The twilight on the grassland had just fallen, and the drizzle had fallen, and the bonfire feast that Ah Man had thought about welcoming the distinguished guests was not satisfactory, but he also slaughtered a few healthy cattle and cooked large pieces of cooked meat to entertain Xiao Ye and his party.

The hot piece of meat in his hand had not yet been knifed, and a guard came to report that the Miao Biwu team that had returned from Bailong Lake had already arrived outside the camp.

Xiao Ye, who was overjoyed, asked the knife to lead Miao Biwu to the big tent, and with him, there was also Xiao Liuzi, who was escorted by the team; The two hundred-person teams in Madao Stone Fort had to send out a team of fifty people to accompany them in and out of the grassland each time.

As an almost professional escort team, Miao Biwu's 100-man team has a color of rear-loading fire/gun, as well as short fire/gun and military crossbow for self-defense, but in terms of dress, it is no different from the Tartar herdsmen on the grassland, and the sheepskin one-legged horse tun pants are worn and walked freely.

After meeting with the Lord of the Hundred Households, Miao Biwu and Xiao Liuzi reported the situation of Bailong Lake to Xiao Ye, where Du Ding's hundred-man team, as well as the miscellaneous team specializing in mining materials, were basically separated from the outside world because of the crazy vines and grasses that grew and expanded everywhere, and the horse road leading to the grassland in the back mountain of Bailong Lake had also been planted with Coptis trees, so they cut off the back road.

"In this case, the next time you go to Bailong Lake, let Du Ding rotate and leave a team of men, and other fire/spearmen can be stationed in the Galen tribe," Xiao Ye chewed a piece of meat tendon and instructed with great satisfaction, "It's okay to stay in Bailong Lake for a long time, you can't even ride a horse,"

"Tomorrow, it's the day of the battle between Aman and the West Wedge tribe, you guys are here just in time, by the way, take a hand, see if our fire/gun is powerful, or if his wild tartar's scimitar is sharp," after taking a sip of warm milk wine, Xiao Ye turned his head to look at the rain outside the tent, and frowned.

The next day before dawn, in the drizzle, a few hand lamps were lit up in the camp, and the loud brass flutes blew uh-uh, and a group of guards in cuirass came out of the tents.

The suona used earlier was eliminated, and the goose flutes used in the Ming army, Xiao Ye purchased hundreds through the Huang family caravan, and this kind of copper flute with loud sound and strong penetrating power has been equipped to the first level of the chief.

Outside the big tent of 100 households, under the watchful eyes of eleven black-clothed guards with big shoulders and round waists, Miao Biwu and Xiao Liuzi took one hundred and fifty armed guards and assembled them in two teams; The Tartar cavalry not far away were still clamoring to saddle their horses and chew their heads.

Xiao Ye, dressed in black, stood in the rain with a hunting knife hanging from his waist, leather boots on his feet, a rifle on his back with a knife beside him, and the other guards were fully armed, with a green iron box at his feet.

"Report to a hundred households, and a hundred people from the Shijia shop guards have arrived,"

"Report to the Lord of the Hundred Households, the team of fifty people under the command of Captain Wang Baifu has gathered together,"

When Miao Biwu and Xiao Liuzi stepped forward and knelt down and reported loudly, Xiao Ye waved his hand to let the two of them get up, and let the drizzle fall on their faces on their backs, feeling the cold early morning on the grassland.

After a long time, Xiao Ye wiped the rain on his face and looked at Xiao Liuzi with a cold gaze, "Xiao Liuzi, everyone else has become a centurion, and Ah Man has become a thousand households, and his subordinates are two thousand cavalry, do you have complaints,"

"My lord, my subordinates are willing to go to the family guard, and when I have military achievements in the future, hehe, my lord won't watch me suffer," Xiao Liuzi forked his hand, the first half of the sentence was quite serious, and the second half of the sentence seemed close.

"Yes, there are no military exploits, even if you are given a centurion now, then you will be at the end," Xiao Ye nodded, raised his hand and patted Xiao Liuzi's shoulder, his hand was so strong that he almost slapped this sturdy man down.

"Hahahaha," laughing loudly, Xiao Ye walked towards his war horse, ignoring the embarrassed Xiao Liuzi at all, "If you want to marry Han Juan and enter the door, then you have to become a thousand commanders," next to his war horse, Lena had already ridden a healthy horse and had been waiting in the rain for a long time.

The knife behind him glanced at Xiao Liuzi enviously, and led his subordinates to step on the stirrups and get on the horses, and the war horses neighed and rushed towards the outside of the camp.

Touching his aching shoulder, Xiao Liuzi grinned and ran back to his home guard, "Look at it, hurry up and get on the horse, and run with Baihu," Miao Biwu, who had a strange face behind him, also ran quickly to his own team, commanding everyone to get on the horse and pull out.

Boom, when more than a hundred war horses rushed out of the camp, the confident little six sons looked up and saw a long team of horses, which had slowly moved to the west; Although most of these Tartar cavalry were armed with scimitars, horned bows and maces, the efficiency of the march in silence still made him quite ashamed.

Leaving a thousand cavalry to guard the camp, Xiao Ye and they went straight to the meadow where they had been fighting.

The meadow thirty-five miles northwest of the Galen tribal camp is the middle of the pond recess meadow, where the terrain is narrow and long, more than 80 miles from east to west, and 7 or 8 miles from north to south, and the relatively flat terrain is suitable for cavalry combat.

The terrain beyond the meadow is crisscrossed by large and small ravines, and even grazing cattle and sheep must be careful, and the cavalry cannot break their horses' legs if they do not want to break their horses' legs.

On a large gentle slope to the east of the meadow, the personal guards, the night owl hundreds, and Hao Yongliang's artillery team were arranged for one night, and even the cowhide tent was erected.

An hour later, Xiao Ye rushed to the gentle slope with two thousand cavalry and a few guards, Miao Biwu and Xiao Liuzi took the guards to join Qin Shi, and the guards would return to the vicinity of the big tent to guard.

Aman's 2,000 cavalry, according to Xiao Ye's military order, were divided into two groups to protect the big tent, and the first of them in the middle was only a family guard of less than 300 people, and they were the main force in today's battle.

Some of the war horses were gathered into the depression in the rear, a hundred steps away in front of the cowhide tent, plus Xiao Ye's personal guards, less than 400 armed soldiers formed a column, carrying rifles and guns, picking up the military shovel in their hands, and began to dig their respective trenches, and finally connected into a trench.

The knife took ten black-clothed guards, and put down the box in his hand twenty steps behind the trench, in front of them, Qin Shishi personally guarded an object covered with oilcloth, and his position built a higher earthen platform, next to it, Hao Yongliang's artillery team had already selected the terrain, and the lightning cannon and shell box were also covered with thick oilcloth.

In the big tent, Xiao Ye sat on the soft cushion, listened to the dense raindrops overhead, drank the hot tea that Lina burned on the small charcoal stove, and waited quietly, waiting for the cavalry of the West Wedge tribe who came from the battle.

This is nearly two hours, according to Xiao Ye's pocket watch, four hours have passed, if it weren't for Xiao Ye's other plans, with those firearms of Ah Man and Yu Shan, I am afraid that they would be lucky to be able to start a small half in this rainy day.

The Wedge Hemu and Wedge Bone brothers should have suffered the loss of firearms, so they thought of borrowing the rain to hold their advantage. But by this time, it is time for the bowstrings of their horn bows to soften.

After the team ate canned horse meat in batches, Qin Shishi, who had just drunk a few sips of water, had not put down the kettle in his hand, and the herald beside him jumped up, "Come, come, the scouts found that the cavalry of the brigade was five miles ahead, and there were more than three thousand,"

The brass flutes of the guards on the position were loud, and the guards jumped into the trenches with rifles in hand, paying no attention to the slimy mud under their feet, and the Tatar cavalrymen resting under their horses on either side, scolding and shaking their wet sheepskin coats, stepped on the stirrups and got on their horses.

The northwest wind was wrapped in dense rain, hitting his face head-on, and Ah Man, who could barely open his eyes, sat on his horse and held the short fire/gun in his arms, feeling uneasy; In this situation, according to his original intention, it is better not to fight bravely, fighting in the rain is really too bad for himself.

But if he wants to go to the big tent and give advice to the hundred households to retreat, I'm afraid it's too late, although the drizzle on the opposite side can't see too far, but the cavalry of the West Wedge tribe that came with a narrow momentum is faintly visible.

The cavalry of the West Wedge He tribe under the leadership of the Wedge Hemu and Wedge He bone brothers, the number of people who fell in Xiao Ye's telescope was more than a mile away, and these opponents, who had been hiding for a long time without knowing where they were, just came to the opposite side, and launched an impatient attack.

But in Xiao Ye's opinion, this wave of cavalry that tried to attack should be the cavalry of the small tribe attached to the West Wedge tribe, and they all had the barbed wooden sticks in their hands, otherwise they would not have rushed up in such a hurry.

More than 500 menacing cavalry rushed up the gentle slope with the rain, followed by the main force of the Wedge Clan cavalry in the whole time, as long as the distance of a mile was opened, the cavalry of the brigade behind could carry their horses and charge quickly.

Xiao Ye regretfully put down the binoculars in his hand, according to his thoughts, since it was an appointment to fight, it was impossible to say that the other party should send a messenger first, and the two sides would argue again and then say that they could not get along, and the whole army would go to war; It's just that this Tartar culture is too small, and it is too rude to pick a knife and cut it when it comes up.

"Boom, boom," when the cavalry vanguard that formed the arrows broke into the minefield arranged by Qin Shi, the heavy machine gun behind the trench, as well as Hao Yongliang's lightning cannon, and the gun grenades twisted on the shotguns in the hands of the eight guards, fired at the same time.

"Tongtong, Tongtong," "Peng, Peng," "Boom, boom,"

The machine guns spitting out long tongues of fire, the lightning cannons that quickly fired shells, and the shotguns that emitted white smoke, and the shrapnel that swayed out suddenly stopped the cavalry of the West Wedge tribe, which was already frightened in the minefield.

In the drizzling meadows, flesh and blood were splashed, and stumps and rotten flesh were everywhere, and the wailing wounded and neighing wounded horses made the scattered cavalry flee faster; No matter how fast they ran, they couldn't be faster than Qin Shi's sweeping machine gun, let alone the grenades that smashed down from their heads.

The five hundred fierce cavalry, together with their war horses, all lay in the meadow three hundred steps away from the trench, two miles square, three hundred steps away, and the rifles and crossbows in the hands of the guards were useless, so they had to hold their breath and watch the show with wide eyes.

As for the black-clothed guards who stood like wooden stakes, they didn't even move their leather boots, and the whole box of sky-shaking thunder they brought with them might not be useful.

"Uh, uh," the loud brass flute sounded to stimulate Ah Man's nerves, and the scimitar in his hand was raised high, shouting with all his strength, "Rush, rush,"

The two thousand Tartar cavalry, who were already impatient, began to fight hard to clamp their horses' bellies and rush along both sides of the minefield towards the cavalry positions of the West Wedge tribe.

Under the command of Yu Shan, the guards quickly withdrew from the trenches and returned to the depression behind to pull out their horses, and they were to follow the footsteps of the Galen cavalry and continue to attack westward.

Xiao Ye took Lina and Shi Shiran on the war horse, and followed behind the horse team under the protection of the guards and personal guards.

The Wedge Hemu and Wedge Bone brothers were really frightened by the powerful firearms of the Galen tribe this time, and they knew that the other party's hole cards were so sharp, and they would not have the idea of playing that Tibetan Horse Valley.

In order to survive the cold winter, it is impossible to say who is right and who is wrong in fighting and grabbing territory on the grassland, it depends on which fist is bigger, and which tribe does not have to travel thousands of miles.

With the cavalry of the West Wedge He tribe, the Wedge Hemu and Wedge Bone brothers turned around and rushed to the west, and the abandoned cavalry of the affiliated tribe became delusional even if they could save a few, so let's see the reality clearly.

With a few remorse, the Wedge Hemu and Wedge Bone brothers quickly retreated towards their own tribe, knowing that there must be pursuers behind, but their tribal camp is not so easy to gnaw.

After a whole day and a night of pursuit, when the cavalry of the Aman could vaguely see the Tianshan Mountains in the south, the cavalry of the West Wedge He tribe had retreated to the Gobi Desert due west, except for the dense horseshoe marks on the ground, it was a howling wind in the sky.

Along the way, he caught a cavalryman of the West Wedge tribe who had fallen from his horse, and under pressure, Ah Man learned that the lair of the West Wedge tribe was actually in an oasis in the Gobi Desert, and his face immediately turned bad.

In his cavalry brigade, only Yushan's hundred-man team has two water umbrellas, but the water output is simply not enough for two thousand cavalry and war horses to drink, and the consequences of rashly breaking into the Gobi Desert are very clear in his heart.

After receiving Aman's report, Xiao Ye waved his hand without hesitation, "Chase, join forces, let's go to the West Wedge He tribe to see what is their confidence in daring to grab the territory," Among the goods traded in Haixi Village this time, there are more than 20 water umbrellas, and the personal guards carry them with them, and they can be opened and used when the time comes.

For this appointment, Xiao Ye specially changed the equipment for the night owl guards, all the rifles, and as for the firearms for Haixi Village, they had to be fifty percent new rear-loading guns/guns.

To say that the Xiwedge tribe has no support, Xiao Ye doesn't believe that this tribe with arrogant cavalry can actually set up its nest in the depths of the Gobi Desert and extend its tentacles to the grassland, it is not simple.

The rain stopped, and the weather was clear.

Sure enough, after traveling less than 80 miles in the Gobi Desert, some scouts found a small river, and a large number of horseshoe prints along the river bank showed that they were not wrong in tracking the direction.

This kind of semi-underground river, gushing out from under a huge mountain bag, the turbid river water flows westward, in Xiao Ye's opinion, it is the blessing that God has given to the West Wedge He tribe, but the smell of this wind is so unpleasant.

Before Xiao Ye could ponder it carefully, Qin Shi on the side pulled the reins and came over, and said in a low voice, "Lord Baihu, this smell seems to be like the smell of fierce fire oil, and it smells very bad,"

Suddenly, Xiao Ye sat up straight, raised his right hand high, stepped on the horse team in front of him, and gradually stopped, and the number of scouts scattered around immediately doubled.

Scouts who crossed the river, no more than a foot wide, and whose depth was only half a man, found the source of the stench not far from the north bank, where there was a large pool of black mud with bubbles.

The cavalry of the West Wedge tribe, which was chased back to the Gobi Desert, set up a position not far from the quagmire, preparing for a decisive battle with the pursuers.

After listening to the scout's return, Xiao Ye, who had just crossed the river, raised his binoculars and carefully looked to the west for a while, then he sneered and let go of his mood.

In the telescope, Xiao Ye had already seen that four miles away, on the open river beach, there were scattered large and small sieves and tools, all indicating that this tribe that could hold on to the depths of the Gobi was quietly digging the gold sand in the river.

As for the large oasis in the distance, the starry herds of cattle and sheep, Xiao Ye didn't look at it at all.

"Array, fire/spearmen in the center, cavalry flanks cover," an order was given, and the brass flute sounded again, and three hundred fire/spearmen were in three rows with spears on their shoulders in the shouts of the centurions, and a hundred men in each row quickly assembled.

Half of the rifles were in front, half of the fire/guns were in the back, heavy machine guns and mine guns were mounted on high ground behind the array; Two thousand Tartar cavalry scimitars in their hands, encircling on both sides of the formation.

"All through, all through," after the heavy machine gun at Xiao Ye's feet fired two short shots, Yu Shan, who stood on the outermost side of the array, raised the rear-loading fire/gun, and shouted sharply, "Fire/spearman, clear the chamber and reload,"

"Rifle loaded," Qin Shishi in the team also shouted loudly, but he was standing in the middle, commanding one hundred and fifty rifle fire.

After the half-pillar of incense, as a barrage of bullets whizzed overhead, the three platoons of fire/spearmen and riflemen began to move their formations and pressed up on the cavalry of the West Wedge Division, a mile away.

However, the sweeping machine-gun bullets had already thrown the cavalry of the West Wedge Division into disarray, and the cavalry who fell off their horses from time to time, and the neighing war horses fell to the ground, causing the cavalry who had been waiting for them to panic.

"Si, boom," five successive rapid artillery shells exploded in front and behind the cavalry formation, completely interrupting the last hope of the cavalry of the West Wedge tribe, and without even having a chance to see the face, they were killed and wounded, how could there be a victory in the battle.

The cavalry of the West Wedge tribe, which had never seen such a way of fighting, directly broke and retreated to the oasis to the west, while the infantry formation that had been pressed up slowly stopped.

After Xiao Ye saw the large quagmire through the binoculars, he changed his mind and no longer wanted to destroy the tribe directly; If you want to have a chance for Liwei, and what he needs is a lot of manpower, and the West Wedge tribe is a good choice.

This vast Gobi Desert, west of the sphere of influence of the Wa Thorns, I think there is constant friction with the Wat Thorns, and the back is Turpan, the powerful forces of these two sides Xiao Ye does not want to face directly, he does not have so many troops scattered here now.

From this point of view, the territory occupied by the West Wedge He tribe is a good buffer zone, and their presence can also allow Xiao Ye to increase his strength safely.

Wang Ziliang's results in inquiring about the news are now useful, and the large amount of money and goods spent is not in vain.

Not to mention the coveted gold sand, it is the pool of fierce fire oil, Xiao Ye can't let go, he must hold it in his hand.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ye asked Daozi to bring the captive up, "Give him a horse, and let him go back to inform the brothers Wedge Hemu and Wedge Hegu, if you don't want their tribe to be wiped out, come and negotiate with this official,"

The high-minded posture shows that this kind of negotiation is nothing more than a favor.

"Yes, my lord," the idle knife standing beside Baihu hurriedly ran to the baggage caravan, a few of them black-clothed guards, but this line did not even have the time to move their hands and feet, the only use was to bury the branches of vine grass that were cut into small pieces along the way of the pursuit, and from time to time they were planted in the grass.

These vines and grasslands were originally planted as marks on the way to Haixi Village, but now they are cheaper than the two brothers Wedge Hemu and Wedge Hegu.

Neither Daozi nor Xiao Ye realized what a catastrophe the vine grass so wantonly planted was for the vast grassland; Maybe Xiao Ye thought about it, but the safety of his family has not been guaranteed, so where can he take care of the monstrous flood next year.

Just as the brothers Wedge Hemu and Wedge Bone returned to the tribe, preparing to do their best to resist the invading Galen tribe, the guy who was released drove back to the oasis and brought Xiao Ye's words to the brothers.

The thin and tall Wedge Hemu held a scimitar, his eyes rolled, and he called the stout and stocky younger brother Wedge Hegu, and the two discussed for a while, thinking that it was better to negotiate, and it was a big deal to compensate some gold sand, cattle and sheep, who let them lose the war, or they were extremely aggrieved.

Unless the tribe migrates westward to the steppes of the Vars, who are also the masters of eating meat and not spitting out bones, perhaps the situation will be worse.