After eighteen days from the day he left Constantinople, Qin Dong and his huge team finally entered the territory of the Xiongnu Empire through Dimet, a border city of the Eastern Roman Empire.

After entering the territory of Sanshan Thirty-six Villages, Qin Dong and the others were completely safe, and the arrival of their huge team made Faisal and other former horse bandits a little surprised, how much would they charge if they collected tolls?

When Faisal, Mars, Ruth and others saw on the hill that the front of the entire team was actually under the banner of Qin Dong, they knew that the toll this time might not be collected, and these people immediately went down the mountain together to the checkpoint to welcome the return of Qin Dong and others, and they were followed by the Hun officers and organization officers who came from Pazar to conduct military training for their horse bandits.

When Qin Dong led the crowd to arrive, Faisal and the others bowed down together: "Welcome back, your lordship is tired of driving and riding all the way, please go up the mountain to rest first, use some wine, and watch the training results of my subordinates before returning to Pazar!" ”

Qin Dong looked up at the sky, it was almost noon now, the temperature in September had not dropped much, it was still too hot at noon and afternoon to make it difficult to march, Qin Dong had no choice but to say: "Then I will rest here for a day today, give the order to go down, and camp on both sides of the road below the mountain, Faisal, and tell your people to bring water to the people I brought this time to cool them off!" ”

"Yes, my lord!"

Faisal hurriedly arranged it, and Qin Dong said to the others: "Alfard, you lead the team to stay here, and other village chiefs and above will go up the mountain with me to rest!" ”

"Thank you, sir!"

Back to your place. Qin Dong also got up casually, no longer as cautious as on the way back, and everyone rode their horses to the mountain quickly. Faisal and others immediately arranged for people to kill cattle and sheep to catch the wind and wash the dust for Qin Dong.

At about three o'clock in the afternoon, Qin Dong and others watched the drill of the recruits in the three mountains and thirty-six villages, and nearly three months had passed since Pazar sent people to conduct military training for these former horse bandits. In the past three months, the training of these horse bandits has been very fruitful, and they have completely lost the habits of the previous horse bandits. All of them are men with straight waists, and they are all straightforward in doing things, which makes Qin Dong very happy.

Now there are no old and weak women and children in these three mountains and 36 villages, and all the old and weak women and children have been sent to Pazar and Plov for resettlement. Only the army was stationed here. On each hill there were more or less men stationed on it, and their supplies and weapons were all sent by Pazar.

After watching the drill, Qin Dong expressed satisfaction with the results of their training in the past two months, and asked them to continue to maintain it, to guard this place well, training cannot be stopped, battles will happen at any time, once a war breaks out. Their troops stationed here need to be ready to go into battle at any time.

Faisal and others said that they would continue to train the army in accordance with Qin Dong's instructions and strictly prevent the troops of the Eastern Roman Empire from entering. Live up to Qin Dong's expectations.

That night, Qin Dong and the others rested on the mountain for a night, and after breakfast the next morning, they went down the mountain to meet the people and horses at the bottom of the mountain, and then bid farewell to Faisal and others, and set off back to Pazar with a huge team.

A few days later, the team arrived in Plov, Ma Li and Zheli stationed in Plov learned from Pegasus that Qin Dong was about to arrive, and they had already led a large group of men and horses to go forward dozens of miles to greet them, and there were more than 1,500 troops stationed in Plov, including 400 cavalry, under the command of Zheli, originally only 200, and later recruited 200 Huns, a total of 400, 1,100 infantry, the commander of the army was Ma Li, and the chief training officer was Duoyin, he and Zheli were Ma Li's deputies.

There were three hundred cavalry and seven hundred infantry, after more than three months of development, the army was fully equipped, among the three hundred cavalry were two hundred archers, one hundred heavy cavalry, the soldiers of the archers were equipped with leather armor, equipped with a riding bow and a quiver with thirty arrows, and there was also a saber and lasso, the soldiers and horses of the heavy cavalry were all armoured, the knights were equipped with spears four meters and two long, and they were also equipped with sabers, the heavy infantry was rationed after the equipment of the Roman heavy infantry, and the light infantry was only equipped with a steel sword, Dressed in leather armor and wearing a leather helmet.

Seeing that Qin Dong went out this time and came back with these thousands of people, Ma Li and Zheli were very excited, the more the population, the more prosperous the development of the territory, here they established it with their own hands and watched it with their own eyes, this sense of accomplishment is not something that ordinary people can experience.

"Young Master, you're back!"

"Welcome back!"

Qin Dong was very happy and said with a smile: "Okay, when I see these people you brought, I know that you haven't been idle in the past few months, very good, let's go back and talk about something!" ”

"Your Excellency, please!"

On the way back, Qin Dong introduced Ma Li, Zheli and Zhong Hui, Cao Charlie, Soma and others, even if they met like this, they would work together in the future, and they were all very enthusiastic.

After resting for one night in Plov and two days of walking, Qin Dong and the others finally returned to Pazar, where they had been separated for three months.

By this time, Pazar had completely changed its appearance, and it was no longer the way the previous tents had been put up casually to become a camp, and the outline of the city had gradually taken shape, and the mansions, official offices, and city walls of the commanders had been built.

Because Qin Dong was going to build Pazar into a big city, it was required at the beginning of the design that the city should be twelve miles long and eight miles wide, and the Maricha River would pass through the middle of the city, and there should be a moat in all four directions of the city, and the moat would connect to the Maricha River.

In addition to the mansion, the official office and the city wall have been completed, a large number of residential houses have been built in the northwest corner of the city, these houses are made of red bricks fired from clay, which is far away from the mountain, and it is very difficult to get stones, so Qin Dong left a method of burning bricks before leaving, and there is no high technical content in burning bricks, the most important thing is to control the temperature, as long as the soil is made into mud bricks of the same size, and after drying, it is put into the kiln to burn. It is best to use this method to make a house of fired bricks. However, rammed earth was used to build the walls.

There were still several miles away from Pazar, and Qin Dong and the others saw two long greeting queues, which the residents of Pazar were waiting here automatically after receiving the news. On the inside of the welcoming procession of the inhabitants is a welcoming procession of cavalry and infantry, which also serves as a guard and protection.

At the front of the team, Su He, Tuolong, Mu Ren, Liu San, Wang Liu and others were already looking through the autumn water on horseback, and only after seeing Qin Dong appear with a large number of people did they turn around and shout: "The adults are back, the adults are back!" ”

The crowd cheered, waving their hands one by one. Zhong Hui, Charlie Cao and others who were following Qin Dong all knew that they had come to the right place this time.

When Qin Dong and the others approached, Su He and the others hurriedly stepped forward to greet them, "Welcome back!" ”

Return to your lair. Qin Dong was also very excited, and laughed: "Okay, okay, let's go back and talk about it if you have anything, let's go." Advanced City! ”

"Yes. My lord! ”

Along the way, Qin Dong kept waving to the residents and saluting, and also took the time to find a civil affairs official, so that he and Zhong Hui could discuss the matter of relocating the 5,000 people behind him, and the resettlement work was naturally handled by the civil affairs officials and Zhong Hui and others. Qin Dong returned to the Commander's Mansion, and she and the Giant Daru also came over.

"Your Excellency. You're back! Batu, the chief of the guard, was very excited, and he had been waiting at the door of the mansion for a long time with a large number of guards.

Qin Dong dismounted, and a guard next to him took the reins and took the horse, Qin Dong saw Batu and smiled: "Batu, how are you doing?" ”

"The adults are not here, we can only train to the death, and we have not stopped for a day for these three months!" Batu said.

Qin Dong nodded: "That's good, I see that all of you are much stronger and stronger than before, and your spirit is better than before, which is very good!" Oh, let me introduce you, this is the Soma girl, and this giant is her slave Daru, and you have to entertain them and arrange a room for each of them! ”

Batu promised: "Yes, my lord! ”

Soma followed by her and chirped: "Qin, is this your home?" It's nice to have such a house in the middle of nowhere! ”

Qin Dong was about to speak, but saw Martha walking out with her skirt, followed by ten-year-old Sophia, Martha didn't speak, just saluted, Qin Dong already knew that she was this kind of character, and he didn't think it was strange, he spoke first: "Martha, I'm back!" Let me introduce you, this is Miss Soma! ”

Soma was taken aback at first when she saw Martha, and then asked, "Qin, is this your wife?" ”

Before Qin Dong could speak, ten-year-old Sophia walked over and looked at Soma, and immediately asked, "Brother-in-law, is this the wild woman you brought back?" You go out and bring a woman back, are you worthy of my sister, worthy of Sister Martha? You stinky man, I'm you! ”

After Sophia finished speaking, she ran away crying, and Qin Dong was stunned here, "This, what's wrong?" Martha, aren't you bitter enemies with Sophia? How can she help you speak? ”

Martha said, "When are we mortal enemies?" Now she treats me as a sister and I treat her as a sister! After saying that, he walked over to Soma and made a cross on his chest and forehead, "I'm Martha, it's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Soma, may God bless you!" ”

Soma was stunned: "Are you a cultist?" Ha, it's so good, I didn't think there were disciples here, I'm Soma, it's a pleasure to meet you!"

When two women met, they turned out to be like this? Qin Dong was a little incomprehensible.

Dinner was eaten in the evening, Martha and Sophia steamed buns, roasted mutton, and fried a few wild vegetables, fried wild vegetables were learned from Qin Dong before, there is no vegetable oil, can only be replaced by animal oil, such as butter, mutton fat, these animal oil fried vegetables taste very good, but stir-fried vegetables with animal oil are poison for many women in later generations, because they are afraid of gaining weight, but in this era, I am afraid that no woman will gain weight because of fear of eating too much, overnutrition.

When Martha and Sophia were cooking, Soma wanted to help, but the girl born in this tribe didn't seem to understand, which was too inconsistent with the fact that she was born in the tribe, she wanted to help, but the more she helped, she almost set the kitchen on fire.

After the meal was ready, Qin Dong was called to dinner, and several bowls of beer had been poured over, one bowl in front of each person, and everyone started eating together after Qin Dong sat down and was greeted by him.

"Come, Miss Soma, Daru, let's have a bowl together, and Martha, too!" Qin Dong drank it all with the pottery bowl, and after drinking it, he put down the bowl and said: "In our place, it is a big bowl of drinking and a big bowl of meat, so you have to worry about being laughed at if you eat too much, Daru, you eat more, I know you eat a lot!" ”

When the giant man Daru heard Qin Dong say this, he smiled and didn't speak, just stuffed the buns into his mouth, this guy had to eat at least thirty buns every meal on the way here, and he could eat sixty at most, in addition to these, he had to eat ten catties of meat for every meal, and it would be good for normal people to be able to eat one catty of meat.

Ten-year-old Sophia couldn't help but mutter, "Foodie! ”

Daru was not angry, let him be a giant and a little bit of care, this was not his demeanor, Qin Dong blamed: "The guest is here, how can he talk?" It's good to be able to eat, you know? Look at you, you're all skinny and skinny, you have to eat more, by the way, you're not in Suhe's barracks, why did you come back today? ”

Martha said next to her, "If you come back today, can't she come back to see you?" ”

"Yes, General Su He approved my return!" Sophia shouted.

Qin Dong also felt that he was a little excessive, Sophia, a child without a father and a mother, was really pitiful, and this child was also tough. She wanted to enter the army to participate in training with those men, and asked Su He to teach her martial arts, horseback riding, archery, and riding archery. I don't know why, maybe she already knew that Qin Dong was not her brother-in-law, so she was scared in her heart, afraid that she would be lonely and helpless, so she had to learn martial arts, and even enter the army, only in this way could she feel safe.

There is Daru, a big-bellied man, there are not enough dishes on the table to eat, and everyone else eats very little, basically he is all dried up alone, and there is not even any soup left in the clay pot, he licked it clean, only a few smooth clay pots are left, and there is almost no need to wash them.

After dinner, due to the tiring day of traveling, there was almost no entertainment at night in this era, everyone slept separately, Qin Dong rolled up to the bunk with Martha, who was struggling slightly, he hadn't touched a woman in these three months, and he was really panicked. (To be continued......)