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"Master Zheng, we've brought you here." Zhang Hong's guard saluted Zhang Hong and then stepped aside.
Behind him, a middle-aged man appeared, with slightly messy hair. Although the clothes on his body were dirty and torn, it was still obvious at a glance that they were clothes worn by nobles.
Zhang Hong looked at the man in front of him for a few times, then said with a smile: "General Yang, please have a seat."
"Hmph!" Yang Guozhu snorted coldly, sat down with a sharp look on his face, and said to Zhang Hong with a cold face, "If you want to kill or cut into pieces, I will never frown, but I will never accept your punishment. humiliation."
Zhang Hong chuckled lightly when he heard this. There was no anger on his face. Instead, he ordered the guard on the side: "Make a cup of tea for Mr. Yang and bring it over."
"Yes." The guard agreed and turned around to prepare tea.
Zhang Hong smiled at Yang Guozhu again and said: "Mr. Yang has misunderstood. I don't mean to humiliate anyone. I just want to invite Mr. Yang to come over and have a casual chat."
"There's no need to put on such a hypocritical pretense in front of me. I won't do this." Yang Guozhu turned his face to the side, as if he was really disgusted with Zhang Hong's appearance at this time. .
Zhang Hong didn't look angry, and said with a half-smile on his face: "It seems that Mr. Yang has guessed what I mean? In this case, I won't beat around the bush. I hope that Mr. Yang can issue an order to let Datong side The soldiers and horses of the army surrendered voluntarily to reduce unnecessary casualties."
Yang Guozhu let out a cold snort, but still did not turn his face back.
"It seems that General Yang is unwilling?" Zhang Hong waited for a while but did not receive Yang Guozhu's response, and the smile on his face slowly faded.
Yang Guozhu turned around, looked directly at Zhang Hong and said: "As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, how can I surrender to you thieves? Don't think that if you capture me, Datong will fall into the hands of you thieves. I tell you, even if it is gone I, the general, and the army are here, and the Ming Dynasty has millions of troops. You treacherous officials and traitors will not end well."
"What General Yang said is enough to fool the bandits." Zhang Hong leaned back, leaning on the back of his chair, and said, "After yesterday's battle, does General Yang feel that Xuanda still has any soldiers?" Can the horse stop my tiger-shaped flag?"
He smiled lightly at Yang Guozhu.
"With Junmen and General Wang here, if your Tiger-Character Banner wants to successfully capture Xuanda, stop dreaming." Yang Guozhu said sarcastically.
Zhang Hong shook his head slightly and said: "Did General Yang not see clearly during yesterday's battle? The remaining soldiers and horses of Xuanda cannot be the opponent of our tiger-character banner army. Even if Datong Fucheng is as strong as Even the city cannot stop the footsteps of my tiger-character flag. It is only a matter of time that Xuanda falls into the hands of my tiger-character flag."
"Bah! In my dreams, my Ming Dynasty has a million-strong army, and your tiger-character flag can only be arrogant for a while, but will not escape the end of destruction in the end." Yang Guozhu spat heavily on the ground.
Zhang Hong put his hands on the table, leaned forward, and said: "Yesterday, my three battalions, with only more than 10,000 people, defeated General Yang, you and the soldiers of Xuan Mansion. General Yang Do you know if there are soldiers and horses like yesterday, how many do I have with the tiger-shaped flag?"
When he said this, his tone paused.
Yang Guozhu didn't speak, just looked at Zhang Hong, waiting for his next words.
"One hundred thousand." Zhang Hong stretched out his left and right hands to make a sign of a cross, and said at the same time, "These are just the infantry of my Tiger Flag. In addition, there are tens of thousands of cavalry waiting in formation on the grassland, ready to go at any time." Invading the Ming Dynasty."
Yang Guozhu frowned when he heard this.
In the past, I only knew that the Tiger-Character Banner secretly raised many soldiers and horses, but now I know that the Tiger-Character Banner has become a force that cannot be lost.
Zhang Hong did not rush to speak again, but gave Yang Guozhu time to digest what he had just said.
"This is impossible." It took a long time before Yang Guozhu uttered these words.
Although he believed that the Tiger Character Banner secretly raised many soldiers and horses, he still couldn't believe it, as Zhang Hong said, raising more than 100,000 soldiers and horses.
One hundred thousand infantry, tens of thousands of cavalry, raising so many soldiers and horses, even the Ming Dynasty would have spent countless money on food. He did not want to believe that a businessman would use his own money to raise more than one hundred thousand soldiers and horses.
Zhang Hong laughed loudly and said: "It's not impossible. If our Tiger Flag doesn't have so many soldiers and horses, how can we conquer the Tumote tribe, and how can we make all the grassland tribes have to admit that the Tumote grassland belongs to our Tiger Flag."
Yang Guozhu said nothing, but his face was very ugly.
"Xuan Da's 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers and horses are no match for the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of our Tiger-Charactered Banner. When all our Tiger-Charactered Banner troops entered the territory of Ming Dynasty, General Yang felt that Ming Dynasty would have to mobilize many troops to compete with our Tiger-Charactered Banner." An army to resist?" Zhang Hong looked at Yang Guozhu with a smile.
Yang Guozhu's face turned livid.
He knew it.
If the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Character Banner were as elite as the ones he encountered yesterday, and the Ming Dynasty did not have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, there would be no way it could be the opponent of the Tiger Character Banner.
"We are all Han Chinese, and our Tiger Character Banner is not willing to cause more killings." Zhang Hong said to Yang Guozhu.
Yang Guozhu said with a stern face: "The Ming Dynasty treated Liu Heng well, and even appointed him as the guard of Xinping Fort. Now your Tiger Character Banner is openly rebelling. Aren't you afraid that the whole world will poke his spine?"
"It's not that our proprietor wants to rebel, it's you Ming Dynasty who forced us to rebel." Zhang Hong looked at Yang Guozhu and sneered, "If the imperial court hadn't issued a decree to suppress bandits, how would my proprietor have sent a large army to Datong."
Yang Guozhu said in a deep voice: "As long as Liu Heng is willing to surrender, I can intercede with the court on his behalf. In the future, not only Liu Heng, but you will also be granted titles by the court."
"Now that we have reached this point, do you think my boss will still agree to your recruitment?" Zhang Hong sneered, "Now Xuanda is just a piece of my boss's pocket. Is it possible that tomorrow the emperor can still give Xuanda to My boss is not successful."
Yang Guozhu choked up.
If the imperial court knew the number of troops that Tiger Character Banner had, he believed that they would definitely agree to recruit troops, but it was simply impossible to give Liu Heng the title of Xuanda.
Zhang Hong continued: "General Yang, go back and think carefully about whether you want to agree to my request."
"Zhang Shizheng, if you have any tasks, please give orders to your cavalry battalion. This subordinate is here to assist Zhang Shizheng in clearing up those forces that resist our Tiger Flag." Tan Zaiwang took the initiative to ask for a fight.
Zhang Hong gently waved his hand and said: "It must have been hard for your cavalry battalion to come all the way from the grassland. Let's take a day off today and arrange tasks tomorrow. Don't worry, since you are here, we will inevitably need you in the future."
"If you have any tasks, just give me the order," Tan Zaiwang said solemnly.
Zhang Hong smiled and nodded, then turned to Cheng Ping and said, "Commander Cheng, go make arrangements and make sure the cavalry battalion has a good rest."
"Yes." Cheng Ping agreed.
Tan Zaiwang quickly left the detention room with Cheng Ping to settle the cavalry camp that had just arrived at Xinping Fort.
