As Qin Chuan had guessed, after learning that Turush's army had been almost wiped out, Ahsan was taken aback and began to get nervous.

It is impossible for the Fan family to fight back against the Dajin Kingdom, and the remnants of Lin Dan Khan only have sporadic rangers, and they can't get together six or seven hundred people at all.

Those who dare to attack Turush, and have this ability, are only the elite of the Ming army.

Maybe it was Guan Ning's iron cavalry who suddenly went there, or maybe it was the elite Ming army of Xuanda or Jin, Shaanxi, and Yu.

The person who can come up with this kind of strategy must be a great general of the Ming army.

Looking at the other party's posture, he has already had a careful plan and a clear goal, and even has been planning for a long time.

It's no wonder that in the past few days, many unidentified horse bandits have suddenly appeared outside the Bitou Pass, killing people when they see them, and he has also lost a few scouts under his command.

It's not good.

Ahsan is in trouble.

If there is no cargo escort, it is okay, you can catch up lightly, you can fight if you can, and run if you can't.

But he was to escort six hundred horses, several thousand skins, five hundred minks and five hundred ginseng.

Horses are easy to solve, just take them with you, but he didn't dare to take mink and ginseng into battle, not because it was not difficult to carry, but because these two things were too valuable, those mink and ginseng were carefully selected, and they were used to exchange food with Nikan merchants, and they were worth more than 10,000 taels of silver, so they couldn't make any mistakes.

Moreover, he still doesn't know how many men and horses there are on the other side, he is only a thousand people, if the soldiers are divided into two ways, one way to escort the goods back to Huacheng, and the other way to chase the Ming army, he is afraid that he will suffer a loss with few soldiers.

If he didn't chase him, he would also be punished for fleeing without a fight.

For a moment, Ahsan was in a dilemma.

After thinking about it and listening to the suggestions from the left and right, Ah Shan finally made a decision to send scouts around to find out the Ming army and find out if there were any Ming troops nearby.

The large army was stationed in place, waiting for news from the sentinels.

……

At noon, Fan Yongdou suddenly received a report that a team of unknown origin appeared in the north, about 600 people, some wearing Dajin costumes, and some wearing Mongolian costumes.

Among the men were two hundred mule-wagons, loaded with goods, and swaggered southward as if no one else.

When the spies of the Fan family were checking from a distance, the other party sent a person wearing Jiannu clothes over, speaking in Manchu, saying that they were the warriors of the Dajin Kingdom of the Naturalized City, because the horse bandits were raging in the area outside the border of the Biaotou Pass recently, so they deliberately went south to meet the Fan family's grain transportation team.

Hearing this, Fan Yongdou couldn't help frowning.

He intuitively thought that this thing seemed a little odd.

It wasn't because the barbarians of Dajin Kingdom, who could stare at the sky when talking to the Han people, suddenly went south so kindly to meet him.

This matter is understandable, the thousands of stones of grain transported by himself can save the lives of many Jurchens, and the other party will definitely attach great importance to it, and it is not surprising to send troops to respond.

Strangely, if the other party came to pick up, why did they bring two hundred mule carts of goods?

If he had come to trade directly, why didn't he bring the 600 horses he wanted?

The weirdness is in this place.

Fan Yongdou is a very cautious person, otherwise he would not have been able to save this huge business, especially after Lou Fu Mengjiazhuang suffered a big loss, he often warned himself that he must think twice before acting.

"Dad, do you think there's something wrong with that Jin army?"

Fan Sanpao on the side saw his father's doubts, and couldn't help but ask.

Fan Yongdou nodded: "I can't be sure, but there is something strange in it." ”

Fan San said nonchalantly: "Dad, this is the territory of the Great Jin Kingdom, and there is a large army stationed in the Naturalization City, who dares to pretend to be the army of the Jin Kingdom here?" What's more, it is impossible for the scouts of the Jin Kingdom not to discover this group, and it is impossible for them to sit idly by and watch them pretend to be the Jin State army and ignore them. ”

"If it is the Jin army, they have no reason to be unfavorable to us, unless they don't want to do business with our Jin merchants in the future, and they don't expect us to provide them with food to help them survive the cold winter."

"But think about it, in recent years, for some reason, the winter is particularly cold, and there is no rain in the summer, just in the barren land of Liaodong, there is not much food to grow under the natural disasters year after year, can they feed themselves?"

"In the final analysis, they still have to rely on our Jin merchants to transport grain to them and help them feed a large number of Qiding and Aha, so that he has the ability to argue with the Ming Dynasty, and even enter the Central Plains ......."

"Nonsense."

Fan Yongdou's face changed, and he hurriedly stopped him.

Fan Sanpao felt speechless, hurriedly looked left and right, and was relieved to see that the surrounding families and nursing homes had not paid attention.

Needless to say, Dajin side of Daming, they have to give a large number of Dongzhu, mink, ginseng and deer antler velvet and other Liaodong specialties to various officials every year, and they have to give the officials and masters a large amount of profits, so that they have to buy grain, iron, and even gunpowder in the three places of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan, so that they can enter freely in the Xuanda area and transport grain and iron gunpowder out of the customs.

However, if Fan Sanpao's words just now reached the ears of the officials...... Then that's a big deal.

They can secretly cooperate with the enemy, they can transport iron and gunpowder, and they can even sell military information, but they must not say anything.

Although Fan Yongdou was annoyed with his son's open-mouthedness, he also felt that what he said was reasonable, but even so, he was still faintly uneasy, and he always felt that there was something strange in it.

Fan Sanpao lost his words just now, and didn't dare to speak more, so he stayed quietly beside him.

After a long time, he couldn't help it, and persuaded again: "Dad, according to me, this Jin army is here to trade with us, these are just the vanguard troops, and there should be another army behind us with the horses we want." ”

"Let's speed up and catch up, finish this last deal of the year as soon as possible, and then go back to Zhangjiakou Fort."

As soon as his words fell, Fan Yongdou shook his head: "No, don't go up to it, if there is something really weird, it will be a big disaster." ”

"Go and inform the leader, slow down, and send some people out, some of them will connect with the Jin army, and the other part will go around and go to the area of Guihua City to find out if there are other Jin troops."

"By the way, let them go to the Qingshui River and see if anything has happened there."

"Daddy......"

"Didn't you hear me?"

"Yes......"

Fan Sanpao didn't dare to say more, and went to pass the word in frustration.

After Fan Yongdou looked around, he climbed up a small hill next to him and looked into the distance to the north.

About an hour later, before the spies from the north had returned, the spies roaming in the east brought back a piece of news: Twenty miles to the east, a Mongolian cavalry, two or three hundred men, was coming towards them unhurriedly.

The spies tried to get close to each other and asked them in Mongolian what their origin and which tribe they belonged to.

The other party replied that it was the people of the Horqin Division, who were ordered by the commander of the Naturalized City to pursue the remnants of Chahar in the area of Zhuhu Fort, and recently received an order to order them to come and escort the Fan family's grain transportation team.

Hearing the news, Fan Yongdou repeatedly confirmed to his subordinates, what do those people look like? Are you sure it's the Mongols?

His spies nodded again and again, confirming that he had made a correct investigation, and that the group were indeed Mongols, but the team seemed to be a little uneven, and there seemed to be children, old people and women.

Fan Yongdou was shocked.

"Quick, go to the mountain beam on the west side, drive all the mule carts up, form a circle, guard the mountain, send someone to the city of naturalization to find Lord Ashan, and ask him to lead the troops to rescue."

Hearing his words, the surrounding homes were all scorched.

"Dad, what's wrong?" Fan Sanpao also looked puzzled.

Fan Yongdou hurriedly scolded: "Didn't you hear my words? Hurry up the hill. ”

"Yes......"

The surrounding Jiading Nursing Homes ran in a panic to give the order, asking the grain transport team to go to a mountain beam to the west.

But the Fan family's grain transportation team has 700 mules and horses, more than 300 pack horses and camels, even if the mountains and valleys in this area are bare, which can accommodate two mules and horses walking side by side, but the 700 carts still discharge a nearly four-mile-long line.

It is not easy to command such a large convoy, and it is even more difficult to quickly climb the mountain beam to form a formation.

It's good that they don't get attacked, but if they run into an enemy...... But it's hard to take care of it.

Unless accompanied by a large number of guards.

Maintenance and guarding is money, in addition to taking care of food, ordinary family members can also be raised by giving three and five yuan a month, but ordinary family members are not good at combat power, they can only make up the number of people to earn a shout, and when they really want to fight, they have to rely on deserters and horse bandits and thieves.

It is not cheap to raise these good hands, the Ming army has a monthly salary of about one or two silver, you have to give enough money, and then give them food, wine and meat before they are willing to come, and the two or three taels of silver with better skills can not be recruited, and the head of the village has to be given to five taels or six taels.

After Lou Fu lost a lot of men and horses in that battle, Fan Yongdou still had 700 people, including 200 good players, and he had to spend thousands of taels of silver every month.

When there is a large transaction, you have to temporarily hire more people, such as the bandits and horse bandits in the Xuanda area, and then find some ruffians, pull some hungry people to fill the number, and spend a lot of silver.

After half a year of sweeping by the Jin soldiers, there was no longer any horse bandits with hundreds of numbers in the Hetao area, and many tribes of the Chahar tribe who were also people and bandits in the past were also swept away, and with the Jin army responding, no one in this area could threaten the grain team, so Fan Yongdou only temporarily invited 500 people, and his own 500 people were enough for 1,000.

I thought that a thousand people could be guaranteed to be foolproof, and it was enough to deter everyone from getting small, but I didn't expect that there were still people who wanted to fight him.

The Mongolian tribe in the east, mixed with old men and children, was definitely not from the Korqin tribe, let alone on the orders of Ah Shan, who came to meet him.

Before determining the true identity of the "Jin Army" in the north, he must not act rashly, but must first occupy favorable terrain and form a formation to hold on.

……

The so-called Jin army in the north was naturally the Guan Emperor army led by Qin Chuan.

The Mongolian people in the east were a group of old and weak women and children from the Chi'er Mountains led by Luo Wentian, who had just received the horses sent by Qin Chuan.

When he learned that Fan Yongdou's grain team was forming a formation on a mountain beam, Qin Chuan smiled dumbly.

This Fan Yongdou is really a little poundy.

After thinking for a moment, Qin Chuan decided to throw down one hundred and fifty donkey carts loaded with forage, leaving only fifty Guan Emperor troops to drive the donkey carts loaded with grain and booty.

He led more than 500 Guan Emperor troops to rush to the mountain first, and started as soon as possible while the Fan family's grain team had not all gone up the mountain.

In the meantime, it is not too late to let the old and weak women and children of the Chi'er Mountain tribe come to fetch these donkey carts loaded with grain and grass.

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