Blood from Daming

Chapter 669

At dawn on July 21, [-] Mongolian cavalry led by Aruhan and Baoyin opened the way. Xue Yun led [-] Xue family soldiers to the rear. Feiyingqi suffered heavy losses, and agreed to send [-] troops to follow, but first the wounded and sick from Feiyingqi should be transferred to Daqingshan to join the old battalion of Aruhan and Baoyin.

After Xue Yunzhi left and destroyed the fortress, he led his army to follow Aruhan and Baoyin's cavalry and went east to Wanquan Right Guard. When Xue Yun arrived at Wanquan Right Guard, it was just about time. All Yin's cavalry were flying eagle flags. Once there were tens of thousands of troops, there would be no bounds, and the entire Wanquan City would be ready for battle.

Wanquan City, where Wanquan Youwei is located, is also called Deshengkoubao City, where Wanquan Youwei is located. After the establishment of Nine Frontiers in the Ming Dynasty, the jurisdiction of the Daning Metropolitan Division was automatically given up, and Daning did not belong to the defensive circle; Establish Wanquandusi, abandon Daning and abandon Daningdusi, so Wanquandusi has become the first barrier to defend Mongolia from invading Beijing. After the change of Tumubao, it can only guard the Juyongguan Datong area. Wanquandusi has no more residents. Inhabited, Wanquan Youwei has almost become a complete military town.

There are only more than 1000 residents in Wanquan City now, and more than half of them are military family members, while the guard army has more than 3000 people, but each battlement is deployed by a soldier, and half of the battlements of the guard soldiers in Wanquan City have no soldiers. The soldiers and civilians in Wanquan City felt cold.

A Ruhan came to see Xue Yun and reported: "Master, Qianfeng arrested several people near Wanquan City for questioning. Among them, one of the people recognized that the person who fled into Wanquan City was a businessman surnamed Lu. It is said that Zhangjiakou Wang's cousin, A total of more than 200 people followed him into Wanquan City, and this businessman surnamed Lu has been doing business with the Wanquan Right Guard Army for a long time."

Xue Yun said: "Reward 50 taels of silver for whistleblowers, and 100 taels of silver for anyone who is willing to go to the city with a message."

A Ruhan immediately went to recruit, and first rewarded the middle-aged man who reported the news with 50 taels of silver, and then promised that anyone who was willing to go to the city with a message would be rewarded with 100 taels of silver. The so-called reward must be brave, and several people hesitated After a while, an old man stepped forward and expressed his willingness to earn the 100 taels of silver.

A Ruhan told the old man that the Flying Eagle Flag was a condition. He handed over more than 200 people surnamed Lu who fled into Wanquan City and those who followed him into Wanquan City. If Quancheng refuses, Flying Eagle Banner won't leave anything behind when it conquers Wanquan City. As long as the old man comes back to see if the official's business can be completed, 100 taels of silver is not a lot.

The old man walked all the way to Wanquan City, and even greeted the people in the city when he arrived at the bottom of the city. It seemed that he was very familiar with the defenders of Wanquan City. Most of them were residents of Wanquan City or members of the military. When the old man approached the city wall , The big baskets were quickly put down on the city, and the old man was pulled up to the wall of Wanquan City.

Now Xue Yun is waiting for the response from Wanquan City. Although Xue Yun only put forward one condition, the condition is not low. Let me go to the right guard and hand over the businessman surnamed Lu and the more than 200 subordinates who followed him. If that If the general did this, I am afraid that the court will not let him go, and even the businessmen in Zhangjiakou will kill him, but Xue Yun still wants to do this, at least the people in the right guard think that it is not worthwhile for everyone to work hard for the businessman surnamed Lu, In this way, there will be many contradictions within Wanquan City, and Xue Jiajun will be a little more confident in taking Wanquan City.

After an hour, the old man fell down to the city again and reported to Ah Ruhan that Wan Quancheng had rejected Feiyingqi's request. As promised, Ah Ruhan paid the old man 100 taels of silver. The whole city refused to release the businessman surnamed Lu and the more than 200 men who accompanied him.

Xue Yun looked at the top of Wanquan City and only said: "Let's serve dinner."

So both the Xue family army and the Mongolian army began to eat lunch. Everyone thought that after lunch, the army would launch a fierce attack on Wanquan City. , They haven't encountered such a bloody massacre for a long time.

Wang Erwa, who ran to Xue Yun's side for a meal, said, "Master, our team does not carry heavy weapons, so we may lose a lot if we attack the city lightly."

Xue Yun said: "Eating your food, the young master never fights a losing battle."

At this time, Baoyin also came, and Aruhan, who was also eating at Xue Yun's place, asked, "Master, could it be that you have a clever plan?"

Xue Yun waited for Baoyin to approach before saying: "I don't have any tricks, and I didn't say to attack the city immediately. After the soldiers have finished their lunch, according to the task assigned to you, pull out the surrounding traitors' strongholds and manors." , We take the good things, and those that are inconvenient to take can be distributed to the common people or burned, as for the Zhaibao Manor, they are all burned, and the local people who can’t be burned let the local people pick them up, in short, burn, kill, and rob them all.”

However, Aruhan and Baoyin each got the list, there are four businessmen's Zhaibao manor and other courtyards, and there are a total of fifteen places under surveillance, all of which are the property and relative property of the military officers in Wanquan City. The Xue family army led by Wang Erwa was divided into two to cooperate with Aruhan and Baoyin's team.

Aruhan and Baoyin each took [-] Mongols and [-] Xue's troops to kill and set fire. Xue Yun led himself and Aruna's [-] soldiers and Aruhan's [-] Mongolian cavalry to monitor Wanquan City. Seeing that most of Feiyingqi's people had withdrawn, the soldiers and civilians in Wanquan City just breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Feiyingqi would not be able to attack the city for the time being.

But the Flying Eagle Flags were not all withdrawn, which made the soldiers and civilians of Wanquan City only half-hearted. These Flying Eagle Flags who left would not do anything, right? Many escaped with Wanquan City these days When people with relatives and relatives enter the city, there is nothing valuable outside the city. If Feiyingqi goes to snatch it, I am afraid there will be nothing to gain.

But less than half an hour later, the people in Wanquan City knew it was broken. There was a loud "boom" from a bunker about ten miles south of the city, and there was a faint and noisy fight. It seemed that thick smoke began to rise from the castle, and it was quickly burned red by the fire. The flames rose more than ten to twenty feet high, and the rising smoke could be clearly seen dozens of miles away.

The officers of the Ming army who surrounded the south gate tower of Wanquan City were dumbfounded. The burnt fort belonged to a businessman surnamed Zheng who participated in the ambush of Feiyingqi. Zhangjiakou Fort went, but Feiyingqi still did not let go of Zhengjiabaozi.

What surprised Wanquan Youwei officers and soldiers the most was that Zhengjiabaozi was blown down by explosives, and the flying eagle flag composed of Mongolian barbarians actually played with explosives. Isn’t this the sun coming out from the west? You must know that Beijing Wanggong Factory The Gunpowder Bureau has yet to imitate the explosive pack. It is said that the main reason is that the gunpowder is not strong enough. The grenade developed either does not explode at all, or explodes in half. There is not a finished explosive pack or grenade put into use for a year or two.

And the firearms manufacturing workshop in Xuanfu had given up making explosives and grenades for half a year. Now Flying Eagle Flag uses explosives, and I heard from Boss Lu that during the siege of Flying Eagle Flag the day before yesterday, he arrived several times. At the critical moment, Flying Eagle Flag used explosives and grenades, which are the signature firearms of the Xue family army of Datong.

Now these flying eagle flags outside Wanquan City are also using explosives and grenades, but the old man said when he entered the city just now that the outside of the city is indeed full of Mongols, so even if there is no Xue family army outside the city, at least these explosives and grenades are Xue Jiajun gave them or sold them, which proves that Xue Jiajun colluded with the Mongolian Flying Eagle Banner.

Then there were fireworks on the southeast, west and east sides of Wanquan City. The officers on the tower carefully identified that several places were related to Zhangjiakou giant merchants. This made the officers with properties and relatives outside the city feel nervous. The throat is tight, whether Feiying's banner will toss his little family property in one step, when everyone thinks this way, they become dissatisfied with Boss Lu's running into the city. Isn't this person causing trouble for Wanquan City?

The officers of the Wanquan Youwei counted the fires in eight merchants' Zhaibao manors. Judging from the location, they were all owners who did not deal with Feiyingqi. There were a few merchants who were doing business honestly. Lit up, it seems that there are traitors in Wanquan City, Flying Eagle Flag is sure to catch one.

When it was getting dark, Feiyingqi sent over 300 heads of men, women and children, and left a few words. Today, eight profiteers in the Xuanfu who had liaised with the captives were broken. Harmful, but the more than 200 people who fled into Wanquan City, the trouble is to send them out, otherwise the [-] places under protection, the relatives and friends of the officers of Wanquan City, and the garden castle will all be closed after [-]:[-] noon tomorrow. disappear.

Threats, naked threats, but the officers of Wanquan City have nothing to do. Everyone has many relatives and clansmen who are still staying in Zhuangzi Village. Those yards and houses are also silver. After working so hard for many years, I went back to my fortune overnight, especially for Boss Lu's family star. Now everyone looks at Boss Lu, and his heart is full after eating too much.

But tomorrow before [-]:[-] noon, it is everyone watching Feiyingqi tossing everyone alive, or going out of the city to fight Feiyingqi, but seeing tens of thousands of cavalry covering the sky, whoever has the courage to drive out of Wanquan City is the most feasible The best way is to drive Boss Lu and his group out of Wanquan City.

Wang Erwa, Aruhan, and Baoyin came back with some cavalry, but the effect of the robbery was not good. The eight fortress manors were busy and killed all the family servants and clansmen who stayed behind inside, and the gold and silver property they got The amount of silk, satin and cloth is less than 4 taels of silver. This is still [-] taels of silver squeezed out by torture. So Aruhan, Baoyin and the animals pulled Xue Yun back to make rations for the troops.

(End of this chapter)