Compared with the organized Han merchants, most of these Mongolian caravans are spontaneous, in addition to the south of the desert, quite a lot of the three parts of the north of the desert also have a lot of Mongolians to form a caravan, there are also fruit forests and large areas of grassland in the north of the desert are reclaimed into vegetable fields, and even a small number of plots of land are planted with staple foods such as wheat, but the Mongolians are really not good at farming, the output is limited, but after having a trading city, it is conceivable that a large number of vegetables and fruits will be needed, after all, meat can be stored with bacon and bacon, and meat is better transported in winter, Even the most indispensable thing on the grassland is the supply of beef and mutton, but vegetables and fruits, except for Hutchison's canned food, there is no good way, as for the winter, except for a few herdsmen with vegetable fields, most people have to rely on sauerkraut and tea bricks to survive the long winter. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

With Hutchison's relief, and the release of a large number of herders from servitude and acreage, only a few captives are still imprisoned in the copper mines, all of whom have been deemed to have committed serious crimes, or who have not yet conceded defeat, and their early release will not be rewarded with good intentions, but will only bring trouble.

After being released, he understood that the previous nobles did not bring them any benefits, but now the Hutchison of King's Landing Grassland has given them relief, and the herdsmen and herdsmen's families have survived, so now Bayan has no resentment towards Zhang Han and Hutchison, and the war is the leader who wants to fight, and if he loses, he will accept his fate, and the new ruler is very benevolent, which is the most simple point of view of the herdsmen.

"Here," Bayan handed Lu Si a fresh apple and said with a smile: "It's the best at this time." ”

Apples are wet, and so are the streets, and it rained for several days in a row the other day, which is not a common occurrence in the grasslands. At both ends of the bluestone road are culverts, and the water flows out along the channels, and there are wells in many places in the city, so it is very convenient to draft water.

At least in this era, there are very few places where groundwater cannot be pumped out, except in a few places.

Lu Si refused with a smile, Bayan also knew the discipline of the merchant army, and after saying a few words of thanks, he drove the camel horse team away.

The people around the crowd gradually used it, and the startled horses were too ordinary for the group of people in front of them, even if there was no Russian Cossack to subdue the startled horses, the Mongols would be able to solve this small trouble in the shortest possible time.

In addition to the Khalkha people in Mobei, there are also Tumuts, Karaqin people, Wengniut people, Balhu people, Sauron people, Oroqen people, etc., people from various tribes wearing various costumes appear in the city, some are full of confidence, some are cautious, and even trembling.

The city of buying and selling has just begun, and it is a real adventure for those of small clans to come here.

After Bayan and the others left, Lu Si retreated from his subordinates who were confronting the Russians, looked at Schiev and said, "Russians may have the pride and rules of Russians, but when they come to us, they must abide by our rules." Otherwise, we can't be friends. ”

There was a flash of anger in Skif's eyes, but after glancing at his companions, he nodded to Lu Si, and then silently stepped aside.

Everyone was waiting, and after a quarter of an hour, Zhang Yansheng rushed back on his horse and shouted to Lu Si: "New order, the 11th Brigade of the Baggage Brigade is a day and a half ahead of us, and they are the last to set off, and our company is ordered to go with the Baggage and act as a guard." ”

"Alas!" Lu Si sighed and said, "It seems that you can't catch up with the battle." ”

"Eat and catch up with the hot!" An old officer muttered discontentedly.

"Less nonsense." Zhang Yansheng was already able to suppress these old men, his eyes widened, and he said: "Fighting a war is to have a front and a back, a swarm of bees rush forward, and the military department also deploys a fart." ”

This was reasonable, and everyone barely bothered to cheer up.

Zhang Yansheng said again: "The baggage team is also important, this time because the supplies are important, the baggage soldiers themselves are lightly armed, and even the chariots have been changed into trucks, they only bring firearms and a small amount of ammunition, we still have small cannons with us, and we really meet the enemy on the road, of course, it depends on us to fight." ”

The main force has already moved forward, and the nearest soldiers are also a day and a half to two days away, although it is with the river valley all the way west, and mainly the grassland terrain, but the cart is not as easy as imagined, many terrain is actually rugged, there are many places where a small sea suddenly appears, forcing you to make a detour for ten miles to bypass, and there are also places where the grass and trees grow wildly, the shrubs are connected, and the sparse woodland stretches for dozens of miles, and the convoy has to try to find a suitable place to pass through.

Hills, woodlands, shrubs, lakes and rivers.

In addition, the soil is soft in some places, but fortunately, it is far away from several Gobi and desert areas in Outer Mongolia, otherwise you would not want to use a convoy to send supplies.

After receiving the military order, the whole company began to move, the dragoons had no auxiliaries, each of them had a military blanket tied behind the buttocks, and the horse's belly was flanked by firecrackers and armor, in the city people would ride their horses, not far out of the city for a maximum of ten miles, the dragoons would dismount and walk for a while, and then get on their horses.

Even so, the speed of the dragoons was much faster than that of pure infantry, especially if the horses were well fed.

"Let's go!"

Lu Si shouted, the standard-bearer erected the squadron flag of the dragoons, the sound of horses' hooves knocked on the bluestone road, there was already a squadron marching ahead, the residents of the city and the merchants passing by consciously moved out of the way, and called the soldiers to go first, this is a subtle rule formed by Yusheng for many years, not only people will give way, but also a considerable number of people will bow their hands to these soldiers who go out to fight.

Maybe the businessmen from Zhangjiakou and other places didn't understand much before, but after staying on the grassland for a long time, they have all adapted to it. Even the merchants who were protected by the small convoy all the way, originally they came to think of carrying their heads in their arms, but they were protected by merchant cavalry along the way, they were basically in danger, and they were not even surprised to Mobei, before that, these people never thought that the army would protect the merchants, but here in Hutchison it has long been a rule for many years, because of the moved, they are not sincere enough to give their greetings, and many people are bent down and bowed down.

Skev and the others were observing, and then the proud Cossack soldier from the noble landowner of Russia muttered to his companion: "Before this, I didn't think how strong this army was, but now ......"

"It depends on the actual battle." Another military aristocrat from a new settlement on the shores of Hanhai muttered softly.

"Hmm." Schiff nodded slightly.

From the age of sixteen, Schev became a Cossack, an outlier in the family, and in the process of Russia's elimination of the Siberian Khanate, the large landowner nobles and their servant army, that is, the Cossacks, made great contributions, and after the Russian army destroyed the Siberian Khanate, a large number of Cossacks continued eastward along several large rivers and seized large territories.

Geographically speaking, Russia's expansion is quite reasonable, the latitude and geographical environment are very similar to Europe, there are also large steppe areas in Asia, and the steppe climate and geographical environment of Ukraine are very similar, and the difference with their eastward expansion is that after more than a hundred years, the Russians have managed the desert areas of Central Asia and those brave and warlike Kyrgyz and Kazakhs, where the geographical environment and resistance are much stronger than Siberia.

The Russians' desire for land was so different from that of all the peoples of the world that many peoples could not stop swelling when they discovered that trade could definitely be carried out here, and that the Ming and Han merchants in the south were incomparably rich.

For Cossacks like Shchev, it really didn't matter if they made a profit from trade, all they wanted was honor, the honor of opening up territories, and of course, if the merit was enough, being made a nobleman by the tsar, owning a lot of land and serfs, it was a hundred times better than being a pure merchant.

It can be said that the vitality of Russia in this era is incomparably strong, from top to bottom there is an endless enterprising spirit, the treatment of military nobles is also quite strong, the big landlords and serfdom have made the expansion continue, and the whole country is like the Cossacks in front of him, strong and ambitious.

……

"The Han army is setting off again." Standing on the high tower of the Buddhist temple in Kulun City, the Living Buddha Jebtsundamba easily saw that several hundred cavalry from the trading city had left the city through the south gate and then marched westward.

Lama Tenzin shook his head with a wry smile and said, "The Han army has only gone to seven or eight thousand people, and I am afraid that this number of people will not be enough." ”

"Not necessarily......" Jebtsundamba mused, "Could it be that they have more soldiers and horses to the south?" ”

"Impossible!" Lama Tenzin has been quite active recently, running back and forth between the city and Kulun every day, and he said categorically: "I have inquired quite clearly, there are two roads, north and south, and the north road is their main force. ”

"Oh......" Jebtsundamba replied, bowed his head and turned the prayer cylinder, but did not speak.

Several lamas who practiced in the city of Kulun discussed, and one of the fat lamas said: "The Han army is too arrogant, they think that Chotu Khan is as incompetent as Bu Lost Rabbit Khan?" ”

"Or maybe it was last year's victory here that overwhelmed them."

"Although the red-robed army is terrible, it is just a ranger harassment, and we Khalkha people are willing to join the alliance, but we are just peaceful for too long, and we don't want to kill too many casualties. This time, they are going to wipe out a large tribe of tens of thousands of dingkou, and they are too reckless. ”

"It's okay if they come to do business, the last time that Zhang Han came to meet, the ambition didn't stop there."

"Although an agreement has been reached, if their strength can't support it, I think the betrayal alliance will also say in the past."

"They must have failed miserably!" A lama from Tumut who came to Mobei with the living Buddha of the Zhang family gritted his teeth and said: "We Tumut people are not without opportunities, and the despicable Han people have built castles all the way to trap us. Chotu Khan is no worse than our tribe, but they have far fewer soldiers......"