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Chapter 935: The Siege of the City for January

After all, the merchant army and the regular army are different, the regular army has military law and discipline to restrain them, and the generals and soldiers still have the belief to fight for their country and nation. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But the merchant group is armed with militia and mercenaries, everyone fights for money, and when they earn money, they have to enjoy their lives, and if they die, then don't say anything.

The battle against the gold mine was not very smooth from the beginning, and the next few battles were also very troublesome, this Taiji first scattered his cavalry outward, and when fighting, he had to prevent them from coming in and harassing him, so he couldn't fight with all his might.

The inside of the gold mine is not squatting behind an earthen fence, they have long since built a low wall of wood and mud and snow outside, where there is no shortage of trees, and after pouring soil with water and freezing it, this low wall can be easily built, and even after being demolished, it can be quickly restored.

The merchant army had to fight through this low wall before they could break through to the earthen wall, and the Tartar soldiers were strictly ordered to shoot arrows only within the range of bows and arrows.

It is okay to kill people with firearms, but for thick earthen walls, and they are also watered, it is useless, and when you get to the earthen wall, the attack method used is still to go to the traditional one, use a bundled simple ladder to set up the wall, and then climb the ladder to fight, face to face with a big knife and spear fight.

In such a battle, the merchant army did not have any advantage over the Tartar soldiers, and with such cold weapons attacking and defending, the defending side of the city had a big advantage.

The fighting was fierce, and there were many casualties, and many of the guards retreated in their hearts, thinking that they would come to the grassland in order to make a fortune and be happy, but who would have thought that it was such a scene of fighting for their lives, and there was no end to it, who was willing to toss here.

On the third day of the battle, deserters appeared, and to the laughter of the leader of the guards, the foreign cavalry did not escape.

Of course, this is the courage of these cavalry in the city, and then there is the fact that their lives depend on the Naturalization City, with the current situation, as soon as they desert, I am afraid they can only go to Mobei or the end of the Western Regions to beg for a living.

The deserters were the most demoralizing, since the military law had already been carried out at the time of the war, it was not polite at this time, the cavalry on the side of the city was sent out to guard, and the deserters were captured and directly used as the vanguard, rushing to the front.

In this way, the offense and defense continued to fight until the beginning of November, and General Tan had no way, and it was not a way to survive so slowly, and the current cohesion of the merchant group's armed forces was not suitable for a protracted war.

Several big businessmen from Guihua City have come to Xuanfu, some are in Miyun, some are in Longmen, they naturally know what the benefits of laying down this gold mine are, and their meaning to Tan Jiang is very simple, don't be afraid of the dead, just go and fight, those guards are raised with money, and naturally they have to sell their lives to come out.

With this statement, General Tan didn't care, and the caravans took turns to go up, and also arranged for people to cut down wood on the spot to make simple siege equipment.

But it still can't be defeated, there is a water source inside the gold mine, and there is enough food in storage, and more importantly, the merchant group forces can't completely do this, they can always keep in touch with the outside.

On the tenth day of the first day of November, General Tan was a little angry, so he simply gathered the veterans of the border towns in the team, the private soldiers sent out by the generals of each family, and all the backbones wearing plate armor together, and decided to make a frontal assault, after all, the main gate of this gold mine is the most open road, and the Tartars have opened the main gate and rushed out several times to counterattack.

This is almost the core of the merchant group's armed forces into it, Tan Jiang is about to be sixty people, and he is also in armor to lead the team, although it is a battle of gambling breath, but it is still cautious and abnormal.

Began to use the city cavalry to drive the ordinary guards to rush forward with the wooden cones that hit the door, the brigade followed behind, and there were many casualties in the process of hitting the gate, and the city cavalry supervised the battle, while shooting at the Tartar soldiers in the earthen wall, more unexpectedly, the gate was knocked open.

The elite of the merchant group who had been holding back for a long time swarmed in, but as soon as they rushed in, they found that it was broken, and the Tartars actually built a circle of earthen walls inside the door, as if it was a regulation of the urn city in the Daming city.

But the arrows rained down, and more than 20 were still damaged, and even Tan Jiang's left arm was hit, according to which this plate armor could protect the whole body, but an arrow shot into the gap, it was also unlucky.

After dealing with it simply, it's nothing, but General Tan's left arm can't be raised, this battle may not have more people killed than the previous few times, but the morale of the merchant group's armed forces has plummeted, not to mention the siege, not to mention the most elite forces, not even the most elite forces have entered it, and the main general is still injured, these guards can't stand it.

This time it's not a desertion, there is a whole team of guards directly proposed to leave, here in vain, the owner of his own family does not know how much money to spend on the pension, how to bear it, and finally fought down a dry territory, all of which were recaptured by the cavalry of the Horqin Department, which is not cheap to make, even to this point, even to the loss.

One person, a few people, it's okay to say that this Tan General can march the law, but the departure of the whole team and the whole team, from the legal point of view, Tan General is not qualified to restrain him.

If you want to fight, the escort team of Sanjiang Commercial Bank can be the main force, and no one will say anything about him after fighting all the time, but if other commercial houses don't fight, Tan Jiang can't restrain anything, after all, everyone's relationship is an alliance.

On November 15, the brigade began to withdraw in batches, and after preparing to reorganize here, it retreated to various places.

After arriving at Mantao, a new convoy came from the Miyun guard, which was also transporting supplies, and the person who led the team, Tan Jiang, recognized it, but it was Mu En.

After a day of rest, General Tan led the armed guards of the Sanjiang Commercial Bank and several other alliances to the gold mine, although Tan Jiang was also a Guangyue helper before he went, but seeing Tan Jiang's hanging arm, everyone didn't know that Mu En was coming, except for the three guards who were close to the Sanjiang Commercial Bank, the others did not follow, but those cavalry from the city followed again.

Everyone is not in a hurry to leave, it is good to wait for a result, the distance of less than a day or so, the people of Sanjiang Commercial Bank are too arrogant.

Everyone in front of them started to fight so bloody, and they all came back in ashes, wouldn't it be a greater loss for you to go by yourself?

On November 17, the news came back to Mantao, and the gold mine had been knocked down......

The leaders of the guards, who were resting in a full set, were all stunned when they heard this, and their first reaction was to wonder if they had heard it wrong.

The middle and upper echelons of the armed forces of the naturalized merchant group are basically veterans of the Huwei Army and other border towns, and they naturally understand that they can't be defeated some time ago, but now that Tan Jiang's strength has weakened, there must be something strange about it.

There are also the leaders of various commercial houses, hearing the news, it was each beating their chests, it was originally the piece of meat that everyone found, who thought that later, it would become the Sanjiang commercial bank alone, which is really unwilling.

Fast horse exchanges, news can be exchanged on the same day, Tan will let the people of the commercial banks pass, Sanjiang Commercial Bank is willing to give up half of the gold miners, everyone will get rich.

Everyone was shocked again, this is a gold mine, and it is said to be a high-yield gold mine, half of the members are a large amount of money, how can it be so easy to let it out, but there is a cheap in front of them, naturally there is no reason not to want it, and the merchant guards are killed back.

Tan Jiang's request is very simple, in the past year, the guards of Sanjiang Commercial Bank will not invest too much protection force in the gold mine, and they will share it with other families, so they will transfer their rights and interests.

This couldn't be simpler, everyone agreed, in fact, in this case, Sanjiang Commercial Bank and Xuanfu can share the accounts, and they can completely put aside the merchant group's armament.

There are also veterans who went to the battlefield to take a look, the earthen wall around the gold mine has been opened a few big openings, and the armed forces and city guards who want to come to the Sanjiang Commercial Bank broke through from here, this gap is definitely not artificial, and those who have participated in those major battles know what caused it, good guys, it is estimated that it was fought with cannons.

Mu En brought five artillery pieces over, and there were two hundred soldiers of the Huwei Army, so the battle became simple, and the cannons were erected and directly collapsed the earthen wall.

The thunderous cannon fire directly destroyed the will of the Tartar soldiers to resist, and when the cavalry and foot soldiers broke through, they could not organize too strong resistance, not to mention that without the assistance of the fortifications, they had no way to resist in the face of firearms.

But after all, General Tan brought few people this time, and despite the pursuit of the cavalry on the side of the city, more than half of the Tartars' strength still ran out.

The gold mine fell, the portal changed hands, and the battle in which both the merchant forces and the Horqin tribe had invested their strength was over, and the Horqin tribe finally had a judgment on the power of the naturalized merchant group.

When the naturalized merchant group reached this position, it didn't have much strength to go east, at least it would take a while to digest the results of the battle and stabilize the rule between the naturalized city and Mantaoer, and the war on the grassland was over.

Tan gave his subordinates and the cavalry of the city a rich reward for the seized property and some of the golden sands stored in the gold mine, but he did not stop at Mantaoer, but directly took away the backbone and elite of the Sanjiang merchant guards, as well as most of the cavalry in the city, and returned to naturalization.

He still has injuries on his body, and it is very incomprehensible to be so urgent.

Mu En brought support, but also brought news of Wang Tong, Wang Tong was on the way to Shaanxi at this time, Wang Tong issued an order, Sanjiang Commercial Bank should maintain an army in Guihua City, ready to be called at any time.