Chapter 239: Burning the Horqin Department
Yue Fei gave an order.
Three thousand horsemen, followed by a dozen children, immediately began to tie bayonets to the horns.
Although the dogs are only in their teens, they have been herding for eight or nine years.
Since the age of five or six, he has been dealing with cattle, sheep and horses and knows their habits very well.
These cattle are domestic, and as long as they are not irritated, they are not very wild.
A handful of grass was enough to make them obedient, and four thousand bayonets were quickly tied to the horns of the bull by the soldiers.
After the bayonet was done, the next step was to tie the oxtail with strips of gunpowder and bezoar saltpeter.
This project is a bit big, there can't be too much gunpowder, too much burns too fast, and the scalpers may not have reached the Tartar camp yet, and the fire has been extinguished
It is necessary to use a fire rope as a lead, and if you don't use a fire rope, a little fire ox will run wild if it is frightened.
As long as a scalper is frightened and runs wildly, the other scalpers will not wait for you to light the fire, and they will definitely escape immediately.
There are so many scalpers, it is almost impossible to ignite them at the same time, and only by delaying a few breaths with the fire rope can the Ming army ignite the fire rope to the greatest extent.
Although the project is a bit big, there are many Ming soldiers, and one person can get a cowtail, and it doesn't take too long to get it all done.
"Governor, it's all done, you look at the dangling horns, it looks a little scary."
After it was done, the dog ran to Yue Fei's big tent to give the order, and Yue Fei pulled the dog out of the Chinese army big tent with a smile.
"Hiss......"
Seeing a large group of scalpers, all with two bright bayonets on their heads, even Yue Fei took a breath of cool air.
"Dog, this battle is too powerful, the governor is worried that you can't control it, can you do it?"
But the dog didn't care at all:
"Don't worry, we can do it, we are all old friends, they are very obedient, and the dogs are worried that they will all be burned to death......"
As the dog spoke, his eyes began to turn red, and he felt a little sad at the thought of so many scalpers being burned to death in one moment.
Yue Fei smiled:
"Rest assured, the Governor can't guarantee that all of them will be alive, but the fire certainly won't burn the scalpers."
Yue Fei was right, once the oxtail caught fire, it would soon be thrown off by them in a frenzy.
They won't be burned at all, but the Tartars will definitely shoot the scalpers with arrows, and if the scalpers die some, they should all be shot with bows and arrows.
The night was getting deeper, the weather was already cold, the temperature was even lower at night, and the Horqin Department was quiet.
"Da Da Da ......"
"Brother, what are you listening to?"
The Tartar patrolling outside the tent of the Korqin Department suddenly heard a sound from far and near, and hurriedly asked his partner beside him.
Someone around listened carefully, and said in a panic:
"It's not good, could it be that Minggou is coming to sneak attack?"
An experienced veteran immediately lay on the ground and listened, then got up and shook his head:
"It's not the sound of the hooves of the war horse, the rhythm is not as fast as the war horse, but it is heavier than the footsteps of the war horse, like the sound of a herd of cattle running."
"No, where are the cattle now? Our herd is not in that direction. ”
Seeing a few Tartars cooing, the patrol centurion came out of the tent, and in his experience, he could hear the sound of a herd of cattle running.
"You guys patrol well, don't worry about it, it must be the cattle of other tribes that have run away, don't worry about him!"
The centurion reprimanded a few words and then got into the tent, angry that these patrolling Tartars wanted to scold their mothers.
"These dignitaries are hiding in tents to enjoy, we are all cold to death, go to the front tent to take shelter."
When one of the patrolmen proposed, the other Tartars couldn't get it, and they trotted all the way into a tent in front of them.
On such a cold day, the generals all carried the snatched woman into the warm quilt, and it was normal for the soldiers to have some thoughts in their hearts.
Another is that they would never have thought that the Ming army living in the south was not afraid of the cold and would actually attack at night.
But there were too many things for the Tartars to think of.
Since Zhu Youzhen pulled Daming from the line of death, he would definitely not let Daming fall into a catastrophe again.
For the sake of the Ming Dynasty and the Han people, no weather could stop the Ming army's determination to eliminate the Tartars.
Others don't have that ability and can't do it, but Zhu Youzhen can.
Because he has a system, there is also a general Yue Fei who hates foreign races.
We should all know that after the Song Dynasty, the real martial saint of the Han people was Yue Fei.
However, the Eastern Capture insisted on removing Yue Fei from the Wusheng Temple, and then put Guan Yu into the Wusheng Temple.
All this is just because Yue Fei is a hero who resists Jin, and the Jin that Yue Fei resists is the ancestor of the Eastern Prisoners.
Because of this, they put Yue Fei's Martial Saint hat on Guan Yu's head.
Guan Yu's martial arts are good, but they have always been fighting a civil war, while Yue Fei is different.
Yue Fei was born to resist Jin, he had been fighting against Jin during his lifetime, if it weren't for the pedantry of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Jin people would have been destroyed by Yue Fei a long time ago, where would there be exile from the east.
The Ming army of the Fourth Route quietly approached the Horqin Division, and the 2,000 cattle were even closer to the Horqin Division.
In order not to be discovered by the Korqin tribe, the hooves of the three thousand cavalry were wrapped in cotton, which is why the Tartars only heard the sound of oxen hooves.
Three hundred paces from the Korqin camp, the dog stopped the herd.
All the cattle are arranged in a semicircle, and the heads of the cattle are facing the Horqin camp.
One thousand Ming troops patrolled, and the other two thousand Ming troops stood behind the cattle.
After the two commanders quietly contacted each other with walkie-talkies, the Ming army lit the fuse on the tail of the ox almost simultaneously.
At first, the ox just kicked his legs, but as the fire grew brighter, the ox began to get frightened, spread its hooves and rushed towards the camp of the Korqin tribe.
"Da Da Da ......"
As the gunpowder was ignited by the fuse, flames began to burst out of the ox's tail, and the ox was completely frightened, screaming, and rushed into the Horqin camp desperately.
Two thousand oxen were frightened and ran desperately forward, trying to shake off the fire from the ox's tail.
They had two bright sharp knives on their heads, and they both dragged a big fireball on their tails and ran wildly, and the formation was really quite spectacular, making the Ming army stunned.
"Dada......"
300 paces away, in a flash under the four-wheel drive of scalpers.
Feeling that there was a fire chasing them behind them, and there were bursts of pain in the buttocks, the scalpers ran more happily.
Regardless of whether it is flat ground or a tartar tent in front of it, the scalper will directly crash into it.
The Tartars in the tent were so shocked that they got up to see what was going on, when the ox stabbed them with two sharp knives on their heads, and then shook their heads violently, and the Tartars flew into the air.
Soon the gunpowder on the ox's tail came into play, setting fire to all the tents that the ox had walked through.
The raging fire shone as brightly as day as the entire Horqin tribe station.
"Come on, let's see what's going on......"
It wasn't until now that the Tartars reacted, the Ming army was really not afraid of the cold, and actually attacked Horqin at night. ”
Most of the people in Horqin live in this station, and there are more than 100,000 people.
At first, I didn't feel anything in the tent, but now I run out and it's all messy, and there are Tartars everywhere.
"It's not good to sweat profusely, thousands of scalpers are rushing over, run!"
An adjutant general hurriedly came to report.
Oba was furious:
"Quick, gather the archers and get ready, and shoot them all once the world-related scalpers come over."
"Chirp"
Before they could finish speaking, they suddenly noticed a group of cattle running rampant, with two sharp knives on their heads.
The sharp knives shone brightly in the light of the fire, as if a mountain of knives was rolling towards them.
"Quick, quick, shoot the arrows, shoot them......"
The Great Khan of Korqin shouted for the arrows, but he himself ran away.