Seeing that Han Wen and other leaders made Chen Hai excitedly tease him in a few words, Fan Dachun was reluctant, and could only obey the crowd.

Although there were a large number of slaves plundered before Yequ Mountain, the management was really crude and did not think about formulating a detailed list. More than 2,000 slaves could not tell the difference between the new and old in a short period of time. Chen Hai asked Fan Dachun to relieve them of their hard labor. Then he took out 50,000 kilograms of grain from the warehouse, and more than 3,000 acres of grain fields and four or five hundred cattle and sheep were all distributed to the slaves, so that these slaves could still have their family business to protect after they were exempted from hard labor.

Although he thought that after the failure, these things would be gone and could not be taken away, seeing the years of savings were all distributed to the slaves who had been in his hands, Fan Dachun was still crying in his heart, and he couldn't bear to see them. Chen Hai took Han Wen as theirs and finished these things within two days.

Most of the slaves will be able to share the food, land and animals this time, and they are full of excitement. Many slaves are being stroked and have been short of time, and they are still thinking about their wives, children and children at home.

Chen Hai comforted this group of people and would not stop those who wanted to leave Yequ Mountain and return to their hometown, but advised them to stay in Yequ Mountain for the time being, so that they would have to wait until after spring, and the weather was not so bad, so they could only walk back to their hometown alive before they could get on the road.

In such bad weather, even if you bring enough food and water, ordinary people should not think of being able to travel through the vast desert. Even if you don’t lose your way, you will most likely freeze to death in the sea of ​​sand when encountering a blizzard.

Most of these slaves who were fleeing were herders and farmers who lived and reproduced in Pinglu and nearby oasis. Many of them were business travelers who passed through the Xixia Corridor and fought for wealth with their lives. Although those with cultivation were killed by Fan Dachun and others, many of them were left to know the words and have extraordinary knowledge.

In such a short time, Chen Hai could only select dozens of people to act as civil servants in Yequshan. After the horse thief left, they took over the defense of Shicheng in Yequshan, responsible for the distribution of grain, fields and animals, and subsequent farming and pastoral affairs.

Fan Dachun and his friends occupied Yequ Mountain and accumulated a lot of soldiers and armor. Although they were all mainland goods that elite horse thieves looked down upon, Chen Hai also took them out and asked these dozens of people to pick up some strong generals from the slaves to guard against monsters or sand wolves 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 or four hundred slaves organized were strong, each of them was skinny and weak. He could kill seven or eight of them with one finger. In the Western Qiang Kingdom, he could only be regarded as the lowest level and the least combat-free servant soldier was not a threat, so he resisted and said nothing.

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The horse thieves were ready and rode their horses across the vast sandy sea and traveled westward, turning more than 800 miles southwest, and arrived at the Songyang Lake Oasis.

Although the Songyang Lake Oasis is not a necessary route to the former Xiqiang Road, it is also within the scope of the Xixia Corridor. A stream flows down from the ridges on the south side and gathers between the wastelands on the northern foot to form the Songyang River with a strong water potential.

Also, because the Songyang River is surrounded by Shiling terrain and the river water penetration is not serious, it extends to more than 400 miles north to form a medium-sized lake of tens of thousands of acres. The lake is surrounded by forty or fifty miles, and is full of sparse trees and grass. Even if it is covered by ice and snow in the cold winter, you can still feel the vitality that is not deep in the vast sandy sea when you walk in.

The Songyang Lake Oasis is much larger than Yequ Mountain, but since the Songyang Lake Oasis is within the scope of the Xixia Corridor, although the Western Qiang Kingdom is unable to send elite troops to garrison for a long time, it is strictly forbidden for other forces to come in and will send regular mobilizations. Therefore, except for the occasional herders stopping, no horse thief forces have the ability to take over this place for a long time.

When Chen Hai and his friends arrived at Songyang Lake, the other seventeen horse thieves had already gathered here. A tall black flag was set up by Songyang Lake. In addition to the pattern embroidered with the eagle's head, the word "Heishan" was also written on it. Fan Dachun and the others were the last to know the news, and because Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er suddenly intervened in, they delayed for three or four days in Yequ Mountain.

Horse thieves are in the depths of the vast desert and are harsh winter seasons. Although the long-lived horses produced in Jinzhou are not only extremely endurance but also withstand coldness, during the coldest seasons of the year in Jinzhou, horses marching in the wild for a long distance, and the losses are also great. In order to ensure that the horses have sufficient strength when charging into battle, each horse thief has at least one or two empty horses ready to ride.

In this way, tens of thousands of horses and thirty thousand horses, instantly filled the lonely and desolate Songyang Lake with people and horses.

There is no need for any trust among the horse thieves on all sides. When they arrive at Songyang Lake, Chen Hai, Ning Chan'er and others, they also find a place with abundant water and grass to station them from a distance, and keep a certain distance from other horse thieves.

In order to avoid unnecessary alertness and misunderstandings, the Yequshan horse bandits believed that Fan Dachun was the leader, Ning Chan'er, and Chen Hai claimed that they were just the leader of Yequshan.

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

No one knew that there would be any accident in the vast sea of ​​sand. Perhaps Hu Bilai and others temporarily changed and went elsewhere. Hu Bilai and others did not show up, and the other horse thieves leaders did not feel anything abnormal. Fan Dachun rushed over and met with other horse thieves leaders, but when he returned, he had nothing to do.

The other horse thieves didn't take Yequshan seriously. They even suspected that Yequshan's group had the courage to participate in this major case that was destined to shock Jinzhou's Eastern Region and Hexi. Some horse thieves leaders even suggested that Yequshan be quelled two days ago.

Now Yequshan is sending troops as scheduled, and others are embarrassed to take Yequshan as they are. However, they do not pay much attention to Yequshan. They just want more than 400 people in Yequshan to stay in Songyang Lake for the time being and follow the large army to act together. However, Yequshan has not sent people to participate in the relatively difficult and dangerous roaming, reconnaissance, and blockade of the Xixia Corridor.

Fan Dachun couldn't hide his guilt and returned to the camp, but he still brought back some very critical information.

The eighteenth routes of horse thieves were the strongest, including the Heishan tribe, Guhuoshan tribe and the Moyue Lake tribe. Among them, the Heishan thieves were the strongest. The coalition formed was named Heishan, headed by Kong Peng, the leader of Heishan thieves, and jointly decided on the big and small matters of the operation. Zaochu Hu Bilai and others also contacted the horse thieves in the name of Heishan thieves. Fan Dachun also brought back the title of "Capital General".

However, the Montenegro coalition formed was really loose, just to facilitate this vote to act uniformly, and the internal binding force was far less strong than imagined.

Two days ago, a group of horse thieves who arrived at Songyang Lake early could not help but acted without permission and robbed a caravan across Songyang River and prepared to go to Hexi.

At this time, he set out to the caravan in Hexi, and the property he carried was destined to be attractive.

Although there were more than 400 horse thieves who acted without permission, and their strength was even slightly stronger than Yequ Mountain, they failed to wipe out the guards and business travelers of the caravan, allowing many people to escape. At the same time, they left too many traces not to be processed, which was enough to alert the Hexi team to send off their brides.

The chariot and horse team that sent off the bride in Hexi had already set out from the Crescent Lake oasis south of Yequ Mountain, but after being aware of the movements on Songyang Lake, they did not continue to move forward. They are now retreating towards Crescent Lake.

In addition to sending a tour post deeper into the northern wing, the Hexi chariots and horse teams also sent envoys to the Western Qiang Kingdom, requesting reinforcements to respond.

Songyang Lake is more than 4,000 miles away from Pinglu Oasis. Even if the Western Qiang Kingdom accepts the news, sends reinforcements to respond and acts as fast as possible, it will take ten days and half a month before the vanguard will be able to meet with the Hexi bride-sending team.

Now there are two opinions within the horse thief:

Some people advocated rushing directly to the Crescent Lake and robbing the gifts and dowry of the Dong family in Hexi and the Western Qiang Kingdom, and everyone divided the matter. The people who advocated this were all horse thieves who came from afar to participate in the matter, so they wanted to fight quickly to save them from long nights and dreams.

Some people advocated ambushing the troops from the Western Qiang Kingdom to help, and then robbing the Hexi bride-sending team.

In the vast sea of ​​sand, even if the Hexi tributary team fled east in a hurry, they had to travel thousands of miles to return to the border in Hexi. They had enough time to pursue, so they wanted to rely on the rare opportunity of gathering more than a dozen horses and thieves to gather, and they wanted to do a big vote while they were strong. The Western Qiang Kingdom rushed to send troops to reinforce, making it difficult to assemble a large army, and the dispatch was extremely hasty. They did have the opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to ambush halfway.

The main thing that advocates this is the horse thieves near the Western Qiang Kingdom. After robbing the bride-sending team, they also need to consider the bloody revenge of the Western Qiang Kingdom and the Dong family in Hexi.

The Dong family in Hexi is quite far away from here, especially after the marriage and alliance was destroyed, the Dong family's troops went out of Tieliuling to invade the territory of Jinzhou. They had to consider the possible revenge that the Western Qiang Kingdom might have in the future. They thought that while robbing the way, they could destroy some of the elite troops of the Western Qiang Kingdom as much as possible, making the Western Qiang Kingdom unable to send troops to retaliate in the desert.

"Heishan, Guhuoshan, and Moyue Lake, who is the three horse thieves who advocated ambushing the reinforcements of the Western Qiang Kingdom first?" Chen Hai frowned and asked Fan Dachun about the details of the matter.

The horse thieves from all over the road were led by Heishan, Guhuoshan and Moyue Lake. In fact, these three families had the final say. Other horse thieves could only get a piece of the pie and make a fuss, and they didn't have much say.

"Heishan and Moyue Lake all advocated hijacking the reinforcements of the Western Qiang Kingdom and then robbing the Hexi chariot team," Fan Dachun also said resentfully, "Guhuoshan advocated hijacking the Hexi chariot team, and everyone divided the money and property. Everyone was led by Heishan gang, but came out to rob the family and rob the house for the sake of property. Why bother fighting with the elite soldiers of the Western Qiang Kingdom?"

In the past, Fan Dachun would probably advocate attacking the reinforcements of the Western Qiang Kingdom.

The weaker the Western Qiang army was, the more comfortable they were in Yequ Mountain. But at this time, Fan Dachun and his friends were in Ning Chan'er's hands, so they were unwilling to create any more troubles.

However, no matter how you fight, Yequshan has no say, so he can only advance and retreat with the large army.

"Why don't you rob the Hexi chariots and horse team first?" Ning Chan'er curled her lips and said indifferently, "As long as the Princess Yuecheng is captured, even if the news cannot be blocked, as long as the Prince of Xiqiang still wants to work hard to form an alliance with the Dong family and maintain the dignity of the Lu royal family, they will inevitably send troops to rescue him. How to fight at that time, where to fight, or maybe whether it can be fought is up to us?"

"The boss's words make sense. Why didn't you think of those lumps?" Fan Dachun said with his head, "I'll go to Kong and the others to talk about this."

"It's not too bad for one night," Chen Haihun said indifferently, "It's not too late to let them argue first, and it's not too late to talk about this tomorrow."

Ning Chan'er guessed that Chen Hai wanted to buy Dong Ning and the others for more time, but he flirted with him and did not reveal it.
Chapter completed!