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Chapter 1396 Capture of Bright Moon City (14)

The news came back soon after inquiring. Maude was startled when he got the news. He turned his head to look around. Zhou Wen didn't know where he had gone, and he didn't dare to let the lord in without waiting for the whole city to be controlled.Turning his head to look at Juan beside him, Morde's heart moved, it is also a good way to use this credit to win over a general who leads the army.

Hearing Jian Mode whispering in his ear, Juan immediately exclaimed: "What? The retainers of Qingmen City actually think that our lord's army belongs to their young master? This battle is actually regarded as a civil war?
"How can they be so stupid? Even the city has been occupied, and they don't even know who the enemy is!"

"It's not because the lord is wise, and the army is quick and brave in battle. But if these surrendering retainers know the truth, I'm afraid it will cause trouble.

"Why don't we use the name of their young master to summon them and catch them all?" Mode suggested.

He also noticed the title of Zhao Hu at the beginning, but after realizing that Juan's status was not as good as Zhao Hu's personal guard, he couldn't help but wanted to reveal that his status was higher than him.

"My lord?" Juan was taken aback for a moment, but pretended not to hear, and said with a bit of embarrassment on his face, "This...doesn't it seem inappropriate to order without an adult?"

"Hey, aren't we doing this for the sake of the lord? Besides, we are just guarding them. Even if the lord continues to employ them, we will not be offended if we do this. If you are afraid of taking responsibility, brother, you just need to send troops to cooperate, and meritorious service is indispensable. your."

While saying this, Moder murmured to himself: "If it wasn't for my lack of troops, I wouldn't bother to pull you to share the meritorious deeds."

Hearing what Maude said, Juan immediately nodded in agreement, but sneered in his heart: "Hey, in this way, I will be invincible no matter what."

With the support of manpower, Mode immediately acted, and the retainers of Qingmen City didn't think about it when they heard the young master's summons, and immediately put down what they were doing and ran over, lest they would get a bad impression if they were too late.

Unexpectedly, after everyone gathered in a house, they were surrounded by soldiers led by Moder, and they were all put under house arrest.

The city was generally stable, so Zhao Hu walked over slowly with his bodyguards, Kai Hai immediately dropped his men and followed, not to mention Nangong Bing, who never left.As for the cavalry, they continued to monitor the surroundings of Mingyue City to avoid the sudden appearance of enemy reinforcements.

As Zhao Hu approached, he found that the city wall was only made of stones on the surface, and the inside was still mud. No wonder a catapult with such a small stone could smash the city wall.

At the beginning, I wondered why the walls of Mingyue City were so useless. It seemed that there was a lack of stones on the southeast peninsula.

When passing the city gate, Zhao Hu took a look at the city gate. The gate is not big, at most it allows two carriages to pass side by side. Compared with the gate of the imperial capital, it is like a mouse hole. No wonder it is five or sixty thousand catties Brass can cast an all-brass gate.

Touching the gate of the city, Zhao Hu couldn't figure out how the 20 to [-] jin of brass could be exchanged for more than [-] gold coins?Did Sun Jie make a mistake?

You must know that in the empire, a catty of brass is worth two or three silver coins at most. The [-] to [-] catties of brass are only worth about ten thousand gold coins.

Just think about it, spending so many gold coins to make a city gate is really extravagant, even the astonishingly huge city gate of the imperial capital is not that expensive.But this also shows that there are really a lot of copper mines on the southeastern peninsula.

I don't know if the profits from converting coins back and forth between the empire and the southeastern peninsula can support the operation of our territory?Zhao Hu, who doesn't know how much profit money exchange can make, has a small wish to rely on this profit to maintain the operation of his territory.

Passing through the city gate, Zhao Hu immediately saw the castle tower with a red top floor that was emitting flames and thick smoke.

Zhao Hu shook his head when he saw that the base was built with stones, but the upper part was all made of wood.

This building looks beautiful, but its defensive function is really poor. It may be able to block rocket attacks, but it will definitely not be able to resist the throwing of catapults. If the stones are replaced by oil tanks, the effect may be better.

But when the outer city is broken, the inner city is useless, so how to make the inner city so beautiful?No wonder.

Seeing Zhao Hu enter the city, the bandit leaders hurriedly told their cronies to take care of the soldiers, and hurried to follow behind Zhao Hu.Now is the time for the lord to enter the inner city to take over all the power of the city. I, who have never been in the inner city, can't waste this great opportunity!
You must know that if you don't have a call in the future, you can't enter the inner city at all, and you can't look around when you enter the inner city. The only time you want to see carefully is now.

Seeing these retainers, Zhao Hu smiled: "Thank you for your hard work, pass on the order, and the whole army will reward you with two gold coins per person."

Knowing that gold coins are very valuable in the southeast peninsula, Zhao Hu gave this reward, otherwise it would be a reward of ten gold coins.

Of course, this order was delivered to everyone's ears at the fastest speed, and cheers immediately resounded through the sky.

The loud shouts immediately woke up Sun Jie who was dazzled by choosing so many beauties.

Sun Jie listened, and immediately broke out in cold sweat. The adults have already entered the city, what are you doing?How do you answer when an adult asks about the situation?

Impatient Sun Jie immediately ran out to call for help, leaving Zhou Wen there alone to continue picking beauties with great interest.

The two smart men, Mod and Juan, ran over in a hurry when Zhao Hu stepped into the city gate.

Seeing these two people, Zhao Hu asked Juan directly: "How is it? Have you sent troops to take over the strongholds in the city?" Anyway, Zhao Hu still relies on the territorial militias now, they are imperial soldiers just like himself , Discipline is much better than that of rogues.

"My lord, my subordinates have sent people to control the warehouses, but because there is no order from you, no inventory has been carried out." Juan said with a normal face.

But Morde, who was staying behind him, found that this guy was secretly gesturing to his subordinates.Seeing one of Juan's subordinates secretly leading people away, Maud finally realized that this guy actually does what he says!Isn't this clearly deceiving our lord?

Maude opened his mouth to say something, but when he saw Juan winking at him and understood that it was a peddling, he didn't say anything.

Zhao Hu, who didn't know that his subordinates teamed up to cover up the matter, just nodded, but even if Juan replied that he didn't control the stronghold, Zhao Hu would not take it seriously. After all, he didn't attack Mingyue City to snatch supplies.

"My lord, the fire in the castle tower has been extinguished, and the people in the inner city are waiting for you to receive it." Maud quickly changed the subject.

Seeing that Zhou Wen and the others were not staying by Zhao Hu's side, and that he hadn't responded to Juan's test just now, he became bolder and called Zhao Hu the lord in front of Juan.

Juan paid attention to Zhao Hu as soon as Maude called him, and when he saw Zhao Hu was used to this address, his heart trembled, but his face didn't change much.

In fact, Zhao Hu is also used to being teased by these retainers. Although those retainers are warned, they always think that it is not strange to be polite. Your Excellency?Zhao Hu really didn't consider executing them for this problem.

Hearing this, Zhao Hu looked at the castle tower, and found that the flames were gone, only black smoke was rising, and he couldn't help asking: "What? Didn't you occupy the inner city?"

Moder hurriedly said with a serious face: "My lord, this inner city is the place where all the important wealth and materials of Qingmen City are stored, and only you can receive it yourself, my lord. Those of us who serve as ministers should abide by the true nature of the ministers and dare not offend The lord is majestic, step into the inner city."

The other retainers nodded in agreement, which made Zhao Hu stunned for a moment. He realized that on the southeast peninsula, the status of this inner city was almost the same as that of the imperial palace, and he was not allowed to enter it casually.

But in this case, how did they make the soldiers guarding the inner city surrender?
Zhao Hu didn't ask this question, he was too lazy to care so much, since they asked him to accept it, let's accept it.So he took a group of people into the inner city.

Zhao Hu admired the unique architectural style, but what made Zhao Hu feel weird was that the enemy troops who were defending the city were still guarding their posts with weapons, but their allegiance was changed to Zhao Hu.

What's even more strange is that his subordinates were not surprised by such a situation. Instead, they relaxed their vigilance when they really regarded these surrendered soldiers as their own, and they were not afraid of them fighting back and destroying themselves.

Of course, Zhao Hu also noticed that these soldiers looked at him with surprise in their eyes, as if they were surprised that the leader was himself, but they were just surprised and continued to follow their duties.

This kind of sudden coup d'état allegiance to the target, and the phenomenon of serving the new master loyally and without any grievances, made Zhao Hu unable to understand what education these soldiers had received.

Zhao Hu never imagined that the retainers of Mingyue City were put under house arrest by Mode after they ordered to obey the new Patriarch.

Therefore, although these guarding soldiers were surprised that among the people who entered the inner city, it was not the young master who was in charge, but because the order had already been issued, they didn't care about it.

The gangsters like Moder didn't know how to get around at all, so a group of people circled around the castle tower, because the castle tower is a bit perverted, there are many doors, and after drilling through several doors, they found that they were all dead ends!
That Nangong soldier realized this, smiled secretly, and then said softly: "My lord, I have been to the inner city once, please lead my lord the way."

Nangong Bing's words naturally attracted a strange look, but no one objected.

(End of this chapter)