Liu Ziguang crossed the moon gate, and a small figure ran over to his daughter Xue Xiangying shouted sweetly, Daddy picked up Liu Ziguang as if he was happy, kissed him twice, and said, "What good things did my mother make for Xiao Yingying to eat?" ”

Xue Xiangying said in a milky voice: "It's the hand-grabbed mutton, it's so fragrant." Then he tilted his head and asked, "What is Daddy doing in front of you so noisy?" ”

Liu Ziguang said with a smile: "Daddy beat the bad guys and wiped out a gang of bad guys called the Seven Swords of the Tianshan Mountains." Xue Xiangying asked again: "Did Daddy cut off the head of the bad guy?" Liu Ziguang laughed heartily and no longer answered, and took his daughter to the restaurant in the back house.

Dong Xiaowan had indeed made a table of Western-style hand-grabbed mutton, and prepared a pot of mare's milk wine, Dai Wenpei also sat at the table, with a worried look on his face, and he was relieved to see Liu Ziguang come in. He asked, "What happened to the explosion of the chief helmsman?" ”

Before Liu Ziguang could speak, Xue Xiangying hurriedly said: "Daddy slaughtered the Seven Swords of Tianshan Mountain." Dai Wenpei was shocked when she heard this, but she had seen the kung fu of the seven swords, just one Chu Zhaonan could sweep the Central Plains martial arts, not to mention that it was a team of seven people, such a gorgeous lineup was actually killed by Liu Ziguang with a cup of tea, how could this be possible, she was so panicked that she hurried to see if Liu Ziguang was injured, Liu Ziguang waved his hand and smiled: " It's okay to talk exaggerated to the children, I just taught them a lesson, put the facts and reason, in the future, the Tianshan Seven Swords should not be the Tianshan Five Swords, even if they can't be used by me, there will be no more incidents to destroy the unification of the Ming Dynasty. ”

At the gate of the Shuai Mansion, the five swords of the Tianshan Mountains dragged the injured body, covered with gunsmoke and bloodstains, but they still straightened their waists and carried the bodies of their companions, and walked out of the gate sadly, and the soldiers guarding the door were not embarrassed, they just stared vigilantly from afar, just a few heroes of the Heaven and Earth Society and the newly acquainted Lanzhou Han swordsmen passing by, and they were shocked to see such a jaw-dropping scene, and they were speechless, and there was no need for Liu Ziguang to deliberately publicize the defeat of Zhenwuhou and the story of the Seven Swords of Tianshan in the martial arts.

Tianshan Seven Swords, where to go, never care about him, just say that after the massacre, the atmosphere of Lanzhou City is one of the new big merchants who dominated the city in the past, and a large number of swordsmen and horse thieves have been eliminated, these people If they don't get rid of Lanzhou, sooner or later there will be chaos, this massacre will eliminate the hidden dangers of the future, leaving only the old and young, women and children, and the Han and Hui people, those Han swordsmen at the bottom of the society in the past are now entangled with the seal of "public security" The two-character red armband has become a supernumerary armed force of the Red Shirt Army, helping to maintain social order, and the big guys are dragging 2580,000 noses one by one, eager to go to the sky.

Calculate the days, the time for the Western Army to arrive at Jiayuguan is almost up, and sure enough, within two days, the telegram of the defeat of the Western Army came, the cavalry drove straight into the area where the enemy had operated for decades, and the grain road was long, and it was faced with the advantage of the right time, place and people, and the enemy was undefeated, so it was strange that Yuan Chonghuan was so anxious that his mouth was hot, and he personally ran from Chang'an to Lanzhou to ask Liu Ziguang to send troops to rescue Wu Sangui and Liu Zongmin, because all the forces of Yuan Inspector were escorted to Jiayuguan here, and the lone army was hung thousands of miles away, if it was not saved, it would really be over, and the tens of thousands of horses and horses that had been carefully trained were all over, and Lao Yuan had no bargaining chips in his hands, and his voice would be much weaker when he spoke in the court from now onYicai came to beg Liu Ziguang.

Liu Ziguang is not like that, the villain who can't be saved when he sees death, naturally readily agreed to Yuan Inspector's request, but also appropriately put forward some of his own requirements, such as the distribution of Western salaries, the pattern of Liu Qi and Yuan San, the transfer of the Western Army must be effective with the general of the West Army, this hand is equivalent to taking away Yuan Chonghuan's financial power and military power, Lao Yuan had no choice but to knock out his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, and temporarily agreed to these conditions, but Liu Ziguang must rescue most of the Western Army to make a number.

The soldiers of the Western Army who fought hard in Jiayuguan were all Guanzhong, Liu Ziguang, an athlete in Huguang, put forward the conditions, and the conditions were actually sent to the west long ago, in fact, the current Red Shirt Army has been very watery, the earliest batch of 800 heroes and 3,000 iron guards have long been beaten to the point that there is not much left, and the remnants have all become generals, and the Red Shirt Army has expanded countless years after year, and the three phases of students have graduated from the martial arts hall alone, as well as the military training schools and recruit training camps in various places, and a group of recruits can be trained in just three months.

The factors supporting the strong combat effectiveness of the Red Shirt Army are unparalleled advanced weapons and logistical capabilities; when fighting in the Central Plains, the railways are vertical and horizontal, the water network is dense, and it can also rely on air and sea transportation, ammunition, and grain and grass supplies, which is very convenient, that is, the battle can be won by shell bombardment alone, but in this desolate place in the northwest, the combat effectiveness and logistical ability of the Red Shirt Army will also be discounted.

The desolate landform and complex climate of the Gobi Desert in the west make it difficult for the people of the Central Plains to adapt to the huge geographical depth, and it is also suitable for the cavalry to outflank them.

The last time Ningxia was fighting, Liu Ziguang brought 3,000 veterans with combat experience, and did not hesitate to plow the ground with shells, so it was a great success, but now the new chariot has not yet been transported, the old steam ironclad car has reached its lifespan, and there are no more cards in hand, but in order to rescue his comrades-in-arms, Liu Ziguang still resolutely sent troops, with the newly recruited 2,000 Han swordsmen as the forerunner, and hired some guides who often take the Hexi Corridor trade route, personally led 3,000 elites to Jiayuguan, and the rest of the tens of thousands of horses were responsible for protecting the grain road, and the railway soldiers also took out 10,000 people to assist in transporting materials.

The Hexi Corridor is a veritable corridor, the north is a desert one after another, the south is the Qilian Mountains, which stretches for thousands of miles, and a narrow strip of land is formed in the middle, which is the Hexi Corridor, and the west exit of this corridor is the westernmost Jiayuguan of the Great Wall. The corridor was thousands of miles away, and the road was desolate, especially now that it was late autumn, and it was difficult for the army to obtain supplies locally, so they had to rely on logistics and transportation.

I really don't know how expensive firewood and rice are expensive, Liu Ziguang personally led the army to the west, and I knew the pain of this western war, according to the regulations of the Red Shirt Army, I had to eat three meals a day, breakfast needed milk, eggs, and lunch must have meat, but there were not many artillery carriages on this march. The baggage needs oxen, horses, camels and camels to carry and pull, just the forage and drinking water prepared for these large animals will account for a large part of the logistics, and the logistics itself will consume a lot of grain and grass, and the soldiers are now carrying two bases of ammunition each, and the war will soon be consumed, so the supply of ammunition is the big head, in order to bring more ammunition, the soldiers' rations can only be sacrificed.

The war is really expensive, Liu Ziguang sighed deeply, confiscated the family property of those rebels from Lanzhou City, there are millions of taels of silver, and tens of thousands of camels, these belongings are used in the war, and they are almost consumed without even hearing a sound, and the transportation capacity of the army is still overstretched, and the strength of the escort convoy is not enough, at this time, if the Western Xia side sends a strange army to harass the grain road, even Liu Ziguang will have a big headache.

The exclusive text version of this work may not be reproduced without consent, and excerpts for more of the latest and fastest chapters please visit! Afraid of what, what to come, sure enough, there are a few teams eyeing the transport team of the Western Expeditionary Army, but they are not Galdan's soldiers and horses, but the horse thieves in the Hexi Corridor, these horse thieves are so fierce that even the army dares to attack, they come and go like the wind and arrows, it is extremely headache, and it is extremely headache to attack several times in a row, and actually snatched hundreds of camels and dozens of carts of materials from the Red Shirts, and sent Liu Zi to follow up and pursue Liu Zi with a thunderous anger, but the team of men and horses did not stop, and still marched in a hurry to Jiayu Pass.

Hundreds of cavalry against the Red Shirts did not have an advantage at all, and a considerable number of them were novices who had just learned to ride horses, and they were not used to shooting with firearms on horses, and the low hit rate was terrible, on the other hand, those horse thieves were all equestrian masters, and their riding and archery skills were even more proficient, coupled with their familiarity with geography, they were so handy in fighting that they ate the pursuit of the Red Shirts.

The more terrible thing is still to come, the horse thieves put on the captured red shirt uniform, picked up the firearm, raised the banner of the Ming Dynasty, disguised themselves as the red shirt army, and attacked a transport team behind, and this transport team happened to have Liu Ziguang's family Dong Xiaowan, Xue Xiangying, Dai Wen Pei and so on, all followed this team, and the horse thieves used the cover of clothing to loot the transport team, and there were almost no escapes, but fortunately, there was a small sounding airship equipped with a radio station cruising nearby, and the current situation immediately telegraphed Liu Ziguang.

When Liu Ziguang heard the news, he immediately led a thousand cavalry non-horses to save him. When they arrived at the scene, they could only see a mess, Dong Xiaowan and the carriage they were sitting in, especially the fierce fighting, there were dozens of corpses alone, many of which were killed by Dai Wenpei's secret weapon, and the female dependents were gone, needless to say that they were captured by horse thieves, Liu Ziguang hated it so much, but there was no good way at all, hundreds of people could drag you to death with guerrilla warfare, and in the face of such a cunning enemy, artillery and airships could not be used, so you could only do it in a hurry.

There were a few old men in Liu Ziguang's team who had been traveling all year round, and their skills in finding horseshoe prints in the desert were very good, and they took the thousand red-shirted soldiers to chase them along the traces left by the horse thieves.