Chapter 20 Under Tongguan
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"Zhuang Zheng, have a safe journey, get to the Central Plains early."
"Zhuang Zheng, be careful on the road."
"Brother Zhuang, my brother is waiting for you in the Central Plains."
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But Yin Tianzheng, Wei Yixiao, Tang Yang and others all rushed over to say goodbye to Zhuang Zheng.
"Brothers, when I come back from Guangmingding, let's get together in the Central Plains, and then fight the world together, and there will be a period later." Zhuang Zheng said loudly.
"Okay, let's go." Zhang Wuji said loudly.
Zhuang Zheng turned on his horse and led the team slowly out of the camp, and the wounded soldiers were carried on stretchers, and for this purpose two hundred Tartar prisoners were driven away. When you get to Yumen Pass, you can buy a carriage, and then the marching speed will be faster.
Rui Jinqi has been dealing with horses for a long time, and he is also very experienced in driving horses, and soon after dawn, they found the horse king, but just in case, Zhuang Zheng still divided a team of two hundred people to take care of these horses.
The group slowly drove away from the woods and headed northwest.
Zhang Wuji said: "Okay, let's also go, the team is led by Tang Yang, and those captives are each given a piece of meat, a horse, and weapons are centrally managed." Gather the archers in the ranks, and shoot them as soon as there are escaped Tartar captives. ”
"Obey the Lord's orders." Tang Yang bowed and saluted.
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The team of the Ming Sect returned to the east again, and the team was three times larger than yesterday, because there were many more prisoners.
Walking slowly from the south side of the corpse pile ten zhang away, even if you ride on a horse, you can't see the end of the corpse pile, the highest place is more than a zhang, all of them are stripped naked and lifeless flesh and blood, hundreds of vultures hovering over the corpse pile, constantly descending on the corpse pile to peck at food. To the east of the corpse pile, there are also hundreds of northwest wolves happily gnawing, and it is a miracle that two different species eat in the same area without fighting.
All the people who passed through were very shocked when they looked at this scene, and even Ming Jun's heart shook for a long time.
When Xiao Zhao Sannu saw this huge pile of corpses, her face turned pale with fright, and she turned her head away, not daring to look at it.
The Tartar captives, dressed in single clothes, rode horses, chewed horse meat, and when they saw the corpses, those who had been hungry for a day and a night suddenly felt that they had no appetite, and everyone burst into tears.
Zhang Wuji looked at everyone's reactions, and suddenly said loudly: "Brothers of the Holy Sect, we human beings are no different from these wolves and vultures in the essence of life, because everyone is a member of this world, and they are all in a constant cycle in the system of birth, aging, sickness and death. Man eats wolf because man is stronger than wolf, so we can eat it; The wolf eats people because it meets a weak person, so it can have a full meal. ”
"If the ancestors of the Song Dynasty were not as weak as sheep, they would not have been driven, slaughtered, and humiliated by the wolf-like Mongols, so if you want to live like this again, make yourself strong."
"We owe a debt of gratitude to these vultures and wolves, because they help us clear the battlefield, save us a lot of time and energy, and in a sense, they are still our comrades. Say with me, thank you vulture brothers, thank you wolf brothers, you have worked hard. ”
Zhang Wuji's voice sounded accurately in the ears of every Ming army person, as if he was saying it in their ears, his theories were simply unheard of, but these people turned their heads to the left almost at the same time, and shouted: "Thank you, Brother Vulture, thank you, Brother Wolf, you have worked hard." ”
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Walking in the middle of the procession, there was a Tartar captive who knew Chinese, and his face turned pale and trembled in an instant, this is a group of demons, demons that are even more terrible than the hungry ghosts in hell. There are two words of greeting from the neighboring Tartars who see the discomfort of their companions, and after getting the answer, they become even more unbearable, and slowly the Ming army's thanks spread to the hearts of each Tartar captive, and the Tartars who were still a little ready to move are also honest, and there is no way for people to compete with the devil, and they all become honest all of a sudden.
The army traveled hundreds of miles a day, and not a single Tartar escaped, nor did he meet a single person from the Tartar court.
The blazing flame of the Ming army became the most dazzling banner on the Silk Road, and the small cities passed along the way, the gates were closed, and the Tartar defenders in the city obviously got some kind of order, and did not attack, but looked at the Ming army with hateful eyes, looking at the burning flag.
Zhang Wuji didn't leave them any chance, whenever there was a town with a Tartar garrison on the way forward, he always asked Wei Yixiao and Ouyang Zhi to take turns to lead people to break through the city gate, and then ordered the Tartar captive army to attack the city, and the Tartar captive army besieging the city was each issued with a scimitar and a small shield.
The gates of these small towns were like paper paste under the attack of the innate masters, and they were broken with a single blow, and the Tartar captives entered the city to fight fiercely with the defenders.
Moreover, whenever passing through a small city where people gathered, the Ming army always had to spend half a day to recruit soldiers, and only recruited young and strong stick boys and people who knew martial arts. The Tartar captives were constantly being consumed, and new captives were constantly being replenished, and by the time they arrived at the city of Chang'an, the Tartar captives had exceeded 10,000 people, and the recruits had exceeded 2,000 people.
The Ming army has completely transformed from a Jianghu sect into an anti-Yuan righteous army, but the essence of its Jianghu sect has not changed, so it is not afraid of Jianghu people to vote, no matter how vicious and ruthless Jianghu characters are, they will be tamed and obedient here, and become a part of the anti-Yuan army.
Along the way, Zhang Wuji and others formulated new military regulations according to the actual situation, and specially set up a Mongolian naturalized army to arrange those surrendered Tartars, promising that as long as they fought bravely, they would be free after three years, and they could be promoted in the Ming army, which greatly stimulated the combat enthusiasm of the prisoners, after all, there was a new hope waiting for them, and what people were most afraid of was that there was no hope.
The Ming army reorganized its ranks, and the flood banner and the Houtu banner were restored to full strength, and the Houtu banner was also assisted by a thousand Mongolian naturalized troops.
Ouyang Yan was appointed as the commander of the Mongolian Naturalization Army, and another 50 people were transferred from the Southeast Branch to assist him in commanding the Naturalized Army.
The Ming army fought all the way, not only expanding the team but also knocking out the strongholds of the Tartars along the road, which created great convenience for the actions of Yang Xiao and others.
By the time they arrived outside Chang'an City, a unified combat force had been initially formed, and when the various departments coordinated their operations, they had already cooperated quite tacitly.