Chapter 559: Sharp Whistle (1)

Liu Zi'an, Tang Yu, Feng Xiang and Robin? After Van Persie signed the agreement, he sent someone to send the agreement to the town of Datong, Shanxi, and also copied a copy and sent it to the capital of Jinan.

Tang Yu also said that the Ministry of Commerce will draw up a plan as soon as possible to bring Shandong and surrounding maritime merchants and large merchants to increase maritime trade with Japan and North Korea.

However, Feng Xiang still has some opinions on this agreement, thinking that the agreement even allows the Dutch to come to Shandong to do business, even if it is to extract 10% of the tax, it is a great tolerance for the Dutch, and it is enough to make those Dutch happy.

In fact, it is true, or Robin? Van Persie will not go back with a smile on his face to return to Van Zerey, the Dutch colonial chief.

Liu Zi'an explained, this is also a helpless move, if the Tatar Ministry is not pressing step by step, if the Hamiwei is not lost, I think the governor will not be so lenient to the Dutch, and now the center of gravity of the court and the governor is still in the northwest.

From this, the three of them also talked about the situation in the northwest.

Tang Yu asked: "I heard that now that the governor has dispatched a large number of sharp sentinels to the grassland, are you preparing to take the first step against the Tatars?" ”

Speaking of starting a war, even if it is a land battle, Feng Xiang is also in spirit, Liu Zi'an said: "That's right, now not only thousands of sentry have attacked, but even the Ministry of Intelligence and the Inspection Department have successively sent capable forces to set off, and cooperate with all the sentry soldiers to explore the situation of the Tatar Department and the deployment of troops, it seems that the Governor Xian is preparing to finish his work in one battle and kill the Tatar Department first!" ”

Speaking of this, the three of them couldn't help but feel their blood boiling, and their hearts involuntarily drifted to the vast desert.

August of the sixth year of Tianshun.

Liu Juntao, the governor of Shanxi, mobilized a large number of elite sentries to the north of the grassland, and launched an attack and investigation on the Tatar department.

At this time, the season is equivalent to September in the future, but the grassland is already full of grass and trees, all kinds of shrubs and weeds one after another, it seems that a dense and continuous large area, and the large mottled grassland has formed an endless pattern, which is complex enough to make people dizzy. Such terrain is very unfavorable for any map combat and paper soldiers.

In the darkness of the night, a group of Ming army sentries stopped and went under the light of the stars, stopping from time to time to determine the direction.

The first one rode forward on horseback, and behind him, many sentry soldiers also walked cautiously. In this area, I don't know if there are Tartars ambushing horses, so everyone's vigilance is very high.

The terrain under your feet is still undulating, and everyone must maintain their center of gravity. lest you accidentally fall and bend your foot.

After walking for a while, suddenly the sentry general raised his left hand again, and immediately everyone stopped, looking around vigilantly.

I saw that his nose twitched, his ears were erected high, and he was as alert as a wolf. Suddenly, his left hand beckoned, and immediately the two sentry commanders under him bowed their heads and quickly came to the side of the commander.

The general whispered a few words to the two of them, and pointed in a direction to the left.

The two of them suddenly perked up, listened attentively for a while, and couldn't help but admire the general sensitive sense of smell.

These sentries are called Xie Ye on weekdays, this person was originally an old hunter in Shanxi, a skilled archer and horse, Liu Juntao came to enlist in the army after the army was stationed in Shanxi. At this time, a sentry commander thought to himself: "These Tartars dare to smoke pipes in the wild, and when they encounter a nose like Xie Ye, which is more intelligent than a dog, they really don't know how to die."

The three of them whispered a few words, and a sentry chief beckoned, and immediately the old stall boss, the second tiger, and the actor tiptoed away, and their bodies quickly disappeared into the night and disappeared into the weeds.

This sentry chief, nicknamed Bai Di, has a stout body, but he is very agile in his movements, like a cheetah, landing silently. The big head and the second tiger are in the sentry camp, and they are known for their flexibility and agility, they came back soon, Xie Ye listened to the whispered reports of several people, with a cruel smile on his face, and the surrounding sentry soldiers were also full of excitement.

"But ten Tartars, and no guard."

"Good"

A cold light flashed in Xie Ye's eyes, and he immediately moved away from his left hand, and he quietly arranged for it to go down, except for a few people left behind to guard the horses, the remaining more than thirty sentry sergeants all attacked with him.

The group was all excited, took off their weapons from their horses, and quickly prepared.

The sentry chief Ma Ren used a long knife, and the sentry chief Bai Di used a round shield and a hammer, and the big head, the two tigers, and the drama originally used bird guns, but at this time, they were all replaced with a strong crossbow, wound it, and pulled out a poisoned arrow from the crossbow box and put it on.

Poison arrows are widely used in the Ming army, but poison arrows have a drawback, that is, the raw materials are difficult to extract, it is impossible to equip them on a large scale, and the storage time is not long, the medicine bottle is exposed to the air, and the medicine xing volatilizes quickly, so it is generally only equipped with poison arrows at night and in the sentry.

Although the Tiance Army's bird gun is huge, if it hits at close range, it is the three-layer armor of the elite heavy armor of the Tatar Department that can't resist it, but the movement caused by the bird gun is very large.

Under Xie Ye's arrangement, among the more than 30 sharp whistles that attacked, most of them took out their bows and crossbows on their horses, ready to quietly kill those Tartar sentry horses.

The group quickly got ready, and in the starlight, their eyes flashed with a faint light, like a pack of wolves ready to hunt for food.

Soon, in Xie Ye's gestures, more than thirty sentry soldiers quickly divided into several strands and hid in all directions.

Xie Ye and the others tiptoed to a tree, which was extremely desolate, surrounded by weeds, only a few tall poplars in the middle, and a flat ground between the poplars.

In the moonlight, I saw a few Tatar soldiers resting quietly against the big tree, these Tartars, all of them were short and strong, with obvious traces of lap legs, they seemed to be wearing gray-white armor, equipped with scimitars and horned bows, and only one of them leaned on the shoulder of Sulu ingots with wolf skins, which seemed to be the sentinels sent by the Tatars to this side.

These Tatar sentinels were very careful, and occasionally talked a few words, but their voices were also low, and some horses, standing quietly aside, were also chewed, and the terrain was surrounded by grass, and it was inconvenient to look for it, so it was indeed a good place to hide.

However, one of them was smoking a cigarette in Meizizi, revealing their position and putting the group in danger, and it was clear that these Tatar sentinels did not know what "wartime light control" was.

Smoking tobacco, at this time in the Ming Dynasty has begun to prevail, even the soldiers in the Ming army have many people like tobacco, after a long time, even these Tartar soldiers have become infected with the habit of smoking.

Xie Ye and the others quietly hid in the grass, and the dense weeds covered their bodies tightly. The sentry commander Ma Ren also hid beside him, and quietly picked up some weeds, peeking through the cracks in the fine grass.

The two also saw what appeared to be a Tartar sentinel, hidden under a large tree.

Suddenly. The sentry seemed to sense something, or perhaps felt that the surroundings were too quiet and eerie, a premonition that was indescribable for a warrior of a hundred battles.

He looked at Xie Ye suddenly, and at this time, he only heard a "whoosh" and a streamer flashed in the moonlight.

With a "pounce", the Tartar sentry fell out diagonally, and it turned out to be a crossbow arrow on the left side. Right in the neck.

The arrow was so powerful that it shot him straight out and rolled out, and he clutched his neck and struggled desperately.

The remaining Tartar soldiers in the forest were suddenly taken aback, they were all veterans of a hundred battles, and naturally they were not slow to react, and immediately jumped up to get their bows and arrows.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! ”

The dense arrows came one after the other, and the direction was uncertain, and it seemed that there were Ming archers in all directions.

The muffled grunt continued. In the blink of an eye, most of these Tatar sentinels in the forest rolled to the ground, falling to the ground and struggling.

How powerful is the crossbow of the sentry soldiers of the Tiance Army, and the poisoned arrows are used, as long as the arrow is hit, it will either be dead or injured in the blink of an eye.

The Tartar soldier with a cigarette stick. was shot into the mouth by an arrow, and a strong crossbow came out of his brain. Led him to crash into a big tree behind him, and with a bang, the tartar was nailed to the tree alive, his eyes widened, and his body just twitched hard.

Only the leader of the Tartar soldiers holding the Sulu ingot reacted the fastest, as if he didn't go through his brain, he rolled on the ground violently, and he was able to avoid a few cold arrows that were shot, and then he rolled and jumped up again, and with a copy of his right hand, Sulu was already in his hand.

He rushed up, and in the moonlight, his figure was as strong as an ape, and it seemed that his premonition was very strong, and in the ape-like beating, he narrowly avoided a few crossbow arrows that came at him.

However, after all, he is an ordinary person, even if he is powerful, his body's reflexes are limited, not to mention that their opponent is the elite sentry soldiers of the Tiance Army, and they are also not easy to match.

"Poof!"

A powerful arrow shot at a tricky angle, piercing his left shoulder, and the power of the crossbow even let the arrow peek out from behind him. The huge momentum caused him to stagger backwards, and finally fell down.

In the moonlight, a black shadow jumped like a leopard, and a cold light appeared in front of the leader of the Tartar soldiers.

The leader of the Tartar soldiers opened his eyes to the maximum, exerted all his strength, and rolled again. When he was able to get up, when the first black flickering thing slammed into his head, with a bang, it was smashing on his head. Flesh and brains squirted, and the leader of the Tartar soldiers didn't snort before he shriveled to the ground.

This sneak attack ended in a short time, and before there was any major movement, all ten Tatar sentinels were dealt with.

Xie Ye and the others not only had a large number of people, but also had a large number of strong crossbows and poisonous arrows, and the other party had no defense, so the victory of the war was also a matter of course.