Chapter 2 Seeking Merit
The nine people voted for a moment, and sent one person to escort the prisoners back to the border fort, while the rest of the people were in a team, and sent a detective police officer to guard the surroundings and chase the traces of those people.
The body of the prisoner Mi shook with the horse. She subconsciously stroked the horse's mane with both hands, gently pulled up a mane, and murmured, "My man, it's time to fight again."
The horse was very young, and the sanctioned prisoner Mi gave it a name, "Baixing", because of the white traces on his forehead. This was a good horse, the descendant of several Western horses sent back by Solu who had been traveling west. They were strong and powerful, quite tall.
Bai Xing shook his mane, but did not blame the owner who had been riding him for two years. He just sniffed to show that he was a little painful.
One man and one horse came from Peidi to Gaoliu. In just one year, he had fought several battles, and the Hu people's bows and arrows never hurt them at all.
The next afternoon, the company commander was on a high place and used a thousand-mile mirror to discover the traces of the convoy chasing, and several Sima chiefs were nearby.
The company commander handed Qianli Jing to the politician Mi next to him. The politician Mi looked at it and found that the convoy had obviously noticed their traces.
Forty large cars were connected into a circle, and the personnel were all inside the circle. It was the tactic commonly used by the Mohist school to penetrate the grassland when Gao Liu was in the early days.
The gang captain Mi handed Qianli Jing to someone else and scolded: "They learned quickly. They really bought a box and returned a pearl. This should have been a means to benefit the world, but they used it to harm the world for personal gain."
"But it's good that we can't defeat, and they dare not move. As long as we move, we will kill them. If we don't move, we will wait for subsequent support. Once the cannon is on, they will not be able to defend."
While he was talking, the man holding Qianlijing next to him said, "Someone is here."
After a while, the figure in the distance gradually became clear. One person came on a horse. When he got closer, he got off the horse, raised his hands, and signaled that he would not know how to use a sword.
After getting closer, the man knelt on the ground and bowed, "Who is the chief here? I have something to say."
The illegitimate captain Mi glanced at the company commander and smiled, "Company Commander, it seems that you are going to get rich."
Many people have seen such bribery.
The company commander spat, and immediately asked the man: "What are you going to do? Pay money? Another price of ten gold litres? I have seen it a lot, so there is no need to say it."
The man repeatedly said, "The Mo family will die if they fight or attack. Mo Zhaiyan will benefit from each other. I sell the stirrup iron sword, and the Hu people give us horses to each other. What's wrong with it?"
"Well, why do you guys do this? If you let us go, each person will get two taels of gold, and the chief will get another ten taels. Whoever is raised by his parents, why die in the wasteland in battle? If you die, who will support your parents? Who will take care of your sisters?"
The company commander was also an irritable person. Hearing this man nagging, he said to the prisoner Mi: "Let him shut up."
This was clearly said, and the man was shocked. The prisoner Mi had already rode his horse in front of him, stepped on his right foot in the stirrup, his body was like a catching the moon in the water, and his arms were pressing against the force of his waist to lift the man up immediately.
Then he rode his horse and walked around the chariot in the distance for several times, showing off his might.
A round of bows and arrows were shot out from the chariot formation, but the illegitimate prisoner Mi had been fighting for more than a year, and his father was even a veteran, so he knew the range of guns and bows.
After walking around, unscathed, the company shouted loudly to enhance its power.
After the representative of the company calmed down, he said, "What the lobbyist just now was wrong. Not to mention that the Mo people in the company who benefited the world were local people. So do you say that these Hu people have the stirrup sword, and will they suffer in the future?
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He was about to explain some truth, and the people in the company laughed and said, "Representative, there is no need to mention this, we still understand this truth. Besides, just two taels of gold... Hahaha, I can't help but look down on us."
This made everyone laugh, but even the representative said a few more words seriously. At this time, Mi, a polite prisoner who was showing off his power in front of the formation, had returned and threw the person who was lying on the horse's back and was shaking on the ground.
The company commander ordered: "Just set up camp like this and send someone out to check it out."
He had already chosen the camping location and was ready to keep up with the siege. How to camp is a compulsory course for the company commander and Sima. Even if the company is outside, it must be prevented from being attacked. No one dares to be despised about camping.
After the arrangement was made, each Sima team took out their own shovels and sent out a warning person, so they set fire to rest, and only a few people were sent to monitor him.
The flames rose and the breeze blew on the face. It was the east wind. People in the west were so uncomfortable that they were roasted by the fire, and they all walked around the east and sat down.
The gangster Mi was holding a piece of dry cake, and the comrades next to him were singing, but he stared at the flame and thought for a while and came to the company commander.
The company commander is a local, but he joined the army six or seven years ago. He was a serf of the nobles of Zhao. He fled to this cold and miserable place. Fortunately, he managed Gaoliu by the Mo family, so he was considered safe.
He just knew that the illegitimate prisoner Mi came from Pei County. He had heard a lot about what Pei County looked like. It sounded like a paradise, and the Mohist school had much publicity.
However, he didn't know about the fact that the illegitimate captive elder Mi was, and he didn't know that the name of the illegitimate captive Mi was given by the Mo family's deputy master Shi who he often heard of.
I only know that this guy is flexible in mind. He is from the Si Shang Military Academy. He is not inferior to the locals and has great courage. It is also possible that their generation has enough food. Shu Qingwang himself is also a tall and strong person, otherwise he would not be selected into the first batch of charity teachers. Therefore, Shu Zhumi is tall and strong, and is also a fearless person.
Seeing the illegitimate prisoner Mi coming over, the company commander waved to him and said, "What's the matter?"
The illegitimate captain Mi laughed and said, "Company Commander, I have made merits to our company."
The company commander was happy and hurriedly said, "Tell me, let me see."
The silence captain Mi pointed to the swaying bonfire and smiled: "There have been a breeze these days. If we really fight in a formation, we are not afraid of more than 200 of them."
"We are afraid of cannons and iron thunder when guarding by chariots. But we can't get close. But what if we can get close?"
"Tomorrow morning, if the wind direction remains unchanged, we will mow grass around and make fires to smoke them. If they dare to come out to obstruct them, we will line up to fight them. If they dare not come out, we will get closer and pile up firewood and smoke them."
"Borrowing cigarettes to cover me, I was handsome and rode a horse, and threw iron thunder when I got close. These more than 200 people were surrounded by it. We used it to deal with Lin Huloufan, who had no cannons and gunpowder. But if we had to deal with us, we were afraid that it would not work."
As soon as he finished speaking, the company commander thought for a moment, patted his legs and said, "You guy is still very smart. I'll call everyone over here and discuss it."
After everyone gathered around and listened, their faces showed joy.
This is a banned caravan with more than 200 people. If it can be captured, it would be a great achievement. It is said that one can make achievements. If the infantry behind us arrives, I am afraid that the merit will be greatly reduced.
The sanctioned prisoner Mi analyzed various possible situations. After thinking about it, everyone felt that no matter who could not defend or attack and win, they would definitely lose.
There are no cannons inside, so there is no danger.
Early the next morning, the company gathered, and the wind direction did not change. The breeze kept blowing westward. He watched with a thousand-mile mirror. The people in the car array were already anxious and difficult to get away. It seemed that they knew that these people were waiting for reinforcements instead of fighting.
The company rode to the wind and quickly built a battalion with a shovel, tied the horses, leaving two Sima fifty people riding horses nearby, two Sima fifty people guarding with guns, and the rest gathered firewood.
The effective range of the bow and arrow and muskets in the chariot array is that within dozens of steps, fifty people behind the base will shoot with guns, suppressing the archers and muskets in the chariot array.
After several rounds of shooting, firewood and grass were piled up from both sides, and then digging the soil with shovels to get closer and move forward slowly.
After lunch, firewood had already piled up about thirty steps in front of the car.
Below is a layer of dry grass with dead branches, and thick wet grass and rotten leaves are piled up on it. With a call, it will be ignited.
The smoke that should have been white, passed through the wet grass above, steamed the water vapor on the wet grass, and peeled off the color of the wet grass, and the smoke turned goose yellow. This is exactly the way for residents near Gaoliu to drive away mosquitoes in the summer in recent years. These people are extremely professional in lighting them.
Smoke and dust rose everywhere, blocking the view of the people in the car array, but also blocking the sight of the attacking party, but the company was not in a hurry.
After adding another firewood, eight of the strongest and best equestrians were selected from the company, and the slander captain Mi led the team.
Each of them immediately divided a few iron gunpowder thunders. The prisoner Mi called the seven people over and said, "When the time comes, we will ride horses from the south and rush to the front. Follow me, don't rush too far. Once we get closer, we will throw the thunder out and circle around."
The seven nodded, and the people in the company who were holding guns took off their armor and gave them to the eight prisoners, including Mi and others. They all had several more layers of wear.
When they were ready, fifty people on horseback were waiting on the north side. If the enemy fled, they would chase them. Without the cover of the chariot array, they would run on the plains. Even those people were dead soldiers who were good at using swords, they could not resist the pursuit of the cavalry.
The remaining dozens of people each held muskets. If those people fought back to this side, they would line up to fight them.
Anyway, the possibility of escaping westward is the most likely, and there is a downwind, but if you leave the car formation and flee with your feet, you are seeking death.
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In the smoke-filled car array, Que and Jun's dead soldiers panicked and kept coughing. Their eyes were so painful that they were smoked, but they did not dare to leave.
After the appearance of stirrups in Zhao State, several battles had become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. After leaving the chariot formation, they were chased by cavalry with stirrups outside. They would undoubtedly die in the vast wasteland.
The leader was Que Yujun's disciple. He avoided the Mo family's patrol team in the previous two transactions and made a lot of profits.
In fact, profits are secondly because of the horses. The emergence of stirrups made the nobles' private soldiers and dead soldiers walk towards the cavalry. Que and Jun are forming their own cavalry.
This is not just a matter of Que Yujun. Que Yujun's power is not large in Zhao State, and it is impossible to seek a throne.
However, Zhao Hou's health is now getting worse day by day, and the issue of inheritance between Gongzi Zhang and Gongzi Chao is increasingly not to be ignored.
Prince Zhang is the son of Liehou Zhao Ji. The one who is in power is the younger brother of Liehou Zhao Ji, but Prince Chao is the son of Zhao Wu.
Many nobles and ministers of Zhao State were from the Zhao era and were difficult to clean up. It was because Prince Zhang was young, so brothers ended up with each other.
But in recent years, Prince Zhang has gradually grown up, and there are a few real talents among the guests around him, and his reputation has gradually increased. Whether it is inheriting the position, prestige, or the support of noble ministers, as soon as Zhao Hou died, the one who ascended the throne should be Prince Zhang.
But Mr. Zhao also has a son, and he dared not make the young master Chao the heir on the surface, and he still secretly performed many actions.
Now that Zhao Hou is sick, Gongzi Chao is ready to launch a coup as soon as his father dies. It is said that he has contacted Wei Hou Dao.
Chapter completed!