Chapter 111: Grief
The uproar is actually a collection of multiple emotions.
This includes anger, fear, helplessness, regret, despair, and so on.
The reason is simple.
When this spring came, it was supposed to be the time for the steppe tribes to move westward, and they were going to follow their Great Khan, the Dibaonu. But now, the life and death of the Great Khan's Baonu are uncertain, the Great Khan's headquarters has been wiped out, and all the rest have been captured by the Ming army, and I don't know where they were sent to work as coolies.
And the headquarters of Warat, which was at its peak for a while, was also the same result, and the great leader of Warat, Eseku, was also taken prisoner of the Ming army.
Not only that, but with the spring blossoms, some news is also spreading in the grasslands.
In the first month of this year, the first great Khan Elberke died, and his personal guard Hu Qitu felt guilty and committed suicide in front of the spirit; It is said that the death of Erbok Khan was committed by his daughter Samur and her ex-husband Mahamu, who and his son were all executed by the Ming court, and Erbok himself was buried in the Heavenly Realm Temple of the Ming Dynasty as a prince.
When the news reached the grassland, I don't know how many people with lofty ideals sighed, "I have the intention to kill the thief, but I can't return to the sky."
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In the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Ming was a benevolent, generous, wise, and invincible monarch; But for the Mongols, this emperor was simply a devil.
During the reign of Emperor Hongwu, the strategy of the Ming Dynasty was to rely on the Great Wall, and to use Kaiping, Daning and other cities outside the Great Wall as strongholds to implement feudal rule over the Mongolian steppe; But Emperor Jianwen was different, he relied on the heyday of national strength left by Emperor Hongwu to build a large number of cities outside the Saiwai, set up Suiyuan and Rehe Dusi, and firmly controlled Mo Nan in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
That's all, the Ming Dynasty's rule in Monan is similar to that of the Mongols' ancestors, slaughtering tribes at every turn, killing people at every turn, and now the people in Monan have long been silent and dare not resist at all.
At the beginning, the people of Mobei thought that Monan was a group of mischievous men, Mongolian men, with horses in the crotch and knives in their hands, heroic posture, can't they run if they can't beat it?
But the rout under the cities of Tongliao and Shuangliao finally made the Mongols realize their gap.
And this time the Ming army stepped on the steppe, hundreds of people were in a team, and the edict was conveyed everywhere, and this attitude of treating the Mongols as nothing made the Mongols extremely angry, so conflicts inevitably occurred.
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"Enemy attack!"
A terrible horn sounded, and the leader of the Bald Black Tribe, Zambat, jumped up violently and rushed out of the account: "Keba, what's the matter? ”
The burly Keba hurriedly ran over: "Chief, there is an enemy from the south, and the lookout post has raised an alarm!" On that day, Matsu-samatsu had already rushed over with someone! ”
"South?"
Zambat frowned, and as he mounted his horse, he ordered: "Let the warriors gather at once, and at the same time let everyone pick up bows and arrows and support at any time!" ”
"All?"
"Keba, carry out the order!" Speaking of this, Zambat hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "Sending someone to the Temu Department for help means that the army is coming, and the Mongols are all together, and I need their support." ”
"Yes!"
"Also, you inform the Great Elder, ready to evacuate at any time!"
"What?"
Keba was stunned.
"Go!"
As he spoke, Zambat shook his whip and beat his horse and ran towards the camp gate.
The Bald Black Department is a small tribe, with about 5,000 people, and about one-third of the warriors are strong, and the leader Zambat is brave and resourceful, and has won the support of the tribe.
Na Risong is the youngest brother of Zambat, in his twenties this year, born with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, skilled in bows and horses, and is very loyal to Zambat, but unfortunately his personality is a little irritable.
Zambat was so nervous that he was worried that something would happen to Narisong.
Sure enough, when he arrived at the door, Na Risong was not there, and it turned out that he was lined up outside the camp with 500 people to fight to the death with the incoming enemy.
Zambat glanced at his horse, his face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly rode over.
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The smoke and dust raised were getting closer and closer, and a group of cavalry gradually appeared in everyone's field of vision, only four or five hundred people.
These people are dressed in the standard armor of the Ming army, dressed in black clothes and black armor, like ghosts in hell, returning to the world.
That Risong smiled coldly, and was about to hit the horse and rush up, but was pulled up, that Risong was furious, and when he looked back, he found that it was the eldest brother Zambat: "Big brother, let go, I want to go up!" ”
"Wait, see what they want to do?"
Look?
That day, Song's brain turned a little around, that was the Ming army, this is our enemy who is not in the same sky! Now that you've met, shouldn't you fight to the death?
Seeing the disbelief on his younger brother's face, Zambat shook his head: "That Risong, now it's not as good as before!" ”
What the?
On that day, Song was about to speak, but he saw the Ming army on the opposite side stop, more than a dozen cavalry came out on horseback, and the leading cavalry glanced at Zambat and the others, raised his hand and pointed, and said in stiff Mongolian: "Are you the bald black department?" ”
Nari Song was furious.
Zambat stepped forward and said, "Yes, I am Zambat, the leader of the Bald and Black Tribe." ”
The cavalry on the opposite side was stunned, tilted his head, and a high-nosed and deep-eyed cavalryman next to him came over and whispered a few words, and the leader of the Ming army nodded: "Very good, Zambatt takes the order." ”
This time it was in Chinese.
The cavalry next to him then translated into Mongolian and shouted loudly.
Narisong shouted, rushed up, and stood in front of Zambat Ma: "You Han people, are you impatient to run here to show off your might?" ”
The leader of the Ming army frowned, although he didn't understand, he knew that it was definitely not a good word, especially when he saw Zambat standing aside and not blocking him, he couldn't help but be furious: "What did he say?" ”
"Senho-sama, he's talking about ......."
After the translation, the translator Gegenf looked at Chiho's face with some apprehension.
"Huh,"
Qianhu smiled, but his tone was a little cold, and he saw him take out an object about a foot long, black all over, with a small hole at the front of the waist, from the holster on his waist and aimed at Na Himatsu, and then he heard a "bang", Na Himatsu screamed miserably, and fell off the horse.
When the smoke cleared, everyone was stunned.
Zambat was shocked, but instead of looking at his fallen brother, he shouted, "Get ready to fight!" ”
The Ming army Qianhu smiled, pointed the pistol at Zambat, and pulled the trigger, while the Ming army swarmed up.
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Zambat did not die, so he witnessed the slaughter of his own people.
The Ming army was terrible.
The clansmen's bows and arrows could not penetrate the iron armor of the Ming army thirty paces away, but the muskets in the hands of the Ming army could easily penetrate the chests of the clansmen; In order to survive, some brave clansmen rushed forward to fight in close combat, but the Ming army had more than one short gun, and at the same time, the Ming army also had something that would explode if thrown - Zambat later learned that it was called a grenade.
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It was only half an hour before and after, and all the bald and black departments laid down their weapons and waited for the Ming people's disposal.
The interpreter Gegendo walked up to Zambat and sighed, "Why are you so troubled? ”
Zambat looked at the sun pine that had been trampled into flesh in the distance, and tears couldn't stop flowing down, yes, why is this so painful?
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The Ming people did not destroy the Bald Black Tribe, Qianhu Mu successfully left fifty people to guard the Bald Black Tribe, waiting for the large army to receive it, and he took Zambat and others to the next tribe, that is, the Temu Department where Zambat was going to ask for help.
The role of Zambat and others is very simple, that is, to persuade Temubu to accept the will of the Ming Emperor, killing too many people, after all, it hurts the heavens and peace.
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The same thing is happening everywhere in the steppe.
Of course, not all of them were won by the Ming army, and there were also examples of the Ming army failing and escaping, but the Ming army would immediately retaliate, facing the formed cavalry, there was no unified leadership of the Mongolian tribes to be vulnerable, and the ultimate fate of these tribes was to exterminate the tribe and leave no chickens and dogs.
For a time, the sad songs of the shepherds spread throughout the grassland.
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The Ili River Valley, known as the "Wet Island of the Western Regions" and the "Saiwai Jiangnan", is named after the Ili River, which is surrounded by mountains on three sides in the north, east and south, and has the northwest-southeast Koguqin Mountain and the Borokonu Mountain; In the south, there are Mt. Hacktau and Mount Nalati in the north-east-east-south-west-west direction; In the middle, there are also Wusun Mountain, Aulal Mountain, etc., which constitute the geomorphological outline of "three mountains and two valleys".
From the Ili River valley to the north, beyond the Koguqin Mountain, is the Junggar Basin in later generations.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the Ili River Valley was a direct domain of the Yuan Emperor, but now it belongs to the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.
After the Ming army advanced westward and Warat flourished, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate gradually moved westward, and the capital gradually moved westward from Alimali (Huocheng, Xinjiang) and Beshbali (Jimusar, Xinjiang), and finally settled at Yining City in the Ili River Valley.
Yining City is a beautiful city, but also a city with a very strong flavor, most of the women on the street are black gauze and masked, and when they meet men passing by, they stand on the side of the road and take each other over before they go on the road; The mosque with a curved spire stands in the eastern part of the city, while not far from the mosque is the royal palace of the Eastern Chagatai.
At the entrance of the palace stood a group of officials, led by a thin, serious-looking, eagle-nosed old man, who was none other than the famous minister of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate.
There were many officials around him, most of them were angry, and some of them were even whispering.
"This Ming envoy is too much, the Prime Minister has been waiting for so long!"
"Yes, the Prime Minister is not in good health, how can he go on like this?"
"Hehe, I think you can't stand it!"
"Nonsense, I'm upset for the Prime Minister!"
"Come on!"
“......”
Listening to the whispers around him, he suddenly didn't understand, and he secretly wondered in his heart: "It's been almost a month since the envoy came, and it is estimated that he is really going to leave this time, but how to reply to his request?" ”