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In the middle of the night, there was a sudden burst of gunfire outside, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.

It sounds like the battle outside is extremely fierce.

I also know that it was Ma Quanyou's surprise attack. Obviously, he has prepared everything. As long as he fails to receive Tuoba Lan, he will launch an attack that night.

When it was dawn, the sporadic gunfire gradually subsided. Although Chen Xingchang also made preparations, he obviously did not expect that Ma Quanyou would turn against him like this, and he would attack him on a large scale. Chen Xingchang's troops were scattered among the three large tribes. At most, but was defeated in the end, Chen Xingchang fled with a few guards.

Lu Ming and Tuoba Lan followed Chen Xingchang's fleeing team, and they all rode horses. Only Lu Ming and Tuoba Lan rode Xiao Hei, running long distances, but Xiao Hei's foot strength was not inferior to that of a horse.

Da Tong and his acquaintance's family were taken advantage of by Lu Ming to help them escape from the tribe. After half a month of agreement, they still met in this oasis. Now they can take refuge in a small tribe not far away.

In fact, Lu Ming could have brought Tuoba Lan to wait for Ma Quanyou's soldiers.

It can be seen that Ma Quanyou is powerful and Chen Xingchang is weak, so Lu Ming adjusted his original plan.

A few days later, Chen Xingchang, more than ten riders, and Lu Ming arrived at a half-mountain wooden village. This is a village of mountain people, but there are no adult men in the settlement. It seems that the mountain people are tough and unwilling to give in, so Chen Xingchang Killed all the young men.

Chen Xingchang stationed hundreds of soldiers here.

Although Chen Xingchang's department immediately started to defend, but it sounds like people are panicking. First of all, there is not much ammunition left.

Weapons and ammunition, in this barren land, will only be used less and less, and there is no replenishment at all.

It is the bandits in the White Sea, which have existed for hundreds of years, but they are just some homemade firecrackers, made of gunpowder by local methods, and bullets for making firearms.

In the afternoon, Ma Quanyou's pursuers arrived. There were more than a hundred riders. They were not in a hurry to attack, but naturally waited for Ma Quanyou's infantry brigade to arrive.

Seeing the tragic situation of the mountain people in the cottage, Lu Ming's plan gradually took shape in his mind.

Lu Ming didn't want to watch what the battle would be like, so he seized a chance and took Tuoba Lan and Xiao Hei to sneak out and escape here.

……

A thatched cottage of a small tribe.

Lu Ming and Datong made gestures, and they also expressed it with paintings, which meant to contact all the tribes here, big and small, to unite and drive out these foreign and brutal rulers.

Big Tong was full of fear, and used branches to draw pictures of rifles and other firearms spraying on the sand.

Lu Ming gestured and told him that sooner or later the terrible fire inside this thing would shoot out, and in the end, it could only turn into a bayonet hand-to-hand fight.

Da Tong didn't seem to understand, just shook his head.

The bronze-skinned woman standing beside Lu Ming suddenly yelled angrily.

She was the woman Lu Ming rescued, and now she has become Lu Ming's loyal supporter. Lu Ming called her Bronze Girl.

Apparently, the Bronze Girl hated the brutal invaders from outside.

Da Tong shook his head helplessly, but finally agreed to contact the various ministries first.

Only then did Tongnu turn her anger into joy, and imitated Lu Ming, expressing her admiration for Datong with a thumbs up gesture.

Everyone "dismissed the meeting" and left the thatched hut together, and each went to act according to the plan.

Beside Xiao Hei outside the thatched cottage, Tuoba Lan was standing blankly.

This is a small tribe with more than a dozen households and more than a hundred people.

Originally a vassal of the big tribe where Tongnu lived, Tongnu's family still had some status here.

It seemed that all the leaders of the Copper Girl tribe had been killed, but her family had instead become one of the highest surviving families.

"You, you came here to deal with Da Khan, right?" Seeing Lu Ming, Tuoba Lan asked suddenly, his eyes were extremely complicated.

Lu Ming nodded: "Yes, but I have no ill intentions towards you."

Tuoba Lan sighed softly, turned his head, and ignored him.

……

When it was time to go to bed, the copper girl enthusiastically dragged Lu Ming and Tuoba Lan to a thatched hut, gesturing as if the three of them were sleeping together.

This small tribe has only a dozen thatched huts in total, and the vacated thatched huts are the most honorable treatment for three people to live together.

The rest of Tongnv's family had to squeeze into a thatched hut together.

Tuobalan looked more mournful than heartbroken, and lay straight on the hard plank covered with hay, like a corpse.

Probably also feel dirty, it doesn't matter.

The water source here is extremely precious, and sand is used for bathing, and at most, a little water is used to wash private parts at the end.

Lu Ming also experienced the hot sand bath today, and it can only be said to be very sour.

The copper girl came again to invite Lu Ming to sit on the hardwood hay bed. Lu Ming waved his hand, making gestures to indicate that he was used to sitting and sleeping. Take care, after a while, the bronze girl felt bored and went to bed.

……

The war that broke out between Ma Quanyou and Chen Xingchang was very cruel, and the two sides fought fiercely several times.

Chen Xingchang also raided a tribe occupied by Ma Quanyou, where Ma Quanyou's last ammunition depot was kept.

Before he had time to remove much ammunition, he set fire to detonate.

As the ammunition on both sides became less and less, the powerful Ma's army completely gained the upper hand, and the shining saber became a nightmare for the remnants of Chen Xingchang.

Although in theory, the bayonet is actually more practical in hand-to-hand combat than the saber.

A 500-man infantry battalion established by Chen Xingchang was also a full-staffed battalion that was reorganized after entering the desert. Because he ran out of bullets, he raised a white flag to surrender, but in the end these hundreds of people were brutally killed.

As a result, Chen Xingchang lost his last armed force, and others were also missing.

……

In the thatched hut, Lu Ming looked at a picture in his hand. It was a picture of an extremely large dry grass leaf, drawn with red rice soup.

There is no pen and paper here, and the tribal people have no writing, but this method is used for simple notes.

This is a map of the distribution of settlements in the surrounding area of ​​about 10,000+ square kilometers.

It is drawn according to the gestures of Bronze Girl, Second Bronze, and Third Bronze, and the distance is marked by the distance of a few days.

The location of the tribe must have deviated greatly, but it generally has a shape.

Randomly set the upper part of the map as north, and you can see that if the Tongnv tribe is the center, there are forty or fifty tribes of all sizes within the 10,000+ square kilometers.

There are seven large tribes, all of which are now occupied by the Ma Quanyou Department, and all tribes are managed by radiation.

The entry and exit of the tribal people has not been affected, such as the Copper Women's Department, which has already made contact with it.

After all, Ma Quanyou felt that the event was settled, and became the only ruler here. These slaves had to return to normal life in order to collect resources to support him and his troops.

Ma Quanyou stationed more than a hundred people in the Tongnu tribe, six of the seven tribes had more than a hundred people stationed there, and there were more than a thousand people in the tribe he regarded as the Khan's headquarters.

Ma Quanyou is very cruel. Basically, the soldiers who were seriously injured in the battle with Chen Xingchang were dealt with directly, including those who may be disabled, and all of them were executed, so as not to have to support useless people. So now, there are probably less than two Thousands left.

I think the ammunition is almost consumed.

Lu Ming pointed to the Oasis Copper Women's Department not far from this small tribe, and gestured, now Da Tong can almost fully understand what he means.

Surrounded by many young men with fierce fighting intent in their eyes, they all raised their fists and slapped their chests and howled after hearing Da Tong's murmur as an interpreter.

Three or four hundred strong warriors were gathered from various ministries. Tomorrow, Lu Ming was going to attack Ma Quanyou's garrison of the Bronze Women's Division at night.

Before entering the desert, I never thought that the tribes here can be used to wipe out the two rebels, and it is likely to become a cold weapon war mode. Think about it, when Ma Quanyou and the others retreated here, they never thought that there would be such a situation. An embarrassing day.