In the air, there is still the smell of gunsmoke, the battlefield of the horse bandits is relatively clean, almost no clues are left, 12 corpses were left at the scene, look at the clothes, it should be guards, just a short encounter, there is no intention, the horse bandits are a big victory, I am afraid there are not many casualties.

"Spread out and see what clues there are!" Wang Jinming ordered loudly.

The guard platoon is all veterans, and well-trained, it was selected from thousands of soldiers, and soon dispersed into a fan, and after a while, some details were reported, the participating horse bandits, to be exact, a total of 120 horses, which have been distinguished from the horse bandits' horseshoe prints, which is very consistent with the surviving guards who said more than 100 people, as for the guns, 12 kinds were temporarily found, including Russian, American, French, British guns, this is also normal, unless it is the army, otherwise, the horse bandits can have a gun, It's already good, who cares what kind of gun, 12 kinds are all-inclusive, almost a universal firearms fair, as for the shooting, it can be determined that there are more than 30 for the time being.

120 horses, more than 30 guns, such horse bandits, can no longer be called small horse bandits, although there will be a number of horse bandits to act together, you can observe the distance between the horse bandits and horses, a certain distance dù above, you can be sure that they are one, because no matter how intimate the horse bandits, they will also be wary of each other, will not get together casually, there are several waves, they will be divided into several groups.

With the help of Wang Jinming's subordinates, Kan Kan arrived, almost without looking at Liu Shu's records, he said that eight or nine are not far from ten, Yang Yuanzhao was very excited, and asked: "Do you know that horse bandit?" ”

"How do I know this, just let you narrow down the scope, I want to come to the northwest, there won't be too many such horse bandits!"

Yang Yuanzhao smiled dryly, Wang Jinming didn't speak, and continued to observe, the gathering place of the horse bandits happened to be in the col of Xiaomu Mountain, and the horse team coming over on the other side was afraid that it would take about a mile to see the situation of the col here, and the horse bandits also took advantage of this, a distance of one mile, for the horses that ran up, it was at most more than a minute, such a raid, at the moment when the horse bandits ran, the result was already doomed, unless there were professional soldiers on one side, And in the case of more than one Makqin.

"The horse bandits were very professional, and after a sudden attack, after defeating the protective forces, they did not kill too soon, and after threatening the horsemen, they immediately let the convoy go north quickly.

"North?" Yang Yuanzhao almost subconsciously looked towards the north and asked in a little surprise.

"That's right, it's the north, I know what you mean, the north has to cross the Yellow River once, but once the Yellow River is crossed, the next thing is the grassland, there are carriages, horses, you can travel quickly, and you don't have to worry about densely populated cities at all."

The geography of Baotou is almost all in Yang Yuanzhao's mind, after crossing the Yellow River in the north, it is almost unobstructed, all grasslands, if in this sense, it is indeed the best choice.

"Can you know how long they've been gone?"

"Don't you know this, it's been at least more than 4 hours, even if we chase quickly, we can't catch up, Baotou, there is no training horse team, my soldiers are just able to get on the horse." Wang Jinming said solemnly, he really told the truth, the horse team is the norm in Mongolia, and even in the northeast, but whether it is Feng Yuxiang's battalion, or the new army and the Yellow River patrol battalion here, it is more on equipment and training. There are horses, most of them are pack horses, and the real cavalry is not trained at all, not to mention that compared with the horse bandits who are good at horse warfare, even ordinary Mongolian knights are not opponents.

"It seems that we still have to rely on that side to get information!" Yang Yuanzhao pondered for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and asked, "Brother Jin Ming, if you know the other party, how many people can you transfer for me here!" ”

"This!" Wang Jinming hesitated for a moment, the new army has not experienced it, this horse bandit is obviously an experienced horse bandit,

Wang Jinming's hesitation made Yang Yuanzhao understand a little, and tried to ask: "That's the Yellow River Patrol Battalion." ”

Wang Jinming nodded and said, "Yes, I can transfer a battalion of 500 people, no matter how much, normal training cannot be carried out." ”

500 heavily armed soldiers crossed the border, even if it was the power of the Jin merchants, it was okay around Mongolia, no matter how far it went, it may not be, Yang Yuanzhao felt helpless for a while, and said again and again: "Get ready first, ready to go at any time!" ”

Yang Yuanzhao took Wang Jinming's investigation results, and hurriedly returned to the reclamation company, and now the reclamation company has some information over, the forces of the eight major profiteers and big landlords are combined, very strong, in just one or two hours, at least hundreds of suitable messages came back, plus the unconscious guards woke up, providing an important piece of news, the bandits who robbed them were wrapped in a red turban.

Dozens of guns, hundreds of horses, and red turbans, plus Wang Jinming and the eight Jin merchants got some news, this group of robbers finally confirmed, the red turban thieves, active in the border of Northeast China and Mongolia, the notorious red turban thief, the bandit leader Hong Mazi and its two major leaders, in the government The reward is as high as 5,000 yuan, and they are well-known bandits.

"Red Turban Thief, how could they come to our side!" Hou Jinsheng asked with some curiosity, in the past day or so, similar meetings have been held three or four times, and no one can figure out that the red turban thieves who are in the Northeast and Mongolia would come so far to work.

But more and more information proves that it is the red turban thief who robbed the road this time, and among the news of the eight Jin merchants, there are at least more than 50 of them, and they are the personnel of the red turban thief, and the news in and out of the vicinity of Baotou is obvious, they have set their sights here.

"Is there an exact location for them, and is there anything that has been shot?"

The people of the Qu family said solemnly: "We have monitored several nests of the red turban thieves, and we have not found any movement!" ”

Thieves obtain property, must sell stolen goods, especially cotton such a large amount of goods, 680,000 catties of cotton, this is a huge number, the whole of China, can eat so much cotton, very few, the reason why thieves call them thieves, they will not have a perfect system, their thieves, basically through a fixed channel for sales.

After the cotton textile factory entered the right track, the huge demand of the cotton textile factory, the demand of more than 200,000 catties per day, made Baotou pay more attention to the control of goods and channels.

After confirming that the bandit leader was a red turban thief, the strength of the entire Jin Shang leaned towards that side, and soon, the activity range of the red turban thief, the composition of the characters, and even the old nest, were all shown under the intelligence of Baotou, Yang Yuanzhao couldn't deal with it, and directly handed over this information to the professionals, Wang Jinming After careful analysis, he came to a conclusion that this red scarf thief was a cross-border crime, and this vote was carefully thought outObviously, this batch of things, they will slowly shoot.

It may not be handed over, or even not sold, there is the possibility of recovering it, and the intelligence analysis of all aspects was summarized to the reclamation company, and then after identification, it was handed over to Wang Jinming, and soon the trajectory of the red turban thief appeared in the war room of the new army camp.

The Red Turban Thieves used a total of more than 300 people, including 120 assistants, which also coincided with the Red Turban Thieves' horse bandit team, more than 120 people and horses, through several paths, successively entered Mongolia, and then round on the grassland, some time before, they also committed crimes, mostly some scattered traders, and did not gain much.

After several times of stepping on the plate, the red turban thieves finally targeted the area around Baotou, almost a week, more than 300 red turban thieves, operating around Baotou, 300 bandits, almost unscrupulously in and out of Baotou, and finally the network to this caravan this big fish.

Yang Yuanzhao no longer has the time to care about how many loopholes there are in Baotou. At this moment, the recovery of those cotton is the key, and whether Baotou has the ability to gain a foothold in this era depends entirely on this time.

Here in Yang Yuanzhao, there is a complete information about the red turban thief, the entire red turban thief is more than ten years ago, a group of horse bandits who were active in the whole Mongolia, the current leader is Zeng Qi who abducted the horse, from 8 years ago to join the red turban thief, it took 6 years, from a small groom, to the big leader of the red turban thief, the red turban thief in his hands, from a small bandit group of more than ten people, to a large gang with 500 people, more than 200 horses, nearly 100 guns, Zeng Qi's role can not be underestimated, he has been in all directions for many years, Even the Beiyang Army suffered his losses.

Of course, it is not such a model army as the third town, in the year before last, the 45th standard of Beiyang was moved to defend Shengtian, the logistics team encountered the robbery of the red turban thief, the loss was huge, at least 200 guns, and a certain amount of ammunition was robbed by the red turban thief, and later the 45th standard and the Beiyang garrison Shengtian, the red turban thief carried out several encirclement and suppression, although a large number of killed and injured the personnel of the red turban thief, but did not extinguish, with the calm of the northeast, the red turban thief also escaped the catastrophe, with the help of a large number of firearms, became the Northeast Mongolian generation, the leading horse bandit.

500 people, the station is also roughly fixed in the Jilin generation, just in the mountains of Jilin close to the Mongolian generation, in this sense, the target has been identified, Yang Yuanzhao handed over the detailed information to Wang Jinming, Wang Jinming prepared a little, and sent personnel to set off, a team of 400 people, of course, is to take a carriage, to Zhangjiakou to transfer to the train, through the guò Beijing-Zhangjiakou railway and the railway out of the customs, to Jilin, their weapons, naturally located in the northeast Feng Yuxiang to solve. RS