Loya Mountain, Mark didn't move right away.

After Mark brought the men and horses back to the base camp, he immediately devoted himself to training, and his purpose was naturally to train the two newly formed brigades in the shortest possible time, on the one hand, to improve their organizational discipline, and on the other hand, to improve their combat effectiveness.

A month later, Mark once again set his sights on the barbarian grain delivery team in Luochuan County.

At this time, Mark's men and horses had reached four brigades. In order to win with one blow, he also mobilized Wang Qiang's team stationed in Longkou Village.

At the same time, because there had been no movement for more than a month, the barbarians, who were still very nervous, gradually relaxed their vigilance.

The barbarians stationed in Luochuan County always had to eat, so they had to continue to transport grain and grass from outside. In the beginning, in order to prevent further robbery on the way, they dispatched 4,000 people as a food protection team at one time.

However, the cost of 4,000 people is also very high. As a result, the loss of grain and grass on the road is much greater, and the last time for the grain and grass to be transported to Luochuan County is much shorter.

Naturally, the frequency of grain and grass transportation has increased.

Four thousand people were dispatched to escort grain and grass at a time, which was also the largest force that the barbarians in Luochuan County could send at one time. In this case, there were only 4,000 barbarian soldiers left in Luochuan County.

Four thousand against four thousand, exactly once a month to carry out the task of protecting grain.

The first emergency dispatch was carried out without incident.

The second regular delivery, no accidents.

The third time will start soon.

Recently, the barbarians have also sent some scouts, but these scouts have not found any trace of the men and horses who have robbed the grain and grass, as if those people have disappeared completely at once.

Perhaps, those people were passing by, and the last time was by chance.

Such thoughts began to arise in the minds of some of the barbarian leaders.

As a result, during the third regular grain delivery, the escorts were obviously not as cautious as before, and they became somewhat coping with the surrounding situation. Coupled with the fact that the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the barbarian soldiers of these barbarian food guards can't help but feel dissatisfied in their hearts.

These barbarian grain guards, only those who take down the officials have horses to ride, and the others can only walk. On such a hot day, on foot, on a rugged mountain road, the feeling of suffering made those barbarian soldiers miserable.

The source of grain and grass for the barbarians is not close to Luochuan County, and the two places are almost more than 100 miles. Even walking at full speed takes two days. In fact, every time grain and grass is delivered, the time on the road is about three days.

The next day, halfway through, was also a time of exhaustion.

Mark, with the intelligence support of the hidden guards, has long chosen the place to ambush the other party again.

Naturally, this time the ambush once again succeeded in inflicting heavy losses on the barbarians' food convoy. Although this time the opponent was not completely annihilated like the last time, because the total number of men and horses on the other side was larger, the number of barbarians killed in the end was much more than the last time.

At the same time, this time they rescued five or six hundred people who were responsible for transporting grain and grass, that is, border people who were captured by the barbarians to work for them. Naturally, this time the grain and grass also fell into Mark's hands again.

After such an ambush, the number of barbarian soldiers stationed in Luochuan County immediately decreased sharply.

It's just that, even so, Mark has no intention of taking Luochuan County right away. After returning these harvests to the base camp, Mark finally led his men to the Loa Mountains.

Mark's plan, if he can successfully take Luoya Mountain this time and reorganize some of the mountain bandits in Luoya Mountain, he should have enough capital to attack Luochuan County.

Mark's trip to Mount Loya was also very successful. The leader of the mountain bandits stationed on Mount Luoya turned out to be a border army general, and he was also born in the Zhenbarian Army, really, this person is still familiar with Mark, he was a hundred leaders when Mark first joined the army, and he can be regarded as Mark's old boss.

When acquaintances meet, there is naturally the possibility of talking. After some conversation, when the leader of the Loya Mountain bandits, known as Lu Gengsheng, learned of Mark's plan, he immediately chose to join Mark's team without hesitation.

There are a lot of men and horses under Lu Gengsheng, and those with a certain combat effectiveness have reached 3,000, and the remaining combat effectiveness is average, but there are nearly 1,000 people who can organize heavy troops. The most important thing is that the old and weak women and children on Luoya Mountain are able to cultivate their own land, and a large area of fertile land has been developed on Luoya Mountain.

With such a Loya Mountain, Mark naturally will not give up.

This time, he just reorganized Lu Gengsheng's men and horses, and then asked Lu Gengsheng to choose a brigade to stay in Luoya Mountain to take on the task of guarding, and the other two brigades followed Mark to Luochuan County.

This time, Mark is going to use five brigades of men and horses to explore the depths of Luochuan County. According to the latest information sent back by the hidden guards, the barbarian soldiers who could fight in Luochuan County at this time were about 5,000, which naturally included those who escaped from the food protection team that was ambushed last time.

In a short period of time, there were no new forces from other places to reinforce Luochuan County. In this kind of place where there is no oil and water, the leaders of those big tribes really don't have much interest, and their attention is focused on those relatively wealthy counties.

Originally, the total strength of the barbarians who entered the western frontier of Great Qin this time was very large, and the total number of barbarians who came down in three ways exceeded three million. However, at the beginning, the three border armies all put up stubborn resistance, and the total cost the barbarians nearly a million troops.

Later, after the success of the knock, the barbarians lost more than 500,000 troops in successive battles of resistance. Therefore, so far, the total strength of the barbarians has only about 1.5 million.

However, this 1.5 million troops include the old and weak. Therefore, the total number of real soldiers is only 1.2 or 300 thousand. 1,230,000 soldiers were distributed in 16 counties, and each county averaged 70,000 or 80,000 people.

Of course, it is impossible to distribute the forces so evenly. Most of the troops were still deployed on the borders of the sixteen counties where they were in contact with other forces. The sixteen counties now occupied by the barbarians have border contact with Ma Shuo's auxiliary Qin army and Li Lingwei's Western Xinjiang Protectorate. The barbarians naturally had to be heavily guarded on these borders to prevent Ma Shuo, Li Lingwei and others from counterattacking them.

It's just that they didn't expect that Ma Shuo and Li Lingwei, who were outside for the time being, did not take any counteroffensive measures, but someone ran to the interior of the sixteen counties, ready to give them a belly flower.