Chapter 15 War Predictions
The Yang family and Yang Ziyan's uncle, the three masters, Luo Huiliang, stood up first, and their cronies followed. Seeing that the people who oppose Xu Qing as the big boss outnumber the people who support Xu Qing as everyone, the leaders of foreign surnames except Nie Hu and Jia Quan also stood up to support Yang Yi. Only Choi Jin-hae and his cronies did not move.
Most of Yang Ziyan's cronies are outside the cottage, and there are not many cronies in the cottage, and the situation is unfavorable to her, so she can't help but say angrily: "Do you want to rebel?" ”
Yang Yidao: "My subordinates don't dare, but the people and people in charge of the Heifengling Cottage can't turn a blind eye, otherwise the Heifengling Cottage Army will be unstable, and I'm afraid it won't be long before it will be wiped out by the Tang Army." ”
Yang Ziyan said: "Don't be alarmist here, otherwise I will dismiss you immediately." ”
Yang Yidao: "I do my best for the great cause of the Yang family, and I am conscientious, if I end up miserable, it is my last life, and I can't complain about others." ”
Yang Ziyan ordered his subordinates: "Take it down and let him reflect in the dungeon." ”
Cui Zhenhai saw that the Heifengling cottage, which had always been united, was split, and he could no longer remain silent, and said: "Wait, the big boss listens to me, the second boss is dedicated to the public and has no selfish intentions, so don't punish him in my opinion." As for Xu Gongzi's succession to the position of the big boss, I don't think this matter is urgent, it is unreasonable for him to be in a high position before he has made an inch. We took money from the Eastern Turks, and not only did we not do anything for them, but we also took in their enemies, the people of the Western Turkic mission. If he can repel the impending attack of the Eastern Turks against us with minimal casualties, it is not too late for us to discuss the succession of Xu Gongzi as the great leader, it is too early to discuss this matter. If Xu Gongzi has no good strategy to retreat from the enemy, I suggest that the big boss should continue to be the big boss himself, and don't let everyone follow Xu Gongzi to take risks, and bury the foundation that the Yang family has developed so hard to the present. ”
The number of people who support Xu Qing as the big boss and the side that opposes Xu Qing as the big boss are about the same, maintaining a delicate balance, and the centrist forces are headed by Cui Zhenhai, and Cui Zhenhai's attitude can change the balance of power.
Although Yang Ziyan wanted Xu Qing to become the big boss, she didn't want the foundation of the Yang family to be ruined by internal strife, so she had to give in and accept Cui Zhenhai's mediation, and said: "Okay, just according to what the military advisor said." Let's all go back, the military advisor and the heads of the family will stay, and we will go to the council hall to discuss the military situation. ”
Council Chamber, emergency military meeting. The issue is how many people and how many Eastern Turks will attack, openly call for battle, or sneak attack on the Black Wind Cottage? Will it attack the scattered forces of the Black Wind Ridge? How can you repel the enemy with minimal casualties? The topic was thrown out by Yang Ziyan, and all the people who participated in the meeting except for the guards had to answer the questions, and write the answers on paper with a pen.
Xu Qing predicted that the Eastern Turks would first send an envoy to visit the Heifengling Cottage in secret, demanding that the Heifengling Cottage explain the violation of the agreement with them, return the deposit, apologize, and compensate them with a huge amount of money for the disrespect they received. If the Black Wind Ridge Cottage does not agree, they will mobilize more than 10,000 troops, maybe more than 20,000 troops, and come to the Black Wind Ridge to openly call the formation, and they will not launch a sneak attack, nor will they attack the peripheral forces of the Black Wind Ridge Cottage, because they think that their strength is far superior to the Black Wind Ridge Cottage, and they can call the formation openly, and there is no need to sneak attack. In order to repel a strong enemy without spending a single soldier, he had two strategies, the first was an empty city plan, and the second plan was a grass and tree army, and these two plans were serial plans. Xu Qing repelled 2,000 Turkic cavalry with a submachine gun, causing them heavy casualties and leaving a deep fear on the Turks. Hurry up and imitate hundreds of submachine guns, only copy the appearance, not the internal structure, it is too difficult to imitate the internal structure, and the time is too late. When the Turks attacked, the drawbridge was lowered and the gate was opened. If the Turks do not dare to enter the village and retreat on their own, we will achieve our goal, and if they enter the village, we will only let one-tenth of them in, and then several hundred people in our cottage will stand on the city wall, revealing fake submachine guns, aiming their guns at the Turks, making the illusion of preparing to shoot. The vanguard of the Eastern Turks entering the village must have had those who attacked the Western Turkic missions, and they would retreat in terror, trample on each other, and kill many of their own people. It is peace or war with the Eastern Turks, and the initiative is in our hands. In any case, with the minimum casualties of our side, the goal of repelling a strong enemy can be achieved.
Everyone was stunned, including Yang Ziyan, they didn't expect that Xu Qing was not only strong in martial arts, but also a military wizard. It's really not easy to come up with this kind of chain of tricks in less than half an hour.
Yang Ziyan's eyes looking at Xu Qing were full of love, if she was willing to marry Xu Qing completely to fulfill her vow, then now she is willing to marry Xu Qing because Xu Qing is an excellent talent, can bring security to her future life, can give her a sense of security, she is willing to marry Xu Qing because she admires Xu Qing.
Admiration can be said to be the prelude to love, not far from love. Because of time constraints, Yang Ziyan's love for Xu Qing cannot come so soon, but there is good feeling, appreciation and admiration. If it weren't for the oath she once made, she wouldn't have decided to marry Xu Qing just after she met him, she is not a casual woman, on the contrary, she is a woman who attaches great importance to feelings, in order to wait for the hero in her mind, her destined person, she has not married at the age of twenty-five, which is quite a late marriage in the Tang Dynasty when a girl at the age of fourteen or five was married.
After the meeting, Yang Ziyan immediately found a few blacksmiths who were the best in the cottage to make weapons, and asked them to carefully watch the appearance of Xu Qing's submachine gun, and then imitate hundreds of submachine guns that only looked like them and could not be used.
After more than two dozen failures, two days later the blacksmiths finally created a fake submachine gun that looked almost exactly like the real one. On this day, the Eastern Turkic Governor really sent an envoy to Heifengling to ask for an explanation, a refund of the deposit, compensation for their deception, and atonement in money, which was almost exactly the same as Xu Qing's prophecy.
The big boss Yang Ziyan rejected the demands of the Eastern Turks. After the departure of the Eastern Turkic envoys, Yang Ziyan ordered all the weapons craftsmen to abandon their work and devote themselves to the work of imitating submachine guns. At the same time, Yang Ziyan transferred the Yang family horses scattered around the Black Wind Ridge back to the Black Wind Ridge, so that the nearly 1,000 people in the Black Wind Ridge Cottage quickly expanded to more than 4,000 people, and at the same time prepared a large number of bows and arrows, sassal wood, rolling stones and other equipment to defend the city. Be prepared with both hands, in case Xu Qing's strategy fails against the Eastern Turks, he will fight a hard battle with them. Seeing is believing, Xu Qing believed in Yang Ziyan's strength, worthy of being a descendant of the royal family of the Sui Dynasty, and he and Yang Ziyan were not in love, and they were directly ready to make a white head covenant.