The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 396
Huang Sheng couldn't confirm whether the Fan's smuggling team had passed, so he asked Qing Geertai to take the team to confirm whether there was a large-scale convoy passing within [-] miles from the north to the south.

The Huang family began to set up camp, and the engineers immediately assembled tall steel watchtowers.

Huang Sheng plans to use this as a base to arrest all living people within [-] miles from north to south and [-] miles from east to west, forming a temporary control area for the Huang family, and deploy a large number of observation posts to arrest anyone who passes through here. No pardon.

In just three days, more than [-] cavalry encircled three or four thousand nearby Mongols. There were also many small-scale battles and some gains were made, and a small number of Han slaves were rescued.

That's because some Mongolian tribes couldn't understand the situation clearly, and more than 100 soldiers tried to go to war in vain, and they were well-behaved after being beaten up by Huang's private soldiers and Qingertai's cavalry.

Huang's team has sufficient supplies, there are plenty of naan, canned sea fish, and beef jerky, and they often steam pancakes to change their taste.

Huang Sheng knew that the cattle and sheep that survived the midwinter were the herdsmen's hope for a year, so no one was allowed to kill the Mongols' cattle and sheep to eat meat, and he gave the captured herdsmen food and canned food, allowing them to continue grazing within the surveillance range of the cavalry.

Huang Sheng brought more than [-] men and horses, and the stable camp has been firmly established, so he is not afraid of enemy cavalry assaults at all. Moreover, there are more than [-] cavalry in the hunting troops this time, including five hundred of his own archers and ax cavalry. There are four hundred generals, and there are less than one thousand cavalry in Guanqian.

With such a cavalry team, it can fight against a team of about [-] Mongolian cavalry without losing the wind, and it will not lose against Jiannu with the same number of cavalry as its own.

Although the Fan family's caravan had no fewer than five thousand people, they were all traffickers and pawns. Maybe a few of them were strong enough to fight, and others didn't even have the courage to fight against the regular army.

They brought a large number of cattle, horses and carts with no power. How could they outrun the Mongolian light cavalry on the vast prairie? In this era, it is impossible for the entire world to have an army that could outrun the Mongolian light cavalry.

Qing Getai personally took an experienced old hunter to check carefully, and confirmed that there was no large-scale convoy passing within [-] miles in the short term.

He patted his chest in front of Huang Sheng to promise that he would never make a mistake in his judgment. Thousands of people passed by, and there were too many traces left by people, horses, carts, and bonfires, and the area was not small. He searched with his subordinates for several days but found nothing. The convoy had certainly not arrived yet.

After waiting for another three days, more than 1000 cavalry continued to pull nets nearby, and captured more than [-] Mongolians again. Since the Huang family did not kill people for no reason, they also gave the prisoners white flour cooking cakes. These captured Mongolians did not want to leave. , obediently grazed nearby, and returned to the camp at night to eat fish and pasta.

There are more than 100 scouts and cavalry from the Huang family, a total of [-]. They set off fireworks every night in an attempt to contact Wu Yi who was in the Fan family's transport team.

The old brothers Zuo Shouquan and the personal soldiers returned to the camp every morning. They all knew how to do more than one person. Everyone humbly learned from the old Mongolian hunters how to track the grassland and how to identify the direction in the grassland at night.

Zuo Shouquan and the others all have the small equipment of a compass, but they still learn to look at the stars, the moon, the direction of the river, and the growth direction of the trees to identify the location.

Gu Shanhe calculated the distance of each group of Huang's scouts setting off fireworks, and believed that within a range of [-] miles from north to south and [-] miles from east to west, unless he was blind or fell asleep early, he would definitely see at least three fireworks going up into the sky. This shows that it is impossible for the Huang family to miss the Fan family caravan.

The Huang family's team has a rigorous style of work and never takes it for granted. Gu Shanhe arranged the scattered positions of the scout team and personally participated in the reconnaissance. The conclusions drawn after calculations are beyond doubt.

At three o'clock in the night of the seventh day when the large army began to wait for the rabbits, they finally saw the gorgeous fireworks dazzling in the dark night sky. At least ten lookout posts spotted them, about forty miles southwest of the camp.

The news was sent back to the camp through the light code, and everyone knew that the targets appeared happily.As long as they come, they can't run away. They are not light cavalry, so many carts and food infantry can catch up.

The Huang family could finally sleep comfortably, and did not carry out the robbery plan slowly until noon.

There was no challenge at all, because the scouts of the Huang family, the bodyguard team, and Zuo Shouquan had been monitoring the huge convoy that night, and the approximate number of people in the Fan family caravan and the number of carts had already been reported. military.

Fan Yongdou, the Patriarch of the Fan family, personally led the long-distance team this time. This person was the leader of the traitorous Shanxi merchants in the late Ming Dynasty and the leader of the eight imperial merchants in the Qing Dynasty. There are bloodstains of Han people all over the place.

The Fan family's transportation team walked for half a month, and it was very peaceful. They saw that they would meet the cavalry who came to pick up Jiannu in ten days. Unexpectedly, in the dark night of the second watch, many people discovered that there were a few directions in the northeast and southeast. The fireworks bloomed, and I was very curious.

Fan Yongdou, who has been in the rivers and lakes for decades, suddenly became alert. He didn't realize that he was being followed by an army of more than [-]. He thought it was people from the rivers and lakes who came to fight the autumn wind.Fireworks connection is a common trick of people in the rivers and lakes.

He was not afraid. More than a thousand servants from the Fan family and shop assistants followed. Most of the servants who could fight were in the team. They were all good horsemen and archers. There were more than 300 of them. Everyone was equipped with iron armor and strong bows. Crossbows, their combat effectiveness can fight against and win against a guard army of a thousand households in the Ming army.

It's just a trick in the rivers and lakes. Tomorrow, I found out that they sent hundreds of taels of silver to make a good relationship and see each other in the future.

Fan Yongdou ordered the servants to cheer up and be careful of the candles, no matter what happened outside, just ignore it and strengthen the defense of the camp.

Fan Yongdou's camp was also surrounded by three layers of carts. It was neither impenetrable nor a few cavalry could rush in suddenly, so he had nothing to fear.

On the third watch, the servant on duty at night reported to the owner that three fireworks had been launched from the camp, and the traitor began to get nervous. It was obvious that he had long been thinking about his caravan and had successfully penetrated into the caravan.

He summoned all the handlebars overnight, and told everyone gently and lightly, if the people in any family got the money, we can discuss everything, we can talk about it tomorrow, there is no hurdle we can't get over.

Unexpectedly, the tried-and-true method before was ineffective. No one jumped out to negotiate terms, and the servants couldn't confirm who was the undercover agent from thousands of people. They didn't dare to kill people randomly.

Merchants always make money with harmony, and it is impossible to offend people in the Jianghu unless their lives are at stake, because if they are not afraid of thieves stealing, they are afraid of thieves thinking about it.In case the accomplices who killed the Jianghu people form a blood feud with them, there will be endless troubles.

The Jianghu people who came to avenge with the purpose of sabotage are almost impossible to guard against. They sneak up at night and set fires in the wind, and the property losses of the merchants are immeasurable.

Early the next morning, the Fan family caravan continued on the road. Fan Yongdou sent some of his servants to go twenty miles to explore the road, and some of them were observing all the new caravans recruited within a month.

There are more than a dozen authentic slaves in the Fan family's team. They are all selected warriors from the Red Army, and they belong to the Bayala of the Zhenghuang Banner. Zhangjiakou found Fan's family to pay a deposit to buy food, and now they are all dressed up as Fan Yongdou's bodyguards.

It can be seen that among the military officers of the Ming army guarding the customs in Zhangjiakou, there must have been bastards who had been bought by Jiannu long ago to become traitors. Otherwise, how could these people have not been interrogated when they entered the customs with weapons, armor and a large amount of gold hidden?
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