Chapter 176
"what happened?"
Cheng Shijie actually already knew what happened on the battlefield, so he asked pretending to be surprised.
"Sangui was ordered by Commander Cheng to pursue Jiannu. The troops behind Jiannu's palace were Beile Yuetuo, the leader of the banner with a red flag. There were still only a hundred steps left before Sangui could capture Yuetuo. If nothing else happened, he would be defeated. You can kill him."
Wu Sangui took a deep breath and said angrily: "At this moment, Zukefa from the Guan Ning Army rushed over, stood between us and Jiannu, and obstructed us so much that Yue Tuo They escaped! My subordinates went to them to argue with them, but they actually said that if they can’t get the great achievement of capturing Yue Tuo, no one can get it! Cheng Shuai, tell me, are they being too bullying?”
What is confusing right and wrong?
Wu Sangui is.
What does it mean for the evildoer to complain first?
Wu Sangui is.
"You, your mother's stinky fart!"
Just when Wu Sangui complained to Cheng Shijie, Zu Dabi brought Zu Dale, Zu Kefa and other generals of the ancestral army to Cheng Shijie.
Zu Dabi was listening to Wu Sangui's complaint first, and he suddenly became furious. Even when he scolded Wu Sangui, his sister also followed him.
"Well, Uncle Wu, you haven't even grown your hair yet. Are you bullying people to the point of bullying?"
Zu Dabi charged forward on his horse, raised his Mo Dao, and struck at Wu Sangui.
Looking at Zu Dabi's murderous look, Cheng Shijie had no doubt that Zu Dabi, who was in a rage, dared to chop Wu Sangui with a knife.
Of course Cheng Shijie couldn't let Zu Dabi chop Wu Sangui alive. Of course, this is not because Cheng Shijie was protecting Wu Sangui because Wu Xiang gave him gifts. But because Zu Dabi was chopping up Wu Sangui, Zu Dabi's rationality became irrational.
Since then, Zu Dabi has been in serious trouble.
In the entire Guan Ning Army, there were not many people that Cheng Shijie was interested in. Cao Bianjiao, Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew were two, and Zu Dabi was one.
No matter how you calculate it, it is a loss to hook up with Zu Dabi for the traitor Wu Sangui.
Cheng Shijie said quickly: "Second General Zu, wait a minute, don't be impulsive!"
Zu Dabi said angrily: "You have bullied me so much, how can I not be impulsive?"
Even so, Zu Dabi's Mo Dao was indeed put down.
Cheng Shijie asked: "What on earth is going on?"
Zu Kefa said: "It was Wu Sangui who stood in front of the general and deliberately let Yue Tuo run away. He also said that if they can't get the great achievement of capturing Yue Tuo, no one can get it!"
Cheng Shijie smiled bitterly and said: "You guys are right when you say public opinion, and you are right when you say mother-in-law. I don't know who to believe. Besides, this is just a trivial matter. Winning Huang Taiji is a serious matter. Why do you have to worry about such a trivial matter?" Fighting?"
Having said this, Cheng Shijie took Zu Dabi's hand and said: "Cheng is not a judge, nor can he resolve the case. The top priority is to hunt down Jiannu. Give Cheng some face and put this matter aside for the time being!"
Zu Dabi understood Cheng Shijie's situation. After all, it was the first time for Wu Sangui and Zu Kefa to cooperate with Cheng Shijie. They did not have the friendship of fighting together. Wu Sangui was able to hold the Wu family's servants to prove that his words were right. Zukefa can also prove that what he said is right, Cheng Shijie is indeed partial to no one.
Zu Dabi said: "Cheng Shuai, I listen to you!"
Cheng Shijie looked at Wu Sangui and said: "The relationship between nephew and uncle is blood. The relationship between uncle and nephew is more like father and son. Uncle is another part of the nephew. You can never change the blood relationship. Uncle, you and General Zu Er Shake hands and make peace, we will discuss how to deal with Huang Taiji right away!"
Wu Sangui did not bite Zu Kefa, after all, it was his fault first.
Although the internal strife in Guan Ning's army gave Jian Nu a chance to breathe, of course this opportunity was only a temporary advantage. Soon, large groups of cavalry appeared in Jian Nu's sight. These cavalry were the commanders of the Ning Navy Chassing Cavalry Army. The commander Hu Erqi's troops consisted of more than 8,000 Mongolian soldiers, more than 2,000 slave soldiers, and tens of thousands of cavalry.
During this period of pursuit, the Chasseurs were also very tired. Both the man and the horse had lost weight, but they were still full of murderous intent. There were more or less captured heads hanging around the horses' necks, which were bloody and frightening.
After the hunting cavalry discovered that the slave army had stopped, they cheered like hunters who had caught up with their prey and were about to get the meat they needed to survive.
Jiannu naturally recognized the hunting cavalry. They were either Mongolians or Jurchens who had surrendered to the Ning Navy. They were also traitors of their Kingdom of Jin. When Jiannu saw these traitors, Jiannu's officers and soldiers started a commotion, and many generals could not restrain themselves. He wanted to rush up and chop them, but Du Huang Taiji stopped him. Now was not the time to be angry.
As for the Mongolian soldiers who surrendered to the Ning Navy, they have now replaced their guns with cannons, and at least their equipment has been completely changed. Their equipment is not the standard equipment given to them by Cheng Shijie, but the armor ripped off the corpse of Jiannu. Originally, the Mongolian soldiers People are poorer than slaves.
Therefore, when they surrendered to the slaves, the treatment of the Mongols could only be said to be barely enough to avoid starving to death. It was much better than the treatment of the Han army, and they could at least eat two meals a day.
However, after they took refuge with Cheng Shijie, Cheng Shijie gave each of them five kilograms of sweet potatoes and five kilograms of potatoes a day. These Mongolian cavalry ate until their bellies were full. They had never eaten sweet potatoes. This new type of crop can be burned or boiled. Eat it or eat it raw.
No matter how they eat, they will not starve. In this case, they are lucky that they have a big thick leg. These Mongolian cavalry are very smart. They smell the opportunity from the fierce reaction of the slaves.
"Come on, you coward!"
"Son of a bitch!"
"Come here and eat grandpa's fart!"
These Mongolian cavalry used all kinds of filthy words towards the Jiannu, and the more they cursed, the more energetic they became. However, Huang Taiji was very strict in managing the army. Under Huang Taiji's strict orders, these Jiannu were not stimulated by the Mongolian cavalry and pursued them angrily.
Seeing that Jiannu was not fooled, Hu Erqi said: "Su Wanyan, show your skills. Our master (Cheng Shijie) has always been fair. One of Jiannu's heads can be exchanged for a thousand kilograms of potatoes or sweet potatoes!"
"A thousand pounds, that's a lot!"
Su Wannayan stood in front of the Jiannu formation. At a distance of two to three hundred steps, he jumped off his horse, then unfastened his belt and urinated in the direction of the Jiannu army.
Facing the provocation of the former traitor, Hauge turned livid with anger: "Father, I really can't bear it any longer!"
"You have to endure it if you can't help it!"
Huang Taiji said with a serious face: "No one is allowed to attack without the order of this Khan!"
Seeing that this method could not attract Jiannu to attack, Hu Erqi looked surprised: "These bastards can really endure it!"
"Master, please take a look, it's your slave's fault!"
The generals around Su Wannayan whispered softly for a while, and the cavalry under his command were divided into five teams of three hundred, one after another, and went up to rain arrows in the direction of Jiannu.
The horn bow of the Mongolian cavalry is a soft bow with extremely fast shooting speed. It is a terrifying weapon in the hands of these well-trained Mongolian cavalry. When the bowstring trembles, several arrows fly out in a line.
Suddenly there was a rain of arrows over the heads of the slave army. However, this kind of bow can only bully the Ming army, which has a terrible armor ratio, but it will not work against the elite of the slaves.
But the problem is that these days, in order to escape for their lives and reduce their burden, the Jiannu cavalry took off their armor and threw it away. In this way, the Mongolian cavalry was covered with arrows and achieved good results. The Jiannu cavalry suddenly looked like a wheat field blown by the wind. Staggering around, he was shot down by more than a hundred people in one encounter.
Seeing Jiannu passively defending without any counterattack, the Mongolian cavalry howled more and more arrogantly. They scattered in all directions, howling like ghosts and wolves...
The Jiannu soldiers were a little excited at first, but gradually they realized that they were all foxes of thousands of years who ignored the Mongolian cavalry's tactics to lure the enemy.
They are very familiar with these tricks. The more excited and angry you are, the more energetic they will harass you. They just cut off large pieces of bloody horse meat and threw it into the pot to cook, filling their stomachs more than anything else.
But the Mongolian cavalry had a way to arouse them. After discovering that archery on the slave defense line was ineffective, some Mongolian cavalry ran to the upwind position, started to light a fire, and then peed and pooped into the fire. No, they peed into the fire. Burn in the fire.
As the excrement and urine burned, thick smoke billowed. Before Jiannu had time to eat the horse meat in the pot, a strong smell of excrement and urine suddenly hit his nostrils. If the stomach was shallower, it would not even be able to eat horse meat.
"This is too much!"
Seeing the Mongolian cavalry being so arrogant, my uncle couldn't bear it, and my aunt couldn't bear it anymore.
The person in charge of the rear was Shuo Tuo. He knew that Huang Taiji's order at this time was correct. It was the best way to ignore the Mongols. As long as the main force of the slave builders ate horse meat and recovered some physical strength, they would be able to fight. .
Now, although countless Mongolians and Koreans have fled to the slaves, the remaining ones are the backbone of the slaves. In this case, disrupting Huang Taiji's layout is the best thing.
Don't be afraid of not doing good things, just be afraid of not having good people.
For the Jurchens, Shuo Tuo was really not a good person. Cheng Shijie could understand that every move of Jian Nu was his fault.
Shuo Tuo led more than a thousand Jiannu cavalry to charge towards the Mongols. Seeing his younger brother rushing, Yue Tuo could not sit still. He could only lead his troops and charge with Shuo Tuo.
The battle between the two sides broke out and the fight was very fierce.
To say that the combat effectiveness of the Mongols is far inferior to that of the Jiannu, but now the Jiannu are short of horses and can't exert half of their 100% combat effectiveness, while the Mongolian cavalry has 100% of its combat effectiveness and can exert 120%. Who doesn't want to mess around in front of the new master? A familiar face?
What's more, in the eyes of the Mongolian cavalry, Cheng Shijie was a big man with great ambition and structure. He could even tolerate the Jurchens, but couldn't he tolerate the Mongols?
In this case, the Mongols seemed to have exploded into a small universe. Even when their numbers were equal, they actually fought to a half-weight with Jiannu, and no one could do anything to the other.
Before Shuo Tuo, Yue Tuo and Hu Erqi's troops could decide the outcome, neat footsteps appeared behind them. This was the infantry of Ning Haijun, who had arrived first and appeared in the northeast of Liao Zhongwei.
In the ice and snow, Ning Haijun's black clothes, black armor and black flag are very recognizable.
"One, two, one!"
There were thunderous footsteps behind Jiannu, and the ground shook slightly. Ning Haijun's three reorganized capital divisions and more than 20,000 infantry troops had appeared on the horizon, like a torrent of steel, rushing towards this side from far to near. Come.
The artillery at the front was still the one that Jiannu hated and feared. After fighting for so long, they actually did not suffer much loss. The artillery shells that were originally lacking were supplemented by the rear, but there were more, especially the three-inch artillery. Twenty-four had increased to thirty-six, and more than 2,500 shells were fired, which was enough for Cheng Shijie to fight another decisive battle.
Ning Haijun's black flags were hunting and flying, and their morale was like a rainbow.
Huang Taiji looked at the Ming army infantry who appeared behind him, with bitterness on his face: "It's over, what should we do now?"
Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said, "Hey, I finally caught up. It's not easy."
Shang Keyi showed a smile: "My Ming Dynasty has been fighting Jiannu for so many years, I'm afraid this is the first time that I have surrounded Jiannu, right?"
Li Weiluan nodded and said: "Yes, before this, only Jiannu surrounded us."
"That's because they didn't meet me. If they had met me, they would have been surrounded long ago!"
Cheng Shijie said with a relaxed smile: "When you meet me, Jiannu still wants to fight in a down-to-earth manner?"
Cheng Shijie's greatest contribution to Ning Haijun was not to invent a few pieces of equipment, nor to transform and invent the Thunder Gun, but to provide Ning Haijun with adequate wages.
The Jurchens all boast: "There are not even ten thousand Jurchens, but ten thousand are invincible!"
But in fact, the Ming Dynasty did not have enough wages, and it was invincible if it had enough wages.
Just like in the Battle of Daling River, although the Ming Dynasty lost more than 60,000 troops, Jiannu himself knew very well that although they won this battle, they did not take advantage.
Those troops under Zu Dashou, but Jian Nu, who did not surrender until more than half of them were starved to death, and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, were just raised by a civil servant who did not like money, using the financial resources of the three palaces. an army.
Similarly, the three strong Sichuan armies in the late Ming Dynasty were even worse equipped than the rogue bandits. The same was true for Sun Chuanting's Qin army.
As long as they can provide the Ming army with enough food and grass like Cheng Shijie, they can defeat the slaves even with inferior swords and guns.
"Cheng Shuai, I am willing to take the lead!"
"Cheng Shuai, the last general is willing to take the lead!"
Cheng Shijie shook his head and said: "There's no rush for now. Let's set up camp first. Jian Nu has already killed horses to satisfy their hunger. When they are starved for a few more days until they are blinded by hunger, we will launch a general attack again!"
After listening to Cheng Shijie's words, the generals were no longer anxious.
Attacking the Jiannu camp now would probably be an extremely brutal battle. Knowing that the slaves had no food and grass, and were now killing horses to satisfy their hunger, in this environment, siege was the most labor-saving and cost-effective way.
Wu Sangui is not in the limelight now. He flatters Cheng Shijie so much that he shamelessly wants to recognize Cheng Shijie as his adoptive father.
After hearing this, Cheng Shijie stared at Wu Sangui with a puzzled expression and said, "Uncle Chang, how old are you this year?"
Wu Sangui said: "Nineteen years old, weak crown!"
"This handsome man is thirty-six years old this year!"
Cheng Shijie said: "Don't mention this matter again!"
Wu Sangui had no choice but to retreat angrily.
In the evening, Sun Chengzong and Sun Zhilan actually arrived at the front line.
"Teacher, why are you here?"
"Why can't I come to such a grand event?"
"Your body!"
"I've never had a sword!"
Sun Chengzong went to a high place to look at the enemy camp, but he saw bonfires dotted as densely as stars, piles covering the earth, horns desolate, horses honking in the wind, and it was a spectacular sight. As he watched this scene, he felt excited and chanted softly: "I was drunk and looked at the sword with the light on, and I dreamed of going back to the Horn Company... It's really... magnificent!"
Cheng Shijie smiled and said: "Huang Taiji probably wouldn't have thought that last year he surrounded Dalinghe City with his troops, and this year I will retaliate with him!"
"Not only did he not expect it, I didn't even expect it!"
Sun Chengzong sighed: "If this enemy army can be annihilated, even if only half of them are annihilated, Jiannu will be exhausted, and the Ming Dynasty can take a breath and concentrate on dealing with those rogue bandits."
Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Teacher, why do you sound like this, as if rogue bandits are more difficult to deal with than slaves?"
Sun Chengzong looked at Cheng Shijie and said, "Do you think rogue bandits are easy to deal with?"
"Of course!"
"Master, I don't think so!"
Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly and said: "No matter how fierce the slaves are, they only have a population of more than one million and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers. As long as the Ming Dynasty can use its strength in one place, it is not difficult to deal with them. But these rogue bandits, they are in the millions , just like locusts, swarming everywhere and eating up the whole place, killing one group after another, killing them all, and I don’t know how long it will take to pacify them!"
"Rogue bandits are not difficult to deal with!"
Cheng Shijie said with a smile: "Liaodong is thousands of miles fertile and sparsely populated, with more than 100 million acres of fertile land. As long as the Jian slaves are exterminated, the refugees are moved to Liaodong, each person is given 180 acres of land, and we provide them with farm tools and seeds. All problems are solved!”
Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly and said: "Destroy the Jian slaves? Easier said than done!"
"What's the difficulty in destroying the Jiannu slaves?"
Cheng Shijie said confidently: "As long as the court doesn't make trouble, in three to five years, I will be able to destroy Jiannu myself."
"The difficulty is that there are always people who will try their best to cause trouble with you!"
Sun Chengzong had a deep understanding of this. When he was in charge of Liaodong, he adopted a fortress strategy and focused on blockade. He finally surrendered several million taels of silver and finally obtained more than 500,000 dan of farmland and grain harvest. However, in At this time, the eunuchs cooperated with the Donglin Party to design the defeat of Liuhe and drove him home from the court.
After Sun Chengzong resigned, everything he did was in vain.
Fortunately, thanks to the great blessing of the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Shijie was born.
Thinking of this, Sun Chengzong looked at Cheng Shijie.
His eyes seemed to have traveled through a thousand years of time and space. Chen Qingzhi, a famous general of the Southern Liang Dynasty, was also a late bloomer. Chen Qingzhi had never led an army before. When he led the army for the first time, he put down the rebellion in Xuzhou of the Southern Liang Dynasty. The Liang army conquered a total of fifty-two cities and captured seven men and women. Fifteen thousand people. After that, Chen Qingzhi was transferred to the East Palace Zhige and was given the title of Guanzhong Marquis.
That year, Chen Qingzhi was forty-one years old.
The same was true for Cheng Shijie, who had always been unknown until he was promoted by Sun Yuanhua to guard the Ning Navy, and then he came to prominence. The more he fought, the more brave he became. From being penniless to being well-known in the world, it only took a year.
Huang Taiji, like Sun Chengzong, also looked outside the tent at the dense bonfires of the Ming army and the company camps like stars. His heart was filled with despair.
If he hadn't thought he was smart, if he hadn't wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife, this battle wouldn't have been fought. Of course, Daikin wouldn't have suffered such a disastrous defeat.
They had been without food for many days now, and their horses were exhausted.
How to fight this battle?
Huang Taiji didn't think of a good way.
If God could give him a batch of food and fodder to allow the elite Eight Banners to recharge their batteries, it would not take long, only three to five days, and he would have absolute confidence to fight the Ming Dynasty to the end.
"King Khan, I'm so happy!"
Fan Wencheng held a piece of paper and said with joy: "King Khan is very happy!"
"I'm so happy!"
Huang Taiji thought Fan Wencheng was flattering him.
But the problem was that Fan Wencheng handed the note to Huang Taiji.
Huang Taiji glanced at it hastily and saw that it read: "Is Baiyintu here?"
Aixinjueluo Baiyintu, the third son of Duyi Kongbele Bayala, the nephew of Nurhaci, the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing clan, Duoluobele.
He is the capital and deputy flag leader of the Xianghuang Banner. He is under Hauge. Because he is a member of the clan, he is deeply trusted by Huang Taiji. This is important. What is more important is that Baiyintu took Huang Taiji to the seven troops in Shenyang. The eleven Niu Lu were the last reinforcements of Jiannu.
"God bless you!"
Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief.
(End of chapter)
