Chapter 43 Out of the Great Wall in the North, the Mongol Army Robbed the Camp

After reading the telegram, Ningde said, "Hehe! The soldiers and horses of the Dashun army reacted quickly enough. It only took half a day for them to arrive. ”

Meng Si'er continued to lead Ningde towards the city, and said, "In order to prevent the Mongols, the defenders here have a set of countermeasures. The defenders here are worried about the Mongols every day, otherwise they will suffer a big loss. It is estimated that I heard that something happened to the castle, and the soldiers and horses from Lingzhou and the soldiers and horses from various piers came behind. Soon, the soldiers and horses of Ningxia Zhongwei and Ningxia Rear Guard can also arrive. But their spears, bows and arrows don't mean much. After a while, tell the brothers to be merciful when they kill, we need a large number of prisoners, and this pass is already sparsely populated. ”

"Yes! Mr. Zhang has repeatedly said that people are also wealth. Ningde said, "The whole Ming Dynasty is worried about more people and less food, and we are not afraid of many people in the kiln, when I came out, Mr. Zhang talked to me once and said a lot." He said that this Ningxia Mansion is outside the south of the Yangtze River, and we must run it well. ”

"I've heard before that there are five treasures here: red, yellow, blue, white, and black, and I found out when I came here that these treasures here are simply too cheap, and it would be nice if we could build the railroad here." Meng Si'er said.

"Don't say it, maybe one day, Mr. Zhang will repair the railway as soon as he is happy. Let's catch more prisoners this time, and it will be easy to deal with people. Ningde said, "I have long heard that the wolfberry, licorice, Helan stone, Tan sheepskin, and hair cabbage here are famous all over the world, but it is inconvenient to transport them out. ”

"The shop we bought here will be handed over to Mr. Lu and them in the future." Meng Si'er said, "It's true that we catch more prisoners." ”

At this time, Meng Si'er suddenly asked, "Hey? General Ning, aren't you going to be General Li Kui as the deputy commander-in-chief? Why didn't you see anyone? ”

Ning De said that the female soldier was robbed, and then said: "Fortunately, they caught up with people yesterday, otherwise my old face would be lost." I guess they'll be back today. We'll trim the day, leave some of the men behind, and the rest of the men will have to divide up here. ”

Kiln Gang, Command Center.

Zhang Zhimu received the robbery of the female soldiers sent by Ningde, and his heart was blocked. It has not been easy for those female soldiers to survive until now, and now that something has happened again, I am really sorry for them. Yan Boju and Lu Chengxiang were also very heavy after reading the telegram.

Yan Boju suddenly said, "Zhimu, this is a good thing!" We are worried that there is no reason to send troops to Ordos. Send a report to Li Yan and them immediately. ”

When Zhang Zhimu heard this, he also felt that it made sense, and immediately sent the news that the Mongols had raided our army on the Western Road, slashed and killed many of our soldiers, and robbed many female soldiers.

Li Yan and Zhou Yuji waited for Liu Yun and their team to cross the Yellow River, and then led the team to cross the Yellow River. After crossing the river, they did not rush to the north, but walked along the Great Wall with Liu Yun and them for a few days, commanding the staff to take over the various piers and castles of the Great Wall. It wasn't until Liu Yun and Liu Chenghuang divided their troops that they crossed the Great Wall and headed north. According to Zhou Yuji's understanding of the distribution of the Mongol settlements in Ordos, they started from the Great Wall in the east and went all the way to the north. Because they crossed the Great Wall, they never looked at the Han people as human beings. These actions greatly stimulated the Mongols, they have always considered themselves heroes on the steppe, it was our Mongols who went to your Han land to rob, and your court was defeated several times when they came to conquer, how can you tolerate the Han people coming to spread wild. The small tribes organized a lot of resistance, but the Mongol cavalry rushed in front of the Yaogang cavalry like eggs hitting stones.

A relatively large-scale battle took place between the Mu Us Desert and the Ordos Plateau.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1635 AD), all households in Ordos returned to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. But because they were afraid that one day the Manchus would settle their old accounts with the Chahars to attack the Manchus, they had been hooking up with Li Zicheng's Dashun. It's just that now I feel that after Li Zicheng came back from the defeat in Shanxi, his vitality was greatly damaged, and now the Yaogang people attacked them along the Yellow River. Ordos Wanhu felt that he should also take the opportunity to cross the Great Wall and make a profit. In particular, Tanma came back and reported that the Han people had not "picked up sand" in the past two years, and they could cross the Great Wall on horseback. Ordos Wanhu felt that this was immortality, and God blessed them to make a fortune. So they concentrated more than 10,000 cavalry and prepared for a big operation. Their goal was the Great Wall in the Jingbian camp.

In fact, "sand picking" is an indispensable task to maintain the defense function of the Great Wall. Because of the wind and sand of the Mu Us Desert, it blows towards the Great Wall every year. Outside the Great Wall, they were slowly piled up, and if they were not cleared, the Mongols came on horseback. Therefore, the Great Wall's "sand picking" is also a very heavy burden, and now Li Zicheng is so hurt that he can't even take care of "sand picking". Therefore, Ordos Wanhu felt that the opportunity had come.

But just as they had gathered their men and horses, they had not yet set off. There is a fast Malay newspaper, saying that a large number of Han people have crossed the Great Wall to Ordos, and this news has not made the nose of Ordos Wanhu crooked. But he is angry, Wanhu is not a fool, he doesn't know what the Han people are going to do, and he won't act. Because the team of Han people he sent to follow was along the Yellow River to Ningxia, and he had no intention of attacking himself at all. If the Yaogang people came from Dongshengzhou and Baotou, wouldn't it be better to attack the fertile places of the grassland? What did they do across the desert? didn't figure out the situation, and Ordos Wanhu didn't dare to act easily.

However, small tribes kept sending people to report that they had been driven from their pastures and that those who did not leave had been killed. Now that Wanhu is gone, he thought to himself that although you Yaogang people are very powerful, our Mongolian iron horsemen are not vegetarians. You can beat away the fools of the Chahars, and today I will show you what the real Mongol Iron Rider is. In fact, Wanhu has no choice, they can't stand up to being driven out of Ordos. If you don't work hard, you can't do it.

Li Yan and Zhou Yuji led the team to a lake and began to set up camp, and the camp was set up on the east side of the lake.

Li Yan said to Zhou Yuji: "We haven't seen the Mongols for two days, and there are traces of them moving away on the grassland, which means that they already know that we are coming." ”

"Huh! It seems that the Mongols are going to make a move. Don't look at them one by one, they seem to be very warlike, but they are actually very ghostly. I reckon that our actions have long angered them. It is best for them to be gathered, so that we may not chase them all over the grassland, like rabbits. Zhou Yuji said, "But we have to be prepared tonight, they didn't go out last night, and it's more likely that they will come today." We have to be on guard these days. ”

"Let Li Jing's special forces make some arrangements on the periphery, so that we don't know if we are sneak attacked. We still try to meet them during the day, so that we can use our firepower advantage better. Li Yan said.

"Actually, you didn't see our flares, and with that thing, fighting is no different than during the day. It's so bright! Zhou Yuji said.

"Huh! I've heard about that thing, too, and I haven't had time to look at it, so are you going to show me a show tonight? Li Yan said with a smile.

"We are already in the hinterland of Ordos, and the Mongol cavalry will not let us stop like this." Zhou Yuji said, "We have set up machine gun emplacements around the camp. Mortar flares are also prepared, so that if something happens, you can react quickly. ”

Because Li Yan and his team set up a temporary camp, they had to be demolished every day to continue marching, so the camp could not be as perfect as the permanent camp. For the sake of safety, I had to arrange a lot of troops on duty. Especially Li Jing, their special forces can't rest.

The special forces who followed Li Yan and them were also a squadron, and after riding around the periphery of the camp on horseback, they began to lay mines on some major roads. For the sake of safety, they arrange special forces to camouflage and lurk in some key minefields**.

Zhou Yuji's cavalry was also on the trees by the lake, connected with ropes, and made tripping horses.

Night raids were also a common tactic used by the Mongols, who often took advantage of their cavalry to raid their opponents' camps, slash and loot if they could, and then leave without hand.

Erdos Wanhu has been determined for a long time, and he has been sending people to follow the Yaogang people from afar in the past few days, and they have also calculated that according to the distance, the Yaogang people will definitely camp by this lake. Because the kiln people cross the desert, they will definitely be tired and need to rest. Ahead is the Ordos Plateau, where the grasslands are fertile, and there are so many Mongols that they can no longer let the Han people advance.

After thorough preparations, there are more than 10,000 Mongols today, ready to strike a fatal blow at the camp of the Yaogang people. Their plan was to attack inside from three sides of the camp at the same time. Because one side of the camp is near the lake, there is nowhere for the Yaogang people to escape.

After a while, the Mongols had not moved, and many people thought that the Mongols would not come. However, Li Jing's special forces knew that the most dangerous time had come, because this time was the time when people were most sleepy and had the lowest vigilance, and the sneak attackers were willing to dispatch at this time.

Sure enough, the leader of the special forces squadron received a signal from the radio station of the special forces in the distance, and then the Mongols were found in several directions. The leader of the special forces squadron immediately notified Li Yan and Zhou Yuji.

Zhou Yuji said: "It's great to have a radio station. The news spread quickly, and it was silent. ”

Li Yan said: "Let's start preparing according to our arrangement." Just don't let the Mongols in, and we won't attack before dawn. ”

Since none of Zhou Yuji's cavalry had rifles, and only some of them had muskets, Li Yan arranged them all inside the camp. The cavalry of the kiln gang did not bring horses, and soon arrived in their respective positions according to the plan.

The Mongols were very experienced, and they sent small groups of cavalry to come and scout first. The special forces were well aware of the Mongol tactics, and they let these small groups of cavalry in and out of the reconnaissance, ignoring them. Because the ** array arranged is manually controlled. When the Mongolian soldiers of the brigade were assembled outside the camp, the special forces had to admire the Mongols. There were so many cavalrymen, not a single person spoke, not a single horse barked. The cavalry of the black girl was silently huddled together, waiting to charge together.

When the eastern sky was a little clear, the Mongols began to attack, and they rode fast along the scouted road.

As soon as the attack from the north passed all the way to the mound, the road ahead was suddenly blocked by a fallen tree, and when it passed here, the speed was slower, and the team behind it was piled up. At this time, a thousand households who commanded this road found that something was wrong here, and if they were gathered like this, the attack speed would not be raised, and it would also affect the other two roads. Just when he wanted to see what was affecting the advance, the special forces pressed ***, only to hear a few explosions, and a few black guys exploded from the feet of the cavalry, and the cavalry didn't understand what was going on. The explosions that flew over their heads "boomed", throwing thousands of prefabricated debris and steel balls at them. This is a special forces set up a bureau here, and when the Mongol soldiers are blocked and gathered together, they will detonate the anti-infantry ** and let them taste the taste of the heavenly maiden scattering flowers.

This anti-infantry ** is too powerful. After each ** explosion, the Mongol cavalry within a radius of more than 30 meters will be either killed or injured. With the explosion of ** here, the ** around also began to sound.

Originally, the secret sneak attack seemed to be unsuccessful, and the Mongol soldiers wanted to take advantage of the dawn to break in.

In the dark of night, the sound of horses' hooves and the shouts of Mongolian soldiers outside the camp were heard. A large group of Mongolian cavalry rushed towards the camp like a sea of mountains. They couldn't see the target in the camp clearly, and when they sensed that they could reach the range of their bows and arrows, they shot arrows at the camp. But suddenly there was a "thump" sound from inside the camp, and then a blinding light lit up the sky around the camp, which illuminated the Mongol cavalry below and the ground beneath their feet. At this time, the camp was already waiting for the kiln cavalry to open fire. Light and heavy machine guns and automatic rifles turned the Mongol cavalry on their backs, one by one, exposed to the light of the flares. However, the time for a flare to be lit was too short, and once the flare was extinguished, the Mongols came back to their spirits and rushed forward. But soon another flare rose into the air. The accuracy of the kilnman's shooting immediately improved.

In this way, flares continued to rise into the air, and the Mongol cavalry was constantly dismounted, and few people could approach the camp. A few cavalrymen wanted to rush over from the woods to take advantage, but they didn't know that under the trees were triphorses and **. The Mongol cavalry, which had suffered a great loss, finally retreated before dawn.

At dawn, as soon as they were counted, this time the Mongols left more than a thousand corpses.

After the battle, everyone didn't sleep well, Li Yan and Zhou Yuji discussed, and they rested here for a day. Everyone started to cook horse meat in a big pot by the lake, and had a good rest for the day. But at this time, Yaogang sent the news that Ningde and their female soldiers had been kidnapped.

After reading the telegram, Li Yan handed the telegram to Zhou Yuji and said, "Lord General Soldier, we have a reason to send troops to Ordos. ”

Zhou Yuji took the telegram and read it, and said, "General Ningde was a little careless, and the person who played with the eagle made the eagle smack his eyes." But it's a bit far-fetched to say that this reason is the reason why we sent troops! We are in the front, and they are robbing people behind? ”

"It's not far-fetched, there's no reason to find a reason. Besides, we have a reason. Li Yan smiled and said, "History is written by the victors, and we will write it in the future." We are raising troops to avenge the anger of the female soldiers! ”

"Huh! You literati are the worst, and black can be said to be white. Zhou Yuji and Li Yan joked.

Unexpectedly, in the afternoon, Ordos Wanhu sent someone to come.

The envoys of Wanhu were a group of more than a dozen people, and they also brought Chinese interpreters. Two of them wore glasses, and at first glance they were Mongolian cultural people.

The envoy is still aggressive, and has the meaning of asking the teacher to ask for sin. They came and asked to see the Han Chinese supreme governor.

Li Yan received them very politely in front of the big tent by the lake. Li Yan asked them to sit down in front of the table in front of the tent, and then asked someone to serve them tea. After taking a big sip of tea, the visitor muttered a string of words.

The interpreter hurriedly said: "We, the Lord of Qianhu, were sent by our Wanhu in Ordos to ask why you invaded Ordos, where our ancestors had lived for generations, why did you drive our brothers away, and slaughtered our Mongolian brothers?" ”

Li Yan drank the tea slowly, and said lightly: "Ordos is not the place where your ancestors have lived for generations, the earliest place was the place of Western Xia, and Western Xia was beaten away by you Mongols, so you came here." Later, you were expelled from here by our Han people, but the strength of the Ming Dynasty was not good, so you squeezed back again. The Ming Dynasty tried to drive you back several times, but it didn't work. I'll let you stay here. But you don't have a good time here, and you often cross the Great Wall to burn, kill, and loot. We Han people have no choice but to build such a long Great Wall to stop you. We don't want to fight you, but you attacked our team and snatched our female soldiers. We can't help but come out and teach you a lesson, let you live like civilized people, and let you understand that it is shameful to rob other things, and you have to pay them back. ”

After translating Li Yan's words, these Mongolians quit, and the two cultural people danced excitedly and shouted. The translator is not easy to translate what they are saying, Li Yan just heard that this is the land of their ancestors for generations, Genghis Khan is buried here, and they will defend every inch of land here to the death, and so on.

After listening to their words, seeing that they didn't say anything, Zhou Yuji smiled and said, "Are you still embarrassed to mention Genghis Khan?" When you surrender to the Manchus, you have betrayed yourself to the Manchus and betrayed Genghis Khan. If I had hanged yourselves. To tell you the truth, this time we are here to take revenge, and you must release our female soldiers back immediately! Otherwise, we will level Ordos and drive you out of here! ”

After the translator translated Zhou Yuji's words, the Mongols were like a frying pan. Some say that they surrendered to the Manchus to protect their ancestral lands from being violated and to protect Genghis Khan's mausoleum from being harassed. Others said that they had not seen any Han female soldiers at all.

Li Yan stopped their shouting and said, "Right on the edge of the Yellow River, you hacked to death more than 20 of our male and female soldiers and robbed more than a dozen. In this matter, go back and tell the prince of Wanhu, you must give us an explanation. Otherwise we wouldn't have stopped! ”

At this time, the envoy of Qianhu, who had not spoken, said: "I understand, the excuse for your attack on our Ordos this time is that our people attacked and kidnapped your female soldiers. I can tell you that it's impossible. You have entered Ordos from the north of the Yellow River, and we have been sending people to follow you, but Wanhu has commanded that if you don't provoke us, we will never provoke you. Our people will never attack you. ”

"I advise you to go back and hurry up and let you Wanhu implement this matter, it is useless to deny it here. Otherwise, we wouldn't be here! Li Yan still said slowly.

"No matter what excuse you have, we will not forgive you for violating our territory." A Mongolian said.

"Did you just finish the defeat in the morning, and you felt uncomfortable, and you wanted to get some honor back from your mouth?" Zhou Yuji asked with a smile.

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