No matter how Zhai Zhe threatens and tempts and appeases people's hearts, his position as the leader of the horse thief is not right.

Meng Kang supported him with prestige among horse thieves, and Xiao Zhiyan's archery technique shocked the scene, but in the final analysis, he had to completely turn this team into his subordinates and had to do some work that horse thieves should do. Prestige was not achieved through competition, nor was it achieved through rewards.

For seven consecutive days, the overall atmosphere in the village was cheerful. Zhai Zhe promoted Che Feng to be his confidant. Almost all of this horse thief were Han people. He had Mongolian blood and was not popular with everyone.

After the four guards of the Zhai family returned to Zhangjiakou, almost every day, someone would quietly come to the valley to convey the news from the collection and the instructions of Zhai Tang.

On the night of mid-November, Zhai Zhe and Xiao Zhiyan ordered more than 80 horse thieves and quietly left the valley in the middle of the night.

Without a torch, the cold full moon in the sky makes people feel even more chilling. Horse thieves are not unfamiliar with walking on the grassland at night. But in such a cold winter, they rarely go out, and people complain from time to time. Zhai Zhe turned a blind eye.

"The caravan of the Lu family left the currency yesterday morning. At the previous speed, they will return to Zhangjiakou as fast as today and as slow as tomorrow."

In front of the team, Zhai Zhe whispered to Xiao Zhiyan that it was news from the collection. Both Wangshun Pavilion and Zhai Zhe themselves needed an attack on the Lu family caravan. Zhai Tang wanted to cause some trouble for the Lu family, and Zhai Zhe hoped to establish his prestige through a successful robbery.

"There are often patrol cavalry of Chahar people in Zhangba grassland! There is a risk of sneak attacks there!"

Zhai Zhe shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter. The Chahar people will not protect the caravan. If the Lu family really established a connection with the Chahar tribe, the caravan would no longer be such a small scale."

Xiao Zhiyan raised his lips and smiled, and asked, "Then why are you so careful!" He was not willing to be a horse thief and made a living by robbery and killing, but he could no longer go back to the Ming Dynasty. Zhai Zhe has always treated him like his brother, making him unable to repay him.

"Be careful to make the ten thousand-year-old ship!" Zhai Zhe urged the horse. Since he became a horse thief, he has no idea to ride that big dark horse anymore.

The horse thieves left the mountains and the sky and found it slightly. Xiao Zhiyan took twenty people with him to the grassland to investigate first. The remaining people were ambushed in the junction of forests and grasslands more than 20 miles away from Zhangjiakou. When the Tumotes were strong, yurts were everywhere so close to Zhangjiakou, and they could not accommodate the hiding place of horse thieves.

At that time, caravans could be seen everywhere on the grassland. The Tumotes learned to buy supplies from the Han people and sell them to remote nomadic tribes. They were extremely wealthy and were not as embarrassed as horse thieves.

There was no trace of people around. There was no caravan in Zhangjiakou for a long time. The Chahar army was stationed not far away. The horse thieves on the Duoyan grassland focused their attention on the east. The border residents of Jiliao Town of the Ming Dynasty, the few Chahar tribes left behind and even the Donglu people from Liaodong were their targets.

It was not until afternoon that Xiao Zhiyan sent a subordinate to report that he had found nothing except the occasional Chahar inspection soldiers on the Zhangba grassland.

Even the Mongolians were ready for winter, and recently no tribes have entered Zhangjiakou to purchase goods.

The horse thieves began to whisper together in groups of three or three, and a few showed impatient emotions. It was of course more comfortable to stay in their old nests in winter than to blow the north wind on the grassland. So far, Zhai Zhe has been focusing on comforting, and the arrogance of the few people has gradually increased.

Zhai Zhe saw it and didn't say much.

In the evening, Xiao Zhiyan rushed over with a dozen horse thieves flying.

"I saw the caravan! I will arrive at the mountain pass in Zhangjiakou in about an hour.

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There were more than twenty people and more than forty horses in total! I left four people to follow there!"

Zhai Zhe was overjoyed. It was getting late. He thought there was no hope today, but he didn't expect the caravan to return so late.

"After an hour, it's already dark, God helps me!"

A quarter of an hour later, Zhai Zhe put on his mask and the ambushed horse thief began to set off. The sky gradually became darker and the mountains in his sight gradually became blurred. Zhai Zhe kept urging the team to get closer and closer to Zhangjiakou. If someone came out to respond, there might be a confrontation.

Not far away, I remembered Xiao Zhiyan's whistle, which was a signal of contact with the scout and the caravan.

More than 60 horse thieves rushed up to the place where the sound was heard. When Zhai Zhe walked closer, he saw Xiao Zhiyan confronting the caravan a hundred steps away.

The large group of people who appeared again made the caravan lose their courage, and the guards and their friends formed a group of faces like earth.

Almost all of these people are Shanxi people who come to Zhangjiakou to make a living. Zhai Zhe lowered his voice and said, "Leave the goods! You guys go!"

A guard roared with a fierce sword in his hand: "The goods are there, and the brothers in the collection will come out to save us soon!"

Zhai Zhe stopped delaying and ordered Che Feng around him: "Take it!"

The chariot took the bow in his hand and commanded the troops to rush forward. The guards knew that no matter how difficult it was to escape, they rushed up with their weapons. Xiao Zhiyan held the birch short bow in his hand, watching the battlefield without firing an arrow.

Twelve guards were surrounded by more than fifty horse thieves. Some horse thieves rushed towards the clerk. Zhai Zhe loudly ordered: "Don't kill those who do not resist!"

The horse thieves took Zhai Zhe's words seriously. The horse thief who rushed in front rushed to the panicked friend, swung his knife and slashed the man's neck. The person who followed him also stabbed another guy in the chest with a knife.

Zhai Zhe urged the horse to rush over, his eyes hidden in the mask seemed to be about to spit out of fire, and shouted: "Stop!"

The addicted horse thief still rushed towards the six surviving guys as if he hadn't heard it.

Zhai Zhe pulled out his long sword and was about to attack when he saw the two horse thieves in front of him screaming, and he was in his hands.

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Zhai Zhe looked closely and saw that the two of them were shot by an arrow on their arms, and Xiao Zhiyan's bow was still in his hand not far away.

The twelve caravans surrounded there were outnumbered guards and died tragically on the spot under the siege of many horse thieves.

"Take the horse away and retreat immediately!"

The shouts of killing here have been sounding for a long time. If the Lu family sent escorts to pick them up, they should have known that something was wrong here. Zhai Zhe did not want to have a head-on conflict with the caravan guards.

Along with the guards' mounts, there were more than 60 war horses in total. Almost each of the uninjured horse thieves led one by one and disappeared into the blurry moonlight. The six surviving guys were like sieves, and they recovered after half a day, turning up their companions' bodies one by one.

Half an hour later, torches rose everywhere in the Zhangjiakou market, and more than 200 cavalrymen flocked out, but they stopped again when they arrived at the mountain pass. The torches were wandering around the mountain pass and did not dare to go deep into the grassland. The night meant that the unknown was unknown. Compared with horse thieves, the merchants did not dare to take risks at will. The robbery of this caravan was not a tragedy for the Lu family, but if the guards were ambushed, it would be enough to make the Lu family lose their ability to go out of the frontier.

It was not until six blood-stained guys cried and ran back, and after a long time, more than a dozen riders rushed to the site of the accident and wrapped the body of the guards on the ground and pulled them back.

Zhai Zhe and others rushed east without torches lighting, and the team walked very slowly. It was not until Chen Shi that everyone returned to the previous ambush.

Surrounded by the mountains and forests, the horse thieves lit torches. Before Zhai Zhe's mask was taken off, they were divided into ferocious under the illumination of the fire.

His eyes kept searching in the crowd until he saw the two horse thieves hiding in the corner who were shot by Xiao Zhiyan.

"Come here!"

Zhai hooked his fingers.

The two horse thieves looked at each other and took each other's courage to come forward.

"Why didn't you listen to my order just now!"

“It’s too noisy to hear!”

"Then why did I still not listen when I arrived in front of you and gave the order!"

The horse thief on the right shouted: "Have you ever been a horse thief? How can there be a horse thief who does not kill people?"

Zhai Zhe was furious and ordered Che Feng: "\u

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The two horse thieves were a little panicked, drew their swords in their hands, and shouted: "Who dares to come!"

Che Feng pulled out the scimitar that the Mongols liked to use from his waist and greeted the onlookers: "Tie it up, kill those who resist!"

The two horse thieves surrounded by them shouted: "How can you listen to the orders of a Tartar?"

Zhai Zhe took a step forward and shouted angrily: "It's not his order, it's my order! Take them down!"

A sound of drawing swords sounded around, and a circle of people surrounded two horse thieves with weapons in their hands.

Seeing that something was wrong, the two horse thieves winked each other, threw their weapons on the ground, knelt down to Zhai Zhe and begged for mercy, "Our boss, we know we are wrong, please forgive us."

Zhai Zhe spoke without saying a word, Che Feng led the man forward and tied the two of them behind him with both hands.

Seeing that the two were tied up, Zhai Zhe ordered Che Feng: "Kill them!"

Che Feng was stunned. He didn't expect that Zhai Zhe would really kill these two people.

"Kill them!" Zhai Zhe saw that Che Feng was useless and repeated loudly.

Che Feng gritted his teeth, waved his hand to the horse thief beside him, and immediately went up and held the two of them. Another man drew the sword and Che Feng at the same time, lifted the sword and fell, and two heads rolled to the ground.

Zhai Zhe looked at the two heads in his footsteps and sighed deeply in his heart. Since the ambush of the Chahar cavalry, more than a dozen people have died directly or indirectly because of him. Killing is really simple, and once you take action, you can't stop.

"Follow me to eat meat and drink wine, but if I don't listen to my orders, this will happen!"

The horse thief was silent, and the joy brought by a victory was gone, but these people might hope for such a leader.

"Buried on the spot!"
Chapter completed!