Dingxi Fortress at the Shandong Pass of Kunlun Mountain is a place where birds do not poop and chickens do not lay eggs.

It is a thousand miles away from Xining Prefecture, Qinghai Province, 2800 miles away from Chang'an, the core of the Left War Zone, and more than 3200 miles away from Chengdu, Sichuan.

Although Dingxi Fort is called a fort, it is scary, and it is more like a earthen building in a Hakka village in Lingnan.

The fort wall built with stones and loess is neither tall nor wide, and is as small as a circumference. He barely surrounded a safe area with only a military camp and several warehouses. In addition, it is a hotel, a small restaurant, a grocery store and a business station.

There is only one family, no repetition, and the scale is amazingly small.

What made the new chief Zhang Huangyan most unacceptable was that there was only one toilet in the entire castle, or in the military camp. Outside the military camp, there was no second toilet in the city, and neither hotel nor hotel, there was a toilet.

Zhang Huangyan didn't know how these people here solved this problem, but he couldn't accept that his castle looked like this. Even if it was just a small border castle, it would have to show the image of an empire.

After he arrived at Dingxi Fort, the first thing he did was to name the castle Dingxi Fort. It turned out that there was no official name here. The second thing was to build toilets in the city. Not only did he build a public toilet on each street on the simple cross street in the fort, but he also asked those shops to repair toilets in the shops.

The third thing he did was to build a temple in the fort, invite a few monks, and then organize several caravans to go nearby, spreading the information about the Han garrison here in the name of business, and telling the herdsmen that a new temple was built here and several eminent monks were invited.

He then recruited some local herdsmen as translators, guides, and reconnaissance for the official army. He also built a school in the castle to teach Tibetans to learn Chinese characters, and also let the garrison officers and soldiers learn Tibetans from the herdsmen monks.

Only by knowing one's own knowledge can one never win a battle. This is what he read in military books, in the army, on the battlefield, and around the emperor. His understanding of this sentence is becoming more and more profound.

Although there were still officials stationed in Yushu area to the south, Zhang Huangyan knew very well that with the unique situation here, they were actually on the front line.

This is a vast and desolate land. The imperial court stationed troops to build cities in these key places, but it was still like a sieve and there were holes everywhere.

On this plateau, just under their feet, the land occupied by the Mongols of the Heshuote tribe led by Gushikhan after attacking Kang District, but later they captured it.

But now the Heshuote tribe is back and is still leading the Jonggar, Tuhute and other guards to advance eastward. They are determined to win the Qinghai-Tibet.

Yushu is stationed with a division of troops, but one division only has 15,000 troops to cooperate with three troops. These troops are dispersed and are nothing on this vast and desolate plateau. The Mongolian cavalry in Moxi can infiltrate from countless places.

This is a desolate place, but the emperor has ordered that the Xikang and Gansu in Qinghai will never let the Mongols take away half a step.

Dingxi Fort will definitely become a battlefield.

Zhang Huangyan was so sure that only one of their marks was stationed at this important mountain pass, but Zhang Huangyan adhered to the emperor's orders. When people were locked up, the empire's nine-headed bird flag would not fall.

In this war, they cannot rely on others. It is too desolate here, they can only rely on themselves.

Now, they have more than 2,000 elite soldiers of the empire, and more than 500 recruited Tibetan herders and soldiers. Together, they barely gathered up 3,000 troops.

Zhang Huangyan hopes that the battle will begin later so that they can be more prepared. They can recruit more Tibetans, adapt to the climate of the plateau, and receive more materials and equipment.

Now, they are not ready, but they have already made up their minds.

Because each of them had the mark of the Nine-Headed Bird, which was engraved on their flesh and blood. Because they were all emperor warriors, led by the Nine-Headed Bird flag, they firmly believed that no one could defeat them.

They were the soldiers of the 18th Army Town of the Seventh Army of the Left War Zone of the Holy Han Empire, and the nine-headed birds with the nine-headed bird mark. They were loyal to the emperor, fought for the emperor, loyal to the emperor, and guarded the empire.

The 18th Town of the Seventh Army is the elite among the elites of the Imperial Army.

The Imperial Army now has eighteen legions, commanding a total of forty-five military towns. Among these forty-five military towns, there are only eighteen reorganized towns. These ten reorganized towns are also the most elite army units in the empire.

Zhang Huangyan’s target is the next step target of the 18th reorganization town of the Seventh Legion.

Each of them is the pride of the empire, and they are all fierce soldiers on the battlefield who have experienced many battles.

Now, the scout cavalry returned that a Mongolian cavalry of about 10,000 people were bypassing Yushu and storming towards Dingxi Fort.

They didn't know whether Yushu had not yet been lost, nor did they know whether the 10,500,500 Han soldiers from the three divisions and the three associations survived. They only knew that these 10,000 Mongolian cavalry had reached the gate, and they might want to break through the gate and cross Kunlun to kill Qinghai Lake, or they might want to pass through here and head south to Ganzi.

Whether they were coming to Kou Pass or passing by, Zhang Huangyan did not intend to avoid the war.

It was time to fulfill their mission, and Zhang Huangyan only had a passionate heart and a desire to fight.

Glory is my life!

Use the blood of the enemy to water the flowers of glory.

When the golden light of the sun shone through the clouds, Zhang Huangyan, who was standing on the city wall, finally discovered the Mongolian cavalry of the Desert.

The first thing that caught his eye was a long black line, with Mongolian cavalry in the west of the desert lined up in a wide array, like a wave rising from the sea.

A horse neighed and screamed from a distance.

The Mongolian cavalry in Moxi shouted arrogantly, and they obviously had discovered the small fort blocked in front of the mountain pass.

The voices of thousands of Mongolian cavalry rose, shouting for the desire for blood and the yearning for killing and plundering.

As soon as Zhang Huangyan received the scout's report, he summoned the staff and officers to discuss countermeasures, and finally formed a decision to fight on the fort defense. According to Zhang Huangyan's order, the staff made detailed defense plans according to requirements, subdivided them into the distribution of troops, the use of materials, etc.

Three thousand to ten thousand, the Han army owned a small earthen castle, as well as sharp muskets and some artillery, while the Mongolians in Moxi were numerous. They were all cavalry and had fierce attacks.

The castle that the Han army could rely on was too small. They had no time or supplies to build a solid fortress fortress, and they also lacked artillery. They were just an infantry mark. There were only some mountain dredgers in the mark, and there was no support for field artillery and heavy artillery from the artillery troops.

This would be a tough battle, but no one was afraid to retreat.

This time it was a cruel war, and perhaps most of the three thousand people here would end up suffering casualties.

All the Han soldiers knew about this, but they were calm.

They were all great Han soldiers with the mark of the Nine-Headed Bird. They once vowed to the Nine-Headed Bird’s flag to protect the emperor and guard the empire with swords, blood and flesh. Glory is more important than life.

Zhang Huangyan once served as the emperor's personal guard, and Emperor Ye studied in the military academy. He was also a scholar. He was a young intermediate general in the imperial **, an iron-blooded young and strong school. He had beautiful resumes and rich combat experience.

If he would die here and return the body of Ma Ge, he would be happy to accept death. After he died, he would definitely be able to enter the Temple of Hell and there would be one of his stars on the Empire's Avenue of Stars.

Accompanied by the low and long voice of Niu Duoyue, Zhang Huangyan polished the nine-headed bird pattern on his breastplate a little. The deputy chief came over in gorgeous armor.

This half-body armor is very gorgeous and quite strong, with the steelmaking technology that was unique in the Han Dynasty today. The iron is smelted into liquid steel and then rolled into thin steel plates, and then repeatedly forged and molded with a hydraulic forging hammer, and finally becomes a gorgeous, sturdy and light half-body armor.

Looking at the world, only the great man has the ability to smel out a large amount of steel. Only the steel plate armor made by the great man is both light and thin.

However, this type of plate armor is forged from steel plates and has been forged thousands of hammers, so each piece is costly.

In the Han army with high firearms, ordinary soldiers were not equipped with armor. Most of them were lightweight cotton armor. Only officers above the company commander were equipped with half-body plate armor. The higher the level, the better the armor, the more gorgeous the stronger the armor.

Although the officers did not charge, they still needed better protection.

The deputy chief commander is the deputy chief, who is the chief steward in the fort and the head of civil servants. Generally speaking, the deputy chief does not need to wear armor in person.

But now the plan cannot keep up with the changes.

This fortress is so small and there are so many enemy troops, so even the deputy commander and his subordinates took their guns to fight.

The deputy chief was a civil servant, but there was no real civil servant in the Han army. They were all well-trained soldiers, and they could also wear armor and skillfully control guns to kill the enemy.

Deputy Chief Zheng Dainian is still an excellent blocker.

He held a blocking machine in his hand, looked at the enemy, and then made preparations in an orderly manner.

This is a new type of blocking gun, with rifled in the barrel, which makes the shooting accuracy more accurate. However, this kind of gun requires a better barrel and a matching special bullet.

Especially because there is rifle inside the gun, it is difficult to load the bullet. You have to hold a candlestick and then knock the bullet in bit by bit with a hammer.

The new rifled blocking gun sacrifices the speed of loading, but greatly improves accuracy, which makes this rifled gun not satisfied with the equipment department of the Ministry of War, but has become the new favorite of the blockers. What the blockers need is not speed, but precisely accuracy and range.

When this rifled gun was modified with the target of blocking the gun, the gun was heavier, with each gun reaching nearly thirty kilograms, which was equivalent to a small cannon. However, compared with the original old blocking gun, both range and accuracy were greatly improved.

Zheng Dainian himself is a very excellent blocker. He even trained all his civil servants to be blockers and watchers.

As the war was prepared, Zheng Danian and the others transformed into a blocking platoon.

There were many Mongolian cavalry, and Dingxi Fort could only fight alone and could not get reinforcements.

But the deputy chief Zheng Dainian is not afraid, just like Biao Chief Zhang Huangyan.

In the emperor's words, a great Han general should not know what fear is.

"I am the sword of the Holy Emperor!"

As the black lines formed by the Mongols surged closer and closer, Zheng Danian knocked the bullet into the chamber with a hammer, while chanting slowly.

"Swear to be loyal to the emperor and guard the empire!"
Chapter completed!