The Sacred Ding

Seeing that the Korean leaders have made Chen Hai provocative in a few words, Fan Dachun feels reluctant and can only follow the trend.

Although Yequ Mountain has swept a large number of slaves before, the management is really rudimentary. I didn’t think about making a detailed roster. There are more than two thousand slaves in a short time and it is difficult to distinguish the new and the old. Chen Hai Fan Dachun simply exempted all of them from hard labor, and then he took out five to six 100,000 Jin grains from the warehouse, together with the cultivated more than 3,000 acres of grain fields by the Yequ Lake and four to five hundred cattle and sheep, all were distributed to the slaves. After exempting these slaves from hard labor, they still have family business to keep.

Although I think that these things will disappear after the accident, and I can’t run away with them, but watching the years of savings are distributed to the slave who is in his own hands, Fan Dachun’s heart They were still crying blood and couldn’t bear to look at them. Chen Hai took the Korean language as them, and finished these things in two days.

Most of the slaves will be able to divide the grain, the fields and the livestock this time. They are full of excitement. There are also many slaves who have been swept over for a short time, thinking about their wives and children.

Chen Hai appeases this group of people. Those who want to leave Yequ Mountain and return to their hometown will not be blocked here, but they are advised to stay in Yequ Mountain at ease for the time being. How can they wait until the beginning of spring? , The weather is not so bad, and then it is possible to walk back home alive on the road.

In such bad weather, even if you bring plenty of food and water, ordinary people don’t want to be able to cross the vast desert. Even if they are not lost, they will freeze to death in a blizzard. In the sand.

Most of the slaves that have been looted are herders and farmers who inhabit and multiply in Pinglu and nearby oasis, and many of them are business travelers who travel through the Xixia Corridor and fight for wealth with their lives. Although there are The people who were in the cultivation base were killed by Fan Dachun and the others, but there are still many people left who can read literary and hyphenate and see out of the ordinary.

In such a short period of time, Chen Hai could only select a dozen people to serve as the local officials of Yequ Mountain. After the horse thief left, they would take over the defense of Shicheng in Yequ Mountain and distribute the food. The division of fields and livestock and subsequent farming and pastoral affairs.

Fan Dachun and the others occupy Yequ Mountain, and they have accumulated a lot of armor. Although they are all mainland goods that the elite horse thieves cannot see, Chen Hai also took them out and let these dozens of people from the slave Pick up some strong and powerful generals in order to prevent Demonic beasts or sand wolves from breaking into Yequ Mountain in the cold winter.

Fan Dachun was full of opinions about Chen Hai taking out the extra armor to arm the slaves, but the so-called three-four hundred slaves organized are very strong, each of them skinny and weak. Seven or eight can be squeezed to death with a finger, and it can only be regarded as the lowest and most incompetent servant in the Western Qiang Kingdom. There is really no threat to it, so he resisted and said nothing.

Zhongma thief was ready, so he rode his horse through the vast sand, sea and snowy plains and went westward, turning southwest to 800 li or so, and arrived at Songyang Lake Oasis.

Although the Songyang Lake Oasis is not the only way through the old road of Xiqiang, it is also within the scope of the Xixia Corridor. There are streams flowing down from the ridges in the south to the wasteland in the north. Converged into the Songyang River with considerable water potential.

Because the Songyang River is surrounded by stone ridge topography, the water infiltration is not serious, so it extends to the north of 400 li or so to form a medium-sized lake covering tens of thousands of acres. The forty-fifty around the lake is full of sparse trees and grasses. Even if it is covered in snow and ice in the cold winter, you can still feel the vitality that is not in the depths of the sand and sea.

Songyang Lake Oasis is much larger than Yequ Mountain, but because Songyang Lake Oasis is located within the scope of the Xixia Corridor, although the West Qiang State is unable to send elite soldiers and horses to garrison for a long time, other forces are also strictly prohibited. When they come in, they will be sent regularly to sweep up, so apart from occasional herdsmen stationed there, no horse thief force has the ability to take control of this place for a long time.

Chen Hai When they arrived at Songyang Lake, the other seventeen thieves had already gathered here. A high black flag was raised on the shore of Songyang Lake, except for the embroidered eagle head. In addition, they also wrote the word “Black Mountain”; Fan Dachun and the others were the last to know the news, and because Chen Hai and Ning Chan’er suddenly intervened, they were delayed in Yequ Mountain for three or four days.

The horse thief is in the depths of the vast desert and catching up with the harsh winter season. Although the long-haired horse produced by Jinzhou is extremely resistant, it is also resistant to cold, but it is the best in Jinzhou in all seasons. In the cold season, horses marched long distances in the wild, and the wastage was also great. In order to ensure that the horses have sufficient strength when charging and entering the battlefield, every horse thief would say less than one or two empty horses.

As a result, tens of thousands of horse thieves and 20,000 to 30,000 horses will fill the lonely and deserted Songyang Lake.

There is also impossible trust among the horse thieves. When they rushed to Songyang Lake, Chen Hai, Ning Chan’er and the others also found a place with fertile aquatic plants from a distance to settle down. Keep a certain distance.

In order to avoid unnecessary vigilance and misunderstanding, the Yequshan horse thief thought Fan Dachun was the head, and Ning Chan’er and Chen Hai declared to the outside that they were just the leaders of Yequshan who had just entered.

Fan Dachun took the letter left by Hu Bilie after his death and went to meet with other horse thieves leaders to discuss the action arrangements afterwards.

No one knows what accidents will happen in the vast sea of ​​sand, or perhaps Hu Bilie and the others temporarily changed and turned elsewhere. Hu Bilie and the others did not show up, and the other horse thief leaders did not feel anything unusual; Fan Dachun rushed to meet the other horse thief leaders in fear, but when he returned, there was nothing to do.

The other horse thieves didn’t pay much attention to Yequshan, and even before, they doubted whether the people of Yequshan had the courage to participate in this big case that was destined to shock the East Region of Jinzhou and Hexi. Some horse thieves even suggested that Yequ Mountain should be leveled two days earlier.

Now Yequshan dispatches troops as scheduled, and everyone else is sorry about Yequshan, but they don’t pay much attention to Yequshan. They just want more than 400 people from Yequshan to stay in Songyang Lake temporarily and follow The large forces acted together, but the relatively difficult and dangerous outposts, reconnaissance, and blockade of the Xixia Corridor did not involve Yequ Mountain.

Fan Dachun could not hide his guilty conscience and returned to the camp, but still brought back some very important information.

The eighteenth horse thief, the Black Mountain Department, the Guhuo Mountain Department and the Moyue Lake Department are the strongest three horse thief. Among them, the Black Mountain Kou is the strongest. The coalition formed is named Black Mountain. Headed by Kong Peng, the leader of the Black Mountain Kou, jointly decided on the big and small matters of the operation-early Hu Bilie and the others also contacted the horse thieves in the name of the Black Mountain Kou-Fan Dachun also received the title of “General Lieutenant” come back.

It’s just that the Black Mountain coalition formed is really loose, just to facilitate this vote to be able to act in a unified way, and the internal constraints are far from as strong as imagined.

Two days ago, there was already a group of horse thieves who arrived in Songyang Lake ahead of schedule and could not hold back. They acted without authorization and robbed a caravan that had crossed the Songyang River and was going to Hexi.

At this time, he also left for the caravan in Hexi, and the belongings he carried were destined to be attractive.

Although the horse thieves who acted without authorization have more than 400 riders, their strength is even slightly stronger than that of Yequ Mountain, but they failed to wipe out the caravan’s guards and business travelers. Many people fled, and left too many traces that were not cleaned up. This was enough to alert the team in Hexi to send relatives.

The car and horse team sent off from Hexi had originally set off from the Crescent Lake Oasis to the south of Yequ Mountain. However, after being aware of the movement on Songyang Lake, they did not continue to move forward. Retreat in the direction of Crescent Lake.

In addition to sending outposts to a deeper range in the north wing, the Hexi chariot team also sent envoys to the West Qiang country to request reinforcements to respond.

Songyang Lake is four thousand li or so from the Pinglu Oasis. Even if the Western Qiang State accepts the news and sends reinforcements to respond, it will move at the fastest speed, and the vanguard will take 10-15 days. After that, it is possible to join with the family sending team in Hexi.

Two opinions are formed within the horse thieves:

Some people advocate directly attacking Crescent Lake and stealing gifts and dowry from the alliance between the Dong Clan of Hexi and the West Qiang State. Everyone divided the matter. ; These people who advocate this point are all horse thieves who come from afar to participate in this matter. They think of do it quickly to save nights and dreams.

Some people also advocated ambushing the soldiers and horses of the Western Qiang State, and then going to the squadrons in Hexi.

In the boundless sea of ​​sand, even if the Hexi send-off team fled hurriedly, they had to travel ten thousand li to return to the border of Hexi. They had enough time to chase and wanted to rely on it. A dozen horse thieves rarely have the opportunity to rally, and they want to do a big vote when they are strong. However, the West Qiang State hurriedly sent troops to reinforce it, making it difficult to assemble a large army, and it was also extremely rushed. They did have the opportunity to take advantage of it and be able to conduct an ambush halfway.

The main advocates of this point are the horse thieves near the West Qiang Kingdom. After they robbed and sent their relatives, they still need to consider the bloody revenge of the West Qiang Kingdom and the Dong Clan in Hexi.

Hexi Dong’s is quite far away, especially after the marriage and alliance were destroyed, the Dong’s soldiers Maxi came out of Tie Liuling, just invaded the Golden State boundary, they still have to consider Xiqiang more. The country’s subsequent possible retaliation, while thinking about the robbery, can wipe out part of the elite forces of the Western Qiang country as much as possible, making the Western Qiang country unable to send troops to the desert to retaliate.

“Black Mountain, Guhuo Mountain, Moyue Lake three horse thieves, who advocates ambushing the Western Qiang State’s reinforcements first?” Chen Hai frowned and asked Fan Dachun about the details of the proceedings.

The horse thieves of all roads are led by Black Mountain, Guhuo Mountain, and Moyue Lake. It is actually these three that have the final say on how to fight. Other horse thieves can only get a piece of the pie and beat soy sauce, not How much right to speak at all.

“Black Mountain and Moyue Lake both advocate burying the reinforcements of the Western Qiang Kingdom before robbing the Hexi chariots and horses,” Fan Dachun also complained quite bitterly. Carriage and horse team, everyone divided the property. Everyone is headed by the Black Mountain Kou, but they came out to fight the house for the property. Why bother to fight with the elite soldiers of the West Qiang country?”

, Fan Dachun will most likely advocate a heavy blow to the reinforcements of the West Qiang State.

The weaker the West Qiang Army, the more comfortable they are in Yequ Mountain, but at this time, Fan Dachun and their lives are in the hands of Ning Chan’er, and they are no longer willing to have extra branches.

However, in the immediate situation, no matter how you fight, Ye Qushan has no right to speak, and can only advance and retreat with the large forces.

“Why didn’t you rob the Hexi Carriage Team first?” Ning Chan’er twitched his lips and said nonchalantly, “As long as the owner of Yuecheng County is caught, even if the news cannot be blocked, as long as Xiqiang Country The Lord still wants to work hard to form an alliance with the Dong family and maintain the dignity of the Pinglu Royal Family. He will inevitably send troops to rescue. When the time comes, how to fight, where to fight, and perhaps whether to fight, is not up to us. Forget it?”

“Big Boss’s words are also reasonable, why didn’t those elm bumps come to mind?” Fan Dachun patted his head and said, “I’ll go to Master Kong and they talk about it. “

“It’s not bad today tonight,” Chen Hai said nonchalantly, “Let them make the noise first, and it won’t be too late to talk about it tomorrow.”

Ning Chan’er It is speculated that Chen Hai wanted to buy Dong Ning and the others one more night, but he glanced horizontally at him and didn’t break it.