Although Jingxing County, Zhending Prefecture suffered several consecutive years of drought, there was still a lot of green on the hillside. The mountains in this place were rugged and difficult to move. Since ancient times, Jingxing has been a strategic location that must be fought for by military strategists and guarded the gateway to Shanxi. Tian Peng, commander of the mountain troops of the Po Nu Army, came to the deep mountains 200 miles west of Jingxing County eight days ago. He has explored the 300-mile official road here several times. According to the strategy formulated by the General Staff, the mountain troops should carry out combat in the mountains at the junction of Shanxi and Zhili.

When Tian Peng made an on-site inspection, he denied the planning made by the General Staff. Tian Peng believed that the strategy of the General Staff attached too much to the terrain, but did not consider that the terrain here was too suitable for ambushing. The official army escorting the silver cart would definitely focus on investigating the ambush here when passing. In order to conceal the truth about the robbery of the Blade Army entering the pass, Mr. Zhang repeatedly emphasized that the large-scale use of the Blade Army's signature weapon, musket, added many uncertainties to the battle. Once he found an ambush here, the convoy behind him was likely to be scared back.

Earlier, when Shanxi merchants chose the route to Northern Zhili, they could only take the route Pingzhou. Not to mention that they had to go north or south, there were many expenses. Moreover, the cost of escorting 3,000 officers and soldiers in Fenzhou, Shanxi was not a small amount. Once the time was too long, unpredictable consequences would inevitably occur. Moreover, the amount of escorted silver was 6 million taels, which was nearly half of the property of nearly half of the Shanxi merchants in Jiexiu. They could not tolerate any loss. For this reason, each family raised a thousand guards, and 2,000 tenants were driving 1,300 carriages with weapons to join the team for transporting silver.

Tian Peng was also having a headache when facing such a large transportation team. Tian Peng was very confident in defeating the Ming Dynasty's official army without muskets and crossbows. The difficulty was that General Zhang asked not to leave a living mouth, which made Tian Peng, who had only about 4,000 people in his hand. No muskets were not a problem for mountain troops with crossbows. The problem was whether a transport convoy that wiped out 7,000 people without leaking was too large. Just when Tian Peng felt that the troops were insufficient, the Po Nu Army Investigation Office and the Intelligence Department worked together to ensure the success of the robbery.

Xu Yian specially transferred 500 guards from Nanzhili, led by Dong Heliang to Zhending Prefecture. Zhao Hucheng, the Thousand General of the Intelligence Department, led the 700 guards drawn from Zheng Tai from the capital, and also came to the mountainous areas in the northern part of Jingxing. With the addition of these two live forces, Tian Peng suddenly felt confident. Although there were still many difficulties, Tian Peng still brought his troops to the barren mountainous area of ​​Jingxing County, Lizhili, which was less than 100 miles away from Jingxing County. He took Dong Heliang and Zhao Hucheng to explore the planned battlefield for the last time. This place was only sixty miles away from Jingxing County. Dong Heliang selected the battlefield to surprise Dong Heliang.

When Dong Heliang saw this battlefield that was not suitable for ambush, he thought to Tian Peng in confusion and asked, "Commander Tian, ​​is this the battlefield you chose? Why can't you understand the post?"

Tian Peng did not rush to answer Dong Heliang's questions, but took them and more than 30 cavalrymen who disguised as troopers and walked to a small hill. Tian Peng took out a telescope from his arms and explained to them: "The little staff members of the General Staff have experience in planning wars. Both the General Staff and I believe that the General Staff's planning has no big source, but before leaving, the General Staff told me that the soldiers are inconsistent and must be carefully planned according to the situation on the battlefield. Look..."

Speaking of this, Tian Peng pointed to the mountain road exit and said: "The terrain of Jingxing Mountain is rugged. Jin merchant silver carriages must be extremely careful when walking. When we go to explore the road, the scouts must release ten miles. It is difficult to set up an ambush in the mountains to avoid being discovered. On the contrary, it seems that it cannot be set up here, but it has a huge advantage. This place is more than 60 miles away from Jingxing County, and the Jin merchant carriages can only travel forty miles a day. They dare not walk at night, so they must camp here for rest. We only need to cut off traffic on the east and west sides, and the Jin merchant carriages will become birds in cages. Why worry about major issues!"

After Tian Peng finished explaining, Dong Heliang, who was familiar with military affairs, immediately understood Tian Peng's plan. People must be careful when experiencing threats. After a long period of time, when they come to this place that seems not suitable for burying ambush soldiers, they will relax their vigilance. The battlefield chosen by Tian Peng is a valley, which is not high, and there is a stream as a source of water. A little experienced officer will camp here for rest. Because after another seven miles, you will enter a mountain road, and this mountain road leading to Jingxing has a difficult official road of 30 miles.

In order to avoid rushing at night, the team leader will definitely stop here. Dong Heliang sighed in his heart that Tian Peng is worthy of being the student Zhang’s favorite, and the battlefield planning has learned the essence of Zhang’s military based on the situation. Before Dong Heliang and Tian Peng met with Tian Peng, Xu Yian told Dong Heliang that the Jingxing official army was less than a thousand people and there were no cavalry. Even if the Jingxing officers and soldiers received the news, the sixty-mile mountain road could allow these rescue officers and soldiers to run for one day and a half. Even if there were people who reported the news, they had to run for one day to reach Jingxing County. This would be two and a half days. Not to mention rescue, whether they could protect themselves would be a problem.

What's more, whether the officers and soldiers of Jingxing dared to come out to rescue, and even the seven thousand men could not handle the war here, and a thousand officers and soldiers could do nothing. Although Zhao Hucheng did not understand military affairs, he could also hear the meticulousness of Tian Peng's plan. As long as he could attack Jiexiu, he, Zhao Hucheng, was willing to die of exhaustion. When he was destroying the slave city, Zhang Dashui had a deal with Zhao Hu. If he wanted to avenge the family, he had to steal all the money that the Shanxi merchants cared most, and they had to make their own internal struggles bleed. We were watching jokes on the side, not only to watch jokes, but also to help hand the knife from time to time.

You must learn to endure it and not let it go. When his family is about to be destroyed, he will take another step, destroy his wife and daughter and sell it to a brothel to let thousands of riders be suppressed. Zhao Hucheng knows that only efforts can be rewarded. When he helped Zhang Dashui kill Lu Ruge's third uncle, Zhang Dashui's reward for him was to use the powerful strength of the Po Slave Army as a backing to give Zhao Hucheng the power to avenge Zhao Hucheng. Although Jiexiu's eight major merchants have a wealth of ten thousand yuan, Zhao Hucheng clearly understood all the inside stories of the Shanxi merchants through the meat tickets tied by the Po Slave Army.

Even Zhao Hu, Chengdu, did not expect that Zhang Dashuai once told him that when abused these meat tickets, do not just punish them. Usually, they abused them for one day after five days. In this way, these meat tickets would become like sheep and suddenly feel that there was a not-so-violent wolf among the evil wolf, and they would feel a sense of dependence on this fierce wealth wolf. Especially after the meat tickets were abused for several years, their hearts would not only be distorted, but also obey those who abused him.

At first, Zhao Hucheng was skeptical about Zhang Dashu's fallacies and evil sayings, but Zhang Dashu asked him to abuse his family enemies. In addition to implementing Zhang Dashu's instructions, he also had a mentality of repaying kindness. Zhao Hucheng did not care whether Zhang Dashu's instructions were right or wrong, as long as it was Zhang Dashu's words, Zhao Hucheng believed that there was no mistake. After he abused the Fan family's meat tickets for a year and a half after he abused the Fan family's meat tickets in accordance with Zhang Ping'an's instructions, he really made the situation predicted by Zhang Dashu. In particular, Fan Yongkang, the eldest son of Fan Chengyang's family, regarded Zhao Hucheng as a relative, even though he knelt down to say goodbye to Zhao Hucheng when he left the Posou City.

This time, Fan Yongkang collected 300 gold coins from Zhao Hucheng, and detailed the specific time when the Jiexiu Jin merchant's driving route had already set off to Fenzhou to tell Zhao Hucheng in detail. It was with the intelligence provided by Fan Yongkang that the Slave-Destroying Army could calmly dispatch troops to arrange the battlefield. Zhao Hucheng did not understand military affairs, but he was the source of battlefield intelligence. Tian Peng and Dong Heliang carefully finalized the details of each battlefield arrangement. From the place where the troops were hidden, to the order in which each unit entered the battlefield, how to cut off the enemy's retreat and deal with possible enemy reinforcements.

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The convoy set out from Jiexiu met with the brigade's army in Pingyao, Fenzhou. This time, the leader of the Shanxi merchants in Jiexiu was Fan Yongdou, the second house leader of the Fan family, and the general of the official army was Fenzhou guerrilla Luyang. Fan Yongdou was less than thirty years old, and had a pair of shrewd eyes under his thin face. Originally, Fan Yongdou was likely to become the heir of the Fan family, especially when all the eldest sons of the Fan family were captured by the Possessed Army and became a feces. Fan Yongdou, who was extremely shrewd, was favored by all the elders of the Fan family.

On the day Fan Yongdou was appointed as his heir, the eldest sons of the Fan family were released back to Jiexiu by the grassland fox wolf. At this moment, the hope of Fan Yongdou becoming the head of the family suddenly became slim. The tradition of the Ming Dynasty was that the eldest son inherited the family business, and Fan Yongdou, a concubine's side house, was not qualified to inherit the family business. In the eyes of the elders, these legitimate sons who were kidnapped by the grassland fox wolf, suffered too much pain for the grievances of the adults. In order to compensate for the suffering they suffered in Ponu City, several families of the Fan family decided to overturn the oath of the inheritance of the head of the Fan Yongdou family and make a final decision after these children will be well raised.

Fan Yongdou always felt a bad feeling when he went on this trip. Although the Shanxi merchants had a wide connection in the capital, they could often detect the movements of the Xuanwei envoy in the capital. Although the news from the capital that the Xuanwei envoy in the Ponucheng was focused on transporting the supplies rewarded by the Ming Dynasty to Ponucheng, there was another news from Datong Prefecture that the Ponu Army sent more than 2,000 auxiliary soldiers to Datong Prefecture to return the injured officers and soldiers in Liaodong. Fan Yongdou knew that Zhang Ping'an, the grassland fox wolf outside the pass, was an extremely cunning fox wolf, and he was always peeping at the every move of the Shanxi merchants in Jiexiu.
Chapter completed!