In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 75 There is no shortage of any supplies

There was no talking all night, and after dawn, neither party had any plans to leave immediately, and the caravans did not dare to leave.

We all understand that the Mongolian cavalry is difficult to deal with. Once they hit the road, they will definitely reveal their flaws, which can be exploited by the opponent's cavalry, so it is safer to stay where they are.

Lin Rui, on the other hand, was unwilling to give in and wanted to do his best to catch them all in one go and kill the last group of people in the caravan.

However, they did not attack rashly. After all, they had already robbed hundreds and thousands of supplies. In order to grab the last bit, they suffered heavy casualties but the gain was not worth the loss.

The two sides faced off for a whole day, but neither side had the slightest idea of ​​leaving the caravan, and did not give them a chance to sneak attack at night. The next day, Lin Rui had to pretend to retreat with his men, and then asked Haber to lead the Mongolian cavalry at noon. A sudden comeback.

However, Fan Yongdou and others were not stupid. They did not fall for the trick at all and stayed where they were. They even sent people secretly to Liaodong at night to report the news.

After suffering such a big loss, everyone except Wang Dengku had no intention of going to Liaodong anymore. They wanted to stay here and wait for the Jurchens to send an army to make the decision for them.

As for Huang Taiji's enthronement ceremony, all the gifts were taken away and Huang Yongfa died. What a waste.

Anyway, the Wang family's car was loaded with food, enough to feed thousands of people and horses for several months.

When Lin Rui saw that the other party refused to leave, he had no choice but to weigh it up. In the end, he had to leave dozens of horses to monitor and escort the prisoners and cart back to the castle.

When we returned to the castle, it was already early March.

Looking at the large trucks loaded with goods, everyone cheered and shouted excitedly. Even Zhang Xiuying, who had always been indifferent, turned red-eyed.

Namuzhong, the former high-ranking queen of the Khan, looked at the more than 4000 carts and danced with excitement.

"Haha, we have been given out. It is all grain, including good rice, wheat, and beans. There is no sand at all. It is all new grain harvested last year. We can eat grain every day from now on!"

"Sir, here are all the best long knives and feather arrows, too many to count!"

"Wow, so much cloth. This cart is actually made of satin..."

“With so many tea bricks, I no longer have to worry about running out of tea, haha!”

As the curtain on the carriage was lifted, everyone fell into a carnival, and for a while there were screams from everywhere.

Even Lin Rui's eyes were shining and his breathing was rapid. There was nothing he could do. Except for salt, almost everything they were short of was in such large quantities. How could everyone not be excited?
"Sir, I found something good here..."

"Hiss, is this the stomach of Houjin Tatar?"

"These damn traitors, even if they sell weapons to the Jurchens, they even sell armor, and it's Zhenghuangqi's armor..."

Everyone immediately gathered around, and Lin Rui also rushed over. Inside the large wooden boxes on the carriage, there were all Tatar Zhenghuangqi armor neatly stacked.

"These damn traitors are so damn crazy."

While Lin Rui was stunned, he also had to admit that the eight Shanxi merchants were so courageous. They dared to secretly make and ship this Jurchen Eight Banners' standard armor to Liaodong for sale.

But when I think about it, I feel relieved that they even dared to sell the Ming army's border defense force deployment to the Jurchens.

I'm afraid there is nothing that those eight companies dare not smuggle.

If the Eight Families dared to smuggle these armors and weapons so blatantly, they must have formed a huge interest group with the civil servants and military generals of Datong Xuanfu long ago.

"Quickly, take these armors down first and take inventory."

"Yes!"

Everyone immediately got busy, while Na Muzhong and Zhang Xiuying were responsible for counting.

"Rui Lang, there are two thousand sets of armor, one thousand of which are for the true yellow flag and those with the yellow flag, and the remaining one thousand sets are more than three hundred sets each for the pure white flag, the pure blue flag and the pure red flag." Zhang Xiuying said slowly, with a smile on her face. With a hint of heaviness.

"Rui Lang, our female soldiers are still wearing leather armors, why don't we pick some out and modify them?" Mrs. Niu wanted to give each of the female soldiers a set of cotton armors studded with iron nails and protective goggles. Armor pierces through.

"Renovation is too wasteful. We have no shortage of cowhide and iron now. All these Eight Banners armors should be sealed up first."

Lin Rui waved his hand, these Jurchen armors will definitely be of great use in the future.

"Okay then!" Mrs. Niu had no choice but to retreat.

Immediately, Lin Rui helped Zhang Xiuying and Na Muzhong count other items. Fortunately, the carts had been sorted, so it was easy to count them.

It only took the three of them an hour to count and register all the supplies of more than 4000 large trucks.

The biggest thing is grain, which occupies 300 carts, and each cart carries a thousand kilograms. The total is 500 million kilograms. With their current number, even if they add the [-] people they just captured, Even if you eat every meal, you can still eat for several years.

This time, Lin Rui gave up the idea of ​​opening up wasteland for farming.

Secondly, there are weapons. There are 50 fine steel knives, [-] bundles of feather arrows, [-] in each bundle, which adds up to [-], and [-] sets of armor. These items account for nearly [-] carriages. .

Finally, there were more than 5000 pieces of cloth and satin, 3 kilograms of salt, [-] yuan of tea bricks, plus some scissors, needlework, pens, inks, paper and inkstones. The total of these things only accounted for [-] carts.

Although they were mentally prepared, looking at the list in their hands and the three of them looking at each other, their hearts could not stop beating.

"Rui Lang, I'm afraid the warehouse in the castle won't be able to store these things." Zhang Xiuying took a deep breath and said.

"Except for leaving some grain and tea, everything else was transported to the village, all the houses in the village were vacated, and then some large warehouses were built in the small valley."

These things were all going to be transported to Liaodong. Now that they had robbed them, Lin Rui estimated that Huang Taiji had to go crazy. It was no longer safe to pile them up in the castle and they had to move them to a cottage.

With so much food and supplies, coupled with the terrain of the mountain stronghold, he would not be afraid even if the Jurchens sent a hundred thousand troops to attack him, let alone besieged but not attack.

Immediately under Zhang Xiuying's greeting, everyone moved some supplies down, and Lin Rui personally led the people to escort the carriage to the valley, leaving Sister Niu to be responsible for the transportation.

2500 prisoners would definitely not be digested in a short period of time, so Lin Rui planned to single out the useful people among them, while the others would dig trenches and build forts first. After these prisoners got used to settling down, he would slowly select the suitable ones. people training.

But after some interrogation, in addition to the blacksmith and carpenter, Lin Rui was surprised that there were several doctors.

"You are a doctor, why are you following the caravan?"

Lin Rui asked curiously, looking at the three middle-aged men who were not dressed like the coachman or the guard.

"Hui, as a hero, Mr. Fan hired the old man to accompany him so that he could get sick and treat him in time during the trip." One of the middle-aged men with a goatee replied cautiously.

"Oh, is it Fan Yongdou? Is he also in the caravan this time?" Lin Rui stood up quickly.

"Yes, it is."

"What about you two?"

"Back to my hero, I was hired by Mr. Wang."

"I was hired by Mr. Jin."

"Besides these three family heads, who else are in the caravan?" Lin Rui stared at the three of them with burning eyes.

When the three of them saw that he looked like he wanted to eat people, they didn't dare to hide anything.

After learning that all eight traitors of Fan Yongdou were in the caravan, Lin Rui cursed in annoyance and rushed out immediately.

If he had known earlier that those eight traitors were also among the team, even if he had to lose three to four hundred more people, he would have killed them all without hesitation, and he would have taken advantage of them wherever possible.

(End of this chapter)