Chapter 85: Vicious Battle 2
Shi Daqian's arrangement is only limited to the east and west of Handbao, the squeeze is a horse and a flat river, there is not even a city wall, there is no way to take precautions, now the caravans in the east and west have arrived one after another, and there are countless small businessmen who want to find opportunities, the squeeze is already several miles of camps, and the tent is full of traffic. In just a few days, a huge hoarding of supplies took shape, so much so that a large number of merchants had to set up makeshift tents along the way from the crushing farm to Xihanbao.
Only then did Wu Zhuo and the others understand Yang Chong's thoughts, the trade of the squeezing farm was just a starting point, and if it continued like this for a long time, a large-scale border city would be spontaneously formed in Handchuan Rong, attracting a large number of floating population, bringing benefits to the garrison, and at the same time improving the environment of Hualong County. With this expectation, Wu Zhuo and the others became more and more cautious in their actions, and also hoped that the legendary Chijin Turk was just a legend.
In the evening, the caravan that had been contacted in advance was basically assembled, and the caravan of the party item had more than 200 people, all of whom were bald and white. At this time, the party members were not engaged in agriculture, and depended on animal husbandry for clothing, food, and housing, so the goods used by the caravan to trade were yaks, sheep, and furs. The trade between Tuyuhun and the Central Plains has almost stopped, and the party departments in Tuyuhun are more like little mothers, and the geographical location is poor, so the number of cattle and sheep and other livestock and various commodities such as furs that urgently need to be sold is huge.
However, to Yang Chong's surprise, the party people brought two kinds of yaks, one is a white cow with large nostrils, and the other is a tall and meaty alpine black cattle. Yang Chong thought of cultivating cattle, and consuming cattle is also cattle, but I don't know if it can be cultivated into ploughing cattle. Yang Chong immediately came forward and said that he would buy all the two thousand head of cattle, or exchange them for porcelain tea; The Dangxiang caravan was a hybrid of five tribes, led by Xifeng Changshan and Tuoba Anhu.
Among the famous tribes in the party, there are ten major tribes, such as the fine Feng clan, the Fei Ting clan, the Xiang Li clan, the Pochao clan, the Ye Li clan, the Mi Bao clan, the Tuoba clan, and the Snow Mountain Party, among which the Tuoba tribe is the most powerful, and the fine Feng clan speaks Chinese. Xifeng Changshan and Tuoba Anhu were overjoyed to learn of Yang Chong's identity and immediately agreed to the deal; Cui Ming, the person in charge of the Cui family, and Xiao Yuan, the person in charge of the Xiao family, both agreed to Yang Chong's suggestion, handed over the tea and porcelain to Yang Chong in Handchuan Rong, and went back to Chang'an to get the equivalent fragrant pancreas.
Although tomorrow is the trading day, but the press is so big, the goods of each family are clearly placed outside, who does not want to sell the things in their hands as soon as possible, buy back the goods they need, and then go home happily, so under the bonfire, drinking wine and eating meat, one family began to visit and trade, fighting, talking and laughing, scolding, and people are boiling. Shi Daqian still didn't dare to slack off, even at night, he still sent patrol squads and scouts.
In the middle of the night, the situation suddenly deteriorated, and several scouts lit a fire to give an alarm a hundred miles away, and the people who quickly rushed back reported that the army of the Chijin Turks suddenly appeared and killed Xihanbao in five ways, with a number of about 3,000 people. The news shook the defenders, and the alarms of Xihan Fort came one after another, and the whole fort began to be on alert. Most of the merchants and dealers in the squeeze were in danger, and most of them fled to Xihanbao decisively, but Shi Daqian did not open the city gate according to the established strategy, and Wu Zhuo and Cheng Shang led the caravan to retreat to Donghanbao in two ways.
The guards and grooms of the major families in the Central Plains who were resting in the fort quickly gathered under the leadership of Zhen Xueqing, preparing to cooperate with Shi Daqian's actions, and were arranged by Yang Chong to guard the main roads everywhere. Sure enough, as Yang Chong expected, the target of the Chijin Turks killed by the Five Roads was not a caravan. When the advance of the Chijin Turks entered the mill, the tail of the caravan was less than ten miles away from the mill, but the horse thieves did not catch up and share the feast at their fingertips, but occupied the tents that had not had time to be removed all the way, and the troops approached the Xihan Fort.
In less than half a burnt of incense, I saw the golden wolf's head banner breaking into the crushing field under the glow of the torch, and then inserted it in front of the door of the Yang family's workshop. Jiang Fei, Yang Heng, Tianjian and others who were guarding the workshop did not enter the city, they should have retreated to Donghanbao with the caravan, Yang Chong stood on the city tower and looked carefully, and asked Shi Daqian: "When will the rear team of the Chijin Turks arrive?" ”
Shi Daqian estimated the number of people to be dealt with according to the length and width of the torches, and replied: "According to the current situation, it will not be long before they attack the city, and the rear team should arrive." Yang Chong, look at it now, we really have thieves here, otherwise they wouldn't have the courage to attack the city; There are no siege equipment, the siege is fake, and it is true to wait for the city gate to be opened, but I don't know which city gate it is. ”
Nei Ying wants to open the city gate, there are no more than two possibilities, one is to have enough strength to take the city gate, and the other is to have enough identity to deceive the city gate. There is no gate in the north of Xihanbao, there are only three gates in the east, west and south, Yang Chong smiled and said: "Cheng Shang is already outside the city, as long as the war is together, there is no reason to come back, Gongsun You is watched by Tianyu, there will be no accident." Maybe God will help us and not have to wait for the moment when the gates are opened. ”
Shi Daqian looked at Yang Chong angrily, he was still playing false at this time, but Shi Daqian was a little embarrassed to refute it, after Yang Chong installed the three weapons to defend the city, although Xihanbao was not said to be an iron wall, but the ability to defend was definitely more than one grade, and the three thousand enemy troops really didn't pay attention to it. It's just that the prestige of the Chijin Turks is located, and the actions are full of mysteries, which makes Shi Daqian a little puzzled, and he didn't care about Yang Chong's words for a while.
The city wall of Xihanbao is not very tall, the Chijin Turks have the advantage in numbers, and the masters who are not ordinary climbers still choose to attack directly at the west gate, but in the powerful rain of arrows and stones, they can't succeed for a while, but they lose two or three hundred people. Shi Daqian was not excited by the victory in front of him, and looked at the torches that were extinguished one by one after entering the press field with a serious expression.
Shi Daqian asked people to find Gongsun You and Murong Xixiong, and was about to add a little more pressure to the two, when they heard an earth-shattering loud noise on the side of the squeezing field, and then sounded several times in a row, Shi Daqian and the others looked back, and were stunned, most of the houses in the squeezing field had disappeared, and the banner of the golden wolf's head was gone. The Chijin Turks were in chaos, and the cries of various languages were endless. Yang Chong, who had been watching the crushing field, shouted: "Damnation, damnation, God wants to destroy the Chijin Turks." ”
Zhen Xueqing, who flew up to the city tower, gave Yang Chong a roll of his eyes, pretending to be a ghost, and found that Jiang Fei was not there, Zhen Xueqing dared to conclude that it was not so simple, Shi Daqian let out a long roar, and ordered Shan Ying and Gongsun You to defend the city, and he and Murong Xixiong led the cavalry and attacked with drums. The Chijin Turks were killed by this explosion, and most of them were under pressure in their hearts, and they had no fighting spirit at all, so they began to flee one after another without waiting for the Sui army to attack.
Zhen Xueqing took the masters of various families, and stared at the mastermind under the banner of the golden wolf's head, it doesn't matter if the head is the head or not, if you catch the head figure, you can get money and other unexpected gains. Rushing into the crushing field, Zhen Xueqing unexpectedly found that the Golden Wolf Head Banner of the Chijin Turks did not retreat, but swore to resist to the death in the ruins of the Yang family's workshop. After more than an hour of fighting, the guards of the Golden Wolf Banner were finally all killed, Jiang Fei didn't know where to come out, and Zhang Guolao escorted Yang Chong to the squeeze field, and rushed into the innermost room, there were only four disabled people, no wonder the guards were desperate, because these four people couldn't walk anymore.