Fan Jienian waved his hand impatiently: "Let's do the work, send it in-you guys hurry up, and set off in half an hour." ”

As he spoke, he turned around and entered the tent, and then there was a lewd laugh of men and the exclamations and cries of women.

Everyone outside looked at each other, and they didn't know what to say.

According to the rules of the Fan family, when you go out to do business, you must not take a woman. Everyone suffers, so why do you bring women to happiness? And I'm afraid that the person with me will not be strict and leak the secret.

Fan Jienian didn't take a woman with him when he set off from Yanghe City, but when he arrived at Shoukou Fort and left, there were two more people around him. It is said that these two women were found to accompany Fan Jienian when Liu Shoubei of Shoukou Fort invited Fan Jienian to the banquet, and they were both family members of military families and women from good families. As soon as he heard this, Fan Jienian's eyes immediately lit up, this cool and good wife, plus although these two women have thicker skin, their eyebrows and eyes are beautiful and tight, about twenty, and there is a young woman's charm. Fan Jienian asked the two women alive and dead, and they were made to sleep together that night, and then they were brought to the caravan.

As for how to deal with the aftermath, that's Liu Shoubei's business, and it has nothing to do with him.

……

An hour later, the caravan finally set off, and Fan Jienian left it alone and hid in the car to sleep.

Maybe he didn't sleep all night last night.

Although he became a hands-off shopkeeper, there were many experienced people in the caravan, and they knew how to go, so they were orderly.

The caravan slowly headed north.

At this time, Dong Ce also woke up the housekeeper on duty at night and sat up from the blanket.

A good night's sleep.

Sleeping with the horses and wrapping the blanket closer, although it will be cold, it is not unbearable. When the sun rises, the sun shines down, bringing bursts of warmth, and it drives out all the cold, and I sleep very sweetly.

Dong Ce squinted at the sky and estimated that it was about ten o'clock in the morning.

Everyone else had already gotten up and was eating, walking and feeding the horses, Dong Ce jumped up from the blanket, raised his arms and stretched his waist, and his bones crackled and popped.

Now he only felt that his whole body was full of strength, and he was full of energy.

Give the cold wind to blow, and it is also a clear mind.

The war horse looks big, can bear weight, can run, seems to be very durable, but is actually very expensive. If you don't eat well, you don't drink well, you don't sleep well, you have to have problems. In novels, there are often BMW horses that travel thousands of miles a day without eating or drinking, but in fact, this can only exist in novels. A real war horse, even if it is a good horse from Liaodong under Dong Ce's crotch, if he runs fast for about 200 miles, he will be tired to death.

The family members have long been very close to their war horses, and they are willing to sit down to eat after walking the horses and serving the war horses.

It's still a salted egg with a pastry, but it's cooler and harder than yesterday.

Dong Ce also ate this, and after eating, he walked around the team, said a few words to this one, patted that one on the shoulder, and scolded a few words with a smile. His approachable gesture was obviously very popular, and wherever he went, the family members surrounded him and rushed to talk to him.

When there is business, he is stern and cold, and he can't tolerate sand at all, but in private, he is quite approachable and doesn't have much of a shelf. Dong Ce's personal charm is also an important factor in maintaining the combat effectiveness of this small team.

After everyone had finished eating, Dong Ce gave him another break for a cup of tea before giving the order to set off.

The team was kept at a medium speed, which not only maintained the horsepower, but also ensured that it was much faster than the Fan family's caravan, so that it could catch up in time.

Lu Tianding determined the direction, and everyone headed to the northeast, according to Lu Tianding's recollections, after going northeast for more than ten miles from here, there was an avenue to the north. Since the Fan family caravan is out of the fortress and goes north, there is an eighty percent chance that it will go that way.

Although the Fan family's caravan left the customs two days earlier than Dong Ce and the others, how fast could such a huge caravan go? Dong Ce's group is all lightly traveled, and the speed is more than twice as fast as them?

There are no roads on the grassland, but there are roads everywhere, endless, unobstructed, flat and tight. But this is just what it seems, in fact, there are large and small deep ravines and shallow gullies on the grassland, and there are many obstacles that are difficult to walk. But the Fan family's caravan, so large and so cumbersome, can you imagine how much manpower it would take to push a wagon full of grain out of a deep ditch? How hard was that?

So they have to take the avenue.

This can see the role of Lu Tianding, there is such a guide in the team who is familiar with the situation and terrain outside the pass, it is really convenient, and everything is like a fish in water. Otherwise, even if Dong Ce had a heart, he was afraid that he would not be able to get out of the customs and find the Fan family's caravan on the vast prairie.

Dong Ce increased the number of outposts, and a full twenty people were released as outposts, and in the four directions of southeast, northwest, and northwest, the outposts were released for more than ten miles. These outposts weaved a dense net, enveloping the Fan family's caravan. First, it is to guard against possible enemies behind it, and secondly, it can ensure that once the Fan family's caravan is discovered, it can immediately pounce on it.

Traveling all the way east, Dong Ce can be regarded as enjoying the grassland scenery of this era.

In a word, primitive and desolate.

In his previous life, he had also been to the grassland many times, but most of them were for tourism, since it was for tourism, it was natural to choose a better season and go to a more beautiful place, so that he could be relaxed. Therefore, the grassland in his eyes is a landscape that covers the sky and the earth, endless green, and is full of greenery. The shrubs, grass, and dwarf trees of the grassland can be seen from time to time, which together form a vast world of emerald green. In this piece of heaven and earth, a flock of snow-white sheep can be faintly seen, floating over the grassland like clouds.

But now, the Ming Dynasty has been Chongzhen for eight years, and the winter has not gone to the grassland. In front of him there is only boundless yellow, withered yellow barren grass, and withered yellow shrubs woven into this color. From time to time, you can see that the rivers have basically dried up, revealing a dry and cracked riverbed, and the big mouths on them are frozen hard, like a giant mouth that chooses people to eat.

Obviously, the impact of drying up on the grasslands is even more severe. Because the nomadic people's living habits are to live by water and grass, and they rely entirely on the sky for food. Their way of life and production also determined that they could not settle in one place like the Han Chinese. Years of severe drought have completely eliminated the Mongolian tribes in this area, and all of them have moved to other borders.

But just like in later generations, the sky here is still so blue, and the sky and the earth are still so high and wide, it seems that the sky has become short, and people can reach it.

Being in such a world, I only feel that the feelings in my chest are stirring, quite strong and intense, and I am full of pride and desire to fencing and singing.

In fact, in this section of the customs just now, there is no difference between the climate and geography and the customs, and the few are just the people. The real grassland is a hundred miles further north, and from there it is going north, which is the real grassland.

The prairie is not flat, and there are mountains, of course, all of which are not long, nor too high. The mountain has been untouched for I don't know how many years, and it is overgrown with tall trees. Pine trees, red pines, cypresses, birches, patches cover it.

In the withered yellow grass and bushes, there were also a lot of pheasants and hares, which were alarmed by everyone, and they rushed out of their hiding places, running around in panic, flying around with their short little wings.

The family also ignored them, and on the way back, they said that they would catch some game to satisfy their hunger, but now, they have important things to do.

About an hour later, Dong Ce saw the avenue heading north.

Obviously, there are caravans passing by here, and there is no grass on the road, and it is said that it is an avenue, but in fact, it is just 'there are more cars walking, and naturally the road is formed'. It has not undergone any repair at all, only about one zhang four or five feet wide, and the ground is also potholed, which is worse than the official road in the Guannai?

Dong Ce stopped his horse and looked north, the road ahead was not straight, but suddenly to the east, suddenly to the west, and it looked like a twist and turn. And of course, after all, the purpose of this road is to avoid some difficult places - not to bulldoze the low-end, but to bypass it.

Wang Tong turned over and dismounted, took a closer look at the ground, pointed to a few of them, and said, "Look, my lord, this rut mark is new, and those big carts have just passed. Moreover, the ground is so strong that it can leave rut marks, which shows that the goods on the car are very heavy. ”

Dong Ce nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Order, all the outposts are withdrawn, leaving only two, one and two, ten miles south of the large army, and there are people from the south who are guarded." The other, the three of them, went north, and once they found the traces of the caravan, they must not be exposed, and they came back immediately to report it. ”

"Yes!" His own family members took the order and left, and after a while, the outposts were recruited back.

The team continued to move forward, still maintaining a medium speed, that is, after a tea time, and saw that not far from the side of the road, facing a sea, there were large and small pits on the ground next to it, and at a glance they knew that they were left by the wood inserted into the ground when the tent was set up. Dong Ce turned his horse over and looked at it, and in the circle around him, the marks of the ruts were extraordinarily deep, and it was obvious that they were enclosed in a circle, like a walled city wall. And on the other side of the circle, there is a lot of horse manure.

Dong Ce's brows gradually twisted, he looked at the circle, and in his mind, he seemed to see those big cars connected to each other, forming a solid car wall. This wall is not very high or thick, but on this grassland, it is an insurmountable barrier. Even if it is Dong Ce's family team, it can't be broken in a short time. And don't forget, those caravans also have a lot of guards, and if they hide behind the walls of the caravan, I'm afraid that the family will not be able to do anything about them. If you have to work hard, the casualties will definitely be small. Dong Ce's face suddenly changed.

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