Chapter 7 Encountering Yuetuo
Since Fan Ming and his son walked to the East Entrance and provided food to the Jurchen Later Jin who were in famine, Huang Taiji knew the importance of these Shanxi merchants to him.
Money can make the devil push the mill, and the Fan family's father and son have great supernatural powers. Many officials from Xuanda have been bribed by the Fan family. They should have been stationed in Xuanda to arrest profiteers and strictly prevent the strategic materials prohibited from being exported by the imperial court from being taken out of the pass to support Jiannu. At this time, they not only did not fulfill their duties, but instead became accomplices of these profiteers. The Fan family took the road to the east entrance and would not be threatened by the Ming army. During this period, the biggest threat to the Fan family's caravan was the unsightly horse thieves on the grassland, and some hungry Mongols, who were likely to rob the Fan family's caravan.
The Mongols, especially Chahar Mongolia, may give the Fan family caravan a moment.
In order to ensure the smooth flow of this trade route, Huang Taiji must use Korqin Mongolia to deal with Chahar Mongolia, and Yuetuo was Beile, who was ordered by Huang Taiji to protect the safety of the trade route.
When Fan Yongdou saw Yuetuo, he knew he was saved. He quickly rushed to Yuetuo and shouted, "Master Beile, save me!"
"Who is so bold that he dares to chase my friend from the Later Jin?" Yue Tuo led more than a dozen white-armored soldiers and rushed forward. Before he could arrive in front of Fan Yongdou, Yue Tuo asked with his fists from afar.
"I don't know who is a madman! It seems to have a grudge against my Fan family!" Fan Yongdou replied angrily, "Master Beile should take people to kill that madman!"
When Li Laoer saw a team of Mongolian cavalry appearing in front of him, he felt a little sad. He had already stopped the horse and observed the movements of Fan Yongdou and the pair of cavalry in front. However, he saw a man with blue and white edged armor, riding a tall horse, riding a horse to greet Fan Yongdou. He did not dare to go forward. He observed from a distance and found that the Jurchen leader seemed to be quite elegant and not as fierce as other Jurchen savages.
Yue Tuo is actually a literary general. Because of his poor archery skills, he once shot five arrows in a row, but no one hit the target, and was ridiculed by the Mongols. Yue Tuo's skin is fair and gentle, and looks like a scholar. However, this person is resourceful, so Huang Taiji sent him to open up the Eastkou trade route.
When Li Laoer saw the Jurchen leader raised his hand, six white-armored Bayala soldiers shouted, rode their horses out, and rushed towards him with murderous intent. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Laoer quickly turned his head.
"Damn it! Why are there so many Jiannu coming!" Li Laoer rushed forward and ran wildly on the grassland. "Since Jiannu has come, we can't take away the supplies we stolen, so hurry up and let the brothers burn it! Even if these foods are burned, they cannot fall into the hands of Jiannu!"
The flowers bloomed and each showed one branch. Besides, when Li Laoer chased Fan Yongdou, his brothers saw that their horses were not fast enough to catch up with Fan Yongdou, so they turned around to clear out the Fan family caravans' friends.
Although the Fan family caravan still has more than a hundred men, those people are just a group of civilians. How could they beat Li Hong, a group of horse thieves who have been lying on the grassland for many years?
Twelve horse thieves shot with bows and arrows, and chopped with knives and axes. In a blink of an eye, more than one hundred clerks from Dashengkui's merchants fell in a pool of blood. The goods transported by more than three hundred horses and camels turned into the spoils of Li Hong and the others.
Just when Li Laoer failed to catch up with Fan Yongdou but was chased by Baijia Bayala, Li Hong and his friends counted and found that they had seized more than 500 stones of grain, more than 3,000 kilograms of pig iron, more than 2,000 kilograms of tea, and other important substances such as cotton cloth and silk.
After the cotton cloth and silk are transported to Liaodong, it is also an important strategic material. Needless to say, cotton cloth is lacking in Liaodong, and cloth needs to be transported from the pass. Cotton cloth can not only be used as clothes to protect the cold, but also an important material for making cotton armor. Similarly, silk is also an important material for making cotton armor.
The lining of the Jurchen cotton armor is smooth silk. In this way, once you are hit by a firearm projectile or an arrow, the flexible silk can be used as the last line of defense so that the projectiles drilled into the body will not touch the muscles and cause various inflammations and poisoning. The person who is shot or arrow can pull the projectile or arrow out by just pulling the silk lining.
Seeing that Li Hong had seized a lot, he didn't know what to do. Now that the boss has gone to hunt down Fan Yongdou and has not come back yet, he ordered the horse thieves: "Catch up on the horse, take the seize and return to the mountain village first."
More than thirty miles away, Li Lao Er was being chased by six Baijia Bayalas. He was about to squeeze out the horsepower. Although the white Hequ horse under his crotch was a top-notch horse, he chased Fan Yongdou for thirty miles and consumed a lot of horsepower. Now he was chased by Baijia Bayala who was riding on both sides of the man, and the horse was foaming at the mouth.
"Am I going to die here today?" Li Laoer complained in his heart when he turned his head and saw Bai Jiabayala chasing behind him.
Li Laoer glanced at the sight of his eyes and found a continuous white tent on the front of his right. He knew that it must be the camp of the Chahar Mongols, so he came up with a plan and rode his horse to gallop towards the camp of the Mongols.
If you can enter the Chahar Mongol camp before your horsepower is exhausted, there may be a glimmer of hope.
The Mongolian camp in front was getting closer and closer. Just as Li Laoer was about to rush into the Mongolian camp, a loud shout came from the front: "Who is here? You dare to attack the golden tent of my Mongolian Khan!"
Dozens of Mongolians had already tapped their bows and arrows, and their sharp arrows pointed at Li Laoer who was rushing towards him. As long as their bowstrings were loosened, the overwhelming arrows would shoot Li Laoer who had no armor on them into a hedgehog.
"Don't shoot arrows! I'm a good person who was chased by the Jurchens! I'll send you food." Li Laoer shouted at the Mongolians.
But the man opposite, who looked like a Mongolian leader, was not moved at all. He could only hear the bearded Mongolian man with a beard saying: "Let it go!"
Dozens of Mongolian archers loosened their fingers with their bowstrings, and dozens of feathered arrows flew into the sky. Suddenly, the sky became dark, and the overwhelming arrows pierced towards them with a roar.
Chapter completed!