Early morning.

When the first ray of sunlight shone on the earth, the beautiful pearlescent moon shadow of Sharkar disappeared, and the air was still mixed with the faint smell of gunpowder smoke and blood.

Kitard and the others successfully repelled the attack of the horse thieves, who left more than seventy corpses on the ground and fled.

Everyone has just recovered from the shock last night, and now they have time to find out what happened to the horse thief.

"It's a Turkmen!"

I saw a caravan guy shouting loudly.

Kitard rushed over.

"How can we see it?"

"Taiji, you see, although the attires look similar at first glance, this is completely inconsistent with the usual practice of horse thieves. It is rare for horse thieves to all come from the same tribe, so they wear different attires. Of course, when they usually rob

I’m also wearing a black scarf, but one thing won’t change”

"Oh?"

"That's the headscarf. Although men in both Kazakhstan and the Khiva Khanate like to wear headscarves, and in summer they simply wear headscarves, but the headscarf is a symbol of a tribe after all, and there is still a difference. Look, this person's

The headscarf was wrapped in a star-and-moon shape, and "

"People in this area like to inlay gems on their headscarves, but people of different ethnic groups are different. Kazakh people like to inlay emeralds and sapphires. Now I have looked at all the corpses and most of them don't have gems inlaid. Obviously.

It was specially designed to cover up people’s eyes and ears, but two people still inlaid it with rubies."

"Ruby is the favorite of tribes in Bukhara and Khiva"

Kitard shook his head, "Since it can hide people's eyes, why don't they just bandage the turbans of other tribes and deliberately wear the gems of other tribes?"

The man was at a loss for words, but quickly added: "If they are Kazakh horse thieves, their faces are somewhere between Mongolians and Turks, but most of them in Khiva and Bukhara have faces of Turks or Persians.

And"

"Although people in Kazakhstan also grow beards, they cannot grow them long either because of their race or something else. These people all have beards. At first glance, they are people from Khiva and Bukhara."

(Bukhara, here generally refers to the two river basins)

"Also, the one who continues to wear the gems looks like the leader of the horse thieves. He is also wearing a small prayer rug with him. Perhaps the gems have a great religious meaning for them and cannot be taken off easily."

"Besides, these two people are on the periphery..."

Su Wenyu took over the conversation, "Chitard, these two people were killed by the last grenade. I observed carefully that only four grenades killed two people."

"You mean..."

"Yes, they are all supervising the battle on the periphery. They probably had the intention of running away if the attack was unfavorable, but they did not expect that we went all the way to Kungele and even brought grenades that can explode in the distance.

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"And when the enemy fled far away, we pursued them again. They were so panicked that they forgot that this happened too."

Kitard then nodded, "So these people are horse thieves in the desert, so why didn't they do it there, instead of rushing here to do it?"

He stood in the middle of the field in a daze, thinking carefully about every link that might arouse the covetousness of horse thieves since their arrival in Kungel and their departure.

"I know!"

After a while, a smile appeared on his face.

However, this section was not convenient to tell the people in the caravan. He said vaguely: "Obviously the horse thieves in the desert are planning to blame the horse thieves in Kazakhstan."

This sentence is said in vain.

When he returned to the camp and was about to set off, he gathered everyone together and said to Turandot with a smile: "Congratulations."

Turandot was stunned for a moment, then realized something, and couldn't help shouting happily: "My brother succeeded!"

Kitard nodded and patted her shoulder gently.

"Now that Sangkun succeeded, Rashim must have discovered the clues, so he would be suspicious of us. Maybe we had already set out for a few days, or maybe he didn't dare to attack us directly, so he notified ordinary and

The Shiva horse thief he was familiar with asked him to come here first to ambush."

"This is the reason why they don't aim at the caravan as their main target, but at us. I was confused just now. Although the caravan has a hundred guards and only fifty horse thieves, depending on how powerful the horse thieves are, if they fight to the death

If so, the guards are definitely no match."

"What's more, the caravan simply placed the camels on the outermost edge. As soon as they fired the muskets, the camels would scatter in all directions. But according to the caravan, the horse thieves there ran away as soon as they heard the sound of the cannon. This explains the two

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"The first one is naturally that Rahim cares about his property and is just bluffing"

"Secondly, the horse thieves there are not the main force. The main force is all coming towards us. It is more likely that the people there are not horse thieves but Rasim's people!"

"No matter what, in order to prevent long nights and many dreams, we must quickly clear the way"

Perhaps in order to leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible, the caravan was also prepared early. The group accelerated and three days later arrived at Aktobi, where the Naiman tribe, one of the largest tribes in the Khitan Alliance, is located.

The so-called Khitan Alliance refers to the tribes where the upper-class people belonged after the fall of Western Liao. In addition to the Khitans, there were naturally Mongols and Turks. Among them, the Naiman people once occupied key positions in the upper class of Western Liao. Therefore, at this time, they

Although he has long been a Turk, he still formed an alliance with the upper-class tribes of the original Western Liao Kingdom.

Although Lashi has good relations with the Khitan Alliance, it refers to the tribes with the original Khitan alliance as the core, not all, and the current Khitan people do not call themselves Khitan people, but call themselves a certain tribe, but

Compared with other tribes, it still maintains considerable oriental culture.

Aktobi was a famous copper mine in Kazakhstan. In fact, it was already being mined by people at this time. The Kazakhs mined it and sold it to the Russians, which can be regarded as a large amount of export materials besides furs.

During the few days when the caravan was trading in the tribe, Kitard, under the guise of a caravan clerk, looked around the mines, only to discover that there were not only open-pit copper mines, but also silver mines!

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Of course, the silver mines are obviously not exposed to the outside. People here can only mine them on a small scale, and the smelting method is also the most primitive. It is said that only a few silver ingots can be smelted every year.

"According to the terrain conditions here, there should be lead-zinc ore and pyrite, and pyrite contains almost half iron and sulfur. If we occupy this quick place, we can smelt iron and sulfur in large quantities."

What a pity”

Looking at these mines, as a later generation of mining and metallurgical machinery graduates, Kitard couldn't help but murmur to himself.

However, if you want to get this land, you must first defeat Xiaoyuzi's Zhedeur Alliance, and then you must offend the Khitan Alliance to get this land.

According to the information he has heard in the past few years and his own estimation, the entire Xiaoyuzi tribe has almost 80,000 tents, which is tens of thousands more than Turgut. It is not so easy to win.
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I could only let out a long sigh and sit in a daze on the big stone mountain in the mine, which made the supervisor here become confused.

Of course, when they got here, they still couldn't tell that they were from the Turgut Khanate, but from the Salaykamysh tribe of the Khiva Khanate. This tribe's independent behavior was famous throughout the grasslands on the west coast of the Caspian Sea.

A few days later, the caravan continued northward, and it took several more days to arrive at Orx.

At this time, he had to reveal his identity, because on the prairie on the west side of the Ural Mountains, there was a section where the Torgut people and the Khitan Alliance were completely bordering each other, and the two sides also entered each other's pastures. Over the years,

We have always been safe and sound.

Of course, according to what Lash told him before leaving, the reason why the Khitan Alliance is willing to get close to them is not because of the long-term relationship between the two families, the marriage and deep feelings.

But the Khitan Alliance is also facing competition from the Zedur Alliance and the Bashkirs. The enemy of the enemy is a friend, and they are everywhere on the prairie.

After learning that Lash's eldest son actually went to the Khiva Khanate to explore trade routes with a caravan, the Khitan Alliance's chief official, the leader of the alliance who had changed his name to Datov, personally received him.

In a small wooden city, Kitard met Datov, a great official who could no longer look like a Khitan and spoke fluent Turkic.

He is about thirty years old and has a plump build. It is said that like Xiaoyuzi Sultan Nur Ali Khan, he will live in Orenburg in the winter. It is obvious that he has been deeply attracted by the Russians, but he and Zamu from the Heshu Special Department

Yang is different.

He knew very well that his foundation was in the grassland. The reason why the Russians gave him preferential treatment was because of the herders under his command and the cavalry transformed from the herders, not Datov himself.

Therefore, as soon as spring comes, he will return to the grassland without hesitation.

Before Kitard left the Manuto Sea, since he mentioned the marriage with this tribe to him, it was obvious that he had mentioned this matter before. Therefore, Datov was obviously very satisfied as soon as he saw Kitard in person.
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When they heard that they repelled the attack of more than a hundred fierce horse thieves with just a dozen people, they were even more impressed with him - although Chittagong was a talented man, in the eyes of the prairie people, only those who could fight and win were

is the main thing.

However, such matters are completely decided by the parents among the Turgut people. Even if Kitard is here, Datov cannot bring it up to him, but he will inevitably make insinuations.

Kitard also knew it well, but he covered it up by saying that "marriage matters are all decided by the Vice Khan".

Datov naturally understood this and had to give up in the end.

In Kitard's mind, he already had Abahai and Turandot, so he should be content with it, and it would be bad if he added more trouble.

The Khitan Alliance is a large tribe. If Datov was from the Golden Family, he would definitely be entitled to the title of Sultan. It is because of his background that he is just a junior official.

Once the daughter of such a tribal chief marries her, she will definitely be Zhong Gen (Princess), but obviously Kitard cannot give her this title.

When Kitard and the others left, Datov also gave them the precious furs of three camels, honey, medicinal materials, etc. It was obvious that he was very satisfied with his future son-in-law.

Kitard didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but he had no choice but to accept it with fear.

During these days in the tribe, Kitard also found out more about it.

"Datov has about 10,000 direct troops. Due to his closeness to the Russians, he also received a large number of muskets and equipped a whole regiment. With the addition of tribal cavalry, there is no problem in dispatching 5,000 elite cavalry at any time."Chapter completed!