Chapter 410: The Chief Director enters the city [1 more]
Coupled with the information provided by King Ning's subordinates, it can be said that the Tatars actually have a very good understanding of the internal situation of the Ming Dynasty.
In particular, King Ning sent people to inform the Tatars about Chu Yi, the most powerful official in the Ming Dynasty. The one who was highlighted was Chu Yi.
Regardless of whether it is King Ning or the Tatars, in fact, if they think about it, Chu Yi, as the most relied-upon of the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, will inevitably choose to sit in the capital when King Ning rebels and the Tatars enter the country.
After all, whether King Ning rebels or the Tatars invade, they are all catastrophes that may shake the foundation of a country. If Chu Yi does not sit in the capital, it will be difficult to stabilize the overall situation of the world.
However, what Hu Limu didn't expect was that Chu Yi would be so bold and even leave the capital.
At this moment, Hu Limu had no idea that Chu Yi had personally arrived in the south of the Yangtze River and had put down the rebellion of King Ning. At this moment, he even came with a victorious army, traveling thousands of miles away to attack.
After all, in this era, news spreads very slowly. Even if there are channels from the court, the news will be delayed for three to five days even though it is thousands of miles away.
Not to mention that the Tatars' channels for obtaining news from the Central Plains are very narrow. At most, some Central Plains people who have taken refuge with the Tatars can provide some information.
However, very few of the people who took refuge with the Tatars were in high positions. Even if the news that these people got, it was unknown how long it had been delayed.
It can be said that unless the court vigorously publicizes it, I am afraid that the Tatars will have to wait at least a month if they want to know the news that King Ning's rebellion has been put down.
Within a month, by the time the Tatars knew about it, the aftermath of King Ning's rebellion would have been put down.
So at this time, in the eyes of the Tatars, King Ning was actually helping them contain the imperial troops, and they were not alone.
Besides, the Tatars did not regard the Ming Dynasty as their formidable enemy psychologically. After the Tumu Fortress Incident, when the Tatars faced the Ming Dynasty, at least their psychology was no longer the same as it was when the Ming Dynasty was founded.
Whether it was Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang or Chengzu Zhu Di, they really left a huge shadow on the descendants of the Meng Yuan Dynasty, especially Zhu Di, the founder, who went to Mobei during the Five Expeditions and really chased and beat up the remnants of the Meng Yuan Dynasty.
However, a hundred years have passed, and the Central Plains dynasty has been constantly fighting, and it has long lost the bravery of the past. Otherwise, the Tatars would not dare to go south in a large scale.
However, although Hu Limu knew Chu Yi's name, he didn't think Chu Yi could do anything to them from the bottom of his heart.
No matter how famous Chu Yi is, in the end he is not a eunuch.
What abilities can a powerful eunuch have? The most powerful eunuch in Tatar people's memory is Wang Zhen, who encouraged the Yingzong emperor to personally conquer, leading to the Tumubao Incident.
So Hu Limu just thought that Chu Yi was another eunuch like Wang Zhen.
If the Ming Dynasty really sent a general who was good at fighting to occupy Taiyuan City, he would really be worried about whether the retreat of Balsborough's troops would be affected.
But now that he knew that the man leading the troops to occupy Taiyuan City was Chu Yi, a powerful eunuch like Wang Zhen, Hu Limu was not so worried.
Sun Qiu naturally didn't know about Hu Limu's psychological changes, but if he knew, he would probably laugh endlessly.
Comparing Chu Yi with Wang Zhen is simply an insult to Chu Yi.
If Wang Zhen had one-third of Chu Yi's ability, I'm afraid the Tumu Fortress Incident wouldn't have happened back then.
Anyone who underestimated Chu Yi would now have grass on their grave three feet high.
Staring at Hu Limu with burning eyes, Sun Qiu said slowly: "Hu Limu, surrender!"
Hu Limu looked around and saw that there were only a few hundred subordinates left around him. Each of these subordinates were wearing clothes and had a somewhat tired look on their faces.
After all, these men were awakened in the middle of the night and fought with him for several hours, trying to find a way to survive.
Now they are trapped in an encirclement. Apart from surrendering, there is probably only one way to die.
Taking a deep breath, Hu Limu dropped the scimitar in his hand to the ground with a clang, and heard Hu Limu say: "This general has surrendered!"
Unlike the Central Plains generals who regarded surrender as a great shame, Hulimunai was from the grasslands and had tried his best. Since he was surrounded and could survive, he would of course choose to surrender.
Hu Limu chose to surrender. Sun Qiu couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, but he also showed a bit of joy on his face.
The value of living holim trees is naturally much greater than that of dead ones.
As Hulimu surrendered, the Tatar soldiers behind him also dropped their weapons one by one. The surrounding soldiers swarmed up and tied up hundreds of Tatar soldiers in the blink of an eye.
There was a pile of corpses at the gate of the south city. Especially at the gate of the city, there was only a narrow strip about one foot wide, with corpses on both sides.
When the Tatars left the city before, so many people were shot at the city gate. Naturally, many corpses had to be cleared aside. Otherwise, those corpses alone would have blocked the city gate.
At this moment, Sun Qiu's soldiers were cleaning the battlefield. After all, the Tatars had surrendered, and there couldn't be a pile of corpses at the city gate.
Many war horses and the corpses of soldiers from both sides were overlapped. The soldiers, especially the corpses of many soldiers from both sides, were trampled by the horses. Some of the corpses were trampled into disfigurement. Many soldiers were cleaning the battlefield to clean up the corpses.
At that time, many people were so stimulated by the bloody scene that they couldn't help but vomit.
At this time, there was rarely any chaos in Taiyuan City. After all, after the previous disasters caused by the Tatars, Miao family, Lu family and other families, the city was already in a state of turmoil. Everyone was in danger, and many people were hiding in
At home, he held a stick in his hand, ready to strike at any intruder.
Even those local gangsters who usually took advantage of the chaos to do evil were hiding obediently and did not dare to show their faces at this time.
Because the Tatar soldiers in the city were gathered and taken away by Hulimu, there was no rebellion in the city, which saved a lot of trouble.
When Xu Tianzuo led a group of troops into the city and found out that Hu Limu was leading a group of cavalry towards the south gate, he naturally rushed there quickly.
However, when Xu Tianzuo arrived, he saw a group of Ming soldiers cleaning the battlefield at the city gate, and several familiar figures in front of a group of war horses.
Seeing such a group of war horses, even Xu Tianzuo couldn't help but his eyes lit up. There were almost a thousand war horses. Although some of the war horses were injured, most of them were minor injuries. Being able to capture thousands of war horses at one time, naturally
It's no small gain.
Although the Ming Dynasty itself is not very short of war horses, after all, the Ming Dynasty implemented the horse policy. Although the horse policy has become a policy that harms the country and the people at this time, the horse policy still plays a certain role, that is, the Ming Dynasty does not lack.
horses.
However, the horses raised by those horse farmers are a bit less wild than the horses on the grassland. These horses captured from the Tatars are natural war horses, and they can be used by themselves with a little familiarity.
Sun Qiu noticed the movements of Xu Tianzuo and his group, turned around and looked at Xu Tianzuo, with a smile on his face and said: "Commander Xu, you defeated the city in one battle, congratulations, congratulations!"
After glancing at Sun Qiu, Xu Tianzuo said: "Congratulations to Commander Sun as well. I think Hu Limu, the leader of the Tatars, must have fallen into the hands of Commander Sun."
Sun Qiu glanced at the distant city wall. A group of Tatar soldiers were tied there one by one. In addition, with so many horses intact, even a guesser could guess that the Tatars did not fight to the end.
For one person, the most likely outcome is that he chose to surrender when he was defeated.
Sun Qiu smiled slightly and said, "Thanks to Commander Xu, Sun just waited and forced Hu Limu to surrender outside the south city gate."
The sky gradually became brighter, and the sun was about to rise.
Taiyuan City has returned to peace. When the Tatars guarding the other two city gates wanted to escape, it was too late and they had no choice but to surrender.
As a result, Taiyuan City was captured this time. The Ming Dynasty attacked and killed more than 3,000 Tatar soldiers, and captured more than 1,000 Tatar soldiers, including about 2,000 horses.
Of course, the most important thing is that Taiyuan Town, one of the important border towns, finally returned to the hands of the Ming Dynasty, blocking the gap in the northern land and blocking the tens of thousands of Balsboro who penetrated deep into the Central Plains and were attacking Beijing.
The retreat of the Tatar army.
Riding a horse, Chu Yi slowly entered Taiyuan City surrounded by generals.
At the east gate of Taiyuan City, there are still some traces of the aftermath of the war. Although the corpses and blood at the city gate have been cleaned up, and even the blood on the ground has been covered with loess, even if it is covered with loess, it still remains.
It's hard to hide the bloody smell.
Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and other generals were already well prepared. They saw Chu Yi entering Taiyuan City from a distance. They walked side by side and rode forward.
One stood up and dismounted, and the two of them and the generals behind them all bowed to Chu Yi: "The generals are waiting to greet the general manager!"
Chu Yi looked at Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and other generals, smiled slightly, turned over and took a few steps forward, helped several people up, and said with admiration in his eyes: "We destroyed the city in one night, you have lived up to my expectations!"
After Chu Yi praised them like this, everyone couldn't help showing a bit of joy on their faces. After all, it was quite rare for Chu Yi to praise them like this.
At this moment, Chu Yi patted Xu Tianzuo and Sun Qiu on the shoulders and chuckled: "This time we recaptured Taiyuan City and successfully blocked the Tatars' retreat, which is a great achievement. Once the Tatar disaster is settled, we will
The governor will report it to the emperor and ask for merit for the generals."
Chu Yi has always been clear about rewards and punishments. Since Chu Yi said this, it means that their military achievements have been recognized by Chu Yi, and naturally there will be no problems with the emperor.
