The Goose Cart, which had been worked overtime to build since June or Seven, was easily defeated by the Ming army in the first exploratory siege of the city. It did not even touch the foot of the city wall. It was directly hit by two rounds of artillery and was unable to hold its head up. The cannon fodder soldiers under the city were almost beaten into rebellion. This was a situation that Tumen Khan never expected.
Tumen Khan ordered the withdrawal of troops with a livid face, and returned to the Chinese army's tent angrily.
Burihatu followed in without saying a word, but did not speak immediately. He just frowned and thought about something quietly.
Tumen Khan originally wanted to be patient, but in the end he was still not disciplined enough. He drew out the scimitar from his waist and slashed suddenly, splitting the table in front of him in half, breathing heavily.
Burihatu glanced at it, but still did not speak.
But Tumen Khan couldn't help it, and asked with suppressed anger: "Why is this happening! Ah? When did the Ming army's artillery become so capable? I have been fighting with the Ming army for decades, and I have never discovered their The artillery was so accurate, and I didn’t realize that the Ming army’s artillery interval could be shortened to this extent! What on earth is going on?!”
Burihatu took a long breath and sighed: "It seems that we have underestimated Gao Pragmatism after all."
"It's none of his business!" Tumen Khan's right hand holding the knife was shaking with anger. He looked very unhappy with this guy Gao Pragmatic, and said loudly: "Are these cannons so powerful because of his Gao Pragmatic?" ? He is a god, can he do magic?!"
Judging from these angry words, Tumen was really furious.
Burihatu said calmly: "Of course he doesn't know magic, but he seems to be more difficult to deal with than someone who knows magic."
Tumen looked at Burihatu coldly and said nothing.
Burihatu seemed to have not seen him before, and continued: "As far as I know, the Ming army has been changing its equipment over the years. The original old artillery has gradually been retired from the front line of defense, or moved to the rear. Xuanda, Ji Most of the important towns such as Liaoning have now been equipped with new cannons produced by Jinghua, and these new cannons are of high quality. The original old cannons were prone to bombing, misfiring, etc., but these new cannons are much less prone to sweating. Things are not that simple.
First, when Gao Gong was in power, the Ming Dynasty's financial situation continued to improve, which enabled the Ming Dynasty to start to have money to change its equipment. Then Gao pragmatism established the Jinghua Artillery Factory and the Jinghua Artillery Factory, and began to rob the Ordnance Bureau and the Warfare Bureau. business, supply border arms, and gradually phase out old artillery and artillery guns.
The same was true after Guo Pu Bingzheng. This policy has been implemented for more than ten years now. The Ming army itself has also discovered the reliability of these artillery, so it has less worries during combat. So this formed the phenomenon that if the artillery is good, the Ming army dares to attack, and if the Ming army dares to attack, the power of these artillery fires will be greatly increased. Therefore, when it comes to magic, the first person to have magic is probably Gao Gong, and of course Gao Pragmatic is not bad either. "
Tumen Khan said coldly: "I don't care how powerful Gao Gong and Gao Pragmatic are. I only care about how to break their spells."
Burihatu was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "It is difficult to defeat in the face of battle. If you want to defeat it, you can only defeat it in the Ming court hall."
Tumen Khan sneered and said: "Mingting court? Even this Khan has to learn some magic first. There may be people in the Mingting court who are willing to speak for Tumote, but who is willing or even dares to speak for me?"
He paused and then said: "Besides, even if the Ming Dynasty can break the spell of the uncle and nephew of the Gao family, it is not something that can be done in a short time. And I will face this trouble now. When I wait, If we defeat his pragmatic magic in the Ming court, I'm afraid I'll be defeated and run away!"
Burihatu said nothing. It’s not that I don’t want to say it, it’s that I really have no choice.
There is a saying that goes well, in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are of no avail.
Burihatu did see Gao Pragmatic's "weakness", that is, all his successes were based on the Ming court's support for him. As long as the court denied him, these "spells" would naturally be broken. .
But Tumen is right. How easy is it to kill Gao Pragmatic in the Ming Dynasty? Not to mention that the Chahar tribe was the greatest enemy in the world in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty. No one dared to risk the world's disapproval to speak for them and harm Gao Pragmatic. Even if there was such a person and everything went well, that would not be possible. It will be something that can be done in a short period of time, and Tumen Khan's current problem is an immediate problem: If he cannot defeat Shacheng, this dispatch of troops will become a joke!
Now the Chahar family doesn't know whether they were taken over by Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang. Even if not, the Chahar tribe has lost three powerful forces.
If Tumen Khan could pacify Tumote and make Tumute and even the entire right-wing 30,000 households obey the orders of the "Great Yuan Khan Court" again, then there would still be an explanation for the previous losses, which could cover up the past.
But if Tumote cannot be put down, or even worse, if he is defeated in the sand city and retreats to Chahanhot in disgrace, then the last bit of prestige of the Great Yuan Khan Court will be gone. , it is hard to say whether this Mongolian leader can continue to do so.
Tumen Khan saw sweat on his forehead, and felt panic in his heart. He couldn't help but change from anger to panic, and asked: "Buriha Tu, you said that if I return to the army now on the pretext of returning to rescue or regain Duoyan's old place, Is that possible?”
Whether it can be done or not does not mean whether it is possible to withdraw, because in Tumen's view, the withdrawal is definitely possible. The key question is whether the subsequent impact will make others believe that it is not because he cannot conquer Shacheng, but because he really wants to go. Rescue or recover Duoyan's old territory and withdraw his troops.
The key here is still the issue of face, that is, the issue of prestige.
But Tumen forgot that it was stupid for him to ask Burihatu this question, because Burihatu was still the son of Xin Ai after all. How could he support Tumen to give up the Tumote strategy and flee back in despair to survive?
Maybe for the Tumen, they can barely survive for a while when they go back, but for their beloved father and son, once the Tumen give up Tumut, they may not even be able to survive for a while!
Because when Xin Ai ran away before, he gave up the tribal people and escaped with only the army!
On the Han side, perhaps as long as they have an army, they can have everything, but this is not the case in Mongolia. Without tribal leaders, cattle, sheep and horses, what can these people eat?
Xin Ai brought more than 10,000 people and horses, which is more or less, but to support such a team of people, it is absolutely impossible without two to three hundred thousand cattle and sheep. Sheep must have at least 30,000 to 40,000 tribesmen.
With thirty to forty thousand tribesmen, do you expect the great Zasaktu Khan to give his tribe to Xin Ai?
They are not like that!
What's more, after Su Bahai and Dong Hu died in battle, and Chang Ang escaped with the tribe, Tumen's own strength was already somewhat insufficient. At this time, did he still expect him to cut meat to feed the tiger?
Therefore, for the Tumen, this Battle of Tumut was just a question of whether the Great Khan of All Mongolia could continue to act in a legitimate manner, but for their beloved father and son, it was already a matter of life and death!
Burihatu said decisively: "It's absolutely impossible, no Mongolian is willing to believe it."
The corner of Tumen Khan's mouth twitched a few times, and he sat down on the felt mat slumped, sighing: "If I had known that Ming people were so good at guarding, I shouldn't have come to Shacheng so easily. If I had listened to your previous advice, I would have laid down a big plan to raise the city." That's good. Daban Shengcheng is the home base of Hannaji. It requires people to lead people, cattle and sheep to cattle and sheep, and wealth and silk. As long as Daban Shengcheng is taken, even if it is withdrawn to Chahar with the loot, It’s not impossible.”
Burihatu cursed in his heart, but showed no expression on his face. He shook his head and said: "One moment and another. Moreover, judging from today's situation, Daban Shengcheng may not be as easy to fight as we originally thought."
"Why?" Tumen frowned and said: "Daban Shengcheng has no Ming army to defend it, and Han Naji is the same as us. How can he make Daban Shengcheng look like Shacheng, with so many cannons? Isn't this the case?" I believe Akito will give him a cannon.”
This is true. It is impossible for Gao Pragmatic to shoot Han Naji with a cannon. Gao Pragmatic will indeed not do such stupid things as Tai Ah's backlash. Unless Tumut is now the same as Annan, and has made him the de facto emperor with high pragmatism.
This is obviously impossible. The Ming court could not care whether Annan was behind Ming Dynasty or Gao Pragmatism, but Tumote was close at hand. If it was not Ming Dynasty but Gao Pragmatism who was behind it, then the King of Shunyi might as well give Gao Pragmatism his role. Forget it, why do you still need Tumut’s name?
But how could King Shunyi let Gao pragmatically do it? With high pragmatic financial resources, if he controls Tumut, the strongest tribe in Mongolia with a command of 100,000 people, and he has a full range of artillery and firepower, if he has any ambitions, he may not be able to attack within three days. Below Yanjing City!
Even if Zhu Yijun had a good relationship with Gao Pragmatic and enjoyed each other's relationship, he wouldn't be so arrogant.
But Burihatu still had a point to say, but before he could continue to deceive Tumen Khan, an urgent military report came from outside: "Great Khan, something serious has happened. There are large armies approaching from both the east and west sides of Shacheng. !”
Tumen was shocked: "Army? Whose army? How many people are there?"
Tan Ma hurriedly reported back: "The army on the West Route is carrying the banner of Dacheng Taiji, bringing yellow sand rolling all the way. There are at least 40,000 to 50,000 people under its command!"
Tumen jumped up in shock, and his voice changed: "How can there be so many people in Bhannaji? He has sent all the Tumotexi sentry out? Don't even want the big board to rise to the city?"
"Yes, Khan, there are really so many people!" Tan Ma was also sweating anxiously, and continued to report: "The army on the east road also has a large number of people, estimated to be no less than 30,000, but the flags are quite mixed, so there must be There are at least a dozen Taiwanese and Kyrgyzstan flags.”
Tumen gasped, adding 40,000 to 50,000 to 30,000, that was at least 70,000 troops, which was already as much as he and Xin Ai combined.
If we add the unknown number of Ming troops in Shacheng City,
The great Zasak Tuhan shuddered.
