Ming Empire

Chapter 83 Good News

But at this time, the red lady sighed slightly, and said with resentment: "It's all because of you that the master of the slave family felt bad, and he was full of resentment towards me, so he ignored me. In a fit of anger, the slave family left the camp. Think about it all because of you, if you didn't suffer your humiliation, there wouldn't be such a thing, only by killing you can the husband not mind. But I...but you are a hero who fights against the slaves, you are Datong's charitable deeds are highly praised, you are a good official and a good person, I... I really can't do anything with my family. If I kill you, I will feel guilty for the rest of my life."

Cao Yue's heart suddenly softened when the red lady's words sounded very sincere, and the murderous intentions he had just started disappeared without a trace in an instant. He asked puzzledly: "How could this be? Li Yan didn't know that you suffered... ...Li Yan doesn't know what happened between us, so how could he have a grudge? Did you tell him everything?"

The red lady nodded slightly, but didn't make a sound.For some reason, she told Cao Yue all this.

"Oh, you are too naive...you are too straightforward, there is no need to tell others about some things!" Cao Yue was a little bit dumbfounded, this woman, silly and cute, didn't have any precautions against her husband, and even put some trivial things Du Yuanyuan told her that she really didn't know what to say about her, and couldn't help but blame Li Yan, "Li Yan was not as magnanimous as you said, he was a small-hearted person, and he treated her coldly for such a trivial matter." You, let you leave the camp and take risks to assassinate me, I really think highly of him!"

"You are not allowed to say that about the husband of the slave family. He is the best man in the world. He is better than you. You are not allowed to belittle him." The red lady glared at Cao Yue angrily. I won’t soften my heart, I will kill you, I’m leaving!”

As he said that, he ignored Cao Yue, turned around, picked up the sword that fell on the ground, cut open the tent, and disappeared from Cao Yue's sight.

"Red Lady, Red Lady, wait a minute, hey, Red Lady!" Cao Yue called several times, but the Red Lady ignored him, and left by herself, so he had no choice but to give up. Soldiers don't bother.

The soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, not sure why there was a man in black in Mr. Chief Soldier's tent.They subconsciously believed that the woman in black who appeared suddenly might want to assassinate Cao Yue, but why did their commander-in-chief let her go?

Could it be that the man in black sneaked into the camp to report the secret situation to Cao Yue?

Also, when did the man in black come in?How did you get in?A stranger appeared in the account of the Chief Soldier, but they didn't even know that this matter was a bit serious.All the soldiers who were in charge of today's patrol and security mission were terrified.

If anything happens to Mr. Chief Soldier, then they will be more guilty.

They all waited outside the tent tremblingly, waiting to be punished by Cao Yue.

Of course, Cao Yue would not ignore what happened tonight. After the red lady, he gathered all his guards and gave them a severe admonition that they must stay on top of their spirits and not allow any suspicious people to enter the camp. , otherwise military law is engaged.

The soldiers also understood the seriousness of the matter from Cao Yue's stern admonition. Although they didn't dare to ask Cao Yue what happened, they didn't dare to be careless any more. When patrolling at night, they kept their eyes open. The one is bigger than a copper bell.

After the red lady left, Cao Yue was also seriously thinking about what happened today.

He didn't fully believe that this was just the explanation that the red lady was being ignored by Li Yan, and she wanted to run over and kill him on impulse, so as to get Li Yan's forgiveness.Hong Niangzi came to Datong before to find out about Datong's military situation. This is a signal that Li Yan clearly wants to lead the army to attack Datong, and Hong Niangzi does not deny this.Today, Hong Niangzi came to Datong again and planned to assassinate him. Cao Yue still attributed the reason to the fact that this was the prelude to Li Yan's attack on Datong. If you succeed, you can take the opportunity to take Datong lightly.

It is better to believe what is there than to believe what is not, Cao Yue dare not be careless.He also ordered the entire army to be in the highest state of combat readiness on the second day. Those engaged in military law.

At the same time, he ordered the newly appointed special training team chief Qian and his confidant Cao Sheng to lead a special training team of more than 200 people to leave Datong and go west to use actual combat training methods to find out the whereabouts of the bandits. , as much as possible to find out the whereabouts of the bandits.

In addition to sending a special training team, Cao Yue also sent a lot of scouts, all heading west or northwest to find out the whereabouts of Li Yan's troops and other rogues.The special training team is carried by carrier pigeons, and if there is any news, they can report back in the shortest time.

In the intense preparations for the battle, Cao Yue also received good news.

When he left Beijing to work in Datong, Cao Yue sent his confidant General Cao Qian, with 100 million taels of silver and 1 taels of gold, to take a sea boat to Haojing, that is, Macau, to find Frangji to buy firearms.A few months later, Cao Qian finally received news that he had negotiated a deal with the Franc Robot and purchased a batch of the latest firearms, including 500 newly-made red cannons and [-] muskets. There are some other artillery and firearms, a series of equipment for making firearms, and three hundred Franc robots are hired to serve the Datong Army at a price of [-] taels of silver per person a year.

It will take several months to raise the firearms and other manufacturing machines of the Frang robot. Cao Qian is going to personally escort the firearms and equipment back to Datong after all the collection is completed.In order to avoid accidents and being plotted by the Fran robots, Cao Qian did not consider returning with the firearms and the hired Fran robots, but ordered his subordinates to bring [-] Fran robots back to Datong first.

Only a hundred or so of Cao Qian's men brought him to Haojing, if they return with Frangji, no one knows whether these Frangji who are willing to sacrifice their lives for anyone for money will have malicious intentions, so they decided to Let these 300 people come to Datong first.

When Cao Yue received the letter from Cao Qian, it had been two months since the three hundred Portuguese mercenaries left Haojing.According to the approximate itinerary, these people will arrive in Datong in at least half a month.

Cao Yue was quite satisfied with Cao Qian's arrangement. As his subordinate, he was very careful in doing things and had good abilities.He was very interested in the new firearms mentioned in Cao Qian's letter, and he was looking forward to the Portuguese arriving in Datong early so that he could see what kind of firearms they were.It would be great if these Portuguese carried flintlock muskets with them. He could use the finished muskets of the Portuguese to imitate them.

Also, Cao Yue knew the development history of bullets. Before metal bullets came out, the invention of paper bullets was a revolution. He had never seen what paper bullets looked like, but with this concept, he could communicate with Firearms experts discuss this, maybe they can make this stuff and lead to a major revolution in firearms.

The Portuguese arrived in Datong ten days earlier than Cao Yue expected, and they arrived outside Datong on the sixth day after receiving Cao Qian's letter.Hearing the report from his subordinates, Cao Yue was overjoyed, and personally took people to greet him.Three hundred Portuguese were led by a down-and-out nobleman named Constantine. To Cao Yue's surprise, the muskets they carried were really flintlock muskets.

(End of this chapter)