The bodyguard team that went north only set off with a small amount of silver tickets, because they could sell goods along the way, especially the paper and ironware of the Wantong Chamber of Commerce were the best quality things in this era. And perfume and swords, is a gold-absorbing weapon, two two one bottle of perfume sold for 100 guan, one two a bottle of 50 guan, they each brought 1,000 bottles on the road, knives, swords each brought 100, Zhao Chongyang stipulated that each sword, sword selling price is not less than 2,000 guan. Therefore, by the time the bodyguard team arrived in Tangyin, the gold and silver on their bodies were no less than 400,000 yuan. Because the value of this batch of goods was too huge, Zhao Chongyang asked Wang Dakuan to personally escort the horse, and Bai Xiaohe went forward with the convoy and was responsible for commercial affairs. Half of the bodyguards brought out this time are the old members of the original Liu family and the Zhao family, and the new team members are also selected from the domestic slaves or the original residents of Zhao and Liu villages, all of whom know their roots. The company commander of this company is Yuan Shuming, the former dart master of the dart bureau, and his 20-year-old son Yuan Shihua is a platoon leader, with 30 horses in front of the road, and is responsible for inquiring about the situation along the way, and the other 20 of this platoon are at the end of the convoy and protected by the palace.

The bodyguard team traveled far for the first time, and it was such a huge convoy, so it was natural to alarm the bandits who occupied the mountains along the way. Therefore, Zhao Chongyang equipped them with a strong protective force. 50 pistols, with an average of five repeater boxes per person, and each of the 50 gunners was armed with a pure steel sword, a set of light armor, and a protective mask. Lightweight armor and protective masks are all made of steel, and although they are thinner than iron armor, they are much more protective than iron armor, with only half the mass of iron armor. Therefore, as long as they put on armor and protective masks, their protection is equivalent to that of heavy armor soldiers, and the quality is that of light armored cavalry. Therefore, Zhao Chongyang encouraged them to kill the enemy in battle, everyone can move forward completely, and the enemy rarely hurts you.

The convoy travels overnight, walking an average of about 80 miles a day. Along the way, there are villages, towns, towns, and towns, and when they encounter large market towns and prefecture towns, state towns, and county seats, they try to stay for one to two days, sell some of the goods, and start to set off again. The routes they chose were all places without waterways this time, and after more than a month of departure, the convoy arrived in Shangqiu. Along the way, more than 10 strongmen who robbed the road were scared away, five cottages were destroyed, more than 500 prisoners were captured, more than 200 people who were willing to return to their hometowns to work as farmers were dismissed, and there were more than 300 people left, who were willing to follow them to Yuejiazhuang to make a living. 125 horses were obtained, more than 10,000 catties of grain were obtained, more than 3,200 pieces of silver were seized, and 1,500 pieces of bonuses (equivalent to silver tickets) were issued.

More than a month later, the convoy came to Shangqiu. At this time, Zhou Tong and Zhou Daxing, two heroes, had already broken up with Wang Dakuan and went west to Xi'an Mansion. Wang Dakuan and the others stayed here for three days, disposed of all the grain seized from the cottage, bought some necessities for life on the road, and set off again. They were going to Kaifeng Mansion first, and after further shorting the goods, they continued north to Xiangzhou. In Shangqiu City, I learned that to take the nearest road to Kaifeng, you have to pass through the foot of Heihu Mountain. However, the strongmen of Heihu Mountain were merged with several other mountains last year, and their strength has increased greatly, and now the people and horses of the cottage have grown to more than 1,600 people, which is the strongest group of strongmen within a radius of 100 miles. The strongman headed by himself called the golden knife Li Minsheng, and it is said that he was good at making a fifty-pound gold-backed machete, and he had the courage to be unstoppable. What else are Xiao Luo Cheng Cui Wen, Sai Qin Qiong Mo Dang and others, and their courage should not be underestimated.

Of course, you can not go here, first go to the northeast for more than 100 miles, and then go northwest, you can bypass the Black Tiger Mountain, but you have to walk an extra 120 miles.

Wang Dakuan and Yuan Shihua and Bai Xiaohe and others discussed, Bai Xiaohe persuaded Wang Dakuan to detour to the northwest, she said: "Anyway, we are not in a hurry, after all, the strength of this gang of bandits is too strong, seven or eight times that of us, although we have armor and crossbows, steel knives, and even flintlock pistols and light artillery, but Zhao Gongzi said that it is best not to use flintlock pistols, because this is a sharp weapon to defeat the Jin people in the future, and if it is exposed too soon, the Jin people may take preventive measures." ”

Yuan Shuming, on the other hand, thinks the opposite, saying: "We have fought several battles along the way and have accumulated a certain amount of experience. Although there are many bandits, we can stop the carriage in front and greet them with crossbows and artillery. All the bandits in the world are a ...... Oh... Characteristics, it is okay to fight a good fight, once defeated, even if there are thousands of troops and horses, it is not enough to fear. Yuan Shuming originally wanted to say that "all bandits in the world are one urine", but immediately thought of the presence of his nephew and daughter-in-law, so he quickly changed it to a characteristic.

Wang Dakuan listened to Yuan Shuming's analysis, and became more determined to fight this battle, he said: "Uncle Yuan's analysis is reasonable, although we will not use a lot of flintlock pistols at that time, we can choose five of the most accurate guns to take the lead in the charge of the enemy general, and the enemy's momentum will inevitably be affected." In particular, if the golden knife Li Minsheng is to be beheaded first, the others will not be afraid. In my opinion, there is no need to set up a formation in front of us, which will stop us from charging. At that time, as soon as the flintlock pistol is fired and a few strongmen fall off their horses, the bandits may think that we will use some kind of witchcraft, turn around and flee, and then we will be responsible for catching up and taking the prisoners. ”

The matter of not making a detour was decided in this way, and Bai Xiaohe made another suggestion, we now have a total of more than 300 horses, only one company of men and horses, and some people should be left to watch the carriage and prisoners. We now have more than three hundred captives, so that those who are willing to ride horses will follow us and charge with sticks, and when the battle is over, everyone will be rewarded with a consistent line.

Heihu Mountain is more than 100 miles away from Shangqiu, and on the first day they did it in Heihu Town, which is 100 miles away from Heihu Mountain. There are more than 2,000 people in Black Tiger Town, because the nearby villages and Black Tiger Town have paid protection money to the Black Tiger Village in Black Tiger Mountain, so it is not urgent, and the strongmen of Black Tiger Village will not easily go down the mountain to harm the nearby villages and towns, otherwise all the nearby villagers will be forced to flee, and no one will pay them money and food. So, it's still safe for them to rest in Black Tiger Town. It's just that less than an hour after they lived in the town, Li Minsheng, the owner of the big village, received a report from the eyeliner: Tomorrow morning, a huge caravan of hundreds of carriages will pass through Heihu Mountain to Kaifeng Mansion.

Since it is a caravan to the Kaifeng Mansion of the Beijing Division, the car must be full of money-related things, hundreds of carriages, haha, this ticket is done, and you will not starve for a year. As soon as they received the news, several leaders of the cottage were simply overjoyed, and immediately decided to have dinner early tomorrow morning, leaving only two or three hundred old, weak, sick and disabled and their families to guard the cottage, and the rest of the leaders with 300 cavalry and 1,000 infantry all went down to the cottage. After going down the mountain, everyone guarded me in the area of Baishi Slope, and when the time came to charge down from the top of the slope, it was estimated that the bodyguards of the caravan would be scattered, and then we would push the supplies under the stockade with their carriages and belts, and then slowly use horses to carry them up the cottage.

After the big boss Golden Dao Li Minsheng arranged the things for tomorrow morning, because he was happy, he left Xiao Luocheng and Sai Qinqiong and others to drink, and several people returned drunk that night, of course, they didn't know that this was their last gathering in the world.

The next day before dawn, the shop according to Wang Dakuan's instructions, prepared the meal, everyone eaten, set the carriage, the sky just turned white, the group of people along the official road to the direction of the Black Tiger Mountain, the line of about an hour and a half, seeing that the Black Tiger Mountain is not far away. They had already replaced the coachman with a captive. All the soldiers were armoured and their protective masks were put on the back of their helmets, and when they went into battle, the masks turned around to cover their faces, revealing only their eyes and nostrils. In the face of the enemy's arrows, as long as it is not particularly unlucky, and the arrows happen to hit both eyes, there is generally no danger.

There were 163 captives who signed up to take part in the cavalry charge, and each of them had prepared a wooden stick of one foot and two feet long on the road yesterday, and at this time all of them were in their hands, following behind more than 100 bodyguards.

Or a platoon leader, Yuan Shihua took thirty horses to explore the road in front. He had a lot of treasures on him, including a revolver, a simple knife, and two boxes of crossbow boxes. After walking for another twenty minutes, Yuan Keming sent someone back to report: "Not far ahead, there is a hillside called Baishipo on the slope of Heihu Mountain, the bandits are waiting at the top of the slope, there are two or three hundred cavalry in front, and there is a black pressure standing in the back, and it is estimated that there are no less than a thousand people. ”

Wang Dakuan ordered the convoy to continue to move forward, and came to a place more than 200 meters away from Baishipo, where the carriage was surrounded by two circles inside and outside in an open area, and the remaining prisoners and 50 soldiers from the fourth platoon stood in the center of the chariot formation, guarding the carriage. The rest of the more than 300 people were all on horseback, ready to meet the bandits' advance. The five sharpshooters in charge of sniping the bandit leader find cover.

Wang Da rode more than 310 horses to the bottom of the slope, only to see that the bandits were about 200 steps (300 meters) away from them, and the first bandit shouted at the top of the slope: "We are the heroes of the Black Tiger Village, we only rob money, do not kill people, and those who know each other leave the carriage and get out of the house directly." If you don't agree, we'll rush down and leave no chickens and dogs behind, and we'll kill you all on the mountain and feed them to the wild dogs. ”

Wang Dakuan held the Pu knife below and replied, "Are you the golden knife Li Mingsheng?" I heard that you are strong in martial arts, and you are so good, let's see the real chapter down, if you win the knife in my hand, I will give you my life, and the things will naturally belong to you. ”

"Since you don't listen to the call, if you want to find the dead man, I will fulfill you. Brothers, rush to Lao Tzu! ”

The road was narrow, allowing only three horsemen to charge in parallel. The bandits came within 200 meters, and Wang Dakuan ordered: "The crossbow is ready to be fired." ”

Therefore, according to the usual training, the first three rows climbed on horseback to fire, the last three rows sat on horseback to fire repeaters, and the rearmost ones stood on horseback to fire. For a time, the rain of arrows flew wave after wave towards the bandits who rushed down. Li Minsheng, Xiao Luo Cheng and Sai Qinqiong rushed in front, all three of them had armor, and they held the sword in their hands and kept pulling out the arrows, so although people kept falling behind, the three of them were never hit by the arrow. But because the road was too narrow and the speed was too slow, it didn't take long for hundreds of bodies and more than 100 empty horses to block the road. The last twenty or thirty horses have not yet moved, and they cannot rush. The three of them rushed within 100 meters of less than twenty horsemen. Due to the constant dodging of incoming arrows and the short path to run, the bandits could not increase their speed.

Bang... A few seconds later, Xiao Luo Cheng Cui Wen was shot in the head, fell off the horse and died, followed by Sai Qinqiong and several people behind him were shot and arrowed, and the slowest one who died was at least 50 meters away from them. In less than ten minutes, more than half of the three hundred enemy horsemen were killed and wounded, and all the main leaders were killed, just as Yuan Shuming expected, the bandits on the top of the slope were defeated on the mountain at once. Wang Dakuan ordered the captives to dismount and carry the dead to the bottom of the mountain, lead the empty horses down, and take all the wounded down......

After another ten minutes, the road was cleared, and Wang Dakuan found a few lightly wounded captives, and after they were bandaged, he told them to lead the way to attack the cottage.

He also instructed the second platoon commander to take people to carry ten cannons up the mountain, and asked the remaining captives to bring all the captured horses and go to the cottage to carry things.