While they tore into the greasy leg of lamb, they stared at the map in Gu Datou's hand.
"Datou, there's nothing wrong with this map."
"Impossible!" Gu Datou still held his head bald.
He shook his head, "This was painted by Lao Ren, there is absolutely no way it can be wrong."
"According to the marks on the map, Qian'an Mountain is the largest pasture of the Blood Moon Tribe, so we took a big detour to get in. Look at the sky..."
Gu Datou couldn't help but look up to the sky.
It's golden autumn, the sky is high and the air is crisp.
Except for a few white clouds, the sky was completely blue.
But it was the empty sky that made them frown.
Qian'anling Pasture is the largest pasture of the Blood Moon tribe. It is understandable that there are no livestock on the ground for a while. There should be warning eagles hovering in the sky.
But there is nothing in the sky.
Gu Datou's heart skipped a beat and he made up his mind to look south.
"Perhaps those broken eagles were attracted by Lao Lu?"
The grassland is vast and boundless. In comparison, three thousand cavalrymen are just a grain of sand. It would be difficult to reach them even if they were scattered in the sky.
But once they are found or tracked by the enemy, they will form a quite large team, and it will not be easy to escape.
So since crossing the Benlu tribe, Gu Datou and Lu Youtian made an appointment for a time and place for their future meeting, then divided the three thousand men and horses into two, and each took half of the men and horses westward.
After more than two months of walking slowly and hurriedly, they finally arrived at the territory of the Blood Moon Tribe from the south to the north, and were ready to do something big here.
"Datou," someone said next to him, "if Lao Lu and the others are really targeted by the eagles of the Blood Moon, they may not be able to escape. We have to do something as soon as possible."
Gu Datou nodded and threw away the leg of lamb in his hand.
"Brothers, hurry up and eat, we have work to do."
"knew."
"clear."
The others had heard clearly and didn't say much. After a few words, they all speeded up their eating.
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About two hundred miles south of Qian'an Mountain, on the top of an unnamed hill.
Lu Youtian stood in a small bush and looked around with a telescope.
After a while, he frowned deeply.
The surrounding pastures are abundant, but there are no livestock grazing on the ground and no eagles circling in the sky.
Could it be that Gu Datou is being targeted by the Blood Moon tribe?
Xueyue is one of the famous large tribes on the grassland. Although the clan leader and the young clan leader Xueyue Yingxiang followed the Xiliang army to the eastern part of the grassland and Dingxi County, the strength of the tribe cannot be underestimated.
There would be no problem in eating at least three thousand of their troops.
Thinking of this, Lu Youtian felt a little anxious in his heart.
He carefully observed the surroundings and determined the wind direction, and then strode down the mountain with a few guards.
"Have all the brothers had a good rest? It's time to work!"
The two teams, one from the south and the other from the north, gave orders almost unanimously.
Set fire and burn the grassland.
It's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it's time for herdsmen on the grasslands to stock up on fodder for the winter.
The larger the tribe, the more food and grass it needs to store.
If these three thousand people burn a pasture, they may force some of the Blood Moon tribe's herdsmen to move to other places, making it easier to divide and destroy them.
Even if it cannot be destroyed, it would be good to create estrangement or even conflict between Blood Moon and its surrounding tribes.
Just do it, three thousand people on horseback set fire to it without hesitation.
Wow.
The sky is clear and the air is crisp, and the grassland will be in full bloom soon.
The wind blew up the fire, and the fire quickly spread toward the southeast with the wind.
Not long after, the fire points connected into a large area and rushed forward overwhelmingly.
Tick-tick-tick.
"Are you going to die?" Gu Datou was so anxious that he played a harsh suona, "Why are you still in a daze? Let's go quickly!"
At this time of year, the wind on the grassland mostly blows from northwest to southeast, but occasionally it repeats.
If the fire comes back, their group may be perished in the flames.
So after lighting a fire, you must leave quickly.
Tap tap tap.
Thousands of horses galloped, and everyone followed him and galloped towards the west.
Bloodmoon Settlement, outskirts.
Drive!
Zhiling couldn't care less about his love for the horse, and whipped the horse's butt hard one after another.
After seeing the continuous tents in front of him, he perked up and whipped the riding crop in his hand harder.
"Who is he?" The guards on the outskirts of the settlement had already seen him and quickly shouted to stop him, "Get off your horse immediately and state your name, otherwise we will release the arrow."
The old man next to me gave the guy a slap in the face, "Are you blind? He is Zhiling from next door to me."
"Oh!" This man felt a little aggrieved.
The Blood Moon is a large tribe, with a large number of people and great power.
Moreover, Zhiling means handsome in Xiliang dialect. Almost every tribe has one or even several such names. It is normal for the guard not to recognize him.
Before Zhiling could rush to the fence, he was already shouting from a distance, "Laoba, Laoba, I have an emergency situation that I want to report to the clan elders, and ask someone to clear the road quickly."
Wow.
The guards of the settlement quickly removed fences and other obstacles to clear a path.
Zhiling arrived just in time and thanked him loudly.
He rushed into the settlement on horseback in the blink of an eye and disappeared among the large and small tents.
"What's so urgent?"
The surrounding Blood Moon people looked at Zhiling's disappearing figure and looked back to the west thoughtfully.
However, the west was completely calm, and nothing unusual could be seen at all.
Lao Ba came to his senses and shouted to stop, "What are you still looking at? Hurry up and get to work."
They are building a wall.
Xueyue sent an army to the east to conquer Yunchui, but was stopped at the Yankui Fortress and Peishi City. They suffered heavy losses but were still unable to move forward.
The Angel tribe further west, somehow taking the wrong medicine, actually built a decent wall around their settlement.
Xue Yue didn't look good at it, so he quickly imitated what he was doing.
After discussion with the Presbyterian Council, they also sent a large number of tribesmen to start building a thick and long city wall along the periphery of the settlement.
Of course, this is thicker and longer than the previous wooden fence of Blood Moon.
For any small city in Yunchui, the walls they built are not worth mentioning.
Report!
Zhiling hurried to the Presbyterian Church and jumped off his horse with a bang.
"A fire broke out in the Qian'an grassland in the west. The fire was fierce, stretching for more than thirty miles, and getting bigger and bigger. The brothers were unable to put out the fire and were moving livestock and fodder. I was sent back to report to the elders."
What?
Several elders looked up to see the direction of the wind, and their expressions suddenly changed.
"Why did it catch fire?"
Zhiling shook his head, "I don't know. I only saw thick smoke in the sky to the west. In a blink of an eye, the fire spread into one, and then burned to the front. I have no idea what happened."
More and more elders gathered together, and they were all jumping up and down after hearing the news.
With such a fierce fire and a northwest wind blowing, I am afraid that except for a small number of fast horses, all other livestock and harvested fodder will be destroyed in the flames.
"What the hell, where are your eagles? Why don't you send them to keep an eye on them."
With the presence of eagles and swans, if there is a small fire within a hundred miles, they will have already discovered it and alerted them. It will not be discovered until the fire has burned before their eyes.
Zhiling's face was full of grievances, "Elder Kai, our eagle is still young and has not been used well."
As for the adult eagles, aren't they all sent to the front line in the east?
Ahem.
Only then did the elders react and coughed a few times to cover up the situation.
Some time ago, communication between Toishi City and the Benlu tribe suddenly became extremely difficult. The messengers sent by the Xiliang army could be said to have killed one by one, and a pair of pairs.
Xue Yue Yingxiang was puzzled, but the communication between the front and rear could not be interrupted for a long time, so he had to turn his mind to the eagle in his hometown.
There is no problem in using an eagle to deliver messages. It only needs to be trained like a homing pigeon. However, the eagles trained in this way will usually just fly to the hometown of the Blood Moon tribe, so it can be said that they are not of much use.
So Xue Yue Yingxiang had no choice but to take the falconer and the warning falcons over.
Such eagles are extremely rare. There are only six of them in the entire Angel tribe, and there are naturally not many Blood Moons.
Gu Datou and the others did not know about this, and this led to the misunderstanding.