Chapter 311: Race Fighting
Captured Kemu, Lin Chengxiang set off to chase Mu Qiyuan, he asked Lu Yufeng's 58th Division and Li Yuanjiang's 59th Division to sweep the surrounding castles, gather the nearby Han people, and concentrate in Kemu City.
He himself, accompanied by the 60th Division, recuperated in Kemu City.
The rumors in the city became more and more popular, and both Tibetans and Mongolians heard this rumor, and the atmosphere was already very tense, but nothing major happened, and both Tibetans and Mongolians closed their doors.
Lin Chengxiang saw that the goal was not achieved, so he simply added another fire.
A new rumor spread in the city: after ten days, the Ming army would slaughter the city, and as long as the Tibetans killed a Mongol, they would be free to leave the city and go wherever they wanted.
Under the great pressure of terror, finally a Tibetan took a risk, he took advantage of the Mongolian people's back, secretly killed his woman, and then took the woman's head, came to the government to invite merit, but the people of the government told him that he did not have to come to the government, as long as he took the head of the Mongolian people, went directly to the city gate, and after the soldiers guarding the city accepted it, he would let him out of the city.
The Tibetans were overjoyed, and spread this message widely among the Tibetans, and when they left the city, they asked their acquaintances and friends to follow them so that they could see for themselves how they got out of the city.
After receiving the heads of the Mongols, the Ming army defending the city really released the Tibetan people out of the city, and the Tibetans who followed him believed the words of the Tibetans, and it turned out that the legends in the city were not rumors, but true.
After the propaganda of those Tibetans, the atmosphere in the city suddenly became tense, and the Tibetans took up their farm tools and weapons one after another to hunt down and kill the Mongols, and the Mongols had to unite in order to protect themselves and could not leave the city.
Tulubaihu was dead, and the Mongols had no new Great Khan, so they could only organize a few loose groups of interests.
In order to survive, Tibetans continue to attack the Mongols; In order to protect themselves, the Mongolian people also continued to attack the Tibetans.
In this genocide, only the Han people can stay out of the matter, Lin Chengxiang every day except to take his own soldiers to the street shopping, is to sleep at home, even if he encounters Tibetans and Mongolians fighting on the street, he just doesn't see it.
If the Ming army did not care, the war between the Tibetans and the Mongols became even more unscrupulous.
Time is getting closer and closer, and the Tibetans and Mongolians in the city believe that the legend is not a rumor, but the real decision of the Ming army.
The battle between the Tibetans and the Mongols has developed from sporadic sneak attacks to large-scale armed battles day and night, except for the gathering area of the Han people, there is no pure land in the entire Hakmu City, and there is war and bloodshed everywhere, and there are corpses of Tibetans and headless corpses of Mongolians everywhere.
Originally, the Tibetans had the advantage in the fighting, and they had more strong men, but after the Mongols lost their 14,000 strong cavalry outside the city of Kemu, there were almost no strong men.
However, after the Tibetans got the head of the Mongolians, they took it to the city gate and exchanged it for their own way out from the hands of the Ming army, so that the Tibetans in the city were sharply reduced, and the Tibetans who remained in the city were basically the same as the Mongolians, all of whom were old and weak, women and children, and the balance of strength between the two sides gradually tilted towards the Mongolian side.
On the ninth day, there was only one last day left before the slaughter time stipulated by the Ming army.
In order to protect themselves, thousands of Tibetan strong men in the city left behind their wives and children and the Buddha and left on their own, and the remaining old and weak women and children had little combat effectiveness, although their opponents were also old and weak women and children.
The Tibetans are getting more and more anxious, and the Mongolians are more anxious than them, the Ming army did not give them any way out at all, even if they killed the Tibetans, they would inevitably be slaughtered by the Ming army.
The Tibetans and the Mongols had a truce, and after discussion, they unanimously decided to wage war against the Ming army, and only by defeating the Ming army could they get a glimmer of life.
At this moment, the Tibetans and Mongolians constitute a community with a shared future.
Attacking the camp of the Ming army, of course they didn't dare, it was simply sending them to death, even their army was not the opponent of the Ming army, they began to attack the defenders of the West City Gate from the evening.
The Ming army was not fully prepared, and when the fleeing army of tens of thousands of Tibetans and Mongolians arrived at the West City Gate, there was only one battalion of defenders of the Ming army at the West City Gate.
When the three or four hundred Ming troops saw tens of thousands of people, they immediately had an ominous premonition, and what they held in their hands was not the head, but all kinds of weapons, knives, guns, clubs, shovels, harpoons, and even burning sticks.
The battalion commander defending the city sent people to Lin Chengxiang for help on the one hand, and asked the soldiers to prepare for battle on the other.
The language barrier made it impossible for the battalion commander to shoot as a warning.
However, the Tibetans and Mongolians, who had never seen firearms, did not know the power of the flintlock pistol, and the sound and light of the flintlock pistol only frightened them.
For a brief moment, they froze, but under the domination of escape, they pounced even more violently on the Ming army and rushed towards the west city gate.
"Bang."
"Bang."
"Bang.
……
The flintlock pistol was fired, and the people who rushed to the front suddenly fell a hundred paces in front of the Ming army like a tripping horse, and blood began to flow to the ground along the wound.
Along with the flow of blood were all kinds of screams and cries for help from their mouths.
The people in front saw their relatives injured, and the people in the back heard their relatives calling for help, these people in Kemu City suddenly rushed to their heads, they were Tibetans and Mongolians, and they originally advocated force and blood, even if they were old and weak, women and children.
The people in the back desperately want to squeeze to the front to see what happened, and the people in front want to see how the injured relatives who fell to the ground are hurting.
The crowd struck forward with a kind of inertia like a flood, and at this moment, no one could stop them, unless there was a greater force than them to stop them.
The Ming army couldn't stop it, they were only three or four hundred people.
The flintlock pistols kept firing, but there were too many people, the crowd was too dense, some were shot and wounded, and even the people who were already dead were surrounded by the flow of people #.
The gunmen showed no mercy, but the crowd moved on, from the death line of 100 paces to the middle line of 80 paces, and then to the warning line of 60 paces.
The Ming army was really red-eyed, but the number of flintlock guns was too small, and they simply could not suppress the advance of the crowd.
There are thousands, or tens of thousands, of people killed and wounded, but the crowd is still advancing, unless there is an unexpected force that changes their inertia.
"Shoot, target both legs." The battalion commander shouted that at this moment, he no longer needed to end the other party's life, as long as the crowd lost the ability to move forward.
As soon as one leg was shot, the people would inevitably fall to their knees or fall, and the crowd would gather on the ground in a heap that would stumble over the crowd behind them.
The crowd grew larger and larger, temporarily blocking the crowd behind.
"Damn, these deadly Tibetans and Mongolians." The battalion commander finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Camp, I'm out of bullets."
"I'm out of bullets."
"Me too."
……
The battalion commander was shocked, each soldier had only dozens of bullets on his body, which was more than enough in peacetime, even in the face of the enemy, but there were too many people impacted today, and the bullets were almost gone.
"Draw out the saber, even if you use both hands, you can't let them escape, once they escape, they are the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, and they will smear the reputation of the Ming army."
The soldiers who did not have bullets threw down their flintlock pistols and pulled out the spare saber at their waists, they were ready for hand-to-hand combat, the hand-to-hand combat of the Ming army was not too strong, but the enemy on the opposite side was not a regular strong army, but the people, or the old and weak, women and children, their only advantage was that there were many people, so that the Ming army would not be able to kill for a while and a half.
After a short period of stagnation, the crowd finally crossed the pile of people on the ground and began to run towards the Ming army like ants, and the two sides began to engage in close combat.
The weather began to darken, and the Ming soldiers could not see clearly whether it was a woman, a child or an old man in front of them, and as long as there was a figure, they would slash it.
But in the darkness there would also be a slap stick, or an embroidered shovel, and the Ming army began to suffer casualties.
"Bang."
"Bang."
"Bang.
……
The sound of flintlock pistols came from behind the people, it turned out that a parade army got the information and rushed over to reinforce the west city gate, and it could be heard from the gunfire that the number was not too much, and it was only a hundred and ten people.
The battalion commander didn't care what the number was, he shouted: "Brothers, our reinforcements are coming, kill them, kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, if it's too late, you won't get any credit." ”
The morale of the Ming army was greatly invigorated, and the Tibetans and Mongolians, hearing the gunfire behind them, knew that the reinforcements of the Ming army had arrived, and they all squeezed forward vigorously, hoping that before the arrival of the reinforcements of the Ming army, they would open the west city gate, as long as they went out of the city, with the cover of night, they had the possibility of survival.
The Ming army at the gate of the city was under more pressure, but the sound of flintlock guns behind them gave them hope, as long as they could support it for a while, they could prevent these people from leaving the city and complete the task of guarding the city gate.
"Bang."
"Bang."
"Bang.
……
The gunfire suddenly intensified, and apparently more reinforcements had arrived.
The Tibetans and Mongolians fell faster than they could advance, and before they could rush to the city gate, they all fell, and the city gate was in front of them, and with the faint light of the flintlock fire, they could still see the west gate, which they could push open almost with a stretch of their hand, but they lost the opportunity to push it open forever.
The Ming army began to massacre the wounded civilians, especially the battalion that originally guarded the city gates, as long as the soldiers still had a little strength, they would run over and cut a few knives.
Lin Chengxiang also came to the west city gate, the corpses on the ground could not be seen clearly in the dark, he was not ready to slaughter the city, but just hoped to expel the Tibetans and Mongolians, reduce the non-Han population in the city, when he heard that the Ming army at the city gate had casualties, Lin Chengxiang, who has always been gentle and elegant, was also angry: "Slaughter the city." ”
The city was once again in chaos, and soldiers searched from house to house, killing and looting people and things, even the temples.
This massacre not only slaughtered the Tibetans and Mongolians in the city, but also seized more than 56,000 taels of gold and artifacts and more than 230,000 taels of silver.
Lin Chengxiang was originally going to leave a brigade of troops in the city, but the decisive battle of the cavalry outside the city made him lose 2,000 cavalry, and 2,000 cavalry were seriously injured and needed to be recuperated in the city, so he finally left a regiment of troops.
Before leaving, he left an extra 1,000 sabers for the regiment commander: "No matter what method you use, allow a large number of elimination, and after a month, let 1,000 Han people be transformed into local forces, and after the training, divide them into two groups, take turns to serve as soldiers and people for the people." ”
Lin Chengxiang chose a Han man named Yang Jinbai from among the local Han people as the temporary prefect of Kemu, and left two military staff officers to assist him in handling government affairs, so he led the army to chase Mu Qiyuan in the direction of Gongbu.