Shaanxi Xingdu Division, General Military Mansion, the messy hall that was bombed by a self-killing/homicidal attack earlier, has been repaired and restored, but the owner inside has also changed its appearance.

The more tightly defended General Military Mansion, not only was there a team of captains patrolling inside and outside the perimeter, but there were also as many as twenty military academies guarding the gate at the gate, all with their chests and bellies protruding and their hands pressing their waist knives, and their eyes were solemnly watching the passers-by.

On the street outside the General Soldier's Mansion, pedestrians come and go noisily, and on a flour stall not far from the diagonal opposite street, an old man wearing a long trouser of short hexagram and coarse cloth that is common to people in the northwest will from time to time paste a piece of flour stained with sesame seeds into an earthen oven to bake.

The bread for two pennies a piece is very common here, and the local man surnamed Liang has been selling bread for more than ten years, and no one will doubt his origin; However, the vendor's earthy gray face and gray beard could not stop his faintly shining eyes, but fortunately he was most of the time paying attention to his earthen stove.

After taking out the baked dough cake and putting it in a bamboo dustpan to cover it, Old Man Liang was busy for a while, beckoned his stupid son to look at the stall, and turned over into his shabby courtyard; In the small courtyard, a dusty vendor was sitting on a wooden bench drinking water.

"Brother Liang, this is your food and reward for the first half of the year," Seeing Old Man Liang walk in, the small trader hurriedly got up, handed over the cloth around him, and said in a low voice.

"Hehe, Brother Zhang is tired, seeing that I am a bad old man, I really dare not take it by yourself," Old Man Liang said, took the cloth in his hand, touched the objects inside, and smiled deeply with the deep folds on his face.

His son was kicked by a horse when he was a child, and his head was injured and he became a fool, as for which horse kicked it, you can know by looking at the general military office on the other side. His wife died of illness, but the desperate old Liang Tou found a way to take revenge.

Even if he saves some money for his son's life, he can let it go.

Attracting people into the house, Old Man Liang babbled and said, if Lu Nianshan is opposite, I am afraid that his eyes will fall off; Those characters who have entered and exited the General Military Mansion at this time, how many guards there are, what kind of weapons they bring, how many military schools they patrol, and how long the time interval is, are all clearly stated in Lao Liangtou's mouth.

After getting the information, Zhang Zichang's henchmen left quickly, and in less than two days, Xiao Ye would be able to receive these words from Lao Liangtou.

In Gravel Castle, Gansu Town, and even Qingfeng Valley, it is unknown how much eyeliner Wang Ziliang has planted, but the silver money spent nearly 30,000 taels in half a year is clearly written in Tian Xiuxiu's account.

Lei Zhengtang, the former commander-in-chief, and several of his deputy commanders-in-chief, staff generals, and guerrilla generals were almost all broken in that attack, and the commander-in-chief who took over was seriously ill on the way to his post, and no one dared to take over this hot potato easily.

So, the Beijing division shuttled quickly, and under the secret operation of the officialdom, a garrison deputy general from Nanchang was parachuted and transferred here, and became the chief military officer who directly faced the Tartars, he was the grassland thief Lu Yidao, who had disappeared; The chief soldier who changed his name to Lu Nianshan, although he couldn't wait to rush to his post, but his actions on the surface were not big, and he was very low-key.

If it weren't for the fact that the Mongolian Tatars have become more and more arrogant in recent years, harassing them in the south at the end of autumn every year, and even infiltrating into the vicinity of the Beijing Division, if he wants to come to the position of the chief military officer, no matter how mellow Lu Nianshan's blessings are, they will not fall on his head.

For this reason, King Ning of Nanchang owed several favors and spent countless amounts of money.

Lu Nianshan, who acted in a low-key manner, did not rush to find trouble with Xiao Ye since he took office, but unhurriedly changed the general military mansion to his henchmen, and several elite horse thieves from the grassland also successfully changed their names and surnames and filled them under his command.

Picking and choosing, five hundred wolf-like general military captains, plus one hundred pro-military military academies, this is the most powerful subordinate in Lu Nianshan's hands, and it is also a normal armed force on the surface; If you want to mobilize the troops of other military camps and thousands of households, the consequences are not what the prince of Nanchang can bear at present.

Therefore, if he wants to continue to infiltrate the nearby guards and barracks, Lu Nianshan still has a lot to do, at least the money in his hand is a big hole.

Regardless of whether it was public or private, his eyes had long been fixed on the horse road stone fort.

After gaining a firm foothold, Lu Nianshan secretly sent spies to Shiguantun, but the more cautiously defended Madao Stone Fort made his spies not only return in vain, but even half of the spies disappeared without a trace.

He was not the only one who sent spies to Madao Shibao, and basically disappeared quickly, and only the spies hiding south of Shiguantun would send back some news intact.

The various goods taken out by Madao Shibao are strange goods, and they are basically sold as much as they take, and the sergeants who showed up had fire/guns, short firearms, and the so-called assault vehicles and transport vehicles that could travel in the air, and the news gathered from this one by one made Lu Nianshan completely red-eyed.

He is a latecomer, and the merchants who are even hotter than him, the only thing that is depressed now is that there is no good way to attack the horse road stone fort, but people even seal the horse road, unless a large army is sent to fight directly.

However, the terrain between Madao Stone Fort and Shiguantun made it impossible for the army to open its movements, and there was also bad news from Qingfeng Valley that poisonous weeds were everywhere.

In addition, Madao Stone Fort was on the edge of the power of the Mongol Tatars, and the sergeants inside heard that there were a lot of them, so although many people coveted Xiao Ye's goods, it was just difficult to find opportunities, and they watched the mud-legged Wang Gui unceremoniously collect money and goods every day.

Knowing that Ma Dao Stone Fort is not easy to provoke, Lu Nianshan is no longer the hot-tempered horse thief at this moment, and after several discussions with his henchmen, he personally met with the Huang County Commander of Gansu Town, and went to visit the Wei Commander and Jinyi Wei Qianhu, and he was busy in a hurry.

In the end, Lu Nianshan even collapsed and went to get in touch with several large merchants and local landlords. The Persian goods channel that can lay golden eggs must not be controlled by a military household, which is the common wish of Lu Nianshan and the merchants.

For this reason, it doesn't matter if you pull a few more helpers, under Lu Nianshan's running, an undercurrent gradually formed, and even the faces of several Tartar merchants appeared inside.

He was so busy, he ran for almost half a year, and finally divided the share of the future supply, and in the past six months, Lu Nianshan and the officers in the Wei Command Department also ate and drank and called friends.

When he went to Gansu Town in the private service, Lu Nianshan saw the assault car bought by a big businessman, although he didn't like it very much after learning about it, but when he inquired about the price, his eyes turned red again, especially when he saw the car that could levitate on the ground without a wheel, which stimulated this vengeful horse thief leader.

Unlike those merchants, Lu Nianshan has more hatred for Ximen Xiaoye, and of course, if he plunders the channel of Persian goods, he will have to take care of it.

Now whether it is Gansu Town, or Shaanxi Xingdu Division, the short firearm made by the Huang family has been all the rage, the rich man's guard, the official servant in the government, and even the swordsmen and horse thieves who are wandering around, all have a firearm in their waists to feel at ease.

The caravans from the northwest to the interior also began to sell this kind of short firearms that could be fired in bursts early on, resulting in the fact that the inland government has now begun to prohibit private people from possessing such firearms.

But the ban is also a poor small family, a little bit of money landlord family, if you want to come to the government can't ban it, it's a big deal to spend some money to buy a familiar face.

With a short firearm, the Huang family has already made a fortune, and they want to make every effort to promote the sales channels to the whole country, and during this period, they will unite with other forces to make profits, and also turn the restrictions of the government into dispensable.

In the early years of the government, there was a rule that private knives and guns must be printed, not to mention the official system, so at the suggestion of the merchants, in order to prevent thieves from using a large number of short firearms, the guns made by the Huang family not only had to register the buyer, but also the seller had to go to the county government in Gansu town to register, and a firearms registration system gradually took shape in Gansu town.

The production of the Huang family's short firecracker is limited, and they are reluctant to disclose core secrets, which is also the reason why the mainland government is not in a hurry.

Busy with the work and straightening out the matter at hand, Lu Nianshan wasted a year's time, which also gave Xiao Ye a gap to breathe; However, when Lu Nianshan sent people to spread the Persian goods of Madao Stone Fort to the grassland in the form of rumors, Xiao Ye's peaceful days of accumulating strength were broken.

Jinong, the little prince entrenched in the Hetao area, did not return to Yijinai in the north of Yinshan this year, but stopped the big tent in the south of Yinshan, in order to plunder Datong Mansion and coerce the plan of the Ming Jingshi, he has already made a plan.

The news of the Madao Stone Fort soon reached Jinong's ears, and the others were not interested, but the presence of firearms there surprised the little prince. Even if the Mongols chopped the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, the firearms were still crude, and they could not be compared with the firearms of the Ming army.

So, Wolf Watt and Lanelt, who were expanding their strength on the grassland, were urgently summoned to the Hetao, and after some inquiry, they learned that there were such sharp firearms, and immediately became interested in Ximen Xiao Ye of Madao Stone Fort.

A small Galen tribe is not a matter of his words, everything and anyone there belongs to his wise and majestic Jinong.

Knowing that he had a private deal with Eagle Claw Fort in the future, Lanelt, who was about to be exposed, had not yet left the loop, and had already sent his henchmen back to his lair in the depths of the grassland, and then sent out the centurion who was trading, not only speeding up the number of transactions, but also strengthening his attitude.

Under unreasonable demands again and again, Liu Shuihe naturally made a ruthless move.

Lu Nianshan, who provoked the dispute between Tartar and Xiao Ye behind the scenes, also began to unite vertically and horizontally, expecting that Xiao Ye and Tartar would lose both, then he would be able to benefit from the fisherman. The guard commander in the town of Gansu commanded the Yamen, and then under the banner of Qiu Cao, began to gather the troops of thousands of households.

Even the major merchants began to gather the family guards, and the unimportant caravan escort could temporarily hire a knife man to accompany them.

Lu Nianshan, who was sitting in the General Military Mansion, held the information constantly handed over by the spies, and his face was smiling.

What he wants is not only Xiao Ye's wealth, but more importantly, the source of weapons such as fire/guns.

Eagle Claw Fort, Xiao Ye, who returned from the trip, returned to the fort with his personal guards and guards, Qin Shi also set off with the Night Owl Banner Team, Liu Shuihe and other officers welcomed Xiao Ye into the stone fort, and the first thing they went to was those warehouses.

After two years of construction, Eagle Claw Fort has been turned into a double-headed castle, the stone fort on the west side is connected to this place by a fort wall, which is mainly a living area, and the stone fort on the east side is directly a military fortress.

Outside the stone fort, Huang Hanxiang led a team of people to keep transporting phosphate rock materials into the mill, and there were also figures shaking in the vine grass fields around him, picking rattan grass fruits.

Grain, canned food piled up in the warehouse, firearms, projectiles can support a small-scale battle, carefully looked at the warehouse storage of Xiao Ye, only about 100,000 catties of coal reserves, secretly shook his head, it seems that there is a lot of charcoal, but it can't stand the consumption of a winter.

"Hydration, if you send out half of your troops here, can you hold it for a winter?" Sitting in the military house, Xiao Ye took a few sips of water, looked at Liu Shuihe and asked.

"My lord, there are more than 1,000 crossbows in the warehouse, if the logistics team can help, hehe, no matter how many Tartars want to capture here, they have to lie down 20,000 people," Liu Shuihe thought for a while and said loudly.

"Okay, that's okay, in the next two days, Wang Meng will send someone over and transfer your five hundred sergeants, and the garrison of Eagle Claw Fort will depend on you," Xiao Ye nodded, "The development and growth of our Madao Stone Fort can't be climated,"

Hearing this, Liu Shuihe's eyes lit up, "Could it be that the adults want to?" ”

"Well, that's right," Xiao Ye raised his chin knowingly and smiled at the north, "Tartar is presumptuous, we can't sit back and wait to be beaten, fighting out is the best defense,"

Only when the Mongolian Tartar hurts, those in the south do not dare to stretch out their claws, Xiao Ye did not say this.

"I'm relieved that you stay here, but you must be careful of outside spies," Xiao Ye said, dispelling Liu Shuihe's idea of asking for battle.

In addition to the night owl flag team, Liu Shuihe recruited sergeants again, and his battle camp was only worthy of more than 1,000 people, although it was not far from Xiao Ye's requirements, but when he encountered a war, he could immediately see the embarrassment.

The other battalions did not dare to let go of their hands to recruit the familiar Tartars, but they were barely a thousand people, only the logistics team did not refuse, and the Tartars could save some money as long as they were willing to eat and eat, and it seemed that the momentum was soaring.

"In this battle, if the leader wants to take down the Shuangta Lake, he must take at least half of the territory, and confront the Tartars, and the collapsed wolf tile should also meet head-on," Xiao Ye showed his heart for the first time for the winter pasture Shuangta Lake.

In his position, if he wants to say that he does not have a conflict with the Mongolian Tatars, he can't, and he can't do anything about it as a shield for others.

With the military orders issued from Eagle Claw Fort, the fire/spearmen, cavalry, and logistics teams from Madao Stone Fort, Bailong Lake, Galen Tribe, and West Wedge He tribe began to assemble in the direction of Gujiapu.

Ten days later, on the grassland ten miles northwest of Gujiabao, teams of sergeants and cavalry gathered, and a large area of barracks tents and cowhide tents were erected.

The camp covering an area of more than ten acres, scouts shuttled in and out, and the sergeants on guard patrolled with guns, and there was a tense atmosphere.

There is a shortage of water here, but the ravines are criss-crossed, Xiao Ye still takes a fancy to the topography of this place at a glance, once Gujiabao is completed in the future, it is necessary to build a small stone fort here at the height of the eastern foot of Altai Mountain, which is enough to hold the road to the west of the Tartars.

In the vast grassland, there is a flat grassland in the distance, but those who walk on it know that the grassland is full of hills and ravines, depressions and swamps, and even large areas of saline-alkali land.

In the big tent of the Chinese army in the camp, Xiao Ye sat facing north behind the bookcase, and there were more than a dozen stout soldiers standing on both sides, with one color of earthy yellow field uniforms; Outside the big tent, black-clothed guards surrounded it, and the guards on the periphery patrolled with guns and staggered patrols.

The sergeants and cavalrymen from the various barracks set up camp tents according to their respective subordinates, and the big head of the army tent from the Madao Stone Fort was hidden in it.

Although there was a wolf-headed banner standing in the camp, and the whirring north wind was hula-la, the camp was full of sergeants who spoke Mingyu, and even those Tartar sergeants with stumbling noses and big lips spoke stumbling Mingyu.

When night fell, the men of each battalion cooked and sold rice, and the rich smell of meat wafted in the wind.

In the Chinese army tent, it is very rare that Wang Ziliang, who is dressed in a white robe, also appeared in the Chinese army tent, holding a gold-painted silk fan, standing by Xiao Ye's side seriously.

Wang Hu, Qin Shishi, Du Ding, Ah Man, Wedge Hehashan, and seven or eight centurion officers lined up on both sides of the big tent with serious faces, staring at the map on the big leader's case.

Outside the big tent, Yang Eighteen, dressed in black, stood at the door of the tent with a rifle on his back, although his eyes were staring outside, his ears were always stunned, listening to the movement inside.

For this battle, Xiao Yeke took out sixty percent of the troops in his hand, two thousand fire/spearmen, two thousand cavalry, and eight hundred night owl banners, and almost emptied the battle camp in Bailong Lake.

If you want to come to Lu Nianshan in the south, you won't give him any more time to breathe.

"Stone, you lead the team to go out in person, and within ten days, find a slope near Shuangta Lake," Xiao Ye looked at the map, his brows furrowed, "If the leader wants to lure the snake out of the hole, it depends on your eyes,"

"Get the order, the subordinates retire," Qin Shishi came out of the ranks, knelt down on one knee and received the order, and withdrew from the big tent with two subordinates.

"Wang Hu, Du Ding" Xiao Ye raised his eyes and looked at the two henchmen, "You two led the troops to march five miles away from Qin Shi, and sent scouts to guard both sides,"

"Aman, you lead a thousand cavalry to escort the logistics team, and you must not be robbed of supplies," The logistics team not only has arms and food, but more importantly, there are more than a dozen Langzhong from Gujia Village, Xiao Ye values it very much.

"Wedge Heha Mountain, your cavalry is moving forward with the Chinese army, and the two wings are well guarded,"

The military orders spit out from Xiao Ye's mouth one after another, and after these thousand commanders withdrew from the military tent, Xiao Yechang exhaled a turbid breath and picked up the teacup on the case, "Brother Liu Ren, the next thing depends on your means,"

Outside the tent, the loud brass flute sounded, and I think that the battalions and teams have begun to organize and prepare for departure.

"Hehe," Wang Ziliang opened the fan in a hurry, fanning it twice, his calm face with a hint of redness, this was the first time he participated in the action against the Tartars, and it was different from being beaten passively earlier.

"My lord, the external spies belonging to the communication team have already infiltrated Shuangta Lake, although the news can't be spread, but it is more than enough to act as a dead soldier," With the powerful potion provided by Xiao Ye, Wang Ziliang was confident that the dozen or so Mongolian Tartars would never disobey the orders personally issued by the big leader.

Fight snakes and hit seven inches, kill thieves and behead evil, unless you have a considerable certainty, Xiao Ye will not take more than 4,000 people and horses, and dare to take the initiative to attack Shuangta Lake, where there is a 10,000-strong team of Tartars stationed all year round.

Besides, if the Mongol Tatars had to fight their own ideas, there would not have been only one 10,000-strong army there at Shuangta Lake, and perhaps more Tatar cavalry.

"Okay, let's have a hard fight with the tartars, whether the mule is the horse or the horse comes out to slip away," Listening to the stronger and stronger north wind outside, Xiao Ye bit his cheek and smashed his fist on the bookcase, and the sturdy poplar long case creaked.

The Madao Stone Fort hidden in the valley should also get out of the grassland.