Chapter 911: Shocking Thunder, Thousands of Miles of Blood Now Waves (8)
Zhang Ping'an, the commander of the Pou Nu Army in Ping'an City, received an urgent report from Fei Jin to Anqueling Castle. Since winter, a large number of different Turkic tribes were found near Anqueling Castle. According to the scouts of the Feijin tribe, these tribes lacked food and meat for winter and had to appear in the forest west of Anqueling to look for prey. This military newspaper alone made Zhang Ping'an very proud, although he is not clear about the way Marquis Jijunev, the commander of the Ross coalition, and at least his opponent did not see clearly his strategy of using luxury goods to exchange food, which also made Zhang Ping'an feel very satisfied. According to Zhang Ping'an's arrangement, Huang Wei's army of the Northern Legion and Huang Zhi's army of the Central Legion set off together.
Gu Xin, chief of staff of the Pou Nu Army, led three mountain troops, Tian Peng, Zuo Erya and Liu Qingshan troops to set off five days later than Huang Zhi's brothers. Zhang Ping'an would lead the personal barracks, the personal guards and artillery teams to set out in the middle. However, from the Eszeg grassland, Luo Tian urgent report came, and a large army of Thais appeared near Hangaishan. They sent a team of more than 1,000 cavalry envoys to visit. According to the Mongolian translation, this army was mainly composed of Swedes, Danes and Finns, with a number of about 20,000 to 30,000. They wanted to cross the Ross people and trade directly with the Pou Nu Army. Luo Tian tribe was familiar with the composition of the Taiss people, and he hoped that the Tianxiong camp would first encircle and annihilate this hostile Taiss people army, and then understand the specific situation.
Although Luo Tian's idea was very consistent with Zhang Dashuai's external style, Zhang Ping'an still did not agree with Luo Tian's plan to start a war immediately. He ordered Tianxiong Camp to escort the Swedish delegation to Eagle Fort. Others were not clear about the situation of the Thais, so Zhang Ping'an still roughly knew some of the conflicts between the Thais. At this time, Sweden was a very powerful country in Europe, and even the Ross people were not their opponents. The Swedes wanted to put aside the Ross people's separate trade with the Slave Army, which was very reasonable in terms of conflict between the two sides, but the unreasonable thing is that from the Thais to the Slave Army, the territory of the Slave Army was almost the control of the Ross people. Even if the Swedes could reach a deal with the Slave Army, can they easily return to Sweden? Of course, this answer is no.
At that time, Ping'an City was strong, and Zhang Ping'an ordered the Li Qingshui troops of the personal military camp to go to the Eserge grassland for reinforcements. He personally led the 20,000 main cavalry of the personal military camp to Yingbao to meet with the Swedish envoy. The overlord of the grassland Zhang Ping'an personally went to the Eserge grassland, which attracted a wave of visits from the nomadic Mongolian tribes here. The leading army of the Po Nu Army's personal military camp led the army to camp on a hill 200 miles west of Yingbao. The royal tent used by the Mongolian Lin Danhan became a temporary camp of Zhang Dashui. The tall white yurt was full of armored black armored soldiers of the Po Nu Army. The cavalry who were patrolling the camp at the gate of the camp stopped from time to time and looked through the items on the Mongols' carriage to meet Zhang Dashui.
All the heads of the Mongolian tribe who wanted to see Zhang Dashen needed to replace their brand new leather robes in several small tents south of the commander's tent. The Mongolians also had to pay the most plump flock to the Pou Nu Army in exchange for the urgent need for tea and salt to survive on the grassland. When the Swedish delegation came to the location of the Pou Nu Army's tent, they saw a lively scene that they had never seen before. During the march, the Swedes saw vast plains, unattainable mountains, and countless rivers covering the sky and the sun. They were obsessed with the achievements of Genghis Khan in Mongolia, which made them even more indignant. As a European military power, Sweden defeated the barbaric Russ people several times. In order to gain control of the Eastern Silk Road, King Gustav III formed an expedition army of 50,000 people and divided them into two routes to the mysterious Eastern country.
With its huge military advantage, the Swedes defeated the Rossians Mikhail Fedorov and Romanov through diplomatic means, allowing European powers to participate in this feast of land transactions. In today's Europe, the sea overlords are mostly Spanish and Portuguese. The former powerful sea coachman, the Netherlands, is said to have been defeated by the distant Ming naval army, has recently begun to decline. As a European land power, the Swedes fought many times with the Principal of Ross, and the victory or loss was more than defeat, which established their status as a powerful country. They are not opponents of the Spanish fleet at sea, and the profitable sea trade Swedes can only drool in their envy.
As the leader of the Swedish mission, Viscount Bentson longed for the Eastern Marquis Zhang, who was famous in Europe. Bentson had heard of this marquis far away in the East for a long time, saying that he liked to kill the Mongols, and the Eastern Marquis was very brave in fighting. His combat style was both vicious and cunning as a fox. The Mongols who failed many times gave the Eastern Marquis a mixed name of fox and wolf. However, this name seemed too long to Bentson, and Sweden also liked to describe the brave warriors in combat. Bentson planned to call this brave Eastern Marquis Zhang Lang. Originally, European countries had different languages, and they still had some difficulties in communicating with the Eastern Marquis.
However, the Mongolians once circulated across the Eurasian continent, which also created a popular Mongolian language in the world. When Benteson and his party came to the tent of the Posses Army, they received special preferential treatment from Zhang Dama. According to the rules of the Posses Army, Zhang Ping'an sent someone to express a warm welcome to Benteson who had traveled thousands of miles to the east in Mongolian language. Zhang Ping'an's translation told Benteson that the Han people in the Ming Dynasty had a tradition of preferential treatment for guests from afar. He prepared fine wine and food and exquisite lichens for the guests, hoping that the guests from afar could like it. Benteson's five main envoys and deputy envoys first took a shower and changed into leather robes cut out of silk, and even their underwear was sewn in silk, which made Benteson and others realize that the Ming Dynasty was rich.
The only thing that puzzled Benteson and the others was that when they took a bath and changed clothes, they had strong warriors wearing black armored and surveillance with their swords. The clothes they changed were taken away and burned by the beautiful Mongolian woman. When Benteson walked into Zhang Ping'an's tent empty-handed along the heavily guarded path, Benteson, a soldier, found that the soldiers under the Marquis Zhang were all tall and elite soldiers. Walking in the black armor formation of the Po Slave Army, these soldiers really made people feel oppressed from their sharp eyes. What made Benteson feel oppressed even more came from the Marquis Zhang, the noble Marquis of the Ming Dynasty. Although a young man in the yurt was greeted with friendly eyes, he still felt inexplicably pressured.
Benteson knelt on one knee according to European habits to pay tribute to Zhang of the Ming Dynasty, and received the polite gift from the Marquis Zhang of the Marquis Zhang with both hands. However, when Benteson called Zhang Ping'an the great land of Zhang Lang on the grassland in stuttering Mongolian, Zhang Ping'an smiled bitterly and waved his hands to signal Benteson not to continue to flatter him. Zhang Ping'an was very funny. According to the Mongolian name Benteson Zhang Lang, it was not a good thing, but it was translated into Chinese cockroaches. Benteson observed that Zhang of the Marquis Zhang of the Ming Dynasty had two scars on his face, and his strong body and gentle eyes always made people unable to see through. Zhang Ping'an looked at Benteson, a young and tall Swedish envoy, who was not very young but tall, and immediately felt relieved. First of all, this young man was not firm enough, which only shows that this person was inadequate in dealing with things and was a person who could easily deceive him.
Although Zhang Ping'an had a charitable face, he was wary of the Thais. If Zhang Ping'an hadn't wanted to inquire about the intelligence of the Ross, he would not have been so patient to grind his teeth with the Swedes. Zhang Ping'an knew very well that the Thais were robbers who spoke with strength, and when dealing with robbers, he had to be silenced with them. Beside Zhang Ping'an was piled with gold offered by the Mongols. He seemed to sit cross-in-the-story in front of the pile of gold ingots. Zhang Ping'an stroked the cold and dazzling gold in his hand, and his face was full of greed. The Ming Ponuhou used roasted sheep to host Swedish guests. He enthusiastically asked about the well-being of the Swedish mission and cared about the physical condition of each mission. While the Swedish mission felt the enthusiasm of the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, he was very puzzled by the indifferent expression of accompanying the guests.
As a guest arranged by Zhang Dashui, the head of the Intelligence Department, Qu Guozheng, had never understood Zhang Dashui's intentions. Zhang Dashui first sent Li Qing's water department to monitor the Swedish army, and warmly received the Swedish delegation. It is said that Qu Guozheng should know Zhang's strategy to the Swedish people before the banquet, but Zhang Dashui never explained this matter thoroughly. Qu Guozheng speculated that Zhang's strategy to the Swedish army was likely to temporarily change his strategy to the Swedish army, so he did not have the opportunity to say hello to him in advance. Zhang Dashui did not inform Qu Guozheng of his plan for the Swedish delegation, so Qu Guozheng naturally did not know how to deal with it.
Fortunately, Zhang Ping'an did not talk about the key points, and kept greeting the Swedish king's family during the greetings. Of course, nonsense like weather must be ignored. As Qu Guozheng expected, Zhang Ping'an originally planned to be a king and wanted to directly force the Swedish people to speak out the intelligence of the Ross people. Unexpectedly, when Zhang Ping'an saw Benteson, a young Swedish nobleman, he changed his original intention in an instant. Zhang Ping'an, who had seen countless people, saw from Benteson that he was simple in his human nature, and the Thais could not compare with the wisdom accumulated in the textbooks of the Han people for thousands of years. Not to mention the distance, Zhang Ping'an took care of Benteson's newly wore silk leather robe and was always careful to eat, fearing oil pollution, which made Zhang Ping'an feel that he had a chance to convince Benteson to reveal the intelligence of the Ross people.
It is not too difficult for both sides to communicate in Mongolian. Bentson has been learning Mongolian in the past year, at least in general conversations. Soon, the cunning Zhang Ping'an learned the conflict between the Swedes and the Ross people from Benteson's straightforward words, and also knew that there was an army of 30,000 Danes in the Ross coalition. In particular, Benteson revealed to Zhang Ping'an the so-called unknown secrets of the Ross coalition, that is, the Danes, Poles, Norwegians and Swedes formed a separate coalition, and the Ross and Turks united together. The most important thing is that they are a loose joint force, and the coalition led by the Danes did not want to be with the Ross people at all. This is really good news for Zhang Ping'an. As long as Benteson's spy is accurate, it will increase the chances of winning for the Slave-Breaking Army. (To be continued)
Chapter completed!