After explaining everything that needed to be explained, Yu Yinggui no longer had any leverage, only pleading that was almost pleading.
"I beg your majesty to have mercy on you! I beg your majesty to have mercy on you!"
Yu Yinggui burst into tears and kowtowed repeatedly until his head was swollen.
Su Yonglin sighed and told Yu Yinggui what he knew.
"Advocating literature and suppressing martial arts without realizing it led to this disaster. People in the Song Dynasty were responsible for it. They were first defeated by the golden thieves and then died in the Ming Dynasty. We have learned from the past and turned a blind eye to it. You can still live if you commit evil by God, but you can't live if you commit evil by yourself. "
Yu Yinggui could only cry bitterly, but there was nothing he could do.
But regardless of what should be said, his collapse and confession allowed the Ming Dynasty to completely gain the moral high ground to attack Goryeo's rebellious traitors. It became politically correct to send troops to Goryeo to quell the rebellion, and there was no need to have any moral concerns.
Su Yonglin immediately sent an order to the Fifth Corps to prepare for the attack. They would take action as soon as the order was issued.
At the end of the ninth year of Hongwu, major and minor events continued. Su Yonglin had been nervous and busy for most of the year, but in the end he was not able to live a more comfortable and relaxed year.
Even during the New Year's holiday in Hongwu's tenth year, he only had one day off, and the senior officials of the imperial court only had two days off at most, and then they all came back to work overtime to deal with war and military affairs.
Su Yonglin only had time to accompany his family for a New Year's Eve dinner and attend the New Year's sacrifice together the next day. Then he immediately went to the meeting hall to understand and control the ongoing Northern Expedition to the Grasslands.
The Northern Expedition was fought well, and it can be said that it was at the average level of the Ming army.
On December 21, the ninth year of Hongwu, when Yu Yinggui arrived in Zhongdu, it was also the day when Han Jinggui led the Ming army's cavalry, with a main force of 30,000 people. Twenty miles north of the Wanggu tribe's station, they encountered the main cavalry force of the tribal alliance in the forest heading south. days.
At that time, the Ming army only had 30,000 people, plus the 10,000 cavalrymen cobbled together by Wang Gu's tribe. They were all crooked and inferior, and they were more valuable to show off than to fight.
As for the tribal alliance army in the forest, there were more than 50,000 cavalry heading south, followed by more than 200,000 tribal people.
If a fight really breaks out, a lot of fighting power can be drawn out of the more than 200,000 people, because the living environment in the north of the Mongolian grassland is harsh. Not only the strong men need to ride horses to fight, but also the slightly older people, women, and children can even fight. Fight on horseback.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
It can be said that he is a typical example where all the people are soldiers and all the people are evil.
They have a numerical advantage, and they also think they have an advantage in morale and combat effectiveness. They have just completely defeated the resistance of the Wanggu tribe and the Tatar tribe, beaten the two dominant tribes on the grasslands into dogs, and gained a lot of wealth. , now at the peak of morale.
Ming army?
You are not afraid at all, you are not an opponent at all!
The leaders of the tribal alliance in the forest, stimulated by the huge victory, even shouted the slogan "Fight to the Han Dynasty, live in the Han people's big houses and let the Han people take care of us for the winter", which made hundreds of thousands of tribal people happy. Ruomaniac, howling again and again.
Faced with such tremendous pressure, Han Jinggui was not afraid at all and immediately ordered Wang Gu's cavalry to retreat and not to obstruct the front line.
It is very difficult to protect these useless pieces of wood while fighting at the same time.
The cavalry of Wang Gu's tribe turned like the wind and ran away quickly.
Then there was a battle in which 30,000 Ming Army cavalry fought against 50,000 forest tribe alliance cavalry plus more than 200,000 secondary cavalry.
It seems like a very difficult and dangerous thing, but it is not.
Because this group of nomadic cavalry said that Potian was also at the level of the feudal army. They fought with the wind with unparalleled ferocity, and when defeated against the wind they were in a state of embarrassment. They only knew how to run for their lives and knew nothing else.
The equipment of the Ming army cavalry was far superior to that of these nomadic cavalry, and the range of the new hand crossbows was also far greater than that of their bows and arrows. They slashed at them with one strike. The armor on the Ming army knights was very strong, and they kept slashing no matter what.
The Ming army knight slashed with his sword, and half of the nomadic cavalry was cut off.
The reason is very simple. The swords of the Ming army cavalry are forged from new steel smelted at high temperatures. They use a new forging process and are stronger than before.
Su Yonglin built a large number of coke factories and steel factories across the country. He has been producing high-quality steel for several years, which is not only used in the manufacture of firearms, but also in the replacement of cold weapons for the army.
The stocks accumulated in the past were consumed in large quantities in previous battles, and the discarded steel was pulled back and resmelted into high-quality steel of much higher quality than before, and forged into new and powerful weapons.
It is no longer a fantasy to cut off the opponent's knife, leather armor and body with one strike.
Therefore, the cavalry of the tribe in the forest and the cavalry of the Ming army will basically fall into panic when they come face to face.
They couldn't cut down the Ming cavalry. The Ming cavalry couldn't dodge, so they just relied on their armor. They couldn't break the armor.
The Ming army cavalry used the speed of the horses to slash with their swords, and a cold light flashed, that is, the heads were separated.
The entire fighting process actually only lasted about three sticks of incense. The left and right wing cavalry of the Ming army defeated the left and right wings of the nomadic cavalry, and then encircled the center. The simple and simple tactics exerted great tactical effects. The tribes in the forest were The cavalry coalition was defeated and fell.
How brave they are when chasing the enemy after a victorious battle, but how embarrassed they are when they flee for their lives after a defeated battle.
Han Jinggui was furious and led the Ming cavalry in a fierce pursuit. He chased and killed them all the way, and followed the direction of their escape to find their home base.
Facing the more than 200,000-strong forest tribal alliance, Han Jinggui, who was furious, obviously would not back down. With the power of victory, the Ming army attacked the nest of the forest tribal alliance in the cold wind, killing all the more than 200,000 people. The tribal alliance of evildoers killed them all.
They really knew how to resist. Facing the Ming army's attack, men, women, and children not only panicked and fled in panic, but also took up arms and resisted. Han Jinggui directly ordered the entire army to kill any resisters indiscriminately, liberating the combat effectiveness of the entire army. , kill them at all costs until they kneel down and beg for mercy.
Thirty thousand Ming Army cavalry soldiers divided into four groups and surrounded the Forest Tribe Alliance from four directions. They suddenly displayed the momentum of "You are surrounded by me alone" and pressed the Forest Tribe Alliance to the ground, rubbing and rubbing again and again.
This battle lasted from dawn to dusk. After dark, the Ming army continued to fight with the blazing fire until dawn the next day. They were exhausted and finally ended the battle.
Afterwards, the army rested and counted the results. It was found that they had killed more than 40,000 people from the tribal alliance in the forest. It was roughly estimated that they captured more than 150,000 people, and obtained more than 200,000 cattle, sheep, and horses from the tribe. The rest of the loot was piled up like a mountain, which was invincible. number.
However, only about 50,000 to 60,000 people from the tribal alliance in the forest successfully escaped, escaped from the encirclement of the Ming army, and fled north.
In this cold day, without the shelter of the tribe and enough food and warm tents, they fled northward, almost equal to death.
But Han Jinggui was still very dissatisfied with this.
So after the whole army rested for a day and ate a lot of dairy products to replenish their strength, he ordered to select 10,000 of the most elite cavalry, each with three horses. The rest of the soldiers were given large amounts of food rations and handed over to these 10,000 elites, who he personally led to continue heading north. pursuit.
He will never let go of this group of madmen who dare to challenge the power of the Ming Dynasty. He will beat them until they are exterminated.
The remaining tired soldiers of the Ming Army were responsible for escorting this extremely large number of prisoners of war southward to Wanggubu Station, using Wanggubu Station to temporarily settle these prisoners of war, have a good rest, and contact the domestic authorities of the Ming Dynasty to deal with these prisoners of war and spoils of war.
This is the result of Han Jinggui's cavalry's Northern Expedition.
