The days when I fished in Daming

Chapter 159
On June [-]th, Lan Yu led an army of [-] to Helin along the way he had come.

Helin is also called Hara and Lin.

In 1220, Genghis Khan established the capital of the Mongolian Empire, Harahelin, on the basis of the ancient Kret or Uighur capital.

In 1235, Wokuotai Hehan ordered Han craftsmen to build the capital on the banks of the Orkhon River, which was named Harahelin.

The city is about four miles from north to south, and about two miles from east to west. The Wan'an Palace where the Great Khan lived is in the southwest corner, surrounded by palace walls, about two miles in circumference.

According to the records of the French envoy Lubrook who visited Helin in 1254, there are two residential areas in the city, one is the Muslim area, with a market inside, and the other is the Han area, and the residents are full of craftsmen.

In addition, there are many official residences, twelve Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, two mosques, and a Christian church.

Due to the prosperity of Mongolia, Harahelin became one of the famous cities in the world at that time, and there were many kings, envoys, priests and businessmen from all over the world.

The first four khans of the Mongolian Empire, namely Genghis Khan, Wokuotai, Guiyou, and Mengge, all sat in Harahelin to manage the dynasty.

After Kublai Khan came to power, the political center moved southward, and Helin became a regional capital.

There has been some development since then, but not too much, until Emperor Zhaozong retreated to Helin, and brought the remaining center of Beiyuan to gain a foothold here again.

Lan Yu led the army to this place, and the soldiers and horses who stayed behind suddenly panicked and closed the city gate urgently.

When the news reached the imperial city, the central ministers who stayed behind in Beiyuan immediately divided into two factions.

One group mainly surrendered. In just over a hundred years, the character of the literati has not been learned, and it has been completely corroded.

One faction tended to stand firm and wait for news from Zhaozong's army. At the same time, they sent troops to send an urgent message to Zhaozong before the blue jade army could complete the encirclement.

Sapphire arrived at Helin, and observed the soldiers and horses left behind.

So they sent 2000 troops to each of the other three city gates. There is no hope of attacking the city, but one person must not be let go.

Sapphire always dares to fight and fight hard. Based on the situation, he simply analyzed the situation with Lin.

There are not many people defending the city, and with the large army dispatched, He Lin's defense must be empty.

He didn't give much time to the high-level officials left behind in the city.

The Death Squad was directly assigned to rush under the city gate with Zhen Tianlei, followed by a feeling of the sky falling and the earth sinking.

Without giving the city wall defenders too much reaction time, and before they figured out what the Ming army who rushed into the city gate was doing, they blasted the city gate, including the adjacent city wall, into a large gap.

At the moment when the defenders were shaken, the city gate changed hands, and Lan Yu led 4000 troops into Helin.

If you enter the land of no one, you will kill and kill, except for the people who stay behind, and control the city gate.

He led his men to take control of the other three gates.

The wolves joined the sheep, and the result can be imagined.

Before the capitulation faction and the main combat faction could decide the outcome, He Lin changed hands.

"General, this is the process of vanguard officer Lan Yu defeating He Lin."

"This time with Lin's captives, the post-war affairs will be decided by the general."

After listening to the messenger sent by Lan Yu, Xu Da replied in detail.

"Reply to Lan Yu, the Northern Yuan Dynasty has been defeated, the Yuan Emperor, Wang Baobao, and Harazhang have all become prisoners of his subordinates. Except for the disappearance of the army led by the Manzi, the rest are nothing to worry about."

"In Helin, just count your gains. If you encounter remnants of the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties, don't fight them. Just wait in Helin for the army of this general and Cao Guogong."

"Yes."

The overall situation has been decided, Xu Da's main thing now is to seek stability, and the rest can be cleared up slowly.

After a busy night, it was not until the next morning that the specific results of the battle were counted.

In addition to Zhaozong, Wang Baobao, and Harazhang, the generals and high-level officials in charge of the Mongolian and Yuan forces.

The 4 army assembled by Meng Yuan was killed by more than [-] people, and the remaining [-] were killed, and the remaining [-] people including the barbarian army disappeared.

After all, it was a prairie, and the Yuan army was defeated too quickly, and even a hundred thousand pigs could not be caught, let alone the blessing of horses.

My own Central Route Army plus Li Wenzhong's East Route Army had 2 casualties, 6000 were killed on the spot, and the remaining 4000 were all injured.

Without the alcohol that Zheng Xiong got for disinfection, not half of the 4000 people would be able to return alive.

The ancient army marched, the climate was not acclimatized, and the non-combat attrition caused by medical and health care was also terrifying, not to mention these wounded soldiers.

Simple treatment first, and then more than [-] soldiers were dispatched from his and Li Wenzhong's men to escort the wounded soldiers back to Yanmen Pass.

They were also sent back with the news of the great victory and the specific process of the battle, which will be sent to Nanjing City and handed over to Lao Zhu.

This time, the method of dealing with the defeated and captured Yuan army was a little gentler. When the overall situation was settled, only 3 people were buried, leaving [-] Yuan troops to wait for Lao Zhu's fate.

So many people are the result of precise calculations, they can be given a bite to eat, so that they will not starve to death, and at the same time, these more than [-] people are also sending a signal to the prairie.

Surrender can happen, but not necessarily death.

The people from both sides died in the battle and were all buried on the spot. The difference is that one side won and the other lost, and the treatment after death is different.

The Ming army set up a biography on the monument, recording the legends of these small soldiers who came from afar and died in foreign lands.

The living remembered the dead for a while, so they packed up their mood and went to Helin.

On June 21, the Central Route Army and the East Route Army joined forces with Lin Shunli, and at the same time heard good news from Lan Yu.

June NO.20, Manzi led more than [-] remnant troops to Helin, intending to attack and rescue the high-ranking men who were captured by Meng Yuan.

As a result, for Lan Yu, who was strong and brave last year, despite Xu Da's order, Lan Yu led 8000 people out of the city without hesitation.

Faced with a group of remnants and defeated generals, Lan Yu despised and despised the Yuan army that was exhausted.

Eight thousand versus twenty thousand, I have the advantage, Lan Yu made a charge, and the courageous Yuan army was not an all-in-one enemy, they were defeated and lost.

After losing more than ten thousand people, Manzi continued his escape without saying anything about saving lives.

Don't chase the poor gangsters, after a while, Sapphire turned his horse's head to clean up the results of the battle.

It is self-evident which one is more important, watermelon or sesame, mainly because Sapphire can't bear the provocation of the Yuan army, and doesn't want to bear it.

2000 casualties were exchanged for more than [-] captives. Sapphire was very satisfied, thinking about the reward when she went back.

When Xu Da got the news of the great victory from Lanyu, he didn't praise or punish him. He just wrote a memorial about the specific process of Lanyu's battle and sent it back to Nanjing City, waiting for Lao Zhu's verdict.

So far, Lao Zhu's plan to clear the desert has been a great success.

Xu Da and Li Wenzhong finished it off and sent [-] troops to sweep the prairie.

There is no need to do anything for the rest of the time, just wait for Lao Zhu's imperial edict.

(End of this chapter)