Text Volume 3 Road to Empire_Chapter 211 Raid
The Eastern Route Army led by Du Du arrived on the afternoon of the 25th, and although Du Du persuaded his colleagues, he still kept an eye on it and did not launch an attack that night. Because under the cover of night, although the movements of the attackers can be hidden, it is difficult to see the results of the battle.
Rather than worrying that the Mongols would be discovered in advance during the attack, Dudu was more worried that those half-hearted companions would not follow. Although the Mongols seem to have only just begun to gather their troops, it may not be possible for the 200 men he led to defeat them all at once.
It was Du Du who chose to start the attack at dawn, and in order to shorten the distance of the attack, Du Du disguised his group as a tribe that had responded to the call.
Although it was camouflage, it was strange that there was no large group of people carrying livestock at this time. Not to mention, although Du Du asked his subordinates to put Mongol robes over cotton armor, as long as someone got closer, they could find that they were actually an army.
But fortunately, the sky is dark today, and even the morning light is extremely hazy, making it difficult to see the figures in the distance. Dudu, who was at the front of the line, nervously calculated the position of the Great Tent, and the dim light not only obscured them, but also the location of the Great Tent of the Mongols. Therefore, he can only judge his position based on the terrain he observed with his telescope yesterday afternoon.
Du Du's preoccupation made him completely unable to feel the cold of today's weather. In fact, the weather is almost the day when the water turns to ice. If it weren't for the fact that these Jurchens were familiar with fighting in such cold weather, and their cold protection measures were excellent, I am afraid that they would have lost a small half of their combat effectiveness before the war began.
But the cold weather also has the advantage of being so cold, and that's that as they move forward, few people want to run out to check it out. So their team arrived at the place where Du Du wanted to attack without any danger, although he still couldn't see the outline of the big tent in the distance, but Du Du was almost sure that this place would not be more than 4 miles away from the big tent in Subudi.
When he was about to give orders to his subordinates, he felt a chill on his face, and he suddenly looked up at the sky, and saw that the sparse snowflakes were slowly falling. Seeing this scene, he was not surprised, at this time, the rear team had almost no choice but to step forward and work hard.
Du Du lowered his head and said to the subordinates behind him: "Brothers, in the future, whether we eat dry or thin in Daming depends on today." As long as we rush into the big tent and capture Subudi and Seleng, we will have a complete merit on this expedition. Are you willing to take a risk with me? ”
Those who can be selected by Du Du to join the first team are either cronies who followed Du Du to Mingguo, or some people who are unwilling to be lonely. They had already followed Du Du to the outside of the big tent in Subudi, and they were not discovered, so how could they give up at this moment. Therefore, Du Du's question was answered in a low but firm manner.
After receiving the affirmation of his subordinates, Du Du immediately gave orders. Dudu's men and horses were in the west, and the Great Tent of Subudi was in the northeast, on a high ground near the river. Although the Great Horde of Subudi was chosen on the high ground near the river, the terrain here is high in the west and low in the south, which means that the location of Dudu is still higher than the position of the Great Horde.
Du Du quickly divided his men into four groups, and he himself led 60 men to attack the Great Tent along the river bank to the north, and after encountering the Mongol camp, he attacked from northwest to southeast.
The second group of 60 men walked from their present position to the tent, and after seeing the camp, they passed through the camp from southwest to northeast. The third and fourth teams were 40 people each, and they followed closely behind the second team. When the second team attacked, the third team dismounted and fired, continuing to create chaos in the camp and prevent the Mongols from ralliing. The fourth team was responsible for protecting the third team from attack and encircling those who wanted to break away from the camp.
After assigning the task, Du Du looked up at the sky again, looking at the snowflakes that were slowly gathering in the air, he couldn't help but roar and said: "If there is no problem, then each of them will obey the order, and those who dare to disobey the order will be afraid of the former, and the officer of the team leader can immediately behead him..."
When Seleng was pulled out of the hot bed by his subordinates, he didn't realize what the hoarse crying outside meant. It wasn't until he was helped out of the tent, and the biting cold crept through the cracks in his untidy robes, that he shivered and came to his senses.
The murmur that used to buzz in his ears has finally become an intelligible human voice, "... Selentabu, we've been attacked, and the Subuta Bun isn't here, so you'll have to come up with an idea. Shall we fight or go..."
"That's enough, shut up." The seemingly old Seleng finally straightened his waist and yelled at the panicked subordinates beside him. After drinking his subordinates, he began to listen carefully with a frown. Unfortunately, apart from the shouts of his own people, the collapse of the tent as it was constantly pulled down, the sound of sharp arrows tearing through the air, and the sound of horses' hooves everywhere, he never heard any useful information.
Unable to determine the number of enemies and the direction of attack, Selen finally gave up listening, and began to give orders to his subordinates, asking them to gather their men and gather them here, send people to gather nearby tribes to help, and connect the surrounding tents to form a circular barrier to prevent the enemy's cavalry from raiding here.
Although there was nothing wrong with Selen's response, it was only a scattered tribal camp in itself, and there was no obstacle for these herders to fight against the cavalry that had formed a battle formation. Although there were nearly 1,000 people in the camp, Du Du was unable to suppress the herdsmen who wanted to rally to resist.
But with the arrival of Dudu's follow-up troops, after being crushed several times to rally resistance, the herdsmen in the camp finally began to scatter and flee. Although the snow in the sky was getting heavier and heavier at this time, and there might not be any way to escape to the camp, many herdsmen were still frightened by the butcher's knives behind them, and rushed towards the vast grassland outside regardless of it.
The men who had been reserved outside the camp by Du Du, and the third group that arrived, soon became a nightmare for these fugitives. With the exception of a handful who were able to grab a horse, most of the fleeing herders were running on their feet. Chasing these fugitive herders on horseback is as simple as hunting a herd of deer in the grasslands.
After Du Du's Eight Banners of Loyalty and Righteousness left corpses on the outskirts of the camp with bows and arrows and sabers, the remaining Karaqin herdsmen finally surrendered on their knees. And relying on the tent resistance, expecting some miracle to happen, the leaders of the Seleng and other tribes also dropped their weapons one after another after Du Du broke through the outer defense line.
During the battle, Du Du defeated the tribes of Subudi and Seleng with 600 men, and captured more than 1,100 Mongols and more than 70,000 livestock. Subudi was not outside the camp because he was summoned by Yue Tuo, and the leaders of the Karaqin tribe such as Seleng were captured by Du Du.
In the next few days, Du Du continued to divide his troops and swept away the nearby tribes, once again capturing more than 2,400 people and more than 90,000 livestock. After hearing the news, the Karaqin tribes from farther away abandoned their wintering pastures with their families and crossed the Great Wall of Liaodong into Yizhou to escape the attack of the army led by Du Du.
As a result, the Karaqin first section that took refuge in Houjin last year is now completely incomparable with the same clan that took refuge in the Ming Dynasty. Although he failed to capture Subudi, Du Du thought that the Karaqin Department, which was now heavily damaged, could no longer provide Houjin with a springboard for attacking Daming.
While stationed in the wintering camp of the Subudi tribe, Du Du sent a telegram to the Central Route Army, and issued an order to the follow-up troops of the Eastern Route Army, asking them to come and join him as soon as possible, and to escort the population and livestock back.
The first battle broke the camp of the Subudi tribe, and suddenly Du Du's reputation in the Eastern Route Army soared. The Eight Banners of Loyalty, which were originally a little lacking in confidence, also regained some self-confidence through this war and recovered a bit of the demeanor of a strong army.
However, this victory did not make Du Du complacent, and he was satisfied. After defeating the large camp of the Karaqin tribe, the news of the Later Jin's attack on the Ningjin region of Liaoxi began to spread to him in a steady stream.
Although the news in Du Du's hand was not enough for him to piece together the situation of the entire battlefield, he was still able to piece together the situation of the Ming army from these news.
While waiting for the follow-up troops of the Eastern Route Army to arrive in the camp, Du Du had been studying the map of western Liaoning, as if he still wanted to use his meager forces to intervene between the Houjin army and the Ming army in western Liaoning.
In Zhangjiakou, although Zhu Youzhen and Yuan Chonghuan talked for most of the night, forcing the great governor of Fengda, who was so happy, to put away his thoughts. But Zhu Youzhen still didn't believe that Yuan Chonghuan was easily persuaded by himself, so he simply kept Yuan Chonghuan and let him accompany Liu Jingting to negotiate with those Mongolian Taiji.
Since Zhu Youzhen did not participate in the specific negotiations, Lin Danhan was naturally unwilling to surrender his identity, so a strange situation appeared in Zhangjiakou. The Mongolian Taiji and the officials of the Ming Dynasty quarreled in the venue every day, while Zhu Youzhen, Lin Dan Khan, and Zhuketu traveled all day long, and held banquets and entertained each other, as if they had nothing to do with this alliance.
Although the Mongolian nobles and the upright Mongolian people seem to be two species, but when it comes to the ability to play word games and negotiate, these Mongolian Taiji and Nayan are still inferior to the Ming officials. And Liu Jingting, who had been prepared for a long time, first threw out the content of an agreement during the negotiations, so that the Taiji, who had no preparations, were caught off guard and finally negotiated on the basis of this agreement.
Only five days later, a letter of association jointly advocated by the Ming Dynasty, the Chahar Ministry, and the Trans-Khalkha Ministry was freshly released. Most of the content of this alliance came from the joint development agreement signed between the Ming Dynasty and the right-wing Mongolian tribes. The only difference is that this alliance confirms that the Ming and Mongolian tribes are within the framework of one China, and if anyone in the Ming Dynasty or Mongolia opposes this consensus, it will be regarded as a challenge to the Ming Dynasty, the Chahar Ministry, and the Trans-Khalkha Ministry, and will be attacked by the three parties.
In addition, if an enemy outside China attacked the Mongol tribes or the Ming Dynasty, it would be seen as a challenge to the whole of China, and the allies should support each other and assist in the fight against the enemy.
The Ming Dynasty and the Chahar Ministry also signed a separate clause, stating that they would jointly deal with Houjin, and that neither side could make peace with Houjin alone until Houjin completely withdrew from the encroachment on the land of both sides. There was also a separate clause for the Chahar and Trans-Khalkha tribes, and the enemies that both sides dealt with were the Oirat Mongols and the Yellow Sect.
Zhu Youzhen, Lin Dan Khan, and Zhu Ketu were basically satisfied with this alliance letter, but when they signed the alliance book, Zhu Youzhen made two suggestions to the two, one was to suggest that he should be canonized as a Khan, so that his status in the alliance book would not be much lower than that of himself and Lin Dan Khan; The other is that the three of them jointly issued a statement condemning the atrocities that Houjin has been waging war for years.
Lin Dan Khan was a little reluctant to give the title to Qiuketu, but Qiuketu got up as soon as possible to thank Chongzhen, which made it difficult for him to stop him from exiting again. As for condemning Houjin, the two felt that it didn't matter, after all, the grassland only believed in force and not words.
So when the snowflakes floated over Zhangjiakou, the alliance of the Mongolian tribes such as the Ming Dynasty and the Chahar Department was successfully completed. At the same time, a statement by the Ming Dynasty and the Mongol tribes condemning the atrocities of the Houjin War also spread from Zhangjiakou to the world.