For the nine thousand Tartar cavalry who had been eyeing him on his flank, Xiao Ye did not see it, but secretly guarded himself, and the two battle battalions and the night owl banner team, since the cavalry of the tower wolf tile retreated, the focus of the force was aimed at Lanelt.

However, in the two days that Xiao Ye rested, the cavalry camp that seemed to have been watching, except for the rangers sent out as usual, did not find a large force of cavalry coming east, which made Xiao Yegao take a look.

As for the several horses sent north from Lanelt, they seized the opportunity to collect the rout of Tawolfwa, which made Xiao Ye even more interested in the captain opposite.

The contact between Ah Man, Wang Ziliang and the henchmen sent by Ranelt also made Ranelt relax his guard, and the three thousand-man teams sent by Ta Wolf Wa died, and the three thousand-man teams sent effortlessly began to collect the scattered cavalry, and in two days, nearly 4,000 fallen cavalry were collected.

For a time, Lanelt's cavalry exceeded 13,000, but the impact of these retreating cavalry on his subordinates made this somewhat heart-warming captain angry.

Rumors soon spread in the camp that the cavalry of the Nagalen tribe did not use scimitars and horn bows to fight, but learned from the Ming army to use a large number of firearms, and did not fight face-to-face, but hid in a trench to play with fire/guns, and threw iron bumps that exploded on the ground like rain.

Not to mention the big killer weapon with a long tongue of fire, as well as the flowering bullets that roared down, as soon as this rumor spread, the morale of Lanelt's cavalry immediately slipped to the ground and could not be picked up in a short time.

Facts speak louder than words, but they watched from afar, and saw with their own eyes more than 10,000 majestic cavalry, no matter how crazy they were, they could not gallop up the low hills, and the reputation of the Tarwolf Tile was far more intimidating than that of Lanelt.

So, I wanted to pick up a big bargain, and when I saw it, I accepted it, and gave it to my henchmen to negotiate with the Galen tribe, trying to fight for the Twin Towers Lake, and it was best to hold out some more territory.

What's more important is that the medical guards sent by Xiao Ye unified and centralized the treatment of those light and serious wounded in Tawolfwa, and even sent them back to the military headquarters for retention, which made Lanelt quite moved.

If you want to kill those wounded soldiers, you don't need to spend too many means, just stay there, but Xiao Ye did not hesitate to use a large number of medicinal belts and medicinal materials to try to save those wounded soldiers as much as possible.

Therefore, the five cannons were snatched by the Night Owl Banner Team, and Ranelt did not send anyone to ask for them, and was happy to send them out; Anyway, that thing was so fierce that he couldn't afford to use it at all, so he secretly drove away all the escaped artillery subordinates.

At this time, Xiao Ye also had no intention of fighting, and he didn't have many sergeants in his hands, if he fought a few more battles, I am afraid that even if he got this Shuangta Lake in his hands, there would be no one to take care of it. Unexpectedly, a Tartar commander could have such a strong cavalry team, Xiao Ye felt that he had underestimated the Mongols on the steppe.

In the past, he basically occupied favorable terrain and attacked short with long shots, so he did not have a deep and thorough understanding of the terrifying attack power of the cavalry.

However, the great role of heavy machine guns and lightning guns in the battle made Xiao Ye's blood boil.

Ranelt and Xiao Ye didn't pay attention, and Wohaorg took advantage of the chaos with a thousand cavalry, and had already retreated to the depths of the steppe to the east, hiding in the Yibu Mountain, and further east, he could reach the Hetao area.

Tawolfwa was suddenly killed, and the frightened Wohaoge instinctively took the people of the headquarters to go to the Hetao to ask Jinong for help, but after running to the Yibu Mountain to take a breather, Wohaoge, who had come to his senses, ran directly to the Zabhan River.

There, there is a cavalry of the Tawolf Tile tribe left to guard the Tile Thorn tribe, although there are only three thousand elites, but the three thousand commanders have a very good relationship with him, and these horses are also a powerful force in their hands.

Wo Haoge, who already had a mind, decided to take this opportunity to develop his own subordinates, but left the idea of revenge for Tawolfwa behind.

After bargaining, due to the low level of mutual trust, Xiao Ye did not meet with Lanelt, but Wang Ziliang and Lanelt's commanders, and reached a tacit understanding.

The east of the Twin Towers Lake belongs to Lanelt, and the west of the lake belongs to the Galen tribe, and thirty miles to the west of the Great Wilderness Ditch, where it is still the pasture of Lanelt.

A mere grassland no more than a hundred miles wide, and there was still a bottomless ditch directly to the north, Xiao Ye didn't get much, and Lanelt directly became the biggest winner of this battle, and it can be said that it was effortless, and he won the territory and three medium tribes for nothing, not to mention a dozen small tribes within a radius of five hundred miles.

The battle, which he had actually started, ended with a bumper harvest, but it made Ranellet smile proudly.

After negotiating the division of the territory, Wang Ziliang and Ranelt traded a batch of fire/gun pellets, returned to the camp under the hill, and handed over 500 intact war horses to the logistics team. The fire/gun transaction still has to be exchanged for the ore of Shuangta Lake, which Wang Ziliang did not let go.

"The big cake that fell from the sky is not afraid of choking to death," sneered and looked in the direction of Shuangta Lake, the imposing large horse team went away, Xiao Ye rode on the horse, commanded his own war camp, and slowly retreated to Gujiabao wrapped in the cold wind.

Here, sooner or later, it will be up to him to decide.

Left an excuse, his goal was achieved, whenever he sent troops in the future, he had a righteous and bright mouth, and the warning given to him by this trip and this battle was already greater than the great wilderness.

You have to eat the meal one bite at a time, and if you gobble it up, it will spoil your stomach.

What's more important is that if the Tartar wants to come over at will to make trouble, he has to think carefully, and he still has to continue to wear the shell of the Galen tribe outside.

"Ten thousand people ride, boundless," Xiao Ye, who was shocked in his heart, returned to the Galen tribe in a gloomy manner, and the Galen tribe at this time had just moved to the pasture at the eastern foot of the Altai Mountain, which happened to block the passage of the Tartars to the south.

Unless the Tatar cavalry was willing to cross the endless Gobi Desert to the east, if they wanted to reach Gujiabao, they had to negotiate with the cavalry of the Aman.

Ah Man stayed in the tribe, and Wedge Hegu led his men back to the tribe, and after resting for one night, Xiao Ye, accompanied by Du Ding, went to the top of Bailong Lake. The handymen on the top of the mountain are still mining the ore, and the pack horses send the big bags of the ore to the Gujiapu mill.

Due to the vine grass, the ore of Bailong Lake is no longer behind the mountain, but is pulled out of the valley in the east, and the mountain road has been widened and smoothed by the miscellaneous laborers, but it is much easier than before.

"Du Ding, the sergeant on the top of Bailong Lake will leave two teams, and the rest will go to the Galen tribe to garrison," After turning around on the top of the mountain, Xiao Ye gave Du Ding a military order in front of Xu Wangliang.

"A thousand sergeants of the war battalion, ten hundred-man teams, make up as soon as possible, if it is really not enough, select from the Tartar herdsmen, and even the elders must take powerful potions,"

"Yes, my subordinates understand," replied Dudin in a deep voice, and he was too shocked by the thunderous cavalry of the Tartars to sit still, but he had been sitting in a well and watching the sky.

Xu Wangliang looks much older than last year, but his spirit is very strong, and he is also the leader of the mines in Shuangta Lake in the future, Xiao Ye's promise made this miscellaneous leader smile.

According to the trend of the spread of rattan grass, it will not take the spring of the next year for Bailong Lake to be completely covered by jade vines, and by that time, hundreds of miscellaneous servants on the mountain will be able to walk down the mountain.

Leaving the Galen tribe, Xiao Ye came to Gujiabao, Wang Hu's war camp returned to the camp, and Qin Shi once again sent scouts to wander far away, and connected with the scouts from Eagle Claw Fort.

Wang Ziliang did not stay, just when Xiao Ye went to Bailong Lake, he was already escorted by the four hundred soldiers who had returned to Wang Meng's barracks, and went back to Madao Stone Fort. He took with him wounded soldiers, cremated urns, iron plates, and wounded soldiers with 300 towers of wolf tiles.

Those Tartar wounded soldiers, without Xiao Ye's orders, Wang Ziliang would be sent to the black room of Eagle Claw Fort, Xiao Ye didn't have that much kindness.

Gujiabao in Wang Dali's hard construction, set in a small stone fort outside a big fort, has been formed, from the top down, a long and wide two miles on the grassland of a huge stone fort, the fort wall is as high as more than three zhang, inside the horizontal and vertical orderly rows of stone houses, in the middle of the stone fort in the six square courtyards, five rows of military houses, arch around a small square.

The land temple and ancestral hall directly south of the outer fort have all been roofed, and a group of craftsmen are leading the homeless people to paint the walls of the house with white plaster.

As usual, in the inconspicuous corner of the stone fort, there are a few inconspicuous ordinary stone mills, which are used for everyone to grind grain, and other stone forts have them.

The stone house has already lived in the medicine households of Gujia Village, as well as the increasing number of displaced people, the compound in the small stone fort, except for one courtyard is reserved for the Gu Yanwu family, the remaining four are warehouses, and the courtyard is full of open umbrellas.

Several narrow stucco canals under the umbrella gather a steady stream of clean water into a square pond in the middle of the courtyard, and the keepers of the pool pour the clean water into the large tank.

"When the next batch of umbrellas comes, we will build a few more reservoirs in the outer fort, and in the future, we will build culverts out of the stone fort to directly irrigate the medicine fields," Wang Dali was very happy to take Xiao Ye and look at the hidden passages left in advance under the fort wall; A one-foot-high and wide secret passage, people can't get in.

The compound closest to the entrance of the stone castle is the busiest mill, with the flow of people shuttling in and out of the car day and night.

From the Bailong Lake, the West Wedge He tribe, and even the future Shuangta Lake minerals, fierce fire oil, cattle and sheep, etc., will be digested in this mill, so the more manpower needed here, the better, and the thousands of displaced people are simply not able to fill the gap.

It was the large amount of plaster produced in the mill that allowed Gujiabao to be built so quickly.

With the addition of the displaced people, not only on the construction site of the logistics team, but also in the flow of people in the mill, there are a lot of manpower, those women, children and the elderly, as long as they can afford to carry hoes, together with the medicine households in Gujia Village, every day outside the stone fort to cultivate the medicine field and plant Coptis saplings.

In the outer fort, there are several stone houses in Chaoyang, the private school has already started, and the uneven sound of reading has spread far away, Xiao Ye looked at it from a distance, and told Wang to vigorously give the children in the private school enough food to leave.

The stone houses in the outer fort were full of medicine households, homeless people, and even two or three families crammed into a small courtyard, but Gu Yanwu proposed to vacate the few private school rooms, and no one mentioned even the slightest complaint.

Children studying here, whether they are medicine families or homeless people, will be selected to go to Madao Stone Fort after a year, where they will learn military discipline and learn skills such as the use of firearms.

The whole family can be fed, the children can study and have a way out, and everyone who lives in the stone castle has dissipated the sorrow of depression and cheered up to be busy every day. The stone castle does not raise idlers, and Xiao Ye's words still work here.

This kind of planning is the usual practice of stone forts on the grassland in the future, as for Eagle Claw Fort, it is too close to Madao Stone Fort, and it is still mainly based on garrison defense.

Although Gujia Fort is not as strong as Eagle Claw Fort, it is beyond Xiao Ye's surprise in terms of scale, this kind of fully functional stone fort, compared to the strict Ying Claw Fort, he still likes it here.

Wang Dali and Gu Yanwu came out from afar to greet Xiao Ye and his party, and unsurprisingly, Jin Sanniang, Liang Yun, and Zhai Qibao also appeared in the crowd to greet them.

Ignoring the three merchants, Xiao Ye, accompanied by Wang Dali and Gu Yanwu, carefully walked around the stone fort, and even walked out of the stone castle with great interest, chatting with the homeless people in the medicine field for a while, and then returned to the military house satisfied.

After dinner, the three merchants jointly visited Xiao Ye and offered to open two shops in Eagle Claw Fort and Gujiabao at a price of 5,000 taels each. Before Xiao Ye opened his mouth, he had already obtained a silver ticket of 30,000 taels.

Xiao Ye pondered for a long time, nodded and agreed, he really didn't want to carry too much burden, although the situation in the two stone forts would be found out by Gansu Town, but there were advantages and disadvantages, as long as there was strength in his hands, the Ming army would not rashly attack his own stone fort.

Of course, the deal proposed by Jin Sanniang was pushed to Xin Weilin by Xiao Ye, and his energy now is all on the war camp, and he doesn't care about business, there is a Shi family shop on top of it.

With short hands, before sending off guests, Xiao Ye gave each of the three people a hand lamp, which can be regarded as a shock to them.

Compared with the merchants in Shiguantun, Xiao Ye proposed a much larger amount of the transaction list to Jin Sanniang, whether it was copper, lead and tin, needles, threads, soy sauce, vinegar and salt, as long as the three could bring them, he would eat them all, and at most exchange IOUs for goods.

Jin Sanniang, Liang Yun, and Zhai Qibao, who got Xiao Ye's solemn promise, happily gave the goods they brought this time to Xiao Ye as a meeting gift, anyway, they have already fallen into Liu Shuihe's hands, so it is better to be a favor.

Xiao Ye was able to sleep peacefully in the military house, but the three merchants got together overnight, discussed until the end, and formed an alliance modeled on the Gansu Town Chamber of Commerce.

Early the next morning, when Xiao Ye went to the barracks and began the weight-bearing drill with the sergeants, the carriages of the two merchants, escorted by the scouts, hurried towards Eagle Claw Fort.

Staggered past them was a team of fully loaded carriages, and the charcoal pulled by the logistics team from Madao Stone Fort was being sent to Gujiabao in an orderly manner.

There is a way that money can drive away ghosts, Xiao Ye stayed in Gujiabao for less than ten days, and a long convoy arrived, and the banner was the Jin family's caravan. The shrewd Jin Sanniang did not set up a shop in Eagle Claw Fort first as customary, but rushed to Gujiabao first.

In Gujiabao, a row of stone houses next to the land temple has become a designated shop, and Jin Sanniang, who made a bold move, bought a row of stone houses in the back through Wang Dali, and spent a lot of money to free up the backyard for his shop.

How to load the goods in the shop, the deacon guy brought by himself is in charge, and the accommodation room is operated by a maid, Jin Sanniang found Xiao Ye's door again, and the guards naturally did not stop it.

The two hundred guards she brought this time were not allowed to enter the stone castle, so they set up a tent to rest in the open space outside, although they felt very uncomfortable, but Jin Sanniang still pretended to smile.

"Leader Ximen, this is the goods that my Jin family's caravan will arrive next time, and it will be sent to Madao Stone Fort as agreed, so when will the goods I want be delivered?" Jin Sanniang, who was sitting on the left side of Xiao Ye, took out a paper raft from her sleeve pocket, and Li Shan stepped forward to take it.

Pinching the scented paper raft, Xiao Ye swept it at a glance, not only there were thousands of catties of green salt on it, but also a large amount of high-grade sulfur, saltpeter, mercury that he had been looking for to no avail, and the grain was 100,000 catties at a time.

Compared with the Gansu Town Chamber of Commerce that buckled the rope, Jin Sanniang made Xiao Ye look much more pleasing to the eye.

"If the big boss you want the Tiger Venerable Cannon, you can also discuss it, the big general cannon won't talk about it, you can't get it," Jin Sanniang's faint voice under the veil carried a trace of superiority, and the words he said made Xiao Ye even more shocked.

"Hehe, the five bronze cannons of the Tartars, the leader of this is just refining and abandoning, the Tiger Zun cannon is forgotten, and the cavalry can't use it," Xiao Ye said with an impassive face, gently placing the paper raft on the case, and looking at Jin Sanniang with blazing eyes.

"It's easy to say what you want about the goods,"

"Let's talk about the situation in Gansu Town first,"

What answered him was a stack of paper rafts that Jin Sanniang took out again, and the big and small things in the officialdom of Gansu Town were vivid, especially the 2,000 officers and soldiers who had gathered at the gravel fort quietly retreated to Gansu Town, which surprised Xiao Ye.

"This time the information is free, and next time I will collect money,"

A few days ago, Wang Ziliang went back to Madao Stone Fort, and he didn't have time to send back the news, but Xiao Ye didn't believe that Jin Sanniang would lie to him in this matter, and the merchant couldn't do anything that harmed others and himself.

"Okay, good," Xiao Ye looked at the paper raft, and couldn't help but say yes again and again, this kind of information is difficult for him to buy with money.

"What's good, your guard of Eagle Claw Fort, last time, I locked my two family guard leaders in a black house, and now I haven't released them, that's the side branch of my Jin family, you have to worry about it," Jin Sanniang, who was sitting at the bottom, said in a coquettish voice, looking like she was suffering.

"Hehe," Xiao Ye raised the corners of his mouth, if it weren't for your guard, who made Liu Shuihe angry, you wouldn't be able to enter the black house if you want to enter it, would you be the two guards guarding the door.

"Jin Sanniang, you can blame my people for this," Xiao Ye squinted at Jin Sanniang, and before he finished speaking, he was interrupted again by the guest.

"Leader Ximen, everyone is familiar with each other, it's okay to call me Sanniang, I'll call you Xiao Ye or Shidao, okay?" Jin Sanniang's words suddenly made a cold light flash in Xiao Ye's eyes, and his face was not good; I'm afraid that the Jin family's methods are very tight, and within half a decade, they can actually inquire about their own name, which is really troublesome.

You must know that under the secrecy military discipline, even the craftsmen of the logistics team are also very tight-mouthed to the outside world.

Seeing that Xiao Ye was silent, Jin Sanniang chuckled, took out a small object from the sleeve cage, and gently placed it on the wooden table.

A delicate short firebolt is obviously two circles smaller than the Huang family, and although it looks like it can only fire two projectiles, Xiao Ye believes that this is by no means a child's toy.

Within three steps, if Jin Sanniang's white little hand suddenly raised this firecracker, I am afraid that Li Shan next to Xiao Ye would be unable to block the sharp lead.

"The little woman is a woman's family, widowed for two years, going out, although cautious, but it is inevitable that there are bad people who are worried, there are skilled craftsmen in the family, and they will make this thing casually, I don't know if it can enter the eyes of the stone road?"

"Naturally, if Shi Dao falls in love with my Liu Pu cheap body, Sanniang will have a hard time," Jin Sanniang, who was fluent in words, was quite familiar with people's hearts, and Xiao Ye was speechless, and a trace of embarrassment flashed on his originally blackened face.

Yes, he did have the idea of killing Jin Sanniang's caravan in an instant, and even Liang Yun and Zhai Qibao would not let go.

But the meaning of Jin Sanniang's words made Xiao Ye hesitate, if there are really skilled craftsmen in the mainland who can imitate the fire gun like this, I am afraid that the rear loading fire/gun and projectile can be made; You must know that the family behind Liang Yun and Zhai Qibao is not the master who is short of money.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ye waved his hand in frustration, "Shanzi, go out and guard the door, no one is allowed to come in," Although a lot of rear-loading fire/guns have been sold, the root is still with him, he has to think about it carefully.

Li Shan glanced at Jin Sanniang, raised his legs and walked out of the room, and when he passed by Jin Sanniang in front of the wooden case, he took the firearm with his hand.

didn't care about Li Shan's actions, Jin Sanniang looked up at Xiao Ye, "My Jin family has been doing business for generations, walking in the mainland, even if it is a high-ranking official and noble, he can speak, if Shi Dao you and I join forces to deal in Persian goods, it will be easy to come to a giant,"

"If you can share the Persian goods trade with my Jin family, even if the little woman pays you a loss, you can consider it," Jin Sanniang was confident again and again, making Xiao Ye's face twitch non-stop.

What kind of Persian business is that, but he has suffered a great sin, and he understands the truth of his guilt too well.

"Upside down with me?" With a sneer, Xiao Ye, whose voice was slow, got up and walked to the wooden case, pressed his hands on the case, and forced his eyes to look at the veil in front of him, "Persian business?" ”

"Yes, for our best interests," Xiao Ye's sudden move made Jin Sanniang a little embarrassed, but she knew that this was a key opportunity, and she couldn't afford to back down, so she could only look at Xiao Ye hard.

"There is still half a year to keep the white period, and I think the big boss can wait in a hurry," Jin Sanniang, who didn't know if he had made a mistake, quickly decided, let's talk about it slowly, this military man in front of him is obviously not very sharp, and he should be slowly trying to figure it out.

The three-year white period of widowhood is the women's way that women in the Ming Dynasty must abide by, and it is also a shield for her, which has always been very strong.

Before the words fell, Xiao Ye had already reached out and lifted the veil, and what appeared in front of him was a pretty and fair-skinned melon seed face, thin eyes and a sharp nose, with a sense of luxury that could not be blasphemed.

And Jin Sanniang took a look, this handsome-looking young officer, there was a trace of fierceness on his face, and his rough big hand dared to touch his shoulder.

"Bold," Jin Sanniang, who was annoyed and angry, was about to scold with a red face, but was picked up under her shoulders, and the person was already picked up through the wooden case; A pair of embroidered shoes exposed under the long skirt, Xiao Ye was overjoyed.

It's also a big-footed woman, and it seems that she will be able to ride around on horseback in the future, so it's not a waste.

Holding Jin Sanniang, who was struggling in a low voice, Xiao Ye walked into the inner room, the thick mattress on the kang was very comfortable, and it was just right to rest for a few more days.

Outside the stone house, Li Shan, who had been holding his ears, hurriedly closed the door, walked to the door of the small courtyard by himself, and guarded outside with Yang Shibai and Da Niu.

"No, it's okay to pass the white period," Jin Sanniang, who was struggling in Xiao Ye's arms, knew that she had provoked Xiao Ye's heart, and while whispering for mercy, she resisted Xiao Ye's big hand, at this time, she completely regretted it, regretting saying those damn words.

People who don't play cards according to common sense, she finally met.

"This is on the grassland, the backer of your big family, it's too far," Xiao Ye stared at the charming face in his arms, and his big mouth directly took a small bite of cherries.

Hissing, with the sound of brocade tearing, the sound of struggle on the fire kang was silent, and the low panting sound was inaudible.

Being away from home for too long, coupled with the depression caused by the sergeant's excessive injuries, and the fire provoked by Jin Sanniang's words, made Xiao Ye continue to fight on the flesh of Zhu Bai, and tossed it all night.

Jin Sanniang, who refused to accept her fate, endured long and frequent impacts, until Xiao Ye vented the fire three times and was still unwilling to stop fighting, then finally sighed, wrapped her delicate arms around her strong body, and began to ask for it in a low voice.

was hugged by Xiao Ye and slept until dawn, followed by a hand-to-hand fight, until the two of them were hungry and gurgling, and then they could get up.

The maid had already been found by Li Shan, waiting outside the door with her clothes, and when she heard a sound inside, she entered the inner room and waited for Jin Sanniang to wash, and then she and Xiao Ye ate meat porridge and pastries, and finally eased their spirits.

It's just that Xiao Ye's straight waist is a little sore, but Jin Sanniang has become radiant, which makes Xiao Ye very dissatisfied.

When making love in the evening, Sanniang confessed, the delicate fire gun, she thought it was fun, so that the old craftsman in the family spent half a year to imitate it, and the projectile was still bought from Gansu Town, if it was made in large quantities, I am afraid it would be difficult to make it.

After listening to Jin Sanniang's explanation, Xiao Ye breathed a sigh of relief.

Walking into the small courtyard, "Hello Fourth Madame," when a group of black-clothed guards with big shoulders and round waists stood out of the courtyard gate in two rows and respectfully greeted Jin Sanniang, Jin Sanniang, who was following Xiao Ye's side, although he couldn't see his expression under the veil, followed the footsteps of the person in front of him and walked a little steadily.