A sentence of going home made the tall and burly Liaodong man cry silently. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The nightmares, despair, and grievances of half a year were released at once.

The cavalry veterans of the Ironwood Battalion watched silently, and they knew what it meant to be starved for three months.

In Lord Lidel's instructions, there was not a single word mentioning that these Liaodong men were enemies or prisoners, but they only said that they were worthy of the villagers and elders, and now they would take them home.

The cavalrymen who were originally guarding the prisoners collected their weapons and handed over water bladders, pot helmets and milk bumps, but they were suddenly hugged and cried by several Liaodong men.

After crying enough, a Liaodong soldier stood up, walked up to Mo Rigen, and learned the name of the iron and wood cavalry: "Old man, dare to ask how to call it, the little one has a military report." ”

Mo Rigen was a little dizzy, and opened his mouth to the flag soldiers beside him, "You repeat, what is my identity now?" ”

The bannerman replied in a loud voice: "The guerrilla generals of the second battalion of the left flank of Altan Ulus and Shengtumen." ”

The old man didn't understand this nondescript and unreasonable sudden appointment of 10,000 at the headquarters, but he still accepted it, "I'm the guerrilla general of the second battalion of the left wing of Altan Ulus and Shengtumen, what military information do you want to tell me?" ”

Liaodong soldiers resolutely clenched their fists: "General Mo, on the island in the middle of the river one mile downstream here, Azig arranged another team of bird guns, and yesterday evening also brought a tiger squat cannon, which was intended to block the Yellow River, and the small ones were willing to persuade them to surrender." ”

Mo Rigen sighed, "How sure are you?" ”

Liaodong soldiers said: "The gunners and bird gunners are the defenders of the original Daling River in Liaozhen, and only the leader is the old man of the Jin Guohan military banner, at least ninety percent sure." ”

Mo Zhigen agreed, "After the raft is tied, it will be used for you first, remember, it is not to persuade them to surrender, it is to take them home, and they will go to stay free." ”

The Liaodong soldier picked a companion, and the two borrowed two sabers and two daggers, and set off as soon as the sheepskin raft fell into the water.

The time to leave was really long, and Mo Rigen was about to be suspicious, when a cannon rang downstream.

After a while, the raft returned, and in addition to the original two Liaodong soldiers, the raft was crowded with three new companions and a small cannon.

"We killed the guy from the Jin Guohan Army Banner and smashed the Jin Guo raft that came to deliver food. Afraid that General Mo would wait for a long time, he specially pulled back the tiger squat cannon first, and then went to pull the other brothers home. ”

The small sheepskin raft ran a few times, and the firepower point in the center of the river carefully arranged by Aixin Jinguo was easily and completely removed.

The shrewd Huang Taiji thought that it would never go wrong to attack the Chahar people with the newly surrendered Liaodong Han people, but he never expected that the Liaodong Han people would actually meet their fellow villagers on the distant prairie, and the Liaodong Han people would all fall against each other with the phrase "go home".

The only sheepskin raft was rushed upstream.

The small island in the Yellow River here is densely packed with more than 100 people.

Because the professional communication soldiers of the scout team stayed at the observation post on the top of the mountain, the remaining scouts were half-witted about communication, so what happened to these more than 100 people, and what happened to the scout team in the past two days, Mo Rigen and the others were confused.

Morrigan, Battle, and the cavalry commander were the first to land on the island on a sheepskin raft.

Ga Li Guang, who was covered in the smell of gunpowder, knew Battle and the cavalry commander, but he didn't know Mo Rigen.

Battle introduced Ga-Li: "Altan Ulus and the guerrilla general of the second battalion of the left wing of Shengtumen, Mozhigen. ”

Ga Li Guang only understood the words "guerrilla general of the second battalion of the left wing", and although he was puzzled, he still hugged his fists, "I've seen the general." ”

Battle then introduced Ga Li Guang to Mozhigen, "This is ......"

Ga Li Guang grabbed the conversation: "In the Ming Dynasty, Li Guang, the captain of Zhaoxin in Shaanxi Town, one hundred households." ”

Battle was completely lost, "Ga Li Guang, you are ......"

Ga Li Guang didn't allow him to say much at all, "The military situation is urgent, and I estimate that the Aixin Jin Kingdom will attack the island after the war." We have run out of ammunition and food, dare to ask the general if he has brought gunpowder to eat, can he help our army? ”

Mo Rigen politely replied, "Captain Li, we have gunpowder and food, and our department has also captured some bird guns and a tiger squat cannon, if Captain Li needs it, you can give it to your department." ”

Lieutenant Li Guang replied repeatedly, "Yes, yes, it's so needed!" ”

There are many people on the island, and although the two sides have doubts about each other, they are no longer entangled in this matter.

Except for the scouts who claimed to be the Ming Army of Shaanxi Town, the rest of the island were ordinary people.

Many people heard the conversation between Mo Rigen and Ga Li Guang, and excitedly surrounded Mo Rigen and patted their chests: "Altan Ulus! Altan Ulus! Tumut! Tumut! ”

Altan, the Mongolian word for gold, is also the name of Altan Khan.

Ulus, a Mongolian-speaking country.

Altan Ulus, together is the Kingdom of Gold!

Hesheng, Mongolian highland.

Tumen, 10,000 Mongolian.

And Sheng Tumen, connected is Hesheng Wanhu.

Tumut, the plural of the Mongolian Tumen.

In its heyday, there were 120,000 troops in the Altankin Kingdom, so the people under the rule of the Altankin Kingdom were called the Twelve Tumuts.

The old man suddenly understood the meaning of this inexplicable sudden appointment to the headquarters.

The first to be withdrawn with the sheepskin raft were the cavalry commander and three seriously wounded.

Captain Li Guang especially told the most seriously wounded to be taken care of were already half dead and there was not a single intact place on their bodies.

Captain Li Guang said that the wounded man was a pig from the Loving Country.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention, Captain Wu spat fiercely in the wounded man's face when he crossed the river,

"Phew! A good person is not right, but he wants to be a pig! ”

Wu Chang crossed the river and came back to collect gunpowder, bird guns and artillery from the Liaodong soldiers.

The Liaodong soldiers who "went home" were sitting cross-legged and gathering to discuss whether to stay in Langshan River or return to the Ming Dynasty.

They had no doubt that the leader of the army in front of them was a typical Mongol.

Because Liaodong Tieqi himself is a mixed army of Han Chinese and Mongols.

Five years ago, the first steppe war, 100,000 Mongolian fugitives poured into Liaodong, was placed outside the Guanwai by the imperial court, Zu Dashou recruited a large number of Ding Zhuang from it, and even directly had two battalions of 3,000 people, from the soldiers to the leader are Mongolians, directly under the command of the ancestral army, it is the main force in the main force of the Guanning army, known as the "left and right battalions of the surrender".

When the commander came to "borrow" the gunpowder bird, the Liaodong soldiers heard that there was a clear-cut Shaanxi town soldier and horse nearby, and an old Liaodong soldier stood up:

"I waited for the love of the new country, and it was difficult to escape the death penalty when I returned to the Ming Dynasty. It's better to go to Shaanxi Town, make meritorious atonements, and one day reunite with your family! ”

Immediately, half of the Liaodong soldiers corresponded, and they had no other thoughts now, just two words: go home.

Half of the Liaodong soldiers who disagreed: "We have had enough, we will never be soldiers again in this life." You can take the gunpowder weapons, and we can fill you with gunpowder and sharpen your knives in the rear, but you don't want to fight again. ”

The cavalry commander did not force them at all, and returned upstream with Liaodong soldiers who were willing to defect to the "Ming army" and a tiger squat cannon, and found that six or seven rafts of Aixinguo on the other side had been launched!

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References (Author's note: It has nothing to do with the plot, readers who are not interested can skip it)

The Mongols in the Liaodong Iron Cavalry

"Ming file" records, Chongzhen first year around March, there are about 100,000 Mongolian tribes to the Ming court, was placed in the vicinity of Jinzhou by the then Liaofu, Liaozhen generals recruited a large number of strong and warlike Yi people as family members, when Jinzhou general Zu Dashou directly reorganized part of the Mongols into the left and right battalions, with the Mongolian tribal leader as the general, became the elite army under the direct command of Zu Dashou, the number of about 3,000 people.

"The Later Collection of Shikui Books" records that in the second year of Chongzhen, the first entrance of Houjin was disturbed, "Yuan Chonghuan and Zu Dashou led more than 10,000 Mongolian Zhuangding to aid Jizhen." ”

In this battle, the Ming army outside the Desheng Gate was the Mangui Department (Mangui is the Mongols).

In this battle, when the Houjin army and Yuan Chonghuan's army confronted each other outside the Guangqu Gate, the Ming people "looked at the city", "saw the enemy soldiers and our soldiers laughing and talking, and the gamers came and went".

An officer of the Ming army commented on the Mongols in the Ming army: "I adopted Yiding (referring to the Mongols), saying that he was good at attacking and fighting, and he could capture the old people." I know that I refuse to cut and kill in battle, but I speak Yi language with slaves (referring to the Houjin people): I am a Yi person, Er Mo hurts me, I am harmless, somewhere is the southern soldier (indicating the army), so that the slave chief only attacks the southern soldier, and the Yi soldier escapes. ”

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, the general of the ancestral army Zu Kuan (Hu people) and Zu Dale led the troops to descend to the Yi family Ding into the customs to suppress bandits, the name of the ancestral army's good war spread in the pass, to the ninth year of Chongzhen, some people began to call the ancestral army led by Zu Dashou with the main force of the family with the family as the main force with "Guanning Iron Cavalry".