Chapter 85: Angry Waves (5)
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There's a big caravan passing by!
That's the caravan of the Jin people. (Please search, the novel is better and faster!) Just think about it, you can know what the Jin people can bring, gorgeous silk silk, mellow wine, sharp swords and weapons...... Those are precious materials on the grassland. If you can loot it, whether it is for your own use or resale, it is a great thing!
Brethren, here is the opportunity for riches! Although night fell, many Hu'er rode at a gallop, spreading the news to various Zahu tribes and horse thief gangs in the southern part of Daishire. Subsequently, many people heard the wind and moved. Some of them rushed to the Didian in Guangchang County to verify the news, and some of them lit the Songming torch and went south along the mountain road all night. By about the early morning of the next day, reliable replies were brought from both places.
The glamorous proprietress in the shop personally admitted that a large-scale caravan would go north through Guangchang and Dai County. At the same time, she provided more information. It is said that the leader of this caravan is an old friend of Xianbei Dashan Yu Yiyi, who travels to and from Shenhepi all the year round. After Yiyi's death, the central part of Tuoba Xianbei was strongly suppressed by Lu officials, and the remaining people, under the leadership of his wife Weishi, moved to a corner of the western part of Daijun, so this caravan had already determined that the itinerary was going to follow half a year ago. The large amount of goods and materials carried this time will greatly benefit the recovery of the rest of the country. Fearing that there was a mistake, Tanma asked a servant in the shop to verify it, and only after the two phases confirmed that the news was correct.
And the people who went into the mountains to investigate also came with good news. They went dozens of miles deep into the mountains, and in the direction of Baishi Mountain, there were traces of the movement of the brigade. In order to avoid startling the snakes, the Hu'er extinguished the torches in their hands and lurked in the dark night to check closely, and paid the heavy price of two brothers falling to their deaths in the deep ravine. But the men with the bloody knives didn't care about this, and when they got closer, they found that the camp was so large that the number of tents, vehicles, and horses was simply incalculable!
It's a fat sheep! This is a fat sheep! The beards were in ecstasy. What is the central part of Tuoba Xianbei, just a toothless tiger, or the object that the eastern lord Luguan will want to get rid of...... Isn't the caravan that befriended them a piece of fat from heaven to the hungry wolves?
Under the gloomy sky, the Zahu tribes scattered among the mountains and fields stirred like boiling water.
One after another, the men and horses pulled up the camp and marched in the direction of Guangchang County.
The next day, the caravan, as the intelligence suggested, came out of the mountains. They marched along the official road and saw that they were not far from the county seat of Guangchang.
The caravan was huge, with more than 40 carts accompanying it, and more than 100 animals pulling the carts. The cart leaves deep ruts on the rammed earth road, and any road with a slightly steeper slope requires the help of more than a dozen people, pushing and pulling together to get through. It was clear that the vehicle was extremely heavy and it was not known what cargo it was carrying. It is very difficult for such a vehicle to get through the rugged and difficult mountain roads, and it is clear that the goods are not trivial, otherwise they would never have been able to get there. Looking at the sides of the convoy again, the accompanying Ding Zhuang hugged each other, and there were many guards carrying big swords and spears, and the momentum was very strong.
The caravan was followed by a scattered crowd of pedestrians. Those are all small traders and peddlers who run the gang. Nowadays, the world is chaotic and the road is not quiet, although people die for money, birds die for food, but it is always good to be safe. Therefore, these small traders, whether three or five, or seven or eight people, usually followed the large caravan step by step.
The huge procession traveled in a winding way and left the mountains about two hours later. Here the official road turns due north and extends horizontally with the company.
Lianshui originates in the south of Guangchang County and gushes out of the mountains. As it flows northward, the terrain flattens, so that the current becomes open and gentle, reaching no deeper than an adult's thigh. A large amount of silt carried by the mountains slowly settles down with the current, forming a fertile sedimentary river beach, some of which is suitable for cultivation and grazing.
However, Ding Miao, who was standing on a high place, looked around, only seeing thorns and weeds all over the field, and there was no one around.
In these years, most of the places are like this, and the counties of Bingzhou that have been captured by the Xiongnu are even more miserable. At the end of the Han Dynasty, Cao Gong felt mournful and said: "The white bones are exposed in the wilderness, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles", which is almost similar.
At this moment, Ding Miao is located on Cuiping Mountain, which is three or five miles away from the official road. Cuiping Mountain stretches for more than 20 miles from east to west, the mountains are rich and beautiful, and the mountains are verdant. On the top of the mountain, there are seven small peaks commonly known as Qiguniang Mountain, and there are seven rows of them. Ding Miao stood on the top of one of the small peaks, overlooking the Lianshui River beach. This small peak is not extremely dangerous, but it is also rocky. If you want to ride up the mountain, you can't do it unless you are a skilled horseman, so there are only a few people with him.
Ding Miao whipped and pointed at the caravan that was winding along the road like a long snake in the distance: "Further ahead is the place where I preset an ambush. Zhengchang, in your opinion, which direction will the Hu people attack from? ”
The one who was called "Zhengchang" by Ding Miao was Liu Yao, an officer who was assisted by the order of Ding Shao, the assassin of Jizhou. At this moment, he was standing beside Ding Miao, wearing a bronze helmet and heavy armor, riding a black horse, and holding a huge horse lance that was specially thickened and lengthened.
When Liu Yao was training yesterday, Ding Miao only glanced at it hurriedly. He is a battle-hardened general, so it is natural to see that dozens of Liu Yao's subordinates are elite. But the advantages and disadvantages of generals can only be reflected on the battlefield after all. 6 Yao ordered Liu Miao to accompany Ding Miao to fight, and he also intended to make Ding Miao test Liu Yao.
"After all, the central part of Tuoba Xianbei has had a big order, even if it is down, Yu Wei is still there. Since we are trading with it, the thieves will not blatantly loot. They must have hidden troops in advance near Lianshui, and they will leave with one blow, hehe, when the time comes, they will eat and wipe clean, and no one will admit it. ”
Liu Yao continued: "Looking at the terrain around here, there is enough to house the troops and facilitate the entry and exit of soldiers and horses, only here, here and here......" He pointed out a few places and said: "If I am the leader of the horse thieves, I can start in half a moment, and it will be disadvantageous if it is late." ”
Ding Miao couldn't help but nod again and again. In order to beat the horse thief, he and 6 Yao, Shao Xu, Hu Liuniang and others carefully surveyed the terrain, and estimated that the horse thief was hiding in no more than three or five places. And Liu Yao only relied on climbing the height to look at it for a moment, and estimated that the enemy's location was as good as the judgment of Ding Miao and others. This sensitivity to the battlefield landscape is almost instinctive, and it is very accessible.
The two of them didn't say much, and Le Ma quietly watched the form.
As Ding Miao expected, in less than half an hour, only a terrible bone flute sounded, and then thieves suddenly appeared in the two mountain woodlands in the northeast and northwest directions. Look at their hiding place, and sure enough, it is in the three terrains that Liu Yashi pointed out casually!
Both cavalry were on the scale of three or four hundred men. Although it is too far away to see really, just by the formation of the galloping horse, it is enough to conclude that it is indeed a beard that grows on horseback. As soon as the cavalry emerged from its hiding place, they mounted their horses. Thousands of iron hooves stamped on the ground and stirred up dust and smoke, like two gray dragons close to the ground, sweeping towards the caravan.
This scene immediately alarmed the people in the caravan. The small traders who followed the caravan reacted first, discarding their goods and running for their lives on the road from which they had come. Then came the strong men in the caravan. In the face of the pincer-shaped slaughter of the horse thieves, they shouted a few times at the beginning, and then fled for their lives. The guards of the caravan were even more unbearable, these guards had mules and horses to walk, but at this moment they turned their horses and ran three points faster than those strong men, and they had the momentum of catching up.
In the blink of an eye, the huge caravan dispersed, leaving only carts full of goods and boxes and cages piled up all over the ground.
Seeing that the people in the caravan were moving like rabbits, the Hu people were a little confused. Fortunately, they came specifically for the goods transported by the caravan, and had no intention of hurting people's lives. So instead of chasing and killing the fugitives, the two groups of cavalry hurriedly circled in, surrounding dozens of carts.
According to the rules, these dozens of cars naturally have to be opened and inspected, and if they are really full of knives, guns and ordnance, then the horse thieves will make a lot of money. But the heavy boxes were made of thick timber covered with iron sheets, and were firmly bound with very thick hemp rope. Several thieves circled around the cart, quite a bit of a rat pulling a turtle with nowhere to start.
In contrast, the baskets left by the other traders as they fled were easier to deal with. A horse thief wielded a knife and split several baskets, revealing the silk silks, cloths, and other things contained inside, as well as medicinal herbs. These are all extremely precious things in the grasslands, so many horse thieves have attracted their attention.
"The boxes on the cart were full of stones, and I wonder what the thieves' expressions were. ......" Ding Miao said eagerly: "At this moment, they are already in chaos, we will drum out and kill them!" ”
"It's just the right time." Liu Yao made an inviting gesture to Ding Miao: "Brother Wen Hao......"
Before the words fell, Ding Miao had already rushed down with murderous energy. Liu Yao hurriedly raised his right arm high to signal. Immediately, the sound of drums and horns in the deep mountain col of Cuiping Mountain was shocking, and the iron cavalry of the Jin army roared out!
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