Chapter 102 Arson Again (2)
"Don't worry, Ahma, I'll send someone to put out the fire." Huang Taiji stood up and knelt down and said.
"Go and put out the fire as soon as possible, and don't spread to Hetuala!" said the old slave, looking at his most capable son.
"Zhe!" Huang Taiji beat him up and stood up and left.
Huang Taiji immediately lit up the two white flags of his headquarters and rushed to the Hunhe area. Before he could reach the Hunhe River, he saw thick smoke rolling in the distance in front of him, and in the wind, he could feel a wave of heat coming from afar.
This kind of bushfire is difficult to extinguish even in the 21st century, let alone this era. But Huang Taiji is a generation of heroes after all. He ordered people to cut down forests on the shore and open up a large blank area to block the spread of the fire.
Watching the towering trees fall down, Huang Taiji sent an order: "Transfer the cut wood as soon as possible, don't let the fire ignite!"
"Four Beile, this move of the barbarian is indeed vicious, compressing our territory!" Ya Bao, who was standing beside Huang Taiji.
"A such a vicious barbarian must be the guy Ben Beile has seen twice!" Huang Taiji said hatefully.
This time, Huang Taiji brought not only ten Niulu's three thousand flags, but also two thousand armored men and three thousand coated Aha. With the efforts of more than 8,000 people, an open space was quickly opened up.
The fire has spread to the other side, and the wind has helped the fire. The forests and grasslands on the other side of the river are burning wildly. Under the powerful wind power, Mars has been blown to the east coast, but Huang Taiji has cut off the forest on the east coast into a two-hundred-step isolation zone. After Mars blows over, it lands on the ground and is extinguished soon.
Seeing the fire blocked on the west bank of Hunhe River, Huang Taiji breathed a deep breath.
But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard someone report: "Master Beile, another fire is coming from the north!"
"Go upstream!" Huang Taiji shouted anxiously.
Gao Shixin took the fire to set fires in multiple places, igniting the forest at several upwinds, allowing the fire to spread in the northwest wind. In addition to setting fires on the east bank of the Hun River, he also sent several people to set fires upstream of the Hun River, which made Huang Taiji run away.
Huang Taiji led his people to the upper reaches of Hunhe River. The flag deck, the armored people and the coats were sweating profusely, waving their axes desperately to cut down the forest and opening up a fire-proof isolation belt. After finally cutting down a large area of forest and transporting the fallen trees away. Both the flag deck and the coat Aha were already tired like a dog, slumped on the ground, gasping for breath, and sticking out his tongue like a dog.
Downstream, only a sound of horse hooves was heard. A group of Ming troops rode their horses, crossed the Hun River, and headed straight to the isolation belt on the other side. After passing the isolation belt, they arrived next to the forest. The Ming troops turned over and dismounted, wrapped cotton yarn on the arrow, lit the fire, and rows of rockets shot into the jungle.
"Four Beile, the barbarian set fire downstream again!" Someone came to report in panic.
Gao Shixin set fire everywhere, making the Later Jin army unable to defend. The large area of the original forest here is vast and difficult to defend. If Huang Taiji divided his troops to find the Ming army, he would be wiped out one by one by the Ming army.
Huang Taiji's two white flags were running around, going to put out fires and cut down forests everywhere, and everyone was exhausted.
At this time, more than 140 elite Ming cavalry led by Gao Shixin had rushed into the village where Baoyi Aha of the Later Jin Dynasty lived.
The cavalry rushed towards the busy coat in the wheat field. Wherever the war horses passed, the ripe wheat fell in the farmland one by one. The villagers who were busy harvesting wheat in the fields were also harvested by the Ming cavalry one by one. Just like they harvested wheat, their heads were cut off one by one. The heads of these rat tails of the money became the spoils of the Ming army.
In a blink of an eye, more than 200 men who were busy harvesting wheat fields were all killed.
"Run in, kill everyone you see! Whether it is Jiannu or Baoyi, no matter whether it is a man, woman, old or young, they are cut down, and no one is left!" Gao Shixin gave the order and rushed into the village first.
The Ming cavalry holding torches rushed into the village, and houses were ignited by the Ming army. In the fired house, the coats ran out crying and shouting, but they hit the sharp blade of the Ming army. The Ming cavalry galloped past one after another. When they saw people running out, the sabre in their hands took advantage of the horse's stunning force and a head flew into the sky.
There are more than a dozen households living in the village. These households are the owners of Baoyi Aha on weekdays. Their main task is to supervise Baoyi Aha’s work and take charge of the weapon warehouse. When there is a need during wartime, the officers will recruit auxiliary soldiers from Baoyi Aha, distribute weapons to them, and let them go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder.
But now, the weapons of the Baoyi people are locked in the warehouse. The unarmed Baoyi faces the rushing Ming cavalry, without any power to fight back, and is cut and overturned one after another in a pool of blood.
The cavalry crossed the entire village and rushed all the way, and the fired houses were covered with corpses.
Whether it is adults, elderly people, children, men or women, there was no mercy where the Ming cavalry passed, and they were killed without any one.
In his previous life, Gao Shixin liked to do the most when he was playing the Imperial Age, the best thing to do was kill the opponent's peasants. In the Imperial Age, the best use of killing peasants was archers, which was somewhat inconsistent with the facts. Bows and arrows were actually not as fast as swords, and the fastest one was the cavalry. This changed in the Imperial Age. After entering the Castle Age, cavalry began to kill the opponent's peasants, weakening the opponent's combat effectiveness.
The spearmen in the second era of Empire can defeat the cavalry, but when they really fight, they enter the castle era, and the cavalry will harass the opponent's peasants, and the opponent will use spearmen to defend, but they will not take advantage of it. The cavalry can turn around and run away, lead the opponent's spearmen away, and then turn back and kill. As long as the spearmen are not piled up together, the cavalry will chop one by one, and the spearmen will be cut off.
After the Ming cavalry rushed past, they lined up outside the village and prepared to rush into the village again.
The Later Jin Banners were still brave. One Banner picked up the bow and arrow and shot an arrow at the Ming cavalry that rushed towards him. However, the arrow shot on Man Gui and was blocked by the thick iron armor on his body. Before the Banner could pull the bow and arrow again, Man Gui had already rushed to the Banners and whipped an iron mace. The Banners used the bow to block it. As a result, the bow was broken into two pieces. The iron mace continued to strike forward under the powerful force, hitting the Banners' head, causing their brains to burst.
Several flag cows held tiger spears and formed a formation to welcome the attack of the Ming cavalry.
Gao Shixin had already discovered them. He turned over and dismounted, took out his step bow, shot all the flag devils to death with one arrow.
Some of the Ming cavalry also dismounted and fought with the resisting flag soldiers. With the advantage of large numbers, the Ming army beat one of them to three to five people, and with the precise firepower output of Gao Shixin behind, all the Jianzhou Jurchen flag soldiers in the village were killed in a short while.
"Kill everyone! No one left!" Gao Shixin shouted.
At this time, all the cavalry had dismounted, and drove all the women, children, elderly and weak people from the Jianzhou Jurchens to the threshing ground at the entrance of the village to concentrate.
The coats, who knew that the disaster was coming, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but the Jurchens glared at them and did not give in at all.
"Bah, barbarian!" An old Jurchen man with gray hair spat.
Gao Shixin couldn't understand the Jurchen language and asked a soldier beside him: "What is this old Jiannu talking about?"
"Are you scolding us barbarians."
"No one left, all cut off! All the adult men's heads were cut off and taken away!" Gao Shixin yelled.
Man Gui and the soldiers rushed up with various weapons, shattering swords, axes, and spears. After a while, the women, children, old and weak people of the Jianzhou Jurchens all fell into a pool of blood.
Chapter completed!