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Qin Rongshuai wandered around on the grassland, his whereabouts were uncertain, and he was very free.

But the major commercial houses in Shanxi are very uncomfortable, seeing that it is almost September, and the winter in the northeast comes early, and the Jianzhou Jurchens must reserve a large amount of grain, grass and winter materials before the winter.

Otherwise, it will be very sad in winter, there will be a large number of freezing and starving to death, Jianzhou Jurchen Ding mouth is scarce, each of which is very precious, so Jianzhou Jurchen will often go into the deep mountains and old forests further north to capture wild Jurchens to supplement the people.

Every time one dies, it weakens the strength of the Jurchens in Jianzhou, especially after the Jurchens raised troops against the Ming Dynasty, the population is the capital of victory, and it is lost because of natural disasters, which is something that Nurhachi can never accept.

Therefore, the materials of several large commercial houses such as the Fan family and the Cao family in Shanxi were very important, and they did not dare to stop the transportation at all, because they could not afford to pay this price.

Even if two batches of supplies were lost, the three most powerful families, the Fan family, the Cao family, and the Chang family, united and gathered all the convoys together to form an even larger convoy.

The entire convoy had 500 carts, hired a large number of more than 300 guards, and these families also contacted the horse thieves on the grassland and offered heavy rewards to encircle and suppress these unknown forces that caused trouble for them.

The mighty convoy stretched for more than ten miles, and a large number of sentry spies ran back and forth near the convoy, not only that, but there were also various horse thieves along the way to escort them in sections.

Jin Shang is iron-hearted, and he must be reckless to find a way.

On the endless grassland, from time to time, a few eagles fly by, sometimes hovering in the sky for a while, looking for prey, sometimes they will fly low in the air, making a burst of clear calls.

Qin Rongshuai stretched out his hand, took the Reconnaissance Eagle back, and sneered, "These people are really not giving up, since this is the case, I will fulfill you!" ”

This time, Qin Rongshuai did not take a night attack to attack, but wandered around the periphery of the convoy and quietly eliminated those horse thieves.

Either setting up an ambush to lure or stealing the camp at night, these horse thieves are difficult to parry.

One of the reasons why horse thieves on the grassland are difficult to deal with is that these people are outlaws and are extremely vicious.

The second is to rely on horses to wander around and plunder, like wolves, with no fixed place to live, strong mobility, and rush up when they find prey that is easy to start, and keep harassing those that are difficult to start, and can bite a bite.

And these are not a problem for Qin Rongshuai at all, no matter how fierce the outlaws are, they are all scum in front of his system soldiers.

In terms of mobility, Qin Rongshuai can wander around alone, take a dozen horses in rotation, do not eat, drink or sleep, and have the assistance of the Reconnaissance Eagle, no matter how cunning the horse thief is, there is nothing to hide.

After Qin Rongshuai caught the horse thief, he often did not leave a living mouth, nor did he stick to the means, poisoning, sneak attack, assassination and all kinds of means, after a few days of hard work, the horse thieves on the grassland smelled the danger, and they all ran away.

No matter how the steward of the convoy offered, no horse thief dared to accept the job of escorting again, after all, if you want money, you have to spend your life.

So, from the tenth day of stepping into the grassland, there was no protection on the periphery of the convoy, only a dozen sentinel riders of the convoy as eyes and ears.

The leader of the team is called Fan Hong, who is Fan Yongdou's housekeeper, and when he was young, he traveled with Fan Yongdou to Shanxi and Liaodong, and he walked the grassland road dozens of times, and was Fan Yongdou's right-hand man.

Originally, he stopped following the convoy a few years ago and stayed in Shanxi to help Fan Yongdou manage the trading house, but the stakes were so high that Fan Yongdou had to send him out again.

Along the way, he carefully used various tricks, but he still couldn't shake off the haunting ghost.

And they had only walked a tenth of the way, and at this rate they would not be able to reach Liaodong before the winter.

Fan Hong frowned, and couldn't think of any good way for a while.

"Ahh

A scream suddenly came from a distance, Fan Hong was shocked, hurriedly climbed onto a big car, looked into the distance, and saw a sentry rider planted off his horse.

This is already the seventh sentinel, and it has been eliminated by various methods in one day.

Fan Hong glanced back at the other pale sentry spies, his expression was gloomy, and he waved his hand, "Set up camp and rest, I won't leave today." ”

The convoy quickly set up camp on the edge of a lake, and it was still three hours before dark, but no one dared to go any further, and everyone looked worried.

At night, the night watchmen did not dare to sleep, their eyes widened, and even the others could not sleep soundly.

After one night, the convoy was surprised to find that it was safe.

Just as everyone was suspicious and put the mules and horses back on the cart and were about to continue to set off, suddenly there was a thunderclap from a distance.

"Boom!"

A flash of white light struck the convoy and exploded.

The huge wave of air spread in all directions, and the big cart that was hit was shattered in one fell swoop, and several nearby big cars were blown to the ground by the shock wave.

The mules and horses were startled and fled in all directions, and the whole convoy was thrown into disarray.

Fan Hong's face changed suddenly, and he shouted desperately, "Don't mess around, drag the horse!" ”

It took an hour for the entire convoy to control the startled horses and reorganize the convoy, and Fan Hong was glad that there was no sneak attack during this period.

But before he could say go, another white light hit the convoy.

The convoy was in chaos again.

After repeating this three times, Fan Hong's mentality collapsed, and the mentality of the people in the convoy also collapsed, they stayed in place, doing nothing, and letting some startled horses and carts run around, even if they stopped, no one paid attention.

The convoy was stuck in place and couldn't move for days.

Fan Hong also gave up the struggle, and the people leading the convoy stopped in place and did not leave.

This made Qin Rongshuai feel a little strange, and after a little contemplation, it seemed that they were waiting for reinforcements. In the past, when there were few people, he used to directly attack and raid, and when there were many people, he used wolf pack tactics and consumed a little bit, so that the insurance could delay time.

His purpose is to prevent these goods from reaching their destinations, since these people don't leave, Qin Rongshuai can keep spending with them, anyway, it's not him who is in a hurry.

Then he will go around and expand the scope of the investigation to see who is coming.

However, what Qin Rongshuai didn't expect was that at this time, the generals of Datong Town gathered, the banners were displayed, and the atmosphere of slaughter was pervasive.

Ma Chengen, the chief soldier of Datong Town, personally led 20,000 elites out of the customs and went north to the grassland to encircle and suppress horse bandits.

On the steppe, a large number of horse bandits also gathered and began to attack in all directions.

The Chahar Department and the Horqin Department all gathered strong men from various departments, and tens of thousands of people marched southward.

Nurhachi personally led the yellow flag, the yellow flag, and the white flag, and set off from Tieling to the west.

For a time, the entire grassland was covered with war clouds.