A hundred people were left in the bandits' den on the mountain to guard their property. When they came down from the mountain again, the Tong family's escort team only had 900 people.
It can be said that nine hundred people can deal with some small groups of bandits in Lingnan with ease.
Although Tong Song is the leader of the team, the real decision maker of the team is Tong Jian. With the eldest young master of the Tong family in the team, Tong Jian really doesn't dare to lead the team into danger, and he actively avoids any gangster den with some strength.
Persimmon specializes in picking out weak people and attacking bandit dens with less than 500 people.
No, based on the homework he had done in advance, he targeted another small group of bandits thirty miles away.
"Young Master, after some screening, about thirty miles south from here, in a mountainous area close to the sea in Nanhai County, there is a small group of bandits, numbering about three hundred people. It just so happens that we can bring this group of bandits away.
After completing the mission, you can return to the city."
Tong Song felt a little bit like he was bullying the minority with more people, "There are only about 300 people. Isn't there a bigger bandit den?"
Tong Jian understands the young man's unwillingness to admit defeat very well, but he is responsible for the personal safety of the eldest young master and really dare not take him to take risks.
"Young Master, three hundred people are a lot of people. If you want to train the servants, you have to take your time and don't rush for quick success."
Just like the new recruits who have just entered the military camp, they have no battlefield experience and are only suitable for fighting in smooth battles. If they are allowed to fight hard against enemies of equal or stronger strength, they will collapse.
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On the post road to the east of Nanhai County, a fast horse galloped past, frightening the passers-by to panic and avoid him. Judging from the clothes he was wearing, he must be an officer or soldier.
Not long after, the fast horse forked into a mountain road. The mountain road was rugged, and the fast horse could not go faster even if it wanted to.
"Fifth Master, the messenger is here."
Needless to say, Li Chengmu had already heard the sound of horse hooves. Looking up into the distance, he saw the winding mountain road coming towards him at times fast and sometimes slowly.
As the horse approached, the messenger abandoned his horse and trotted to Li Chengmu, cupping his hands and saying: "Report to the Fifth Master that the other three route armies have successfully captured the three bandit dens in Maoling, Tietouling and Guishan in Nanhai County. Now,
We are counting the belongings and prisoners, and we can return tomorrow."
"Oh." Li Chengmu was overjoyed when he heard this, "Okay, okay, now the team's combat effectiveness is getting stronger and stronger, everyone is performing well!"
Chang Lu smiled and said: "Congratulations, Fifth Master, you have led the troops well. Your hard work in bringing everyone to the South China Sea for training has not been in vain."
Ever since he came to Linhai Town in Nanhai County for training, he initially practiced formation formations honestly. Later, when actual combat training was needed, Li Chengmu directly led everyone to suppress bandits everywhere.
However, the results are significant.
It can be said that the bandits in Nanhai County have been basically wiped out by them.
Of course, the harvest was quite fruitful. The seized property could support the army's military expenses for two years. All the new recruits wanted to continue this lucrative business.
Li Chengmu was beaming with praise, but he didn't get carried away, "How was the inventory of supplies?"
Chang Lu smiled and replied: "The inventory has already been completed and can be loaded into the car immediately."
"Then you go and tell everyone to load up the car, and then set off after eating some dry food to fill your stomach."
If it were Li Chengmu who was in Gyeonggi Province, he would never have imagined that the bandits on the border were richer than him.
He is a son of the royal family, and his wealth is not as good as that of bandits. No one in Gyeonggi Province would believe him if he told him.
"Fifth Master, do you know how many carriages are loaded with supplies this time?"
Li Chengmu looked at Changlu and asked with interest: "How much?"
Chang Lu raised two fingers and said with a grin: "Twenty carriages, fifteen carriages with just cloth and food, and five carriages with silver and copper coins. This batch of materials is enough for our team to consume for at least three months."
"Haha, now I finally understand why my father always wants to confiscate his house!"
When they raid a bandit's den, they are also raiding a home. The shortcut to making money so quickly is so addictive.
"Report to the Fifth Master that a sailboat has come to the sea under the cliff at the back mountain. The sail is soft and it should be a ship belonging to the Western Yi people." A soldier ran over to report the news.
"Sailboat? Xiyi people?" Li Chengmu looked at Xiaobing in confusion.
Forgive him. He has lived in Gyeonggi Province since he was a child. He doesn't know the difference between soft sails and hard sails. Let alone the Xiyi people, he has never even seen them.
Xiaobing was a local and had worked in a shipyard, so he knew the difference better, so he explained: "Our Dayu's ships all have hard sails, and only the ships of the Xiyi people have soft sails. This kind of
The speed of the boat is much faster than that of a hard sailing ship."
"Oh, what are the Xiyi people doing here?" Li Chengmu looked towards the long road, "Let's go and have a look."
The back mountain is steep, and there is only a very narrow and steep path leading down, which leads directly to the sea.
When Li Chengmu arrived at the back mountain, General Yuan Shen came up to him and said, "Fifth Master, the sailboats on the sea are coming soon. What should we do if they come up?"
It is impossible for the Xiyi people to sail to this sea for no reason. Since they came here, there must be some purpose.
Li Chengmu looked down at Xiyi's ship and said decisively: "Let brothers prepare. It's okay if they don't come up. If they climb up, they will be arrested immediately. As for their purpose of coming here, they will be tortured when caught.
Just know it.”
General Yuan Shen received the order, asked his brothers to prepare, and asked Li Chengmu to hide in the bandit's house first.
Not long after, chattering voices came from the steep path, and as time passed, figures appeared at the intersection.
Yuan Shen would hide in the dark and observe. This time, a total of about twenty Xiyi people with red hair and white skin came up.
After they all came up, General Yuan Shen gave an order, and dozens of soldiers rushed out and pounced on the Xiyi people.
It may not be the first time for the Xiyi people to come here, because they look relaxed, as if they are visiting their own back garden.
They didn't seem to expect anything to happen here. When dozens of soldiers rushed out, they were completely stunned.
By the time he reacted, he had already been thrown to the ground.
Locke was the captain of the sailboat on the sea, and he walked at the back of the crew.
When encountering this unexpected situation, his reaction speed was quite fast. Before he was knocked down, he had already pulled out the flintlock gun on his thigh, but he was knocked to the ground before he could light it.
After being knocked down, he was annoyed at his slow reaction. Why did he draw the wrong weapon in such a close-range emergency situation?
What he should have drawn the most just now was the dagger! Give the Oriental native who knocked him down a stab in his heart.
"￥%#@&..." Locke yelled.
But no one from Dayu could understand it.
"General Yuan, what kind of bird language is this bird man saying? Can you understand it?"
Yuan Shenjiang shook his head, "I have never been in contact with Xiyi people before, so how can I understand the bird language spoken by Xiyi people!"
Li Chengmu had been paying attention to the movements outside. He saw from the window that all the Xiyi people had been captured, and walked out of the house.
This was his first time seeing other races, and his eyes, heart, and mind were full of curiosity.
Locke saw that the eastern natives couldn't understand him. He scolded them, but they couldn't understand.
It's like a punch on cotton, with nowhere to put any force, it's so frustrating!
"This is the Xiyi people. Is this what the Xiyi people look like?" Li Chengmu turned a blind eye to Locke's angry look, "Why do I look like a red-haired monster?"
Although the two parties cannot speak the same language, some emotions can still be seen from the expressions on their faces.
When Locke saw Li Chengmu's curious face and treated him like a circus monkey, he was furious, "#￥%&*@#￥!"
Li Chengmu picked his ears, turned around and asked his subordinates, "Which of you understands the bird language spoken by the Western Yi people?"
Everyone present shook their heads. They used to be at the lowest level and had no chance to contact the Xiyi people.
Li Chengmu looked at the Xiyi people and shook his head and sighed: "At this moment, I finally understand what my mother and concubine said about the boundless sea of learning and the endless learning."
If he understood Xiyi dialect, he wouldn't have to stare at them.
Yuan Canjun stepped forward and wanted to speak quietly, but then he thought that even if he spoke loudly, these Westerners would not be able to understand him.
"Fifth Master, we have to take them down quickly and keep them under guard. The people on the boat below find that the people who came up have not come down. They will definitely come up to check. We have to be prepared before they come up."
Li Chengmu waved his hand and asked people to be taken down.
Sure enough, after half an hour, the crew below went down without seeing their companions, and more than thirty red-haired and white-skinned Xiyi people came up.
This time, the same method was used to tie up the person. Yuan Canjun did not wait any longer, but ordered a team of 100 people to walk slowly down the path.
While the watchmen on the deck were not paying attention, Yuan Canjun and his men took advantage of the buffer time to rush forward.
First, they controlled a few people on duty, and the people in the cabin ran out when they heard the noise on the deck.
Seeing the tied up crew members on the deck, they were stunned for a moment, then screamed and rushed towards the soldiers.
Before Li Chengmu could figure out why the Xiyi people had red hair, white skin, and blue eyes, his brothers below had already arrested all the Xiyi people in the boat.
There were a hundred or so sailors in the entire sailing ship, and almost fifty of them came up twice. Later, the small team ran down and captured another fifty Xiyi people.
Li Chengmu didn't expect that he could bump into a big fish when he went out to suppress bandits. It was an unexpected surprise.
But this is just an appetizer, the bigger surprise lies behind.
"What?" Li Chengmu looked at Yuan Canjun with wide eyes, "Their ships are filled with gold and silver?"
Yuan Canjun was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth: "In addition to food and supplies, there are more than twenty boxes in the cabin filled with gold and silver ingots. I don't know if they earned it from business or where they plundered it?"
Anyway, this mistake was all in their favour.
Li Chengmu felt his heart beat faster and said, "Take the supplies and these people back first, and then I will write a letter to my mother and concubine to ask for her opinion on how to deal with this situation."
Yuan Canjun was a little worried, "Fifth Master, I don't know which country they are from. Will it cause a dispute between the two countries if we arrest them?"
Li Chengmu's brows were tightly knitted, but not long after, he relaxed again, "We've already arrested you. Don't scare yourself first about the consequences. You'll know what to do when you write to your mother-in-law and ask for her opinion."
Done!"
Yuan Canjun guessed: "Fifth Master, my subordinates heard that many overseas islands were occupied by Western Yi people. Do you think they are Western Yi people who occupied the islands?"
The most important thing is that Xiyi people are a general term. Some Xiyi people are different from Xiyi people. They do not belong to the same country.
Li Chengmu waved his hand and said, "We don't understand what they are saying at the moment, so don't guess for the time being. Pack your things quickly and get ready to leave, so as not to stay here for a long night and dream."
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As for Tong Song and his party, they hurriedly and slowly arrived at another bandit's den thirty miles away.
But when we launched our final attack before dawn, we found that the mountain was incredibly quiet.
When they climbed up the mountain, there was no one in the bandits' den. Broken baskets and dustpans were scattered everywhere, making the place a mess.
"Did someone get there first?" Tong Jian looked at everything in front of him in astonishment. Apart from his own people's voices, there were only the sounds of birds and the fragrance of flowers.
Tong Song kicked away the broken dustpan blocking the road at his feet and laughed at himself, "Ha, someone else took advantage of me."
Tong Jian's face was full of doubts: "Is there still a force in Lingnan that is suppressing bandits?"
It must be the princess's personal guard camp. The princess's personal guard camp is still in Fucheng and has not left the city.
He thought for a while and then murmured: "Could it be that the bandits on the road are trying to steal something from others?"
Tong Song frowned in thought, and after a while his brows relaxed slightly, "It could also be the work of King Qian's newly recruited soldiers."
"They were training in a military camp outside Fucheng. How could they come to Nanhai County?" Tong Jian shook his head in denial without thinking.
Tong Song rolled his eyes at him, "This time they recruited 20,000 people, and two or three thousand people randomly came out, you know?"
Tong Jian was stunned when he heard this, "Not to mention, after the young master's analysis, it is really possible that it was done by officers and soldiers."
"It's just that the officers and soldiers now think about the people and take the initiative to suppress bandits?"
Don't blame Tong Jian for thinking this way. The officers and soldiers in the guard posts in various places in the Yu Dynasty were all cowards who bullied the weak. They acted like cowards when facing bandits and powerful enemies, but they did their job smoothly in bullying the people.
Looking around again at the empty bandit den where this man went, Tong Jian asked again: "Young master, what should we do now? Should we go back or find another bandit den for action?"
Tong Song: "Are there any other bandit dens near here?"
Tong Jian took out a simple map from his sleeve pocket, checked it and replied: "There is another place fifty miles away."
Fifty miles is neither close nor far. Although I gained something this time, it was not much. Now I am going back home. Tong Song felt a little unwilling, "Then let's go to this place."
The team rested on the spot and after lunch, some servants were unwilling to give in and walked around the bandits' den, knocking here and there.
Not to mention, sometimes some people are really lucky. A servant dug out a small bag of silver in the corner of a room, about a dozen taels. He was so happy that his eyes narrowed into a straight line.
Seeing his cheerful look, Tong Song didn't ask him to hand over the silver. As the future heir of the Tong family, he still looked down upon this small amount of money.
We drove in the afternoon, stayed in the wild at night, and continued our journey the next day.
In the middle of the morning, they encountered a team larger than themselves.
As soon as the two sides met, Tong Song recognized Li Chengmu who was being guarded by his personal guards in the middle.
He rode up to the front of the team, raised his hands and said, "I'm Tong Song, I've met the Fifth Master."
Li Chengmu was wondering about the origin of this team. When he heard Tong Song's voice, he looked carefully and recognized him.
He also rode forward and bowed his hand to him: "Nice to meet you, nice to meet you. I didn't expect to meet the Tong family's team here."
Tong Song smiled and said: "It's fate."
"Haha, yes, it's fate." After Li Chengmu laughed, he stared at their team, which was quite large, and asked, "I wonder where you are going?"
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