"Not only that, but I also left a secret note on their carriage, and when the time comes, I can follow the traces I left behind, and make sure that I will not lose them. However, I hope that I can still ambush them in advance and catch them off guard. ”

Deng Zhilong accidentally discovered Ji Xiaohan's traces, and when he thought of the blood drops giving the order of the Great Khan Mengke, Ji Xiaohan would be taken down regardless of whether he lived or died. At the moment, he didn't care that he would reveal his secret identity, so he chose to join forces with Mahamu.

"How many people are there in their group?" Ma Hamu asked cautiously, although he had also received a wanted warrant from above, but his tribe was only a small tribe in Mobei, and the entire tribe had only three or four thousand men, women, and children, and there were only more than a thousand warriors available for battle.

If the other party's convoy is too large, it will bring huge casualties to itself, even if Deng Zhilong said it in the tongue of the lotus, he will definitely not agree.

Deng Zhilong smiled when he heard this: "Although the elder of the Mahamu clan can rest assured, the number of people on the opposite side is not more than sixty, and there are several women in their team, so there is no need to worry at all. If you're not at ease, I'll go with you when the time comes, but you'll have to provide me with some clothes for us to dress up in. ”

Hearing this, Mahamu nodded and agreed: "This is no problem, I will prepare it for you later." ”

When Mahamu heard that there were only more than sixty people, he immediately reassured him, no matter how powerful these people were, as long as the cavalry shot a few waves of arrows and launched another wave of charge, they could all be cut off under their horses.

However, just in case, Mahamu still decided to take the three hundred warriors in the tribe to set off together, and first carefully observe the number of the other party, whether it is really only more than sixty people as Deng Zhilong said, if the number is too much, he will definitely not listen to Deng Zhilong's words.

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According to Su Ziheng's intentions, the convoy turned from the wide post road to a small road. Although the road is not very easy to walk, horse-drawn carriages are barely passable.

The grassland in winter is not as lush as in summer, standing on the carriage and looking at it, the four fields are dry and yellow, and there is no leisurely feeling of wind blowing grass and seeing cattle and sheep.

Occasionally, one or two hares, bison and sheep could be seen passing by on the meadow, Su Ziheng instructed Shi Meng and the others not to hunt easily, the food they brought was sufficient, and there was no need to waste ammunition for this bit of game.

Not to mention the use of a gun on the steppe, the movement is too loud, and it is easy to attract the attention of others. Su Ziheng deliberately took the path because he didn't want to cause anything, so how could he ask for trouble?

Having said that, Su Ziheng still sent Shi Meng to take a few guards to explore the way in front to prevent walking in front of him.

For the grasslands, this situation is normal, the paths are less crowded, and in disrepair, the roads will be overgrown with pasture again.

Another purpose of exploring the road is to check whether there is a situation ahead, in case of encountering horse thieves, you can also be alerted in advance, so as not to be too hurried and fall into the ambush circle and be caught off guard.

"Phew!"

Su Ziheng tightened the reins of the horse, looked at the horse under his crotch and looked a little tired, couldn't help frowning, and said to Ji Xiaohan: "Miss Xiaohan, you grew up in the Mengyuan Empire since you were a child, you should be very familiar with horses, right?" ”

Ji Xiaohan nodded and said: "If you go back to Gongzi, although the slave is not very proficient, she also knows a little. As you may have noticed, there seems to be something wrong with these horses, and after a night's rest last night, it stands to reason that they will not get tired after only one morning. ”

Su Ziheng commanded: "Everyone is not busy rushing first, stop and rest for a while, and check what happened to this horse by the way?" ”

So saying, he jumped off his horse, came to the horse, reached out and pinched the horse's mouth, and examined its teeth.

At this time, Ji Xiaohan walked over, looked at Su Ziheng's movements, and said suspiciously: "Childe, do you suspect that these are all old horses?" But the tooth mouth is not very similar, this horse should only be three or four years old, just in the prime of life, should not appear to run after a morning of running. ”

Su Ziheng let go of his palm, his eyes were cold, and he turned to the others and said, "You all have to check it, what is going on with these horses?" ”

After some inspection, Su Ziheng's eyes became colder and colder, there were nearly thirty horses in this team, including more than twenty horses pulling carts, one-third of them were old horses, and the other two-thirds, even if they were not old horses, had been tampered with.

Ji Xiaohan said hatefully: "Childe, as you expected, these horses have problems. I don't know if the king of the North Sea cheated us with shoddy, or if he had other plans and deliberately used these problematic horses to harm us. ”

Su Ziheng snorted coldly: "No matter what the reason, I will never let him go." ”

Zhao Wan'er got off the carriage, came to their side, and slowly shook her head and said, "Looking at this situation, it should be Deng Zhilong's intention, and it shouldn't be shoddy." These horses must have been drugged to look so weak. ”

"If that's the case, doesn't that mean that Deng Zhilong wants to plot against our team? But it doesn't make sense, although there are a lot of private salt and goods in this convoy, but they can't be sold for much money, since he took 10,000 taels of silver from us, what is there to be dissatisfied. Dong Yuan asked puzzled.

After all, Deng Zhilong was contacted by her personally, and if he had a problem, he would not be able to get rid of it.

Su Ziheng comforted: "Don't worry, I don't blame you for this." After all, you haven't seen him in a long time, so you don't know how he's going to become. However, since he did not choose to do it in Jinzhou Mansion, but sent us out of the customs, it means that he did not dare to make trouble in Great Xia, for fear of implicating himself. ”

Speaking of this, Su Ziheng smiled coldly: "No matter if he has conspiracies, as long as he gets out of Yanmen Pass, what else do we have to be afraid of?" It's a big deal that the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth. We're here to make a big fuss about Meng Yuan this time, so it's okay to rehearse it in advance. ”

Although Su Ziheng didn't want to make too much noise and affect the plan to rescue Bo Yalun, if someone didn't know whether he was alive or dead and had to find death, Su Ziheng wouldn't mind fulfilling him.

At this moment, suddenly Shi Meng and the others rushed from a distance and shouted loudly: "Master, something is wrong, I found many traces of wild wolves near the convoy, and they will soon catch up." ”

This is really a disaster, just discovered Deng Zhilong's conspiracy, and in a blink of an eye, he encountered something more serious, and he was actually targeted by the wolves.

You must know that in the winter grassland, a pack of hungry wolves is more dangerous than anything else, and once encountered, it is basically a situation of non-death.

It's all about survival!