The paper can't contain the fire, Fan Zhengshi, the son of the Fan family, took away a large number of Persian goods in the Shi family's shop, especially in the Jin family's shop, which swept away the pills, and this news was quickly found out by the shopkeepers of various merchants.

As a result, the rumor that the sixth son of the Fan family and Hou Ye were friends spread to the ears of the shopkeepers of various merchants, and also returned to Gansu Town.

For Fan Zhengshi, who is not small, the three merchants of Huang, Tian and Wang in Gansu do not want to offend, but through him to get more Persian goods, he can still think of a way, the strong dragon is difficult to fight the head snake, I think Fan Zhengshi will not eat alone and ruin his reputation.

So, Fan Zhengshi, who had just walked outside the town of Gansu with the goods, was invited into the city by the housekeeper sent by the three merchants.

The henchmen of the Fan family, who were urgently sent back to Ximen Shibao, were told by the expressionless Li Xunwu that the next time they bought goods, they would have to line up honestly, and other merchants would also have to do business, and there was a limit to how much care they could take.

"Your son-in-law said that doing business should be fair, this is reasonable, you better go outside and line up, pay the deposit first, place an order, and come to see it every day," kindly prompted, Li Xunwu lowered his head and looked at the account.

Fan Gongzi's henchman, who was speechless, was taken out of the account room by the steward, ran to the United Money Bank quickly, exchanged the silver taels he carried with him, and obediently went to line up.

Although the son did not instruct, but a qualified henchman, in case of trouble, he should try to come up with multiple-choice questions, let the master decide, don't let the master do fill-in-the-blank questions, his brain is very lively, no wonder he was selected by Fan Zhengshi to be a henchman.

The problem of the execution of the Fan family's henchmen was not praised, but the chariot led by Xue Zilong was speeding across the grassland, and when they arrived near the wild wolf ditch, the herald on the car received a letter from the garrison of Jin Jiashibao.

"Commander Xue, the communication point of the Jin family's stone fort, pass on the Hou Ye's password, let you see Ximen Wangfu, it is recommended to drive from Alashankou to Yili Bali, the rest of the place is mountainous, and it is not convenient for the cavalry to march,"

"In addition, there is a transport cart in Jinjiabao, which is coming from the direction of Juyan Lake, and the escort is the guard Shi Changzuoshi, who asks to accompany the team, and after they go to Wangjiabao in the northernmost place, they will camp in the middle reaches of the Zabhan River."

What Zuo Shi was escorting, Xue Zilong's heart was clear, it seemed that the prisoner from Yili Bali would be taken to the "little black house" to deal with.

"Got it, tell Zuo Shi to agree to follow the team, let's not stop at Jinjiabao," Xue Zilong, who was leaning on his seat, looked at the surrounding grassland condescendingly, and the mill tent in the distance could already be seen.

Whirring, five duck chariots marching in an arrow formation, suspended a foot above the grass, like a group of black iron-clad monsters, marching steadily and quickly; If it weren't for the two transport trucks following behind, the speed would be really slow, and Xue Zilong would have left Kuo Xishan behind.

The transport car did not dare to slack off, the carriage was full of battery rods, and if there was a deviation, he could only ask for help from Ximen Stone Fort.

More than four miles away, when the convoy passed by the Jin family mill, it took a transport vehicle that came up, put it into the formation, turned around, and continued to move quickly westward on the grassland, and on the right hand, you could soon see the continuous peaks of the tall Altai Mountains.

Ximen Stone Fort, 200 miles west of the West Chihe tribe stone fort started, Chehe bone in order to top the account, sent 200 elite cavalry to Xiao Ye, these skilled archery to horseback as the home of the military man, headed by Chehe Hashan, together with his family, became a military household under the rule of the Hou Yefu.

Xiao Ye, these two hundred cavalrymen, was reluctant to let go, so he gave them a strong pill, not only for the junior strong pill, but for the three powerful pills that were used in the middle level one after another, and within a month, these cavalry should become a small cavalry team in the guard, specially responsible for the escort of the personnel of the Hou Ye's mansion.

The guards with ten hundred-man troops, under Xiao Ye's deliberate inclination, not only have a box cannon and a rifle, but also are equipped with heavy machine guns and lightning guns, and now they have their own horse team, plus the chariot team, the force is far more than the war barracks.

Every guard was confident that even if the other barracks were all united, they would not be able to stop the attack of the five hundred guards, which was also the reason why Xiao Ye was relieved to go out to the Hou Ye's Mansion for the night.

Sitting in the study, Xiao Ye looked at the hanging card on the desk, and was very satisfied with Wang Dali's operation, "Uncle Wang, I have worked hard for your old brothers,"

"The adults laughed, it is natural to do things for adults, where does the hard work come from," Wang Dali, who was smiling, looked older than last year, and he always wanted to push Li Xinan to the head of the logistics team, but the Hou Ye did not agree, so he had to work for a few more years.

Picking up the tag, Xiao Ye took a closer look, this kind of specially designed for the guards, oh, from today on, it has been renamed the guard battalion, the special tag for the guards in the guard camp is different from the iron plate of the sergeant in the war barracks, it is made of sterling silver, and the handwriting is engraved on the front and back, and the handwriting is inlaid with pure gold wire.

On the front, there is a round hole at the top, which is vertically engraved with the number of the guard battalion, there is a sword and shield emblem on the left, and the north side is engraved with two seal characters of Shang Tie, which is the listing of the guard centurion Shang Tie; It can be seen from the font size that Shang Tie is ranked ninth in the guard camp, and the first number is the commander Yang Kailiang, that is, Yang Eighteen.

This kind of one-finger-thick silver medal costs a lot of money, so Xiao Ye can be willing to give each of the guards two of them, and the small hole is still tied to a long, thin and strong iron chain.

From the commander to the general guards, they are all the same tags, this kind of object that indicates identity, Xiao Ye doesn't want to be branded with other meanings.

Two days later, when the guards in the guard camp were happily changing the tags on their necks, Xue Zilong's convoy had already rushed to Beshibali along the southern foot of the Altai Mountains, and joined the vanguard cavalry of Ximen Wangfu.

Ximen Wangfu's Chinese army is still in the upper reaches of the Zabkhan River, where there is an endless grassland, but it is much stronger than the nearby Gobi Desert, which is only full of Gobi Desert, as long as it does not snow, on the withered yellow grassland, the forage of the war horses can barely be worried.

However, the distance of less than 1,500 miles, even now that Ximen Wangfu has drawn his army and set off, it will take more than 30 days to cross the Altai Mountains and reach Beshi Bali, which makes Xue Zilong very disappointed.

The transport vehicle carried by Zuo Shi had already stopped outside a large ditch five hundred and eighty miles south of the Tai Thorn Qi military camp, which made the Thai Thorn Qi have to divide a thousand cavalry to protect it.

This unknown gully, near the edge of the Altai Mountains, is surrounded by bushes and wild forests, as well as a frozen stream.

In the ditch, the black-clothed guards commanded a group of strong Tartar soldiers, assembling a piece of fast black iron plate, which seemed to be a transport cart full, and when taken out, it could be assembled into a tall passage ten zhang long, a closed passage at one end, which was tightly covered by a cowhide tent.

Standing at the entrance of the passage, Zuo Shi watched the guards with his own eyes, and installed the last piece of iron plate, a light but extremely strong iron plate, on the floor of the entrance, and then gave a sigh of relief.

If the location was more than 200 miles away from the Jin Family Stone Fort, then this last iron plate would not be able to be installed in any case, in that case, he could only demolish the passage, that is, the "Little Black House," and turn east and retreat some distance.

After the "little black house" was built, Zuo Shi arranged for people to guard the surroundings, and he took two people to set up barracks tents outside the ditch, and the Tartar cavalry also scattered around, closely monitoring the wind and grass within a radius of fifty miles.

In the barracks of Don't lose Bali, the Chinese army has a huge cowhide tent, Xue Zilong and Tai Tingqi are sitting on the felt mat, drinking milk wine, cutting cooked mutton with a dagger, eating and chatting, although Tai Tingqi's Ming language is ugly, but Xue Zilong is very familiar with Tatar language, who let him be a slave to Tatar, communication barrier-free.

As an oasis pasture of the former Watt Thorn tribe, a small tribe that lived here earlier has been simply wiped out by the Tatar soldiers of Tai Thornqi, and only a few long ox carts scattered in the barracks vaguely confirm the existence of herdsmen here.

"Tai Tingqi, you have been here for more than ten days, I'm afraid that the Kazakhs have already gotten the news," the chewing mutton in his mouth swallowed, Xue Zilong glanced at Tai Tingqi, grabbed the bone, shaved off a piece of meat tendon with a knife, pierced it into his mouth, and bit it with a clattering sound.

This kind of refreshing and rude way of eating is very Hetai Thorn Qi's temperament, this rough man, gulped a bowl of milk wine, lost the empty bowl and sighed, "No way, I only have 5,000 cavalry, 1,000 to protect Zuoshi, to break through the Alashan Pass, that is to find death, the rangers have been secretly checked, there are more than 5,000 Kazakh cavalry guards, the terrain is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack,"

"The most terrible thing is that there is a passage between the east and west of the mountain pass, and there are many rocks on the high cliffs on both sides, even if you push the stones down, you can also consume most of my four thousand warriors, what is the use of passing,"

If you want to fight through, the warriors who will not die or wound nearly 10,000 people basically have no hope of crossing the narrow mountain pass of more than ten miles, where the wind is full of shrubs all the year round, and although there are a thousand fire/spearmen in Tai Thorn Qi, there must be a place to stand with your eyes open.

"In this way, we don't have to wait for your family Jinong in vain, tomorrow I will go to see the terrain first, and if there is a chance for the two families to fight together, I don't believe it, five thousand cavalry can resist my chariot," Xue Zilong viciously broke the thick flesh-cutting dagger into two.

"Oh, okay then," swallowed dryly, Tai Tingqi nodded speechlessly, he couldn't figure it out, the previous Ming people were not like this, they knew etiquette and reasoned, and they were robbed and only protested and protested, and they didn't bother to put on a desperate posture.

Where did such a fierce black-clothed guard come from? If it had appeared early, Jinong would have fled from the Hetao long ago, how dare he beat the grass every year and be beaten.

It's good now, if you want to loot, these guards are running faster than themselves, and they are simply impatient, so they just have to do it directly.

How did he know that Xue Zilong, like everyone else, was now eager to make a note of himself in the credit book of the official room. When you go out on military affairs, if you want to get it, it's a military merit, and you can't wait for the merit.

The next morning, when five black duck chariots rose directly from the barracks and rowed to the west from the sky overhead, Tai Tingqi stood outside the big tent and was very envious, "No, you have to send a message to Lord Jinong, Hou Ye has a better chariot there, you must change a few back, it's just too high, just like an eagle in the sky,"

"Command the camp," with Tai Tingqi's order, the horn sounded slowly, and an hour later, a group of Tartar cavalry, one man and two horses, drove out of the camp and chased Xue Zilong's convoy. Two eye-catching transporters in the horse team, slowly intermingling the period.

The large bundles of vine and grass branches carried by the chariot would be dropped from time to time, and the rangers who opened the way could follow the route of the convoy as long as they followed the direction in which the vine fell.

The desert was more than a thousand miles wide from east to west, so that Xue Zilong's chariot team had to be lowered and replaced seven times with battery rods, and under the guidance of the Tartar soldiers in the car, the chariot crossed a dry river and rested at the edge of the desert at night.

"Damn, it's really dry and cold here, no wonder except for the caravans of Waiyi, mainland merchants don't want to come," the chariot formed a circle, and four fires were lit in the middle, Xue Zilong held a small silver wine jug, drank mellow Fenjiu, picked a piece of beef from the canned box, and ate it in small bites.

Except for the sentry guards on the roof of the chariot, the other sixty or so guards, including the guide, were cooking pieces of meat with iron helmets, putting some refined salt and eating and drinking, and after a while everyone had to go into the car to sleep, otherwise they would stay in the barracks tent, and half of the people would be stiff and uncomfortable when they woke up tomorrow.

The temperature inside the barracks tent, which cannot be closed at the lookout, is about the same as outside.

And after the warm air was turned on in the chariot, it was much more comfortable than outside, and curling up and shrinking was not a problem.

After dawn, everyone washed their faces with clean water, and simply ate dry food, and when they were about to continue to set off, the guard in charge of driving the car found Xue Zilong, "Commander, the spare battery stick in the car is only enough for us to go forward for another hundred miles before we have to return, otherwise we will have to wait for the transport truck to come up,"

"Well, I know, all get on the car, go, and all the cars are on guard," Tai Thorn Qi's cavalry was not fast, and Xue Zilong did not plan to stop and wait.

"Each chariot is raised one foot above the ground, don't waste the battery rod," Xue Zilong spit out the tea in his mouth, looked at the rolling green mountains to the west, and nodded and ordered.

The two heavy machine guns on the roof of the chariot rose up to reveal the muzzle of the black hole, and some guards wore iron helmets and thick woolen coats, standing behind the machine guns.

The convoy marched north along the mountain, and had just driven less than twenty miles, when it came to a bend in a small river, where it saw a troop of cavalry, brandishing long scimitars, rushing straight towards the convoy.

"Yes, it's the Kazakh cavalry, it's them," In the front chariot, the Tartar guide sitting in the passenger seat suddenly shouted loudly, and Elder Shi/Hu, who was leading the team in the car, glanced at the herald beside him, "Inform the commander,"

"Xiao Zhang, rush up, Gangzi, Maotou, fire when you see the situation, don't wait for them to cut our chariot," Lao Hu's words caused the guards in the car to laugh out loud, not paying attention to the hundreds of Kazakh cavalry.

"Okay," said the driver's little grin, reaching out and pushing the lever on the side of his leg directly to the maximum, and the chariot continued to rise, rising to a height of a foot in the air, and sped up towards the hostile horseman.

The four chariots behind also immediately raised their positions, accelerated to catch up with Lao/Hu's chariots in a horizontal line, and approached straight up; On the roof of the car, ten guards who had been blown by the cold wind finally pulled the shot and hung up the long chain of bullets.

When the Kazakh cavalry rushed to less than two miles from the convoy, they were shocked to find that the strange black car on the opposite side had risen into the air and formed a long snake formation, and had to slow down their horses; This height, they craned their necks and watched, and they couldn't reach it.

The quick-witted cavalryman put his sword into its sheath and took off the longbow from the saddle, and the rest of his companions followed suit, and none of them could perceive the danger coming, not even the leading centurions, who were pleased that they and their men had been able to seize such a strange chariot.

You can't stay in mid-air all the time, it's a good time to slash and slash when you come down, so try it with a bow and arrow now.

Try it, don't try it, when there were still five hundred paces away from this cavalry, the ten machine gunners on the canard chariot held the handle of the machine gun with gloves, and waited until the chariot suddenly swung sideways, revealing the firing range of the two machine guns in front and behind, and then shook the muzzle and pulled down the zigzag trigger.

The chariot that was parked in the air instantly became a high shooting platform, condescending.

"All through, all through," the rain of bullets poured down from the heights, like invisible sickles, swept left and right at the Kazakh cavalry, and even the men and horses split their heads and made strings of bloody holes.

Ten machine guns, ten bullet chains, 6,000 thick bullets, swept the horse team in front of him two times in a few breaths, more than 300 Kazakh cavalry, holding bloody longbows aggrievedly, and the war horses under them fell to death on the withered yellow grass, and the blood quickly coagulated into bloody bumps.

"Form a chariot formation to be on guard, and the old/Hush team will clean up the battlefield," Xue Zilong sent an order through the letter post, and chose a high place, five chariots slowly landed, forming a large circle, the muzzle of the machine gunner rushed out of the circle, and a team of black-clothed guards rushed out of the chariot with guns.

The battle went very smoothly, the Kazakh cavalry who did not escape a single one, did not have much property on their bodies, and no one could look at the weapons, but those dead horses and wounded horses Xue Zilong could not let go, this place was too far away from Ximen Stone Fort, and raising supplies on the spot was a top priority, and it was not allowed to be sloppy.

Cut the horse meat, wash it and chop it into an iron pot, take it out at this time on the heating stove, cook a pot of hot horse meat, sprinkle it with refined salt and cook it to eat, it can be described as delicious in this winter.

Since he met the Kazakh cavalry, it is not far from the Alashan Pass, and with the affirmation of the guide, Xue Zilong waited on the spot, waiting for the cavalry of Tai Thorn Qi to catch up.

This is three days of waiting, and the dusty Tai Thorn Qi cavalry has just appeared in the telescope, and Xue Zilong's chariot has once again set off.

"All pass, all pass, all pass," with the rhythmic fire of the vehicle-mounted machine guns, the Kazakh cavalry guarding the eastern end of the Alashan Pass, after losing dozens of warriors, retreated into the mountain pass in a panic, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Hum, the duck chariot landed from the air, Xue Zilong jumped out of the car, raised his eyes to look at this bare mountain pass, and at a glance, he also took a breath of cool air, Si.

I can't see half a sapling, the ridge of large gravel, the patches of shrubs, like scars, are as ugly as scars, the ridge on the left is steep like a sword held high, difficult to climb, and the ridge on the right slope is gentle, but it is also a rocky mountain of size that can be seen.

There was only a gravel passage between two ridges, no more than five feet wide, and there was no room for two chariots to advance side by side.

"Let's wait for the transport truck first," Xue Zilong put down the binoculars and said in a deep voice after looking at the terrain in front of him.

After nightfall, in the whirring cold wind, Tai Tingqi led the cavalry brigade, which was able to catch up, he made up his mind this time, after seeing Jinong, he must strongly suggest that he use the capture to go to Ximen Stone Fort in exchange, in exchange for a few of these black flying cars, he can hardly bear to run such a long way.

Especially after passing by that highland, I saw those Kazakh cavalry that were broken in the dry grass, more than 300 horses, and I didn't even touch Xue Zilong's hair, so I was beaten into rotten flesh, which made Tai Tingqi's heart itch even more uncomfortable.

After seeing Xue Zilong, Tai Tingqi became closer.

After resting for a night, the relieved Tai Thorn Qi, looking at the Alashan Pass like a beast's mouth, suddenly silent, he has been fighting on the grassland for a long time, and he can see at a glance that this place is not a good place to fight, you can avoid it as far as possible, there are definitely people waiting inside.