"Huhu, huhu," when Daozi and Sun Xiaoming took their thirteen brothers, carrying heavy backpacks, rifles, and cowhide cuirasses, they ran from the stone fort to the top of the mountain in the east, and continued to run back and forth without panting, not only Wang Meng, who was standing on the castle wall, but even Zuo Shi, who was standing on the edge of the dark fort on the top of the mountain, was so frightened that he couldn't close his mouth.

The contents of the backpack, not only Wang Meng personally inspected, but the knife ran up to the top of the mountain, and the left stone there was also opened and looked at again, and there was no room for adulteration.

One hundred and twenty rounds of bullets with two leather boxes, five earth-shattering thunderbolts, two jumping thunderbolts, revolver short guns, crossbows, and kettle felt blankets are the same, even the cans are filled with more than a dozen boxes, and they are no less than seventy catties in their hands.

But the personal guards led by Daozi and Sun Xiaoming actually carried these things on their backs, carried rifles up and down twice, and came down more than 40 miles, and one by one they just turned a little red, panting and not seeing a single one.

These guards who have become first-order sergeants, after adapting to the soaring strength in the past two days, were rushed into the drill by Xiao Ye, and their catfish effect may make the other guards ashamed and unable to face it.

"Obediently, they are all crazy," Wang Meng leaned on the female wall, staring at the guards who were lined up below and preparing to go out to shoot live ammunition, and then looked at the few elders around him, speechless.

No one noticed that the guards who were speeding down the trail were still staggering dizzily after their ankles were scraped by the vine stingers on the side of the road, and quickly passed the valley with the support of their companions.

Without the order of the hundred households, these guards would not confide a word about the medicine, and in the past two days, Wang Meng and Zuo Shi have inquired again and again, but they have not received any news, and they can only sigh that compared with the guards, the gap is getting bigger and bigger.

Strength is the foundation of everything, I haven't heard of the world's martial arts, only fast and unbreakable, with a strong force, whether the guards are shooting or hand-to-hand combat, digging trenches, and even running away from the enemy, the ability will be greatly improved.

At this time, Xiao Ye was sitting in Wang Ziliang's communication team, looking at the eagle claw fort letter post he had just received, and the corners of his mouth showed a trace of coldness.

He already has the strength of a second-order sergeant, the waist knife left by his father, holding it lightly in his hand, and the real feeling of being able to punch a person between his hands makes him obsessed with this kind of ** who controls power.

The extremely expensive **, in Xiao Ye's opinion, is not unattainable, at least, the tartars on the grassland are already coming.

From a first-order sergeant to a ninth-order sergeant, his strength has skyrocketed to more than nine hundred catties, and the fresh prisoners he needs alone are enough for three hundred and sixty-six people, or one thousand four hundred and sixty-four corpses that have just died, and they must be accompanied by a large number of medicinal materials.

This is just him, the hundreds of guards sergeants, and a large number of family guards, think about how Xiao Ye can not be creepy.

This is only the sergeant level is divided into nine ranks, and there are captain level and general level above, Xiao Ye didn't dare to think about it.

Fortunately, the big war is imminent, he doesn't need much psychological burden, and after the battle on the battlefield, he should be able to find a lot of raw materials for the potion.

Xiao Ye, who didn't know that his mind was beginning to change, issued a military order to Eagle Claw Fort to prepare for war through Wang Ziliang's heralds; Phosphate mining there will be temporarily suspended.

A small box of matches has become a popular transaction between Wang Dali and merchants, and he will not give up.

In the black room of Eagle Claw Fort, Liu Shuihe put in a war horse and a few cattle and sheep according to his order yesterday, but two hours later, the livestock and war horses inside were safe and sound, but the Tartar prisoners and corpses from earlier were gone, and even the clothes and blood stains could not be found.

You must know that Liu Shuihe had just taken a few Tartar rangers prisoner and kicked them into the black room, thinking that it was almost full, but it took less than a stick of incense, and he couldn't find anything when he went in again.

Xiao Ye didn't have much disgust at this kind of medicine that used people as raw materials, and in his eyes, it didn't matter so much; You must know that when death row prisoners are beheaded in various cities in the mainland, there are still people who pay high prices to buy people's hearts and minds to treat edema, and border towns have also heard of it from time to time.

As long as Ming people are not brought in to make potion raw materials, Xiao Ye is at ease.

In the past two days, he has obtained four small iron boxes, a total of 120 primary powerful potions, and the more than 30 sergeants in the personal guard who have made war merits have all enjoyed the power given by the potion, and the others will only be rewarded with the potion if they have won the battle merit in the future and have a credit book.

Before the next time the Coptis tree fruit comes down, there will be so many primary powerful potions left.

This is still a powerful potion of primary and low-grade, medium-grade and high-grade potions, although the picture of the processing center has appeared, but Xiao Ye has no key raw materials, that is, there are no large number of captives, and he can't get his hands on it.

Meritorious rewards and punishments, strict implementation of military regulations, Xiao Ye has never dared to be careless, even if Daozi and Sun Xiaoming, in the future, without military merits, can only watch the strength of other people, gradually surpassing them.

Elementary low-grade powerful potions, after ordinary people use them three times in a row, those who can withstand the torment of the medicinal effect have the strength of three hundred catties, and their physique has been enhanced to a knot, but they can't survive the medicinal effect, and the chance of survival is not great.

The third-order sergeant coupled with his own strength, his fist swing was enough to exert an attack power of nearly four hundred catties, if he fought with the Tartar with a knife and shield, Xiao Ye did not think that the Tartar could withstand the crushing impact.

Well, under the small-scale confrontation, Xiao Ye will not fall into the net if there are more people.

Of course, he is just thinking about it now, according to the military merits of Eagle Claw Fort, more than a dozen potions have to be issued, Bailonghu and Galen tribes have to give out more than 30 potions, and in Madao Stone Fort, he can take out more than 20 sticks, and after counting, he can last keep less than 20 in his hand.

"Boom," in the depths of the steppe in early September, a large group of Tatar cavalry began to appear on the edge of the northern foot of the Altai Mountains.

In more than a dozen bloody duels for more than a year, his immediate boss Wan Commander Nei Manka was ambushed and killed by the Tile Thorns, and Ta Wolf Tile also successfully took over the position of Captain Wan, and his henchman Wo Haoge was promoted to Commander of Thousand.

In the past year, great changes have taken place in the grassland, even the cunning Lanayette has calculated his boss, and under the desperate rescue, his captain is still seriously injured and died in the depths of the vast grassland. With the support of Tawolfwa, Lanayat became the weakest commander under Jinong's tent.

When Dayan Han gathered 60,000 iron cavalry to suppress the arrogance of the Watt Thorn tribe in the lower reaches of the Zabkhan River, the overall situation on the steppe had been decided, and the eastern and western forces were bounded by Kobdo Lake.

The Ordos tribe, a large Tatar tribe distributed in the northern foothills of the Altai Mountains and the northwest of the grassland, has taken control of the vast grasslands and adjacent doors from Kobdo Lake to Shuangta Lake in the east.

The tribes of Lanelt live in the upper reaches of the Zabkhan River, echoing the Ordos tribes.

In several clashes with the Tile Spur cavalry, Tawolfwa fully understood the power of firearms, especially the short fire/gun, which is worthy of a sharp weapon to save his life, and many times let his guards use the power of firearms to protect him to create an encirclement of the enemy.

Especially the dozen or so long fires/guns he bought from the hands of the Ming merchants, plus the five or six shots he snatched earlier, as long as it was not a stormy day, he fired together within one hundred and fifty steps, even if the tile spur enemy general was wearing double armor, he would only die on the spot.

After more than a dozen chases and fights, Tawolfwa became very interested in firearms, but he couldn't look down on garbage such as three-eyed fires and shotguns. It's a pity that the projectile of the fire / gun has already run out.

When confronting the Wa Thorn cavalry in the lower reaches of the Zabhan River, Ta Wolf Wa once sent two hundred-man teams to deliberately approach the Shiguan Gorge to see if there was a chance to grab a hand on the south side of the canyon.

As a result, not only was the southward canyon passage blocked by overlapping vines and grasses, but the centurion he sent was shocked to find that at the junction of the grassland and the Gobi Desert, another stone fort had appeared.

Several groups of cavalry sent out in the stone fort, as if they had the same clairvoyance as the captain, spread out from a distance and surrounded the Tartar rangers, and after a few rounds of fire/guns, the centurion relied on his horse and led the team to rush out of the encirclement.

In the following many encounters, the Tartar cavalry not only did not take advantage, but was also flanked twice by the cavalry of other tribes from the west, and suffered heavy casualties.

When he received the news, Ta Wolf Wa found that less than half of the two hundred-man cavalry he had sent out.

Enraged, Tawolfwa reported to Jinon the hidden danger at the eastern foot of the Altai Mountains, and then mobilized a large army, gathered Ranelt's 2,000 cavalry, and marched straight to the Eagle Claw Fort.

Although it is claimed that there are more than 10,000 iron cavalry, but the war has just ended, the consumption of warriors has not been replenished, excluding the cavalry that maintains the tribe, and then subtracting the rear part that carries grain and grass, the cavalry that Ta Wolf can bring out is only more than 3,000.

Rao is like this, the two tribes of more than 5,000 elite cavalry, has caused a whirlwind on the grassland, scattered along the way, all of them bowed their heads and offered all the cattle and sheep, young and strong herdsmen.

The appearance of the cavalry of the Tartar brigade made Yu Shan and Lei Xiaoqing, the centurion of the Galen tribe, have to gather their subordinates, take a group of slave cavalry, protect the old and young in the tribe, and a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, and move westward along the southern foot of the Altai Mountains.

Duding, who was guarding Bailong Lake, also stopped transporting ore to Eagle Claw Fort.

Fortunately, the two groups of guards carrying the potion had already set off, hoping to deliver the potion to them in good condition.

Ma Dao Stone Castle, the backyard of the hundred households, Xiao Ye held a small bottle in his hand in the glow, standing in front of Xin Weilin, "Brother of the three provinces, this medicine can strengthen the body, this official has already used it, the effect of the medicine is good, whether to use it or not, it is up to you to decide,"

Xiao Ye wielded the heavy slashing knife in the backyard every day, Xin Weilin had seen it many times, and although he couldn't figure out the sudden surge in the strength of the hundred households and the changes in the sergeants of the pro-guard team, he really couldn't think of the reason.

Now it seems that the stone road is the answer.

Wang Ziliang, who was eyeing him on the side, made Xin Weilin a little funny, isn't it just a small pill, as for the hot eyes, he couldn't wait to snatch it.

"Yes, why not, Brother Liu Ren, who is not thin, is now walking in tiger steps, and I also want to sleep more peacefully every day, scholar," with a wry smile in his eyes, Xin Lilin took the vial without hesitation, poured out the red five-star pill, raised his head and swallowed it.

"Hehe, come on, push Mr. down and take a hot bath," Seeing that Xin Xiucai had taken the pill, Xiao Ye's heart suddenly relaxed, and at this point, all the principals in the stone castle had already used the medicine.

At least, by his side, there will be no more people who are so smart as to suspect the master of the mill, as for the guy who has crooked thoughts, hmph, the vendor who was dragged out by the guards last night is now buried in the loess.

The merchant that Wang Ziliang lured in was an experiment that Xiao Ye had to do, although it was a little cruel, but the merchant who could take refuge in Zhang Zhong's mansion would not have a good impression of him.

People who have bad thoughts about Xiao Ye, after swallowing the red pill, it is like eating a dose of poison, but they can't die immediately, screaming and screaming, longing for the hideous claws to break their heads, Xiao Ye knows what to do with this person after taking a look.

Tonight, he wants to let the knife swallow the third pill first, although it is not close to people, but this leader of the guards is with him, and he will be the first to find anyone to experiment.

The knife that was secretly rewarded with the second potion by the hundred households, and now the strength of his body is no less than that of Xiao Ye, and in the entire personal guard, he can chop the long-handled slash/saber of nearly seventy catties, and dance vigorously.

After dinner, standing in the study, Xiao Ye looked at the knife sitting on the chair, and said in a condensed voice, "Third-order sergeant, the strength will increase to three hundred catties, and the ears and eyes will be more alert, but the risk is not small, there is no tenacity to persevere, or don't force it,"

To be honest, he didn't want to see Daozi, a brother who followed him from birth to death, being tormented alive by the medicine into a dried corpse, and becoming a third-order sergeant, the risk was not ordinary, and Xiao Ye didn't want to try it.

"Lord Baihu, my subordinates have made up their minds, and I hope that my lord will be fulfilled," has a knife that is not inferior to Xiao Ye's obsession, since he has discovered the path of strength growth, he has already fallen into it, and he has not thought about retreating at all; Exploring the way for the Lord of Baihu may have become a kind of subconscious for him.

"Then, okay," Xiao Ye nodded, took out a small bottle from his coat pocket, which contained a crimson pill, gently placed it on the table, and walked out of the study.

Seeing that the door of the study was closed, the knife got up and took off his clothes and trousers, wearing only mattresses, and reached out and pinched the bottle; Remove the cork, and the pill is poured directly into your mouth.

After swallowing the pill, the knife sat in the wooden barrel in the center of the study, and let the warm clean water flood his waist; Before he could sit down, his face and body were already flushed.

"Ah," he snorted lowly, and when he opened his mouth, the hot air spewing out of the knife's mouth was unexpectedly visible.

Xiao Ye, who was standing outside the study, listened to the low muffled hum inside, and looked indifferently at the high wall in the distance.

For half an hour, Xiao Ye, who was motionless, trembled slightly in his ears, and waved his right hand behind his back slightly, and the guard next to him took a set of clean uniforms and pushed the door into the study.

This kind of pure black summer field uniform can only be worn by sergeants above the third rank, and even Xiao Ye can only wear an earthy yellow uniform now. Xiao Ye, who obeyed the information in his mind, didn't feel embarrassed.

After resting the tea cup kung fu, a knife dressed in black appeared in the small open space in the backyard, this martial arts arena is generally the place where Xiao Yechen practiced swordsmanship, and now it is surrounded by more than thirty elite guards.

The three-hundred-pound stucco stone lock looks more rugged than two knives, but the thin big hand of the knife grabbed the stone lock, and it was raised seven or eight times with one hand without effort, and his face was not red and his heart was not beating.

"Drink," with a soft snort of the knife, a figure flashed under the wind light, and he had already scurried to a row of wooden stakes; The stake, which had just been erected during the day, was as thick as a calf, and buried two feet deep.

"Click, click," smashed nine wooden stakes one after another, the knife slowly lowered his fist, he was not a reckless man, and the next wooden stake was not sure to be broken, so it was wise to stop.

Sun Xiaoming, who was standing with the guards, was the same as the big guy at this time, his eyes were round, and he had fists with knives during the day, and he was definitely not so strong.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the hundred households next to him, and there was no abnormality on his calm face, and Sun Xiaoming's heart moved.

Late at night, in the backyard of 100 households, five large wooden barrels lined up filled with half of the hot clean water.

The wind lantern raised high illuminated the small training ground, and the five guards in khaki uniforms were all first-order sergeants, and they were old and young.

According to the ranking of military merits, they are the top five people in the guard, and they also voluntarily asked to become third-order sergeants, as long as they can survive the two levels, then, after two hours at the latest, they are eligible to wear the black uniforms placed next to them.

The spirit of the knife, a pair of eyes flashing with fine light, as the new hundred households guard officer, he is going to select qualified guards, the third-order sergeant, he exists as a hundred household guards, and personally protects the safety of the hundred households.

In the small box in his hand, there were ten glass bottles, and after the knife frowned and looked at a few guards one by one, he issued five vials; An hour later, after the personal guard who was promoted to the rank of second-order sergeant and got used to the strength in his body, he would issue the other five vials.

Xiao Ye had already returned to the bedroom, with a knife in the training ground, and it didn't matter if he was there.

In the early morning of the next day, Xiao Ye pushed open the door and walked out of the porch, and the five black-clothed guards standing in front of him made him slightly stunned, and his heart was sour; Of the six familiar guards, one of them didn't survive that level.

"Daozi, from today onwards, you are the leader of the official's guards, and when the guards reach fifty, you will be promoted to the commander of the guards," Xiao Ye raised his eyes and looked at the training ground in the distance, and the knife hurriedly stepped forward and bowed.

"My lord, Zhang Da's body has been sent to the mountain and buried behind the stone stele," knowing the knife that Baihu was thinking, his heart was not good, although he repeatedly stated the risks of the potion, but no one was willing to withdraw, and the result was quite acceptable.

Without tenacious willpower, if you want to be promoted to a third-order sergeant, the pass of life and death will become a bridge between yin and yang. But the so-called willpower, who can tell.

"Well, the bereavement is according to the rules, take care of his family, you can often go and see it when you have the chance, and bring some grain and oil for the official," after a moment of silence, Xiao Ye stepped forward and patted the knife on the shoulder, "Go, the Tartars have come to Eagle Talon Fort, and your first task is to kill the Tartars and assist Eagle Talon Castle in defense,"

"When the Tartars disperse the siege of Eagle Talon Fort, your mission will be completed, and at that time, you will be the real guards, the guards of this officer,"

"Ma Gui's firearms and ammunition, as long as the five of you can handle it, how many official approvals can be taken," as he spoke, Xiao Ye waved his hand, and the guards next to him stepped forward, signaled at the knife, and walked out first.

"Subordinates retreat," the five black-clothed guards strode out of the backyard after kneeling on the ground and saluting.

"Go, the eagle shouldn't be trapped in the nest, spilling blood to fight for the next life," touched the remaining vial in his arms, Xiao Ye muttered in his mouth.

When the knife five people, one person and three horses, carrying equipment and supplies, left the Madao Stone Fort, the Eagle Claw Fort, which was more than 20 miles away in a straight line to the north, had been surrounded by a large group of Tartar cavalry.

However, the vine grass spread everywhere, so that the Tartars, who had suffered so much, had to surround the stone fort from a distance, and they would not easily attack the eagle talon fort until the vine grass was cleared, and before the artillery of the rear team arrived.

The Tartars attacked the city wall, either using the tactics of crowds, building long ladders everywhere to climb up, or letting the captured Ming people open the way first, and just a few tricks over and over again, the military households of the border army were used to it; As for artillery, well, it depends on how many there are, and there are many cities that surrender without a fight.

Compared with the field battle on the horse, after the Tartar cavalry who got off the horse turned into swordsmen and archers, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were not afraid, and the combat power was almost more than twenty percent.

The terrain where Eagle Claw Fort is located is really a headache for the Tartars, at least Tawolf Wa and Lanelt are frowning now.

The big cowhide tent was erected, and there was a small water depression in the steppe twenty miles northwest of Eagle Claw Fort, and further east it entered the Gobi Desert, but there was no water to be found in the Gobi Desert.

The jade rattan grass surrounding the Eagle Claw Fort, except for the Gobi Desert to the north, spreads slowly, but along the sparse grassland to the west and east, but it grows rapidly, and can spread more than a dozen steps a day, if it rains, the distance of dozens of steps is only one night.

Standing outside the tent, Tawolfwa and Lanelt held up the monocular in their hands, looking at the black dot in the distance, and they frowned at the stone castle that suddenly appeared.

The stone fort hidden in the deep ditch had caused heavy casualties to the cavalry under Ta Wolf Wa last year, and Ranelt had heard that if it hadn't been for Jinong's urgent order to transfer cavalry, perhaps they would have occupied the stone fort in the big ditch by now.

"Master Wanfu, there are two paths leading to the outside of the stone fort, and there is a kind of tree on the side of the road," said Wohaug, who was standing beside Tawolfwa.

"Our rangers have explored the road, and the rest of the place is full of that nasty poisonous weed, and the legs of the horses and horses have been scraped up, and there is not a single hour that cannot be slowed down, and the same is true for people,"

"How long does it take to clean up this grass?" Tawolfwa put down the binoculars, carefully closed the barrel, and handed it to the guards on the side; The guards carefully put the binoculars into their skins and stuffed them into their arms.

"Judging from the distance, if we clean up the stone fort from the direction of the Gobi Desert, it won't take a day, but the Ming people have firearms in the fort, I'm afraid we won't be able to clean up all the way to the fort wall,"

"Then let the Han slaves clean up the poisonous weeds first, and our warriors will follow," Lanelt smirked, touching the beard on his chin.

"Well, yes, Wohauge, you will take your officer's fire/spear team to press the formation, and the slaves who do not obey the order will be killed on the spot," Tawolfwa nodded, "Starting tomorrow morning, we don't need the stone fort of the Ming people on the grassland, we must demolish it,"

"Subordinates obey," Wohaug replied loudly under Tawolfa's fierce gaze, and Lanelt bowed slightly, with a solemn expression.

Around the tent, the Tartar warriors had set up patches of cowhide tents, which were distributed in blocks according to the thousand-man team, and the war horses were gathered together to be guarded by special people; More than a dozen ranger squads were patrolling in a staggered manner.

There is only one water source here within a radius of 100 miles, as long as Ta Wolf Wa occupies this place, he has never heard of water umbrellas, and he is quite confident that he already has a favorable location.

The grassland is not as flat as the endless, not only slopes and ravines, large and small rivers and swamps, but also high mountains and deep lakes, and a desert Gobi.

Five miles away from the route of the Tartar rangers, on a small slope, the knife was lying on the grass, holding a telescope, staring at the camp of the Tartars in the distance; In the depression behind the slope, four black-clad guards were busy digging a pit and storing some firearms here.

The ammunition they brought out was sufficient, and even the jumping thunder took hundreds of them, but Xiao Ye felt distressed for a while, and he picked up a few geotechnical bullets and brought them.