Chapter 401 The white silver is like flowing water! 【Eight thousand
Therefore, as a retreat for the Tatars, Taiyuan Town fell into the hands of the Tatars. Even Balsborough never cared about the Ming soldiers and never considered that the Ming Dynasty could stop them.
He had 100,000 cavalry, but he also left 5,000 troops to guard Taiyuan Town, and he did not dare to be careless at all.
Xu Tianzuo said excitedly: "The chief executive's strategy is very good. Once we recapture Taiyuan Town and seal the Tatar army's retreat, the Tatar army will have no way to retreat and will be deeply trapped in the capital. Even if it is a little bit
No amount of time can kill these Tatars in the Central Plains."
Rather than entering the city after returning to Beijing, then staying in the city to defend the city, and waiting for the Tatars to retreat impatiently, Chu Yi proposed to take back Taiyuan Town, block the Tatars' retreat, and
The idea of catching all the Tatars in one fell swoop naturally excited Xu Tianzuo and others.
Chu Yi smiled slightly and turned to look at the rolling river.
It's only two or three days, and it goes by in a blink of an eye.
The army arrived in Tianjin several miles away. Tianjin is not very far from Beijing. If you use a fast horse, you can arrive in one day. Tianjin Port is the gateway to Beijing. It is said that the Tatars should have sent people to occupy Tianjin Port and directly blockade the port.
That's right.
However, the Tatar army was staring at Beijing City and had no thought of occupying Tianjin Port.
Therefore, Chu Yi and others successfully landed at Tianjin Port. In just half a day, all the tens of thousands of troops landed ashore, with uniform soldiers and armor. However, because they came from the south of the Yangtze River, they only had a few hundred horses.
Even after plundering the entire Tianjin, they only managed to collect 500 war horses in the end.
Seeing Yuhuatian leaving with a letter written by him to the Emperor Zhu Houzhao, Chu Yi turned his eyes to the tens of thousands of troops behind him, shouted, and saw the troops rolling straight towards Shanxi.
In the city of Beijing, from the panic when the Tatar army arrived in the capital to the calmness a few days later, the people in the capital were really adaptable.
In just a few days, everyone had adapted to the presence of nearly 100,000 Tatar troops outside the city, and the initial panic had long since dissipated.
Some people have even adapted to the roaring sound of artillery that must be heard every day on the city wall. If the artillery does not sound one day, everyone will really be a little uncomfortable.
In a few days, the Tatars collected the surrounding trees and spent a day or two building simple tools for attacking the city.
But they are a nation on horseback. If they are asked to fight on horseback, it is their instinct. But to ask them to dismount and carry ladders to attack the city, to be honest, it is really difficult for them.
Traditionally, Tatar invaders rarely choose to attack cities. In border towns, Tatars more often choose to avoid cities and plunder places.
But this time it was different. The ambitious Balsborot was not just satisfied with entering the Central Plains and plundering.
In the battle of Tumubao, the Wala army defeated the Ming Dynasty's hundreds of thousands of troops in one battle, and even the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was captured by it. Even if Yu Qian and others had not turned the tide, the city of Beijing would have been captured at that time.
Whenever he thinks about this, Balsborot, who thinks he has replaced the Oara as the lord of the grassland, naturally wants to surpass the Oara and shape their Tatar achievements.
What achievement can be compared to conquering the city of Beijing?
Moreover, this time a hundred thousand troops invaded the Central Plains. If they just came to plunder, wouldn't it be too much of a loss of Tatar prestige?
A hundred thousand troops came in force, but they came over and plundered like a gang of robbers. Even Balsborough himself felt that it was too humiliating to think about it.
Therefore, even though he knew that the Tatars were not suitable for attacking the city, Balsbroat still chose to let his warriors dismount and attack the city.
In less than half a month, Balsborot personally supervised several battles and supervised the siege of troops of 10,000 people. Unfortunately, the city of Beijing was really high and thick, even if tens of thousands of troops were sent out to attack the city at once.
The city was still driven back by the Ming soldiers who defended the city.
In just half a month's effort, the nearly 100,000-strong army suddenly suffered more than 10,000 casualties. The originally high morale gradually wore away after repeated failures.
In the huge camp, Balsbroat slapped a young girl on the face angrily and cursed: "You trash, you can't even make tea. Do you want to burn me to death?"
Miao Yue fell to the ground, half of her face was red and swollen, looking pitiful and sobbing softly.
Thinking about her, half a month ago, her life could be said to be carefree, but everything changed in the blink of an eye. Her father, who usually treated her like the apple of his eye, suddenly told her that he would send her to a Tatar prince as a wife.
Concubine.
Miao Yue was stunned at that time and felt as if the world was falling apart. No matter how much she cried, her father, who was usually obedient to him, remained unmoved and sent her to Balsboro.
Miao Yue felt that her nightmare had begun. That night she served Balsboro and was almost tortured to death. Fortunately, after Balsboro lost interest in her, he just kept her by his side to serve him like a maid.
The siege of the city was not going well in the past few days. Balsborot had long been holding back a fire in his heart and had no way to vent it. He could only say that Miao Yue was unlucky.
Listening to Miao Yue crying, Balsbroat became even more agitated and shouted: "Someone, drag this bitch out of here."
Several personal guards came in and dragged the pale Miao Yue out.
A personal guard walked in and said to Balsbrot: "His Royal Highness, Damon, Amu and other adults would like to see His Highness."
Balsboro nodded and said: "Tell them to come see me!"
Soon I saw several strong men in leather robes walking into the big tent, saluting Balsborot: "I have met His Highness!"
Balsbroat glanced at a few people and said, "You came to see me, but what's the matter?"
Several people looked at each other and heard Amu take a step forward and say: "Your Highness, we are here to implore you to stop the attack on the city. If this continues, the warriors in the clan may not be able to bear it."
Damon and others also spoke together: "Your Highness, please have mercy on the clansmen. After several days of hard fighting, the clansmen suffered heavy casualties. We really can't hold on any longer!"
Balsbroat, who was depressed in his heart, couldn't help but stare at the several captains fiercely and said: "Do you want to rebel?"
"Plop!"
With a pop, several captains of ten thousand men knelt down on the ground and said, "We don't dare!"
Balsbroat suddenly stood up and roared: "Don't you want to break through the city of Beijing and capture the Ming Emperor alive? I, the Tatar clan, are no worse than the Oara people. If the Oara people can create a great victory in Tumu Fortress, I will attack the city of Beijing."
, don’t let the Oara people be more beautiful than before!”
If it were a few days ago, when Balsbrot said this, Damon, Amu and others would definitely be excited by Balsbrot's words, and then lead their men howling.
Siege the city.
But it has only been half a month. They have shed too much blood under this city wall and killed and injured too many tribesmen.
Although there are still more than 70,000 men and horses, there are nearly 20,000 casualties, which is almost 20% of the casualties.
If we weren't on the siege side and had an absolute psychological advantage, with such casualties, the army would have been on the verge of collapse.
Even so, after successive siege battles, seeing the people around them die one by one under the city wall, and then going to collect the bodies in person, the psychological impact on these soldiers was really great.
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Many soldiers now feel war-weary in their hearts. Otherwise, several captains would not have risked being suspected by Balsbort and jointly begged Balsbort to stop.
Looking at the tens of thousands of captains and tribal leaders who prostrated themselves in front of him, Balsbroat took a deep breath and said: "You all stand up. I will consider your suggestions carefully."
If Balsbrot was really willing to give up, then he wouldn't be so perfunctory, so when Balsbrot said this, Damon, Amu and others all sighed.
However, they are not fools. Just now they jointly begged Balsboro to stop, which has already touched their bottom line. If they continue to be entangled, they are seeking death.
Then a cold light flashed in Balsbroth's eyes and he said: "Just follow me, I don't believe that this city of Beijing is really insurmountable!"
The Amuji people lamented in their hearts, Balsborot is going to attack the city again, but they don't know how many tribesmen will die later.
Woohoo!
The extremely desolate horn sound sounded. Upon hearing the horn sound, the originally scattered Tatar army quickly gathered together. Although it was still a bit messy, the army of nearly 100,000 people stood in a dark mass on the city wall.
Just looking at it makes people feel scared.
On the city wall, the British Duke Zhang Maodeng, who seemed to have lost weight but was in high spirits, immediately climbed onto the city wall and looked at the Tatar army in the distance.
Han Kun, Lu Dazhu and others in armor also stood on the city wall with Zhang Mao. Seeing the Tatar army gathering, Han Kun couldn't help but said: "These Tatars really can't shed tears without seeing the coffin. It's been several days."
, I am afraid that the number of soldiers who died under this city is less than 20,000, but they still refuse to give up."
Stroking his beard, Zhang Mao said slowly: "That's fine. The Tatars are seeking death themselves, so let's take the opportunity to kill a little more of their energy."
Cheng Xiangwu patted the city wall and said with a bit of frustration, "I really want to rush out of the city and fight with these Tatars."
While they were talking, they saw the horns of the Tatar army changing, and then they heard a cry of killing. The black Tatar soldiers got off their horses and carried the ladders to attack the city one by one.
Heading straight to Beijing city.
For this kind of scene, the soldiers guarding the city are actually already familiar with it. After all, such sieges are staged almost every day, so it doesn't matter if they are not familiar with it.
Han Kun's lips curled up slightly and he said: "Everyone, the Tatars have attacked the city. After this time, it's time to mobilize the Tengxiang Four Guards Battalion under me to defend the city."
It turned out that after Han Kun, Lu Dazhu, and Cheng Xiangwu gathered many soldiers and horses in the city, they divided the soldiers and horses into three parts. Cheng Xiangwu, Lu Dazhu, and Han Kun each commanded a force, and then took turns to station on the city wall to fight against the Tatars.
In this way, the soldiers can not only get enough time to rest to maintain sufficient energy, but also allow all the soldiers to be tempered in the battle to defend the city.
After all, repeated offensive and defensive battles are the best training for many soldiers who have never even seen blood.
With the city wall as a support, they only needed to resist the Tatars on the city. It was more adaptable than being in the wilderness, where the two armies were fighting in a life-and-death fight.
In the past half month, almost all of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers in the city have had experience fighting against the Tatars. Many of the soldiers have seen blood for the first time and have transitioned from new recruits to qualified soldiers.
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At present, these soldiers can only be said to be qualified soldiers. As for whether they can become elites, it cannot be achieved in a short time.
How can one become an elite without a few battles of blood and fire?
The sound of cannons and the soldiers' shouts of killing could be heard constantly. Many soldiers picked up rolling logs and smashed them down hard on the group of Tatars on the ladder.
By accident, an arrow flew over and hit the neck of the soldier who leaned out.
Although the attacking side had more casualties, it was obviously impossible for the defending side to have no casualties. It was just that the casualties were much less than those of the Tatars.
But even so, in less than half a month, the defenders of the city suffered casualties of almost seven to eight thousand. Excluding the more than five thousand injured, the number of soldiers who actually died in battle was about three thousand.
Compared with the nearly 20,000 Tatar casualties, as the defender of the city, the Ming soldiers' casualties were not too many.
Moreover, there were hundreds of thousands of defenders in the city, and the casualties were less than 10,000, which was nothing at all. Otherwise, the city would not have been so stable. The most important thing is that Zhu Houzhao did what he said, and everything was done.
The silver was shipped out of the treasury, and anyone who killed a Tatar would be rewarded with silver.
Nearly 20,000 Tatars were killed and injured, and according to Zhu Houzhao's promise, nearly 1 million taels of silver reward was distributed.
As for the soldiers who died in battle, the deceased's pension was a hundred taels of silver. In addition, Zhu Houzhao later added that the injured were ranging from 10 taels to 50 taels according to the severity of their injuries, which added up to almost 500,000 taels.
In just about ten days, nearly two million taels of silver flowed out, and the effect of this money was very obvious.
As long as the soldiers defending the city fought bravely one by one, otherwise, even with the city as a barrier, it would not have been possible for the Tatars to suffer such heavy casualties.
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