In February of the 267th year of the Ming Dynasty, in the Zhenqiang Institute located in the north of Shaanxi, a long snake brigade headed north.

Li Guo stood on the wall, looking at the empty town, and the grievances in his eyes flashed.

It was a transaction, and for Shunguo, which was suffering from financial difficulties, it was clear that hard currency such as gold and silver was very little. They fought in Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, and fought back and forth several times, and the results may be amazing, but the gains are very chilling. Especially to support a huge team, so that when Li Guo learned that he was going to trade with those Tartars in the north, he subconsciously wanted to oppose it. They can't afford it.

Particularly surprisingly, the merchants showed great tolerance. They didn't even need the silver, and they didn't doubt that Shun Guo would be able to make a deal.

The answer was not long in coming.

"Iron and Man!"

Iron is talking about iron ore, although there is little iron ore in Shaanxi, there are still a lot of iron-making places. More importantly, Shaanxi, Henan, and northern Huguang were all the heartland of the Ming Empire. It is quite convenient for Shunguo to buy and buy.

As for people...... That made Li Guo overjoyed.

Thinking back to Wang Dengku, Wang Dayu and other Jin merchants who rushed all the way to Yulin, Li Guo seemed to hear the sound of countless silver clanging again.

"This money is put into the warehouse, and the matter of roasting the salary...... You can slow it down a bit! Thinking like this, Li Guo suddenly shook his head again.

The people in the city were empty, but there was no shortage of noise.

Inside, there were 2,600 war horses. There are so many war horses at one time, just people eat horses and chew enough to choke, not to mention the rest of the silver.

……

The wind and sand were long, Wang Dayu and Jin Liangyu walked towards the desert north of a piece of loess.

The land in front of me is desolate, and there is no grass growing in loess as far as the eye can see. As the trip went deeper and deeper, it gradually became a desert full of yellow sand.

Seeing such a scene, Wang Dayu, Jin Liangyu and other businessmen did not react, they had long been accustomed to going to the west exit, and they were also familiar with geography.

But behind, there was chaos in the long queue of tens of thousands.

This is the goods that Li Guo traded, and there are tens of thousands of people. Many of them were ordinary farmers, but there were also many craftsmen and craftsmen of all kinds. Many of them are former old and weak soldiers of the Shun Army and their families, and all of them have been sold to Wang Dayu and Jin Liangyu and others for 10,000 taels of silver at this moment.

"I didn't expect Li Guo to be really generous! I thought that four or five thousand people would be enough, but I didn't expect that tens of thousands of people would be born. Jin Liangyu sighed.

Wang Dayu said with a smile: "Fortunately, we have enough money, but these people in Shunjun are really turtles." A mere 100,000 taels of silver was sent away, but it was a pity for the 2,000 war horses. ”

"BMW is a hero. You have to count on the Shun army to fight the country well! If it's the worst, don't let the soldiers of the Zhu family come over again. Let's ask for an eye here, and it's convenient to walk the world when the time comes, isn't it? In this world, the silver in the hand is not comparable to the knife in the hand of others. Jin Liangyu said casually, turned around, looked at the crowd that began to gradually stir, and his eyes were slightly cold: "I just gossiped and someone came to the scene, I really don't know how to comment." ”

Wang Dayu looked at the crowd with a look of watching a play.

The crowd that saw the desert for the first time panicked. Many of them had already sensed that the situation was wrong, and at this moment, when they saw the vast expanse on all sides, like the appearance of a Jedi, they were all panicked.

At this time, the crowd suddenly began to be crowded, but it gradually became more regular.

People began to gather and quickly found the organization.

Lu Ji touched the scar on his forehead, covered it with his hair, and walked easily through the crowd. When the people who came and went saw that it was Lu Ji, they all tried their best to make a way.

Many people looked at Lu Ji with a look of gratitude: "It's Third Brother Lu, but I want to thank Third Brother Lu for saving his life!" ”

An old woman was crying, her face was full of gratitude, and she made a gesture to kneel.

Lu Ji chuckled, picked up the old woman, and said, "Auntie, this is something that a man can do." You're welcome, this is not the right time to speak, please make it convenient! ”

When the old woman heard this, she nodded desperately in understanding and withdrew.

Finally, Lu Ji walked more than ten steps and saw an acquaintance: "Fourth Brother Bai!" ”

This is a man who looks short and fat, with small eyes and a flat nose but a pair of attractive ears, which is very easy to remember. It's just that this fourth brother Bai is soaked at this moment, and the whole person seems to have collapsed, and he looks like he has lost some weight.

"It's the third brother, I look forward to you coming! Tell me what happened along the way! General Zhi sent us here, saying that we were going to open up the frontier, but this march along the way was from a wrong source! "Bai Dou, who is called the fourth brother of Bai, is also an officer of the Shun army. The rest of the people were tall, short, fat and thin, all of whom were officers of the Shun army.

Baidou made a start, and the other whistles always opened up and talked about the situation.

"That's right. Since it is a march, why is the grain and grass in the hands of outsiders? Mei Shi said that these Jin Chamber of Commerce served well, but so many people died in the army along the way, and they all starved to death. I want an extra amount of food, but I don't have any food! ”

"Not only that, but our respective brothers were scattered. Especially those who can fight and kill, how many are there at the moment? All the people who came, old and weak, women and children! ”

"And that's not all. Why even those guys and craftsmen have come in. Also, my Dashun has established a country, and the ministries have long thought about placing their families in it. But this expedition to the frontier, how can we still bring our own letters......"

There was a lot of talk in the crowd, and they didn't know each other. In the past few days of marching, they have reported each other's fate, and they are all very like-minded for a while.

Almost all of them found out that they had more or less offended several powerful people in the army. With a common enemy complaining, they instantly became a little closer, and soon they became familiar with each other.

Gradually, the prestige of the crowd also became different. Among them, Lu Ji is the captain, and Baidou is the president.

It's just that the mighty general Mei Shi, who was supposed to be the supreme general of this line, is not there.

"Don't look at it, Master Mei has already run away." Everyone was still waiting, but Lu Ji was hopeless, as if he had received the news: "I caught a tongue in those old Xi'er's camps, and the mighty general Mei Shi was also temporarily appointed to come over part-time, which is simply a pretense." We...... We...... I'm afraid they've all been sold! ”

As soon as Lu Ji said this, everyone was silent for a while.

There is no uproar expected by ordinary people, no one here is stupid, and no matter how ignorant the situation these days is, he can guess that the situation is not good. Being sold is also a possibility that will definitely consider the worst.

Of course, there are many kinds of being sold, and Lu Ji didn't guess the specifics, but he just faintly felt wrong.

"As long as there is food and grass, we can successfully capture the Mongols of the Tumut tribe on the Hetao, and we can get a reason to go back first!" Lu Ji said, "But before that, we have to start it!" These days, you're surrounded by strangers. Except for me, the captain, I don't know anyone else in the whole army. We have to rebuild the military system and organize the team! ”

Lu Ji is a resolute and resolute person, just do what he says, and immediately organize everyone to recontact his subordinates, and in the middle of the march, a new team quietly emerged.

Compared to the seemingly chaotic team, there are signs of organization in this team with difficulty.

But when this scene appeared in the eyes of Jin Liangyu and Wang Dayu, all that was revealed was a terrifying sneer: "After three more sand dunes, you can see the Yijin Horo Division." There, the iron hooves of the Mongolian Eight Banners have been waiting for a long time......"

"Let them spend their time in peace. Tell the convoy to deliver lunch now, add some meat, and tell them. Peaceful for a while today, happy for the rest of your life. It's a mess today...... Humph......"

I don't know if it was the Jin merchants' sudden addition of food that calmed the atmosphere, or the military system that Lu Ji and Bai Dou had worked so hard to recover made this complex army more organized and disciplined, and the chaos gradually calmed down.

The long procession headed towards the north, quietly skewing to the northwest.

The marchers in the desert could not tell the road, but fortunately, after a short period of deviation, the procession moved again against the Quno River. Seeing the tributaries of the Yellow River, the people felt a little calmer.

Finally, after marching for more than 20 miles for half a day, Wang Dayu and Jin Liangyu glanced at each other, slowly bowed their heads, and quietly left with hundreds of guards around them.

They hid behind a hill. The team was still marching, and after these hateful old Xi'er elbows were gone, Bai Dou's chubby little face was much more relaxed: "That group of old Xi'er is gone, it's much more comfortable." I don't know whose high branches these people have climbed, and we can't move a little more than the food of our army! It's just abominable! ”

Bai Dou touched his somewhat emaciated face, looking very pitiful, and was about to rush to the back team to find the cook.

Lu Ji grabbed the white bean, put it in his ear and whispered: "If you don't want to die, don't move yet, I feel that something is wrong." How many reliable and desperate people are around you...... After a while, watching my eyes act, we gathered first. If there is something that can't be done, saving the lives of the brothers first is the first! ”

"Ah......?" Bai Dou was dumbfounded, as if listening to a ghost story: "How can there be such danger in our army?" Wait, you're saying there's an ambush? ：”

White beans are a prophecy.

The sound of the earth trembling slightly began to sound, and in the northwest, a column of cavalry slowly accelerated to the ground, approaching the large group.

Bai Dou's eyes widened: "It's a Mongolian!" Don't panic, my white beans are here, and there will be no problems! There were few of them, only a hundred at most. We will be in array, and we will easily defeat them! ”

A series of panicked sounds sounded, and they gradually regained their calm amid the roars of Lu Ji and Bai Dou. A clanging sound sounded, and a battle formation of six layers in front and back was barely lined up.

They slowly walked out of the large procession, covering thousands of people behind them.

Behind him, countless old and weak women and children kept shouting: "My Dashun soldiers are good!" ”

"Stop the Tartars, old man, I'll invite you to drink!"

There was even a delicate woman who watched the soldiers line up and said excitedly: "A good man who kills Tartars, I Mo Sanniang don't have wine to eat, but I have white steamed buns!" ”

Immediately after, there was a burst of laughter like silver bells.

"Kill, kill, kill!" Cheers rang out, and the battle was solemn.

Ahead, the vanguard of Halbara, led by more than 100 men, stopped. There were only about a hundred of them, but there were thousands of people lined up on the other side.

"Stop!" Halbara, the Niu Lu Zhangjing of the Yijin Horo Banner, had fought with the Ming army in the past, and knew that the infantry army was in formation and then fought again, and the damage was not small.

A younger stunned young man muttered, "Coward......"

Halbara's gaze scanned indifferently, and the audience was silent.

At this moment, Halbara and his men stopped on a small hill and quietly watched the battle formation ahead.

"We protected the people behind us! The Mongols retreated, retreated! Bai Dou shouted, the Mongols had indeed retreated.

Lu Ji didn't open his mouth, he squatted down, and suddenly his whole body suddenly lay on the ground again, closed his eyes, and listened quietly. Then, Lu Ji looked to the right sharply, and there was a burst of horror: "These Tartars are not the main force. How can it be...... How is it possible that nearly 10,000 of us, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, can attract so many Tartars? ”

The sound of horses' hooves quickly approached to the point where everyone could hear them directly.

To the northeast, a large army appeared that completely covered the entire horizon.

Halbara smiled lightly: "Our warriors have arrived!" Kill it! Kill all these slaves who dare to resist! However, be careful to be gentle, those craftsmen and women and children are what the Khan uses! ”

To the northeast, tens of thousands of Mongols charged. No hesitation, no stagnation.

Nearly 10,000 people were killed in front and back, and there were only more than 1,000 new troops around him who had just been unified together and whose combat effectiveness was unknown.

Lu Ji took off the armor on his body in despair, he looked at the soldiers on the left and right, and burst into tears of shame: "Brothers, take off the armor!" This fight is not right, we must have been sold. But how exactly it was sold, we don't know. Survive, brothers, I want to know who the traitor is! ”

"You're going to survive!" The white and chubby Bai Dou shouted, leading hundreds of people behind him to charge in despair.

……

A quarter of an hour later.

An old woman silently followed the group north, pausing slightly as she passed by the battlefield strewn with corpses.

Beside him, a Mo Sanniang, who originally laughed like a silver bell, was hoarse at the moment: "They are fighting for us...... Dead ......"

On the battlefield, the blood from a wound gradually coagulated, and the soldier's fingers twitched slightly.

In the middle of the large team, a man with a rickety figure and ragged clothes dried his tears and clenched his fists: "Who is a traitor, I will definitely find out!" ”

……

Balhalla returned to the main line, and he saw a new face.

His father, Ijin Holo Qiza Sakbayin charioted Balhara: "Why don't you hurry up and salute the Ten Kings?" His Royal Highness has just returned from the capital of the Ming Kingdom! (To be continued.) )