Wanli 1592

Chapter 507

On December 25, the [-]th year of Wanli, more than [-] Mongolian cavalrymen arrived in Wutai Town, and found that the city was empty, and there was no sign of people living here. While frustrated, they were also quite angry. They came from afar and found nothing. He was extremely angry about the incident, so he set fire to Wutai Town.

The Mongolian cavalry went south all the way, and they never encountered strong resistance from the Ming army, not even a decent resistance. They went south unimpeded. At most, there were some basically useless repelling horses and obstacles, which were lightly resolved by the Mongolian cavalry, and continued to go south .

At this moment, Wang Shiyang has received an imperial edict to add the power to control the military strength of Yulin Township to his title of Xuanda Governor, making him the one who can take charge of the four towns of Taiyuan, Yulin, Datong, and Xuanfu. The commander-in-chief is the commander-in-chief of this battle.

The only soldiers and horses that were not under his control were the more than [-] reinforcements from the Beijing camp that Li Chengliang's troops had entered Zijingguan to fight against the Mongols. In addition, Li Rusong's elite Liaodong cavalry were marching nervously.

According to predictions, as long as the war situation does not continue to deteriorate and persists until the arrival of Li Rusong's elite troops, the situation can be reversed.

Wang Shiyang forcibly calmed down. While setting up defense lines in Dingxiang, Xinzhou and Shiling Pass, he carried out tactics of forced relocation of people and clearing the country around Taiyuan Town.

He knew that the Mongols went south this time because of a lack of food, coupled with years of grievances, in order to plunder a game, and the main goal of the plunder was food for the winter, and they went south to maintain their fighting power. Food looted in Datong and Shanxi.

But today is different from the past, the Ming Dynasty has also suffered serious disasters in the past two years, and there is no food to eat. The things the Mongols looted must be very small, and it is difficult for them to continue fighting for a long time.

As long as you persist in fighting and clearing the walls and clearing the field, the longer the time drags on, the higher Ming's winning rate will be, and the Mongols will become more and more short of food.

Wang Shiyang's thinking is correct. He knows the Mongols' strategy of supporting war with war, but at the same time he is also puzzled.

Datong does not have enough food supplies for the [-] Mongolian cavalry to eat. Even if they plunder the local households and castles, the income will be very limited. How can there be such a strong battery life?

Wang Shiyang began to suspect that the Mongols were using human flesh as military rations. He knew that hungry people would choose other things to feed themselves if they did not have enough food. History of cannibalism.

If the Mongols persist in using human flesh as dry food, they don’t know how long they can persist. They have no moral concepts and no humanity.

Cannibalism is definitely not an unacceptable thing for these barbarians. This is what Wang Shiyang is most worried about. If this is the case, there will be food all over the ground.

However, Wang Shiyang obviously did not expect that what these Mongolians ate were not "two-legged sheep", but real food, and the Mongolians were not short of food at all.

They replenished sufficient supplies in Datong, and it was these supplies that aggravated the ambitions of the Mongols and prompted them to attack Yanmen Pass and Hepingxing Pass.

Including those Shanxi merchants in Shanxi, they never imagined that the series of preparations they arranged in Datong gave the Mongols the confidence to continue to attack the city.

This matter has to start from the first day of the Mongolian Koubian.

Shanxi merchants are not monolithic. From the beginning of business expansion, there are many differences within Shanxi merchants, such as bow and arrow business, horseshoe business, saddle business, arrow business and so on.

Many businesses are divided into different categories, and many families are responsible for them. At the beginning, they were in charge, but in the actual operation later, there was always competition and annexation. In the end, there were only a dozen or so largest Shanxi merchant families. There are also a series of small and medium-sized vassal families under the banner, who live on leftovers.

However, not all families are willing to submit to more than a dozen big families. These families left Shanxi and went to Datong, relying on the geographical location near the water and lower prices to compete with the big families in the price trade war, and won a lot of shares.

This kind of thing makes the big family quite annoyed. Although they are also doing business in Datong, the competition seems a bit powerless. If the legitimate trade war can't be won, then they can only play dirty and cooperate with the Mongols to plunder and clean up these things. The family is a very sinister routine.

Please ask the Mongols to destroy these families, and with enough benefits, they can get a share of these businesses and make themselves fatter on the premise of killing people with a knife.

While the Mongols went south to plunder food, they would not attack these cooperative families, but would deliberately protect them. After the Ming army drove the Mongols back, the business would continue.

This time, what they valued and wanted to harm was the Ma family and the Zhang family and the dozen or so small families who supported them. This group of people gathered in Datong, and gradually there was a tendency to fight against their own family. Facing such a crisis, They can't let it go.

The Mongols hadn’t gone south for a long time, and they didn’t know the way anymore, so they sent a few people who knew the roads to hide in the Mongols’ team, pointing out the weak points of the Ming army’s defense and the main roads of communication for the Mongols along the way, helping them The Mongols went south smoothly all the way, and successfully wiped out the Ma family, Zhang family and those small families.

This was done by a cavalry of thousands of people from the Tumed tribe under the leadership of Liu Xi, a member of the Liu family. This matter was discussed separately with the Tumed tribe, and these benefits also belonged to Tumo Special, do not belong to other tribes further north.

Looking at the raging fire and the miserable sound of horns, Liu Xi smiled viciously. The bastards of the Ma family and Zhang family still dealt a great blow to him, and formal means could not defeat them no matter what. , and even made him almost abolished his current position by the master.

But now, what can they do?
The most hated son of the Ma family had just had his head chopped off, his wife was being ravaged by seven or eight Mongolians, the men in the family were killed, and all the women were kidnapped. Liu Xi's eyes were hot and he only thought of himself. Also go up to taste the taste of those beautiful girls, but now is obviously not the time.

After one or two hours, when the sky was getting brighter, the leader of the Mongols came to Liu Xi's side with a big smile, patted Liu Xi's shoulder, and said with a big smile, "Hahahaha, yes, this time We got a lot of things, gold and silver treasures, a lot of iron, and more women, hahaha!"

(End of this chapter)