The Long family belongs to the big family on the front line of Dunhuang.
The Long family mainly deals in porcelain and tea, but also deals in jewelry.
Many families of the big merchants in the Western Regions ran these businesses, buying fine porcelain and fine tea from the Central Plains, trafficking them to the West, and then buying jewelry from the Western Regions and Damascus swords, and trafficking them back to the Central Plains.
However, each family has a focus, some focus on salt and iron, some focus on silk cotton, some focus on grain and rice, and the scale of other families in the tea and porcelain industry is far from comparable with the Long family.
The head of this generation of the Long family is Long Ge, Long Ge is Chinese New Year's Eve two years old today, just in the prime of life, a face is angular, resolute and tough, he does things like his looks, vigorous and resolute, once he makes a decision, there is no advance or retreat, and he will never give up until he reaches his goal.
Originally, such a surname lacked tactfulness and was not suitable for business, but the environment of doing business in the Western Regions was different from that of the Central Plains, and it was useless to make money here, and the guarantee of doing business was absolute force.
The Long family's horse team has about 2,000 people, all of whom are fierce and brave men from the Western Regions, as well as swordsmen from Persia, Dashi and other places, this is a team composed of absolute outlaws, and even a swarm of bee horse thieves in Barcelona is not willing to provoke them easily, so the Long family's business in the Western Regions has always been smooth.
Although Long Ge is young, the Nian clan has been doing business for many years, and many things are on track, and he no longer needs to show up in person, unless it is a major event that is difficult to decide, his subordinates will naturally do it according to the rules of the past, and there is no need to ask him, so Long Ge's life is very leisurely.
In the afternoon, Long Ge called the two brothers back to the mansion, the Long family is a big family, the Ming and the Timur Empire are about to go to war, they must take precautions and prepare early.
The three brothers discussed secretly in the study for a long time, and the two younger brothers were about to say goodbye and leave, when someone suddenly knocked on the door outside and hurriedly called: "Uncle, our mansion is surrounded."
The three brothers jumped up, and Long Ge asked in surprise: "Who dares to surround our Long family?"
The people outside: "I don't know, these people don't have a banner."
A few of our brothers came forward to negotiate, and they were killed on the spot by random arrows."
Longer suddenly changed color, and did not talk about the reason, first shot the samurai of the palace with random arrows, which made it clear that he was going to die, no matter who came, he could only fight by force at the moment.
Without saying a word, Lunger leaped to the wall with an arrow and reached out to take off a sword.
Although the Long family is rich and rivals the country, but Long Geer does not like gold beads and jade treasures, he likes famous swords and famous knives, he has a collection of sharp knives in his study, and what he took off at this time is a Damascus treasure knife, which is the snowflake iron knife that the Central Plains said is like clay.
His two younger brothers did not slack off, each took a knife from the wall, and the three brothers entered the door.
"Uncle, second master, third master, outside" It was the steward of the house who spoke, and before he finished speaking, there were already screams and shouts outside.
This is the back house, even the back house has sounded the sound of shouting and fighting, the strong enemy has clearly invaded the house, the three brothers rushed into the courtyard with knives, and the family members who heard the news all ran out and made a mess of porridge.
The three brothers couldn't take care of them for a while, the horse team of the Long family was brave and good at fighting, although there were only more than 200 guards left in the house, but they were the elite of the elite, as soon as they heard the alarm, they were already fully armored, gave up the front yard, and rushed to the back house to protect the head of the family.
The Western Regions is a turbulent place, even in this Dunhuang city is not very peaceful, so the wealthy families have private guards, and their scale is like a small army.
In the Central Plains, of course, this is not allowed, but in the Western Regions, it is allowed to bring your own spears, crossbows, bows and horses.
At a cursory glance, the guards gathered in the back house showed that there were nearly 200 people, all of them wearing sharp armor, carrying strong bows and carrying quivers, and they were murderous.
Lunger raised his eyebrows and commanded, "Take the horses quickly, go out of the city, and join the horses."
There are more than 2,000 people in the Longjia horse team, and they live in their own horse farm not far from Dunhuang, and now the enemy who is attacking does not talk about the reason at all, and has already started a fight, leaving to understand that it is self-defeating, Longer immediately decided to break through the siege and get out of the city.
As for the wives and concubines, the family and even the old mother, they can't take care of it, people in troubled times are not as good as dogs, as long as he lives, his strength is still there, even if his family falls into the hands of others, there is no need to worry about his surname, if the power of the Long family is uprooted, then everything is not mentioned.
The two hundred well-trained personal guards obeyed the orders of the master of the house, and as soon as they heard the order, they immediately retracted the encirclement, abandoned the women and children who were panicked and weeping, and protected the three Lunger brothers in the middle, formed a conical sharp formation, and moved quickly to the verandah of the back house.
The Long family has a big business, the house is also very spacious, leaving the back of the mansion, it is an empty homestead, the high courtyard wall is built on both sides of the horse corridor, the open space in the middle should be a flower garden in spring and summer, but at the moment it is covered with snow.
The guards escorted the three brothers and quickly moved to the corridor, and just halfway through, several figures suddenly jumped up on the high walls on both sides.
The guards of the Long family, who had long been alert, immediately drew their bows and arrows, and the arrows were bursting into a row, and they shot towards the few jumping black shadows without thinking about it.
The reaction was really fast, and he was definitely a first-class archer, but when the arrow was shot, they found that the shadows were a little fluttering, and it turned out to be just a few cloaks that had been thrown into the air, and then, the gunshots rang out like fried beans, and the guards who were shot stained their clothes with blood, and fell to the ground screaming.
In this kind of environment, you can see the power of firearms, the fence is very high, in order to prevent thieves, the wall in the backyard is full of seven or eight feet, although you can't climb it with your bare hands, without the help of equipment, it is difficult for others to jump down.
The people outside were lying on the wall, firing bullets for a long time, without worrying that they would rush to the front and engage in hand-to-hand combat with them.
And they lie on the wall, fire a shot and go down the gun, from the bottom of the hand handed a gunpowder and guns filled with gunpowder, the yard is full of people, raise their hands to put the gun is, their own damage is very small, if it is replaced by bows and arrows is impossible to do this, they have to at least lean out of the wall most of the body, in order to shoot the bow and arrow, they themselves become the opponent's arrow target.
This is the most battle encountered by the guards of the Dragon Mansion, they have never fought such a battle, of course, there are firearms in the Western Regions, but there are very few weapons in the army, and when encountering battles in the field, sporadic firearms and equipment have no effect at all, but now there is a sudden appearance of an army with a large number of firearms, and in such an environment where the advantages of firearms can be fully played, they can only aimlessly place arrows, and batches of bullets fall.
They wanted to retreat to the back house, relying on the building of the house, and engage in street battles with the invading enemy, but in such a short time, because they all retreated to the back yard, the front yard, the atrium, and the back house were occupied, and a large number of freshly armored troops pounced on the back yard, and the big shields and spears formed an impermeable defensive line, which had firmly blocked their retreat route.
"Bang Bang Bang" The guns kept ringing, those brave and good fighters of the Dragon Mansion had no place at all, and the small shields in their hands could not stop the bullets that were being fired, they were like wheat that had been cut down, falling down in batches, and the original cone-shaped team gradually turned into a circle, and this circle was cut down layer by layer, and the screams came and went, and the ground was full of corpses.
Lunger's heart was like a knife, and he cried out bitterly: "Why are you whose army came out to talk?"
No one accosted, only the sound of gunfire kept ringing out.
The gunfire gradually became more and more subdued, and at last the third brother of Runger was also shot and fell, and he and the second brother were guarded by the remaining seven or eight guards, standing in a circle among the corpses lying in pools of blood, like an island in the middle of the raging sand.
Lunger was trembling with his knife in his hand, his eyes red, and he slowly raised his head and looked at the wall.
The wall was filled with smoke, and although the wind was blowing, it was impossible to see clearly for a while, and at this time, the spearmen and shields pressed forward in a dense turn.
The soldiers marched forward in a neat pace, like a wall, and then bent into a circle, enclosing them in the middle.
It is surrounded by a surface frame embedded in each other, forming a wall-like iron shield, and between the gaps are spear tips that stick out more than three feet long.
"Who are you, why did you kill my dragon family?"
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Longer's voice was like a cuckoo crying blood, and his desperate grief and anger had made him not even have the strength to be angry, and he only wanted to find out the identity of the other party now, otherwise he would really not be able to turn a blind eye.
There was only one word to answer him: "kill" The barrel-shaped shield array suddenly shrank again, and countless spears poked out from between the cracks in the shield, but like poisonous snakes spitting letters, they suddenly poked out three feet more.
"Puff Puff" The blade entered his body, blood splattered everywhere, and Longger's eyes widened, and he was pierced by countless spears from all directions, so that he stood still, steady, and never fell.
His eyes widened, and he didn't know who had killed him until he died Outside the city of Dunhuang, the Longjia horse farm was surrounded by heavy troops, and then they showed the heads of the three brothers of the Long family to the leader of the Longjia horse team in the confrontation, and the besieged 2,000 Longjia elite horsemen saw that the head of the family was dead, and were forced to abandon their weapons and surrender.
The house of the dragon was confiscated, the gold and silver, the books and documents, and all the wealth were confiscated, and all the women and children were sold into slavery.
Immediately, the Long family's shops, fields, outer houses, and Xiazhuang were also confiscated one by one by Shazhou Wei Kunji.
Dunhuang Longjia has since become history, and soon, like countless monuments submerged under the yellow sand, will never be seen again.
Yang Xu, the imam of the Ming Dynasty and the people of the Western Regions, announced that the Long family had secretly colluded with the notorious horse thieves to harm the local area and had been punished.
Only one day later, Han Dongwei's Sunan led his troops to wash the Ling Yunting Ling family in blood, and the crime was similar to that of the Long family, and one crime was added: fornicating with the Timur army stationed in Mongolia.
Xia Xun, who already had the right to speak politically, after mastering the religious discourse of the first major religion in the Western Regions, the Great Purge began To be continued: