The young lady and Ying Ning agreed to visit Wang Lu tomorrow night, sat cross-legged in the bed, and played the Prajna Heart Sutra.

Ying Ning got out of her robe, turned back into a fox, and sat next to the young lady and played fox exercises.

In the early hours of the next morning, everyone got up to eat.

At five o'clock, Liang Jin came to the headquarters, saw the young lady, and said: "My thirty chariots have been prepared, and they are neatly arranged at the military post in the west, and they are fully loaded with supplies. ”

The young lady said: "My lord will go to Donghuanggang with me, and there is Lord Lao." ”

Liang Jin said: "When it comes to camping, we are much more familiar with it than you, and the materials are also complete. I saw that the adults only brought cowhide for camping materials, but there was no wood, and I must have to cut down timber when I arrived at Donghuanggang, so I had ordered the 160 armor soldiers to take away, and brought more timber, so that I could quickly set up camp and settle down at that time. ”

The young lady said: "I mostly carry grain and grass on this trip, and the cowhide is only carried by everyone, and the wood really needs to be cut and cut down when it arrives at the place." Adults help me to relieve my worries, I thank you first. After saying that, he bowed his hand.

Liang Jin said: "I came just now, and I saw that the captain's team was almost ready, helping the soldiers to carry wood to the chariot, if the adult is ready, let's leave now." Earlier I arrived at the East Wilderness Hills, set up camp, and settled everyone. ”

At this time, Ying Ning had already packed up her baggage and put them in the carriage, and Yin Kang and Mei Xing were also outside the command department, waiting to leave.

Seeing this, the young lady said to Liang Jin: "Go!"

The two men went out of the courtyard and came to their horses. The young lady took the reins handed by Ying Ning and turned over on the horse. Announcing the departure, everyone marched out of the military post where the headquarters was located.

There are three military posts, each of which is a small village, surrounded by wooden piles, and each military post is separated by 200 to 300 meters. To the south of the military post, there is a large area of cultivated land, and military dependents and slaves can already be seen working in the fields.

In front of the north gate of the westernmost military post, there was already a long queue.

Liang Jin said to the young lady: "I am familiar with the road, so my chariot will go first." After saying that, he went out on horseback and went to the front of the chariote.

The young lady and the others came to their own team, and the chariot in front of them was already slowly advancing.

At the front were Liang Jin and eighteen cavalrymen, followed by thirty chariots loaded with timber and cowhides, followed by hundreds of foot armor soldiers.

The three battalion posts are the defensive posts of the front, not mainly for combat, so these thirty chariots are all transport chariots, which are used to find the people of the southbound Rong or the patrol slave brigade, and fill the earth and stones to block the road. Now these chariots are loaded with wood and cowhides for camping, enough to set up a large village for more than 300 people.

The young lady saw that these armor soldiers were neatly draped all over their bodies, but the armor style and the Changge sword used were not the same, they were all different, and asked the husband beside her and replied: "Why do these armor soldiers led by General Liang wear armor and hold weapons in different shapes, which are not as neat as your chariot battalion." ”

The husband replied: "Your Excellency: Our chariot battalion is an elite armored soldier, and they are all high-level officers in wartime, so the armor and weapons we need to build must be of a uniform style. Most of the armor soldiers led by General Liang were low-level officers during the war, so the Inner History Mansion did not have too many requirements for their armor and weapons, as long as they could fight and save their lives. ”

The young lady asked, "I heard you say that, you made all these armors and weapons yourself?"

The husband replied, "Exactly." The Inner History Mansion exempted the soldiers from conscription because of this. Our war horses were bought at the expense of our own family, and the armor and weapons were built by us in a blacksmith shop. ”

The young lady said, "I see. ”

The husband replied: "If there is a lot of armor and weapons for the prisoners captured in battle, we will keep them and distribute them to the soldiers who have not prepared armor and weapons in wartime. However, most of the soldiers also made armor and weapons at home, in case of sudden war, and a family created a set of armor and weapons, which can be used for several generations. ”

The young lady said: "The soldiers and farmers are one, and these soldiers must be strong and durable if they want to use their own armor and weapons to fight." ”

The husband replied: "That's right, when the soldiers are conscripted into the army, they will also be exempted from their own conscription. ”

The young lady said: "If you die in battle, how can you reward the bereavement pension?"

The husband replied: "It is the total amount of food, or equivalent, that can be produced by the age of the war dead by the age of the war dead and the family members of the war dead up to the age of sixty." ”

The young lady said: "Most of the people who should be recruited into the army are strong from their families, so it is fair to be so compensated." ”

Before the team knew it, it was already halfway there, and the young lady looked ahead and saw a sand dune in the distance. The dunes are surrounded by a grassland wasteland with ravines and trees, and the scenery is unique as the elk travels.

The young lady said, "How can there be sand dunes in front of you, and where does this sand come from?"

The husband replied: "The strange appearance of this sand dune is said to have been in the winter many years ago, when a strong wind blew for a few days, and after the strong wind, such a big sand dune appeared. ”

The young lady said: "Heavenly workmanship, this sand dune looks so neat, it is more like the material resources have carried the sand and piled it here." ”

The husband replied, "The appearance of this sand dune here also makes it convenient for us to take the sand." It's just that less than five years after the appearance of this sand dune, there were patrolling slaves who came to this border, and at that time we thought it was a Rong people, and we didn't want to negotiate, and we couldn't understand what the other party was saying, and it was all "Hariboi" and the like. ”

The young lady asked, "Where do these patrol slaves come from?"

The husband replied: "According to Rong Min, it is from the depths of the grassland, but no one knows where it comes from. We didn't understand their language, and we couldn't ask anything, and there weren't many of them who came here for the first time, and we easily drove them away, and some of them couldn't run, and we captured them and became dumb slaves of the captives. ”

The young lady said, "How many did you catch?"

The husband replied: "This is a legend many years ago, and now the patrol slaves are here, and they must be an elite brigade." We found their brigade at the 3rd Battalion Post, so they blocked the road early, and withdrew to the pass to set up defenses, and when they saw that Xiongguan was difficult to break, they looked for another way to go south, so we have not yet fought with the patrol slaves. However, Rong Min Di Min has been fighting with them, and he is more familiar with them. ”

The young lady said, "What is the harm of these patrol slaves here?"

The husband replied: "They robbed both people and food, whether it was Rong Min Di Min or our country's people outside the Guan, but if they were found by their elite brigade, they would definitely rob them back." Therefore, the outside of the gate is desolate, and there are few residents. Those who can stay outside the customs are all neat legs and feet, and they are all engaged in farming and hunting. Once the slave patrol brigade was discovered, they ran into the mountains. Although it was not plundered, the residents outside the Kansai moved back to settle down, but it was possible. ”