Chapter 378: Sending the Cow

To tell the truth, Ha Tu'er, who was riding a strong horse, carrying a saber and wearing armor and a helmet, drove thirty oxen to the chariot formation, and Hu Dashou was stunned.

What's wrong?

Do you care about food even if you fight?

But fried flowers guessed one thing correctly, in Daming, no one really knew who the commander of Fu Yuwei was.

Because in the concept of the Ming Dynasty, there was no Fuyuwei for a long time.

A strange confrontation formed on the north bank of the old Hamulin River, and after the Qianchangha rabbit drove the oxen into the cha camp and then left, the cha camp was still there, and the Mongol cavalry only retreated slightly, setting up camp five or six miles apart.

In the afternoon, smoke rises from the camp, and the herders of the flower department are cautiously grazing their cattle around the area.

They spent a peaceful night, and that night they fried flowers and wanted to steal the camp, but Hu Dashou strictly followed Qi Jiguang's military orders to carry out night patrols, night trumpets and night cannons, and there were stragglers in charge of bonfires outside the camp.

Qi Jiajun has long been accustomed to resting at night and coming according to the night cannon, and their regulations are to fire the fixed cannon every other watch, that is, an hour, and at the same time change people to be on duty at night, and others to sleep.

But the fried flower department next to it is not used to it, the first half of the night is trembling to prevent the Ming army attack, the second half of the night is finally sleepy to fall asleep, and after a while is woken up by the Ming army's artillery, it is annoying!

Hu Dashou is not stupid, he is very wary of fried flowers.

It's just that he is also unwilling to take risks, time is on his side, as long as his car battalion can continue to be stationed here, guarding the passage of the northern expedition of the Qi family army in the south of the old Hamulin, even if the horses of the fried flowers eat all the grass here, there is no problem.

So...... Early the next morning, in the fried flower camp, Ha Tu'er walked up to the fried flower with a clenched fist on his face and said, "The greedy Ming army is here to ask for cattle again!" ”

Fried Flower's face was in disbelief at first, as if he felt that he had heard it wrong, and then he wiped his face and laughed angrily, and asked, "I gave him thirty cows, and he dared to come to me?" Really, I came and went to pay tribute to the emperor? ”

"Hmm!" Ha Tu'er nodded heavily and said, "He said that the Heavenly Army is short of grain and grass, and the cattle were eaten in one meal yesterday." ”

"Fart! Talking nonsense with my eyes open, I can smell their pastrami here! ”

Fried flowers crossed their waists and walked a few steps in the felt tent, only then did he turn his head and take a few deep breaths to soothe his emotions, in fact, these cows are nothing to him, but it is this breath that is difficult to swallow, and said: "Give it, give him, give him another thirty heads, so that they can be reincarnated when they are full...... Send someone to find Hua Da again to see where Tai Ningwei's troops are. ”

Fried flowers are too clear, these cattle are actually nothing to the Ming army, they attacked all the way from Qingshankou to here, the tribes passing through don't know how much, even if the cattle and sheep they grabbed are not 10,000 or 5,000, they are not short of this grain at all.

He really didn't have any artillery in his hands, otherwise he would have ordered his troops to clean up this group of Ming troops.

There used to be artillery in the fried flower department, although it was only a few old-fashioned bowl guns, but as long as there was a cannon that could bombard, the car battalion would be easily blasted out of the gap; And with the exception of artillery, the car battalion was almost invincible.

But the problem is that even if he has a few cannons in Fuyuwei, he won't bring them out at all, because he doesn't have gunpowder.

The looted cannons have melted down the iron.

The strongest of the five Khalkha tribes is the fried flower department, not because he has the most soldiers, but because he has the most armored cavalry.

The Khalkha is not Tumut, they don't have a board sheng, they don't have the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, and they don't have the ability to take out one or two hundred armor horses like the command of the Altan tribe.

The fried flowers have armor cavalry because they attacked Liaodong a few years ago and robbed some craftsmen, so they gradually became stronger, and then they were more enthusiastic about attacking the Ming army and Jurchens in Liaodong.

His logic is this: attacking the Ming army in Liaodong can get craftsmen, artillery and gunpowder; The Jurchens who attacked Haixi and Jianzhou could get iron.

And the Ming army in front of him has all of them, so he is determined to win.

But the current situation is that the existing troops are not only unable to gnaw through the car battalion, but I am afraid that most of the elite of the troops will be lost, so what should I do? Call Tai Ningwei's brother-in-law over.

Hua Da, the leader of Taining, is their brother-in-law's brother-in-law, as long as the brother-in-law comes with more soldiers, everyone will share the casualties and knock down this car city, won't there be more armor horses?

In any case, Hu Dashou is optimistic about the current situation.

Fried Flower thinks that thirty cows or sixty cows are nothing to the Ming army, then he is very wrong.

From the exit to the garrison of the Old Hamulin River, the Ming army got much less livestock than the fried flowers imagined, less than three thousand.

Because of those tribes that were attached and surrendered, except for the war horses that were taken away, the remaining five beasts of the Ming army did not move at all.

The military discipline of the Qi family army stipulated that the war profits could not be distributed indiscriminately, and only a few tribes that were enemies of the Ming army were broken, and the livestock were also transported back to the Sene as war spoils, and they always ate military rations.

Only fried flowers sent these thirty cows, so that the Qi family army under Hu Dashou could open a good meat ...... The Mongolian chieftain said that he had come to reward the soldiers.

The military regulations stipulate that you can't take things from the people, and you have to cut off your ears if you buy them to fight, but the fried flowers are not the people, and the cattle sent are not war booty, so there is no problem with eating, right?

Therefore, Hu Dashou not only let the soldiers slaughter and eat the cattle, but also roasted the food on the spot to make bacon strips, and even forgot the brothers who stayed on the south bank of the river.

And the next day, I was not greedy enough, and I continued to ask for beef from the fried flowers with the mentality of giving it a try.

One really dares to ask for it, and the other really gives.

It wasn't until the third day that I looked for fried flowers to eat, and the situation finally changed.

In the fried flower department, a hundred elders carried a knife and drove out the Qi family army who came to ask for live cattle.

That Baichang was instructed by the fried flowers, because he had received a reply from Hua Da, and the four thousand cavalry of the Taining Department were on their way, along with five cannons of various types and corresponding ammunition.

Although he didn't know where his brother-in-law got these good things, the origin of these cannons didn't matter to him.

The important thing is that these artillery pieces mean that he doesn't have to get used to these nasty Ming troops anymore.

Daning was so close that his brother-in-law, Hua Da, would join him with four thousand men and artillery by tomorrow evening at the latest.

Fried Flower has a lot of confidence that as long as the artillery is accurate, he may be able to clean up this army tomorrow night.

"But if you attack them, won't the emperor blame them?"

"I'm afraid of this army, not the emperor, you haven't fought with the Liaodong army? Have you ever seen them have such soldiers? Fried flowers shrugged their shoulders and smiled: "I dare to guarantee that there are few troops like this in the entire Ming Dynasty, and they will not make a sound when they camp out...... There are so many of them, and we're done early. ”

However, such an optimistic attitude only lasted less than an hour, and Fried Flower sent someone to send the cattle into the Ming army camp in a very good manner.

Because he saw with his own eyes that on the other side of the wide river, smoke and dust were billowing down, and the Ming cavalry crossed the river in the evening and entered the chariot formation.

Qi Jiguang's other general, Lou Dayou came.