Chapter 161: Yue Tuo's Report
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Chongzhen, August 17, 30 miles west of Datong City
It seems that you can't see the edge of the Houjin military camp tent at a glance, pure white and black dragon flags, pure yellow flags, inlaid yellow flags, red inlaid white flags...... The flags were densely packed and fluttering in the wind. In the camp that is 100 miles wide, there are eight banners of the Qing army, such as the yellow flag, the yellow flag, the blue flag, and the red flag.
In the dense camp tent of the Houjin army, there is a particularly huge camp, in which there are a number of luxurious tents with fiery gold roofs, and in front of the big tent, there are several huge woven gold dragons. The surrounding guards are all the most elite Bayala battalion soldiers in the Eight Banners.
In a big tent, the tent was full of Houjin generals in gilded armor, and at this time, there was a burst of angry scolding in the middle of the big tent. When I got closer, a fat man in his forties, dressed in bright yellow clothes, stood in the center of the big tent and scolded Yue Tuo, who had just returned to Datong.
"Yue Tuo, tell me, how did you lead the soldiers, the lonely general handed over the red flag to you, looking forward to your achievements, but is this how you repay the orphan? Just one Hunyuan Prefecture, you have lost more than 2,000 Red Flag Warriors, if this is the case every time, it will not take a few battles to be removed from the Eight Banners! β
The person who can scold Yue Tuo, Baylor so badly, is naturally the Great Khan Emperor Taiji of the current Houjin. This time, Huang Taiji took advantage of the efforts of the western expedition to Mobei, and made a surprise attack on the Ming Dynasty, which caught the Ming Dynasty by surprise. Tens of thousands of troops in Shanxi are like no one, because the main force of Datong Mansion is contained, Houjin's journey into the customs is too easy, just when the emperor Taiji is complacent, Yue Tuo ran back in a gray way. And he sued sΓΉ that he himself had suffered defeat. Not to mention the loss of thousands of people and horses, even the grain and grass were burned clean. This news also gave the originally proud Huang Taiji a blow to the head. The angry Huang Taiji didn't care about giving Yue Tuo, a nephew, any face, and immediately scolded him in public.
In the face of Huang Taiji's anger, Yue Tuo just bowed his head and said nothing, he was indeed speechless in this battle, and he lost more than 2,000 Eight Banner warriors in one battle, which was already a rare defeat in these years, and it was no wonder that Huang Taiji would be angry.
Originally, Huang Taiji scolded again, but at this time, a sudden feeling of dizziness came to his head. He staggered a few times, and several generals standing beside him hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and then helped him to sit on the tiger skin recliner behind him.
"Great Khan, are you alright?"
"Great Khan, what's wrong with you?"
Seeing Huang Taiji's appearance, the generals were shocked and stepped forward to offer condolences.
Huang Taiji waved his hand, took the ginseng tea handed over by a Goshha next to him and drank it after the season. Then he closed his eyes and calmed down for a while, and then opened his eyes.
At this time, although Huang Taiji's expression was a little sluggish, his eyes were still cold and sharp, he looked at Yue Tuo and asked with a stern expression: "Yue Tuo, it is said that you are also a veteran who is used to fighting on the battlefield, how could you be so careless?" Not only was the grain and grass burned, but also so many warriors with red flags were damaged. You sue me, who did this? Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou or which Ming army general? β
Yue Tuo smiled bitterly before he said: "Back to the Great Khan, this time Weichen's opponent is not a general soldier or a general, but a garrison in the Yingzhou Mansion, this person is named Yue Yang. β
"What? It turned out to be him? β
Yue Tuo's words just fell. There was an exclamation from all around.
The generals inquired about the prestige, but it was the owner of the white flag who made the sound. Belle Dolgon.
Huang Taiji also frowned, and even said, "It's him?" β
Seeing the expressions of Huang Taiji and Dolgon, the generals couldn't help but feel a little strange, could it be that the Great Khan and Dolgon actually knew this Yue Tuo?
Du Du, the owner of the Blue Flag on the side, couldn't help but ask curiously: "Great Khan, do you know this Yueyang?" β
Huang Taiji frowned, nodded a little reluctantly, and then said: "This person Dolgon also knows, you can ask him." β
Seeing the eyes of the generals looking over, Dolgon smiled bitterly and said: "I do know Yueyang, speaking of which he still has a relationship with us, just last year, he just married Hai Lanzhu, the eldest daughter of the leader of the Horqin tribe, and the relationship with the Horqin tribe is close. β
"And this?" After hearing this, Du Du and the generals couldn't help but be amazed, and at the same time asked with some curiosity: "Since the relationship between this Yueyang and Horqin is so close, then you should be interested in our Houjin, how can you be right with us?" β
"I don't know about that either." Dolgon also looked bitter, and said in confusion: "This Yue Yang doesn't know what medicine he took wrong, and he is very hostile to our Jurchen Eight Banners, and even I suffered a loss in his hands last year." β
Speaking of this, Dolgon's heart was also bitter. Last year, Dolgon used a trick and sent craftsmen to Wulizhai to steal several Mini-style firecrackers and their manufacturing technology.
Originally, they thought that they would be able to start manufacturing this powerful firearm on a large scale, but they never thought that when the craftsmen of Houjin hurriedly imitated the stolen firecracker, they were frustrated that the barrel of this firearm alone stumped a large number of craftsmen.
These craftsmen who were captured by the Jurchens finally reluctantly told SΓΉ Dolgon that these guns were easy to talk about elsewhere, but only those gun barrels could not be imitated. The steel used for these barrels alone was the only one they had ever seen in their lives, let alone the delicate rifles carved into the tiny barrels.
Dolgon, who confirmed the news, couldn't help but be very frustrated, but he didn't expect that he had worked hard, and finally just stole a few guys that could not be imitated, although then Dolgon sent several waves of spies to infiltrate Wuli Village to find out the method of making fire guns, but most of these spies finally disappeared like a stone sinking into the sea. After spending more than half a year on the phone, and losing five or six waves of spies in a row, Dorgon finally had no choice but to stop this helpless and futile move.
Hearing the news of Yue Yang again today, Dolgon lost his temper for a while.
The generals looked at Huang Taiji again, and now he just closed his eyes and said nothing, and Dolgon also had a constipated expression on his face, and a fire called gossip could not help but rise in everyone's hearts. It's just that Huang Taiji is a Great Khan, so they naturally don't dare to ask, so they can only set their eyes on Dolgon's body.
Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Dolgon snorted coldly and said, "Don't look at me, this battle was fought by Yue Tuo, he knows best, you should ask him." β
"yes, isn't there another person here?"
It was Du Du who took the lead in saying, "Yue Tuo, how did you lose this battle, you tell everyone about it, so that everyone can have a bottom in their hearts." β
Yue Tuo sighed lightly, and then slowly told the story of that battle. Yue Tuo's eloquence is still good, and he told the story of the battle of Hunyuan City in detail, and finally he concluded: "Looking at Yue Yang, the soldiers he trained are undoubtedly inferior to our Eight Banners warriors in terms of martial arts, but his army discipline is strict, and it is never an exaggeration to describe it by ordering and prohibiting, and more importantly, the fire guns used in this person's army are the only ones I have seen in my life." When the general was supervising the battle in the rear, the firearms were now able to shoot through the armor worn by our warriors from a distance of two hundred paces, so that when our army engaged him, our warriors had to risk their lives to advance seventy paces away from them with their shields before they could begin to return fire. Another point is that the armor equipped in this people's army is also extremely good, and it is difficult for our army's bows and crossbows to cause damage to them if they do not hit their faces and necks. β
After Yue Tuo finished speaking, there was silence in the big tent, and even Huang Taiji was a little incredulous. Although Huang Taiji has also heard of Yueyang's name, but it is also Da Yu'er who sued him after returning to the palace, although Da Yu'er also said how good the fire guns equipped by Yueyang's department, but Huang Taiji, who has fought on the battlefield all his life, thinks that it is because Da Yu'er has lived in the deep palace for a long time and rarely seen firearms, which exaggerates the facts, in his heart, what makes him most angry is that this person dares to rob a woman with him. Only then did he realize the severity of the matter.
Huang Taiji stared at Yue Tuo and said in a deep voice: "Yue Tuo, is what you said really true?" β
Yue Tuo replied loudly: "What Yue Tuo said is true, if it is half false, I am willing to accept any punishment from the Great Khan!" β
Looking at Yue Tuo's solemn expression, everyone's faces also became stern, and they were all thinking about what method they would use to deal with this person if they ran into Yue Tuo in the future.
Huang Taiji also groaned, he glanced at Dolgon with the corner of his eye, and said in his heart that this person and Dai Shan Ming and Yue Yang had fought against this person, but neither of them mentioned this matter to themselves, so that Yue Tuo suffered a big loss, which can be said to be his heart.
He pondered for a while before he said slowly: "According to Yue Tuo's words, what Yue Yang relies on is nothing more than the sharpness of firearms, but as far as Gu knows, although firearms are powerful, it is quite cumbersome to reload after shooting, maybe we can take advantage of this opportunity......"
"Great Khan......" Yue Tuo continued without waiting for Huang Taiji to finish speaking: "Yue Yang's fire gun not only has a long range, but also reloads very quickly, and after adopting the method of segmented shooting, this defect is also covered up. Therefore, the minister thought that the way to deal with such sharp weapons was to let our army also start to equip firearms on a large scale, and it was the best policy to use firearms to balance firearms! β
"Ridiculous...... It's ridiculous......"
"Nonsense......"
As soon as Yue Tuo's words were finished, there were bursts of shouting and scolding around him......