Chapter 15: Plunder
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No matter how Zhai Zhe coerced and lured and appeased people's hearts, his position as a horse thief leader was not right.
There is Meng Kang's prestige among horse thieves to support him, and Xiao Zhiyan's archery skills are shocking, but in the final analysis, if he wants to completely turn this team into his subordinates, he must do some work that horse thieves should do. Prestige is not gained by jousting or rewarding.
For seven days, the overall atmosphere in the cottage was cheerful. Zhai Zhe promoted Che Feng to be his cronies, and almost all of the horse thieves were Han Chinese, and he was of Mongolian descent and was not well received by everyone.
After the four guards of the Zhai family returned to Zhangjiakou, people would quietly come to the valley almost every day to deliver the news in the collection and Zhai Tang's instructions.
On the night of mid-November, Zhai Zhe and Xiao Zhiyan ordered more than eighty horse thieves and quietly left the valley in the middle of the night.
There are no torches, the cold full moon in the sky makes it even more chilly, and horse thieves are no strangers to walking in the grasslands at night. But in such a cold winter they rarely go out, and from time to time someone whispers and complains. Zhai Zhe turned a deaf ear.
"The caravan of the Lu family left the set early yesterday morning, according to the previous degree, they will return to Zhangjiakou tomorrow at the earliest today, and the slowest tomorrow."
At the front of the team, Zhai Zhe whispered to Xiao Zhiyan that it was news from the set. Both Wangshunge and Zhai Zhe themselves needed an attack on the Lu family's caravan, Zhai Tang wanted to cause some trouble for the Lu family, and Zhai Zhe hoped to establish his prestige through a successful raid.
"There are often Chahar patrol cavalry in the Zhangba grassland! There is a risk of sneak attack! ”
Zhai Zhe shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter, the Chahar people will not protect the caravan, if the Lu family really established contact with the Chahar tribe, the caravan would not be so small in size." ”
Xiao Zhiyan curled the corners of his mouth, his expression seemed to be smiling, and asked, "Then why are you still so careful!" He didn't want to be a horse thief and make a living by robbing and killing, but he couldn't go back, and Zhai Zhe had always treated him like a brother, so he couldn't repay him.
"Be careful to make the Ten Thousand Year Ship!" Zhai Zhe urged the horses, and since he became a horse thief, he didn't dare to ride that big black horse anymore.
The horse thieves went out of the mountains and forests, Xiao Zhiyan took twenty people to the grassland to investigate, and the rest of the people were ambushed in the junction of the forest and the grassland more than 20 miles away from Zhangjiakou. When the Tumuts were strong, yurts could be found everywhere so close to Zhangjiakou that there was no room for horse thieves to hide.
At that time, caravans were everywhere in the steppes, and the Tumuts learned to buy supplies from the Han Chinese and sell them to nomadic tribes in remote locations, and they were extremely wealthy, and horse thieves were not as embarrassed as they are now.
There is no trace of people around, there has been no caravan in Zhangjiakou for a long time, the army of the Chahar people is stationed not far away, the horse thieves of the Duoyan grassland have focused their attention on the east, the border people of Daming Jiliao Town, the few Chahar tribes left behind and even the Dongyu people in Liaodong are their targets.
waited until late afternoon, when Xiao Zhiyan sent a subordinate back to report that nothing had been found on the Zhangba grassland except for the occasional Chahar patrol.
Even the Mongols are ready for the winter, and recently no tribes have entered Zhangjiakou to purchase goods.
The horse thieves began to talk to each other, and a few of them showed impatience, and it was certainly more comfortable to stay in the nest in winter and bask in the sun than to blow the north wind on the grassland. So far, Zhai Zhe has been focusing on appeasement, and the arrogance of a few people has slowly risen again.
Zhai Zhe didn't say much in his eyes.
In the evening, Xiao Zhiyan rushed over with more than a dozen horse thieves.
"See the caravan! About an hour later will arrive at the mountain pass of Zhangjiakou, one
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There are more than 20 people and more than 40 horses! I left four people there to follow! ”
Zhai Zhe was overjoyed, it was getting late, he thought that there was no hope today, but he didn't expect the caravan to return so late.
"An hour later, it's already dark, God help me!"
A quarter of an hour later, Zhai Zhe put on a mask, the ambushed horse thieves began to come out, the sky gradually darkened, the mountains in the line of sight slowly became blurred, Zhai Zhe kept urging the team, getting closer and closer to Zhangjiakou. If someone comes out to answer, maybe a confrontation will be inevitable.
Not far away, I remembered Xiao Zhiyan's whistle, which was a signal to make contact with the scout and the caravan.
More than sixty horse thieves swarmed up to the place where the sound sounded, and when Zhai Zhe got closer, he saw Xiao Zhiyan confronting the caravan a hundred steps away.
The reappearance of this large group of men and horses made the caravan lose its courage, and the guards and men gathered in a circle, their faces as white as earth.
Almost all of these people are Shanxi people who came to Zhangjiakou to make a living, Zhai Zhe lowered his voice and said, "Leave the goods!" Let's go! ”
A guard with a blade in his hand roared: "The goods are here, and the brothers in the collection will come out to save us soon!" ”
Zhai Zhe didn't delay any longer, and ordered the car wind around him: "Do it!" ”
Che Feng picked up his bow in his hand, and commanded the men and horses to rush up, and the guards knew that no matter how difficult they were, they also rushed forward with their blades. Xiao Zhiyan held the birch short bow in his hand and watched the battlefield without arrows.
The twelve guards were surrounded by more than fifty horse thieves, and some horse thieves went straight to the guys, and Zhai Zhe ordered loudly: "Those who do not resist are not allowed to kill!" ”
The horse thieves took Zhai Zhe's words seriously, and the horse thieves who rushed to the front rushed to the panicked guy, and slashed at the man's neck with a knife, and the person who followed him also stabbed another guy in the chest.
Zhai Zhe urged the horse to rush over, and the eyes hidden in the mask seemed to be about to erupt into flames, shouting: "Stop! ”
As if he hadn't heard, the horse thief still rushed towards the six surviving men.
Zhai Zhe pulled out his long knife and was about to do it, when he saw the two horse thieves in front of him each let out a miserable scream, in their hands
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75 blades to the ground.
Zhai Zhe took a closer look, and the two of them were each hit with an arrow in their arms, and Xiao Zhiyan's bow was still in his hand not far away.
The twelve caravans that were besieged there were outnumbered and died on the spot under the siege of many horse thieves.
"Take the horses and retreat at once!"
The shouts of killing here have been ringing for a while, if the Lu family sent guards to respond, they should already know that something was going on here, and Zhai Zhe didn't want to have a head-on conflict with the caravan guards.
Together with the mounts of the guards, there were more than sixty war horses, and almost one of the uninjured horse thieves led one each, and disappeared into the blurred moonlight. The six surviving men were like sifting chaff, and it took half a day for them to recover and turn up the bodies of their companions one by one.
Half an hour later, the torches in the Zhangjiakou market were everywhere, and more than 200 cavalry swarmed out, but they stopped at the mountain pass. The torches have been wandering in the mountain passes, not daring to go deep into the grasslands, the night means the unknown, and the merchants dare not venture at will compared to horse thieves. The robbery of this caravan is not a pain in the bones for the Lu family, but if the guards are ambushed, it is enough to make the Lu family lose the ability to get out of the fortress.
It wasn't until six bloodstained men cried out that they came back, and it took another long time for more than a dozen horsemen to rush to the accident site and wrap the bodies of the ground guards and pull them back.
Zhai Zhe and the others kept rushing east, there were no torches to illuminate, and the team walked very slowly, until the hour passed, and everyone returned to the previous ambush site.
Surrounded by mountains and forests, the horse thieves lit torches, Zhai Zhe's mask had not yet been taken off, and it was divided into hideous under the light of the fire.
His eyes searched the crowd until he saw the two horse thieves who were shot by Xiao Zhiyan hiding in the corner.
"You guys, come here!"
Zhai Zhe hooked his fingers.
The two horse thieves looked at each other and stepped forward with the courage of each other.
"Why didn't you listen to me just now!"
"It's too noisy to hear!"
"Then why didn't I listen to your orders when I got there?"
The horse thief on the right yells, "Have you ever been a horse thief?" There is no horse thief who does not kill. ”
Zhai Zhe was furious and ordered Che Feng: "\u."
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The two horse thieves were a little panicked, drew their knives in their hands, and shouted: "Who dares to come!" ”
Che Feng pulled out the scimitar that the Mongols liked to use from his waist and beckoned to the onlookers: "Tie it up, kill the rebels!" ”
The two horse thieves surrounded in the middle shouted, "How can you listen to the orders of a Tartar!" ”
Zhai Zhe took a step forward and shouted angrily: "It's not to listen to his orders, it's to listen to my orders!" Take them down! ”
There was a sound of swords drawn, and a circle of men with swords in hand surrounded the two horse thieves in the middle.
Seeing that something was wrong, the two horse thieves glanced at each other, threw their blades on the ground, knelt down to Zhai Zhe and begged for mercy: "The big boss, we know that we are wrong, and we beg the big boss to spare us." ”
Zhai Zhe was silent behind his back, and the Che Feng led the two people to step forward and tie their hands behind their backs.
Seeing that the two were already tied up, Zhai Zhe ordered Che Feng: "Kill them!" ”
Che Feng was stunned, he didn't expect Zhai Zhe to really kill these two people.
"Kill them!" Zhai Zhe saw that the car wind was useless, so he repeated it loudly.
Che Feng gritted his teeth, drew his knife and waved his hand to the horse thief next to him, and immediately went up and several people held the two of them down, and another person drew his knife and started his hand at the same time as Che Feng, and the knife fell to the ground, and the two heads rolled to the ground.
Zhai Zhe looked at the two heads in his footsteps, and sighed deeply in his heart, since the ambush of the Chahar cavalry, more than a dozen people have died directly or indirectly because of him. It's really easy to kill someone, and once you do it, you can't stop it.
"Follow me to have meat to eat and wine to drink, but if you don't obey my orders, this is the end!"
There was silence among the horse thieves, and the joy of a victory was gone, but perhaps this was the leader these people hoped for.
"Bury it on the spot!"