The scene in front of him was too familiar to Lin Xu, who had witnessed the slaughter of the village, naturally knew who did such a massacre.

"Well, the thief should go away!" Seeing the scene in front of them, the faces of the Chinese businessmen present turned pale, and some businessmen collapsed directly to the ground.

"It's getting late, rest here all night and continue on your way tomorrow morning." Lin Xu said.

The soldiers present looked at each other, and even the merchants who were on this trip were opposed.

They didn't dare to spend the night in such an asura field.

"My lord, since you said that three or five days have passed, and the thieves must have gone away, let's take advantage of the darkness to rush for an hour or two, and stay away from here." Brother Ding also spoke at this time, he had also seen blood, and he dared to break into Dayu Island with a merchant fleet during the naval battle between the pirates and the Ming people, and he was a little more courageous than other merchants, but even so, when he saw the scene of corpses all over the field in front of him, his legs were also weak, and he couldn't stop retching.

"If it's not dark, you should set up camp." Lin Xu looked at Huang Jin and asked, "How far is it from the next village?" ”

"It will take at least five hours." Huang Jin naturally agreed to camp on the spot.

As a general, he also knew the danger of marching at night, not to mention that the soldiers behind him were already frightened.

If you just march rashly at night, if something happens on the way, the ranks of hundreds of people will inevitably be chaotic, and then the more than 100 soldiers under your command may not be able to protect a group of more than 20 merchants.

Despite the reluctance of the merchants and soldiers, more than 100 people set up camp on a slope one mile outside the village under Huang Jin's orders.

The soldiers lit a bonfire and took out the dry food and water from the wagon.

There was very little fresh water in the car, so everyone had to save it.

It was also the rainy season in spring and summer, the surrounding area was extremely humid, and there was a massacre three or five days ago, and hundreds of corpses were still piled up in the paddy fields.

Fearing the epidemic, the Ming army took out the liquor from the wagon, soaked it in cotton cloth and wiped its body and clothes, and sprinkled some quicklime near the camp tent.

In fact, if you saw such a dead place in the past, you should stay away as soon as possible, but now if you march at night in this situation, you will only encounter a greater disaster, and the Ming army and merchants can only stay here for a night.

Dry wood was taken out and lit with gunpowder, and a bonfire was lit outside the tent.

Most of the people didn't eat a drop of rice in a day, and the scene they saw in the evening made them vomit up the sour water in their stomachs, but even so, the stench that permeated the surroundings still made them lose their appetite.

The Ming army guards and Huang Jin's corporal kept vigil together.

At night, the Ming army fell into two shifts, the soldiers of Huben Town guarded the first half of the night, and Fubo Town guarded the second half of the night.

It wasn't until the early morning when the sky was slightly bright that everyone got up.

The caravan was much faster on this day than the previous day.

Everyone didn't want to stay away from the village, as if there were evil spirits chasing them in the village behind.

The team marched all the way north, and since the Chinese merchants did not carry horses this time, Yang Yandi specially selected more than 50 donkeys and mules from various villages to assist in pulling the carts.

The more than 100 soldiers brought by Huang Jin also have more than 10 cavalry, but they are all Yunnan horses, and there are only more than ten horses, and most of them are dying, and some are even disabled, so they can't be used as war horses at all, and they are just used for walking.

Out of trust in Lin Xu, Huang Jin deliberately moved two Dian horses to Lin Xu and Ding Ge.

The other merchants and soldiers could only walk on their own two legs.

"Lord Lin, your firecrackers are good, and your firearms are also excellent, but unfortunately there are no spearmen, and when you meet the horse team, it is estimated that a charge will be gone."

Along the way, Huang Jin has been looking at the Ming army team guarding the Chinese merchants.

Among the more than 30 men who escorted the merchants, twenty of them carried firearms and a long and short sword at their waists.

Whether it was the armor firearms on his body or the momentum along the way, he almost crushed the more than 100 soldiers he brought.

It is not difficult to guess that they are the elite troops of the Luzon Ming Court, and they may even be the family members of a certain town general.

Therefore, for Lin Xu, Huang Jin is also commensurate with an adult.

"I waited in Luzon to fight with the Fanren and pirates, and I have never encountered the Fanren's horse team, but I don't know if the guns in my hands can deal with it." Lin Xu smiled and said implicitly.

"If you meet an ordinary horse team, as long as you line up properly, it is not difficult to drive it away with firearms, but if you meet the Eight Banners of the Tartars, it will be hanging." Huang Jin shook his head.

Many of the Ming troops who went south to Annam used firearms, and although many were left behind in Quang Nam, a considerable number were still retained.

It's just that in a humid place like Annam, gunpowder is easy to get wet, and the gun pipe is also easy to rust, and the fire gun is not as good as a bow and arrow in terms of rate of fire and accuracy, and it is even easy to explode.

Therefore, most officers and soldiers do not like to use it.

Previously, Yang Yandi and Huang Jin pinned their hopes that Chinese businessmen would bring firearms, referring more to artillery like Frankie than to burning sticks like muskets.

Listening to Huang Jin's words, Lin Xu just smiled and didn't answer.

It is true that the Luzon Ming army has never encountered horse teams, nor has it ever formed such a class of spearmen and cavalry.

As soon as the formation of a firearms unit like Huben Town had already consumed a large number of silver and two personnel, coupled with the lack of horses in the South Seas, the Western war horses brought by the Spaniards from Europe were indeed tall and quite suitable as military horses.

But the problem is that these oceanic horses came all the way from Europe with the Spaniards.

This product is less than the number of red-haired ghosts, and it also serves as a mount for Spanish officers on weekdays, and when it was time to fight Laoag, the Ming army captured more than ten horses.

However, they were all divided between Liu Yu and several town generals, how could it be possible to form a horse team.

In the Ming army, those who could use animals such as donkeys and mules were also artillery teams.

After all, those artillery pieces are hundreds, thousands, or even thousands of pounds at every turn.

Even if there were artillery carts, they could not be pulled by manpower alone, and a large number of livestock were needed.

Therefore, if war horses are bought from all over the country, they are basically used as animal power for artillery teams, and they don't even think about forming cavalry.

The two chatted without saying a word, and soon two or three hours passed.

The scorching midday sun shone through the rain and mist on the official road, and the warm sunlight also dispersed the humidity along the way.

After half a day's effort, a caravan of more than 100 people drove more than 20 miles, and seeing that it was getting closer and closer to the next village, everyone gradually relaxed.

The soldiers also gradually became lazy, and many even sat directly on the carriages drawn by mules.

"Come down." A young soldier angrily scolded several soldiers who had sneaked into the carriage.

Several soldiers were unimpressed by the young man's angry shouting.

"This cart and this mule belong to our family, if you want to have a kind, tell our family." A veteran glanced at the young soldier with disdain, his yellow teeth full.

"I almost forgot, the goods in this car are indeed yours, and you kind of carry them yourself." A few soldiers picked up a piece of cotton cloth from the car and wanted to throw it down.

"You," the young man hurriedly stretched out his hand to pick it up, but unexpectedly stepped on a pit on the side and fell directly into it, his uniform was soaked with muddy sewage, his hair was scattered and soaked with mud, and he looked quite embarrassed.

This embarrassed appearance caused the nearby soldiers to laugh.

Along the way, these Ming army guards in military uniforms had already provoked the dissatisfaction of this group of veteran soldiers, and now they naturally laughed when they saw this.

Seeing this, the several flag officers who accompanied him did not ask much questions, and walked in front of them without paying a blind eye.

Several soldiers directly picked up the wine jug tied around their waists and drank it themselves.

Grunt, just as a few soldiers were drinking.

Suddenly, a soldier's pupils shrank, and he saw a black dot flying out of the mountains and forests on the side, flying straight towards him.

"Whoosh." An arrow shaft is stuck straight between the flasks.

Suddenly, a strong aroma of wine and wine spilled out.

"Woo, woo......"

The wheels were rolling, the cart was up and down, the wine was spilled all over the ground, and the soldiers in the rear smelled the smell and looked up, only to find that the carriage was a pool of blood along the road.

"Not good, enemy attack." Several soldiers in the car reacted, but several arrows whizzed over.

"Ahh One of the soldiers was hit by an arrow in the thigh and fell down screaming.

Several wagons and more than a dozen soldiers nearby instantly panicked.

Whoosh, whoosh, a few more arrows, and the arrow plunged headlong into the thigh of the mule in front of him.

The mule rushed forward in a frenzy of pain, knocking over several people in quick succession with the cart.