By this time, the Tumut people had already suffered a severe blow.
Last year, they didn't know how good Yang Fan was, so they ran to support Haraqin. As a result, they were pushed to the ground and rubbed hard by An Sanxi, and they lost more than half of them in one battle.
Their population is very small, and once their muscles and bones are broken, it is difficult to replenish them in a short time.
As a result, in the battle of Guihua City, another 30,000 people were lost. A large number of herdsmen were also captured.
Now Taiji's men have saved a few hundred men. The total number is less than 15,000, and many of them are supplemented by herdsmen. The combat effectiveness is incomparable to before.
Daza and the remaining Taijis were anxiously discussing their next retreat.
Obviously, Jiuyuan is still untenable, as it is too close to Guihua City. They also understand that the Ming army cannot let them recuperate here and wait for reinforcements.
"Judging from the Ming army attacking the city today, these people should not be from the Beijing camp. It's not like Guihua City has never been attacked before, so their combat effectiveness cannot be reduced so quickly." Balintaiji said.
"It's not the Beijing camp. There are thirty or forty thousand of these people. Who are they?" Wushen Taiji said.
Dasa smiled bitterly and said: "Don't forget, this time the Beijing camp brought 100,000 civilians, because some of these people should be armed. Yang Fan is not a fool, our brother tribes are coming, he
How can we waste precious Beijing soldiers in a siege?"
Maoming Antaiji said: "So we can fight. These people are farmers. They just put down their hoes and were brought to the battlefield by La Zhuangding. How can they be the opponents of our Mongolian warriors."
Bayot Taiji said: "But I think they can also use bows and arrows, and they can shoot quite far."
Maoming Antaiji said: "I guess these archers are the only real soldiers in the Beijing camp. Those carrying wooden boards and holding spears are all civilians who pretend to be soldiers. You didn't see the messy ones they wore.
They don’t even have mandarin duck war jackets on them. The leather armor on their bodies was ripped off from our warriors who died in battle. These villains.”
Dasha rolled his gray-yellow eyes and said, "They have firearms, but they don't use them. Otherwise, if those red cannons opened fire, not to mention this dilapidated city wall, even Guihua City would be able to blow it open."
Seeing all the Taijis looking at him, Dasa said: "I have a feeling that these people have a problem with Yang Fan, and the situation looks wrong. But I don't know what is wrong. I think they should be put into the city to fight in the streets.
It might be better. After all, we didn't take advantage of the shooting."
Maoming Antaiji said: "Yes, Jinong's words make sense. I feel that they were forced to attack the city. Put them in for street fighting and hand-to-hand combat. These people are definitely not our opponents. Let them in, and those outside will
People can't use firearms to force them, and their combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly reduced."
Dasa nodded and said: "Then let them come in and fight with knives. These farmers are no match for our Mongolian warriors. The Han people are all grass eaters, just like sheep. We Mongolians are all meat eaters, just like wolves. Sheep.
How can they be the wolf's opponent? Just fight in the streets, hand-to-hand, killing them as much as possible, then we retreat to Linhe and Xitao, where we will meet the reinforcements. Then we will fight back."
All Taiji agreed, so they immediately went back to take action.
Zhang Shize looked at it with a telescope for a while and said strangely: "Hey, what did the old thief Daza do? He actually retreated the people on the city wall."
Yang Fan sneered and said: "He is a thousand-year-old fox. He can see that these people are not from the Beijing camp, but adapted from the people. He thinks that it will be beneficial to him to put them in for street fighting."
Zhang Shize burst out laughing. This old thief is a chicken thief.
Seeing that these people were not serious soldiers, he thought that they could not fight, so he planned to eat them.
But Zhang Shize knew that these people were all desperadoes from Shanxi and Southern Zhili, gangsters, swordsmen, and felons in prison. These people were not good at fighting, but when it came to fighting with knives, they were not necessarily worse than the Mongols.
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In Yang Fan's words, the masters are among the people.
While they were talking, they saw that the originally suppressed siege troops were throwing red willow bundles under the city wall. Soon slopes were laid out. A large number of troops had already climbed onto the city wall.
This made these people very excited. Although they were forced to go to the battlefield, they all knew that there was a reward for being the first to get there. There must be a reward. And this time the commander-in-chief said that if you chop off a Tatar's head, you will be rewarded with five silver coins.
Twelve, cash it immediately and never default.
It turns out that the officials of the Ming Dynasty were liars. It is strange that the soldiers believed them.
When Wanli conquered Korea, during the Battle of Pyongyang, Commander-in-Chief Li Rusong said that he would be rewarded with 20,000 taels of silver first. As a result, Qi's army was the first to climb the city wall. Later, after the war, not only did they not honor the reward, they also tricked Qi's army into going to the military camp to collect the reward, and then ambushed four soldiers.
Go out and kill them all.
Finally, the Jizhou mutiny was reported to the imperial court. The officials protected each other and suppressed the matter.
No one believes what officials in the Ming Dynasty say. Their credibility has long been ruined.
But no one didn't believe what Marshal Yang said.
Because everything was cashed out, basically at the time.
For example, if he says you are disobedient, he will chop your head off. He will chop you off immediately, without delaying even a minute.
Similarly, if you say reward money will be given out immediately, it will definitely be given out on the same day.
No matter how late it is, even in the middle of the night, you will still give out money with a torch. Even if it is raining, you will still give out money with a knife or a pot lid.
Marshal Yang's servants hand-delivered it to every officer and soldier. No one could think of Tan Mo. Tan Mo's head was hanging on the camp gate.
Not to mention that there is no problem with military pay, just put it in their bankbook at Xinghe Bank, and you can follow the army at Xinghe Bank or follow the army bank to deposit or withdraw money at any time. The difference is not even a copper coin.
Even civilians have a monthly subsidy of 50 copper coins, which is extra pocket money given by the army.
Normally, these civilians are conscripted, which is equivalent to corvee labor, and the government does not pay them. If the time is less than one month, they do not even care about food, and they need to bring it from home.
This was the first time for these peasants to enjoy hot food for three meals a day, and all they ate were grains. Even though it was three-year-old corn, they were full. There was no limit to what they could eat.
And if you pay fifty grand every month, they won't be able to save any money throughout the year. It's good if they don't owe new debts.
In the past few months, not only have they not become fat and thin, but they have been too thin to die like in the previous conquests of the corvee. Twenty-three out of ten people died.
They all gained weight from eating, from being as skinny as a stick to having bones in their bodies that were like balloons, and their muscles were bulging.
They were all born doing heavy work, and if they were thin, they would be hungry. If they did not eat enough, they would be severely malnourished. When it was dark, they would be blindfolded and could not see clearly. As long as they could eat enough, they would soon have lumps all over their bodies.
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Although these people are all unstable elements from various places, for them, fifty taels is not a small amount of money. In this era, an acre of land in the north only costs just over forty taels. Buying twelve acres of dry land is not a problem. It is enough to support them.
The whole family has grown up.
As long as a Tatar's head is chopped off, it is not a dream for the whole family to have a house and land.
Seeing five regiments and more than 18,000 people, they climbed over the city wall and entered the city.
