Immediately afterwards, a large group of cavalry poured out from the Gongtu tribe's camp.
Obviously, the Gongtu Department also thought it was Emperor Chongzhen and wanted to capture him.
Seeing this, Li Yan no longer hesitated. Chongzhen must not be captured by the Mongols.
Because this involves whether it is legal for Dashun to replace Daming, and it involves the inheritance of legal traditions.
At that moment, Li Yan rode his horse forward and shouted loudly: "Second brother, you go and capture Chongzhen. Third brother, you and I will intercept the cavalry of the Gongtu tribe. You must buy enough time for your second brother!"
"Brother, don't worry." Li Mou laughed and said, "It's a small matter, it doesn't take much effort!"
"Don't be careless!" Li Yan reminded loudly, "Don't hurt Chongzhen's life!"
"Brother, don't worry, I won't make any mistakes." Li Mou reined in his horse and faced the dozen Ming troops on horseback.
More than a hundred cavalry behind Li Mou also unfolded, forming a fan shape and wrapping the dozen Ming army cavalry in the middle.
The dozen or so Ming army cavalry were quite fierce. They showed no fear when facing ten times the number of enemy cavalry. They started to draw their bows and fire arrows from a hundred paces away, first with light arrows and then with heavy arrows.
Scattered arrows fell, and stray thieves kept falling off their horses.
Li Mou didn't care, they could still afford these casualties.
In the blink of an eye, the two sides were within twenty steps, and the Ming cavalry switched to three-eyed blunderbuss and thunder blunderbuss.
Accompanied by the loud sound of gunfire, the rogue cavalry suddenly fell off their horses. The casualties were huge. In just one moment, more than twenty rogue cavalry fell from their horses.
"Damn it!" Li Mou gritted his teeth.
These are all old people brought from Henan.
But fortunately, the Ming army's cavalry only did this.
Three-eyed guns and thunder guns are powerful but troublesome to load.
After firing a row of muskets, the cavalry from both sides collided violently.
Li Mou was facing "Chongzhen" who was wearing mountain armor in the middle of the Ming army.
Worried about hurting Chongzhen, Li Mou did not dare to stab him. Instead, he swept "Chongzhen" off his horse with one sweep of his silver spear. The whole process could be said to be uneventful.
But the other dozen or so Ming army cavalrymen were cut into pieces in an instant.
"Leave a group of people and keep an eye on Chongzhen!" Li Mou pointed the silver gun at Chongzhen on the ground and said, "Follow me and kill the rest to kill the Mongols!"
The bandit responded with a bang.
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Under the cover of night, Chongzhen and his party quietly came behind the protective wall.
Separated by a protective wall over five feet high and a trench less than three steps wide, there was a battlefield not far ahead, where the Rogue Cavalry and the Gongtu Tribe's cavalry were already engaged in a large-scale melee.
The fire was shining, arrows were flying, and the lights and shadows of swords were mixed together.
Rogue bandits or Gongtu cavalry were constantly falling off their horses, and the screams of the soldiers on both sides also mingled together.
Hu Xinshui, Wang Jiayan and other ministers couldn't help but cast their eyes on Zhu Gaoyuan who was standing in the middle. They all thought to themselves that the Holy One really used soldiers like a god. He just used an old eunuch, a mountain armor and a dozen
With just one servant, the Gongtu tribe and the bandits fell into a melee, and it was an endless and large-scale melee.
As expected, their monarchs and ministers will be able to leave this hellish place soon.
"Hu Aiqing." Zhu Gaoyuan suddenly turned around and asked Hu Xinshui beside him, "Who do you think will win?"
"The winner in the end is of course Daming and His Majesty." Hu Xinshui took a deep breath and said, "After all, the Liu bandits and the Gongtu tribe are just making wedding clothes for Daming and His Majesty."
Zhu Gaoyuan smiled and said: "I mean, who will win between the Liu bandits and the Gongtu tribe?"
"Your Majesty asked this? Then the Rogue Bandits must win." Hu Xinshui said without hesitation, "I have fought against the Rogue Bandits before, and I am very familiar with the Gongtu Tribe. If the two sides start a pursuit battle on the grassland, the Rogue Bandits will definitely lose.
But if it’s a close-quarters melee like now, the Gongtu tribe will definitely lose.”
"I think so too." Zhu Gaoyuan said with a smile.
Turning his head and looking at the eastern sky, Zhu Gaoyuan said again: "Hu Aiqing, your thousand Yiding can start preparations. Once the melee between the bandits and the Gongtu tribe is over, it will be their turn to show off their skills."
Hu Xinshui turned around and nodded gently to Hu Guozhu behind him, and Hu Guozhu responded softly.
Immediately, Hu Guozhu turned his horse's head and returned to the cavalry formation of the Yiding. The Yiding had already retrieved their war robes. Although they were only half-baked, they were no longer wet and cold.
What Hu Guozhu didn't expect was that Zhu Gaoyuan also quietly followed him.
"Your Majesty, you?" The expression on Hu Guozhu's face couldn't be seen clearly in the darkness, but it probably wouldn't look good.
"I just came to see you." Zhu Gaoyuan waved his hand, passed Hu Guozhu and went straight to the Mongolian Yiding in the front row. Not surprisingly, this should be the hundred households of Zuoying, that is, senior officers.
As a time traveler, Zhu Gaoyuan certainly would not place all his hopes of conquering these thousand Yiding on Hu Xinshui. It is not enough to bribe just one Hu Xinshui. He must also bribe the senior officers of these thousands of Yiding.
A hundred years later, there was a warlord named Jiang who used this method to successively dismantle the Northwest Army, Northeast Army, Sichuan Army, Hunan Army and so on. One of Chiang's favorite things at that time was to pull the Northwest Army, Northeast Army, and Sichuan Army together.
Taking photos with senior officers of the Hunan Army.
Now it is impossible to take pictures, but it is possible to take the Yiding officers under Hu Xinshui to do some household chores.
"Your name is Wu Ba Tan, right?" Zhu Gaoyuan urged his horse to walk in front of the first Yi Ding officer and asked with a smile.
"Your Majesty has a good memory, and the last general is Wu Baotan." Wu Baotan seemed a little flattered. Even though they, the Liaoding and Yiding people, were usually full of complaints about the Ming Dynasty court and Emperor Chongzhen, this did not prevent them from feeling deeply towards the Ming Dynasty.
The imperial court and the recognition of the orthodox status of Emperor Chongzhen.
"Your Ming Dynasty Mandarin is very good."
"It has been almost twenty years since General Mo moved to western Liaoning."
"It's been almost 20 years since you moved to Liaoxi. Have you married a wife and had children?"
"Married and gave birth to four sons. The eldest one is already twelve years old."
"The eldest son is already twelve years old. He should have entered school at this age. Has he passed the childbirth examination?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wu Batan’s face showed sadness, and he whispered: "According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, our Yi people who moved to Han are regarded as untouchables.
It’s equivalent to not being able to enter school, let alone take the imperial examination.”
"Oh, this is the rule of our ancestors, there is really nothing we can do about it."
The small flame that had just risen in Wu Baoyan's eyes immediately went out again.
However, Zhu Gaoyuan's next words immediately rekindled the fire of hope in Wu Batan.
Zhu Gaoyuan said: "The ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty cannot be changed lightly, but we can find ways to get around it. Let's do this. I will give you the birthplace of a military household so that your sons can go to school."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Wu Bangtan was overjoyed when he heard this.
Wu Batan has immigrated to western Liaoning for nearly 20 years, and his way of thinking has been completely Chineseized. He believes that studying and taking the imperial examination is ten thousand times better than serving as a soldier and eating food. Therefore, Zhu Gaoyuan's move of granting military status really scratched his itch.
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At this moment, Wu Batan was really grateful to Zhu Gaoyuan.
The other Yiding officers in the front row also cast envious looks.
Obviously, these Yiding officers had similar thoughts to Wu Batan.
Zhu Gaoyuan urged his horse to walk to the second Yiding officer and asked with a smile: "Can you also speak Mandarin?"
"Return to the Holy Spirit, I will speak Mandarin." The second Yiding officer puffed up his chest and said loudly, "The general's name is Meng Ketu, and he has moved to western Liaoning for nearly twenty years."
"Mengketu? Are you from the Gongtu tribe?"
"Yes, but twenty years ago, the previous generation of the Gongtu tribe turned their backs on Lin Dan Khan and went to Jiannu, so we followed the general and moved to western Liaoning."
"Are you married and have children?"
"I married two and gave birth to three sons."
"Hello son, I also have three sons."
"Your Majesty, can you also reward the last general with a military title?"
"Of course, you all deserve this." Zhu Gaoyuan turned to all the Yiding people in the queue and said, "Every soldier who fought for the Ming Dynasty, whether they are Han, Yi or Mongolian, is eligible to receive
Military registration, I will grant you the military registration of the Ming Dynasty now, and you will have the same rights as the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!"
Upon hearing this, dozens of Yidingtons in the front row cheered for a moment.
"Quiet! Quiet!" Zhu Gaoyuan was so frightened that he quickly signaled Yi Ding to be silent.
Looking back, I saw that the rogue bandits and the cavalry of the Gongtu tribe were still fighting fiercely.
Zhu Gaoyuan continued to urge his horse forward, talking to the remaining Yi and Ding officers.
Those Yiding officers with the least years of experience have moved to western Liaoning for more than ten years. Most of them have learned Mandarin and can basically communicate directly with Zhu Gaoyuan. Only a few officers need to translate.
After talking about the family affairs, Zhu Gaoyuan could clearly feel that when he left, the eyes of these Yi and Ding officers had changed when they looked at him. It was a joke to say that they would bow down to him and only be loyal to him from now on. But,
There is no doubt that these Yiding officers recognized him more.
Regardless, this is a good start.
Given time, Zhu Gaoyuan believed that these thousand Yiding would only recognize him. By then, neither Wu Sangui nor Hu Xinshui and his son would be able to command these thousands of Yiding.
And he, Chongzhen, will be able to use these thousand Yiding as his team and follow the example of Taizu Emperor Gao in establishing a three thousand camp.
Then in the future, the Ming Dynasty will have at least one cavalry unit that dares to engage in rough battles with Jiannu in the wild, so it will not be too passive during the Northern Expedition.
