Chapter 322
Qiao Zhaolin struggled hard: "You can't catch me, I...I..."
Qiao Zhaolin was about to move out of Wu Zongda's backer, but he found a guard in Jinyi holding a brush and preparing to record.
Qiao Zhaolin immediately realized that Jinyiwei was not the Dali Temple and the Ministry of Punishment, let alone the Chasi Division. When encountering a general big case, whether it was the Dali Temple or the Ministry of Punishment, he was afraid that the big bosses above would be implicated, and the big thing would be reduced to a trivial matter. .
But the Jin Yiwei were different. These guys were the hounds kept by the emperor, specializing in biting big guys. Yu Qian, Yu Shaobao, who was famous all over the world, and Hu Zongxian, who was the Minister of the Ministry of War and served as the governor of Zhejiang Province during the Japanese Rebellion in the Southeast. Whether it is a famous minister or cabinet minister or a minister of the six ministries, let alone the distant ones, let’s talk about the nearby ones. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Yang Lian, the Minister of Gu Ming, and Zuo Guangdou, the Prime Minister of Zuosi Temple in Dali Temple, all died in Within Jin Yiwei's prison.
Qiao Zhaolin knew very well that it would be useless for him to bite Wu Zongda out. Instead, Wu Zongda would be sent to prison with him. Thinking of this, Qiao Zhaolin did not struggle anymore. If Wu Zongda was willing to save him, he would do everything possible to save him. If not If he is willing to save him, it will not be too late for him to reveal Wu Zongda.
The Jinyiwei Baihu who were responsible for apprehending Qiao Zhaolin were very happy. They completed the errand ordered by them with almost no effort. They were delighted.
Qiao Zhaolin was then loaded into a carriage and transported out of the capital. Qiao Zhaolin was delivered to Cheng Shijie, and three thousand taels of silver were obtained. Cooperating with Jin Yiwei, Cheng Shijie always had a good reputation, and it was said that it was three thousand taels of silver. In fact, far away Far more than this amount, Cheng Shijie was very generous in bribing Jin Yiwei.
An ordinary two-wheeled carriage drove all the way to the Baihe River. After leaving the city, Qiao Zhaolin clearly felt something was wrong. This was not the direction to the Jinyiwei Prison. Unfortunately, no one paid attention to him even though he shouted at the end of his throat. Those Jinyiwei were Qiao Zhaolin got annoyed, so he took off his socks that hadn't been washed for three months and stuffed them directly into Qiao Zhaolin's mouth.
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In Liaoyang, Sun Zhiman looked at the latest intelligence in front of him. Huang Taiji really had no good intentions. He just cut off the heads of the Mongolians who had frozen to death or starved to death and sent them to Liaoyang in exchange for food.
Sun Zhiwan smiled faintly: "If Huang Taiji is too smart, he will definitely shoot himself in the foot! Don't you know that our commander has been prepared for it!"
"Then let us know? Shall we take action?"
"Take action!"
If Huang Taiji simply used military means to solve the food shortage problem of the slaves, in fact, neither Zhou Ning, the chief of general staff of the Ning Navy, nor Sun Zhili, director of the Liaodong Management Committee, had enough experience to deal with Huang Taiji.
However, Huang Taiji was so smart that he wanted to take advantage without suffering any losses, so this time, it played into Sun Chengzong's hands. During the Battle of Daling River, Sun Chengzong originally wanted Zhang Chun's troops to rest for a while after arriving in Jinzhou, and then After Shanhaiguan's Guan Ning Army of 8,000 troops, 9,000 Sichuan Army, and 3,000 Zhejiang Army arrived in Jinzhou, there were 20,000 more troops. Huang Taiji was basically powerless if he wanted to eat this Ming army again.
In order to kill Zhang Chun's 40,000 troops, Jiannu lost nearly 10,000 men and won a disastrous victory. But the problem is that Huang Taiji used a dirty trick on Sun Chengzong, which can also be said to be a conspiracy.
Huang Taiji let a businessman from Dalinghe go out and let him spread rumors in Jinzhou City. In fact, they were not rumors, but what he saw in the city. In July, when the reconstruction of Dalinghe City began, unexpectedly, before the city was completed, the slave-building army came to the city and surrounded the three and outer three floors of Dalinghe City tightly, making it impossible for water to pass through. As food ran out, cannibalism began to spread in Jinzhou City.
At this time, the people of Jinzhou City could not sit still and began to force Sun Chengzong to order Zhang Chun to reinforce Dalinghe City. As a result, he was ambushed. After a fierce battle, more than two-thirds of the 40,000 Ming army were killed in the battle, and 10,000 of them were killed. The remaining people surrendered to Jiannu.
Now Sun Chengzong used the same trick on Huang Taiji. It can be said that he was using the other person's method to retaliate.
In a dilapidated courtyard in Shenyang City, several Mongolian generals were chatting together.
"Have you received any food?"
"The distribution is here, each family will be divided according to their heads, and each person will have a fight!"
"Me too, I also got food!"
"Hey, do you know? Where did this food come from?"
"how come?"
"It is said that we, the Mongolians, were given our heads in exchange for the Ming people!"
"Ah, it's true or false. Don't talk nonsense. If these words get out, your head will be lost!"
"Can you say this nonsense? I was on duty last night and went on a business trip to deliver a batch of things to Shilipu outside the city. On the way, the axle of a large car broke and the things on the car fell off. What do you think it is?"
"What?"
"Human heads, densely packed with human heads!"
"Then it can't be concluded that it's the head of our Mongols, right? Besides, why does Akito want the head?"
"Don't you know this? A head of Jiannu was worth fifty taels of silver in the Ming Dynasty. The people of Ming Dynasty bought the head from Jiannu as a military merit. So, a while ago, we were all short of food. Yes, now there is food again!”
"hiss……"
A Mongolian general took a deep breath: "Not to mention this, I don't know yet. The nine members of the Sena family under my command have not been seen for a while. It is said that the whole family has frozen to death. We Mongolians have always You are not afraid of the cold, even if every household freezes to death, have you heard that in a family of nine, not one of them is left alive?"
"This is exchanging the heads of our Mongolians for food from the Ming people..."
"Be careful!"
I don’t know since when, something about trading Mongolian heads for food began to spread in Shenyang City. At the beginning, it was only spread in the streets and alleys, but soon spread to every corner of Shenyang City, and then spread to the rear like a plague, and in the blink of an eye it got out of control.
The Mongolian tribes who had originally taken refuge in Huang Taiji were suddenly surrounded by soldiers and the wind was trembling. Their eyes when looking at the Jurchens became unkind.
The entire city of Shenyang was furious. You must know that Manchus and Mongols intermarried with each other, and there were almost no pure Jurchen dignitaries. Just like Huang Taiji, seven of his fifteen concubines were Mongolian. Dorgon's ten wives, six Mongolians, Daishan and Yuetuo are almost in the same situation.
Queen Zhezhe, the daughter of Mongol Horqin Beile Manggus, faced this rumor and naturally wanted to ask clearly. She asked directly in front of Huang Taiji: "King Khan, are you taking the heads of our Mongolians and following them?" Did Mingren exchange food?"
When Huang Taiji heard this, he became furious and said: "Who is spreading rumors and disturbing the morale of the army? A thorough investigation! A thorough investigation must be carried out!" King Khan was so angry that it was certainly not a trivial matter. The people below immediately dispatched and began a thorough investigation.
The investigation process was not smooth. The Mongols thought that the Jurchens were going to gag them, so they reacted very violently and even started fighting with the Jurchens. The situation almost got out of control.
In desperation, Huang Taiji had no choice but to convene a meeting with the leaders and ministers of the Mongolian, Han and Jurchen tribes in the Jin Kingdom, and truthfully reported to everyone the details of the transaction with the Ming Dynasty, including how many Mongolian heads were exchanged for how much grain.
At this time, the Mongolian generals simply believed that in the past, the heads of slaves in the Ming Dynasty were the heads of real slaves. They were the highest class and had the highest rewards, followed by Mongolia. Why did the Ming army want the heads of Mongolians instead of the heads of real slaves? Jurchen's head?
Only now did Huang Taiji realize that what Ning Haijun had done to him was a conspiracy. He had no way to quibble. Such a large-scale transaction could not be hidden from anyone. Even if Huang Taiji explained that the heads of these Mongolians were , all because they froze to death or starved to death, just reusing waste.
When a leader loses his credibility, it is time to perish. Huang Taiji has no choice but to sit back and watch, watching the Ming army fight with the Mobei Mongolia. His idea of reaping the benefits of the fishermen is shattered.
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The news that Jingan Fort was captured by the Mongolian army spread quickly. After receiving the news, the surrounding Mongolian troops who were attacking at various passes quickly moved to Jingan Fort.
At this time, Jingan Fort seemed to be a dam that had burst. The Mobei Mongolian army rushed towards Jingan Fort like a flood. When the Mongolian army arrived at Jingan Fort, they could see Jingan Fort burning with thick fire a few dozen miles away. Smoke, thick smoke is a signal, which makes the Mongolian army feel very excited.
In the eyes of almost all Mongolian soldiers, as long as they broke through the Great Wall defense line, they could successfully enter the pass and kill the cowardly Han people with heads rolling and blood flowing like rivers.
Heading south along the Jingan Ancient Road, after more than ten miles, you will reach the bank of the Baihe River. In normal times, it would be difficult to cross the Baihe River, but now that the Baihe River has frozen solid, the Mongolian warriors can rush across smoothly.
However, when the Mongolian army arrived at the Baihe River, they were surprised to find that a field defense line appeared on the Baihe River. About two to three thousand Ming soldiers wearing black armor were building a snow wall with shovels and beating the snow away with shovels. In fact, if boiled snow water is poured on it, it will freeze into an ice wall in an instant. This kind of ice wall is actually not very high. It seems to only reach a person's chest, which is a little over four feet.
Among these Ming troops, there were many farmers dressed in ordinary people's clothes. They were very busy boiling snow water and building snow walls.
What made the Mongolian army feel most incredible was that the Ming army's defense line was extremely long. This ice wall spanned various river valleys from east to west, stretching for five or six miles. More than 3,000 Ming army officers and soldiers were arranged on a position five or six miles wide, which seemed very thin.
These Ming army soldiers did not care about the increasing number of Mongolian troops, but continued to build ice walls. Originally, the Ning Navy should have dug trenches and laid out barbed wire. This was the Ning Navy's trench defense system. It is a pity that the current weather It was so cold that the soil was frozen solid, making it impossible to dig trenches.
Therefore, in this case, this is the only way to deal with it.
The cold wind is like a knife, and the twilight is like iron.
Thin snowflakes fell from the gaps in the clouds, adding a bit more whiteness to this vast white world. Silver snakes are dancing in the mountains, wax figures are galloping, and jade is splashing at the waterfall. If it is a peaceful year, it would be a great pleasure to invite a few friends and ride in the wilderness with a pot of strong wine to enjoy the snowy scenery.
However, in this time of war and chaos, such picturesque scenery is an out-and-out hell in the eyes of the fleeing people. The thick snow prevents them from even eating grass roots, and the biting cold wind makes birds and animals flee. The prey is nowhere to be found, and it cuts into the human body, leaving bloody wounds, making them wail in pain.
At this time, Jin Yiwei sent Qiao Zhaolin to Cheng Shijie.
"My lord, spare your life!"
The moment Qiao Zhaolin saw Cheng Shijie, he knew his fate. Cheng Shijie was very strict in his military management. Since the establishment of Ning Haijun, Ning Haijun has never had a general abandon the city and run away, let alone a general who has fled without fighting.
"I will spare you, but who spared these people!"
Cheng Shijie grabbed Qiao Zhaolin's hair and pointed at the refugees in ragged clothes with feet red from the cold: "Are you worthy of them?"
Looking at these people, Qiao Zhaonian clenched his fists. In a daze, he thought of his grandfather again. His grandfather Qiao Rui was a frontier soldier. He was brave and good at fighting. He often fought against the Mongolian Tatars. The most impressive one was that he broke into the enemy camp alone and cut off eight Tatar heads, which shocked the Shangguan.
This old man is over 60 years old, and he still dances with guns and sticks, plays with stone locks, and works hard every day. He is very disdainful and even disgusted with his grandson's efforts to please horses and camp. He often said to Qiao Zhaolin: "After putting on this uniform, you should work hard in the military camp, train soldiers, repair armor, and find tricks in the camp is just a side trick!"
Qiao Zhaolin disagreed with Qiao Rui's teachings. Throughout his life, Qiao Rui fought countless fierce battles with the Tatars and crawled out of hell many times. However, he was only a deputy general manager until his death.
However, he relied on top-down management and became a garrison at Jingan Fort before he was thirty years old. In fact, when he served as a garrison, he was six years older than Cheng Shijie when he served as a garrison at Ning Haijun.
"The last general..."
Qiao Zhaolin had no intention of begging for mercy at this moment. He knew that Cheng Shijie would definitely kill him. In fact, Cheng Shijie would not spare him.
Cheng Shijie said: "As a soldier, facing a powerful enemy, you have abandoned tens of thousands of civilians and fled south. How can you have the face to ask me to spare you? If I spare you, how unjust will it be for the people who died under the iron hoof of the Mongolian Tatars?" ?”
"I am following orders from above!"
"It's an order from above. If the people above tell you to eat shit, will you eat it? If the people above ask you to be a traitor, will you do it?"
"I obey orders!"
"snort!"
Cheng Shijie looked at Admiral Ning next to him and said, "Soldiers are right to obey orders, but do you listen to the orders of your superiors?"
"Do not listen!"
"Somebody come!"
"exist!"
"Make a wooden donkey cart, let Qiao Zhaolin ride the wooden donkey, entertain him with good wine and food, and let all the towns and fortresses on the nine sides see it. This is the result of abandoning the city and running away!!"
Qiao Zhaolin's face turned pale with fright. The wooden donkey was a kind of punishment. It was more than three feet tall and as short as a bench. It had four feet downward and four rolling wheels under its feet. It had four feet long and six wheels on it. An inch wide and a crossbar. In the middle of the face, there is a willow wood donkey saddle, with a round-headed wooden pestle attached to it, which can be moved up or down. As long as the wheel moves, the pestle will beat. A donkey's head and a donkey's tail were made at the front and back...
This kind of punishment is used to punish women who are unruly, unfaithful and adulterous. It can actually be used on men. The feeling can be imagined.
Cheng Shijie's order was issued, and many Jin Yiwei brought this instrument of torture and put Qiao Zhaolin on the wooden donkey cart. Blood flowed from Qiao Zhaolin's excrement door, and he howled, which was not like a human voice.
Looking at this scene, the Jinyiwei members felt a chill in their crotches.
To say that their Jin Yiwei are ruthless, but compared with Cheng Shijie, they seem to be even less interesting.
Of course, Qiao Zhaolin's fate was his own fault and he couldn't blame anyone else.
Cheng Shijie then said to Zhao Wencai, who had just arrived at the bank of Baihe River: "Zhao Wencai!"
"The general is here!"
"The scout cavalry, the Guards cavalry, and all the cavalry in the Cavalry Department are all handed over to you. All the cavalry in the Ning Navy will follow your command and immediately cross the Great Wall pass and reach the outside of the Great Wall. It is entirely up to you to fight independently, regardless of what happens inside the pass. , destroy the Mongolian Tatars you can see, I want to see if the Mongolians are hard-hearted and can ignore the family and relatives behind them!"
"No matter what? Commander, if the general brings all the cavalry, you will only have five or six thousand people by your side!"
"I have the most elite infantry in our Ning Navy. Besides, I can't hold on forever. I only need to hold on for half a month, which is enough to let the Tatars know that their rear is facing a huge threat, forcing them to If we withdraw our troops, why can’t five or six thousand elite soldiers be able to hold on for even half a month?”
Only then did Zhao Wencai discover that Cheng Shijie was not only ruthless in running the army, but also ruthless to his enemies. In fact, he was also ruthless to himself. More than 3,000 Ning Haijun guards infantry, plus part of the artillery, wanted to deal with tens of thousands of Mongolian troops, and there was no danger. Keshou, this difficulty...
"Ignore the Great Wall defense line and attack the follow-up troops of the Mongolian army until the Tatars withdraw!"
At this point, Cheng Shijie's expression turned out to be ferocious, and he revealed a chilling smile: "I want to see how they can break through our army's defense line composed of parapets, minefields, muskets and cannons in the wilderness!"
This is a clear confrontation between chariots and horses.
Cheng Shijie had no better way, because after all, Ning Haijun's cavalry was limited, and the Mongolian army was too large, relying on more than 10,000 cavalry. At this point, the cavalry simply cannot hold the Great Wall defense line. The only way is to attack the follow-up troops of the Mongolian army and force them to return for reinforcements.
If the cavalry is divided into small firefighting teams, it is hard to say whether they can defeat the Mongolian cavalry, which is several times larger than them. Even if they can win, they will probably kill 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000 themselves. Ning Haijun cannot afford this kind of fight battle, and without the cooperation of the cavalry, the infantry regiments stuck on the grassland will be harassed and attacked by the Mongolian cavalry from all directions. Even if they are well-equipped and have powerful cannons, it will be difficult to escape from the endless harassment. , it is not impossible to be dragged to death by the Mongols.
Thousands of knights are galloping along the official road. Their black helmets, black military uniforms, black battle flags, and stern faces have long been famous in the land of China. Even children can call them out. His name is Ning Haijun!
They all carried oily Chongzhen 8-year-old rifles on their backs, and a long and narrow cavalry-style Miao knife on their waists. The cowhide bullet bags were bulging, filled with pointed bullets and paper-cased fixed gunpowder. The bayonet with four frightening bloody grooves was pinned to the thigh. The sharpness was completely based on personal preference. Some people sharpened it to be sharper than a razor, while others were too lazy to sharpen it and couldn't even cut their fingers with it.
In addition, hanging from their horses was an ammunition bag containing ten bullets and some spare bullets. The weapons these guys carry are all extremely sophisticated. It must be very expensive to raise such an army. Wherever they go, all the generals salivate and call them "good soldiers".
As the Ning Navy cavalry was dispatched, this could not be hidden from the observation of the observer. Not long after the Ning Navy cavalry was dispatched, Meng En reported to Cheng Shijie: "Commander, if nothing else happens, the Mongols will soon get According to intelligence, our Baihe Camp has become an empty camp!"
"Come on and command this battle. Tell the brothers to take your time and do not fire all at once. You must give the Mongols hope and let them see that as long as they work harder, they can break through our defenses!"
"yes……"
PS: Today, there are two more updates, with 12,000 words. There was a huge flood in Zhuozhou, and I was trapped upstairs. I could only write words and ask for a guaranteed monthly ticket.
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