Chapter 22O: Night Raid on the Horse Thief (Ask for subscriptions, recommendations, collections)
Faced with the old shopkeeper's doubts, Zheng Ping carefully explained to the old shopkeeper.
"Grandpa Zheng, it's hard for us to defend against these horse thieves just by defense. That Gecuo was right, even if we could stop them for a short time, we would be tired sooner or later.
You see, we don't have any time to relax now. If it goes on like this, everyone will not be able to stand it. "I'm not afraid of ......," Hearing Zheng Ping's explanation, the old shopkeeper didn't say anything more, it would be too unlucky to say it.
In fact, Zheng Ping still has a concern in his heart that it is not good to tell the old shopkeeper.
Their youth team, as well as Zhang Yunyi and Li Zhao, are actually not at ease with the Zalut Department.
Although the Zalut Ministry had made an agreement with the old treasurer, the caravan did not dare to pin all its hopes on them.
In case the Zalut tribe reached some secret agreement with the Duoyan tribe, when the caravan was exhausted by the harassment of horse thieves, the Duoyan tribe suddenly attacked.
At that time, if the Zalut Department does not make a move, or if the Zalut Department instead helps the Duoyan Department, then the caravan will not even have the slightest room for resistance.
The Longmen caravan still has to rely on its own ability to play prestige and grasp its fate in its own hands.
It was again chosen to gather and camp on the third watch, but this time the side that sent troops became the Longmen caravan.
The Longmen caravan took out all its mobile forces, and more than 200 veterans were all dispatched. The junior team also made up more than 100 people who could ride horses.
A team of more than 300 people, led by Gecuo, approached the horse thief camp.
Drawing on his previous experience, Gecuo slowly led the team to the place where the horse thieves might set up camp.
As an old horse thief, Gecuo judged well, and the horse thief's camp was less than 20 miles away from the caravan.
Seeing the horse thief's camp from afar, the whole team moved even more slowly.
Seeing Zhang Yunyi whispering something to his subordinates from time to time, Gecuo suddenly understood that the caravan had already known the specific address of the horse thief camp. It doesn't matter if he has him or not.
Far from frustrating Gecuo, this small discovery made him more confident in the caravan.
The team slowly sneaked to a distance of only about 50 paces from the horse thief camp, and the horse thief camp did not show any vigilant movement.
Zhang Yunyi had one last exchange with the veteran scouts lurking near the horse thief camp. After confirming the general situation of the horse thief camp, the whole team slowly unfolded.
According to the prior arrangement, more than 200 veterans lined up in an evacuated cavalry assault array, and they launched the first wave of attacks.
The veterans' attacks are mainly to create chaos, interspersed as quickly as possible.
More than 100 teenagers are not good at riding, and they will take the form of dismounting and foot fighting. The teenagers will line up in tight lines, following behind the veterans for a sweep.
In response to the operation, 60 of the teenagers were armed with spears instead of muskets.
The Junior Squad will use the Spearguard Musketeers' formation to attack the horse thief camp.
According to the calculations in the caravan, as long as the veterans are interspersed fast enough, the chaos created is big enough; With the quality of a horse thief, they will quickly flee in all directions.
The boys and veterans only need to surround and annihilate the horse thieves who dare to resist.
Looking intently at the horse thief camp with only a little fire in the darkness, Zhang Yunyi gave the order to attack.
The sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the veterans crashed into the horse thief camp in one fell swoop.
The so-called horse thief camp is actually just a horse thief colony. There are no tight camp facilities at all.
Horse thieves don't have the habit of camping tightly, let alone a group of horse thieves getting together.
In the camp, the horse thieves mostly divide their territory into tents, and do not invade each other. If there is a deliberate act of crossing the line, the end is often a fight.
The Duoyan Department actually didn't take these horse thieves seriously, Lao Huadang just used them to test the depth of the Longmen caravan.
Zheng Ping: They guessed correctly, Lao Huadang did have a secret agreement with the Zalut Ministry.
The Zalut Department allowed the horse thieves to attack the Longmen caravan, and they were also tempted.
Lao Huadang did not suspect that there was a great witch in the Longmen caravan. But Lao Huadang believed that even if he was a great witch, he would not be able to send out such a powerful spell casually.
Lao Huadang used horse thieves to harass the caravan incessantly, and if the caravan couldn't withstand the harassment of the horse thieves, then the Great Witch would definitely be forced to take action.
From the timing of the Great Witch's move, you can tell the level of the Great Witch's specific ability.
Only by figuring out the ability of the Great Witch can Lao Huadang have an accurate positioning of the Longmen caravan.
At that time, Lao Huadang would specifically consider the issue of being friends and enemies with Xifengkou Longmen Inn.
For the new neighbor of Longmen Inn, Lao Huadang still needs to be treated with caution.
After all, the Daming backstage behind the Dragon Gate Inn has already shown great power.
For Daming, Lao Huadang still has a certain sense of awe.
Of course, if the Dragon Gate caravan completely collapsed under the harassment of horse thieves, the Great Witch would still not be able to make a move.
That face doesn't mind saving her face.
However, a horse thief is a horse thief after all. The Doyan tribe was also unable to completely control the activities of the horse thieves.
For horse thieves, Duoyan can only lure them with profits, and then rely on Bantianyun and other horse thief gangs to do rough control. This made Lao Huadang's plan a little off.
The world of horse thieves is a world of red fruit and the jungle.
The half-day cloud horse thieves suffered heavy losses in an ambush today, which greatly reduced their prestige among horse thieves. The words spoken were also a little less powerful.
Counting the loss of the first half of the day, there was a lot of damage to the horse thieves today, which made many horse thieves have plans to quit.
Although horse thieves are brave and ruthless, most of them are still bullying the weak and afraid of the hard.
When they found it difficult to get the bounty from the Duoyan Division, the horse thieves quietly retreated.
After nightfall today, the horse thieves gave up harassing the Longmen caravan and made a lot of noise in the camp for a long time. In the end, it was only through the mediation of the envoy of the Duoyan Department that the horse thief reluctantly reached an opinion to hold on for a few more days.
To this end, the Duoyan Department will provide another batch of logistical support for each of the participating horse thief gangs tomorrow.
The horse thieves who had just reached an agreement never expected that the Dragon Gate Caravan would have the courage to take the initiative to attack them.
With the sound of horses' hooves, the veterans rushed into the horse thief's camp in one fell swoop.
The goal of the veterans is very clear, which is to assault the largest force among the horse thieves.
These large strands of horse thieves are easy to identify.
In the center of the camp, the largest number of tents and large enough space must be the leader of the large group of horse thieves.
The veterans raised their horses to the fastest speed.
With the speed of their horses, the veterans wielded their sabers and slashed a bloody shortcut through the horse thief camp. They set fire to the camp as they quickly interspersed and went straight to the other end of the camp.
With the onslaught of the veterans, the horse thieves who woke up in their sleep were in a mess.