Chapter 95: Collaboration with the enemy and betrayal of the country
As for the gold and silver in the cottage, there must still be some of them, a total of more than 100,000 taels of silver, more than 10,000 taels of gold, and other jewelry and jade loaded with a four-wheeled carriage, and these belongings support the lives of nearly 20,000 people for most of the year without any problem.
Because there were too many people, and Yang Tingjian didn't carry too much grain and grass, that morning, Yang Tingjian asked the Red Lady's transport team to take these displaced people to Zhejiang.
The more than 600 soldiers and more than 50 four-wheeled carriages managed by the Red Lady all accompanied her, and the property seized from the cottage was also brought with her.
Don't underestimate the transporters led by the Red Lady, they are also armed with muskets and half-goth plate armor, and no bandit dares to attack them along the way.
Just when the red lady was about to set off with the convoy and the displaced people, a trivial incident happened that no one cared about.
A transport soldier in his twenties ran to Yang Tingjian and requested:
"My lord, Zhang San, who is lowly and has been studying martial arts diligently since he was a child, thinks that his skills are okay, so he asks to stay and follow the adults to make contributions on the battlefield."
Yang Tingjian saw that Zhang San's transport soldiers had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and his health was not bad, but this person spoke coldly, for such a trivial matter, Yang Tingjian nodded and agreed without thinking too much, because this person's martial arts skills were good, so he was assigned to the hoplite.
In fact, Zhang San wanted to go to the musket team in his heart, but Yang Tingjian had already spoken, and Zhang San did not refute it.
Yang Tingjian and the red lady said goodbye, and immediately led the troops to Datong, if the daily journey of a hundred miles, it also takes five or six days to reach Datong, and this road is not very peaceful, the official road is next to the broken Great Wall, this section of the Great Wall has actually been abandoned, there is no one to guard it at all, at most there are beacons set up at some critical passes.
It is precisely because of the relaxation of the northwest border defense of the Ming Dynasty that the Mongolian Tatars and Jiannu can calmly enter the northwest of the Ming Dynasty, and only a military town like Datong will have a large army garrison, and the guards in the border areas have been reduced to furnishings, which are basically useless.
Yang Tingjian led the convoy along the Inner Great Wall, and slept all the way......
It is said that the Hetao area near the Great Wall was not under the control of the Ming Dynasty for a long time, and it has become a pasture for the Mongols.
It turned out that it was Lin Dan Khan's brother-in-law Jinong, one of the ten sumu of Iron Lance Konot, who was in charge of the Hetao area, and Lin Dan Khan didn't know why, and suddenly didn't trust Jinong so much, so he transferred Jinong and his subordinates to Tucheng. Tucheng is not as beautiful as the water and grass fertilizer in the Hetao area, and the only advantage is that it is close to the border of the Ming Dynasty.
In recent years, Jinong has followed Lin Dan Khan to fight against Jiannu repeatedly, but he has always lost more and won less, so Jinong has been afraid of Jiannu in his heart, and at the same time, he has a different heart, but Jinong has no psychological burden on Kou Daming.
Because Da Ming is so robbing! Hundreds of Mongolian cavalry into the Kou can make those big cities in the Ming Dynasty tightly closed, and the Ming army in the city does not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle, which can undoubtedly make them rob a lot of money!
That is to say, entering the Ming Dynasty to plunder, it is a businessless business with small risks and big returns, and going to fight against Jiannu is simply an act of sending people to death without hope.
Winter is coming, and Jinong is starting to prepare for Kou Daming again. Now is the period of the Xiaoice River, not only the Ming Ming disaster, the "white disaster" on the land of Mongolia is much stricter, every winter snow will be waist-deep, because of the heavy snow on the grassland, countless cattle and sheep freeze or starve to death.
These cattle and sheep are all the source of life of the Mongols, so in order to survive the harsh and cold winter, they must go out to plunder, and the Ming Dynasty became the object of their plunder.
In the big tent of Sumu, Jinong is discussing with several thousands of households how to enter Kou Daming!
"Brothers, I just received a piece of information here, there is a team of Ming dogs escorting one million taels of military salaries to Datong, when this news is delivered, the convoy has already left Xuanfu, if we leave immediately, we can rush here within a day - Liangcheng, let's rest in Liangcheng for one night, and then break through the Great Wall from Huyukou.
Outside the Huyukou is the official road from Xuanfu to Datong, this area is a horse and a flat river, which is very suitable for our cavalry to fight, and this generation does not have a Ming dog army, the north is Tianchengwei, and the south is Gaoshan Wei.
The Ming Dog of these two guards must be known to everyone, they have long existed in name only, most of the people in the guards have already fled, and the total number of soldiers in the two guards is less than five hundred, and there is no real threat to us.
Even if Datong and Xuanfu heard the news and sent reinforcements, not to mention that we are not afraid of these reinforcements, even if we want to retreat, the two legs of those Ming dogs will not be able to outrun our four legs. ”
All right! There is nothing wrong with the tactics arranged by Jinong, but the sentence "we have four legs" exposes his essence, because only birds and beasts have four legs!
“…… Lord Wanhu is really a genius and a clever ......"
"Haha...... A million taels of white silver, now we are going to make a fortune. ”
"Lord Wanhuhou, is this news accurate?"
"Absolutely, because it's inside the dog...... Alright, let's all go down and get ready! Let's leave tomorrow morning, and we're going to do a big job this time. ”
The next day, Tucheng was awakened in the morning by the sound of hurried and earth-shattering horses' hooves, and countless Mongolian cavalry began to gather outside Tucheng, this time Jinong was also the best of the best, Jinong mastered the highest peak of 60,000 troops, and there were almost 20,000 people who controlled the strings.
However, since Lin Dan Khan and Jiannu fought frequently, Lin Dan Khan and Jiannu fought with many soldiers, and suffered repeated defeats, and Jinong's elite string control men also lost more than half, and now Jinong can only gather more than 8,000 cavalry, including more than 1,000 old and weak, which shows how huge Lin Dan Khan's losses in the battle with Jiannu are.
The army is a monster that must be fed with victory, and if any commander leads his army to always lose the battle, then the result will be the disintegration of the people's hearts, even Lin Dan Khan's brother-in-law Jinong has such a thought.
Jinong looked at the thousands of cavalry in front of him, and his nose couldn't help but sour, but he immediately held back, hurriedly waved his hand, and shouted:
"Departure...... Grab money, grab food, rob women......"
"Oooh oh...... Grab money, grab food, rob women......"
The Mongols believe that the strong are respected, and it is a matter of course for the victor to rob the loser's property and women, and this robbery of money, food, and women is undoubtedly the best way to improve morale, and it is more effective than any military law.
Thousands of cavalry swept away, I have to say that the Mongols have lived on horseback since childhood, and the riding skills are really very exquisite, and it can be said that people and horses are one and the same.
As for why the Mongol cavalry was always no match for Jiannu, there are about the following reasons:
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