"You..." Zhu Youjian pointed Hong Chengchou's nostrils with his fingers, "Do you think I don't know what you think? We are Ming's army, not bandits."
"Yes, yes, we are Daming's army." Hong Chengchou bowed his head and looked very regretful. He was happily in his heart. Zhu Youjian did not dismiss these women. His soldiers would have a chance sooner or later.
Zhu Youjian no longer paid attention to Hong Chengchou, but turned to Man Gui: "How much did the Duoyan cavalry escape?"
"Your Majesty, after Hong Junzuo cleaned up Qingling, fortunately, he rushed here in time and blocked the escape route of the Doyan people. None of them ran away. Except for those who died in battle, all the others surrendered." Man Gui stretched out his hand. Point back.
Zhu Youjian saw that the Ming army was taking a group of five-flower-tied people over. You don't need to ask, you can tell by looking at the costume that the person tied up must be the Duoyan cavalry who just fled.
"How many people were captured?"
"A total of five thousand, three hundred and twenty-three people."
"Okay," Zhu Youjian was overjoyed, "first look at these captives, and send them to Liaodong in the future to build roads for the locals... It can be regarded as atonement for themselves."
"Your Majesty, the cement road from Shanhaiguan to Jinzhou has already been repaired. What road is there to build?"
"Even if the cement road is built in Jinzhou, it will be built in Guangning in the future. We will build cement roads wherever Daming occupies. As long as our food supplies can keep up, no one can take our land."
Man Gui nodded, as if thinking about something.
Hong Chengchou saw Zhu Youjian's face calm, not as if he was angry. He was about to speak, but Zhu Youjian glared at him. He had to swallow and spit, swallowing back what he was about to say.
Zhu Youjian withdrew his gaze from Hong Chengchou's face, "Send the order, the soldiers have worked so hard, you can camp here today!"
That night, the soldiers again slaughtered cattle and sheep to celebrate the victory of the Ming army against the Doyan tribe of Mongolia.
According to statistics, the Duoyan tribe of nearly 100,000 people was almost slaughtered by Hong Chengchou, Man Gui and others, leaving only more than 5,000 cavalry captives and 3,000 young women.
Zhu Youjian walked alone in the night without even taking Fu Xiaojian, his personal guard.
A tribe of 100,000 people was completely destroyed in this way. Isn't it too inhumane
For his own safety, Daming had to fight with Jian slaves, but Duoyan was just an accomplice of Jian slaves, not even accomplices. Does Da Ming have to eliminate them? Then there are the Taining Department and Fuyu Department.
If there is a cigarette, Zhu Youzhen really wants to burn one. When a person is thinking quietly in the endless night, smoking a cigarette may make his thinking much more active.
Does the Doyan Department have to be eliminated? If the Duoyan Tribe still exists, will they cut off the return of the Ming army
The result is inevitable. If Daming and Jiannu formally go to war, the Duoyan tribe, who is a vassal of Jiannu, will definitely send out their cavalry to insert their machetes fiercely in the weakest place of Daming.
Every time he hesitated, Zhu Youjian would look for answers from history.
The rise of which empire is not a bloody history
If there is no bloody history, this empire will never rise, just like Chu in the Warring States Period, like Austria in the eighteenth century.
If you miss the sacred mission gifted to you by God, you will be punished by God, or be destroyed by Qin Qiang like Chu, or dismembered into countless small nations like Austria.
If Zhu Youjian wants to revive Daming like his reign, the bloody history that happened to Duoyan is just the beginning, not the end.
Without the United Nations, countries, large and small, cannot coexist peacefully. War will be the norm among nations.
There is another unknown reason why Zhu Youjian conquered the Doyan tribe, that is, training, the Ming army lacks actual combat, and the soldiers who build slaves are extremely fierce.
Ming's expedition to build slaves did not have any advantage except flintlock. And Jiannu has been operating in Liaoyang and Shenyang for more than ten years. Not only are they all soldiers, they are also familiar with geography, allies help, supply convenience, and strong mobility. If the Ming army’s combat effectiveness is not as strong as the sky, , It is difficult to achieve a complete victory.
The number of Doyan tribes is small and poses little threat to the Ming army, but their lifestyle and military system are very similar to building slaves, and they happen to be Ming's ideal warm-up opponent.
Da Ming wants to destroy the establishment of slaves and build an unprecedentedly powerful Han empire. The Doyan trilogy must be destroyed.
Untied his knot, Zhu Youjian shook his head and smiled bitterly, but felt a little bit sorry for these innocent nomads.
However, Zhu Youjian thought about it again that the Mongols had conquered the Han people. The Mengyuan Empire was built by endless killings. The Doyan Tribe was also a Mongol. Now, it's time for them to pay their debts.
He could only wave his hand to the night reluctantly: Farewell, Duoyan.
Yesterday’s battle was too violent. The soldiers were very tired both physically and mentally, but Ming soldiers, whether they were cavalry or infantry, had their own horses, and they would not be too tired when marching.
Early the next morning, all the 100,000 troops on the left came out of the camp and began to march north and east again.
This time, it was Wang Mujiu's Royal First Army who took the lead this time. They just carried flintlocks and dry food, and went lightly to find the whereabouts of the Taining people.
Zhu Youjian led the Fourth Army and the Seventh Army. As a rear army, they carried all the grain, artillery and baggage, and followed Wang Mujiu far behind.
Not long after the army set off, Liu Lin reported: "Your Majesty, there is a message from the Taining Ministry."
"Taining Department? Where is it?"
"Your Majesty, most of them are in Jianchang City. There should be their big account."
"Where is Jianchang?" Zhu Youjian took out the marching map. Unfortunately, the towns outside the Guan were very vaguely marked and the location was not accurate. Jianchang City was not on the map at all. Maybe when the marching map was made, it was still There is no Jianchang City.
"Your Majesty, the investigative rumors ahead say that Jianchang City is four hundred miles northeast of Qingling."
"That should be this area." Based on the scale, Zhu Youjian drew a large circle with a radius of four hundred miles on the map with his hands, but this is only a rough location, and the Ming army needs to find it directly.
Zhu Youjian immediately sent a messenger to report to Wang Mujiu and ordered him to quietly search for Jianchang City. According to the hint of the investigation, Zhu Youjian drew a rough location map for Wang Mujiu.
When Zhu Youjian arrived at Jianchang City, Wang Mujiu had already fought the Taining people.
The Taining people also couldn't handle the flintlocks of the Ming army. After leaving more than 3,000 bodies, they temporarily withdrew to Jianchang City.
"Your Majesty, according to the results of the Ranger investigation, the Taining Tribe is basically concentrated in Jianchang City, and there are about tens of thousands of tribes." Wang Mujiu would feed back the information he heard to Zhu Youjian.
"Aren't the Mongols good at offensive? How do you learn from the Han people now and stick to the city?" Zhu Youjian was happy, fighting the Ming army with their own shortcomings, and they would only die faster.
After the annihilation of the Doyan Tribe, Zhu Youjian's confidence greatly increased.
Among the three branches of Duoyan, Taining, and Fuyu, the Duoyan tribe has the largest number and the strongest, so Daming has always called them the "Three Duoyan tribes."
Even the Duoyan Tribe was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, so what about the Taining Tribe? Even in the wild, facing the cavalry of the Taining Ministry, Zhu Youjian is not worried now.
"Your Majesty, the flintlock is still very powerful. We shot them three thousand cavalry, but the Taining people are now hiding in Jianchang City. What should we do?" Facing the city, Wang Mujiu was also helpless.
"Don't worry, surround Jianchang City first. Tomorrow morning, we will attack again." Zhu Youjian immediately commanded the army to encircle Jianchang City without leaving any escape route for the Taining people.
Participating in the siege were Wang Mujiu’s Royal First Army, Hong Chengchou’s Fourth Army, and Mangui’s Seventh Army. Because they were real cavalry, they were fast and able to fight hand-to-hand. They were temporarily the most mobile force to prevent the Taining from coming from a certain city The door breaks through.
In fact, Zhu Youjian also knows that it is extremely unlikely that the Taining people will break through until the moment of despair.
They are not a real army, but a tribe of Mongols. There are not only old people, children and women in the tribe, but also a large number of cattle, horses and sheep. If they break through, they will never be taken away. Unless they are willing to leave the tribe's hope and property to the Ming army, they will never break through.
Jianchang City is only a small city, the circumference of the city wall is less than twenty miles, but on the grassland, it is already a rare big city.
Some of the grassland is loess, but there are few stones. The wall of Jianchang City is made of loess. The height is only two steps, which is three meters. From the outside of the wall, Zhu Youjian cannot see the thickness of the wall.
Zhu Youjian rode a horse and ran a circle around the city, and found that there was an open grassland outside the city, which was very flat. I wonder if the Taining people took safety into consideration when they were building the city wall.
The artillery of the Ming Army were all at the Nancheng Gate. Since the walls of either side were the same, Zhu Youjian planned to launch the main attack from the Nancheng Gate.
The city of Jianchang was just a wall of earth, and all the hundreds of artillery were used, which was a waste. Zhu Youjian only dispatched ten artillery.
Ten artillery pieces were erected at a distance of five hundred steps from the South City Gate. When attacking from this position, the blooming shells could extend into the city. When protecting, even if the Taining people had bows and arrows, they were far out of reach.
There are many Taining soldiers on the front of the city. They have never seen the muzzle of the black hole of the Ming army’s artillery. They find it very novel and point to the gun barrels from time to time, but for the Ming army gathered under the city, they are not. Too much care, with the protection of the city wall, they are not afraid of the flintlocks of the Ming army.
Zhu Youjian issued the first military order to the gunner: shelling the Nancheng Gate.
The gunners began to adjust the artillery. Now they can only rely on their experience to determine the approximate position based on the observation of their eyes. After the first wave of shelling, the gunners can make corrections based on the drop point of the bomb.
Ten bloom bombs were dropped into the barrel one after the other.
The other ten gunners lit ten torches and prepared to light the fuse.
The Taining people on the front of the city were amazed one by one: The army on the opposite side is so weird. In this broad daylight, the sun is hanging high in the sky, but they are lighting torches. They are just a bunch of fools!
"Ignite!" Before the Taining people were happy, the artillery regiment gave the order.
With an order, ten torches ignited the fuse of the artillery almost at the same time.