22. Target, Big Rock!

The dragon must find a suitable target for it after it flies, otherwise, it will not only be terrible in its self-destruction, but also the person riding on its neck.

Yang Hao, the new overlord of Datong River, is now eager to find a new and appropriate target for the "dragon" under his seat, and must not let this huge bloodthirsty machine stop, otherwise he will not be able to control it, Liang Huan thought for two days and one night in front of the newly drawn "Map of Thousands of Miles of Rivers and Mountains in the North", and finally set his sights on Dashi City, which is seven hundred miles away from Datong River,

Dashicheng is a vassal of the Uighurs, and the people of this steppe know that they call the Uighurs tribute, but oppress the small tribes around them, because there is a Uighur tiger standing behind them, so he wantonly bullies the Xi, Turks, Shatuo, and even the Khitans, Dashicheng is indeed a city, and its size is said to be second only to the Uighur city in the grassland, but many people know that the city is actually not a city, it is not surrounded by walls but only deep ditches and wooden fences, and the city is surrounded by high walls, it is said that its thickness and height are comparable to the unrivaled city of King Helian Bobo,

Dashicheng claims to have 70,000 households, with the Jiankun people in the majority, mixed with the Shatuo people, the Khitan people, the Xi people, there are also a small number of Tang and Uighurs, the city lord has always been inherited by the Jiankun people, its officials have the prime minister, the governor, the long history, the general, etc., the prime minister is seven, the governor is three, all have their own army; The long history is fifteen, and the general has no fixed number,

The reason why Yang Hao was determined to attack Dashicheng was because of a "Map of Dashicheng" presented by his prime minister Yin Yisi,

Yin Yi Si was originally a Uighur nobleman, was convicted and took refuge in Dashicheng, changed his name and surname, and climbed to the high position of prime minister with the wealth of the honor guard, in order to protect the stability of the position, he spared no expense to hire Liang Yan, the daughter of the city lord, for his only son Kundel, as his wife, the city lord Clare accepted his dowry but repented, but married Liang Yan to the governor Lu Meng, Lu Meng Ben Shatuo, had served in Shuofang, Zhenwu and other town army, because of a long time in the Tang Dynasty, then changed the Han surname Lu, and the Shatuo people Zhu Xie Chixin had an old heart, and Yin Yi Si was in power when he was in power and broke off friendship with Zhu Xie Chixin and was close to the Uighurs, and the two had political discord, Personal relations are especially poor, and the child servants often fight,

If the city lord Clarge and the governor of Lu joined hands, then he would be in danger, rather than sit still, it is better to fight back, he took the opportunity of the Uighur capital, secretly met with the Uighur prime minister Delaba, and asked him for help, Delab was now too close to the Uighur royal family, and was stared at by the Khan of Zhangxin, who wanted to help but did not dare to do anything, so he replied to Yinyisi: "I can't do it, you can fake others, Dashicheng is getting bigger and bigger, and he has long been hated, and I don't think anyone will rescue him whether the Khitans or the Tang people attack him. ”

Yin Yi asked him again: "What if the Shatuo people intervene?" ”

Digrob replied, "The 300,000 Heavenly Wolf Army will not allow him to step into the grassland for half a step. ”

Yin Yisi thus made up his mind to find foreign aid to start a war with Clare and Lu Meng, after half a year of selection, he finally selected Yang Hao, who had recently risen in Datongchuan, and he chose Yang Hao for four reasons: he was not close to Clare and had an enmity with the Shatuo people; He is a Khitan, and he has recently joined the Tang Dynasty, he sends troops, and neither the Khitan nor the Tang Dynasty will have any opinions; His 60,000 cavalry was enough to deal with Lu Meng's 20,000 elite cavalry; He was good at attacking cities, and the high walls of the Great Stone City, which the Clares family had spent hundreds of years building, could not stop her, and the last and most important one: he was a Khitan, and the Uighurs would not like him or use him, and the greater his military exploits, the more wary he would be, and if he showed incompetence, he would be discriminated against and ridiculed.

However, if you want to invite him, the price is also expensive, and Yin Yi promised Yang Hao: "As long as you don't harass my mansion, you can freely loot for three days after the city is broken." ”

Yang Hao said: "Then I want to see what I can get in the past three days, I'm not called Huazi, I'm not interested in a pile of broken copper and iron." ”

Yin Yi said: "I am very happy to receive your envoy, in order to show my sincerity, I will give you two bronze medals, wear them, you can walk around the city at will, and even go to the city lord's house to go around, of course I advise you not to go, the dogs there especially don't like the strange smell of the Khitans." ”

Yang Hao said angrily: "We have attached ourselves to the Tang Dynasty, we are the Tang people, and we are no longer dirty Khitans." ”

Yin Yi said happily to his son, "Look, this is a guy who takes pride in being a vassal, and Tian is shameless. ”

Kundeler asked, "Then why are we working with a shameless guy?" ”

Yin Yi smirked and said, "So that we can get the most of what we want, but now for the sake of sincerity, I must hand you over to them as a hostage." ”

Kundeler said worriedly, "What if they repent, what if they want to kill me." ”

Yin Yi comforted his son and said, "Don't worry about my children, there are 300,000 Heavenly Wolf Army to support us, and they will always treat you as a guest." ”

So Kundeler went to Yang Hao's military camp on the grounds of sending an envoy to the Tang Dynasty, and the secret envoy sent by Yang Hao entered Dashicheng, and the purpose of the secret envoy's trip was threefold: first, to check the population and wealth of Dashicheng; 2. Verify the authenticity and accuracy of the urban defense system contained in the "Big Rock City Map"; Third, to find out the relationship between the upper echelons of Big Rock City, Yang Hao's task to the envoy did not include spying on military intelligence, he had his considerations,

Before the envoy returned, Yang Hao had to do something more important: do his best to collect the old department of Fengzhou,

To attack Dashicheng, it is necessary to have a stable rear, attacking and defending the surrendered city and Fengzhou such a city, the existing troops are neither enough, nor can the quality be responsible, the messenger sent to Yinshan has been set off for half a month, and there has been no news so far, Yang Hao is not worried that the students of the two schools of economy and military equipment will collapse because they cannot survive, and sure enough, it will not be of great use to invite them back, he is worried that their wings are hard, and they will go away alone.

And the envoys sent to invite Meng Ming, Yu Yanlu, Cheng Keling and others out of the mountain also had no news, and Yang Hao almost lost his patience: Could it be that Fengzhou said to himself that there was only one dream left?

In the blink of an eye, when the grass and horses were fat, and when there was only one month left in the siege time agreed with Yinyi, Meng Ming came to Datongchuan, he rode a chestnut Hedong horse, with three hundred fierce armed troops, leading his fat wife and fat and pink daughter,

Yang Hao looked at his fierce subordinates and said, "Didn't you unload your armor and return to the field, these people are all your villagers, and they use bows and arrows and knives to farm the land on weekdays." Meng Ming sighed: "The world is difficult and dangerous, I have the heart to farm, but others don't let me, so I have to go back to my old business and eat with food, how can I give up if they follow me." ”

Meng Ming's fat lady rolled down from her horse and said to Yang Hao in a rough voice: "I'll hand over the man to you, you don't have to wronged him, let him eat good meat, drink good wine, and ride a good horse." ”

Yang Hao said: "Don't worry, let him eat good meat, drink good wine, ride a good horse, and let him sleep well with a woman." ”

The woman laughed and said, "The woman will be spared, if he dares not to come home to sleep, I will break his leg." ”

She and her husband were affectionate, and when she squeezed her eyebrows, her fat daughter sat on the horse and wiped her snot and cried with tears: she was too fat, and she was dressed thickly, and she couldn't get off the horse, so she peed in the crotch of her pants, and the fat woman quickly picked her up from the horse, kissed and kissed, and the baby was terrible,

Yang Hao saw that the girl was seven or eight years old, with a small nose and small eyes, only a wide forehead, and knew that it was not Meng Ming's own daughter, but a moth raised by him, Yang Hao asked Ge Tong to build a mansion specifically for Meng Ming's family, Meng Ming said: "Follow the customs, or live in a tent, they follow me everywhere, and they have long been used to it." ”

Yu Yanlu came with a little guy, he was wearing a long robe, holding a folding fan in his hand, looking like a fairy wind bone, his little guy was delicate and charming, Yang Hao glanced at it several times, and didn't figure out whether it was a man or a woman.

Yu Yanlu once became a Taoist priest after unloading the armor, of course, it was a fake Taoist priest without a degree, mixed in the rivers and lakes for a few years, Yang Hao sent a messenger to pounce, but it was a coincidence, he walked all over Hedong, Shuofang, Guanzhong, Hebei, suddenly one day wanted to go home to see, so he ran back to his hometown in a hurry, Yang Hao sent the messenger just left for two days, he saw Yang Hao's handwritten letter, and took the little guy to find it lightly,

Compared with Yu Yanlu's chic and elegant, Cheng Keling is miserable, he is on crutches, begging all the way, when he arrived in Datongchuan, unkempt, ragged, and barefoot, Yang Hao saw his fat and quipped: "Being a beggar can do your job, and you are also the first person in ancient and modern times." Cheng Keling said: "Eat and sleep at home, sleep and eat, can you not gain weight, poor sideburns with frost and spleen." ”

Yu Yanlu said: "Can you still get on the horse with this fat sample?" ”

Cheng Keling said: "I'm fat, am I as fat as Meng Ming's family, my sister-in-law can be used as a meat pad in bed." ”

Yu Yanlu said: "Cheap, do you dare to say it in front of him." ”

Cheng Keling said: "You are my mallet, I said to him, he is now a natural leader, what are you and me, a bare pole, why fight with others." ”

This sentence reached Yang Hao's ears, and Yang Hao smiled faintly when he heard it,

Three days later, Cheng Keling's Xiaocai battalion and Yu Yanlu's fire battalion announced the reconstruction, Yang Hao gave the two of them ten generals each, five hundred soldiers and horses, awarded military flags, scepters, seals, and enough ordnance materials to equip two thousand people, five days later, the tiger camp was rebuilt, Meng Ming was the commander, Yang Hao awarded him military flags, scepters, and seals, and promised to supply him with ordnance materials for three thousand people,

After the order was issued, the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Agni Battalion recruited troops and horses, and they were busy, but the Tiger Battalion was deserted and there was no movement, not only did there be no movement, but even Meng Ming seemed to have disappeared, and all people could see was his fat woman with her fat daughter walking from door to door in the inner camp.

After Yu Yanlu discussed with Cheng Keling, he went to see Meng Ming with two jars of wine, but the guard of the tiger camp had already commanded the door and refused to open the door without an order, and the two of them touched their noses, and they both muttered in their hearts: Yu Yanlu said: "Do you say that you will run away in anger." Cheng Keling said: "It doesn't look like it, if you want to leave, you have to take your wife and children with you." Yu Yanlu said: "It's not his own birth, don't you bring it, what's so strange." Then the two men were silent, wide-eyed, and dumbfounded.

Cheng Keling finally sighed and said, "It's too unrighteous to leave like this." ”

Half a month later, Meng Ming returned, and with him came Zhang Bozhong, 300 students from the original Fengzhou Economic and Military Equipment Academy, and more than 4,000 soldiers from the six villages and seven cities of Yinshan.

Meng Ming didn't run away in a bad mood, he was ordered to go to Yinshan to collect the students of the two schools of economy and military equipment, the students were not unwilling to go back to their respective classes, they wanted to bring a gift to the principal, the five thousand soldiers and horses in the six villages and seven cities were the object of their plot, although they had already claimed the king and hegemony in Yinshan, but it was not an easy task to ask so many people to go down the mountain with them, after all, it could even be said that without the help of Zhang Bozhong and Meng Ming, they were not willing to complete this task at all,

Now that the truth is revealed, Yu Yanlu and Cheng Keling have a big opinion of Meng Ming, such a good thing actually left us and kept us in the dark, Meng Ming explained to them with a smile: "If I pick up the students, I will definitely tell the two, but it will be different if I want to pick up Mr. Zhang back, do you know how tightly Xiao Qingyi stared at Mr. Zhang, not leaving an inch, if we want to change it, we don't know how many times we will die." ”

The two of them couldn't say anything in front of Yang Hao, but they complained in private: "Lao Zhangtou is back again, it looks like the inner temple is going to be rebuilt again, we are used to it, but I don't know if those savages are obedient or not." ”

The inner temple was indeed rebuilt under the leadership of Zhang Bozhong, but its spearhead has changed from internal to external, simply put, the current inner temple is the original intelligence room, and its name has also been changed to the military division hall, although its name in all official documents is still called the inner temple fang,

Zhang Bozhong moved into the military division hall and became the Han military advisor of the leader of the Khitan Wukui tribe, Galgudu.