Chapter 496: The Fall of Chahar III
Lin Dan Khan saw Hu Luk go away, so he forcibly cheered up, looked around and said: "The Jurchen barbarians joined forces with Horqin and Karke to force us to the Hetao, and then Ordos and Tumut joined forces and forced us to Qinghai, and now the Ming army only pounces on my Chahar royal court, where else can we go, don't escape, don't hide, and today we will fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, just like our glorious ancestors, rush to the enemy." Tashhai, attack! ”
The generals around Lin Dan Khan only heard the words of their Great Khan, who was not lamenting, the Ming army on the opposite side was famous for killing Mongolian nobles, and it was impossible to even surrender, only to kill the enemy desperately.
When the generals of Chahar heard the order of their own Khan to attack, they naturally responded with a bang and drove their headquarters to fight.
The Mongol tactics remained unchanged for eternity, with light cavalry attacking and harassing, and heavy cavalry waiting for the enemy's army to loosen up and then charging into battle. The Jingbian Army has seen this set of tactics countless times, and they are not afraid.
Whether the light cavalry of the Chahar army attacked in the middle, outflanked the rear of the flank, or put heavy arrows at close to 50 paces, or put ordinary arrows at 70 paces, the Jingbian army was confident that it had well-protected heavy armor, but it was not afraid.
Usually, a round of arrows rained down by the Chahar army, and the Jingbian army was very few killed, not to mention wounded.
On the other hand, on the side of the Jingbian army, artillery, firearms, bows and arrows, and javelins all attacked in unison, but there were those in the Chahar army, and all of them were either wounded or killed.
The combat power of the two sides is completely unequal.
"Damn, this thief Ming army is really difficult to fight,"
Although Lin Dan Khan knew that the Jingbian army was difficult to fight, he still didn't expect it to be so difficult to fight, and his own side had been attacking for a long time, but it was difficult to shake the enemy army in the slightest.
This battle can't be fought, but it can't be fought.
In this way, the Jingbian army and the Chahar army fought fiercely for nearly an hour, and the Chahar army became more and more desperate, but the morale of the Jingbian army became stronger and stronger.
Liu Renyu saw that the Chahar army was more and more frightened, so he didn't want to fight with it anymore.
"Renjie, lead your cavalry to destroy the psychological defense of the Mongols." Liu Renyu ordered at Liu Renjie.
"Yes, Marshal." When Liu Renjie got the order, he took his own 6,000 horse troops, rushed out of the town, and killed the Chahar army.
"Heh, this Ming army is too deceitful, just send such a little cavalry out, do you dare to engage the Mongolian warriors on horseback!? Look for death! Lin Dan Khan was annoyed that the Ming army looked down on him, and under the change of color, he said sharply to Tashhai: "Surround them and kill them." ”
"Yes, Great Khan."
Tashhai has always been afraid of the Ming army's strong military formation, but the cavalry is not afraid, so after receiving the order, they deployed their troops, intending to encircle and kill the Ming army that dared to break away from their own military formation.
Lin Dan Khan only said that Liu Renyu sent his own cavalry to send him to death, but Liu Renyu himself didn't think so.
Those who can serve as cavalrymen in the Jingbian Army are naturally carefully selected elites, and on the premise of adequate training and well-equipped, they dare not say that one is ten or ten, but it is not a problem to fight three or four at a time.
After the cavalry of the two sides had fled, they fought in the open space between the two armies.
Seeing that the Ming army looked down on themselves, the Chahar cavalry was still attacking with anger, and they were holding back their strength in their hands, intending to give the Ming army a dismount.
Seeing that the enemy cavalry was approaching, Liu Renjie's cavalry clamped the three-eyed fire gun around their waists, lit it, and then continued to charge forward.
Bang.......!
The white smoke was filled, and the enemies in front of the three-eyed firebolt were all immediately struck by lightning and fell under their horses.
This was the routine operation of the Ming army, and the Chahar army was used to it, and it did not care, and its momentum did not decrease slightly.
The cavalry of the Chahar army only hoped that the two armies would be close to each other, and that they would see the truth under their hands.
Clang!
The sound of gold and iron echoing was endless, and the miserable shouts came and went, but almost all of them were Chahar soldiers and horses.
The Jingbian army was fully armored and well-guarded, and the results of the hedging battle were so good, and the Chahar army was not surprised.
Subsequently, the two sides mixed together and fought in close combat, and the Chahar army thought that their side had a numerical advantage and should have an advantage, but the reality was different from what they imagined.
The cavalry of the Jingbian Army was well-equipped and wore three layers of heavy armor, and the Chahar Army's simple sabers could not cause any fatal injuries at all.
The battle damage was completely disproportionate.
"This! This!? How so!?" Lin Dan Khan couldn't believe his eyes, he didn't understand until this time why the Ming army commander dared to send only cavalry to fight with his own side, they had absolute confidence to dare to do so.
At this point in the battle, the victory or defeat is already clear, and the collapse of the Chahar army is only between waiting and idle.
Seeing this, Liu Renyu, who had been silently watching the battle, said to Sun Wuxian beside him: "Wuxian, call those soldiers who can speak Mongolian to use a megaphone to preach our policy." ”
"Yes, Marshal." When Sun Wu received the order, he took the Mongolian-speaking warriors, boarded the chariot, and used a loudspeaker to preach the land reform policy of Jingbian Fort facing the steppe.
"Herdsmen, you listen well, Liu Dashuai, the chief military officer of Yansui Military Town of the Ming Empire, has sent you the gospel, we only kill the Mongolian nobles, and don't ask anything about the rest, kill them and distribute the cattle and sheep, pasture, and give them to you, so that each of your families has their own pasture, their own cattle and sheep, and they will all live a good life in the future.
Don't hesitate any longer, we used to be herdsmen in the Ordos Department, and now Liu Dashuai has allocated us pastures and built houses for us, and we don't know how good our lives are. Whoever of you kills the official now, the official has a thousand hectares of pasture, the chief manager has 2,000 hectares, and the Great Khan has 3,000 hectares. ”
With the help of a megaphone, these words spread across the battlefield.
The Chahar sergeants who were fighting were obviously a little slower in their hands, and the Jingbian soldiers who were fighting against them also slowed down their movements in time to give the enemy enough room to digest.
With such favorable conditions, no one will be impressed, whether it is pasture, cattle or sheep, speaking of which, not all of them are nobles, and they have nothing to do with the herdsmen themselves.
Now that the situation on the battlefield is extremely bad, and the Chahar Department is struggling, there is no need for the Han people to deceive them, these herdsmen, and some herdsmen are very moved.
If there is a heartbeat, there will naturally be someone who is impossible to be moved, such as Lin Dan Khan, who was shocked at this time.
Ever before, when the Han people entered the grassland, they were indiscriminately and slaughtered all the Mongols.
If your own military is strong, such a policy is a joke, but now that you are at the end of your rope, it is difficult to guarantee that these subordinates under your command will not be moved.
Lin Danhan had such a thought in his heart, and his eyes changed a little when he looked at his subordinates, and it was difficult to guarantee that there were no ungrateful people among these people.
Liu Renjie immediately took advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's slight relaxation and shouted: "Kill, eliminate the Chahar nobles, and let the herdsmen live a good life." ”
"Kill!"
The Chahar army only felt that the pressure in front of them surged, and they finally couldn't resist it anymore, and broke away like a tide, and some people who didn't want to run simply threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground, intending to surrender to the Ming army, and see if the Ming army would keep its promise.
More Chahar troops still chose to flee, and they fled in all directions, Lin Dan Khan didn't know why his army suddenly collapsed, there was no conscription at all, the army collapsed, he should also flee, otherwise who knows if he will be blackly knifed.
It's all over, and now Lin Dan Khan has nothing left to think about quickly escaping back to the royal court, and then going to see the place where he once dominated.
There is no need to chase the poor Kou, anyway, the location of the Chahar royal court is clear to the Jingbian army.
On the contrary, it is the Chahar herdsmen who have decided to surrender that they should be treated preferentially.
Liu Renyu asked the more than 500 herdsmen who had surrendered to be led by the sergeants of the Jingbian Army, whose original ethnic composition was Mongolian, to inquire about their situation and register them.
After the Jingbian army finished cleaning up the battlefield, they continued to investigate the direction of the Har royal court.
Besides, Lin Dan Khan cleaned up the scattered troops, only to find that the loss of 30,000 horses was not very large, only more than 2,000 people were lost, but the morale of this army had fallen to the bottom, and Liu Renyu's Ming army would be killed in a moment, and there was nowhere to escape, so he had to wait for death.
For now, the only way to talk about it is to return to the royal court first.
On the way back, Lin Dan Khan deliberately strengthened the guards around him, so as not to kill him in exchange for pasture.
Lin Dan Khan fled all the way, and the Jingbian army pursued all the way.
Eventually, Lin Dan Khan fled to the royal court, and his sons, who should have been taken long ago, waited for him along with Huruk.
Lin Dan Khan was not surprised to see his sons, because although the world is big, how can there be a place for their family!
Not long after Lin Dan Khan retreated to the Chahar headquarters, the Jingbian army pursued and killed, and at this time, the Chahar army had long since lost the courage to go out to fight with it.
Liu Renyu ordered the Chahar herdsmen who had already surrendered to show up and persuade ordinary Chahar herdsmen to surrender.
Under the internal and external difficulties, civil strife finally broke out in the Chahar department, and all the Mongol nobles under Lin Dan Khan were killed, and their heads were sacrificed to Liu Renyu's tent.
Liu Renyu immediately led the army into the Chahar headquarters, and killed all the remaining small officers such as Shi Chang, and after the Chahar department was determined, he distributed the property of the Chahar nobles.
In addition to the jade seals, Liu Renyu distributed all the property of the Chahar nobles to the herdsmen, and also ordered the scribes to register them and make a register.
When registering the household registration, Jingbian Jun first asked the herdsmen if they were willing to give up their Mongolian identity and become naturalized as Han Chinese, and if they were willing to naturalize, they could obtain pasture.
The herdsmen of Chahar don't care what ethnic group they are, so most of them are willing to be naturalized as Han Chinese, and those who are not willing to naturalize are simply killed.
He made an identity card, made up the Lijia, and appointed his sergeants and the capable ones among the first batch of Chahar herdsmen to surrender as the first and lieutenant chiefs to manage the Chahar Department.
In the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Chahar Department was destroyed, and Liu Renyu sent the battle report and the head of the nobles of the Chahar Department to Hong Chengchou, and asked Hong Chengchou to send the Beijing Division.
These things were sent to the Jingshi, and naturally the Jingshi was shaken, the thieves were eliminated, the old enemy Chahar was eliminated, and the Ming Dynasty had hope.
Some courtiers even shouted out the tune of Chongzhen Zhongxing.
Chongzhen was not only happy, but did not forget to reward Liu Renyu, he deliberately rewarded Liu Renyu's subordinates again this time, so that their status was on the same level as Liu Renyu, and then ordered Wang Chengen to send a supervisor to Yan'an to watch Liu Renyu who wiped out the Mongolian tribes alone.
Only one subordinate can fight well, and the light is brilliant, not the blessing of the Ming Dynasty!
Liu Renyu is also a little clear about Chongzhen's thoughts, he doesn't care about these actions of mixing sand and distrust, what he cares about most at the moment is the matter of Henan's righteousness.
Li Zicheng, it's up to you!