In Jimingyi City, many soldiers wearing white helmets were wandering around.
Mainly to catch soldiers who violate military discipline. These people are all Yang Fan's servants and have nothing to do with Jingying. They all have a straight face. All of them are selfless.
Conduct picket inspections on behaviors such as refusing to pay for purchases, forcing prices down, molesting women, gambling in casinos, and fighting.
As time went by, local businesses all knew about it, and if they had any disputes with soldiers, they would go to these people wearing white steel helmets. When the soldiers saw them, they immediately became intimidated.
Yang Fan had just finished reading the information sent by An Sanxi. At present, the siege and battlefield interception of Zhangjiakou have been completed. Completely cut off from internal and external news. The siege will begin tomorrow morning.
Yang Fan burned the information, and then said to Chen Gang, the general of the family: "Take your people and metal detectors and report to An Sanxi. When the city wall is opened, you are responsible for cooperating with An Sanxi to collect the gold hidden underground by Shanxi merchants." Silver treasures, even if you dig three feet into the ground, you can dig them out for me."
"Well, sir, should we return to the team after completing the mission, or should we retreat to Duolun with An Sanxi?"
"You can just come to the Guihua City camp later."
Early the next morning, after the early morning fog dissipated, the soldiers on the city wall were drowsy, holding their spears and dozing off. Others huddled under the crenellations of the city wall and slept soundly.
Last night, the people in the city were demolishing houses, collecting wood, and building siege weapons. The Tatars directly burned down the houses with no material value. There was a lot of noise all night.
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The thick smoke choked the soldiers on the wall and couldn't open their eyes. Especially Beicheng. There are no city gates here, they are all city walls. But the wind blows from north to south. The thick smoke blew up to the city walls. They were so smoked that they were disgraced.
"Dadong, Dadong, look, look, the Tatars on the opposite side seem to be coming up." Wang Laoqi is an old soldier in his fifties. He had no sons, so he had no one to replace him. Never been able to retire. Next to him is Wang Dadong, my nephew.
Wang Dadong was suddenly pushed awake and complained: "Uncle, why are you pushing me? General Xiao Hei checked the post twice last night, which kept me from sleeping well all night. I just squinted for a while."
"Sleep, open your dog eyes and see if the Tatars are coming. Hurry up, your eyes are good," Wang Laoqi scolded angrily. This bastard boy is too lazy to be like a pig.
Wang Dadong wiped his eyes and took a look. Suddenly I felt aroused, and my sleepiness was gone.
Those people below are all wearing Mongolian robes. They are not Tatars.
Wang Dadong grabbed the gong and started banging it, bang bang bang!
"The Tartars are coming up, the Tartars are coming up."
The sound of gongs one after another made the city wall feel like a pot was boiling. Immediately afterwards, the bell tower on Wenchang Pavilion also began to strike.
Because Zhangjiakou is a trade hub with the grasslands, the Mongols generally do not attack it. Those who came were all small groups of horse thieves. The guardsmen here have not been in battle for a long time, and they are running around in chaos.
Hei Yunlong, Hei Mingxiao, Hei Minglian and his son also immediately boarded the city and came to the north of the city. Unexpectedly, the Tatars' main attack direction was in Beicheng. It caught everyone off guard.
Because Zhangjiakou Fort only has two gates in the southeast, the city gates were the main targets in ancient sieges. As long as the city gate is opened, the city will fall immediately. Zhangjiakou is just a small town. Although the city wall is about twelve meters high, there is no urn city.
If the city gate is breached, you can enter the city directly. Moreover, Nancheng is also connected to the mainland, which can prevent these people from escaping south.
Therefore, last night, Hei Yunlong mobilized the people to arrange rolling wooden thunder stones, large pots of gold juice, and a limited number of seven or eight furlong machine guns and tiger squatting cannons on the east and south walls.
As a result, in the early morning, just after dawn, it was discovered that the main direction of the Tatar attack was actually Beicheng.
Heiyunlong was so anxious that he broke into sweat. Fortunately, after Fan Yongdou and Liang Jiabin took the lead yesterday, every other Shanxi merchant family pinched their noses and formed a camp of 500 people. It can be regarded as a temporary gathering of 4,000 people, and the troops defending the city have been temporarily solved.
"Quick, quick, move all the soldiers from the camp and the guards to the North City Wall. Let the Tianzi Camp and Quzi Camp be mobilized to the North City. These merchant groups have shotguns. They are better than our sharp guns and three-eyed guns. use."
Under the city wall, An Sanxi sent a regiment of 3,600 people to dismount and use them as infantry after a full rest.
Last night, a large number of crude siege weapons were made using the wood obtained from demolishing the houses.
There were not many carpenters in Ansanxi. They only found 30 carpenters and 500 strong workers from the captured people. Hundreds of long ladders were improvised.
Nail the two elm pot lids together in people's homes. Used as a shield to withstand musket fire. The lids of these old elm pots are very strong. A quilt found locally is sandwiched between the two pot lids and nailed together. Can effectively resist gunfire.
They found some carriages and nailed wooden boards and quilts on the front to make equipment similar to a slave shield carriage, which was used to approach the city wall.
Yang Fan had already given instructions that he did not want to have a head-on conflict with Shanxi merchants.
Although Zhangjiakou can be captured this time, the power of Shanxi merchants in the mainland and the civil power in the court that they have worked hard for two hundred years are not so easy to deal with.
Therefore, Yang Fan instructed An Sanxi to completely dig out the foundations of the eight major Shanxi merchants here after conquering Zhangjiakou. All property and materials were looted. People and livestock were also escorted to winter pastures near Duolun for temporary resettlement. After the spring comes, they will be moved to the hometown of Tushetu Khan.
These people make money by smuggling and collaborating with the enemy, and Yang Fan has prepared a destination for them.
That is reform through labor. Go to the grassland and build a city called Ulaanbaatar City. After the city was repaired, they settled there. As a professional engineering team, their descendants guarded the country's borders. Improve transportation conditions in remote areas.
This can be regarded as giving them a way out, allowing them to make mistakes. They will no longer have to go back to the mainland in the future.
The city of Ulaanbaatar was repaired. After Ansanxi defeated Zasak Tuhan, another Uliasutai city would be built there.
Behind them are Tangnu Ulianghai City, Ulan-Ude City on the east side of Lake Baikal, and Chita City. In short, this engineering unit still has many tasks, and the arrangements are quite full. Just do it slowly.
Relocating them all can also prevent the news from leaking. Put this matter completely on Tushetu Khan's head. Yang Fan has not wanted to start a war with civil servants in recent years.
Heiyunlong hid nervously at the crenel, carefully revealing half of his face, observing the situation of the Mongolian Tatars under the city.
He found that these Mongolians were different from the Mongolians in his memory. These people are all in groups of five. Two teams. Three teams attack in one wave.
They were scattered among the houses whose roofs had been burned off, leaving only adobe walls.
The soldiers on the wall began to shoot arrows downward, but the effect was very poor. These people are very flexible and even hold the lid on the pot. Because they are scattered, the projectiles have basically no results.
Hei Yunlong was a little depressed. This was such a skilled team combat technique that he had only seen once when he was a boy.
Seven years ago, in the first year of Tianqi, on the edge of the Hun River outside Shenyang City. At that time, he was a member of the Jiliao reinforcements. Hei Yunlong saw with his own eyes the last remaining flesh and blood of the Qi family army, the three thousand Zhejiang army led by Qi Jin and others fighting against the Eight Banners.
Those Qi Jiajun are very proficient in team cooperation with such small units.
Hei Yunlong was confused, were these people really Mongolians?
But the unmistakable Mongolian costumes and faces told him that these were Mongolians. Guaranteed replacement if fake.
