Chapter 586: Autumn Offensive
There are only three or five moves in this fight, and the action is dazzling, and the result is extremely bizarre. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The twenty or thirty cavalrymen who were wrestling and fighting were at a loss and didn't know what was happening in front of them, but the next moment Chang Wei and the three of them rushed up, and the three of them were naturally unable to catch up with the war horse, but the speed was faster than the war horse in an instant.
The sword-wielding master turned back, cut off the head of the Tu Mochuan cavalry with a sword, stretched out his hand and wiped it on his face for a while, from a middle-aged man to a gray-haired Hu Wenqing!
At this point, the enemy general and Chahan Buhua were both killed, and the assassination plan was a perfect success! The three of them rode back to their positions on horseback, and at this time, the elite of Tumochuan had been killed by the Chahan Buhua and Ma Lie tribes, and they were overwhelmed!
After Hu Wenqing returned to the battle formation with the head of his main general, the enemy army that was still resisting immediately collapsed, killing and scattering the elite of the enemy army, Ma Lie gave an order, the two troops combined, turned over and killed back to the bank of the Dahei River, and 50,000 cavalry worked together to strangle the Tumochuan cavalry that was divided and surrounded!
The battle lasted until the next morning, and the results of the battle were counted: Chahan Buhua suffered the greatest loss, and the company lost more than 5,000 cavalry, including the commander Chahan Buhua, a large part of which was caused by the indiscriminate bombardment of the artillery of the Volunteer Battalion; the cavalry of the Volunteer Battalion suffered the smallest loss, with only 67 dead and wounded; Ma Lie lost only more than 100 horse thieves; Batu Baihu lost more than 1,000 cavalry; and Etuoke and Hangjin Banner, which followed behind the artillery fire to pick up cheap horses, each lost 2,000 cavalry. More than 10,000 people were lost in total!
More than 30,000 people from the Tumo Chuan tribe were killed on the spot! More than 20,000 people who surrendered were driven into the desert by the angry Chahan Buhua tribe and all of them were slaughtered, and only about 3,000 horsemen fled back to Guihua City.
Immediately, Chang Wei wrote to Su Tai and asked her to seal Badu Baihu as Jinong, Ma Lie as Tumochuan Ten Thousand Households, and 5,000 people from Chahan Buhua Department directly allocated to Ma Lie.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, 40,000 allied soldiers besieged Naturalization City, and Balbost, who fled in embarrassment, still had more than 40,000 horsemen in his hands, wanting to resist with the help of Naturalization City, the first male city outside the Saiwai!
To be honest, Balbost is confident. Because the inner city of naturalization is a square city with a side length of two miles, only two city gates in the north and south are opened, a total of eight cannons are set up on the city tower, and there are 300 old-fashioned firecrackers in the city, this inner city is tall and strong, with plenty of grain and grass, and it is no problem to guard it with 40,000 people for a month or even more than half a year. Balbost intended to use these resistances to send letters to Helin, Daihai, and Chahar, hundreds of miles away, asking for help.
At the same time, he also sent envoys to the ancient city of Yunchuan, 300 miles away, to Qingzuka to negotiate with Ezhe Khan and Ma Lie, the commander of the coalition army. This kind of delaying tactics was immediately seen through by Hu Wenqing and Chang Ping, and the two of them unanimously asked Chang Wei to carry out indiscriminate bombing of Guihua City and raze the entire city to the ground!
The 100 new artillery pieces of the Volunteer Battalion carried a total of 10,000 shells, and more than 3,000 shells were fired out in the three battles of Wushenqi, Ordos, and Daheihe, and the ammunition was sufficient, but Chang Wei was a little unbearable, after all, this city was the first city outside the Saiwai, and it was a pity that it was blown up.
The two of them said in unison: It is precisely because it is the first city outside the Saiwai that it will be completely razed!
Now Chang Wei reacted, the Naturalization City was cast by the last brilliant Khan of Tatar Altan Khan and his wife Sanniangzi, and the status in the hearts of the steppe nomads is like a god, representing the last glory of the remnant Yuan, as long as it is completely destroyed, the confidence of the nomadic tribes will collapse, and from now on, their pride will cease to exist!
So, 40,000 troops and 100 cannons passed through the ruined outer city walls and entered the Naturalized Outer City. For most of the next day, the sound of cannon roaring resounded in the heavens and the earth, and by the time the red sun was setting in the west, 2,000 shells were poured down, and the Naturalization City, together with more than 40,000 cavalry in the city, more than 20,000 nobles and their men, were directly bombed to pieces.
So far, all the rebel tribes in Dongtao and Qiantao have been eradicated by the coalition forces!
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court set up Dongsheng, Jining, Wanquan, Yingchang, Kaiping, Quanning, Daning seven Davids on the Monan grassland, and later the Tatar tribes attacked and harassed constantly, spending a lot of money and food, and the imperial court moved the seven Davids one after another, and since then the Great Wall has been the boundary, Chang Wei wants to reoccupy the seven Davids!
The locations of these seven Davids are all pastures, lakes, and seas with abundant water and grass, and once these places are choked, using mutual markets and knighthoods as bait, these nomadic tribes will immediately fall from Houjin to Daming.
Moreover, Chang Wei also has Ezhe Khan and Su Tai as trump cards in his hands, and it is justified to carry the banner of the Tatar Khan to fight, and then use Su Tai's identity to gather the remnants of Yehe, and Hou Jin immediately caught fire in the backyard.
At that time, Houjin no longer wanted to use Dao Monan to attack Juyong Pass to threaten the Beijing Division, even Shenyang and Liaoyang were within the attack range of the Tatar cavalry, and the Beijing Division was absolutely safe at that time, and there was no longer a need for the 'Son of Heaven to guard the country'.
Now Chang Wei has only taken back the Dongshengwei on the Ordos grassland, leaving six guards, the nearest Jining is 200 miles away, and the farthest Daning is 1,700 miles away.
wiped out the 100,000 troops of the Tumo River, and the remaining small tribes around were left to Ezhe's more than 10,000 cavalry to slowly clean up, Chang Wei held an internal meeting, and Ma Lie was attended as his own.
"Does the general have a watch?"
In the face of Chang Wei's inquiry, Ma Lie rarely showed a trace of embarrassment, "When I was twenty years old, I took the word 'Dragon City' indiscriminately, and no one called it on the grassland, and Guogong almost forgot it without asking." ”
Chang Ping said solemnly: "But to make Longcheng Feijiang, don't teach Hu Ma to do Yinshan! The general's background is similar to that of Wei Qing, the general of the Han Dynasty, and he should have such ambitions!"
Chang Wei clapped his hands and praised: "With the help of Brother Longcheng, what is the difficulty of recovering the Seven Davids and dominating the grassland?!"
Wu Ding suddenly got up, pointed to the map and said, "If you want to dominate the grassland, there are three issues that need to be paid attention to. First, how to command the defeated Ordos and Tumochuan? The imperial court has not yet reached a conclusion, and I am afraid that there are differences of opinion and are still being discussed, so my lord needs to make arrangements in advance; second, our army has only 6,000 men, and the strength is slightly insufficient, do we need to dispatch the Qihai battalion to the north; third, the time, it is now August, and there is only two months of good weather in the full battle, if we do not conquer the seven Davids before the snow falls in October, our guns and artillery will encounter a severe weather test, and the greatest advantage will no longer exist at that time, so can you take countermeasures?"
These three questions made Chang Wei both happy and worried. The good thing is that Wu Ding is really a general who is in charge of himself, can consider the problem holistically, and give corresponding countermeasures, with such a general, many things have become simpler.
What worries me is what kind of attitude the imperial court has? After the successive dynasties conquered Saiwai, they all set up counties and counties to administer them, but the Ming Dynasty only set up guards and did not immigrate to the real border, which was the evil result of Huayi's discrimination!
The Ming Dynasty was a civilian military general, and the civil officials thought that it cost money to open the border to conquer the war, and besides, there was no need for the Hu people to rule at all.
If the imperial court is unwilling to set up counties, it will be difficult for 500,000 displaced people to get out of the customs, so this battle is in vain, and Ezhe can only pick up the cheap.
After pondering for a while, Chang Wei said: "In the recital to the emperor, I explained in detail the importance of the Hetao, besides, the establishment of counties outside the fortress can play a role in evacuating the displaced people in Shaanxi, presumably the imperial court will eventually pass this proposal!"
In fact, the benefits do not end there, because Chang Wei also mentioned in the letter the idea of steam locomotives and railways, as long as the railroad is laid outside the Saiwai, this place will become a permanent pasture and farmland for the Han people, and the nomads will never want to take it back! With the emperor's love for machinery, he will definitely not let go of this novelty!
However, whether the emperor could settle the civil officials of the imperial court? Chang Wei was not sure at all, and he only said this to comfort his subordinates.
"In addition, I will send Ma Yuan back to Zhenjiang to transfer 3,000 people and 3,000 servants from the Qihai Battalion to the north, and Changping will stay in Dongsheng and naturalization, collect the Han people in the Hetao, and be responsible for the follow-up construction of the city and road repair. ”
"After a day's rest, the 40,000 allied troops will send troops to the east, and take Jining and Wanquan first! Tell everyone that the autumn offensive has begun! Before October, I will gallop 2,000 miles and sweep away the Seven Davids of Monan!"
The generals replied, "Yes!" (to be continued.) )