As a result, a strange scene occurred in Zhangbei. People living within the city walls were thinking of ways to escape, while people living outside the city to open up wasteland were thinking of ways to get to the city.
Their different interests lead to different behaviors when crisis strikes.
In the evening, Tie Mo gave an order, Shi Hu and Zhou Dingshan opened the city gate, and countless people began to pour out of Zhangbei and flee in all directions.
However, not long after, those scattered people discovered that countless ragged men entered the city with weapons.
On the top of the city, looking at the people who spontaneously organized to defend Zhang Bei, Chen Zilong sighed deeply, "Tie Shou, do you dare to order those people to leave? Are you sure that there will be more people to guard Zhang Bei for them?"
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Tie Mo smiled slightly, but it was a bit bitter.
"Yes, the reason why I make this conclusion is because a year ago, I was the same as those people outside the city. Magistrate Chen, you have never experienced starving to death, so you will not feel the same as we do.
When we finally have enough to eat, if anyone dares to ruin this hard-earned life, we will fight tooth and nail."
"We are all afraid of death. It is precisely because we are afraid of death that we fight harder than anyone else. We don't have many escape options. There is no way to retreat. When retreat means death, we will definitely fight tooth and nail."
Chen Zilong was a little moved. It was only now that he realized the difference between himself and Tie Mo.
It can be said that Tie Mo worked his way up from the bottom, and he understands the needs and thoughts of those at the bottom better.
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Zhang Bei closed the city gate tightly again. At this time, the city was already overcrowded, and there was no need to worry about insufficient troops to defend the city. Some people regretted it and returned with the refugees who were opening up wasteland, but more people hesitated and lost the chance to return to the city.
Chance.
After the city gate was closed, Chen Zilong led his people to do a big thing, which was to ransack the house.
As long as Shanxi merchants abandoned Zhang Bei, all their homes were confiscated, and all their gold, silver, and houses were confiscated.
The most miserable among them is the Kang family. In the past six months, the Kang family has operated five shops and built a good house in the city. Now it has been taken away by Chen Zilong. Chen Zilong is very straightforward in doing things and took over the house.
The house was sold to Tie Shouwei for one thousand taels of silver. As for the shops, they were absorbed by Shanxi merchants from the Chang family and the Cao family.
Chen Zilong's act was almost an open robbery, but it was his ability to steal the land and house deeds.
If you really want to talk about it, Kang Zhendai has to be blamed for this matter. The second young master Kang can be regarded as a bold master, but he did not expect that Tie Mo and Chen Zilong would dare to play like this. As officials, they robbed them directly. Because he did not expect it, he left.
At that time, they did not bring the land deed or house deed, thinking that after Bayan Khan defeated Zhang Bei, they would come back to take over Zhang Bei.
After learning about Zhang Beicheng, Qiao Liuyun's face turned green with anger, "Second Young Master, what should we do now? Now all the store properties have gone into the pockets of Tie Mo and those people. We have worked hard for more than half a year to make wedding dresses for others.
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Kang Zhendai would never admit a miscalculation. He sneered with a cold face: "Why are you panic? Those things only fell into their hands temporarily. When Bayan Khan captures Zhang Bei, aren't all those things ours?"
Qiao Liuyun frowned. At this moment, he had already had a suspicion about Kang Zhendai. Can Bayan Khan really defeat Tie Mo and the others? If Zhang Bei cannot be defeated, then all the Shanxi merchants will suffer losses.
Went.
It's too late to say anything now, let's get on with it first!
Suddenly, there was a rumble not far away, and looking along the dim yellow setting sun, there were figures surging there.
A horse is coming from the north, with murderous intent like the river and the sea!
A Mongolian galloped on horseback, getting closer and closer, and soon after, more cavalry appeared on the horizon. They shouted, waved their scimitars, and rushed towards the caravan where Kang Zhendai was.
Judging by their attire, they are the troops of Bayan Khan from the Sunit tribe. Did they break into Zhangbei so quickly?
Kang Zhendai opened his mouth, a little dazed. Qiao Liuyun was even more worried and sweating on his forehead. He pushed Kang Zhendai and urged: "Second Young Master, what is going on? Why does it seem that you are coming for us?"
Kang Zhendai smiled bitterly, "This... must be a misunderstanding... Old man, please shout quickly..."
Lao Bazi quickly shouted in Mongolian: "Who is the warrior on the other side? We are friends of Bayan Khan, we are our own people... we... uh... uh...
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The old man opened his eyes wide and clutched his neck tightly, unable to say another word.
An arrow shot through his neck, and the assailant had a sinister smile on his face. He had a big, strong hand, a fiery red belt, and dirty brown animal skin clothes. He tilted his head, and his eyes were filled with tears.
Satire.
"Who are you? Don't you know each other? Keep everything in the car and valuables, otherwise, he will be your fate!"
The Mongolian man whistled, and hundreds of cavalrymen surrounded him. Each of these men looked fierce, and their scimitars glowed with blood.
Not surprisingly, in order to save their lives, Kang Zhendai and others had no choice but to drop all their belongings and flee in a hurry.
After Kang Zhendai and others escaped far away, the murderous Mongolian put down his long bow and grinned.
"Things are going very well!"
At this time, Ruan Sangou, dressed in Mongolian cavalry uniform, looked coldly at the direction Kang Zhendai was escaping, and asked unwillingly: "Ba Lie, why didn't you kill them all?"
"Why do you do this? You have to ask Tie Shouwei. I also followed the order. Okay, let's escort the things back to Zhang Beicheng."
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To the northwest of Zhangbei, along the Xiaoyellow River, on both sides of Aqige and Duolei Chenbing, no one was in a hurry to take action.
After nightfall, the flow of the Xiaoyang River was gentle. Duo Lei personally led a thousand soldiers and horses, secretly bypassed the southern end of the Xiaoyang River, and launched a sneak attack on the main camp of Aqige at night.
Originally, Aqige should have been prepared for it, but something went wrong and the entire camp was almost defenseless, which made Dolei's sneak attack go smoothly.
Orger led his troops to stop him, but something unexpected happened. After Dolei led his troops to break through the first line of defense, he immediately sent out a signal. At this time, Tuomuyehua, who was hiding in the north, led the main force to cooperate with Dolei and launched an attack on Aqige's troops.
A strong attack.
After losing more than 400 men, Orger and Aqige fought and retreated towards Zhangbei.
With this withdrawal, Aqige directly gave up the front line of the Xiaoyang River. At this point, Zhang Beicheng became Aqige's last line of defense.
Naturally, Dolei would not let go of this good opportunity. He sent someone to notify Tuobuhua. Within half a day, Tuobuhua gave up the confrontation with Batu and went south to join Dolei. For a time, Sunit's 20,000-strong army was in the small area.
Huang He gathered together to capture Zhang Beicheng in one battle.
What is disappointing is that after Tuo Buhua led his troops to withdraw, Batu did not send his troops north to intimidate the Sunit tribe's home base, but instead stood still and watched the excitement.
Batu's actions can be said to have pushed Aqige's troops completely into the abyss.