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Chapter 29 Destroy the Shanxi Merchants Caravan

On the grassland in the distance, the Chahar Mongols and the Tumot Mongols fought a fierce battle. The cavalry of both sides hedged. The moment before the contact was about to occur, the cavalry of both sides drew their bows and arrows, and tens of thousands of feather arrows flew into the sky to cover the sky and the sun. The whole sky was dark, and the overwhelming rain of arrows fell to the formation of the opposite cavalry.

There were Mongolians on both sides without armor protection, so the killing and lethality of light arrows was quite powerful. The cavalry of both sides fell down like dumplings, and the horses were neighing. The screams of the Mongolian soldiers fell off as the horses trampled on their bodies. The horses trampled on their bodies. The cavalry of both sides hit a round of feather arrows and collided fiercely. The Mongolian scimitar cut into the Mongolian's bodies. The Mongolian's feather arrow shot through the Mongolian's body. The Mongolian's war horses hit the Mongolian's war horses. The two groups of Mongolians were cruelly killed by Huang Taiji's provocation.

Li Laoer didn't care about the killing of the two groups of Mongolians. He led people to eliminate the Shanxi merchant guards. Although the fierce battle between the two groups of Mongolians cannot be said to be completely unrelated to Li Laoer. If Lin Danhan was defeated, Li Laoer would not be able to escape. However, Li Laoer believed that as long as Huang Taiji did not bring his troops to him personally, the Tumote army would definitely not be Lin Danhan's opponent, so he could safely and boldly annihilate the Shanxi merchant caravan.

The formation of the Shanxi merchant caravan was completely broken by the Chahar Mongols, and the remaining eight white-armored Bayala died in the chaos, and more than 200 Jurchen archers were all killed.

Seeing that the formation was broken, more than 2,000 remaining caravan guards ran away.

"Roar up! Kill all these dogs!" Li Lao Er shouted and rode his horse to chase after him.

Although Li Hong lost his war horse, he rode a good horse seized from Baijia Bayala, followed him and covered him with the Shanxi merchants.

Seven hundred Han cavalry also boarded their horses, following the fleeing guards and friends of the Shanxi merchants, chasing them all the way, killing them all the way, killing the Shanxi merchants' corpses everywhere and blood flowed into a river.

The Shanxi merchant caravans who were caught up were either cut off their heads with one knife, knocked away by war horses, or trampled into meat paste by horse hooves. Some caravans were kneeling on the ground and begging hard.

"Kill them! No one left! Let's not capture prisoners!" Li Laoer shouted.

After receiving the order from Li Laoer, the Han Qi started a massacre of the Shanxi merchant caravans who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy. Regardless of whether they were kneeling on the ground or surrendering, they cut off their heads with one knife.

Wang Dengku fled on a horse, and was shot in the back by Li Hong with an arrow from behind, and fell from the back with a scream. Then dozens of war horses galloped past. Wang Dengku, the second merchant of the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants and the oldest shopkeeper of the eight great masters, was trampled into meat paste by the Han cavalry.

Fan Ming, the shopkeeper of the Fan family of Jiexiu, has been killed. Although Fan Yongdou is not here, he will escape the disaster, but this time the Fan family caravan has suffered heavy losses, probably not a few years or six years, so he can't recover his vitality. The other seven major Shanxi merchants also suffered heavy losses. Wang Dengku was trampled into meat paste by Hanqi, Huang Yunfa was chopped into meat paste by the Mongols, Jin Liangyu was captured, and Wang Dayu, Liang Jiabin, Tian Shenglan and Zhai Tang were not present and escaped the fate of being killed, but the goods of these four Shanxi merchants were here. After this disaster, they were like the Fan family, and it was difficult for them to turn over within a few years.

To be honest, after the last time the pursuit of Fan Yongdou failed, Li Laoer was very careful about how much goods he could rob Shanxi merchants. His main purpose was to eliminate these traitors. Eliminating the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants was equivalent to breaking one of Huang Taiji's arm and breaking an important source of information from Huang Taiji.

Although they failed to wipe out all the eight major merchants of Shanxi this time, their goods and property were both heavy losses, and the group of people who suffered the biggest losses were the ones killed in the eight major merchants of Shanxi. It is not something that can be done in a year or two. The nearly 3,000 Shanxi merchant caravans who were killed this time were all old friends of the eight major merchants of Shanxi. The killing of this group of people can be said to be a great damage to the vitality of the Shanxi merchants.

Unfortunately, Fan Yongdou escaped by chance this time and failed to get the punishment he deserved.

The victory or defeat of the two Mongolian cavalry on the grassland in the distance has been determined. Lin Danhan's reinforcements have been coming. The Tumot Mongols are no match for the Chahar Mongols after all. The Tumot who came to pick up the eight great masters of Shanxi merchants retreated and fled back to Huihua City.

The winning Lin Danhan smiled and ordered the Chahar Mongolian cavalry to count the spoils.

The caravans of the Eight Great Masters of Shanxi merchants were almost wiped out, and all the goods fell into the hands of the Chahar Mongols. After counting the results of the battle, Tashhai reported to Lin Dankhan: "Khan! Our army annihilated more than 20,000 Han merchants in Tongjuzhen, annihilated two hundred Jurchens, seized more than 20,000 stones of grain, more than 20,000 kilograms of iron tools, more than 10,000 kilograms of gunpowder, more than 5,000 kilograms of cotton, one thousand tans of tea, and more than 2,000 kilograms of salt."

"Okay! That's great! With these food and goods, we don't have to worry this winter!" Lin Danhan laughed as he touched his beard.

"Can the Khan return to the grassland outside Xifengkou? Huang Taiji is about to be taken from Xifengkou to the Ming Dynasty to rob. If Huang Taiji's conspiracy succeeds, the Ming Dynasty will suffer heavy losses. Once the Ming Dynasty no longer exists, Huang Taiji's next target is Dahan, you." Li Laoer made a suggestion to Lin Danhan, hoping that Lin Danhan could help the Ming Dynasty block this round of Later Jin invasion.

"Hmph!" Lin Danhan snorted coldly, "How many times have I helped the Ming Dynasty resist the Jurchens? But I only asked the Ming Dynasty for several market rewards, but the Ming Dynasty was unwilling to give them. Why did I still want to help them? The Jurchens are extremely fierce. If I send troops to Xifengkou, I will inevitably suffer heavy losses. If I want to save the Ming Dynasty, I will decide to unify Mongolia first. If I can unify Mongolia, Huang Taiji would not dare to act rashly. So I decided to take advantage of Huang Taiji's great opportunity to attack Naturalization!"

Seeing that Lin Danhan insisted on attacking Naturalhua, Li Laoer didn't know what to say. After all, he was not a Mongol. Lin Danhan had a violent personality and was very cruel, and was not a good thing. Anyway, according to Li Laoer's historical knowledge, Lin Danhan could not live long. In the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji invaded and robbed, strengthening the strength of the Later Jin Dynasty, he freed up his hands to deal with Lin Danhan.

Since Lin Danhan refused to help the Ming Dynasty resist Huang Taiji's invasion this time, Li Laoer thought that everything would depend on himself. So he drove away two thousand stones of grain, two thousand kilograms of iron, one thousand kilograms of gunpowder, five hundred kilograms of cotton, fifty lograms of tea and two hundred kilograms of salt according to the agreement to obtain 10% of the goods. The price Li Laoer paid for this battle was only to lose three cavalrymen.

In addition, Lin Danhan also generously gave all the more than 200 war horses of the Jurchens to Li Laoer. However, 90% of the armor and weapons were taken away by Lin Danhan, leaving only a small number of armor and weapons left for Li Laoer. Of course, there was more than 200 Jurchen soldiers' heads. Lin Danhan was useless to stay, and they were all taken away by Li Laoer. Moreover, Li Laoer had another gain, that was, he searched the bodies of the Shanxi merchant guards and the servants, and found thousands of taels of silver, hundreds of taels of gold, many valuable items such as jade and jewelry.

The bodies of the Shanxi merchants and Jurchens were stripped naked by Li Lao Er and the others, and they were stripped into naked white pigs and threw them on the grassland. All the clothes on their bodies were taken away by Li Lao Er and the others.
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