The eldest son of the red mansion

Chapter 205
After Li Yuan opened the city gate, he took the lead and came to the outside of the city gate first, followed by more than 100 people, and took a posture to prevent possible conflicts.They are all familiar with this set, so they quickly guarded the city gate behind them.And their formation is also very tight.

Although Li Yuanren is greedy for money, he still has some skills.His more than 100 people are his elite soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of these [-] people cannot be underestimated.It's not that easy if someone wants to force it through.Once blocked by them, people in the city will come to support immediately, and Li Yuan has also given an order to ignore him when necessary and close the city gate directly.

Li Yuan had just left the city gate, and the soldiers behind him had just set up their positions when they saw a dark-skinned shopkeeper dressed in silk and satin walking out of the caravan.

The shopkeeper came to Li Yuan's side, nodded and bowed and said to him: "Guan Ye, we are businessmen who came back from the north, and this time I have to trouble you, Guan Ye." The heavy gold ingot was stuffed into Li Yuan's hands.

Li Yuan glanced and saw a yellow light appearing in his hand, and then his hand sank.Li Yuan understood what this was, he was used to this kind of thing, but he was embarrassed to be too tough after getting other people's gold.

So Li Yuan asked kindly: "This time, the harvest is not bad, right? What happened in the north recently?"

The man who looked like the shopkeeper said: "Thanks to you, sir, this time our harvest is not bad. We made a few taels of silver and lived up to the entrustment of the boss. Now the Tatars are in a mess in the north. For us in the Central Plains The commodity is more eager, so this time I did more business."

Li Yuan didn't want to talk nonsense with him, he just wanted to finish this matter early, so that he could wait for the next wave, so he said directly: "You still understand the rules, I need to explain to you, finish the matter early, Let's relax early."

The shopkeeper nodded again and again and said: "Master, how can we not understand these rules that we often come and go? There will never be less than ten taels of silver in a cart."

After the shopkeeper finished saying this, he waved to the back, and immediately two young men walked over carrying a small wooden box.

The shopkeeper opened the wooden box in the past, and there were fifteen silver ingots neatly arranged inside.

When Li Yuan saw these silver ingots, he immediately said with a smile on his face, "Since everyone understands the rules, I will stop talking nonsense. The next time I come to Gubeikou, I will treat you to dinner."

After Li Yuan finished speaking, he waved his hand to the guards behind, and several guards came up to inspect their goods.This is also the rule set by Li Yuan, all goods entering and exiting through his pass must be inspected.

Seeing this situation, the shopkeeper felt a kind of panic in his life, but he calmed down immediately.Step forward to Li Yuan's side.He took out another ingot of gold from his bosom, stuffed it secretly into Li Yuan's hand and said, "My lord, the goods we bought this time are more expensive, so we don't need to do this for those who come and go often, in case something is damaged , It’s not easy for me to explain to my boss when I go back. When the time comes, our boss will blame me, and adults will also have to complain.”

Li Yuan weighed the gold in his hand, it was another twelve taels, the bribes from these people were his personal and would not be handed over.Take people's money and eliminate disasters with others.Since I have accepted his bribe, this time I will open some doors for him.

So Li Yuan said to the soldiers around him: "These are regular customers, there is no need to check any more, let them go." When these soldiers heard Li Yuan's order, they immediately let go of the road and drove to the city gate. get out of the way.

After thanking the shopkeeper a thousand times, he led the team to the gate of the city.As soon as they arrived at the gate of the city, the shopkeeper in front suddenly shouted: "If you don't do anything, when will you wait?"

So in the caravan of more than 100 people, some sheep suddenly turned into beasts. These people took out various weapons from the vehicles beside them, and slashed away like soldiers around them.But the shopkeeper took out a can of kerosene, poured it on one of the vehicles, and then took out a torch to ignite the vehicle, and you will have a thick smoke floating into the sky.

As soon as Li Yuan saw this situation, what was unclear?So he drew out the scimitar, and while sending someone to report to the city, he cut it like the Tatars beside him.

Besides, Battelle in the woods five miles away, saw that the sun was getting higher and higher, but there was no smoke rising from Gubeikou, and he became more and more anxious on the horse. Suddenly, the soldiers beside him pointed to Gubeikou and said, "Look quickly, General. There is wolf smoke."

Battelle raised his head and looked forward, and there was indeed a wolf smoke in the direction of Gubeikou.Battelle couldn't help being overjoyed, and immediately ordered: "Everyone get on the horse and follow me."

After saying this, he immediately got on his horse and rushed forward.The cavalry behind him also followed him, galloping towards Gubeikou.

At this time, at the gate of Gubeikou, the Tatars still occupied the gate and resisted desperately. Li Yuan led more than 100 soldiers under his command and soldiers who came continuously, and they had already compressed them into a small area.

Just when Li Yuan thought victory was in sight, he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes behind him.When Li Yuan looked back, his ghost immediately froze, and he saw that today's cavalry behind him had arrived quickly.Seeing this situation, Li Yuan knew that it might be too late for him to close the city gate.It seems that he has been tricked by the Tatars. In this situation, he can only fight to the death. He must either drive the Tatars out of Gubeikou, or he will die here, otherwise he will be punished for his crime this time. For his fault, his family will definitely be implicated.

After thinking about this, Li Yuan let go of other distracting thoughts.Leading the soldiers at Gubeikou, they desperately fought to close the city gate before the cavalry arrived.But it was completely futile to think so, the cavalry led by Battelle approached the city gate very quickly, Li Yuan saw the despair on Battelle's face, he turned around and rushed towards Battelle with the scimitar in hand.

Li Yuan is now thinking in his heart that the king should be captured first, as long as he kills the leading general, the other small soldiers will inevitably flee.In this way, he might be able to keep Gubeikou intact.

When Battelle saw someone rushing towards him, he raised his iron spear and stabbed forward. Li Yuan was already as strong as a madman at this time, and he didn't care about the attacking iron spear, he swung his knife like a strike at Battelle's waist.

Where can Battelle let him get what he wants?With a slight turn of the iron gun, it collided with Li Yuan's waist knife.Li Yuan was able to become Gubeikou's custodian of thousands of households, except that he was good at both sides.His own kung fu is also the capital for him to gain a foothold.

Now that he is at a disadvantage with the waist knife in his step, Battelle didn't knock his waist knife away.It can be seen that Li Yuan also has some courage.

Seeing that he didn't kill Li Yuan, Battelle swung his iron gun like sweeping across Li Yuan's waist, and Li Yuan hurriedly raised his knife to parry.But Battelle used his horsepower to use the long spear again. Although Li Yuan fought hard, he still swept him nearly a foot away. When Battelle saw Li Yuan fell to the ground, he immediately urged his horse forward, and he was about to take Li Yuan with one shot. Yuan's life, this Li Yuan suddenly threw the knife straight at Battelle at the last moment, and Battelle was caught off guard by the knife right across his waist.Battelle's waist immediately bled profusely.

But Battelle was also brave, he gritted his teeth and shot, stabbing Li Yuan to death.

After Battelle killed Li Yuan, he opened his armor to look at his wounds, and remonstrated that although there was a deep wound, it was fine.

So Battelle quickly wrapped it up with his clothes, and led the cavalry into the city gate, killing the soldiers at the gate indiscriminately.After a while, the city gate was completely controlled. Although there were still soldiers from afar in the city, they rushed to take back the city gate.But Battelle led the cavalry near the city gate, galloping back and forth.Constantly taking advantage of the cavalry to attack and kill the infantry who came to support them.

And just at this moment, outside Gubeikou, there was a constant thunderous sound.It turned out that Arslen Khan came to reinforce with a large cavalry. Seeing this situation, the soldiers in the city were already desperate, so these people threw down their swords and guns and fled in all directions.

Seeing that the enemy had fled, Battelle didn't take the risk of attacking but guarded the city gate.When Arslen Khan arrived at the city gate with the soldiers, Battle had already cleaned up the vicinity of the city gate so that the army could pass through unimpeded.

As soon as Arslen Khan saw Battelle, he said loudly: "Battelle, you have made great achievements today. When I go back, I will reward you with a hundred beauties from the Central Plains." After speaking, he burst out laughing.

Arslen Khan led the army into Gubeikou and began to clean the inside of Gubeikou.Arslen Khan believed that Gubeikou was an important channel for him to come and go, and there must be no Han people there.So he ordered a brutal massacre at Gubeikou.

There are no ordinary residents living in Gubeikou, the people here are all the families of soldiers in Gubeikou, except for young women, everyone is murdered.On this day, the Tatars killed more than 1000 innocent people, and more than [-] Han women became military prostitutes.

When Arslen Khan was straightening out the back road at Gubeikou.The defeated soldiers at Gubeikou had already arrived at Miyun.

As soon as Gu Xu, the guard of Miyun, received the news from his subordinates, he was scared out of his wits.On the one hand, he gathered his troops and closed the gate of Miyun City. On the other hand, he sent a fast horse to report to Beijing, asking for reinforcements.

Arslen Khan did not delay at Gubeikou, after he cleared Gubeikou and ensured the back route.So he led the army all the way to Miyun, and it took only one day to reach Miyun.After arriving at Miyun, they immediately surrounded Miyun.

Standing on the top of the city wall, Gu Xu, who was guarding Miyun, was already shivering when he saw this situation.In his opinion, there are at least 30 to [-] Tatars outside, and all of them are strong and sturdy.Although his subordinates are considered elite, to be honest, they are still somewhat inferior to the Tatars in the city.

Now there is only one way for Gu Xu to stick to it, hoping that the imperial court can send reinforcements before the Tatars break through the Miyun.

On the second day after Arslen Khan besieged Miyun, he opened the gates of the camp and dispatched a large army, pushing all kinds of siege equipment to the city wall of Miyun.

Arslen Khan still didn't want his army to lose too much in the siege station. After all, they were only a nation on horseback and were not good at siege. If they wanted to forcibly attack the city, they would inevitably suffer heavy losses.

So he came to the front of the battle to talk to the generals defending the city in Miyun, hoping to persuade him to open the city and surrender, so as to reduce his losses.

Arslen Khan was so afraid of attacking the city now, it was also caused by Jia Ke.Thinking back when he surrounded Kaiping Town with tens of thousands of horses, he attacked for several months and suffered heavy losses, but failed to break through Kaiping Town, which left a deep impression on him.Therefore, in the subsequent wars, he always tried to avoid siege warfare.

(End of this chapter)