On the grassland, thousands of people were fighting, with men like tigers and horses like dragons, fighting in a group. [] If uploaded carefully by a friend, the total number of people should be around two thousand. These people were killed into a pot of porridge, and it was really difficult to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy.
Xia Xun noticed that Ding Yu had led several people down the high slope and stopped two arrows away from those people. Since he only brought a few people with him, he did not have any impact on the two sides of the battle.
Still fighting desperately.
Gradually, the fighting crowd began to determine the winner. First, one side gradually retreated, allowing onlookers to easily distinguish that they belonged to the two camps with naked eyes, but their unmarked clothes and completely non-existent flags
, so that onlookers still can't tell who they belong to.
Immediately afterwards, the side that was at a disadvantage began to retreat. They turned their horses and fled into the distance like a long winding dragon on the snowfield, with the sound of thunderous hooves. The other side was out of formation and needed to take advantage of the victory.
There was a brief interval to reorganize the team, so it was not until they started to escape that the other party suddenly launched a pursuit.
The chasing team was divided into three lines, with one line pursuing directly from behind, and the other two lines outflanking the left and right far arcs. It seemed that the meeting point of the two lines and the three lines was used as the predetermined point to annihilate the enemy. Originally, in such a pursuit,
When it comes to killing, it's hard to get everything you want, but once the two sides start running, the gap becomes very obvious.
The fleeing party rarely has strong and powerful horses, and some knights even don't even have saddles, while the pursuing party not only has complete saddles and harness, but also has majestic horses that can run powerfully. In this way, they may not be able to carry out a combined attack on the enemy.
The leader of the victorious party was obviously holding the formation at the rear. When the three armies chased out, there were still hundreds of people left in the same place, and many of them looked over. When they arrived at Ding Yu, they also arrived at Zhang Ma Li
In Xia Xun, which is on a high slope, dozens of knights are already riding their horses to outflank Ding Yu and others. However, their leader does not seem to want to cause trouble. After clearing the Ming army uniforms of Ding Yu and others, he goes to the distant high ground.
There were still people on the slope, and they were suddenly called back.
These people quickly followed the pursuers and left. Xia Xun saw Ding Yu standing there and discussed something with several guards for a while, and then he rode towards the battlefield. The battlefield was a mess, with human and horse corpses.
Blood splattered everywhere, like peach blossoms. Many places in the snow that had been trampled by horse hooves had lost all snow, leaving the ground black and mottled.
When Xia Xun arrived, Ding Yu searched the battlefield for a long time, as if he was looking for surviving soldiers. After a while, Ding Yu stopped on the battlefield with his guards. It seemed that he had found soldiers who were injured but not dead.
After a while, Ding Yu came back with his people. Looking from a distance, he didn't see him coming back with his people.
Xia Xun knocked his stirrup up and headed down the slope to meet him.
"what happened?"
"My lord, the Tatar Wanggu tribe and the Qimude tribe are at war, and the losing side is the Qimude tribe."
"They are all Tatars? Why are they killing each other?"
Ding Yu chuckled and said: "Because there is no food to eat, and their leader is unwilling to give up his power and accept the household registration and resettlement from my Ming Dynasty, the big fish has to eat the small fish!"
Only then did Xia Xun understand, his eyes flickered slightly, and he said: "Very good, you have done a good job in Wanshi Domain! The wounded soldier..."
"The tail was broken and the chest was stabbed in the intestines. I didn't care enough about it, so I asked people to kill it. Keeping it would be a waste of food anyway."
"...let's go!"
After a false alarm, the team continued their journey. Along the way, corpses of people who died of fighting and death of freezing and starvation can often be seen in the snowfields. Because of the cold weather, people froze not long after they fell to death, so they were cannibalized by wild beasts.
There were not many of them, so the corpses were preserved, half-covered in the snow, which was unbearable to see.
When they were still half a day away from where the relief team from Liaodong was stationed, they were fighting again. Arrows rained together and screamed in the sky. The Tatar knights rushed forward one after another, swarming up like langchao and fighting desperately. Both sides used
They are all drilling tactics, penetrating the opponent's formation, a beautiful arc backlash, and launching the drilling offensive again. The two sides just gouge back and forth. Countless people fell down in every hedging, but the battle was chaotic.
The situation has not stopped.
This time, Xia Xun and the others did not stop. The two sides were already furious. They cleverly avoided the fighting battlefield and went around to the disaster relief camp. As a result, they met some people on the way who also fled to the disaster relief camp in panic.
The Tatar herdsmen called them forward and asked them, only to find out that the two teams that had been fighting fiercely just now were actually of the same race, and they were both members of the Buryat clan.
The reason why they killed each other was because they ran out of food and grass. The Tatar tribe suffered huge losses during the migration. Once the food and grass stored in Arutai were burned, they were completely in dire straits. In the past, they encountered this kind of food shortage situation.
, their solution is generally to migrate as a whole, using force to compete with other tribes for limited winter pastures and to rob each other of their food.
Another way is to raid the Han people and go to the Han people's place to "beat the grass valley". But what is the situation now? "Take the grass valley"? After fighting with Wala for so long, their vitality was seriously damaged. Zhang Jun led the Liaodong army to
Stationed under their noses, if you want to "beat the grass", it would be better to just wipe your neck.
With no other solution, as more and more people froze to death and starved to death, the grudges of the herdsmen became more and more serious, and the prestige of the leaders became lower and lower, but they were unwilling to accept the placement of Liaodong Dusi. The leaders
They were able to survive for the time being, but the ordinary tribesmen couldn't support it anymore, so some of them decided to leave the tribe on their own and go to Liaodong Dusi. How could the leaders allow such behavior? So a fratricidal war began.
Ding Yu was afraid that Xia Xun would feel pity, so he hurriedly said: "My lord, please don't look at how pitiful they are now. When our fists were not as strong as theirs, they were really tougher than wolves. Even now, if it weren't for the tiles in front of us,
We are marching step by step, our Liaodong capital is standing ready behind us, do you think they will not come to harm our people? Your Majesty, they are so ruthless just now, you are here too."
Xia Xun glanced at him, half smiling.
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On the snowfield, military tents formed a huge military camp. There was a horse pit in front of the military camp, and a smooth and strong barrier was built with snow behind the pit. Bridges were built at several passages, and deer antlers were set up at the bridgeheads.
In the center of the military camp, there are stacked granaries filled with grain and grass. The entire camp was busy.
Soldiers on patrol, minor officials registering and distributing grain, herdsmen receiving relief, tribes coming to trade, cattle and sheep kept in pens, all bustling and bustling. In the large tent of Wan Shiyu, the chief envoy of Liaodong, a group of people
There was an endless quarrel. Standing in the middle was Wanshiyu, as well as several officials and staff. Surrounding the periphery were some Confucian scholars who were agitated.
These Confucian scholars are so excited!"
Liaodong has developed very well in the past few years, and has also achieved great success in education. Before Zhang Xitong was transferred back to the Ministry of Rites, county schools, government schools, government-run and private academies in Liaodong had been opened everywhere, and a large number of scholars applied for jobs here.
, became an academy teacher, master, sir. Not long ago, when Wanshiyu arrived in Tatar, considering the language communication problem, he only brought some academy students who were familiar with ancient books and authentic books. These people were originally from nomadic tribes and were weak.
The belief of forceful eating was deeply rooted in their bones, so the decision to implement the Wanshi Domain was not compromised, which played a huge role in attracting people's hearts in Liaodong.
However, their number was still too small. At this time, there were no propaganda tools such as movies, TV, and radio. Most of the people in the Tatar tribe were illiterate. They needed to visit each household for propaganda, and the number was far from enough. However, the people from all over Liaodong
Teachers from county schools, government schools, and academies asked for help one after another, asking to join the propaganda war and contribute to the country. Wanshiyu was worried that there were not enough manpower, so he nodded and agreed. The translation of ancient sayings and Chinese is,
Such people abound in Liaodong, and many people in Liaodong who are illiterate have such abilities.
Unexpectedly, not long after these scholars arrived in Tartar, the law changed.
They were propaganda, watching some herdsmen from the Tatar tribe who were unwilling to accept the settlement of the Ming court die of cold and starvation, their families were destroyed, and they were warmly entertained by those tribal leaders, and they complained to them with tears in their eyes, with a sense of justice and compassion.
Born spontaneously.
The blocking of relief forces these tribes to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, otherwise they will let you freeze to death and starve to death without pulling out a hair. Such behavior is unjust, cruel and completely inhumane to them. These have been instilled in them since childhood.
The masters, who were full of benevolence and morality, had never experienced the bitter cold life in the north of the Great Wall, and had never been harmed or invaded by nomads, were angry.
The benevolent are invincible! Only with a compassionate heart can we influence the world! How can we, the great Ming Dynasty, a country of etiquette, do this? How can we be so cruel? Using benefits to surrender to them, what an evil act it is! They lack
With little food and clothing, and dying, I generously extended a helping hand at this time, providing relief without mercy and without compensation. Isn't that what I, the original dynasty that founded the country on Confucianism, should do?
Masters respect the saints, respect the good, and are merciful and philanthropic. Masters have taken the world as their own responsibility. Fraternity is called benevolence. With so much food and grass in the disaster relief camp, how can you sit back and watch so many people starve to death like stray dogs!
In turn, they began to strongly demand that the chief envoy immediately distribute free food relief to the Tatar victims. Wanshiyu never expected that these masters not only failed to help, but actually became their lobbyists.
However, most of these scholars have achieved fame and fame, and Wanshiyu himself is also a scholar. It is not appropriate to be too harsh on him, but under their verbal and written criticism, it is a bit too much for him.
In the big tent, Wanshiyu was scolded by these professors, masters, and gentlemen. He was defending feebly when someone ran in and reported loudly: "Master Fantai, the Duke of Fuguo, and the Marquis of Kaiyuan have arrived at the university.