Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 873 Decisive Battle in Sand City ([-])
Since June or Seventh, the goose carts made by working overtime and rushing to work were easily resolved by the Ming army in the first tentative siege. They didn't even touch the foot of the city wall, and they were directly beaten by two rounds of shelling. The cannon fodder soldiers under the city were almost beaten to the point of rebellion. This was a situation that Tumen Dahan never expected.

Tumen Dahan ordered the troops to withdraw with a stern face, and returned to the tent of the Chinese army angrily.

Brihatu followed in without saying a word, but didn't speak immediately, just frowning quietly thinking about something.

Tumen Khan wanted to be patient at first, but he was still not self-cultivated enough. He drew out the scimitar at his waist and slashed, splitting the horizontal table in front of his seat in half, panting heavily.

Brihatu glanced at it, but still didn't speak.

But Tumen Khan couldn't help himself, and asked with suppressed anger: "Why is this happening! Ah? When did the Ming army's cannons become so powerful? Ben Khan has fought against the Ming army for decades, but he has never discovered their guns. The artillery is so accurate, and I didn’t find that the Ming army’s shelling interval can be shortened to this extent! What’s going on?!”

Brihatu let out a deep breath and sighed, "It seems that we have underestimated Gao Yushi after all."

"None of his business!" Tumen Khan's right hand holding the knife was trembling with anger, and he seemed very displeased with this guy, Gao Pragmatic, and said loudly: "Is it because of his high pragmatism that these cannons are so powerful?" ? He is a fairy, can he spell?!"

Judging from the angry words, Tumen was really outraged.

Brihatu said calmly: "Of course he doesn't know magic spells, but it seems that he is more difficult to deal with than he can spell spells."

Tumen looked at Brihatu coldly, without saying a word.

Brihatu continued as if he hadn't seen it, and continued: "As far as I know, the Ming army has been changing equipment these years. The old artillery has been gradually retired from the front line of defense, or moved to the rear. Xuanda, Ji Liao and other important towns have now replaced most of the new cannons produced by Jinghua, and these new cannons are of good quality. The old cannons tend to explode and misfire, and these new cannons are much less... But sweating profusely , it's not that simple.

First, when Gao Gong was in power, the Ming court’s financial situation continued to improve, which allowed the Ming court to start to have money to renovate. Then Gao Pragmatic created the Jinghua Artillery Factory and the Jinghua Firearm Factory, and began to rob the Ordnance Bureau and the Military Bureau. Buying and selling, supplying frontier arms, gradually phasing out old artillery and muskets.

It was the same after Guo Pu assumed power. This policy has been implemented for more than ten years now, and the Ming army itself has discovered the reliability of these artillery, so there are few worries when fighting.So this formed the phenomenon that the Ming army dared to fight if the artillery was good, and the Ming army dared to fight, which greatly increased the power of these artillery fires.Therefore, to say that there are "spells", the first person with spells is probably Gao Gong, and of course Gao is not bad at being pragmatic. "

Tumen Khan said coldly: "Ben Khan doesn't care how much 'magic' Gao Gong and Gao Shishi have. Ben Khan only cares about how to break their 'magic'."

Brihatu was silent for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's hard to break in front of the battle, if you want to break it, you can only break it in the Ming court."

Tumen Khan sneered and said, "Ming court? Even Ben Khan has to learn some spells first—there may be someone in the Ming court who is willing to speak for Tumed, but who would—or even dare— Speak for Ben Khan?"

He paused, and then said: "Besides, even if the Ming court can break the 'magic' of Gao's uncle and nephew, it is not something that can be done in a short period of time, and Ben Khan is now going to face this great challenge." Trouble, by the time he breaks his high-level and pragmatic spells in the Ming court, I'm afraid Ben Khan will have already been defeated and fled!"

Brihatu didn't speak.It's not that I don't want to say it, it's that there is really nothing I can do.

There is a saying that goes well, in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are useless.

Brihatu has indeed seen the "weakness" of Gao Pragmatism, that is, all his success is based on the support of the Ming court. As long as the court denies him, these "spells" will naturally be broken up.

But Tumen is right, how easy is it to kill Gao Yushi in the Ming court?Not to mention that their Chahar tribe is the biggest enemy in the world in the eyes of the Ming court, and no one dares to risk the disgrace of the world to speak for them and harm Gao Yushi. 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 they can't take down Shacheng, this dispatch of troops will become a joke!

Now Chahar's hometown doesn't know if Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang have taken it away. Even if they haven't, the Chahar Department has lost three powerful peripheral forces.

If Tumen Khan can calm down Tumed and make Tumed and even the entire right-wing [-] households obey the orders of the "Great Yuan Khan Court" again, then there is still a reason to cover up the previous losses.

But if Tumed is not able to calm down, or even worse, if he loses the battle in Shacheng and returns to Chahanhot, then... the last bit of prestige of the Dayuan Khan Court will also disappear. It's hard to say whether the Mongolian co-owner can continue to do so.

Tumen Khan saw sweat on his forehead, panic in his heart, couldn't help but turn from anger to panic, and asked: "Brihatu, what do you think... If Ben Khan now uses the excuse of returning to the teacher to rescue... or recovering Duoyan's hometown Can the class teacher go back to court?"

Whether it can be done, does not mean that it can be withdrawn, because in Tumen's view, withdrawal is definitely possible, the key issue is the follow-up impact-whether others will believe that it is not because he cannot defeat Shacheng, but because To rescue or recover Duoyan's hometown and withdraw troops.

The key here is the issue of face, that is, the issue of prestige.

But Tumen forgot, it was stupid for him to ask Buri Hatu this question, because Buri Hatu was still the son of Xin Ai after all, how could he support Tumen to give up Tumed Raiders and fled back in despair to live on?
Maybe for Tumen, they can barely survive for a while when they go back, but for their beloved father and son, once Tumen give up Tumed, they may even struggle to survive!
Because when Xin Ai ran away before, she gave up the tribal leaders and ran away with only the army!
On the Han side, maybe as long as there is an army, they can have everything, but this is not the case in Mongolia. There are no tribal leaders, no cattle, sheep and horses. What do these people eat?

Xin Ai brought more than 1 horses, not too many, not too many, but it is absolutely impossible to support such a team without 30 to 30 cattle and sheep. At least [-] to [-] copies are required.

Thirty to forty thousand people, do you expect the great Zasak Tuhan to give his people to Xin Ai?

They are not prostitutes!

What's more, after Su Bahai and Dong Huli were killed in battle one after another, and Chang Ang fled with the tribe, Tumen's own strength was already somewhat insufficient. At this time, do you still expect him to cut meat and feed tigers?

Therefore, for Tumen, this battle of Tumed is just a question of whether the Great Khan of Mongolia can continue to do it justifiably, but for their Xinai father and son, it is already a matter of life and death!

Brihatu said decisively: "It's absolutely impossible, no Mongolian would believe it."

The corners of Tumen Khan's mouth twitched a few times, and he sat down on the felt mat slumped, and sighed: "If I had known that the Ming people were so good at guarding, I shouldn't have come to Shacheng so easily... If I listened to your advice before, go lay down the big board first." Ascension to the city is enough. Daban is the old nest of Hannaji. If you want to lead people, you need people, you want cattle and sheep, you want money, you have money. As long as you take down the big board, you will be able to withdraw to the Chase with the spoils of war. Hal can't do it either."

Brihatu cursed inwardly, but with no expression on his face, he shook his head and said, "This moment and that moment... Moreover, judging from today's situation, Daban Shengcheng may not be as easy to fight as we originally imagined. "

"Why?" Tumen frowned and said, "Daban Shengcheng is not defended by the Ming army, and Han Naji is like us. How can he make Daban Shengcheng like Shacheng, with so many cannons? I believe Ming will give him a cannon."

This is true, it is impossible for Gao Yushi to give Hannaji a cannon, such a stupid thing that is too upside down, Gao Yushi really will not do it.Unless Tumed is now like Annan, Gao Yushi has made him the actual emperor.

This is obviously impossible. The Ming court does not care whether it is Da Ming or Gao Yushi who is behind Annan, but Tumet is close at hand. If it is not Daming but Gao Yushi, then... King Shunyi simply gave Gao Yushi Forget it if you are pragmatic, why do you want Tumed to be named?
But how could King Shunyi let Gao Yushi do it?With high and pragmatic financial resources, if he controls Tumed, the strongest Mongolian tribe with a control of [-] strings, and he has a complete range of artillery and guns, if he has any ambitions, he may not be able to conquer Yan within three days Under the capital!
Even if Zhu Yijun has a good relationship with Gao Yushi, and the monarch and his ministers get along well, he wouldn't be so big-hearted.

But Burihatu still has reason to say, but before he could continue to fool Tumen Khan, an urgent military report came from outside: "Khan, something is wrong, there are large troops coming from the east and west of Shacheng !"

Tumen was taken aback: "Army? Whose army? How many people are there?"

Tan Ma hastily reported back: "The army on the West Road held the banner of Dacheng and Taiji, and rolled up the yellow sand along the way. There are at least [-] to [-] people under their command!"

Tumen jumped up in shock, and his voice changed: "How can there be so many people in Hanaji? He sent out Tumotxishao in full force? Don't you want Daban Shengcheng?"

"Yes, Da Khan, there are really so many people!" Tan Ma was also sweating anxiously, and continued to report: "There are also a lot of soldiers on the East Road, estimated to be no less than [-] people, but the colors of the flags are quite mixed. At least a dozen Taiji banners."

Tumen gasped, adding 8 to [-] to [-], that's at least [-] to [-] horses, which is already equal to the sum of his and Xin Ai's troops.

If you add the unknown number of Ming troops in Shacheng...

The great Zasaktu Khan shuddered.

(End of this chapter)