Killing the team of horse bandits, Li Hongji began to collect troops, looking at the more than 1,000 young men and women in front of him, and finding that they were not rescued with a happy smile, Li Hongji felt very puzzled, his team took a great risk to rescue them, why didn't they feel it at all? Don't you really understand the rules here? Li Hongji really doesn't know the rules here, but the rules he understands are very different from the thoughts of these white slaves, if Li Hongji understands their thoughts now, he will definitely laugh, what a lot of wealth is this?

With his own team, Li Hongji walked to the white slaves who were tied like grasshoppers, asked the soldiers to cut the ropes with sabers, and began to release them. Li Hongji's idea was to let them leave by themselves, but none of these people dared to go, they felt that this small group of horse bandits was more ferocious, maybe they were teasing them, and those who dared to escape would definitely die first.

I couldn't understand why these people didn't leave, so Li Hongji had to dismount and say to them: "You have been rescued, you can leave here now, why don't anyone move?" ”

It seems to be a chicken-to-duck language, they can't understand Li Hongji's language, and they still look at Li Hongji dumbfounded. At this time, Li Hongji realized that they couldn't understand his words, so he had to change to the dialect of Xiaoyuzi that he was not familiar with.

Finally, a few people came out of the crowd, although their costumes were tattered, but they could be seen to be different from other people in texture, and one of them asked Li Hongji: "Master, you said that we are saved?" You're not a horse bandit? To free us people? ”

Li Hongji said: "We are merchants of the Ming Dynasty, but for self-defense, my subordinates have practiced martial arts, seeing you people robbed by horse bandits, out of our philosophy, the road is uneven and draws a sword to help, did you save you, don't you understand?" ”

God is pitiful, these white people in the West only know the law of the jungle, the standard law of the jungle, and they know Li Hongji's idiom of pretending to be Sven, but when they saw Li Hongji's face showing a sincere smile, saying that they were rescued, and they were still businessmen, these people finally understood Li Hongji's general meaning, and suddenly began to show a smile for the rest of their lives.

These people are not all residents of the town, a few people dressed in extraordinary textures are passing merchants, they are also here to trade goods, unfortunately this time they were also surrounded by horse bandits in the town, and eventually became prisoners of horse bandits, fortunately they were well-informed, did not resist the horse bandits' robbery, and told them that they could let their families pay a ransom, they were able to save their lives, even their families, they were spared, not killed by horse bandits.

Li Hongji knew that he knew too little about the situation in this area, and when he saw that these were merchants, he was very happy to stay with them, but he was not a real businessman, and he didn't understand commodity trading at all, and he was only interested in the military situation here.

Fortunately, these businessmen didn't know the details of Li Hongji, and Li Hongji's team had saved their lives just now, so they answered Li Hongji's questions honestly, and they didn't dare to ask why he was interested in the situation and didn't dare to ask about the transaction of commodities and materials.

After a period of conversation, although the language was not quite in tune, Li Hongji still figured out the general situation here with his clever brain. The first is that this kind of looting and captivity of white slaves has been going on for hundreds of years, and the Ottoman slave traders have been hunting here. The second is that the land here belongs to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which is currently the largest and most populous country in Europe, but now the situation here is not stable, whether it is the Tsarist Empire or the Crimean Khanate, they can get a share of the pie here.

Besides, the slave trader Sumer, when Li Hongji's team began to appear suddenly, he didn't care too much, but when he found out that Li Hongji's team defeated the horse bandits with an extremely ferocious attack, even if he wanted to escape, it was too late, and he was finally captured alive.

After talking with those who had been rescued, Li Hongji began to interrogate Sumer, who was very afraid of death, so he explained the situation of the Ottoman Empire here clearly. From Sumer's confession, Li Hongji knew how powerful the Ottoman Empire was now, and it turned out to be a huge empire not much smaller than the Ming Dynasty.

This is a very important information, Li Hongji immediately judged the importance of this information, the more chaotic the area is for the Ming Dynasty, the better it is for the Ming Dynasty, just like the United States in later generations, hoping that the whole world will be in a state of chaos, so that it is easier to control, and the current senior generals of the Ming Dynasty are also in this state of mind.

Li Hongji made a general judgment of the situation here, and roughly marked the control areas of each force on the map with the information he learned from the two talks, and immediately sent soldiers to the capital, hoping to give Zhu Youxiao a judgment on the situation in this area and give instructions for the next move.

After doing these things, Li Hongji no longer cared about the problems here, he began to continue his trip, as for the decision of the big operation, it was the emperor's business and had nothing to do with him, he just wanted to find a more exciting tourism and continue to travel west.

The road of adventure is full of endless fun, whether it is robbing horse bandits or killing herds of grassland beasts, Li Hongji wanders around almost aimlessly, but the real intention is to understand the geographical environment, political climate, and key strategic points of marching and fighting, which Li Hongji will not say to others, but just write it down silently.

All the way west, on this day Li Hongji and the team stayed in an ordinary village, which is a very ordinary plain village, there is a family in the village that is similar to the identity of the Ming landlord, and the rest of the people are serfs of his family. Li Hongji's arrival frightened the small landlord, thinking that it was a horse bandit attacking the village, and after talking with Li Hongji, he knew that this was a caravan, so he bought some rare things from Li Hongji, and by the way, Li Hongji also made the necessary replenishment here, whether it was grain or salt, they could not carry too much, and then stayed down, ready to continue the next day.

Since Li Hongji's squad is an elite unit, it is natural that it will not relax its vigilance at any time, even if it is staying in this most ordinary small village, it will place sentries according to the usual standards, especially the placement of secret sentinels, which is the army's last cordon and life guarantee line.

In the middle of the night, Liu Zongmin began to check the sentry according to his usual habits, this guy is different from others, he always appears in unexpected places for the sentry, even if it is a secret sentry, sometimes he will be teased by Liu Zongmin. After going out, bypass the sentinel and quietly touch the place of the sentinel to see how vigilant the sentinel is, whether you can starve this guy for a meal, which is also a game to increase fun.

It is not easy to see people clearly in the dark night, especially in this era when night blindness is very common, Liu Zongmin slowly walked towards the dark whistle. Suddenly it didn't seem right, two very neat figures came out of the small alley, and the position of the dark whistle did not react, what's going on? Could it be that this guy is really asleep? Just when Liu Zongmin was about to get up and track down the two figures, he suddenly saw a figure appear, only to see that the figure's right hand stretched out to a person's neck, his left arm was raised, and a crossbow accurately shot at the root of another person's ear, and in an instant, the two figures were killed and injured, and the injured were captured alive.

Liu Zongmin immediately appeared at this time, he knew that he couldn't joke now, this sentry was now on high alert, ready to kill anyone who might be a threat, even if it was as powerful as Liu Zongmin, sometimes he would be injured at this time.

After identifying himself, Liu Zongmin and the two guards came to the dark sentinel, and vaguely saw that the dark sentry had completely subdued the attacker. Without any superfluous movements, the sentry handed over the captive to Liu Zongmin, and then entered the hut next to him with Liu Zongmin, and one of Liu Zongmin's guards immediately entered the position of the sentry to take the sentry's place.