Chapter 294: The Destruction of the Caravan

Seeing the charge of more than 1,000 Eight Banner soldiers with his own eyes, the whole army was wiped out in just one round, and he didn't even have a chance to escape back, Fan Yubin was heartbroken. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info he knew that his caravan couldn't run away, and he couldn't beat it.

Thirty-six plans are the best plan, and Fan Yubin's plan is to run. Although it is said that his act of abandoning the caravan and fleeing for his life will cause the Fan family to suffer heavy losses, so many materials are equivalent to millions of taels of silver, which can only be lost. The Fan family is rich and wealthy, and they can't withstand such a blow! It seems that this year, not to mention the gains, it is good to be able to reduce losses.

Although it is very unwilling to lose so much silver, if you have silver, you have to spend your life! If your life is gone, what's the use of having money?

Fan Yubin secretly retracted his head, changed into a bodyguard's coarse cloth clothes, and blended in with the bodyguard crowd. Looking at this posture, it is estimated that the "Rakshasa people" on the opposite side are about to attack. After a while, Fan Yubin took advantage of the chaos to escape on horseback and abandoned the caravan to the Rakshasas. I believe that the Rakshasas should not chase for a few of their own people, what they want is robbery, the supplies of a whole convoy, enough for the Rakshasas to be busy for half a day.

The more than 1,000 Eight Banner cavalry escorting the caravan were all wiped out, and there were only more than 300 bodyguards of the eight families of the Jin Merchants left, who were strong in martial arts alone, but if they wanted to fight in formation, not to mention encountering fully fire-armed sled soldiers, even the most ordinary hand-to-hand soldiers, these rabble could not be defeated.

"Prepare to attack! Give Lao Tzu an extermination of the caravan of the Qing Dog Emperor in one fell swoop! Xiao Gongchen pulled out the sword and pointed forward.

Some of the sled soldiers abandoned their sleds and rode on their horses as cavalry charging into battle; The other part of the sled soldiers are ready to attack on the sleds, and they are the charioteers who export firepower.

The Ming army began to move, and more than 1,200 cavalry mounted on Mongolian horses and 500 sleds pulled by Don hippos slowly started moving, and the cavalry and sleds first walked steadily and slowly, and gradually accelerated.

The mortar artillery placed on the ground launched the last round of shelling, and the flowering shells roared and fell in the already dilapidated car formation, blowing up the convoy of the eight families of the Jin Merchants and the eight families of the Jin Dynasty overturning on their backs, and the row of large vehicles used to block the road on the periphery were blown over one after another, or they were directly blown up and disintegrated by the flowering shells.

"Kill!" Unagi rode his horse and rushed to the first with a saber in his hand.

More than a thousand horsemen galloped on horseback, and the Mongol horses accelerated in the snow, and within a hundred paces, the speed of the horses increased. The sled that followed it maintained a certain speed, not too fast, because the role of the sled soldiers was not to charge, but to capture the caravan's men and supplies.

"Stop the Rakshasas!" Wang Sheng shouted, urging the more than forty guards of the Wang family to resist the attack of the Ming army.

The eight imperial merchants brought out a total of more than 300 of their own guards and bodyguards this time, among which the most powerful Fan family brought out more than 100 guards and bodyguards, the Wang family brought out more than 40 people, and the other families, some brought out more than 20 guards and bodyguards, and only a dozen guards and bodyguards.

Fan Yubin's loyal slave Fan Fugui changed into his clothes, put a mink hat on his head, stood behind a carriage, and shouted loudly for bodyguards and guards to stop the enemy. And Fan Yubin himself changed into the clothes of a bodyguard and mingled with his two personal bodyguards in the bodyguard crowd.

"If you don't know how to be flexible, no wonder your Wang family's business just can't do our Fan family! This poor shopkeeper looks like he's going to die at the hands of the Rakshasa today. Looking at Wang Sheng, who was urging the bodyguards to go into battle, Fan Yubin's eyes showed a trace of pity. He himself had already prepared, and when the enemy rushed into the formation, he would flee for his life.

The cavalry of the Ming army rushed into the convoy in a blink of an eye, and the cavalry at the front pulled out two double-barreled short guns and fired at the Eight Great Emperor Merchant Guards who were trying to block the car with their mantis arms.

"Bang bang bang" gunshots roared, and several bodyguards who rushed up on horseback were shot one after another and fell off their horses.

The Ming cavalry collided, and the bodyguards, who were also riding Mongolian horses, were knocked off their horses one by one by the Ming cavalry because their speed had not yet increased. When the weight of both sides is about the same, the faster one has a slower impact speed, and it is obviously the faster one that takes advantage. Cavalry hedges, and whoever has speed is the winner.

Of course, the Eight Banners cavalry went to hit the sled car before, although the cavalry had speed, but the heavy sled car was like a stone, and no matter how fast the cavalry crashed into it, it was like an egg hitting a stone.

After the Ming cavalry rushed over, the sleigh carts behind rushed into the formation, killing the stubborn guards one by one with thunderbolts and double-barreled short guns.

The hand-to-hand combatants of the Ming army, armed with long-handled broadswords, jumped out of the car and smashed into the crowd of bodyguards. The big knife array was like a razor, and blood and flesh flew everywhere it passed, and the guards and bodyguards were in different places.

Those guards and bodyguards were all dead soldiers raised by the Eight Great Emperors. When the Chongzhen Dynasty was in the past, these dead soldiers only knew that there was a family owner, did not know that there was a country, many of them were orphans raised by the eight imperial merchants, and the caravan of the Jin merchants was on the way from Xuanda to Liaodong, and had been attacked by Menghan horse thieves on the grassland many times, and they were desperately repelled by these guards and bodyguards. It was these guards and bodyguards who ensured the passage of Jin merchants to Donglu for blood transfusion.

None of the guards surrendered, and all of them stubbornly resisted to the end, which also caused certain casualties to the Ming army.

But after all, they are not regular troops, in the case of backward weapons and do not know how to form a formation, these guards were slaughtered by the Ming army, and after half an hour of fierce fighting, more than 300 guards and bodyguards were all killed.

Fan Fugui, the housekeeper of the Fan family, and Wang Sheng, the shopkeeper of the Wang family, were also killed in the chaos.

Besides, Fan Yubin and his two personal bodyguards, when the Ming army had just rushed into the chariot formation, they abandoned the caravan and fled south on horseback.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the Ming army fought with the guards and bodyguards, and the car formation was in chaos, Fan Yubin took two personal bodyguards to desperately wave the horse and spur the horse to gallop. In the midst of the chaos, many of the people of the convoy also crowded out to the back, lost the carts and mules and horses, and frantically crowded out to the back, and ran wildly to the snowfields where they fled south.

Someone went and led a horse, or a mule. These were nimble men who climbed into the horses and mules that pulled the carts, and fled for their lives on horses and mules, faster than those who fled on two legs.

Those who did not have time to flee were killed in the chaotic car formation. Some of them were clever and escaped by hiding under the cart, and some knelt on the ground and surrendered when they saw the other party rushing up.

After destroying the caravan's guards and bodyguards, the Ming army began to collect prisoners and sent some men to chase after the people who were fleeing in the snow.

"Surrender or kill! All on your knees! The Ming sergeant shouted and made the people in the car formation kneel on the ground.

Before the Ming army entered the car array, some people shouted in Chinese, and some people shouted in Mongolian or various unintelligible languages, these people did not know that it was the Ming army that attacked, and thought that it was the Han people who had taken refuge in the Rakshasa people. After all, among the Ming troops who rushed into the formation and shot the bodyguards to protect them, there were indeed many blonde and blue-eyed Rakshasas.

Hearing the words "surrender and not kill", all the people knelt on the ground.

There were about 1,000 people who had fled, and Xiao Gongchen sent 300 cavalry and 100 sled carts to chase the fleeing people, while the rest stayed in the car formation to collect prisoners and clean up the battlefield.

Jin Liangyu, Wang Dayu, Liang Guest, Tian Shenglan, Zhai Tang and Huang Yunfa and other key figures of the Jin merchants were captured, and Xiao Gongchen found those gorgeously dressed guys with mink hats on their heads and fur coats from the crowd at a glance. These shopkeepers, stewards, and high-ranking domestic servants were gathered by the Ming army.

"Tell me, where are you?" Xiao Gongchen asked as he pointed at a guy wearing a mink hat and trembling like a sieve.

The man immediately knelt on the ground: "Master Jun, the little one belongs to the Tian family." ”

"The Tian family? What do you do at the Tian family? Hugh has to hide it! Otherwise, General Ben will chop off your fingers one by one! Xiao Gongchen stared at this guy, and the murderous aura shot from his eyes made the guy feel terrified.

This guy knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly: "The villain is the third shopkeeper of the Zhangjiakou branch of the Tian family, and this time he was ordered to bring the goods out of the customs to trade with the Empress Dowager Lafayette's mother's family." I heard that Galeries Lafayette's maiden family suffered a white plague, so I asked the little ones to go out of the customs. I didn't expect to meet all the military masters here......"

"The Empress Dowager? Galeries Lafayette? Bah! Xiao Gongchen sneered.

The important people of the six families were interrogated one by one, but there were no people from the Fan family and the Wang family among them. At this time, the Ariake sergeant dragged two richly dressed corpses over and threw them in front of the captives.

Xiao Gongchen pointed to the corpse on the ground and asked, "What about the people of the Fan family?" Isn't he the leader of your eight imperial merchants? Why didn't you see the people of the Fan family? Was it killed? Or ran away? Who are these two bodies? ”

Someone stood up: "Back to the military master, the people of the Fan family have run away!" He changed into a bodyguard and ran! This body is Fan Fugui, a servant of the Fan family. ”

"Who is from the Fan family?" Xiao Gongchen asked again.

"It's Fan Yubin, he is a big celebrity in front of the current Empress Dowager Lafayette, and he is the servant of the temple. But he had just ridden away with two bodyguards. The man replied.

Xiao Gongchen turned around and shouted, "Go and chase after five sleds!" Be sure to catch Fan Yubin's bastard back for Lao Tzu! We met the people of the Fan family today, and we can't let go of any of them! ”

"No!" Cao Lei turned around and retreated.

Five sleds burst out of the formation and pursued south. Along the way, from time to time, I saw the Ming army escorting the people who were chased back, and they were walking towards the car formation.

"Did you catch three fast horses?" Cao Lei asked a Ming soldier who was returning from a sled.

"Nope!" The soldier shook his head.

Cao Lei pointed to the snow and said: "The snow is so thick, Fan Yubin ran away on horseback, he didn't run so fast!" We chase along the horseshoe prints on the ground and will definitely catch up with them! You have a sled, follow us after us, and give the prisoners to the cavalry! (To be continued.) )