Chapter 149 What is cruelty
At this moment, Teng Xiang was full of pride. After he and Zhu Zaijing severely dampened the march of the Tatar bandits in Huangyugou, Teng Xiang finally realized what happiness was!
The huge rocks and logs rolling down and the frightened screams coming from the Huangyu ditch seem to be a wonderful piece of music that is endlessly memorable. Whenever he is free, Teng Xiang’s mind is constantly filled with thoughts. Repeat this exciting scene.
This time Zhu Zaijing entrusted him with the important task of sneak attack on the Tatar bandits in Shixiaying. You can imagine Teng Xiang's excitement.
This time Teng Xiang led a group of people to sneak attack from the right side of Shixia Camp, and the second group of people attacked from the left side.
According to Zhu Zaijing's explanation, the two sides did not need to carry out sneak attacks at the same time, but whoever arrived at a suitable sneak attack location first would attack first. The main focus was to be caught off guard and to attack quickly.
As long as you seize the opportunity and treat these specially modified explosives as palm mines, throw them into the camp of the Tatar bandits, and then turn around and run away, it will be regarded as a successful sneak attack.
So this sneak attack mission is also very simple, there are no restrictions, you just need to be quick.
Teng Xiang looked at the five hundred people he was leading. His eyes showed an unconcealed desire for victory. Teng Xiang lowered his voice to the people around him and said: "This sneak attack can only succeed." Failure is not allowed, and we have to take action before the second team, so that the second team can see that our first team is the bravest warrior!"
Teng Xiang's words immediately attracted the attention of those around him! They were so restless that they were gearing up one by one. They couldn't wait to rush out towards the Tatar camp not far ahead, and released the hungry explosives in their hands as thunder from the sky.
Teng Xiang squinted and took another distant look at the camp where the Tatar bandits were gathering.
Teng Xiang saw that the Tatar camp in the distance had not yet completely set up the Juma stakes, and the Tatar soldiers who were in charge of setting up the Juma stakes all looked wilted. It was obvious that their morale and energy were low. The fear last night had been greatly consumed.
And based on their current state and psychology, they would never have thought that the timid Ming army, which would only run away after setting up an ambush in Huangyugou, would still kill someone at this time.
So even if there was an order from the top of the mountain, asking them to put up the horse poles around the camp as soon as possible and protect the camp, they did not carry out the order so seriously.
I even feel unhappy in my heart, why should they continue to fight with strength while others can rest?
Moreover, in their opinion, those who died or were injured were either the Liaoyang army (Duoyan tribe) newly surrendered by the Great Khan, or the tribe that was unlucky enough to go up the mountain, which had little to do with them.
So when they performed these tasks, they must have felt unhappy.
The reason for this is that the grassland soldiers have a complicated composition. They seem to be Tatar warriors who obey the orders of one man, but in fact they are a temporary team formed from different tribes.
When the wind was blowing, they were all brave and good at fighting. They even screamed and dared to hold up their scimitars and bows, and fearlessly attacked the Great Wall of the Han people and the cities and castles where the Han people lived. Because they know that if they win, they can get a lot of wealth, slaves and other rewards.
Once the situation goes against the wind, these temporary armies composed of various tribes will highlight various disciplinary problems, and they will always unconsciously calculate who has done more, who has done less, and who has suffered more. Little loss.
It can be said that under the influence of this mentality, they have no dedication at all, and they only feel that they are the one who suffers.
So this is also the reason why Anda has been asking for trade with the Ming Dynasty, because he knows the habits of the grassland people very well.
Now that he is suppressing him, the grassland can still maintain a certain degree of unity. Once he gets old and other ambitious grassland heroes rise, the situation he has worked so hard to maintain may collapse in an instant.
So in order to delay this collapse, and for his family to exist on the grassland for a long time, even if he and Daming have always been in a state of hostility, he will continue to work hard to reach a mutual trade with Daming and get With the official recognition of the Ming Dynasty, he was canonized as the King of the Grassland, so that he could benefit from the Central Plains forever. This can also distinguish his family and tribe from the barbaric tribes on the grassland who only fight and kill without thinking about the future.
An Da is very aware of the gap between the grasslands and the Central Plains.
Today’s era is long past the era when Genghis Khan dominated the world and Emperor Kublai Khan conquered the Central Plains. His ancestors and the Ming Dynasty have been fighting for two hundred years on the nine sides of the present Ming Dynasty.
Although it seems that they have been winning in terms of winning rate and significant results, Anda knows very well that they have never really occupied an inch of Han territory in the past two hundred years.
Every time they can only act like horse bandits who only know how to rob, they just rob and leave, and they cannot maintain long-term interests at all.
And as the grassland has become colder and colder over the years, their production space has become more and more endangered, and more importantly, the nine-border front line of Xuanda that they have seized for two hundred years has become more and more difficult. The poorer you get, the less and less you can get good things.
So under this situation, all Anda can think of is to do his best, whether it is begging or fighting, he must win the mutual market with Daming.
Only in this way can he and Daming enter a stable range, and his tribe can continuously obtain grain and various winter supplies provided by Daming through mutual transactions.
Otherwise, if it continues like this, no one will get the benefit in the end, which is absolutely unacceptable to Anda who is determined to make the tribe last forever.
But unfortunately, not everyone can understand his heart.
The tribes who followed him south wanted to grab a big one and have a good year.
But if they are allowed to come here just for a spin, without any benefit, and to get people involved, they will never petition.
So the current situation is like these people who were arranged to drive the horse stakes. They all thought that they could get everything they wanted by riding on the horse and holding the knife.
But someone told them not to ride horses, but they had to do this boring and grueling work. This was undoubtedly a kind of psychological and physical torture for these prairie people who were used to being free and loose. .
So the psychology of these people who are setting up horse poles now is extremely unbalanced. They do not regard other people who are resting in the camp as a group of interests. They only think that others can eat and sleep, but they have to Who the hell is happy about working hard all the time?
Therefore, when they set up these defensive horse-repelling stakes, they took their time and did not have the sense of urgency that the enemy was approaching.
And it was precisely because of their mentality that they gave Teng Xiang and other two sneak attack teams a chance.
Teng Xiang looked at the gap between the enemy and the horse, and felt excited in his heart. This is a God-given opportunity. If they are lucky, they can rush to the enemy's central army on horseback and throw explosives, unlike at the beginning. As planned, he sneaked into a group of bandits near the edge of the camp.
“Brothers, have you seen that gap? It’s half a cup of tea before we start charging! This time we also want to let these Tatar thieves feel what cruelty is!”
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