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Chapter 338 The Traitor Who Should Be Slaughtered

At the north gate of Zhangjiakou City, at this time, a group of swordsman and family members gathered together to make a noise, and their faces were full of reluctance. Swordsman, that is for a living, usually helps the host to escort some goods or bully others. Even a plain-headed commoner is not a problem, but now you let him go up the city wall to fight with four thousand cavalry, that is really the boss's reluctance.

If the master hadn't paid a lot of money to hire them like this, they would have quit on strike long ago, but even if they came, they all had no fighting spirit, slumped, and huddled together at the base of the wall and chatted.

At this time, several business owners who were in charge of guarding the north gate came. Shopkeeper Zhao was leaning against the city wall at this time, and all the more than 100 secret agents under him were thrown out to talk to the rest of the Ding Dao Ke, looking like they were mingling with everyone. .

Shopkeeper Zhao and several other business owners are also talking together.

At this time, a boss said: "What's the matter, what kind of strong man wants to rob our Zhangjiakou?"

"That's right, that's right, I just bought a batch of fresh goods, and if I'm stuck in the city and can't sell them, my loss will be huge."

"Isn't it? I agreed with the owner of the shipment to deliver it tomorrow afternoon. If I can't deliver it, I will lose money."

"Okay, okay, all shopkeepers, don't complain, just be content, these days there are strong people everywhere, so it's not easy for this little family business, besides, Mr. Fan didn't say that he has already asked the prince of Manqing to save us? Based on the friendship between Zhangjiakou and Manqing, the Prince of Manqing cannot delay this matter, and we will be fine by then."

"Yes, that's right. We all did things for Master Manqing, and Master Manqing can't ignore us. Master Manqing is much more reliable than Ming's officers and soldiers, and bandits are nothing to fear."

A few people talked to each other, but shopkeeper Zhao didn't answer a word, secretly calculating in his heart, this family is already rotten, and almost all the merchants here are enemies. Although these small merchants can't directly contact The Manchu and Qing Tartars did business, but they were all suppliers of the eight major merchants.

To put it bluntly, the eight major merchants received orders from the Manchus. For example, if they wanted [-] catties of iron, this business might first be handed over to one or two of the eight major merchants. After returning, find these small merchants directly, and let them buy iron from all over the country.

Then they will be sold to them collectively, and they will be sold to the Tartars. Many supplies are bought and sold in this way. Tartars, everyone is a traitor.

The people here were talking, suddenly a group of people came from a distance, shopkeeper Zhao narrowed his eyes, it was none other than Huang Yunfa who came, and Huang Yunfa was the person in charge of the north gate, at this time Huang Yunfa came over, and all the merchants surrounded him, Shopkeeper Zhao also walked over and cupped his hands: "Master Huang."

Huang Yunfa bowed his hands to the crowd, as if he had seen it before. At this time, everyone looked at the group of people behind Huang Yunfa, and saw that the group of people were all in rags, and some of them were holding hoes. Someone asked, "Master Huang?" , your people?"

Huang Yunfa said: "They are all my tenants. My swordsman sent some out a few days ago. If there is not enough manpower, I will use them first."

After Huang Yunfa said this, the expressions of the surrounding merchants became very strange, but no one said anything, but turned their heads one by one, and their expressions became very bad.

This Huang Yunfa is definitely the most disliked existence among the eight families of Shanxi merchants. When this bastard was a horse thief in the early years, he did a lot of immoral things, and many of the merchants were also robbed by this bastard. He is instinctively disgusted.

And today Huang Yunfa kept his own swordsman instead of sending him up, but chose a group of tenant farmers to come up to die.
At that time, wouldn't it be people like yourself who will do their best?

Thinking of this, the merchants walked away together, unwilling to look at the face of Huang Yunfa, this bastard. Huang Yunfa looked at these merchants walking away with a trace of disdain on his face. You are not as smart as me, so you don't want to talk to me. How unwise, this family is panicking now, and it is unwise to send all the swordsmen who are saving their lives.

What if the people in the city break into chaos first and rush into their homes to smash and rob, so Huang Yunfa found some lowly tenant farmers and sold themselves to guard the city with their servants. If they die, they will die. What's the big deal? Well, in Huang Yunfa's eyes, these people are not human beings.

"Okay, listen up guys, climb up the city wall for me. There are prepared weapons on the city wall. If you see bandit soldiers, just take a bow and arrow and shoot down. Do you understand?"

Huang Yunfa shouted to the tenant farmers, who heard this and said in unison: "I heard it."

"Well, the steward took them up the city wall."

"Yes."

The butler immediately led the people up to the city wall, but Huang Yunfa himself did not go to the city wall. The city wall is so dangerous, what if he is shot by the flow, what if the enemy has artillery, isn't that courting death?

So Huang Yunfa decided to watch from a distance and not go up.

Huang Yunfa has become more and more timid over the years. When he used to be a horse thief on the grassland without money, he was really brave and invincible. No matter how many people and weapons the opponent's caravan had, Huang Yunfa dared to lead his brothers to charge forward, and took the lead. , Not afraid of life and death.

During that time, he made a big name and got the first pot of gold in his life. Immediately afterwards, he brought his brothers to Zhangjiakou, started a business, and suddenly found that the income from doing business was no less than that from robbery. And it's a long way to go.

Gradually, he really became a merchant here, and then he got on the express train of the Tartars and became one of the eight major families here. After that, Huang Yunfa became less courageous. More than once, he dreamed back at midnight. camp, and was cut to pieces by the enemy. When he woke up, Huang Yunfa was covered in cold sweat.

Back then, I was too careless. If I accidentally got hacked to death by someone, there would still be the power and influence I have today. In my current life, thinking of Huang Yunfa falling asleep again with his concubine in his arms, he would be killed by the old concubine again and again. The behavior of life was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.

You said that back then, the knife was slightly off by an inch, and I still had such a good life there, so I should be cautious in the future, it was too tiger (Northeast dialect) back then.

So Huang Yun became more and more timid, from a ferocious jackal to a rat who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

Shopkeeper Zhao saw Huang Yunfa like this, so he leaned over and said, "Master Huang, don't stay in such a dangerous place. There is a tea house over there, not far from the city wall. You can go up and drink tea while watching this place." If there is anything wrong, I will send someone to call you."

After hearing this, Huang Yunfa looked at shopkeeper Zhao. He understood what he said, but he still had to put on a show.

"Oh, there is going to be a war here soon, how bad I am."

"What's wrong with this, you are a noble person, who dares to make irresponsible remarks to you, that's all, don't worry, I'll keep an eye on it for you, and I'll call you as soon as I need something."

After hearing this, Huang Yunfa looked at Shopkeeper Zhao and said, "Shopkeeper Zhao still hurts people. In this way, this year's rations for our firm will be ordered from your family."

"Thank you, Lord Huang."

"Thank you, Nuo, keep an eye on this city wall, don't let anything happen to you, it's about your life and mine."

Shopkeeper Zhao said: "Don't worry, I've never seen cavalry attacking a city before, and it doesn't seem to be very powerful. Don't worry, Mr. Huang."

Huang Yunfa nodded, and followed him to the teahouse. He opened the window and had a panoramic view of the entire city wall.

"I'm watching the mountain view from the city tower..."

Thinking of Huang Yunfa's interest, he actually hummed the lyrics of the drama Dingjunshan. It seems that he really regarded himself as Zhuge Liang.

Shopkeeper Zhao sent Huang Yun to the teahouse, followed by several shopkeepers and said, "Huang Yunfa is such a bastard, he sent a group of tenant farmers to fool us."

"Isn't it? Huang Yunfa is not a thing in this family's population."

"Hush, keep your voice down, don't let him hear you."

At this time, there was a shopkeeper who didn't want to offend Huang Yunfa, so he hurriedly asked everyone to keep their voices down for fear of offending Huang Yunfa. The shopkeeper Zhao gave him a look and said, "It's okay, don't worry, I sent it to the teahouse, save him here, just blindly direct, At that time, we will kill our brothers."

The other shopkeepers all gave their thumbs up when they heard this and said, "Gao, he doesn't show up, and wants to order us to die. He's so beautiful."

Shopkeeper Zhao waved his hand at this moment and said: "Shopkeepers, Huang Yunfa is obviously playing us like monkeys, sending our people to their deaths. We can't sit still and wait for death."

"Oh, what's the best trick for Shopkeeper Zhao?"

Several people looked at shopkeeper Zhao, and shopkeeper Zhang said: "Defending the city will definitely kill people, especially the first wave of attack by bandits is the most dangerous, so we can't join the first wave, let Huang Yunfa's people come, it will kill you Kill him first, too."

After hearing this, everyone nodded in unison, and at the same time shopkeeper Zhao said: "In a moment, let's send people up the tower to force those tenant farmers to stand at the front. Our people will supervise them and let them go up first to attract firepower. The firepower is almost exhausted, our people will go up again, so that the loss can be minimized, what do you think?"

Many shopkeepers looked at each other after hearing the words.

"Wonderful!"

One of them stretched out his finger, but the other shopkeeper said: "But we have calculated Huang Yunfa so much, what if he looks for us afterwards?"

Shopkeeper Zhao said with a sneer at this time: "There is no one who survives a war. These tenant farmers obviously don't know how to fight. Is there any problem with dying more?"

After hearing this, everyone nodded their heads in unison. Shopkeeper Zhao's words are reasonable.

Shopkeeper Zhao said: "Then it's settled. Let our swordsmen watch the tenant farmers fight on the city wall. By the way, there is another point. This city gate is also a dangerous place. If the enemy hits the gate with a ram, There are no fewer casualties guarding the city gate, so who wants to guard the city gate?"

After hearing this, everyone was silent, and a shopkeeper asked, "Can we let the tenants go?"

Shopkeeper Zhao shook his head and said: "The city wall is more important. Although the city gate will be very dangerous, it is relatively safe. Who do you think is suitable?"

Everyone was silent again, Shopkeeper Zhao looked around and reluctantly said: "Forget it, I guard the gate of this city, but you all owe me a favor. If my company asks you in the future, you will You can't ignore it."

After hearing this, all the shopkeepers showed happy smiles and said, "It's easy to talk about it. In the future, we can talk about Shengtong account wherever we can use it. We will never refuse."

Upon seeing this, shopkeeper Zhao cupped his hands and said, "That's it, thank you all."

"Shopkeeper Zhao is being polite."

After everyone finished discussing, they followed a group of swordsmen to the city wall, looked at the unlucky tenant farmers and said, "The enemy will come in a while, you shoot them on the city wall first, and we will deliver supplies to you."

"what?"

Hearing this, the tenant farmer changed his color, and the butler at the side suddenly became unhappy when he heard the words. He wanted to use himself as a shield and tell the master if it didn't work.

But just as the steward wanted to move, two swordsmen surrounded him, one of them held him by the arm and said, "Where does the steward go, at this time of life and death, shouldn't the steward be with your tenants?"

"How many, how many, I..."

"be honest."

The housekeeper wanted to say something, but the swordsman didn't give him a chance to speak. He pressed against the corner and said, "At this time, you should cooperate, otherwise the strong bandits will come, and the bandits' arrows won't know that you belong to the Huang family." Butler."

After saying this, the butler's forehead was dripping with cold sweat, the swordsman let the butler go, and the butler didn't dare to say another word of nonsense at this moment.

Seeing this scene, shopkeeper Zhao hugged his shoulders and went down the city wall. When he got there, Zhang Min, the assistant, ran over and said, "Everything has been arranged."

Shopkeeper Zhao nodded and said: "According to the plan, let the brothers wear red cuffs on their left arms. After the army breaks through the city, no one will be left except the brothers with the red cuffs. This city is full of traitors and needs to be cleaned up. Clean it up thoroughly."

After hearing this, Zhang Min said: "Get ready, just wait for the army to come."

……

drive drive...

Yellow smoke filled the air, and the army went out to fight. The stones on the ground were shaken. Wang Guixiang took the lead and asked the adjutant beside him, "How far is it?"

The adjutant said: "There are still ten miles."

After hearing this, Wang Guixiang said: "The army speeds up, and the soldiers will arrive at Zhangjiakou in two quarters of an hour. By the way, have you contacted the secret spies in the city?"

The adjutant said: "After contacting, they will find an opportunity to control the north gate of Zhangjiakou and open the city gate. At that time, they will wear red cuffs on their left arms. Let the brothers not kill those who see the red cuffs on their left arms. Everyone can be killed."

After hearing this, Wang Guixiang said: "Brothers, pass it on. The one with the red cuff on his left arm is ours. If you don't kill them, you can kill the rest!"

"kill!"

Wang Guixiang yelled, the order he received was to slaughter the merchants in Zhangjiakou. According to the information given by Li Chaosheng, the whole city is full of traitors and lackeys, who only know their own interests and disregard the righteousness of the country. The son slaughtered no less than hundreds of thousands of Han people. Such a crime should slaughter the whole family, and he must not be merciful.

"kill!!"

(End of this chapter)