Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Capture of the City
After turning over and dismounting, Ji Gang stomped his feet, shook all the snow that had accumulated on his body, reached out and took off his hat, and then exhaled a long breath of white air.
Although the weather in Shuntianfu is also cold, compared to the border city, it can still be a little warmer, even if it is only a little.
While stretching out his hand to knock on the courtyard door, Ji Gang said: "The wind and snow are so big, but there are not many barbarians in the border city, it can be seen that those barbarians are not having a good time." β
Beigong Jun, who ran back with Ji Gang, nodded and said: "People who can live in the border city are lucky, at least they don't have to fight hard with knives and guns, and they don't know when they will die in the grass and then turn into a pile of dry bones." β
While the two were talking, Menzi, who was hiding in the house and sleeping on the fire because of the heavy snow, also rubbed his eyes and yawned out, stretched out his hand to open the courtyard door, and when he saw that it was Ji Gang and Beigong Jun, Menzi nodded and said: "The little one has seen Commander Ji, and I have seen Father-in-law Bei." β
Beigong Jun, whose forehead was blue, finally couldn't bear it anymore and shouted: "Our family name is Beigong!" Not surnamed North! β
Ji Gang stretched out his hand and pulled Beigong Yun, and said with a smile: "Take the two of me to find your son-in-law, there is no need to spread it again." β
It wasn't until he entered the room where Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Zhanji were that Ji Gang was surprised to find that compared to the outside, the inside of the house was like two worlds.
Yang Shaofeng waved his hand to signal Menzi to retreat, and then ordered the dog to make tea, and then looked at Ji Gang with a confused face and said, "Old Ji? Old North? You came here too suddenly, without even a notice? β
After saluting Zhu Zhanji with Ji Gang, Beigong Jun sighed, stretched out his hand and rubbed his forehead again, finally giving up the idea of correcting Yang Shaofeng and Young Master Yang to call him.
Ji Gang said with a smile: "Champion Gong has done a great thing!" I just don't know, if you follow the method of the champion prince, how many people in your city can take on this important task? β
Yang Shaofeng shook his head and said, "There are people in the border city who can communicate with Wanquan Dusi and Tatarvarat, but you see who of the two of us can walk away?" β
Seeing Yang Shaofeng stretching out his hand to himself, Zhu Zhanji suddenly said with a dark face: "What do you think I'm doing?" It's not that you're cold, and now you have to pull me? β
Yang Shaofeng ignored Zhu Zhanji, who was demolishing the stage, but pointed to the two reclining chairs next to him, and said with a smile: "Rest first, let's walk in hot pot at night, I heard that snow days and hot pot are more compatible." β
Ji Gang took off his coat, sat on the recliner with his buttocks, stretched out his hand and beat his waist and said, "No, after all, I am old, and my body is too far worse than before." β
Yang Shaofeng smiled and said: "Let me tell you, you came to this city, then you can be regarded as coming, there are many big supplements, if you want, it is no problem to be a groom every night." β
Ji Gang said with a smile: "Then why didn't I see how many concubines did you take in the princess?" As far as Ji knows, when you came to the border city, you didn't even bring a personal maid, right? β
Yang Shaofeng looked left and right, and saw that Lin Yu was not in the house, so he pointed to the fox fur on his body and said, "Have you seen this?" β
Ji Gang nodded and said: "See, the fox fur on fire, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one in a million, especially rare, that is, there is not a single miscellaneous hair on this fur, and there is no trace of splicing. β
Seeing that Ji Gang's focus was a little off, Yang Shaofeng had no choice but to say helplessly: "This is my fiancΓ©e and my brother-in-law brought it to me, what does this mean?" It's not like I'm worried about finding a woman out there! β
Ji Gang smiled, regardless of what Yang Shaofeng said, pointed in the direction of the north, and said: "Let's get down to business, those weapons that Zhuangyuan Gong said will be the first batch to be delivered tomorrow, and Ji will arrange for someone to find those Tatars and Warats at night."
If nothing else, it is estimated that by this time tomorrow evening, the first batch of weapons will be on the road, and the checkpoint has already said hello. β
Yang Shaofeng nodded and said: "Don't just give people those rags, you have to mix a few good quality pieces, so that people don't have to turn around and scold us profiteers." β
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Since Ji Gang said that he had already said hello, he must have said hello, and the first batch of weapons had indeed set off for Warat as Ji Gang said.
According to Yang Shaofeng's plan, it is obvious that the strength of Wara's side is relatively weak, and Mahamu's department has shown signs of not being able to hold on, and in the face of Arutai's offensive, it is defeated again and again.
As a qualified referee, Yang Shaofeng finally decided to transport the first batch of weapons to Warat first after discussing with Zhu Zhanji, Ji Gang and others, so as to ensure that the strength of the two sides could be maintained at a similar level.
Compared with the three divisions of Mahamu, Taiping, and Vulture, the Tatars, who were more unified and complete, were still strong and strong, but the weapons in their hands were inferior in quality to those of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, in this case, when the Warat people, especially the Mahamu tribe, have been blessed with the weapons of the Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to say who is strong and who is weak, and the biggest possibility is that the two sides are in a stalemate.
Only this stalemate situation is the most beneficial to Daming - how does Eagle Sauce train the chicken and the stick in the footbasin?
If things continue to develop like this, whether it is to sell arms according to Yang Shaofeng's plan or Mahamu is seriously injured by the Tatars as in the original history, then things are within an acceptable range.
However, Yang Shaofeng is not a god after all, and there are many things that he doesn't know and can't predict.
There were originally many tribes on the grassland, and there must be dozens of them together, in addition to the powerful Tatar and Warat tribes, there are many small tribes sandwiched between the four major tribes to survive.
Originally, although the life of these small tribes was a little more difficult, they could survive anyway, until Yang Lu, who should be punished by the immortal heaven, tossed out the so-called labor dispatch.
Since the term "labor dispatch" came out, the entire grassland has suffered a disaster, and it is more serious than the white disaster.
After all, no matter how big the white disaster is, the death of some people and livestock will pass, but this disaster of labor dispatch does not see any hope for the past, but has signs of intensification.
The small tribe that had already begun to huddle together to keep warm, sadly found that the days were really getting more and more difficult - originally they were only sandwiched between the four major tribes, but now these small tribes are as tempting as a piece of fat that can walk, whether it is Tatar or Warat, they want to pounce on it and take a bite.
Forced into desperation, these small tribes plan to follow the path of their ancestors, leave this grassland far away, and then migrate westward - they can't afford to provoke the four major tribes, nor can they provoke Yang Crazy and the Ming Empire behind him, but let's go all right?
It is said that after crossing the Western Regions, there are many small countries there, and they are so rich that they don't have much strength, as long as they can reach the Western Regions, who would dare to do anything bad on this grassland, let their four tribes and Yang go crazy!
However, who has never said that the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.
Before leaving, these small tribes thought of a very fatal problem.
It used to be barely able to survive, but now the Tatars and Warat are completely at war, resulting in the heavy snow on the entire steppe that can't cover the blood and fire, not only is it more and more difficult to survive, but even the food and drink in the tribe can't hold up to the Western Regions.
After all, whether it is a grassland or a desert, there are actually only two words inside and out, cruelty, food and water are the two deadliest problems, and before reaching the desert, mare's milk can still replace water, but food can not be settled at all.
It's true that mare's milk can be made into cheese, and it's okay to replace food in a short time, but how much cheese do so many people need? Even if you have mare's milk, how long can it last?
If the difference in strength is not very big, even if there is any possibility of breaking wrists with the four major tribes, then these small tribes will choose to break their wrists with the four major tribes to see if they can get some supplements from the four major tribes, so that the tribes can support the Western Regions.
Then, these red-eyed small tribes, under the organization of Mai Duo, set their sights on the border city.
If you say that these tribes still plan to stay on the grassland, of course it is impossible to fight the idea of the border city, but now they are planning to run away with their belongings, who cares about the revenge of the Ming army afterwards? Can they still hunt down to the Western Regions?
And the most important thing is that there are only more than 1,000 defenders in the border city, only a few artillery pieces are equipped, the moat is not deep, and the city gate is not too strict.
Then, after these small tribes who planned to go to the Western Regions made a plan to seize the city, they came to the outside of the border city in the name of selling cattle and sheep for winter supplies, and planned to start seizing the city according to the original plan - first some people entered the city, and then joined forces to seize the city gate, and then guarded the city gate, enlarged the army into the city, and then completely killed the more than a thousand Ming troops defending the city, as well as the Yang madness who should be punished by the immortal heaven!
And when Yang Shaofeng got the news, the outer city gates in the west had already fallen into a bitter battle, and the remaining city gates were not as critical as the west gate for the time being because they were closed in time.
Ji Gang, who also got the news, also had a gloomy face, and his clenched fists were too hard, and even his knuckles were a little white.
It's time for the Jinyi guards on the grassland to be put in order, such an important news couldn't be transmitted back in advance, and it wasn't until the people of these small tribes arrived outside the city gate that the news came in!