When the cannon was hoisted to the cliff platform, Adam sensed the anomaly but didn't care. In his opinion, the dozen or so people who climbed to the cliff platform were at most just looking down on the situation in the village, and would not pose a real threat to the village. The place was far away from the village, and the bow and arrow could not be shot into the village. As for the hundreds of people brought by Zelang, there are not enough to be afraid, there are two hundred adult men under his command, which is more than enough to defend the village. Although the caravan was able to defeat more cavalry than it could, it was only because the bandit tribe was stupid and crazy. As long as Zelang and the caravan dare to attack the stockade, they will definitely make their heads bleed. While Li Gongzi and others were busy hoisting artillery ammunition onto the platform, Zelang and Qian Bao had already taken two companies of the armed caravan and the prisoners to battle in front of the wall. The captives were not actually armed, and they were only brought here to strengthen their strength. They were also obedient under the management of Zelang.

After Li Gongzi and the others set up the cannon, they did not grind, and immediately launched an artillery bombardment. As soon as the four guns fired, the village was in chaos. Sensei said that the villagers were blown up by the shelling from the sky, and even Adam was stunned by the bombing, and kept kneeling down to worship the Buddha and ask for protection. Although the houses in the village are made of stone, the roofs are made of wood and mud with grass, which cannot withstand the condescending bombardment. In the first round of shelling, a solid bullet accidentally landed on the top of the tallest watchtower, blowing two archers to pieces.

After the agreed three rounds of shelling, Li Gongzi ordered the shelling to stop. This is not to save ammunition, but Zelang does not want to hurt the villagers, nor does he want his father's hard-earned family business to be blown up. He walked out of the array and shouted to the village in the native language, to the effect that Adam's conspiracy to usurp power provoked the wrath of the heavens, so that the whole village suffered the disaster of swordsmen. He also promised that whoever obtains the head of Adam will receive a house, five horses, and a slave girl.

Not long after Zelang shouted, the gate opened. Someone walked out with Adam's head, and the rest of the villagers also walked out of the gate one after another, kneeling in front of Zelang. It took a moment before Zero stepped forward to take the head. He didn't say anything while carrying the head, but slowly walked into the stockade. The villagers behind him also got up and silently followed behind him. The caravan suffered zero casualties, and only a few people were killed or wounded, and the village was basically intact. But the villagers were so frightened by the shelling that their eyes were full of cringe. Seeing this, Qian Bao took the people back to the camp at the bottom of the mountain to resume his life.

After another two days, Zelang brought people to the camp to visit Boss Qian. In just two days, he cleansed Adam's henchmen, reactivated his father's original henchmen, and quickly controlled the village in his hands. Thinking that in just a few days, he had not only recaptured the position of the archery burner from an outlaw horse bandit, but also annexed a steppe tribe, he couldn't help but burst into tears, all thanks to the caravan. As soon as he entered Boss Qian's tent, he knelt down and kowtowed a few times. He came to Boss Qian this time to talk about future business cooperation, and expressed his gratitude before talking.

said that it was a negotiation, but it seemed that Boss Qian said it unilaterally, and Zelang nodded unilaterally. On the one hand, Zelang wants to repay the favor, and on the other hand, Boss Qian is in business, and the cooperation conditions proposed are also extremely reasonable. It's just that Zelang blindly agreed, but he couldn't negotiate anymore, so he simply shut up and stopped talking, which made Zelang anxious. In desperation, Zelang had no choice but to put forward two ideas: first, the Qian family's caravan would be tax-free in his sphere of influence in the future, and it could carry out economic activities such as business and mining without restrictions; The second is that the caravan enjoys the status of a member of the Tong Zelang family in the Fan District, and if it encounters an attack by hostile forces, Zelang will send troops to help in the battle.

In Boss Qian's view, these two articles are not commercial cooperation at all, but more like a political alliance agreement, but it is inconvenient to veto his proposal. At that moment, a commercial cooperation agreement was proposed, one was to set up a trading post in the village of the arrow furnace to purchase goods at the local market price. This clause was extremely beneficial to caravanserais, as caravans used to have to pay a high price to buy goods in the Tibetan region. Second, Zelang served as the general agent of the caravan in the Tibetan District, purchasing strategic resources such as horses, fire and salt, and mercury, and selling tea, silk, porcelain and other goods brought by the caravan. Boss Qian has already inquired, although there are iron, coal, lead and other minerals here, but the transportation is extremely inconvenient and lacks mining value, and there is no copper mine urgently needed by the Thunderbolt army, but fortunately there are minerals such as fire nitrate and mercury. Third, the caravan provided funds and technology, Zelang contributed labor, and the two sides cooperated in gold mining. There are many gold mines in the Tibetan area, and there is also gold sand in the river, and when you are lucky, you can even mine natural dog's head gold. Zelang did not consider the cooperation conditions proposed by Boss Qian, and agreed to it in one bite.

In the distribution of the spoils, the two sides had some disputes - Zelang wanted to give more, but Boss Qian was humble. The end result was that the caravan received four hundred horses, most of the hundreds of prisoners of war from the steppe were given to Zelang, and the caravan received thirty prisoners of war. In fact, Boss Qian didn't want prisoners of war, after all, the language barrier was different, and the living customs were different. Dan Zelang reminded him that the horses he brought back needed stables, and that training cavalry also needed people who were proficient in equestrianism, which made Boss Qian suddenly enlightened, and agreed without thinking. Although the loss of four hundred war horses will seriously affect the strength of the tribe, Sakuro has a countermeasure - buy. The caravan gave one-third of the goods to the archery furnace, and these scarce goods could easily buy two hundred war horses on the grassland, and Zelang also returned the favor with a thousand taels of gold, which were not only accumulated by the leaders of the archery furnace for generations, but also looted by the leaders of Adam in recent years. Zelang valued the hundreds of prisoners of war even more, and with these laborers, he could not only re-strengthen the steppe tribes, but also develop and expand the agriculture and animal husbandry of the archery furnace. In the valley and in the nearby ravines, there is land suitable for agriculture and grazing, which can be cultivated as long as labor is available.

The armed caravan remained for another month before embarking on the return journey. On the one hand, it was because Zelang had sent people to the nearby area to buy fire and mercury, and on the other hand, Boss Qian wanted to stay longer and help Zelang consolidate his power with military deterrence. On the way back, the caravan did not rush to the road, but stopped and stopped along the way. This was mainly to sell the remaining two-thirds of the goods, and at the same time to buy mules and horses. There are many pastures in the mountains here, and although you can't buy war horses, you can also buy a large number of pack animals. The return journey was smooth, in addition to a large number of livestock to reduce the burden on the personnel, it was also Inzelang who sent people as guides, and the caravan's record of easily destroying the horse bandits made the bandits along the way frightened, and even made the attitude of the chiefs and leaders along the way much more polite.

When the armed caravan arrived in Laizhou, it was the end of June. As soon as he arrived at the boundary of Lizhou, a messenger sent by the rich second child came to him. Here in the middle of the month he waited for the return of the caravan. The messenger told Boss Qian not to return to Qianjiazhai for the time being, because western Sichuan, including Qiongzhou, was occupied by the Mongols again.