After coming back to his senses, he looked around the battlefield. Most of the fighting soldiers were chasing the fleeing Mongolians. Others were patrolling the battlefield and shouting loudly to the Mongols in Mongolian.
Although Li Dingguo couldn't understand, the content of the shouting was given by him, so he basically knew what he was shouting.
Seeing the place where the shouting soldiers had shouted, although the Mongolians showed doubts, they were more afraid.
Suddenly, Li Dingguo discovered that there were two children hiding under a Mongolian cart not far from him. The older child tightly covered the mouth of the younger child, with a look of fear on his face.
Seeing this scene, Li Dingguo strode over, squatted down, looked at the two frightened children under the car, and said with a kind look: "Come out and go back to your parents!"
A soldier beside him, who could speak Mongolian, quickly translated.
The two children obviously didn't believe it, so they hid under the car.
When Li Dingguo saw it, he was very patient and continued to say kindly: "Don't be afraid. Look, if I hurt you, do you think you can get away by hiding under the car?"
After hearing this, the older child looked at his kind and cheerful face for a while, and finally crawled out. By the way, the younger one grabbed him tightly by the skirt of his clothes and followed him out.
From the look of their clothes, one could tell that these two children were the children of ordinary herdsmen. After they came out, Li Dingguo discovered that the younger one was a boy. He had sprained his foot and had red eyes, but he tried his best not to cry.
The older one is a girl. Judging from their appearance, they must be brother and sister.
Seeing this, Li Dingguo reached out and picked up the little boy. His action scared the little girl and rushed over to grab him, but it was no use. The little boy finally burst into tears because of this.
"Don't be afraid, I will take you to find your parents!" Li Dingguo hugged the little boy, looked down at the little girl, and said with a smile.
After hearing this, the little girl looked at Li Dingguo's smiling face, and then looked at Li Dingguo's personal guards around her. They were also smiling and looked very kind. The most important thing was that her resistance was of no use.
Finally, she spoke for the first time: "Really?"
"Of course it's true!" Li Dingguo smiled and said, "His foot is sprained and it's difficult to walk. You can't carry him. I'll hold him so that his foot won't hurt."
The little boy didn't see what he imagined that the adult in front of him was going to hurt him. Feeling Li Dingguo's kindness, he stopped crying, lowered his head and said to the little girl: "Egeqi, I want Eji, I want Abu."
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The soldiers on the side immediately translated for Li Dingguo, saying that the little girl was his sister and that he wanted his parents.
After hearing this, the little girl looked up at Li Dingguo and asked, "Are you not lying? You don't want to kill my parents, right?"
After hearing this, Li Dingguo still kept a smile and replied: "Look, do we kill anyone? As long as you surrender and submit to the Ming Dynasty, we can still give you a good life."
After hearing this, the little girl turned around and saw that she did not see the killing. It was definitely not the scene her parents had told her before.
Perhaps she always felt Li Dingguo's kindness, or the little boy's ankle was sprained and he needed his parents, or maybe she wanted to go back to her parents. In the end, she led Li Dingguo to find her parents.
The captives who knelt down and surrendered saw a Ming general holding a Mongolian child, talking peacefully, and being led by a little Mongolian girl. Seeing this scene, they were all dumbfounded.
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In their view, when the Ming army came and killed them, first of all their young people would not survive, and then their cattle and sheep would be plundered. It would be a miserable scene.
However, this Ming army was very different from the Ming army in their impressions.
Except for those who resisted and were killed, there really weren’t many people killed. There were even many people reminding them in Mongolian: Kneel down and surrender without killing!
They also said that they would only kill those lords and not ordinary herdsmen. If they surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, they would all live a good life.
These are so different!
You know, the people on the grassland believe in the law of the jungle. Now that they are controlled by the Ming army, they are not killed. It is really strange!
Li Dingguo, led by the little girl, came to a yurt. Hearing the shout of the little girl outside, the yurt was opened at a corner, and a Mongolian uncle came out, protected the little girl, and then watched helplessly
The little boy in Li Dingguo's arms was a little stunned.
Li Dingguo just discovered that there were still a few people hiding in the yurt. He didn't go in. He handed the little boy in his arms over and said at the same time: "His foot is sprained. It's best not to take any force!"
The soldiers on the side translated the words and asked the Mongolian uncle to quickly reach out and take it, but he was still wary and obviously afraid of Li Dingguo, as if he was afraid of what Li Dingguo would do next.
Unexpectedly, after Li Dingguo finished explaining, he turned around and left without saying anything or asking for anything, which surprised him.
Finally, by some strange combination of circumstances, the Mongolian uncle couldn't help but ask: "You... why have you changed?"
The performance of the Ming army was really surprising!
When Li Dingguo heard the question, he turned around, looked at the Mongolian uncle with a smile and said: "Your Great Khan wants to collude with Tsarist Russia and Jianlu to attack our Ming Dynasty, so the emperor issued an order to attack your Great Khan, but this does not include
You ordinary herdsmen, because you are squeezed and bullied by your sweat, your life is very hard. If you surrender to the Ming Dynasty and move south to Guihua City, your life will be much easier than here."
After saying that, he turned around and left. As a coach, there are still many things to do.
The Mongolian man held the child in his arms and looked at the back of the Ming army general who turned away with some surprise. He had never heard of such remarks.
The people in the yurt must have come out when they heard that there was no movement outside. Both men and women stared blankly at the back of the Ming army generals, all with unimaginable and astonished expressions.
Looking around, they also discovered that the Ming army did not kill anyone, and did not even break into the yurt. What they saw before them was so unreal!
Even in tribal disputes on the Mongolian grasslands, killing each other's men and grabbing each other's property and killing are the absolute most common things.
However, this time the Ming army only killed the resisting Mongolians at the beginning, and did not even kill them!
The scene in front of me is really strange!
Li Dingguo didn't care about them. He looked at the sky and ordered his men: "Kill the cattle and sheep. Except for the Mongolian soldiers who continue to promote propaganda, the others rest."
Ordinary herdsmen do not have herds. Most of them are just grazed by their great khans and chieftains.
Now that the Ming army was the victor, they began to kill cattle and sheep. This was the most basic situation. Although the Mongolian herdsmen felt distressed, they did not feel much resentment.
The Mongolian soldiers scattered around to explain the court's strategy to the Mongols.
"The imperial court only kills leaders who are hostile to the Ming Dynasty and treats you ordinary herdsmen preferentially."
"If you submit to the imperial court, you can go south to graze your cattle and leave this bitter cold land!"
"Look at you, if you surrendered to the imperial court, your life would be much better than now!"
"Let me tell you, I was originally an ordinary herdsman of the Tumut tribe. Last winter, two people in my family starved to death. However, after surrendering to the imperial court, I made great achievements in war. Now my family has been assigned sheep, and life is better.
I don’t know how much better it was before I got up!”
"The imperial court is still cultivating grain fields in Hetao. In the future, we won't be afraid of white disasters during the winter."
"The same goes for you. If you submit to the imperial court and serve the imperial court, you will all be assigned your own cattle and sheep, and maybe even grain fields."
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Listening to these propaganda, to be honest, these Mongolian herdsmen didn't believe it because they had never heard of such a good thing before.
In the past, even if someone submitted to the Ming Dynasty, it would only be granted an official title by the leader. It had nothing to do with ordinary herdsmen. They were still herding cattle for the leader.
However, the scene before them was unprecedented. For a while, most of them were skeptical.
Not long after, the aroma of barbecued meat and the aroma of meat cooking in a large pot began to waft over the grassland.
This makes the children of ordinary herdsmen unable to resist and want to eat it when they smell the aroma.
Although they may have more opportunities to eat meat than children in the Central Plains, as low-level herdsmen, it is impossible to eat meat whenever they want. Only when the boss is happy will he be rewarded.
Li Dingguo noticed this situation and ordered his soldiers to kill the sheep and send a dead sheep to each yurt.
The Ming army did not look evil, but gave them mutton to eat. Anyway, the children were the first to accept the kindness of the Ming army and acted happily, as if the war that had just happened had long gone.
Just like this, every yurt started cooking mutton just like the Chinese New Year.
After all, what the Ming army gave them was a dead sheep, and the Ming army was still there. I didn’t know what would happen next, so it was better to have a good meal first.
During this process, the Ming troops who were chasing the remnants of the enemy returned one after another. At first, the ordinary herdsmen were shocked and nervous, but they gradually felt relieved when they found that the returning Ming troops did not harass them.
Among them, Li Laiheng, who was chasing Subaadi, also returned and regretfully reported to Li Dingguo that Subadi ran away faster than a rabbit and could not catch up.
Li Dingguo was not surprised by this. The battle on the grassland was like this. It was easy to defeat the enemy, but it was very difficult to annihilate the enemy.
After the entire army had a feast of beef and mutton, it was already afternoon. Li Dingguo looked at the people eating and drinking in each yurt, and seemed to have regained his composure, so he began to give orders.