Outside Shanhaiguan, east of the Ningjin Line, a group of suspicious guys were ushered in.

Let's say it's a homeless person, I've never seen such a large-scale gang. It's so great that I'm afraid there won't be a few thousand.

Let's say it's an army, and they wear all kinds of clothes, neither armor nor bows and arrows. The cart was carrying farm tools, shovels and pickaxes.

There were originally some peasant households outside Shanhaiguan, but they were sporadic and scarce, and they were mainly concentrated in the west of the Ningjin line. Because of the section from Shanhaiguan to Ningjin Line, Daming's troop control is not bad, and the situation is relatively stable.

Moreover, the Kanto Horse Market is in this area, and the Jurchens do not dare to fool around in this place easily in order to do business with the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, some people in the Central Plains fled to the Guanwai to farm.

But east of the Ningjin line, a large expanse of land is sparsely populated and overgrown with vegetation. Because the strength of the Ming Dynasty is very scarce here, from here to the Heilongjiang River, it is the territory of Jurchen activities.

To the east of the Heilongjiang River is a large area of barren permafrost. Because it is difficult to cultivate, it is even more sparsely populated. Mongols, Jurchens and Russians would go there in the summer to graze and hunt.

They hunt for a variety of wild animals, and they often attack people. The Russians, who had been subdued by the Mongols, reunited after the fall of the Mongol Empire and began to retaliate.

Therefore, when the Russians take the initiative to provoke, they will attack the Mongols and capture people back as slaves. The Mongols were also not easy to mess with, and often launched counterattacks. Therefore, in the tents of the Mongolian nobles, there was no shortage of beautiful slaves with blonde hair and blue eyes.

The Jurchens established the Dajin Kingdom in history, but was later destroyed by the Mongols and the Southern Song Dynasty, and had enmity with the Mongols. Therefore, after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols were careful to hold grudges and gave the Jurchens a lot of small shoes to wear.

The Mongols are cautious and not my nonsense, there is a classification of the people of the Yuan Dynasty as evidence. Mongolian, Semu, Han, Nan.

The Han people of the Southern Song Dynasty were the lowest and were known as the Nanren. But in fact, no matter whether it is the level of education or the level of economy, the south is very high, and the reason why the level is low is because the resistance is fierce and the fighting is hard.

It stands to reason that the Jurchens and the Mongols have been mixed for many years, and the culture and customs are similar, so you just don't give the treatment of a Mongol, at least at the level of the Semu people.

No, the Yuan Dynasty included the Jurchens in the Han Min, that is, the third tranche. Nothing else, because you fought with me and it was fierce.

This is the standard of the Yuan Dynasty to divide the ranks of the people, the longer you resist, the harder I fight, and the lower your status.

Of course, in order not to offend the Mongol readers, it must be added that it is fair and impartial to say that this caution is shared by the ruling class.

Like Zhu Yuanzhang cleaned up Shen Wansan and set heavy taxes for Suzhou, Yangzhou in the Manchu Qing Dynasty for ten days, and Jiading Massacre.

Generally speaking, however, such discriminatory policies will be reduced when the country is stabilized, such as Zhu Yuanzhang's son who revised the heavy taxes on Suzhou, and the Qing Dynasty also attached great importance to Jiangnan after its establishment.

It may be that the Yuan Dynasty's occupation of the Central Plains was a bit short, and it was beaten away before it reached a hundred years, and it did not have time to revise its discriminatory policies, so it left a cautious impression.

This feels like you see Mama Rong pricking two grids with a needle, hating Mama Rong so much that the roots of her teeth itch, and then decades have passed, and you suddenly find that Mama Rong may not be wrong.

But some of them have passed away in the past few decades, and before they died, they thought that Mama Yung was a big villain. The key factor is that you have to live long enough to have a chance to usher in a reversal.

Therefore, the Mongols and the Jurchens were not very friendly at this time, but after all, they were both nomadic people with the same roots, and many times their interests were the same.

For example, robbing the gold and silver treasures of the Ming Dynasty together, forcing the Ming Dynasty to open a horse market to do business together, organizing a coalition to fight with the Russians, and so on.

But for such a trivial matter as robbing the peasants outside the Han Guan, the Jurchens would definitely not call the Mongols together. Because it's like looking down and picking up money, why should you call someone else to share it together?

When these thousands of peasants were divided into several pieces, built houses, gathered into villages, and reclaimed the land, the Jurchen detachment, which had been observing for a long time, set to work.

It has just entered summer, and it is not yet the season to harvest grain, so the only way to grab grain is to grab some rations. The Jurchen Xiaofen pair went for the money of these immigrants.

Nomads have long discovered that farming people have a characteristic, that is, no matter where they go, all their belongings must be replaced with soft and hidden on their bodies.

Even if there are more than 1,000 people in a village, even if each person's belongings are only one tael of silver, which adds up to a lot, it is more than 1,000 taels.

Therefore, a small detachment of 100 cavalrymen, with sabers, roared to the village, and when the people who had cleared the wasteland and cultivated the land gathered in the village for lunch, they first cut down a dog that rushed over, and then shouted with a knife.

"If you don't want to die, hand over all the money, otherwise you will all die!"

The villagers stopped their dishes and chopsticks and turned to look at the Jurchen horse team, and a bearded man looked at the steel knife that was still dripping blood.

"Why did you kill my dog? That's what my woman left me! ”

The leading Jurchen frowned, he hadn't watched the Speed series, and he didn't know if the man in front of him was named John, so he didn't think it was a big problem to kill someone else's dog.

"Yes, if you don't hand over the money, you are such a dog!"

"How dare you kill my dog! Lao Tzu fought with you! ”

The northeastern version of the bloody case caused by a dog was staged, and more than a thousand guys who were still holding hoes at noon suddenly pulled out steel knives and spears from the cart, and the weapons were not enough, and most of them took out sickles and pickaxes.

The Jurchen squad was defeated, and they had never encountered any resistance when they robbed the farmers before, and they all took what they wanted. Even a large village with a large number of people did not dare to resist in the face of a horse caravan.

But these farmers are all guards, although the combat effectiveness as soldiers may not be very strong, but it is by no means comparable to ordinary farmers.

They were outnumbered, and they had a favorable location in the village, and people from nearby villages flocked to the village when they got the news, beating the Jurchen squad to the ground, throwing down more than a dozen corpses and fleeing in the wilderness.

The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he ran a hundred miles east overnight to find his tribe. When the tribal leader heard this, he was furious.

You took a hundred people and were beaten by a gang of peasants? How can this work? If it spreads, how will we collect protection money in the future?

What's more, we have always been not shrewd enough in the horse market, and we all rely on momentum to bargain. If this is heard by the Han people, it will be even more powerful to raise the price and reduce the price in the future!

Incompetent, tomorrow big brother, I will personally lead the team to help you find the field, so that those mud-legged people with hoes and sickles know that in this land, it is always the horseback riders who have the final say!

That night, Yang Zhao, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, also ushered in a special guest, Wen Xuanzhenren, the Great Tomorrow Division, and Xiao Feng, the second assistant of the cabinet, with 300 cavalry from the Beijing Division, and rushed to arrive.

Yang Zhao was originally the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and it was Xiao Feng who wanted to implement the strategy of cultivating outside the customs, so he was directly promoted to the chief soldier of Liaodong and was also in charge of Shanhaiguan.

This time, Yang Zhao is equivalent to being directly promoted from the general soldier of a town to the level of superintendent, which is equivalent to taking a big step, and he is naturally grateful to Xiao Feng for promoting himself.

At this time, when he heard that Xiao Feng was going to personally lead the troops into battle, he was immediately startled, for fear that his backer would be cold before it was hot.

"My lord, the Jurchens are rude and brutal, and they don't know etiquette. The body of an adult's daughter, why bother to go into battle in person, it is enough for the last general to lead the troops! ”

Xiao Feng smiled: "My three hundred cavalry, each of them carries a newly created musket from the World Observatory. Your cavalry is not used to it yet, and it is easy to make mistakes.

What's more, this cultivation outside the customs is my strong advocacy, how many pairs of eyes are staring at it, I personally fight a battle, and I can suppress a lot of voices. ”

Yang Zhao naturally knew that the situation in the court was complicated, but he was still very worried about Xiao Feng's safety, so he made suggestions again.

"If you want to go into battle, you must bring more people and horses. We must fight the enemy with ten times the number of men and horses, so as to be safe. ”

Xiao Feng smiled: "How many people can you have?" It's only tens of thousands. You still have to guard the Shanhaiguan, and the rest of the people and horses are sprinkled on this vast Kanto land, like a pot of soup sprinkled with pepper noodles.

The battle cannot be fought like this, with more and less fighting, and the enemy is not afraid if he wins. In this battle, I want to fight my opponents, so that they will never dare to act rashly! ”

Yang Zhao thought to himself that this bull was a bit big, although I heard that Lord Xiao had beaten the Japanese in Jiangnan, but after all, the Japanese were Japanese and the Jurchens, could they be compared with the Jurchens?

This kind of war of cavalry hedging in the wilderness is very different from the war in the mud pit on the seashore.

But Xiao Feng had already said it so surely, he didn't dare to refute it anymore, so he could only ask Xiao Feng where to fight the first battle, and arrange his own backup troops.

Xiao Feng smiled: "Isn't there a reclamation point that has been attacked today, the other party will definitely bring more people to take revenge, just fight here!" ”

The next day, the cavalry of the entire tribe of the Jurchens assembled, and under the leadership of the eldest brother in the lead, they attacked those villages with great momentum.

On the way, he met the scouting horse of the small detachment, and reported breathlessly: "Big brother, leader, after that battle yesterday, the cavalry team of the Ming Dynasty came, leaving three hundred cavalry. ”

The leader frowned: "What about the rest of the cavalry?" Where has it been, is it close? ”

Tanma shook his head and said, "Our people have been staring at it, and they have gone far away." It seems that there is more than one such settlement, and they have to patrol other settlements."

The leader breathed a sigh of relief: "We have a thousand cavalry!" The other side had only three hundred cavalry plus more than a thousand peasants! If you can't win this battle, just soak yourself in urine and drown yourself! ”

The team leader was slightly suspicious: "Leader, it's one thing for us to intercept and kill the peasants, and if we really fight with the regular army of the Ming Dynasty, the nature is different."

We used to kill the Han people, as long as it was outside the Ningjin line, the Ming Dynasty turned a blind eye. But if you attack the army, will the leaders of the three guards of Jianzhou be condemned? ”

The leader shook his head: "Now Da Ming is not as good as it was back then!" The big leaders of Jianzhou are just kind on face.

Last time Altan Khan hit the capital, Jianzhou Wei pretended to be the king of Qin, went all the way around Shanhaiguan, and grabbed a circle. The soldiers of Shanhaiguan have all been transferred to fight Altan Khan, and the defenders have not left the city at all!

Afterwards, the general army of Liaodong pretended to send troops to conscript, and the big leaders of Jianzhou misunderstood, plus sent some gold and silver, and the situation was calm!

So today, we have our own benefits in winning this battle, if we don't dare to fight, the big leaders will know about it, and they will think we are useless!

We are a small tribe, if we want to get ahead, we have to let the big leaders know our usefulness, and the territory will naturally get bigger and bigger in the future! ”

So a thousand Jurchen cavalry roared excitedly, and rushed all the way to the peasant settlement.

The peasants were plowing the fields, and three hundred cavalry patrolled around the open fields, which seemed to be sprinkled with water.

In this vast world, the Jurchen cavalry felt that they were fighting at home, and they were extremely excited, and a thousand cavalrymen raised their sabers, raising a cloud of smoke and dust from afar, shouting feverishly.

"Lay down our arms, and we will kill a hundred men to avenge the warriors who died yesterday! If you dare to resist, you will kill them all! ”

The leader of the cavalry of the Ming army raised his hand, and three hundred cavalry went around the field, blocking between the peasants and the Jurchen cavalry, in a long row, without charging.

The captain of the Jurchen squad was very strange: "Chief, the cavalry of the Ming army did not flee and did not charge, what is the situation?" ”

The leader laughed wildly: "It seems that the leader of the troops is a fool!" If the cavalry does not charge, it is better to use the infantry! In the face of the cavalry charge, the cavalry stood still and waited for death!

That's why the Ming Dynasty army couldn't do it! Either a civilian officer leads the troops, or a hereditary military attaché!

I heard that some people's fathers died early, and they became military generals at the age of twelve or thirteen, and this kind of hairy child will lead the troops to fight? It's ridiculous!

Look at the guy who led the team, he was really young, what kind of clothes were he wearing, Tsing Yi and white robe, this is what he wears on the battlefield?

There's a neck sleeve around the neck, what the fuck...... It's pretty good! Grab it, I want it!

We Jurchens are all warriors who have fought to become generals, so let them see what cavalry is today! ”

The Jurchen cavalry roared in, and in the blink of an eye it was only five hundred paces away, Xiao Feng waved his raised hand back, and each of the three hundred cavalry picked up his musket from the hook next to the saddle and raised it flat on his chest.

The captain of the squad shouted loudly to the leader, for although they were close, the sound of horses' hooves was like a torrential rain, and it was not so easy to hear anything.

"They have guns! It's a musket! ”

The leader replied loudly: "I'm afraid of a fart, the Ming army musket Lao Tzu has seen it, it is all scrapped as soon as it goes off, I heard that there is a three-eyed firecracker, which can only be used by officers!"

And that thing is not very lethal, and it can't fight far, at this distance, we rushed to the front, and they can't kill a few people! ”

With a bang, Xiao Feng waved his hand down, and one hundred and fifty muskets fired in a volley, because it was too uniform, and the guns rang out at the same time, like cannons.

The Jurchen cavalry fell down more than a hundred people with horses, and the leader was taken aback.

"Why is it so far? Can you kill someone from such a distance? Speed up the charge, they want to change the gunpowder, don't give them another chance to shoot! ”

Rumble! There was another sound, and one hundred and fifty muskets that had not been fired just now rang out. Another hundred centaurs fell to the ground!

"Damn, don't be afraid, they are launching in turns, and they will definitely have to change the dressing now!"

Rumble! Another sound, how could the gunpowder be changed so quickly? The cavalry in the charge looked at the leader in horror, and the leader was also beating a drum in his heart, but at this time there was no turning back from the bow!

Can you still win if you rush forward, and go backward? Cavalry is not infantry, it stops when it says it stops, and it retreats when it says it retreats.

The speed is rushing, and at this time, it is necessary to brake suddenly, which is not only easy to rear-end, but also stampede!

"Warriors, they are holding three-eyed firearms! Up to three clicks! ”

Boom, boom, boom! After three shots, the three hundred muskets had already fired three times in turn, and the 1,000 Jurchen cavalry had fallen, plus the horses frightened by the gunfire, nearly half had been lost, but the remaining 500 cavalry rushed faster!

"The Three-Eyed Fire Gun also has to change the dressing, let's rush up!"

"Lao Tzu is going to slaughter them all today, my brother just fell!"

"Lao Tzu wants to kill first and then kill!"

"They're all men! We saw it yesterday and there are no women in this group! ”

“…… I don't care! What you say must be realized! ”

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

In fact, if they rush forward, the Jurchens may not have no hope of victory. Because they're already very close. At least two hundred people can rush in front of you.

But the closer they get, the more desperate they become. They saw with their own eyes that the Ming soldiers were not holding three-eyed firearms, they pulled the gun after firing a shot, stuffed a thing into it, and then they could shoot again!

What kind of gun is this! Never seen before! The psychological shock brought by the continuous gunfire is even more lethal than the actual one.

At a distance of less than a few dozen paces, facing the muzzle of the black hole, the Jurchen cavalry finally deflected and fled in all directions.

Xiao Feng waved his hand and immediately led the army to chase after him, and the gunfire continued along the way, and the Jurchen cavalry still escaped a lot with their excellent riding skills.

But those who fell from their horses and fell to the ground were swarmed up by the peasants and tied up. The next day, when the cavalry patrol came, they took everyone away.

The Jurchens were not killed, but were escorted by the army to a new piece of land, staring blankly at the farm tools placed in front of them.

The Ming army guarding them was bright and majestic, and the Jurchens looked a lot shorter without horses.

For the first time, they felt up close that the Han people were so tall and majestic, and they used to think that the Han people were weak, because they were always riding on horses, so they naturally looked tall!

"There is an order from the imperial court, and if the Jurchen captives are willing to cultivate patiently and mingle with the Han people, they can be exempted from their crimes. If they refuse, they will be put to death for robbery and murder! ”