Xiao Ming held a banquet in the original Shazhou Festival Mansion to celebrate the victory of the Western Expedition, all the generals of the army at all levels arrived, everyone was in a meeting to drink, only Yang Qizhong looked sad, Xiao Ming knew his heart, and specially asked him to drink.

"Come on! Drink this bowl in prayer! ”

"Handsome! How to toast yourself! Yang Qizhong hurriedly stood up and said.

Xiao Ming motioned for him to sit down and said: "If you drink, you have to drink in a big bowl, when your father and I fought with others in the Drunken Star Building, we used a big bowl, and it took ten jars of wine to win the ...... of others!" Speaking of Yang Zhen, Xiao Ming couldn't help but feel sour.

Yang Qizhong wept and said: "My father often mentions fighting with you and drinking, saying that it was the most enjoyable time he drank!" ”

What he said made Xiao Ming's heart even more uncomfortable, Yang Zhen's death was caused by Ami's instigation of Yelu Xiaoju Die, and it was also caused by the ambition of the Uighurs, and there were also reasons for the inaction of the military bureaucrats of the Great Song Dynasty, Xiao Ming always felt that he was also responsible!

"Dashuai!" Yang Qizhong said: "My father died tragically, and even my two younger brothers, Yang Juzhong and Yang Zhizhong, also died in battle!" This enmity is not shared! I know that Dashuai's western expedition is basically over, but I only ask Dashuai to give me a team so that I can avenge my father! Prayer is enough! ”

Xiao Ming said: "Who said that this western expedition is over? How can Brother Yang's revenge not be avenged? The ambition of the Uighurs and wolves, if they are not extinguished, how can they be worthy of tens of thousands of Erlang who died in battle! ”

He said loudly: "The Western Expedition is not over, my Golden Legion is to crisscross the Western Regions, sweep away the treacherous evil, the many wealth, gold and beauties in the Western Regions are waiting for us to get them, you don't have to be polite to them, generals!" I Xiao Ming has no other skills, and I must have the ability to make a fortune with everyone, do you believe it? ”

Everyone below burst into laughter and said in unison: "Believe! How can you not believe it, wherever the handsome takes us to fight, we will make money! ”

Xiao Ming laughed and said, "Then I'll take you to send his grandmother's money!" ”

To fight a war is to make a fortune, and this point is the deepest in Qian Baguang, because Xiao Ming said something to him, which you remember most clearly, that is: "When the cannon sounds, it is ten thousand taels of gold!" "Honestly, he went to the bottom of his heart! This became one of the reasons why he loved cannons.

The two places of Guazhou sandbank were occupied, and the Golden Army actually grabbed I don't know how much food alone, Xiao Ming gave an order, except for leaving military rations, all of them were distributed to the poor people, but he was not polite to the gold and silver of the treasury, and all of them were in his pocket, and he did not commit any offence to the people along the way, but it did not delay him to get rich, not only him, everyone got rich!

Xiao Ming's habit is that a large amount of silver is all paid to the army, as many people as there are, no one is indispensable, the dead soldiers have pensions, and the wounded soldiers are given full treatment, so he specially asked Qian Baguang to bring several surgeons from Weihai and Xuzhou, specially for the first aid of trauma on the battlefield.

The capture of the war, except for the horses, other things are of little value, Xiao Ming depreciates and sells for money, and it is very cheap, the ancient army's marching ceremonial guards, leather drums, vehicles, saddle shoes, armor, marching stoves, etc. are all sold cheaply, so that there are always a few caravans behind the Golden Legion to follow, and every time a battle is over, these large amounts of seizures will be bought by merchants on their own initiative.

The Golden Legion does not collect iron money, at that time, not only the Great Song Dynasty minted iron money, but also the Liao Kingdom and Western Xia also minted iron money, and even circulated in the Western Regions, the Golden Army did not collect iron money, only gold and silver, silver is everyone's military salary, gold is the favorite of the marshal, so Xiao Ming got a lot of gold along the way! Not to mention the soldiers at the bottom, the silver is also hard currency, and everyone has made dozens of taels!

However, due to the reason of exchange, in the western region, one tael of silver can be discounted from 1,000 to 1,500 yuan, and the purchasing power is considerable, and tens of thousands of people can achieve a few dozen taels of silver per person, which is already very amazing, and besides, the officers take more, and the treasury of the state capital along the way can be said to be empty, and the sheriff and some officials who surrendered want to cry without tears on this matter.

Therefore, Xiao Ming took people to make a fortune, that is not telling lies, every soldier in the Golden Legion is elated, they are unwilling to stay or go back, they are looking forward to when there will be another battle, the officers heard Xiao Ming say that the one who continues to go west is happy from the heart, this is the public opinion, how can Xiao Ming go against the will of the people, just follow the trend.

Yang Qizhong burst into tears, if he could continue to march, he would be able to get revenge, but he didn't want Xiao Ming to make him more happy, so he directly ordered him to lead 15,000 men and horses as a vanguard, march in advance, and go north from Shazhou to the Lop Nur wasteland and go straight to Yizhou in the Uighurs of Xizhou! Xiao Ming led the army to arrive later, everyone went down to prepare, and paid attention to rest, and sent troops within ten days.

After the celebration banquet was over, everyone left with laughter, Xiao Ming also left Jiedu Mansion with the guards, Shazhou was a special oasis in the northwest, although it was surrounded by the desert but it was rich in production, and it was also a food production area, and the local area was also rich in a small watermelon, a small but crisp and sweet, Xiao Ming wanted to buy some of this watermelon for everyone to eat while it was not dark.

Xiao Ming's guards are composed of the tiger guard instructors in the original Western Expeditionary Army, these people are now all taken back by Xiao Ming to stay with him, the tiger guard is a tradition he started in Hangzhou, although these people are all newcomers recruited in Xuzhou later, but they are loyal to Xiao Ming, and everyone has a gold medal on their shoulders! There are probably less than a hundred of these people, and now they are all led by Wu Song.

Gu Xiaoliu and Guo Shouxin are like the two generals beside him, Gu Xiaoliu is now carrying two guns, a projectile crossbow, and a musket, all of which are close-fire weapons, while Guo Shouxin is a spear that does not leave his body, ready to shoot at any time, and a group of people went to Nan City.

The southern market of Shazhou is a long time ago to form a trading market, merchants from the Western Regions and merchants from the Central Plains and Xixia will basically stay in Shazhou, here is the spontaneous trading market, because some people will pick up lanterns at night to illuminate, so this market is very lively, many small merchants and vendors will also sell goods here.

But when Xiao Ming and the others did not go to Nanshi, they suddenly saw a very high smoke and a flash of fire in the place of Xicheng, obviously there was a fire, the land of Xicheng is a large residential area, and it is also a place for foreign merchants to stay, thinking that there are many large hotels and restaurants, all of which are typical buildings in the west with two or three floors of rammed earth houses, mixed with wood and grass sheds!

Once a fire breaks out in such a place, due to the narrow space and high population density, there are often heavy casualties! When Xiao Ming saw it, he immediately led the guards to participate in the firefighting, and when he got closer, he found that it was two groups of people fighting! The northwest speed is too high and the emperor is far away, there are many horse thieves and bandits, and they often draw their swords against each other in order to grab business, but such fire is rare in the downtown area.

Not only that, but such a scale is even rarer, the side with a large number of people actually has more than a hundred people, densely occupying all the places, is besieging a large warehouse, and the number of people huddled in it seems to be very small, but it is very tough, because there are already many corpses on the ground, the besiegers seem to be impatient, so they start throwing torches into the warehouse, and the fire is ignited.

One of the guys in the lead kept shouting: "I've followed you all the way, and now I've killed and injured our brothers, this time it's up to you where you run."

The minions below also shouted: "See how long they can last, less than fifty people in total will burn them if they don't come out!" ”

But there was no movement in the warehouse, and the silence of the other party aroused the anger of the outsiders, and the outsiders finally couldn't help but want to rush in, but at this time, a few crossbow arrows were shot out of it, and suddenly two more people were shot down, and everyone was afraid to retreat but there were constantly torches thrown into the warehouse, so the fire burned more and more fiercely, and the surrounding neighbors who came to fight the fire saw these people so fierce, and they were so frightened that they did not dare to come forward, and only watched from a distance outside.

Finally, the people inside still couldn't stand it anymore, and rushed out with thick smoke, dozens of figures flashed, all of them were relatively tall, and at first glance they were from the Western Regions, and the first one was none other than Xiao Ming's mercenary general Alima!

Alima's beard was scorched black, and he was angry, and after rushing out of the door, he slashed a person with a loud roar, and the blood of the waist knife was splashed everywhere, Alima was like a god of war, standing there with a majestic god, Xiao Ming was also the first time to see Alima do it with someone, it was really skilled! Behind him were the mercenaries, who rushed out and roared at the enemy.

The mercenaries were not many in number, there were less than two dozen people, and some of them were wounded and supported by their companions, but these twenty or so people fought the enemy who surrounded them for a while, and kept retreating! The mercenaries' knife skills are all the sword techniques above the battle array, practical and simple, on the other hand, the other party used the martial arts moves of the Central Plains, after withstanding the impact of the mercenaries, they immediately gained the upper hand, this kind of small maneuvering kung fu is very effective in a small place.

And the other party also has a numerical advantage, the leader of the man constantly commanded his men to change the siege of the mercenaries, and after a while, several mercenaries were killed, Alima was very sad and angry, roared and rushed to the place with the largest number of people, a scimitar danced tiger and tiger, with one enemy still slashed many opponents! But at this time, the leader of the other party actually sent the archers insidiously!

Xiao Ming arrived at this time, and when he saw Alima, he had already decided to do it. The tiger guards rushed forward with a roar, and Xiao Ming directly pulled out his short spear, "Bang!" "Kill the leader! If the dozens of tiger guards immediately changed the tide of the battle, plus their own leader was killed, where did the men in black still have any fighting spirit, except for being killed a dozen people, they actually scattered and fled!

Xiao Ming's tiger guards immediately cleaned up the battlefield and organized personnel to put out the fire, Alima stepped forward to thank him, and more than 20 mercenaries behind him helped the wounded to come forward, these people were in shabby clothes, looking tired, and had obviously been hunted down for a long time, Xiao Ming helped them up, and hurriedly asked Alima what was going on?

Alima said: "Back to the king's words, we have been hunted down, from Lanzhou to Shazhou, in order to avoid them, the team of two hundred people is divided into two groups of people, go, we were caught up when we were in Liangzhou, all the way to escape, all the way to kill, more than a hundred people are now only twenty or thirty people!" Alimar was still grieved and angry when she said this!

Xiao Ming asked, "Do you know why they are chasing you?" ”

Alima said: "They seem to want something from us, but they don't know what they lack!" ”

Gu Xiaoliu said: "Mr. Xiao, there are still a few living ones over there, we should be able to pry their mouths open, let's go over and ask!" ”

A man in black was stabbed in the leg, and he happened to be caught, Gu Xiaoliu stepped forward and said, "Brush!" He drew his saber, pointed the tip of the knife against the man's throat, and then asked sharply, "Who are you?" Why are you chasing down these mercenaries from the Western Regions? ”

The man shuddered, avoided the tip of the knife and said: "Uncle spare your life, the villain is a warrior of the Great Song Duobaoguan, and he only obeys the orders of Shangfeng, I really don't know why I want to hunt down these people!" ”

"What? Duobaoguan! When Xiao Ming heard this, he immediately stepped forward and squatted down, grabbed the man's collar and shouted, "Are you a person from Duobaoguan?" Where is Pang Wanchun? ”

When the man heard Xiao Ming's question, he felt very strange, the other party actually knew Duobaoguan, obviously a person who had dealt with him, looked up at Xiao Ming, especially Xiao Ming's two pale red eyebrows, and suddenly his body shook like chaff, and let out an exclamation: "Ah! It's you again, it's you red-eyebrow god again, you're a monster! Don't come near me! ”