Chapter 96: Transporting Grain

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The heralds of Xuanda rushed in all directions.

The emergency is like fire.

The timing of the Jurchen invasion was mysterious, and all the elite soldiers of Xuanda surrounded and suppressed the thieves on the front line of Hebei and Shanxi, and trapped Gao Yingxiang in the mountains and forests.

After the Jurchen army converged in Datong, it was divided into two, the Yuetuo department advanced in the direction of Xuanfu, and the Dolgon department went straight into Shanxi. Chongzhen was helpless, Xuanda Town had no soldiers available, and he couldn't let the Jurchens plunder, so he had to transfer Cao Wenzhao as the chief soldier of Datong and lead his troops to rescue Datong.

In the mountains and forests, Gao Yingxiang was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief.

Yue Tuo led two red banner elite soldiers to the direction of Xuanfu to break through several cities and then returned to help, Panhuan in the area of Datong Town, divided the troops to escort the Han people who had been captured along the way out of the fortress and sent them to Liaodong.

Dolgon's troops have been advancing southward, crossing Jingpingsuo and directly into Shanxi, burning all the way, and the whole Jin is shaken.

Cao Wenzhao hurriedly returned to help and stationed in Huairen County. Unexpectedly, the Jurchens knew everything about the actions of the Ming army, and Guanning Iron rode into Huairen on the front foot, and the Jurchen two white flags on the back foot surrounded Huairen County by tens of thousands of people, trapping it in the city.

In August, the Tumochuan corn matured, and the Han people, who had worked hard for a year, finally had a harvest.

Holding Huang Cancan in the field is the happiest time for farmers to get grain, even though it does not belong to them. The fugitive Han Chinese were easily satisfied, and the only requirement was not to go hungry when they went to bed.

War was imminent, and every day large numbers of ragged refugees were escorted out of the Great Wall and driven east by the leather whips of the Jurchens. The rabbit died and the fox was sad, and the Han people of the Tumut people secretly rejoiced that it was a hundred times luckier to be exiled outside the fortress than to be driven to Liaodong.

The daily attrition of the 30,000 Jurchen soldiers and horses in Datong was amazing, and although they captured several county towns and plundered a lot of property, there was not much food. Dolgon will not lose his troops to attack a fortified city like Datong Mansion, and he will not be able to hold it if he captures it, after all, it is in the territory of Daming.

At the beginning of August, Omubu Khan received a letter from Yue Tuo, asking him to immediately send 3,000 stone of rice millet to the barracks near Datong City. He seized the right time for the corn to be harvested and dried.

The city of Naturalization is deserted, with no source of goods and shops closed.

Huang Cancan millet didn't even have a chance to cover it in his hands, so he had to give it to others. After the great thunder of Ombu, he still asked the ministries to prepare grain and grass.

Zhai Zhe watched coldly, and the more angry Omubu Khan was, the greater the chance of his plan being realized.

More than 30 mule and horse carts were prepared, and Guluge stepped forward to ask for help: "Great Khan, the villain is willing to escort the grain into the jam." ”

Omubu Khan glared at him fiercely, and suddenly felt that this person was extremely annoying. All the Tumuts knew that the Gulug and the Jurchen Belyueto were related, and he himself was proud of it.

"You stay in naturalization, you can't go to your relatives when you fight!"

Old Guluge's face turned red and he didn't say a word.

"Zhai Qianhu, this batch of grain is escorted into the customs by you, you have to watch it on the way." Omubu Khan turned to Zhai Yan and woke him up.

This sentence fell into Zhai Zhe's ears like thunder, Omubu Khan actually let himself escort military rations to the Jurchens, what kind of idea is this?

"Shall I go? My people and horses are all in Hanzhai! He was too busy to shirk it.

"The Jurchens are still a few days away, you can gather them."

Zhai Yan's heart shook wildly, "Does he want me to help him abuse me or will he cut off my way out?" ”

Omubu Khan's order was strange and sudden, and if the Han helped the Jurchens, there was no difference between them and the Ming Dynasty, and from then on they could only work for the Tumuts.

The order of the Great Khan could not be violated, Zhai Zhe thought about it and mobilized 300 Tumut cavalry from the Chefeng Department to reach naturalization.

The grain cart drove towards the Guannei, Zhai Zhe felt bitter in his heart, he actually wanted to bet the Jurchens \u9o

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Arriving at the boundary of Liangcheng, there were Jurchen cavalry figures along the way, which were the two red flag soldiers and horses stationed at the entrance of the grassland.

Yue Tuo was also helpless to ask Tumo for food. Datong, Shanxi Province has been in drought for many years, and the grain depots of rich households have long been shallow, and the rice tanks of poor households have been empty, and even most of the grain depots of merchants have been sold out. After learning that the Jurchens had entered Kou Datong, the people who could not escape into the fortified city put the only surplus food at home on their shoulders, put them on mules and horses, and fled south day and night. After entering the customs, although invincible, not much grain and grass were seized.

This time, the Jurchens did not retreat from the army after plundering, but the deeper purpose was to echo the besieged thieves in the western part of the Daming Dynasty, but the two sides were not allies and had no contact.

However, Gao Yingxiang did not waste the kindness of the Jurchens, without the pressure of Cao Wenzhao's Guanning Iron Cavalry, the thieves defeated Tang Jiuzhou, the general soldier of Changping, in Beibei, Henan in early August, and re-emerged from the mountains and forests.

When the news of the thief's victory came, Dolgon released the siege of Huairen County and led the army back to the town near Datong, waiting for supplies from the Tumut tribe, and there was not much grain and grass left for the army.

The 30,000-strong army consumed countless times a day, and was unable to capture the supplies obtained from the fortified city, Yue Tuo and Dolgon discussed and gradually returned the two red banner soldiers and horses to Liaodong, leaving only the two white flag elite soldiers in Datong. As long as the Jurchen army is still in Datong Mansion, it can contain several elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty and relieve the pressure of the Ming thieves.

Before leaving, Yue Tuo carefully instructed Dolgon: "You go deep into the Ming Realm alone, be cautious in everything, and no fault is a success." ”

The young Dolgon looked sharp and said: "The Ming army is not enough to fear, and no army in the Ming Dynasty dares to fight in the field with my Jurchen warriors, like a turtle with a shrunken head." ”

Yue Tuo was not happy, and carefully reminded: "I heard that Cao Wenzhao's army is brave, and he has won a hundred battles against the thief army, and he has been appointed by the Ming Dynasty as the chief soldier of Datong, which should not be underestimated." ”

"Cao Wenzhao's Guanning cavalry is naturally brave against those homeless people, but He Zengye has defeated my Dajin warriors."

Dolgon was full of confidence, and Yue Tuo couldn't say more.

"You just need to ensure that there is no problem with the supply of our military rations, and it will be okay for me to stay in Datong Town for a few years." Dolgon's mouth is \u

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"The military rations of the Tumut Department will arrive within seven days, and the Tombu Khan will not dare to delay, but it will also make them dissatisfied if they exploit the Tumuts in this way." Yue Tuo was slightly worried.

Dorgon laughed and said, "The Tumuts can still turn the sky upside down, and it would be good if they didn't recruit their soldiers and horses." For the Mongolian tribes, it should be dominated by rigidity, supplemented by softness, and a combination of rigidity and softness. ”

This is the biggest difference between him and Yue Tuo, Yue Tuo is like his voice, with a soft breath, of course, if you think that Huang Taiji will let a person with a soft bone be in charge of the military department, it is a big mistake.

Enter the realm of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhai Zhe ordered Che Feng to lead the ranks, took out a big straw hat with his head, and sneaked into the hundreds of cavalry without showing his body.

The cavalry he recruited and transferred into the pass this time were all Mongols under the command of Che Feng, and none of the Han cavalry were listed. If the Great Khan of Omub had been testing his attitude, his response would have been clear.

Crossing the security fort into the Ming Dynasty, there was a dead silence along the way.

Occasionally, the Jurchen cavalry could be seen galloping back and forth on the avenue, throwing surprised glances at the grain transport team.

After crossing a pass in ten miles of the security fort, the guards blocked the road, and the car Feng stepped forward to negotiate and explain his intentions.

Niu Lu, who was guarding the pass, searched carefully on the mule and horse cart with a pair of bull's eyes, and then looked at the Tumut cavalry escorting, and sent someone to tell Yue Tuo.

A quarter of an hour later, two heralds came to lead the grain convoy to the town of Dolgon's camp, which was the front line of the confrontation between the Jurchen and Ming armies.

Passing under the city of Datong, Zhai Yan peeked at the city in the distance, where there were his family and friends, looking at the posture, the Jurchens would not attack Datong.

Even the wind of the car, this is the second time that the Tumut cavalry has entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and they all look around with curious eyes. They had never seen only the thick walls outside the fortress, but now they had finally touched the world inside the walls.

In the middle of the afternoon, there was a sound of iron hooves on the oncoming avenue, and the herald who led the way saw the banner and said, "Lord Belle is coming, stop!" ”

The food delivery team stopped and stood on the side of the road, and the horsemen wiped a few handfuls of sweat before quickly lowering their heads.

The cavalry stopped, and the red flag was inlaid with Yue Tuo to urge the horse to approach, and the chariot wind came forward to salute.

"Three thousand stone grain, right?" He was somewhat surprised that Omubu Khan would have a cavalry commander he did not know to escort the grain carts.

"A little less!"

Yue Tuo raised his forehead slightly, his eyes swept over, and the Tumuts still had some decent cavalry. There are many horse thieves in the wind department, and they are not recruits, so their temperament is of course different. Zhai Zhe's head hung lower in the crowd.

"Don't delay along the way, the military rations will arrive in the town today!"

The cavalry of the brigade went away, and it was not until the sound of iron hooves disappeared that Zhai Zhe breathed a sigh of relief.

There are dense soldiers and horses near Datong.

A group of Han Chinese walked in turn with their hands tied to a long rope, staggering, their heads and faces, and walked in the direction of the Great Wall. More than a dozen Jurchen cavalrymen followed closely behind with long whips, and from time to time they would shout and curse.

Zhai Yan's heart contracted, trying his best to control his feelings.

It's troubled times! Whether it is the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood in Shanxi, or the people in distress at this moment, they are all announcing this, but this is only the beginning.

At dusk, when the grain convoy was about to arrive in the town, corpses were occasionally seen on the roadside, mostly disheveled women, and the atmosphere was depressing, and the Tumut cavalry did not dare to look at it at will.

A group of white-armored soldiers rushed from the opposite side, shouting for the general: "Is it Tumut's grain team?" ”

"Exactly!"

"Come with me to the baggage camp."

Dolgon's army was strict and close to the front line, and the weather in the barracks was fierce, and the soldiers were swift everywhere.

The baggage camp was on a high ground outside the town, surrounded by a fence, and the mule and horse carts entered one after another, and the cavalry guards were kept out of the gate. Looking through the cracks in the fence, soldiers patrolled back and forth, and many Han Chinese served in the middle of the country, and occasionally the sound of shouting and whipping could be heard.

The coachman drove the grain cart into the baggage camp and was driven out, leaving the Jurchens with the grain cart.

It was getting late, and when the leader of the white-armored soldiers who came with them saw that the grain cart had entered, he pointed to a small hill not far away and said, "You will camp there tonight and leave early tomorrow morning." ”

Che Feng turned his head and saw that it was not far from the baggage camp, surrounded by a newly built fence, guarded by Jurchen soldiers at the door, and Han people were escorted in and out.

"Is that a miscellaneous battalion?" Che Feng asked.

The leader of the white-armored soldiers nodded, and the Jurchen miscellaneous servants were all Han prisoners.

Dolgon deceives people too much! The chariot was furious, the Tumuts supplied it with military rations, and the escort cavalry was placed in the miscellaneous battalion.

The Tumut cavalry slowly entered the miscellaneous camp, surrounded by curious eyes, Zhai Zhe lowered the brim of his hat, he didn't want to be recognized by the Han people and leave a trouble.

The food convoy occupied the northeast corner of the miscellaneous battalion, and no one cared for them, and if they had not carried dry rations, they would have starved at night.

The Han people stopped paying attention to them after looking at them a few times, everyone here had just suffered the pain of destroying their homes, and they were tortured by hard work all day, no different from the walking dead.

Che Feng and Zhai Zhe were chewing dried meat back to back.

Opposite Zhai Zhe was the busy baggage camp, the night was dark, the lights were slowly lit, and there was a bright hall.