Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 777 Royal Cavalry
Forty miles northeast of the old site of Shangdu.

The Heifeng River, a tributary of the Luan River, and Sun Desheng, the guerrilla general of the Royal Cavalry Academy of the Imperial Capital, led the cavalry of the academy under his command to set off from Duolun, cross Jinlianchuan and go northeast along the river.

The scenery along the way is like a landscape painting, colorful and beautiful.

Wearing shiny breastplates, cloaks, and real military helmets, cavalrymen straddled tall horses, carrying muskets and sabers, breaking the tranquility of the grassland.

The blood-red battle flag.

Flaming robes.

When they traveled forty miles all the way, they came to the bank of the Heifeng River, and saw several yurts inlaid among several water pools, surrounded by cattle and sheep scattered like pearls.

There are also wild flowers such as nasturtium blooming all over the mountain.

In the distance, there is a golden desert.

Deserts, rivers, grasslands, mountains and forests in the distance, green lakes, and wild flowers everywhere are integrated into one picture.

Desert Yiyi, lake gurgling.

Herds of sheep like white clouds, cattle like gold, and herds of galloping horses and camels.

Blue sky, white clouds, sunshine.

Along the banks of the river, there are many prairie lakes connected to the river. These water ponds are considered to be muddy water by herdsmen. The reeds are dense, and even fish and insects are abundant. Wild geese, wild ducks, and river gulls are leisurely fishing and freshening up.

On the shore, there is smoke from the herdsmen’s yurts. The men are grazing cattle and sheep outside, while the women are at home beating butter and spinning wool. Children are playing and chasing, and some are fighting with calves and riding sheep.

"Eggy!
"Eji, come and see!"

A herdsman girl who was sorting wool turned around and ran into the yurt, shouting loudly at the Mongolian woman who was whipping butter inside.

"Didn't I tell you to watch over your younger brothers and sisters? Pull them away when they fight. I'm busy." The woman whipped the cream hard.

Herdsmen make a living as nomads, and their daily diet mainly consists of cow’s milk and goat’s milk. The most important thing for herdsmen’s women every day is to milk the cows and then process the milk.

They have learned to do all this since they were young. They have to milk two or three times a day. The fresh milk is first boiled with cow dung, and after it is put into a basin to cool, a layer of yellow grease will form on it. This is what the herdsmen like. Naipizi, put it in another basin, and after accumulating a certain amount, put it in the barrel of ghee.

There is a wooden handle in the middle of the barrel, and there is a disc at the lower end and a cover on the top. Grasp the wooden handle and stir it up and down for a long time, and the oil and water will separate. Remove the cover, take out the oil, and rub it several times in cool water. It becomes ghee or butter, which is a good thing.

It is not only a good food that herdsmen usually like to eat, but also a tribute and tax item for the leader of the tribute, or a valuable thing that is used to sell and exchange goods.

But it's delicious but hard to beat, and you can only hit a little bit each time, but it takes a long time.

The husband is out tending the sheep and comes back after dark. The woman has a very tight schedule. The day is full of arrangements. She must do everything as soon as possible, and she doesn’t care too much about the children. The old brings the young.

"Eji, it's not the younger brothers who are fighting."

"What's the matter, did you fall while riding a sheep, or was it hurt by a calf?"

"no no."

"What's the matter, tell you Ebu Ge Abu to go."

The girl was interrupted several times by her mother, and hurriedly said, "There are many people coming from a distance, many soldiers in armor and riding horses."

The woman stopped what she was doing, when the sound of horns came from outside the yurt, very urgent, it was a warning signal.

The woman ran out of the yurt in a panic, and saw a scene that horrified her. A mighty and majestic cavalry appeared in the distance. Their armor was neither Mongolian nor Manchu style, but it looked like that. The flag, she guessed a bit.

It is the Han army in the Central Plains.

Many elderly women in the camp began to call for their children in a panic, and some people went to lead their horses.In recent years, the grassland has not been peaceful, and has been very turbulent, with frequent conflicts, looting, and even wars between tribes.

Even this camp did not belong to this group of Sunite people. They just followed the leader to attack and drive away the people of another tribe not long ago. Now in their camp, there are many slaves from other tribes.

Suddenly, the cavalry in the distance spread their wings like wild geese.

The red cavalry flanked them. They ran faster and faster, and the camp shook.

The woman panicked and froze on the spot, but she didn't run away, her eyes were full of tears.

"Eggy!"

Several children gathered around, their faces full of panic.

At this time, a crippled old man came over, he was the grandfather of the children, "Take the children, take the blame, and go!"

The woman didn't move.

"My people have come to pick me up." The woman said strange words.

The lame Mongolian old man did not understand, this is not Mongolian.

"Erji?" The older girl looked at her mother in confusion.

"Eji's tribe came to pick me up," the woman laughed with tears all over her face.

The old man seems to have finally remembered that this daughter-in-law is not actually a Mongolian woman, but a Han woman that his son snatched from the south more than ten years ago. She has been on the grassland for more than ten years and has given birth to seven children for their family. , two died.

She seems to have completely turned into an authentic Mongolian woman, not only the Mongolian robe on her body, but also her living habits, and she even speaks Mongolian very well. All these made the old man forget that she is actually a Han woman who was robbed .

As soon as the old man hesitated, the red cavalry surrounded the camp.

Even the men who were grazing in the distance were driven back.

The woman laughed and cried, cried and laughed again.

She hugged the five children together and said to them with a smile, "Mother is a Han Chinese from the Central Plains, and her hometown is in western Liaoning. Those are not enemies, they are people from my mother's hometown. You can call them uncle."

She said it once in Chinese and then again in Mongolian, and the children seemed to understand it.

The woman's husband came back, very embarrassed and flustered.

Soon, the Ming cavalry completed the siege of the camp, and none of the Mongols escaped.

The Mongols in the camp gathered together under the call of the leaders. They took up bows, arrows, spears, and scimitars. The men rode on horses, but facing the Ming army with shiny breastplates and guns, they were nervous and nervous. Frightened, overwhelmed.

The woman tied the five children together with her with a rope, "No matter what happens later, don't run around, just follow mother, everything will be fine."

The man was called to the front by the leader. He looked back at his wife doing this with complicated eyes. The lame old man also raised a bow, and hurriedly dug out his old leather armor and put it on.

The woman ignored them and remained calm.

But her hands were shaking all the time.

The older girl asked her mother, "Eji, didn't Abu say that our Sonite has joined the Ming Emperor of the Central Plains and has a good relationship with the Central Plains now? Not long ago, Abu drove slaves, cattle, sheep, furs, mushrooms, etc. to Dongkou for exchange. There are so many things from the Central Plains back, why are you fighting now?"

"It'll be fine, Eji is here."

By the Black Wind River.

In this Mongolian camp, facing the Ming army cavalry who came suddenly and surrounded them, Taiji Ubandai, Dorjiskabu, Mangwusi, Ermike, and Shida rode forward on horseback. .

"Dear guests, why are you here?"

The guerrilla general Sun Desheng rode out on his horse and stepped forward slowly.

"This general is here at the order of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. It is the guerrilla general Sun Desheng of the Royal Cavalry Academy of the Imperial Capital of the Ming Dynasty. Who is Ubandai?"

The tall, burly, bearded and even a little bald Ubandai stepped forward, "Honorable General Sun, next is Ubandai, the fourth-class Taiji and county son conferred by the Holy Khan."

"You are Ubandai?" Sun Desheng looked at him immediately, then looked at the camp behind him, and then looked at the hundreds of soldiers behind him, "Ubandai, are you convicted?"

Although Ubandai is Taiji, it is not very impressive in Sunit. After all, in the late Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian ministries were scattered, and Lin Dan Khan could not command the ministries when Lin Dan Khan was there, so the leaders of the more powerful tribes called themselves Jinong or even Khan. Others who call Nuoyan or Huntaiji are more, such as the three tribes of Waikalkha, they do not recognize Lin Danhan as the leader of the Communist Party at all, and they all call themselves Khan.

Taiji also walked everywhere.

"I don't know what we are guilty of?"

Sun Desheng pointed directly at his feet, "Where is this?"

"Our ranch?"

"Your pasture? As far as I know, the sage Hong En moved you to the south to a land with abundant water and grass, next to the grassland on the dam, but it is not on the dam. The sage has already drawn a boundary line for you and repeatedly asked you not to cross the boundary." Nomads, let alone looting other tribes.

And here, it was originally a pasture assigned by the imperial court to the Wengniute tribe. You not only crossed the border and nomadic, but also attacked the Wengniute tribe, robbed their livestock, and took their population as slaves. "

"Now, according to the order of the saint, I will bring you all to Duolun's imperial court. You will explain it to the saint and the Mongolian princes yourself, and let the lord tell you what to do."

Ubandai's face changed drastically, but he refused to go.

Sun Desheng drew out his saber and pointed forward.

"Go, or die!"

Shi Da and other four Taiji behind Ubandai were all shocked and angry. They are all sons of Prince Sunit, and they are all brothers or nephews of Teng Jisi in terms of seniority. Daqi, under the banner of Ming Dynasty, also attacked and plundered other tribes everywhere, taking the opportunity to grow stronger.

Back then when the Tengjisi brothers moved to the north and attached to Khalkha, they took away only a few thousand people, but now they have more than ten thousand people. , now get together and move to this newly stolen pasture for a thousand households to develop here.

"Put down your weapons and follow us to the court to plead guilty!"

Ubandai refused and retreated to the front of the formation, and all the Mongolian tribesmen under his command also raised their weapons.

Sun Desheng looked at them with disdain, just like looking at a group of dead people.

He turned his head and looked at the officers on the left and right, then waved his saber without hesitation, "Kill!"

The Royal Cavalry Academy of the Imperial Capital is the cradle of the current cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, and there is also one of the most elite cavalry units here.

Facing this Mongolian camp claiming to be the new Otok Heifenghe Qianhu camp of Sunit, the cavalry attacked without hesitation.

The two wings of the wild goose spread out.

The cuirassiers charged like a wall, forming another row at a distance.

Row after row, like a wave.

The grassland was shaking, and the Mongols were hastily drawing their bows and strings, riding their horses and drawing their swords, preparing for a battle on horseback.

The distance was still far away, but the royal cavalry had already raised their cavalry muskets, facing the accelerating Mongols in front of them with a row of muskets.

Gunpowder smoke filled the air, and the sound of gunfire was everywhere.

The battlefield hissed.

A row of guns was fired, but it didn't end, and the guns continued to ring from behind.

The Mongols continued to lose their horses.

The royal cavalry on the horse fired a gun, and immediately changed another gun and fired another gun. After the two guns were fired, they were already very close to the Mongols, but they did not draw their swords and horses, but rode to the left and right with superb riding skills. Separate, then turn around and run back. After running back for a certain distance, stop, organize the team, and then start loading the two firecrackers again. After loading, continue to charge.

Get close for two more musket shots, come back, and reload.

In the distance, there was a team of cavalry pulling small cannons, quickly set up artillery positions, and launched rapid bursts of fire at the Mongols.

The Mongols continued to fall from their horses, and they also fought back with bows and arrows. There were also those who threw guns and axes. Some royal cavalry were hit by arrows, but they had breastplate helmets to protect their vital points. Most of them were only slightly injured, and some were even directly bounced off by armor. Only A few unlucky ones fell off their horses or were seriously injured or died in battle.

The royal cavalry repeatedly charged, shot, turned, and shot again. Ubandai and the others tried to get close to the Ming cavalry, fight with them in close quarters, or want to walk around and shoot, but they were always blasted off their horses by the Ming cavalry. Down.

In the afternoon, the sun is rising.

The guns stopped and the guns stopped.

Ubandai and Shi Daertaiji were shot and killed by Mingqi, and the Mongols were finally defeated, and the rest chose to surrender.

Captured three Taiji, captured 150 and 430 Mongolian warriors, and captured 530 four horses, 950 and two camels, 700 and [-] cattle, more than [-] sheep, and [-] other old and weak women and children and slaves Yu people.

Beheaded 930 level seven.

This Sunite Heifenghe Etuoke, which was built by five Taiji plunderers, claimed to have more than a thousand riders, so it was attacked and destroyed.

Mingqi cleaned up the battlefield and treated the wounded.

The battle was won easily, and the Ming army suffered no more than a dozen casualties.

These Mongols didn't have much chance to get close to the Ming army.

While cleaning the battlefield, Sun Desheng saw a Mongolian woman who claimed to be a Han woman with five children.

"Where is your hometown, what year did you come to the grassland, and how did you get there?"

Sun Desheng asked a lot of questions, and the woman answered them one by one.

"My hometown is Chaoyang Three Pagodas in western Liaoning. I was first taken away by the Karaqin tribe 13 years ago, and then by the Sunite people. I gave birth to seven children here, and there are still five left."

The woman stammered a bit in Chinese.

However, Sun Desheng observed carefully and found that although the woman was wearing a Mongolian robe and had a Mongolian hair style, she could still see that she was indeed a Han woman.

The woman's husband had died in the battle just now, and there was a lame father-in-law at home.

"Are there any other Han people here?"

"Some Han women who were captured or bought a long time ago also gave birth here, and there were some Han women who were bought or robbed from other ministries in recent years, but they had all been ordered by Sunit Khan. , and sent it to Khan, and then I heard that it was sent back to the Central Plains Pass.”

Sun Desheng asked the woman and her children to be treated separately, without binding them, and gave them horses to ride, "Come with us to the Duolun Imperial Palace first, and then we will listen to the court's arrangements, but don't worry, from now on , you must be free."

(End of this chapter)