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The horse thieves and robbers on the grassland did not appear in August of the eleventh year of Wanli, and there were in the past, but the range of activities was very measured, and they did not dare to run rampant in the shelter of the Ministry of Answers and the border soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The grasslands are vast, and there are small tribes that are not within this range, and there are caravans that go to these small tribes to trade in order to make money, and these are often the ones that horse thieves attack.

On the other hand, the border generals and the nobles of the Tartars each sent their cronies to disguise themselves as horse thieves to rob and plunder on the grasslands, but now both sides have made a lot of money in collecting taxes, and they have greatly benefited from this trade, and they are not willing to dry up and fish, and cut off their financial resources.

Therefore, between the control area of the Ministry of Alta and the border towns of Datong, it is very peaceful compared to normal days, but if the merchants of the Ming Dynasty have a deep background, some small and medium-sized merchants are often extorted by the Tartar tribes along the way, and sometimes they are even captured by the Tartar generals.

But these were the merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and the Tartars often had caravans of leather goods, felt, livestock, and other goods to the Ming Dynasty, and no one dared to touch such caravans.

Everyone knows who is in the grassland in the world, and a team of more than 200 people left Guihua City two days after encountering horse thieves on the road.

The horse thieves were quite cunning, and at first they also pretended to be caravans, and a dozen carts full of goods staggered with the Mongol caravan.

Seeing more than a dozen carts here, full of goods, but the caravan on the Mongolian side had a crooked mind first, and saw that the other party's goods seemed to be filled with silk brocade, this kind of goods are the most pretty, easy to sell, these dozen carts are enough to make everyone happy for a long time.

When the caravans met on the steppe, they would normally send out scouts to see what was going on, and when the news of the Tanmares came back, the Tartars began to assemble as soon as they were killed. In their hearts, the Han people on the Ming side are just lambs, they always keep their voices down, accompany them carefully, and never dare to come hard.

The teams of the two sides were staggered, and many people on the side of the Tartar caravan drew their knives in half, but the two teams were leveled, and before the people on the Tartar side could give the shilling, it was this Han caravan loaded with silk that moved first.

Someone blew with a whistle, a sharp sound sounded, the cart covered with the goods of the cloth was directly lifted, the people in the car are all bows and arrows, the cloth is lifted, a call sound, the arrow shot directly over.

The Tartar caravan was also ready to move, and all the people rode to the side opposite the Han caravan with weapons, and the bows and arrows from the opposite side were fired, and it was almost too late to dodge, and the target was dense.

Within a distance of more than twenty paces, only a swishing sound could be heard, a rain of arrows had already been splashed, the weather had just turned cold, and people were wearing nothing more than leather robes.

Walking on the grassland, the current season is also peaceful, and there is no need to wear armor all the time, so this round of close-range arrow rain, only heard a burst of screams, the Tartars have planted an example from the horse, in a hurry, originally thought they were wolves, but they didn't expect that they were sheep, missed the opportunity not to say, and couldn't react at all, stunned, the second arrow over there was shot.

It was originally a team of more than 200 people, two rounds of arrows shot down, nearly 100 people were killed or injured, and the rest of the people reacted, angrily scolding Zhang Bow and arrow to fight back, and some people drew their swords to drive horses, and wanted to rush close to desperately, they were also recruited to fight with the Ming army, or follow their own tribes to loot and harass, the Ming army is often close to the collapse, this group of people in the caravan is not stronger than the Ming soldiers.

But I didn't expect that as soon as they rushed up, many people over there rushed over on horseback, and they also held shields in their hands, and the bows and arrows shot by the Tartar caravan were all shot by the shields at the moment, and some bows and arrows were shot, but the people just shook, and they didn't look injured, this must be wearing armor.

The Tartars forgot that they also wanted to kill each other, and each scolded the opposite caravan for being black-hearted and vicious, and had already planned, the collision of the two sides on horseback, and the knife and gun skills on the horse, it was also the caravan of the Ming Dynasty that was stronger, and the Tartars did not take advantage of it at all, but were cut down and stabbed down one by one.

The rest of the people dared to fight, and they didn't care about these goods, they turned their mounts and ran, how could the Han caravan be willing to let go, many people rode horses to catch up, and shot arrows in the back to slash and kill.

The horses ran away on the grassland, and it was not easy to chase them, but there were still a dozen horses running out.

"I am the centurion of the guard directly under the third lady, let us go, otherwise you will have a place on the grassland, and you will sweat a lot"

"You can't fight, why is there so much nonsense!!"

The centurion who spoke only saw a big knife swinging, and immediately separated, and the other people, whether they were angry or begging for mercy, were waiting for them with a sharp knife and a spear.

"You say, how long will it take for the people of this Len Khan to come?"

"When they come, the corpses will be gnawed clean by the wolves."

The thieves replied with a few words, laughed, and walked away.

The caravan of the Ming Dynasty was robbed, at least human life can be saved, the caravan of the Tartars was robbed, unless they can escape, otherwise they will only be killed, such a thing is really rare in the grassland in recent decades, the naturalization city from the monk Gedu Guleng Khan, everyone is angry, we must arrest this group of bold horse thieves.

The vast grassland, but the action actually has traces to follow, relying on horseshoe prints and ruts, relying on hunting dogs to track, not to be proficient in the characteristic terrain of the grassland, it is difficult to escape.

However, the elite cavalry sent by Naturalization City took charge of a few places, and after tracking for two days, they are now back on the trade route, where there are all kinds of caravans and travelers, and they can't tell who it is, so they can't track it down at all.

The people who have the ability and qualifications to go to the city of naturalization to file a complaint, and who can pass the news to the Golden Tent of the Ministry of Alta, are not only Mongolians, but also many Han merchants who have been robbed also have this ability.

The Mongolian caravan's reaction was that a horse thief disguised as a Ming caravan moved, and the Ming caravan said that there were both Han and Mongolians, and Guihua City made a judgment that this should be a horse thief mainly composed of Mongols and assisted by Han people living on the steppe, and it is very likely that they came from the Hetao.

In the eyes of the cadres of the Ministry of Response, it is impossible for the Han people to have such skills in the grassland and set off such a big storm.

The third lady is the favorite concubine of Altan Khan, and is also the wife of the current Great Khan monk Gedu Guleng, and the third lady has a quarter of the cavalry strength of the Altan Department in his hands, which is very important.

And most of the caravans from Guihua City to Daming are related to the three ladies, naturally, most of the robberies are the caravans of the three ladies, and the three ladies are naturally angry, and the monk Guleng has also received news from all parties, so he will naturally not take it lightly.

For such a cunning and tough horse thief, we must send the cavalry directly under the sweat tent to search, so that we can deal with this group of horse thieves.

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The grassland is not very peaceful, but there is no chaos in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, everything is as usual, but because the weather is getting colder, the farm work has been busy, and people from all over the country began to enter the city, or wander, or do a short job, but it became lively.

It has been almost five days since the Qin mission sent by the Jingshi, the commander of Jinyiwei and Wang Tong, came to Taiyuan Fucheng, even if it is an official in Shanxi, he also knows Wang Tong's name, and he also knows that Wang Tong's status is far more than the official title of this commander and Tongzhi.

From the governor of Shanxi downwards, all the officials who are qualified to meet are sincerely afraid, and they are very courteous, for fear that Lord Wang will be unhappy and cause some trouble for themselves.

At that time, the Yongsheng Boyu family in Shanxi Xuanhe was incomparable, and it was rumored that it was this Wang Tong who made a move, so that their family was ruined, and the family was wiped out, not to mention anything else, as soon as Wang Tong arrived in Shanxi, Ma Dong, the deputy general of Datong Town, who had a high status, hurriedly sent someone to greet and receive him, and he was extremely polite.

Think about the identity of this Wang Tong again, what does Jin Yiwei do, that is, to spy on the private affairs of hundreds of officials for the Son of Heaven, the ups and downs of his career, he has been an official for so many years, and no one dares to say how clean he is, which makes people even more trembling.

However, to their surprise, Wang Tong behaved very decently, not as young and vigorous as he often appears this year, nor did he have the arrogance of a young man, but was very gentle and polite, and could calm down and ask about the matter.

The adults in Shanxi also have their own ears and eyes, and they also know that a month before Wang Tong came to Shanxi, the Jinyi Wei Qianhu stationed in Shanxi had already begun to run to inquire, after Wang Tong arrived, the soldiers in the Jinyi Wei Qianhu activities became more frequent, but the news inquired about was not complicated.

That is, the matter of Zonglu over the years, this matter is not so much a problem, but a joke, looking at those bloodlines in the world, this general, that general, don't even have clothes without patches, and they can't even marry a wife in their thirties, everyone has a feeling of watching a play.

"The children of the clan, after all, it is the blood of the Heavenly Family, and His Majesty is also deeply sorry to bring down such a ruin, the cloth official has chatted with you in the past few days, and now there is nothing you can do!"

In the inner hall of the Shanxi Governor's Office, a cadre of people sat according to the rank of the official, and when they heard Wang Tong speak indifferently, everyone exchanged glances and nodded.

"Before the official came, he also saw the twists and turns in Beijing, and a certain sect of Pingyang Mansion went to Beijing to complain, saying that his side of Lumi has been in arrears for twenty-five years, and this official came here to check the accounts of various places, Datong Mansion is in arrears for thirty-one years, Taiyuan Mansion is twenty years, and it is in arrears for one year and two years, and the official still suspects you of what you are doing, these twenty or Chinese New Year's Eve years, I really can't say anything?"

Everyone stared at Wang Tong, but Wang Tong's expression was very calm, and he couldn't see any joy or anger, and the following was quiet, and the prefect of Datong stood up, coughed dryly and said: "Lord Qincha, this Zonglu is really amazing!" ”