Chapter 200: Horses

Because the general of the tile spur found that the city wall was shrinking its hands and feet, anyway, there were not many people who came to attack the city, so it was better to simply fight.

Therefore, the Varspurs opened the gates of the city, and the cavalry of the other tribes had already rushed over.

It stands to reason that under the city walls, the cavalry should have been easy to win against the foot soldiers, but the reality is different, without him, the corpses outside the city affected these Mongol cavalry.

Many of these corpses were left behind during the siege of the city.

The Mongols have always had a custom that if a man dies in battle, if someone brings back his body, he can inherit his wife's property.

So, for many Mongols, these corpses, not corpses, are property.

Not to mention, in the battle of Maoerzhuang, all departments suffered heavy casualties, you must know that when Boyan Timur was in the Hetao, he claimed to be 50,000 horses, even though he stayed in the river 5,000 as a suspicious soldier. He had 10,000 men in his own department, so there were more than 30,000 people left, but now there are only more than 20,000 in the city.

Where are the rest?

It's the corpse outside the city.

After suffering such high casualties, these Mongols inevitably complained about Boyan Timur and wanted to retain their strength. Compared to the Ming army under the city, they preferred war horses.

It is the war horse left outside the city by the Marquis of Wujin.

These horses were a great asset to the Mongols.

Therefore, they went to seize the war horse first, and even fought infighting for the war horse. Wu Jinhou was given extremely valuable time. When the Marquis of Wujin arrived on the city wall, he fought bravely. A wall was emptied.

Connected most of the Ming army to the city.

In this way, it is into a hand-to-hand street fight.

In such a war, it is not who is better at fighting, but who is less afraid of death.

Therefore, although the Ming army was not much, it suppressed the Mongols to fight.

Marquis Wu Jin stood on top of the city and no longer went down in person.

Just when the battle between the two sides was in full swing, another group of people came again, but it was a group of tile spur cavalry. It was followed by a Ming army.

The Ming army and the tile spur army, which have been entangled all the time, arrived together.

But in the face of such a situation, the Tile Thorn army has no choice.

Send people into the city for reinforcements, I'm sorry, fighting in such a small place, there are too many people to lose, and if there are fewer people, it is even more useless, and the Ming army is better at foot combat than tile thorns.

Finally, a fire burst into the sky, and the thorns burned down the granaries in the city. 、

And the army of the Watts withdrew.

Only then did the Ming army enter the cat city.

After Cheng Guogong entered Maoerzhuang, the first thing he did was to rescue food. Under the desperate rescue, there are finally thousands of stones of grain to eat.

Cheng Guogong breathed a sigh of relief.

It's good to have food.

Although one person is about one liter a day, once the grain is about a hundred liters, a few thousand stones seems to be a lot, but for an army of more than 100,000 people, it is only a few days' rations.

Even the only thing that Cheng Guogong was fortunate about was that the soldiers under his command suffered heavy losses, and although all the ministries still have a structure, they can't be compared with before.

There are probably only a little over 60,000 people left.

From Jining Haizi to here, about half of it was lost along the way. This is the cruelty of cutting meat with a blunt knife first.

If you really fight head-on with the Ming army, you will naturally kill 1,000 enemies and lose 800 yourself, and in this way, the Ming army will suffer a lot of casualties, but there will not be many casualties.

It is also fortunate that more people die in the area of the city.

As mentioned earlier, Maoerzhuang is not a castle, and the space inside is limited, and the materials were placed outside the city before, that is, because the space in the city is limited.

It's just a limited space, and it depends on how it is arranged

Cheng Guogong naturally wanted everyone to squeeze in, almost everyone sat on the ground, and according to the different establishments, the places where they sat were also different, and the city was densely packed with people.

As for tents and stuff, there's no more.

That's how it barely fits tens of thousands of troops.

After Cheng Guogong was busy with everything, he suddenly remembered and asked, "Where is Wujin Hou?" ”

Left and right: "It seems to be on the city wall." ”

Cheng Guogong looked up, there was a black shadow on the city wall, vaguely the appearance of Wu Jinhou, he climbed the city wall from one side, walked over, saluted and said, "More brothers." ”

Wu Jinhou didn't react at all.

Cheng Guogong felt that something was wrong, and according to Wu Jinhou's behavior, he would definitely apologize. So he went up and said, "Brother." ”

Wu Jinhou didn't move, he didn't even turn around, he was already looking at the city.

Cheng Guogong stepped forward to take a closer look, but saw that Wu Jinhou's body was full of arrows, and he didn't know how many arrows he had hit for a while, and the ground was full of blood.

And the blood has dried up.

Wu Jinhou leaned forward slightly, leaning against the female wall, one hand propped up on the wall, the other hand holding the spear, and his head leaning on the barrel of the spear.

Seeing this, Cheng Guogong seemed to suddenly understand that he wanted to take the spear out of Wu Jinhou's hand, but found that he held it too tightly and couldn't take it out at all.

Wu Jinhou was probably seriously injured not long after he landed in the city. I don't know which arrow pierced through the armor and hit the vital point. Marquis Wujin did not dare to affect the death in battle, so he watched from the city.

And then he died at the head of the city.

Cheng Guogong said to the left and right: "Find a better place for my brother, don't let the Tartars find out, but also find it, and move my brother back in the future." ”

"Yes." Cheng Guogong's side of the family will immediately agree.

Several people put down Wu Jinhou's body, but saw that Wu Jinhou's body was already stiff. The Marquis of Wujin also threw his own soldiers into the fierce battle for Maoerzhuang, and was wounded to death, and the men and horses of the Marquis of Wujin were already in a non-existent situation at this time.

And even if some soldiers saw Wu Jinhou, they didn't come forward to disturb them, but just avoided them from a distance after saluting.

This made Wu Jinhou stand here for more than an hour.

Cheng Guogong saw Wu Jinhou's eyes wide, stroked with his hand, but he didn't blink his eyes, Cheng Guogong whispered: "Brother, you go with peace of mind, the court will definitely take revenge on me, today's young man is angry, he has suffered such a big loss, he will get back to the field if he says anything, you are killed in battle, the family will arrange it well, nephews and nieces, maybe it will be a blessing in disguise, what do you have to worry about, go with peace of mind, after going down, find a place for my brother, brother and I will arrive later, you should give me a front station." ”

Wu Jinhou suddenly shed two tears, his eyelids softened, and Cheng Guogong closed them gently.

At this time, Wu Keqin came to report and said: "The national horse is no longer good." ”

Cheng Guogong chuckled in his heart and said, "What's the matter? ”

Wu Keqin said: "One sentence or two, I can't say it clearly, so let's ask Guogong to take a look." ”

At this moment, Wu Keqin had already tied a white strap to his head, but he didn't know where it was torn off. Although Wu Keqin was dissatisfied with Cheng Guogong, he even counted the death of his eldest brother on Cheng Guogong's head.

It's just that he understands one thing better, that is, at this time, it is not the time for infighting, but more unity, so that everyone can walk back from here.

Go home.

But even so, Wu Keqin couldn't hide the hard taste in his tone.

Cheng Guogong didn't pay attention to this at the moment.

He immediately followed Wu Keqin to the racecourse, the so-called racecourse actually does not have a racecourse, and it is only a line away from people, and the environment in the city no longer allows the establishment of a separate racecourse.

A lot of cavalry was with their own horses.

Cheng Guogong found that many horses were already lying on the ground.

You must know that horses are creatures that do not lie down easily, and even sleep most of the time standing.

Wu Keqin was born in Mongolia, his family is still grazing in Gansu, the situation of livestock, is an expert, he said to Cheng Guogong: "These are all out of strength, if there is time to raise, it is possible to raise well, but now we have no time." ”

Cheng Guogong said: "In other words, these war horses can't be used tomorrow?" ”

Wu Keqin said: "It's not just tomorrow, it won't be available for a decade or two." ”

Although many machinery has a high failure rate, but in fact, horses are not more reliable than machinery, which is more high-intensity, and the march in a cruel environment, the war horses of the Ming army can not support it first.

This is of course because there are more tile spur war horses than the Ming army, but also because the Ming army's war horses are inferior to tile spurs in quality. The average lifespan of war horses is more than ten years, so these war horses are not born in the grassland, but raised by people.