After a hundred-household battalion was dispatched to escort Eunuch Lin Zhe and his party out of Almaty, three well-equipped Tongshun armies also divided into three groups and headed in three directions.
One group, led by Wu Qidao, headed northwest, with its sword pointed at Priozersk on the west bank of Lake Balkhash.
One group, led by Halibai, went northeast and attacked Tekeli on the border between Liang and Varo.
The last one, under the personal command of Yan Bing, went all the way west to capture Tashkent on the border between Bishkek and Varosi.
At this moment, there were less than 500 defenders left in Almaty. This was not because Yan Bing could sit back and relax because her master and uncle were here, but because she was sure that the main force of the opponent would not be able to move south again in a short time.
First, it was due to wind and snow.
Second, and the most critical thing is that once the main force of the opponent goes south again, they will once again be trapped in the dilemma of being attacked from both sides by the Liang troops. If they go east, they will reach the Gobi Desert thousands of miles away, which is completely uninhabited, so they can only stay in the north.
There is no other choice when it comes to spending the winter. No matter where you go, you will face the dilemma of being surrounded by heavy snow.
But Yan Bing is different. She is located on the southern border of Varo. It is rich in fresh water resources, grasslands are crisscrossed, and the amount of materials in each city is extremely considerable. If we want to use the Central Plains as a metaphor, this place is equivalent to
Varro's Jiangnan water town just turned fish and rice into cattle and sheep.
This is why Yan Bing must choose to attack Varo from this route. Fighting is to fight the economy, to fight for money and food. What is the use of your thousands of miles of Gobi Desert? This rich land in the south is not fragrant.
What??
Um,
It smells really good...
As an important town close to Almaty and the first to learn of Almaty's final tragic fate, Bishkek, three days after Yan Bing's army of 13,000 people set up their positions and delivered a letter of persuasion to surrender, this
A prosperous southern city surrendered without a fight.
Li Bing was naturally happy to keep his promise. He did not harm anyone in the city during the whole process, but directly let them leave the city. He also kindly ensured that they had enough rations to reach the new capital. Amid the gratitude of countless people, he also specially sent out
A thousand-household battalion "escorted" them all the way north, preventing them from escaping to the west or south.
Home delivery, great sincerity.
As for the Qianhu Camp, naturally after completing the "escort" mission, they turned their swords and directly joined Wu Qidao's team besieging Priozersk.
In this battle, more than 100,000 mutton sheep, sheep, and white-headed cattle were obtained, as well as countless wheat, barley, and oats.
What should I do if I have too much food to eat?
drive away...
A team of 500 people packed all kinds of barley and wheat into sacks, tied them to beef cattle, and drove them all the way back to the material transfer station in the Western Regions, letting the Liang soldiers in the territory help them eat together. I believe that for nearly a hundred years
Here, the food and treatment of Liang soldiers were not as good as they are now.
Li Bing's main force burned all the food in the city that could not be taken away, and then set off directly towards the next city.
Tashkent!
This is no ordinary city...
Its fame of wealth resounds throughout the sky. This fame not only comes from the countless cattle, sheep and horses, but also from its special geographical location...
A must-stop on the Silk Road!
There are many wealthy businessmen here, with piles of gold and silver. Therefore, when Yan Bing's army arrived here, these wealthy businessmen who wanted to keep their wealth either fled to other countries or spent their gold and wealth on mercenaries.
When Yan Bing's letter of persuasion to surrender was delivered to the city, the other party not only did not panic, but also handed her a letter of persuasion to surrender written in Chinese characters...
The content is as follows:
"There are tens of thousands of armored soldiers in the city! Outside the city, there are countless soldiers from other countries hired with heavy sums of money to fight. They are arriving one after another at this moment. In less than half a month, there will be more than 100,000 soldiers! You are only a handful, so don't hit the stone with an egg.
, if you retreat, you can still save your life, but if you don’t retreat, when the army gathers, you will die without a whole body!"
Yan Bing frowned and looked at the surrender letter. At the bottom, he also wrote something like the amount of bounty that could be obtained if the soldiers rebelled and took the general's head... He immediately became angry...
"A bunch of mediocre people, really think that everything in this world can be solved with money? They don't even think about how much reward we will get for our hard work when we break into the city? Aren't they all ours!?? Hahahaha...
..." He Guanggui immediately sneered at the letter after reading it, gathered it into a ball, and threw it on the ground.
"Don't take it lightly! You need to know people's hearts... they are the most unpredictable..." Yan Bing gathered the surrender letters in his hand into a ball, threw them back, then looked at the school officer below and asked in a deep voice: "These surrender letters
Who else has seen it?"
Hearing this, Li Qianhu, who was in charge of receiving the messenger, was slightly startled, thought for a moment, and then said: "After the messenger handed me these letters, he took out a lot more from his arms and sprinkled them around.
, but no one in the army picked it up,
In the end, I ordered them to pick up all the letters on the ground and give them to me. Then I fed them to the messenger one by one and watched him eat them all! Coach, did you not see that scene?
!It’s so funny! Hahaha!”
Li Wenyou laughed a few times, but found that no one agreed with him at all. Even the coach stared at him with disdain, so he had to stop laughing in embarrassment, lowered his head and asked with a red face: "Yes...what's wrong with that?"
What?"
Yan Bing stood up slowly, walked off the command platform, walked back and forth for a few steps, and then issued an order: "This battle cannot be delayed. In order to prevent long nights and long dreams, the attack on the city will begin now! Order the forward artillery to all be equipped with solid ammunition and bombard the city wall! First,
Completely destroy the opponent's morale!"
"Yes!" The school officials stood up and responded with their hands. Just as they were about to turn around and go out, they heard the coach behind them speak again.
"Your camps should be guarded by more trustworthy guards. You are not afraid of ten thousand, just in case..."
Upon hearing this, all the school officials turned around and looked at their coach with confused expressions.
Yan Bing looked at everyone's gazes, smiled helplessly, and said in a deep voice: "Of course I can trust our soldiers, but there must be brave men under a heavy reward. What if the other party spends a lot of money to invite some martial arts masters?"
All the school officials were suddenly enlightened and walked out with their hands in hand.
But Yan Bing actually didn't tell the truth...
Although she also wanted to completely trust her soldiers and be honest with them, as a modern person, she knew very well that the only thing in the world that could not be looked at was the human heart. Even though her soldiers were all innocent-hearted, Lin Zi
When you get older, it is inevitable that you will have some evil thoughts and guard against others during the night...
After making these arrangements, Yan Bing also lifted the curtain and walked to the supply camp. Because she was still a little worried about the safety of her school officers, she needed to ask her master to come forward and "knock the mountain and shake the tiger" against the warriors in the city, lest she really "
