Horqin steppe.

Somewhere at the end of the sky, two teams were fighting each other, not so much as a one-sided slaughter, with the masked man having the upper hand.

One of the teams is the mixed battalion led by Lan Tianyi slaughtering a tribal caravan carrying goods, and the clan caravan was caught off guard at all, and was killed at once, but they will not sit still, desperately resisting, but their stubbornness has no effect at all, not to mention the indecent tactics of the mixed battalion, and the consciousness of resistance collapses at once.

The mixed battalion raided the tribal caravan, first shot a wave of dense arrow rain, shot down some tribal warriors, and after rushing closer, there was no white-knuckle fighting, but threw out a wave of grenades, blowing up those tribal warriors who wanted to fight white-knuckle battles, and the flesh and blood flew sideways, several waves of grenades fell down in turn, more than 100 tribal warriors all lay down, and many war horses and horses were lying in a pool of blood struggling and screaming.

The soldiers of the mixed battalion gathered the frightened horses and horses while cleaning up the battlefield, as long as there was still a pant, they went down with a knife, and the soldiers of the mixed battalion were composed of all Serbs, who were born warriors, and had been on the battlefield, had seen blood, and were ruthless, without the slightest mercy.

"Abuba, there is a lot of food, enough for our tribe to survive this cold winter." A soldier laughed.

"Shut up." The man who called Abuba shouted.

"Don't be so nervous, Abuba, the dead won't say anything even if they hear us." Someone laughed.

His words caused the people around him to laugh, dead people can't speak, so they don't have to worry at all.

Lan Tianyi and Huang naturally glanced at each other, both of them had fox-like cunning and weird smiles on their faces, the pit was dug, the only thing they were worried about was that the soldiers under them were too ruthless, and they didn't leave one or two alive to pass on their words.

The Abuba in their mouth is the first warrior of the Baltu people, the Baltu people are a small tribe on the Horqin steppe, because of the submission of the Dajin Empire to be preserved, some small tribes who are unwilling to surrender were wiped out, and the captured tribesmen became slaves of the Dajin, but there are also some clever warriors who fled into the Ming Dynasty and joined the Ming army to fight against the Dajin and avenge the blood hatred for the tribe and their families.

At Lan Tianyi's signal, the soldiers of the mixed battalion quickly cleared the battlefield, and then disappeared into the endless prairie, leaving only human corpses and horse corpses in different forms.

A few minutes later, there was movement in a pile of corpses, a bloodstained hand stretched out from the pile of corpses, and it was difficult to push away a gradually cold corpse, and a young man covered in blood sat hard, panting heavily, looking at the corpses around him blankly, tears quietly slipped down.

These corpses were all his people, including his relatives, his brothers, his good friends, and those who were talking and laughing just now, and in the blink of an eye, they were all cold corpses, all of them were damned Baltu people, not only killed his compatriots, but also robbed them of the food and supplies they relied on to survive this cold winter, he must go back alive and report to the patriarch.

There was movement in another pile of corpses, and a young man, also covered in blood, pushed away several corpses piled up on his body, sat up with difficulty, and the two hugged their heads and cried, gritting their teeth and cursing the Baltu people for being despicable and shameless, and losing their conscience, and that pigs and dogs were inferior, and in short, all the most unpleasant swear words in the world were cursed, and then they bandaged their wounds, supported each other, and staggered in the direction they came.

Somewhere in the prairie, Lan Tianyi handed over all the looted Dongdong, including the two unlucky soldiers who were injured by the stumbling of their horses, to the Red Gang caravan waiting here, and then quickly galloped eastward and disappeared into the endless savannah.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Huluntu tribe suddenly gathered all the warriors of the tribe, joined forces with the Abaku tribe, played the banner of revenge, and launched a surprise attack on the camp of the Baltu tribe, the Baltu tribe was caught off guard, suffered heavy casualties, and had to abandon the first camp, retreat to the second camp, relying on the fence and low wall of the camp to resist desperately, and at the same time sent people to ask for help from the Sange tribe, which usually has a good relationship, and complained to the Dajin Khan Tent for help.

It is not surprising that the Huluntu tribe raised troops on a large scale, Huang Taiji led the army to invade the Ming Dynasty, which consumed a lot of money, food and other materials, but also lost the battle, lost the army, and withdrew from the Hongshankou fortress in embarrassment, and did not get any benefits, which was a bloody war.

Didn't rob a grain of grain from Daming, seeing that the cold winter was coming, the tribes had to scrape together a sum of money to buy grain and other materials with the Jin merchants, preparing for the winter, that batch of food and other materials was the necessities of the whole Huluntu tribe to survive the cold winter, but it was snatched away by the unkind Baltu people, didn't this want to force them to death?

The tribesmen have always been straightforward and hot-blooded, happy to take revenge, of course, they can't swallow this bad breath, and they don't do any investigation, and they only start a war based on the reports of two tribesmen who were injured and fled.

Before Huang Taiji returned to Liaodong, he left Yue Tuo and other powerful henchmen to sit in the Horqin grassland, Yue Tuo and others received the news of the four clans' firefight, and they were stunned for a while, and it took a long time to react, and they hurriedly led the people of the banner to the bullet pressure, which quelled the war, but the two sides have lost a lot of tribal warriors and materials, and the four patriarchs fought a war of words around Yue Tuo and others, demanding justice and justice for them.

Just when the four tribes were playing table tennis, in Shanhaiguan, a caravan swaggered out of the city, and the flag planted on the car was the blue banner of the Wang family, one of the eight imperial merchants in Shanxi, and the Wang Lianfa Wang San, who led the escort.

Shanhaiguan terrain is precipitous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is the first pass in the world, the Beijing division barrier is called, the Jin army is defeated and retreated, after withdrawing from the Hongshankou fortress, the business and trade exchanges on the nine sides have returned to normal, and even more lively than in the past, large and small caravans can be seen everywhere outside the city.

Winter is coming, the Cypriots need to buy a large amount of food and other materials to prepare for the winter, so it is also the best and busiest business in the year, and the most profitable season, businessmen, the pursuit is a good word, they don't care what contraband is embargoed out of the customs, as long as you can afford the price, the businessmen can find ways to help you get it, however, the weak businessmen can only make a small fuss, make a little money, the most profitable big business is basically monopolized by the eight imperial merchants, no one dares to cross the thunder pool one step, otherwise how to die I don't know.

Outside the Shanhai Pass, caravans and pedestrians come and go in an endless stream, and the grassland not far away is full of all kinds of Dongdong, all of which are the tribes living nearby and the Ming people in the city gather here to do business, or gold and silver trading, or barter, forming a natural border trade camp.

There were a few men wearing tribal costumes who saw Wang Lianfa Wang Sanye's caravan, and exchanged glances with each other, two of them turned over and got on their horses and walked away, there were many tribesmen who came to the border trade camp to do business, groups of three or five, and some even had hundreds of people, all of them carried self-defense weapons, riding fat and strong high-headed horses, coming and going, it was normal.

There are also small bandits who make a living from robbery in the endless steppe, they generally only dare to find a single merchant or a small caravan to start, and dare not provoke those powerful tribes, and some caravans with special marks and deep backgrounds are even more like seeing a plague god to dodge, as far as they can dodge, for example, Wang Lianfa's caravan belongs to a caravan with a special background and no one dares to provoke.