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"General, I think that since opening the city gate to allow Liu Dongzhu to leave the city will make the army outside the city retreat, we might as well try opening the city gate. There will be no loss anyway." Baihu standing aside said.
Hearing this, Huang An glared at this person fiercely.
Baihu looked at Huang An without flinching.
He already knew that he had offended Huang An, and it was inevitable that he would be put in the shoes of others in the future, so he didn't care if he offended Huang An one more time, just sell the tiger flag.
Zhao Yutu smiled and said: "General Huang, your subordinates see it very clearly, so why do you have to hold on to the end? Besides, opening the city gate is just a small thing for you, General Huang. You can just raise your hand and pass."
"General, I think what Mr. Zhao said makes sense." Baihu said helpfully.
Huang An could see that the hundred households in front of him had completely turned to the Tiger Flag, so he simply stopped looking at him and said to Zhao Yutu: "If I don't open the city gate, is it possible that you will open the city gate by force?"
"General Huang is a smart man. There are some things I don't need to say. If we really want to break up, it won't be good for anyone. General Huang, don't you think so!" Zhao Yutu looked at Huang An with a smile.
Huang An's face turned pale and pale.
He wanted to let the people below arrest the people with the Tiger Flag in front of him, but he knew that not many of the soldiers and generals in Xinping Fort were willing to listen to his command, and most of them were even more willing to listen to Liu Heng. Act on command.
"Report!"
A soldier ran up from the bottom of the city and said anxiously: "The general is in trouble, a team of a hundred people appeared on the street, and is now heading towards the city gate."
"General Huang, don't be nervous. The people coming are my proprietor and the escort. There should be two four-wheeled carts coming with the team." Zhao Yutu said with a smile.
The soldier who came to report nodded and said: "Yes, there are also four-wheeled carts."
"Get out!" Huang An scolded the soldier.
The scolded soldier looked aggrieved, but did not dare to say anything. He carefully walked down the city wall along the way.
"Since my proprietor is about to arrive, General Huang please immediately order the city gate to be opened. Otherwise, when my proprietor arrives, he will be unable to leave the city. If he does something bad, General Huang will lose more than just face. ." Zhao Yutu said with a smile.
Huang An could feel the threat in the other person's words.
"General, Xinping Fort is owned by them from top to bottom. We are the ones who really suffer the consequences if we take action. Why don't we open the city gate and let them out of the city. When the general takes full control of Xinping Fort, there will be many opportunities to settle old and new accounts with them in the future." ." The servant whispered in Huang An's ear.
Huang An nodded slightly.
"My boss is arriving soon. I hope General Huang will make a decision as soon as possible." Zhao Yutu urged.
If it weren't for Tiger Character Banner to maintain the prosperity of commerce here in Xinping Fort and not want to completely break up with Huang An, the guard of Xinping Fort, he wouldn't need to come here to discuss with Huang An.
With the Tiger Character Banner operating in Xinpingbao for so long, there was no shortage of soldiers guarding the city gates who would take the initiative to open the city gates as long as the order was given.
Huang An said: "I can open the city gate, but you must ensure that the army outside the city cannot enter the city, and after you leave the city, the army outside the city must retreat."
"This is natural." Zhao Yutu agreed with a smile.
Huang An turned his head and said to the man from the household whom he had disliked for a long time: "You lead people to open the city gate, and the people who put the tiger flag out of the city."
"Yes." Baihu agreed and got off the city wall.
Soon, a harsh, grinding sound came from the direction of the city gate.
"Since the city gate has been opened, I won't disturb General Huang and say goodbye." Zhao Yutu cupped his hands and led the people down the city wall to the city gate.
Standing on the top of the city, Huang An gritted his back molars and made a squeaking sound.
Today's incident almost made him lose face. At the same time, he understood that the person who had the final say in Xinping Fort was not himself, the Xinping Fort guard, but Liu Heng, who had resigned long ago, and the tiger-character flag behind him.
"General, there is a group of cavalry outside the city coming towards the city gate." A soldier standing on the city wall suddenly shouted.
Huang An took a few steps to go behind the female wall and looked out of the city.
I saw a cavalry team of a hundred people galloping towards Xinping Fort.
"Quickly, close the city gate, close the city gate, don't let them enter the city." Huang An broke out in a cold sweat.
Thinking that they have been deceived, the people of the Tiger Character Banner are not going out of the city, but entering the city to capture Xinping Fort.
There were soldiers on the top of the city running towards the city gate to notify the city gate to be closed.
"Archers, shoot at my cavalry who are aiming outside the city. Don't let them get close to the city gate." Huang An shouted to the archers on the top of the city.
Less than twenty archers clung to the wall behind the parapet, with arrows hung on their bowstrings, waiting for the enemies outside the city to enter shooting range.
"Stop, stop, all the cavalry outside the city have stopped." Some soldiers pointed to the outside of the city and shouted.
Hundreds of cavalrymen stopped two to three hundred paces from the city gate.
At this distance, even if the archers on top of the city were condescending and had an advantage, it would be difficult to shoot arrows at the cavalry outside the city.
It was even difficult to shoot near the cavalry outside the city.
Huang An secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that these cavalry were no longer rushing towards the city gate.
At this time, he had already understood that the Tiger Character Banner really had no intention of capturing Xinping Fort, otherwise the cavalry outside the city could have rushed into Xinping Fort in one go.
With just the few archers on the city wall, it would be difficult to stop all the cavalry outside the city.
"General, do you want to close the city gate?" the servant next to him asked in a low voice.
Huang An snorted coldly through his nose and said, "You think the city gate can be closed before Liu Heng comes out!"
There was no sound of closing the city gate for a long time, and he knew that the soldiers guarding the city gate did not close the city gate at all according to his order.
The servant stepped aside sarcastically.
After a while, a team from the city came out of the city gate.
Huang An squinted at the team leaving the city. From the middle of the team, he saw Liu Heng's figure, followed closely by two fully loaded four-wheeled carts, followed by a group of groups holding firecrackers with tiger characters. Flag soldiers.
"I've long heard that Tiger Flag prefers firearms. I didn't expect that even the cavalry has a firecracker." Huang An licked his lips with the tip of his tongue.
Unlike those civil servants, he knew the power of firearms.
The reason why the imperial court's firearms battalion was inoperable with other firearms except cannons was not because the firearms were not powerful enough, but because the imperial firearms were of poor quality and too harmful to oneself, so no one was willing to use firearms such as blunderbuss.
As for the firearms used in the Tiger Flag, he did not think that they would use firearms of extremely poor quality like the imperial court did.
Making a firegun is more troublesome and expensive than crafting a spear or a broadsword.
The firearms that Tiger Flag builds for its own people must naturally be sophisticated, functional, and of guaranteed quality, otherwise it would be impossible to spend more money to build fire blunderbuss.
