Chapter 323

Capital, Cabinet.

Wen Tiren is still the same as before, looking at the nose with his eyes, looking at his heart with his nose, and not moving like a mountain. However, the hand he hid in his big sleeve trembled with excitement.

"The one surnamed Cheng is really afraid that his cavalry will be sent to Datong?"

Wen Tiren was a little incredulous. This is really too stupid, it is true that the cavalry has a strong ability to maneuver, but the problem is that it is more than 700 miles from the capital to Datong, if it is under normal circumstances, it will take two days, but after two days and two nights, this cavalry will become a tired soldier, and I don't even know how many war horses will be injured or exhausted.

But the problem is that the snow is very thick now, generally two or three feet thick, of course, this is just Wen Tiren's own thoughts, if he runs to see him outside the city, the snow is far less thick than the capital, not that the snow outside the city is not as big as the capital, but because of the strong wind, the snow is blown away, scattered in the low-lying areas, just like the mountain torrents formed when it rains. In some places, it looks unremarkable, and the snow may be several meters deep.

Wu Zongda drank tea leisurely, and sneered gloomily: "The surname surnamed was lucky to win a few battles, and he couldn't tell the difference between east and west, north and south, he thought this was also Liaodong?" He can come as much as he wants! Hmph, let a group of cavalrymen who have not been trained for a year or two fight to the death with the Mongolian cavalry on the steppe? It's a shame he figured it out! ”

Wen Tiren shook his head: "Cheng Shijie seems to be reckless, but in fact, he plans and then acts, but this time, the old man really can't think of where he got the confidence, but it is certain that your layout in Datong has been leaked, which makes the surname Cheng smell an unusual smell!" ”

Wu Zongda sneered: "That's him looking for death!" ”

"Have the pigeons been released?"

"It has been released a long time ago, how many troops the surname Cheng used, which direction to attack, Mobei Mongolia knows it clearly, what awaits him and his army will be a net of heaven and earth, his army is easy to get out, but it is difficult to come back!"

Wu Zongda's expression became extremely gloomy and terrifying, and every word he said was filled with infinite hatred, and his tone was like the sizzling sound of a poisonous snake spitting out a letter, which made people chill all over.

Wu Zongda hated Cheng Shijie and gritted his teeth, ostensibly because of Cheng Shijie's rebellious remarks, but in fact it was not the case, Wu Zongda was born in Yixing, an official eunuch family, as early as his grandfather Wu Xing, who was quite famous when he was weak, and was admitted to Jinshi in the fourteenth year of Jiajing (1535 AD), and the official was Shangbao Sicheng. After Zhishi, he did not want to mix in the officialdom, and wrote books and taught his children at home. Under his education and influence, ten people from four generations of a school were admitted to the Jinshi, including one Tanhua.

Yixing Wu has become a first-class family in Yixing since the Jiajing Dynasty, Wu Zongda's uncle Wu Zhongxing, has repeatedly impeached Zhang Juzheng, a bachelor who has been in power, and has earned enough to be upright.

After Cheng Shijie replaced Zheng Zhilong, he began to formulate taxes in a unified manner, but unlike in the Zheng Zhilong era, Zheng Zhilong's protection fee was to watch people cook, some people charged more, and some people symbolically charged a little less, Yixing Wu's Taiping business is in the category of less collection, Cheng Shijie's Ning Navy controls the maritime trade of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and collects hundreds of thousands of taels of silver more taxes from Wu's Taiping business every year, which is for Wu Zongda, this is to cut off Wu's financial route.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, and it must be endless.

"The surname Cheng unscrupulously robbed us of good land and beautiful houses, cut off our financial routes, didn't he rely on his army? He was so arrogant that in less than a year, he almost offended the entire gentry group in the world, and everyone watched with wide eyes, waiting to see his jokes! As soon as he is defeated, the whole world gentry will rise up to attack him, and if he can bite him, even if he can't bite him, he will be bitten bloody! ”

Wen Tiren muttered: "No, if this battle is lost, the surname Cheng will die...... Not only did he offend the gentry of the whole world, but the important ministers of the center were also offended! Now he has an iron-blooded army, and no one can do anything about him, but once his army is wiped out, his end will come! ”

……

On the bank of the Baihe River in Miyun County, in front of the defense line of the Ning Navy, countless Mongolian cavalry wearing stinky leather armor and holding scimitar horn bows were gathering like dark clouds, and in just a few days, tens of thousands of horses were gathered.

Meng En looked at the dense Mongolian army that could not be seen at a glance, and a solemn look appeared on his face.

"Dashuai, you go back to the capital, here is handed over to the last general, the last general can guarantee to hold the White River, as long as the last general still has a breath, a Mongolian Tartar will not want to cross this line of defense!"

Meng En looked at Cheng Shijie with a serious face and said, "Handsome, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall!" ”

Cheng Shijie smiled faintly: "The thoughts of those people in the capital, Ben Shuai can smell it here, Ben Shuai went to the capital, that is to fall into a Jedi, with his brothers, Ben Shuai sleeps steadily!" ”

"But ......"

"Nothing more!"

Cheng Shijie waved his hand and said: "Calculate the time, the Mongols should have received the news of our cavalry dispatch, and they should know that we actually have less than 5,000 men and horses here, and there is no danger to defend." ”

Just as Cheng Shijie was speaking, the sound of a bullhorn was heard in the distance.

"Uh......h Woo......"

The desolate trumpet sounded, and slowly rushed up to the clouds, resounding throughout the camp. The entire camp was suddenly enveloped in a depressing atmosphere, and the officers and men of the Ning Navy behaved as usual, but the common people in the camp showed frightened looks, and the soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition ran up to the ice wall in a neat queue, ready to fight.

Cheng Shijie walked to the front line, he looked at the microphone, and Cheng Shijie's voice came from more than a dozen large speakers: "Soldiers, tell Ben Shuai, who are you!" ”

Thousands of voices roared in unison: "We are Ning Haijun!" ”

Cheng Shijie roared: "What is Ning Haijun?" ”

Admiral Ning roared: "An invincible iron-blooded force! We haven't lost since the day we formed the army! ”

Cheng Shijie was simply roaring: "Do you all remember this? Very good! I hope that after the fight, you can still firmly remember that we are the Ning Navy! We are the Ning Navy that can't be defeated, dragged or consumed! We have fought countless vicious battles, with rivers of blood and heavy casualties again and again, but in the end, it will always be our opponent who is covered with corpses on the battlefield! There is no invincible enemy before us! Whether it is a Tartar or a Jiannu, there is only a wail in front of us, and there is no reason for it, just because we are Ning Haijun! ”

The officers and men of the Ning Navy almost roared in madness: "Great handsome Wansheng! Handsome Wansheng! ”

The roar that came out of the lungs overwhelmed the loud sound of the Mongols' thousands of troops galloping, and everyone's expressions became fanatical and confident, in their eyes, the rolling Mongol army was just a bunch of military medals!

There is no reason at all, just because they are Ning Navy!

"This is decent, Ning Haijun should be like this!"

Cheng Shijie was satisfied, turned his head, looked at the Mongolian army that was sweeping through the field, and sneered: "Come on, come on, the more you come, the better!" It's finally time to go on a killing spree today! ”

Looking at the Ming army guarding the White River, this is not a good thing for the Mongol army. But there is no way, the Great Wall of defense line of the Han nation has been operating for more than 2,000 years, as early as the Han Dynasty has established an extremely complete and efficient defense system, the Great Wall is like a giant python lying across the dividing line between farming and nomadism, no matter which point they attack, they will immediately attract a fierce counterattack.

If the Central Dynasty is internally stable, the Great Wall is an impenetrable line of defense, no matter how many people they come over, they will have a blue nose and swollen face, and only when the Central Dynasty itself falls into chaos first, will they have a chance to cross the Great Wall.

This time in the snowstorm, many Mongolians resigned themselves to their fate, they knew that they could not cross the Great Wall defense line, since the beginning of October, they have been people to the south one after another, but for nearly two months, the Great Wall defense line has not been gnawed.

Until Jing'anbao was inexplicably captured by Kyakhtu, Tushetu Khan Gunbu, Oirat Mongolia and Shuote Taiji, and made solid wood cloth, called Azibatur, Borzigit.

Gunbu knew Kyakhta's true ability, let him hunt or fight more and less, clean up a few small tribes, Kyakhta can complete the task, but Jing'anbao, an important pass, is not Kyakhta can be defeated.

The Mongol army continued to advance until it was only a stone's throw away from the naval line of Baihening before coming to a halt. Surrounded by a group of Mongolian nobles, Gunbu and the others stepped forward to observe the defense line of the Ning Navy at close range.

This line of defense is dominated by ice walls, chest high, this height is very embarrassing for war horses, in the absence of human interference, war horses can jump about one meter and five when charging at high speed, but the problem is that war horses are animals, and the instinct of animals is to slow down when they encounter danger, which means that it is almost impossible to jump over this ice wall.

Behind the ice wall, tall figures stood proudly, the black helmets on the steel helmets, and the black military uniforms, hunting and fluttering in the cold wind, the young faces were nervous, severe, worried, but there was no fear.

The Ning Navy was silent, it was a kind of intimidating silence, the real tiger and wolf army did not need to intimidate the enemy with a hoarse roar.

The great minister under the command of Gon Bu glanced at the Ning Navy camp opposite, he stood in a high position, he could see far away, and he could see more clearly, he smiled and said: "There are more than 3,000 elite soldiers, and 4,000 people!" ”

Gonbu turned the rosary in his hand and read the scriptures without saying a word.

Kyakhtu smiled: "Just such a small person, in the face of our tens of thousands of troops, I'm afraid that we are already scared, and we can take it down with just one charge!" ”

Gonbu waved his hand and said, "Don't act rashly! ”

Among so many people, his pressure is the greatest, because the heavy snow in Mobei has destroyed their homeland, if they can't take the pass, and can't grab food and supplies, their Tushetu Khan will be wiped out, and he can't be careless.

Gunbu opened his eyes: "Heaven has the virtue of a good life, let's send someone to persuade you to surrender, if those Han people are willing to surrender, you can avoid a bloody disaster." ”

Kyakhta commanded a commander to step forward.

The commander of the thousand commanders knew Chinese, and he called in fluent Chinese: "The Ming people on the other side have listened well, and they have angered our Great Khan, and our Great Khan, in his rage, has led 100,000 iron horsemen to attack you!" Acquaintances surrender immediately, hand over food, goods and beauties, you can save a small life, otherwise once we break through the city, there will be no chickens and dogs left! ”

However, at this moment, Cheng Shijie smiled coldly: "Shoot!" ”

More than a dozen Chongzhen eight-year-old bolt-action rifles fired at the Mongolian lady.

"Bang ......"

After a dozen shots, the commander and his horse were punched with more than a dozen holes, neighed wildly, and fell to the ground with a bang, knocking the commander out.

The Mongol army was in an uproar, and the noise was loud.

The two armies are fighting, and they don't cut them off, these Han people don't follow the rules, it's really barbaric!

Meng En said: "Dashuai, you have provoked them!" ”

"All you want is to make them angry! When people are angry, they can make mistakes, even the steppe wolf, which is known for its cunning! ”

Sure enough, Gunbu was furious and ordered an attack on the White River line.

The Mongol army killed a lot of cattle and sheep, and after a full meal, they blew their horns, and a large number of archers galloped in, galloping back and forth around the ice wall of the White River.

It's just that the Mongol army was surprised to find that the muskets of these Ming troops shot very far, much farther than their bows and arrows, even if they were one or two hundred paces away, they could be killed with one shot.

After several rounds of testing, the Mongol army discovered the shortcomings of these Ming troops, that is, these Ming troops had too few muskets, and they began to concentrate their firepower to bombard the defense line of the Ning navy, trying to make a gap in the ice wall.

"Boom ......"

A shot put finally hit the ice wall, shattering the ice wall, and the two Ning Navy soldiers were injured by the flying pieces of broken ice, and their flesh and blood were blurred, but they bit their lips hard and did not say a word.

This is probably a major feature of Ning Haijun, all of them are hard bones, no matter how serious the injury is, they will grit their teeth and keep silent, so as not to affect the comrades-in-arms around them. The pitch-black military uniforms make people unable to see the blood stains on their bodies, and no matter how they grit their teeth and don't scream, it will really give people the illusion that they will never be injured and will never die, and this kind of pressure is also quite high.

But in any case, it was a good start, and the Mongol army cheered loudly, and the artillery, which had already smoked black people, was also greatly encouraged, and fired several more shots, breaking two ice walls.

Then there was nothing they could do, because the barrel of the gun was already hot enough to light a cigarette, and if they continued to reload and fire, they would 100 percent kill themselves.

In fact, the artillery of the Ning Navy has not fired, but only used rifles to block the approach of the Mongolian cavalry, and even the thunderbolts and rocket artillery have not fired, even if the Ning Navy officers and men have not even opened one-tenth of their firepower, the combat effectiveness of these Mongolian armies is not flattering.

Mongolia is no longer the Mongolia of three or four hundred years ago, they are so weak that they can't even compare with the Jurchens, you must know that Mongolia back then, but according to the Jurchens rubbing on the ground.

Even if the Ning Navy officers only used rifles, the Mongols did not take advantage, they were powerless in the face of the Ning Navy's ice wall, even if they smashed an ice wall, but there was an ice wall behind an ice wall, God knows how many ice walls the Ming army had?

In fact, there are only thirteen ice walls that the Ning Navy has built, seven in the front and six in the back, arranged in a circular pattern.

However, after tossing for most of the day, the Mongols still sadly found that they could not break through this improvised defensive line, and they retreated in disarray.

……

Zhangbei, this is an ancient county town with more than 4,000 years, Shang and Zhou dynasties, Zhangbei County including the vast area of northern China is active in a nomadic tribe, when people call it "ghost Fang", Ming Hongwu three years (1370) to set up Xinghe Mansion, four years later for the Yuan base, the government was abolished. In the seventh year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1374), the Ming Dynasty will pull out the blue jade again, and since then Zhangbei County has entered the Ming territory. In the thirtieth year of Hongwu (1397), Zhixing and guarding the thousand households, in the twentieth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1422), it was broken by the Mongols, and then moved to Xuanhua, and Zhangbei County was the Tatar sphere of influence.

However, it is strategically located, bordering Beijing to the southeast, Baoding in Hebei Province to the south, Shanxi Province to the west and southwest, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the north and northwest.

Zhao Wencai led the cavalry of the Ning Navy, each carrying half a month's dry rations, and began to go out of Yanqing Prefecture, after leaving the fortress, he defeated several small groups of Mongolian cavalry, and Zhao Wencai found that these Mongols were very weak in combat effectiveness. The Ning Navy's cavalry could easily defeat their more than 2,000 horses, and after discovering this situation, Zhao Wencai decisively ordered the troops to disperse.

With each total as a unit, more than 1,000 horsemen were separated by more than ten miles, using walkie-talkies to keep in touch at all times, and only after encountering a large number of Mongols did they concentrate their forces to eliminate them.

After arriving in the territory of Zhangbei, the scouts in front found a large group of Mongolian troops, and after reconnaissance, it was found that there were about five or six thousand Mongolian cavalry, they carried cattle, sheep, horses, and carts, and belonged to the tribe of the relocation, and the tribe of five or six thousand people was also a large tribe.

However, without waiting for the Ning Navy to attack, these Mongols discovered the existence of the Ning Navy, in fact, the military uniform of the Ning Navy can effectively blend with the night when attacking at night, but the problem is that in the ice and snow, this is too conspicuous, and it is easy to find it more than ten miles away.

Although Ning Haijun did not make a move, this was the Mongolian cavalry that had already discovered them, and the young and strong in the team were ready to meet the enemy, while the old and weak in the team turned around and ran. The whole team was in chaos. These Mongol men were very valiant, and they were armed with recurve bows and sabers, and they fearlessly charged at the Ning naval cavalry.

However, the problem is that the difference in strength between the two sides is too great, not counting the equipment, even the cavalry that the Ning Navy received the order to come, there are only five or six thousand people, and the victory or defeat has already been known before the battle, and the desperate expressions on the distorted faces can be seen from afar.

"Rush up and kill them!"

Zhao Wencai gave an order, and the cavalry of the Ning Navy surrounded the Mongolian cavalry in the shape of an umbrella, and the distance between the two sides was still more than a hundred steps, and the cavalry rifle of the Ning Navy began to load, and when the distance was sixty or seventy steps, the gunfire rang out like a bean.

The Mongol cavalry's eyes widened in horror, their horn bows couldn't do much damage to each other at this distance! However, the rifles of these black knights can easily do it, the bullets burst into the air, the muffled sound of the bullets tearing the flesh and blood makes people feel chills, the hairy bones are towering, and the screams are loud, and more than hundreds of horsemen and horses are shot into hedgehogs and roll into a ball!

There was no respite, and the second wave of bullets came again! This time the distance was shortened by twenty or thirty paces, even if it was on horseback, the accuracy was even higher, causing even greater damage to these unfortunate Mongols, and more than three hundred horsemen fell as if they were cutting wheat after the rain of arrows swept by.

Finally, the cavalry of the Ning Navy entered the range of the Mongolian horn bow, and a Mongolian warrior wiped out three arrows from the sack with a backhand, and the horn bow was drawn into a full moon shape, swishing three times in a row, and the three arrows were shot out in a line, which was the specialty of the Mongolian cavalry, and the arrows were shot out.

Some good archers shoot arrows even faster than semi-automatic rifles, a bow can be used as several bows, but unfortunately there is no fart, those black-clothed demons are all wearing shiny breastplates and domed steel helmets, and even masks, and the arrows they shoot are nailed to the steel helmets and cuirasses, and sparks splash and bounce off in all directions.

The cavalry of the Ning Navy put away their rifles and raised their sabers, leaving only a dead body in their pass. Zhao Wencai was still not satisfied, and rushed to the Mongolians who were driving cattle and sheep to flee with their lives with these bloodied and murderous subordinates.

There is no warmth to talk about in the war on the steppe, and once lost, often the entire tribe will disappear from the steppe.

At least this tribe is definitely going to disappear from the steppe.

At this time, another group of Mongolian cavalry rushed over in the distance, but unfortunately, they were only here to deliver food, and after a short battle, these two or three thousand Mongolian cavalry surrendered to the Ning Navy.

Qiao Siniang swung her knife and slashed at the Mongolian soldiers who surrendered, ignoring the other party's pleas and cries, and the blood-stained horizontal knife slashed at the heads one by one.

Having won the victory so easily, the cavalry of the Ning Navy were all excited.

Zhao Wencai looked at the more than one or two thousand Mongolian soldiers, he did not give the order to slaughter, but said loudly: "Do you want to die, or do you want to live?" ”

The Mongol soldiers who surrendered shouted: "We want to live, we want to live!" ”

"Very good!"

Zhao Wencai said: "Natou is our own people!" ”

The Mongol cavalry looked at each other, hesitated for only a moment, and then swung their swords at their own men, and some of the Mongol cavalry even caught up with the herdsmen who had fled for their lives, ignoring the pleading and crying of each other, and cut off their heads with a single sword.

Qiao Siniang said: "General, you are ......"

"I'm here to get the job done!"

Zhao Wencai smiled faintly and said: "We have too few people, as long as we absorb Mongolian soldiers, we can complete the task assigned to us by the marshal!" ”

Zhao Wencai's cavalry began to sweep on the east road of Xuanfu, they did not pounce directly on Datong as claimed to the outside world, as Zhao Wencai adopted this method, his subordinates fought stronger and stronger, and in just a few days, the Mongol prisoners of Guangtou Cheng amounted to more than 8,000 people.

(End of chapter)