Such a battle... no, no, in Ado's eyes this cannot be considered a war at all, at best it can only be regarded as confrontation and intimidation.
Since Abul and Kunbuha took refuge, everyone had a clearer understanding of the surrounding Mongolian tribes, so they were confident in their actions.
In the early years when Mongolia was strong, the attack and control of the eastern part of the grassland and even the northeastern hinterland of the Jin Kingdom were mainly carried out by Genghis Khan's younger brothers, the so-called host kings. In addition, Muhuali, who represented Genghis Khan himself, also participated.
In just a few years, the influence of the Mongols reached Linhuangfu, Huiningfu, Zhaozhou, Taizhou and other important towns, cut off the Liaoxi Corridor to the southeast, and covered a huge area of thousands of miles in radius. Many foreign races outside the Mongolian headquarters were kidnapped, and powerful Khitan and Jurchen figures all worked for the Mongols. During this period, Belgutai was stationed in Linhuang Mansion for a time, and after Muhuali, he gained control of the remaining Khitan tribes.
Later, Ding Haijun intervened in the Northeast and overwhelmed the Mongols with both force and financial resources. As Qie Xue's army suffered setbacks in the Central Plains, the Hu people in the Northeast also seemed to have been beaten to death and turned against Mongolia. After the main force of the Mongolian army was transferred, many tribes with thousands of households were unable to gain a foothold and retreated to the grasslands one after another, barely maintaining the northeastern border between the Great Zhou Dynasty and Mongolia.
As the saying goes, the tiger is thin and strong. This situation lasted for two years, and the Northeast Recruitment Department of the Great Zhou Dynasty did not dare to go further.
However, the people who understand the Mongols best are always the Mongols themselves, and the lower the Mongols are, the more they can feel the hardship of life, which determines the plight of many Mongolian tribes.
Abul, Kunbuha and others saw clearly that these thousands-household tribes in the eastern part of the grassland were not only incapable of expansion, but also incapable of resisting external aggression. What they relied on was the remaining power of Genghis Khan. Other than that, there was no difference between them and the grasslands before they were unified.
After Lu Shu and others gathered the Han slaves and seized the cattle and sheep in the pasture, they have been using the ruins of Wusha Castle as their stronghold.
This city originally had a five-mile-long wall, but now only the city base is as high as a person. Most of the construction inside the city foundation collapsed, the timber was burned or removed, and only the stones and bricks remained. There were originally two trenches around the edge of the city. In the early years, the Mongolian army filled the trenches with thousands of horses carrying soil and filled them up.
The slope behind the city was not necessarily steep. The fences built by the Han slaves overnight were not used to prevent the Mongols from attacking, but mainly to prevent the cattle and sheep from escaping.
Aduo once participated in the battle between the Ding Navy and the Mongols in the Haicang Town Tunbao. He was very sure that the defensive capabilities of Wushabao were not one-tenth that of the Haicang Town Tunbao. The combat effectiveness of this mob is not even one-tenth of that of the Shangding Navy.
Not to mention the few soldiers in the fort...
What Ado can do these days is what he is good at: using discarded wood and weapon fragments to piece together a few wolf fangs and a few parapets, and using the grass all over the mountains and plains to make a large number of fires. Throwing swallowtail torch.
Nothing else.
He still had many tool patterns in his mind, but it was difficult for a clever woman to make a meal without rice. At the moment, he couldn't even make iron tools, so he could only do these few.
As for Lu Shu and Lu Wusi, Aduo estimated that they must be stronger, but their strength was limited. Lu Shu talked about his identity all day long and boosted morale; Lu Wusi uncovered several female cadres who had sneaked into Wubao.
Other than that, everyone's ability to direct battles is about the same. Lu Shu was slightly stronger, but everyone was worried about him coming to the front line in person.
No matter how you look at it, if this little power is faced by a strong enemy, it should be destroyed in one blow. In Ado's impression, based on the combat effectiveness of the Mongolian army when they broke through the boundary trench, any Mongolian centurion wearing armor and charging fiercely would be able to enter the dock and chop melons and vegetables.
But now, more than ten days have passed, and they can't even conquer a small ruin.
Thousands of Mongolians surrounded Wusha Fort, and thousands of households with escaped Han slaves nearby sent people. But they have never been able to organize a decent attack. Every time, there was heavy thunder and little rain, and they retreated after a dozen people died.
The Mongols have always been tough and resistant to war. How could they become like this?
When Aduo went north this time, he saw a lot of Mongolians. I felt that they still had broad faces and high cheekbones.
...It’s the original batch, no variant?
He was confused for a while before he understood the reason.
Mongolians grew up eating cheese, mutton, and goat milk. As long as they did not encounter white or black disasters, they generally had enough meat, so they were stronger than ordinary Han people. They are also very tough in character and can persist in surviving in harsh environments that Han'er cannot bear.
After such a nation forms an army, the lower limit is very high, and the fighting will and tenacity do not need to be maintained at all. But the leader of this army changed his mind.
In the past two years, most of the trade between the grassland and the Central Plains has been in the hands of Yeli Yasi, who controls Gouluo. Yeli Yasi made huge profits from this. Not only did he not suffer losses from Han'er, but he continued to expand his tribe and territory.
These thousands of tribes on the eastern edge of the grassland can only hold their noses and flatter Yeliyasi, but Belgutai has taken Yeliyasi's market, how can they share the benefits with them?
In the final analysis, the cause of these troubles has nothing to do with them, and the armies of the Western Regions fighting against the rebellious Mongols in the south have nothing to do with them. Even if the Zhou Dynasty launched a large army to invade the grassland, the first people to deal with it would be the Golden Family, and they These tribes, far removed from the Mongol inner circle, had no connection.
What they were struggling with were just the Han slaves, the stolen sheep and supplies... What big deal was this? When the whole mess is settled, if the Golden Family repels the Zhou army, it will be too late for us to attack the city. If the Zhou army defeats the various tribes of the Golden Family, we can save the lives of these men, just to show our good will!
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The rise of Mongol Uluth also created a large number of visionary Qianhu Nayans. Now these Qianhu Nayans have generally given full play to their wisdom. Even some unrelated Qianhu Nayan, in order to avoid being recruited by the Golden Family to confront the Zhou army head-on, came here with their troops from afar and pretended to fight against the powerful enemy.
Ado knew that a strong enemy was not that strong, so every time the Mongols launched an attack, it was like this.
Before dawn, they noisily formed the team, moved camps, distributed weapons, and arranged combat tasks. Then they rushed slowly to the city wall, shot a bunch of arrows, shouted for a while, rushed forward a few steps, and then retreated. This performance made Ado feel in a daze that what he encountered was not the Mongolian army, but the beggar army under Dai Jin's rule.
Ado picked up the straight knife and patrolled along the city wall.
After returning to the original place, he found that the Mongols were still making trouble. The wind brought them a few words, it seemed that a certain centurion in the camp had a conflict with others, and everyone else was making noises.
Their noises became louder and louder, and more and more torches were lit, which alerted the pack of wild dogs that were active around the ruins of the Tunbao.
These wild dogs should have originally been domestic dogs raised by the Jin Kingdom's garrison along the boundary trench. After their master is killed, they survive and survive by eating carrion. After hearing the sound of the army mobilizing and shouting, these dogs probably thought that there would be corpses to eat soon, so their eyes glowed green, and they slowly approached the fort, and then carefully stayed out of the range of the arrows.
But the Mongols never left the camp and the battle never started.
The wild dogs ran out of patience. Grinding their teeth in disappointment, with their tails tucked between their legs, they walked through the battlefield where they had briefly fought in the past few days. One dog smelled the smell of dried blood on the ground and ran back and forth several times, whining, but the other dogs ignored it. It had no choice but to follow the leading dog and run towards the continuous wasteland to the west of Tunbao.
The sky will be dark, the sky in the east is white, and the sky in the west is still dim.
Under the dim sky, a dusty Zhou army sentry rode away.
