The eldest son of the red mansion

"Okay, what Battelle wants is your words. In our army, only your bravery can accomplish this." Arslen Khan was still very satisfied with Battelle's bravery.

Arslen Khan then ordered Battelle: "You send a team of warriors to pretend to be merchants, and prepare more smoke in the accompanying vehicles. Send this team to Gubeikou City Gate tomorrow to swindle open the city gate. Once Gubeikou opens At the gate of the city, immediately set off beacon smoke as a warning. You lead a thousand cavalry in ambush five miles away. When you see the beacon fire, you must rush to the city gate of Gubeikou within half a quarter of an hour, and assist the warriors to seize the gate. At that time, I will Lead the army to ambush ten miles away, and rush towards Gubeikou together when you see the smoke of the wolf, as long as you hold on for another quarter of an hour, my army will arrive at the city of Gubeikou. How about it? Can you do it?"

Bateer didn't dare to agree to Arslen Khan easily. He just calculated in his heart for a while, and felt that Da Khan's plan was feasible. Moreover, they hadn't invaded south for three years. The defense of Gubeikou was not very strict. Between the north entrance and the grassland, given the current defense situation of the Southern Dynasty, the chance of success is very high, even if it fails, there is no loss.

After thinking clearly, he bowed and cupped his fists and said to Arslen Khan: "Khan, I think this plan is feasible. As long as the warriors sent out to seize the gate can persist until I come, the Khan must be in the bag if he wants to come to Gubeikou." things."

Arslen Khan was very satisfied after listening to Battelle's words. When Battelle was thinking just now, he admired this subordinate who used to only know how to fight and kill. Now Battelle is already a brave and strategic general. It seems that The last setback touched him a lot and made him understand how to think.He is no longer the reckless man who only knows how to fight and kill.

After hearing his assurance, Arslen Khan said: "This time, you will search for the warriors who are going to seize the gate in person. The horses of the thousand cavalry you lead must be the best in the whole army. You go now. Get ready, it will be up to you tomorrow morning."

Battelle saluted Arslen Khan once, "Don't worry, Khan, I guarantee with my life that as long as I, Battelle, is still alive, the city gate of Gubeikou will not be closed."

After listening to Battelle's assurance, Arslen Khan went up and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good job, as long as you complete this task, our army can reach the capital of the Southern Dynasty smoothly. I will reward you with three hundred herdsmen at that time. You performed better in the capital this time. I can even let you lead a small tribe."

After listening to Arslen Khan's promise, Battelle's blood boiled all over his body. Although he was a general under Arslen Khan's command, he never thought about leading a tribe alone.Now that he got Arslen Khan's promise, he will naturally fight to the death to make a success for himself and his family.

After Battelle came out of Arslen Khan's big tent, he searched the whole army for the warrior who took the door this time.Battelle did not look for the strongest ones, but looked for a hundred or so Tatars who were about the same size and appearance as the Central Plains people.

Then, seven or eight die-hard people were selected from the Southern Dynasty slaves plundered before. These people have stayed on the grassland for a long time, and because of their flexible minds, they have defected to the Tatars early, so they are now slave managers. Steward, they have not been able to return to the Southern Dynasty, so there is no problem with their loyalty.

Bateer ordered them to disguise themselves, and when the time came, the small stewards of the Southern Dynasty would talk to the elite soldiers at Gubeikou, and the remaining Tatars would pretend to be boys and lead the convoy to Gubeikou tomorrow morning.After blasting the city gate, you must go all out to defend the city gate.

Battelle has already made a promise to those people from the Southern Dynasties who have defected, as long as they succeed this time, they will all be liberated as slaves.And each gave them five herdsmen.This is to reassure them, fearing that they will suddenly report to Nanchao that this event will be ruined.

And Battelle himself brought a thousand cavalrymen to ambush in a small forest less than five miles away from Gubeikou in the middle of the night.Just waiting for the smoke from Gubeikou to be released, he led the team to rush out.

The morning of this day was sunny, and Li Yuan, the guardian of Gubeikou Qianhu, came to the city gate leisurely, waiting for the passing merchants.

In the past few years, the Tatars and the Southern Dynasty have been relatively peaceful, so there have been more merchants traveling between the two sides, but the court has banned the sale of supplies to the Tatars, so smuggling by merchants has become a profitable business.

Since it is smuggling, all joints must be opened.The most important of these is Li Yuan, who guards thousands of households at Gubeikou, because Gubeikou is the only way from the capital to the grassland, so Li Yuan has been making a lot of money since this period of time.Of course, he couldn't keep the money he got by himself, and his immediate superior would take more than half of Miyun's defense.In addition, some of his generals at all levels will also be separated.Only in this way can we ensure that this interest group does not disintegrate.

Li Yuan's favorite thing to do now is to be at the gate of the city early in the morning, drinking tea while waiting for merchants to bribe him.Whenever this time he is in a good mood, because he knows that a large part of the money is his own.

Today's visit to Li Yuan was no exception. After the gate of Gubeikou city opened, Li Yuan sat drinking tea at the table at the gate, but today was a bit unlucky. It was almost noon, and no caravan passed by. .

Li Yuan was very dissatisfied with this result, and wondered whether all passing merchants' pass fees would be increased by one layer to make up for the loss caused by no one passing by in the morning.

When Li Yuan was making calculations, he suddenly heard the sound of dense footsteps. He looked up and saw that it was his confidant, Li Quan, who was running quickly.

Li Yuan, when you see Li Quan running over, you know something good is coming.Sure enough, Li Quan rushed to Li Yuan's side, and said to Li Yuan regardless of his panting: "Master, great news. There is a big caravan going back to the capital through Gubeikou, and now it is waiting for the master outside the closed gate."

When Li Yuan heard this, he immediately became excited, and immediately took Li Quan and a few soldiers to the city wall to look down. Sure enough, there was a caravan waiting at the gate of the city. There were about a hundred people. Twenty or thirty large carts were packed tightly. It seemed that they had made some money by going north this time, and the carts were loaded with gold and silver.A caravan of this size can only be run by those high-ranking officials in the capital, how could other people dare to be so blatant.

Although Li Yuan really wanted to make money, he also valued his head very much, so every time there was a caravan coming and going, he had to go to check it himself, for fear that any weapons such as knives and guns would flow into the grassland, and some spies would sneak into the grassland. Central Plains.This time Li Yuan was no exception. After seeing the size of the caravan outside, he brought a hundred people to the city gate and ordered people to open the city gate, preparing to personally inspect the caravan.

And the gate of this grand pass was slowly opened just like that.

Chapter 205

After Li Yuan opened the city gate, he took the lead and came to the outside of the city gate first, followed by more than 100 people, and took a posture to prevent possible conflicts.They are all familiar with this set, so they quickly guarded the city gate behind them.And their formation is also very tight.

Although Li Yuanren is greedy for money, he still has some skills.His more than 100 people are his elite soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of these [-] people cannot be underestimated.It's not that easy if someone wants to force it through.Once they stop the people in the city, they will immediately come to support, and Li Yuan has also given an order to leave him alone when necessary and close the city gate directly.

Li Yuan had just left the city gate, and the soldiers behind him had just set up their positions when they saw a dark-skinned shopkeeper dressed in silk and satin walking out of the caravan.

I saw the shopkeeper come to Li Yuan, nodded and said to him: "Master, we are businessmen who came back from the north, this time I have to trouble you, sir." The heavy gold ingot was stuffed into Li Yuan's hands.

Li Yuan glanced and saw a yellow light appearing in his hand, and then his hand sank.Li Yuan understood what this was, he was used to this kind of thing, but he was embarrassed to be too tough after getting other people's gold.

So Li Yuan asked kindly: "This time, the harvest is not bad, right? What happened in the north recently?"

The man who looked like the shopkeeper said: "Thanks to you, sir, this time our harvest is not bad. We made a few taels of silver and lived up to the entrustment of the boss. Now the Tatars are in a mess in the north. For us in the Central Plains The commodity is more eager, so this time I did more business."

Li Yuan didn't want to talk nonsense with him, he just wanted to finish this matter early, so that he could wait for the next wave, so he said directly: "You still understand the rules, I need to explain to you, finish the matter early, Let's relax early."

The shopkeeper nodded again and again and said: "Master, how can we not understand these rules that we often come and go? A cart of ten taels of silver will never be less."

After the shopkeeper said this, he waved to the back, and immediately two young men came over carrying a small wooden box.

The shopkeeper opened the wooden box in the past, and there were fifteen silver ingots neatly arranged inside.

When Li Yuan saw these silver ingots, he immediately said with a smile on his face, "Since everyone understands the rules, I will stop talking nonsense. The next time I come to Gubeikou, I will treat you to dinner."

After Li Yuan finished speaking, he waved his hand to the guards behind, and several guards came up to inspect their goods.This is also the rule set by Li Yuan, all goods entering and exiting through his pass must be inspected.

Seeing this situation, the shopkeeper felt a kind of panic in his life, but he calmed down immediately.Step forward to Li Yuan's side.He took out another ingot of gold from his bosom, stuffed it secretly into Li Yuan's hand and said, "My lord, the goods we bought this time are more expensive, so we don't need to do this for those who come and go often, in case something is damaged , It’s not easy for me to explain to my boss when I go back. When the time comes, our boss will blame me, and adults will also have to complain.”

Li Yuan weighed the gold in his hand, it was another twelve taels, the bribes from these people were his personal and would not be handed over.Take people's money and eliminate disasters with others.Since I have accepted his bribe, this time I will open some doors for him.

So Li Yuan said to the soldiers around him: "These are regular customers, there is no need to check any more, let them go." When these soldiers heard Li Yuan's order, they immediately let go of the road and drove to the city gate. get out of the way.

After thanking the shopkeeper a thousand times, he led the team to the gate of the city.As soon as they arrived at the gate of the city, the shopkeeper in front suddenly shouted: "If you don't do anything, when will you wait?"

So in the caravan of more than 100 people, some sheep suddenly turned into beasts. These people took out various weapons from the vehicles beside them, and slashed away like soldiers around them.But the shopkeeper took out a can of kerosene, poured it on one of the vehicles, and then took out a torch to ignite the vehicle, and you will have a thick smoke floating into the sky.

As soon as Li Yuan saw this situation, what was unclear?So he drew out the scimitar, and while sending someone to report to the city, he cut it like the Tatars beside him.

Besides, Battelle in the woods five miles away, saw that the sun was getting higher and higher, but there was no smoke rising from Gubeikou, and he became more and more anxious on the horse. Suddenly, the soldiers beside him pointed to Gubeikou and said, "Look quickly, General. There is wolf smoke."

Battelle raised his head and looked forward, and there was indeed a wolf smoke in the direction of Gubeikou.Battelle couldn't help being overjoyed, and immediately ordered: "Everyone get on the horse and follow me."

After saying this, he immediately got on his horse and rushed forward.The cavalry behind him also followed him, galloping towards Gubeikou.

At this time, at the gate of Gubeikou, the Tatars still occupied the gate and resisted desperately. Li Yuan led more than 100 soldiers under his command and soldiers who came continuously, and they had already compressed them into a small area.

Just when Li Yuan thought victory was in sight, he suddenly heard the sound of horseshoes behind him.When Li Yuan looked back, his ghost immediately froze, and he saw that today's cavalry behind him had arrived quickly.Seeing this situation, Li Yuan knew that it might be too late for him to close the city gate.It seems that he has been tricked by the Tatars. In this situation, he can only fight to the death. He must either drive the Tatars out of Gubeikou, or he will die here, otherwise he will be punished for his crime this time. For his fault, his family will definitely be implicated.

After thinking about this, Li Yuan let go of other distracting thoughts.Leading the soldiers at Gubeikou, they desperately fought to close the city gate before the cavalry arrived.But it was completely futile to think so, the cavalry led by Battelle approached the city gate very quickly, Li Yuan saw the despair on Battelle's face, he turned around and rushed towards Battelle with the scimitar in hand.

Li Yuan is now thinking in his heart that the king should be captured first, as long as he kills the leading general, the other small soldiers will inevitably flee.In this way, he might be able to keep Gubeikou intact.

When Battelle saw someone rushing towards him, he raised his iron spear and stabbed forward. Li Yuan was already as strong as a madman at this time, and he didn't care about the attacking iron spear, he swung his knife like a strike at Battelle's waist.

Where can Battelle let him get what he wants?With a slight turn of the iron gun, it collided with Li Yuan's waist knife.Li Yuan was able to become Gubeikou's custodian of thousands of households, except that he was good at both sides.His own kung fu is also the capital for him to gain a foothold.

Now that he is at a disadvantage with the waist knife in his step, Battelle didn't knock his waist knife away.It can be seen that Li Yuan also has some courage.

Seeing that he didn't kill Li Yuan, Battelle swung his iron gun like sweeping across Li Yuan's waist, and Li Yuan hurriedly raised his knife to parry.But Battelle used his horsepower to use the long spear again. Although Li Yuan fought hard, he still swept him nearly a foot away. When Battelle saw Li Yuan fell to the ground, he immediately urged his horse forward, and he was about to take Li Yuan with one shot. Yuan's life, this Li Yuan suddenly threw the knife straight at Battelle at the last moment, and Battelle was caught off guard by the knife right across his waist.Battelle's waist immediately bled profusely.

But Battelle was also brave, he gritted his teeth and shot, stabbing Li Yuan to death.

After Battelle killed Li Yuan, he opened his armor to look at his wounds, and remonstrated that although there was a deep wound, it was fine.

So Battelle quickly wrapped it up with his clothes, and led the cavalry into the city gate, killing the soldiers at the gate indiscriminately.After a while, the city gate was completely controlled. Although there were still soldiers from afar in the city, they rushed to take back the city gate.But Battelle led the cavalry near the city gate, galloping back and forth.Constantly taking advantage of the cavalry to attack and kill the infantry who came to support them.

And just at this moment, outside Gubeikou, there was a constant thunderous sound.It turned out that Arslen Khan came to reinforce with a large cavalry. Seeing this situation, the soldiers in the city were already desperate, so these people threw down their swords and guns and fled in all directions.