Chapter 370: Returning with a full load
The sudden appearance of the artillery of the security army scattered the herd driven by the Houjin people, and took advantage of their confusion to march to wipe out most of the Houjin cavalry in front of the formation, only a few Houjin people who fell behind were able to escape, they desperately fled back to the tribe, beckoning the women who remained inside to flee to the depths of the valley. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The women of Houjin were always watching the war outside the tribe. Seeing that the men outside were defeated, they had to leave everything in their tribe and flee into the depths of the valley, but as soon as they ran out, several of them were killed by the sharp arrows fired at them.
Outside the tribal station, a group of people with bones and rags blocked the way for the Houjin women to escape, it turned out that they had won the final victory in the fight with the Houjin children, and there were only more than 100 people left in the Han slaves, and the first reaction of more than 100 people was to escape from this cave, the two sides were fighting in the direction of the valley, which was undoubtedly the most dangerous, and they had to flee to the depths of the valley, but they didn't want to flee far, because they already knew that the Han army was coming, and the savior they had been looking forward to for many years finally came, If the Han Chinese win, they will finally be able to return to their hometowns.
When the Houjin women escaped, the Han slaves finally had the courage to pick up the bows and arrows they had snatched from the Houjin people and shoot sharp arrows at these demons who had abused them in every way.
The fleeing Houjin women saw that the way was blocked, so they had to reflexively retreat back, but at this time the security army had rushed up with a musket with a bayonet, carefully cleaned up the Houjin tribe station, and expelled all the Houjin women together.
The rest of the people were even more frightened, gathered together and didn't dare to run anymore, some of the timid ones had already let out a cry, and those Han slaves rushed over and raised their knives to rush towards those Houjin women, Zhang Chu hurriedly sent someone over to stop them.
Although Zhang Chu gave the order at the beginning of the battle not to leave a single person alive, in the end, as a person with modern consciousness, Zhang Chu still couldn't be ruthless. Looking at the crying Houjin women, Zhang Chu ordered the team members to leave their lives behind.
Those Han slaves heard the shouting sound of the security soldiers stopping them, and couldn't help but sit on the ground and cry, many years later they heard the voice of the Han people again, originally thought that they would live like pigs and dogs in their lives, and finally were abused to death, and today they were rescued, how can they not make people cry with joy.
Zhang Chu didn't interfere more with those Han slaves, and let them cry out there. Sometimes it is good for the body to cry out the sorrow that has accumulated in the heart.
The security army ordered the Houjin women to come out one by one, and then tied them together with ropes, most of them had stopped crying, and they were numb and ready to accept the arrangement of fate, they knew how the Houjin people treated the Han women who were captured, and they only hoped that the Han people would be civilized people and not treat themselves in the same way.
The security army members quickly searched the surroundings and cleared all threats, and the battle was even more brilliant because the Han slaves finally blocked the escape of the Houjin people, making the results even more brilliant, not a single Houjin escaped and captured more than 300 Houjin women as prisoners.
Seeing the complete victory, Zhang Chu immediately ordered his soldiers to clear the camp of the Houjin tribe with the help of Han Chinese slaves.
It was a real clean-up, and everything that could be used in the camp was collected and ready to be taken away. Fortunately, the Houjin people were originally nomadic people, and everything they had was prepared for moving at any time, so it was very easy to put it away. The security army crossed the sea, and the materials were very precious, so Zhang Chu could only use war to feed the war.
At the same time, the heads of the killed Houjin people were also taken away, and Zhang Chu had to exchange them for silver from the emperor.
The results of this battle were very rich, harvesting nearly two thousand Tatar heads, Zhang Chu was not worried about Emperor Chongzhen, he got it a few times, the emperor would not be able to send a reward to death.
In addition to the biggest gain of this operation is the capture of a lot of horses, the security army came across the sea, it is very difficult to transport horses by boat, so horses are very precious to the security army, Zhang Chu collected horses not to establish a cavalry brigade to cut down with the Houjin people, that is to attack the enemy's strength with his own short, Zhang Chu only wants to establish a cavalry infantry, improve the mobility of the team.
A large number of dead cattle and dead horses were also pulled away, and these are good food to deal with. For the next few days, the members of the security army had meat to eat.
Zhang Chu didn't make any more stops, and returned to the camp in the valley with the team. On the way back, he also specially ordered the team members to carefully remove the traces on the road, and not let the Houjin people follow him.
It didn't take long for the other squads sent out to return to the base one after another, the supplies they brought restricted the longer operation, a few squads pounced, traveled around the land of Liaodong, found nothing, and the mood was very low, and the other squads with results were all elated, some of them killed hundreds of Tatars, and some burned the forage of the Houjin people, although the results were not as brilliant as Zhang Chu, but they were also able to make them happy for a while.
Zhang Chu adjusted the fleet hidden in the open sea, loading the supplies that were not needed now and the captured Houjin people onto the ship, along with 2,500 processed Houjin heads.
Zhang Chu asked the fleet to bring a message to Wang Chengen at the same time, asking him to write a letter to Emperor Chongzhen urging him to ask for silver, the head of 50,000 taels of silver in the early stage has been cleared of silver and goods, if you want to eliminate more Houjin Emperor Chongzhen must come up with more silver, otherwise the security army will withdraw and enjoy a rich life.
Sending off the fleet, Zhang Chu ordered the team to stop further action, on the one hand, the team needed to rest, and at the same time to see Huang Taiji's reaction.
So many tribes have been attacked, Huang Taiji received a report and must send people to retaliate, the security army crossed the sea must not be many, Zhang Chu did not want to fight with Huang Taiji, the fine tradition of the security army played a role when resting, the soldiers sat together and summed up the benefits and disadvantages of this sortie, and really found out a lot of different experiences from previous battles, such as the environment and climate of Liaodong is very different from Shanxi, and the materials carried during the battle must be partially adjusted.
The Houjin people are indeed very strong, there is almost no difference between military and civilian, they are usually herdsmen regardless of men, women and children, and they will pick up swords and guns when they fight together. Some of the security forces just didn't understand this, and during the attack, they were attacked by Houjin women and children, and suffered a big loss.
Zhang Chu had no choice but to issue an order, emphasizing that the security forces should always be vigilant in future operations.
Ten days later, Zhang Chu did not wait for news from Houjin, and the fleet to Shandong returned with supplies. Unexpectedly, Wang Chengen also came to find Zhang Chu with the fleet. (To be continued.) )