After Lou Qian was injured in Fengzhou City, he lost a left arm, and it took a year of cultivation to recover, according to the rules of the loyal army, he should retire and return to his hometown, but Lou Qian resolutely refused, and the prince who made trouble later knew about it. The prince said that there were tens of thousands of loyal soldiers, and there was not a single veteran who could be accommodated, so he ordered him to be transferred to the inner guard of the guard camp at that time to serve as a coachman.

Being by the prince's side can be the wish of everyone in the loyal army, but Lou Qian refused, although this has always been his wish, he thought that it would be too damaging for the prince to drive a car for the prince as a person with missing arms and legs. With the continuous expansion of the Loyal Army, he is now the deputy general of the Baggage Brigade directly under the Loyal Warrior Army and the commander of the Transport Brigade...

July was the weather of the fire, and the people were so hot that they couldn't stand it, let alone the horses, so they had to stop and rest for a period of time every fifteen miles of the convoy, feed the horses and drink water, and prevent heat stroke. At noon, the convoy rested as usual after a while, and then prepared to cross the Fenshui from the pontoon bridge, but a caravan did not stop, and continued to move forward across the pontoon bridge, and Lou Qian did not stop it.

"Hu Shun, change the route of the march and turn to the south to Qingyuan!" The caravan gradually moved away and disappeared at the end of the official road, Qianshun said to Hu Shun, the guard detachment in charge of the transportation brigade.

"Commander, it takes an extra day to go around Qingyuan, and it's not an official road, so it's time-consuming and laborious!" Hu Shun thought for a while and said.

"Although this is an official road, the terrain is flat, and it is easy to walk, but it is also suitable for the cavalry of the Jin army, which is easy to be attacked, so take a few more steps. It's better than letting the Jin Army rob it! Lou Qian replied.

"Commander, the spearhead has been released for twenty miles. There was no trace of the Jin Army along the way, so there should be no problem! Hu Shun said. Besides, along the way, there are patrol posts of our army troops in the river, and the rangers cover them, which is safer than detouring. ”

It is precisely because it is easy to become the target of the attack that the baggage brigade is more cautious in its actions, and it is often necessary to make careful preparations before departure, plan the marching route in advance, and formulate an emergency plan. When marching, they will also act according to the rules of the combat troops, and when marching, they will be divided into several parts, such as the vanguard, the avant-garde, the main team and the rearguard, and the distance between the units will be appropriately widened. However, it is necessary to ensure that they are able to respond to each other, provide support to each other, and conduct strict search and vigilance along the way, so as to keep abreast of the situation along the way.

"Hmph, not now, doesn't mean we didn't have it in the past." Lou Qian snorted coldly and said.

"Commander, did the caravan that left the brigade just now make you suspicious, but there is nothing strange about the merchant seeking profit!" Hu Shun saw that the commander's eyes had been staring at the caravan in the distance. It immediately became clear that they had aroused the suspicion of the commander.

"If they were really merchants, it would be nothing, but you noticed that without their horses they were very light, and if it were a caravan, they would have traveled all the way with only such a small thing?" Lou Qian said, "What we transported this time are all urgently needed items in the army. There can be no mistakes, and there is no big mistake in being careful. ”

"Commander, subordinates understand. I'm going to find a way! Hu Shun's face flushed, he was tasked with detecting the enemy's situation. But it was not discovered that there were enemy spies hidden in the team, and it was also a real job.

After the convoy hit the road again, it did not cross the river and take the official road, but went south along the river. At this time, there was a caravan that wanted to leave but it was impossible, and whether they wanted to or not, they had to follow the team. The further they walked, the more they walked, and they were more careful, this place has entered the range of Jurchen activities, a few days ago a transport team of the baggage brigade was attacked here, because the enemy is in a large number of people in the opposite advantage, the guards can not repel the enemy army, save the supplies, the last has no choice but to set fire to the materials to break through.

After moving forward for another while, it was said that he should stop to rest, but Lou Qian saw that the sky was already dark, so he ordered to cancel the rest and continued to camp in Liujiazhuang, five miles ahead. In a hurry, I finally advanced to the village after dark, this village is not large, only forty or fifty households, because of the remoteness, it has escaped the robbery of the Jurchens, and the village is basically intact.

After entering the village, Lou Qian immediately ordered people to find the village Lizheng, and under his guidance, he chose a flat and open place to camp, and arranged sentry posts to block the various exits of the village, and the personnel were only allowed to enter and not leave, and then asked people to send some food to the people in the village, and by the way, they found someone to chat.

Lou Qian's doing this was not all out of good intentions, giving food was a favor to the people, and he could understand and grasp the situation along the way from their mouths, and judge whether there were Jin troops and bandits nearby from whether there was anything unusual in their demeanor, and at the same time, he also took the people in the village hostage in disguise to prevent someone from secretly reporting to the enemy.

After a night of nothing, the convoy set out on the road again after dawn, and after passing through this section the road gradually flattened, and the march became faster, but they were more careful, because they were easy to walk, and the enemy's cavalry was also easy to walk, and they moved quickly, coming and going like the wind, and often using depressions, dirt slopes, low hills, and woods as cover to make sudden attacks, and take you by surprise.

At this time, a forest appeared in front of him, and Lou Qian ordered the convoy to suspend and send people to search carefully to prevent the enemy from using the cover of the woods to launch an attack. Suddenly, there was a warning sound from the rear of the convoy, Lou Qian hurriedly climbed on the roof of the car to look at the road, only to see the dust in the northeast direction, about a thousand horsemen coming this way, the distance was too far to see the flag, but Lou Qian did not dare to be careless, and immediately ordered the shrinkage of the team to be deployed on the spot.

At the command of the convoy, the convoy immediately went into action, and according to the terrain, next to a stream, they formed a circle with a diameter of about sixty paces by means of carts, and placed all the pack horses and caravans in the circle. The carts are connected from end to end, and the gap in the middle is blocked with grain bags, leaving no gap. It looks hectic, but everything seems to be in order, and the strict training on weekdays makes everyone know where they should be and what they should do.

Lou Qian, with the baggage squad as the main force, piled up grain bags on the roof of the cars to form improvised bunkers, and arranged a group of three vehicles to guard them, equipped with a machine gun. One of the volunteer archers guards the horses and acts as a reserve, while the other two command the rear of the cart and can throw arrows to block the enemy, and when the enemy breaks through the chariot, they are tasked with driving out the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. The rest of the people hurriedly filled their water bags with water and prepared to extinguish the fire.

As soon as the formation was formed, the cavalry behind also arrived. They restrained their horses outside the formation, and now they didn't need to look at the flag, they knew that they were Jurchens by looking at their dress, and there were quite a few of them, there were two thousand people, looking curiously at this hastily constructed car formation... (To be continued......)