The Qiang independence mission stayed in Dingjun City for seven days, and after resting the team, they left Dingjun City with Qiu Shangshu and headed for Huangshakou, accompanied by 30,000 desert Dingxi troops.

Renault's side was almost ready, the number of pack carts was sufficient, the jerky was loaded, and the harvest of the recent period of time was added, and thousands of men and horses set off to set off at the south gate of the military city and headed for Qiandingburg.

This road is different from the desert, it is an endless grassland, as far as the eye can see, the green grass is shady, and the sheep are like clouds under the sky.

When the herdsmen saw the convoy, they were not afraid, and there were curious shepherd boys, who came to watch closer. These herdsmen are the border people of Dingjun City, and the cattle and sheep are owned by the desert legion, and they are not worried that anyone will dare to attack their ideas.

Leaving Dingjun City, every three hundred miles, you can see a battle fort, four cities and sixteen forts in the southwest, from north to south, pulled into a straight line, across five thousand miles, becoming a barrier in the southwest of Great Chu.

After seeing the first battle fort, the convoy turned southwest and the fleet took off, which was Renault's training plan, to try to keep the pilots in the sky whenever possible. Renault knows little about the Air Force, and what he remembers most is the quality of the pilot, which seems to be related to the flight time, and it can often be heard that a certain ace pilot has thousands of hours of flight.

Since I don't understand it very well, it's always right to see it in the news, I don't need to fly well, as long as you are okay, you can fly in the sky, and after a long time, you can always fly out of the experience.

Before arriving at Dingjun City, the flight group damaged several planes, and now not only have they all been replaced, but there are also fifteen more.

Now there is no shortage of personnel in the team, and when I heard that new pilots were selected, there were more people who signed up.

At this time, the disadvantages of the peripheral members were reflected, and Renault only gave Liuyun three groups of pilots, and most of the pilots were selected from veterans.

Martial artists above the fifth rank have the opportunity to be selected, Renault needs more pilots, and each plane is equipped with three sets of crews, before dark, the plane basically keeps flying in the sky, people can rest and rotate, and the plane cannot stop.

As a result, within a few days, Zhang Tan couldn't bear it, and he flew continuously, and the transmission mechanism on the plane was worn out too much, and when he was in Dingjun City, he prepared a lot of accessories, but if it went on like this, it wouldn't be long before all the planes had to lie down.

In desperation, I can only fly for half a day, maintain and overhaul for half a day, and when I land, hang on the back of the pack car and pull away.

The result of Zhang Tan's inspection was that the hands of the retired veterans of the Dingxi Army were too dark, not to mention that they were disabled, their strength was not small, and they were used to using all their strength, which was naturally easy to cause metal fracture and fatigue.

Renault had to give lessons to retired veterans when he was camping, not only to teach them to fly airplanes, but also to read and count.

"Sir, why should we learn this thing?" The first to stand up against it was Gai Yong, a well-known fierce general in the desert army, the pinnacle of the ninth grade, who lost a right arm, he was promoted from a soldier to a lieutenant general, and he couldn't recognize a few words in total, and he had a headache when he saw the words, not to mention those distorted number symbols.

"If you want to be in the Air Force, these are the foundations, and even the foundation will not be achieved? Don't be in a hurry to refute, listen to what I say. Renault said, drawing a random grid on the paper. On each cell, mark the number.

"Look, this is a map, and we're going to divide the map into grids in straight lines, and there's a number in each grid. The battle began, the Air Force received an order to bomb the 631 area. Gai Yong, tell me, where is the 631 area?" asked Renault, pointing to the grid on the map.

Gai Yong was dumbfounded, he didn't know how to read.

"Don't worry, there's more. Aerial bombardment, you need to calculate the amount in advance, you tell me, 50 pounds of bombs, 200 meters altitude, 100 miles of flight speed, if you want to hit the target, how many meters in advance do you need to drop bombs?"

"If you find an enemy general, how do you calculate the opponent's position as a mark and pass it back to the headquarters?"

"It's cloudy, there's no sun, and you're in the air, how do you know the direction?"

Renault asked one question after another, and Gai Yong was dumbfounded, he couldn't answer any of them, he thought it was fun to fly a plane, but he didn't expect there to be so many words.

Last year's war, so that the plateau 48 countries greatly hurt their vitality, now the grassland is a peaceful scene, the herdsmen of Dingjun City, thousands of miles away from the city, can also rest assured of shepherding.

The convoy walked on the grassland for more than ten days, and occasionally saw border people grazing sheep.

Qiandingbao, the smallest of the sixteen forts, was originally intended to be stationed by only one thousand people, but with several battles, it became bigger and bigger, and now it can be garrisoned by tens of thousands of people for a long time.

The convoy did not enter Chidingburg, bypassing Chitobo, the southernmost point in the southwest, and entering the Gobi region. From Qiandingbao to the south, there is a section of 800 miles of Gobi, and after this Gobi, it is Nanzhao.

This Gobi area is not large, even the sand thieves and horse bandits can't look down on it, whether it is north and south or east and west, fast horses can run in one day. In addition, in the Gobi, water sources are scarce, and it is a real barren land.

Soon after the convoy entered the Gobi, the flying brigade sent back the news that the rangers had been spotted two hundred miles away.

As the convoy went deeper into the Gobi and the number of rangers increased, Renault didn't bother to pay attention, and the convoy marched south unhurriedly according to the journey of 100 miles a day.

Seeing that the convoy ignored them, the rangers became more and more bold, and sometimes dared to run several miles away from the convoy and stop at the horse to observe.

"Sir, do you want to give them a ruthless blow?" Jing Lan found Renault and asked, he is the Tiger Ben General of the Desert Legion, he has dealt with Nanzhao people before, these guys are greedy, bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, as long as they kill a group of people, they will run away, and they will not dare to fight the idea of the convoy again.

"There's no hurry. Renault smiled, the team members are complex and need to be integrated. No matter how good the training is, it is better to fight a few battles.

"Jing Lan, how is the reorganization of the escort team?" asked Renault.

"The flying brigade is fine, the cavalry is far behind. Jing Lan shook his head and said, the thousand retired veterans he brought with him were naturally no problem, but the Liuyun, Rainforest, Black Phoenix, and Slave Soldiers were too bad, and the riding skills alone were far worse.

Cavalry doesn't just know how to ride horses, the people of Da Chu can ride horses, but fighting on horses requires professional training.

Dachu has a perfect military training system, one year of infantry, three years of archers, and five years of cavalry. This is the bare minimum, insufficient training, sending soldiers to battle, that is murder.

These 1,000 veterans are skilled in tactics and not weak in combat power, but after all, they are disabled and cannot be completely calculated according to their normal combat strength.

These days, the flying brigade is training, and the Black Phoenix, Rainforest, Liuyun, and Slave soldiers are also conducting cavalry training under the command of Jing Lan, and it has been more than a month, and it looks like it has been doing so. But in Jing Lan's eyes, it's just a look.

The advantages are not nothing, Liuyun's soldiers are all warriors, with strong individual strength, more than 400 soldiers, with a little training, they can withstand two thousand or even three thousand light cavalry.

Now Jing Lan has 4,000 guards under his command, and when he is pulled out to fight, he can face the regular army of 8,000 or even 10,000 people head-on.

Of course, if you really do this, the result will not be too good, even if you defeat the opponent, your own losses will be unbearable, at least half of them will die, and there will be corresponding results.

With such combat effectiveness, not only Renault is not satisfied, but Jing Lan is also not happy. The conditions of the Shengong Temple are much better than those of the Desert Legion, not only the food is good, but also a ginseng pill is distributed every month, which he dare not imagine.

When he was in the desert army, even if he was a tiger general, the number of wild ginseng or ginseng every year was not much, and the Shengong Temple was issued to every soldier, and according to different levels, the level of ginseng issued was also different, and the Shengong Temple was too rich.

Deeply into the Gobi for 500 miles, the number of rangers is so large that it is annoying, and when walking during the day, every quarter of an hour, there will be a group of rangers to visit from a distance. At night, it was even more arrogant, and for three consecutive nights, hundreds of spies were caught trying to infiltrate the camp.

After Jing Lan understood what Renault meant, he didn't care who came, he didn't even save the interrogation, and all the spies he caught cut off his head directly and put it on the stone outside the camp, if it weren't for the sparse trees here, he could let people hang the corpse with a wooden pole to dry.

The convoy was dead, and the number of rangers dropped significantly in the next few days, after all, it was a team of more than 5,000 people, and there were 1,000 carts, and those who were slightly weaker had already retreated and given up this business.

The powerful ones began to connect with each other, and with such a large convoy, no force in Nanzhao could swallow it with its own strength.

When the convoy walked out of the Gobi, the series was completed, with the top three forces in Nanzhao as the main body and dozens of small forces as branches, more than 15,000 soldiers were gathered, and an ambush was laid in front of the convoy for 30 miles.

Out of the Gobi, there is a large area of woods, the further south, the more lush the trees, the river flows, and the road becomes more and more difficult. There are no official roads at all, only the path that the locals have trodden on, and the ruts are narrow, half as narrow as those of pack carts, which makes the convoy travel even slower.

The Nanzhao bandits hid in the woods, preparing to attack the convoy. In their opinion, it is already very secretive, in the eyes of Renault, it is all a joke, not to mention that there is a God of Wealth to monitor at any time, and the flying team will also send back the latest news every hour.

The number of bandits, their banners, their hiding locations, their equipment, ......

Renault originally wanted to recruit horse bandits from the south to train troops, and the requirements for his subordinates were very high, requiring aerial reconnaissance to be detailed, the number of people and horses accurate to 100, the material vehicles accurate to 10, and the banner of horse bandits to be reported to be unsettled.

"Sir, the Nanzhao bandits are all soldiers, equipped with rubbish, and only a third of them have leather armor, and the number of iron armor does not exceed eight hundred. In a head-to-head battle, our army will win. After reading the reconnaissance report sent by the flying team, Jing Lan wanted to howl with joy, with such a detailed military report, as long as the general is not an idiot, it is impossible to lose this battle.

If you don't have enough strength, you can escape in advance.

"Oh, what do you think it will cost to defeat the Nanzhao bandits?" asked Renault, who wanted to teach the desert warrior a good lesson.