"This! What's going on?!"
Aslan and the four family heads slept in a tent after getting drunk. At this moment, they woke up and looked at each other, put on their clothes and went out of the tent to see this hell-like scene on earth.
The four family heads, Chen, Li, and Sun, were all trembling, but Aslan's eyes were about to burst, and his eyes were filled with blood red as he held the scimitar in his hand.
"Ah! Damn Southerners, how dare you deceive us!"
Aslan suddenly turned his head and stared at the four masters fiercely, with the long knife in his hand raised high.
In his opinion, the current scene is all a southern conspiracy!
On the surface, they said that they did not bring troops to let their Jiamu warriors relax their vigilance, but then in the middle of the night, they let the southern army ambushing in secret launch a night attack on them!
In order to be able to swallow the gold and silver he brought without having to pay anything, in the oral tradition of the tribe's elders, the Southerners have always been synonymous with cunning.
It's not surprising at all to do something like this.
He only regretted that he didn't see the southerners' conspiracy, and now the warriors who followed him encountered such a crisis.
When he encountered this situation without the slightest precaution, he didn't dare to think about how the warriors under his command would be massacred. The only thing he could do at the moment was to kill the four southern masterminds in front of him and give them to him. The warriors who died tragically will take revenge and then fight to the death with these southern troops!
Even if it means death, the people of Jiamube will fight to the end!
However, these four family heads were the key targets of Zhao Jun's instructions. How could they be killed by Aslan so easily.
Aslan was just about to take action when he heard a few whooshing sounds in the air, and four crossbow arrows were firmly pierced into Aslan's limbs!
"ah!"
The unexpected attack and the pain from the crossbow arrow made Aslan scream in agony uncontrollably.
Immediately afterwards, the whole person was knocked straight to the ground by the powerful impact of the crossbow arrow. The crossbow arrow that had penetrated half of the body shot back due to the body's fall, and the pain struck again. Aslan's face turned pale. He became extremely pale, but he gritted his teeth and did not cry out in pain again. However, his eyes that were as sharp as a goshawk were already full of resentment and hatred and stared at the four masters who were frightened and stayed in place.
Aslan was under control, and the four masters were temporarily out of danger, but they had no idea that they were safe.
We are all smart people, and our subordinates do not have the crossbows in the army at all. The crossbows that saved their lives must have been shot by a third party.
The opponent is obviously an enemy rather than a friend. In this situation, there is only one possibility for the opponent's identity, and that is that he belongs to the same force as the cavalry attacking the camp.
This is not necessarily a good thing for them.
Before they could figure out the relationship, several men in black walked out of the darkness. Four people came to them, and the remaining two came to Aslan on the ground and controlled him. .
"Come with us."
The leader of the men in black said something to the four of them with a cold expression.
Immediately afterwards, without waiting for the four people to answer, the other men in black stepped forward and tied up the four people with ropes.
The four people did not resist and were tied up obediently. This was the only way they could choose at the moment.
The moment Aslan saw these men in black, he immediately knew that these must be the people who had secretly attacked him. In an instant, the toilet door opened wide, and all kinds of obscene words spewed out of his mouth at the men in black. Roaring and roaring at the top of his lungs!
For his reaction, the men in black didn't care and went about their own business. After stopping his bleeding, they tied him up tightly. Regarding the words spit out from Aslan's mouth, The people in black turned a deaf ear to all kinds of dirty words.
The most important thing for those who can do their job is to calm down and do things with the calmest mind, so that you can get twice the result with half the effort.
The obscene words spewed out of Aslan's mouth couldn't make any waves in their hearts.
"Are you done?"
Suddenly one of the men in black asked Aslan in Tatar to the man who was still yelling. Aslan was startled when he heard the words, but before he could say anything else, the man in black continued: "What if Now that you’re done, let’s be quiet for a while.”
"What?"
Aslan was confused by what he said, but soon he felt his eyes go dark and lost consciousness.
Behind him, a man in black skillfully retracted his hand. It was obvious that he was the one who had given Aslan a blow with his hand and knocked him unconscious.
In the camp, the black-armored knights were still encircling and suppressing the Tatars from Jiamube and the guys from the four families in the camp.
One by one, the Tatar cavalry were slaughtered in the most unprepared situation. Most of the Song people from the four families reacted very well and squatted down with their heads in their hands and shouted to surrender. The black-armored cavalry did not. Keep killing them.
Some clever Tatars also squatted down with their heads in their hands and shouted surrender in poor Song Dynasty Mandarin. However, the black-armored cavalry just passed by on horseback, and then a big head flew high. Obviously they did not want to accept the Tatars. The surrender of the Tartars.
The commotion lasted all night, and when daylight broke out, the entire camp fell into silence again. The corpses all over the camp had been gathered and burned to prevent the spread of disease. There was only a mess left in the camp, with all kinds of burned remains There were a few pieces of burnt black cloth under the tent, and all kinds of debris were scattered everywhere, and there was no place to even stand.
Outside the camp, Ding Hongguang rode in slowly on a war horse. Lu Yan, who had been busy all night, saw Shangguan coming and hurried forward to report.
"Your Majesty, the war is over. Except for the Tatar leader who was taken away by the secret guards last night, the 600 Tatars in the camp have all been killed. Now their heads have been processed, and the soldiers under his command are building a fortress in Beijing. Look, I think it will be completed in half an hour!"
After listening to Lu Yan's report, Ding Hongguang nodded with satisfaction, and then asked: "Have all the supplies in the camp been counted?"
"After counting, there are 50,000 bricks of tea, 3,000 tons of salt, about 100,000 shi of various grains, nearly 1,000 iron pots, 3,000 sets of coal stove sets, and 5,000 sets of cotton coat sets!"
"That's all?"
After listening to Lu Yan's report, Ding Hongguang was shocked. These things are indeed very much for an individual, but for the two forces, this amount of things can only be said to be not enough to fill the gap between the teeth.
He quickly asked: "Have you counted the gold and silver brought by the Tatars?"
Lu Yan immediately replied: "We have counted it! We touched nearly 700,000 taels of silver!"
"hiss!"
Ding Hongguang immediately took a breath of air. This was 700,000 silver. The imperial court's annual tax revenue was only 200 million guan. However, after deducting the central treasury for local governments to reduce expenditures for their own use, they could only get about 100 million guan.
Seven hundred thousand taels of silver, almost one percent of the imperial court's annual tax revenue!
One percent, this is one percent of the entire imperial court's annual tax revenue!
The annual military pay for the northwest frontier army only totals five million yuan, which can support a full five million frontier troops!
Here, these 700,000 taels of silver were exchanged for just such a small amount. This is simply a huge profit! More than ten times the profit!
Ding Hongguang's eyes were red. No wonder so many people risked beheading to smuggle. The profits were really amazing! So scary!
Quickly shaking his head to expel the greed from his mind, Ding Hongguang hurriedly ordered: "I ordered people to take strict care of these gold and silver supplies, and record them all in a register without missing a penny. If there is a penny missing, I will only take care of you." It’s a question!”
"Yes! I obey my orders!"
Seeing Shangguan's serious expression, Lu Yan did not dare to neglect, and hurried down to make arrangements.
Soon it was almost noon that everything was arranged, and the knights who went out to chase the remaining four hundred people finally came back before noon, and Zhaxia finally led them with their familiarity with the grassland. Then the last dozen or so people fled back to the grassland.
The first battalion of the guards rested for a night in the Nameless Valley, and returned to Yunzhou City early the next morning with a full harvest.
On the other hand, the secret guards had already escorted the two parties involved in this cross-border transaction back to Yunzhou City one day in advance.
That night, Zhao Jun met the two parties in Prince Yun's Mansion, which had been largely completed...
