"Baaa......"

On the Autumn Yellow Steppe, a low hill rises out, becoming a hill separate from the Kharavin Mountains in this steppe.

This hill is more than 100 feet high, and it is the Uryanha Mountain where the Uryanha people take refuge all year round.

There are small rivers in the mountains, and although the runoff is not large, it is enough for hundreds of thousands of people to drink water and graze their cattle every day.

At the foot of the mountain, at the gate of a wooden village built by herdsmen cutting down trees, a hundred households looked at the sun that had set, and then looked at the rope on the wooden frame on the side, turned his head and asked:

"It's been three days, why haven't they come back in Ulaanbari?"

"It should be too far away to graze, leave them alone." Sitting at the door of the wooden village, a thousand households did not care.

After all, the Mongols are nomadic people, and sometimes there is not enough pasture in the nearest place, so they naturally have to graze in farther places.

Some people graze too far and are afraid that they will have to walk so far the next day, so they will set up tents in the same place until the cattle and sheep are fed round.

If you go out to graze for three days and don't come back, it's nothing, and if you calculate the distance, you'll graze dozens of miles at most.

"I heard that there was a war in the south, and many people ran to the north."

When the hundred households heard what the thousand households said, they also sat on a horse and talked about the things in the south: "Looking at it this way, many people estimate that they can't raise fat cattle and sheep, and they have to be punished by the Taiji." ”

"What do you care about what they do, it's a big deal to go north and catch them if they die!" Chiho grinned:

"It's a pity that the southern soldiers in the south are not easy to deal with, otherwise the southern people are the best slaves, they are tall, powerful, and good at work."

"I have met people from Oirat, and they say that the tribes of Qinghai can often raid from the mountain passes, and the people who come back, whether they are Mongols, Hui or Han, are tall and strong."

"It's better to use them to farm than our serfs......" said Qianhu and looked at the wooden village.

I saw that thousands of acres of fields had been opened up in the wooden village, and these fields were planted with grains.

In the fields, many serfs who had just finished their day's work were leaving with stone tools.

They are short and thin in stature, not to mention thinner than the Han people in the south, or even the Jurchens in the northeast.

"I don't know if I can eat mutton in winter this year......"

Looking at the group of serfs, the hundred households couldn't help but crave the taste of meat.

Different from the Mongols who eat meat every day as the Han people in the south think, on the grassland, it is the treatment of Taiji who can kill one sheep a day to open meat, like ordinary herdsmen, they can eat one or two sheep all year round, even if it is an official person like Baihu and Qianhu, they can only eat one sheep every month.

On a normal day, their main diet is all kinds of wild vegetables, mushrooms, and small game from hunting, as well as various dairy products obtained from herds.

As for cattle, they are a precious labor force in the south and in the grasslands, so they are not easily slaughtered.

To use a loose analogy, livestock is the principal, and the milk provided is the interest, and there are very few losers who eat the principal and do not care about the interest.

After all, agriculture is not absent from the grasslands, but it cannot be popularized on a large scale because of the climate.

Even nomadic herders still have to ingest carbohydrates, and if they don't have enough carbs, it will become difficult to give birth, and the malnutrition of the babies and young children they give birth to alone is enough to wipe out a tribe.

The Mongols went south to destroy the Jin and Song dynasties, and occupied Hebei and the world for only more than 100 years, but it was in this 100-plus years that the Mongols expanded rapidly from more than 800,000 people during the Genghis Khan period to more than 4 million people.

The stability of the traditional farming areas was the basis for the rapid expansion of the Mongols' population.

It's a pity that with the uprising of the Red Turban Army and Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition, the Mongolian population began to decrease.

Especially when Emperor Yuan Hui fled north, a large number of Mongols in Guannai were left behind, which finally led to the Mongols under the Northern Yuan Dynasty not as many as the Mongols under the Ming Dynasty.

The Mongols living in the territory of the Ming Dynasty were still able to reproduce normally, but many of the Mongols who fled back to the north were wiped out by the Ming army's repeated northern expeditions.

Because of this, although it was the current period of mutual discrimination between Han and Mongolia, there were still Mongols who went south to defect to the Ming Dynasty, because compared with the two, the situation of the Ming Dynasty was obviously much better than that of Mobei.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, due to internal corruption, a large number of Han people fled north to join the Mongols, because the Mongols did not oppress so much.

The relationship between the two is very complicated, and the people do not have so many family and country righteousness, and they expect to live a good life.

Therefore, during the Hongwu period, the phenomenon of northern Mongols fleeing south was very serious, and many Mongols were strictly guarded, just to prevent them from escaping successfully.

Sitting at the door of the wooden village, hundreds of households seem to be able to smell the smell of meat eaten by the nobles in the wooden village.

Swallowing his saliva, he continued to sit at the gate of the village with Qianhu, and outside the wooden village, there were ordinary herdsmen who had been isolated.

Because it was still late autumn, many herdsmen were still nomadic in the south, and there were not many Mongols in the Uliangha Mountains, and the number of soldiers and herdsmen combined was only seven or eight thousand.

Their vigilance is weak, as Urra-Hassan has not been exposed to war for many years.

Because of this, as the sky grew dark, many of them lazily returned to their tents, and even if the thousand households only arranged for a hundred men to patrol the camp, they took the rest of the soldiers to rest.

When they were lazy, Zhu Gaoxu and the others had already eaten and drunk enough, and followed the dung grazing by Ulaanbari and others to Wuliangha Mountain.

From unitary time to sub-hour, they finally saw a piece of fire on the horizon.

"The whole army retreats five miles to rest, and the time is right!"

On horseback, Zhu Gaoxu raised his hand to signal the whole army to retreat, just because they were too close to the Mongolian camp at the foot of the Uliangha Mountain, and it was easy to startle the snake.

Due to proper nutrition and the bright night light tonight, night blindness is rarely seen in the Bohai Navy.

In the last battle of Hadaling, many Uliangha people were also looking for the fire of Zhang Chun and others, and when the two sides fought to the woods afterwards, many Uliangha people did not dare to come forward because of night blindness, which allowed Zhang Chun and them to support peace.

After learning that the Uliangha people had night blindness, Zhu Gaoxu naturally would not let go of the method of night raids.

Last time, Haragu used a night attack to attack Hadaling, and this time he attacked at night to dig out Haragu's hometown.

Ordering the army to retreat and rest, Zhu Gaoxu took Lin Su and Zhang Chun to step forward cautiously and stopped about three miles east of the Wuliangha camp.

"Looking at the firelight and the number of tents, there should be more than five thousand people."

Looking at the camp, Zhu Gaoxu judged the situation in the camp, and at this time a Bohai soldier spoke in Mongolian, Zhang Chun and the others did not understand, but Zhu Gaoxu listened to a rough idea.

He explained to Zhang Chun and others: "Gan Bara said that the people outside here are ordinary herdsmen, and there is a wooden village in the place they surround, where there are thousands of acres of fields, and this nobleman lives. ”

"The number of troops guarding here is generally around two thousand to three thousand."

"That's it?" Zhang Chun grabbed the handle of the knife when he heard this: "Then what are we waiting for, just lead the troops to surround it!" ”

"Don't be in a hurry...... Lin Su held down Zhang Chun, he glanced at the camp, and then said to Zhu Gaoxu:

"Your Highness, it's easy to hit here, but how to prevent the herdsmen from escaping, and it's the problem to ventilate the people in the south."

"Well......" Zhu Gaoxu observed the camp for a while, and then spoke: "Two thousand cavalry are cruising outside, don't let one go, more than two thousand horse infantry rushed to kill, all the people outside this wooden village are ordinary herdsmen, and there are not many men even if you count the soldiers." ”

"Let's go, go back and have a good rest, wait a little longer, it's time for us to get rich."

Zhu Gaoxu got up and walked back, and Zhang Chun, Lin Su and others also followed.

After spending a quarter of an hour returning to the Bohai naval camp, Zhu Gaoxu and Fu Rang told him about the situation in Wuliang Hashan, and ordered Zhang Chun and Lin Su to lead a thousand cavalry to cruise out at all times.

As for him and Fu Rang, they led more than 2,000 horse infantry to directly attack the camp when Zhang Chun and Lin Su were cruising.

After discussing everything, Zhu Gaoxu and the others lay down and rested.

During this time, some people fed the horses, others groomed the horses, and many people were making preparations.

As time passed, the voices in the camp became quieter and quieter.

Although they couldn't sleep, many people were wrapped in felt blankets and didn't know what they were thinking.

Zhu Gaoxu fell asleep wrapped in a felt blanket, but he woke up from time to time and looked to the side.

Beside him, an hourglass was quietly flowing fine sand.

The sand on this hourglass has been almost clean, and when it is clean, it is when Zhu Gaoxu sent out his troops.

Zhu Gaoxu pretended to sleep and rested, and it was not until the hourglass was completely drained that Zhu Gaoxu lifted the felt carpet.

He patted Fu Rang and the others, who were still asleep beside him, and asked them to wake up the brothers.

Half an hour passed slowly, and when everyone woke up and began to put on their armor, it was already six o'clock in the morning, about half past two in the morning in the Hereafter.

I have to say that it is indeed a very torturous thing to sleep until this time and then get up.

Many soldiers were irritable and wore armor, among which the 2,000 cavalry led by Zhang Chun and Lin Su were the first to wear them and set off.

A quarter of an hour after their departure, Zhu Gaoxu and the others also put on their armor and mounted their horses and set off.

The autumn wind is biting, galloping on the grassland, and the autumn wind in the early morning is like a knife, constantly blowing the flesh on the face.

Many of the soldiers wore face armor, and so did Zhu Gaoxu.

"Beep!!"

Suddenly, there was a hurried whistle in front of him, and Fu Rang Zema came to Zhu Gaoxu's side: "I was discovered!" ”

"It's okay, it's already set up anyway!" Zhu Gaoxu glanced at both sides of the Uliangha camp, and in the dark night, the two thousand cavalry led by Lin Su and others had already completed the outer encirclement.

"Blow the trumpet! Charge! ”

Zhu Gaoxu stretched out his bow and set up an arrow, shooting a ringing hammer.

With the piercing sound of the chirping sound in the air, more than 2,000 horse infantry guarded Zhu Gaoxu and rushed towards the camp of the Uliangha people.

"Booming ......" like thunder, the sound of thousands of horses galloping sounded in the gray grassland.

After eating a large amount of bean feed, and having rested for a few hours, all the horses galloped away as if they had broken free from their reins.

"Enemy attack!!"

"Woooooooooooo

"Ignite, kill!"

In the Uliangha camp, countless people rushed out of the tents, and the Bohai Navy also rushed into the undefended barracks.

Zhu Gaoxu raised the iron spear in his hand and stabbed out the air in front of him, as if piercing Harawu's flesh and igniting the suffering suffered by all the officers and men of the Bohai Navy since the Battle of Jilin.

"Kill!"

Galloping like a dragon, like a fiery dragon rushing forward, more than 2,000 horse infantry instantly turned into more than 100 teams, and began to slash and kill the Wuliangha people on the periphery of the wooden village.

The sound of the trumpet kept sounding, reminding all the Uliangha, but it was too late.

The men skillfully grabbed their waist knives, put on their thick fur clothes, and then ran out of the yurt.

They turned over and got on the horses on the side of the door, and they all went to the periphery to kill.

"Zhenmu, come back safely!"

A Mongolian man ran out of the yurt, turned on his horse, and was ready to set off with an iron knife in his shirtless body, and his woman ran out of the yurt in disheveled clothes, reminding him.

But he didn't have time, and with a clamp between his legs, the horse rushed to the periphery.

He crossed countless yurts, met countless panicked people, and countless questions flashed through his mind.

Who is the enemy?

Where do they come from?

Have the soldiers and horses in the south been defeated?

Is it the barbarian in the forest to the north?

These questions were all in his mind, but when he broke out of the yurts, he saw the most familiar and terrifying group of people.

The appearance of the familiar Zha Jia, and the banner waving in the firelight, reminded Zhen Mu of the fiasco and escape he suffered in Jilin City last year.

"Bohai Navy, how did they ......"

Before he finished speaking, Zhenmu's body suddenly softened and fell from the back of the war horse.

An arrow comparable to a javelin pierced him, and there was no doubt that Zhu Gaoxu was the only one who could shoot such an arrow.

"Kill them all, not a single one will be left!"

After experiencing the things of the day, Zhu Gaoxu knew very well that if he wanted to lead the troops, he could not be a woman's kindness.

If he doesn't completely cripple Uliangha, he won't be able to participate in the Jingjing tribulation in the future with peace of mind!

"Kill!!"

Shouts of killing resounded through the night sky, the sound of arrows breaking through the air, the splattering of flesh and blood from blades, and the heart-rending shouts and begs for mercy......

Countless torches were thrown, igniting yurts one by one.

In just a short cup of tea, most of the yurts outside the village were ignited, and they are still being implicated.

The autumn grasslands are accompanied by strong winds, which fuel the fires, and in an instant the temperature of the area rises, and countless people are drowned in the fire.

Zhu Gaoxu was in such a human purgatory, but the iron gun in his hand mercilessly took away his life.

This is not a modern era that is too peaceful and healthy, this is the era of licking blood with a knife head, either you kill me or I will kill you.

If you want not to be killed by others, you can only kill others!

"Kill!!"

Zhu Gaoxu brandished a spear and stabbed left and right to take many lives.

The nobles in the wooden village reacted, and the low gate could not stop the footsteps of the Bohai Navy, so they led hundreds of armor soldiers to rush out of the Wuliang Hamu village in an attempt to break through.

"Stop them!"

Zhu Gaochu took the lead, but what he didn't expect was that the group of Mongols shot arrows at him one after another, during which Zhu Gaochu also heard the words "stop that prince".

Unconsciously, he has become famous among the Wuliangha tribes, and everyone knows that the prince of Jilin City is a brave general.

It's just that their arrows can't penetrate Zhu Gaoxu's armor, and if it weren't for the fear of being injured by the red horse who was not wearing the vest, Zhu Gaoxu would even want to charge directly into battle.

He turned his horse's head, and with a single glance, seven or eight arrows were stuck in his chest.

To his left and right, hundreds of horsemen and infantry swarmed up, armed with short soldiers, engaged the hundreds of Uliang Hajia soldiers.

This is the case with the soldiers of the Bohai Navy, they do not like to shoot on horseback, but like to rush directly into the formation.

Having experienced the battle of Jilin, they knew very well that they were not opponents than cavalry shooting, but compared with hand-to-hand combat, a Bohai navy could fight two or three Wuliangha Hu soldiers.

In the face of such an offensive, many of the surviving Hu soldiers who participated in the battle of Jilin City seemed to think of the tragic battle at the beginning, and some people kept trying to escape.

"Don't escape!"

"Break to the left!"

A man who seemed to be an aristocrat was commanding hundreds of armor soldiers to break through, Zhu Gaoxu saw this scene, and seeing that the Wuliang Hajia soldiers could not bow and arrow at him, he immediately took a gun with one hand and rushed towards the nobleman.

Thousands of armor soldiers fought together, and they were impenetrable, but Zhu Gaoxu forced out a way and approached the nobleman.

The nobleman was still thinking about how to break through, but suddenly he saw a figure as tall as a wall appear in front of him.

"Stop ......"

The iron spear swept away, and Zhu Gaoxu, who regarded the left and right Hu soldiers as nothing, knocked the nobleman off his horse and clamped the horse's belly with his legs.

Chi Yu comprehended, raised his hooves and stepped down fiercely.

As soon as he looked at him, the nobleman spat blood from his mouth and died of convulsions.

But even so, Zhu Gaoxu still did not stop his movements, he fought left and right in the melee, and countless people fell off the horse.

It wasn't until he also began to pant that these hundreds of armor soldiers were completely wiped out under the encirclement and suppression.

When he turned the horse's head, the entire periphery of Wuliang Hamu Village was already a sea of fire.

"Withdraw!"

Zhu Gaoxu, who didn't want to be engulfed, led the team to retreat, and the officials of the thousands of households and the officials of the hundred households beside him sounded the wooden whistle one after another.

The troops retreated to the sound of the wooden whistle, and when they saw brothers who had fallen from the previous battle, they dismounted and helped them to their horses, and helped them out.

Even if it was a corpse, they didn't leave it alone.

When more than 2,000 horsemen rushed out of the flames, the barracks were already full of corpses.

Thousands of Uliangha escaped and were shot dead by Lin Su and Zhang Chun.

When watching this scene again, Zhu Gaoxu no longer had the previous indecisiveness, and took matters into his own hands and shot a Uliangha man who wanted to escape.

Thousands of Uliangha people died in this way under the sea of fire and arrows, and on the side of the Bohai Navy, after Zhang Chun's statistics, there were no 27 people in the battle and 85 people were wounded.

Zhu Gaoxu arranged for a military doctor to take care of them, and instructed Zhang Chun to send them back to the ship after dawn.

"Put out the fire with water before dawn, and don't let the wolf smoke rise at dawn."

"The captured cattle and sheep will be counted after dawn, remember to clean up the battlefield and don't let anyone go."

Zhu Gaoxu rode to Fu Rang and explained everything to him.

In the dark, the smoke of the Wuliangha cottage is nothing, but it is very conspicuous during the day.

Zhu Gaoxu still has to continue to go south, and he can't expose his figure early.

"Don't worry, let's go rest first." Fu Rang knew that Zhu Gaoxu hadn't slept well, so after explaining, he rode away.

Thousands of burning tents lit up the surroundings, and if a fire spread to the wooden pens of cattle and sheep, Fu Rang would lead people to extinguish the fire.

Time passed little by little, Zhu Gaoxu untied the red saddle and lay on the ground to rest.

When he felt a little warm on his face, and when he opened his eyes again, it was already three poles of the sun.

He frowned and got up, and Zhao Mu, who was guarding beside him, hurriedly handed over the kettle when he saw this.

Zhu Gaoxu took a sip and used it to wash his face by the way.

By the time he looked up, the thousands of tents had become black slag, and the low wooden walls of the village had been charred from the fire.

"Have the livestock been counted? Are there any other seizures? ”

Zhu Gaoxu frowned and asked Zhao Mu beside him, and Zhao Mu said truthfully: "I haven't finished counting yet, it's still four o'clock in the morning, and Fu Du has just led people to extinguish the fire, and now he is carrying and seizing it in the wooden village." ”

Seeing Zhao Mu say this, Zhu Gaoxu squinted his eyes and sat in place to rest for a while.

After about half an hour, Fu asked them to come on horseback, and said to Zhu Gaoxu with a smile:

"There are more than 30,000 stone millet in this wooden village, and there are thousands of acres of millet fields in the wooden village, and it is estimated that it will be harvested in a few days."

"The whole army will harvest the corn fields and transport them to the east first." Hearing Fu Rang's words, Zhu Gaoxu's eyes lit up.

"Don't worry, I've got it covered." Fu Rang turned over and dismounted, and continued: "This place is really rich, you chose the right path. ”

"I went and looked, and there were at least six thousand horses in the col, and tens of thousands of sheep and several thousand cattle."

"If you want me to say, we don't have to continue south, we can eat comfortably with this stroke alone!"

The richness of the Wuliangha camp is indeed beyond the imagination of everyone in the Bohai Navy, even Zhu Gaoxu did not expect to be able to capture so many things in one battle, the key is that this battle is not difficult, and it is very easy to win.

"How?" Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu didn't speak, Fu Rang continued: "If you want to leave with them, you only need to go northeast and take a detour along the mountains and forests in the north. ”

"At most, we will be able to return to Zhaozhou City in two months."

Fu Rang wanted to accept it when he saw it, but Zhu Gaoxu shook his head after a moment of hesitation and said, "This battle must cripple Wuliangha." ”

"So you will choose four thousand horses, and then you will leave two thousand horsemen and two thousand horsemen and infantry, and you will send the remaining seven hundred and wounded soldiers to escort this herd of cattle and sheep to the east."

"You want to ship it?" Fu Rang frowned: "There are so many things, those ten ships can't be transported." ”

"It's not ......" Zhu Gaoxu shook his head, I led the troops all the way south from the east, and you also went all the way south along the river beach in the east.

"I will lead the troops to the front, you follow behind, and when you are about to reach the city of Wuliang Ha, I will attack the city of Wuliang Ha, you take the opportunity to cross the river to the mouth of the Sacha River, and transfer horses and boats from Zhaozhou City to transport cattle and sheep to Zhaozhou City."

It is difficult to walk on the east bank of the Wenjiang River, but if you go south to the mouth of the Sacha River, you can call in horses and boats of 1,200 materials to transport cattle, sheep and livestock.

With the number of horses and boats in Zhaozhou City, these tens of thousands of cattle and sheep can all be escorted to the other side of the river in a few days.

As for why Zhu Gaoxu didn't let them go northeast, it was because the people in the forests in the north often plundered, and a few hundred people couldn't protect so many cattle and sheep.

Fu Rang was also aware of these things, so he didn't hesitate: "Okay! When to go? ”

"Tomorrow!" Zhu Gaoxu said, turned to look at the south: "In the south, there are still many cattle, sheep and horses waiting for us......

(End of chapter)