Chapter 567: Knocking on the bone and sucking the marrow
"Lord Qiqi, there is a letter from Baoanzhou."
Zhang Ke's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly reached out and took the letter, opened it and checked it. Although Datong is tossing here, the pass is still Xuanfu, Lin Dan Khan's 50,000 army is not a toy, if Xuanfu loses, the victory in Datong is nothing.
Holding the letter and reading it carefully from the beginning, a layer of sweat gradually appeared on Zhang Ke's forehead, and when he saw the end, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Alas, Du Qing did a good job!"
It turned out that Lin Dan Khan played a trick of attacking the Xuanfu with all his might, and because the Xuanfu was empty, he actually let him succeed at once. At this time, Du Qing was supervising the transportation of food and wages in Baoan Prefecture, and he only had 3,000 men and horses in his hands, as well as thousands of people and recruits.
Relying on this little bit of people, Du Qing strengthened the defense of Baozhou overnight, and turned an inconspicuous small city into an impregnable wall.
Lin Dan Khan captured Xuanfu City, and he was so complacent that he only thought that the capital was in sight, and no one could stop him.
Relying on the White Lotus Sect as the leader, he went all the way south and directly killed Baoanzhou. Lin Dan Khan thought that with his military might, he could win without a fight.
He was greeted only by rounds of gunfire and raining bullets, which beat Lin Dan Khan's iron cavalry to the point of flesh and blood, and he was embarrassed.
For half a day, they did not take advantage of the slightest, but on the contrary, they suffered heavy casualties and threw their bodies to the ground.
Looking at the not-so-tall Baoan Prefecture, Lin Dan Khan was almost mad. If Baoan Prefecture can't be defeated, there is a group of strong soldiers behind it, even if it takes a detour to the capital, it will be endless troubles.
He could only press all his forces up. Rounds of onslaught, relying on the number of people to drown Baozhou. The same is true of the Tartar soldiers, even the Xuanfu can't stop them. A security state is nothing.
The battle became more and more brutal, completely beyond imagination, the Tartars rushed to the city several times, and Du Qing had to personally lead the troops to fight hard. On the third day of the battle, Du Qing had to drive all the young men in the city to the city and send those recruits up.
Untrained people who were the opponents of the Tartars, they suffered heavy casualties. But Du Qing didn't dare to relent, and led the team to kill cowards one by one. Chop so that both hands are weak.
Thanks to the iron-fisted measures, the soldiers finally got a little rest and fought until the fourth day.
Lin Dan Khan was completely driven crazy, and he went deep alone. It was sustained by the beef jerky brought by the soldiers. If this stalemate continues, what's the point of laying down the security state.
He was shaken in his heart, and he had already made up his mind that as long as he couldn't take Baoan Prefecture today, he would immediately lead his troops to take a detour.
The idea was good, but just after noon, a cavalry came from the west.
The reinforcements led by Zhang Feng have finally arrived!
He didn't stop for a moment, and he actually killed directly in the rear of the Tartars. Caught off guard, the Tartars completely collapsed. The follow-up troops led by Ma Rufeng also joined the killing.
After Du Qing, who was guarding Baozhou, got the news, he immediately led a thousand men and horses to rush out, attacked twice, and actually killed Lin Dan Khan and fled all the way from Baoan Prefecture to Xuanfu.
Of course, he was not reconciled and wanted to fight to the death. But the information from the lair scared him to the core.
It turned out that the news of the Tatar invasion had already spread to Liaodong, although the distance was far away, but the mobilization ability of the Yizhou soldiers was amazing, plus Zhang Haichuan was in charge, and the father and son soldiers went into battle, how could they be sloppy!
He sent Yue Zixuan to lead the troops, with Yu Weiliang and Liu Shaoqing, three general soldiers, a total of 27,000 soldiers, through the grassland, and went straight to Xuanda.
At the same time, Zhang Haichuan himself mobilized 20,000 soldiers, plus the Fried Flower Division, the Uliangha Division, the Eastern Tumut Division, and even the Nen Korqin Division, to launch an attack on Lin Dan Khan's Han Division.
Both sons are in Xuanda, can Lao Zhang not work hard!
Everywhere I passed, there was a mess, and even the grass behind the house was burned, which was simply a chicken and a dog.
After Lin Dan Khan heard the report, his heart was half cold, he didn't dare to stay at all, he ran out of the Great Wall overnight, and he didn't even take away the seized food and people.
After Zhang Ke saw the letter, his eyes suddenly lit up, Lin Dan Khan ran away, of course, he was happy, what made him most happy was that there were 30,000 troops to help, plus Xuanda's soldiers and horses, there were almost 40,000 or 50,000 people, which was enough for him to carry out the next step.
In fact, in the final analysis, he was careless in this border patrol, if he could directly mobilize tens of thousands of troops to come over, no matter how the Jin merchants tossed, no matter how high Lin Dan Khan jumped, he would crush them into powder with hard power!
"Pass my order, let Yue Zixuan lead the troops directly to Datong, and then appoint Du Qing as the governor of Xuanfu, immediately restore local order, train people, strengthen defense, choose an opportunity to attack the desert, and eradicate Lin Dan Khan."
If these words are put in other people's mouths, they will be ruthless at most, but when Zhang Ke says it, it is equivalent to announcing Lin Dan Khan's death sentence, but there are more important things to do now.
"Zhang Zhongcheng, how is the inventory?"
Zhang Zongheng hurriedly said: "Lord Wang, Zhai Tang and Wang Dayu have all confessed, and nearly six million taels of silver were found from their homes, and the rest of the jewelry and jade, gold and silver jewelry, silk and satin, shop warehouses, workshop fleets, and manor land properties, totaling more than 17 million taels. ”
Looking at the list, Zhang Zongheng's eyes were split, and he said angrily: "It is said that the Ming Dynasty has no money, and the money has fallen into the hands of these beasts, and the wealth of the family is more than the annual income of the Ming Dynasty. Lord Wang, I dare to plead and beg these people to be killed, and we must not cheapen them! ”
"Hehehe, it's really rare, Lord Zhang, who has always been upright and peaceful, is angry."
Zhang Zongheng's old face turned red, if he hadn't been kidnapped, he wouldn't have been so angry, and there was a bit of resentment and revenge.
However, Zhang Ke didn't have much anger, took the list and looked at it repeatedly, and said with a smile: "Zhang Zhongcheng, I'm afraid that this bit of wealth is far from the family background of the Zhai Wang family, and they still hide more." As for the Fan family, that's more. ”
Zhang Zongheng was stunned for a moment, and then said with a wry smile: "Lord Wang, it's really not a secret, Zhen'er said the same thing, but she can't say anything else." According to the list above, everything of value is available. ”
That little girl is better than you as a father.
Zhang Ke smiled slightly: "The most valuable thing in this world is not necessarily a thing. ”
"Not a thing? Could it be a human being? Zhang Zongheng was confused and couldn't figure it out.
Zhang Ke had already stood up and walked towards the courtyard where Fan Yongdou and the others were being held.
arrived at Wang Dayu's house first, and this one was gnawing on hard steamed buns, gnawing and scolding.
"Fade out of the bird, Lao Tzu's money is given to you, so give me some meat, I want to eat braised pork, I want to eat sauce elbow!"
Zhang Ke stepped in and laughed: "What a big temper, it's easy to eat meat, this king will order your leg to be chopped off, made into a sauce elbow, and brought to you." ”
Wang Dayu was so frightened that he landed the steamed bun on the ground, and his face changed color.
Zhang Ke came to him, squatted down, and said with a cold smile: "Wang Dayu, the Ming people don't say dark words, hand over the salt in your hand, the dry shares of each money bank's ticket number, and the accounts owed to you by the imperial court!" (To be continued......)