Back to Daming to be a genius

Chapter 243
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The autumn wind was like a knife, blowing withered grass leaves and falling yellow leaves. It also wrinkled the skin of the Mongolian soldiers lying in the valley, and cracked their dehydrated lips.When entering the valley earlier, the broad-leaved trees on the mountains on both sides of the road were still covered with bright red leaves, but in just a few days, all the trees have become bare, and the leaves that were originally red like fire were covered. The earth is yellow, the autumn wind hits, the branches shake and the leaves move, bringing a series of beautiful notes, the mountains are golden, the blue sky is like washing, the white clouds are like snow, the scenery is picturesque, people are in the painting, and even in hell.

"Strength, brother, twist it hard." The two Mongolian soldiers moaned feebly, struggling to wring the gauze bundled up in their hands, and blue-yellow water droplets gradually seeped out of the gauze, merged into a stream, and dripped onto the ground. A pungent smell emanated from the broken porcelain bowl.When the thing wrapped in gauze couldn't squeeze out the juice, the two Mongolian soldiers carefully picked up the broken bowl and put it to their mouths, taking turns to suck the pungent-smelling blue-yellow juice — Juice squeezed from horse dung.But even so, beside them, there are dozens of hundreds of Mongolian soldiers with chapped lips that are bleeding blood, looking at them with envy, and looking at the broken bowl filled with less than half a bowl of feces, as if it contained They are all like fine nectar and jade liquid.

The water was cut off, and the water was completely cut off five or six days ago. When entering the valley, in order to speed up the march, the Mongolian army did not carry a heavy water tanker, but each soldier had a sheepskin water bag on his body. After being surrounded by the Ming army , although every soldier is desperately saving drinking water, but no matter how economical the drinking water is only enough for normal drinking for one day, the most economical person can only last seven days.The trail that stretches for more than 400 miles is not completely without water sources, but those pitifully small streams can only maintain normal drinking water for three to four hundred people at most. Generals drink it, but ordinary soldiers can only feel wronged and drink the juice wrung out of human urine, horse urine and horse manure.Every Mongolian soldier was looking forward to the rain, but they forgot that if it hadn't been for years of drought and no rain in the north, how could there be rebellion in the Shaanxi-Gansu territory of the Ming Dynasty?

Food is not a problem. At worst, if the horses are slaughtered, they will be able to survive until the reinforcements arrive, but there is not enough drinking water. Whether this Mongolian army of more than 4 people can survive until the day when the reinforcements rescue them, no one dares to pack this bag voted.In order to fight for a way out, some Mongolian veterans headed by Ye Likewen organized death squads to charge many times, but every time they were beaten to pieces by the soldiers of the Ming army who had an absolute advantage in location and weapons. The closed wall could not be touched, and the Ming army had to clean up the corpses in the ditch in front of the closed wall for three days and two days to make room for the corpses of Mongolian soldiers.

The obvious ones and the dark ones, and some Mongolian generals wanted to play a sneak attack, but they were so unlucky that they met Young Master Zhang, who was known to like to play tricks and tricks. Naturally, the sneak attack army was basically There is no return, and the proportion of soldier casualties is even greater than that of a frontal storm during the day.In addition, some Mongolian generals volunteered to explore the road, trying to find a new road to break through. Unfortunately, the vicious and shameless Young Master Zhang has already found out every plant, tree, ditch and moat in this mountainous area through smugglers, and a few roads can barely walk. The walking path was also dug up and blocked, and there were troops stationed at key positions. The Mongolian soldiers who found the road immediately greeted with muskets, bows and arrows. In addition, the terrain in this area is indeed high and dangerous, so After searching for several days, the Mongolian army couldn't find a second way to break out of the siege—it can't be said that there is no way at all, but if they want to dig out more than a dozen hills and escape from the mountains, more than 4 Mongolian soldiers can get out alive I'm afraid it's hard to even leave half of it, and the soldiers and horses were all exhausted and escaped half dead. Even if they reached the grassland, they would be slaughtered by the soldiers of the Ming army.So the Mongolian army had no choice but to stay in the valley with their idiot prince and wait for Lin Dan's rescue -- to be precise, waiting for a miracle.

What is more terrible than thirst and hunger is the collapse of morale and the division of people's hearts. After more than half a century of friendly business with Daming, there are quite a few Mongolian soldiers who have a good impression of Ming. Many straightforward Mongol soldiers were extremely dissatisfied, but they were forced to carry out military orders. Now Ezhe took the initiative to provoke the war and led more than 4 Mongolian troops into the Jedi, surrounded by the Ming army. The dissatisfaction of the Mongol soldiers naturally reached its peak. Almost every Mongolian soldier cursed E Zhe behind his back, cursing this rare idiot to die, and cursing that the world's number one idiot was cut to pieces by the Ming army—in fact, in all fairness, E Zhe's sneak attack plan was not too much Oops, it’s almost comparable to Young Master Zhang’s sneak attack on Shengjing by bypassing the Mongolian grassland back then, but Ezhe’s idea was too far-fetched, and he happened to meet Young Master Zhang who was not comfortable with conspiracy and tricks, so he naturally backed it This is the number one idiot of all time.

Under extreme dissatisfaction, infighting continued in the Mongolian army. The Mongolian soldiers who were pro-Ming tribes and the Tatar tribe soldiers who hated Ming Dynasty clashed repeatedly. The soldiers of the Hal tribe even got into fire with the Mongolian tribe soldiers such as Qilagut (Turghut) and Tumed, who were more familiar with the Ming. On the one hand, they scolded each other as traitors, and on the other hand, they accused each other of being treacherous and despicable people. There are countless people who lost their lives because of internal strife, and countless people who fled at night and surrendered to the Ming army.However, the commander-in-chief of the whole army, E Zhe, is also an incompetent person. Ever since he found out that there was no hope of breaking through, he would only wash his face with tears every day, crying and calling for his parents to help him. His confidant, Gu Yingtasu, is also a character who plays tricks and has no real skills. After being surrounded, he simply hides next to the water source every day, like a tortoise, refusing to speak out.In the end, Ye Likewen and other Mongolian veterans had to suffer, fighting fires like a fire brigade every day, desperately resolving disputes, boosting morale, and calling on the army to help each other through the difficulties, but they couldn't care less about the east than the west. A dog doesn't help either.

I endured another day of extreme thirst. Seeing that the morale of the army was weakening day by day, and the army completely collapsed in the next day, Ye Likewen and other Mongolian veterans couldn't sit still. After a little discussion, they came together and cried bitterly by the water source In front of the runny Ezhe, Yuye Li Kewen said to Ezhe: "Prince, I'm afraid it will be impossible if this continues. The soldiers have no water to drink. It is already impossible to persist until the rescue of the sweat arrives." Yes. In order to save the lives of these more than 4 Mongolian warriors, and for their relatives, wives and children on the grassland, let us accept the conditions offered by the Ming army and surrender."

"No, you must not surrender!" Gu Yingtasu, who was guarding the water source, yelled like killing a pig—one of the conditions of surrender issued by the Ming army required the Mongolian army to take the heads of him and a group of Qiu Ming generals To express the sincerity of surrender.In order not to let the last life-saving straw slip away, Guyingtasu yelled like crazy: "You can't surrender! Absolutely not! The barbarians want all our horses and all our soldiers to serve as hard labor. We The warriors of Great Mongolia went to serve the barbarians as hard labor, as slaves, what face would they have to face others in the future?"

"Being hard labor is better than being dead!" Yeli Kewen said angrily: "Guyingtasu, I know you are afraid that we will use your head to express our sincerity in surrendering to Mr. Zhang Haogu, but have you ever thought about it? If we don’t surrender, these 4 Mongol warriors will starve to death in the valley! Their parents, their wives and children will never have the chance to see them again! Only by surrendering can they have a chance of survival. In the future, Great Khan and Ming will reconcile and reach an alliance negotiation, and the Ming court will definitely release these soldiers and let them go home to reunite with their families! Do you want tens of thousands of Mongolian soldiers to be buried with you?"

"What if the Great Khan doesn't negotiate with the barbarians? Doesn't the barbarian army want to slaughter us all?" Guying Tasu shouted with bloodshot eyes, "If the Great Khan decides to go to war with the barbarians regardless of our lives, then Will the barbarian let us captives go? Even if the barbarian doesn't kill us, we will be slaves in the Ming country of the barbarian for the rest of our lives until we die of exhaustion, do you understand?"

"At this point, we have to take a gamble!" Yeli Ke said angrily: "If we surrender, the Great Khan may accept all of Ming's conditions in order to redeem us, then we still have hope Alive. But if we insist on not surrendering, then we will either die of thirst or be wiped out by the Ming army. By then, it will be too late for the Great Khan to re-allocate with Ming!"

"Ye Li Kewen, you old traitor, you surrender to the barbarians, you...you are shameless! You are shameless!" Gu Yingtasu was furious, grabbed E Zhe's sleeve again, knelt down and begged: "Prince, You must not surrender. It’s okay for these old traitors like Ye Li Kewen to surrender. They can live, but you are dead! It is you who sent troops to attack the hinterland of the barbarians, and you are the one who wiped out the [-] army. If you Surrender, neither the Manzi nor the Great Khan will let you go! You have to persevere until the Great Khan's rescuers come, and cooperate with the Great Khan's rescuers to eliminate the Manzis, and then you can atone for your sins and have the opportunity to inherit the Great Khan. Khan's throne! Eldest prince, your most loyal servant, Guying Tasu, begs you—!"

Gu Yingtasu’s words just hit E Zhe’s vitals. Based on E Zhe’s actions, after surrendering to the Ming army, even if the Ming army did not kill him, Lin Dan reached an agreement with the Ming court to redeem him to Mongolia. It will definitely add a clause to the agreement, absolutely not allowing Lin Dan to pass on the position of Khan to E Zhe, a criminal-convicted Chou Ming faction, and after E Zhe surrendered, the [-] Mongolian army was actually wiped out, and E Zhe returned to Chahan In the future, Haote will also become a street mouse, a stinky latrine stone, and don't even think about spying on the position of the Mongolian Khan in this life-although Ezhe is stupid, he still understands this truth very well.So Ezhe quickly wiped away his tears, and said to Yeli Kewen and other Mongolian veterans: "Old generals, I appreciate your kindness, but we in Mongolia only have warriors who died in battle and no warriors who surrendered, so we can only Persevere, don't surrender."

"Prince—!" Yeli Kewen Hu roared, pointed at the dying soldiers in the distance, and shouted: "Please take a good look, can our Mongolian warriors persist? You have water!" Drink, but our soldiers are already drinking horse dung water! I beg you, surrender! If you are afraid of death, we old people can go to negotiate with Mr. Zhang Haogu again, and exchange our lives Your life, I just beg you to save these poor soldiers!"

Er Zhe didn't dare to turn his head, but just bit the bullet and shouted: "Guyingtasu, from now on, the military law team will be under your command, and anyone who says surrender will be killed!"

"Decree!" Gu Yingtasu happily agreed.Yeli Kewen and other veterans were greatly disappointed. After exchanging helpless glances, Yeli Kewen sighed again: "Well, we are the Mongolian generals, and we will follow your orders. But we old guys still want to ask for help. One thing for you, big prince. In the future, you and your soldiers will also save drinking water, let some water out, and give it to those soldiers who are dying of thirst. If you drink less water, maybe you can save a soldier's life. "

"This is no problem." E Zhe agreed, picked up his water bag and said: "Well, from today on, my soldiers and I will each drink a bag of water for three days, and all the saved water will be taken from the bag." Give it to the soldiers, is that okay?"

"Thank you, Eldest Prince." Ye Likewen waited for the veteran to agree with his fists, and then left dejectedly.But as soon as Li Kewen left, E Zhe immediately called the captain of the guards to the front, and whispered: "From today on, I will prepare the water for washing my feet at night, as well as the water for serving my beauties." , and prepared quietly at night, and these old things must not be seen, do you understand?" The captain of the bodyguard smiled knowingly, and agreed in a low voice.

Like Ezhe, Ye Likewen and other Mongolian veterans muttered in a low voice after walking away, "It's over, our prince only cares about himself, and doesn't care about the lives of soldiers at all. If this continues, what shall we do? "It will be difficult for half of our more than 4 troops to survive when the Great Khan's reinforcements arrive." "I heard that there will be no snow in the Zhangjiakou area until at least the end of September. Canglangbailu, help us Mongol warriors." Another veteran whispered in Yeli Kewen's ear: "Old General Yeli Kewen, why don't we launch a mutiny and capture those whom Master Zhang Haogu wants to surrender and keep them alive?" Our warriors."

"Fart!" Yeli Kewen gave the old general a look, and cursed in a low voice: "Tuo Tuomuer, if you dare to say such a thing again, I'll be the first to cut you off! We are all generals who are sweating! Can you do such a thing?" The veteran had no choice but to back down.But at this moment, there was a sudden commotion in the northern camp. From a distance, many dying Mongolian soldiers struggled to stand up and staggered towards the north.Ye Li Ke Wen secretly called out that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "There is an accident in the north, hurry over and see what's going on."

When a group of veterans rushed to the scene, they found that the Mongolian soldiers were all flocking to the gate of the Ming army at the entrance of Yutailing. When they hurried to the front of the Ming army's fortifications, Ye Likewen and other Mongolian veterans saw it at first sight. On the wall of the Ming Army Pass, an old Mongolian man wearing Zhisun clothing (Mongolian noble costume) appeared, holding a cane in his hand, and was shouting at the top of his voice, "Warriors of the Hongjisate tribe, generals of the Hongjisate tribe , you all come here, all of you come here, I am your Bieqi Sobud, I am your Bieqi (elder)!"

"Warriors of the Hongjisate tribe, listen carefully." The Mongolian elder Sobud, who had prevented Ezhe from destroying the Laiyuanbao market, shouted, "Emperor Daming has issued an order to let Master Zhang Haogu decide on your own. Master Zhang Haogu decides how to deal with you! Master Zhang Haogu found me and said, our Hongjisate tribe is a tribe friendly to Ming Dynasty, and many warriors from our tribe serve as soldiers in the Ming army. Master Zhang Haogu also said that he knew that our Hongji Site tribe was forced to go to war with Ming by that bastard Ezhe! So Master Zhang Haogu said that he did not want to kill the Hongji Site tribe Warrior, as long as I swear on behalf of the Hongjisate tribe that I will never go to war with Daming, he can accept the surrender of all the besieged Hongjisate warriors, and don’t want you to be slaves. If you surrender, you will be released and let you go home , reunite with your family."

"For the sake of your lives, I agree." Sobud burst into tears and cried, "I swear to Mr. Zhang Haogu on behalf of the Canglangbailu to sign this agreement with Daming alone on behalf of the Hongjisite tribe. The peace agreement, I vowed never to fight against the Ming army, so the benevolent Master Zhang Haogu let me come here, let me tell you, let you surrender. You put down your weapons and come to surrender to the Ming army! Master Zhang Haogu also Having said that, if Lin Dan does not accept Daming’s conditions and goes to war with Daming, Daming will close all border markets, but the Hongji Sate tribe can continue to do business with Daming, and continue to buy grain, cloth, salt and tea bricks from Daming. Warriors of the Te tribe, don’t bury E Zhe with you, surrender quickly, I will guarantee you, and accept Master Zhang Haogu’s kindness quickly.”

Although the voice of the Mongolian elder Sobud was not loud, the Mongolian soldiers who heard his voice passed it on word of mouth, and it spread to the entire Mongolian army quickly.Immediately afterwards, the Mongolian army exploded. The soldiers of the Hongjisate tribe, who were relatively close to the Ming, threw down their weapons and rushed to the wall without saying anything. The military law team of the Chahar tribe directly under Lin Dan was anxious , hurried up to dissuade you, "Don't be fooled! You must not be fooled! Don't beg must have been threatened by force with force by the barbarian army, forcing him to trick you into surrendering. If you surrender, you will really die!" E Zhe The war criminals jumped up and down in anxiety, yelling, "Hurry up! Hurry up! Arrest all the people from the Hongjisate tribe, don't allow them to surrender, don't let them run away! Anyone who dares to run away... Don't give him water... kill him directly!"

The intimidation and threats of E Zhe and others played some role, blocking the soldiers of the Hongjisate tribe behind, but many of the Mongolian soldiers crowded in front of the wall were soldiers from the Hongjisite tribe. The elders of their own tribe made a promise that they had already thrown down their weapons and raised their hands and rushed towards the wall, crossed the ditch to the bottom of the wall, climbed up the wall along the rope ladder laid down by the Ming army, and surrendered to the Ming army. Immediately brought them steamed buns and drinking water, let them drink water to eat.Seeing this, the soldiers of the Hongjisate tribe, who were still on the sidelines, went completely crazy. Those who were not intercepted dropped their weapons and pushed away their companions and ran north with their hands raised. The soldiers of the Hongjisite tribe who were intercepted simply took up their weapons and fought Intercept your own military law team and fire.For a while, the narrow valley was in chaos, and Hongjisate tribe soldiers could be seen fighting with the military law team everywhere. While desperately trying to hold back their companions to be buried with them, at the same time desperately trying to rush out of the interception to seek the chance of survival. The dense crowd of ants under the wall of the Ming army were all soldiers of the Hongjisate tribe who put down their weapons and surrendered, and even soldiers from other tribes were mixed in.

Seeing this scene, several veteran Mongolian generals on Yeli Kewen's side were also extremely anxious, and asked Yeli Kewen, who had the highest prestige, "Old general, what should we do? How about we lead our troops to intercept it?"

"Forget it, let them go." Yeli Kewen, who was born in the Chahar tribe, sighed, and said weakly: "They are all descendants of the wolf and the white deer. Our Chahar tribe went the wrong way. How about being buried with Mongols from other tribes?"

The chaos soon turned into a decisive battle. In order to hold all the Mongolian soldiers to be buried with him, Ezhe shamelessly ordered all the soldiers of the Chahar tribe directly under him to join the military law team and let them intercept the surrender of the Mongolian soldiers of the Hongjisate tribe. , and even organized an army to hunt down and kill the soldiers of the Hongjisate tribe who had rushed under the wall, and the soldiers and generals of the Hongjisate tribe were not to be outdone, and they quickly united together. Next, a decisive battle was launched with the Chahar tribe. The fight was in full swing, and the corpses were scattered all over the field. The Mongolian soldiers of other tribes either gloated, or sneaked into the Hongjisate tribe to surrender under false pretense, or took advantage of the chaos to fight for water. Sap, even the beauties that E Zhe had hidden were dragged to the woods by the rebels.In a word, the Ming army lost a little water and a little food, and the Mongolian army was overthrown, and enough people died.

Seeing the melee of the Mongolian army with binoculars on the commanding platform of the Ming army, Shi Kefa's admiration for Young Master Zhang reached the peak, and he couldn't help but bowed to Young Master Zhang and said: "Zhang Xiantai, I have convinced you, it doesn't cost much. One soldier at a time, one small estrangement, and the Mongolian army began to kill each other. Zhou Gongjin's feather fan and scarf, while talking and laughing, the mast and oar were wiped out in ashes, I'm afraid it was nothing more than that."

"Who says I'm trying to alienate?" Young Master Zhang said in shock, looking at the Mongolian army fighting each other in the canyon with a gloomy expression, he said calmly: "Do you think I really did this to alienate the enemy? Wrong, I can't bear to see so many Mongolian soldiers buried with that idiot Ezhe. These Mongolian soldiers, like us, are raised by their fathers and parents. If they all die here, how many orphans and widows will cry at the door, there will be How many white-haired people give away black-haired people?" At this point, Young Master Zhang wiped the corners of his eyes, and said with a sob: "I just saw too many such scenes, so I can't bear to see more tragedies in life like this Ah. If we let a Mongolian soldier survive, there will be one less orphan and widowed mother in the world, and one less pair of parents who will live alone and die of illness.”

Shi Kefa was dumbfounded, and after a while he cupped his hands to Young Master Zhang and said: "Zhang Xiantai is compassionate, I can't do it."

Unexpectedly, before the words fell, Young Master Zhang showed his habitual smirk again, "However, if these Mongolian soldiers are allowed to enter the Central Plains, there will definitely be more orphans, widowed mothers and widowed old people, so it's okay to use some tricks. Xian Brother, you will go back to Zhangjiakou in a while to see if there are any Mongolian nobles like Sobud there. As long as they are not nobles from the Chahar tribe directly under Lin Dan, you can ask them to come to me to sign a peace treaty alone. Guaranteeing the surrender of the Mongolian soldiers of their tribe, it’s all right, don’t worry that they are lying to me, and don’t worry that the peace agreement they signed cannot be fulfilled, we are not afraid of suffering a small loss and taking a small trick——I only want them and Chahar, who is directly under Lin Dan It’s fine if there’s estrangement and conflict between tribes.”

Speaking of this, Young Master Zhang grinned, and said with a smirk: "When it's time for us to fight Lin Dan, I'll show you the real divorce plan, the real plan to disperse thousands of troops!"

"Ah!" Shi Kefa had a weird expression, and he couldn't find any words to describe his boss, Young Master Zhang.At this time, Zhang Shitou suddenly came up to report, "Master, some businessmen from the Yingtangtu tribe have come. They want to use their wealth and lives as guarantees to sign a separate peace treaty with our Daming and ask us to release their tribe. Mongolian soldiers. I heard that one of them is somewhat related to Utai Taiji of the Yingtangtu tribe, but his qualifications are too poor. If you don’t see me, young master, I’ll send them away.”

"See, why don't you see?" Young Master Zhang waved his hand and said solemnly: "Stone, you don't know people well. Since these businessmen dare to pledge their wealth and lives, it proves that their tribe is sincerely toward us. , That's why they dared to take this risk. Don't look at them as businessmen, in fact, their words are more credible than many so-called Taiji Khans."

(End of this chapter)