Chapter 438 - Siege of the city
In Pingliang City, whether it is the officers and soldiers, officials, or ordinary people on the side of the Ming Dynasty, under the threat of death, they have the same hatred for the enemy, and they have set up a position on the city wall, and they are ready to defend to the death.
Outside Pingliang City, at a distance of 400 steps away from the west city wall, gray-white military tents are dotted and densely packed, and one of them is larger than the other military tents, and at a glance you can know that this must be the location of the Mongolian army's marshal tent.
At this time, in the big tent, Lin Dan Khan was sitting in the center on a wolf-skinned horse, and in front of him, there were five Etoks, including Huluk, the chief of the left wing, Tashhai, and Badasi.
Speaking of which, Lin Dan Khan's side is the side besieging Pingliangfu City, and it should have an advantage, but Lin Dan Khan's face did not have a trace of relaxed expression, his face was full of tiredness, worry, confusion, and the pathos of the twilight of the hero.
Lin Dan Khan really had no reason to be happy, his thoughts were constantly flying, as if he was looking for the reason why the Chahar tribe had reached this point in his distant memory.
Back then, when Buyan Khan died, the direct descendant of the Golden Family, when Khan, the direct descendant of Genghis Khan, ascended the throne, there were more than 100,000 people under his control, and he was the nominal co-ruler of the entire Mongolia.
In the place where he ascended the throne, why don't you want to unify Mongolia and reproduce the glory of the Mongol Empire in the past, and then he did have some small achievements, the five tribes of Inner Khalkha surrendered, and attacked the border of the Ming Kingdom several times, and his prestige was far and wide, and the Ming court also recognized himself as a famous king outside the border.
It seems that he seems to have the ability to turn the tide, and Mongolia seems to have the dawn of reunification, but everything has turned into a mirror because of the rise of the Jurchen wild boar skin in Liaodong.
His old enemy Daming was defeated, and it was also defeated quite badly, the entire Liaodong Town was only left with a small territory in the western Liaoxi Corridor, and it was difficult for the Ming Dynasty to win a war with the Jurchens, and he was not, in just a dozen years, the Liaohe Hetao was lost, the pastures that had been thriving for hundreds of years in the Chahar Department were lost, the people were scattered, and the livestock suffered heavy losses.
When he arrived at the Yellow River Loop, the Jurchens still refused to give up and continued to use troops against themselves, so they couldn't even stay in the Yellow River Loop, so they could only come to Qinghai to survive.
When I arrived in Qinghai, I finally didn't have to worry about the Jurchen soldiers, but I encountered great difficulties here, the troops were scattered, a large number of livestock were lost and died, and the number of people who controlled the strings was reduced to 50,000, and these 50,000 people were already the last seeds of the Chahar Department, and there was no room for any more loss.
This is already very miserable, and what is worse than this is the food crisis, the livestock has suffered heavy losses, and it has been unable to provide enough food for the people, and there is no way for them to have a choice, if they don't come to eat in the Ming Dynasty, it will be difficult to survive this winter.
"We must get through this winter, grab food from Daming, let the people in the tribe survive this winter, and in the spring, the ewes will give birth to lambs, the mare will give birth to foals, the cows will give birth to calves, the women will give birth to children, everything will be fine, as long as the regeneration is ten years old, the cubs grow up, Ben Khan will definitely be able to make a comeback." Lin Dan Khan let out such a cry in his heart.
"Great Khan, Pingliang is just around the corner, we have trapped it, but our army lacks siege equipment, so I am afraid that we will not be able to conquer this city in a short time. In addition, the men and horses you sent out to collect food did not grab enough food, Gansu is too poor, you see if we continue to go east, go deep into the hinterland of the Ming Kingdom, where there is wealth everywhere, as long as we can enter the hinterland of the Ming Kingdom, we will definitely be able to return with a full load. Tashhai, the right-wing governor, felt that annexing the fortified city was not a good option, so he suggested continuing to go east and go to the interior of the Ming Dynasty.
Tashhai's words immediately pulled Lin Dan Khan, who was wandering in the world, back from the illusion of nothingness, and when Lin Dan Khan heard what Tashhai said clearly, he shook his head and said in a deep voice: "This time is different from the past, our people are now only the remaining 50,000 people in the hands of Ben Khan, this is already the last seed of our Chahar, and there can be no more big mistakes."
If our lone army goes deep into the hinterland of the Ming Kingdom, we may be able to harvest more food and gold and silver treasures, but the danger of being cut off by the Ming army will also increase, so Ben Khan means that it is better to take down this big city and rob the gold and silver treasures, food and young women in this city, and it will be enough to cope with this winter. ”
"Great Khan, this city is very majestic, the Ming people are heavily guarded, if our army attacks, I am afraid that there will be a lot of casualties, didn't you just say! These 50,000 tribes are already the last seeds of our tribe, and they must not be damaged again. Left-wing chief Hu Ruke said.
"Huruk is right, but Ben Khan didn't say that we must use our tribe's warriors to attack the city. In the past, when Genghis Khan swept the whole world, he used his captives to consume the enemy's arrows, and if the enemy killed or injured his own people, he would not only consume the equipment and strength of the city defense, but also dampen his own morale.
It's been a long time ago, and if you don't remember, there are always ready-made examples. In recent years, the Ming Kingdom has not been peaceful, and there are often people who raise troops to make trouble, which is the thief that the Ming court said. The usual methods of these thieves to attack the city are also very simple.
Capture ordinary people, drive the city to attack the city, in order to consume the defenders of the city medicine bow and arrows and strength, these thieves drive people to attack the city, do not care about human life, can use the wheel of warfare to repeatedly attack the city, in order to exhaust the defenders in the city.
When the defenders of the city were exhausted by the students, the thieves sent the main force to attack the city, so that they could take the city in one fell swoop. Lin Dan Khan looked around at his subordinates, and then asked out loud.
Huluk, Tashhai, Badasi and others looked at each other a few times, and then Tashhai nodded and said: "The Great Khan is reasonable, the Gansu Military Town Committee of the Ming State is really too poor, and there is no surplus food in the countryside at all, but there are a lot of people, so they are all tied up and used as raw mouths." ”
"Tashhai, you will scatter more people later, let them go to the countryside near Pingliang City, and catch more Han people for us to use." Lin Dan Khan ordered at Tashhai.
"Yes, Great Khan." Tash Haide ordered, then he got up from his seat, put his right hand on his heart, and bowed to salute.
"Well, we have come all the way to the west, and the loss of strength is extremely serious, and there are still three thousand Han men in our tribe, if our strength is still very strong, we can always keep it and drive it, but now keeping them is not only a waste of food, if something happens, it will be a scourge after all, this time let them attack the city, they will die if they die, and it would be a good thing if they could kill the enemy." Lin Dan Khan had a gloomy face and said word by word.
"Great Khan, these Han slaves have been with us for some years, and they just learned to herd horses and sheep, if they just explain it here, I'm afraid it's a pity." Huluk felt that this seemed to be excessive, so he spoke out to dissuade his own sweat.
"You say this, in fact, Ben Khan also understands what you mean, that is, to raise a dog, after a long time, there will be feelings, let alone a living person. It's just that even if these people wear the same braids, wear the same clothes, live in the same yurts, and drink the same mare's milk wine, they still have Han blood flowing in their bones.
When the Ming soldiers set foot on the Qinghai grassland and hit the place where we multiply, do you say that the Han people who were plundered as slaves will be ready to move, and they should cooperate with the outside to fight for freedom and return to their homeland? Lin Dan Khan looked directly at Hu Luk and asked in a low voice.
When Hu Luk heard this, he was stunned for a while, and then nodded and said, "What the Great Khan said is that Hu Luk is thinking about things too simply. ”
"Well, it's okay, if we were strong before, naturally we didn't have to make this decision, but now we are on the verge of survival, and we can't make any mistakes, there are countless Han people, these Han people are dead, and we will catch another batch in the future, and train them with horsewhips for a few months, and they will still be qualified shepherds and grooms." Lin Dan Khan relieved Hu Lukedao.
"Yes, Great Khan, Huruk understands." Huluk got up from his seat, put his right hand on his heart, and bowed in response.
"Well, you wait until now to get ready, and the siege will begin this afternoon. Tashhai, you send more sentinels and let them go to the northern region to inquire about the enemy's situation and see if there are any Ming troops to help? If there is an enemy, report it at any time. Lin Dan Khan commanded to Tashhai.
"Yes, Great Khan." Tashhai commanded.
"Great Khan, we used to send 100,000 troops to attack Datong, all the way into a no-man's land, never saw half of the Ming reinforcements to save Datong, and now they are in the midst of civil strife, I am afraid that they will be distracted to calm the civil strife, where can there be reinforcements to save Pingliang?" Hu Ruk listened to Lin Dan Khan's arrangement and asked with some incomprehension.
"Hu Luke, your news is outdated, it is true that there is civil strife in the Ming Kingdom, but the civil strife in Shaanxi has been quelled. Moreover, the trilateral governor of the Ming Kingdom has been replaced, and it is a person named Hong Chengchou, I heard that this person is good at using soldiers, and he is very powerful at suppressing thieves.
And this person's new official took office, according to the words of the Han people, it is called the three fires of the new official, no matter what he does, he is always very active, but Ben Khan thinks that this person will definitely send troops to save Pingliang, otherwise he has no way to explain to the emperor.
Their soldiers in Shaanxi, there are not many people available, and the combat power has always been not strong, even if Hong Chengchou personally brings people here, it doesn't matter, you don't want to intercept and kill their meticulous work, put them under Pingliang City, let's defeat all the reinforcements brought by Hong Chengchou in front of the Ming people in Pingliang City, so that we can not only hit the morale of the Ming defenders in Pingliang City, but also deter the Ming people, let them know that we are powerful, and when we come to fight for food in the future, we can be more unimpeded. Lin Dan Khan told all his calculations in one breath.
Tiger Ruke and the others apparently understood.
"That's it, you wait now to go to Pingliang Zuo to catch the people of the Ming Kingdom, the more you catch, the better, after the people are arrested, let the people of the Ming Kingdom rush to the front, the Han slaves are the supervisors of the Ming people, and our own people will follow behind the Han people, as their supervisors, driving the Han slaves and the Ming people to attack the city. Do you understand? Lin Dan Khan commanded.
"Yes, Great Khan." When Tashhai and the others received the order, they bowed slightly, hurriedly walked out of the camp, and went straight to carry out Lin Dan Khan's order.
The Mongolian cavalry that received the order immediately scattered in all directions, rushed to the villages and towns near Pingliang, and looted and burned while driving out the people of the Ming Dynasty who had survived the catastrophe, and continuously gathered under Pingliang City from afar.
For a time, the villages, towns and fortresses near Pingliang were all full of smoke, and the people of the Ming Dynasty were all separated from their wives and families, and the people of the Ming Dynasty who were lucky not to die were driven by the whips and sabers of the Mongolian cavalry, and went to an unknown fate.
The Mongol cavalry attacked everywhere, and it only took one morning to capture more than 4,000 Ming people, including men and women, old and young.
Lin Dan Khan felt that the people he had captured were almost enough, so he said to Tashhai, who was in charge of the attack: "Use these people to attack first, and try to see how the Ming defenders are?" ”
"Yes, Great Khan." Tashhai gave the order, and said to the herald: "Blow the trumpet and attack." ”
'Woo, woo, woo, woo. The trumpets sounded one after another.
Those Han slaves immediately waved the sabers in their hands, drove the captured Ming people step by step, and slowly moved towards Pingliang City.
"The enemy is coming, ready to meet the enemy." The Liu garrison at the head of the city shouted, and all the defenders became nervous.
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