He spent a lot of money on buying weapons, recruiting people, and making up his family for those who were killed and injured on the grassland. He even sent people to the capital to arrange opera troupes to act. What is all this for is not for the wealth on the grassland.

The gold mine near Mantaoer has been everyone's target since it was discovered by the caravans. However, more than 4,000 male men riding horses and pulling bows can be pulled out from this Mantaoer. The small caravan dared to make any wrong ideas, and even dared to get too close. However, intentionally or unintentionally, this position is firmly kept in my heart.

Since the Naturalized Merchant Conference, the armed forces of the Naturalized Merchant Group have advanced eastward step by step and finally arrived near the gold mine.

The whole lotus is on the edge of Chaohe River, and to the south is the Gubeikou area, which is also one of the transportation hubs on the grassland. Han people and people from the village gather, and the commerce and trade are quite developed.

Such developed commerce and trade are often places with strong people around the river. Because of the convenient transportation and the convenient acquisition of materials, the Korqin tribe also sent people to collect taxes here.

In the second half of August, two armed caravans had more than 1,500 people approached Mantaoer. Since they were named as caravans, they were here to do business. No one would be blocked by this reason. The smell of blood had already spread over the grassland. Everyone knew that the smiles of these Ming caravans hid butcher knives, and even killed people broke out on Mantaoer's side. The people of the Korqin division began to expel the Han people here and looted their property.

The Han people in the Ming Dynasty abide by the laws and regulations, but on the grassland, where there is no kingly law, who will wait to die? There have been battles and fighting, but the power of the sectarians is even greater after all, and the Han people still suffer a great loss. Some of their wives and daughters were insulted and their property was robbed.

In such a place, the people of the Gate have no ability to do business, and are used to the strong horses and liquors, and are unwilling to work hard. They often can only watch the Han people gradually become rich and have accumulating resentment in their hearts, but this time they took the opportunity to burst out and burn, kill, loot, and it was so unhappy.

The Han people who escaped naturally defected to the caravan. When they saw that they had developed to this level, they simply tore off the veil of the caravan and put forward the banner of avenging their compatriots.

There are nearly two thousand men who can ride horses and kill people, and even some people can pull bows and knives, but these people gathered together everywhere, which is really a mob.

The caravan's armed forces were in the naturalized city. The veterans of the Huwei Army were led by the soldiers of Datong Town as the backbone of the guards. In fact, these two armed caravans were collected by six merchants. The equipment and quality were strong. The 1,500 people were just about the number of caravan guards. Including the cavalry that followed the city, the total number would be more than two thousand. Not to mention, after the rectification near Xuanfu, as usual, I followed a cavalry of more than 100 people in Xuanfu. Don't underestimate the cavalry of more than 100 people. This cavalry did not leave Li Rusong, the Li family or the Ma family, and were all personal soldiers in the family.

It is also because the generals of various companies are jealous of the merchants who have made too much armed forces. They send their own armed forces to grab them and always have their own share.

In fact, the so-called business group armed forces, if you carefully study the shareholders and bosses behind the business group, there are always these shadows of the border town generals, and now they are just more directly involved in the responsibility.

The battle process of the Manta'er was very simple. The cart unloaded the horses and pushed them forward by people. The fire locks were used as a barrier to shoot. When the cavalry approached, the mobs with the manned swords and spears were swaying and did not resist for too long. At the beginning, the charge was beaten to pieces and was then suppressed step by step by step by step by the merchant army, and soon collapsed. The cavalry collapsed and then gathered together after the collapse. It was much easier to gather than infantry, but the collapse on this battlefield was a complete disaster, because the cavalry and the armed forces of the border town were also cavalry, and they would pursue the victory. If they collapsed once, they would completely collapse.

After killing hundreds of people, most of the people who could run out ran away, and the rest also experienced a massacre. The merchant armed forces knew that the gold mine was not far from the whole lotus, but did not fight immediately, but started to rectify and rest here.

Manta'er has a certain amount of material reserves, but this is far from enough for the next use. A large convoy that transported food and supplies from both the Longmen Guard and the Miyun Guard came here. This time the armed caravan was the forward and stood in front for the team behind.

In the grassland, we have always been fighting against small tribes. We don’t care about the number of people and fewer people, we just rush over and fight. However, there are thousands of soldiers in the Montaur gold mine and fortifications. If we include miners and nearby tribes, it is even more of a small city. If we want to fight, we can’t fight in a strait.

Of course, the merchants did not have this understanding. After hearing that there was a gold mine there, a wealthy merchant shouted and rushed over, using the number of people to completely flatten the other side and occupy the gold mine.

Fortunately, the real big action was determined by the Sanjiang Commercial Bank's escort. To be precise, it was decided by the Tan brothers. After learning about the regulations of the gold mine from the Jingdao, General Tan began to carefully plan.

Gold mines represent huge wealth. Not only the wealthy merchants in Guihua City, but also the people in Tianjin Wei Zongzhan also have the same attitude. You must fight.

But how to fight and how to fight, the command power is in the hands of General Tan. Those rich merchants are nominally the owners of the guards, but Wang Tong gave General Tan the command power. In fact, this is the big scene where various merchant groups act together, and only General Tan has this power.

General Tan understood very clearly that such gold mines must be highly valued by the Korqin tribe, and this location is equivalent to a pass. After conquering this place, and going east, most of the eastern part of the grassland will have no geographical advantage, and they can only fight with everyone on the grassland. With such a terrain, the merchant armed forces equipped with firearms and large cars will not suffer any losses. Moreover, after passing this foothills, it is much more convenient for Jizhen to support it.

In such an important place, the Korqin tribe will definitely have support, and will even look for alliances on the grassland and fight here. Since this is the case, we cannot underestimate this place.

In fact, General Tan also understood that the current armed forces of the merchant regiment are extremely impetuous. With the fire mirror to increase the tactics of the cart, there are also brave warriors holding big swords and spears, and there are also cavalry riding horses to the city of Fighting. In the past few months, they have basically won the battles on the grassland, which has made them more and more confident and less underestimated the enemy.

This mentality has always been the source of failure. After winning a smooth battle for so long, if you suddenly encounter a tough problem, you will probably be in big trouble.

Therefore, we need to implement a complete strategy. The so-called complete strategy is very simple, that is, accumulate strength, use the full set of strength as a base, and gather enough strength to the advantage there, and then fight.

The word gold mine itself is shining and is so attractive to profit-seeking merchants. There are more and more armed business groups coming to the crowd, and these martial arts are becoming more and more ready to move.

Moreover, when the battle was cleaned, the result of the day's battle, the miserable experiences of the Han people, such as Mantao, were seen by the merchant armed forces. In addition to being indignant, they had to go around to sweep and take revenge. Although this sweep was a looting a lot of property, it also drove several tribes wandering nearby to the vicinity of the gold mine, greatly enhancing the power that the gold mine could use.

What's even more troublesome is that it takes time to accumulate strength. The armed forces of various merchant groups have their own purposes on the grassland. Some are in the ring pastures, some are looking for alkaline lakes, some are plundering tribes, and even some are testing the trade routes. It takes time to gather in the full house.

When the merchant group on Mantaoer's side reached about 5,000 troops, it was already the second half of September, and there were still all kinds of chaos.

Although the core of the armed forces of various businesses with full confidence are Huwei veterans, the main body is recruited by brave men from all over the world. These people rarely have the energy in the army, have no discipline, and are lawless. Even if Huwei veterans have been the leader for a long time, and have a civilian status, their minds are very different from before.

These thousands of people gathered in a mess, which was really troublesome. Moreover, the naturalized merchant group had a default rule, that is, first come, first served... Everyone went to burn, kill, loot, whoever took it first would belong to the one. The gold mine was here, and the same was true for this. There are at least 6,000 cavalrymen who can fight there now. What is the 6,000 cavalry? In front of the musket and in front of this big cart, everything is not worth mentioning. As long as you get there, you will definitely win a complete victory.

Under this idea, although Tan would try his best to restrain him, there were still several caravans who were ignorant of life and death and went first. As a result, they were expected, with heavy casualties and even annihilated.

Near the foothills, the terrain over there is no longer a flat horse, and the formation of large chariots may not be smooth. If they are penetrated by Tartar cavalry or infantry, it will be a disaster.

It was a coincidence that during a private attack in the second half of September, it actually rained. The cart had formed a formation, but the fire could not start in the rain. The cavalry was captured and pulled the cart away with an iron hook and rushed in. In the end, only two people rode back on horseback.

Fortunately, the death and injury of nearly a thousand people finally made the arrogance of the merchant group armed forces who underestimated the enemy a little alert, and General Tan, who arrived in a lot of trouble, was more likely to restrain the teams.

It is the judgment that the battle can be launched in mid-October, but there is also a problem, that is, the grasslands in mid-October have begun to get cold, and the gold mine can slaughter the livestock and freeze them, and the meat can be preserved for a long time. In other words, they do not need to worry about the food being exhausted and can fight for a long time.
Chapter completed!