66. Tumut Elegy

Altan Khan, with great pride, rode his selected black horse to step on the snow, and entered the north gate of Liaoyang City with his head held high. At this time, he was at the pinnacle of his life - since Tefuzhen, he was the first Tatar Khan to truly capture the city of the southerners above the second level, which is a feat that is enough to go down in history! He almost thought about building another wall for himself next to the Te Buzhen wall!

Altan almost felt like he was stepping on a cloud! With this fulcrum, his own grassland iron cavalry can gradually expand in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty! The fertile land, the gathered crowds, the fertile water and soil, everything is so fascinating! As for Nilan, that poor worm of the Black Carboniferous Department, he is now eating dirt on the plains behind! He actually wants to use himself as cannon fodder for him to attack the bridgehead of the Ming Dynasty! I'm going to let you know who's the real cannon fodder!

The Khan of the Tumut tribe dismounted as soon as he entered the gate, and he wanted to climb the tower as soon as possible, and feel the feeling that his ancestors once had, looking down on all beings!

With his hands behind his back, Altan ascended to the north gate tower of Liaoyang City under the leadership of several servants! He leaned against the female wall and laughed proudly! He arrogantly shouted at the wilderness outside the city: "Ridiculous Qi Jiguang, you still want me to be your puppet to attack the Black Carbonibrain Department!" Why do you think I've kept asking you to increase your troops! At the end of the day, I'm not killing two birds with one stone! Hahahaha! ”

A smug laugh echoed in the empty streets of Liaoyang City! His cavalry had already entered the city one after another, and Altan was crazy for a while, and suddenly remembered, and called his adjutant: "Tell the commanders of ten thousand to restrain their subordinates, this is the first stop of our attack on the Central Plains, don't go too far in collecting loot, try to be restrained, don't ruin your reputation!" In the future, there will be a chance to scrape the ground! ”

The adjutant received the order, but his face was a little hesitant. Altan was in the mood at the moment, and looked at the adjutant's face and felt strange, so he asked, "What's wrong?" Didn't Liaoyang City take it down? Why do you still have a sad face? ”

Beads of sweat oozed from the corners of the adjutant's forehead, and he said in a trembling voice: "Big, big sweat!" The cavalry has searched most of the city, a ...... Not a single one found out! ”

Altan felt only a buzzing in his head, a hint of dizziness, and then he screamed, "You talk nonsense! With such a big Liaoyang City, how could there be no one left! ”

The adjutant lowered his head and did not dare to speak, and Altan rushed to the inner side of the city wall in a few steps, but saw only a broken ruin......

......

Nilan sat on the horse's corpse in front of me, picked up the water bladder and took a sip of water, but spat out half a mouthful of blood. He angrily threw the water bladder aside, looked up, and looked at me standing three meters away.

I stood firmly, with Ye Sizhong next to me and Lakshen behind me. Nilan laughed twice and said, "You are Lakshen?" You also took refuge in this kid? Good eye! As he spoke, he vomited another mouthful of blood.

He fell from his horse while escaping, presumably suffering internal injuries. Rakshin gritted his teeth, and I could almost hear a creaking sound. However, his voice was unexpectedly calm: "Yes, my vision has always been good, I advised Father Khan not to cooperate with you, but unfortunately he didn't listen!" ”

Nilan seemed to lower his head and recall for a moment before he smiled and said, "Alatan Ula is a good person, but unfortunately, he is not a good khan!" Therefore your demise is certain. It's not me, it's someone else. ”

Rakshen nodded, "You're right, so now it's your turn!" ”

Nilan's eyes suddenly radiated a terrifying light, and he said in a deep voice, "My people will definitely avenge me!" Definitely! ”

Rakshen suddenly laughed, and smiled very happily: "No, it won't! ”

Nilan was puzzled: "What did you say?" ”

Rakshen stepped forward and saluted me before turning to Nilan and saying, "You don't have any more people taller than the wheels!" Sir wise! ”

Nilan was stunned for two seconds, and suddenly screamed heartbreakingly, he stared at me, pulled out his waist knife, made a sharp cut on the palm of his hand, and whispered: "I'm going to splash blood here!" My soul wants to watch the steppe people step through here and conquer the Central Plains! ”

After saying that, he screamed and swung his knife and rushed towards me!

A flash of silver light flashed, and it was all over......

Altan stood on the tower of the city in a daze, his subordinates' report made his brain fall into a complete blank, the situation was much worse than what he had just knew, not only was there no population in the city, but there was not even a complete house! Not a single grain of grain! Cattle, sheep and horses, no! Available supplies, no! Even the city's wells were filled with dead animals and completely unusable......

Altan only had four words in his heart: "Jianbi Qingye", and this is the first time he has seen Jianbi Qingye, or even heard of it for the first time!

Altan, who was sitting on the edge of the ruins of the City Lord's Mansion, was in a daze, when suddenly the soldiers around him became noisy, and his heart was full of anger, and he shouted, "What are you guys calling? ”

The adjutant staggered over, almost crying, "Great Khan! Liaoyang City ...... Liaoyang City is surrounded! Completely surrounded by the Ming army! ”

Altan Fei also got on his horse, ran to the edge of the city, ran up to the city tower, looked out, and suddenly the sky whirled! I saw that two arrows away from the city wall, the chariots of the Ming army were one after another, forming a wall! And the black gland sticking out of the wall was the muzzle of a musket!

On the car, there are more than two groups of musketeers on standby, and it is conceivable that as long as their own people dare to go out of the city, they must be greeted by bullets raining down!

Altan's lips were trembling slightly, he never imagined that Qi Jiguang, a native of the Ming Dynasty, would be so vicious, luring himself into the bait by self-destruction and going to a dead end! That's impossible! This is not the style of the Ming Dynasty! Haven't they always been benevolent, righteous and moral?

The anger in Altan's heart could no longer be suppressed, he drew his scimitar, raised it and slashed it twice, and shouted at the Ming army outside the city: "You cunning southerners! I am a descendant of the steppe, and I am not afraid of you! Come on! ”

At this moment, suddenly a gunshot rang out in the convoy! A projectile slashed a distance of three hundred paces, and with a "poof" hit Altan's raised right shoulder! The poor Khan screamed, raised his head and fell, and the scimitar in his hand fell to the ground with a "bang"!

......

Ye Sizhong's cavalry team and I changed our costumes, and asked a team of people to send the bodies of Nilan and the fallen soldiers to Jizhou first, and then sent 5,000 cavalry, divided into 50 teams, to chase down the enemy deserters everywhere. The remaining 10,000 people were led by the two of us and rushed all the way to Liaoyang City.

When we arrived at the city, we asked where the Chinese military tent was, and we hurried there. When Li Chengliang, the former commander of the army, heard that the two of us were coming, he went out of the tent to greet him, and the two of us shook hands with him and hugged him, and happily entered the Chinese military tent and sat down.

After listening to our report, Li Chengliang said with a smile: "The two virtuous brothers have made great contributions this time, and the Black Carboniferous Department has been wiped out, and it has since turned into a cloud of smoke; The Tumut Department was trapped in the city, but it was just a turtle in the urn, and since then, the two major Kou led by the grassland have been wiped out, and the frontier can be peaceful! The two virtuous brothers should be the first to take the lead! ”

Ye Sizhong and I hurriedly thanked him. Ye Sizhong opened his mouth and said: "General Li, I will talk about the matter later, I expect that the imperial court will not treat us lightly, and the top priority at the moment is to solve these grassland people in the city!" ”

Li Chengliang nodded and said, "Not bad!" According to the spies, the Tumut Ministry still has about two months of food and grass, but there is not much water. Due to the contamination of the existing water sources, they are currently digging wells all over the city! But presumably it can't be fully supported, just for a moment and a half, I'm afraid it won't collapse suddenly! ”

I smiled and said, "General Li is worried that in two months, in the depths of winter, they still have shelter in the city, but we can only survive outside the city, yes and no!" ”

Li Chengliang nodded and sighed: "In the winter of the Northeast, dripping water turns into ice, which is extremely difficult!" ”

I nodded, but smiled without saying a word.

Li Chengliang and Ye Sizhong were surprised when they saw my expression, the two looked at each other, Li Chengliang gave Ye Sizhong a color, Lao Ye knew, this was because he had a good relationship with me, and Li Chengliang asked him to ask me what I meant.

Ye Sizhong coughed and asked, "Qilan, what do you have in mind!" Let's hear it! ”

I stood up, walked to the window, looked at the sunset outside the window and said, "There is a way, but this trick is too fierce, I am afraid that it will damage Yin Virtue!" After saying that, he shook his head incessantly.

Li Chengliang asked: "What way!" It's just that we think together, we want to lose, we lose together! ”

I laughed out loud with a "poof", turned my head and forgot about this second-grade master, and said with a smile: "Can the King of Jizo still distinguish between the mastermind and the conspiracy?" ”

Ye Sizhong said hurriedly: "Don't be poor!" When you are a soldier and fight, how can you not commit the precept of killing, and you are in the Longtai Golden Horde...... It's already been committed, and it's just like that if it's more than once, it's less than once! When the time comes, the little ghost will ask for his life, and you can just let them find me! ”

I laughed and shook my head at them, unable to speak. After a while, I relieved myself and said softly: "Qi Dudu and I agreed on the plan to clear the wilderness, and we did one more thing before evacuating the people, demolishing houses, filling wells, and burning supplies. ”

Li Chengliang and Ye Sizhong asked at the same time, "What's the matter?" ”

I looked at the two of them for a long time, and Fang said in a low voice: "We asked people to bury some things all over Liaoyang City, and the lead was carried by a bamboo pipe, and after being filled, it extended out of the city, and the ignition port was behind the statue of the Land Temple in the west of the city......"

The two were stunned for a while, and Li Chengliang asked me, "How much did you put it?" ”

I looked at the canopy and said, "Gathering everything in North China, it is enough to plow Liaoyang City!" ”

There was a deep silence in the room.

Ye Sizhong suddenly said: "Although they are enemies, they ...... That's nearly 90,000 lives! Wouldn't it be a little ...... if we were like this?"

I smiled wryly and said, "Who just said that if the little ghost asks for his life, let him come?" ”

There was silence in the room again.

At this moment, a herald suddenly came outside the house, and Li Chengliang hurriedly called in, but it was a handwritten letter sent by Governor Qi.

Li Chengliang took it apart, glanced at it, and handed it to Ye Sizhong with a strange expression.

Ye Sizhong glanced at it and handed it to me with a strange expression.

I took the letter, unfolded it, and read it with four words: "Let the blue dot!" ”

Me: "......"

After a moment of silence, I said, "Let's try our best to persuade you to surrender!" It's really not too late to take the last step! ”

Li Chengliang and Ye Sizhong both agreed to this approach.

The next day, we launched a propaganda offensive in the city, shouting through loudspeakers, removing arrowheads, tying propaganda leaflets and shooting them into the city, and even sending envoys to show us in front of us that we were willing to accept surrender, but that they would have to pay some price.

Annoyed and enraged, Altan ordered the execution of the envoys! And said that as a son and grandson of Te Wuzhen, he was unwilling to surrender again! They haven't lost yet! Organize a cavalry breakthrough at noon on the same day! As soon as I left the city, I was drunk by the fire of muskets and cannons! Throw down more than 3,000 corpses and recoil back into the city!

The three of us discussed, since Altan had slashed and begged for battle, then we had nothing to be polite about!

That night, we quietly informed the surrounding troops to retreat three miles and find a good concealment.

In the middle of the night, I took a few people to the Land Temple. Under the gaze of Li Chengliang and Ye Sizhong, I lit the lead hidden behind the clay sculpture!

Half an hour later, there was a muffled sound one after another! The earth shakes and the mountains shake! Miles away, I felt my legs tremble violently! The sound was as if someone had put a thick iron bucket on his head and struck it hard with a metal hammer! Countless clumps of earth and small stones fell from the sky, and the warriors were all over their heads!

When the shaking stopped, we looked at the moonlight again, and the former Liaoyang City ...... It has become a ruin of a smoky wall......