Chapter 233 The Daming soldiers who disappeared from the grassland are back!
Under Aliha's expectant gaze, Li Huan's expression was full of indifference, and he said lightly: "Did you know that just because your Huli tribe robbed the government's relief money and food, tens of thousands of people in Sui Dezhou were starving?
die……"
As if he had realized something, Aliha's expression changed greatly, and he shouted in horror: "No... no, if you want to blame it, it's all the fault of the Tang family. It was the Tang family who took the initiative to invite me to Hulibu.
It was they who opened the checkpoint for us, and assisted my Hulibu to ambush the Ming Dynasty's grain transport team. All of this was led by the Tang family, and I, the Hulibu, can only be said to be an accomplice..."
Li Huan couldn't help but sneered when he heard Aliha's explanation.
At the same time, Tang Dingwei on the side said to Aliha, "Aliha, my Tang family was exterminated because of your Huli tribe. This can be regarded as atonement for the sins my Tang family has committed before. You Huli tribe
The inner part cannot escape destruction either."
Just looking at Tang Dingwei's calm look, Aliha couldn't help but roared at Tang Dingwei: "Damn it, you Tang family dare to betray your friends, Changshengtian will not let you go."
As if he realized that begging for mercy was of no use to Li Huan, Aliha no longer looked groveling, but stared at Li Huan fiercely and said: "My Lord Imperial Envoy, if you destroy my Hulibu, I, Tatar
The Dayan Khan of the tribe will definitely seek justice for my Huli tribe."
As he spoke, Aliha said coldly to Li Huan and others: "At that time, I, Tatar, will make you pay a heavy price for your actions today."
Doggert, who was standing next to Aliha, bared his teeth at Li Huan like a little wolf cub, holding the scimitar in his hand tightly, as if he would pounce on Li Huan at any time.
Aliha's eyes fell on Dogirt, with a look of regret in his eyes. His son would definitely become the number one warrior in the tribe in the future, but it was a pity that he would never have the chance again.
The entire Huli tribe, tens of thousands of people, was completely plunged into chaos at this moment.
Thousands of Ming Dynasty elite cavalry hunted and killed these Huli tribesmen throughout the tribe like wolves and tigers.
It can be said that these soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who live in border towns hate the alien races on the grassland the most.
Most of these soldiers of the Ming Dynasty came from the border towns. For so many years, the Tatars invaded the Central Plains all year round. It can be said that they caused great harm to the people in the border towns. I don’t know how many soldiers in the border towns were enemies of the Tatars.
Deep as the sea.
Now that they have the opportunity to take revenge on the Tatars, you can imagine what kind of power these soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will unleash.
Many Huli warriors were often besieged by several soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. Even if they had extraordinary strength, they could not defeat four people with just one fist.
As a large number of tribesmen in the Huli tribe were killed, the cries of killing all around gradually weakened a lot.
Just hearing the weakened shouts of killing, Li Huan, Yang Yiqing and others knew that the Huli tribe's resistance might not last long.
Aliha's face was heavy, and there was a hint of pain and despair in his eyes.
From the time a group of soldiers from the Ming Dynasty entered the Hulibe camp, it only took less than an hour until the Hulibe resistance was suppressed.
At this time, there were very few standing Huli tribesmen in the entire Huli tribe. At a glance, there were corpses lying on the ground. It can be said that there were fallen corpses everywhere, and almost 90% of them were from the Huli tribe.
There is only one human corpse out of ten that truly belongs to the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
After all, during the surprise attack, the Huli tribe had almost no defense and was caught off guard. It would be strange if the Ming side still suffered heavy losses.
Not long after, I saw a guerrilla general escorting several Huli leaders who were obviously dressed in luxurious clothes.
These Huli tribe leaders are all nobles of the Huli tribe. Like Aliha, the patriarch of the Huli tribe, they belong to the ruling class of the entire Huli tribe.
In the past, these leaders were aloof beings in Hulibu, enjoying the service of their slaves, but now they all looked extremely embarrassed, staggering over under the escort of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
The guerrilla general bowed to Yang Yiqing and Li Huan and said: "The general will pay homage to the imperial envoy and the governor. These are the captured leaders of the Huli tribe."
If they were ordinary Huli tribesmen, they would just kill them. But for the leaders and nobles of these Tatar tribes, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty chose to capture them more often.
Even the soldiers at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty knew that if these Tatar nobles could be captured and presented to the court as prisoners, the adults in the court would definitely be very happy. It can be said that they are definitely the best.
of military exploits.
Several leaders were pushed over. When they saw Aliha and his son being captured alive, the faces of the leaders showed such expressions.
However, these leaders seemed quite calm and not too panicked, as if they had some confidence.
These leaders just glanced at Aliha and his son, then stepped forward to Li Huan, and Yang Yiqing saluted: "We will see the Great Angel of Heaven."
Li Huan just glanced at the leaders lightly, and then said to the guerrilla general: "Have all the people in Huli been killed?"
As soon as Li Huan said these words, Aliha and the leaders felt a sudden change in their hearts. Compared with Aliha, who had already seen Li Huan's indifference, those leaders opened their eyes wide and looked at Li Huan in disbelief.
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After all, these leaders thought just like Aliha, thinking that Li Huan would definitely capture them after breaking their Huli tribe, and then take them to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to present prisoners for military merit.
And if these people are escorted to the capital, even though they are prisoners, as long as they meet the Emperor of Tomorrow, stay humble and flatter him, maybe the Emperor of Tomorrow will forgive them.
They met once.
But now listening to Li Huan's intention, it seems that he wants to kill all their tribes.
The guerrilla general heard this and said hurriedly: "Returning to the imperial envoy, my brothers are currently clearing out the entire Huli camp. Except for more than a thousand prisoners, all the others have been killed."
As he said this, the guerrilla general looked at Li Huan secretly and whispered: "These prisoners surrendered voluntarily and begged for mercy. We only temporarily captured them and did not kill them."
Li Huan nodded slightly when he heard this.
After another cup of tea, the entire Huli tribe station fell into silence, except for the permeating smell of blood.
At this time, Du Guang, Chen Yao and other Jin Yiwei strode over covered in blood.
As they approached, Chen Yao stepped forward and saluted Li Huan: "Sir, there are a total of 13,842 people in Huli, 3,230 were captured alive, and more than 1,200 were dead.
, there are still three to four hundred people left."
In a short period of time, Jin Yiwei was able to calculate such results, and the efficiency was truly astonishing.
Li Huan couldn't help but frown. Even though it was a surprise attack, it was impossible for everyone in the huge Huli to stay there and wait to be killed. There would definitely be many people fleeing.
However, Li Huan had been prepared for this before and sent hundreds of people around to intercept the fleeing Huli tribesmen in order to annihilate the entire Huli tribe as much as possible.
Now listening to Chen Yao's words, there are still three to four hundred people missing in Huli.
Aliha on the side had originally heard that almost all of his clan members were dead or injured, but suddenly he heard that hundreds of people had escaped death, and he couldn't help laughing.
"Okay, okay, God will not destroy my Huli tribe. Just wait. The people of my Huli tribe will definitely bring the news that you people massacred my Huli tribe to Dayan Khan. Dayan Khan will definitely
I will mobilize all my troops to avenge my Huli tribe."
As he spoke, Aliha stared at Li Huan and sneered: "You imperial envoy, just wait for the Emperor of Heaven to chop off your head to appease the anger of my Khan."
Yang Yiqing and other officials couldn't help but frown when they heard this. Yang Yiqing even looked at Li Huan with a worried look.
Yang Yiqing had previously persuaded Li Huan that the attack on the Huli tribe could indeed avenge the people of Suidezhou, but if he was not careful, it might also trigger a war between the Tatar tribe and the Ming Dynasty.
A Tatar tribe was bloodbathed by the Ming Dynasty. Given the temperament of the extremely powerful Dayan Khan of the Tatar tribe, it would be strange if the other party did not lead an army to seek an explanation from the Ming Dynasty.
It's just that Yang Yiqing was persuaded by Li Huan before, but this does not mean that Yang Yiqing does not understand the consequences of destroying a Tatar tribe.
Yang Yiqing was really worried about how Li Huan would deal with the questions from the Gong Gongs in the court after he returned to Beijing, or in other words, how he would deal with the pressure brought by the Tatars.
But if the emperor or the Gonggun princes in the court cannot withstand the pressure from the Tatars, it may not be impossible to hand over Li Huan at that time, giving the Tatars a chance to explain.
Perhaps by then, even the governors of the three sides may be abandoned by the Gongun princes above the court to appease the anger of the Tatars.
Li Huan just glanced at Aliha and chuckled: "I'm afraid I will disappoint you. If Dayan Khan dares to invade the border of our Ming Dynasty, our Ming Dynasty will definitely let him know what the inviolability of the Ming Dynasty means."
Hearing this, Aliha seemed to have heard some big joke, and said with disdain: "It's ridiculous, it's really ridiculous. If your Ming Dynasty really has such strength, how could you take advantage of me, the Tatars, to invade the border many times without any trace of it?"
method."
Aliha said with a bit of contempt: "In the battle of Tumubao, your Ming Dynasty exposed its own weakness, and even its own emperor became a prisoner. It is simply an eternal joke. Since then, you
Can the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty step out of the Great Wall on a large scale?"
I have to say that Aliha is truly worthy of being the clan leader of the Huli tribe. Not to mention other things, his eloquence and knowledge alone are really not comparable to ordinary people.
Yang Yiqing and others on the side listened to Aliha's words, and their expressions became solemn.
Li Huan, on the other hand, looked at Aliha and said, "If you don't believe it, I will let you live to see the day when my soldiers from the Ming Dynasty return to the grassland and chase you and other grassland aliens for thousands of miles."
Aliha was stunned when he heard this, and looked at Li Huan's calm eyes. For some reason, Aliha felt a little nervous and worried in his heart.
Li Huan's reaction was so calm. That kind of calmness gave people a sense of belief in what he said, as if what Li Huan said would definitely come true.
At this moment, Li Huan looked at Chen Yao, and Du Guang and others glanced at each other and said: "A few hundred people are missing, just a few hundred people are missing. Compared with the results of this battle, it is not unacceptable to escape a few hundred people."
However, Chen Yao hesitated for a moment and said: "Sir, one of the people who escaped is Aliha's son, Solnit, who is also one of the Tatar leaders who joined the invaders with Ali in the previous period."
Li Huan raised his eyebrows and looked at Aliha.
When Aliha heard this, his face showed surprise. Then he thought of something and couldn't help but said: "Haha, I didn't expect that my son escaped death when I sent Solnit to lead people to the north to defend the Black River tribe."
It turned out that Solnit was ordered to lead people to guard against the Heihe tribe, but he was not among the tribe. Therefore, when the Huli tribe was attacked, hundreds of the Huli tribe members under Solnit saw that the situation was bad and surrounded Solnit and fled into the prairie.
It is conceivable that in that case, even if the Ming Dynasty discovered Solnit and others, it would be difficult to catch up with these people living on the grassland, which allowed Solnit and hundreds of people to escape.
Li Huan understood what was going on and nodded slightly.
The previous guerrilla general said to Li Huan: "Master Imperial Envoy, what should we do with these Tatar prisoners? Should we immediately send someone to escort them into the Great Wall to prevent the surrounding Tatar tribes from hearing the news and chasing after them..."
If they really wiped out all the Hulibe, then that would be fine, but in a tribe of tens of thousands, even if Sonite and others did not escape, there would still be others, no matter how many.
Once these people escape, they will definitely bring the news of the Ming Dynasty's raid on Hulibu to other Tatar tribes.
At that time, the surrounding Tatar tribes may not lead their troops to pursue them.
A cold light flashed in Li Huan's eyes and he said: "Send me an order to order all the soldiers to immediately collect the cattle, sheep, good horses and other property that can be taken away from the Huli Department."
As he spoke, Li Huan glanced at Aliha and the captured leaders, and sneered: "All the other captured Huli tribesmen will be beheaded."
"What……"
I thought that Li Huan would take the thousands of captured tribesmen back to the Ming Dynasty as prisoners. Although they became prisoners, Aliha and the leaders believed that one day, Dayan Khan would personally lead an army to suppress the Ming Dynasty.
Ming Dynasty will definitely put them back on the grassland.
But now Li Huan actually ordered the massacre of all of them, including the thousands of captured people.
"Madman, you madman, aren't you a country of Chinese etiquette and the most particular about benevolence and filial piety..."
After listening to Li Huan's order, the guerrilla general subconsciously accepted the order, but he quickly reacted and suddenly raised his head and looked at Li Huan with horror.
Apparently Li Huan's order to massacre the Tatars shocked the guerrilla general.
The guerrilla general subconsciously looked at Yang Yiqing, the governor of the three sides.
Yang Yiqing noticed the gaze of the guerrilla general, and there was no expression on his face.
Li Huan noticed the reaction of the guerrilla general and said, "Why, does General Li Wu have any different opinions?"
Seeing that Yang Yiqing, the governor of the three sides, had no intention of objecting. Li Wu was just a guerrilla general. How could he dare to question the order of Li Huan, the imperial envoy?
For some reason, Li Wu felt an inexplicable excitement in his heart, and the hand on the handle of the knife at his waist was trembling slightly.
Li Wu took a deep breath, turned around, and strode away into the distance.
Standing here, you can see that just over a hundred feet away, a group of surviving Tatars are surrounded by thousands of Ming elites in great panic.
Many Tatars were comforting the people around them. Although the elite soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty around them were very cruel, many of their relatives had died under the swords of the Ming Dynasty soldiers not long ago.
But now many of them believed that as they were captured, Ming Dynasty would not kill them again according to its long-standing practice.
Therefore, many Tatars felt relieved, and even kept comforting the tribesmen around them, telling these tribesmen that the Ming Dynasty would not kill them again.
At this time, the burly body of guerrilla general Li Wu came over, and many Ming soldiers turned their attention to Li Wu.
Then I heard Li Wu's luck in Dantian, and he shouted in a deep voice: "The imperial envoy ordered that all the Tatars be slaughtered immediately, leaving no one alive. In addition, all the Tatars' cattle, sheep, war horses and other property will be confiscated."
Li Wu's shout sounded like thunder, and all Ming soldiers within a radius of several hundred feet could hear it clearly.
Many generals were stunned when they heard this, and then they reacted. Some generals showed excitement in their eyes, and when their eyes fell on the surrounded Tatars, their murderous intent was fully revealed.
"Hahaha, the imperial envoy's order is so in line with our wishes. All these Tatars should be slaughtered. The Huli tribe has invaded the pass many times over the years. I am afraid that all the people who were harmed by the Huli tribe will be killed."
There are no less than tens of thousands of people."
Some soldiers couldn't help shouting excitedly.
Soon, word spread about Li Huan's order to massacre all Tatars, and thousands of Ming elite soldiers couldn't help but shout.
"Kill, kill, kill!"
As the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty around them shouted, a murderous aura rushed towards their faces, and the Tatars surrounded in the middle were so frightened by this murderous intention that their expressions changed drastically.
Most of the Tatars could not understand the official dialect of the Ming Dynasty. Most of these Tatars looked at the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were looking at them with murderous intent in fear and confusion.
The murderous intent in the eyes of these Ming soldiers made their hearts throb.
Naturally, some of the Tatars could understand the words of the Ming Dynasty soldiers. When they heard the Ming Dynasty soldiers shouting to kill, their expressions changed drastically.
"Impossible, this is impossible, haven't we already become prisoners? How could Ming suddenly kill prisoners!"
"No!"
I heard the guerrilla general Li Wu shout loudly: "Soldiers, kill me!"
Immediately following Li Wu's shout, all the soldiers around him shouted in unison.
Arrows fell like rain, while at the same time the horses galloped and spears pierced out like a forest.
These Tatars had already abandoned their weapons and given up resistance. Now facing the murderous Ming soldiers, they naturally had no power to resist.
Aliha and other captured Huli tribe leaders saw this scene with their own eyes, and their eyes were all red. You must know that these are their tribesmen, and there are even their relatives among them.
"ah!"
Suddenly, a small figure rushed toward Li Huan, who could it be if it wasn't Dorjet.
But just as the small figure jumped up, a sneer was heard the next moment, and a long knife slashed down, followed by a shrill scream.
At some point, Yue Buqun stepped out in front of Doggert and slashed down with his sword, cutting Doggert in half.
Doggert's body fell to the ground with a thud, and the body that was broken into two parts twisted and twitched on the ground, and soon became silent.
Aliha looked at this scene and couldn't help but take a few steps back in shock, then fell to the ground with a thud.
Seeing Aliha's reaction in the eyes of everyone, everyone showed a bit of disdain.
After almost a stick of incense, as the screams and shouts of death gradually disappeared, the guerrilla general Li Wu, covered in blood, strode over. The evil aura on his body had not completely dissipated, and he walked towards the captured prisoners.
When the head of the pot is next to someone.
The Huli leaders were so frightened by the evil aura on Li Wu that they backed away and looked at Li Wu in horror.
Li Wu just glanced at a few people. If Li Huan hadn't ordered the killing of these people, Li Wu would have definitely chopped off the heads of these people with his sword.
When Li Huan approached, Li Wu respectfully said loudly to Li Huan: "Sir, all the Tatars have been strangled, and no one is left alive."
Li Huan nodded slightly, looked at the fallen corpses in the distance, thought for a while and said: "Let everyone collect the cattle, sheep, war horses and other items in the pot as soon as possible. We should go back."
As the Ming Dynasty's soldiers no longer set foot on the grassland, the grassland has become the territory of the Tatars. There are several Tatar tribes entrenched nearby.
The strength of these Tatar tribes is not much different from that of Hulibe. He seemed to have easily slaughtered Hulibe, but this does not mean that the Tatars on the grassland are really that easy to deal with.
After all, their attack on Hulibu was largely due to a surprise attack. In addition, Hulibu was completely unprepared, so they were easily crushed and killed.
Hulibu had escaped with Solnit and hundreds of others. Li Huan could have guessed that Solnit must have gone to fetch reinforcements at this moment.
In Solnit's view, even if the Ming Dynasty defeated the Huli tribe, it would only return south to the Central Plains with the spoils of war and the captured Tatars.
And as long as he can move the reinforcements fast enough, he will definitely be able to rescue some of the tribesmen.
Therefore, there is not much time left for Li Huan and the others.
If they really have to wait until several Tatar tribes jointly send troops, what they will face then is a Tatar army that is well prepared, at least tens of thousands of people.
Of course, with the thousands of elite Ming cavalry brought by Li Huan, they would not be at a disadvantage even if they faced the Tatar troops.
But in Li Huan's view, since he had achieved his goal, harvested the wealth of Hulibu, and received such great benefits, it was natural to run away as soon as possible.
Otherwise, once the Tatar reinforcements catch up, not to mention the tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, good horses and other wealth in Huli, even if the two sides fight, the Ming soldiers who followed him out of the border will also have
It is unknown how many people died.
When Yang Yiqing saw that Li Huan could still remain sober under such circumstances and was not lost in the great situation in front of him, Yang Yiqing couldn't help but nodded slightly, with a slight smile on his lips.
At this moment, Li Huan seemed to feel Yang Yiqing's gaze, and he slightly cupped his hands towards Yang Yiqing and said, "I wonder if Mr. Yang has anything else to add?"
Yang Yiqing smiled slightly and said: "I thought I would send out sentries as soon as possible to inspect all movements within a radius of twenty miles."
Li Huan nodded and said to Chen Yao: "Chen Yao, immediately dispatch a group of elite sentries from the Jinyi Guards and the army to spy out. Be sure to monitor all the disturbances around you. If there is any abnormality, report it immediately."
Chen Yaosu said in a loud voice: "My subordinates take orders."
There were only about a hundred people around Solnit at this time. Originally there were about 300 people around Solnit. However, after escaping a wave of pursuit from Daming, Solnit immediately sent several teams of people to several other places adjacent to Huli.
The Tatar tribe asked for help.
Sonit himself led hundreds of people straight to the Black River tribe.
The Heihe tribe is almost dozens of miles away from the Huli tribe, and the pastures of the two sides are nearly a hundred miles apart. It is precisely because of this that the Heihe tribe and the Huli tribe have been fighting openly and secretly.
On the edge of a stream, looking from a distance, you can see tents here and there among the prairie, and countless Tatars herding sheep and horses nearby.
This tribal gathering place is the Heihe tribe closest to Huli.
The leader of the Heihe tribe, Saren Bat'er, is a strong man in his thirties. At this time, Saren Bat'er is wrestling with a strong ox, surrounded by a circle of warriors from the Heihe tribe.
Amid the shouts of the Heihe tribesmen, Sarenbaat'er shouted loudly, and his red upper body muscles suddenly stiffened, and a terrifying force suddenly came out. The ox weighing hundreds of kilograms was actually beaten by Sarenbaat'er.
It was blown away.
"Moo..."
The ox that fell heavily to the ground let out a shrill scream, while Sarenbaat'er stepped forward, roared, grabbed the two front legs of the ox with both hands, picked it up, and then smashed it to the ground.
, this time, the scalper completely made no sound.
"Ouch..."
When the surrounding Heihe tribesmen saw this situation, they immediately shouted loudly, cheering for the bravery shown by Sarenbaat'er.
At this moment, a rapid sound of horse hooves came.
Sarenbaat'er's strength was astonishing. He immediately heard the sound of horse hooves, and following the sound, he saw a warrior from the tribe galloping towards him.
"Amudan, what are you..."
Sarenbaat'er looked at his closest men in surprise.
Amudan reflexively dismounted, bowed to Sarenbaat'er and said, "Leader, it's not going well. Solnit is bringing people here to ask for help."
Sarenbaat'er was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then said with a somewhat amused look: "Amudan, you have been deceived, right? Who doesn't know that there are powerful guys in the Huli tribe who are more powerful than our Heihe tribe?"
To be so strong, among the several tribes within a radius of hundreds of miles, who can be their opponent in Huli."
Obviously Sarenbaat'er did not believe that Solnit, one of the heirs of the Huli tribe, would bring people to ask for help.
Hearing this, Amudan said: "It's the Ming army. The Ming army has left the border. Huli is being targeted by the Ming army!"
"What!"
Sarenbaat'er was shocked. He looked at Amudan, his face changed, and he didn't know what he thought of. He shouted loudly: "Blow the horn to summon the tribe to gather troops."
Following Sarenbaat'er's order, a desolate horn sounded, and the entire Heihe tribe gathering place was immediately excited. A large number of strong tribesmen put down their work, brought their scimitars, bows and arrows, and mounted their war horses.
They all gathered towards the place where the horn sounded.
At this time, Sarenbaatar and Amudan also saw Sonit, who looked slightly embarrassed.
When Solnit saw Sarenbaat'er, he opened his mouth and said: "Sarenbaat'er, the Ming army is here. Changshengtian is above. You and I must put aside our past grievances and ask the leader of Sarenbaat'er to send troops to save my Huli tribe.
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Sarenbaat'er frowned and looked at Solnit and said: "Solnit, you can't be mistaken, right? The Ming army has not set foot on the grassland for many years, how could it suddenly send troops?"
Even now, Sarenbaat'er does not fully believe what Sonit said. Sarenbaat'er would rather believe that Sonit deliberately used this method to plot against his Heihe tribe than believe that the Ming army entered the grassland.
After all, the Ming army has not entered the grasslands on a large scale for nearly a hundred years. If they can force the Huli tribe to ask for help, the Ming Dynasty will have to dispatch at least nearly 10,000 elite troops.
After hearing this, Solnit couldn't help but said anxiously: "I don't know why the Ming army came. Anyway, when I got the news, the Ming army had already entered our Hulibu station. Now I don't know what happened to Abu and the others!"
Thinking of the unknown life and death of his tribe members, and what happened to his father and brothers now, Solnit's eyes were full of worry.
Seeing the change in Solnit's expression, Sarenbater looked at Solnit hesitantly.
Seeing the change in Saren Bater's expression, Solnit dismounted his horse, knelt down directly in front of Saren Bater and said: "Leader Saren Bater, I, Sonit, beg you to send troops to save my Hulibu. I am willing to follow the army.
As a pledge, if I deceive the leader, the leader can order my head to be chopped off."
Sarenbaat'er took a deep breath, glanced at Solnit and said: "Hmph, if you dare to lie to me, I will definitely chop off your head and sacrifice it to the Immortal Heaven."
While talking, Saren Bat'er shouted: "Send the order, follow me to Hulibu."
The same situation occurred among several other Tatar tribes.
These Tatar tribal leaders did not really believe that the Ming army came out to attack Hulibu. However, some tribes responded in the same way as Sarenbaatar and were willing to lead their troops to Hulibu to have a look. There were also tribes who directly expressed
Unwilling to send troops.
There were five or six surrounding tribes, and three tribes finally sent troops. Together, these three tribes mobilized at least tens of thousands of elite tribesmen, which was almost equivalent to the number of troops that a Tatar household of ten thousand could mobilize.
More than 4,000 elite members of the Heihe tribe were galloping on the grassland, roaring straight towards the Hulibe station.
At the same time, hundreds of soldiers who were good at herding sheep and horses were driving the masses of cattle and sheep with smiles on their faces, and the horses set off southward first.
The dozens of carts that were originally disguised to deceive Hulibu were now filled with furs and other precious specialties from the grasslands.
After all, Hulibu is a medium-sized tribe with tens of thousands of people. Such a tribe has many furs, medicinal materials, or other precious things.
Even hundreds of thousands of taels of gold and silver were found inside the pot, as well as tens of thousands of shi of grain that had been robbed not long ago.
Another wave of people escorted these belongings away.
Li Huan, Yang Yiqing and others watched the convoy disappear into the distance, and behind them was a dense mass of people.
There are almost more than 5,000 soldiers left among them, but the number of war horses is very astonishing. Not counting the mounts of the Ming soldiers themselves, there are more than 10,000 good war horses captured from Hulibu alone.
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These are tens of thousands of war horses. Although many of them are foals that have not yet reached adulthood, foals are also horses. These tens of thousands of war horses are definitely an astonishing trophy.
For the Ming Dynasty, although there is no shortage of war horses, these are war horses carefully bred by Hulibu, and they are by no means comparable to the horses bred under the Ming Dynasty's Ma Zheng, which was almost harmful to the people.
When he learned that there were tens of thousands of war horses in the Huli, not only Li Huan but also the calm-minded Yang Yiqing couldn't help but marvel at them, with faces full of joy.
At this time, Yang Yiqing looked at the black war horses, his eyes full of surprise, but despite the surprise, he also said to Li Huan with a bit of solemnity: "Master Li, there must be no problem with these tens of thousands of horses. Please arrange for help immediately."
Escort this group of war horses into the customs, even if it costs you some money, you must bring these war horses back to our Ming Dynasty."
Yang Yiqing is the governor of the three sides, and no one knows better than him that once these war horses are transported back to the Ming Dynasty, even if only a part of them is left to the three sides, it will greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the soldiers on the three sides.
Apart from anything else, Yang Yiqing felt that he could definitely bring out thousands more elite cavalry.
Li Huan nodded with a smile and said: "Governor Lao Yang personally led people to escort these horses back."
Yang Yiqing couldn't help being stunned when he heard this, and said subconsciously: "My lord, won't you go back with me?"
However, Yang Yiqing soon realized what he was doing, and his expression changed: "Sir, you don't want to stay in person and lead people to stop the Tatars' pursuit, do you?"
A flash of light flashed in Li Huan's eyes: "Once the Tatars get the news, they will never let us go back with so many trophies, so if we want to keep the benefits gained from this battle, we must
Someone needs to stay to stop the Tatars."
Yang Yiqing took a deep breath, looked at Li Huan and said: "Xiaguan is the governor of the three sides. Let Xiaguan stay to stop the Tatar pursuit. Your Excellency, you can take these horses back."
Li Huan shook his head and chuckled: "Governor Yang doesn't have to fight with Li. There are so many cattle, sheep, war horses and other trophies that Governor Yang needs to go back to deal with. Besides, will the Tatars continue to pursue and even invade the border? If
If the Tatars really invade the border, then Governor Yang, as the governor of the three borders, no one is more suitable than Governor Yang to go back and take charge of the three borders."
As he spoke, Li Huan looked at Yang Yiqing solemnly and said solemnly: "I hope Governor Yang will put the overall situation first, and Li will lead four thousand elite cavalry to stay to stop the Tatars, but it is enough."