Chapter 38: The Affair of Yanmen 7
Shi Lei's soft voice seemed to be like a spring breeze in his ears, but in Gru's ears, it seemed to be the most terrifying voice in the world.
His eyes glared angrily, staring at Shi Lei as if he were his enemy, and after a long time, he closed his eyes helplessly, and the two lines of eyes slowly flowed, and at the same time Yangtian roared angrily, "Demon, you demon, Changshengtian will definitely condemn you, and you will definitely get the punishment that Changshengtian deserves." ”
"Don't worry, if Changshengtian punishes me, the Jade Emperor will definitely stop him, you don't have to worry about this, I'm asking you again, whether you say it or not, if you don't say it, don't waste my time." Gru's words did not make Shi Lei feel moved.
"Okay, I said, I'll say it all, as long as you let them go, I'll tell you everything you want to know, here, no one else knows the specific things except me." Fear finally overcame everything, and Gru finally relented.
"Ah, Gru, you can't say it, otherwise, our tribe will be finished."
"No, Gru, we'd rather die, you can't say, otherwise, even if we live, it's better to live than to die!"
Seeing that Gru was relieved, the remaining Mongolians immediately shouted anxiously, but under Shi Lei's signal, they were gagged and brought to the side to watch and locked up.
"Okay, now that you're completely clean, you can rest assured, remember, you only have one chance, if I find out you're lying, then you and all of you, you'll have to taste the taste of a thousand cuts, and when the time comes, I hope you won't ask for mercy.
Now that he has decided to say it, Gru did not hide anything from the Central Plains, but told it honestly.
A.D. 1631, the fourth year of Chongzhen.
This year was the most unstable year, this year, in the Central Plains, because of famine and other reasons to rebel peasant army, from Shaanxi to Shanxi, indicating that the entire Ming peasant uprising kicked off.
On the grassland, a major event also happened, the three most powerful people in the Far East, Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, and Lin Dan Khan, one of the descendants of the Mongolian Golden Family of Chahar Han Lin Dan Khan, was surrounded by the Huangtai Pole soldiers in Daling City, defeated and retreated to Qinghai, and finally died of illness on the road, which means that the Golden Family who has ruled the grassland for more than 300 years has withdrawn from the stage of history.
With the defeat of Lin Dan Khan, many of the originally powerful Mongolian tribes on the steppe also disappeared, and the Su Anhui Department was such a tribe, although it did not completely disappear, but it also suffered a great loss of vitality, from a top tribe on the grassland, to become a small tribe wandering around.
Fortunately, there is no endless road, Su Wan is luckier than other tribes, he has a patriarch with some ability, Su Rige, when Lin Dan Khan was about to be defeated, the entire Su Wan Department under the leadership of Su Rige, got out of the battlefield in time, and then fled all the way to the west.
Immediately, after a period of hard years, they finally came here, because this is only less than a hundred miles away from Yanmen Pass, coupled with the sparse water and grass and the harsh environment, the Manchu pursuers finally did not continue to attack them, so that the entire Su and Anhui departments were able to survive.
However, although the Su and Anhui tribes have been retained, they are no longer the top tribe on the grassland, from a powerful tribe of more than 100,000 ancestors and more than 30,000 warriors, to less than 10,000 people, of which seventy percent are still old and weak, women and children, and there are only less than 3,000 warriors.
It is in this situation that Su Rige on the one hand auspiciously curry favor with the Ming army at Yanmen Pass, on the other hand, efforts to recuperate, more than ten years, Su Anhui finally slowly recovered, the population exceeded 30,000, and the warriors have reached 8,000.
This kind of strength in the original grassland, can only be regarded as an ordinary tribe, but now it is very different, after the Manchu sweep, in addition to the earliest to take refuge in the Manchu Qing Horqin and other Mongolian tribes, the rest of the tribes, either conquered by the Manchus, joined the Mongolian Eight Banners, or were completely exterminated.
Originally, in the face of the powerful Manchu Qing, Su Rige did not dare to have a little idea, after all, Lin Dan Khan, who had more than 300,000 troops, was not the opponent of the Manchu Qing, how could he dare to think of anything else, but the death of Huang Taiji at the beginning of the year made him suddenly have an idea in his heart, that is, after the death of Huang Taiji, when the Manchu dragons were leaderless, he took Su Wan to return to the Mongolian steppe, and then took the opportunity to expand the tribe, accumulate strength, and become a Mongolian Khan after Lin Dan Khan again.
As soon as this idea arose, it was like a weed in spring, growing higher and higher, and in the end, Su Rige finally couldn't help but discuss it with a few elders of the tribe, and finally got a very feasible result of this matter.
However, if you want to take advantage of the opportunity to expand the tribe, you have to go to war, and for more than ten years, the Su and Anhui tribes, which are in the middle of the two behemoths, let alone war, are good not to be wiped out by others, and now if you want to return to the Mongolian steppe, not to mention anything else, food and ordnance are indispensable.
In terms of grain, the Mongols as a natural steppe people, cattle and sheep are ready-made food, but if there is no ordnance, it is absolutely impossible, after all, when you go into battle to fight, you can't fight with your bare hands, if so, it is not a war, but to die.
After discussing for a long time, I don't know who finally said, 'We don't have weapons, but we have them at Yanmen.' ’
If it was before, everyone would take this sentence as a joke, after all, the powerful Da Ming, even the Manchu Qing were very jealous, not to mention their little ants, Da Ming could kill him with a blow. And although Yanmen Pass is only a small city pass, it is not something they can attack.
But now it is different, since coming to settle here, in order to get the care of the Ming Dynasty, Su Rige sent countless gifts to Yanmen Pass, and actively traded with the Han people, so that the entire Su and Anhui Department was able to stay here for more than ten years.
And in the past ten years, Su Anhui has the most news because of the closest relationship with the Ming Dynasty, especially recently, Su Rige got the news, it turned out that the Ming Dynasty, which looks huge, has now been tenacious, and the country is full of smoke, most of the places have been occupied by the peasant army, and some of the remaining places are also more than a road.
With this information, Su Rige's heart became even more excited, he insisted that this was the immortal heaven blessing him to reinvigorate the prestige of Mongolia, otherwise, how could those two behemoths actually fall into various predicaments at the same time?
Of course, Su Rige is not a reckless person, he has a plan in his heart, in order to find out the situation inside Yanmen Pass, as early as a month ago, he arranged for people to enter the city to investigate, and marked all the key places in Yanmen Pass, warehouses, armories, and the location of the Feng family and the barracks, and also explored the time of the soldiers changing guards and patrolling every day.
After these circumstances were investigated, he finally decided to carry out a sneak attack on Yanmen Pass tonight, of course, and before that, he had quietly sent more than two hundred elite warriors to enter Yanmen Pass, so as to serve as his internal response to the sneak attack on Yanmen Pass, such a careful plan, if it was not accidentally bumped into by Shi Lei's group, under the sudden sneak attack of Su Wan, Yanmen Pass had no other consequences except for the fall.
"His grandmother's, you white-eyed wolves who can't be fed, I saw that you were pitiful, so I allowed you to stay around here, so many years, and I didn't drive you away, I didn't expect that you brutes would dare to hit my head with the idea, I really don't know that Lord Ma is three-eyed, grandma's, I'll kill you bastard." After listening to Gru's words, Feng Laohu, whose eyes were red for a long time, instantly pulled out a waist knife and slashed at Gru.
"Hey, General Feng is slow."
Fortunately, Fang Junchi's hand was a little faster, and he stopped Feng Laohu in time, otherwise, Gru's head would have fallen to the ground.
"Why, he's already said it, what's the use, is it okay to keep him for the New Year." Looking at Fang Junchi who stopped him, Feng Laohu said with a pant.
"Hehehe, that's not it, it's just General Feng, don't you feel strange, how could he know so clearly, you must know that some of what he just said is only known to the patriarch and elders of the Su Wan tribe, don't you doubt his identity." Shi Lei said lightly.
"You mean there's something suspicious about his identity." Feng Laohu was not stupid, and instantly understood what Shi Lei meant.
Shi Lei didn't answer Feng Laohu's question directly, but continued: "Okay, General Feng, now the enemy's situation is relatively clear, although there are many enemies outside the city, there is no need to worry, our top priority now is how to successfully clear the enemy in the city, and it will not cause a riot, I don't know if General Feng has any good ways." ”
Seeing that Shi Lei didn't want to say, Feng Laohu didn't dare to force him, but followed Shi Lei's question, thought about it and said, "If you want to annihilate the enemy and not cause a riot, then there is only one way, and that is to lure the snake out of the hole and lead those people to a remote place, so that you can kill the enemy in one fell swoop." ”
Speaking of this, Feng Laohu paused for a moment, and said in embarrassment, "But, how can we lure those two hundred people out, you must know that those people are not stupid, we shouted, and they followed directly." ”
After listening to Feng Laohu's words, Shi Lei also frowned, but when his gaze landed on Gru's face, which was standing on the side, the expression on his face instantly brightened.