In the early morning, in the foggy training ground, surrounded by guards guarding with firearms on their backs, Xiao Ye was commanding Xiao Liuzi and Zuo Shi, fiddling with some wide "iron bars" that seemed to be thick but were actually quite light on the ground.

In the early morning in the mill, after taking out two Shiguan fire guns and projectiles, Xiao Ye was still very anxious; These days are full of dark clouds, there is no trace of sunlight at all, and there is no movement at night at the stone mill.

The three running trembling horses, under the shouts of the guards, the whip of the horses crackled, Xiao Ye forcibly turned the stone mill again, and also threw the wine jug into the grinding eye.

The strong healthy horses finally ran away, and two of the three died, and the other, according to the guards, shook their heads and said that it was also a waste; The guards who came back from the grassland, herding horses for five years, basically can't look away.

Horse meat can improve the food of the soldiers, but Xiao Ye, who was standing on a high place, did not notice the pattern added on the grinding plate, and after pressing the button casually, only a pile of iron bars appeared in the long box, almost one person with high and wide iron bars, dozens of neatly gathered together, and only Xiao Ye jumped to his feet.

Xiao Liuzi's father is an old carpenter, or he would play the crossbow to get started, but now under the forced eyes of the hundred households, he has to pick up his old business with a bitter face to see what this pile of iron bars can hold.

"Click, click," flipped a pile of iron bars, fiddling left and right for a while, the beads of sweat on Xiao Liuzi's head rolled down, and there was no movement for a long time, he was also anxious, got up, and touched the iron bars on the ground is two feet.

I don't know where I kicked it, there was a snap under Xiao Liuzi's feet, and the iron bar suddenly opened, "bump", and a small triangular tent appeared in front of Xiao Ye's eyes. Standing in front of him, the little six sons jumped out of the distance with a snort.

"I'm afraid of a fart, go, and keep looking," Xiao Baihu behind him snorted coldly, letting Xiao Liuzi wipe the beads of sweat on his head, and leaned up again.

In the tent with a smooth spire on three sides, Xiao Liuzi approached carefully, looked around in a circle, and found that he couldn't find a place to enter; Stretched out his hand to carry the lower edge, and lifted it up vigorously, but he also found that this small tent actually had a bottom, and the whole tent was closed.

What appeared in front of Xiao Ye was a pale yellow closed tent, the head of which was only up to his shoulders, but the lower part was very wide, like an eight-petal iron helmet lying on the ground; Seeing that Xiao Liuzi and the others couldn't do it, Xiao Ye also stepped forward in surprise, and the three of them groped around to find the entrance.

Xiao Ye, who was accustomed to using stone grinding, finally found an inconspicuous small button, stretched out his finger and pressed it, and a narrow door quietly opened. His movements surprised the two guards.

Without the orders of a hundred households, the very conscious little six sons, bowed his head and got in, he has always been a self-proclaimed master of the mechanism, and his face was already hot.

The small door quickly clicked shut, and Xiao Liuzi groped around inside, and also found three small holes in the floor, if he nailed the iron drill and stepped down hard, the tent was connected to the ground, and the people were locked inside.

"Little Liuzi, what's going on inside?" stepped forward, Zuo Shi reached out and knocked on the surface of the tent, Bang Bang hard, and asked loudly, he didn't want the captain to suffocate inside.

"It's okay, it's a little dark, it's a little stuffy," on the surface of the tent at thigh height, a small gap opened, and the sound of the little Liuzi urn came out, Zuo Shi heard the sound, and looked back at the eldest brother who was watching, what to do next, he didn't know.

Xiao Liuzi has been circling around Xiao Ye, Zuo Shi naturally became familiar with him quickly, and after being called into the personal guard, he ran around all day long, and the relationship was quite good.

Xiao Ye looked at this low tent, and didn't know if he had lost money this time, but the three healthy horses were exchanged for an object, which was not a good thing no matter how he looked at it.

"Little Liuzi, can you come out?" Xiao Ye stepped forward, touched the smooth surface of the tent, and asked through the tent.

"You can have a hundred households, open the door and you can come out," said Xiao Liuzi inside, opened the small door lightly, and came out quickly.

After going in and taking a closer look, Xiao Ye seemed to understand the role of the tent, came out and closed the small door, and under his order, the two guards stepped forward to open the distance, raised the firecracker, and aimed.

"Peng, Peng," fifty steps away, two shots were fired, Xiao Ye stepped forward to check, except for a little mark, there were not many scratches on the surface of the tent, and his face was suddenly happy, "Keep shooting, two shots in one hundred steps, two shots in one hundred and fifty steps,"

After four gunshots, Xiao Ye couldn't put it down with this tent that could squeeze up to two people, this was the best sergeant equipment to avoid the rain of arrows.

Simply, a team of sergeants who went down the sentry were transferred, and at the signal of Xiao Baihu, Xiao Liuzi and Zuo Shi, with the short iron chisel they found, drilled in and tinkered for a while, and ten sergeants rushed up.

Even pushing and kicking, ten people made themselves sweat profusely, but they couldn't push this tent; The key is that you can't find a place to start, and you can't do it at all.

At the behest of Baihu, a group of sergeants who had smashed their strength did their best to lift the big stone and destroy the tent with a bang, which shook Xiao Liuzi and Zuo Shi and retreated in a panic.

The sergeant, who had used all the means, finally smashed the tent under Xiao Ye's smiling gaze, and the training ground was in a mess.

"How?" Xiao Ye pointed to the smashed tent on the ground and asked Xiao Liuzi with a smile.

"There are three lookouts, but it's too stuffy inside, and it's better to dye it green, and it can resist the Tartar horse team for a while," the little six sons with an excited face, worthy of doing scouts for a while, reacted immediately; Even Zuo Shi is eager to try.

His heart jumped slightly, and the smile on Xiao Ye's face became stronger, this time, he still didn't lose money.

The tent that was completely destroyed was asked to leave by Xiao Ye, with a total weight of more than 70 catties, and after another turn in the stone mill, it was brand new again.

It can be used as a tent in the field, and it can also be used to defend against enemy attacks, which is simply the best field individual fortress.

Shiguan single soldier fortress, no need to name it after Xiao Ye, the sergeants of the entire hundred households quickly knew the tent called by Xiao Liuzi, and after Xiao Ye heard about it, he smiled and acquiesced.

However, the tin pot of malt in Huang Deshan's shop was immediately bought up by 100 households, and Xiao Baihu also ordered hundreds of pots, but it was a very happy day to watch the lively Huang shopkeeper in the distance in the morning.

For the next four days, the sky was still gray, and the north wind was cold day by day, Xiao Ye spent four nights and got four tents, which were the individual tents in his mouth. The individual tent directly stuffed with the box, one for one night, and he was also content.

Personally got into the tent, holding an oil lamp, Xiao Ye took a closer look, only to find that there were three small gaps with baffles inside, each in three directions, if the gun was guarded inside, there would be no dead ends around. "Perhaps, it's time to go to the grasslands,"

In the arsenal where the guards were waiting, there were already more than 20 firecrackers in reserve, but he didn't have the sergeants he had equipped for his own small banner, without him, there were so many projectiles, besides, there were already 120 rounds full of projectiles at night, and he found Wang Hu with the firecrackers.

The life of the barrel of the gun gun is greatly reduced after the two cartridges are depleted; The effective lethality within 200 steps, the accurate attack of 150 steps, and after the barrel of the firebolt shot out one hundred and twenty projectiles, the warhead floated seventy steps away, which made Xiao Ye very annoyed.

It is possible to replace it with a new firecracker, but where to find the projectile, there is no way, and the supply of raw materials for stone grinding has been increased. Such a vicious circle gave Xiao Ye a headache, and he didn't dare to find someone to discuss.

In the evening, as usual, all the small flags gathered in the courtyard of Xiao Baihu, reporting the tasks of the day, which tasks to assign tomorrow, and the output of plaster in the mill, and so on; What Xiao Baihu got from Wang Dali was not all good news.

"At the end of the month, the salary will be closed, and the food is enough, but the sergeant still wants the silver, and Huang Deshan exchanged the grain for it, which is a bit of a loss," Wang Dali was angry at the sergeant's thoughts, but it was reasonable.

There was no silver in Xiao Ye, and the raw materials for the fire in the stone mill were also sold out again, and the goods transported by the Huang family were originally less sulfur and saltpeter, but this time they were told that the lead was also gone in the short term due to the transfer of goods.

With such a neck-like technique, the merchant is skillful and sophisticated, and he wants to reduce the price of the plaster a little more, but Huang Changzu does not show up at all, and he is looking for his eldest brother's subordinates in vain.

"The first and second small flags, half of the men are prepared, half of the guards are dispatched, and they gather in the early morning," Xiao Ye, who had no silver and no raw materials, naturally set his eyes on the grassland after eating the sweetness once.

"I'm going to go to the steppe Persians, come back in exchange for some goods, and set off tomorrow morning," Xiao Ye, who had a serious face, began to arrange the defense of Shiguantun; This time, he issued a strict order, except for scouts, sergeants and their families were not allowed to go down the mountain at will, and the tunli remained on guard and defense.

In the early morning, Xiao Baihu, who came out of the mill, gathered his team and rode down the stone mountain with twenty fully armed sergeants; This time, each man brought a felt blanket on his horseback, and all four individual tents were also taken away.

It was pitch black in the Huang family's shop, and Huang Deshan, who was hiding behind the window, looked at the horse team coming down the mountain with sharp eyes, "It's really cautious," Soon, a carrier pigeon flew up from the backyard and flew into the gray sky.

The group smoothly passed through the canyon outside the stone pass, waded through a large area of sparse bushes, and galloped to the depths of the grassland.

On the steppe, the Mongol Tatar tribes who migrated to the Hetao region left behind vast and dry grasslands, and a small tribe that set off late was unfortunately intercepted by Xiao Ye's horse team on the way.

Bursts of fire rang out, and the horse team formed a crescent-shaped encirclement, and after two concentrated fires, they simply and neatly defeated the resistance of the tribe, collected the oxen, sheep and carriages, and swept more than a dozen cowhide tents in the tribe.

There were not many women and children in the tribe, and a Tartar woman who fled in all directions, after taking the horned bow in her hand, shot an arrow into the sky, was found to be abnormally uncollected, and fell to the grass with a hammer, and never got up again.

Seeing the ringing arrow, Xiao Ye's face suddenly became ugly. The hundred households riding on the war horse only greeted Xiao Liuzi vigorously, hurriedly collected the supplies, and burned them immediately if they couldn't take them away, and ignored them at all, and the sergeant Da Liu took a few guards who were originally slaves and drove the remaining young and old in the tribe into the distance.

In order not to show his whereabouts, the extermination on the grassland is very normal, Xiao Ye's temperament is still in the growth stage, and he has gradually adapted to this practice.

In this tribe, Xiao Ye didn't see a single Han slave, nor did he notice that thirty miles away from the tribe, a large group of Tartar horses slowly followed. The horse team soon headed northwest.

In order to wait for Xiao Ye to return to the grassland, the Tartars have been wandering for almost a month.

In the afternoon, when Xiao Ye and his entourage, who were carrying a cart of cattle, sheep and horses, rushed for less than three hours, the night of the vigilance behind the team was not closed, and the sharp suona sounded; Wang Hu and Xiao Liuzi rushed back from the rear left and right.

"One hundred households, a large number of Mongolian Tartars were found in the north, five hundred war horses," "One hundred households, a large number of Mongolian Tartars were found in the south, and a thousand war horses," two scout boys holding monoculars were panting, and there were sweat stains on the handle of the horsewhip.

The first time they encountered so many Tartars, they were also terrified.

Wu Chita and his two hundred warriors died silently in Shiguan, and the head of the Gushan clan ran away, and they were very unwilling.