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The horse thief is going to do the work that the horse thief should do, Zhai Zhe and Xiao Zhiyan led half of the horse thieves to go around in a big circle on the Duoyan grassland, and they didn't steal a single sheep.

Mid-June is the hottest season of the year, and the hoarse screams of insects can't leave an echo in the open grasslands, but it's enough to be upset.

"It's strange, a month ago, I was a nomadic Chahar tribe here!" Xiao Zhiyan was also puzzled.

"There is only one possibility, they were all surrendered by the Jurchens!"

After the Mongol tribes took refuge in the Jurchens, they would be designated as a fixed nomadic location by Huang Taiji, and they were not allowed to move at will. Only when the remaining Chahar tribes all took refuge in the Jurchens would they completely disappear from the Duoyan grassland.

The Jurchens move fast enough! As soon as the war broke out in the west, the move was made on this side.

Only then did Zhai Zhe understand why, in winter, Eruzhuo dared to escort the caravan from the Duoyan Grassland to Guò, and at that time, I am afraid that the two sides would have contact.

When Lin Dan Khan was in the Duoyan steppe, most of the people swayed between Lin Dan Khan and the Jurchens, and they did not want to be enemies of the Jurchens, nor did they want to betray the Mongol Great Khan.

However, since Lin Dan Khan moved westward, the Mongolian tribes of the Horqin steppe took the lead in throwing themselves into the arms of Huang Taiji, and after many years of marriage, the Horqin Mongols have long been inseparable from the Jurchens. The Jurchens were lured and co-opted, and none of the other tribes in Modong wanted to offend their powerful neighbors, and they were all nominally subservient.

"It seems that I can only go to Liaodong to rob! That's what horse thieves do! Xiao Zhiyan smiled and shrugged his shoulders on the horse, as if nothing could make this person sad.

"Isn't that going to die?"

"It's better to die than to starve! Let me teach them how to be a real horse thief! Xiao Zhiyan didn't care.

In June, fighting between the Tumuts and the Chahars continued, and after skirmishes, the Tumuts abandoned the city of Naturalization and retreated westward. The Chahar army was in hot pursuit, and if he could not conquer the Tumuts, Lin Dan Khan would not be able to gain a foothold in the Monan steppe.

Zhai Zhe picked out three hundred people and handed them to Xiao Zhiyan, and really let him go to Liaodong. Zhai Tang has always said that he is the same, and now that the overall situation of Zhangjiakou has been decided, he will definitely not give himself greater support.

After Lu Fuyou left, business in Zhangjiakou became more and more popular, and every day there were convoys of goods from Xuanfu, and caravans quietly went to Liaodong through the inaccessible Duoyan grassland. Zhai Zhe led the remaining two hundred people to serve as guards together with Eruzhuo.

The caravans were too frequent, Zhai Zhe carefully calculated the size and number of the caravans, in June and July, the pack horses from Zhangjiakou to Shengjing walked nearly a thousand times, and there were some wagons, which were tightly wrapped outside. The drought has passed, this year's wind and rain are smooth, and seeing that the harvest season is approaching, how can the Jurchens need so many supplies?

The horse thieves of the Doyan Grassland finally couldn't stand the temptation of such frequent caravans.

There were no more Mongols here, but there were more horse thieves, and many of the herdsmen who escaped from the Monan steppe joined the industry. In order to survive, it is worth taking any risk.

Zhai Zheyi led his troops to follow the caravan about thirty or fifty miles, and Eruzhuo's men and horses walked in front of the caravan. After a few exchanges, the caravan gradually got used to being accompanied by two cavalry not far away, knowing that these people were protecting themselves.

On summer nights, there are many mosquitoes on the grassland, and between heat and being bitten, Zhai Zhe chose the latter. Cover your body with thick long clothes, you can still sleep for a while in the second half of the night, if you just want to be cool, I'm afraid you can make your body swollen overnight.

On this day, around the hour, Zhai Zhe was tossing and turning in the tent, and suddenly heard the guards on duty on the periphery shouting loudly:"

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It's on fire! The direction of the caravan is on fire! ”

Zhai Zhe opened the tent, and he could see clearly under the thin moonlight, and two large fires were lit in the camp of the caravan more than thirty miles away, which was the signal that the caravan had been attacked!

"Get up, get on your horses! Rush over! ”

In the hot weather, most of the horse thieves did not fall asleep, and after receiving the order, they quickly climbed out of the tent, stepped on the war horse, and followed Zhai Zhe in the direction of the caravan.

Zhai Zhe's big black horse was the fastest, leaving Che Feng and the others far behind.

The caravans out of the fortress are most guarded against at night by horse thieves, and they all have strict camping habits. The camp usually chooses a high ground with a good view and easy defense. The pack horses were joined together and lined up in a circle with the carts pulling goods, except for the outer sentry posts, the guards guarded the inner side of the encirclement, and the men hid in the middle of the encirclement.

The caravan was full of seasoned veterans and was very vigilant, and the outlying sentry was already secretly approaching, and the guards immediately lit a campfire for help. There are more than 30 miles in the grassland, and the war horses can be arrived after galloping for more than half an hour.

But now the guards are hoping for a shorter time!

In the darkness, it was not clear how many horse thieves were attacking, and the cavalry rushed to the nearest place and were blocked by pack horses, and then dismounted and attacked with swords.

Experienced guards carefully controlled the packhorse teams that were joined together so as not to be scattered, and the perimeter began to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

The horse thieves were obviously not on the same side, the attack was a bit chaotic, and the guards of the caravan only grasped one principle, "Drag!" ”

The longer it drags on, the better it will be for them. The sparse long arrows in the sky came and went, and the men hiding in the middle of the encirclement screamed from the arrows, and some men took out their weapons and fought side by side with the guards. After all, the defensive circle has been breached, and no one can survive here.

There were shouts of horse thieves all around, and when you heard it, you knew that it was a Han Chinese. The Mongols have always been accustomed to attacking in silence.

The caravan's guards fought and retreated, shrinking their defenses, extinguishing all the light in the encirclement and allowing the horse thieves to attack with their bows and arrows. The battle is getting more and more intense, and the bags piled up into the defensive line are full of corpses, people

11netbsp; The 591a horse thieves began to break through the southern defensive line.

Zhai Zhe rushed straight from the periphery in the dark, and the horse thief did not distinguish between friend and foe, so he killed two people in a row. The big black horse galloped on the grass, and when the horse thieves who reacted surrounded him, Zhai Zhe retreated into the darkness again. There are too many horse thieves, and he has to wait for Che Feng and the others to catch up.

While waiting, there was a commotion in the northeast direction, and shouts of killing were everywhere. Che Feng and the others also quickly followed, and more than 200 people rushed straight to the south where the caravan was most fiercely fighting.

The caravan's southern line of defense had been completely breached, with pack horses scattered and carriages isolated. The guards and the horse thieves were mixed in, and more horse thieves were pouring in, and someone grabbed a cargo bag, placed it across the horse's back, turned and disappeared into the darkness.

Zhai Zhe led his troops to kill from behind, and anyone who didn't know him was killed, and he dispersed the horse thieves who were snatching the goods.

Zhai Zhe and Eruzhuo had already come to help, and the horse thieves saw that the general trend was gone, shouting all kinds of slogans and retreating into the darkness.

Seeing that the situation was over, Zhai Zhe was wearing a mask and holding a torch, and was about to chase after him for a while, when he heard Meng Kang exclaim not far away: "Ah, there are so many weapons!" ”

Zhai Zhe urged the horse over, and under the bright light of the torches, he could see clearly that the oilcloth wrapped outside the carriage was cut by a knife, and the long knives about one meter long were densely and neatly placed inside.

"Split!" Zhai Zhe ordered.

Meng Kang slashed at the other side of the carriage with an axe, the tarpaulin tore a gap, and the black armor was piled up to the top.

"They actually sold weapons privately to Liaodong!" Zhai Zhe gasped!

"Retreat!"

Two hundred people disappeared on the way they came, and Zhai Zhe didn't even hit his forehead.

It's time to leave, since Fan Yongdou and Liaodong traded, Zhai Zhe thought of this moment, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly, he was worried that he wouldn't be able to convince himself one day if he continued to do it.

The Jurchens are buying food and weapons on a large scale! Could it be that they have some conspiracy? Thinking of the recent frequent and somewhat excessive caravans and the empty and somewhat weird flowery grassland, Zhai Zhe's mind became a mess.