Returning to Tu La's yurt, Ma Yunjiu took off his breastplate and placed it on the table nearby.
Tu La followed him to the yurt and touched the breastplate on the table with his hand, and said with envy: "If my brother had such armor, I would dare to lead some small tribesmen to rob it. "
Ma Yunjiu looked back at Tu La and said, "As long as the horse bandits under you pass the training of our armored cavalry battalion and become cavalry of the armored cavalry battalion, they will be qualified to wear the breastplates made of my tiger-character flag."
Tu La said: "If you pick any of my brothers at random, they are all very capable. If they have the breastplate and weapons of your Tiger Flag, they can immediately become an invincible cavalry across the grassland."
"Deputy Tu Yingzheng, now you are also a member of the Tiger Flag, don't say anything about your Tiger Flag again." Ma Yunjiu reminded him, and then said, "In terms of riding and shooting skills, any horse on the grassland The bandits are all stronger than the cuirassiers of my Tiger Flag, but the cuirassiers of my Tiger Flag are not only one against ten, but one against five, there is no problem."
As he spoke, he looked at Tu La.
"I admit that the cuirassiers are stronger than the horse bandits on the grassland. With the same number of people, the horse bandits are no match for them." Tu La said, "But if the horse bandits also have the same armor, I believe the result will be very different."
"That's right." Ma Yunjiu admitted frankly, and then added, "So my boss sent me to form an armored cavalry battalion to recruit horse bandits on the grassland and establish a new cavalry camp."
"Dongzhu Liu is a man of great wisdom. He wants to use the horse bandits on the grassland to supplement the lack of cavalry in his hands." Tu La sighed with emotion, and then added, "But I still don't understand. The soldiers of the Tiger Character Banner are enough You are strong, there is no problem in escorting your own convoy to and from the grasslands, and ordinary horse bandits don't dare to provoke them, so why spend silver to form an armored cavalry battalion composed of horse bandits."
Ma Yunjiu glanced at Tu La and said, "I don't know why the armored cavalry battalion should be established, but everyone in our Tiger Character Banner will carry out the order of the proprietor without compromise. We believe that since the proprietor wants to set up an armored cavalry battalion, The cavalry battalion certainly makes sense.”
Tu La did not answer immediately, but showed hesitation on his face. After a while, he said: "Dongzhu Liu recruited so many horse bandits, is it because he wants to do something rebellious?"
"Deputy Tu Yingzheng is thinking too much." Ma Yunjiu said in a calm tone, "My proprietor is just an ordinary businessman who just wants to make money. As for any disobedient things, my proprietor has never mentioned it, let alone discussed it. Pass."
Within the Tiger-Character Banner, more than one person had this suspicion, even he himself had doubted it. Later he thought that the Tiger-Character Banner only had a few thousand troops, and if he really made a disobedient move, he would be seeking death.
Even though the Ming Dynasty suffered successive defeats on the Liaodong battlefield, its strength was still there and it could not deal with the Jurchens for the time being, but it would not be a problem to deal with the thousands of soldiers and horses of their Tiger Flag.
"I hope I'm overthinking it!" Tu La thought thoughtfully.
A businessman from the Ming Dynasty had hundreds of soldiers to guard the caravan, and more than 200 cavalry. Now he has recruited more than 700 horse bandits. Fan Ji did not raise so many when he did a big business. Force, he couldn't help but think about disobedience.
If he knew that the Tiger-Character Banner still had thousands of soldiers in the Ming Kingdom, he would probably be more convinced that the Tiger-Character Banner had rebellious intentions.
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The horse bandits who chose to leave the Tiger Flag gradually gathered together, and there were as many as fifty or sixty people.
Although it is not as large as when they came, there are so many horse bandits, which is enough to plunder the grassland for the bandits, and there is no problem in dealing with ordinary caravans.
"Master, what should we do next?" a horse bandit asked the leader of the horse bandits who was walking in front.
The leader of the horse bandits stopped, looked back at the horse bandits following him, and said loudly: "Brothers, this time we were deceived by the tiger-character flag. If you brothers can trust me, come with me." Go back and seek revenge from the Tiger Flag in the future."
"revenge!"
"revenge!"
"revenge!"
Dozens of horse bandits shouted the word revenge.
The shouts of these people attracted the attention of the cuirassiers of the Tiger Flag in the camp, and attracted a group of cuirassiers walking in their direction.
Yi Yiyun glanced at the cuirassiers coming over, raised his hand and made a silent gesture, and said at the same time: "Brothers, we are still in the camp of the Tiger Flag, and we are all bare-handed. If the tiger is attracted, The soldiers of Ziqi will only suffer the loss. If you have anything to say, we can wait until we leave here."
"We listen to the boss."
"Yes, I will listen to the master's instructions."
Hearing these words, Yi Yiyun was very satisfied.
With these dozens of people, he can build a new team, and he can use this as a basis to recruit more horse bandits to join in the future.
"Let's go, everyone follow me to the horse pen in the camp and take away all the horses we brought. No horse will be left for the people with the Tiger Flag." Yi Yiyun greeted.
He led dozens of horse bandits behind him towards the horse pen in the camp.
The cuirassiers who were about to come over saw these people leaving on their own initiative, so they did not follow them, but continued to patrol along the camp.
Horses are what the horse bandits need to live in. All the horse bandits who come to the camp come on horseback, and the war horses are placed in the camp.
As long as the horse bandits come to the camp, the Tiger Character Banner will take care of food and housing, and the war horses will also be taken care of by dedicated personnel. Most of the horse bandits will leave their horses to the people of the Tiger Character Banner to take care of them. There are only a few Han horse bandits and some Mongolian horse bandits. The bandit took care of his own horse personally.
The horse pen in the camp is downwind and is surrounded by a wooden fence. There are several haystacks not far away, which are hay collected by the herdsmen for the Tiger Flag.
In addition to hay, there are also some concentrated feeds such as black beans.
"Stop, this is the camp horse pen, no one is allowed to come near it."
Yi Yiyun and dozens of horse bandits had just approached the horse pen. Before they could go in to look for their horses, they were stopped by soldiers with the tiger-shaped flag standing outside.
In order to prevent the horse bandits from causing trouble, Zhang Hong sent a large group of soldiers to garrison the camp as soon as it was established.
Yi Yiyun looked at the Tiger Flag soldiers in front of him and said coldly: "I'm here to take away our own horses, get out of the way quickly!"
"Do you have a warrant?" the soldier asked.
"What warrant?" Yi Yiyun was stunned for a moment, and then said, "I'm here to take away our own war horses. What warrant do you need? And from now on, I am not a member of your Tiger Flag, and you have nothing to do with me. .”
The soldier said expressionlessly: "No one can take away the horses in the horse pen without a warrant from the superior officer."
"We are here to take away our own war horses. You Tiger Flag people have nothing to do with it." Yi Yiyun said coldly, and then said to the horse bandits behind him, "Brothers, follow me to lead our war horses. .”
With that said, he took a step towards the horse pen.
At this time, the tiger-character flag soldier who was standing in front of him shouted: "Be alert!"
The surrounding Tiger Flag soldiers drew their weapons one after another, and the gunmen also raised their fireguns, aiming at Yi Yiyun and many other horse bandits.
