Seeing that the cavalry of the Ming army was about to pounce like a lion, Lin Chengxiang decisively stopped: "What is the strength of these people who are about to die? Your life is precious, with grenades."
The Mongolian cavalry didn't understand Lin Chengxiang's words, but the Ming cavalry did. They untied the grenades from their waists one after another, and then pulled out the fuse, quietly watching the grenade emit white smoke.
Just now when the Ming army was removing the grenade, the Mongols were stunned. They didn't know what tricks the Ming army was going to play. Seeing the white smoke on the grenade, they seemed to understand, but they were already surrounded by the Ming army. It was impossible to get out of it, and could only wait for the next move of the Ming army.
The next move of the Ming army was relatively neat, which was to throw grenade at the Mongols collectively.
"Boom, boom, boom..."
After a delay in the hands of Ming soldiers, the grenade was about to explode, and it started exploding as soon as it was thrown on the Mongols.
Many grenades exploded in the arms of the Mongolian cavalry. Their leather armor could not withstand the shock wave of the grenade explosion, let alone the metal fragments produced during the explosion.
The blood flowed slowly down the horse's legs and swiftly into the grass.
The loud noise made the war horse tremble, but without the soldiers' orders, the war horse stood still on the spot, unless it was casualties.
The Mongolian cavalry had not yet woken up from their confusion, and another wave of thunderstorms blew them over.
There were hundreds of Mongolian cavalry soldiers, many of whom were wounded soldiers. After being hit by grenade many times, they all agreed and fell from their horses by chance.
Either a person was injured, or a horse was injured.
After the Ming army solved the Mongolian cavalry, they discovered the remaining Tibetan soldiers on the battlefield.
After the Tibetan soldiers escaped from Tulubaihu, they spontaneously got up from the grass. They started to escape secretly when all the attention of the Ming army was on the Mongolian cavalry.
After the Ming army settled the Mongolian cavalry, they had fled five hundred steps away.
Five hundred steps, for the cavalry, is less than a minute.
The Ming cavalry cut off the escape route of the Tibetan soldiers when Lin Chengxiang did not issue a military order.
Seeing that the Ming cavalry riding a tall horse had surrounded them, the Tibetan soldiers were panicked except for their weak legs.
I don't know who started it, they all shouted something in Tibetan.
Unfortunately, the soldiers of the Ming Army did not speak Tibetan, and all the investigations in Tibetan were in the Chinese Army. There are still hundreds of steps away.
Regardless of whether they have weapons or not, these Tibetan soldiers who were still attacking the Ming army's position just now are enemies of the Ming army, and they are still threatening the Ming army with words.
The cavalry ran out of knives, and the Tibetan soldiers immediately suffered most of the casualties. Some Tibetan soldiers were trampled to death by horseshoes.
Still waiting for the investigation of the Chinese army, he felt that the situation was not right. He seemed to hear the Tibetan soldiers surrendering and rushed to the front battlefield.
It's too late, it's too late.
When they rushed to the battlefield with the army's investigation, the Ming army had already killed all the Tibetan soldiers, and the investigation could only see the red blood of the Tibetan soldiers, which stained the grass red.
The safflower is still safflower, and the green leaves become red leaves.
The battle was over. The battlefield was full of corpses and wounded soldiers. Lin Chengxiang was about to let the soldiers clean the battlefield.
"Military seat, Kemu is no more than fifteen miles away. If they don't rush to catch up to the besieged city, the Mongols and Tibetans may have to flee. If they escape from the city, it will not be easy to find them again."
"However, the soldiers have just gone through a decisive battle, where is the strength to run?" Lin Chengxiang also wanted to besiege the city, but there were no soldiers who participated in the battle, but thousands of them, obviously less.
"Military seat, let us cavalry be the vanguard, the cavalry is fast."
"Cavalry? The cavalry suffered the most in this battle. Brothers have a lot of casualties, right?" Lin Chengxiang's most distressed is the cavalry. The infantry did not fight melee, so there were no casualties.
"Military seat, let the wounded brother stay first. If there are no wounded or not seriously injured soldiers, rush to the siege first."
Lin Chengxiang can think about it. The distance of fifteen miles is less than a bag of cigarettes for the cavalry. Although the terrain here is a bit higher, the Yunnan soldiers originally lived on the plateau. Since the cavalry fought against the Mongols. Judging from the scenes, the terrain has little effect on them, "How many cavalry are still uninjured?"
After simple statistics, the number of uninjured cavalry is close to six thousand. Of course, some lightly wounded soldiers directly treat themselves as uninjured.
Six thousand cavalry, plus more than four thousand infantry mounted on unowned war horses, more than 10,000 Ming troops encircled Kemu first, Lin Chengxiang sent another five thousand infantry, and set off at the same time, the rest of the infantry must clean the battlefield and take care of the wounded. , The delivery of the baggage, can only start tomorrow.
At midday the next day, Lin Chengxiang arrived in Kemu with the rear army.
The former army had surrounded Kemu city on all sides. Because Kemu city was backed by the Angqu River, the Ming army’s heavy troops were concentrated on the east and north sides. The west and south sides faced the river and the terrain was narrow. The army could not be deployed. Only the Ming army cavalry. During the parade, the Mongolians and Tibetans in the city were guarded to escape from the chain bridge.
Seeing that victory was about to be achieved, Lin Chengxiang was not in a hurry. He asked the soldiers to eat first and then attack the city in the afternoon.
But the commander, brigade commander and group commanders couldn't wait. They just had lunch, and they all clamored to be pioneers.
Lin Chengxiang let the six thousand cavalry of the three divisions continue to patrol the west and south cities. The 60th division defended the north gate. The east gate was the widest. As the focus of the attack, the 58th Division was the main attacker, and the 59th Division was the main attacker. As a reserve force, entered the city after the 58th Division.
The only ten artillery pieces of the Twentieth Army were also concentrated outside the East City Gate.
"Boom... Long..."
"Boom... Long..."
"Boom... Long..."
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The artillery took the lead in the siege battle, and all ten artillery fired at the city gates or walls.
The defenders gathered at the head of the city suddenly disappeared, not knowing whether they died or ran away.
But after five rounds of bombardment, not only did the city wall remain motionless, but the city gate was not broken.
"Stop the artillery!" Since the flower shells can't penetrate the city wall, Lin Chengxiang didn't want to waste the flower shells. He stopped the artillery, "Could it be that Kemu is a strong city?"
"Military seat, this is the government of Dogan Dusi. The city was built by the Han people, and it is probably a strong city."
Lin Chengxiang shook his head and smiled bitterly. Since the city wall couldn't help, he had to make an idea at the city gate, "Kemo City does not have a moat. It is easier to enter the city gate hole. Can you think of a way to blow up the city gate?"
"Military seat, the Liaodong Army has the experience of blowing up city gates with a large number of grenades."
"Grenade? The Liaodong Army?" Lin Chengxiang remembered. He had studied the Liaodong Army's warfare in the military academy, and he did have such a case. "However, when the grenade explodes, the fuse must be removed. In such a short time, the fuse must be removed. How can soldiers escape to a safe area?"
"This..." Since it has not been used before, no one can tell. Finally, a soldier of Lin Chengxiang came up with a way: "Army, you don't need to remove the fuse, just fix the grenade on the city gate, and then bolt the fuse together. , Tie a long rope and lead it to the outside of the city gate. The soldiers will pull out the lead by pulling the rope from outside the city gate."
"Good idea!" Lin Chengxiang was overjoyed, "but there is a new problem, how to fix the grenade on the city gate, if the city gate is wooden, it's okay to say, if it is made of iron, it can't be fixed at all."
"The army seat, you don't need to fix it, just put the grenade in front of the city gate and hold it down with a big stone."
"That's it." Lin Chengxiang thought for a while, and found it feasible. Besides, he had no other way. If he couldn't do it once, he would come a few more times. Anyway, the city gate is a blind spot for the defenders. Soldiers are hiding there to work. It is very safe. .
The artillery fired again, and the current target was the city. Lin Chengxiang hoped to drive away the defenders at the head of the city. It would be best to kill them so that the soldiers could safely enter the city gate.
After two rounds of artillery bombardment, the gunmen of the Ming army came down to the city and fired randomly at the defenders who did not exist on the front of the city, as long as the defenders did not dare to show their heads.
Three soldiers carried a large number of grenades, and four soldiers used a food truck to transport a huge stone. When the defenders retracted into the city, they sneaked into the city gate.
The seven soldiers fiddled with the city gate for a long time. Lin Chengxiang was in a hurry. Just before he was about to send soldiers to check, the seven soldiers came out pushing the food truck. One of the soldiers was holding a long stick in the hand. Long rope.
"They finally came out."
The soldiers put the food truck to the right side of the gate hole, and when the six soldiers were far away from the gate hole, the seventh soldier pulled the rope hard.
When the rope was loosened, the soldier dropped the rope, turned his head and ran away.
"Boom..."
With the loud noise, the Ming soldiers who shook a hundred paces away were all tinnitus. Fortunately, they were far away and their ears quickly recovered their sense of hearing.
"How? Did the city gate explode?"
"Back to the army seat, the city gate was exploded, but it was just a small piece below. It turned out that the city gate was made of iron."
"It's only a small piece?" Lin Chengxiang thought for a while, "It's okay, let the soldiers bring iron rods and pry open the hole, as long as the soldiers can pass through, the fifty-eighth division is ready to enter the city."
The defenders at the gate of the city were either killed or stunned. After the Ming army entered the city, their fate was the same. The Ming army would never allow a living defender at the gate of the city.
The Fifty-Nine Division also entered the city. They divided into teams of varying numbers and began to respond to the Ming army entering the city from outside the city, chasing and killing the defenders inside the city.
Among the defenders in the city, the 10,000 soldiers of Lin Cong Tusi were annihilated by the Ming army outside Bangda and Kemu respectively. Tusi Dege was also annihilated by the Ming army outside the city by 5,000 soldiers, one of Tulu Baihu’s soldiers. Of the five thousand cavalry soldiers, only a thousand remnants of defeated generals remained, and they had completely lost their combat effectiveness. Only the chieftain of Dege had five thousand Tibetan soldiers left.
Five thousand Tibetan soldiers were quickly slaughtered in front of the 30,000 Ming army, but the Ming army did not know the number of the defenders in the city. After killing the five thousand defenders, they continued to pay in the city. Any suspected defenders Members of the army, whether they were Mongolians or Tibetans, would be massacred by the Ming army, and even Tulubaihu died in the rebellious army.
After the killing ceased, the Ming army began to search for property in the city, especially the temples and the hinterland of the two chief chieftains, which were turned upside down. Of course, because they were enemies of the Ming army, ordinary houses were also thoroughly searched by the Ming army. .
The Ming army executed the two chieftains Lin Cong and Dege, who had oppressed the Tibetans and Han people, as well as their families in public.
But the large number of Tibetans and Mongolians in the city gave Lin Chengxiang a headache.
In the entire Kemu area, there were originally more than 80,000 Tibetans, and the total number of Mongolians from the Heshuote tribe exceeded 140,000. After the arrival of the Ming army, most of these people hid in the city and are now at the disposal of the Ming army.
If all these people are killed, there will be many Tibetans outside the city. Once the information leaks out, the Ming army will definitely become the devil and monster in the eyes of the Tibetans in the future. It will be difficult to regain the hearts of the Tibetans. If they are allowed to regain their freedom, so many The Tibetans and Mongolians must contain a large number of troops in the Ming army. Lin Chengxiang wants to march west. It is impossible for him to leave a large number of soldiers here.
I don’t know when, a rumor spread in the city: the Ming army is extremely hostile to the Mongols and must be killed. Every Tibetan only needs to kill one Mongol, regardless of the old or weak women and children, he can get the Ming army. Forgiveness and restore freedom.