Behind a dirt bag a few miles away from the Fan family's caravan, several figures were lying there, with their heads exposed, looking into the distance through the gaps between the grass blades.
The soil bag is surrounded by thick weeds. Even if someone stands a hundred steps away, it is difficult to find anyone hiding in the soil bag.
"You're damn right to call me Lao Tu. They actually attacked the Fan family's caravan." Wo Libeng excitedly patted his thigh.
The horse bandits were not unmoved by such fat men as the Fan family's caravan, but had been warned by Bansheng City that they could not take action and could only watch helplessly.
Now that the Fan family's caravan was robbed, this was a result they were happy to see.
They only need to rob the convoy that robbed the Fan family's caravan. Not only can they get the goods that the Fan family's caravan sent to Bansheng City this time, but they can also rob an additional convoy. If you rob once, you can get two copies. The good thing is that it didn't go against the intention of the person in Ban Sheng City.
Tu La rubbed his lips with his thumb and said to himself: "It's interesting. He only robbed the caravan's goods and didn't kill anyone. Instead, he let everyone go."
The man next to him said in a low voice: "Why don't you wait until the Fan family's caravan has gone far? I will send people to intercept and kill them, ensuring that no one can leave the grassland."
"No." Tu La raised his hand to stop him and said, "If all the people in the Fan family's caravan are dead, and the goods of the Fan family's caravan appear in our hands, people who don't know will think that the Fan family's caravan is It was our hands."
Wo Libeng suddenly realized: "Old Tu, you are right, we cannot kill these people. Not only that, we should also send them safely out of the grassland and let them bring back the news that the Fan family caravan was robbed."
They lay on the dirt bag and watched for a while.
Tu La said in a low voice: "Go back first and tell Cao Gun and Ye Yao Zi not to take action for the time being. We will talk about it after I get back."
"Okay, I'll go back and tell them." He jumped back step by step.
After taking seven or eight steps back, he stood up and ran quickly into the distance.
Two miles away from the dirt bun, several horses were parked, grazing on the young grass on the ground.
Wo Li jumped up to one of the horses, took the reins, got on the horse, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, flicked the reins, and rode away.
Tu La and the two horse thieves stayed behind the soil bag and watched until Ma Yunjiu left with the Fan family's goods, and then retreated from behind the soil bag with his men.
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All the Fan family caravan vehicles and livestock were seized by Ma Yunjiu, and no dry food was given to the Fan family caravan people. They were only asked to take some clean water and leave.
The Fan family's cart and goods were brought to the lake where the Tiger Flag fleet was stationed. All the goods on the Fan family's cart were unloaded and loaded into Tiger Flag's four-wheel cart.
The goods of more than a dozen carts were loaded into four-wheel carts, and it took less than five carts to load them all. Among the four-wheel carts that came to the grassland this time, several carts were not used at all. , remains empty.
"Are they all installed?" Zhao Yutu asked.
Zhang Hong said excitedly: "Mr. Zhao, don't worry, not even a single nail fell down, they are all loaded into our own car."
"That's good." Zhao Yutu said, "We can't stay in this place anymore. All the animals pulling the carts will be taken away, and the Fan family's carts will be thrown here and burned."
"What a pity for such a good car." Zhang Hong said regretfully.
But he didn't move slowly. He asked people to sprinkle kerosene on the cart, lit a torch, and threw it on the cart filled with kerosene. The flames suddenly shot up to a height of more than three feet.
Looking at the burning cart, Zhao Yutu said: "Let's set off and return to Xinpingbao."
Several teams of sentinels of the cavalry team all dispersed. The front team of sentinels opened the way three miles away in front of the convoy. There was also a team of sentinels following behind the convoy, and there were cavalry guards on both sides of the convoy.
It can be said that as long as someone approaches within five miles of the convoy, he will be immediately discovered by the cavalry's sentinels, who will promptly send the message back to the convoy so that the convoy can take precautions in advance.
It was getting dark, and the Tiger Flag convoy came to camp near a stream.
The four-wheeled vehicles reversed to form a crescent-shaped formation. The riders and horses of the cavalry stayed outside the formation and camped about a mile away from the formation.
The soldiers camped on the outside of the convoy, the chariot formation formed a circle, and the spear team camped at the gap in the vehicle array. Inside the vehicle array were Zhao Yutu, the coachman driving the carriage, and the gunner of the artillery team.
The gunners guard the inside of the vehicle formation, and several squatting tiger cannons are all placed on the cart. As long as the enemy attacks, they can fire the squatting tiger cannon for the first time.
Next to the bonfire in the motorcade, Zhao Yutu called over Ma Yunjiu, Zhang Hong, and Zheng Chao.
Ma Yunjiu said with a serious expression: "During the day, the horse bandits had many more spies. When our sentries chased them, these horse bandits stayed far away and did not come into contact with our sentries at all."
Zhang Hong said: "These horse bandits have been staring at us for so long, and it seems they can't help but take action."
Ma Yunjiu said: "Last time we encountered horse thieves with more than a hundred riders, and they were scared off by our horse team. If the horse bandits come again, I'm afraid there will be more than this number of people, especially many of the riders in the horse team are novices with poor riding skills. They are far inferior to the horse bandits. If there are too many horse bandits, our Tiger Flag Cavalry Team will definitely lose a lot of riders."
"There is nothing we can do about this." Zhao Yutu said, "Before coming to the grassland, the leader had already expected that this would happen. He once said that as long as it was not a command error, the cavalry would be allowed to suffer casualties."
Ma Yunjiu nodded and said: "The master told me this before I came here. What the master means is that the cavalry is not enough to shoulder the heavy responsibility without being beaten. It needs to go through several horse battles before it can be considered a usable soldier."
"It's good that Captain Ma can understand." Zhao Yutu said to Zhang Hong again, "If the horse bandits really come to attack the convoy, the safety of the convoy will still be the responsibility of the warrior brigade, and there will definitely be archers among the horse bandits. Your warrior brigade You need to prepare something to withstand arrows. After all, most soldiers are wearing cotton armor, so it is difficult to block arrows."
"My subordinates have already thought about it." Zhang Hong said, "Our cart has a lot of wooden boards that can be disassembled. Whenever the horse bandits attack, these wooden boards can be erected on the cart. It can resist arrows well and also Don’t waste time firing the firecrackers and setting off the firecrackers.”
Zhao Yutu nodded and said, "Since you are prepared, I feel relieved."
Immediately, he said: "I have a drawn map here. It was a map of the grassland that the boss asked me to draw. It marked the rivers, lakes and hills on the grassland. Captain Ma, please keep this map."
As he spoke, he took out a map from his pocket and handed it to Ma Yunjiu.
Ma Yunjiu looked confused. It stands to reason that the map was drawn by Zhao Yutu, and it should naturally be handed over to him by Zhao Yutu himself.
Seeing that Ma Yunjiu didn't answer, Zhao Yutu said, "If the horse bandits really attack and our tiger-character flag cannot resist them, take this map back to Lingqiu and give it to the boss."
"Our cavalry team is willing to live and die with the team." Ma Yunjiu did not pick up the map.
"This is just in case." Zhao Yutu forced the map into Ma Yunjiu's hand and said, "You should understand that wherever our Tiger Flag passes, a map will be drawn. This is the first time our Tiger Flag has It appears on the grassland for the first time, so this map is very important. If I leave it to you, I can rest assured that even if we lose, your cavalry team will have a chance to escape back to Lingqiu with the map."
Ma Yunjiu hesitated for a moment, then finally put away the map and said: "Mr. Zhao, don't worry, Lao Wu has fought against the horse bandits. In terms of riding skills, our Tiger Flag riders may not be able to match the horse bandits, but in terms of armor, the horse bandits are far away." Far inferior to us, even if the horse bandits really come, we may not be defeated."
"Yes, our Tiger Flag has never been defeated, even if the horse bandits are on the grassland, we will not be defeated." Zhang Hong said in a loud voice.
