"Peng, Peng Peng," "Bang, Bang, Bang," "Bang, Bang," On the grassland at the southeast foot of the Altai Mountains, under the scorching sun, the smoke and dust that were raised from time to time were quickly washed away by the gentle breeze.

The annual sergeant contest inherited from the Shiguantun Ximen Legion once again made the pure grassland lively.

In this grassland garrisoned by the Galen tribe, a group of sergeants on war horses or running the meadow, according to the military orders of the big leader, under the supervision of the black-clothed guards, began to compete for the ranking.

Rear loading fire/guns or rifles, short fires/guns, hunting knives, earth-shattering thunder, boxes of projectiles, as well as iron helmets, water bottles, medicine bags and dry food that cannot be separated, are standard configurations for sergeants, and some sergeants still have a military crossbow hanging on their bodies, and they weigh forty or fifty pounds on their backs.

Swimming shooting, throwing earth-shattering mines, burying jumping mines, and digging single trenches are necessary items for Dabi, and crossbow targets, the use of geotechnical bullets, and the ability of squads to block the enemy or even shoot immediately are options to increase the score.

As for the five-mile weight-bearing run, it is a selection event, there is no one here, and those who can come to participate in the big competition are all selected good players.

The sergeants selected from the Madao Stone Fort, Eagle Claw Fort, Bailong Lake, and Galen tribes were all eager to try, and Wang Hu, who was still under construction, also sent a team of people to try to grab a good ranking.

Before and after the noun ranking, not only is it a matter of face, but the big leader also has rewards for each battalion, and the shiny rifles and box cannons are generally not begging.

In a large tent on the outskirts of the Galen tribe, several military men in khaki field uniforms stood outside the tent, surrounded by a tall young man in black, and on the chest of the young man's black uniform, a bright badge was prominently worn; On the bronze badge, the five-colored sword shield shimmered in the sunlight.

Xiao Ye was the Galen tribe who arrived last night, and he not only brought 200 personal guards with him on this trip, but also 30 guards, who were counted as the overseers and executors of this big competition.

Qin Shi's Night Owl Banner Team joined Xiao Ye's team halfway, as a sharp knife in his hand, Xiao Ye would not let them run in vain this time, even if they could only serve as a guard post this time.

Daozi, Qin Shishi, as well as Du Ding, Yu Shan, and Ah Man, the five people surrounded the leader, the badges on their chests, one color of red, black and purple, those who were familiar with it knew at a glance that these people were all officers at the level of a thousand commanders.

Looking at the guards waving small flags from time to time in the distance, and the black-clothed guards roaming around, Qin Shishi's face was full of depression, but in front of Xiao Ye, he didn't even have a chance to complain.

The establishment process of the Night Owl Flag Team, everyone knows that eight or nine out of ten of them are veteran gunners, and the shooting accuracy is comparable to that of the pro-guards, plus the weapon support given by Xiao Ye, if he still wants to get into it and get a handful, maybe others will poke the backbone.

I didn't see the knives, they all rode on the horses one by one, facing the big sun, and they started to be thankless referees, so the reward of the big eyes is hot, let's find a chance next time.

However, Qin Shi looked down on the four Shiren teams who participated in the big competition, and among the ten-person teams, one by one, they all wanted to compete in the Wu Commander, Shi Chang, and there were only a few sergeants, and they were embarrassed to slap their swollen faces with red badges.

However, the leaders of the team who came to report swore that the captains of their own teams had made mistakes and were dismissed after consultation with the centurions and commanders.

"Phew, it's just a little trick, I'll report a few more small merits in a few days, these people are not officially reinstated," Qin Shishi, who muttered quietly, glanced at the triumphant Du Ding and the others, and decisively turned his face to stop sulking, and he couldn't draw it.

Before this big competition, Wedge Heha Mountain responded to Wedge Hemu's urgent call and returned to the West Wedge He tribe with his subordinates, and did not send anyone to participate, which Xiao Ye could understand, but he Wedged Hemu did not have an order, how could Xiao Ye not care in his heart.

The leader of the alliance, but he Simon Xiao Ye.

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Xiao Ye glanced at the rugged Aman beside him, because of the fierce fire oil, he and the Wedge He brothers formed an ally, and did not fulfill the promise given to Yu Aman.

Although Ah Man was later compensated for a hundred fires/guns, Xiao Ye was still worried about this, he really needed labor now, otherwise he wouldn't mind destroying that unruly tribe.

It is estimated that Ah Man looked at the West Wedge Hebu pack team and convoy that went back and forth from the tribe again and again, pulling a large number of slimy leather bags and barrels every time, and he could also understand his intentions.

Glancing at Yu Shan, who had a calm face, Xiao Ye nodded secretly in his heart, this deputy commander who grew up on the grassland, received the notice of the establishment of the war barracks, and did not come to him to ask for an official position, and did his own military affairs dutifully, which is rare.

The most important thing is Yu Shan's calmness, which Xiao Ye attaches great importance to.

"Aman, after Gujiabao is completed, fifty miles to the west, there will be another stone fort, called Galen Stone Fort, which will govern the nearby fifty miles of grassland, and your department is willing to garrison it?" Xiao Ye's words made Ah Man slightly stunned, not knowing how to interface.

The Galen tribe under his jurisdiction is a real grassland tribe, mainly grazing cattle and sheep for a living, taking care of helping Bailong Lake transport minerals, if he lives in the stone fort, he doesn't know what to do.

"The Galen tribe can send people to graze cattle, sheep and horses outside, and the strong herdsmen will be selected into your cavalry battalion," smiled and glanced at the stunned Aman, Xiao Ye sighed in his heart, the momentum of the vine grass spreading was too fast, he didn't want Aman's cavalry to fight frequently with those tribes in the north for pasture all day long.

In that case, even the elite cavalry will not be able to withstand attrition.

"Hehe, Aman, you have picked up a big bargain, the big leader of Gujiabao only gave ten miles of land, you are good, you have a radius of fifty miles all of a sudden, even if you pick up fruits, you can support your subordinates," Qin Shishi said sneeringly when he saw that Aman was delayed.

Shang Shetian took a dozen old hunters and went out to search for ore veins on the grassland from time to time, but found several ore spots, although they were all inferior and poor mines, but in Xiao Ye's opinion, they had already encountered treasures.

If it is a rich mine, then where is his foothold, it has long been occupied by the Mongol Tartars, and perhaps even the Galen tribe will not be able to make a move by Xiao Ye, so that Lanelt and them will rush to the mine to work as coolies.

The suffering of the nomadic tribes in the grassland, Ah Man has experienced it since he was a child, and now it is not easy for the big boss to build a stone fort nearby, listening to the meaning of Qin Shi, that is, the benefits make people red?

Ah Man, who blinked his eyes a few times, suddenly knelt on the ground, "Thank you for the gift of the big leader, the elders and children of the subordinate tribes have kowtowed to you,"

After jumping a few times, Ah Man had bruises on his forehead, which made Du Ding and the others sigh secretly, who said that the Tartar was rude and heartless, people didn't want to use their brains, and they encountered benefits, and the speed was very.

"Yu Shan, after supporting the West Wedge He Department on this trip, I will remove you from the post of deputy commander of the rear military camp, and this leader will form a Shenche battalion, so you will go to serve as the commander of the thousand," the faint voice made Yu Shan's eyes hot, and he bowed down and whispered.

The rumor of the formation of the Shenche battalion has been spread by the guards who came to give the order, and the assault vehicle that can move steadily on the vine grass, although Yu Shan has never seen it, but he will not believe that the guards can brag about blowing such a car, it must be so realistic if he has seen it firsthand.

The most important thing is that among the old people who followed the hundred households, Xiao Ye did not forget him, even if he was asked to go to the Chinese military camp to be a centurion, Yu Shan was willing.

Suddenly, Qin Shishi's eyes became even more red, and he pulled Yu Shan to climb the relationship, and if he was not close at this time, it would be obvious that he was suspicious.

At the end of two days, the curtain came down on the sergeant Dabi, and twenty of the four soldiers were summoned to the personal guard, and the others took the rewarded box cannons or rifles, and the last one also had a silver ticket of various amounts, and followed the commander back to the team in a gloomy manner.

On the third day, when the anxious wedge bones knelt outside Xiao Ye's big tent and began to cry, Xiao Ye paced out of the big tent, accompanied by Aman, watching the sunset in the sky, thinking for a long time.

"A thousand cavalry from the West Wedge He Department, returned to the tribe without an order, the leader will not be held accountable, and he will not make an example, but he will be fined 100,000 catties of fierce fire oil from the West Wedge He Department, and half of the support captured will go to the Galen tribe, you may admit punishment?"

If you can't do it, you can only let the people who can respond, Xiao Ye is not in a hurry, and the dead and injured are not his soldiers and subordinates.

Looking down at the wedge bone who was kneeling on the ground, Xiao Ye asked in a deep voice, if this thing hesitated, he would immediately return to the big tent, sit in it and read a book and drink tea, anyway, he could get up.

"Admit punishment, admit punishment," Ah Man had just finished translating, and Wedge Hegu swore with his eyes glared at the sky, his attitude was very crisp.

This time, the Hami cavalry converged with the Waspur people, but in the posture of wanting to swallow the West Wedge Hebu, Wedge Hemu and the cavalry were struggling to support in the west, if there was no support, I am afraid that in another ten days, the West Wedge Hebu would become a vassal of the Wedges.

As a result, he and his brother's family members were all slashed and killed by the ruts, and I shuddered to think about it.

Knowing that he was a little unkind, Wedge Hemu sent two groups of messengers to no avail, so he could only let his younger brother come to the Galen tribe in person.

When Wedge Hegu set off, he had already explained that even if he was absorbed by Xiao Ye's Galen tribe, it was better than being slaughtered and wiped out in the grassland Gobi.

The request made by the big leader of Galen was much better than Wedge Hemu expected, and Wedge Hegu didn't simply agree, that would be stupid.

In fact, speaking of which, the West Wedge Hebu was besieged by the Hami cavalry and the Waspur people this time, which was also caused by Xiao Ye.

The West Wedge Hebu used the rear-loading fire/guns, fierce fire oil, cattle, sheep, melons and fruits traded by Han slaves, and traded canned crossbows and other materials, and most of the fire/gun wedges were allocated to his own and younger brother's personal guards, and a small number were assigned to ranger outposts.

Knowing Xiao Ye's idea of exchanging fire/guns for slaves, Wedge Hemu naturally wanted to stretch out his minions to the outside, and the range of the ranger sentry spread out became larger and larger.

It was these ranger outposts, in the friction between the west and the Hami cavalry, that successively defeated several waves of elite Hami scouts, which aroused the idea of King Hanmi.

Of course, the subordinate tribes were captured by hundreds of Hami and Han people in a row, which also aroused the anger of the Hami king.

In the turbulent Hami, although the king of Hami is still under the supervision of the Daming Hami guard, he has already connected with the Tile Thorn people who are eyeing the north.

There is no way, the supply of food and salary in the imperial court is becoming more and more untimely, and it has become a practice to be in arrears for half a year and a year. And the powerful tile spur cavalry in the north made King Hami have to make compromises.

Hami rebelled and settled in a few years, it was a matter of time sooner or later, and the new Hami king, who killed his brother and ascended the throne, simply favored the Mongol thorns.

As a result, the Tile Thorns got the news of the fire/guns, and in the clash with the Tatars last year, the Tile Spur cavalry, which was caught off guard by fire/guns one after another, although they kept the pastures east of the northern foot of the Altai Mountains, the casualties were much greater.

The dangers of the Ming Dynasty's fire system, the Tile Thorns did not dare to try, but this kind of rear-loading fire/gun that captured a few made the Tile Thorns keep looking for the source of fire/guns until King Hami sent a messenger.

Naturally, the Waspur people sent 5,000 cavalry, gathered 3,000 herdsmen from the affiliated tribes, and under the guidance of the 1,000 cavalry of the Wathorn, they assembled on the grassland west of the West Wedge Soon after the beginning of spring.

Surrendering control of the Beishan Grassland, especially the rivers there, and not allowing the West Wedge and its affiliated tribes to use it in the future, this strong demand is undoubtedly fatal to the West Wedge He Department.

The inconspicuous Kelan River is where the beliefs of the people of the West Wedge He tribe are located, plus the medicinal herbs and wild things in the mountains, if you don't fight to the death, the hearts of the West Wedge He tribe will be scattered, and it will be over.

Unwilling to succumb to the messenger's threat, after cutting off the messenger's head, he began to mobilize troops, and eagerly traded gold sand for several boxes of earth-shaking thunder from Liu Shuihe.

A small amount of earth-shattering transactions were acquiesced by Xiao Ye.

Relying on the two hundred fires/guns in his hand and the powerful earth-shattering thunder, Wedge Hemu repelled two major attacks by the Wheathers, and even the several oases inhabited by his tribe did not let the Wheathorns dye their hands, and the Wedges were quite proud.

Later, the Watt Thorns who came over again, the eight thousand people scattered into six groups, constantly harassing and attacking the affiliated tribes of the West Wedge Hebu, slaughtering several tribes with a population of thousands alive.

There were only more than 200 fire/guns of Wedge Hemu, blocking left and right, and they were forced to be repelled by the superior number of Tile Spur cavalry, and they could not hold out in the oasis, and at this moment, the bronze artillery brought by the Tile Spur people arrived.

Listening to Wedge Hegu's cry, Xiao Ye frowned, facing the tile-spur cavalry known as more than 10,000, there were six or seven thousand people who had removed the water, and although the bronze artillery could not be compared with the Ming army, it was also privately bought from Hamiwei's divine hangar, and the power could not be underestimated.

Thinking of this, Xiao Ye pinched the corners of his eyebrows helplessly, the disaster caused by this fire/gun transaction, he originally thought it was from the side of the Ming Mansion, but he didn't expect that the tile spur people had a unique vision, and they came directly to the fire/gun; Looking at the stance, they are determined to get the source of the fire/gun.

"Leave the guide, you go back and tell Wedge Hemu that the reinforcements will leave tonight, let him choose the location of the battle, inform him of the weather there at any time, and make an appointment with the Watts, and the leader will inform him in time,"

If you don't want to be dragged down by the Tile Thorn guerrilla cavalry, the best way is to follow the rules of the grassland, and the two sides have made an appointment on the location and time of the decisive battle, and the victory is decided by one stop.

Xiao Ye didn't want to be exhausted in the oasis Gobi, it was not his territory, and he was too lazy to watch it.

All-out effort to rescue allies? A fool will spend so much effort, how much benefit and how much energy, this matter of reckoning, the experience of the ancients can teach him countless examples.

After dinner, a team of war horses poured out from the Galen tribal camp, pulling more than 30 military carts, and Xiao Ye, who rode a tall horse, marched slowly in the procession.

Hundreds of scouts shuttled back and forth, carrying fire/guns scattered around the team, and the first to send out the pathfinder had already run five miles away.

On the seven carriages guarded by the Qin Stone Banner Team, four objects covered with tarpaulin, and carriages with canopies, were tightly guarded.

This time to support the West Wedge He Division, Xiao Ye only transferred away Aman's 1,000 cavalry, plus his own 200 personal guards, and the Night Owl Banner Team of 500 people, the number is so small, even not as many as the cavalry of the West Wedge He Department last time.

The guide of the West Wedge He Department with a pale face left, and he walked in front with Qin Shishi's men, according to his understanding, this time the West Wedge He Department was more than auspicious.

He saw only a thousand cavalrymen, half of them carrying fire/guns, and the other half of them were still holding horned bows and scimitars.

However, he didn't realize that the rifles on the shoulders of the guards sergeant, as well as the black-clothed guards guarding around the big leader, and the box cannon stuck in his waist, were full of firepower, not to mention the five large carts full of thunder.

This time, Xiao Ye planned to kill the chicken to show the monkey, so that Wedge Hemu would not be so tired, otherwise, even if his brothers would not have bad thoughts about himself, he would swallow this West Wedge Hebu, and spend as much as he wanted, anyway, the herdsmen on the grassland eat less grain.

The vicious dog was lying on the side of the couch, he didn't want to be disturbed by the barking, so he had to kick it from time to time, the best strategy was to tame the guard, the next strategy was to tie up the rabbit, eat dog meat, depending on the mood.

It's either a friend or an enemy, there is no wall of the mean on the grassland, and falling from it will kill you.

Now walking at night, not to mention that the sergeant has a hand lamp in his hand, one for each team, even the kind of finch disease that everyone used to have, basically can't see it.

From the Mongol Tatars, the lake salt traded in the lake, after being processed by stone grinding, the refined salt was able to meet the needs of the war camp.

Avoiding the vine grass area, Xiao Ye led the team to set off, and for three hours, there was another commotion in the Galen tribe, and hundreds of Tatar cavalry scattered and scattered to the west again.

Yu Shan led 800 cavalry and 500 infantry, pulling grain and grass supplies, and quietly followed; As the troops to receive the big leader, they want to establish a front in the grassland on the east side of the river that comes out of the golden sand, which is Xiao Ye's backhand.

Xiao Ye is not clear about whether the West Wedge is reliable or not, and what the situation there is, but it is better to rely on others than on himself, and his own safety is still in his own hands.

With the letter post in the scout's hand, the contact between the front and rear teams is already quite convenient.

Just when Xiao Ye and they went to the West Wedge Hebu overnight, far away in the hilly workshop area, in the Huangjia Mill, Huang Fugui was commanding a few men to put bags of grain into the grinding eye.

Trampling, trampling, the unhurried mule pulled the stone mill, turning in circles, and the bags of grain in the hands of the man were smoothly poured into the grinding eye, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Huang Fugui, who was guarding the door of the mill, although he didn't know why the big boss spent money to pour all the grain into the grinding eye, but in the past two days, the stone mill produced 10% more high-grade mortar than before, which made him very happy.

Huang Fugui, who is already the head of the communications team, although he has not received the iron medal or badge now, he is still very satisfied with the fact that he can receive another salary.

Unlike those big merchants, the grain purchased by Huang Fugui was scattered from all over the place, and dozens of catties or hundreds of catties were collected from the surrounding tunpu, and no one cared about his actions in secret.

Of course, in order not to attract the attention of outsiders, he is only buying more grain now, and the purchase of medicinal herbs and other materials is slowly increasing.