Chapter 194: The Horse Market in Danger
When Qin Ze came in, Sun Yufu was still telling Cheng Chu about the conversation he had had with him before, and suddenly saw that he had brought such a thing, and several people were also stunned.
"Deputy Lieutenant Qin, is this?" Cheng Chumo was the first to speak, pointing to the butter tea in Qin Ze's hand with a strange expression.
Although he really wanted to take a bite to prove that this thing was really not Yoneda Gong, Qin Ze found that he really couldn't put it in his mouth. In the end, he didn't bother to explain, so he said that he had researched something new and wanted the Turkic scouts to taste it.
It is estimated that the Turkic scouts also did not expect that they had endured the whipping, endured the cruel beating, and finally had to face this thing.
This guy is also hard-mouthed, and he doesn't say anything. However, he had always been very bland, and when he saw what Qin Ze was doing, he still began to resist violently.
Qin Ze also knew in advance that a hundred miles outside Lingzhou City, the army of Yehulu was gathering. Yan'er Mountain's plan to encircle Lingzhou City in the first battle fell through, and now Jieli wants to take Lingzhou, so he must attack the city head-on.
But how could Lingzhou City, which could stand for so long, be so easy to capture. And because of the black iron that appeared in the battle of Yan'er Mountain, even if it is Yehulu now, he will not dare to act rashly.
This time they caught one of the other party's scouts, and Cheng Chumo and the others naturally planned to interrogate them well, but they didn't expect this guy to be very strict, and he still didn't say a word after being tortured.
In fact, in Qin Ze's opinion, Cheng Chumo's method of forcing the scout is too simple, if this person is in Qin Ze's hands, just take a tiger chair and add a Manchu ten tortures, not everything will be said.
But looking at it now, the things in Qin Ze's hands didn't seem to be much worse than the ten tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. At the very least, one of the scout's faces was almost contorted.
"Don't worry, I'm just here to give you a taste of the freshly made butter tea." Qin Ze showed an extremely sincere smile and stretched out his hand at the man.
Sun Yufu on the side also retold Qin Ze's words in Turkic. But it made the scout even more excited.
Qin Zecai didn't care so much, he directly asked the guard on the side to go up, broke his mouth open, and then poured a spoonful directly into it.
"Poof~"
The scout on his side was nothing, but the people on the other side were already a little disgusted. One by one, they all turned around, and I really couldn't stand it.
Qin Ze blocked the man's mouth and didn't let him spit it out. At first the man struggled violently, but at last he gradually subsided, and then began to taste slowly.
"How?" Qin Ze asked again, turned his head to look at Sun Yufu and asked him to act as an interpreter.
The well-informed Sun Yufu really didn't want to stay here at this time, but seeing Qin Ze's thoughtful appearance, he still translated.
Facts have proved that the taste gene has always existed in the body of the Turkic people, although the butter tea made by Qin Ze is greasy and sticky, but the special taste still captured the taste buds of the scouts for the first time.
It's just that in the end, Cheng Chumo and Sun Yufu both rushed out of the military tent directly, and then vomited outside for a while.
There is no way for Qin Ze to feed the scouts to eat butter tea, it is too disgusting.
At this time, the rumors between Qin Ze and Yoneda Gong spread completely throughout the military camp......
The scout mistakenly trusted Qin Ze, and from that day on, Qin Ze would let him taste the improved butter tea, but this became a living torture for the Turkic scouts.
Because Qin Ze ordered someone to tie him up, and then put butter tea that he thought was delicious in the world a foot in front of him. But he couldn't eat anything, and Qin Ze would use chopsticks to dip some freshly made butter tea for him to taste every day.
This kind of torture that cannot be seen and eaten is far more exciting than direct torture.
And the most important thing is that Qin Ze will also let people heat the butter tea every other hour, just so that the Turkic scouts can smell this steaming delicacy.
The rumbling sound of his stomach could be heard at all times, as if hundreds of roundworms were screaming.
On the first day, he was still awake. Except that the eyes are staying on the butter tea for longer and longer, there is nothing.
By the next day, he had already begun to unconsciously look at the butter tea and lick his lips, and his eyes had become dull.
By the third day, his eyes were almost completely bulging, like a hungry dog, and he kept sniffing the fragrance wafting in.
When people are hungry, their brains become more and more deprived of oxygen. By the time he had held out for four days, the Turkic scout had been completely defeated. A handful of snot and tears told everything over and over again, and his miserable appearance at that time made even Cheng Chumo feel a little chilled.
In the words of Sun Yufu, the Turkic scout at that time could no longer be called a human, he had become a mad dog, and he was still a hungry mad dog.
Qin Ze didn't know the fate of the Turkic scouts, anyway, he hadn't seen this person since then.
I don't know why there is such a thing as human life, Qin Ze suddenly saw it, maybe there were too many soldiers who fell in front of him in the battle of Yan'er Mountain, so much so that Qin Ze began to feel that it didn't matter how many Turks died.
After experiencing Qin Ze's countless improvements, butter tea finally showed its proper posture. Although Wang Fu and them are very unaccustomed to drinking, this thing is mainly aimed at the Turks, as long as they are used to drinking.
The relationship between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty is now almost broken, and the Weishui Alliance is about to become an empty talk. But Datang only pressed the troops and did not send troops, so Jieli, who was in a hurry, had no time to pay attention to this.
One of his biggest mistakes was to give Turki jurisdiction over the tribes of northern Turkic. This is almost handing over their border passes to Datang, if Datang really sends troops, then Tuli will definitely not let his tribe stop it, and Turkic will become an undefended existence.
June and October are the time when Datang and Turkic horse markets open, but this year the situation has changed a bit. In the past, it was understandable that Tuli secretly opened a horse market with Datang, but now tens of thousands of troops are eyeing Lingzhou City hundreds of miles away, so this year's horse market is not as peaceful as before.
Since it was so dangerous, how could Master Cui Shi, who was bent on making Qin Ze unlucky, let go of this opportunity?
Previously, Qin Ze was still curious, why did this guy delay in making a move, but now an official document came out, completely dispelling Qin Ze's doubts.
"June has arrived, Tang Hu Horse Market is about to start, I heard that Deputy Lieutenant Qin is brave and unparalleled, and he specially ordered to send 500 people to bring grain and grass to open the horse market with Xishan."
When Qin Ze saw this, his face was extremely flat. In addition to spitting several mouthfuls of saliva at the other driver's mansion in a row, and making up his mind that he must burn down his other driver's mansion in the future, it was really dull.
Everyone can see that this is not a simple transaction, and Xishan is nearly thirty miles away from Lingzhou, what kind of concept is this. If the army of Yehulu deliberately wanted to meddle in this transaction, with Qin Ze's five hundred people, it is estimated that they would not know how to die.
"It's looking for me, isn't it?" Qin Ze sat in the lieutenant's tent and sighed in the face of Cheng Chumo and the others.
Speaking of which, Cheng Chumo's official position is equal to Cui Shi, but the two of them are military attaches and civil officials, and in the absence of Li Daozong, the 20,000 soldiers in Lingzhou Mansion are still under Cui Shi's orders.
Cheng Chumo can really control the two thousand soldiers in his hands, so from this aspect, Cheng Chumo can't help Qin Ze.
"The person who went to Xishan to be in charge of the transaction this time should be Ge Shute of the Xitu tribe, he is the leader of the Xitu tribe, and he has always been good friends with my Datang, so he will not be embarrassed by you.
When the time comes, you just need to bring the things and leave the matter to Sun Senjun, you just need to count the number of horses. I will send someone out to take charge of the surrounding guard, and if there is any situation, I would like to retreat as soon as possible. ”
Cheng Chumo frowned, horse market trading is very simple. It's a fixed amount every year, and there's no need to say anything when you meet.
In the entire Lingzhou City, only Sun Yufu can understand Turkic language, so he must go.
Cheng Huailiang was eager to try on the side, but Cheng Chumo directly ignored his existence. There is not a single peacemaker in Lao Cheng's family, and they can't move their legs when they see the battlefield.
The horse market was three days later, and Qin Ze still had time to prepare. Cheng Chumo allocated five hundred people from his Zhichong Mansion and handed them to Qin Ze, asking him to dispatch them at will.
Qin Ze asked the two hundred people who had followed him before, and asked Chen Yanguan to take a hundred people to ambush on the Gagar Peak on the east side of Xi Mountain. It is the highest point in the entire Xi Mountain, and as long as you can grasp it, you can control the surrounding intelligence.
At the same time, the north of Xishan is where Yehulu is stationed. It was necessary to send someone to stop there, and this task was naturally given to Zhang Bao, and he asked him to dig a trench there with two hundred men to stop the Turkic cavalry.
The remaining two hundred people were commanded by Su Dingfang and were responsible for protecting Qin Ze and Sun Yufu.
These days, the people of the Ordnance Supervisor made more than fifty gunpowder shells, and Qin Ze, as before, distributed five to each of the ten people, and then let them scatter in various teams.
He promised to train a real army for Cheng Laoyou, then he needed constant war to sharpen these people. Gunpowder shells have not yet been used to their maximum power, and these require war.
This is also the reason why he was able to agree to go out of the city to participate in the horse market this time, otherwise he would really have a way to stay in the city and not come out.
Zhou Cheng's scout squad and Chen Yanguan had already set off, with the scouts in front, the infantry in the middle, and the cavalry in the end, searching all around every five miles of advance. This was Qin Ze's order, and it had become their habit.
Thirty miles, but they walked for a day. Towards evening, they slowly approached the Gagar Peak in Xi Mountain. But then Zhou Cheng and the others found out that something was wrong, and immediately played a hidden flag on the spot.
"What's wrong?" Chen Yanguan lay on the ground and slowly moved to Zhou Cheng's side and asked.
"There are Turks."
Zhou Cheng only replied, and then saw the scout at the front put up a red hand flag.
Everyone was shocked when they saw this, and then began to retreat.