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Two hundred civilians, hiding behind a wall of earth and stone as high as one person, faced the murderers

There are more than 3000 Mongolian cavalrymen who are still in the mood to chat nonsense there.

In the eyes of these peasants, the fierce Mongolian cavalry is all about military merit and silver rewards.

On the contrary, Handu, who was leading the army, felt nervous at the moment.An earth-stone wall as tall as a person is really nothing, but he has no ladder, and no artillery to blast away.

There are not too few trees on the cliffs of the canyon of the Jinsha River, but it is very dangerous to climb up and cut down trees.Moreover, they did not bring axes, only scimitars and waist knives, so it was difficult to manufacture siege equipment in large quantities.

This time I came here to raid the grain road, not to fight a siege!

But when he returned home before firing an arrow, Handu also felt unwilling, so he ran around for fun?

"Chop down trees and build ladders!"

The two hundred civilians lay on the earth and stone wall, watching the enemy climb the cliff cheerfully, chopping trees there with machetes and waist knives.

The nearest few small trees were felled and then tied up with leather straps to make seven or eight pairs of low ladders of more than two meters. It took almost an hour.Most of the main cliffs are meadows, and there are trees here and there, so it is not easy to climb up and down.

After more than two hours of tossing, Handu finally made twenty pairs of ladders, and the reinforcements from the grain station were almost here.

It is useless to build more ladders, because the terrain is narrow, and twenty or thirty pairs of ladders can be built at the same time.

Handu said to the soldiers under his command: "I have already found out that the main force of the Han people is in Zaquka, and all the people here are Han peasants. As long as they rush to the stone wall, the peasants will collapse! Then they will rob the Han people of food and grass, and they can't take them away. Burn all of them!"

The Mongolian soldiers cheered up. They have been active in Kham for a long time, and suppressing Tibetans is like beating a grandson.

Before, Han all retreated step by step and lured the enemy to go deep. They still felt very aggrieved, so why not just kill them?Do Han people have one more head than Tibetans?

Now, it's finally time to fight!

The first batch of Mongolian soldiers who attacked the wall had only more than [-] people.

Go to the front and raise the shield, and there are archers behind the defensive wall.Walking behind, several people carried a ladder, mainly because the newly built ladder was too heavy.The one who came last had a bow and arrow in his hand and was about to throw it behind the wall.

"Is this the enemy of ten thousand people?"

"Use five first to strengthen your prestige. If you are in danger, use ten more. Use sparingly, and only give us more than 100. Also, hold the bamboo hat steady, let me hide it, Mongolian Tatars Can shoot arrows."

While speaking, the Mongolian soldiers were already shooting arrows.

And the arrow-shooting tools of the peasants and soldiers are only bamboo hats.Compared with ordinary bamboo hats, this kind of bamboo hats are densely woven, and they are all made of tough and good bamboo.The bamboo strips are double-layered with coir rain leaves and brown hair (the material of the coir raincoat) in the middle, which can provide shade and shelter from rain.

Can also prevent arrows!

Two layers of bamboo strips and one layer of brown hair are all resilient.It is certainly impossible to defend against an infantry bow, but it is difficult to shoot through a horse bow.

Chop chop chop chop...··

The rain of arrows was thrown upwards, continuously falling on the bamboo hat, occasionally there were piercing arrows, but only half of the arrows could pass through.

The Mongolian soldiers found that the peasants were not shooting arrows, so they didn't raise their shields at all. Under the cover of their own arrow rain, they carried the ladders and rushed forward.

Five civilian husbands holding the enemy of ten thousand people, holding the orchid ropes that had been lit long ago, hid under the bamboo hats held by their comrades-in-arms, their hearts beating wildly.Most of them were on the battlefield for the first time, and only the leader belonged to veterans.

To be honest, I'm still quite scared.

Seeing the ladder hit the wall, the five panicked and lit the fuse, and then pushed Ten Thousand Enemies down.

Boom boom boom boom!

Five explosions sounded, and the Mongolian soldiers who were climbing the ladder, together with the Mongolian soldiers behind the ladder, were immediately killed and injured.

After years of improvement, Wandi canceled the messy additives, and even the chili noodles were no longer used.However, the amount of iron sand has been increased, and once it explodes, the iron sand will splash.

"what!"

The Mongolian soldiers who were not killed on the spot saw the iron sand penetrate into their flesh, rolling and screaming in pain.

The Mongols' first attack was repelled just like that.

Do you want to attack a second time?

It's difficult for Handu.

The enemy is clearly prepared, this kind of thing that will explode is not

Know how much is hidden.If hundreds of them are hidden, it is impossible for him to attack them.

Moreover, Handu began to suspect that the information was wrong. This place might be soldiers of the Han people, rather than civilian husbands who specialize in transporting grain.How could ordinary civilians be so well-trained?

After thinking about it, Han Du gritted his teeth and said, "Withdraw!"

The corpses of friendly soldiers did not dare to take back, and those who were seriously injured did not care, and no one dared to go over and suffer a few more explosions.

"We won, we won!"

"We have done a good job!"

After confirming that the Mongolian soldiers had left, the peasants burst into cheers.One by one, they jumped down with their spears and killed the Mongols who were still alive.Immediately, I was a little disappointed. I only wiped out more than 30 enemies.

Fortunately, there are additional credits. They defended the enemy's surprise attack and successfully protected the grain road.

At the grain station, hundreds of peasants came to reinforce them.

Hearing that the Mongols have retreated, and looking at the corpses all over the ground, they all envy and hate.It would be great if it was instead them defending against the enemy, and the credit for Bai Jian flew away like this.

As early as when Handu led people approaching, someone went to the grain station to report the news, and the grain station sent a fast horse to inform Huang Yao.

Huang Yao got the news and immediately ordered to march.He wanted to go to Yushu quickly, and even if he couldn't block the retreat passage of Handu, he could still find the place where the Mongolian tribesmen were stationed.

There are still too few soldiers, otherwise it would be so troublesome, just divide the troops to ambush in Deng Ma, and don't even think about leaving when the surprise attack troops of Handu come.

But the Kham-Tibet area is too large, and it is difficult to transport supplies. Huang Yao and Ma Hongjie's [-] troops are already at their limit.If [-] troops were sent to Kham, all the ministers in the DPRK and China would have to jump up and object.

You must know that when the Manchu Qing army entered Tibet for the first time, its strength was only a pitiful 3000 people.

Chapter 908 [Batur's helplessness]

Huang Yao led his army to a mountain basin in Yushu, looked at the scattered goats, and the dead horses on the ground, and was confused for a long time.

Han is gone!

A large number of horses were forced to run to death, and before Huang Yao arrived, he rushed back to the Mongolian garrison and fled directly with his troops.

Seqin Nai said:

"This will give up Kang Zang." Huang Yao was surprised at the opponent's decisiveness. From this point of view, Handu is definitely number one.Se Chin Nai said, "General, Han is very tough. He would rather die than give up his territory."

Huang Yao suddenly went dark, and the situation he was most worried about appeared.Fangliang Road has been stretched to 2000 miles, but the enemy commander is still running, and he does not fight head-to-head with himself at all.

If we continue to move forward, there will definitely not be enough people to transport grain, and the grain road will inevitably be more dangerous.

Huang Yao encountered the embarrassment of Zhu Di's expedition to Mobei. He spent countless money and food, but could not find the enemy's shadow. This battle was destined to become an armed parade.The southern foot of Kunlun Mountains.

"Father, are we leaving like this?" asked Selemo.Handu explained: "The battle of Qinghai is the key, and we have to help them fight. If we can defeat the Han army in Qinghai, it will not be too late to return to Kham to fight. If we cannot defeat the Han army in Qinghai, we will win the Han army in Kham." It’s useless, and you will definitely be attacked by two sides in the end.” Selemo asked, “What if we lose in Qinghai?”

Handu said: "When you go to Qinghai, you must preserve your strength. Fight if you can, and run if you can't. If you lose, gather more troops and leave Qinghai for Hami."

Selemo stopped talking, feeling that his father was too cowardly, how could he give up Kham without a real fight?

Handu was also bitter. He had been luring the enemy to go deep, but Huang Yao was advancing steadily, not giving him a chance to sneak attack at all.I only have a few thousand cavalry in my hand, so how to confront the Han army head-on in the mountainous area can only be said that the Handu has not yet expanded at this time.

Historically, in another 20 years, Handu's strength has grown stronger.He exclusively enjoyed the profits from the ancient tea-horse road, refused to send taxes to the Mongolian nobles in Qinghai, and had a complete falling out with Lhasa.Moreover, they repeatedly invaded Lijiang and extorted violently in Kham.At the same time, it offended the forces of Manchu, Mongolia, and Tibet, and fought against all surrounding forces at the same time, and even an uprising of Tibetan nobles broke out inside.In the end, Kandu wiped out the Manchu sent army, but was killed by the Mongolian nobles.Nearly [-] soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians surrounded Xining.

Qi Tingjian, commander of the Xining Guard of the Ming Dynasty, was already very old and sick at this time, and his son Qi Xingzhou was in charge of military and political affairs. "Father, fight or surrender?" Qi Xingzhou asked.

Lying on the hospital bed, Qi Tingjian said weakly: "Surrender, you can't count on Mongolian Lezi to rescue you. Surrender quickly, donate all the land, and help the court divide the land and the people, otherwise our Qi family will be finished." .” Qi Tingjian himself is a descendant of Mongolia, but he called Wacha Mongolia, which is entrenched in Qinghai, boots.Qi Xingzhou asked, "Would the other generals be willing?"

Whether they like it or not, you go to Kaesong and ask for surrender.Qi Ting remonstrated.

The Qi family is essentially the chieftain of Xining, and the real commander of the Xining guards is Han Chinese, and most of the military households moved from Jianghuai.When Li Zicheng's troops came to kill, all the Han generals surrendered. Only Qi Tingjian and Lu Yinchang, the two Mongolian chieftains, were loyal to Ming Dynasty.

Lu Yinchang died for the Ming Dynasty, Qi Tingjian was defeated and fled, and historically he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.But in this time and space, Qi Tingjian took advantage of the Datong Army's absence and recaptured Xining and appointed himself as the commander.On the one hand, he professed his minister to Gushi Khan, and on the other hand, he professed his minister to the Datong court. As a buffer force, the court has never conscripted.

Now, the imperial court sent troops to kill, and Qi Ting had to surrender if he didn't surrender.

The gate of the city was opened wide, Qi Xingzhou came out of the city and knelt to welcome him, and even carried out Qi Tingjian who was seriously ill.The rest of the Han generals could only follow suit and surrender.

The military household system is still in use here. Once the Datong army is surrendered, it means that the generals will lose their land, and they will inevitably lose the military households who are like serfs.

1.1.1.1.1 halves; [-] Suction Co., plus plus

Jiang Liang sneered and said, "It's cheap for you bastards. There is an order from the imperial court that each family of the old Ming army in Xining can take away five carts of goods. It can be loaded with silver or grain, but only five carts are allowed. The frame has been prepared for you, load it and leave immediately, and report to Lanzhou within a month. The Lanzhou government will arrange a place for you to go to Shanxi or Hebei to settle in Fentian!" "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your kindness"

The generals wanted to cry but had no tears. They surrendered their city and land, but they could only take away five carts of goods, and they had to kneel down and kowtow to thank them for not killing them.

Temporary family separation is not acceptable, it must be counted as a family.

It is said that five carts of property can be taken away, but they are all big families, how much can each person get after sharing?

After dealing with these officers, Jiang Liang let the military officials enter the city to calm the people, and sent a small group of cavalry to the surrounding villages and towns to publicize the land administration of the new dynasty of Datong along the way.Whether it is a Han military household or a Mongolian shepherd slave, all of them are free, and they can also share land and pastures.For a time, the people were excited and enthusiastically supported the imperial court.

Immediately afterwards, troops were sent to Guide (Guide) and other thousand households to recover all the surrounding old places of Ming Dynasty.Qin Liangyu's grandson, Ma Wannian, is now the commander of the Shaanxi Cavalry Division

He led more than [-] cavalry as the vanguard, and went straight to Dongke Temple by Qinghai Lake, which is the largest temple in Qinghai.The abbot of Dongke Temple has been a guest in Nanjing for several years.Ma Wannian came with a letter from the abbot, urging the monks to release the slaves, and anyone who disobeyed would violate the abbot's order.

As for the Mongolian tribe here, they have already fled away with their livestock! Qinghai Badaiji led his tribe and retreated all the way to Xingxiu Sea.

The boss, Ozier, is on his way from Tibet, so the sixth Batur has the final say here.

"In my opinion, it's better to surrender, Nanjing Emperor Zhao is still very kind." Dai Qing, the second Chechen, was the first to speak. He had visited Zhao Han in Nanjing.

The fifth son, Yilduqi, firmly opposed it, because his son was Handu who controlled Kham: "It cannot be surrendered. Everyone has seen the Han envoys. The Han emperor wants us to dedicate Kham."

According to the arrangement of Gushri Khan, the taxes in the snow area were used to support monks, and the taxes in the Kham area were used to support Mongolian nobles.Once the Kham area is lost, the Mongolian nobles in Qinghai will lose their stable sources of income and food, and will only be able to make a living on the grasslands of Qinghai in the future.

"The eldest brother is not here, so the sixth brother has an idea." Old Jiu Gunbu Chahun said, he didn't care anyway, all the children died, and he didn't have any other ideas.

Batur said: "The Han army is really powerful. I heard that the [-] Mobei Mongolians were all defeated by the Han army. Even if we can win this year, what if the Han army comes every year? But it won't work if we don't fight. I The idea is to dodge as much as possible, not to fight head-on with the Han army, so that all the Han army will return in vain. If you encounter a good fighter, you can also fight a battle. After the Han army withdraws, send envoys to Nanjing for peace talks.' "How to talk about peace?" asked the old ten Zashbatur.

Batur explained: "The emperor of the Han Dynasty wanted Kham, so he could give up part of it, but not Anduo (Yashu, Aba, Gannan, Tianzhu). As for Qinghai, Xining and other places, they were not ours in the first place. The emperor of the Han Dynasty took it back if he wanted to take it back."

In the Kangzang area, the Mongolian tribes are not widely distributed, and the core areas are only Yushu, Aba, Gannan and Tianzhu.The rest of the territory is full of Tibetans, Qiangs, and Yis. The Mongols use force and religion to levy taxes on all ethnic groups.

Yilduqi shook his head again and again: "All of a sudden, so many people go out, and the tribute tax in Kham area will be reduced by more than half. From now on, what will we live on?" Batur said, "We can live on Qinghai and Amdo alone. , we can't be greedy for enjoyment."

None of the brothers spoke a word, they had long since lost the will to fight, and only wanted to share more pastures and enjoy life.The victimized state in Kham gave up, and they still enjoyed the fart.

The seventh elder, Erdani Dai Qing, said in a strange way: "As soon as the Han soldiers come, we will sacrifice Kham, why don't we sacrifice Qinghai as well, and you and I will take our troops to vote for the fourth brother."

The fourth child was adopted to his uncle, and now he is nomadic in Tacheng, Xinjiang, and his territory also includes a part of the later Kazakhstan.Old eight Eldern said: "The Han people were also born of their parents. They have flesh and blood. Why can't they win? In my opinion, if you fight hard, you will win the battle."

Han soldiers dare not come again"

No one wants to lose support from Kham. Historically, Handu occupied Kham and refused to provide taxes, so they were killed by these guys.Most of the brothers thought this way, and Batur felt very helpless.

The big brother who only likes fighting and grazing is not here at this time.The other brothers are all short-sighted, and usually care about everything for the pasture, Batur feels really tired.

Before the Datong Army went to Qinghai, these brothers competed for the grassland, and there were several internal frictions.Now they are clamoring to fight against the Han army, but if there is a fight, they will not be able to work together, how can they fight if they preserve their strength?

If the brothers could unanimously fight against the outside world, Batur would not want to seek peace, and he would have led the army to fight against the Han soldiers. "Don't rush to call now, we will talk about it when the elder brother comes." "Yes, wait for the elder brother to join us."

"Also, Handu from the Fifth Brother's family, let him also bring troops over to support." "This battle can be fought, and the Han soldiers dare not come again." "..."

Batur looked at his brothers with a depressed face, feeling only deep helplessness in his heart.

Said: "Sixth brother, I really can't win. I have been to Nanjing, and the Han people are very powerful. Not to mention the city wall of Nanjing, which is so high that you can touch the clouds, but the cities along the way are also unimaginably prosperous. Xi'an alone The Han Chinese are countless times more than the Mongolian tribe in Qinghai.”

"I know... Alas!" Batur sighed.

When Gushi Khan conquered Qinghai-Tibet, he borrowed troops to kill them, and all the main forces were returned to others.They have only a few thousand members, and they have received more than 4 local Mongolian people.

However, the infant mortality rate on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is too high, and pregnant women have various dystocias.

After many years of development and reproduction, the number of Mongolian tribes is less than 4.Even counting the twelve or thirteen-year-old children, the number of troops that can be drawn out to fight is at most [-] to [-].

The Datong Army doesn't need to win battles, as long as they go on a few more expeditions every year, the population of Qinghai can be reduced sharply.

Chapter 909 [Eastern Science League]

Thousands of dragoons scattered around Qinghai Lake for reconnaissance.

Ma Wanli's cavalry division was also quickly divided into two: one went to the southern foot of Qilian Mountain, and the other went to the mountainous area south of Qinghai Lake.

"Da da da da!"

Several Tibetan youths came galloping on horseback, shouting along the way: "Han soldiers are coming, Han soldiers are coming!"

Sangji was the chief of the Arou tribe. He walked out quickly and asked, "How many Han soldiers have come? But do you want us to pay tribute?"

"The Han soldiers sent someone to tell us that all the patriarchs of Arou's eleven tribes should go to Dongke Temple to meet the alliance. If any tribe doesn't go, they will send troops to kill them!" said the Tibetan youth.

Naturally, Sangji did not dare to neglect, took his son and dozens of cavalrymen, and rushed all the way towards Dongke Temple.