Chapter 724: Are You Still Alive?
Li Fengyun gave an order, and the chief manager Guo Ming rushed to Yehuling with the Tiger Ben Army to kill ? Passes. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info//The defenders of the pass were routed without a fight, and abandoned the pass. The alliance army is bloodless, and it is easy to take down the wild fox pass.
That night, the Alliance's vanguard army crossed the Great Wall and went straight to Huaihuang Town.
On the third day of the ninth month, in the early morning, the alliance army arrived at Yanziyuan outside Huaihuang Town and set up camp.
Huaihuang Town is the north and south of the rush, the merchants from the south to the north have to stay here, but Huaihuang Town belongs to the border fortress, safety first, followed by the size is limited, the population that can be accommodated is not much, which leads to a large number of merchants have to set up temporary tents on the swallow plain outside the town to rest, over time, the swallow plain has also formed a large-scale border market, stretching for several miles, tents are like clouds, especially in the spring and autumn when the trade is booming, it is bustling.
It is now late autumn, and it is the time when the tribes outside the Saiwai want to hoard winter materials, and it is the moment when the Yanziyuan border market is the most active, but because the situation in Yanbei has been very tense recently, the main channel of smuggling in Yanbei has been cut off again, which has directly led to a large reduction in the northbound merchants and materials out of the Sai, and the transaction volume has plummeted. In the past few days, because the alliance army went north to the Great Wall, the Great Wall beacon fire was lit, the gate was closed, and the north-south traffic was interrupted, so that the trade in the border market almost stopped, and the cattle and sheep and other livestock that urgently needed to be sold were all over the grassland, and various commodities such as furs were piled up.
However, the situation still deteriorated inexorably, the alliance army suddenly appeared on the Swallow Plain, shaking the Huaihuang defenders, and also shocked the Swallow Plains border market, the merchants and traders were extremely frightened, everyone was in danger, and the more timid people fled decisively, lest they lose their lives, but soon they fled back in panic, because at the moment when the border market was most active, it was also the time when the horse thieves gathered in the Swallow Plain, at this moment in the vicinity of Huaihuang Town, at least dozens of large and small thieves stared at the border market, If Yanzi hadn't been under the protection of the Huaihuang Town Army, the border city would have become the "belly meal" of these horse thieves and robbers, and they would have eaten it.
In desperation, the Han and Hu Jia gathered together as a matter of course for survival, and first elected the two most prestigious businessmen as the "general managers" to deal with this sudden crisis, one is the Han surname of the Middle Earth Jia Jian Bo, from the Jian family, one of the five families of the Han surname of Youyan Han in the Middle Earth, who is famous in the merchant circle of Northern Xinjiang, and the other is Hu Jia, the Rite Antel, from the An country of the nine surnames of Zhaowu, who is famous in the Hu Jia circle, and it is said that he has a tooth tent background behind him, It is even rumored that he is the younger brother of the famous Tooth Tent magnate Lai Fa An Wuzhao.
The first decision of the two temporary "chiefs" was to gather all the strong men such as the guards, grooms, and porters of all the merchants in the border market, and defend themselves first, even if they could not form much combat effectiveness and could not stop the "huge" Middle-earth rebel army that had just been killed from the Great Wall, but at least they could bluff, strengthen their courage, stabilize the hearts of the people in the border market, and not mess with themselves, trample on each other, and bring about their own destruction.
Then Jian Bo and Andriol decided to "divide the soldiers into two ways", all the way to Huaihuang Town for help, to see if they could exchange money for the protection of Huaihuang Town, as long as the defenders of Huaihuang Town are willing to open the gate and let all the merchants in the border market escape into the fortress for refuge, then even if they give all their money, they are willing, after all, they are left in the green mountains, they are not afraid of no firewood, money is outside the body after all, and life is the most important thing; Negotiate with the rebels all the way, although the risk is very high, the hope of success is slim, and there is even a danger of being in a different place, but since the rebels quietly killed Yanziyuan at night, they did not enter the border market after dawn to burn and plunder, and even so far did not make an attack, which itself is full of mysteries, giving the border market merchants a chance to survive, and this opportunity cannot be let go no matter what.
Jian Bo came from the Youyan family, because he had been running in the north and south of the Great Wall for a long time, and he was not only familiar with the guards of Huaihuang Town, but also had interests, and the friendship was extraordinary. Andriol was undaunted and agreed. The Lits are good at business, and it takes wisdom to do business, so the Lits are not only good at business, but also skilled in strategy, and this is an important reason why the Lits were able to occupy a place at the top of the power of the Turkic Khanate. Andriol was full of confidence, believing that even if he could not achieve the purpose of this trip with his own wisdom, he could not prevent the rebels from looting the wealth of the border city, but he should be able to save the lives of the border market merchants, after all, the biggest problem faced by the rebels after leaving the fortress was survival, so the border market merchants still have a certain use value for the rebels, and since they are valuable, they will not be easily killed.
On the morning of the third day of September, Andriol rushed to the gate of the Alliance army with gifts, and although he was afraid, he still mustered up the courage to ask to see the commander of the army. To his surprise, the guards on duty at the gate not only did not scold him angrily and refused with a bad attitude, but greeted him with a smile, very polite, and agreed to his request without thinking.
This was already expected by Li Fengyun. It is the nature of businessmen to pursue profits, seek profits and avoid disadvantages, but compared with life, interests are secondary, so seeing that life is not guaranteed, of course, we must actively survive, and the primary means is to exchange profits for lives, and to buy lives with money, we must come to bargain.
Now since the garrison of the wild fox pass dares to open the gate and let the alliance army go north, and even give up the pass for the time being, then the defenders of Huaihuang Town must have also received instructions from their superiors, close the retreat and defend it, show the enemy weakness, never take the initiative to attack, and never give the Turks any excuse to turn against each other, I am just driving the tiger and devouring the wolf, but you can't catch my handle, what can you do to me? Therefore, in this situation, Huaihuang Town will not open the door to protect the border city merchants, one is to prevent accidents, affecting the safety of the fortress, and the other is worried that the northern captives will be mixed into the fortress, and the evidence that the Huaihuang town garrison army deliberately did not act, deliberately drove the rebels in the Great Wall to fight with the northern captives, and the third is to give the alliance army an opportunity to loot the border city to replenish grain and grass, and as long as the alliance army destroys the border city, severely damages or even kills the Han merchants in the border city, it will also kill two birds with one stone, and will inevitably form a mortal enmity with the Han captives. Most of the Han merchants who run in the north and south of the Great Wall are not simple businessmen, and the businessmen who are purely begging for life can't survive at all outside the Plug with the rule of the law of the jungle, and have long been eaten up by the "evil wolf", so behind these merchants there are more or less various black and white forces with interests linked to each other, so the alliance offends everyone, and the target of the public is that the environment outside the army is even worse, and it is difficult to move an inch.
Of course, Li Fengyun will not fall for the scheme, will not go out of his way to catch fish, will not lose the fundamentals because of a little petty profit and a little immediate benefit, and will do stupid things because of a small loss; on the contrary, his "appetite" is very large, and the benefits he seeks are far beyond what people can imagine.
Andriol was pleasantly surprised, and became more and more worried, if something goes wrong, he is a demon, and he feels that there is a trap in the gate, as long as he steps into it, he will fall into it. Andriol hesitated, but after careful weighing, it was meaningless, in the current situation, the merchants of the border market were like a group of fat lambs, and the Huai Huang army, the rebels of Middle-earth, and the horse thieves were a pack of hungry wolves, and the lambs fell into the wolves, and the results can be imagined. Now in Yuanmen, even if it is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, he can only move forward and sacrifice himself to die.
The reply was very fast, and a team of Fengyun Guards strode over, with a calm attitude, saying that the chief manager was invited. Andriol immediately knew one thing, his guess was right, the reason why this Middle-earth rebel army did not destroy the border city with lightning speed, but put the knife on the neck of the border market merchant, sure enough, there is a reason, there is a purpose, and this reason is obviously not simple, this purpose must be very complicated, and if I make a slight mistake in dealing with it this time, I am afraid that it will be a disaster.
Andriol entered the gate in fear, and walked cautiously behind the leading guard, his eyes like shuttles, and he probed around, but the more he looked, the more frightened he became, and he was drenched in cold sweat. Where are the rebels here? This is clearly the elite of the Weifu, equipped with distinctive armor and a large number of heavy soldiers, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined, how can it be a rabble? Who said that this rebel army that suddenly descended on Yanbei was a rabble?
Andriol immediately smelled a strong smell of conspiracy. He is a giant of the desert, has a strong backer in the tooth tent, has news channels in Middle-earth, has a certain degree of understanding of the current situation of the general trend between China and foreign countries and the current situation of the relationship between the north and the south, and also knows that the footsteps of the civil war are approaching the Great Wall, and the various tribes of the desert are actively preparing for war. In this tense situation, he actually saw an elite Middle-earth Weifu army under the banner of a rebel army appear outside the Saiwai, how could there be no conspiracy here? It must have been a big conspiracy, and perhaps the Civil War would have broken out.
Is the war about to begin? Andriol suddenly became excited, his blood surged, his eyes lit up, and his chance to make a fortune came.
The Storm Guardian took Andriol outside the tent. A team member was about to step forward to do a body search on Andriol, when the curtain was lifted, and one of Li Fengyun's personal guards walked out, waved his hand at the team, signaled him not to search his body, and then made a gesture to Andriol, "The chief manager is invited." ”
This is a special courtesy, Andriol was a little surprised, could it be that the chief steward had heard of him, or had a request for himself?
Uneasy, Andriol walked into the tent, the first thing that caught his eye was a snow-white long hair and a young smiling face, and this extreme contrast gave him a strong visual impact, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, and then showed a strange look, and then opened his mouth and let out an exclamation, "Are you still alive?" ”
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