Chapter 298 Ming’s Revenge
Kaiping City.
The Tatar army blew their horns again and pressed towards the city gate.
The presence of thousands of corpses near the city gate did not seem to deter the Tartars.
Perhaps for the Tatars, it is indeed pointless to raise 100,000 troops and retreat just because of the loss of a few thousand cavalry.
His children and grandchildren also knew that there were only more than 2,000 Ming troops in Kaiping City. Therefore, after losing only a few thousand riders for the first time, he was indeed unwilling to give up attacking Kaiping City so easily.
After all, the warriors of Duoyanwei wanted to break into the Ming Dynasty to plunder and make a fortune. It didn't matter how many people were killed or injured. What was important was to grab the property.
certainly.
The Tatars also knew that to attack the city, they had to surround three and one was missing, so they still pressed against the city wall in three directions.
More than two thousand Ming troops were mainly distributed in these three directions. Gui Yong asked the battalion-level guards of three battalions to be responsible for the city defense in the three directions.
The battalion-level commanders of the Ming army also received professional comprehensive training and were able to command operations of multiple arms such as muskets, artillery, and cavalry.
but.
Since it was a defensive battle, the cavalry were also used as musketeers.
Siege and defense warfare has been a common combat mode throughout the ages, especially land warfare. After all, geographical terrain will affect the outcome of the entire war.
And guarding a certain military town is equivalent to controlling the overall situation.
The same is true now.
If the Tatars want to invade the hinterland of Ming Dynasty’s capital and plunder, they must conquer Xuanfu, and to conquer Xuanfu, they must conquer Kaiping.
There is no other secret to siege warfare. It's just that the attackers use their lives to defend, and the defenders use their lives to defend.
The two sides turned into a meat grinder under a city, and whoever waited for reinforcements to arrive first would win.
But at this time, Kaiping City was different from common siege and defense battles in that the Ming army in Kaiping City only had more than 2,000 people, while the Tatars outside Kaiping City numbered 100,000.
The ratio of numbers between the two sides is already very large.
Logically speaking, it would be easy for the Tatars to break through Kaiping City.
The children and grandchildren indeed thought so at this time. Although the first attack was frustrated, even his only artillery team was bombarded by the Ming army's artillery and was rendered ineffective.
However, these descendants still believe that they can invade Kaiping City in the shortest time as long as they are willing to sacrifice their lives.
He left his children and grandchildren to let the Tatars shoot arrows on the approaching city wall, hoping to rely on the dense rain of arrows to suppress the Ming army's musketry attacks.
However, all the Tatar cavalry used were light arrows. The arrows could shoot very far, but their range still could not keep up with the rifled muskets in the hands of the Ming army, and even the smoothbore firing guns could not keep up.
Moreover, the light arrows of the Tatar cavalry have very little destructive power after being shot very far, and it is basically difficult to penetrate armor.
Now, when the Tatar cavalry came on horseback and fired arrows at the Ming army in Kaiping City, the Ming army in Kaiping City had already set up a gauze tent several feet high.
When a light arrow with insufficient stamina hits the gauze tent, it is like a fist hitting cotton. Most of the momentum is lost by the soft gauze tent and falls directly under the city wall. Basically, some of them can penetrate the gauze tent. It would also be difficult to kill the Ming army again.
In short, the powerful Mongolian cavalry in the 13th century has completely declined by now, and its tactics and combat methods have never been improved. It is not surprising that it was ruled by the Jurchens who later emerged in history.
Even today's Ming Empire has already understood its ancient tactics in many years of fighting with the former grassland overlord, and has even improved its own tactics. Today's gauze tent is just the Ming Dynasty's response to the Tatar cavalry siege. a common way.
Moreover, with the development of the textile industry in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has been able to easily weave long, dense and low-cost cloth. Therefore, special weaving workshops for manufacturing gauze tents used for city defense have appeared, which are stored in major border towns of the empire. This kind of gauze tent can effectively stop the rain of arrows from the Tatars.
Snap!
Naturally, the Ming army would not let the Tatars attack without counterattack. The well-made percussion guns and rifled guns could accurately overturn the Tatars' Tianling Cap within a hundred steps.
At this time, a Ming Army musketeer fired a shot, stabbing a Tatar in the back and immediately knocking the Tatar to the ground.
Moreover, the Ming army's shooting speed was very fast, even as fast as the Tatars' bow shooting.
To shoot light arrows, the Tatars need to pull the arrow string to their ears, and then shoot upward toward the city wall based on their naked eye experience.
The skilled Ming Army musketeers could skillfully complete the action of using the lever principle to pull the gun when the Tatar pulled the arrow string to his ear, and used the spring principle to automatically load the bullet and pull the trigger to aim and fire, even if it was Aiming is not just the Tatar's primitive aiming method based on naked eyes and experience, but a crosshair positioning method that adheres to mathematical principles.
What's more, after the Ming army's musketeers fired a shot, the huge impulse generated by the explosion of the propellant gave the bullet a strong momentum. Compared with the momentum generated by the Tatars when they pulled the light bow with their arm strength, the Ming army's muskets were made of The impulse produced by propellant made of collodion is naturally much greater. After all, the explosive power of collodion is two to three times that of black gunpowder.
A bullet fired by the Ming army naturally penetrated the Tatar's ordinary cotton armor directly.
In this way, although the Tatars were numerous and powerful, and they could use their trapped riding skills to shoot down a hail of arrows, they were unable to cause effective damage to the Ming army in Kaiping City.
However, the Ming army was able to accurately inflict casualties on the Tatar cavalry with its advanced muskets.
The children and grandchildren looked at this phenomenon very depressedly. As a noble of Duoyanwei, his ancestors had a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty, and they were even part of the Ming Dynasty's army at one time.
Because of this, the Ming Dynasty basically never fought against him. Now it was the first time for Duoyanwei to fight against the Ming Dynasty, but he did not expect that the Ming army's guns were so powerful.
then.
The children and grandchildren can only use the most primitive method, using their cavalry as infantry and taking human lives to fill it.
Each of these cavalrymen carried ladders or huge shields and huge trees and rushed towards Kaiping City. At the same time, behind these attacking Tatars there was a supervising team. The Tatars of the supervising team were still riding on their horses, fearing death. All the warriors were killed one after another and fell off their horses.
It is precisely because of this that the Tatars dared to rush to the base of the city wall risking their lives and put the ladder up to the city wall.
The Ming army's defenders were small in number. Although they had sharp firearms, they were relatively sparsely distributed behind the three city walls, so they could not completely prevent tens of thousands of Tatars from charging towards the base of the city walls. As a result, many Tatars rushed to the city wall after risking their lives. When they got to the base of the city wall, they also put up the ladder on the city wall.
However, because the Ming Dynasty now has sophisticated cement concrete manufacturing technology, the cement concrete that has a much shorter solidification time than Sanhetu has allowed the Ming Dynasty’s city walls to be built higher and higher. These Tatars could not even build ladders between the battlements for a while. It can be set up three or four feet away from the city wall.
The city wall is made of cement paste, which is smoother than the wall made of bricks.
Therefore, even if these Tatars who climbed up the ladder were not killed by the Ming army with muskets, they would not be able to climb the city wall for a while. Sometimes their center of gravity would be unstable, causing them and the ladder to slide directly down the smooth city wall, and then Just smash it to pieces.
The Ming army didn't bother to waste any more bullets to kill these Tatars, so they poured a bucket of chili pepper water on them. The Tatars who couldn't fly up three or four feet away from the city wall had to be taught how to use chili pepper water. Their eyes were so irritated that they burst into tears. If you accidentally fall down, He fell to pieces, and then the ladder also slipped because the people on the ladder fell down, and the ladder slipped because the pepper water poured on the smooth cement wall increased the smoothness, so that the Tatars on the ladder also slipped. Then he fell down.
Kuler watched the Mongols like him die one after another under the Kaiping City. He was also very helpless. Sometimes he couldn't understand why his Mongolian leaders were so keen on robbery, but robbery always cost many lives. Yes, if you don't have to rob and fight, you can still get the tea, salt and fine silk you want by doing business, and you don't have to sacrifice many people's lives.
Naturally, he does not have such thoughts about his children and grandchildren. As the ruler of the Tatars, he naturally does not care about the lives of these low-level Tatars. What he cares about is defeating the Ming Dynasty and getting more benefits from the Ming Dynasty.
However, there is nothing that tens of thousands of Tatars can do to take over Kaiping City. Most of the Tatars can only stand at the top of the ladder and look at the end of the city wall that is still three or four feet away. There is nothing they can do.
The Ming army didn't even have to fight back. Within a distance of three or four feet, it was not difficult to jump over this distance by jumping down, but it was completely impossible to climb up and over this distance on a vertical surface.
Even his children and grandchildren did not expect such a situation. Seeing the cavalry under his command unable to get up and down the ladder, he had no choice but to order the army to retreat.
A hundred thousand troops were helpless against a city wall defended by only 2,000 people, and their children and grandchildren were also very depressed about this. Although the Mongolian cavalry gathered food on the spot and killed cattle and sheep to satisfy their hunger, they did not have to worry too much about logistical issues, but in Kaiping If he stayed under the city for too long, he would be killed by the nearby cattle and sheep. Therefore, he had to give up his plan to attack Kaiping City.
However, the Ming Dynasty is no longer governed by Confucian scholars who repay evil with virtue, but an empire that respects national interests first. Naturally, they will not pursue the crime of provoking the Ming Dynasty just because they gave up attacking Kaiping City.
However, Hua Dangze, the leader of the Duoyan Guards, did not realize that the Ming Dynasty would pursue this matter. Now, after seeing his son returning without success, he was shocked that his army of 100,000 people could not defeat only 2,000 people. When I visited Kaiping City, I just felt that Perhaps he had underestimated Ming's fighting power, and his goal of plundering and intimidating Ming into agreeing to increase his Duoyanwei tribute was impossible to achieve. In order to continue to rely on paying tribute to Ming, he decided to send an envoy to apologize to Ming.
Zhu Houzhao was already on the way to Yingchang at this time. After receiving Hua Dang's memorandum of apology, he couldn't help but laughed and said: "Are these Tatars really not taking the dignity of my Central Plains dynasty seriously? Because I refused If you increase the amount of tribute, you dare to deduct it from me Bianzhen! Now that they found out that they could not defeat Kaiping City, they came to apologize. Do you really think that I will forgive them and not care about them anymore?" Seeing what Zhu Houzhao said, Yang Yiqing hurriedly asked for instructions: "What does your majesty mean? ?”
Zhu Houzhao snorted and did not directly express his thoughts. He only ordered: "Pass the message and bring the envoy from Huadang!"
Not a moment later.
The envoy of Hua Dang, Bi Bu Luo Hua, came up. When he saw Zhu Houzhao, he bowed and said, "I have met His Majesty the Ming Emperor!"
"Kneel down! Don't you understand the rules? I am the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. You are not even my subjects now, you are just lowly slaves. I have not given you human rights. Who gave you the courage to stand in front of me! ”
After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, he winked at Jin Yiwei Guo Rong.
Guo Rong understood, and without waiting for Bie Bu Luo Hua to come to his senses, he walked over directly, grabbed Bie Bu Luo Hua's shoulders, and kicked Bie Bu Luo Hua's knees.
Bu Luohua fell to his knees in pain, but angrily tried to get up, and at the same time shouted: "His Majesty the Ming Emperor, you are humiliating the warriors of my Duoyan Guard!"
Snap!
Zhu Houzhao picked up the royal short musket in his hand and shot Bie Bu Luo Hua's forehead with blood. He immediately said to Yang Yiqing: "This is what I mean, kill all the envoys who followed Bie Bu Luo Hua! Daming Ming Dynasty If he doesn’t accept their apology, he must pay for his stupidity and recklessness!”
After Zhu Houzhao spoke, he ordered: "Pass the decree, follow the east road of Governor Wang Shouren, march from Kaiping City, command the Guards, Ordos Tribe, and Yongxiebu Tribe to encircle and suppress the Tumote Tribe! Follow the west road of Governor Yang Yiqing, March from Daning City, command the Guards and Nüzhi tribes, and encircle and suppress the Duoyan Guards and Horqin tribes!”
Upon hearing this, Yang Yiqing hurriedly announced his order and accepted the order.
Yang Yiqing knew what the emperor meant, but he knew that he could only do this kind of thing by himself.
Therefore, Yang Yiqing walked out with a cold face, looked at Hua Dang's envoy who came to the Ming Dynasty with Bi Bu Luo Hua outside, and ordered: "I am the Privy Councilor of the Guards of the Ming Dynasty, the left commander of the Guards. Your Lord Bi Bu Luo Hua They have been executed by this officer, and you will not escape death either. Come, pull them down and execute them!”
Guo Rong, who had been instructed by Zhu Houzhao, obeyed Yang Yiqing's order cooperatively. With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen Jinyi guards all pulled out their swords.
The Huadang envoys were horrified when they saw this. One of the envoys shouted directly: "Why do you want to execute our Lord Buluohua? We want to see your emperor!"
"Yes, we want to see your emperor!" Other envoys also agreed.
Yang Yiqing took advantage of Guo Rong's inattention and pulled out an Xiuchun knife from Guo Rong's body, and then swung it hard, and the blade directly cut off the head of an envoy: "How can I, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, be the one you say? You can see it if you want!”
After saying that, Yang Yiqing pushed the wooden wheelchair and turned away, but not long after leaving, he only left one sentence: "Knife to death!"
then.
Next, the Jinyi guards hacked all the envoys sent by Huadang to death, and their blood flowed like rivers!
Then.
Yang Yiqing officially led the 80,000 Guards troops to Daning on Zhu Houzhao's order. Many of them were new recruits, officers and soldiers newly recruited and trained by the Ministry of War. Naturally, Yang Yiqing brought them with him to practice their actual combat capabilities.
Zhu Houzhao did not take him to the expedition in person, naturally to avoid suspicion, because the Ming Dynasty would not have any mercy on the Tatars in the future. As an emperor who will rule all the ethnic groups in this land in the future, he naturally cannot directly show his cruelty. On the one hand, some less honorable things naturally need to be done by people below.
Culler originally thought that the war would end with Duoyanwei's apology to the Ming Dynasty, but he did not expect that the Ming Dynasty would not forgive the Tatars as easily as before, but would take revenge.
Kule chose to escape with his tribe. For the Tatars who have lived on grass for generations, they are not afraid of the Ming Dynasty's revenge. For them, they just leave the grasslands relatively close to the Ming Dynasty and wait for the Ming army to retreat. Come back later.
but.
What Kuhler didn't expect was that this time, the Ming army did not choose to retreat, but installed barbed wire fences at regular intervals on the grasslands.
Because of the severe cold in winter, he had to lead his tribe to migrate to the grassland farther south, that is, the Xuanfu area. When he returned, Kule discovered that the grassland here had been divided into countless areas by the Ming army using barbed wire fences.
When Kuhler tried to cut off the barbed wire, he found that the Ming army's barbed wire was harder than his own machete, and his cut also caused the bells of the barbed wire to ring.
Jingle bell bell!
Jingle bell bell!
Jingle bell bell!
As the bell rang, a group of Ming soldiers came over from the barbed wire fence with muskets, and fired directly at Kuller and other Tatars.
Snap!
Kuler was also shot. He saw with his own eyes that a Ming soldier who looked more like Shan Tai hit him.
Kuhler fell to the ground, but he couldn't help but smile, knowing that he deserved it.
But the gunfire did not stop because Kuller fell. The Guards used barbed wire to kill the Tatars who were divided across the grassland one by one.
This is the order from Yang Yiqing and Wang Shouren. They are not allowed to let anyone go! Use the toughest means to make the Tatars understand the means of offending the Ming Empire.
Outside Daning City.
Jiang Lian, a new recruit of the Guards, pointed his musket at the Tatar in front of him skillfully, shot him directly to death under the barbed wire fence, and then continued to move forward to hunt the next Tatar.
Manduda, the leader of Ordos, stood next to Yang Yiqing at this time, watching the warriors under his command raise their butcher knives to the Tatars of the same race, and chop them down one after another, but he did not say anything, nor did he say anything. Unable to adapt, as a Tatar noble, he is now just glad that he did not betray the Ming Dynasty, so he was able to become the one holding the butcher's knife instead of the one who was killed.
Yang Yiqing forced the Tatars to kill the Tatars in an almost harsh way, and the female straight people to kill the Tatars, while the Guards became a supervisory team. If the Tatars and female straight people who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty were unwilling to do so, Daming's sword, the Guards will destroy these people together.
Gui Yong and his men were reorganized into the Guards for no other reason than Wang Shouren wanting to give them a chance for revenge.
Gui Yong did not waste the opportunity given to him by Wang Shouren. He rode his horse for a day and night, and made a surprise attack on the Tumote tribe, killing them all.
Ba Nao was an ordinary Tatar in Tumut, but he did not expect that the Han people who usually only knew how to do business would also retaliate against him, and the methods were not necessarily merciful.
Looking at the barbed wire fence that has covered half of the Duoyan Guard, Hua Dang and his children and grandchildren have mixed feelings in their hearts.
Especially Hua Dang, he did not expect that his provocation against the Ming Dynasty would lead to such a huge revenge by the Ming Dynasty. There was almost no living Tatar in the entire southern grassland, and he had to brave the wind and snow with his tribe. Migrate to colder and more northerly places.
Zhu Houzhao came to Yingchang. Here, he could already smell the smell of blood spreading to every corner of the grassland. He didn't know if he was doing the right thing, but he knew that he could only do it now. He and the Ming Dynasty of this era Like the officials, it is not that they have never thought about getting along well with these Tatar nobles and conducting trade with each other.
But.
The Tatar nobles did not seem to change their thinking, and did not seem to realize the benefits of trade. They regarded Ming Dynasty's trade as Ming Dynasty's cowardice. They even coveted Ming Dynasty's wealth because of Ming Dynasty's openness, and still advocated robbery and massacre. , still trying to use violent and brutal means to seize benefits.
Zhu Houzhao could only use the Tatars' most respected method to deal with the Tatars, that is, leaving no one behind!
There was no way, because Zhu Houzhao knew that if the Ming Dynasty was not so powerful, these Tatars who did not regard people as human beings would not be too polite to the people of the Ming Dynasty, and would even be more cruel.
For barbarians who only want to kill people, civilization can only be rebuilt by exterminating them with barbaric means.
Looking at the leaders of the Tatar tribes who had not been wiped out because they still surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao just smiled lightly. He believed that these leaders would understand the consequences of angering the Ming Dynasty after smelling the smell of blood on the grassland.
Zhu Houzhao knew that it was impossible to wipe out all the Tatars on the entire grassland with muskets. To make a race disappear, violence alone was not enough. Other means had to be used, such as forcing them to migrate to barbaric lands. , or force them to accept assimilation into their own mainstream culture.
Zhu Houzhao knew that the Ming Dynasty would not be able to eliminate these Tatars who fled to the north in Huadang. He could only slowly extend the barbed wire fence and the city to the north, gradually eating away at Huadang's living space. But maybe when the Ming Dynasty built all the cities By the time they reached the coast of the Arctic Ocean today, the flowers had already died in the severe cold.
However, Zhu Houzhao did not want to make it easy for the Tatar tribe and the female straight tribe who had now joined the Ming Dynasty.
Because although these tribes have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and are now helping the Ming Dynasty to kill many Tatars, and are even three points more ruthless than the Ming army, this does not mean that these people will not betray the Ming Dynasty in the future and will not become time bombs. .
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao decided to forcibly relocate the Tatar tribes and female straight tribes who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty to areas such as America and the New World of the Ming Dynasty, namely Australia, and let them deal with the local indigenous people and Western colonists. Across the ocean, Zhu Houzhao naturally could not help but There will be worries that these tribes will pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty in the future.
Jiabao, the leader of the Dorote tribe, did not expect that the Ming emperor would make him a count. He knew how rare the title of count was in the Ming Dynasty. What made him even more unexpected was that the Ming emperor would actually seal his own fief. This made Jia Bao Bao is even more happy, as originally belonging to It can be said that the small tribe of Tumote tribe has almost no fiefdom. Now that the emperor can grant him a fiefdom, he is naturally very happy and can't help but ask: "May I ask His Majesty the Ming Emperor, where is the fiefdom of Kanzhou?" Land?”
"Kanzhou is in the south and you need to take a boat." At this time, Zhu Houzhao said.
Jiabao was even more happy when he heard this, thinking that the south has always been very suitable for people to live in. There is no cold winter, there are endless fish and meat, and there are endless clothes to wear. Therefore, Jiabao kowtowed to Zhu Houzhao with tears of gratitude.
However, three months later, when Jiabao and more than 10,000 of his tribesmen were on a large ship, forty or fifty days after setting sail from Tianjinwei, he began to feel something was wrong and realized that he seemed to have been deceived by the Ming Emperor. , the so-called South should not be the South as imagined. Therefore, he couldn't help but find Qi Zhong, the Ming official who was responsible for escorting the Dorote tribe to move to Kanzhou: "Master Qi, you are lying to us. You want to trick us into starving and drowning in this sea. We want to go back. We’re going back to the grassland!”
(End of chapter)