Chapter 54: Northeast Pacification
Telescopes, from the day they appeared, were strictly controlled, each one has a number, and it needs to be strictly reviewed, recorded, and regularly checked for use when purchasing, so there is very little folk circulation, most of them are in the hands of officials of the imperial court and generals of the army, and it is strictly forbidden to flow to the grassland and Fanbang, and Zhu Yunwen rarely convicted a felony, and the crime of smuggling telescopes was complicit and rebellious, and it was much more severe than firearms and iron horse smuggling.
But no matter how tight the net is, there will always be omissions. The so-called heavy reward must have a brave man, the Mongols offered a high price, there are always people who take risks, there are still some telescopes flowing into the grassland, but the quality is not high, just ordinary civilian models, Arutai has one in his hand, but unfortunately he can't see the expression of the Ming army general on the mountain at all, but the telescope in Xu Huizu's hand can see them at a glance.
If Arutai had a telescope like Xu Huizu, maybe he wouldn't have retreated.
When the Mongolian army was repulsed, the ordinary soldiers cheered, but Xu Huizu, Long Kai and others had grim faces and did not feel relaxed at all. Because ten miles behind them, in Arshan, the commander of the special operations battalion, Kuang Yizheng, commanded 5,000 troops to resist the attack of the Warat army, and in order to prevent Arutai from getting the news, he did not use muskets and grenades, but only used weapons such as rolling wood and crossbows, and fought very hard.
After Arutai retreated, Xu Huizu finally breathed a sigh of relief, and he immediately ordered Long Kai to send a horse to inquire about Arutai's news to prevent the Mongols from killing the horses.
But Xu Huizu was too worried, the Mongols were no longer the Mongols of Genghis Khan's time, starting from the construction of the city of Suiyuan in the last years of Hongwu, the battle of Mobei of King Ning and Fu Youde, the rebellion of King Yan, and the civil strife in Wara, the Mongols were consumed in large quantities, and the experienced veterans were lost, and the new recruits who were replenished were either too old or too small, and the combat effectiveness declined quickly. If it was the Mongol army during the Battle of Yehuling, Xu Huizu's dung pit was just a joke. In that year, 100,000 Mongolian troops dismounted and fought on foot, attacking 400,000 Jin troops, but they won a complete victory, and the troops came to Yanjing City, laying the foundation for the great cause of destroying Jin.
When Arutai was far away, Kuang Yi immediately used grenades and muskets to condescendingly massacre the Mongol troops attacking the mountain. Seeing this, Ugqi, the leader of Warat who was in charge of the command, immediately withdrew his troops and gave up the attack on the mountain the next day and returned to Horin.
In fact, Ugqi didn't want to attack the mountain, but he just made a show, and he couldn't resist the bitter pleading of the old Golden Family. For Ugqi, rescuing Sumu, Arutai, and Mahamu is purely asking for trouble, it is better to die cleanly, not only is there no trouble, but you can also accept their tribe by the way, why not? The most important thing is that he also plans to talk about his son Eseku, that is, the only remaining bloodline of the Golden Family, Princess Samur, the daughter of Erlebok and the wife of Mahamu!
On the second day of Arutai's southward journey, he received the news that the Ming army had reinforced Xu Huizu, and while rejoicing, he ordered the Mongol army to give up the excess baggage and go south, and Tieleba and Sumu had no objections, and completely only Alutai was the horse's head.
But it didn't take long for that damned Mahamu to appear, and he appeared in the sequence of the Ming army, exposing the despicable features of Arutai and others, and calling for the return of his old troops; It is also said that the two princes of the Ming Dynasty have led an army of 300,000 and surrounded them from all sides; Moreover, the retreat of the Mongolian army has been blocked by Guo Ying, Marquis of Wuding of the Ming Dynasty, and so on. In a word, the Mongolian army has no way to live, either wipe its neck with a knife, die early and reincarnate early, and be a citizen of the Celestial Empire in the next life; Either surrender quickly and find a way to survive, winter is coming soon, and time waits for no one......
Mahamu's despicability and shamelessness completely refreshed the three views of Arutai and others, making them grit their teeth and hate them, but there was nothing they could do. Because not only did there be deserters in the old part of Mahamu, but even the headquarters of Arutai was unstable.
In fact, Mahamu is not without his own little Jiujiu, according to his good calculations, he even plans to catch up with Arutaihou, gather some old troops, and then turn back to the water again and return to the grassland. But when he saw that Arutai and others were unable to break through Xu Huizu's defense line and turn south, he immediately changed his position and was ready to surrender to the ground, so in the subsequent pursuit and encirclement, he did everything he could to break the morale of the Mongol army and make great contributions to the final surrender of the Mongol army......
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"Kill!" Covered in blood, Su Mu was like a hungry wolf who had been cornered, roaring and rushing towards the battle formation of the Ming army.
"Put!" An unknown commander of the Ming army waved his hand, and in an instant, Su Mu's iron armor was like a piece of paper, easily torn apart by the projectile fired by the musket, and he saw Su Mu shaking, blood flowing from his mouth, he wanted to shout something, but he couldn't shout, and then the steel knife took off his hand, "plopped", fell under the horse, and hit the ground heavily, stirring up a piece of dust.
"What should we do?" Looking at Su Mu, who was like a moth to a fire, his face turned pale, and he couldn't help but look back at Arutai beside him, this sentence has become the norm for Tieleba, but this time Arutai did not answer immediately.
Arutai pulled out his saber, looked at the snow-white blade, took the cotton cloth, wiped it lightly for a while, and sighed: "Commander, we have no way out, surrender." We are no match for the Ming army. Firearms are not something that can be resisted by manpower, and there is no hope for the Great Mongolia! Anyway, sooner or later, it's just a surrender! ”
Tieleba was silent, he looked around at the generals around him, but he was disappointed, these generals who had been brave and invincible, prancing horses and swords, did not dare to respond to his eyes, but chose to bow their heads and remain silent; The rest of the people have not yet recovered from the massacre.
When faced with the Ming army surrounded on all sides, Arutai and Tieleba had the heart to surrender, but Su Mu did not agree, he saw the cowardice of the two, and took the initiative to fight the front and fight a bloody way for the whole army. But what disappointed them was that in less than two quarters of an hour, Su Mu's 10,000 cavalry were killed and wounded under the fire of the Ming army, and Su Mu, the commander of Su Mu, was killed in battle, and the remaining cavalry lost their souls and dismounted and surrendered, praying for their lives. The battlefield was filled with smoke from the burning of gunpowder, and the screams and pleadings of the soldiers, but these voices stopped abruptly when the Ming army marched by. Some were mercilessly killed by the Ming army, while others held their breath and pretended to be dead, hoping to escape the Ming army's butcher's knife, although, for the most part, it was a futile ......
On November 3, the sixth year of Jianwen, Arutai and Tieleba led more than 20,000 Mongol troops to surrender to Ping'an and Xu Huizu near Baicheng in later generations, while Mahamu's surrender was 14 days ago, and only two people surrendered with him.
After learning the news of the surrender of the Mongols, Li Zhongzhong and Mengge Timur led their troops to flee north of the mountain, and were surrounded by the Ming army by the Songhua River.
When the news reached Beijing, Zhu Yunwen ordered Li Yuan to behead the Jurchen generals such as Li Zhongzhong, Meng's brother Timur and his cronies by the Songhua River, leaving no chickens and dogs, and the remaining more than 5,000 Jurchens were all escorted to North Korea to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Li Fangyuan's remnants;
Arutai, Tieleba, Mahamu and others were taken to Beiping, where they joined Erleboke, and Keri was escorted to Nanjing. The Mongols who surrendered were all sent to Tongliao to participate in the construction of the city; After the construction of the city was completed, it was divided into three parts and moved to Shenyang, Korea and Northwest respectively.
On the same day, Zhu Yunwen issued an edict to change the political envoy of Liaodong to the political envoy of Liaoning, Lian Zining served as the political envoy, and Mei Yin was the commander of Liaoning; set up the Jilin Political Envoy Division, Cheng Benli was the political envoy, and Song Xuan was the commander of Jilin; ordered An Pingbo Li Yuan to sit in Shenyang, build a palace for King Shen, and make King Shen a vassal; At the same time, he transferred the prince of the country to Changsheng to go north to Jilin, built a palace for King Ji, and supervised the construction of Changchun, Baicheng and other cities, and completely controlled the area south of the Songhua River.
At the same time, the generals of this expedition were rewarded, Xu Huizu and Ping'an each gave 10,000 mu of land, and Li Yuan, Wang Zhong, Long Kai, and Kuang Yi each gave 5,000 mu and 3,000 mu of land, but they were all in Jilin and exempted from taxes for ten years; At the same time, the military department was ordered to recruit soldiers from Liaoning, Korea, and Shandong, and go north to Tuntian, Jilin.
After all these affairs were arranged, it was already December, and Zhu Yunwen ordered to return to Beijing, accompanied by Xu Huizu, Duke of Wei, Yiguo Ping'an, Geng Xuan, Marquis of Changxing, Shao Yun, Tan Yuan and others.