Keshten looked at the steel edge of the Yanling knife, which was also very well made, and immediately said: "This knife is good, I like it." ”

Duan Jingzhu was a little hesitant, Duan Jingzhu is a native of Liao, but he knows very well the doorway, although the Mongolian tribe is also a Liao, but the taxes collected by the Liao State over the years are too heavy, and the exploitation of the Mongols is also very strong, and the Mongolian tribe has long wanted to fight. The minister of the Liao State also discovered this sign, so he restricted the sale of weapons to the Mongol tribes, and the steppe people rarely knew how to smelt iron, and they did not have swords, guns and armor, so it was a dream to want to raise an army.

"This is a headless business, involving the lives of three hundred brothers, and a knife can be exchanged for at least three horses." Duan Jingzhu said.

Keshten said: "Okay, deal, I'll wait for your good news." ”

The goods for going back have also been prepared in advance, all of which are grassland specialties, mainly cowhides, sheepskins, and even a small amount of wolf skins and leopard skins. The Great Song Dynasty prohibits the killing of cattle, and only a small number of sick and old cattle are slaughtered every year, so the price of cowhide remains high. This trip of 300 mules and skins was worth a fortune, and together with the horses purchased, it could be described as a huge profit. Of course, there are also risks hidden in the windfall profits, and the Liao horses are forbidden to be exported to the south, and the trade is in the nature of private goods.

The number of horses is small, and the crossing is easy, although it is said that the patrols on the border of Liao have been given silver, but this is not a thing that can see the light after all.

Duan Jingzhu mixed five sweaty and bloody horses into the mule group, and took a thousand iron-hoofed horses and hundreds of mule skins all the way through the border pass and arrived at Zhending Mansion. When I arrived at Zhending Mansion, I sold a small part of the leather goods in Zhending, and sent some leather goods to the old customers of the Daimyo Mansion, and then sent someone to invite Ma Ling from Jingcheng County.

Duan Jingzhu and Ma Ling are old friends, Ma Ling said: "The horse farm in the mountains of Jingcheng County is basically full, there is too little pasture here, most of it depends on supplements, and the running pasture is too small. So you have to transport the thousands of iron-hoofed horses to Cangzhou, where you have newly made dozens of miles, and the horses are big enough. ”

Duan Jingzhu said: "A tribe on the grassland gave me five bloody horses, do you want to keep one." ”

Duan Jingzhu pulled Ma Ling to the stable, and Ma Ling was surprised and said, "There is no publicity on this road." ”

"No, I know it's amazing, I've been mixed in with mules all the way, and I've got some leather stuff on my body." Duan Jingzhu said.

Ma Ling said: "My martial arts are destined to be a general before the battle, what is the use of BMW, don't keep it, sell it all to Brother Chao Gai, be careful all the way, send it to Cangzhou, Zhending Mansion can have Tian Hu's eyes and ears, and we are at odds with Tian Hu the most." ”

Immediately, Duan Jingzhu didn't dare to stay for a long time, and took the horse team all the way to Cangzhou, this way is also familiar, not to mention that Duan Jingzhu's team is not easy to mess with, more than 300 caravan guys, all of them are men who dare to work hard, all the way to Cangzhou Huanghua without incident, and handed over the horses to the horse farm. As for the five sweaty BMWs, the horse farm does not accept them, they are all stout Mongolian horses raised here, and the sweaty BMWs need fine management and care.

Now Shi Jin is embarrassed, the sweat and blood BMW is worth a lot, and this is a priceless treasure in the Central Plains. Shi Jin personally went to the salt field and no one took care of it, Lin Chong was superb, but he was still serving his sentence.

Shi Jin said: "Duan shopkeeper, I don't think it's as good as this, my flying pigeon will pass the book, at most seven or eight days, Yuncheng will send cavalry to pick you up." ”

Duan Jingzhu shook his head: "It's not that exaggerated, I've walked this road dozens of times, not to mention that I didn't give it for nothing with three hundred brothers." It's November now, and it's going to be the New Year in a while, my brother has worked hard with me for a year, and I'm ready to go to Yuncheng to hand over the leather goods and go home for the New Year. ”

Shi Jinjian said: "Okay, you still have to do a good job of camouflage, be careful all the way, your mule team is not slow, and it will be in Yuncheng in a few days." ”

That's it, Duan Jingzhu took the caravan to continue to Yuncheng, the more afraid of accidents, about accidents, in the border of Qizhou, which is now the area of Jinan, and then to the south is the boundary of Dongping Mansion. Due to the large number of horse teams, it was not suitable to live in a hotel in the city, and camping in the wilderness, after all, it was a horse team, and they did not camp like the army, but they just set up tents and set up sentry posts.

When he slept until midnight, the sentry noticed that something was wrong, so he went to call Duan Jingzhu, "Head, head, my eyelids are always jumping, I feel wrong." ”

Duan Jingzhu said: "I also feel wrong, usually camping in the wild, wild dogs bark, wild wolves bark, tonight is so quiet that there are soldiers nearby ambush, quietly wake up the brothers." ”

As soon as the three hundred brothers were woken up, the ground began to shake, and a troop of cavalry rushed from the north, and since it was night, it was impossible to see how much it was overwhelming.

Duan Jingzhu mounted his war horse, wielded a big pu knife, and shouted: "Meet the enemy, let them see how powerful we are." ”

But after all, it was a bit hasty, most of the people did not get on their horses, and they only took a Yanling knife in foot fighting, and the enemy came, and the fast horse team held spears and Pu knives, and the number of them was as many as seven or eight hundred.

"Kill." Duan Jingzhu rode forward on horseback, turned his head to dodge the enemy's long knife, and slashed at the shoulder of the enemy soldier, Duan Jingzhu's knife was extremely sharp, and this knife even cut off the shoulder and head.

Duan Jingzhu cut down three cavalrymen one after another, and then he saw that his brothers were also fighting hard, but they lost seventy or eighty.

However, the enemy soldiers were not entangled, they were not interested in leather goods and the like, and they took the four sweaty horses from the mule team, and then quickly disappeared into the darkness.

Duan Jingzhu immediately ordered the brothers to bandage each other's wounds and count the losses. This guy came too suddenly, although Duan Jingzhu woke up in time, most of them didn't have time to get on the horse. Forty people were killed in the battle, fifty were wounded, there was no loss of goods, dozens of mules were killed in the army, this is not important, the most important thing is that four of the five sweaty horses were lost, and the only big black horse left was saved because it was black and could not see clearly in the dark. Duan Jing lived in the caravan, which was basically crippled. As for the enemy, more than 20 people were killed in the battle, but they were outnumbered, and they took the corpses with them when they retreated.

The early morning sun shone on the earth, the cold winter mist was hazy, and looking at the corpse of the sunset companion, the big guy was a little lost.

Duan Jingzhu shouted: "It's all damn spirit, our horse gang bleeds without tears, doing this business is licking blood from the knife edge, the dead brothers and the horse gang will be responsible for the end, the old people and children in the family have raised the caravan, or that sentence, as long as I Duan Jingzhu is here, I will definitely not treat the brothers badly, the big guy can trust me." ”

Duan Jingzhu's brothers are all high-rollers recruited from Duan Jingzhu's hometown Yanyun Land, hot-blooded men, usually Duan Jingzhu has no shortage of dividends, and all of them have got the money they deserve. Everyone said: "Boss, we can trust you, what should we do next." ”

Duan Jingzhu said: "The enemy is coming with sweat and blood, since the horses have arrived, it will be safe, let's hurry at dawn, first go to Yuncheng to deliver the leather goods, and then investigate who did it, and we will definitely pay for it with blood." ”

Everyone was no longer grieving, wrapped the bodies of their dead comrades and placed them on horseback, and as soon as the day dawned, everyone loaded the mules and prepared to set off, when the sentry in charge of observation shouted again: "There is another large group of cavalry from the south, everyone prepare." ”

The people of the horse gang lived, as the saying goes, the mud bodhisattva still has three points of fire, where is there a robbery again and again, immediately everyone got on the horse, showed a sharp steel knife, ready to fight to the end.

Duan Jingzhu's eyes were good, and when he saw the words Jeju League Training written on the banner, he immediately said: "Slow down, don't be impulsive, don't hurt your own people, I'll go over and take a look." ”

Duan Jingzhu urged the horse, and shouted from a distance: "It's a brother from Jeju Tuanlian." ”

A person from the other side came over and said, "I'm Niu Gao from Jeju Tuanlian, but Duan Jingzhu's horse gang?" ”

Duan Jingzhu knew Niu Gao and knew that Niu Gao was a cavalry battalion trained by the Jeju regiment, so he immediately said, "Why are you here?" ”

Niu Gao said: "It was Chao Tuanlian who sent our battalion here, saying that Shi Jin said that your horse gang brought sweat and blood horses, and let our battalion come over to pick it up." ”

Duan Jingzhu sighed: "Battalion Commander Niu is late, the four sweaty and bloody horses have been robbed, and dozens of brothers have died. ”

Niu Gao became angry when he heard this, and scolded: "Who the hell dares to rob the things that Lao Tzu protects, how many people, and where did they run away." ”

Duan Jingzhu said: "I started in the middle of the night, and the brothers couldn't see how many people there were in a daze, but I felt twice as many as us, almost seven or eight hundred, and after we succeeded, we retreated north." ”

Niu Gao said: "I didn't send an explanation to Brother Chao Gai when I went back like this, even if I can't find the horses, I have to know who did it." Brother Duan, dare to stay and follow me to find the horse. ”

Duan Jingzhu said: "It is incumbent on me, dozens of my Mabang brothers have died, this is a deep feud in the sea of blood." ”

"Okay, then you take a dozen brothers to stay, and the others continue to hurry back to Yuncheng." Niu Gao said.

Duan Jingzhu said: "There is still a bloody horse in the horse gang, this can't be lost." ”

Niu Gao said: "Don't worry, my sister-in-law will arrive in a while, and the militia in Hujiazhuang is not given for nothing." ”

It didn't take long for Hu Sanniang to arrive, leading thousands of Hujiazhuang's children and soldiers to take the brothers of the horse gang into the territory of Dongping Mansion.

Niu Gao's battalion only had 300 cavalry archers, and the adjutant generals were Zhou Tong and Feng Sheng, and the soldiers were all skilled in bows and horses. Duan Jingzhu left more than a dozen good players to join in, and the horse team of seven or eight hundred people was too easy to find, so he looked at the direction and went to Zengtou City.

Duan Jingzhu said: "Zeng Tou City and we are old rivals, it should be that they will not do anything wrong." ”

Niu Gao said, "Let's go, find them and ask for horses." ”

The area under the jurisdiction of Zengtou City is not a small village, in fact, it is the size of a county, and Zengtou City was the largest trade distribution center in Shandong before the rise of Yuncheng Trade City. Niu Gao led the team before he entered Zengtou City, and people stopped him.

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