Chapter 560
It is not the first time that Li Zicheng has come to Helan Mountain, and in the two years that he was chased by Liao soldiers, his footprints were almost all over the entire northwest. He even took his goods and traveled to Hami and Turpan for a generation of activities. If it weren't for the fact that the Ili River Valley was too far away, maybe he would have gone to Ili for a while.
The Abaz Pass is so similar to Hangai Mountain, with two mountains sandwiched between a ravine. The cliffs on both sides are like knives and axes, and if a pass is built here, it will be a nightmare for any army.
Of course, Li Zicheng would not be stupid enough to build a city here, although collecting tolls is a profitless transaction, but this transaction requires strength. In the vast northwest, his more than 2,000 people are really not enough.
The mighty Jungar Mongols pressed down on the entire Western Regions like a mountain. Anyone who dared to oppose Dzungar would be crushed by the powerful Mongol cavalry. In the face of the Mongols, Li Zicheng was as small as lice.
Usually, though, giants don't have much to do with lice. The reason is simple, there are too many lice, and which one bites him, the giant does not know at all.
So the giant will not be able to draw a circle at the place of the incident, and all possible suspects will suffer.
Fortunately, Li Zicheng belonged to the wandering crime. In the aftermath, how the local herders would respond to the Mongols' wrath was not at all on his radar.
After two days of ambush, Li Zicheng still didn't wait for the legendary Mongolian caravan. The spies sent out did not hear from them, and they did not know whether they had been eaten by wolves or by the Mongols.
"Big brother, I don't feel like something is right. It stands to reason that this Mongol should also be coming soon. Why haven't the spies come back yet? Liu Zongmin chewed beef jerky in his mouth and carried a wine bag in his hand. In the past two days, Li Zicheng has been watching the wind in person on the top of the mountain, and Liu Zongmin is very worried that this leading brother will become a wangfu stone.
"I also feel a little awkward, the distance is supposed to be there." Li Zicheng took the wine bag in Liu Zongmin's hand and poured it into his mouth. The milky wine slurry was poured into his mouth, and Li Zicheng wanted to vomit a little.
After more than two years in the grassland, I am still not used to the taste of mare's milk wine. I don't know how Liu Zongmin can drink this stuff, for Li Zicheng, this is swill with a milky taste.
"I'll be waiting for two days at most, and if we don't come, we'll stop. I don't know if Gao Jie has caught Li Yan's bastard, damn it, a leader took the lead in escaping, and the team dispersed if he didn't deal with him. Li Zicheng returned the wine bag to Liu Zongmin and continued to look into the distance, hoping to spot the legendary Mongolian caravan.
Just the day before Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng spoke, Gao Jie returned to the camp with dozens of his men fighting horses.
"Boss Gao, why did you come back so soon?" The little boss who Li Zicheng left to take care of the house saw Gao Jie coming over, and hurriedly ran over to stammer.
"Huh! Li Yan is behind, and he will be there in a while. Gao Jie's horsewhip pointed back, and the little leader naturally looked back.
At the moment when the little leader turned his head, the saber in Gao Jie's hand stabbed out. The knife stabbed into the little boss's neck, and when he pulled it out, he burst out with a stream of bloody arrows.
"Fuck me!" The little minion next to him screamed and immediately turned around and wanted to escape.
Gao Jie raised his hand and pulled the trigger of the short-barreled firebolt.
"Bang!" Only six or seven paces away, the bullet broke the minions' spine, and then pierced through the chest, spurting out a large puddle of blood. The bullet that pierced through it also hit a horse in the butt. The horse neighed and galloped on all fours, knocking over tents, men, and a wheelbarrow along the way. The whole camp was stirred up by this horse, and it was immediately thrown into chaos.
"Kill!" Gao Jie's subordinates changed their faces instantly, and the sabers in their hands were drawn out one after another. The brothers who faced the sunset showed no mercy, the sun shone brightly, and the saber slashed down with an arc of light, and suddenly the blood splattered on the head.
"Boss Gao, what are you doing here?" Some people didn't react, and their bodies had been pierced by the javelins that had been thrown.
At a distance of more than a dozen paces, the power of the javelin is enormous. The people left behind by Li Zicheng didn't have anything like armor at all.
In order to deal with the Mongol caravan guards, Li Zicheng took almost all the men and horses with him. There were only about 100 people guarding the camp, and the small leader who took the lead came with more than a dozen people to greet Gao Jie, but Gao Jie's more than 50 horses were killed by a round of charge, and the rest of the people were holding their heads and running around, for fear of becoming the next ghost under the knife.
As soon as he ran back to the camp and shouted twice, he saw Xing running out with more than a dozen men. Xing was carrying a cold and shining knife in his hand, and the little minions saw the backbone of the main heart and ran over one after another.
"Madame! Oh no, Gao is crazy, he will kill ...... when he sees someone! Before he finished speaking, the knife in Xing's hand had already stabbed him in the stomach.
Xing's wrist flipped and twisted, and the knife in his hand was pulled horizontally. A huge wound was immediately pulled out of the stomach, and when Xing drew the knife out, the weak intestines also flowed out.
The little minion looked at his intestines, and then at the bloody knife in Xing's hand, and was so shocked that he forgot to scream.
"Kill!" Xing shouted, and immediately turned into a female tiger. A long knife in his hand, he will cut people when he sees them. These guys can be regarded as licking blood from the knife edge, and few of them are enemies.
The dozen or so people behind Xing were also slashing wildly. Those who had just escaped Gao Jie's pursuit were immediately stunned. They don't understand what the hell is going on.
Gao Jie's men turned their horses and killed them again, and the horses slaughtered wildly in the camp, and the screams rang out one after another.
The two groups merged together, and in only a quarter of an hour, they slaughtered all the people Li Zicheng left behind to take care of his family. The remaining two dozen or so people saw that they couldn't run out, and they couldn't resist, so they simply knelt on the ground and begged Xing and Gao Jie to spare their lives.
Originally, it was a rogue, and he did it with whoever he did.
"Anyone who wants to go with me ......!" Gao Jie saw that there were several people who were very stubborn to himself on weekdays, and he couldn't bear to kill them all.
"Kill them all!" As soon as the knife in Xing's hand was slashed, more than fifty people rushed up, and the knife and axe slashed and turned the more than twenty surrendered people into a pile of meat sauce.
"No need, they all ......!" Gao Jie was a little scared when he saw Xing covered in blood. Is this a fucking human or a tigress!
"These are the most reassuring people in Li Zicheng, and they are also the most loyal people to him, do you think they will follow you? If one runs out halfway, we're all doomed.
The big guys are going to pack up their things and lead the horses! Bring the horses here! Xing shouted at everyone to work, there are more than 100 carts of things here, which is not a small amount. I'm afraid it will take a day to pack it alone.
"No!" In view of Xing's female might, the big guy responded with a "promise" and dispersed. The set of cars, the move of things.
"There's not much time, let's hurry." Xing ignored Gao Jie and returned to his tent on his own. Although I have packed some things in the past few days, there are not many things that have not been packed. In the future, when you go to Guanzhong, you will need a large amount of money, and Xing is not ready to leave a copper coin.
Gao Jie choked for a moment, and now he knows what it means that women are more ferocious than men.
More than 200 miles away, Li Zicheng didn't know anything about it. He was still waiting for the arrival of the Mongol caravan, but alas. The Mongol caravan did not come, but the Mongol army did.
At dusk, tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry suddenly appeared in sight. Several horsemen galloped on horseback, ran under the mountain pass, and threw out several heads. Don't even think about it, this must be the head of those spies.
Obviously, this time the raid has been exposed, and the other party sent so many cavalry out, but he didn't intend to let himself go back alive.
Geldan looked at the Abaz Pass in the distance, and wondered whether to thank or hate these people.
Two months ago, Baturhun received a message. It was not the Khalkha Mongols who ambushed the monks, but a group of Han Chinese horse thieves wandering in the steppe. At first, Baturhun didn't believe it was true.
The 300 cavalry led by the monk are all good among the cavalry of the Jungar headquarters. How could he be defeated by the Han people, the monk is not a fool, even if the other party is ten times as many as them, can't he still run if he can't beat it?
In order to confirm this news, he still asked Geldan to check it out to see if it was true. If true, Gerdan needs to avenge his brother's death.
What a coincidence! Someone betrayed several spies, caught them and tortured them. Geldan actually asked, it was this group of Han people who attacked the eldest brother monk. The location, time, and manner of the ambush are exactly the same. And this horse thief actually wants to ambush his caravan.
Hearing this, Gerdan hated it. He decided to catch the horse thieves himself, not only to avenge the eldest brother monk, but also to let the father see his own methods. To this end, he dispatched all 20,000 cavalry under his command. Although there were some suspicions of using a knife to kill chickens, Geldan decided to do so.
This time, he wasn't prepared to let any of the group run away.
Surrounded by 20,000 cavalry, the entire Abaz Pass was surrounded like an iron pass. Under the sunset at dusk, everywhere the eye can see, there are the shadows of the Mongolian cavalry.
"Big boss, it's bad that the Mongols have discovered us." The wine sacs in Liu Zongmin's hands fell to the ground. With so many people, there is no way to escape. Moreover, the Mongol cavalry on the opposite side, if they bite the Ouroboros and pursue, they will have no way to survive at all.
"I'm not blind!" Li Zicheng was so angry that his head smoked. It's all this time, and I'm still talking like this. Now he thinks it's a fucking trap. A trap against him!
No matter how many Mongols there were, it was impossible to send so many people to encircle and suppress him. The only possibility is ......, and the interception of the Mongol caravan was exposed.
But just robbed a caravan and needed such a large-scale revenge?
"What should I do?" A leader is about to collapse, and there are so many people on the other side, it is impossible to escape.
"Lao Tzu ......!" Li Zicheng wanted to say that Lao Tzu knew what to do, but the words came to his mouth and swallowed back. His leading brother, when he said this, the morale of the army was completely dispersed.
"It's getting dark, let's kill them in the middle of the night when they're negligent." Until now, he can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor. Running out one counts as one!
"There are so many Mongolian cavalry, can we kill them?" Liu Zongmin once again showed an ultra-low IQ.
"Then you stay here and die!" Li Zicheng's nose was almost crooked, if it weren't for the fact that the enemy needed a fierce general like Liu Zongmin at the moment, he would have wanted to cut him immediately.
Geldan looked at the Abaz Pass in the distance, and several people were spotted in the telescope. It's too far away, and these people are just black spots.
"Why didn't His Royal Highness the Prince order someone to attack?" Dolgon also looked at the Abac Pass in the distance, put down his binoculars and asked.
"Huh! The Abac Pass is densely wooded, and a strong attack is bound to lose a lot of manpower. If we surround us like this, they will definitely escape on their own. It's like hunting, you always have to scare the rabbits so that they can run out of the meadow.
When they get out, that's when we start shooting. Mr. Dolgon, don't you Jurchens hunt like this? "Geldan has great respect for the Jurchen leader who has defected, this man is always wise, and he can make very powerful firearms.
Whether it is to win the heir or to dream for himself in the future, Geldan needs such a person. All this time he was deliberately close to Dorgon, hoping to get this man into his account.
"His Royal Highness the Prince's idea is very good, and now these people are like rabbits about to be frightened. If my guess is correct, they should break through at midnight. Moreover, it is still a mountain road to the west. Because only there were they able to play to the superiority of the cavalry. ”
"Oh, I agree that they broke through the mountain road to the west. But why do you say it's at midnight? Gerdan asked Dolgon curiously.
"The Han people have a strange book called "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which tells the story of the melee in the last years of the Han Dynasty. In that book, most of the sneak attacks and breakouts took place at midnight, which is what they Han people usually call the third watch in the middle of the night.
The power of habit is strong, so I'm sure they'll break through at midnight. "Dolgon is very confident.
"Good! Just follow the words of the gentleman. If the gentleman is right, I will give him the best war horse. Gerdan smiled and commanded.
"I also asked His Royal Highness the Prince to arrange an ambush on the path, and the Han people also have a habit, that is, the officials always want to attract the attention of others, and they run away." Dolgon's smiling suggestion that he knew far more about the Han Chinese than the ten-year-old boy.
The Mongol cavalry was most familiar with hunting. When Genghis Khan went west, he was fighting while hunting and supplying military supplies. 20,000 people fighting 2,000 people is simply hunting.
"Fuck it!" Glancing at the bright moon in the sky, Li Zicheng scolded.
He had never hated the moon so much!