Chapter 248: The Dog Shao’s Benevolent Heart

The autumn wind was like a knife, blowing up the withered grass leaves, blowing off the yellow leaves, and wrinkling the skin of the Mongolian soldiers lying in the valley, and tearing their skins from dehydration. When we entered the valley, the broad-leaved trees on the mountains on both sides of the road were covered with bright red leaves, but in just over ten days, all the trees had become bare. The leaves that were originally as red as fire were paved into yellow on the ground. When the autumn wind hits, the branches sway and leaves shaking, bringing up a series of beautiful notes. The mountains are golden, the blue sky is washed, the white clouds are like snow, the scenery is like picturesque, people are in the painting, and even in hell.

"Teach force, brother, twist force." The two Mongolian soldiers moaned weakly, strangling the gauze that was tied into a ball of gauze in their hands. The gauze gradually seeped out the green and yellow water droplets, gathering into a stream of scattered porcelain bowls on the ground, emitting a pungent smell. When the things wrapped in the gauze could not squeeze out the juice, the two Mongolian soldiers carefully picked up the broken bowl, put it on their mouths, and took turns sucking the pungent green and yellow juice water full of pungent smell - the juice water squeezed out with horse manure. But even so, beside them, there were dozens or hundreds of Mongolian soldiers with their lips that were so dry that they were bleeding from blood, looking at them enviously, and staring at the broken bowl containing half a bowl of dung water, as if it was filled with nectar and jade liquid.

The water was cut off, and it 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 heavy water trucks. Each soldier had a sheepskin water bag hanging on his body. After being surrounded by the Ming army, although every soldier was trying hard to save drinking water, no matter how much he could drink for a day, the most conservative person had to last seven days. There was not a completely water source on the trail that stretched for more than fifty miles, but those pitiful streams could only maintain normal drinking water for three or four hundred people. In other words, basically, they only used Mongolian generals who maintained the level of commander or above to drink the juice from human urine, horse urine and horse manure. Every Mongolian soldier was looking forward to rain, but they forgot that if it weren't for years of drought and rain in the north, how could there be chaos in Shaanxi and Gansu in the Ming Dynasty?

Food is no problem. At worst, slaughtering the war horses can be completely supported until reinforcements arrive. However, there is not enough drinking water. No one dares to make a promise to whether this Mongolian army with more than 40,000 people can stand until the day the reinforcements cleared. In order to make a way out, some Mongolian veterans led by Yeli Kewen have organized suicide squads to charge many times, but each time they are beaten by Ming soldiers who have absolute geographical advantages and weapons advantages to the point of losing their heads and urinate. The soldiers and generals are damaged, and they can't even touch the wall. The Ming army has to clean up the corpses in the trenches in front of the wall in three or two days, and make room for the corpses of Mongolian soldiers to continue to load the bodies of Mongolian soldiers.

There are not any brightness, and there are also Mongolian generals who want to play sneak attacks and traps, but their luck is too bad. They met Mr. Zhang, who is famous for playing conspiracies and tricks. The result is very natural. The army that attacked him basically went but never returned, and the proportion of casualties of soldiers was even greater than when he attacked the front during the day. In addition, there are also Mongolian generals volunteered to explore the way, trying to find a new road to break through. Unfortunately, the vicious and shameless Master Zhang had already figured out every grass, tree, ditch and a shattering in the mountainous areas of this area through smuggling merchants. Several paths that could barely walk were also dug and were blocked. There were troops stationed at the key location, and Mongolian soldiers who discovered the way to explore the way.

The soldiers immediately greeted the guns and arrows. In addition, the terrain of this area was indeed high and dangerous. So after searching for several days, the Mongolian army could not find a second road to break through - it cannot be said that there was no at all. However, if they wanted to jump out more than a dozen mountains and escape from the mountainous areas, it would be difficult for more than 40,000 Mongolian soldiers to escape alive. Moreover, all the soldiers and horses were exhausted and escaped, even if they arrived on the grassland, they would be massacred by the Ming soldiers. Therefore, the Mongolian army had no choice but to accept their fate and stayed in the valley with their idiot prince, starving, waiting for Lin Dan's reinforcements to rescue the siege - to be precise, waiting for a miracle to happen.

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 trade with the Ming Dynasty, there are quite a few Mongolian soldiers who have a good impression of the Ming Dynasty. Ezhe has been betrayal of the faith and sneaked into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. Many straightforward Mongolian soldiers were extremely dissatisfied. They were forced to implement the military order. Now they have taken the initiative to provoke the war and have led more than 40,000 Mongolian troops into the Jedi. They are surrounded by the Ming army. The dissatisfaction of the Mongolian soldiers naturally reaches its peak. Almost every time

A Mongolian soldier cursed Ezhe behind his back, cursing this rare idiot in the ages, and cursing that the world's number one candid was cut into pieces by the Ming army. In fact, to be fair, Ezhe's sneak attack plan was not too bad, almost comparable to Young Master Zhang's detour on the Mongolian grassland to attack Shengjing. However, Ezhe's idea was too unfaithful, but he encountered Young Master Zhang, who did not engage in conspiracy and tricks, so naturally he took on the title of the First idiot in the ages.

In extreme dissatisfaction, there were constant internal strife in the Mongolian army. The Mongolian soldiers of the Ming tribe who were pro-Ming and the Tatar tribe who hated the Ming Dynasty repeatedly clashed. In order to drink water and speak out, countless people drew their swords toward each other. Especially the soldiers of the Chahar tribe directly under Lin Dan, they were even more intimate with the more pro-Ming-related Qilagut (Turgut) and Tumot, and other Mongolian tribes. On one hand, they called the other a traitor, and on the other hand, they accused the other of being a despicable villain who was traitorous and despicable rats who were merciless and revenge. There were countless people who died because of the internal strife, and countless people fled to surrender to the Ming army at night. But the commander of the entire army, Ezhe, was again

An incompetent person, since he found out that there was no hope of breaking through, would only cry and cry and shout for his parents to help him. He could not come up with any way to soothe the morale of the army and unite the army. Ezhe's confidant Guyingtasu was also a verbal and lacking in ability. After being surrounded, he simply hid next to the water source every day, saying like a turtle and refused to stand up. As a result, he could only suffer in the misery of the old Mongolian generals, like a fire brigade, and tried hard to resolve disputes, boost morale, and call on the army to work together to overcome difficulties. However, he could not take care of the east end and the west end, and was as tired as a dog.

He endured it for a day in extreme thirst. Seeing that the morale of the army was declining day by day, the army collapsed completely. Yelikewen and other Mongolian generals could not sit still. After a little discussion, they came to Ezhe who was crying next to the water source. Yuyarikewen said to Ezhe: "Big Prince, this may not work anymore. The soldiers have no water to drink. It is impossible to persevere until the Khan's reinforcements arrive. In order to save the lives of these 40,000 Mongolian warriors, and for their relatives, wives and children on the grassland, let us accept the conditions offered by the Ming army to surrender."

"No, you must not surrender!" Guyingtasu, who was guarding the water source, shouted like a pig-killing condition. Among the surrender conditions offered by the Ming army, there was a requirement for the Mongolian army to use the heads of him and a group of Qiu Ming generals to express their sincerity in surrender. In order not to let the last straw in front of him slip away, Guyingtasu shouted like crazy: "You cannot surrender! You must not! The barbarians want all our war horses and all our soldiers to be hard labor. Our warriors of the Great Mongolian will serve as hard labor and slaves. What face will they have to see people in the future?"

"It is better to be hard labor than lifeless!" Yelikewen said furiously: "Guyingtasu, I know you are afraid that we will use your head to express our sincerity to surrender to Lord Zhang Haogu, but have you ever thought that if we do not surrender, these 40,000 Mongolian warriors will be starved to death in the valley! Their parents, their wives and children will never have a chance to see them again! Only by surrendering can they have a glimmer of life. In the future, the Khan and the Ming Dynasty reconcile and reach alliance negotiations, the Ming Dynasty 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 Khan did not negotiate with the barbarians? Then the barbarian army would massacre all us?" Gu Yingtasu yelled with red eyes, "If the Khan did not care about our lives and death and decided to go to war with the barbarians in a full-scale manner, then the barbarians would let us prisoners go? Even if the barbarians did not kill us, we would still be slaves in the barbarian Ming Kingdom for the rest of their lives until they were exhausted. Do you understand?"

"At this point, we have to bet on a bet!" Yelikewen said angrily: "If we surrender, the Khan may accept all the conditions of the Ming Dynasty in order to redeem us. Then we still have hope of living. But if we insist on not surrendering, we will either die of thirst or be destroyed by the Ming army. By then, it will be too late for the Khan to reunite with the Ming Dynasty!"

"Yellekwen, you old traitor, you surrender to the barbarians, you... you are shameless! You are shameless!" Gu Yingtasu was furious, and grabbed Ezhe's sleeve again, knelt down and begged: "Big Prince, you must not surrender. Yekwen's old traitors surrender is nothing, they can survive, but you are dead! It is you who sent troops to attack the barbarians' hinterland, and you are also the one who wiped out the 50,000 troops. If you surrender, neither the barbarian nor the Khan will let you go! Only by persevering, persist until the Khan's rescuers come and work with the Khan's rescuers to eliminate the barbarians inside and outside, can you atone for the Khan's sins and have the opportunity to inherit the Khan's throne! Big Prince, your most loyal slave Gu Yingtasu begs you-!"

Guyingtasu's words hit Ezhe's key point. With Ezhe'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 for Mongolia. The Ming court would definitely add one to the agreement, and Lin Dan would definitely not allow Lin Dan to pass the Khan to Ezhe, the Qiuming faction with a criminal record. After Ezhe surrendered, the 50,000 Mongolian army was actually wiped out. After Ezhe returned to Chahanhot, he would become a rat crossing the street, a stinking pit stone, and never want to peek at the position of the Mongolian Khan in this life. Although Ezhe was stupid, he still understood this principle very well. So Ezhe quickly wiped away his tears and said to Ezhe and other Mongolian veterans: "Dear veterans, I have recognized your kindness, but we Mongolia only have warriors who died in battle and no warriors who surrendered, so we can only persist and cannot surrender."

"Big Prince-!" Yelike Wen Hu roared, pointed to the dying soldiers in the distance, and shouted: "Please take a look. Can our Mongolian warriors still stick to it? You have water to drink, but our soldiers are already drinking horse manure water! I beg you, surrender! If you are afraid of death, a few of us old people can negotiate with Lord Zhang Haogu again and exchange our lives for your life, just ask you to save these poor soldiers!"

Ezhe didn't dare to turn his head, but just yelled: "Guyingtasu, from now on, the military and legal team will be given to you for command. If you say surrender, kill me, don't worry!"

"Get orders!" Guyingta Su Huan agreed happily. The veterans such as Yelikewen were disappointed. After exchanging helplessly, Yelikewen sighed again: "Okay, we are Mongolian generals, and we obey your orders. But we old people want to ask you again for something, the eldest prince. In the future, you and your personal soldiers will save some drinking water, give some water, and give those soldiers who are about to die of thirst. If you drink less water, you may be able to save the life of a soldier."

"This is no problem." Ezhe agreed, picked up his water bag and said, "Let's do this. From today on, each of my personal soldiers and I only drink a bag of water for three days. All the water saved will be given to the soldiers. Is this okay?"

"Thank you, the eldest prince." Yelikewen and other veterans clasped their fists to agree, and then left dejectedly. As soon as Yelikewen left, Ezhe immediately called the captain of the personal soldiers and whispered: "From today on, my foot washing water must be prepared at night, and the water used to serve my beauties will be prepared quietly at night. Never let these old people see it, do you understand?" The captain of the personal soldiers smiled knowingly and agreed in a low voice.

Like Ezhe, after walking away, Yelikewen and several Mongolian veterans also murmured in a low voice, "It's over, we are the prince who only cares about himself and does not care about the lives of the soldiers. If we continue like this, what should we do?" "When the Khan's reinforcements arrive, half of our more than 40,000 troops will survive, it will be difficult." "I heard that it will not snow in the Zhangjiakou area until at least the end of September. Cang wolf and white deer, save our Mongolian warriors." Another veteran attached to Yelikewen and whispered in his ear: "Old General Yelikewen, why don't we launch a mutiny and capture the people Zhang Haogu wants to surrender and save our warriors."

"Fart!" Yelike Wen Heng glanced at the veteran general and whispered: "Tutumuer, if you dare to say something like this, I will be the first to chop you! We are all generals of the Khanate, how could we do such a thing?" The veteran had no choice but to retreat. But at this moment, a sudden commotion occurred in the camp in the north. From a distance, many dying Mongolian soldiers struggled to stand up and stumbled towards the north. Yelike Wen secretly shouted something was wrong and hurriedly said: "What happened in the north, hurry up and see what happened."

When a group of veteran generals arrived at the scene, they found that the Mongolian soldiers were all rushing to the Ming army's wall at the entrance of Yutailing Valley. When they hurried to the front of the fortifications of the Ming army, the Mongolian generals such as Yelikewen saw a Mongolian old man wearing grandson uniforms (Mongolian aristocratic costumes) appeared on the Ming army's wall. He held a crutch in his hand and was shouting loudly, "The warriors of the Hongji Thite tribe, the generals of the Hongji Thite tribe, all come over, I am yours Don't beg Sobud, I am yours Don't beg (elder)!"

"You all listen to the warriors of the Hongji Shit Tribe." The Mongolian elder Sobud, who once stopped Ezhe from destroying Laiyuanbao Market, shouted, "The Emperor of Ming Dynasty has issued an order to let Lord Zhang Haogu decide on your life and death, and Lord Zhang Haogu decides what to do with you! Lord Zhang Haogu found me and said, our Hongji Shit Tribe is a tribe friendly to the Ming Dynasty. Many warriors from our tribe are soldiers in the Ming army, and some are even considered as

General Zhang Haogu said again that he knew that our Hongji Shit tribe was forced to go to war with the Ming Dynasty by that bastard Ezhe! So Zhang Haogu said again that he did not want to kill the warriors of the Hongji Shit tribe. As long as I swear on behalf of the Hongji Shit tribe, I will never go to war with the Ming Dynasty. He can accept all the surrounded Hongji Shit warriors surrendered, and don’t want you to be hard labor. If you surrender, you will let you go home and reunite with your family.”

"For your life, I agree." Sobude cried and cried, "I swear to Lord Zhang Haogu with the reputation of the Cang Wolf White Deer that I will sign a peace agreement with the Ming Dynasty on behalf of the Hongji Shit tribe and the Ming Dynasty, and vowed not to start a war with the Ming army. So the kind Lord Zhang Haogu let me come here and let me tell you to surrender. You should put down your weapons and come over and surrender to the Ming army! Lord Zhang Haogu also said that if Lin Dan does not accept the conditions of the Ming Dynasty and starts a war with the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty will close all border cities, but the Hongji Shit tribe can continue to do business with the Ming Dynasty and continue to buy food, cloth, salt and tea bricks from the Ming Dynasty. Warriors of the Hongji Shit tribe, don't be buried with Ezhe, surrender quickly, I guarantee you, and accept the kindness of Lord Zhang Haogu."

Although the Mongolian elder Sobud's voice was not loud, the Mongolian soldiers who heard his voice were verbally spread, one to ten, ten to hundreds, and soon spread throughout the entire Mongolian army. Then, the Mongolian army was in anger. The soldiers of the Hongji Tsaite tribe, who were already more familiar with each other, threw down their weapons and rushed to the wall without saying a word. The Chahar tribe's military legal team, directly under Lin Dan, was anxious and rushed to dissuade him, "Don't be fooled! Don't be fooled! Don't beg for the fact that they were threatened by the barbarian army with force and forced him to deceive you into surrendering. If you surrender, you will be really dead!" Ezhe and other war criminals were so anxious that they jumped and shouted, "Hurry! Hurry! Arrest all the people of the Hongji Tsaite tribe, don't surrender, don't let them run! If anyone dares to run,... don't give him water to drink... kill him directly!"

The intimidation and threats of Ezhe and others played some role, blocking the soldiers of the Hongji Tsuit tribe behind, but among the Mongolian soldiers crowded in front of the wall, there were also many soldiers from the Hongji Tsuit tribe. When they heard the elders of their tribe promised, they had already thrown their weapons and rushed to the wall with their hands raised, rushed over to the wall with their hands, crossed the trench and rushed to the wall, climbed up the wall with their rope ladders ladders ladders ladders ladders ladders, and surrendered to the Ming army. The Ming soldiers immediately brought them steamed buns and drinking water to let them drink water and eat. Seeing this, the soldiers of the Hongji Tsuit tribe who were still waiting and watching

He was completely crazy. The uninterrupted person threw down his weapons and pushed his companions away and ran north. The intercepted soldiers of the Hongji Shit tribe simply picked up their weapons and intercepted their military and legal teams. For a moment, the narrow valley was in chaos, and the soldiers of the Hongji Shit tribe and the military and legal teams could be seen everywhere. While trying hard to hold them to their companions and bury them with themselves, they desperately rushed out to intercept and seek the chance of survival. Under the walls of the Ming army, all the soldiers of the Hongji Shit tribe who put down their weapons and surrendered, and even soldiers from other tribes were mixed in.

Seeing this, several Mongolian veterans on Yelikewen were also extremely anxious and asked Yelikewen, the most prestigious one: "What should we do with the old general? Otherwise, we will also lead our troops to intercept them?"

"Forget it, let them go." Yelikewen, who was born in the Chahar tribe, sighed and said weakly: "All of them are descendants of the Canglang White Deer. Our Chahar tribe has taken the wrong path. Why should we drag the Mongols from other tribes to bury them with us?"

The chaos quickly turned into a decisive battle. In order to hold all the Mongolian soldiers to bury him, Ezhe shamelessly ordered all the soldiers of the Chahar tribe who were directly under him to join the military and legal team, and asked them to intercept the surrender of the Mongolian soldiers of the Hongjithat tribe. They even organized the army to chase and kill the soldiers of the Hongjithat tribe who had already rushed to the bottom of the wall. The soldiers and generals of the Hongjithat tribe were not to be outdone, and they quickly united together in several Hongjithat tribes.

Under the leadership of the Luo general, he fought a decisive battle with the Chahar tribe, fighting fiercely and killing corpses everywhere. The Mongolian soldiers from other tribes were either gloating, or surrendering in the Hongji Shite tribe, or taking advantage of the random robbery to kill sticks. Even the beauties hidden by Ezhe were dragged to the woods by the rioters. In short, the Ming army lost a little water and a little food, which made the Mongolian army overthrow the sky and die enough.

Seeing the melee between the Mongolian army with a telescope on the Ming army's command platform, Shi Kefa's admiration for Master Zhang reached its peak. He couldn't help but bow to Master Zhang and said, "Zhang Xiantai, I'm convinced you. Without a single soldier or a small plan of disagreement, the Mongolian army would kill each other. Zhou Gong was virgin and furious. As he talked and laughed, the masts and oars were destroyed, and I'm afraid that it would be just that."

"Who said I am a plan of divisiveness?" Master Zhang said with a shocking expression. He looked at the Mongolian army that was killing each other in the canyon with a dim expression, and said calmly: "Do you think I really did this to distract the enemy? Wrong, I can't bear to see so many Mongolian soldiers burying the idiot Ezhe. These Mongolian soldiers are raised by our father's biological parents. If they all die here, how many orphans and widows will cry at the door, and how many white-haired people will send them to black-haired people?" Speaking of this, Master Zhang wiped the corners of his eyes and said with a choking sob: "I have seen too many such scenes, so I can't bear to see more life tragedies. We will let a Mongolian soldier survive, and there will be fewer orphans and widows in the world, and lesser one orphans and widows in the world, and a pair of parents will be lonely all year round, and they will die of illness."

Shi Kefa was stunned and bowed to Master Zhang for a while and said, "Zhang Xiantai is compassionate to the world, I can't do it."

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, Mr. Zhang showed a habitual smirk again, "But if these Mongolian soldiers were allowed to enter the Central Plains, there would definitely be more orphans, widows and widows, so it would be fine to use some tricks. Brother Xianzhi, you will go back to Zhangjiakou later to see if there are any Mongolian nobles like Sobude there. As long as they are not the nobles of the Chahar tribe directly under Lin Dan, they can ask them to come to me to sign a peace agreement separately to guarantee that the Mongolian soldiers of their tribe surrender. It's okay, don't be afraid that they are lying to me, nor do you have to be afraid that the peace agreement they signed cannot be fulfilled. We are not afraid that they will suffer a small loss and a little trick - I just need to have a estrangement and conflict with the Chahar tribe directly under Lin Dan."

Speaking of this, Master Zhang smiled and said with a wicked smile: "When we fight Lin Dan, I will let you see the real plan of disagreement, the real plan to disperse the troops!"

"Ah——!" Shi Kefa's expression was strange, and he couldn't even find any words to describe the boss of Mr. Zhang. At this moment, Zhang Shitou suddenly came up to report, "Young Master, there are a few merchants from the Yingtangtu tribe who have come. They want to use their lives as a guarantee to sign a separate peace agreement with our Ming Dynasty and ask us to release the Mongolian soldiers of their tribe. I heard that one of them had a bit of a kinship with Wutai Taiji of the Yingtangtu tribe, but his qualifications were too bad. If you don't see me, I'll send them away."
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