Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 332 Killing the Wolf

In the first month of the lunar year, the Hexi land was still extremely cold, but because His Majesty the Emperor bought winter clothes for the army last year, even though the north wind blew when the Ming army set out from Xiliang City, it did not affect the morale of the army at all.

Tang He is also desperate.

[-] elite soldiers and [-] civilians were left to garrison Xiliang City. The remaining [-] troops, with only three days of rations, rode and headed for the White Sea north of Xiliang without hiding their whereabouts.

From Xiliang to Baihai, the terrain is somewhat similar to the east-west Hexi Corridor, with high sides on both sides and low in the middle, and Baihai is a rare water source in the northwest wilderness, and it can be called the best place for herdsmen to spend the winter in winter.

Further north of the White Sea, there are mountains and deserts, and it is very difficult to cross.

So militarily speaking, it's pretty much a pocket-like dead zone.

The problem is, from another perspective, if the tribe occupying the White Sea is strong enough, it will become easy to defend but difficult to attack.

In the past, Duoerzhiban, the king of Yuanqi, was the strongest force in Gansu Province, with nearly ten thousand elite soldiers. Maybe it was nothing in the Central Plains, but in this sparsely populated northwest region, he could already sit firmly On the throne of the Zongwang of the Yuan family, on the one hand, he has the imperial seal, and if other tribes in the town dare to make up their minds, it is a rebellion.On the other hand, even if someone wants to rebel, they have to see if their teeth are good enough.

As a result, the 53-year-old Duo'er Zhiban didn't react for a while when he heard the Ming army coming in menacingly in his luxurious king's tent by the white sea.

Bold!

Of course, it was just some useless, absurd thought passing by.

After the thought flashed by, Duo'er Jiban realized that Da Yuan...has died, and now he, the king of Qi, doesn't even have an orthodox one.

Duo'erzhiban also received the envoys sent by Daming to surrender. Although they treated them well, but after getting used to their status as the Zongwang, Duo'erzhiban didn't want to surrender to Daming in their hearts. Jiangnan, like those nobles from the Yuan family who surrendered, was granted an insignificant idle position and spent his life.

However, when the Ming army took down Lanzhou and the news came that Shuzhong had also surrendered, Duo'er Zhiban's mind became more relaxed.

It is not impossible to surrender to that Ming Dynasty in name, but, everything that I have now, even if the title is downgraded, I can no longer be a prince, but other benefits, including my own arrangements, must also be retained.

Lowering the title without hurting the fundamentals, this is what Duo'er Zhiban and Daming bargained for.

Of course it didn't work out.

just now……

What's going on here?
Isn't it still talking, why did the army come here?
The flustered Duo'er came to his senses and hurriedly called for deployment to discuss countermeasures.

The result of the discussion was that, on the one hand, they sent people to contact the Ming army, and it was still possible to negotiate. Duo'er Zhiba, who has a title, led an army of five thousand to meet the enemy.

In addition, as the nobleman with the highest title in Gansu Province in name, Duoerzhiban also sent messengers to various places, hoping that other military towns would send troops together.

If you can wipe out this Ming army in one go, and then take back Lanzhou and block the northwest gate, then everyone can continue to enjoy themselves in this northwest land!
There is nothing else, but I have to say that maybe it was a misjudgment, or maybe it was a fluke. In the military, Duo'er only made a bad move.

Although King Qi has 5 troops, and at critical moments, it is not a problem to gather [-] to [-] capable soldiers, but the core elite is only worth nearly [-].

Facing nearly [-] elite Ming troops, Duo'erzhi Squad didn't go out all at once, but instead adopted the tactics of refueling. The elite soldiers who were worthy of [-] only took out [-].

Ming army here.

Facing the envoys sent by Duo'erzhiban, Tang He showed up, no longer as gentle as before, and insisted that Duo'erjiban voluntarily surrendered, and the Ming army took over, without any additional conditions. Can fight.

Duo'er Zhiban naturally couldn't agree to this condition.

The Ming army set off from Xiliang City on the ninth day of the first lunar month, and traveled hundreds of miles a day. At noon on the tenth day of the first lunar month, halfway through the journey, [-] elite Ming troops met Duoer, the younger brother of Duoer, who came to stop him. Five thousand cavalry led by Zhiba.

This is a place called Wild Horse Springs.

If it is spring and summer, it should be a beautiful place, but in the current winter, it is a desolate scene.

Duo'er is only in her early forties, with a round face, and riding a black horse with a helmet on. She looks calm and solemn, but inside she is very flustered.

In the melee in the Central Plains in the past few decades, Duo'er, who was far away in the outskirts, didn't participate at all. He grew up so big, and he was just domineering in this place in Gansu.

opposite……

But the tens of thousands of troops are terrible.

However, Duo'er Zhiba also knew that if this encounter was unstoppable, the glory and wealth of his brothers in this Hexi land would come to an end.

How does this work?
Thinking about the heroic appearance of his ancestors, Duo'er secretly cheered himself up. He must have inherited Mongolian Erlang's bloody courage.This time, so what if [-] were against [-], and it was not that the Mongolian cavalry had never fought against ten times as many enemies.

Pulling out the luxurious waist knife inlaid with gold and inlaid with jade, Duo'er was about to encourage the deployment, but saw three huge and hideous ghost heads with strange shapes and colors floating slowly in the formation of the Ming army. Under the ghost head, there is still fire, and under the fire, there is a hanging basket, and in the hanging basket... it seems... someone?
Duo'er, who was already flustered, felt a little weak in her legs.

He knows this stuff.

Last year... some tribesmen who fled thousands of miles from the distant metropolis saw this thing, and then the metropolis was destroyed, and then, people in Shanxi and Shaanxi have seen it, and it turned out that Shaanxi and Shanxi They all belonged to Daming.

This is simply the devil sent by heaven to assist Da Ming in conquering the world!
It’s not just Duo’er Zhiba, even if the five thousand long-term frontier fortresses have heard of cavalrymen who have never seen a hot air balloon, and the various news they have heard are all weird. Deterrence?

After a moment of silence, Duo'er Zhiba finally spoke, and said to a commander beside him with a suppressed trembling voice: "Galu, let's... let's go back first?"

The commander-in-chief named Galu with a big beard was calmer than Duoerzhi, squinting his eyes to carefully look at the three ghost heads floating in the air, and quickly said: "Don't be afraid, Taiwei, didn't you notice it?" , those three devils, they can only fly along the direction of the wind, and now it is the north wind, you see, if it is not pulled by the rope, it should fly south and cannot reach us."

Only then did Duo'er realize that those three terrifying big balls... Indeed, the flying direction of Piao'er was somewhat southward.

Can……

This is also very scary!

Seeing Duo'er's indecisive look, Ga Lu quickly said again: "Captain, you can't back down. Our wives and children, as well as felt-packed cattle and sheep, are all behind us. If we back down, can we let them take the lead?" Is it?" Saying this, Garu also pulled out his own waist knife: "Taiwei, these Ming troops have been on their way for half a day, but their foothold is not stable, my department is willing to be the vanguard, tearing apart the Ming army's formation for the army, how about it?"

What Ga Lu said made Doer Zhiba regain some courage, and quickly nodded: "Go, Ga Lu, my warrior."

Galu took the order and raised his sword to call for his own deployment. Soon, a thousand cavalry soldiers came out of five thousand elites and rushed towards the Ming army, but they didn't hit the center of the army directly, but pierced towards the east corner.

Daming's hot air balloons have been used to observe the enemy's situation more than intimidating the enemy.

Tang He learned very early on that Duo'erzhiba's troops were at the front. Therefore, the Ming army was definitely not in a state of "hurrying for half a day without a firm foothold". Instead, they had already had a full meal while marching before noon. In ten miles, the [-] troops had stopped advancing.

The hot air balloon took off, and through the telescope, the movement of the enemy's five thousand cavalry was transmitted one by one without any mistakes.

When Garu led a thousand cavalry troops to the right flank of the Ming army, the infantry of the former army began to quickly form formations. The Ming army's method of dealing with the cavalry charge was also very simple. Scary hedgehog. The close body of the 'hedgehog' and the shield to prevent the shooting of bows and arrows constitute the second layer of protection.

If the cavalry wanted to break into the formation, they had to pull out the long spines of the hedgehog and peel off the hard outer shell inside.

The Ming army stopped when the two armies were separated by ten miles, but Duo'erzhiba's troops continued to move forward and stopped at a position about five miles away from the Ming army. Then Galu's troops attacked, and the distance of five miles came in a blink of an eye. .

The Mongolian cavalry is good at kite-flying and shooting tactics, but there is no good way for the Ming army's infantry.

It's like Song Dynasty.

The Song Dynasty’s foreign wars, if you calculate carefully, you win more than you lose, because the Song Dynasty’s formation is too difficult, if you don’t take the initiative to post kites to others, it’s not easy to lose.

It should have been the same this time.

However, the reality is that when Garu's troops, who could only fight for the tribe behind them, rushed to the right wing of the Ming army, the frightening formation seemed... not so strong.

Han people are timid and afraid of death.

This was the first thought in Galu's mind who rushed into the formation and easily cut down several people, as if his ancestors had said so.

Is that true?
No.

Ga Lu also quickly thought that this might be a trap, because it was so obvious that when he rushed forward just now, the row of spears that could have pierced him backed back, and it seemed... It's not that embarrassing either.

This is a trap!

After reacting, Ga Lu yelled, demanding that the deployment be disengaged, and retreated immediately.

However, just after shouting a few times, several feathered arrows shot at him at once from nowhere, one of them hit his throat viciously, and Galu's last movement was to subconsciously cover his neck, but his body lost control in an instant. Falling from the horse, he was stabbed by several spears, and there was no more sound.

On the other side, Duo'er didn't see that Galu was dead, but noticed that a thousand cavalrymen on his side had torn apart the right wing of the Ming army. He was immediately encouraged, and he was not afraid of the terrifying demon in the sky, and ordered the other 4000 troops to fight. Together they rushed towards the fragile right wing that had been torn apart by the Ming army.

In the Ming army.

Tang He heard the news that Duo'er Zhiba had taken the bait from the hot air balloon, so he turned to Guo Xing and Lu Zhongheng, two assistants on the left and right: "You two go and make arrangements. Use them all. These 5000 people are half of King Qi's elite, if they are eliminated, half of the vitality of Duo'erzhi's squad will be lost."

Guo Xing and Lu Zhongheng took orders, but they didn't leave for a while, Guo Xing said: "General, do you want to take prisoners?"

Soup and helplessness.

Just now he had clearly hinted at it, but Guo Xing still wanted to get an accurate word from him.

captive?

How can I stay?

Could it be that the nearly [-] troops took thousands of captives to Baihai, and if the fight with Duo Erzhi was in full swing and the thousands of captives turned their backs, wouldn't it be a big mess?
After hesitating for a while, Tang He still said: "The captives cannot stay..."

After the words came out, Tang He wanted to add a few more words about why the captives could not be kept.

Think or give up.

what's the point?
After all, he must have been 'recklessly killed' again.

Alcoholism and homicide, this crime... is better than the two ends of the rat.

Ah!
Guo Xing and Lu Zhongheng got confirmation from Tang He, and then they took orders to leave.

When Duo'er Zhiba led the remaining 4000 people to meet the Ming army, trying to disperse the Ming army in one go, two cavalry troops totaling [-] suddenly rushed out from the rear of the Ming army, one on the left and one on the right, and did not rush directly. Duo'er, who had already been in contact with the foot formation, only stepped forward, but circled around in a circle, showing a very obvious outflanking posture.

As the encirclement circle closed, Duo'er Zhiba's troops erupted in bursts of explosion sounds that seemed to be incompatible with the era of cold weapons.

These are all kinds of firearms carried by the Ming army.

Before the firearm exploded, Duo'er Zhiba had already realized that he had been duped and was outflanked, and there were twice as many cavalry as himself. He knew that he couldn't turn around. At this time, he could only break through the Ming army's march , it is possible to escape a glimmer of life.

However, the infantry formation, which was easily broken by Garu at the beginning, seemed to suddenly become stronger after all the five thousand cavalry troops pressed on.

Breaking in is so hard.

It seems that there is no end to the horizon, no limit.

Then, the firearm exploded.

The cavalry who had completed the outflanking from the rear gradually pressed forward.

The tide is gone.

Duo'er didn't want to die, so he planned to surrender, but unfortunately, the Ming army didn't give them a chance to surrender. After Duo'er shouted out his identity and expressed his intention to surrender, what greeted him was a wave of obvious anxiety. Targeted shooting.

The battle of [-] Mongolian cavalry against [-] Ming troops lasted less than an hour, and it was completely over.

Because Duo'er only underestimated the enemy and rushed forward like a stupid roe deer, and took the initiative to step into the trap, lightly casualty, the Ming army killed [-] people, and there were no prisoners, and his own killed only [-] people, and only a thousand people were injured.

However, at the end of the war, Tang He still had to announce that the garrison had a day off.

When the Ming army began to set up camp, a group of people also rode away on a ridge west of Yema Spring.

The leader is from Suzhou, his name is Suo Naerga, and his title is also the old Yuan Taiwei.

Taiwei was a very prominent official position in the previous dynasty, and was in charge of the power of soldiers and horses in the world. For example, the more famous one is Gao Taiwei and Gao Qiu in "Water Margin".

Speaking of "Water Margin", one has to mention one of the world's most prostitutes.

Pan Jinlian.

That's a classic!

Ok.

Sister Pan: Dada, if you stop, that guy is here again.

……

However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the title of Taiwei became a vacant position, especially in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty. In order to win over people's hearts, the Yuan Dynasty had to confer titles of some Taiweis every three days. official position.

In short, the Taiwei walks everywhere.

as well as.

Pingzhang... There are as many as dogs.

Beside Suo Narga, riding parallel to him, is one of the flat seals of Gansu Province granted by the Yuan Dynasty, and is in charge.

Listening to Suo Narga muttering words like 'trash', he thought about it for a while and said: "Captain, so...do we have to do something?"

Suo Narga shook his head dejectedly.

Knowing that the Ming army was stationed in Xiliang, although Ganzhou was still separated, Suonarga who was stationed in Suzhou began to pay more attention to this side. Before that, Ningxia Road sent people to send cattle and sheep to test, and Suonarga was also among them. The lobbying, only hope to find out the reality of the army.

At least, you need to know what the other party is going to do?

After all, tens of thousands of people have arrived here. In terms of scale, it is the largest army town in the Hexi land in a blink of an eye.Unless all the tribes in Hexi can unite immediately and jointly launch an attack on the Ming army, otherwise, what awaits everyone is the fate of being eaten away.

However, compared to the good words before, after the Ming army entered Xiliang, it was not difficult to deal with, but they stopped dealing with this side at all.

Sending cattle and sheep over, they took them away, and then they didn't say a word.

sent envoys...

They didn't let me in, they just told me to go back and wait for news.

Tens of thousands of troops, what news are you waiting for?
Waiting to die?
So, Suo Narga, who couldn't sit still any longer, simply brought some relatives and rushed over in person, and carefully followed the Ming army out of camp and headed north.

This noon, when the Ming army wiped out all the [-] cavalry troops of King Qi Duoerzhi's squad without leaving a single one, Suo Naerjia finally understood.

He walked forward for a while with a gloomy face, and found that the guards around him still hadn't reacted, so Suo Narga had no choice but to speak hoarsely: "You have also read Han Shu, and you should know one of the idioms called 'kill chickens to warn monkeys' '."

Killing chickens to warn monkeys?
Even after hearing this, and thinking about the scene where the Ming army didn't stay, I immediately understood.

It really is……

No.

its not right.

If...

He smiled wryly, but he also had the same thoughts as some people in Tang He's military meeting before the battle: "Taiwei, this... the Ming army is probably not just killing chickens to scare monkeys, it's obviously the other way around?"

Suo Narga nodded: "Why not? If you kill a chicken, the monkey will be terrified. If it's the other way around, if you kill a bigger monkey and show it to the chicken, wouldn't it be even more frightening?" .”

Saying this, Suo Narga fell silent when he suddenly realized that he had confided his heart indirectly.

Guan also grasped the key to lock Narga's words.

My lord...was frightened.

Thinking about it again, now that I understand it, how can I not be afraid?
Thinking of this, he remained silent for a while, and asked: "Since that's the case, Taiwei, what should we do next?"

"There is another sentence in the Chinese language," Suo Narga said, "It's called... Those who know the current affairs are outstanding."

The Ming army turned around and killed monkeys to make an example of chickens. If people like themselves are still ignorant, the consequences can be imagined.

Guan thought for a while and said, "Taiwei, we are not hopeless."

Suo Narga also understood what the other party was thinking, so he didn't ask much, and said directly: "Xiangxi...we still have to choose to submit to one side, but the land in the far west may not be as rich as our Hexi, how can we go? North... The northern lands are all in a mess, let's go and fight, even if we can grab a piece of territory and settle down, but have you ever thought... At that time, will the Ming army make us stable for a long time? If the Ming army And again, shall we continue to flee, and where can we flee?"

Despite being silent again, after a while, he finally sighed: "God bless me, Da Yuan!"

It is conceivable that this time, as long as the Ming army can successfully kill a certain monkey in the White Sea, the land of Hexi, and other chickens, ducks and geese, there is no other choice but to surrender voluntarily.

Because, compared to other options, submitting to Daming is the best way out. After all...the emperor of Ming Dynasty will not be like the Yuan Dynasty. At the moment, he is also an official in Jinling.

That being the case, surrender, surrender.

News of the battle on the tenth day of the first lunar month quickly spread throughout Hexi.Immediately afterwards, there were successive news on the second and third days.

Hearing that the [-] cavalry army led by his younger brother was completely wiped out by the Ming army, Duoer Zhiba, king of Yuanqi, was also frightened, and hurriedly sent another servant. However, the Ming army kept advancing and the conditions were firm. Unchanged, Duo'er Zhiba Suo's troops must unconditionally accept the Ming army's takeover, in order to avoid a knife attack.

Completely taken over by the Ming army, and he was escorted to Na Jin?
Duo'er Zhiba was obviously still unwilling to accept this kind of result, and then, the former Yuanzong King made another foolish move.

escaped.

After being rejected by the Ming army, Duo'erzhiba immediately ordered his troops to flee northward with a large amount of cattle, sheep, luggage, and of course the population.

After all, there is no snow these days, as long as there are enough supplies, tens of thousands of people... most of them can reach Mobei.

The problem is coming again.

Duo'er only wants to preserve his wealth, but his subordinates who have lived in Hexi for so many years, as well as a larger number of low-level herdsmen, do not want to migrate with them.

In this cold weather, if you leave the wintering place rashly, if you encounter extreme weather in the mountains or in the desert, it will be fatal.

Therefore, when the Ming army came aggressively, most of the tens of thousands of people by the Baihai Bank who had no time to run too far chose to surrender directly.

In the end, only Duo'er Zhiba led less than 2000 people who were loyal to him to escape from the pursuit of the Ming army.

According to statistics, in the battle of Baihai, the Ming army not only intercepted more than [-] Duo'er Babu people, but also harvested more than [-] cattle, alpacas and llamas.

At the same time, as the news spread, the various ministries in Hexi, who had hesitated before, sent envoys to ask for an interview again. This time, the conditions and the like did not matter, as long as they lived!

(End of this chapter)