Chapter 395: Profiteers Enter
Huang Sheng couldn't confirm whether the Fan family's smuggling team had passed, so he asked Qinggeltai to take his men and horses to confirm whether there was a large-scale convoy passing within 200 miles from north to south. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The Huang family began to set up camp, and the engineers immediately assembled tall steel watchtowers.
Huang Sheng planned to use this as a base to arrest all the living people within 200 miles from north to south and 60 miles from east to west, creating a temporary control area of the Huang family, and arranging a large number of observation posts to arrest anyone who passed by here, and if anyone dared to resist, there would be no mercy.
In just three days, more than 6,000 cavalry surrounded three or four thousand nearby Mongols, and there were many skirmishes that resulted in some victories, and a small number of Han slaves were rescued.
That was because some Mongolian tribes could not recognize the situation, and more than 100 soldiers also tried to go to war in vain, and they were beaten by the private soldiers of the Huang family and the cavalry of Qinggeltai before they were well-behaved.
The Huang family's team is well supplied, with naan, canned sea fish, and beef jerky, and often steamed cakes to change the taste.
Huang Sheng knew that the cattle and sheep that had survived the middle of winter were the herdsmen's hope for a year, and no one was allowed to kill the Mongols' cattle and sheep for meat, and the captured herdsmen were given grain and canned food, so that they could continue grazing within the range of cavalry surveillance.
Huang Sheng brought more than 10,000 men and horses, and the stable camp was already firmly established, and he was not afraid of the enemy's cavalry assault at all, and there were more than 6,000 cavalry in the troops who came to hunt this time, including 500 of his own archers, 400 axe cavalry, and less than 1,000 cavalry of Guanqiandao.
With such a cavalry team, it can hedge against a team of about 10,000 Mongolian cavalry without falling behind, and it will not lose against Jiannu and the same number of cavalry as yourself.
Although the Fan family's caravan will not be less than 5,000 people, they are all peddlers and pawns, maybe a few people can fight with full force, and others will not even have the courage to make a move in the face of the regular army.
They carried a large number of cattle and horses, carts and carts with no power, where could they outrun the Mongolian light cavalry in the vast steppe, and in this era, it was impossible for the whole world to run past the Mongolian light cavalry army.
Qinggeltai personally took an experienced veteran hunter to take a closer look and confirmed that no large-scale convoy had passed from the range of two hundred miles in the short term.
He patted his chest in front of Huang Sheng and promised that he would never make a mistake in judgment, thousands of people passed by, there were too many traces left by people, horses, carts, and bonfires, and the area would not be small, he took his subordinates to search for several days and found nothing, and the Fan family transport team definitely hadn't arrived yet.
After waiting for another three days, more than 6,000 cavalry continued to pull the net nearby, and captured more than 1,000 Mongols again, because the Huang family did not kill people for no reason, and also gave the captives white flour cooking cakes, these captured Mongols did not want to go, obediently grazing nearby, and returned to the camp at night to eat fish and pasta.
The Huang family scouts and cavalry were a combination of more than 100 people, a total of forty, and they would set off fireworks every night on the second watch day to try to contact Wuyi who was mixed with the Fan family's convoy.
Zuo Shouquan and the old brothers of the pro-soldier team only returned to the camp in the morning every day, and they all knew how to be skilled without pressing, and everyone humbly learned from the old Mongolian hunters the skills of grassland tracking, and learned how to distinguish the direction in the grassland at night.
They all have a small compass, but they still learn to look at the stars, the moon, the direction of the river, and the direction of the growth of the trees.
Gu Shanhe calculated the distance of each group of fireworks set off by the Huang family scouts, and thought that within 300 miles from north to south and 30 miles from east to west, unless the blind man or fell asleep early, he would definitely see at least three fireworks in the sky, which showed that it was impossible for the Huang family to miss the Fan family caravan.
The Huang family's team has a rigorous style and never takes it for granted, Gu Shanhe arranged the position of the scout team to disperse, personally participated in the reconnaissance, and the conclusion reached after calculation is beyond doubt.
On the night of the seventh day, when the army began to wait for the rabbits, they finally saw brilliant fireworks dazzling in the dark night sky, and at least ten lookout posts found it, about forty miles southwest of the camp.
The news was transmitted back to the camp through the light code, and everyone knew that the target appeared one by one in high spirits. As long as they come, they can't run, and they are not light cavalry, so many carts and grain infantry can catch up.
The Huang family was finally able to sleep comfortably, and it was not until noon that the robbery plan was carried out slowly.
There was no challenge, because the Huang family scouts, the pro-soldier team, and Zuo Shouquan had already been monitored by the huge convoy that night, and the approximate number of the Fan family's caravan and the number of cattle carts had already been reported to the Chinese army.
Fan Yongdou, the head of the Fan family, personally led the team to run long distances this time, this person was the first evil of the traitorous Jin merchants in the late Ming Dynasty, and also the head of the eight imperial merchants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
The Fan family transport team has been walking for more than half a month, and it is peaceful to see that there will be ten more days to meet the cavalry of Jiannu to meet them, who knows that in the dark night of the second watch, many people found that there were fireworks blooming in the northeast and southeast directions, and they were very curious.
Fan Yongdou, who had been running the rivers and lakes for decades, suddenly became alert, he didn't realize that he was being targeted by more than 10,000 troops, he thought it was the people from the rivers and lakes who came to fight the autumn wind. Fireworks liaison is a common trick of Jianghu people.
He is not afraid, the Fan family's family and the men of the business house followed more than 1,000, most of the family members who can fight are in the team, they are all good at riding and archery, there are more than 300, everyone is equipped with iron armor and strong bows and crossbows, and their combat effectiveness can compete with the Ming army's 1,000-household Weisuo army and can win.
The rivers and lakes are just jumping off the beams, and tomorrow I will find that they will send hundreds of miles of silver to make a good fate, and we will see each other in the future.
Fan Yongdou ordered the family members to cheer up and be careful of the candles, no matter what happened outside, just ignore it, and strengthen the defense of the camp.
Fan Yongdou's camp was also surrounded by three layers of carts, not to mention impregnable, and there were many cavalry who could suddenly rush in, and he had no fear.
On the third watch day, the family on duty at night reported to the owner that there were three fireworks in the camp, and the traitor began to get nervous, it was obvious that the people had long been thinking about their caravan and had successfully entered the caravan.
He summoned all the handlebar styles overnight, and told everyone in a gentle drizzle that if the people of that family are really silver, we can discuss everything, and we can talk tomorrow, there is no hurdle that cannot be passed.
Who knew that the tried and tested methods in the past were ineffective, no one jumped out to negotiate the conditions, and the family members could not confirm who was undercover from thousands of people, and they did not dare to kill people indiscriminately.
Businessmen are all harmonious and wealthy, and it is impossible to offend the people of the rivers and lakes until their lives are at stake, because they are not afraid of thieves stealing, they are afraid of thieves. In case the accomplices who killed the Jianghu people formed a blood feud with them, there would be endless troubles.
The Jianghu people who came to take revenge were simply unguardable for the purpose of destruction, and they secretly set fire to the wind at night, and the property loss of the merchants was immeasurable.
Early the next morning, the Fan caravan continued on the road, and Fan Yongdou sent some of his family members to go twenty miles forward to explore the road, and some of them were observing all the new handlebar styles that had been recruited within a month.
There are more than a dozen Jiannu in the Fan family's team, they are all red gangsters are selected warriors, belonging to Bayala of the Zhenghuang Banner, each of them carrying five hundred taels of gold on two horses and thousands of miles into Zhangjiakou to find the Fan family to pay a deposit to buy food, and now they are all dressed up as Fan Yongdou's bodyguards.
It can be seen that among the military attaches of the Ming army guarding the pass in Zhangjiakou, there must have been miscellaneous pieces who had long been bought by Jiannu to become traitors, otherwise how could these people have not been interrogated when they hid weapons, armor and a large amount of gold?