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Wang Yuncheng said to the guard on the side: "Go and invite Deputy Commander Zheng and Staff Officer Lin."
The guards left the tent.
Not long after, two muscular men walked in from outside the account.
"Shi Zheng, I heard that people from the Foreign Intelligence Bureau came just now. Did your Excellency send some orders?" The speaker was Staff Lin who walked in with long boots on his feet.
The deputy commander Zheng Yuhuai who came in with him did not say anything. He just looked at Wang Yuncheng, and he was also curious about what news the people from the Foreign Affairs Bureau had sent.
Wang Yuncheng said: "The visitor came from Xuanfu. On Mr. Zhao's order, he sent news about the Liang family in Xuanfu."
"Could it be the local Shanxi merchant Liang family in Xuanfu?" Yu Huai answered, "If I remember correctly, the person in charge of the Liang family should be a director of the Xuanfu Chamber of Commerce, and it seems to be named Liang Jiabin. "
After the Third War Division arrived at the grasslands outside Zhangjiakou, they took care of food and grass supplies from Xuanfu. Sometimes they would also come into contact with some members of the Xuanfu Chamber of Commerce, and they began to learn more about Xuanfu.
Liang Jiajia is one of the directors of the Xuanfu Chamber of Commerce. Several senior officers of the Third War Division have heard of this name even if they have never met him.
Wang Yuncheng nodded, raised his hand and handed the letter on the table to Staff Lin who was closest to him, and said: "Look at this letter, it is from Mr. Zhao."
Staff Officer Lin took the letter and read it in front of his eyes.
After reading it, he handed it to Yu Huai who was standing aside.
"Leave this matter to Assistant Master Yu Zheng," Staff Lin said.
At this time, Yu Huai also read the contents of the letter, nodded and said, "Leave it to me, no problem. I will bring a team of a thousand people there."
The request on the letter is not a big deal to them.
Wang Yuncheng waved his hand and said: "This time I went in person to find you. I hope that while I am away, you will keep an eye on our place, especially on the left-wing Mongolia."
"You are just taking action for such a small matter, and you think too highly of the Liang family. I think you should stay and take charge!" said Staff Lin.
Yu Huai, who was standing next to him, also said: "You, a division with tens of thousands of troops, are going to deal with the small Liang family's convoy. You are killing a chicken with a sledgehammer. It is too embarrassing for the Liang family."
"No need to persuade me, I have made up my mind." Wang Yuncheng said to the two people.
When Staff Lin saw this, he knew he couldn't persuade him, so he had no choice but to agree.
Yu Huai on the side looked disappointed.
Since the Third War when the barracks came to the grasslands outside Zhangjiakou, apart from normal military training, they have not fought a serious battle. At most, they have fought a dozen horse bandits in the surrounding areas.
However, the largest group of horse bandits only numbered a hundred or so, and many only numbered dozens.
For the Third War Division, the horse bandits were not enough to satisfy their teeth. In less than a month, no trace of the horse bandits could be found in the surrounding areas. I wanted to give the recruits of the Third War Division a fight. There is no chance for actual combat training.
Wang Yuncheng stood up from his seat and said to the guards on the side: "Inform the First Battle Barracks and ask them to send out a team of 1,000 people to carry out the mission with me."
"Yes." The guard agreed, turned around and ran out of the tent.
Yu Huai walked aside, picked up the teapot, poured a cup of boiled water into the drinking teapot, handed it to Wang Yuncheng with both hands, and said with a flattering look on his face: "Shi Zheng, such a small task is not worth your time, why don't you give it to me As the deputy commander of the Third War Division, I must know how to share important responsibilities for my superiors."
The situation of the Tiger Character Banner group is different from that of other bandit groups or the imperial court.
In Hu Zi Banner, if you want to be promoted, in addition to passing cultural courses, you must also have tangible merit. Without merit, even if a certain position is vacant, those with merit will be given priority.
Solving the Liang family's convoy is not a very important task, but mosquitoes are still meat no matter how small they are, so Yu Huai feels that he can fight for it.
Wang Yuncheng took the teapot from Yu Huai and said with a smile: "Don't worry, when the Mongols from the left attack one day, you will definitely be given the opportunity to lead the troops into battle."
Hearing this, Yu Huai felt a pain in his face.
This is creating a big pie for yourself, which you can’t see or eat.
However, this also made him give up, knowing that this task would not fall on him.
The team quickly assembled.
Wang Yuncheng took the armor and led a team of thousands of soldiers out of the camp.
The soldiers he took away from the camp were all infantry, with only a few cavalry scattered around as sentries.
The marching speed of the tiger-character flag soldiers was faster than that of the Ming army. Even so, it was far less than the marching speed of the cavalry.
Although the Liang family's motorcade had cars, horses, and soldiers and servants on horseback, they could not travel very fast because they were carrying cartloads of goods. They could only cover dozens of miles a day.
Wang Yuncheng didn't know exactly where the Liang family's convoy was in the grassland, but he had a letter from the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, which marked the place where the Liang family's convoy left Biandun and entered the grassland.
With such a location as a mark, the direction in which the Liang family entered the grassland can be determined.
After all, there are many people in a convoy, and the route they pass must have enough water.
The topography of this grassland had long been mapped by the people of the Tiger Flag. Wang Yuncheng could figure out the route taken by the Liang family's convoy just by looking at the location of the water source on the map.
Wang Yuncheng led a thousand soldiers to march much faster than the Liang family's motorcade.
Only five days had passed, and after searching for the two water sources marked on the map, the sentries sent by Wang Yuncheng discovered the traces left behind by the movement of the large group of vehicles and horses.
On the grasslands of several tribes in right-wing Mongolia, it is not new to see traces left by herds of horses, but there are traces left by a large number of carriages. Apart from the Tiger Flag itself, there are only convoys entering the grasslands from outside.
Tiger Flag's convoy only takes the roads built by Tiger Flag on the grassland, or the familiar routes that were often taken in the past.
No matter which one it is, there will be an obvious road on the grassland.
If there are many traces left by carriages in the area full of weeds, it is likely that they are traces left by the passing of the Liang family's motorcade.
"Tell our sentry riders to follow the ruts on the ground and send back the news immediately after finding them. Don't alert the snake." Wang Yuncheng ordered the sentry riders in the team.
Several sentry riders galloped away from the team.
Wang Yuncheng and his large group of soldiers did not rush on their way, but stayed at the water source to repair.
Half a day passed.
One of the several sentry riders who had left following the ruts returned to the team.
"Shizheng, a convoy of 300 people was discovered seventy miles away."
The sentry rider who returned brought Wang Yuncheng news about the Liang family's motorcade.
