellow, Shishi, no wonder you only bring your own sergeant, and you don't want a helper, it turns out that you have been prepared for a long time," In the distance, Wang Hu, who was walking on the road, shouted when he looked at Qin Shishi.

Wang Meng, who came over on the other end, stared at the dark heavy machine gun, but the hidden heat was undoubtedly revealed; With this big guy, not to mention hundreds of Tartar soldiers, he doesn't have to worry about no matter how many they come; As long as the ditch is opened, thousands of Tartars rush up, and they are also given for nothing.

"Haha, isn't that there no such thing in other directions," the proud Qin Shi, leaning on the blazing barrel, the heat of the leather jacket on his back made him very happy, "If the Tartar wants to fight with us in close quarters, then he has to be able to come over,"

The short contact battle didn't take long, but what hurt him was that the bullet chains sent by the hundred households couldn't hold one of them, and they all ran out of four, all of which were money; Looking at the seizures below, Qin Shi gradually calmed down.

"Hehe, Qin Qiguan, you still have to think about it first, how to report the battle report to the hundred households," Unlike Wang Hu, who was looking up and down around the machine gun, Wang Meng's pace slowed down as he approached, and his leather boots stepped slowly on the flat stucco ground, with an unkind smile on his face.

"How many projectiles were consumed, how many Tartars were killed, and how were they captured?" Wang Meng patted the rifle in his hand, "If you use a rifle or a fire/gun, how many projectiles can be used?" ”

"This, this," Qin Shi, whose head began to sweat under the thick felt hat, rolled his eyes with a snort, "What's the matter, brother, I don't let you touch this guy, so I want to lose my tricks, right?" ”

"No, this general banner is just making up his mind openly," Wang Meng he, "Qin Qiguan, show you something good," As he spoke, Wang Meng took out a letter from his arms.

Qin Shi didn't hear the word "general flag" in his mouth, but the letter he took out made Qin Shi feel a little bad.

"Madao Stone Fort has a general flag officer, and Wang Meng, the former flag officer, is in charge of the military affairs of Shibao, fifty sergeants of Bailonghu, and the Orion squad temporarily belongs to Madao Shibao. Baihu Ximen Xiao Ye Ling, "After reading the contents of the letter, Wang Mengyang raised the letterhead, "Come, take a look,"

"This, this," Qin Shi straightened up, muttering without saying a word, the five flag officials who came later, and Wang Hu was beside him, it is estimated that Wang Meng would not make such a big joke.

Besides, he could read only three words, by his name, and the other words did not know him, let alone them. However, he can see clearly from the 100 households above.

"Okay, don't see your own brothers," Qin Shishi's restrained appearance made Wang Meng's heart happy, but there was no smile on his face, "However, from today onwards, the command of this machine gun will be in the hands of this general banner himself,"

"You said that you are a flag officer, always circling around the machine gun, you don't know how to teach a few apprentices, catch the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon," said casually, Wang Meng stepped forward and touched the thick barrel of the machine gun, "Damn, this is hot,"

"Hehe, Zongqi, there is a water tank here, and the hundred households said that it must be filled with water, or it will be hot, and the machine gun will be hotten," Qin Shishi, who seemed to understand whether he understood or not, just came up to explain to Wang Meng, but the loss in his heart was inevitable.

It seems that the machine gun was still taken away by Wang Meng, and he also took his own team.

When Wang Meng received the supplies from Shiguantun yesterday, he had already received the military order of 100 households, but in view of the fact that the scouts had discovered the traces of the Tartar brigade, he did not read it out immediately, waiting for the moment when the Tartars left.

Now the machine gun only has Qin Shishi, who has the most actual combat experience, and he is familiar with playing, so let him hit it happily; Unexpectedly, in front of the machine gun, the Tartar actually walked away with a touch, without the slightest drag of mud and water.

Accompanying the letter was a delicate pocket watch, which was equipped with pocket watches for officers above the general flag, and for other flag officers and sergeants, it would depend on military merit.

Wang Meng, who took over the command of all the flag teams, arranged the guards of the fort wall, and then took a few flag officers to the ditch, and after inspecting the corpses of the Tartars that were swept away, he became more confident in the task of sticking to the stone fort.

In winter, it was dark early, according to the hour indicated by the hands of the pocket watch, at about five o'clock, it was almost impossible to see far outside the stone fort, but Wang Meng still took a group of flag officers to the bottom of the steps of the fort gate.

On the undulating horse road, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and then a black shadow could be seen in the field of vision.

Xiao Ye, who came to the stone fort, walked into the military quarters, lay down in front of the basin and washed his face with hot water, and the two iron plates that slipped out of his neck were hung with thin iron chains, which made a noise on the edge of the basin; Leaned on the stove and drank a big bowl of ginger soup, which gradually warmed up the stiff body.

This winter's temperature is obviously much colder than last year's.

Wiping his hands and faces, looking at the flag officials sitting on both sides of the kang, Xiao Ye smiled and took out a pack of tobacco leaves, "Come, this is the tobacco leaves brought by the Tian family's shop, Yunnan, it's rare," said this, and threw the tobacco leaves to Wang Meng, "Everyone has a point,"

Xiao Ye does not smoke dry tobacco, but the flag officers and sergeants under his command smoke a lot, nesting in the winter house, except for drinking, smoking, and playing chess in the northwest, there is very little other entertainment. The high-level and profound Go has only been seen by Yang Tianshou, and Xiao Ye can't play now.

Wang Meng knew that it was Baihu who was giving him a long face, so he hurriedly stood up and took the tobacco leaves, and distributed points to each flag officer, even Li Carpenter, the foreman under Wang Qing, also got a small handful.

"The guards of the stone fort are arranged by General Qin, and the official will not interfere," Xiao Ye looked around at these officers, his face became solemn, and the noise in the military dormitory was quiet. Subsequently, Xiao Ye reported on the appointment of the other three flag officers.

"It's very good that you can repel the attack of the Tartars, the passage between here and Bailong Lake cannot be interrupted," Xiao Ye pointed to Bailong Lake from afar, "The mineral materials there are what we need the most, and the materials in the rich building also need this passage to be accessible,"

"So, I'm here today to discuss with you how to open up the road to Bailong Lake, and the time for the Tartars to block the grassland can't exceed this winter," the information faintly leaked in his words, others didn't quite understand, but Wang Meng's heart suddenly brightened.

Looking at Wang Meng's groaning face, Xiao Ye knew that the chief flag officer he selected should have been the right choice; The general flag without a brain is at most a fierce general, but what is needed here is a flag officer who can use his brain.

In the past two years, the wind and sun in the wild, coupled with the constant fighting with the Tartars, and the mutual victory and defeat, Wang Meng, a young sergeant, has already matured.

"Therefore, this official decided to build a stone fort near the Gobi Desert, twenty miles away from the stone fort," Xiao Ye's words immediately made the military house lively.

There are Tartars to harass during the day, and at night Baihu has a plan to go out of the grassland, although it is only twenty miles away, but this news is very surprising to everyone.

"Baihu, although it is on the edge of the Gobi Desert, the terrain is flat and unsheltered, and the Tartars can arrive at any time, once it is spring, they are afraid," Wang Meng, who frowned, was not optimistic about Xiao Ye's plans. The other flag officers also muttered in a low voice, and no one agreed with this novel idea.

Only the grinning Qin Shi, holding a shiny copper smoking pot, was busy stuffing tobacco leaves; For him, as long as Baihu gives the order, it is to go to Shuangta Lake, and it is also a matter of raising his feet and leaving.

"It's okay, everyone can say it if they have something to say, it's okay if it's not thoughtful, the three stinkers are Zhuge Liang, and the official is not a fairy, and you have to point out the unexpected places," Xiao Ye sat cross-legged on the kang with a smile, picked up the teacup and drank hot tea, and took out a map casually.

He looked at the map and listened to the opinions of the flag officials until the room was quiet again, and then he waved his hand, "Carpenter Li, you will give the big guy, how should that stone fort be repaired,"

At this point, everyone knew that Baihu had made up his mind, and that stone castle had to be repaired, so the hearts of the flag officials, including Qin Shi, began to heat up, and the general flag of the stone castle should be selected from here.

If you don't approve of it, you don't approve of it, but since the hundred households dare to start, they will naturally revolve around the military order, who doesn't want to have as many sergeants under their command as possible?

"Yes, Baihu," the dark-faced carpenter Li took out a piece of yellow paper from the backpack beside him, this kind of straw paper is not cheap, it is very common in private schools in Gansu Town, but it is also a cultural relic that military households could not afford earlier, and now it is very casually seen here in Wang Dali.

Unfold the yellow paper, on which are drawn in ink interlaced patterns, which look like a giant cross; This kind of building is Wang Dali's group of craftsmen, and Wang Qing and them pondered together for several days, and then there was a prototype.

"To build the Gobi Fort, the wind in winter is strong and the height should not be too high, and the summer is too hot, and it is unbearable for people to be stationed inside, so after we have discussed it, we propose to build a cross fort, with the current firearms, it is enough to resist the cavalry of the Tartars," said Carpenter Li, pointing to the pattern.

This kind of dungeon is generally built underground, half of it is built on the ground, and the upper half is almost enclosed, insulated from heat and wind, even the horn bow of a Tartar, it is difficult to shoot arrows into it; Of course, if the thickness is enough, the shells of the Tiger Zun cannon will basically not work.

The cross-shaped dungeon, the four branch secret passages half-buried underground, three short and one long like an eagle's claw, five zhang long and three zhang short, there is a dark fort at the end, a small square fort in the middle, five zhang each in length and width, more than three zhang high; The entrance was built just below a branch bunker to the south, and although it looked quite sturdy, it required only a lot more stucco than the Madao Stone Fort.

The exterior of the bunker goes straight up and down, and there is a platform with a battlement wall at the top end, and even the corridor is inside the building, which is the most intuitive view for everyone.

The most important thing is that there are hidden firing ports everywhere in the almost closed fort, and the sergeant can safely change places by removing the filling stones from the walls of the corridor, firing and shooting, and then plugging the filling stones with a larger bowl mouth. Even if the Tartar finds the firing port and wants to climb in? Then let's practice the bone shrinking skills.

After Carpenter Li's explanation, everyone paid attention to this kind of stone fort with thorns almost all over its body, even if the Tartar soldiers climbed to the top of the fort, I am afraid it would be difficult to enter.

However, now that it's freezing cold, can you go there and start building a stone fort? Carpenter Li also didn't know, although he learned from the deacon of the Huang family that in low temperature weather, mixing an appropriate amount of green salt with the plaster can greatly improve the hardness of the plaster's solidification, but the current climate is really not a good time for construction.

"The official knows that the temperature is too low now, and it is difficult for the craftsmen to stretch out their hands, so at present, the foundation is only dug first, but the camel team has brought five hundred geotechnical bombs, and once it is available, the next batch will arrive immediately," Xiao Ye understood the consequences of being in a hurry, the white-haired wind on the Gobi Desert was sharp, and he couldn't do anything about freezing the sergeant and craftsman to death.

"Besides, this time the official brought a good thing, planted near the stone castle, next year after the grass turns green, hum, even the Tartar has to see clearly before stepping down," Xiao Ye snorted coldly, and a chill flashed in the corner of his eyes.

Although his words were not explicitly stated, the people in the military dormitory suddenly felt a chill on their backs, and that good thing, needless to say, must be rattan grass.

Thinking about the Gobi Dun Fort surrounded by rattans and grasses, even Qin Shi, who was full of enthusiasm, had to consider whether he proposed it to the hundred households and where to go to be on duty.

After the discussion, a man brought a large pot of cooked horse meat, and a large piece of tendon with shallots and star anise condiments.

After a night's rest, the next morning, when it was still dark, on the steps at the entrance of the stone castle, a large group of mules, horses, and war horses were led out, and carefully walked down the frozen smooth stone steps.

The scouts of the three-person team have already been released, and according to the time, Huang Hanxiang's camel team should arrive today at the latest, and someone must be outside to answer them.

Fifty sergeants escorted the mule team, a dozen craftsmen in thick leather jackets, pulling heavy mules and horses, and two trailers in front, one with the heavy machine gun on it, the other covered with a thick cowhide curtain, guarded by a hundred families.

Xiao Ye and Wang Meng led the team, got out of the ditch, and marched straight north for twenty miles, only then did they stop, and the corners of their tired mouths were foaming at the corners of the war horses under them.

Finding a relatively flat place, the sergeants spread out in two teams, Qin Shi led the team to set up machine guns nearby in the center, and began to be on guard, while the craftsmen were busy clearing the snow under their feet.

Ten guards untied the cowhide curtain from the trailer and took off the ropes, revealing a faint blue stone mill; In order to determine the location of this stone fort, Xiao Ye did not hesitate to suspend the work in the Madao stone fort mill, so that the military households could rest for a few days.

The C-shaped stone mill was moved down and placed on the hard sand, and a guard picked up a few stones at random, stuffed them into the grinding hole, and one person turned the grinding disc, and soon saw that there was a fine pale yellow plaster powder, flowing down from the notch.

"Lord Baihu, this is it," the guard shouted loudly after inspecting the stucco powder, and with Xiao Ye's gesture in the distance, a tall tent was erected, covering the striking stone mill.

Seeing that the guards had erected the tent, Carpenter Li took a few craftsmen to choose a good position, picked up an iron sledgehammer, dug a few holes in the frozen soil, and put the geotechnical bullets into it.

"Peng, Peng, Peng," with a low explosion, gravel and sand splashed, and the deep tunnel between the two began to dig, and the mule pulled two long ropes, the end of which were tied to several iron-inlaid wooden boxes, and the earth and stones were transported by them.

With a large number of use of geobombs, the roadway five zhang long and one zhang wide, it took half a day to have a shape, the depth was only dug to three feet, because there was no iron bar to transport, the plaster cover plate above the roadway could not be made, and now it can only be placed there.

However, the hardness of the soil layer in the tundra zone makes the geobomb consume a huge amount of money, and the foundation of the square dunker with a length and width of five zhang has not been dug out halfway, and the geobomb has been exhausted.

Xiao Ye personally took his personal guards to dig a deep pit along the ten zhang radius of ten zhang around the fort and bury them all, and fill in the floating soil and gravel mixed with snow.

In the afternoon, Yu Shan led a team of sergeants to escort more than 30 tall camels, loaded with minerals, and appeared in the scout's telescope. After pausing for nearly half a month, taking advantage of the cold and snowy weather, the people and horses of Bailong Lake appeared.

Seeing this scene, Xiao Ye was quite happy, and when Yu Shan came to greet him, he asked him to inquire about the situation of Bailong Lake, and asked him to command the sergeants to unload all the ore on the spot, in this deserted Gobi Desert, no one would care about these ores.

"In the future, Eagle Claw Fort will be completed, and the Bailong Lake ore will be transported and unloaded so far, and there is no need to send it to Madao Stone Fort,"

The two teams were united, Xiao Ye led the sergeants and craftsmen, covered the stone grinding frame with a tow frame, and returned directly to the Madao Stone Fort before dark; At the end of the day, everyone was tired from the cold, and if it weren't for the warmth of their hands, there were still a few barracks tents that could be rotated to withstand the wind and cold, and I am afraid that half of the people would have to go back with frostbite.

On the way, Yu Shan and a few Bailonghu flag officials were very interested in the tow frame guarded by Qin Shi, but there were hundreds of households beside them, so they could only endure their curiosity and go back to the stone fort first.

Ma Dao Stone Fort, Xiao Ye, who rushed back, after dinner, summoned all the flag officers in the military house, announced the military system of Bailonghu in public, and handed over the letter appointing Huang Hanxiang, Yu Shan, and Du Ding as the captains of 100 people to Yu Shan.

Three hundred-man teams, three hundred-man captains each hold a team, but during the war, Yu Shan and Du Ding were under the command of Huang Hanxiang, and his qualifications were enough to convince the public.

This kind of superficial downsizing, secretly expanding the strength of the good thing, Yu Shan and a few flag officers of course happy to close their mouths, the salary of a hundred people is compared with a hundred households, the general flag, flag officer, sergeant level treatment, compared with the same level in the Ming army is high enough.

What is particularly important is that in the future, the sergeants in the hundred-man team are not only Han Chinese, but also Mongolian Tatars who have been tested, and loyal ones can also join, as long as they can strictly obey military orders, which is tantamount to a timely rain for Bailonghu.

The Tartar tribe under the control of Bailonghu has more than 1,000 young herdsmen, and if this power is grasped well, even if it is one of the two, there are also 300 string control knights who can be classified into the cauldron.

Of course, it will take a lot of time to select the Tartar cavalry who will finally be in the hundredth house.

To Wang Meng's regret, the hundred-person team system that hundreds of households came up with was only implemented in Bailong Lake, and Xiao Ye was helpless due to the restrictions on food and population.

"Yu Shan, compared with Huang Hanxiang, he is more astute and less courageous, compared to Du Ding to make a decision, if he hone it for another year or two, it can be of great use," early in the morning, Yu Shan and his party returned with canned fried noodles and silk cotton coats, and some projectiles; Standing on the castle wall, Xiao Ye quietly looked at the team in the distance and said to Wang Meng beside him.

The fifty sergeants brought by Yu Shan left twenty people, and the two teams of small flags were incorporated into Wang Meng's banner team, and now, the strength of Madao Stone Fort has reached the strength of one hundred households. Those horse thieves were captured and brought back to Bailong Lake by him.

"So, what do you mean?" Wang Meng asked with an unchanged face, compared to Wang Dali and them, he is now only acting on the orders of a hundred households, and he does not have much respect for the court that is far away in the sky.

"Hehe, in the Yamen of the Command Envoy, there is also the Jinyi Guard, the official should be targeted, the horse thief is stiff but not dead, maybe he is also secretly peeking at Shiguantun, the official has to be guarded," Xiao Ye smiled coldly, "Ma Dao Shibao, you kid must take care of it, this is a way for us to retreat, when the snow melts, Mei'er and the others will turn around and take a look, you have to be careful,"

"I know," Xiao Ye's heart-to-heart words made Wang Meng feel stunned and replied solemnly.

"Here, it's our stone fort, not the territory of the Ming Dynasty, not the Tartar grassland, don't want to take it away, the firearms in your hand, as long as you have bad intentions, give me a hard beating, don't care about him or anything The calming officials and the like," Xiao Ye's words had already shown his extreme dissatisfaction with the Gravel Castle.

What gave him the most headache was not only the stone mill that could not be moved, but also the stubborn old master with a tendon, and his father-in-law was not easy to persuade him, since he was unwilling to leave Shiguantun, he could only let him stay in the tun to teach students.

Deep in his heart, Xiao Ye already had the intention of leaving the jurisdiction of a thousand households.

The construction of a fort on the edge of the Gobi Desert was supervised by Wang Meng, and Xiao Ye was relieved, and after staying in the stone fort for another day, he was ready to return to Shiguantun; Although it is comfortable to stay here, the temperature here is still too low, the construction is slow, Mei'er and the others are not around, and Xiao Ye will not stay much.

Before leaving, Xiao Ye hesitated for a while, but decided to leave the C-shaped stone mill he brought in Madao Stone Fort; Although the Quarry Stone Fort seemed safer than here, it was not the Tartars that he was most afraid of, but the people from the Gravel Fort and even the town of Gansu.

As for the craftsmen and soldiers in the quarry stone fort, those who want to work will use their strength to change wages in the stone fort, and those who want to rest will go back to the old Yangkou stone fort and reunite with their families for a few days.

Before leaving, Xiao Ye's personal guards took away half of the gold and silver treasures and medicinal materials and silk seized in Niujiaofeng, and the remaining half, Qin Shi and Wang Hu, they would share most of it, and Wang Meng, who stayed in Madao Stone Fort, could only drink broth to satisfy their hunger.

In addition to military materials such as ordnance and war horses, Xiao Ye will not be stingy with the rewards received by the flag officers and sergeants, and a bowl of water is just flat, otherwise, it will be difficult to call the next time there is no oil and water for military affairs.

After walking on the mountain road for a day and returning to Shiguantun with his personal guards, Xiao Ye saw Sun Dezhang, who made him very unwelcome.

Sun Dezhang, who was dressed in skin, had been eating and drinking for two days in Hu Shibiao's Baihu office, and when he heard that a sergeant had come to report, he pulled the reluctant Hu Baihu and directly broke into the Jiazi Stone Fort.

The guards guarding the stone fort, seeing Hu Shibiao coming forward, would not stand in the way, plus Sun Dezhang, who was dressed in official clothes, did not stop him, and watched him swagger into the castle gate, as well as more than a dozen gravel fort sergeants behind.

The road is difficult to walk after the snow, and the two roads on Shiguantun Mountain were cleaned by the sergeants, but the road leading from the gravel fort to Shiguantun is full of residual snow, and it will be even more muddy if the snow melts.

If it weren't for the fact that Wang Qianhu promised benefits in the things he did on this trip, Sun Dezhang would not have braved the cold to run so far; "Ximen Xiao Ye, this official has sent you the title deed by the order of a thousand households,"

Sun Dezhang, who had a strange voice, said loudly at the gate of the courtyard as soon as he saw Xiao Ye at the beginning of the year, ignoring that he had not been invited into the hall, and couldn't wait to take out a contract, which was stamped with the big seal of the Gansu town and county government and the thousands of households in the gravel fort.

"There are two stone forts in Shiguantun, which have been reported to the command of Suzhou Wei, the county government of Gansu Province, and the thousands of households in the gravel fort have invested a thousand taels of silver, and five hundred stones of grain are purchased on credit, and this is hereby an agreement," a light and fluttering title deed, Xiao Ye got it, which indicates that the two stone forts on Shiguan Tun Mountain have changed hands and are under the name of the thousand households.

As for whose name Xiao Ye assigned to those two stone castles, people don't care at all, just find the biggest owner, and Xiao Ye will not come out and who will be the leader.

"Hehe," Xiao Ye chuckled twice, his face bitter; I couldn't help it, Shi Guantun had just repelled the Tartar, and I didn't see the literal commendation, so someone couldn't help but stretch out his hand.

"Ximen Baihu, come on, now, this stone fort, and the one in front of it, belong to the Thousand Households, don't worry about it," Sun Dezhang shook the paper in his hand and squinted at Xiao Ye.

If Xiao Ye dared to refuse, the dozen or so good hands he brought with him were not vegetarian with fire/guns in their hands; The sergeants standing behind the calmer had already faintly surrounded them.

The three guards behind Xiao Ye saw that the situation was not good, and the fire/gun on their back was too late to take it down, but the big hand was already pressed on the handle of the gun on his waist, and the revolver/gun spring was ruthlessly broken by the thumb.

And the dozen or so guards standing on the fort wall and guarding the fort gate, their rifles have been taken off, and they slowly push the bolts, as long as Ximen Baihu gives the order, their muzzles will not hesitate to point at the arrogant magistrate.

Hu Shibiao, who was beside Sun Dezhang, at this time, the big beads of sweat on his head rolled down, he didn't expect that this stupid pacification officer really thought that he controlled the sergeant on the mountain, and he wanted to scare Xiao Ye in one fell swoop.

Sun Dezhang, whose eyes were rolling, naturally heard the sound of the bolt overhead, and thought that Hu Shibiao secretly made a gesture, so he smiled and glanced at Hu Baihu beside him; Well, this eye-catching hundred households is still good.

The situation in front of him caught Xiao Ye off guard, and he could see that the comer was not good, but what he didn't expect was that Sun Dezhang actually came to dig his roots, which made him feel angry.

Not to mention the Hu Shibiao who secretly surrendered, it was the sergeant of the dozen or so gravel forts, he was sure that his personal guards could kill them in an instant the moment they raised their fire/guns; But can you do that? Can the consequences be afforded?

But with this unwarranted title deed, he gave up the stone fort he built with his own hands, how could he be willing, how could the old Yangkou stone fort be re-guaranteed, and would Wang Chongli make another move.

Xiao Ye, whose face changed, clenched his teeth under Sun Dezhang's tight urging, and was about to stomp his foot to touch the pistol in the back of his waist, "Sun Zhenfu, what are you doing here?" ”

Looking up, Xiao Ye saw Yang Tianshou, who had not appeared for a long time, and strode over, holding a sunspot in his hand; Behind him, Xin Lilin was pushed by the sergeant in a wheelchair, and Wang Ziliang, who was wearing a blue robe, followed with a gloomy face.

Xin Weilin and Wang Ziliang didn't expect that Sun Dezhang, who had been in Shiguantun for several days quietly, would still have such a hand, according to the previous impression, this time it was a big deal for hundreds of households to come out with some blood, take out some fire/guns and other materials, and send away the guy who came to inspect this year, and it changed in a blink of an eye.

"Oh, it's Mr. Yang," turning his face to see Yang Tianshou, Sun Dezhang's face changed slightly, and then he shook the title deed in his hand, "This official is here on order, and his duty is in his body, so he has no choice but to do it, hehe,"

Sun Dezhang, who was laughing dryly, Yang Tianshou didn't look at it, but glared at Xiao Ye fiercely, and then turned his head to look at this smiling tiger town official.

Xiao Ye's quiet action just now made Yang Tianshou panic uncomfortably, if he took one step at night, perhaps, the matter would be irreparable; The sin of rebellion has affected the nine clans, how can he easily discard his name.

Sun Dezhang knew the origin of Yang Tianshou, although he was a deposed Beijing official, but the world is impermanent, what about the military household, even when the prisoners in the prison also have good luck, what if the family is gone and the good luck recovers, I didn't see that even Jiang Jie and Wang Chongli are unwilling to easily touch this criminal official, what ability does he have to wade into troubled waters.

"Mr. Yang, Xiaguan has the title deeds stamped by the two Si Yawei here, and the two stone forts in Shiguantun were requisitioned with money and grain, which is the evidence," Sun Dezhang handed over the title deed and took a step back with a smile; With this title deed, he is justified wherever he makes trouble.

What's more, a copy of the deed is not afraid of being torn up by the fiery Yang Tianshou.

After taking the title deed, Yang Tianshou swept his eyes, and directly smiled angrily, "One thousand taels of silver, five hundred stones of grain, and buy on credit?" Sun Dezhang, are you a child as an old man? ”