Following Huang Taiji's order, the soldiers of Jiannu were excited.
Regardless of the fact that they were beaten out of their bodies in front of Ning Haijun, in fact, the current Jiannu had an absolute psychological advantage when facing the Ming army other than Ning Haijun, whether it was the Mongols.
It's not like they haven't fought against Mobei Mongolia before. With their thin horses and soldiers from Mobei Mongolia, one of their slave-building warriors can defeat five Mobei Mongolia.
As Huang Taiji ordered the charge, the battle in Kukuhetun ended just over an hour later. Almost all the Mobei Mongols left in Kukuhetun were old, weak, sick and disabled. How could they be the opponent of the slave-building army? .
When Huang Taiji entered Kukuhetun, except for some young and beautiful women and children, they all turned into bloody corpses.
The unburned cowhide tents, some of the dead cows and camels on the ground, were full of sharp arrows. There was a row of wooden piles erected not far away. On each wooden pile hung a weak and sick corpse of an old Mongolian. The body was also full of sharp arrows. The thin, bloody corpse was like a rag in the cold wind. Medium shaking.
Obviously, these Mongolians were captured after they stopped resisting, and then the attackers tied straw ropes around their necks, hung them on wooden stakes, and then shot them to death with random arrows. Looking at the corpses of these Mongolians, Huang Taiji had no expression on his face. He looked at Fan Wencheng and said, "How about the seizure?"
Hearing this, the eyes of Daishan, Yue Tuo, Dorgon, Hauge and others around Huang Taiji turned blood red and they gasped violently. They were all excited.
The living conditions on the grasslands are very harsh, many times more difficult than those of the Han people in Guanhai. However, in Kukuhetun, there are many Mobei Mongolian families. No matter how poor Mobei Mongolia is, as the saying goes, a broken family is worth a fortune, and the same goes for the Mobei Mongolians.
Fan Wencheng smiled excitedly and said: "There are more than 18,600 children under the wheel captured, and more than 15,000 women suitable for childbearing. Some of them have escaped, but they can't run far and will definitely be caught. return!"
Daishan smiled excitedly and said: "More than 40,000 war horses were captured, as well as hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep. However, these cattle and sheep are so skinny that they don't have much meat left!"
A captive general from Mobei Mongolia was brought before Huang Taiji.
This Mongolian general was Shuolei's brother-in-law Norbu. His teeth were chattering, his eyes were bloodshot, and his body was shaking slightly. Norbu was actually an outsider who had been grazing cattle in the lower reaches of the Volga River for generations. He was considered a remnant of the Golden Horde. Later, the Torguts came and drove them away with sabers and bows, forcing them to leave the pastures where their ancestors relied on for survival. Migrating eastward, after entering Mongolia, he was expelled and expelled by the Mongolian people in the desert. He was forced to wander around with nowhere to settle, and it was not until ten years ago that he defected to the Chechen Khan tribe.
Norbu obtained a small pasture in Mobei. Because of his bravery and resourcefulness, he was appreciated by Shuolei and married Shuolei's widowed sister. In fact, her sister had no background and could provide him with very little help, but she became the son-in-law of the Chechen Khan after all. With this status, he, a foreigner, has established a firm foothold in Chechnya.
Although sometimes he is still laughed at or even bullied by various tribes, he doesn't care. His tribe has been wandering for too long. It is a great joy to have a place where they can graze in peace!
This time when he was going south, he had a big fight with the Tumut tribe and fought very bravely. Unfortunately, Boyan, a warrior of the Tumut tribe, shot his horse and broke his leg, so he stayed in Kukuhetun.
Unexpectedly, Huang Taiji led the elite slave-building elites to come. In a surprise attack, tens of thousands of people were killed in Kukuhetun, a small number were captured, and about one-third of the people temporarily escaped.
Norbu raised his scarlet eyes: "Who are you? Why do you want to slaughter our tribe!"
"This Khan Huang Tai Chi!"
Noel preached: "What mistake did we make that the Great Khan wanted to slaughter my tribe?"
Huang Taiji's voice was a little hoarse: "Because you slaughtered the Tumote tribe, and the Tumote tribe was Ben Khan's dog. This dog can be beaten or scolded by Ben Khan. The Han people also have a saying, Beating a dog depends on the owner!"
Noble became even more angry: "Now the snowstorm is sweeping across the entire grassland. Thousands of miles of snow cover, there is nowhere to graze, and livestock are dying in large numbers. In order to let the tribe survive, we went south. Is it wrong? Is it wrong? Where did I go wrong? "
The strong wind blew Norbu's messy hair high. His face was pale, but his eyes were blood red, which was extremely scary. He roared at the gloomy sky: "What on earth did I do wrong that you want to kill me?" Tribe!? Who will tell me!"
Haug raised his knife and slashed at Norbu. The cruel Haug chopped Norbu into pieces, leaving a pile of broken meat. Then he calmed down a little and jumped on the horse.
Huang Taiji let out a long sigh. He knew very well that the current Chechen Khan tribe is the future of their Kingdom of Jin. The weather is getting colder and colder, and the time for the ice and snow to melt is getting shorter and shorter. A large number of tribesmen will freeze to death every year. Or starve to death, and a large number of cattle and sheep will freeze to death, and they will not be able to stay in Liaodong.
They also want to go south, but the problem is that they are different from Mobei Mongolia. Mobei Mongolia can go south, they can defeat the Tumut tribe, and they can also break into the Great Wall, but Dajin does not have such good luck. It's Ning Haijun, a very cruel and terrifying enemy.
In fact, countless brave slaves would rather freeze to death or starve to death than face Ning Haijun.
However, no matter what, this was a long-lost victory, and the slave-building warriors could enjoy the fruits of victory. The slave-building warriors couldn't wait to pounce on those Mongolian women.
Unlike the Han people, these Mongolian women have already recognized the law of the grassland, which is the law of the jungle. Natural selection is the law of nature. The weak eats the strong, and the strong is respected.
As a winner, you can enjoy everything that the loser has, whether it is wealth or women.
In fact, there were not many things seized by Kuku and Tong. They were just some flour or rice, some sugar cubes and refined salt, as well as cotton cloth and tea leaves. The most valuable ones were a few glass products, such as glass bottles, glasses, etc. These were all snatched back from Taiyuan City. Livestock, furs and other goods were not worth much.
However, Jiannu was about to go crazy due to the snowstorm. Seeing these good things, they all suffered from pink eye, especially tea and glass products. The former was a luxury item and had to be exchanged for a war horse, while the latter was a luxury item even if they were willing to exchange it for a war horse. Can't change it!
Huang Taiji was indeed a good king of the Jin Kingdom. Under his command, they received generous rewards at an almost negligible cost, and they were extremely rich!
Having tasted the sweetness, the Mongolian tribes in Mobei screamed: "Kill all those Mobei people! Kill all the Mobei people, they are all traitors to Mongolia..."
It doesn't matter whether he is a traitor or not, who cares anyway? In fact, what they care about is only profit. After tasting the sweetness, Jiannu and the Mongols took a short rest. Jiannu rushed towards the next tribe in Mobei Mongolia. The army of hundreds of thousands became smaller, only about four or five. Wanqi roared away.
Because the things and wealth that were grabbed also need to be protected by warriors.
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Taiyuan Prefecture, Pingding Prefecture.
Cheng Shijie was still very embarrassed. The rocket launchers were finished, and the original artillery in Pingding Prefecture had no shells, even solid shells.
The most critical thing is that now the Mongolian army actually used Taiyuan City to transport fifteen artillery pieces, including eleven Franco six-pound cannons, and the largest was not the twelve-pound Hongyi cannon.
"Boom boom boom..."
A burst of violent artillery sound shook the sky and the earth. Dust fell from the roof of Cheng Shijie's temporary headquarters. Cheng Shijie was very angry, but he had no choice. If he had known it, he would have left dozens of rocket launchers behind.
Even if there are dozens of rocket launchers, there are still artillery positions that can reach the Mongolian army. But the problem is that the current Ning Navy officers and men do not have weapons that can exceed a thousand-meter range.
When the Mongolian army fired wildly, they had no choice but to endure the bombings. Fortunately for Ning Haijun, they had seen artillery battles dozens of times larger than the dozens of Mongolian cannons. In fact, they were the largest. The artillery battle still depends on the navy.
Of course, in Kagoshima, when the Ning Navy was at its largest, they assembled two to three thousand artillery pieces and bombarded Kagoshima. Now the artillery of the Mongolian army cannot even compare with the test firepower of the Ning Navy. It is completely inferior. Child's peeing.
But the problem is that the reconnaissance cavalry of the Annan Corps of the Ning Navy only has rocket launchers, and now they don’t even have rocket launchers.
Cheng Shijie said to Xie Shangkui: "Let's take a look!"
"Commander, you still..."
Before Xie Shangkui could finish speaking, Cheng Shijie had already walked towards the headquarters.
Cheng Shijie came to the city wall. In fact, there were not many soldiers on the city wall. Faced with being passively beaten, Ning Haijun's soldiers could only retreat, leaving dozens of sentries to observe the situation. If the Mongols attacked the city with ants, they would only go up the city wall.
Outside the west city gate of Pingding Prefecture, only five or six hundred steps away from the city wall, the Mongolian army was driving a group of artillerymen wearing Ming army soldiers, manipulating the artillery.
Sixteen forward-loading smoothbore cannons with polished barrels were spitting thunderous fireballs towards the city wall. In the past few days, the Mongolian army in Mobei was not only busy building siege equipment, a large number of mutinous Ming troops were mobilized, preparing to be the first batch of cannon fodder to attack the city and withstand the fiercest firepower of the defenders.
These cannon fodder also brought sixteen artillery pieces with a range of two to three miles. Although they are still far from the terrifying power of quantum cannons such as "one shot can destroy dozens of miles", they are placed in the mess and quality of the Ming army. There are already rare sharp weapons in the low-level firearms arsenal.
These cannons were also built under the supervision of Xie Zhiliang and were deployed to important cities such as Taiyuan to strengthen the defenses of these cities. However, Xie Zhiliang did not expect that these cannons did not play any role during the massive Tatar invasion and were instead used to attack The state has been pacified!
The lead ball flew with thunder and wind and hit the city wall. Sparks flew across the entire city wall, and stone chips rained down. Shocking cracks were made in the rammed earth city wall, and the battlements were even more vulnerable. At the moment when it was hit by the cannonball Instantly turned into countless fragments.
In just one salvo, Ning Haijun suffered six casualties, but the problem was that this was because there were too few people deployed. Those gunners acted cowardly on the Ming side, but when they arrived in Mongolia, they showed a bit of blood and showed 120% of their ability. What a piece of shit!
Li Dingguo was giving command on the city wall. He is quite calm and gives orders in a very orderly manner, but it just makes people feel less at ease.
This is normal. A general's prestige must be accumulated through victory after victory. Li Dingguo has never lost a battle since he followed Zhang Xianzhong. The only defeat was against Ning Haijun.
"Commander!"
Cheng Shijie motioned to Li Dingguo not to salute but to salute on the city wall. Didn't that tell the artillery below that a senior official was coming from above?
Cheng Shijie asked: "How is the situation?"
Li Dingguo cried and laughed: "The Mongolian Tatars are crazy. They sent out thousands of people as soon as they came up and stormed the north gate, hoping to capture Pingding Prefecture in one fell swoop!"
"Because they don't have time!"
Cheng Shijie smiled faintly and said: "Lu Xiangsheng has led the Tianxiong Army back to Taiming Mansion, and Hong Chengchou has also led the three-sided army to Pingyang Mansion!"
Li Dingguo immediately understood that the Taihang Eighth Routes were the eight passages across the Taihang Mountains. The Eighth Route Army Duxing was at Juyongguan, the Seventh Station Puyinxing was at Zijingguan in Yixian County, Hebei, and the Sixth Station Feihuxing was in Datong. The fifth Xingxing is in Zhending Prefecture, and the fourth Fukou Xingxing is in Daming Prefecture.
In fact, Cheng Shijie is now guarding the west gate of Jingxing, Pingding Prefecture, and beyond Pingding Prefecture is Yangquan County, the Second Taihang County, and the Third Baixing County. These two counties are now in Yangping Prefecture. In other words, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng They respectively blocked the entrance for the Mongolian army to march eastward into the capital.
The only way for the Mongolian army is to break through Pingding Prefecture, capture Yangquan and then capture Jingxing; rush into Zhending Mansion and threaten the capital; otherwise, they will occupy the entire Shanxi Province and have little impact on the Ming Dynasty.
Li Dingguo said with some worry: "But there are too few firearms now, I'm afraid they won't be enough!"
From the bottom of his heart, Cheng Shijie felt distressed if Ning Haijun's elite scouts were exchanged for ordinary cannon fodder, even if one hundred were exchanged for one. Even though Ning Haijun now had more than 300,000 troops, the total number of real reconnaissance troops, There are only four to five thousand people, and the real battlefield for these scouts is in Annan.
But the problem is, Cheng Shijie has no choice.
The current historical time and space has been changed beyond recognition by him, and his ability to predict is becoming more and more limited.
Forced by the Mongolian bows and arrows, the surrendered Ming soldiers had no choice but to attack Pingding Prefecture. Some were a little slower, and the Mongolian cavalry galloped over on horseback. With a wave of their scimitars, their heads flew away.
"Those who backpedal will die!!!"
"Those who fear the enemy and fight will die!"
Only then did these rebels realize that they were now working for the Mongolian Tatars. If they collapsed as before, they would be killed on the spot! Under the threat of death, the rebel soldiers howled wildly and quickened their pace. Bullets kept falling among them, causing a shower of blood. Screams and cries were heard endlessly, but they did not stop!
PS: I got off work late today, so I can only write so much. I will try to make two updates tomorrow. (End of chapter)
