Zhao Duan still asked reluctantly: "Are there really no soldiers at all?"
Cao Shuang nodded affirmatively: "It's really gone. It's already very difficult to defend Hedong with the current strength.
Your Majesty, the Huns are not easy to deal with. If we mobilize more troops from Hedong at this time, I am afraid that the entire Hedong defense line will collapse.
The loss will be even greater then! "
boom!
Zhao Duan punched the pillar on the side with a heavy punch, making a dull and loud noise!
"Damn it! They all came together at this time..."
Just when Zhao Duan was bored, Cao Shuang suddenly said: "Your Majesty, maybe we don't need to worry about Liaodong County..."
Zhao Duan's eyes lit up, but then dimmed after thinking about it and asked, "What do you mean?"
Cao Shuang reminded in a low voice: "Your Majesty, there is a Yunzhou County outside Liaoyun Pass, which is the vassal territory of His Highness King Yun.
The Tatars had never attacked Yunzhou County before, but were they still blocked by His Highness King Yun? "
"Lao Liu?"
Zhao Duan frowned again, then shook his head and said: "It's not like you haven't seen the battle report about the Tatar invasion. Lao Liu's escort team was almost completely killed and wounded, so they blocked the Tatar attack. attack.
It has only been a year now. Whether Laoliu's escort team has been restored or not is a problem. How can they stop the Tatars?
What's more, this time there are not tens of thousands of Tatars, but a full three hundred thousand!
How can you stop Lao Liu with this amount? "
Cao Shuang shook his head: "Your Majesty, I think His Royal Highness Prince Yun is not that simple.
Do you still remember that His Highness King Yun was attacked outside Nanyang City? "
Zhao Duan recalled it and guessed: "You mean Lao Liu..."
Cao Shuang nodded heavily: "Your Majesty, I think His Highness King Yun is not that simple. The people who went to ambush His Highness that time were all wearing iron armor, and they were all elites in the army!
A total of 1,300 elite armored soldiers were actually beheaded to death by His Highness King Yun!
But the five hundred guards under him didn't suffer much damage, which didn't look right.
Afterwards, the slaves also asked professional workers from the Imperial City Department to examine their bodies, and found that the wounds on their bodies were not just those caused by the weapons in the hands of the guards.
There are more arrow holes!
Of course, there are no arrow holes, or someone in King Yun's team brought a bow and sent a wave of arrows to the opponent before the battle began. This is what happened.
But the key point is that most of these corpses have long and thin scratches on their necks. Most of these scratches are caused by the sharp blades used by assassins to kill the target.
Many people in our Imperial City Division have this habit.
And those soldiers don't seem to have this habit. I'm afraid they just need to stab the enemy with one more knife. They definitely won't do it in such a delicate way. "
Zhao Duan frowned and said: "You mean, Lao Liu has other strengths in his hands?"
"This is inevitable. Your Majesty, didn't you also guess this before? You just gave up because there was really no evidence. But now it seems that the force hidden in the capital is probably Prince Yun's."
"Why are you so sure?" Zhao Duan asked doubtfully.
Cao Shuang said: "These last-minute wounds are exactly the same as those who were killed by that force in the capital!"
Zhao Duan was silent. It seemed that his sixth son was indeed not simple.
But then he sighed again and said: "But what does this have to do with him being able to stop the Tatars? Even if he has a deeply hidden intelligence agency secretly, so what?
When 300,000 Tatar cavalry are approaching Yunzhou County, should his intelligence agency be allowed to stop the army?
That's the Tatar army of 300,000 people. It's not just a few people fighting in groups. The few people in his intelligence agency are not enough to fill the teeth of the Tatar army!
"What if the number of troops in King Yun's fiefdom far exceeds your Majesty's imagination?"
Cao Shuang's words suddenly shocked Zhao Duan!
Her eyes were fixed on him.
"What do you mean?"
Cao Shuang's tone was calm, as if he was talking about a small matter of eating and drinking water:
"According to the investigation of the Imperial City Department, Your Majesty found that since Yunzhou County began to sell iron materials to the outside world, the amount of iron materials sold from Yunzhou County into the customs this year alone has amounted to one million kilograms!
Think about it, if there is so much iron sold, how much of it is retained by Yunzhou County?
Some time ago, when we were investigating the movements of the Tatars, we got a piece of news from the southern grasslands, that is, from the grassland tribes bordering outside Yunzhou County.
Yunzhou County is using spirits and tea to exchange horses with those small and medium-sized tribes, and they are still war horses! "
Based on the transaction method they provided, we carefully explored the customs again. You also know that the fact that Feiyun Chamber of Commerce is the Chamber of Commerce of His Highness King Yun is already known to almost everyone.
Therefore, our secret guards focused our main efforts on detecting the items acquired by Feiyun Chamber of Commerce during this period.
Sure enough, they found that Feiyun Chamber of Commerce was buying up liquor and tea bricks in Guan.
According to estimates by experts in the company, a total of five million kilograms of turbid wine was purchased by the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce in the entire Song Dynasty in the past three months.
There was also a large amount of tea bricks, with nearly eight million kilograms purchased by the Feiyun Chamber of Commerce.
The slaves have reason to suspect that this turbid wine is definitely related to the spirits sold in the tribes. Yunzhou County is a poor place, and the army cannot produce that much spirits.
So this strong liquor Dingsan was extracted from Yunzhou County using turbid liquor. The specific quantity is not known, but it is estimated that Yunzhou County has used this batch of strong liquor to exchange nearly 20,000 to 30,000 war horses from these tribes. .
Tea Brick has also purchased nearly 7 million kilograms of tea bricks, and the acquisition of tea bricks is still going on, and the scale is getting bigger.
According to the latest information yesterday, Feiyun Chamber of Commerce shipped another six million kilograms of tea bricks out of the customs.
For this batch of tea bricks alone, Yunzhou County could exchange nearly 100,000 war horses from these tribes.
Your Majesty, these are hundreds of thousands of war horses!
Why does His Highness King Yun need so many war horses?
And he still has so much iron, and he has gained so much population from the pass over the years.
Men, iron, and horses are all there.
Then there is only one possibility!
King Yun is expanding the number of troops on a large scale, and there are at least 100,000 people, all of whom are cavalry!
What puzzles the slaves the most is that Yunzhou County seems to have endless food. Most of these things are exchanged for food. The food they transport into the pass is so much that it has been greatly damaged due to natural disasters. The rising grain has been forcibly suppressed to the point.
Where did the food come from in that remote place in Yunzhou County?
It's impossible for Feiyun Chamber of Commerce alone. The amount of food is so huge that it's beyond imagination!
After listening to Cao Shuang's analysis, Zhao Duan opened his mouth in surprise.
I feel like I suddenly don’t understand myself very well.
Are these all true?
Did Lao Liu really expand his cavalry force by nearly 100,000?
What does he need so many troops for?
What does a vassal king want to do?
All this made Zhao Duan frown deeply.
But Zhao Jun, who was still far away from the customs, had no idea that due to various coincidences, Yunzhou County, which he had concealed for several years, seemed to be no longer able to hide it!
His emperor, I finally understood the tip of the iceberg about his true strength...
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(End of chapter)
