In the next few days, Jin Sanniang observed every day that the cattle and sheep, minerals, and even herbs from the grassland were received by the mill in the inner fort, which made her very confused, and she could only consider whether Xiao Ye was confusing other people's snooping on the yellow plaster ingredients.

Although you can't enter the mill, the small courtyard where Jin Sanniang lives is too close to the mill, and standing at the gate of the courtyard, you can see the ore pulled by the craftsmen's carts and the cattle and sheep driven by them at a glance.

Jin Sanniang watched it every day, remembering it in her heart, and went to the construction site of the logistics team from time to time to see those craftsmen expanding stone houses and military houses.

I have to say that more than sixty percent of the yellow plaster produced by the three mills in Xiao Ye's hands is high-quality plaster, otherwise Wang Dali's logistics team would not be able to build stone houses in late autumn at all, and the temperature on the grassland would drop quickly.

At this rate, any merchant would be suspicious of his ingredients, but Xiao Ye's tight control over the mill made it impossible for outsiders to enter it.

Even if some rumors were heard later, and the merchants added auxiliary materials to the stone mill, Xiao Ye would not suffer a loss, and he wished that more would be better.

The black transport truck driven by Yu Shan drove out of the Madao Stone Fort every night only after nightfall, and kept pulling a large amount of charcoal to the Eagle Claw Fort and Gujia Fort, and then pulled the cattle and sheep back to the Madao Stone Fort, which has become an effective means of transportation; The volume of goods pulled at one time exceeded the load of several carriages, but the speed was much faster.

The next day, Xiao Ye personally took the guards and accompanied Shang Shetian and Wang Dali to the south of the hill and ditch, and after a busy day, he finally found the magnetite there, which was in a wide ditch six or seven zhang deep; The good news is that this magnetite, according to Shang Shetian's judgment, should be a large vein.

The rolling hills, large ravines and ravines, except for the footless weeds on the ground, are full of broken rocks and broken soil, and even the shrubs are difficult to see, but they save Wang Dali trouble.

So, dozens of boxes of geotechnical bombs were transported, under the control of the craftsmen of the logistics team, next to a hill on the edge of the grassland, the top of the craftsmen blew up the rock and soil layer, after five days of hundreds of people, 30 wagons cleared, a stone platform with a length and width of 10 acres square has a prototype.

A hill-high gravel is piled up next to the stone platform, which will be digested by the stone mill later.

On this stone platform, Wang Dali's logistics team wants to build a small stone fort, which is what ordinary people call a place of death; There is no water and no fields, and it is good to say that it is dead land.

Standing on the edge of the platform at the top of the mountain, Xiao Ye, wrapped in a sheepskin coat, pointed around and said to Wang Dali, "Uncle Wang, in the four corners of the hill, you should plant vines and grass as soon as possible, and leave a passage down the mountain,"

"I know, I know," Wang Dali rubbed the beard on his chin and said with a smile, "The stone fort has two fort gates, the fort gate at the back is specially used to transport the ore from the ditch, and the fort gate in front will be repaired at a narrow point, so that it can pull in the carriage,"

A few wooden wheels were to be installed on the edge of the big ditch in the south, and the ore below was hoisted up and transported into the mill, and the manpower was probably about 200, but with a steady stream of yellow plaster, Wang Dali was sure that he would be able to pay enough wages.

In the future, in addition to the three hundred defenders, Xiao Ye will not give it generously for nothing, which Wang Dali can see clearly from Gujiabao.

Wang Dali was so careful about this stone fort, Xiao Ye didn't say more, "The gate of the stone fort can be built into an iron-clad gate, and just leave an open space outside the fort," the vacant land is left for the unloading of transport trucks, which Wang Dali naturally understands.

"Lord Xie," seeing that Xiao Ye had promised to repair the fort gate, Wang Dali was grateful and promised to start construction as soon as possible.

When the foundation of Wangjia Stone Fort began to burst, the grassland had entered the winter, and this year the tribe at the northern foot of the Altai Mountains transferred to the winter pasture, and the larger ones were better said, and the small tribes were attacked by horse thieves from time to time, which can be described as heavy losses.

Even the Ming caravans that dealt with the grassland tribes were driven out by horse thieves from time to time, and the goods were swept away.

Only Jin Sanniang, who showed up and walked around the wall of Gujiabao Fort from time to time, saw herds of cattle and sheep, truckloads of goods, and horse thieves sent by knives into the stone fort, and then took away iron boxes one by one.

Even, the wild Tartar captives sent by the horse thieves, Ah Man exchanged cattle and sheep, Wedge Hegu traded with fierce fire oil, cattle and sheep, and sent people to pick up the young woman, and the others, regardless of age, were quickly pulled away by Yu Shan's car when it was full at night, and there was no news.

The wild Tartar woman with a strong smell was very unpopular in Gujiabao, but Xiao Ye's two allies were open-minded, and the two sides traded happily.

Relying on the convenience of the building near the water, Jin Sanniang's caravan took away the hot goods such as kettles, heating stoves, and table lamps from Eagle Claw Fort, and even the heating package also took a fancy to it, and also sent Xiao Ye a large amount of grain, pig iron, medicinal materials, as well as high-grade sulfur and saltpeter controlled by the government.

The military catalog fed back to Xiao Ye by the processing center, and the resources continued to increase, which made Xiao Ye very happy for a while, and kept taking out fire/guns, sky-shaking thunder, and even two heavy machine guns and sent them to Eagle Claw Fort.

However, after ensuring that firearms are prioritized, other civilian goods are still no more, no less, far from satisfying Jin Sanniang's appetite, not to mention that there are Liang and Zhai waiting next to them.

As for the merchants in Gansu Town, Xiao Ye has already left it behind, Wang Gui's charity-like transaction will sooner or later make these merchants fight, and this is what he wants.

At noon in early winter, the sun rarely hung overhead, but the faint sunlight did not have much temperature, and in the open space outside Eagle Claw Fort, a field with white ash was drawn out of four directions, ten zhang long and five zhang wide, and two teams of sergeants in leather armor, wearing iron helmets, were desperately grabbing an earthy yellow rugby ball.

In the open space outside the white line, hundreds of people gathered around to see the excitement, cheering and coaxing from time to time. Especially if someone is knocked and fallen, it can be exchanged for bursts of applause.

There are a lot of rules in rugby, but Xiao Ye has streamlined most of them, as long as he can throw the rugby ball into the small door behind the opponent, the sergeant of a team of ten can use any trick, as long as it is not a malicious attack.

The guard holding a small flag, with a copper flute in his mouth, acted as the so-called referee, but from his blank eyes, it was almost certain that he still didn't understand the word referee.

Half an hour a game, with no rest in between, is the same as fighting, the enemy will not allow you to drink water and wipe your sweat.

If you are injured, you can make substitutions, and the game cannot be interrupted, but the wounded are not rewarded in the end, which makes the participating sergeants want to kill each other, but also to prevent being hit with a black-footed oolong fist.

Jin Sanniang, who was standing on the road of the fort wall, lay on the women's wall and looked at the two teams of people and horses that collided fiercely below, and the sergeants who were knocked away one by one, she was frightened when she saw it, and she exclaimed quietly from time to time, and a trace of disdain in her eyes was deeply hidden.

Xiaomei stood beside Jin Sanniang, with a small food box at her feet, an oil-paper umbrella, and big eyes looking down, watching the sergeant of the game; There was a figure there, so she never got tired of staring at it.

The hundreds of sergeants standing outside the field, as well as the Gu family pharmacists, watched the fight in the field in amazement, but their mouths were mocking the guy who fell to the ground, in order to snatch the spiky rugby, these people really wanted to kill people. It's really, so exciting.

Xiao Ye, who was wearing an iron helmet in the field, stretched out his arms to catch the flying rugby, and before he had time to find his companion, someone flew over from the left and right, and even kicked his thigh fiercely with a big foot.

"Ah," shouted, Xiao Ye hurriedly threw the hot rugby ball out quickly, but he was still overwhelmed by two strong bodies, and several strong men began to be stacked on top of it, which made him scream.

The two teams of sergeants composed of guards competed for rugby, the momentum was not trivial, and the collision was also as fierce as a bull, the average sergeant could not withstand a collision at all, and anyone who got close to the rugby ball would be hostile to the opponent, let alone the person holding the ball.

After a game, the guards on Xiao Ye's side slightly injured seven people, broke one arm, and Xiao Ye's back also hurt badly, which was the result of the guards' caution; Of course, almost all of them were slightly wounded, but they won.

"No, you still have to follow the rules, otherwise it will become a scuffle," Xiao Ye, who was limping, walked off the field sweating profusely, thinking back to the rules in the book, very annoyed that he had cut most of it, and it seemed that he still had to let the craftsmen make some armor.

In the first game of this rugby, Yang 18 and their team won, each of them got a box of refined salt, and there was also a consolation prize for failure, Xiao Ye gave himself a pound of raisins, took it and went back.

"My lord, this competition, oh, it's a competition, it's really good, can we also pull a team of people out to play?" Wang Hu, who was watching the game on the side of the venue, shouted loudly throughout the whole process, his voice was hoarse, and he hurriedly asked for instructions behind Xiao Ye.

"Yes, several teams are fine, but you can't be injured too much, the guards and sergeants can't be compared, you know," Xiao Ye, who was wiping sweat, put on the big hat handed by Li Shan, and after dropping a sentence, ran away in disgrace.

What he didn't expect was that soon, several rugby teams were quickly pulled out in the stone castle, not only Wang Hu's war battalion team, but also Qin Shi's night owl team, and even Gu Yanwu nodded and established the Gu family team, plus the young and strong in the logistics team, the four teams all found their own venues.

Every day at noon and before dark in the evening, in the compound of the military house, there is a lot of noise in the open space outside the fort, and the people who watch the excitement also have a conversation after tea and dinner.

The business of the pharmacy in Gujiabao suddenly got a lot better, and Gu Yanwu liked this kind of game even more, wishing that there would be a fierce competition every day.

The news reached Fort Eagletalon and Horse Trail Stone, and the rule manuscript and rugby were delivered, and for a time, playing rugby became the best way for the sergeants to vent/their energy.

Jin Sanniang came to menstruation, so she took the opportunity to bring Xiaomei into the bedroom, so that the maid fulfilled her wish, and successfully let Xiao Ye stay for half a month, but Xiao Ye became familiar with rugby, and had to rub the bone-setting ointment in the small courtyard every day.

However, just as the first light snow fell, Xiao Ye received bad news, and after walking by the Daozi River for a long time, he was surrounded in the mountains at the southern foot of the Altai Mountains again, and this time, tens of thousands of Turpan cavalry were trapped.

Behind the Turpan cavalry, there were Mongolian cavalry on the periphery, anyway, they wanted to directly kill the big horse thief who suddenly appeared with the knife. Come to think of it, the knife is probably a scourge to both families.

The one who came to deliver the news was a confidant sent by Wedge Hemu, a sturdy Tartar, who spoke in stammering plain language, and finally understood the words, and sweated in a hurry.

"You go down and rest, and you'll see me later," waving his hand to let the guards take the Tartar down, Xiao Ye looked at the map on the table, compared the distance, and his eyes were fixed on the small city of Chijin Mongolia; It is said to be a small city, but it is built by the river, the fields are fertile, and it is rich in gold sand, otherwise the Mongols would not lie there, and would rather tear their faces with the king of Turpan than leave.

Now Madao Stone Fort is operating normally, Wang Gui and Shiguantun merchants are still trading, with Wang Meng's thousand-man team stationed, I think the government is going to do it, and it will not look for the opportunity to come when the weather is cold.

As for Lanelt, except for sending people over to trade normally, there has been no abnormality so far, with the Galen tribe in front, Gujiabao has enough time to react; Then, the small city of Chijin Mongolia should have a chance to get a hand.

Killing people and setting fire to the gold belt, judging from the cattle and sheep population who frequently sent knives to Huijiabao, Xiao Ye wanted to say that he was not moved, it was a lie, and he had been delayed, not because he had limited troops in his hands, and he had more than enough defense.

Come to think of it, the idea of hitting with a knife should also be here in Chijin Mongolia, and his courage is really boundless. Xiao Ye estimated that if he really gave him a heavy machine gun, maybe the knife would dare to go south to the Hetao and fight with the little Mongolian prince.

Thinking about the distance between Gujiabao and Chijin Mongolia, Xiao Ye's mind suddenly flashed a thought, perhaps, taking the opportunity to build this small city, he can reap a lot of benefits.

The key is that there must not be many Mongolian cavalry in Chijin City, and he must attack quickly, go and return quickly, otherwise the Mongols will react, and it will be a bad thing.

"I don't know how expensive firewood and rice are," his eyes left the map, Xiao Ye got up and stood in front of the window, looking at the sparse snowflakes outside, at this time, I am afraid that the days of the knife in the mountains will not be much better.

"Someone," Xiao Ye shouted, and Li Shan outside the door came in, "My lord, my subordinates are here,"

"Ordered Ma Dao Stone Fort, Yu Shan drove over tonight, and the Hao Yongliang artillery team accompanied him, with two heavy machine guns, four lightning guns, and half of the ammunition,"

"Tell Liu Shuihe to take twenty-one protective suits from the warehouse, my guards will use them, and bring them back together,"

"Inform Wang Ziliang of Madao Stone Fort, and immediately ask Sun Xiaoming to send twenty guards, hurry up to Eagle Claw Fort, and take Yu Shan's car to Gujiabao,"

"Yes, my subordinates will go immediately," Hearing Xiao Ye's military order, Li Shan knew that the knife was saved, so he hurriedly retreated and hurriedly went to the military compound.

"Eighteen," called Yang Eighteen, Xiao Ye commanded, "Send fast horses to the Duding war camp, dispatch five hundred cavalry, and A Man with one thousand cavalry, rush to Gujiabao at midnight tomorrow morning, and set off to the West Wedge Hebu at Chenshi, without delay,"

"Inform Wang Hu, gather five hundred sergeants, prepare fire/guns to distribute projectiles and earth-shaking thunder, and set off with the team tomorrow morning," After calculating the troops, Xiao Ye waved his hand and let Yang 18 go.

With 2,000 troops in his hand, 70 guards, plus Wedge Hemu can send 2,000 cavalry and 4,000 troops to attack Chijin Mongolia and encircle Wei to save Zhao's strategy, it should make the knife safe and sound.

Of course, if the knife was killed before, it would be his bad life, let's set up a spirit card in the land temple, Xiao Ye is not an immortal, and no matter how brave his subordinates are, they can't let Shangguan risk dying.

Sent guards to find Wang Dali, Xiao Ye talked to him in a low voice for a while, and the old blacksmith went to the logistics team with a solemn face, and began to gather young and strong overnight, preparing a large number of carriages and ox carts.

"King of Turpan? It depends on whether you know whether you know what to do or not, just a barbarian head, and you still want to really establish yourself as a king, cheap skin," Xiao Yemu sent Wang out of the courtyard gate, stood in the small courtyard, stretched out his hand to catch a few snowflakes, and his face was gloomy.

If the Mongolian cavalry retreated, and the Turpan cavalry still pursued the knife relentlessly, then he would have to look at Hami's strength.

Yu Shan drove the car very fast, and an hour later, the black transport car carrying Hao Yongliang's artillery team and twenty guards had already arrived at Gujiabao; At this time, Xiao Ye also assigned military affairs to Wang Hu.

Sun Xiaoming took fifty guards and guarded Xiao Ye's family, but he didn't let him come with him this time.

The two heavy machine guns and four mine guns brought by Hao Yongliang himself, plus ammunition and 20 sergeants, took up most of the space in the rear compartment, and the guards with firearms/guns and backpacks almost filled the carriage.

Accompanied by Yu Shan and Hao Yongliang, Xiao Ye boarded the back carriage, and while greeting the sergeants and guards, he looked at the appearance in the carriage and knocked on the heavy iron plate carriage from time to time.

In the long carriage, with a row of hooks on each wall and a hand lamp, the sergeants sat on their felt blankets, guarding the six big guys, and a pile of wooden boxes.

"How are you sitting in the carriage?" Xiao Ye patted the sergeant next to him and asked in a deep voice; The sturdy sergeant held an iron helmet and looked at the big leader worriedly, it was the first time he had spoken to an adult so closely.

"My lord, it's very safe to sit here, it's not like riding a carriage at all, it hurts so much, and riding a horse is not as comfortable as this," the sergeant got up, opened a small cover on the iron plate of the carriage, and pointed it out to Xiao Ye.

"There are round holes here, which can be breathable, and you can also shoot guns/guns outside," so quickly got the hang of it, Xiao Ye gestured a thumbs up, and jumped out of the carriage with a smile.

"Yu Shan, how many more people can be fitted?" Standing under the car, Xiao Ye asked Yu Shan.

"My lord, I can still fit twenty people in a squeeze," Yu Shan didn't have to think about it, and replied loudly, "There are still two boxes of batteries, enough to run three round-trips,"

"Not enough, Wang Hu," called Wang Hu not far away, Xiao Ye said, "All the batteries in the military warehouse are moved out and loaded,"

"Yes, my lord," Wang Hu did not hesitate, and immediately sent someone to the warehouse, and moved all ten boxes of black batteries into the rear compartment. This is all the reserves of the war camp for the winter, and it was directly called by Xiao Ye.

At this time, the guards got out of the car and gathered, Li Shan took seventy guards, neatly draped and pulled out the war horses, and the garrison in the inner fort was immediately taken over by Wang Hu's sergeant.

Boxes of projectiles, earth-shattering thunder, and canned food were moved into the carriage and crowded together with Hao Yongliang's sergeant.

Before getting into the car, Xiao Ye called Qin Shishi, "I'll take a team of scouts and scatter the rest of you north, that Lanelt is going to die, don't let people dig out our nest,"

"Yes, my lord," Qin Shishi, who knew his mission, replied in a condensed voice as the corner of his eyes swept over the door of the inner castle.

At the gate of the inner fort, Jin Sanniang and Xiaomei, wearing thick silk and cotton coats, watched Xiao Ye busy.

"Wang Hu, when Du Ding and the others come, you lead the sergeant to join up with Wedge Hemu's cavalry and rush to Moon Spring, and I will send Yu Shan to drive to contact you," After speaking, Xiao Ye asked Ran to find Wedge Hemu's henchmen.

"Can you find Moon Spring? Do you know the way to Chijin Mongolian City? After receiving this Tatar's affirmative reply, Xiao Ye pointed to the car, "Get in the car, go to your West Wedge tribe first,"

Yang Eighteen sat next to Yu Shan with the Tartar, and Xiao Ye sat alone in the back of the cab; waved his hand to Wang Hu outside the car, and then looked at the small courtyard of the military house, Xiao Ye turned his face, "Let's go,"

With a low humming sound, the front of the transporter lit up with two pillars of light, slowly raised the body, and after being two feet above the ground, turned the front of the car and slid towards the gate of the stone castle.

Li Shan led the guards, rode a war horse and followed the tail lights of the car, and after running for a while, he had to go up the corner, and watched the car go straight to the west from the top of the rattan grass.

The oasis where the West Wedge He tribe is located is nearly six hundred miles away from Gujiabao, although every fifty miles on the road, Yushan has to take someone to replace the battery, but the speed of the transport vehicle is so fast that the face of the Tartar who led the way is white.

In less than two hours, the transport truck rushed through the fierce fire oil swamp tumbling with pungent foam, because the body was higher than the ground, there was no need to travel along the curve, and drove straight into the Gobi Desert.

The bright and flickering headlights alarmed the West Wedge tribe from a long distance, and the wedge wood in a long coat, and the disheveled wedge bones, carrying a scimitar in his hand, holding a short fire gun, looked at the huge car with disgust, and drove in front of him.

If it weren't for the henchman's head out of the car window and just shouting loudly, the roaming cavalry spy would have bent his bow and arrows, raised his fire/gun, and engaged the "monster".

"Click," pushed the car door, Xiao Ye, who was dressed in leather armor, jumped out of the car, beckoned to the stunned wedge bones, and called the leader of the tribe.

"Wedge Bone to meet the big leader," Wedge Bone who reacted, hurriedly ran forward and knelt on one knee, shouting loudly, with a hot look in his eyes; Some sluggish wedges also led a group of herdsmen to kneel on the ground.

"Haha, wedge bones, my brother, hurry up, tomorrow we are going to make a fortune," Xiao Ye, who stepped forward with laughter, pulled up the wedge bones, "Where did the Mongolian cavalry go to the mountains?" ”

"Yes, my lord, there are still subordinate rangers watching there, the cavalry of the Lishan Division and the cavalry of Turpan, just on the outskirts of the mountainous area," Wedge Hegu said with certainty.

The Mongolian Lishan tribe is the Mongolian cavalry who occupied Chijin City, because it has a deep relationship with the little prince's Golden Horde, and even the wedge bones who are close to the neighbor did not want to harass them, but they were repeatedly exploited in the past, so they also sent people to trade from time to time, in case they were not worried about being dissatisfied.

The battle of Yangtei Slope made the West Wedge He tribe and the Lishan tribe tear their faces, and with a sharp firearm in their hands, the Wedge He bone has completely fallen to Xiao Ye.

"Gather your cavalry immediately and follow my cart to go," Xiao Ye had a few snowflakes falling on his face, which quickly melted into water droplets, but the smile was even more obvious.

"My lord, this is?" Wedge Hegu's face was stunned, "Let's go and attack the Turpan cavalry?" They have 10,000 cavalry, and there are thousands of cavalry from the Lishan tribe. ”

"No, let's go to Chijin Mongolia, rob that small city, and let the Turpan cavalry retreat to rescue by themselves," Xiao Ye said with a smile, "The guy with the knife, don't suffer some hardships, don't have a long memory at all, don't care about him first,"

"Okay, my subordinates will gather people immediately," I heard that I didn't go to fight the Turpan cavalry, and Wedge He naturally had confidence.

Summoned a thousand cavalry, left three thousand cavalry in the tribe to watch the house, Wedge Hegu explained to his younger brother, and after dawn, he sent someone to lead the way to Wang Hu, who came up, and went to Moon Spring, and then followed Xiao Ye upside down and got on the transport car.

There was no way, there were a lot of cavalry in the West Wedge tribe, and the other thousand cavalry could only set off with Wang Hu, Sun Xiaoming, and A Man.

Rolling down the window glass, Xiao Ye took two deep breaths of air outside, "Yu Shan, set off Moon Spring," there was no way, the smell of wedge bones around him made him only wrap the silk cotton coat on his body.

Followed by the cavalry of the 1,000th West Wedge, the transport vehicle drove due west again, and the tail of the vehicle rolled up with gusts of bad wind.