Chapter 197: The Tartar on the Move
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Mud Bombardment of Kai:
This region, full of rugged barren mountains and dense forests, where the Kai Tiger Takeda Shingen once gave birth, has completely changed its appearance.
A large number of tall and burly men with fierce faces, speaking tongue-twisting Jurchen or Mongolian Tatars, riding dwarf war horses made in the mud, katana with narrow waists and rudimentary bamboo bows, galloped through the mountains and wilderness.
Wherever these Tartar soldiers went, whether it was a city, a checkpoint, or a village, all the local peasants saw these people, and immediately threw down their work with horror on their faces, and fell to their knees. The few who did not salute in time were immediately greeted by a headless whip and the shouting and scolding of the Tartar soldiers.
Since Oda Nobunaga began to buy a large number of Tartar slaves from the Goho fleet, the "inexpensive" and highly effective Tartar slaves have swept the entire mud bomb in a short period of time. Countless daimyo used it as an important combat power and cannon fodder, and purchased it in large quantities from the Goho fleet at all costs. Nearly 80,000 Tartars were sold to the Mud Bomb by the Goho fleet, and in some of the Daimyo's territories, the number of Tartar soldiers even exceeded the number of local Mud Bombardment soldiers.
The Tartars are a group of immature wolf cubs, the weak are called slaves and servants, and the strong are burned and plundered by thieves: as a large number of Tartars are sold to the mud bombardment, the number of Tartar soldiers and their position under the command of the various daimyo of the mud bombardment. Rapid improvement and growth have also led to the rapid expansion of the ambitions of these people – they want to build their own country.
In 1573, Takeda Shingen, the tiger of Kai, died of illness, and by this time the number of tartars in the entire mud bombardment had exceeded 60,000. Among them, Oda Nobunaga already has a full 20,000 young and strong Tartars, and the leader of these people, Suo Etu, secretly conspires against the Oda family and occupies Kai to stand on his own.
Later, as Suo Etu took the lead in raising the banner of Tartar independence, and took advantage of the opportunity of Oda Nobunaga's army to attack Kai, he stood behind many important fortified castles of Kai, such as the Hesitation Pavilion and Takatenjin Castle. Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu had to temporarily retreat with their troops, and the Tartars succeeded in taking control of Kai.
Suddenly the whole mud bombardment was in chaos, and a large number of Tartars rose up one after another, and they killed the daimyo and the mud bombardment locals in their own powerful area. Crazy plundering of property, food and weapons, horses. Most of them went to Kai in droves to join Suoetu. A few people simply gathered a group of men and horses, killed the local weak daimyo or lord, and established themselves as kings or fled into the mountains to become bandits.
The roof leak happened to rain overnight, and at this time, the whole mud bombardment broke out on a large scale. A large number of devils are bewitched by temples such as Honganji. Riots were launched. They attacked the Tartars who burned and looted everywhere, and they also attacked the daimyo who had ruled them before, a whole group of madmen.
In this way, the whole mud bombardment was completely messed up into a pot of porridge. Countless daimyos, Ichichi, and Tartars fought each other in wars and frenzies, and finally until Oda Nobunaga was burned to death by Akechi Mitsuhide at Honnoji Temple. Toyotomi Hideyoshi reluctantly reached an agreement with several central figures in the Tartars to recognize the Tartars' rule over Kai.
During this time, at least more than 100,000 devil locals and more than 50,000 Tartar old and weak women and children, as well as young and middle-aged people, died in this melee that swept the entire mud bombardment. In the end, the Tartars who succeeded in occupying Kai only had more than 30,000 troops, and were seriously short of food and weapons, and were finally forced to retreat in Kaifei, while frantically enslaving and oppressing the local devils, mining gold mines and exchanging materials with the merchants of the Wufeng fleet, while constantly recruiting Tartar warriors from all over the country to expand their strength.
Hesitation Hall:
"Suo Etu, those dwarf monkeys actually gave us orders? Let's go to Korea to fight, it won't be to fight that Yama King again, right? Why should we follow his orders, that guy named Toyotomi Hideyoshi is not capable of fighting us at all" Butler said lazily lying on the mat, looking at the letter in the center with disdain.
"Haha I'm not going to bother with the monkey, but should we give him a warning? I heard that the monkey's mother-in-law, Yodo-kun, is now playing in the area of Mikawa, and the woman is said to be very symbolic! With a cold smile, Suo Etu quickly said.
"Bayer, you take 300 men to pretend to be horse thieves and set out overnight, and go to the Three Rivers to burn and loot. Remember, we only need to kill people and take the monkey's wife away, and don't do anything else, our territory is too small, and it's really not interesting to be a mountainous area. Now that monkey is busy fighting the king of Yama in Korea, we should take the opportunity to expand our territory" Speaking of the king of Yama, Suo Etu and all the Tartar generals present couldn't help but shudder.
In the hearts of all the Tartars, King Yama is probably synonymous with evil ghosts and invincible, even if their strength has greatly increased now, the fear of Li Rusong in their hearts is still increasing.
"Aobai, you give an order to go down and collect all the grain, and every village and every slave must send out the young men of the family, bring their own dry food and weapons, and assemble in the High Heavenly God City in three days. Shuerhaqi, you immediately select three thousand cavalry to go to the High Heaven God City overnight, and I will personally lead the army to arrive after a while" forcibly suppressed the huge fear of Li Rusong in his heart, Suo Etu continued.
There is no impermeable wall in this world, and the news that Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent a large army to invade Korea and was defeated by Li Rusong in Korea at the same time has already spread throughout the mud bombardment. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was eager to regain his disadvantage and reoccupy the whole of Korea, and then watched on Liaodong, decided to hire Tartar soldiers to lure these unruly guys to North Korea as cannon fodder, and at the same time take the opportunity to weaken their strength in the mud bombardment, and see the opportunity to eliminate this cancer in one fell swoop.
It's a pity that the monkey thinks very well, but it's impossible to do it in practice, and the scheming Suo Etu saw through Toyotomi Hideyoshi's plan to kill people with a knife, and at the same time he also saw the current situation of the devil's lack of troops in the mud bombardment.
"As long as we occupy more land, we can plunder more mud bomb women, and the children born to these women will become the best warriors in the future. Although their bloodlines are not pure, they can at least make up for our lack of troops, and at the same time gain more possessions and slaves. Now Toyotomi Hideyoshi's main forces are in Korea, and although Tokugawa Ieyasu and Uesugi Keikatsu are not in Korea, there are still a large number of troops and generals stationed in their territory, and we can unite these people and take advantage of this God-given opportunity to make a good profit" Drinking the pot of sake in front of him in one go, Suo Etu said with a red face.
"Ha Lu Ha Ha My warriors, three for each is simply not enough, we need to lay more land so that our warriors can enjoy the mud bombardment women! Hearing this, a rough Mongolian man couldn't help but raise his head and said with a smile.
In terms of combat effectiveness, strength, and courage, the Tartars were far superior to most of the mud bombardment soldiers, and they basically fought with a desperate style, burning and looting corpses everywhere they went. The entire Mud Bombardment Tartar soldiers were so famous that many of the Mud Bombardment Daimyo armies did not even have the courage to fight the Tartar soldiers. And the ordinary mud bombardment locals are not to mention, in order to survive, they are grandchildren more than the most honest grandsons in front of the Tartar soldiers, as long as the other party says a word, even if they take their old lady to filial piety, these people do not hesitate.
In the eyes of the Tartars, a man can't even protect his own woman, so he is not worthy of being a man at all, and at the same time they also see the weakness and shamelessness of the mud bombardment people - the Han people, most of the Han people at least know how to resist, in order to protect their wives and children, they dare to fight with the great Mongol and Jurchen warriors. These dwarfs are good, they don't care about their own lives or anything else, such things are like rats on the steppe: obscene and timid, not worthy to be allies of the great Mongols and Jurchen warriors, only worthy of being the lowest slaves!
With Suo Etu's order, the Tartars who occupied the entire Kai began to get busy, and the entire Kai battle clouds were thick. The Gomine fleet, which was still operating along the coast of Echigo, also took advantage of the opportunity, and a large amount of ordnance and food was sold at an incomparably high price, and a large amount of it flowed into Kai.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi didn't know about this, because he had recently received even more unpleasant news: Yukinaga Konishi, Kiyomasa Kato, and Yoshihiro Shimazu were killed in battle, and their bodies were hung on the gates of Pyongyang, North Korea!
"Bagaya Road! These Ming people deceived people too much, and they dared to abuse the corpses of the great mud bombardment warriors like this, and I would break them into pieces! Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was embarrassed and angry, completely lost the calmness and elegance that he deliberately showed in front of ministers and officials on weekdays, and the whole person jumped up and down like a big monkey, roaring and roaring to vent his emotions.
"Huh, immediately send someone to contact the Wufeng fleet, I have a big deal to do with them, and after the matter is completed, I will allow them to become the imperial merchants of the Mud Bomb Emperor, and they will never need to pay any taxes!" After a long breath, Toyotomi Hideyoshi said to Ishida Mitsunari, who had been standing aside.
"Your Highness Taige, are you really looking for those people? These people are also from the Ming Kingdom, and they are not reliable! Hearing this, Ishida Mitsunari was startled at first, and then said with a worried face.
"Alas, there is no way, our army is now defeated by the Ming people on land, but the main force is still able to defeat the Ming army. The key is the reinforcement and dispatch of our rear, but now that guy Yi Sunsin is really powerful, our sailor is not his opponent at all, so he can only let these Ming merchants help" Speaking of this, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's face was a little more proud, and the whole person returned to his usual elegance and calmness.
"Let the Wufeng fleet and that guy from Yi Sunsin die, we just need to sit on the sidelines and watch the show!" (To be continued......)