"Go away..."
"Ha ha ha ha!!"
The war broke out in the north, and as the Hu soldiers moved south, some fortresses that were not well defended and had not received news were breached.
Bodies can be seen everywhere in the streets and alleys of the fort, and the wailing of women and the screams of men inside the houses can be heard through the walls.
One by one, the Han people fell under the sword of Hu Bing, and many women were defiled by Hu Bing.
They watched strange figures rushing into their homes one after another, killing their relatives, and then being brutally humiliated.
This scene is like the devil coming to the world, or locusts crossing the border. They not only rape and plunder, but even farm tools and seeds are not spared.
"This is the third fort we have captured. There are only a few hundred people in these forts, and there is too little grass and grain available. Many brothers cannot get anything."
In the fort, Tulu Huchaer, who was constantly wearing his belt, walked out of the yard and spoke from the next room.
There, the woman's wailing could be heard, and when the Hu soldiers stationed at the entrance of the courtyard saw Tuolu Huchaer walking out, they also walked towards the house.
Not long after, a woman's wail also came from the room.
Tulu Huchaer waited for a long time, and then the gray-haired Haragu walked out of the house holding a young girl in her twelfth or thirteenth year with disheveled clothes.
He told Hu Bing at the gate of the courtyard: "Take good care of this woman, I will take her back to Wuliangha Tushan."
He handed the numb girl to Hu Bing, then tied his belt and walked towards Tuolu Huchaer: "Thirty miles further south is Daning City. There are more forts and more farmland around Daning City. The horses eat fat.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance. Not long after, a cavalryman came to the front of the courtyard and reined in his horse. He fell off the horse in a panic and rolled to the entrance of the courtyard: "Great Khan, Oh no!"
"You are so panicked, have your courage been eaten by a dog?" Harawu cursed, but the soldier's words made him sweat profusely in the next second.
"Thousands of cavalry are coming from the south, they are soldiers from Bohai!"
Just for a moment, the two people who had just been discussing going south immediately stood up: "Order the entire army to retreat!"
"Yes!" Hu Qi left in a panic. Tuolu Huchaer also looked at Harawu: "Why are the people from Bohai here? Aren't they fighting with Wu Gao in Liaodong?"
The news about Tuolu Huchaer and others was still more than a month ago, and they thought that the current commander-in-chief of Liaodong was still Wu Gao.
"Ignore him, let's retreat!"
Haragu gritted his teeth and gave the order, and then led Tolu Huchaer out of the yard and got on his horse.
Not long after, a wooden whistle sounded. Many Hu soldiers heard the sound, swung their knives to kill the woman who had been used to vent their sexual desire a second ago, and ran out of the yard with their pants raised.
In just about a quarter of an hour, there was no sound in the entire fort.
Haragu and the others also galloped towards the north, completely losing their previous calmness.
However, before they had run ten miles, they saw Bohai's elite cavalry and flag appearing in front of them.
For a time, they were surrounded by six thousand Bohai Jingqi near the fort.
"Want to break out?"
On the horseback, Tolu Huchaer broke out in cold sweat and looked at Haragu beside him.
There are no less than two thousand Bohai Jingqi in front of them, and there are Bohai Jingqi chasing behind them.
For a time, Haragu didn't know how many enemy troops he faced, so he found a hilly highland and prepared to see the number of Bohai cavalry before deciding whether to break through or stay and fight.
"Zhu Gaoxu is trapped in Liaodong and cannot bring out many soldiers and horses to pursue us. Let's see how many men he has first, and then choose to break out or fight."
Haragu said, and at the same time expressed his own thoughts: "Their southerners are fighting a civil war, and Zhu Gaoxu has few soldiers. We can just wait for the price and sell it. Maybe we can follow them into the pass and plunder."
He talked about his ambitions, and at the same time, countless Bohai cavalry came from three directions into thousands of people, but in an instant, three thousand cavalry came out.
These 3,000 people plus the 2,000 cavalry who blocked their way before, the total is 5,000 cavalry, and they are all armored cavalry.
They removed the hip armor of the vest and cut part of the armor skirt, which reduced the burden on the horse and gained the ability to run short and medium distances.
"In just two years, they can do one person and two horses."
Looking at the configuration of these five thousand cavalry, one war horse and one riding horse, Haragu naturally knew that these horses were snatched from them by the Bohai Navy, but what could he do.
He glanced at the 20,000 people on his side. Although he only had a few hundred armored cavalry and more than 4,000 armored soldiers, he still had the ability to break through.
The reason why he is not leaving now is to test whether he can cooperate with Zhu Gaoxu.
"Send a man who can speak Chinese to find the general on the opposite side and tell him that when I went south this time, I heard about King Bohai's suffering and brought troops to help. If King Bohai is willing, I am willing to lead troops south and follow him. Fight within the pass."
Harawu is worthy of being the person who can coordinate the Ulliangha tribes. It is clear that the Wuliangha tribes have a blood feud with Zhu Gaoxu, but he can still put down these things, just in exchange for the stability of the Ulliangha tribes, and at the same time to enter the pass. Obtain a large amount of materials to strengthen yourself.
His words made many nobles around him look cold. However, due to his strength, they had to shut up and wait.
More than ten Uliangha cavalrymen holding banners ran towards the south. They did not carry weapons, so they were not attacked by the Bohai Navy, but were taken south by the Bohai Navy.
Haragu was waiting. Once the momentum went wrong, he would lead his troops to break out. The Bohai Navy did not move. They were waiting for the military order from His Highness.
Time passed, and soon the dozen or so Uliangha cavalry were brought to the fort they had previously killed by hundreds of Bohai cavalry.
Outside the stronghold, thousands of Bohai cavalry looked at them with cold faces. If looks could kill, they would have been hacked to pieces in thousands of pieces.
After the two groups fought, more than ten Mongolian cavalry were brought deep into the fort. Along the way, they could see the corpses of the Han people they had killed earlier.
The further they went, the more frightened they became.
It wasn't until they came to the local Baihu Office that they finally saw Zhu Gaoxu, a tall man in armor, and Zhu Quan with a livid face next to him.
Zhu Gaoxu looked at them with a livid face, and his voice was low, as if coming from the abyss: "Why did Haragu send you here?"
Seeing the big banner on the side, no matter how stupid these ten people were, they knew that this majestic man was Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Bohai County, who had beaten their tribe to almost extinction. Therefore, their legs weakened and they all knelt down.
"Back to Your Highness, my king said that he heard that you were suffering in the south and specially led his troops to rescue you..."
The messenger became less and less confident as he spoke, and in the end his voice became even smaller and trembling.
"Save him?" Zhu Gaoxu gritted his teeth, his expression sinister.
"It's none of his business if we, the Han people, are fighting!"
Before he finished speaking, there was a "bang" sound, and the door of the Baihu Yamen was kicked down by Zhu Gaoxu, revealing the situation inside.
The woman was stripped naked, her body covered with filth, and she died for a long time.
The man was beheaded, his body was lying in the courtyard, and his head was deliberately placed on the table in the courtyard, which was full of irony.
"This is a misunderstanding... This is a misunderstanding... We are here to help you fight against Daning. They insist on resisting, so we have no choice but..."
"Shut your stinky mouth!!"
Zhu Quan kicked the messenger over and was so frightened that he smelled bad and was obviously incontinent.
Zhu Gaoxu's face was livid: "Da Ning has surrendered to Gu, and Ha Lawu has massacred three hundred households. Gu also knows about it. Go and tell Ha Lawu that Gu has sent Quan Ning's guards south, and you are on the way north. Also blocked by Gu."
"If he doesn't want all the men of the Ulliangha tribe to disappear here, he can bring as many people as three hundred households here and lead the team here himself."
"I am here to watch him and those bastards being buried by the people of the Ming Dynasty!!"
"Get out!!" Zhu Quan also yelled.
The dozen or so Mongolians crawled away, and Zhu Gaoxu also walked down the Baihusuo Yamen, gritting his teeth: "The whole army has pulled out of camp, and I will use this group of bastards to bury the people of three Baihusuo!"
"yes!!"
With just one order, thousands of fine cavalry marched north under the leadership of Zhu Gaoxu.
Soon, six thousand cavalry gathered, including five thousand half-armored cavalry and one thousand light cavalry led by Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Quan.
In the formation, the surrounded Haragu also heard Zhu Gaoxu's request from the envoy who escaped.
He did not expect that Zhu Gaoxu would personally lead his troops, nor did he expect that Daning's troops and horses were so vulnerable that they all surrendered without even fighting a major battle.
At present, three thousand soldiers and horses of Quaning Guard are moving south, and Zhu Gaoxu's two thousand armored cavalry are blocking them in the north. There are also no less than one thousand armored cavalry on the left and right sides, and there are another thousand armored cavalry waiting for support on the outside.
If they want to break out, they can naturally break out, but their horses are weak. Even if they break out, it will be difficult to reach Quaning Guard in one breath.
On the other hand, the horses of the Bohai Navy are fat and strong, whether they are war horses or riding horses. After a long distance, I am afraid that I will have to make the same mistake as the Bald City of Wuliangha.
"The entire army forms an array!!"
Haragu shouted in an old voice, and soon a harsh whistle sounded in the formation.
The 20,000 Uuliangha cavalrymen took out their bows and arrows, waiting for the horn sound of the entire army to attack.
Faced with their preparations, the Bohai Jingqiu all wore iron face armor, eliminating the possibility of the Uliangha cavalry facing surprise.
"Cut corners and kill the enemy as much as possible."
Zhu Gaoxu also put on a mask, and Zhu Quan beside him also took out a wooden whistle and started blowing.
The wooden whistles of the Ming army were slightly different from those of the Mongols. After hearing this, all armies wore face shields one after another. This scene made the Uliangha cavalry very nervous.
Most of them only had simple leather armor, the remaining 4,000 were equipped with piercing armor, and a few thousand were equipped with chain mail.
Once a fight actually breaks out, no one knows what the outcome will be.
"woo woo woo woo……"
The horn sounded, and Haragu chose the direction of Zhu Gaoxu to break out.
Tens of thousands of horses began to slowly move south from the low hills to the plains, and the surrounding Bohai Jia cavalry were also pressing forward step by step.
On the vast battlefield, although the distance between the two sides was still one or two miles, the sound of horse hooves echoed in the ears of both sides.
In an instant, the Uliangha cavalry took the lead in launching the attack.
Twenty thousand cavalrymen rushed toward Zhu Gaoxu's thousand men, but Zhu Gaoxu unhurriedly pulled out the iron spear inserted in the ground and looked at Zhu Quan aside: "Uncle Seventeen can lead three hundred brothers and wander away. "
After that, he began to urge the horses to go into battle.
Like him, the seven hundred Bohai Jingqi who had been trained also began to go into battle. Everyone controlled the speed of the horses and kept walking at the same level with small steps.
The thousand armored cavalry who were seeking support from their own side, as well as the armored cavalry of various units, began to synchronize with them, approaching Haragu from all directions.
All of them were in unison, with no confusion in formation, just like a high wall moving across the grassland.
With this posture, even if Halagu was blind, he could still see that Zhu Gaoxu was seeking a close combat, trying to surround the Ulliangha cavalry and divide them.
The battlefield was chaotic. Haragu felt nervous as he looked at the six walls closing in on him.
The shiny spear was raised, and the armor and waistcoat on his body reflected each other, forming a copper wall and an iron wall.
Perhaps because they have experienced too many wars, they have developed a fear of the Bohai Navy, or perhaps the quality of the soldiers has declined.
In short, as the Bohai Navy pressed closer, some people in Wu Liangha's cavalry and archery formation began to sneak out and slip through the gaps between the Bohai Navy.
Zhu Gaoxu did not order an interception, because Zhu Quan on the periphery had already led his 300 cavalry to pursue and intercept this group of stragglers.
On the frontal battlefield, the Mongolian cavalry formed a circle and kept shooting. Arrows fell like a shower on the Bohai Navy. Most of them were knocked away. Only a few powerful shots hit the gaps in the armor and got stuck in the gaps.
"Uuuuuu——"
The horn sounded, and the Bohai Navy's armored cavalry was less than fifty steps away from the Uliangha cavalry.
The horses' hooves stepped on the ground, making a dull sound that was shocking. The sound seemed to make the earth tremble, which was terrifying.
Soon, the Bohai Navy launched an attack. They were like a file, constantly attacking the weak points of the Ulyanha cavalry, and smoothing their irregular formation full of edges and corners bit by bit.
In a cavalry duel, it’s all about momentum!
It's rare that two cavalrymen charge each other and collide. That's in the movies.
If there is really a wall charge between two cavalry, neither of them give in. The result will be that the horses stop in unison when they are a few meters away, and everyone looks at each other.
The most important thing for cavalry is discipline. Whoever has a tight formation and faster speed will win.
Under the same discipline, it depends on whose horse is taller and stronger, and whose cavalry is taller and stronger.
Therefore, in modern times, cuirassiers were the tallest, and so were their horses.
Today, the Bohai Navy has taller horses, stronger men, more complete armor, and stricter discipline.
They kept cutting the Ulliangha cavalry back and forth, and any cavalry that was divided would soon be killed by Zhu Quan's light troops patrolling the periphery.
The armored cavalry became human shields, consuming the arrows of the Uliangha people. Occasionally, someone fell down after being hit by an arrow, but no one paid attention to them. All the Bohai navy carried out the same training as usual.
They were like a pack of wolves hunting among the white mountains and black waters. They surrounded the Uliangha cavalry from left to right, and then nibbled and weakened them bit by bit.
"Push forward!"
Haragu tried to break out of the encirclement, but when they were about to charge, the armored cavalry formed by the walls in front would raise their spears and approach them with their arms held flat.
The war horse under its crotch is not a machine, and they will be afraid of the spear coming towards it.
Such fear led to the failure of the charge, and even led to Halagu and others being constantly besieged and killed.
"Blindfolded!"
Haragu took the lead again, but the Bohai Navy did not attack at all and kept narrowing the encirclement.
In the end, thousands of armored soldiers beside Haragu blindfolded the horses and urged their horses to rush forward.
Some heavy cavalrymen picked up strong bows and started shooting arrows under the cover of the front row, and made outstanding achievements in a sudden attack.
The fallen horse brought down countless people and horses, causing a chain reaction.
The charge that Haragu finally launched failed, and the frightened Uliang Hajia soldiers were quickly repelled by the Bohai Navy.
In the crowded encirclement, Haragu tried to expand his position by attacking Zhu Gaoxu's own formation, and his point of impact was Zhu Gaoxu's one thousand light cavalry armored soldiers.
However, his intention was too obvious. Before he could launch the attack, Zhu Gaoxu raised the iron gun in his hand.
In an instant, the square armored cavalry sped up, and the Haragu cavalry crowded in the encirclement began to be massacred.
Their numbers are large, more than three times that of the Bohai Navy, but their equipment is crude and they are unable to break through the encirclement.
"Those who don't want to die are blindfolded and rush towards Zhu Gaoxu's banner!"
Haragu reorganized his army in the chaos and led his troops to rush towards Zhu Gaoxu's main formation with all his strength.
"Let them out!"
Seeing that the time was ripe, Zhu Gaoxu specially asked people to release the besieged Uliangha cavalry.
Tens of thousands of Uliangha's cavalry rushed out of the encirclement, completely ignoring Hawu's military order, and rushed north one after another.
"Idiot! We haven't suffered many casualties. The only way to die now is to collapse into chaos!"
Haragu cursed loudly after rushing out of the encirclement, but he could no longer prevent the entire army from being defeated by himself.
Suddenly, the dull sound of horse hoofbeats sounded from the flanks of the breakout team. Harawu heard the sound and looked around, only to see rolling iron cavalry charging towards him.
"Walk!!"
Tolu Huchaer had been protecting Haragu, but when he saw Zhu Gaoxu's big banner approaching him, he quickly swung his whip and hit Haragu's crotch horse.
The horses ran wildly in pain, and Zhu Gaoxu saw this and threw the spear in his hand like a javelin.
In an instant, the spear knocked over a Huqi who was more than 20 steps away, but did not hit Haragu.
Zhu Gaoxu didn't panic, took his bow and nocked an arrow, and put the one-foot-three-inch arrow on the bow.
The four-sided armor-piercing arrow cluster appeared with cold light, but with a "collapse" sound, the arrow instantly shot through a horseman who broke into the front, and then hit the hind leg of Harawu's red-maned horse with an arrow. .
The red-maned horse was in pain and was caught off guard and threw Halagu off the horse.
"Sweat profusely!!"
Tolu Hucha'er was about to turn around to save him, but he saw Haragu wave his hand violently: "Lead people to retreat, and you can take as many as you can!!"
Obviously, he knew very well that the morale of the Wuliangha cavalry had been crushed by Zhu Gaoxu in an instant, and now they could only save their strength and return to the grassland.
"The whole army is chasing the remaining soldiers!"
Zhu Gaoxu rode his horse forward, pulled out the iron gun inserted into the Hu Bing's body, and after provoking seven or eight Hu soldiers in succession, he finally rode his horse to the front of Haragu.
Haragu, who was quite old, was lying on the ground, grinning in pain. It was obvious that the fall just now had severely damaged him.
This was the first time that the two met so close. Looking at the tall and straight Zhu Gaoxu, Hara grinned and praised: "What a man."
Zhu Gaoxu had a cold face. He would not forget the tragic situation of the fortress built by hundreds of households in the previous period just because of Haragu's words.
He watched his subordinates, led by Zhu Quan, chase and kill the tens of thousands of fleeing Uuliangha cavalry, and stared at this bastard who had been causing trouble for him since Jixi Pass.
The two armored men dismounted their horses and tied Haragu with a rope, forcing him to kneel in front of Zhu Gaoxu's horse's hooves.
Haragu did not make any resistance to this. Perhaps at the moment he fell from the horse, he knew that his fate could not be good.
"What are you going to do to me?"
Haragu no longer mentioned helping Zhu Gaoxu defeat the Ming Dynasty, but directly asked about his fate.
Facing his inquiry, Zhu Gaoxu had a livid face: "I said, I want you to die for the people of Daning!"
His expression was sinister, causing Harawu's face to lose all color in an instant.
"Can I choose how I die?"
He pretended to be calm, but Zhu Gaoxu raised his chin, as if asking him if he still had any choice.
With just one movement, Haragu lowered his head like an eggplant beaten by frost.
Perhaps if he knew that Zhu Gaoxu had brought so many armored cavalry, he would not invade Daning.
However, thieves are always thieves, and Wu Liangha, who often defected between the Tatar and Oara tribes and the Ming Dynasty, was always untrustworthy.
He knelt in front of Zhu Gaoxu, and he knelt for an hour until Zhu Quan returned with the chasing armor cavalry an hour later.
Halagu looked up and saw thousands of captured Hu soldiers, as well as the heads of the Hu soldiers who had been beheaded and hung under the saddle.
Those were his followers, but now he was powerless to do anything.
"Gao Xu, what should we do with these captured soldiers?"
Zhu Quan came to inquire. Although he was also very angry when he saw all the hundreds of households being slaughtered, he was essentially an aristocratic class. Now he thought more about using these barbarian soldiers to organize the barbarian cavalry to go south.
His thoughts were also those of many generals in this era, but Zhu Gaoxu had different thoughts from them.
"I said before, I want them to pay with their lives."
"Here comes..." Zhu Gao said indifferently, pointing his riding whip at the more than a thousand Hu soldiers, and then slowly moved to Harawu.
Harawu looked at the riding whip pointed at him in agony. He thought he could be killed and buried happily, but Zhu Gaoxu's words made all the Hu soldiers go crazy.
"Drag him down and bury him alive!"
"Zhu Gaoxu, you are just a beggar's grandson! You will never win back the hearts of the Ulliangha tribes!"
Harawu cursed loudly, and Zhu Quan was also shocked by Zhu Gaoxu's actions. He wanted to dissuade him, but when he saw Zhu Gaoxu's sinister eyes, he immediately shut his mouth.
While being dragged down, Haragu kept scolding him, but listening to his insults, Zhu Gaoxu raised his chin and looked down at him:
"You are right, I cannot win the hearts of the Ulliangha tribes and make them surrender to me from the bottom of their hearts..."
Then, he changed the topic: "But if I destroy their bodies, there is no need to make them surrender. Isn't that what you Mongolian Khans did, Temujin?"
For just a moment, Harawu felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave. He did not expect that the Han people would also have such cruel thoughts, but people with such thoughts did have this ability.
Haragu was dragged down, and in front of Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Quan and the Bohai Navy, the Bohai Navy dug up soil and pushed him into a large pit outside a hundred households. He was buried alive with more than a thousand captured Hu soldiers under him.
That scene was still fresh in everyone's memory, and Zhu Quan also remembered Zhu Yuanzhang's previous evaluation of Zhu Gaoxu.
"He is cunning, cruel and fierce by nature..."
Thinking of this sentence, Zhu Quan didn't know whether his choice of Zhu Gaoxu was a good choice for a while, but he thought about the moments when he met Zhu Gaoxu and thought that he made the right choice.
As long as his fangs are not aimed at his own people, he has nothing to fear.
"Bohai Chronicles": "Ding Si led his cavalry out of Daning, defeated the enemy at Huerling, and captured thousands of soldiers. He also captured the Yuan general Ha Lawu, and captured more than a thousand Hu soldiers, who were all trapped."
"Records of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty": "Ding Si: He sent troops to the north, defeated the Yuan general Ha Lawu, and then returned to the south."
(End of chapter)
