At this time, there was a commotion in the city, the herdsmen and the soldiers were eating, generally eating the same things, most of them were coagulated cheese, this thing has high nutritional value, and it is easy to come, everyone has dozens of sheep and several cows, whether it is goat milk or milk, it is easy to make cheese, high nutrition, top hunger, most of the people are eating this thing. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In addition to cheese, it is a small amount of wheat cake or multigrain cake, in recent years, there are fewer and fewer Han people farming, more and more Han people running away, the horse market first stopped, and then it turned against He Yusheng, the grain is getting less and less, wheat cake and multigrain cake have become a rarity, and there are very few people who eat it.

Only a few soldiers with a high status, a good family background, and a good treatment are gnawing on the jerky, a fist-sized piece of jerky, enough to withstand a day's hunger, and with a low degree of good goat's milk wine, it is enough to make people feel that their whole body is full of strength.

It's just that there are very few people who are qualified to eat meat after all, and there is no one in a hundred. However, when each Taiji went up to the city tower, several Taiji and a group of generals who had already been at the head of the city sat on the city tower to eat barbecue, and a roast sheep roasted into golden brown was skewered on the huge grill, and the fragrance of mutton was fragrant in the wind, and the whole city tower could smell it.

The Mongolian people have a strong sense of hierarchy, although they eat dry cakes or black cheese at home, they are happy to barbecue meat and drink wine, but no one expresses dissatisfaction, but some gluttons can't help but smell a few more fragrances, and treat it as a meal for themselves.

Baiyin Taiji is responsible for guarding the south gate, when he goes up to the city tower, more than a dozen Taiji follow up, the Taiji who were originally barbecuing and drinking wine also welcome over, the city wall of Qingcheng is no different from that of the Ming Dynasty, the bottom base of three zhang is high, the city tower is also a three-story small building, and there are people standing on the highest floor looking into the distance, so as to find the enemy situation very early.

Baiyin Taiji's heart was heavy, how could he have the heart to drink wine and eat meat with people, there was a lot of wet water everywhere in the city, and the crowd after dinner was talking and walking around, and there was chaos everywhere.

Shirayin Taiyoshi's mood suddenly turned very bad...... Is such a city elephant capable of holding it? This morning, when they were in the temple, they spoke simply in terms of numbers, without regard to the training and equipment of the soldiers.

It is true that there are 40,000 people guarding the city, but the city has already been selected, and there are still many elderly herdsmen with weathered faces and half-grown babies who have not really reached adulthood, they are wearing leather jackets and carrying soft bows, this kind of bow is shot quickly and accurately, but Baiyin Taiji knows that when he really faces He Yusheng's soldiers and horses, these arrows are useless, and they are completely useless.

It may shoot 10,000 arrows, which can injure dozens of soldiers who are promoted to Yusheng, but may not kill a single person.

There are too many people in the city, plus the smell of food and the smell of fish after the rain, Baiyin Taiji is a nobleman, and he frowned when he was smoked.

The rest of the nobles didn't care much, they were sitting cross-legged on the city tower, drinking wine and eating mutton, and some people were still discussing the matter of this year's Nadamu Conference, Bai Yin was speechless for a while.

A little Taiji held a big bag of goat's milk wine in his hand, walked up to Bai Yin happily, and said with a smile: "Bai Yin Taiji, don't think too much, although there are He Yusheng's sentinels outside the city, but their brigade of soldiers and horses rushed over from fifty or sixty miles, and they can't get there today, let alone three days." ”

This little Taiji is not yet twenty years old, and the beard on his round face has not grown much, he did not participate in last year's war, he has been staying in Qingcheng, and this year's war has not been caught on the front line, and he Yusheng is not so afraid of it, and he is full of heart and points to killing the enemy on the battlefield and raising his prestige.

Xiao Taiji held the wine bag and said quite drunkly: "Come, Baiyin Taiji, drink the bar first, this goat's milk wine is the best, I have killed several herdsmen for this wine......"

Bai Yin was bored in his heart, but he was not good at showing people's intentions, after all, Taiji had the same identity, each with its own pasture and herdsmen, and at this time, the important thing was to work together, not to be self-reliant.

But if Xi Lingse, who has a higher status and a higher level of Taiji, cheers up, and is strict with the law and discipline in the city at this time, how can it be such a mess?

Baiyin Taiji sighed, reached out to pick up the wine bag, goat's milk wine is indeed the favorite of Mongolians, and mare's milk wine is different, the production process of goat milk wine is complicated, and it is necessary to maintain a fairly good process to have a good taste. Baiyin Taiji is a man in his thirties, different from the short Mongols, he is tall, his cheeks are thin, and he has a temperament that is not angry and powerful, this is a very outstanding Mongolian nobleman, if he is of noble birth, such as the direct descendants of the Great Khan of Tumut, or like the Ordos Wanhu Jinong Exuanchen, he is the twentieth generation grandson of the dignified Genghis Khan, a member of the golden family of the Eight Classics, Baiyin Taiji is probably not only the current status. It's a pity that his ancestor was only one of the brothers who followed Genghis Khan to fight the country, and when it came to his generation, it was no longer noble at all......

After Baiyin Taiji stretched out his hand, Xiao Taiji on the opposite side stopped moving, and the expression on his face was like seeing a ghost.

"What's wrong......

Baiyin Taiji asked subconsciously first, and then he came to his senses and immediately turned his gaze to the south side of the city wall.

Of course, the Mongols had never seen the sea, but many of them had seen what the Hanhai was like, and they had also seen Jining Haizi and Baihaizi, and when the tide in the sea came up, it was about the same situation in front of them.

The tide was almost invisible at a glance, everyone in the city was stunned, and the expression on Bai Yin Taiji's face also froze, and everyone in the city behaved similarly, maintaining the posture before the tide was discovered.

A small number of Heyusheng's sentinels had been spotted before, but the sentry horses did not pose much of a threat, and when the tide hit at this time, the Mongols realized that the threat of war had come to them unconsciously, not as they thought, and the enemy would be waiting for several days.

The army on the horizon was in unison, and there was no noise, it was an army that marched in silence, only the neat shabu of more than 10,000 people walking, the Mongols did not raise silkworms, otherwise they would have remembered the sound of spring encroaching on mulberry leaves.

This silence was broken only by the dull sound of drums, which seemed to reconcile the footsteps of the army, and the sound of a drum was several steps out, not more than one step, no less than one step.

In the gray-black tide are countless red military flags, waving in the wind and shining in the setting sun.

Then there is the light of the weapons, there are countless bright colors in the black tide, like the stars at night, but more domineering than the starlight, much more blazing, these lights sting people's eyes, so that the people on the city head like winter accidentally fell into the sea, the ice water instantly drowned people, even in summer, under the stimulation of the military array on the opposite side, the Mongols also felt cold, and even gave birth to a sense of despair.

In the rumbling drums, the merchant army advanced to three to five miles outside the city, the main force of the three infantry regiments formed a semi-encirclement, and the two wings were two cavalry regiments, occupying most of the northern area, only the road to Daqingshan still had some gaps, but the Mongols would understand as long as they were not stupid enough to go home, and there were heavy troops guarding to flee north, and this road, which seemed to be a passage, was actually a dead end.

More than 16,000 men from five regiments, plus artillery regiments and more than a dozen baggage brigades, the number of troops approaching the city has exceeded 30,000.

Behind them were more soldiers and Chinese troops, and Zhang Han was already on his way, and he was soon there.

"Qingcheng!"

A few miles away, the legendary city is right in front of you. The people seemed to roar in unison.

For the time being, no general has ordered to set up camp, but the army has been ordered to stand on the spot, and everyone is standing upright, and the burning light in their eyes all falls on the city in front of them.

The towers, the city walls, and the golden spires of the Buddhist temples in the city.

Everything is the same as the rumored appearance, coveted for more than a year, mobilized for more than a year, and even many soldiers knew the military division's desire for Qingcheng when they were training in Lizhuang, and knew that Zhang Han wanted to enter Qingcheng and grasp the overall situation of this land. These simple men have no other ideas, they just want to take this city, and then give it to Lord Zhang, so that he can step on this city built by Altan Khan!

"Qingcheng!"

"Kill!"

I don't know who roared, but all the soldiers also roared.

The roar was like thunder, rolling forward, symbolizing will, determination, desire, and everything that had to do with a man's feelings.

At this moment, the three armies roared in unison, whether it was officers, cavalry, infantry, soldiers, gunners, gunslingers, soldiers, cooks, and a small number of people who followed, everyone looked at the city and roared angrily.

"This is the Merchant Army?" The round-faced little Taiji who was still holding goat's milk wine in his hand seemed to have the feeling of crying, he was the first time to see such an army, to see such a formation, for the first time to feel the pressure like a mountain, the military formation in front of him, as high as the mountain, as deep as the sea, made people feel extremely desperate after seeing it, no one dared to think of rushing to the opposite army with a cavalry formation, although it seemed that the number of the besieging army and the army defending the city was about the same, and even the Mongols defending the city were a little more, and all of them were cavalry, but at this time, Even this noble Taiji, who was just full of arrogance and looked down on the Han people and the Han army, became frightened in front of such an army, and his whole face was full of fear.

"That's them." Baiyin Taiji still remembers his own fiasco last year, and remembers the situation at that time vividly. He took tens of thousands of people to meet Xi Lingse, but was hit by three thousand merchant regiments halfway, the car battalion, the artillery array, the volley of firearms, those screaming lead projectiles, almost in a short moment, tens of thousands of cavalry collapsed, no one dared to stand in front of this terrible army, even if the number was several times more than the other party.

What a painful memory this is, Baiyin Taiji still remembers it when he mentions it now, and his face turns pale when he thinks of it. And the army in front of him is ten times that of the Shang Tuan army that was ambushed at the beginning, from this point of view, the Qingcheng defenders do not dare not take the initiative to attack to suppress the momentum of the Shang Tuan army, even if they shrink to defend the city, I am afraid it is also a very dangerous thing.

"Jinong, please." Baiyin Taiji took a deep breath and said, "No matter what, he has to deal with this matter head-on. Whether to completely close the door or fight first while the enemy is not firmly established, it is up to him to decide! ”