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The army of the Tartars sounded their horns again and pressed on the gates.

The thousands of corpses near the city gates did not seem to deter the Tartars.

Perhaps for the Tartars, if they raised 100,000 troops by themselves, if they retreated only because of the loss of a few thousand horsemen, it was indeed a bit impossible.

The children and grandchildren also knew that the Ming army in Kaiping City was only more than 2,000 people, so in the case of only a few thousand cavalry for the first time, he was indeed unwilling to give up attacking Kaiping City so easily.

After all, his warriors were going to break into the territory of the Ming Dynasty to loot and make a fortune, and it didn't matter how many people were killed or injured, the important thing was to grab the property.

Of course.

The Tartars also knew that the siege of the city would be surrounded by three and one was missing, and they only pressed in three directions towards the city wall.

More than 2,000 Ming troops were also mainly distributed in these three directions, and Gui Yong made three battalion battalion garrisons responsible for the defense of the city in three directions.

The battalion-level commanders of the Ming army were also professionally and comprehensively trained, and were able to command the operations of muskets, artillery, cavalry and other arms.

But.

At present, because it is a defensive battle, the cavalry is also used as musketeers.

Siege and defensive warfare is a common mode of warfare throughout the ages, especially land warfare, after all, the geography and terrain will affect the outcome of the entire war.

And holding a military town is tantamount to controlling the whole situation.

The same is true now.

If the Tartars want to attack the hinterland of Gyeonggi in the Ming Dynasty and plunder, they must break through Xuanfu, and to break through Xuanfu, they must break through Kaiping.

There is no other trick in siege warfare, it is nothing more than that the attackers fill it with human lives, and the defenders defend it with human lives.

Both sides become meat grinders under a city, and whoever waits for reinforcements from the periphery to arrive first will win.

But at this time, Kaiping City was different from the common siege and defensive battles, the Ming army in Kaiping City was only more than 2,000 people, and the Tartars outside Kaiping City numbered 100,000.

The ratio of the two sides in terms of numbers is already very large.

It stands to reason that the Tartars could easily break through Kaiping City.

The children and grandchildren did think so at this time, although the first attack was frustrated, and even their only artillery team was bombarded by the Ming artillery to the point that it was ineffective.

However, this son and grandson still thinks that as long as they are willing to take their lives, they can attack Kaiping City in the shortest possible time.

Let the children and grandchildren shoot arrows on the approaching city wall, trying to rely on the dense rain of arrows to suppress the musket strikes of the Ming army.

However, the Tatar cavalry used light arrows, which could shoot far away, but in terms of range, they still could not catch up with the rifled muskets in the hands of the Ming army, and even the smoothbore muskets could not catch up.

Moreover, the light arrows of the Tartar cavalry have very little destructive power after shooting far away, and it is basically difficult to penetrate the armor.

Now, when the Tartar cavalry came on horseback and shot a rain of arrows at the Ming army in Kaiping City, the Ming army in Kaiping City had set up a gauze tent as high as several zhang.

The light arrow with insufficient stamina shot on the gauze tent, just like a fist hitting the cotton, most of them were drained of momentum by the soft gauze tent, and fell directly under the city wall.

In short, the powerful Mongol cavalry of the thirteenth century has now completely declined, and its tactics and methods of warfare have not been improved, and it is not surprising that it has been ruled by the Jurchens who rose later.

Even today's Ming Empire, in years of war with the former overlord of the grassland, has long understood its ancient tactics, and even improved its own tactics, and today's gauze tent is just a common way for the Ming to deal with the siege of the Tartar cavalry.

Moreover, with the development of the textile industry of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has been able to easily weave long, dense and low-cost cloth, so there is also a weaving workshop for the manufacture of yarn tents used in the city defense, which is stored in the major border towns of the empire, which can effectively stop the rain of arrows from the Tartars.

Syllable!

Naturally, the Ming army would not let the Tartars attack, and they did not fight back, and the well-made muskets and rifled guns could accurately lift the Tartars' Tianling cover within a hundred steps.

At this time, a Ming musketeer fired a shot, one shot straight at the back of a Tartar, and immediately knocked the Tartar to the ground.

And the shooting speed of the Ming army was very fast, not even inferior to the Tartars pulling bows and shooting arrows.

To shoot a light arrow, the Tartar needs to pull the string to the ear and then shoot it back towards the wall with the experience of the naked eye.

The skilled Ming musketeers can skillfully complete the action of using the lever principle to pull the bolt when the Tartar pulls the arrow string to the ear, and use the spring principle to automatically load the bullet and pull the trigger to aim and fire.

What's more, after the Ming army's musketeers fired a shot, the huge impulse generated by the bullet after the explosion of the propellant can make the bullet have a strong momentum, compared to the impulse generated when the Tartar pulls the light bow by arm force, the impulse generated by the propellant made of cotton in the Ming army's musket is naturally much larger than it, after all, the explosion power of the cotton wool is two to three times that of black powder.

A bullet shot by the Ming army naturally penetrated directly into the ordinary cotton armor of the Tartars.

In this way, although the Tartars were numerous and could shoot arrows from the fallen cavalry, they could not effectively kill the Ming army in Kaiping City.

However, the Ming army was able to accurately inflict casualties on the Tartar cavalry with advanced muskets.

Looking at this phenomenon with great depression, as a nobleman of Duoyanwei, his ancestors had a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty, and even once they were the army of the Ming Dynasty.

Because of this, basically Da Ming has never fought with him, and now he Duo Yanwei is also the first time to fight with Da Ming, but he didn't expect that the Ming army's musket has been so strong.

Thereupon.

The children and grandchildren can only use the most primitive method, use their own cavalry as infantry, and fill it with human lives.

These cavalrymen rushed towards Kaiping City one by one carrying ladders or giant shields and giant trees, and at the same time, behind these siege tartars, there were also warlords, and the tartars of the warlords were still riding on horses, and the cowards who were afraid of death were all cut off under their horses.

It is precisely because of this that the Tartars also dared to rush to the root of the city wall without their lives, risking their lives to put the ladder on the city wall.

The number of defenders of the Ming army was small, although the firearms were sharp, but they were relatively sparse after being distributed to the three city walls, so that they could not completely prevent tens of thousands of Tartars from rushing to the root of the city wall, so that many Tartars rushed to the base of the city wall after charging to death, and also put the ladder on the city wall.

But because the Ming Dynasty now has a skilled cement concrete manufacturing technology, the cement concrete that has a much shortened solidification time compared to the Sanhe soil makes the city wall of the Ming Dynasty be built higher and higher, and these Tartars can not build the ladder between the battlements for a while, and can only be built at a distance of three or four feet from the city wall.

The walls were of cement, smoother than the walls of bricks.

Therefore, even if these Tartars who went up the ladder were not killed by the Ming army with muskets, they could not climb the city wall for a while, and even because the center of gravity was sometimes unstable, even people with the ladder slid down directly on the smooth city wall, and then fell directly to pieces.

The Ming army didn't bother to waste bullets to shoot these Tartars, and poured a bucket of chili water directly, and couldn't fly up the tartars three or four feet away from the city wall, and they had to be taught chili water, and their eyes were so excited that they burst into tears, and they fell down accidentally, and they fell to pieces, and then the ladder also slipped because the people on the ladder fell, and the ladder slipped because the pepper water was poured on the cement smooth city wall to increase the smoothness, so that even the tartars on the ladder also fell down.

Kule watched himself and the Mongols die one after another under Kaiping City, he was also very helpless, sometimes he couldn't understand why his Mongol leaders would be keen on robbery, but robbery would always cost a lot of lives, if you don't have to rob and fight, you can still get the tea and salt and fine silk you want by doing business, and you don't have to pay many lives.

As the ruler of the Tatars, he naturally doesn't care about the lives of these low-level Tatars, what he cares about is to fight the Ming Dynasty and get more benefits from the Ming Dynasty.

However, there is no way for tens of thousands of Tartars to take a Kaiping City, and most of them can only stand at the top of the ladder, looking at the end of the city wall that is still three or four feet away.

The Ming army didn't even have to fight back, at a distance of three or four feet, it was not difficult to jump over this distance if you jumped down, but it was completely impossible to climb up and climb this distance on a vertical plane.

He didn't expect this to be the case, and looking at the cavalry under his command who couldn't get up and down the ladder, he had no choice but to order the army to retreat.

The 100,000 army had no way to take a city wall defended by only 2,000 people, and his children and grandchildren were also very depressed about this, although his Mongolian cavalry was to collect food on the spot to kill cattle and sheep to feed them, and he didn't have to worry too much about logistics, but if he stayed under Kaiping City for too long, he would be killed by nearby cattle and sheep, so he had to give up the plan to attack Kaiping City.

However, the Ming Dynasty is no longer a Confucian ruler who repays grievances with virtue, but an empire that advocates the supremacy of national interests, and naturally will not pursue the crime of provoking the Ming Dynasty because of giving up his children and grandchildren to attack Kaiping City.

However, Hua Dang, the leader of Duoyanwei, did not realize that Da Ming would pursue this matter, and now after seeing his son return his children and grandchildren in vain, when he was surprised that his 100,000 army could not break Kaiping City, which only had 2,000 people, he only felt that he might have underestimated the combat effectiveness of Da Ming, and he wanted to rely on looting and intimidating Da Ming to agree to increase his Duo Yan Wei's tribute The purpose was impossible to achieve, and in order to be able to continue to rely on paying tribute to Da Ming, he decided to send an envoy to Da Ming to make amends.

Zhu Houzhao was already on his way to Yingchang at this time, and after receiving Hua Dang's request for sin, he couldn't help but laugh angrily and again: "Do these Tartars really take the dignity of my Central Plains Dynasty seriously, because I refuse to increase their tribute, they dare to detain my border town!" Now, when I found that Kaiping City, which attacked me, could not be defeated, I came to make amends, why, do you really think that I will forgive them and no longer care? ”

Yang Yiqing saw Zhu Houzhao say this, and hurriedly asked, "Then what does Your Majesty mean?" ”

Zhu Houzhao snorted, didn't say his thoughts directly, only ordered: "Pass the order, bring the messenger of Huadang!" ”

Not for a while.

Huadang's envoy walked up without falling flowers, and when he saw Zhu Houzhao, he only bowed and said, "I have seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Get on your knees! Don't you understand the rules, I am the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, you are not even my people now, you are just lowly slaves, I have not given you human rights, who gave you the courage to stand in front of me! ”

After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, he glanced at Guo Rong, the brocade guard.

Guo Rong understood, and didn't wait for this Don't Fall Flower to come back to his senses, he walked over directly, grabbed the shoulder of this Don't Fall Flower, and kicked the knee of this Don't Fall Flower.

Don't fall to the ground so painfully that she fell directly to the ground, but she wanted to get up angrily, and shouted at the same time: "Your Majesty the Ming Emperor, you are humiliating my Duoyanwei warrior!" ”

Syllable!

Zhu Houzhao picked up the royal short gun in his hand, and directly shot the brain of this other flower was bloody, and immediately said to Yang Yiqing: "This is what I mean, I will kill all the messengers who follow the other flowers!" Da Ming does not accept their reparations! He must pay for his stupidity and recklessness! ”

After Zhu Houzhao spoke, he ordered: "Spread the decree, follow Wang Shouren to supervise the east road, march from Kaiping City, and lead the Guards, Ordos Department, and Yongxieb Department to encircle and suppress the Tumut Department!" Yang Yiqing supervised the West Road, marched from Daning City, commanded the Guards and the Women's Direct Division, and encircled and suppressed Duoyanwei and Horqin! ”

When Yang Yiqing heard this, he hurriedly called the order and received the order.

Yang Yiqing knew what the emperor meant, but he knew that this kind of thing could only be done by himself.

Therefore, Yang Yi walked out with a cold face, looked outside and followed the flower who came to the Ming Dynasty as a messenger, and ordered: "This official is the privy envoy of the Ming Guards, and your Lord Zuodu Guards has been executed by this official, and you will not escape death, come and pull them down to be executed!" ”

Guo Rong, who had been instructed by Zhu Houzhao, obeyed Yang Yiqing's order very cooperatively, and with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen brocade guards all pulled out their knives.

These Huadang envoys were all shocked when they saw this, and one of the messengers shouted directly: "Why do you want to execute our Lord Don't fall into the flowers, we want to see your emperor!" ”

"Yes, we want to see your emperor!" The other messengers chimed in.

Yang Yiqing took advantage of Guo Rong's inattention, pulled out a spring embroidered spring knife on Guo Rong's body, and then waved vigorously, and the blade directly cut off the head of a messenger: "How can my Ming Emperor His Majesty be what you say you want to see!" ”

After speaking, Yang Yiqing pushed the wooden wheelchair and turned away, but after walking for a long time, only one sentence remained: "Hack to death with a knife!" ”

Thereupon.

Next, the brocade guards hacked all the messengers sent by Huadang to death, and the blood flowed like a river!

And then.

Yang Yiqing officially led 80,000 guards to Daning at the behest of Zhu Houzhao, many of whom were new recruits and newly recruited officers and soldiers from the military department, and Yang Yiqing naturally brought them to train their ability to fight in real combat.

Zhu Houzhao did not take it to the expedition in person, naturally to avoid suspicion, because there will be no mercy for the next revenge of the Ming Dynasty against the Tartars, as an emperor who will rule all the nationalities in this land in the future, he naturally cannot directly show his cruel side, and some less glorious things naturally need to be done by the people below.

Kuler thought that the war would end with Duo Yanwei's reparation to Da Ming, but he didn't expect that Da Ming would not forgive himself as easily as before, but took revenge.

Kule chose to flee with his own tribe, for the Tatars who have lived in the grass for generations, they are not afraid of the retaliation of the Ming Dynasty, for them it is nothing more than leaving the grassland closer to the Ming Dynasty, and then come back after the Ming army retreats.

But.

What Kueller didn't expect was that this time, the Ming army did not choose to retreat, but installed barbed wire in the steppe at intervals.

Because of the severe cold of winter, he had to lead his tribe to migrate back to the southward grassland, that is, the Xuanfu area, Kuler found that the grassland had been divided into countless areas by the Ming army using barbed wire.

When Kuhler tried to cut the barbed wire, he found that the Ming army's barbed wire was harder than his own scimitar, and the slash caused the barbed wire to ring with bells.

Jingle bells!

Jingle bells!

Jingle bells!

As the bell rang, a group of Ming soldiers with muskets came over from the barbed wire fence and fired directly at Kuler and the other Tatars.

Syllable!

Kuler was also shot, and he saw with his own eyes that a Ming soldier who looked more like Shan Tai had hit him.

Kuhler fell to the ground, but he couldn't help but laugh, he knew he deserved it.

But the gunfire did not stop with the fall of Kuler, and the Guards used barbed wire to shoot the Tartars that were divided into various parts of the steppe one by one.

This is the order of Yang Yiqing and Wang Shouren, not to let one go! Use the strongest means to make the Tatars understand the means of offending the Ming Empire.

Outside the city of Daning.

Jiang Lian, a recruit of the Guards, skillfully aimed his musket at the Tartar in front of him, slammed it, and killed it directly under the barbed wire, and then continued to hunt the next Tartar.

Manduda, the leader of Ordos, was standing next to Yang Yiqing at this time, watching the warriors under his command raise the butcher's knife to the Tatars of the same clan, and cut them down one by one, but he didn't say anything, and he didn't feel uncomfortable, as a Tatar nobleman, he was just glad that he didn't betray the Ming Dynasty, so he was able to become the one who held the butcher's knife, not the one who was killed.

Yang Yiqing forced these Tatars to kill the Tatars in an almost harsh way, and the female straight people killed the Tatars, and the Guards became the warlords, and if the Tatars and female straight people who belonged to the Ming Dynasty were unwilling to be the swords of the Ming Dynasty, then the Guards would destroy these people together.

Gui Yong and his subordinates were reorganized into the Guards for no other reason, Wang Shouren wanted to give them a chance for revenge.

Gui Yong did not waste this opportunity given to him by Wang Shouren, and directly rode his horse for a day and a night, attacked the Tumut tribe, and killed the Tumut tribe cleanly.

Ba Nao was an ordinary Tartar of Tumut, but he did not expect that those Han Chinese, who only knew how to do business, would also take revenge on him, and the means did not have to be merciful.

Looking at the barbed wire fence that has covered half of Yan Wei, the feelings in the hearts of Hua Dang and his son and his children and grandchildren are complicated.

Especially Hua Dang, he didn't expect that his provocation against Daming would lead to such a big revenge from Daming, leaving almost no living Tatars in the entire southern steppe, and causing him to have to migrate with his tribe to colder and more northerly places in the wind and snow.

Zhu Houzhao came to Yingchang, here, he can already smell the smell of blood in every corner of the grassland, he doesn't know if he is doing it right, but he knows that he can only do it now, he is the same as the Ming officials of this era, it is not that he has not thought of getting along with these Tatar nobles and exchanging trade.

But.

The Tatar aristocracy does not seem to have changed their thinking, does not seem to realize the benefits of trade, and regards the trade of the Ming Dynasty as the cowardice of the Ming Dynasty, and even covets the wealth of the Ming Dynasty because of the openness of the Ming Dynasty, still advocating plunder and slaughter, and still trying to seize profits by violent and barbaric means.

Zhu Houzhao can only use the most admired means of the Tatars to deal with the Tatars, that is, no one is left!

There is no way, because Zhu Houzhao knows that if Da Ming is not so powerful, these Tartars who don't treat people as human beings will not be too polite to the people of Da Ming, and will even be even more cruel.

For barbarians who only want to kill, civilization can only be rebuilt by destroying them by brutal means.

Looking at the leaders of several Tatar tribes who had not been wiped out because they were still attached to the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao just smiled faintly, he believed that these leaders should be able to understand the fate of angering the Ming Dynasty after smelling the smell of blood on the grassland.

Zhu Houzhao knew that it was impossible to wipe out all the Tatars in the entire steppe with muskets, and that it was not enough to rely on violence to make a race disappear, but to use other means, such as forcing them to move to the wilderness, or forcing them to accept the assimilation of their own mainstream culture.

Huadang, these Tatars who fled to the north, Zhu Houzhao knew that it would be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to eliminate them for a while, so he could only slowly extend the wire mesh and the city to the north, and encroach on the living space of Huadang step by step, but maybe when the Ming Dynasty built the city to the coast of today's Arctic Ocean, Huadang had already died in the severe cold.

However, for the Tatar tribe and the female tribe who are now attached to his Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao does not want to make them better.

Because, although these tribes have been attached to the Ming Dynasty, and now they have helped the Ming Dynasty kill many Tatars, and they are even three points more ruthless than the Ming army, but this does not mean that these people will not betray the Ming Dynasty in the future and will not become a time bomb.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao decided to forcibly relocate these Tatar tribes and female tribes that belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and forcibly migrated to the Americas, the Ming New World, that is, Australia, and let them deal with the local aborigines and Western colonizers.

The leader of the Dorote Department, Jiabao, didn't expect that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty would make himself an earl, he knew how rare a title it was in the Earl of the Ming Dynasty, and what he didn't expect was that the Ming Emperor still had his own fief, which made Jiabao even more happy, as a small tribe that originally belonged to the Tumut Department, his fief can be said to be almost none, and now the emperor can give him a fief, he is naturally very happy, and can't help asking: "Dare to ask His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, where is the fief of the minister?" ”

"Kanzhou is in the south and needs to take a boat", at this time, Zhu Houzhao said.

Jiabao was even happier when he heard this, thinking that the south has always been very suitable for living, there is no cold winter, there is endless fish and meat, and there are endless clothes to wear, so this Jiabao is busy kowtowing to Zhu Houzhao to thank him.

However, three months later, when Jiabao and more than 10,000 of his tribes sat on a big boat and went to sea from Tianjin Wei for forty or fifty days, he began to feel bad, and realized that he seemed to have been deceived by the Ming Emperor, and the so-called south should not be the south he imagined, so he couldn't help but find Qi Chong, the Ming official who was responsible for escorting the Dorote Department to migrate to Kanzhou: "Lord Qi, you are lying to us, you are trying to trick us into starvation and drowning on this sea, we want to go back, we want to go back to the grassland!" ”