In the past six months, the main task of the Ming Naval Division stationed on Phi Island has been to attack the Liaodong fishing boats that have gone to sea.

Although there are only 10 "small boats" of more than 100 tons on Phi Dao, as well as 20 or 30 smaller shipwrecks and sentinel boats, plus some North Korean sailors, it is still a piece of cake to deal with Jianjiao who have no sailors at all.

With the continuous raids and harassment of the naval division's infantry army, there were almost no Jianlu residents in the coastal area of Liaodong, and the naval division went deep into the waters of the Yalu River and the Liaohe River to prevent Jianlu from catching freshwater fish.

After this series of "strict crackdowns", the output of Liaodong's fishery has been reduced by ninety.

Many of the people at the bottom of the Jianyu relied on fishing and hunting for a living, so the rations were immediately insufficient, which greatly limited Hauge's strategy of delaying and waiting for changes.

……

In the second year of Hanxing, the ninth day of February.

Eastern Mongolia, lower reaches of the Xilamulun River, and the territory of the Alu Korqin Banner of the Zhaowuda League.

Dozens of dilapidated felt tents were scattered scattered across the grassland for more than ten miles, and there was hardly anything of value in the tents except for some fur and dried meat.

But on the banks of the Xilamulun River, thousands of cattle and sheep are rummaging through the grass roots and dead leaves beneath the melting snow under the watchful eyes of Mongolian herders.

A few miles away, behind a hill, a small young man in Mongolian attire was in high spirits and said in Shandong: "Big brother, there are three or four thousand cattle and sheep, and they are very fat. There were only a hundred and ten men nearby, who were armed with bows and arrows. ”

The leader was the slave who was rescued by the Daming Navy Expeditionary Force from Sanatun in Liaodong, Zhao Gongwei.

After he was freed, he took more than 1,000 people of the Ming Dynasty who were captured by Jianguo to raise the banner and become a righteous army, thinking that he would go all the way to the west, through thousands of miles of grassland, and return to Guannai from Datong.

It's just that they were unlucky, and they encountered Jianyu and Mongol soldiers several times, and had no choice but to flee in all directions, and now there are less than 600 people left.

Zhao Gongwei's eyes lit up when he heard this, "If we take these cattle and sheep, it will be enough for us to hold out to Chahar." It is said that the king of Chahar has returned to the court and will not trouble us. ”

The volunteers suffered in the desert for more than half a year, and when they heard that they were expected to return home, they couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said: "Big brother, take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Tartars, let's do it." ”

"Yes, it's only a hundred Tartars, and it's all in hand."

"Big brother, we only have seven or eight days of rations left, and I don't know when the next time we see something to eat."

"Big brother, don't hesitate......"

Zhao Gongwei was cautious, first divided dozens of people to the surrounding guards, and then ordered the deputy general of the righteous army to take 200 people around the east to copy, and then led the main force to swarm up.

Although he had previous experience as a soldier, the rebels were clearly untrained, and reluctantly formed a semi-circle formation and rushed towards the herd of cattle in a haphazard manner.

Two hundred rebels on the other side also surrounded at the same time. Although the one hundred and ten Tartar herdsmen were surprised, they also seemed quite calm, and quickly formed a wedge-shaped formation with their backs to the Xilamulun River, and began to counterattack with their bows and arrows.

The rebels received a lot of firearms from Zheng Chenggong at the beginning, but there was no ammunition replenishment outside the fortress for a long time, and it had already become scrap metal, and now they are all using bows and arrows to fight.

The tartars cowed behind the sheep and cattle and kept firing arrows. The rebels were separated by a large number of livestock, and they only shot arrows to hit the enemy, but their archery skills were really average, and they did not have the upper hand for a long time.

Zhao Gongwei was a little anxious, drew his saber and beckoned his subordinates to form a formation, preparing to rush through those cattle and sheep and Tartars in close combat.

At this moment, he suddenly heard the sound of horns and whimpering behind him, and then a rebel soldier who was on guard on the perimeter galloped towards him.

He was covered in blood and had a few arrows stuck in his back, but he only had time to shout, "There is an ambush!" Then he dismounted.

Zhao Gongwei was shocked, and was about to order the soldiers of the righteous army to gather for defense, when he saw a large number of cavalry appearing on the horizon, the formation was quite neat, and they were surging towards this side with great momentum.

"Big brother, what should I do with this?"

"Damn, where are so many tartars?"

When the Mongolian cavalry rushed closer, the leader laughed proudly, "You Ming dogs are causing trouble everywhere in Horqin, I have been chasing you for more than three months, and today I finally caught you!" ”

He pointed forward with his saber, "Give it to me!" Not a single one to stay! ”

Zhao Gongwei looked at the thousands of cavalry surrounded by him, and his eyelids jumped a few times.

At the beginning of his rebellion, he was overwhelmed, but he fought head-on with the regular Mongol army, and was defeated by an enemy twice as many as his number, and more than 300 people died.

"I'm afraid it's dangerous today......" he exhaled a breath of turbidity, waving his hand and shouting, "Brothers, fight!" ”

When he and dozens of volunteers around him rushed out, but no one else followed, and when he looked back, he saw that the rebels seemed to be frightened by the momentum of the Mongolian cavalry, and they retreated one after another.

He gritted his teeth and stared at the Tartar officer, ready to go up and exchange his life for life, if he could kill this man, maybe the brothers would have a chance to live.

But he was still forty or fifty paces away from his target when he heard four sharp sounds of breaking through the air. The next moment, three feathered arrows were shot at his shoulders and abdomen, and his mount was also hit by five or six arrows, and he fell to the ground with a hiss.

Zhao Gongwei was lying on the cold grass, looking at the enemy horses getting closer and closer, and couldn't help but feel a pang of regret in his heart, should he not have taken these brothers out of Liaodong in the first place, and let them all die here......

Just as he couldn't bear to look at it anymore and was about to close his eyes, more than a dozen deafening roars suddenly sounded from the south, and the Mongolian cavalry that was rushing suddenly slowed down.

"Cannon?" Zhao Gongwei's heart moved, but he couldn't see anything because he fell to the ground.

Then the sound of artillery resumed, and the interval was very short. The Mongol soldiers seemed to be in great panic, and turned their horses one after another at the officer's command.

Only then did Zhao Gongwei vaguely see the shattered corpses on the south side of the enemy formation scattered all over the ground.

The sound of artillery continued. In a moment, the Mongol cavalry barely completed the U-turn and began to kill in the direction from which the cannon fire came.

Several volunteers ran up quickly and helped Zhao Gongwei up, "Big brother, you were hit by an arrow?!" ”

"Big brother, how are you?"

Suddenly, there was a crackling sound as dense as popping beans, apparently a large number of fiery firearms were firing in a volley, and the screams of the Mongol soldiers immediately rang out in all directions.

Zhao Gongwei looked into the distance with great effort, and saw that the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and he didn't know who was rescuing the rebels, but he could only see the enemy cavalry lodging in large areas like cutting leeks.

However, the attackers were clearly prepared, and two black human walls appeared on the east and west sides, blocking the Tartars' path.

Those human walls seemed to be thin, but even if the Mongol cavalry rushed forward desperately, they all fell twenty paces away from the human wall, which shows the ferocity of the human wall.

Half an hour later, when the dust settled, more than half of the Mongol cavalry was killed, and the rest did not see a way out after a few circles, so they had to dismount and beg to surrender.

More than a dozen soldiers dressed in black and holding firearms surrounded Zhao Gongwei, glared and shouted a Mongolian sentence.

The short Shandong man beside Zhao Gongwei said in horror: "You, who are you?" ”

The black-clothed soldiers glanced at each other and changed the official words of the Ming Dynasty, "The third battalion of the Ming Field Army." Are you Han Chinese? ”

(End of chapter)