The next day dawned.

Pingyang County is lost!

After the little Turkic prince used Xie Jinyan to deceive the city gate, he led his 20,000 iron horsemen into the city immediately!

The daily garrison of Pingyang County is only one thousand households, and if the heads of the people who eat empty salaries are thrown away, there are less than 800 soldiers when they are full!

And the little Turkic prince led by 20,000 Turkic elites, with such a huge disparity in troops, the defenders of Pingyang County have no resistance at all!

therefore

The moment when the Turkic cavalry, which was as black as the tide, poured into the city gate.

The officers and men of these guards in Pingyang County did not even make a decent resistance, and they were driven by fear to scatter and flee, and they were defeated!

The Turks easily took the county seat of Pingyang.

They burned, killed, plundered, and ravaged women, even newborn babies, and cooked them like cattle for their own pleasure!

Time

The entire Pingyang county town has been reduced to purgatory on earth!

The air was filled with the smell of blood and the heart-rending wails of the people in the city!

The horrific massacre lasted until noon!

Yanei, Pingyang County,

After the little Turkic prince had ruined the wife and daughter of the county order, he received a summons from outside the Guan.

"What ——!?"

"Why did Father Khan send only 30,000 horses to help me? Didn't he know how rare this opportunity was? ”

The little prince slammed the sheepskin scroll in his hand to the ground with a look of rage, and he grabbed the messenger by the collar and asked sharply.

"The special service calmed his anger, and the Great Khan said that the main force of the border army of the Zhou State was trying to approach the grassland royal court!

He can't give too many troops to the special service for a while, so he hopes that the special service will seize the time to cut off the food and grass of the Zhou army.

At that time, the main force of the Zhou army will inevitably retreat due to lack of food, and then the Great Khan will personally lead the main force to bite the Zhou army, and then the special service will return to the division to cut off their retreat, and under the front and rear attacks, the Zhou army will be defeated! ”

The messenger looked into the little prince's eyes and said this, even though he was being tugged at by the collar.

When the little prince heard this, he immediately calmed down.

He had been fighting with his father since he was a child, and had led the army alone for several years, and now when he heard these words, he could understand his father Khan's intentions.

It's just that he didn't expect that the main force of the border army of the Zhou State would dare to leave the Great Wall and go deep into the hinterland of the grassland to attack the royal court of his father Khan.

The little prince was a little incredulous about this.

Because the main force of the border army of the Zhou State had been short of salt for several months, many sergeants even lost their normal combat strength because they could not eat salt.

In recent months,

If the main force of the border army of the Zhou State had not relied on the tall Great Wall to hold out, I am afraid that it would have been annihilated by all the warriors on their grassland!

The little prince did not understand.

Why did the main force of the Zhou border army dare to go deep into the grassland under such circumstances?

You know, if the sergeants can't eat salt, they will lose their strength.

In this case, let alone fighting, even whether the army can maintain a normal march will become a question!

The more the little prince thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

Didn't the main force of the Zhou army run out of salt a long time ago?

But where did the army that marched north into the royal court get the salt?

They can't dare to attack without salt, right?

Isn't that any different from sending you to death?

Thinking of this,

The little prince suddenly couldn't sit still.

He immediately called a personal guard: "Go, call me that dwarf of the Zhou Kingdom!" ”

"Yes!"

The guard nodded, and immediately took the order.

It didn't take long for the guards to take Xie Jinyan and return.

"The slave meets the little prince!"

As soon as Xie Jinyan came up, he fully demonstrated the characteristics of a traitor's lackey, he knelt on the ground respectfully, and the expression on his face was full of flattery.

However, the little prince was not interested in this, he glanced down at Xie Jinyan who was kneeling on the ground, and asked coldly:

"Tell me honestly, where did you get the salt for the main force of the Zhou border army?"

"Salt?"

Xie Jinyan was stunned for a moment, and then said respectfully and truthfully:

"Back to the little prince, their salt is all from Yanzhou!

It is said that some time ago, there was a stranger in Yanzhou who could refine the poisonous salt in the mountains into snowflake white salt that was better than green salt!

Now the border army in the north of the Zhou State eats all this kind of Yanzhou snowflake salt.

It is said that they have opened two or three such salt farms outside Yanzhou City, and the output in just one day is as much as tens of thousands of catties! ”

"What did you say!?"

When the little prince heard this, his eyes widened suddenly:

"Can you refine poisonous salt into snowflake white salt that is better than green salt? Can you produce tens of thousands of catties in one day? Are you sure you're not lying to me? ”

Seeing that the little prince's face was full of doubts.

Xie Jinyan hurriedly spoke:

"Little prince, what the slave said is true, and there is absolutely no falsehood!

This matter has already spread throughout Yanzhou, and even most of the people in Pingyang County know about it! ”

"Oh?"

Hearing this, the little prince frowned, it seemed that this dwarf did not seem to be lying to himself.

Although the news he said was incredible.

But right now, his life is in his own hands, life and death are just his own words, and he has no reason to deceive himself.

And if Yanzhou can really produce so much salt......

Then it just explains why the border army of the Zhou State, which had been short of salt for months, dared to cross the Great Wall and attack the royal court of his father Khan!

Thinking of this,

The little prince seems to have figured out the crux of the matter.

He groaned slightly, and then asked Xie Jinyan again:

"You said that their salt farm is located outside Yanzhou City, so how many defenders there are in Yanzhou City, do you know?"

"Seven thousand, there are only seven thousand defenders in Yanzhou City!"

Xie Jinyan didn't think about it and said: "The former commander there is Zheng Yongchang, the brother-in-law of the slave, and the slave knows very well how many defenders there are in the city." ”

"Good!"

The little prince was overjoyed when he heard this.

With only 7,000 defenders, they can't resist the iron cavalry under his command!

And the snowflake white salt produced there is the lifeblood of the main force of the Zhou army on the grassland!

As long as you lead your troops to capture Yanzhou City... No, even as long as the salt field outside the city is captured, the main force of the Zhou border army can be cut off again!

In this way, there may be no need to return to the reinforcements themselves, and the soldiers and horses in the hands of Father Khan alone can wipe out the main force of the Zhou army that has lost its combat power due to lack of salt!

Thinking of this,

The little prince made his decision immediately.

He summoned the herald and ordered the soldiers and horses in the city to stop plundering and assemble immediately.

And set two hours later, the whole army will march into Yanzhou!

As for the next 30,000 horses sent to him by his father Khan, he sent men to urge them to hasten their march.

Anyway, according to the contents of the letter, the distance between the two armies was only about one or two days.

As long as the 30,000 horses behind his ass don't get lost, then in three days, he will gather an army of 50,000 and go straight to Yanzhou City!

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