Lan Qiang asked directly while drinking water.

"My lord, the villain also knows what you are suspicious of, but, we really counted carefully, first looking at the formation of the horses, and then looking at the heads on the horseback.

Now it was after the snow, and it was almost impossible to see the smoke and dust raised by the enemy cavalry, so I had to count it by stupid means.

The cavalry that rushed before really numbered a thousand. ”

Zuo Lun explained with a wry smile, he also saw the wolf smoke of other beacons, and when he counted the number of enemies, he was also frightened and his legs weakened.

He's now outside the front line, under the noses of the enemy.

50,000 Northern Yuan cavalry can easily crush them into slag!

"Count the heads! Are you counting less or more? ”

"Naturally, it is more, but not too much, no more than 20%."

"Twenty percent?"

Lan Qiang was also shocked when he heard this number, which means that at least 40,000 cavalry are outside this Helan Mountain.

And looking at the current situation, this cavalry is still only the vanguard, is there still a large army behind it?

Suppressing the urge to retreat immediately and overcoming the fear in his heart, Lan Qiang began to calmly analyze the current situation.

The Northern Yuan cavalry was strong, but they did not attack immediately, but they were afraid that they had another purpose, perhaps they were still mainly bluffing.

Under the heavy snow, those tribes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty were definitely more difficult by the Liangzhou Mansion, and the largest possibility of gathering so many troops in such a short period of time should be that multiple tribes should send troops together, but there is no complete command and integration.

This kind of situation will occur when multiple cavalry appear at the same time, but do not attack.

In addition, the Northern Yuan cavalry was also testing and luring out of the Minggang secret post in Liangzhou Mansion.

"Cheer up, everyone cheered, there may be an enemy sneak attack at night, so be careful."

"Yes!"

Hearing Lan Qiang's order, all the soldiers nodded seriously, took out their respective jerky and began to gnaw on it.

Lantian has a lot of dried meat, and this time Zhu Gaoxuan asked them to bring more, but it was used as dry food.

……

When Lan Qiang and the others were having dinner, on the grassland thirty miles away, in a huge tent, a group of leaders of the Northern Yuan tribe were also eating, but they were much more lively.

There was a bonfire in the middle of the tent, on which a cow was roasting and being eaten.

The soldier brought the roasted beef to a table with a dagger and a plate of snowflake salt, which was as white as snow.

There are 20 tables in a circle, each of which is configured like this.

"Leader Sang Jieming, tell me how to fight? I can't wait to kill all those Southern Barbarians. ”

Full of wine and food, a bearded man first asked the tough middle-aged man on the main throne.

Sang Jieming first picked up the teacup on his left hand and rinsed his mouth, and then picked up the white towel on his right hand and wiped his mouth, orderly and quite elegant and decent.

This action made other Beiyuan men who ate meat and drank a lot of wine subconsciously slow down their movements.

"Fighting is to be fought, but we must pay attention to methods to minimize the casualties of tribal warriors, if we can not fight, it will be better to bring back our millions of cattle and sheep."

Sang Jieming said, flicking the plate in front of him and saying:

"There is also snowflake salt, you have to grab it, and it is best to directly grab the secret recipe for making snowflake salt."

"Bang~ These Han people are too cunning, I got a recipe before, but it was a toxic formula, it took time and effort to make, and dozens of sheep were poisoned."

"That's right, fortunately, I kept an eye on it, and tested the poison with cattle and sheep first, otherwise a few people would have died like the Qiri tribe."

As soon as Snow Salt was mentioned, several tribal leaders slapped the table and screamed angrily.

But they completely ignored that the salt-making recipe was stolen by someone they sent to steal it, not bought it openly.

"Ahem~ Everyone is excited, several of us are deeply affected by this Zhu Gaoxuan, so this time we must get the real snowflake salt formula, and we will bring our cattle and sheep back."

Sang Jieming coughed to silence everyone, and then said under the expectant gaze of everyone:

"We have twelve tribes coming out together this time, and we need to have a commander, you don't have a problem with that, right?"

Seeing that the other leaders just nodded their heads and spoke, he did not wait for these people to object, and continued:

"My Rong Lituo Department has dispatched 20,000 warriors this time, and no one has any objection to my Sang Jieming's position of command, right?"

“……”

Several powerful tribes opened their mouths, but in the end they didn't say anything, their twelve tribes gathered more than 60,000 soldiers and horses, and the Rongli Department accounted for thirty percent, and it was reasonable for Sang Jieming to have a command position.

It's just that everyone is worried that Sang Jieming will take the opportunity to use other people's tribes as cannon fodder, which will be dangerous.

"Don't worry, if you need to charge, half of the people will come out of the velvet detachment, and the remaining half of you can just work together."

"Okay~ I have no opinion~ I agree."

Sang Jieming understood everyone's concerns, and in a few words, he got the command of this coalition army, which made him more confident in this big war.

Next, it's time to assign a battle plan.

It was indeed not the royal court that issued an order on the Northern Yuan side, but that the twelve tribes lost a lot of cattle and sheep under the heavy snow, and they were moved when they heard that the King of Lantian Liang had millions of cattle and sheep in the north of the desert.

And then it was action.

Their idea was to quickly bypass Liangzhou Mansion before the next heavy snow arrived, rush into Lantian, rob cattle and sheep, rob snowflake salt, and then robbed Liang King Zhu Gaoxuan and ran away.

They didn't have the idea of a decisive battle with Liangzhou Mansion, let alone the confidence to win Liangzhou Mansion.

That night, the cavalry of the Northern Yuan tribe continued to run around, approaching the beacon towers and sentry posts of the Ming Dynasty, so that all the beacon towers were exposed and they were all nervous.

But under the great commotion, it was the elite scouts of various tribes who went deep into Helan Mountain, trying to find a new way, passing directly through Lantian County.

Their first purpose was to seek wealth and food, not death!

……

"Ha~ Morning, Commander Geng."

"Well, Your Highness is early."

Zhu Gaoxuan, who yawned, came to the Liangzhou Mansion, Geng Zhong was still staring at the map in front of him with red eyes, and his spirit was a little tired.

"Did those bastards stop last night? Geng Zhong, you haven't slept yet? ”

"Hmm~"

Geng Zhong nodded in response, and answered Zhu Gaoxuan's two questions together.

Zhu Gaoxuan walked over and looked at the map, which was a sketch map on both sides of Helan Mountain, and dozens of small red flags had been inserted on it.

Apparently these are the locations where the Northern Yuan cavalry was found.

"So much! It can't be that all the beacons on Helan Mountain in Liangzhou Mansion are warnings, right? ”

Seeing the dense red flags, Zhu Gaoxuan was startled, and his sleepiness, which was not yet awake, immediately woke up.