According to Yan Guan's plan, they were supposed to cross the current Fengzang Desert before winter came, and then establish a stronghold in Kedong, the first town to the south.

Behind this team, there are hundreds of thousands of poor people.

They are both the elite and pioneers of Beisha, in order to find as much as possible a place to settle down, so that hundreds of thousands of people in Beisha can settle down.

Even if it is strict, once there is the possibility of becoming a king, it will naturally become sympathetic to the people.

In any case, the population is needed for the later construction of production, as well as for the future of recruits and laborers.

Putting all this aside, the so-called Beisha Army can only be a bandit at best.

But the grasslands, minerals, and food around Kedong are not enough to support so many people.

So we have to take another big city.

According to Yan Guan's assumption, they left some people in Kedong to build a stronghold, and they would march east to Fanyang, because Fanyang's Taishou was an old friend of him, and his position was very vague, so it was possible to accept them.

On the other hand, with his understanding of Fanyang, this city should be relatively easy to capture.

If you really can't do it, you can only salute first and then soldier.

After all, after so many years of fighting, he wouldn't fully believe that the other party would really help them.

"No," Xin Sha Kailan shook his head (Liang Mingfeng can finally use his original name, although he was not used to it at first, but it will be fine after calling too much.) "Good offense means hard to defend. ”

Mouton crossed his hands on his hips and his face was dark, "Indeed, although Fanyang is a big city with a large grassland, it is not easy to defend because of the open terrain. ”

In this era, most cities would not build walls, because there was little meaning for those sword immortals who could come and go freely in the sky, so to form an effective defense, they basically relied on natural mountains and rivers as barriers.

Located in the center of the vast Anyi grassland, Fanyang mainly plays an administrative role to facilitate the management of the surrounding area, and the city is vast and an important commercial city.

The biggest barrier to Fanyang is the Fengzang Desert they are in now.

However, at the beginning, Yan Guan didn't want to stay too much in Fanyang City, his plan was to loot it after entering the city, and after spending the winter, he would return to the northern desert area.

"It's okay to grab a round of supplies and run, but it's not okay." Liang Mingfeng said what Yan Guan thought, and then said, "With the defense of this city, if you look at the other cities bordering it, the army in Nansha only needs one day to kill the city, and then before we can send our things out of the city, the whole army will be annihilated." ”

"I also took the situation into account." Yan Guan pointed to the sand table projected by the Qiankun mirror, "So, you can send someone to probe Fanyang Taishou's tone first, if he is willing to cooperate with us, things will be easy to do, and then, the second route, we can go south from Kedong to Ruishan below, where we can at least rely on the mountain to assemble an effective defense." ”

The disadvantage is that the materials here are not as abundant as Fanyang, and although it is a mountain, it is very desolate, and basically some of them have become desertified.

"No, no." Liang Mingfeng shook his head, "There is a lack of minerals here, and there is no land to replenish, and the number of local residents is too small, and the supply is not enough. ”

Hearing him say this, Mouton also frowned and shook his head.

"And what are you going to do?" The two of them glared at Liang Mingfeng.

"Go here."

Liang Mingfeng raised a finger and poked it to the southeast.

"Chen Zhou?!"

The two of them looked at him with incredulous expressions.

"Are you crazy?" Yan Guan couldn't help but spray him, "Chen Zhou is known as one of the three lifelines of the Shajian Country, among which the Fubao Mine undertakes the main mineral output of the Shajian Country, and Chen Zhou itself is surrounded by mountains on three sides, the terrain is dangerous, and it is heavily guarded, it is simply impossible." ”

Liang Mingfeng didn't pay much attention to his words, but said lightly, "I didn't say that we would attack the city directly, our goal is here." ”

He enlarged the sand table projection a little more, and pointed the center of his finger to the West Mine in Chenzhou.

"Fubao Mine?"

"yes, this is it."

Yan Guan and Mouton looked at him with the eyes of a madman.

Liang Mingfeng didn't care, "Do you know how much labor Nansha has invested in the Fubao mine?" ”

The two men looked at each other, then shook their heads.

"About 20,000 people."

"So much?"

Liang Mingfeng nodded, "Moreover, more than four thousand of them are leaders and construction workers. Of course, this is not the point, the point is that in order to facilitate the production of mines, Nansha provides a very sufficient supply line, in order to prevent the arrival of winter, in the large mines will be stored in advance for the winter. That's enough to hold us out for a while. If not enough, there are plenty of wild beasts in the forests to the south that can be used to feed the hunger. ”

Seeing that the two of them were silent, he continued, "Moreover, as we all know, Chenzhou is a big city, surrounded by moats, and is well defended, but think about it, if this is true, then how many troops do they have to invest in the Fubao Mine, and how much does it cost every year?" Besides, where did the enemy come from in such a heavy city? ”

The two men fell into deep contemplation.

At first, Chen Zhou set up a guard tower and deployed troops at the foot of the southern mountain to prevent the barbarian sword people from the south.

Later, after the Barbarian Sword Kingdom was split into Eastern and Western Barbarians, their own people were inextricably fought, and where could they care about attacking them.

……

After some detailed consideration and argumentation, the two agreed to Liang Mingfeng's proposal.

Mouton couldn't even believe that this was actually proposed by a young man under the age of twenty.

Before the boy entered the tent, Mouton had taken him for a moment.

……

So, the next day, the team of 1,000 people marched according to plan.

In the cold wind of the desert, Liang Mingfeng rode on the sand camel and looked back at the place that was soaked in frost and snow.

A head of silver hair was buried in the sand, swaying in the wind.

There, two people are buried, and everything that happened in the past is buried.

Liang Mingfeng rubbed the back of his hand, feeling a little unreal.

After a day, this team successfully captured the town of Kedong.

Then, after waiting for the follow-up troops to arrive, Yan Guan first sent a team to Fanyang.

Then he gathered an elite team of about 5,000 people, bypassing Ruishan and heading towards the Fubao Mine in the southeast.

……

Along the way, the scenery gradually changed from a long yellow sand, to a little green, and finally to lush.

After a three-day trek, a majestic mountain range was revealed.