Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 718
Da Khan was going to bring troops to take over his hometown. The terrible news made Tie Mu'er turn pale with shock, and he was no longer in the mood to continue visiting the Tianxiong Army's pasture that was regarded as a miracle by the grassland herdsmen. He said to Lei Shi After leaving, he took his few followers and rushed back to his tribe in a hurry.The war on the grassland is not a joke. Sometimes after a war, many tribes will disappear completely, and no scum is left. He still hopes that his tribe can become strong. How dare he Neglect!

Lei Shisheng didn't leave him behind. After he left, he rushed back to the camp, summoned all the generals, and said solemnly: "According to the information I got, the great Khan Boyan of the Tumote Department has already summoned nearly [-] troops. Launch an attack on Timur's troops, if nothing happens, Tumote's troops will split, and the entire Tumochuan Plain will be involved in the flames of war, we should have prepared early!"

Zu Dabi squeezed his left fist and gave a heavy blow to the palm of his right palm, and said excitedly: "The Tartars are going to have civil strife? That's great! Let's fight, the harder the better, and when they get tired, we will fight again." Send troops and crush them all to death one by one!"

The generals were also very excited. In the Battle of Yingzhou, although the Ming army defeated the Mongol army, the Tumote troops were quite strong. That disastrous defeat did not hurt their roots. They originally thought they wanted to take the Tumochuan Plain , There are still several vicious battles to be fought, and it will take a few years to do it. I didn't expect that the Tumed Department would be in civil strife so soon. God help me!Li Bin, the deputy general, said: "The division of Tumote is of course good news for us, but Timur's strength is limited. There are only about [-] herders, and there are very few soldiers capable of fighting. I am worried that he will not be able to stand up to Bo Yan's huge pressure was easily eaten up by Boyan, so although the Tumote Department will suffer losses, the losses will definitely not be great, and we will be happy in vain!"

Zu Dabi called: "Isn't it? The ancestor saw that Tie Mu'er is also a reputable man, brave and resourceful, able to bend and stretch, how could he be so easily defeated!"

Li Bin said: "No matter how brave and resourceful you are, if you are short of soldiers and armor, you can only cry helplessly." Xiang Lei Shisheng cupped his fists and said loudly: "My subordinates think that we should find a way to give Tie Muer some support so that His strength will not be too far behind Boyan, only in this way can this battle be fought!"

Lei Shisheng laughed and asked, "Then what kind of support should we give him?"

Li Bin said: "Give him one or two thousand Mongolian prisoners of war captured in the Battle of Yingzhou, and send him a batch of weapons to strengthen his strength...Of course, you can't give them for nothing, you have to let him exchange things !"

Lei Shisheng nodded slightly: "Go and discuss this matter, I will report to Lord Hou, I believe he will agree!"

The Tianxiong Army stationed in Ulanqab suddenly became busy. Li Bin and Zu Dabi were busy selecting those who were willing to help Tie Muer in the war from among the captured prisoners of war to come out for training. Lei Shisheng rushed to Datong in person. Report the changes in Tumochuan to Lu Xiangsheng.And the cavalry of the Tianxiong Army, who were hiding in Daben nutrition fat, have also entered a state of combat readiness. This is a golden opportunity that must be seized!

Lu Xiangsheng's reply was concise and quick: Agree!

Then there is nothing to say, step up and pick people.

When Lei Shisheng was very busy, Timur was staring at the burning tent and the dead bodies all over the ground.

This is one of his tribes, and the pasture growth is not bad, so thousands of herdsmen set up tents here to prepare for the winter.But now, except for some young and beautiful women, these thousands of herdsmen have all turned into bloody corpses.On the unburned cowhide tent, some cows and camels that fell to the ground were full of sharp arrows and javelins. The standard of these weapons could not have clearly told him the identity of the attacker.Not far away was a row of wooden stakes, each of which hung the corpse of a child, who was also full of sharp arrows. The thin, bloody corpse was shaking in the cold wind like a piece of rag.Obviously, these children became captives after they stopped resisting, and then the attackers wrapped straw ropes around their necks and hung them on wooden stakes, and then shot them to death with random arrows.Looking at the corpses of these children, the eyeballs of the commanders became blood red, and they gasped violently, like a group of raging beasts.The living conditions in the grassland are very harsh. Raising a child is several times more difficult than that of the Han people in the Guan. These children are the hope of a tribe. Now they are brutally killed. How can they not be angry!
Tie Mu'er gritted his teeth, his eyes were bloodshot, and his body trembled slightly.He was actually an outsider. He used to graze in the lower reaches of the Volga River for generations. He was a remnant of the Golden Horde. Later, the Turghuts came and drove them away with sabers, bows and arrows, forcing them to leave the pastures that their ancestors depended on for survival. Migrating to the east, after entering Mongolia, he was rejected and expelled by the Moxi Mongolians. He was forced to wander around and had nowhere to live. block pasture.And he himself was appreciated by Boyan because of his courage and resourcefulness, and married Boyan's youngest daughter. Yan's son-in-law, with this level of status, as an outsider, he has gained a firm foothold in Tumochuan. Although he is sometimes ridiculed or even bullied by the tribes, he doesn't care. His tribe has been wandering for too long It is a great joy to have a place for them to graze with peace of mind!

However, now Boyan has turned his back and refuses to recognize anyone!
Tie Mu'er suddenly pulled off the fox fur cap and threw it on the ground fiercely, roaring: "What did I do wrong, the Great Khan wants to slaughter my tribe!?"

The gray-haired tribal elder's voice was hoarse: "Maybe it's because we are too close to the Han people..."

Timur became more and more angry: "Now the black disaster is sweeping the entire grassland, there is no snow for thousands of miles, there is nowhere to graze, and a large number of livestock are dying. In order to keep the tribe alive, I asked the Han friends for help. Is it wrong? All tribes will have nowhere to go. Give me the livestock that can be fed with pasture, and ask me to sell them to the Han people in exchange for grain. I try my best to help them get a better price and buy more grain so that they can tide over the difficulties. Is it wrong? On the banks of the Qianhe River, more than ten thousand Mongolian youths were facing annihilation. I stood up against the ridicule of countless people, sued the Ming army for peace, and saved more than 1 lives. Am I wrong? Where did I go wrong?" General Dafeng His disheveled hair was blown up high, his face was pale, but his eyes were blood red, extremely frightening, he roared to the gloomy sky: "What did I do wrong, you want to slaughter my tribe! ? Who will tell me!"

Wu Yunna said in horror: "Brother, don't do this! Now the whole Tumochuan is crazy, rushing towards us like a wolf, trying to tear us into pieces! Right and wrong are not important anymore, you have to think quickly Find a way, or our tribe will be wiped out!"

With nowhere to vent his anger, Timur pulled out the saber that Lei Shisheng had given him and chopped the exquisite fox fur hat to pieces. Then he calmed down a little, jumped on his horse and led the team. return.Wu Yunna is right, it doesn’t matter whether it’s right or wrong now, the whole Tumochuan is crazy, Tumote, Chahar, Khalkha, Aohan, Naiman, Horqin ... want to tear his tribe to shreds, and then take the wealth he obtained from the trade with the Ming army as his own, and carve up his herd. If he doesn't come up with a solution as soon as possible, he, a weakling The tribe is about to be exterminated, and there will be no scum left behind!

However, it is not easy to come up with countermeasures!His tribe has less than 4000 tents. Even if each tent pays a dice, it can only gather 4000 troops. Facing the huge army composed of all the Mongolian tribes in Tumochuan, there are only [-] people, no matter in terms of strength or equipment. There is no advantage at all, and resistance is like hitting a stone with an egg!

———No, this estimate is too optimistic, because when he was furious because of Boyan's sudden turn of events, several tribes had been trampled by the Mongolian coalition forces, and his people were being mercilessly slaughtered, that is to say , even if each account pays a dime, he still can't gather 4000 people to compete with Boyan!

The central base camp of Timur's department is [-] miles away from Ulanqab. It is surrounded by rolling hills, and the water and grass are quite abundant, suitable for grazing.In the center of the basin surrounded by hills, Timur built a small wooden city named Oirat City. This simple wooden city without walls and moats is where his palace is located.There is an atmosphere of panic in the city of Oirat now. Herdsmen who are scattered in a radius of hundreds of miles drive their herds and flee to Oirat city in horror. Everyone shouts: "They are coming! They are riding fast horses and waving cold lights. Dazzling scimitars rushed towards our tribe like dark clouds driven by a strong wind, and before we could figure out what was going on, they chopped off our heads!"

"They were unreasonable, rushed into our tribe, killed all the young people who dared to resist and question them, hanged the children who were taller than the wheels on the stakes, even the babies who were still in their infancy, They snatched it from the weeping woman and threw it on the boulder!"

"They're a bunch of robbers!"

After hearing what they said, Timur's face became more and more gloomy, he didn't say a word, but his eyes burst out with anger.A rough calculation shows that more than 2000 members of his tribe have been mercilessly killed. For this tribe of less than 2 people, it is already traumatic.He credited this account to his former father-in-law, Boyan, the overlord of Tumochuan, who took him and his tribe in. This blood feud is too deep, and unless one party falls, the bloodshed will never stop of!
———At this time, the army assembled by Boyan had just set off from Sanniangzi City to attack Timur, but some tribes who were deceived by the nonsense that Timur’s tribe had huge wealth were impatient and took the first step Action, bloodbathed several tribes on the edge of Oirat City, massacred more than 2000 people.The things seized are actually not many, nothing more than some flour or rice, some sugar cubes and refined salt, as well as cotton cloth and tea leaves. The most valuable things are a few glass products, such as glass bottles, glasses, etc. The herdsmen under Mu'er's tent exchanged livestock, fur and other goods with Han merchants, which were not worth much.However, the Mongols were about to be tortured by the black disaster and went crazy. They all suffered from pink eye when they saw these good things, especially tea and glass products. The former is a luxury and has to be exchanged for war horses. Can't change it either!

What Hai Du said was right. By betraying them, Tie Mu'er's tribe got a generous reward from the Ming army, and they became very rich!

The Mongolian tribes who had tasted the sweetness yelled: "Kill all the spies! Kill all the spies!" After sweeping all the tribe's things, they rushed towards the next tribe aggressively.Their ranks are snowballing, and the little tribe trembles at the sound of their hooves...

(End of this chapter)