The further north you go, the more military forts the Ming army has, and there are more and more Ming troops, and you can see troops and sentinels everywhere.

A strange army of six or seven hundred people appeared in the border area, naturally unable to escape the eyes of the surrounding military forts, along the way Qin Chuan was stopped and interrogated several times, starting from Shuozhou Wei, to Jingping Qianhu, and then to Pingyuwei, Zhuhu Fort, and Weiyuanwei.

Every time he was interrogated, Qin Chuan showed his hundred-household waist card, saying that he was going north to hunt down a group of deserters who killed people and defected.

When the officers and soldiers interrogated did not believe it, he said that the group of deserters not only killed the people, but also gave the wives and concubines of the thousands of households in Ninghua to the wheel, so he let him privately lead the troops north to chase the group.

At the same time, he would also take out as little as a few taels and as much as a few dozen taels of silver for the convenience of the officers and men who were interrogated.

Those officers and soldiers all expressed deep sympathy for the Thousand Households of Ninghua Station, and then let this Hundred Households Master of the Hundred Households who had a generous hand go.

The journey was quite smooth, and on the afternoon of the fifth day of the expedition, I finally arrived at Mo'er Mountain.

Luo Wentian waited there with fifty Guan Emperor troops, and also helped Qin Chuan choose a slope to make a camp and cut wood.

At the bottom of the slope were two hundred donkey carts, loaded with bags of hemp, containing five hundred stones of grain and beans, and the rest was all forage.

The reason why it is a donkey cart instead of a mule cart is because the price of mules has risen to twelve taels of silver each, Luo Wentian originally had five hundred taels of silver in his hand, and Qin Chuan sent someone to give him two thousand taels, which was only two thousand five hundred taels, just enough to buy mules, and the money to buy grain was gone.

The situation was urgent, Luo Wentian didn't have time to go back to get the money, so he had to retreat and buy two hundred donkeys, many of whom were old and weak, and many of them had eye diseases, but despite this, the two hundred donkeys still cost him 1,400 taels of silver.

Two hundred stone grain cost four hundred and forty taels, three hundred stone beans cost three hundred taels, and the rest of the silver was used to buy donkey carts and forage.

In the end, Luo Wentian only had less than thirty taels of silver left in his hand.

……

As soon as Qin Chuan's front foot arrived, a herald with two horses from the Lao Huang faction also arrived.

According to the news from Lao Huang, the grain transportation team of those big families should be about to arrive in Sancha City, and there are still 80 miles away from the Bitou Pass, and it will take about two days to walk.

After Qin Chuan asked the herald to go down to rest, he called Batu and a few Tatars who were most familiar with the terrain in that area, took out a map, and placed it in front of several people.

"Now I can tell you what I want." Qin Chuan knocked on the map and said lightly.

"You should know that there is a group of merchants in Shanxi who like to trade with you Tatars and Jiannu, and in two days there will be a grain transport team from the side pass to the north, transport the grain to the direction of Guihua City, and trade with Jiannu."

"You used to live in the area of Chi'er Mountain, and you were on the way to Guihua City, so you should be very familiar with that area."

"In your opinion, where will the place of the grain transport team and Jiannu be chosen?"

"Quack, quack, quack."

Batu pointed to a point on the map without thinking, and said with a chirp.

"The chief steward, he said it must be at the confluence of the Qingshui River and the Tumao River." Zhao Wu hurriedly translated beside him.

Batu chirped again.

"The chief steward, he said that their tribe and the merchants of the Ming Dynasty have also done a lot of business, in recent years, the war outside the customs has continued, few merchants dare to go deep into the outside of the Saiwai, afraid of horse bandits robbery, but also afraid of being implicated in the war, so they often agree in advance a place with a water source, and wait for the tribe to lead cattle, sheep and horses to trade with them."

"The best trading place is the confluence of the Qingshui River and the Tumao River, where there is the Tumao River in front of it, the Qingshui River in the back, and the Yellow River barrier not far to the west, which is not easy to be attacked, and their tribe has traded with the merchants of the Ming Dynasty there several times in recent years."

Hearing this, Qin Chuan put the map close to the fire and examined it carefully.

Not long after, he drew a small circle on it with charcoal, at the confluence of the Qingshui River and the Tumao River.

That place was only about a hundred miles away from the Bitou Pass, but it was only two days away, and if he was the head of the Fan family, he would also choose to trade there.

After all, it was too dangerous for merchants to penetrate their commodities deep into the desert, and most of the Tatar tribes were also people and bandits, and two or three hundred people dared to plunder a caravan of thousands of guards, and they could use their proud cavalry to constantly consume each other, and when the other party was exhausted and incomplete, they would pounce like a wolf and strike a fatal blow.

Half a year ago, Huang Taiji had just captured this area, and the situation had not yet been completely stabilized, even if the Fan family had one or two thousand guards, they might not dare to go deep into the Naturalization City.

Therefore, they are most likely to join at the confluence of the Qingshui River and the Tumao River.

The Partial Pass is nearly a hundred miles away from that place, and the Sanshandun is almost a hundred miles away from there, and he will be able to get out of the Fortress tomorrow, and the grain transport team will not be able to get out of the Stopper in the Partial Pass until two days later, and he is always two days faster than the other party.

These two days are not long or short, just right.

After determining his route, Qin Chuan called Luo Wentian over, and praised him indiscriminately, making him smile like a fairy.

Immediately afterwards, Qin Chuan began to give him the task, asking him and the Fifty Cavalry Guan Imperial Army to stay here with ten stones of grain, and as soon as the Mongols arrived, they would let that group of people dress up in disguise, go out of the Sanshandun Pass, and go straight to the west.

At that time, if Qin Chuan defeated Jiannu and grabbed the horses, he would send the horses to them to ride, and lead them to find the grain transport team, and when the time came, he would drag the branches and gallop wildly, creating the illusion that thousands of troops and horses were suddenly attacking, and cooperate with Qin Chuan to attack and kill the grain transport team.

Luo Wentian was very excited, and his face was full of anticipation.

……

On the sixth day of the expedition, at midnight, Qin Chuan led 608 men to quietly touch the shortest and worst Great Wall next to the three mountain piers in the dark night, and began to tear down the wall with iron drills, shovels and other tools.

This wall is built on the mountain, less than two zhang high, and is made of stones made of local materials, and there are no green bricks and no glutinous rice juice mixed with mortar, and the iron drill can be pry up the small stones with a pry into it.

At the third watch, a gap in the wall was torn down, which was one foot short and about six feet wide.

The stones and earth that had been removed were piled up under the walls on both sides of the gap, and the group spread the planks they had prepared in advance on the steep slopes on both sides, and a steep passage was completed.

Under Qin Chuan's command, donkey carts unloading grain and forage were dragged through the steep slope, up the city wall, and then slid down the steep slope on the other side.

After all the vehicles had passed, it was the turn of donkeys and horses to cross the passage one by one, and then hundreds of people carried 500 stone grain beans up the steep slope, slid down the steep slope on the other side to the outer wall, and finally sacks of hay.

At the fifth watch, all the donkey carts, grain and grass, horses, etc. passed through the Great Wall safely, and Qin Chuan led his subordinates to fill in the gap, only roughly filling the two sides, because Luo Wentian would soon take more than 200 Tatars from this passage out of the block.

When the sky was slightly bright, Qin Chuan took six hundred and eighty horsemen and two hundred donkey carts to the west along the Qingshui River.

At the same time, he scattered more than 30 Tatars, including Zhao Wu and Liao Sangun, as well as Batu, disguised themselves as horse bandits, and went in the direction of the west side of the Toutou Pass, sweeping away the spies of Jiannu and the Fan family all the way, cutting off the connection between the two sides.

From midnight, the Great Wall was tinkling and noisy until the sky was slightly bright, but the Dun army of Sanshandun did not seem to hear it, until the group disappeared into the morning light outside the plug, and several Dun soldiers lazily came out and sprinkled some dirt on the wall from the inside to cover up the traces of being pried open.

……

The spies sent by the Zhang family to report to the grain transport team failed to catch up with the grain transport team, because there was a little old man with big yellow teeth hanging behind the grain transport team with about 20 people.

The two spies died under the little old man's knife.

The grain transport team knew that there was a tail behind them, but they didn't know that two spies had been killed, and still went to the Yatou Pass and Fan Yongdou as originally planned.

……

After preparing the goods, Ilgen Jueluoa Mountain left two Niulu and a thousand men and horses of the Mongol Left Battalion to guard the captured and surrendered Chahar remnants in Guihua City, while he and Turushh led four Niulu 800 soldiers to escort the horse team south.

Of the eight hundred soldiers, there were three hundred and fifty men in armor, and sixty bayalas.

In addition to this, there were 700 light cavalry of the Korqin and Zarut divisions, with a total of 1,500 troops, swaggering towards the south.

Guihua City is 200 miles away from the confluence of Qingshui River and Tumao River, but the road south of Guihua City is flat and easy to walk, so Ah Shan expects to reach his destination in three days.