The autumn of the ninth year of Zhengde came early, and the leaves in most parts of the north also began to turn yellow and fall, and people also put on cotton coats early. Everyone was worried about this early autumn, because people had not yet passed the seventh year of Zhengde.

The fear brought by that cold winter has been freed from it, and now we are encountering such an early autumn again, which makes everyone very worried that the previous cold will repeat this winter.

However, not everyone has any grievances about the winter of the seventh year of Zhengde. For example, in the Xuanfu area in the west of Beijing, the people here are grateful for the cold winter of the seventh year of Zhengde, although they are also in that scene.

I suffered a lot in winter, but because the imperial court transported food in time, not many people died in Xuanfu area. Instead, the Mongolians on the grassland not only freeze many cattle and sheep, but even people were still frozen to death.

Younger, I heard that when the spring of the eighth year of Zhengde was in full bloom, there were dead bodies everywhere on the grassland, and often people from a tribe were born once they died.

It is precisely because so many Mongolians were frozen to death in the winter of the seventh year of Zhengde that the Mongolians were greatly damaged. By the eighth year of Zhengde, the Mongolians who had been recuperating for a year were unable to move south, and Xuanfu was the Ming Dynasty.

The frontier with the grassland also rarely showed up for a year, which made most people in Xuanfu excited. After all, they only did not fight, so the men in their family would not have to go to the battlefield, and there would be no

They can finally have a peaceful life for casualties.

In addition to not having to fight, the people of Xuanfu also encountered another happy event, which is the promotion of two crops, sweet potato and corn. They are very close to Beijing. I have long heard of the famous names of sweet potato and corn, so

When the imperial court began to promote sweet potatoes and corn, the people in Xuanfu immediately received seedlings and seeds from the government without hesitation, and then planted them in the fields. As a result, a large amount of food grew in the originally very barren land in Xuanfu.

The Xuanfu also had a self-sufficiency for the first time. After two years of great harvest, almost every household stored a lot of dried sweet potatoes and corn, which was enough for every household to eat for a year, but even so, there was still no

People are willing to sell, after all, everyone is afraid of hunger.

As the saying goes, there is food at home, and you don’t panic when encountering problems. After the people of Xuanfu who were in the ninth year of Zhengde, the most hope is to have another cold like the seventh year of Zhengde, and freeze all the Mongolians who were drowning on the grassland.

, so that they can live another year in peace next year. And now this early autumn has also given all the people of Xuanfu to see some hope.

However, the Mongolians are not fools, and they still remember the cold winter in the seventh year of Zhengde. In the memories of all the Mongolians, there were white devils raging everywhere in that winter, and their yurts were crushed several times by heavy snow.

Many people built the yurt again, and then ran outside in the wind and snow. When they were found, everyone had been killed by zombies, and some tribes were unable to store enough fuel.

The entire tribe even had the elderly and children frozen to death, not to mention cattle and sheep. The sheep without the care of herders also died in large numbers, which indirectly led to the spread of wolves in the eighth year of Zhengde.

, and once again caused considerable casualties to the Mongolians.

It was also because of the lessons of the cold winter of Zhengde that in the seventh year of Zhengde, the Mongolians who finally recovered a little strength learned their lessons, especially when they saw that this autumn came very early.

He became even more scared, so the little Tatar prince who unified Mongolia led an army of 50,000 to attack Xuanfu, preparing to rob enough supplies to spend the winter.

The little Tatar prince was born in Batumonk, and he was the fifteenth generation grandson of Genghis Khan. Because he was young when he inherited the throne of Khan, the Han people called him the little prince. However, the little prince is no longer young, but

He became a middle-aged man in his forties. During his reign, he defeated tribes such as Wala and Huosie, and eventually unified the Mongolian grasslands, claiming to be the revival of the Mongols.

Since the unification of Mongolia, this little Tatar prince has taken the resumption of the Yuan Dynasty as his mission. He will lead the army south every year. After entering the pass, he will plunder the troops, bringing endless suffering to the people on the border of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the people in the north all hate this little Tatar prince to the core.

This year, the little Tatar prince was preparing to enter the pass from Xuanfu, so a 50,000 army came from the grassland, preparing to break through Huaian, Weizhou and other places, and then robbed the troops. Originally, the little Tatar prince was very confident.

I felt that the 50,000 troops I brought would definitely be able to grab enough supplies for the tribe members to spend the winter, but he ignored the changes in the Ming army.

The telescopes, artillery, muskets and other objects that Zhou Chong offered to Zhengde have begun to be equipped in the Ming army, especially border troops like Xuanfu, which are preferred to be equipped, so when the Huaian Guard's guards saw it through the telescope

When the Mongolian cavalry rushed in the distance, they immediately ordered the artillery and muskets on the front of the city to prepare. As a result, the Mongolian cavalry had just rushed to the range of the artillery, and there was a dense sound of artillery sound on the front of the city.

These artillery are all newly equipped Franco-machine artillery, with extremely fast firing rates. And because casting is easier, a large number of troops are now equipped, such as the city walls of Huaianwei, which are thirty such artillery.

When these artillery fired volleys, although their lethality was limited, the momentum could simply destroy the world.

Although it was not the first time that the Mongolians encountered artillery attacks, the number of artillery in the Ming Dynasty was small in the past and it was easy to explode and could not be continuously fired. Therefore, in the experience of the Mongolians, as long as they were caught in the first round of artillery shells,

After that, the artillery of the Ming Dynasty became a decoration, but today the continuous sound of artillery broke their past experience, especially when they saw their friends around them being hit by shells and even men and horses became a pool of meat paste, everyone

I couldn't help but feel a chill.

The little prince of Tatar did not expect that he had not gone south for only a year, and the Ming Dynasty's firearms became so sharp. Moreover, these cannons can not only fire continuously, but the most important thing is that the rate of fire is also very fast. He stood on a mountain of earth to watch.

He was shocked to fire a cannon on the top of the city, and then he secretly calculated the time. He found that the Ming Dynasty's artillery could fire again after firing a shell for less than five breaths. This shocked him. After all,

His ancestors had suffered a great loss from firearms. Unexpectedly, the firearms of the Ming people now develop so rapidly. If this continues, he may never be able to realize his wish to restore the hometown of Dayuan.

However, although the little prince was shocked by the Ming Dynasty's firearms, he was not too afraid. After all, there were not many officers and soldiers stationed in Huaian Guard. Even with the help of artillery, his 50,000 troops would be enough to fight.

The only annoying thing is that the Huaian Guard has just been repaired, the city wall has been raised and widened a lot, and the people around have also moved to the city, which makes the Huaian Guard even more difficult to conquer.

In fact, the cavalry brought by the little prince is not suitable for siege. According to their past habits, if they encounter a strong city, they will usually go around and then rob the people behind them. Anyway, they are all alone and they are moving very fast.

Generally speaking, even if they snatched all the land, the Ming army might not be able to arrive.

However, after suffering several losses, the Ming Dynasty gradually found a way to deal with it. For example, whenever the garrisons under the Xuanfu were found in the front, they would immediately send smoke to inform the rear whenever the garrisons found the grassland cavalry heading south.

All the people would hide in the garrison with their food and livestock. By the time the grassland people arrived, the people behind had already run away. It can be said that the walls and cleared the fields within a thousand miles, and they could not grab anything valuable at all. And at this time

The garrisons they bypassed will also unite and form an encirclement with the Ming army in front. If the grassland people are not careful, they may be dumplings by the Ming army.

It is precisely because of this that the grassland people now rarely dare to bypass the garrison in front of the Ming Dynasty and attack the rear. Every time they go south, they will attack one city by one. After all, if they go around, what if they do.

If someone makes dumplings, not only will they be finished with the grassland cavalry, but more elderly and weak women will die on the grasslands behind them because they have no food, so they dare not take risks.

The grassland cavalry naturally could not ride horses to attack the city. After they approached Huaian Guard, they immediately took down the equipment they brought immediately, and then assembled them one by one. In the end, they became siege ladders. Huai

The trees around the Anwei had long been cut down, so they had to prepare materials from the rear, otherwise there would be no equipment to siege the city.

Seeing that the grassland people assembled the siege ladder and were about to attack the city, if it were placed in the past, the commander of Huaian Guard would have been anxious and even started to prepare for retreat. However, today

The commander did not look anxious at all, and obviously had something to rely on.

After the grassland people got off their horses, these natural cavalrymen walked on their neck legs and carried the ladders, and rushed forward desperately with arrows above their heads. Although many people fell on the way forward, no one dared to stop or look back.

Even if the injured person is not fatal, these grassland people will pull out the arrows and roar and follow again.

Seeing the siege ladders standing on the city wall, insisting on the grassland people holding scimitars, grabbing the ladder and climbing up quickly. The Ming army pushed the ladder away with a push rod while throwing wooden thunder downwards.

The stones and even boiling boiling water were the most vicious, but when it fell on the face, it immediately burst into pieces, making it a supreme weapon for disfigurement.

In addition, the muskets on the top of the city finally opened fire, but they were not the grassland people below, but the archers together with the archers suppressing the grassland people riding horses around and throwing arrows outside the city. However, the entire Huaianwei was only a few
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