Chapter 280: Attack on the Horde
Six hundred sleds, towed by 1,200 Don hippos, rushed into the unsuspecting little tribe. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
It was midnight, eleven o'clock in the evening. People in this era go to bed early, and this is the time when people sleep soundly.
When the Ming army's sleighs rushed into the small tribes, almost all the Mongols were asleep, no one had taken up arms at all, and some even had their tents overturned and had not yet woken up from their sleep.
"Kill the Tartars!" Cao Yong drove his war horse and sleigh into the tribe at full speed.
Cai Zhichao, standing on the sleigh, held a long knife, when the sleigh galloped past the edge of a yurt, Cai Zhichao's long knife slashed, the yurt immediately broke a hole, the willow skeleton supporting the yurt was also cut by the long knife, and the yurt immediately fell to one side.
The torch in the hand of Zhang Paparazzi, who was standing next to Cai Zhichao, was thrown out, and it swirled and fell on the yurt, immediately bursting into flames. The yurt is very flammable and quickly ignites a raging fire.
The sled soldiers sped by, and one yurt after another toppled over on the snow and was set on fire.
The panicked Mongols rushed out of the yurt, and before they could understand what had happened, they were knocked to the ground by the galloping horses, trampled by the horses' hooves, and run over by the sleigh. Some people were directly knocked into the air, dancing with their hands and feet, scratching in the air, trying to grab the life-saving straw, but they fell heavily to the ground.
A Mongolian who had just escaped from the burning yurt in front of him, the man saw the rushing war horse and hurriedly dodged to the side, but when the sleigh passed by him, Cai Zhichao's hand fell with a knife, the head of the Mongolian flew out, and the headless body fell on the burning yurt.
Six hundred sleds rushed back and forth, and the unsuspecting small tribe had no power to fight back, and soon all the yurts of this tribe were overturned by the Ming army.
The horses slowed down, and the sled men fired at the surviving Mongols one by one with Thunderbolt and Twin Barrels.
Gunshots roared, and the panicked Mongols sprayed blood mist, and one by one they fell in pools of blood.
No one had the power to resist, their weapons were in the burning yurts, and when they came out, many of them had only the thin clothes they wore to sleep in or only a blanket wrapped around them. The bare-handed Mongols were like a flock of lambs waiting to be slaughtered in the face of more than a thousand murderous Ming troops.
The Ming army got out of the car, and the remaining more than a hundred Mongols were surrounded by them in the middle. In the light of the fire, fear flowed from everyone's eyes.
These Mongols did not expect to be attacked by a group of vicious people on a snowy night, and they did not even know the identity of the attackers, only that these people were ten times more vicious than the Jurchens back then.
Through the firelight, the Mongols saw that these attackers were very mixed, including red-haired and green-eyed Rakshasas, as well as Mongolians like themselves, some Shengjurchen, and even Han Chinese, who had always made them feel very cowardly! In just a quarter of an hour, so many people were killed, and the Mongols were frightened and fell to their knees and surrendered.
"Kill them all! Leave no prisoners! Xiao Gongchen pulled out his knife and pointed forward.
"Kill!" The Ming soldiers, armed with long knives for chopping horses, rushed forward and slashed down at the heads of the Mongols who were kneeling on the ground.
The sword flickered, and one by one the Mongols turned into headless ghosts. They couldn't figure out why they had already surrendered on their knees, how could they still be killed? Aren't these attackers here to capture captives and steal things, but simply to kill people and exterminate their families?
Almost all the Mongols were lying in a pool of blood, and only a few children were still standing, and these children were obviously frightened, some crying, some standing there stupidly and motionless.
Zhang paparazzi stood in front of a child, in fact, he himself is only a half-old child, seeing the child in front of him, Zhang paparazzi remembered himself a few years ago, a few years ago, when he first arrived in Sakhalin, he was almost that old. He hesitated in his heart, and the knife in his hand couldn't cut it down.
Xiao Gongchen walked up, and before Zhang Paparazzi could see what was going on, a knife flashed, Xiao Gongchen's waist knife was already unsheathed, drawing a beautiful arc, the child's crying stopped abruptly, and the young head rolled to the ground.
"Ahh Zhang paparazzi was so frightened that he closed his eyes.
"Humph!" Xiao Gongchen's waist knife was retracted into the scabbard, and he snorted coldly at the paparazzi Zhang. He then crouched on the ground and picked up a golden lock from the child's headless corpse.
"Look! Golden lock of longevity and wealth! Will the Mongols know how to make such golden locks? The Mongols of this tribe, they have followed Huang Taiji for a long time! Every time they enter the customs and loot, they are missing? Their fathers and ancestors, that person does not have the blood of our Han people on his hands? If it weren't for these Mongols who fought for the tiger, Huang Taiji would have been able to conquer the whole of Mongolia? If the Mongols hadn't been conquered, would Dolgon dare to enter the customs? Xiao Gongchen said.
Zhang Paparazzi was taught a lesson by his own general, and stood there stunned.
Cai Zhichao walked up and patted him lightly on the shoulder: "Paparazzi, if it weren't for the Tatars entering the customs, your land would be taken away by the Tatars?" If your family's land wasn't taken away, would you come here to eat the snow? Your age should be the age at which your parents married you Zhang Luo, why are you here? It's all brought to you by the Tartars! Remember, what we came to the prairie for! I'm here to kill, not to play! ”
The Ming army began to clean up the battlefield and pack up the spoils of war.
Someone loaded it with snow and poured it on top of the burning yurt. The snow melts when it meets fire and turns into water. Others waved shovels to shovel snow into the fire, and beat the flames with shovels. The flames gradually weakened, and after the intense fire extinguishing work of the Ming army, all the lit yurts have been extinguished.
Xiao Gongchen led people to search for the loot, except for the gold and silver treasures looted by the Mongols from the Han people before, there was almost no other loot here. Those iron pots and clay pots were too heavy and worthless, and it was a burden to take them away, so they were all abandoned. As for felt, it can be kept as blankets for captured Mongolian horses to keep warm.
For the Ming army, the best trophies were cattle, sheep and horses, as well as forage and horse fodder.
The soldiers searched inside the collapsed yurt and took everything useful.
The corpses of the Mongols were thrown in the snow and ice, and when the Ming army left, the wolves that smelled the smell of blood would naturally come here and destroy all the traces left by the Ming army.
This is a small tribe, there are not many cattle and sheep left for the winter, and this year's snow is too big, and most of the cattle and sheep have been killed when winter comes. The remaining cattle are only more than 50 cattle and more than 800 sheep, which are left by the Mongols to be used for breeding and preparing to give birth to calves and lambs next year.
In addition, there were more than 200 Mongolian horses, which also became the trophies of the Ming army.
Horses can be taken away, the normal march of the Ming army is not very fast, Mongolian horses can keep up, part of the captured forage is added to the sleigh cart, and the other part is transported by captured Mongolian horses.
"If you can't take away the live cattle and sheep, you will kill them, and the weather is so cold that it won't be bad." Xiao Gongchen gave the order.
The Ming soldiers began to light fires to boil water and slaughter cattle and sheep.
Piles of bonfires were lit in the snow, and the Ming soldiers roasted mutton on the fire, ate the roasted mutton in large gulps, replenished their energy, opened the tooth sacrifice, and ate a delicious meal.
"Let's get out of here after eating! There are so many corpses here, it will attract wolves in a while! Xiao Gongchen said.
In the snow not far away, there have been a pair of flashing dark eyes, staring here, it is a hungry wolf pack in the ice and snow, if the Ming army insists on staying here for the night, it is difficult to guarantee that the hungry wolves will take risks, and do not hesitate to attack the Ming army to get food.
The soldiers finished their roasted lamb and boarded the sleigh to leave the devastated camp. The slaughtered beef was taken away, and the bones and offal were left on the ground. The sheep were all killed, and only the mutton was removed, and all the sheepskin and sheep bones were discarded, and they were left here to be used as food for the wolves.
In fact, there is very little mutton, especially the sheep in winter, there is less forage for the winter, the sheep is particularly thin, and the sheep does not produce much meat, a sheep weighing seventy or eighty pounds can only produce about twenty catties of meat. More than 800 sheep were slaughtered, and the amount of mutton that could be taken away was really not much, and it would not increase the weight of the sled soldiers.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of blood, attracting the wolves outside. Packs of wolves howled. The wolves not far away gathered one after another, and the more they gathered, the more they gathered.
"We've got to get out of here! If we don't leave, the wolves will gather a little more, and we will have to fight the wolves! Xiao Gongchen gave the order.
As soon as the sled soldiers left, the wolves who had been waiting outside howled and rushed in, and the corpses of the Mongols were everywhere, as well as the cattle and sheep offal, cattle bones and sheep bones that were discarded by the Ming army, all of which were the delicacies of the wolves.
The wolves did not pursue the evacuated Ming army, the ground was full of food, and the wolf was actually a spiritual animal, and when there was enough food, they would not risk attacking a dangerous enemy, and the wolves seemed to understand that the people here did not want to be their enemy.
Wolves are also intelligent animals, and humans deliberately leave them food, so they don't attack these people. In fact, dogs are domesticated by wolves, and the IQ of dogs is high among animals, which also shows that wolves are actually very smart.
1,500 Ming troops, each with more than ten catties of beef and mutton, enough to eat for several days.
The sled soldiers continued to advance in the direction of the Horqin grassland, and in the past few days, they have destroyed several small tribes, including branches of the Zarat tribe and branches of the Horqin tribe.
The Ming army attacked at night, rushed into the camp, and slaughtered all the Mongols of these small tribes, and slaughtered all the cattle and sheep. Later, some of the sheep that could not be taken away could only be lost, and they were thrown here as a delicacy for the wolves.
The wolves who followed behind the Ming army also seemed to understand a truth, they followed this group of people, and they had endless food. (To be continued.) )