Zhao Duan still asked with some reluctance: "Is there really no soldier at all?" ”

Cao Shuang nodded affirmatively: "It's really gone, it's already very difficult to defend Hedong with the current strength."

Your Majesty, the Huns are not easy to get along with, and if you transfer troops from Hedong at this time, you are afraid that the entire Hedong defense line will collapse.

The losses will be even greater! ”

Bang!

Zhao Duan slammed his fist on the pillar on the side, making a dull loud noise!

"Damn! But they all came together at this time......"

Just when Zhao Duan was bored, Cao Shuang suddenly said: "Your Majesty, maybe we don't need to worry about the matter of Liaodong County......

Zhao Duan's eyes lit up, but then he thought about it and dimmed and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

Cao Shuang reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, there is still a Yunzhou County outside Liaoyun Pass, where is the domain of His Royal Highness King Yun."

Didn't Tartar not attack Yunzhou County before, but wasn't he still blocked back by His Royal Highness King Yun? ”

"Sixth?"

Zhao Duan's brows furrowed again, and then he shook his head and said: "It's not that you haven't seen the battle report about the Tatar invasion, the sixth guard's escort team was almost dead and wounded, so it blocked the Tatar attack.

It's only been a year now, and it's a question of whether the Sixth Guard's escort has been restored or not, so how can it stop the Tatars?

What's more, this time it's not tens of thousands of Tatars, it's a full 300,000!

How do you let the sixth stop this amount? ”

Cao Shuang shook his head: "Your Majesty, the slave maid thinks that His Royal Highness King Yun is not so simple.

Do you remember the attack on His Royal Highness King Yun outside Nanyang City? ”

Zhao Duan recalled for a while and guessed: "You mean the sixth ......?"

Cao Shuang nodded heavily: "Your Majesty, the slave maid thinks that His Royal Highness King Yun is not so simple, the people who went to ambush His Highness that time were all wearing iron armor, and all of them were the elite of the army!"

A full 1,300 elite soldiers with armor were actually slaughtered by His Royal Highness King Yun!

And the five hundred guards under him did not suffer much damage, which is not right in any way.

Afterwards, the slave maid also asked the professional servants of the Imperial City Department to inspect their corpses, and found that the wounds on their bodies were not only the wounds caused by the weapons in the hands of the guards.

And many more arrow holes!

Of course, there are no arrow holes, or someone in the Cloud King's team with a bow gave the opponent a wave before the battle, and the arrow rain is the case.

Crucially, however, most of these corpses had slender scratches on their necks, most of which were caused by the sharp blades used by assassin-type characters to refill their targets after killing them.

Many people in my Imperial City Division have this habit.

And those armor soldiers don't seem to have this kind of habit, they are afraid that they can just stick a knife into the enemy's body directly, and they will definitely not make up the knife so delicately. ”

Zhao Duan stared at his eyebrows and said, "You mean, there are other strengths in the hands of the sixth child?" ”

"It's inevitable, didn't you guess that before, Your Majesty? It's just that there is really no evidence to give up, but now it seems that the force hidden in the secret of the capital is estimated to be the Yun Wangye. ”

"How can you be so sure?" Zhao Duan wondered.

Cao Shuang said: "The wounds of these mending knives are exactly the same as those who were killed by that force in the capital!" ”

Zhao Duan was silent, it seems that his sixth child is indeed not simple.

But then he sighed and said, "But what does this have to do with his ability to keep the Tatars at bay, even if he has a very hidden spy agency in the dark, so what?"

When the 300,000 Tatar cavalry approached Yunzhou County, did he want his spy agency to stop the army?

That's the Tatar army of 300,000, it's not a few people fighting in groups, just the few people in his spy agency are not enough to stuff the Tatar army between their teeth!

"What if the number of troops in the Cloud King's fiefdom far exceeds Your Majesty's imagination?"

Cao Shuang's words suddenly made Zhao Duan startled!

Her eyes were fixed on him.

"What do you mean by that?"

Cao Shuang's tone was flat, as if he was talking about a trivial matter of eating and drinking, and slowly narrated:

"Your Majesty, according to the investigation of the Imperial City Division, since Yunzhou County began to sell iron materials to the outside world, this year, the iron materials sold into the customs from Yunzhou County alone are enough to be as many as one million catties!

Think about it, there is so much iron sold, so how much does Yunzhou County keep for itself?

And some time ago, when we were exploring the movements of the Tatars, we got a message from the steppe tribes in the southern steppe, that is, in the border outside Yunzhou County.

Yunzhou County is using spirits and tea to exchange horses with those small and medium-sized tribes, or war horses! ”

According to the transaction methods they provide, we have carefully probed in the customs again, and you also know that the fact that the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce is the Chamber of Commerce of His Royal Highness the Cloud King is already known to almost everyone.

Therefore, the Dark Guard put the main force on exploring the items acquired by the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce during this time.

Sure enough, it was discovered that the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce was actually buying turbid wine and tea bricks in the Guannei.

According to the estimation of the experts in the department, in the entire territory of the Great Song Dynasty, in the past three months, a full five million catties of turbid wine have been purchased by the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce.

And the number of tea bricks is also quite large, and nearly eight million catties have been purchased by the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce.

And the slave maid has reason to suspect that this turbid wine has absolutely something to do with the spirits sold in those tribes, and the birds in Yunzhou County don't, and the army can't produce so much spirits.

Therefore, this liquor Dingsan is refined by Yunzhou County from turbid wine, and the specific amount is not known, but it is estimated that Yunzhou County has used this batch of spirits to exchange nearly 20,000 to 30,000 war horses from these tribes.

The tea bricks have also purchased nearly 7 million catties of tea bricks, and the acquisition of tea bricks is still ongoing, and the scale is even larger.

According to yesterday's latest information, the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce shipped another six million catties of tea bricks out of the customs.

With this batch of tea bricks alone, Yunzhou County can exchange nearly 100,000 war horses in these tribes.

Your Majesty, these are hundreds of thousands of war horses!

His Royal Highness King Yun, what does he want so many war horses for?

And he still has so much iron, and he has also gained so much population from Kannai over the years.

Man, iron, and horses are all there.

Then there is only one possibility!

King Yun is massively expanding the number of his army, and at least 100,000 people, all of them are cavalry!

What puzzled the slaves and maids the most was that Yunzhou County was like having endless food, most of their things were exchanged for grain, and the grain they transported into the customs was even so much that the grain that had risen sharply due to natural disasters was forcibly suppressed.

Where did the remote part of Yunzhou County get the food?

It is impossible to rely on the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce alone, the amount of this grain is huge, but it is beyond imagination!

And Zhao Duan opened his mouth in surprise after listening to Cao Shuang's analysis.

I feel like I suddenly don't know myself very well.

Is any of this true?

Did the sixth really expand the cavalry of nearly 100,000?

What does he want so many troops for?

What does he want to do as a vassal king?

All of this made Zhao Duan frown deeply.

And Zhao Jun, who was still far away from the pass, didn't know that under all kinds of coincidences, Yunzhou County, which he had hidden for several years, seemed to be unable to hide!

His emperor Lao Tzu finally understood the tip of the iceberg about his true strength......

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(End of chapter)