On the Dahei River, the fort building construction site was busy.
Many men dressed as Han Chinese, wearing short jackets, transported the fired bricks to the construction site in large trucks.
Not far from the construction site is the campground.
The people from the third military camp and the people who built the fort all lived there.
A convoy of four-wheeled carts arrived at the camp.
There were a lot of arrows stuck on the boards of several carts, and some of the soldiers guarding the convoy were stained with blood. There were also several soldiers who were obviously injured, and there were people helping them.
As the commander of the Third Soldier Camp, Zhang Hong saw someone injured in the convoy coming to the camp, and said with an ugly face: "What's going on?"
Escorting the convoy to the camp was a small team of soldiers. The captain was Wang Qin. He came to Zhang Hong, lowered his head and said, "We met horse bandits on the road."
"How many horse bandits are there?" Zhang Hong asked.
Wang Qin replied: "There are over a hundred horse bandits. If the convoy had not brought two squatting tiger cannons, it would have been really dangerous this time."
"Haven't all the horse bandits been taken to form an armored cavalry battalion? Why are there still horse bandits running rampant here in Tumote?" Zhang Hong frowned.
"It's really a horse bandit." Wang Qin said, "And this horse bandit is more powerful than the horse bandits we have encountered before. Normally, the horse bandits will break up and run for their lives after being hit by a round of fire. But this time the subordinates The horse bandits we encountered resisted three rounds of fire cannons, and were finally beaten away by the Crouching Tiger Cannon."
"That's strange." Zhang Hong rubbed his chin with his hand and said, "The last time Huang Hong came here, he said it himself that there are no more horse bandits here in Tumote. Otherwise, he wouldn't just send you this time. A small team goes to escort the cargo."
"Could they be horse bandits from other places?" Wang Qin said hesitantly.
"I'm afraid so." Zhang Hong nodded slightly.
Apart from this reason, he couldn't figure out why there were still horse bandits in Tumote, unless Huang Hong told lies.
However, he did not think that Huang Hong would tell lies. If it was really because of Huang Hong's lies that the soldiers were injured this time, Huang Hong would be guilty.
At this time, a horse team came in from outside the camp.
The leader was none other than Huang Hong, whom he just mentioned.
"Zhang Yingzheng, what's going on? Why are there still people injured? When I came over, I saw a lot of arrows stuck in the carriage of the cart." Huang Hong rode up to Zhang Hong.
He rolled over and jumped off the horse.
Zhang Hong looked at Huang Hong and said: "You came just in time. Didn't you say before that there were no more horse bandits in Tumote? But my subordinates were escorting the goods sent from Datong. They encountered horse bandits on the way and were almost killed by them. The bandits stole the goods.”
"This is impossible." Huang Hong frowned and said, "I have brought all the horse bandits on the Tumut grassland to the camp in Ma Yingzheng. There is absolutely no way that any fish can escape the net."
Zhang Hong pointed at the cart in the convoy and said, "See for yourself! There is no need for me to lie to you about this kind of thing."
When he came, Huang Hong noticed the arrow stuck in the cart.
He turned around and walked towards the cart next to him. When he got close, he reached out and grabbed an arrow, pulled it out with force, and then looked at it before his eyes.
Then, he walked to other carts and pulled out the arrows on them as well.
He kept pulling out the arrows from several carts with arrows on them. He didn't stop until he had five or six feather arrows in his hands, and then he put them in front of his eyes and looked at them carefully.
After a while, he suddenly said: "That's not right. What they encountered didn't look like horse bandits."
"Not a horse bandit?" Zhang Hong frowned and repeated.
Wang Qin, who was standing next to him, said, "It's impossible. My subordinates can clearly see that they are horse bandits."
"Maybe someone else is pretending to be a horse bandit." Huang Hong said, then walked over, handed most of the arrows in his hand forward, and said, "Look at these arrows."
Wang Qin stretched his neck, took a look, and said, "How can the arrows be different? They are all the same."
Zhang Hong took the arrows, looked them over in his hand, and said, "Indeed, these are ordinary arrows, which are very common on the grassland."
"Don't you think these arrows are too neat? How can the horse bandits have such good arrows?" Huang Hong reminded.
Zhang Hong looked at the few feathered arrows in his hand again, frowned and said, "If you mention it like this, it's true that these arrows all look similar, even the tail feathers on the arrow tails are the same."
Wang Qin walked to the side of the cart, pulled out a few more arrows from it, and then said to Zhang Hong: "Yingzheng, these arrows are exactly what Deputy Director Huang said."
"Are you saying there's something wrong with the people who use these arrows?" Zhang Hong looked at Huang Hong.
"I'm afraid so." Huang Hong said, and then asked, "Who escorted this convoy?"
"It's me." Wang Qin said with an arrow in his hand.
Huang Hong looked at Wang Qin and said, "If you were able to protect the convoy back, you must have killed some horse bandits, otherwise they would not have let you back so easily."
Wang Qin nodded and said: "The horse bandits we encountered this time were more difficult to deal with than ordinary horse bandits. We killed more than a dozen horse bandits before repelling them."
"Have you examined the bodies of the killed horse bandits?" Huang Hong asked.
Wang Qin shook his head and said: "This is strange to say. Although some horse bandits were killed, their bodies were all taken away by their companions, leaving no one behind."
Zhang Hong, who was standing next to him, frowned and said, "Most of the horse bandits are ruthless people. How could they take away the bodies of their companions?"
"It's very simple, because they are not horse bandits at all." Huang Hong sneered.
Zhang Hong looked at Huang Hong, waiting for his explanation.
Just listen to Huang Hong continue to say: "The feathered arrows used by the horse bandits are all polished by themselves, and they come in all shapes. They will not give their own feathered arrows to others at will, but you can see that these feathered arrows are all made in the same way. It has been polished, and the only people who can use this kind of feathered arrows have always been the armored cavalry under Mongolian Taiji."
"You mean, there are Mongolian cavalrymen pretending to be horse bandits and want to take action against our Tiger Flag convoy?" Zhang Hong's face sank.
Huang Hong nodded and said: "Apart from this kind of feather arrows, only Mongolian armored cavalry will take away the bodies of their dead companions."
"Can you tell which Taiji did it?" Zhang Hong asked with a cold face.
Huang Hong lowered his head and glanced at a feather arrow in his hand, and said: "The feather arrows used by each tribe are polished by craftsmen in their own tribe, so there are some differences, especially the tail feathers, and I was in Kankan Tada’s personal guards have seen such feathered arrows.”
"Are you saying that the person who did it was Kankantada?" Zhang Hong said.
Huang Hong nodded and said: "Even if it wasn't the hand of the armored rider under his hand, it was the hand of the Mongolians who were relatively close to him, otherwise it would be impossible to use this kind of feather arrow."
At this moment, a fast horse galloped from outside the camp.
