Chapter 38: Feints

Zhu Gui did want to carry out disaster relief three days later, and it was issued in the form of a public announcement.

Due to natural disasters, several prefectures and counties near Yunzhou have poured a large number of victims here.

Their first stop was Yingzhou.

According to Hu Shidao's investigation, the ultimate target of these victims is Datong Province.

On the day he received this information, Zhu Gui summoned officials in Datong Mansion and representatives of the Datong Chamber of Commerce.

He told everyone this information, and everyone present was terrified.

In their view, the victims of the disaster are equivalent to the beasts of the flood, which will only destroy the existing order of Datong Province.

For this reason, they did not hesitate to take out some money to help the victims in the name of the Datong Chamber of Commerce, and what they wanted was to let these victims stay in Yingzhou.

This is actually Zhu Gui's purpose, to let these businessmen pay for it.

But he had a very different view of the victims.

Population is equal to productivity, equal to army.

And according to the information currently available to the Chamber of Commerce, Yingzhou is an important production area of coal mines.

If these people are left there, providing them with a secure job is an important part of the response.

However, Zhu Gui naturally did not forget the movements of the Mongols.

Fortunately, with the help of Hu Shidao, he easily understood the plans of the Mongols.

So on the third day of the disaster relief meeting.

Acting Wang Zhu Gui took the princess Xu Miaoqing and fifty government soldiers and some representatives of the Datong Chamber of Commerce to Yingzhou.

He was accompanied by a hundred households from the garrison of the guard and two hundred soldiers under him.

Of course, there are more than 20 truckloads of food and other daily necessities.

The first fifth of the roads are newly renovated official roads, which are relatively easy to walk.

However, the road behind was full of ravines, which slowed down the team's march.

Zhu Gui came to the carriage at the back of the convoy, opened the curtain and walked up, and said to Xu Miaoqing inside: "The sky is cloudy like this, it seems that it will rain again, why don't you go back first?" ”

Xu Miaoqing glanced at the outside of the carriage and said, "I know you must have something to hide from me, so I must follow you." ”

Zhu Gui sighed helplessly, he didn't know how Xu Miaoqing found the clues.

At this moment, a birdsong suddenly occurred not far away.

This is the alarm sound that he and Hu Shidao agreed on, which means that the Mongols are nearby.

"There is a situation, you don't get down in the carriage."

Zhu Gui jumped out of the carriage, asked the soldiers to release the carrier pigeons, and then organized the convoy to form a rejection formation on the road.

Soon, the neighing of war horses was heard not far away.

Hundreds of Mongol cavalry roared in.

They began to run around the convoy.

I don't know if it was because of the fear of firearms in the ranks, but this time the Mongol chieftain did not show up.

Zhu Gui commanded his soldiers to protect the sides of the convoy and began to shoot at the Mongols.

The two sides did not say much, and the battle began to heat up.

On a hillside not far away, several Mongol chieftains were looking this way.

"The first team went up, and the resistance of the Ming people didn't seem to be very fierce, but their firearms were really powerful."

"Is the prince of the Ming people in it? As long as he is caught, Datong Mansion will be self-defeating. ”

None of these people had seen Zhu Gui, and they only knew that this acting king was not very old.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that these Ming people were actually well-founded when they were raided by them, and even those merchants didn't have the slightest panic.

How did he know that these merchants were actually pretending to be soldiers of the royal palace.

And they did not take out their weapons at this time, but they were only afraid of scaring the Mongols away.

However, the Mongols' bows and arrows are also very good, and people around Zhu Gui are constantly falling.

Even he had two arrows stuck in his body, and if it weren't for the body armor to protect him, he would have hung a lottery.

But even so, he is still holding on, and he has always maintained a stalemate in the war situation.

Neither scare the Mongols away, nor let the front collapse.

This mere 100 men fought back and forth with 200 Mongols, which made the Mongol chieftain finally decide to press the reserves up.

Even they came to watch the battle up closer.

At this time, Zhu Gui realized that as soon as the time came, those government soldiers disguised as merchants immediately took out flintlock pistols from the car and joined the battle group.

Even Xu Miaoqing jumped out of the carriage and stood beside Zhu Gui.

She snatched the flintlock pistol from the crowd of government soldiers next to her and fired a shot in the direction of Hei Muhan.

The shot hit Kurokihan's hat, causing him to fall off his horse.

Xu Miao stomped her feet clearly.

"Alright, look at me."

Zhu Gui lifted a carriage, and he actually pulled all the Hongyi cannons.

The Mongols have not yet reacted.

Just listen to a loud bang.

The carriage was directly torn apart.

However, the Mongol cavalry on the opposite side was also blown to pieces, and immediately scattered and fled.

This cannon sounded the clarion call for a counterattack.

The soldiers no longer stayed, and the bullets were like a death rush, constantly harvesting the lives of the Mongols.

And the hundred households finally completed the siege of the remaining Mongols.

Before he could understand what was going on, he was pulled onto his horse by one of the tribe's cavalrymen and ran off into the distance.

In the end, of the more than 500 Mongolian cavalry, only more than 100 ran back to the steppe.

Zhu Gui did not let people pursue, quickly cleaned up the battlefield, and went to Yingzhou.

This brief confrontation lasted less than an hour, and the government soldiers also suffered more than a dozen casualties.

And that's when they have full-body iron armor.

The Mongols were also very good at bows and arrows.

"Why didn't you chase it?"

Xu Miaoqing jumped on Zhu Gui's horse and took the initiative to ask.

"We still have business to do, not to mention, the rest of the people can be left to your brother."

Zhu Gui said.

"My brother? yes, I wonder why my brother didn't come with us, it turned out to be something you designed to do. ”

Xu Miaoqing suddenly realized.

……

On the steppe, the Blackwood tribe.

At this time, the Blackwood tribe was full of traces of burning.

When Heimuhan returned to the tribe with a dozen cavalrymen, he was dumbfounded when he saw this scene.

Just as he was kneeling on the ground and at a loss, a group of cavalry suddenly rushed out of all directions.

Hei Muhan was shocked.

By the time he saw clearly, his people had already been subdued.

Xu Yingxu walked out of the crowd.

"You're the Khan of the Blackwood Tribe?"

Hei Muhan's eyes widened with rage, and he couldn't wait to eat the Ming people who killed his people in front of him.

Xu Yingxu just waved his hand.

"Take it back and give it to the acting king."

After this battle, more than a dozen small and medium-sized tribes around Datong Mansion were swept away.

This is also the first time that the Datong Mansion Health Institute has taken the initiative to attack and won a great victory since its establishment.

Soon, several letters were transmitted to Nanjing.

In the Jinluan Palace, after a few dull days, there was finally a burst of laughter.

"It is worthy of being a descendant of my Zhu family."