Wedge Hegu, who was sitting on the transport car, looked at the night outside the window of the car with novelty, touched it under him, and marveled for a long time, and then began to complain to Xiao Ye, from the harassment of the Turpan cavalry, to the forced tax of the Li Shan Department, and even more so when it came to knives, he borrowed troops from him from time to time, and he still hasn't paid the money.

Although he got a lot of benefits in the transaction with Xiao Ye, who didn't like that he could have more good things in his yurt, and he really didn't like gold, so he was willing to ask for Xiao Ye's lighters, matches, green salt tea, and firearms.

What's more, he wants to have a good relationship with Xiao Ye as much as possible, the stone mill that can produce yellow plaster, I have seen it a few times, and it is very hot.

Swearing allegiance and safeguarding the interests of the tribe, as long as it is arranged, there is no conflict, but you can't have evil thoughts about Xiao Ye.

Wedge Hegu was very shrewd, he didn't ask the price of the car, in his opinion, maybe all the gold sand in his tribe added up, and he might not be able to buy this fast-running car, unless Xiao Ye was willing to open his mouth to sell, then he could have a chance to bargain.

Pointing to the black grass outside the window, Wedge Hegu looked bitter, "My lord, I don't know where that poisonous weed grows from, it came from Gujiabao so quickly, that stinger can kill people, let alone cattle and sheep,"

"It's winter now, and this poisonous weed can still grow everywhere, and it will soon be in our tribe's valley camp," Xiao Ye ignored Wedge Bone's complaints, but when it came to vine grass, he had to speak.

"Didn't I give you Coptis saplings, as long as the trees are planted, your tribe will be absolutely safe and sound," Xiao Ye, who seemed to have forgotten how cattle and sheep survived, pouted with disdain.

"Besides, you must have also found the vine grass fruit, the black kernel, it must be much stronger than cow dung when burned, don't say you don't know," this sentence choked so much that he didn't say anything.

"If you can't use up the vine grass kernels, I can exchange them for grain, green salt, fire/guns, and you can discuss the price with Wang Dali," Xiao Ye, who was comforting the wedge bones and blowing a cool breeze, took out a pot of spirits, took a sip of himself, and handed it to him casually.

"Don't just look at your oasis, there are many grasslands on the grassland outside, and when the vine grass comes, you will change the field, and the Galen tribe will go to the north, you see that other people's lives are better, but they are more comfortable than you," follow the good temptation, Xiao Ye is uneasy and kind.

"Then you have to give the fire/gun too, my half is old," muttered quickly, wedged the lid open, and raised his head to take a sip; Xiao Ye didn't understand what he said, but Yu Shan's face twitched in front of him, and he stepped on the pedal fiercely.

"Your camp in the valley, as long as you plant Coptis chinensis, the vine grass will not spread in, and no matter how much vine grass there is outside, it won't make you money by growing fruits," Xiao Ye thought about it, and felt that Wedge Hegu had taken a big advantage.

"That fierce fire oil, continue to mine and transport, you can't let the rattan grass cut off the road," wedge bone likes to listen, most of his current transaction with Xiao Ye is made by mining fierce fire oil, if anyone dares to rob him of those dozen oil swamps, he will have to fight hard.

Wedge Hegu began to entangle the vines and grasses all over the mountains, and Xiao Ye was also secretly wondering there, once he left the Madao Stone Fort, it was probably far away from Shiguantun, and the nightmare at night was no more.

When he returned to Madao Stone Fort, he had nightmares again and again, so he had to use excuses to run out. Hiding in Jin Sanniang's bedroom, he can at least get a good night's sleep.

"Yashan, where is it?" Squinting and leaning on the seat, Xiao Ye's mind was rolling, and the flow of people like the sea of people in his dream, dressed in different costumes, jumped into the sea one after another, which shocked him for many days.

Before dawn, the snow was falling heavily, and Yu Shan drove the transport truck to the Moon Spring in the Gobi Desert, a small oasis hundreds of miles away.

A group of Mongolian cavalry stationed here, with the burst of gunfire, fell to the ground at the same time, and saw a huge black monster in horror, with fire and smoke all around, crashing into their war horses.

Fifty Mongolian cavalrymen, after getting out of the tent, were frightened by the sudden appearance of the transport car, and they were sluggish and could not make a tea cup, and were cleanly swept away by the bullets fired from the transport car.

More than 200 Mongolian war horses, except for the dozen or so that were killed, the rest were collected by the sergeants, and a few scouts with the car got out of the car, turned over and scattered the horses, and went out on guard.

When the 1,000 cavalry led by Wedge Hehasan surrounded him from afar, he saw that it was just a group of sub-sergeants, who were easily packing up the capture and digging a pit to bury the corpse.

The tent left by the Mongolian Tartars was directly cheaper Xiao Ye, hastily ate some meatloaf, and after replenishing the water bags from the spring, everyone rested on the spot, waiting for Wedge Hemu, Wang Hu and Aman, as well as Wang Dali's logistics team.

Xiao Ye and Wedge He Gu were discussing in the tent, and these Tartars of Wedge Heha Mountain were around the transport car to see the rarity, this car that had been running for nearly an hour, they were convinced, and they were stunned to run faster than the war horse.

Wedge Ha Shan didn't know that if Yu Shan hadn't been waiting for them, he would have run to Moon Spring a long time ago.

Yu Shan took two sergeants, opened the car cover to prepare to change the battery, looked at the grooves inside, and the battery would turn gray and white if it could run for a while, and it seemed that it could still be used; Still, for the night operation, he replaced it with fifty new batteries.

This car is the same as a horse-drawn carriage, and of course it consumes batteries when it is heavy, just like the cattle and horses pulling the cart, pulling more goods and eating more.

"Hashan, how far is it from Chijin City?" While changing the battery, Yu Shan asked.

"Well, three hundred miles, separated by the Gobi, there is no water supply, and the detour will take seven hundred miles," Wedge Heha Shan said in a whisper, and then a series of Tatar words, even with comparisons, made Yu Shan stunned for a moment, and then understood what he meant.

Three hundred miles, running in a straight line is estimated to be less than two hundred miles, Yu Shan sneered in his heart, and no longer paid attention to the chatter of Wedge Hehashan; The transporter could not run for more than an hour, but it had to stop several times on the road.

Chijin City is next to a big river, it is a big river that comes down from Qilian Mountain, there is a lot of gold sand in the river, which is named Chijin, and the Ming official mansion dislikes vulgarity, called Chijin; After the Mongols occupied, they changed their name to Chijin Mongolia.

Relying on a river, although this big river is outside Chijin City, after turning to Shazhou City, which is five hundred miles to the west, it will disappear into the desert, but Chijin City is fertile for thousands of miles, and planting crops next to the river bank will not be afraid of failure; However, the Mongols preferred to abandon grazing rather than farming.

What they value is the gold sand in this river.

As a result, there were a lot of Ming and Turpan people in Chijin City, renting land and farming, and paying rent to the Mongols to live; The most important thing is that the Mongols needed a large number of people to sift the gold sand along the banks of the river.

Therefore, there are currently 10,000 households in Chijin City, a Mongolian commander is guarding the town, and the cavalry under his command is more than 10,000 people, occupying the gold sand in the river for many years, relying on force to make the king of Turpan helpless, and asking for help from the Ming court is far from quenching his thirst.

In the remote northwest area, since the Ming military guard retreated back to the side wall after Zhu Di's death, the control of the northwest gradually lost its effectiveness.

The strategy of the northwest frontier has degenerated from both offense and defense to specialized defense, and the Ming Dynasty has lost not only interests, but also the psychological self-confidence of the people.

During the Hongwu period, he gave him two dog galls for Tartar, and he didn't dare to approach the side wall easily, but now the rivers are declining, and the watchdogs dare to bite their owners.

If a country does not have strong armed forces, iron-blooded generals, and even less the bloody nature to dare to fight, then the fate of this country is no different from that of a beast to be slaughtered.

The great power of the Ming Dynasty is the world's first economic strength, and it is not a grassland barbarian like a hungry wolf, after a hundred years of gnawing and sucking blood, when the treasury is empty, the Son of Heaven hangs himself and his grandchildren are strangled.

Turn around and talk about Moon Spring.

In the tent, Xiao Ye looked at the extremely simple sheepskin map, and listened to Wedge Hegu's introduction to Chijin City, and his face couldn't help but feel worried.

"Wedge bones, this Gobi Desert is not good," Xiao Ye pointed to the transport truck outside, "This car needs a black core of rattan grass, you must find it for me, well, at least a thousand catties,"

"Of course, this thousand-pound kernel, I'll give you ten fire/guns, brand new, plus a thousand projectiles,"

"Two thousand catties, in exchange for twenty fires/guns, two thousand projectiles, and a hundred earth-shattering thunders," Anyway, the fruits picked by the women and old people in the tribe were either burned by themselves or taken out for sale by running a long distance, rather than being used in vain, the wedge bones were directly taken out and sold to Xiao Ye.

Although half of the fierce fire oil pond was covered with vines and grass, the black fruit pits picked there this year were more than 3,000 catties, and the original grievances of the wedge bones were gone.

The skin of the fruit can be sold as a medicinal herb, and the wedge bone has been inquired clearly, and the medical halls in Gujiabao and Madao Shibao have purchased a large number of them.

Xiao Ye thought for a while, "Okay, I'll give you fifty fire/guns, ten thousand projectiles, and one hundred earth-shattering thunder, but after this battle, your tribe will send five hundred cavalry, no need to bring weapons and horses, join the Wang Hu war camp, and the food and salary will be provided by me,"

"The population and materials robbed in Chijin City are divided in half between the two families, and I will buy them first," took out the deal on the table, so that Wedge Uk agreed happily.

The two of them smiled and high-fived as an oath, Wedge Hegu got what he wanted, Xiao Ye had one more deal, and they were all happy, so they saw the robbery.

There was a set of molds for processing fruit cores on the transport car, which was in the toolbox under Yu Shan's seat, and he originally wanted to hand it over to Wang Gui, but Xiao Ye never agreed, and he didn't want to move around with the things on the car, so it would be of great use.

So, he unloaded Hao Yongliang's artillery team and the transport vehicle for supplies, and turned around and returned again, just enough to pull some beef and mutton from the West Wedge He tribe for a few more days.

When a large number of snowflakes fell in the sky of Moon Spring, to the east of the dim oasis, the war horses of the brigade followed a black car, and the momentum came in a hurry.

Wang Hu, A Man, and Du Ding led 2,000 cavalry, Li Shan's 70 guards, plus Wedge Hemu's 2,000 cavalry, and Wedge Heshan's 1,000 cavalry converged. The night owl scouts who came with the team, under the leadership of the army commander, ran around without orders, and from time to time sent back the news within ten miles.

In the grass beside the spring, in the makeshift barracks tents, the sergeants of the war barracks and the Tartar cavalrymen took their iron helmets, poured some water and threw it into a heating pack, and then threw the canned meat into it, and the boiling hot water soon smothered the meat to the hot hand.

Some people also heat the water, pour in the fried noodles and put some green salt, stir into a paste and eat it while it is hot, and the taste is not bad.

There is only one point, no fire is allowed tonight, the barbecue is not eaten, and the shabu depends on patience.

After the team rested and had dinner, it was already dark, and Yu Shan, with a few strong sergeants, also processed the black kernels transported from the West Wedge tribe into a large pile of black battery rods, all of which were placed in the carriage.

With a thousand cavalry, Wedge Heha Mountain went far to the north to guard against the cavalry of Turpan and Lishan, and the two thousand cavalry brought by Wedge Hemu were stationed at Moon Spring to support Wedge Heha Mountain at any time.

This time he attacked Chijin City, Xiao Ye didn't plan to let them participate, but directly defended this temporary departure place. It is also a place for material transshipment.

"My lord, why don't you let my cavalry go into battle?" When Xiao Ye ordered the recall of the scouts, Wedge He asked puzzledly, if this is the case, how can he have the face to face half a point in the capture of Chijin City.

He now has five hundred fire/lancers in his hands, and he has spent so much energy that he will not be willing to pull it out and practice. The consequence of a small contribution is that the share is not large, he can understand this account, Xiao Ye's promise was fulfilled after returning to Gujiabao.

"This sneak attack on Chijin City, there are not many war horses, and your cavalry can be used as infantry envoys?" Xiao Ye looked at Wang Hu's five hundred soldiers, plus his own seventy guards, under the fire of the artillery team, it was more than enough to attack a small city.

Du Ding's five hundred sergeants, Aman's cavalry, he is of great use, but the troops in his hands are still a little nervous.

"Okay, Chijin City has two city gates, and it takes a lot of troops to block the city, and my five hundred fire/spearmen can fight when they dismount, and they can play a role," Wedge Hegu's words made Xiao Ye hesitate.

The infantry cavalry of Dudin and Aman, if they had to go in and out of the Gobi Desert and set up a receiving camp fifty miles away, it was impossible for the transport vehicles to go back and forth for three hundred miles each time, and then no number of batteries would be able to withstand it.

Looking at the heavy snow outside the account, if it continues for another day, the reception camp will not do much.

What's more, if you want to transport the materials in the city, you really need to close the news, although the fire/spearmen of the wedge bone have not been in practice for a long time, but they are not afraid of death, the terrain is familiar, and they can also exert their strength.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ye nodded, "Okay, gather your fire/spearmen and wait for the car in half an hour in the evening,"

"Tomorrow morning, Du Ding and they are going to enter the Gobi Desert, you send someone to lead the way," After speaking, Xiao Ye turned around and waved at Wang Hu, Du Ding, and A Man, and led them into the tent.

Fifteen miles southeast of Chijin City, a meadow with yellow grass lying on the ground and snow covering the grass, the Mongols who had been grazing here had gone to the west along the river, where they were in the winter pastures, ready to survive a long winter.

In the pitch-black grassland, snowflakes were numerous, and there were suddenly two bright lights in the Gobi Desert in the east, and a behemoth rushed out of the twilight, and the humming sound approached with the lights; Soon, Yu Shan drove the transport truck and stopped on this meadow.

Wedge Bone jumped out of the cab and looked around with a handlamp, until he saw a low forest to the north and a puddle of reeds next to it, and then he determined the place under his feet, which was not far east of Chijin City.

After the transport truck put down a group of people, it immediately turned around and turned back, continued to meet the sergeants in the Gobi Desert, and pulled dozens of war horses.

At dawn, the snow was falling heavier, and it seemed that there were signs of heavy snowfall, but he had already rushed to Xiao Ye, fifteen miles outside Chijin City, and was looking forward to such bad weather.

The knife hiding in the mountains to escape the pursuit can finally take a breath.

The transport car pulled twenty night owl scouts, seventy guards, five hundred sergeants of Du Ding, and five hundred firemen/spearmen of Wedge Bone, and Hao Yongliang's artillery team into the low woods on time, and the car crashed through a row of pine trees and hid inside.

With a stick of incense, the barracks tents erected among the trees were completely covered by the snow, and the white flowers were scattered.

Only the twenty horses, tied to the snow, bowed their heads through the snow and gnawed on the hay.

A day later, Wang Hu, Du Ding's 1,000 soldiers, Aman's 1,000 cavalry, and Wedge Hehashan's 1,000 cavalry, except for the war horses, were all transported to the low forest.

At this time, Xiao Ye's hands had 2,000 fire/spearmen, and 1,000 foot Tartar cavalry armed with scimitars and horn bows, and the time had come to attack Chijin City.

Sitting in the tent, Xiao Ye looked at the sky outside the lookout, the dripping snow made him feel refreshed, and then looked at the excited A Man and Wedge Hegu around him, and gave the order to attack, "The scout team Hou Xiaoshan led the team to ride first, the guard Yang Eighteen led the team to follow, Wang Hu and Du Ding led the troops into the city, and the two departments of A Man and Wedge He Gu blocked Chijin City,"

"Don't let a single person escape from Chijin City,"

For a while, in the low woods, the war horses were pulled out, and a team of sergeants followed the black-clothed guards and quickly rushed to Chijin City, which was hidden in the snow twilight.

Xiao Ye took five guards and boarded the transport car, and slowly followed behind the team, and the Hao Yongliang artillery team in the carriage could get off the car at any time to launch a fire attack.

The city wall of Chijin City is not high, it is made of square bricks made of rubber clay mixed with wheat straw, the city wall is more than one zhang high, there is even no corridor on it, and there are two city gates in the north and south; In this snowstorm, most of the people in the city hid in their homes, the poor roasted by the stove, and the rich drank on the kang.

The Lishan cavalry guarding the city gate had already entered the wine shop next to the city gate, drinking ale and eating mutton soup, and did not notice anything abnormal outside the city.

A team of mules and horses carrying grain and fodder, under the escort of the hundred and tenth cavalry, slowly went out of the city gate, and the centurion who led the team scolded and rode on the horse, wearing a coarse cloth; He should be unlucky, and today he will escort grain and grass to the mountains behind him and give them to the commander.

The damn horse thief actually wanted to sneak attack Chijin City, but unexpectedly, tens of thousands of cavalry in the city swarmed out, and the horse thief was so frightened that he went to the west, and met the Turpan cavalry on the sandbar head-on.

I heard that under the heavy encirclement and suppression, the horse thieves have been dispersed, and the horse thieves who took the lead have entered the mountains, which should be about to freeze to death and starve to death in the mountains.

Unless the horse thief gave up his horse and continued to cross the Altai Mountains to the north and run to the northern steppe, nearly 20,000 cavalry would block the horse thief's escape route.

The Altai Mountains are hundreds of miles wide from north to south, and the highest is the Altai Mountains, which can be easily read.

Killing chickens and monkeys, to see which one who is not long-eyed dares to come to Chijin City to make trouble, the centurion snorted a few times, yelled at his subordinates twice, and led the team out of the city gate.

The sight was not good on a snowy day, and he and his cavalry did not notice it, and there were two figures lying on their stomachs in the snow outside the city wall, one of whom was covering his earmuffs and quietly blowing a letter whistle; Three miles away, beside the dirt road, Xiao Ye's scouts and guards, armed with repeating crossbows, were waiting for them to pass.

More than eighty consecutive crossbows, packing less than a hundred Lishan cavalry, should be a matter of holding the handle, not to mention, the one holding the crossbow is the most elite sergeant under Xiao Ye.

An hour later, 2,000 firefighters/spearmen surrounded Chijin City, and the group of three surrounded the small city, and the artillery team was also divided into two, blocking the two city gates. Once the Tartar infantry had closed the encirclement outside the city, the firefighters would be able to enter the city immediately.

At this time, Yang Eighteen's guards, armed with box cannons and rifles, rumbled over on war horses, and ran directly to the city gate.

At the gate of the city, you didn't see any sergeants guarding it? Yang Shiba, who was riding on the horse, wiped the snow from his face, blinked his eyes a few times, and then sped up his horse.

The sound of horses' hooves was near, and in the wine shop close to the roadside in the city gate, more than a dozen Lishan cavalrymen put down their wine bowls and looked at the war horses that broke in in a daze. Li Shanbu, who took the lead, shouted, "What person? Dare to drive a horse into the city, I want to die,"

Yang Eighteen War Horse's speed did not decrease, and he waved his hand to raise the box cannon, and the muzzle of the gun burst out with a string of fire, "Bah, Bah, Bah," before the gunfire fell, the war horse had already rushed over, and there was no intention of stopping at all.

The guards behind him, while passing by the wine shop, fired the guns in their hands, and beat a fairly neat wine shop, even the people and belongings, and the shopkeeper hiding behind the cash cabinet was also killed on the spot by bullets that penetrated the wooden board.

When the gunfire shook Chijin City, and the few cavalry in the city ran into the streets, the black-clothed guards had already occupied four streets on horseback, and on the two horizontal and two vertical streets, the sound of gunfire was deafening, and even the people who came up to see the excitement were quickly killed to the ground.

"Collapse, collapse, collapse," the heavy footsteps entered the city from the north gate, and two thousand sergeants armed with guns, in the shouting and scolding of the captain, rushed to all the important places like water, and soon occupied the whole city.

"Boom, boom," "Boom, boom," the Lishan tribe was in the Wanfu Chief's mansion in the center of the city, and there were two military camps, which were directly blocked by Yang Shibai's guards, and the fire/spearmen who followed up attacked fiercely, completely bloodbathing the Lishan warriors who dared to resist, and the captives were stayed.

"Stal, trample," the 600 Li Mountain cavalry, who had fled from the city in a hurry, rushed out of the south gate, and accelerated their horses in ecstasy, but did not run far, and soon encountered two rows of sergeants blocking the way.

There were only a dozen sergeants, squatting on the snow, looking coldly at these angry cavalrymen.

Behind them, there were only twenty gunners, armed with fire/guns aimed at the cavalry who had left the city.

"Fire," Hao Yongliang's commander shouted, seeing that the Li Shan cavalry was approaching.

"Through, through," "Suddenly, suddenly," the lightning cannon and heavy machine gun fired at the same time, and the fire/gunners also pulled the trigger; Coupled with the scouts who rushed over from both sides, more than 600 cavalry from the mountains, and even men and horses died in the snow outside the city.

The cavalry of the Li Shan Department who remained in the city of less than 1,000, plus the 200 guards of the 10,000-man mansion, encountered a box cannon that could fire continuously, and a sky-shaking thunder that could explode a large piece of shrapnel, and it was also a blood mold.

The Tartar soldiers besieging the city lightly wounded nine people, killed dozens of Ming people who climbed the city wall, and the soldiers in the city suffered five casualties and slightly wounded more than a dozen, and the entire attack on the city took only an hour.

The black-clad guards patrolling the streets on horseback repeated loudly in Tatar and Ming the proclamations of the forbidden streets, warning anyone in the city to stay at home, or where they could not see, or else they would be killed.

Wang Hu and Du Ding led the sergeants to guard the north and south gates, and the scouts scattered along the river bank, except for the fire/spearmen patrolling the streets, the other sergeants and Tartars began to enter the barracks of the Lishan cavalry to rest.

The black transport car drove into the city, outside the courtyard of the Captain Wanfu's house, Xiao Ye stepped out of the car, strode over the corpses on the ground, and came to the front yard; In the courtyard, more than a dozen Mongolian and Han women, and five children wearing fur brocade jackets, were surrounded in the snow by sergeants with guns.

Another group of servants and rough women squatted under the porch, but the treatment was better than that of the master, at least they did not stand in the snow.

The corpses of the Tartar guards who were killed in the front and back yards were dragged to a corner by a dozen strong servants under the orders of the guards, and no one paid attention to them.

"My lord, the treasury has been found, and the granary is also intact," Wang Hu greeted Xiao Ye, and rushed to the backyard excitedly, where there were more than a dozen tall war horses in the stable, and they were undoubtedly not good horses.

"Send someone to inform Wedge Bone outside the city, he cleans up the population of the city, selects young men and women, and prepares to take them all away," Xiao Ye kept his steps and gave orders to the guards around him.

Of course, Wedge He's bones are fishing in troubled waters to make some floating money, Xiao Yequan can't see it, and he doesn't feel distressed if he burns here.

In the warehouse in the backyard, Xiao Ye saw three boxes full of gold ingots, which were six hundred catties, which had been sealed, and ten bags of gold sand totaling one hundred catties, which were also neatly bundled, which I am afraid was to be transported away recently, and it was cheaper for Xiao Ye.

There are also a large number of cloths, silks, and grains, which are stacked neatly in several warehouses, seeing this, Xiao Ye suddenly remembered the granary in the military camp, and hurriedly asked Wang Hu to send someone over to guard it, and the provincial wedge was not long-sighted.

"Okay, good," Xiao Ye, who walked out of the warehouse, said to Wang Hu with a smile, "This time, all the sergeants, recorded their military exploits, transferred Ming people from the city, looked for carriages, mules and horses, began to carry property and food, and concentrated in the barracks,"

For the shops, grain stores and liquor stores in the city, Xiao Ye acquiesced to the sweep of Wedge Bones, but the sergeants under his command would definitely not be mixed in, and the sergeants in khaki uniforms and the Tartar sergeants in sheepskin and long coats still had different military regulations.

Nearly 30,000 people in Chijin City were taken from house to house, and all the young and strong people were taken to the barracks, which filled the open space in the two barracks.

Under Xiao Ye's hint, almost all of the Ming people were taken away, and only the old people and children of the Lishan tribe remained in the city.

There were also a large number of goods, under the supervision of Xiao Ye's sergeants, Yu Shan and Li Shan took turns driving, and immediately transferred the goods directly to the Moon Spring in the east of the Gobi Desert. There, Wang Dali's logistics team would quickly pull the belongings back to Jiabao.

In the evening, after the transport cart running between Chijin City and Moon Spring brought back more than a dozen boxes of jumping mines, it began to pull the population, and the Ming men, women, women, women and children, with a small salute, stumbled and climbed onto the black transport truck under the pressure of the muzzle.

The number of people pulled away by the transport vehicle at one time is tightly stuffed, and it can even pull away hundreds of people, and when the ventilation holes in the carriage are opened, it will not suffocate people to death; A car with a load of more than 5,000 catties still runs so fast.

Xiao Ye would not stop those who gathered in the barracks and tried to take the opportunity to escape, but sporadic noises sounded in the city from time to time, and the corpses killed by projectiles on the side of the road were enough to make these residents of Chijin City understand the benefits of surviving.

Under the persecution of the fire/spearmen, the corpses will be loaded into ox carts and pulled out of the city by the captives of the Lishan tribe, and in less than two days, they will be eaten by wild wolves and wild vultures.

A day later, the snow finally stopped, but the sky was full of dark clouds, the cold wind was howling, and Chijin City was still firmly controlled by Xiao Ye, and the slightest news could not be leaked; The non-stop transportation activities of people have caused the population of Chijin City to decrease rapidly.

When the commander of the Li Shan Department, who was far away in the mountains, noticed that something was wrong, it was already five days later; However, the snow on the ground that did not pass the calf slowed the pace of the Li Shan cavalry to return.

Waves of Li Shan rangers sent back, under the ambush of the scout team, were stunned that they did not find out the situation of Chijin City, and also bought Xiao Ye three days for the upside down population.

The transport trucks suspended in the snow kept transporting food supplies and people into the Gobi Desert, and then there was no trace of them, and no one could find the whereabouts of the transport vehicles through the traces on the ground.

"My lord, there is still a day or so to go, and the food in the barracks will be finished," In the Governor's Mansion of Chijin City, Yang Shibai reported to Xiao Ye that in the past five days, Yu Shan and they have been busy day and night, and finally come to an end.

However, the 2,000 battery rods that were urgently transported to Moon Spring from Madao Stone Fort were basically depleted, and the inventory of Wang Gui's warehouse was only about a dozen boxes. The second thousand catties of black fruit pits from the Wedge Bone tribe played a key role.

If the transport vehicle climbed the nest at this time, Xiao Ye could only take people around the circle and return to Gujiabao, the chasing soldiers of the Li Mountain Department were not easy to fool, which covered the snow-covered Gobi Desert, with the traces of pedestrians and horses' hooves on the ground, they could chase them out three hundred miles away, and Xiao Ye was quite afraid of the ability of the Tartar rangers.

"The vine grass branches found from the vicinity of the West Wedge He tribe, the scouts have sprinkled it all over Chijin City for more than ten miles, and they will have a harvest next year," Yang Eighteen's words made Xiao Ye smile knowingly, no, if the vine grass grows on the other side of the river, it is estimated that this captain of the Li Mountain Department may be grateful to him.

"Report," a scout with a fire/gun on his back and a crossbow on his waist hurriedly ran into the hall and knelt on one knee, "Report to your lord, thirty miles to the north, there is a group of cavalry approaching, look at the banner is the cavalry of the Lishan Division, the number of more than 1,000,"

"Okay, let's go," Xiao Ye still had a headache for the Mongolian cavalry, and he stopped robbing and the province provoked the Mongolian Tartars, and now is not the time to fight for territory.

Walking out of the door of the Governor's Mansion and standing on the steps, Xiao Ye looked at the Tartar sergeants scurrying around on the street, and shook his head helplessly, the backbone of the wedge was too thorough, not to mention looting property, even the women refused to let go, and they were not afraid of dying.

Of course, he also made a fortune.

After a lot of capture, he naturally had to ride a high-headed war horse, Xiao Ye took the reins of the horse, led seventy guards out of the city, and went straight to the ambush position in the north; In the city of Chijin behind him, the horns sounded again and again, and immediately large bags and small bags, as well as the Tatar cavalry taken away by the woman, began to slowly retreat towards the Gobi Desert.

A group of cavalry remaining in the city will exit the city after nightfall.

On the edge of the Gobi Desert, Yu Shan drove a transport cart and was pulling away the cavalry of Wedge Heha Mountain, and a large number of war horses left behind were to be taken away at the end.

"Peng, Peng Peng," "Bah, Bah, Bah," on the slope north of Chijin City, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and it was quickly blown away by the cold wind; Wang Hu and Du Ding's 1,000 sergeants, in Xiao Ye's long-range lens, easily ambushed the cavalry of the Li Shan Department who tried to return to the city, and captured more than 800 war horses, scimitars, horn bows and banners.

Wang Hu did not send people to chase the remnants of the cavalry who fled back from afar, but together with Du Ding, hastily packed up the capture, led the troops back five miles, and began to dig trenches to bury the thunder array that was guarding against the impact of the horse team.

It was a flat field, and three miles away was the great river, and not far to the east was a deep ravine; The sky was full of clouds, the thick snow on the ground, and the frozen hard soil, were blasted with smoke and dust by the geotechnical bullets in the hands of the sergeant.

The long trench was dug into two flat rings, three miles long from east to west, two miles deep from north to south, two trenches about ten steps apart, two thousand sergeants were waiting for the day, and in the center circle was Hao Yongliang's artillery team, and the heavy machine guns and lightning guns all showed their cold fangs.

Or that the craftsmen have a unique vision, Sergeant Wang Hu was crazy outside Gujiabao, and the trenches outside the fort were dug over and over again, and soon some craftsmen came up with ideas.

Annular trenches, two front and back echoes, the front is wide and the back is narrow, the walkway is dug between them, and the jumping mine is buried in front of the trench, which can resist the Tartar horse team to the greatest extent; This idea was soon promoted by Xiao Ye to all war barracks.

After all, his big opponent now is none other than the Tartar cavalry of the steppe.

After the preparations were completed, Xiao Ye, who was standing in the annular trench, shouted in a deep voice, "Raise the flag,"

Hulala, in the steep cold wind, a big banner was raised high, and it was the black banner of the West Wedge He tribe, if the wedge bones were present, the nose would be crooked; Isn't it just to go first, as for letting him come to the top cylinder, why not run quietly.

Xiao Ye, who agreed to resist the pursuers, is not a loser, if the cavalry of the Li Shan Department returns to Chijin City, it will not be mad, you have plundered the wives and concubines of the captain, what is the difficulty of the top cylinder.

Xiao Ye likes to let his allies do it, otherwise what's the use of asking allies.

For three days in a row, the annular trench was filled with gunsmoke, and the explosion was deafening again and again, Xiao Ye led a thousand soldiers to repel several group charges of the Lishan cavalry, and the minefield in front of the trench was also destroyed by a group of pack horses.

The snow outside the trenches was strewn with the corpses of the cavalry of the Li Shan Division, and no one cared about the dead horses, and the snow water condensed into ice cubes was fishy and piercing.

On the ninth day of coming to Chijin City, Xiao Ye, who had used up most of his ammunition under the cover of night, commanded the sergeant to board the transport vehicle that came, and before dawn came, he also pulled the war horses in the trench circle clean, and quietly retreated to the depths of the Gobi Desert.

There are not a lot of traces on the ground, no matter how great the riding ability of the Li Shan tribe is, if you want to find their next foothold, it depends on luck; Besides, his scout squad is full of confidence when it comes to dealing with the Tartar rangers.

The cavalry of the Lishan tribe retreated to Chijin City, and the Turpan cavalry lost the coercion behind them, and the siege of the knife was naturally relieved; The terrain at the southern foot of the Altai Mountains is rugged, so finding a trail to get out of it is no problem.

The knife that ran out of ammunition and food, with less than five hundred horse thieves, circled around the mountain, ran with difficulty for more than ten days, rushed to Bailong Lake, met Xu Wangliang, and began to trim and lick his wounds.

Faced with the almost emptied Chijin City, the stunned commander of the Li Shan Department, in a fit of rage, gathered all his cavalry and began to frantically search for the whereabouts of the city attackers; Of course, his eyes were on the West Wedge tribe.

When did the West Wedge tribe dare to pull out its teeth.

With that black flag, at least, the West Wedge tribe is also an accomplice.