Chapter 456: Kill Shanyu

Many young herdsmen in the Tumot tribe always like to listen to old herdsmen telling stories about "hunting" in their spare time, saying that they were riding on horses, waving sabers and spears, driving away the fleeing Han people in panic, looting their women, silk and treasures, and living this winter happily.

Whenever the old herdsmen talked about the tender skins of the Han women and the terror of the Han people in the Ming Dynasty when they were chopping and slaughtering, these young people became excited.

Of course, the years have not been good. The Tumote tribe has to fight against the Yilibali tribe in the west on the grassland and guard against the remnants of the Tak and Korqin. The soldiers and horses on the Ming Dynasty are not so easy to bully. If you want to enter the pass and kill and loot, you may have to enjoy it.

However, today, many herders from the Tumote tribe discovered that they had fled in panic, and it turned out that the terrified person was actually them.

Compared with the cavalry that rushed straight to the tent of King Tumot Khan, the scattered cavalry caused greater damage. These cavalry were either Chen Yongfu's direct subordinates or Yang Chengzu's personal soldiers. They all held torches and set fire to the tent first, and then chopped and slashed those who ran out.

Whether it is officers and soldiers or bandits, there are few good things in regular battles, but they are first-class heroes in this kind of burning, killing, looting and destruction. To put it back aside, even if the officers and soldiers and migrant troops have never eaten pork, they have never seen pigs run away.

They lit up everything they saw and cut down everyone running in front of the horse.

The golden tent of Tumot Khan is located, with a population of about 10,000, and there are thousands of tents of all sizes. It looks like a small town. Except for the tents of Tumot Khan and the nobles below, the tents of the middle and lower levels and herder slaves are all felt. The felt oil is very oily, and the fire is fierce after it is ignited. At this turn of winter and spring, although it is by the lake of the Wanerhai, how can I have time to put out the fire?

At first, the officers and soldiers and the migrant army needed to ignite, but later they ignite each other. Although there was a large enough gap between the tent and the tent to lodge the tent. The splashing sparks are still the source of fire in this hell.

Compared with ordinary small tribes, there were more people in the Golden Treasure of Tumot Khandi who were not ordinary herdsmen. However, in this haste, the brigade of cavalry was relocated here again. When Chen Yongfu led the brigade of troops, many of Tumot's cavalry did not even have time to get on the horse.

How did the people holding long swords and wooden guns fight against the condescending cavalry? After the cavalry of the Datong Bian Town rushed through the tents in the outermost area. Finally, the soldiers of the Tumot tribe came out with bows and arrows. Although it was already dark at the moment, the blazing fire reflected here like daytime.

But there is a problem that the Tumo special soldiers faced the firelight, while the scattered cavalry in the border town were carrying the firelight. The eyes were shook by the flashing firelight, which was really no accuracy. But the dark cavalry and horses were always a big target. Especially the cavalry that was chopping and slaughtering there.

In the eyes of archers, the cavalry's upper body is the best and most easily shot target. Wow, amid the crackling sound of flames, amid the shouts of the cavalry of the border town and the cries of the herdsmen, the archers quickly broke through the air. However, the border town cavalry that came this time was not the poor military man in a cloth and cotton robe in the Ming Dynasty.

At least. These cavalrymen were wearing helmets, breastplate, and shooting bows and arrows on them had no effect at all. Only a few of them were lucky enough to hit the door.

I thought about it, and there was another sound of archery hitting the deck. It was impossible to penetrate at all. This is a tent area, with tent levels staggered. There is even no tent that is more than fifty steps apart. In other words, there is no archer shooting ground here. There is too much space for too many archers to shoot.

They all shot arrows at fifty steps or closer distances, but failed to hit a single arrow. When they wanted to shoot the second arrow, the cavalry rushed to the front of them. In close combat, these archers were not even as good as ordinary herders.

The entire golden tent was already in full bloom. The cavalry brigade that was rushing towards the king's tent was almost a square formation. The front row was full of cavalry with spears, and the back row was full of long swords and axes waiting for the battle.

Even if so many cavalry were sent out, Tumot Khan would leave about two thousand golden guards around him, and other nobles at all levels would also leave behind guards. The revenge and fire of the Khan nobles on the grassland was also a common thing, and they always had to reserve their strength to guard against each other.

Those who appeared in front of Chen Yongfu and his men were these golden tent guards. Listening to the shouts and crying around, whether they were Chen Yongfu's subordinates or the Shandong Iron Cavalry led by Zhang Kun, everyone felt their blood boiling. This sound was always applied to the Han people by the barbarians, but today the Han people returned it again.

Looking at the golden tent guards appearing on the other side of the road, the speed of the Datong cavalry here did not slow down at all and still rushed forward.

The Golden Tent Guard is the brave and warriors around the grassland controlled by the Tumot tribe and even the Tumot tribe. Tumot Khan privately calls his Golden Tent Guard Qiexue, which is the name of the elite Gent Guard officer of Genghis Khan back then.

These Golden Tent Guards reacted quickly. When the cavalry in the border town rushed in, they completed the entire team and mobilized as quickly as possible, and rushed out to resist.

The horses of the Golden Tent guards did not raise their speed. Everyone was on the horse to set off their bows and arrows to prepare for shooting. Such a wide road must be approaching quickly, and in a blink of an eye, they had already entered the range of the bow and arrow.

There was no order. Almost at the same time, hundreds of arrows flew out loud and fell like raindrops. The opponent's dense formation did not require aiming. He just needed to raise the bow and arrow slightly and hit it in a corner.

If this first wave of shooting works, the hundreds of riders in front of these sneak attackers will at least fall into a mess, and the people behind will be blocked by the lodging corpses of the horses in front.

But these cavalry were wearing iron helmets and plate armor. The front rows even had face armor, and even the horses were wrapped in leather felt on the head and chest. This is why we took the risk of setting up a second relay point, which was to allow the horses and even the cavalry to replace the armor and vests at the second relay point, which could save horsepower and be more powerful when impacting.

Hearing the stern stern sound, the front row of the cavalrymen in the border town just lowered their heads, while the cavalrymen behind raised small round shields, which was enough.

Then it seemed like hail suddenly fell in a small area, and there were endless things to hear. It was the sound of bows, shields and armor hitting the ground, that's all. Only the mount of a cavalry outside the fourth row was unlucky and was shot into the eyes by the falling arrows...

Archery was ineffective. Some of the guards in the Golden Tent took out their swords, axes, spears and drove them forward, while others were preparing to shoot the second arrow. It was too hasty and could not organize the resistance they should have.

The heavy armored cavalry, who was holding a spear, had begun to accelerate, and the weight of people, horses and armor was superimposed. The speed gradually accelerated, and this speed and power were accumulated on the spear, rushing towards the Golden Tent guard in front.

The Golden Tent Guards are the best cavalry equipped by the Tumote tribe. Their equipment on the entire grassland cannot be said to be poor, but their ground armor. The best ones are scale armor or cotton armor circulating from the Qing Dynasty. These armors are not bad for slashing or shooting with bows and arrows.

The stabbing of this spear, especially such rapid stab, was pierced by the spear, and anyone who was stabbed by the spear was penetrated easily. Because of the length of the spear, even the second row of golden guards were penetrated, the cavalry and horses in front of the Tumots were beaten to death and wounded at this moment.

The hastily piled up formation was quickly broken, and the cavalry behind had already swarmed up, and the spear cavalry in front was nailed into these golden guards like a clamp. When they stabbed into the enemy formation, the soldiers in the front row dropped their spears and took out swords or short axes from the saddle. They began to chop.

The weapons of these Mongolian cavalry could not cause any damage to the cavalry led by Chen Yongfu and Zhang Kun. The close attacks of these scimitars and spears could not cause damage to this iron can.

A hundred years ago or earlier, the Jurchens and Mongol cavalry in the Jin Dynasty were carrying iron bones and maces, which were to deal with heavy armored cavalry and destroy heavy armored cavalry.

But now, no matter on the grassland or the border of the Ming Dynasty, no matter the infantry and cavalry, they are not as thick as the subway armor. The swords and spears are enough to kill. The heavy iron bones and maces have gradually been eliminated.

Today, facing the plate armor forged professional titles by the Jiaozhou Weapon Manufacturing Bureau, these soldiers who are brave on the grassland cannot destroy the opponent's armor at all.

You cannot destroy the opponent's armor, but the opponent's weapons can destroy your mail, scale armor or leather armor. The golden tent guards are hastily formed, and there is no formation at all. In fact, the war on the grassland began to degenerate from the time when the Mongols escaped to the grassland.

At that time, the Mongols and Yuan Iron Cavalry, which was dominant in the world, had long disappeared. The so-called Golden Tent Iron Cavalry rushed forward. In this era, when the Mongols had the strongest combat power, that is, under the rule of the Qing Dynasty and under the constraints of the Eight Banners of the Jurchens, they had formations and attacks, and could barely be called an army.

What's more, Chen Yongfu and Zhang Kun led the Iron Cavalry to form a formation, and used a strict formation to fight against the scattered mobs. Of course, there is no suspense.

The Golden Tent Guard is a professional cavalry, a warrior whom Tumot Khan is willing to spend money and status to win over. The most relied on. These cavalry on the grassland are loyal to the Tumot tribe. They were suddenly attacked by inexplicable cavalry, and they found the location of the Golden Tent so accurately.

Almost most of the people in the Tumot tribe here feel that the doomsday is coming, but these golden guards still come forward to fight hard, and they want to win time for the Tumot Khan's escape.

As long as Tumot Khan can escape, he can always gather people with his noble bloodline and people's expectations, gather the Tumot tribe again and make a comeback.

But people's hearts are one thing, but whether they can be accomplished is another. Facing the iron cavalry formation formed, they can do nothing...

The Golden Site Guards before the Tumot King's Tent did not have the ability to stop the Iron Cavalry from charging, and they could not gather to stop them. Their resistance was the time to start these two rounds of bows and arrows. When they were close to the fighting ground, they could only be slaughtered hopelessly.

And at this time, the burned and killed Sanqi has already surrounded it, and the Iron Cavalry phalanx is moving forward all the way. You don’t have to pay attention to the attacks on the side and the enemies outside the attack range of the Iron Cavalry phalanx. The Sanqi who followed behind will not let go of any enemy blocking in front of you.

The cavalry battles of the Golden Chamber Guards may be slightly stronger than the San Cavalry, but at this time they were already scared, and the San Cavalry was very powerful, and there were many people and powerful people. The victory was very great. But the San Cavalry first came up, which was Yang Chengzu and his direct cavalry. They were the elite soldiers who had experienced many battles in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty and were trained in the battle field. The horse battle was no less than the pampered Golden Chamber Guards on the grassland.

This time, it was completely defeated. There had been no major battles on the grassland for many years. These Golden Treasure Guards often exist as guards of the Khan. Compared with the veterans who fought and fought for many years, they were some of them no longer on the surface and were quickly killed and fled everywhere.

The entire eastern part of the Tumote tribe's golden tent was already a sea of ​​fire, and the scattered cavalry had already followed it to the west, and originally planned to fight the most difficult iron cavalry formation. But I didn't expect that this battle was so easy and rushed to the big tent so quickly.

Tumot Khan's king's tent is naturally different from ordinary tents. It is completely decorated with cowhide tents, with various decorations on it. There are also deconstructions similar to brick and stone buildings around it, which looks like a small palace. After Chen Yongfu and Zhang Kun rushed here, they dismounted directly.

The soldiers rushed in with big swords and spears in hand. It seemed that the guards and cavalry here must have just gone to resist. The maids and servants here knelt on the ground in fear. Or they ran away in a hurry.

The tent was indeed magnificent, but no one was concerned about watching the officers and soldiers who rushed in, and they were just looking for the traces of Tumot Khan.

The resistance outside just now was indeed successful in delaying the time. According to a maid in the tent, Tumothan had just run out of the gold tent with a group of noble people, of course he left on a horse.

The main purpose of coming here this time is to kill Tumot Khan. If the ruler of this Tumot tribe is still there, many subsequent plans will not be carried out.

Successfully broke into the Tumote tribe's golden tent. Looking at the fire and killing outside, victory could be guaranteed. But Chen Yongfu was a little anxious before, because Shandong was not asking him to come over to consume his strength, but to actually do the task, if he couldn't complete it, his ability would be questioned.

The ability is suspected, so what should I do if I have the future glory and wealth? Zhang Kun’s face is not very good. The soldiers under his command have searched the place, but they have not found it.

"Breathe it here, take off your armor and go chase after it quickly!"

Chen Yongfu issued an order loudly. If his current mount power is wearing heavy armor to chase him, he may not have any speed at all.

The entire Tumote tribe's gold tent is still in resistance. The nobles of each tribe do not have the speed of reaction of their Khan. The family and relatives are around and they have no time to run away, and the guards under their command have to resist to the death. The killing of these people is not the purpose of this time.

Burning this big tent is a signal that the overall situation has been determined, so that all those who can still resist know that it is impossible to turn the tables.

Chen Yongfu's orders, including himself, all of them ran outside the golden tent and issued an order to take off the armor. The connection part of the armor was just a few buckles in front and back, which was very convenient to untie it. The armor was thrown to the ground, and Wei Li ordered his subordinates to go to shout everywhere if they knew Mongolian language.

The cowhide king's tent was poured with oil and burned from it. It was the most blazing fire where the entire gold tent was located. I saw the king's tent in the middle being burned. All the Tumote tribes knew that the situation was over, and at the same time, the Mongolian cavalry shouted loudly.

It is said that you put down your weapons, put your hands on your head, and gather on the open space south of the golden tent, and you can let go and not kill them. Those with weapons in your hands and those who ride on horses will be killed without any quasi-demanding.

The Mongolian herdsmen on the grassland lived along the water plants and had no place to settle down. The so-called loyalty was much less favorable than the Han people in the pass. Therefore, the Mongolian tribes, including East and West Mongolia, were earlier, and there were the three guards of Duoyan who were dependent on the Ming Dynasty. Now there were most of the Chahar and Korqin tribes who were dependent on the Qing Dynasty.

Now that these terrible enemies promise not to kill and the king's account has been burned, most of the Tumot Mongolian herders' desire to resist has completely collapsed and they have no intention of continuing to fight.

Those few who want to fight are already alone in such a situation and have no effect.

The Tumot Khan ran out with less than a hundred guards. He was indeed a noble young man who was pampered and generous. In such a situation, as a tribe, Khan, not only stood up to organize resistance, but led several subordinates to escape first, which was also the complete plan of the previous plan.

Large-scale cavalry were all transferred to the so-called "salt trade" and touched the iron plate. The raided cavalry could drive straight in and kill the leader.

The guards were left. The leaders Chen Yongfu and Zhang Kun took off their armor and were about to get on the horse to chase. Before getting on the horse, Zhang Kun shouted immediately:

"General Yang Shen is there, ask him to command and guard these prisoners..."

Chen Yongfu and Wei Li and others took off their iron armor. They rushed out on horseback. When it was dark on the grassland, they chased only one hundred people, as if they were looking for a needle in a haystack. They could only catch up as soon as possible while Tumot Khan had not run away.

They all chased out, but Zhang Kun was still looking for Yang Chengzu. At present, the golden tent was located, in addition to being killed, there were also six or seven thousand surrendered Tumot Mongols. For example, the officer who was in charge was left to guard the cavalry, otherwise there would be chaos. Calculation of this identity, Yang Chengzu was the only qualified person.

After shouting for a long time, there was no reply. Finally, a cavalry came over to the west, and the blood splashed on his face, which was obviously extremely excited about the slash.

Hearing Zhang Kun’s question, he quickly bowed and clasped his fists and said:

"Sir, my elder brother will lead the brothers to chase the big sweat of the Tartars."

Didn’t you let you kill someone in this tent and set fire? Why did you chase Tumot on your own? I really know how to get the cheap ones. Zhang Kun cursed in his stomach, but he couldn’t follow him and chase him. Although everyone wanted to go to the task of chasing Tumotkhan.

Zhang Kun could only arrange for the soldiers below to push down the tents on fire to the east, and a blank zone was drawn between the areas without fire and the areas where the fire stopped spreading.

All the herdsmen who walked out of the tent area with their heads held in their arms and came to the blank area were driven by soldiers to pile up the unburned grass and tent fragments around this area and ignite them. In this cold night, torches can give these prisoners a little warmth, and at the same time, the light can also make people who are moved to the ground discover as soon as possible.

The soldiers who followed Chen Yongfu and Wei Li and others to pursue were only about 400. The remaining cavalry were dismounted at Zhang Kun's order, put on iron armor again, and guided them with iron armor. The other soldiers were on torches to cooperate and searched the tents that were not burning one by one.

There will definitely be those who think they are hiding in a tent and taking advantage of the border town cavalry, or escaping, or trying to do something else to hook up local mice.

The dismounted cavalry formed a ground team to catch these mice and put them into the open space to avoid any unnecessary accidents.

The area where the golden tent is located is quite large. Although most of the tents are burned, it still takes a lot of time to search one by one. However, war is such a troublesome thing and has to be done.

After these searches were completed, many dejected Tumot Mongolian tribes were driven here. At this time, Datong General Chen Yongfu, Wei Li and others led the team back. They were also dejected because they returned empty-handed and the sky was really dark. Although there was also moonlight, the grassland was in the direction of escape, and perhaps the pursuit was not the place where Tumot Khan escaped.

Everyone was uncomfortable and failed. Zhang Kun was speechless about the result. He could only cheer up and arrange the defense that night. Perhaps the defeated cavalry would come back tonight. After all, the pursuit and blocking of the carts could not last for too long. If Tumot Khan did not die, things might become very troublesome.
Chapter completed!