"This time it seems that I really want to take over Banshengdi and Qingcheng. Chinese website."

“There are so many people, so many.”

People were talking nonsense, and Zhao Wen's face looked ugly.

Some people have lost their relatives or have no relatives at all. They follow the brigade with indifferent attitude. Some people hope that the merchant army can defeat the territory as soon as possible and bring their relatives to live with them together.

These prisoners said that they were farming for He Yusheng, which was considered slave labor, but He Yusheng was not bad for them. They had enough food and had collective dormitories to live in. If the whole family was captured, they would be allowed to live in three small houses. They could start calculating wages in a year, and the wages were not low.

This kind of life is much better than farming for the Mongolians on the rise, so at least you don’t have to worry about being humiliated or beaten at will.

With the guidance of farmland water conservancy personnel such as Kong Minxing, the prisoners clearly felt that farming was more handy and the harvest would be higher.

The most important thing is that you will grow a lot of cotton in the future. According to the promises of Heyusheng personnel, the wages of growing cotton and picking cotton are much higher than those of growing vegetables and growing wheat beans, even several times more.

It is difficult to collect cotton with machines. A few hundred years later, Xinjiang and other places still hired a large amount of labor to harvest cotton. Workers far away in Shaanxi would go to Xinjiang to pick cotton every time the cotton picking season, and they could earn income that they could not earn for half a year in a short time.

In this era, cotton planting and picking cotton are also very profitable industries. The most suitable plots are selected in the places where Kong Minxing demarcates cotton fields. In later generations, it was also one of the few cotton producing areas in Inner Mongolia. Light and daily management are extremely important for cotton growth, and pest prevention is also extremely important. The technology of cotton picking and time-catching are also very important.

If it weren't for the particularity of cotton, it wouldn't be until now that people in many places in the Ming Dynasty were still used to wearing hemp instead of cotton cloth, let alone wearing thick cotton-padded jackets in winter.

Just a real cotton jacket is worth earning for several months.

With the promise of growing cotton and picking cotton to increase wages next year, the captives were confident and even full of hope for the future.

Zhao Wen is different from others. His family is very wealthy and never lacks clothing. Now he is of course aware of the suffering and has his own plans and ideas for the future. However, Zhao Wen hopes that Zhao and Rong will not be obsessed with it anymore. If the Zhao family is still tied to the Mongolians, they may end up with a broken family.

"There are really many people..." Despite all the worries, Zhao Wen couldn't help but sighed when he arrived at the riverside of Xiaoheihe.

There are tents everywhere by the river. A tent represents about ten to twelve people. The tent in front of you is simply invisible.

Li Shanxin said mysteriously: "I heard a few auxiliary soldiers talk about it. The auxiliary soldiers of each fort have been almost dimmed, leaving only the most basic fort guards. Because the farming is slack, almost all the strong men have come. Only copper mines are very important, and no one has been drawn there."

"That's tens of thousands of people."

"It's almost the same." Li Shanxin said: "They said this is the final stage. As long as you capture the Hekou and win the best attack point from Xiaoheihe to Banshengdi, the rest will be to capture Banshengcheng and Qingcheng."

Zhao Wen thought, "No wonder even the Lancer regiment was transferred back from the west."

"There is a gun cavalry regiment to replace their defense team and Ordos." Li Shanxin looked indifferent and didn't look worried about the old master at all.

The captives mostly had the same attitude as Li Shanxin. They farmed in Mongolian territory and encountered no less bullying and injustice than in the mainland. Although there were more taxes and taxes than those in the Ming Dynasty, there was at least no need to worry about being beaten by drunk Mongolian herders in the Ming Dynasty, and even being tied to their feet with ropes, and being pulled far away on the grass like a joke. When the Mongolians were happy, the tied people were also bleeding.

In addition to the White Lotus Cultists who came voluntarily and those who escaped to commit crimes, there are also quite a few Han people who were forced to plunder by the Mongols during the past grazing valley. They have no good feelings for the Mongols. The previous resistance and avoidance were just a subconscious dodge and a panic reaction. Of course, many people also felt that they were instigated by Han merchants such as Zhao and Rong, which made many people look at Zhao Wen very unfriendly. Fortunately, Zhao Wen also has a group of friends who get along well, otherwise it would be a bad end.

Across the small Heihe River, which is more than ten meters wide, you can clearly see the situation on the other side.

There are a large number of tents hundreds of steps away from the other side, and there are flocks of sheep moving around the tents. Some shepherds are holding long poles to shepherd sheep or laying horses.

I don’t know if it’s an illusion or it’s really like everyone felt, but the shepherd on the opposite side felt listless and could not lift the appearance of God.

Occasionally, dozens of armored Mongolian cavalrymen rode their horses near the river and looked over to the other side of the river. The river water was very clear, and you could see a lot of swimming fish. Many people fished with iron forks by the river, or even caught with water. For many Han people who have been living by the river since childhood, this matter was no difficulty. For the Mongolians, these things were simply offensive. They did not want to approach the water and would not catch river fish. Seeing Han people playing and fishing by the river, the cavalry was obviously angry, but no cavalry came to shoot arrows to drive them away. A river could not stop them. However, the cannons and guns on the chariots set up by the chariot camp by the river were the powerful tools to curb the anger of the Mongols. Even when they were angry, these Mongolians knew that their bows and arrows were far from being able to compare with those artillery. This was an experience learned with blood and life, and no one would try it out again.

A few hundred steps from the river bank, a group of camels with yellow fur lay on the ground. The huge tents from their camels were set up. The herdsmen set fire with dry reeds by the river, cooked porridge in copper pots in front of the big tent, and stewed mutton. A meat aroma filled the air.

There was an iron spear in front of the tent, with a cow's head and a sheep's tail hanging on the spear. On both sides of the iron spear were a few kids wearing iron armor. Their eyes were melancholy and frightened, and there were several hunting dogs tied to them. These hunting dogs saw too many people on the other side and were barking vigorously.

People saw Batel Taiji stepping out of the tent and stepping on the blanket at the door.

A group of Taiji stepped out with him, and people also saw a large number of armored cavalry. Some Taiji seemed to have turned out all the iron armor captured from the Song people from the moldy warehouse. This estuary seemed to have gathered the last power of the energetic Mongols. Under the convening of Lao Batel, not only the five Taijis came, but also brought the strongest armored soldiers. Even the Taijis of Tumots huddled in the Qingcheng area. They did not bring too many herders, but only brought the elite soldiers and generals from their subordinates as much as possible.

...

After dark, the south bank of Xiaohei River was still filled with fragrance. The cooks started cooking at dusk. Before dark, the civilians, prisoners and baggage soldiers from all over the country were all in their place. The tents were everywhere, and the stars could be seen when walking along the river for a long time.

In addition to the 30,000 baggage and civilian team, there were also two regiments of infantry, one regiment of artillery and the other regiment of cavalry.

This is an extremely large team. Since we have to cross the river estuary head-on and attack Banshengcheng and Qingcheng together with the Naihua Fort in the west, the Military Office has concentrated a considerable number of teams here to ensure that Qingcheng can be conquered as soon as possible and to determine its dominance on this grassland.

As for whether Xi Lingse will voluntarily give up and flee to Mobei, the Military Office did not have much concern.

After all, Qingcheng is the ruling center of Tumot. This kind of city is not something that can give up. There are not many ruthless and cruel people who can give up their foundations as jars and jars at will in any era.

Even if they wanted to escape, Yang Sisun and Zhu Dayong were also catching up with the northern rear route of Qingcheng along the Daqing Mountains. The military command did not rush to attack Hekou, but just wanted to give the Mongols some illusions.

When Bater Taiji and others looked a few hundred meters away from the estuary, Zhang Han also saw the old Mongolian man. He admired the remaining blood of these Mongolians at the critical moment of survival. Although it was not much and so forced, he also had some pity. If the old Taiji on the opposite side knew that they could still act as a resistance because Zhang Han deliberately relaxed the attack time because of the suggestion of the military commander, what would these Mongolians still have blood be like and what expressions would they have made?

The Central Army’s tent is in the middle of the tent area, less than a mile away from the river.

Zhang Han rode his horse through the lit tents. The tent areas were one by one, but they were far away. The various areas were well arranged, from food and accommodation to sanitation treatment, and each company, every brigade, and every regiment was separated. Even the civilians lived according to certain rules.

In this case, even if there is any miracle, Genghis Khan's descendants suddenly rushed over and attacked tens of thousands of people. Layer resistance and counterattacks will teach them what a serious military camp is in minutes.

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Sun Yao pinched his eyebrows, and the tent was filled with a strong smell of tobacco. Now almost all the senior generals in the army were smoking guns. Sun Yao himself was no exception, but smoking and being smoked by the smell of tobacco are really different.

Zhang Han himself endured it. He was also a big smoker in his later generations, but in this life, he could not break the precepts with his status. Otherwise, there would be no cigarettes. He held a cigarette pot in his hand and smoked, and his image and other things would be ruined.

Fortunately, people who do not smoke are not nicotine-dependent, so Zhang Han is just psychologically tempted and can be easily overcome.

He was also very frightened, but he was still sitting in the middle of the chair with no discomfort.

"Our army is now extremely strong in front of us." Sun Yao said: "Just like Tian Ji's horse racing, the central battlefield is now the strongest part of ours. Whether it is the support of the civilians and the cooperation of the baggage soldiers, the strongest part of the three battlefields. What we have to deal with is the remaining part of the five Taiji Namuer, and the Xilingse tribe. The total is estimated to be about 70,000. Except for the old and weak herders, Dingkou, the young herders will not exceed 60,000. This is the strongest force of the Tumote tribe. As long as the resistance in front of us is crushed, victory is near. Now the only thing to worry about is the north and the west. We use an infantry regiment and a cavalry regiment to isolate Mobei and Tumote. Once Xilingse decisively abandons Qingcheng and reaches a tacit understanding with Tuxituhan and other Mobei tribes, and joins forces on both sides, it is still very likely that the troops we placed in the north will be destroyed..."

"As for elimination..." Sun Yao smiled slightly and said, "No force on the grassland is qualified to boast about the group-level system that can eliminate us and Yusheng. It may be consumed and damaged, but it will never be eliminated."

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Chapter completed!