"Are they the same as the ones here, all Mongolian Tatars?"
"I don't know, it seems like it should be!"
In Kaizhou City, it has been a full day since the entire city of Kaizhou was captured. Nowadays, Kaizhou City is filled with joy everywhere. The people who have suffered from the poison of the Tartars will
All the harm done to them by the captives these days has been repaid twice as much.
There was no longer a living Tatar outside the city. Not to mention the defeated soldiers who were blocked by Cao Bianjiao outside the city. They finally left some survivors, but they were "accidentally" killed by the soldiers.
Killed.
Living Tatars are nothing, dead Tatars are military merits. Even if the heads of Mongolian Tatars are not as valuable as those of Houjin Tatars, mosquitoes, no matter how small they are, are still meat, and they cannot be raised with food.
They can't.
If the people in the Military Intelligence Department were not very quick, I am afraid that after the battle was over, they would not even be able to find a few prisoners to ask for confessions.
Many of the enemies who were defeated by Cao Wenzhao in the city and did not have time to escape from the city were hiding in the city. However, no matter how careful they were in hiding, how could they escape from the people in the city who wanted to retaliate against them?
common people.
These Tatars were rounded up one by one, and their fate was worse than that of their comrades outside the city. No matter how the Tatars died outside the city, they were given a happy life by the Ming army, but inside
These guys are miserable.
Some were stoned to death, some hid in the house and were burned alive, and others were drowned and thrown to death. There were all kinds of ways to die. In short, these people had been killed
The red-eyed people had only one thought in their hearts: they wanted to make these things, inferior to beasts, die a good death.
The Ming army basically did not take any action. Apart from protecting the people from being counterattacked by these Tatars, most of the people even took advantage of this opportunity to rest for a full day.
The Ming army suffered no more than 200 casualties in this battle, most of which were lost in close combat with the Tartars. More than 2,000 Tartars were wiped out. The battle loss ratio was 1 to 10, and they won a complete victory.
To describe it is definitely not an exaggeration.
This was also because of Cao Wenzhao's fighting style. This battle would have to be fought by Zhouzhuang generals who were familiar with Jiang Wan's tactics, and even by Li Zicheng's northwest generals. In fact, even two hundred people probably wouldn't have to be lost.
Since the opponent has no heavy firearms and no support from solid city defenses, artillery advances, fire cannons are used to attack the enemy, and finally sword and shield men clean up the battlefield. The losses are probably even less.
However, Cao Wenzhao obviously felt that this method of fighting was too unpleasant and wasted too much time. People said that the Tatars were preparing to massacre the city. If he continued to fight slowly, by the time the battle was over, all the people in the city would be dead.
Well, then wasn’t this battle in vain?
In short, Cao Wenzhao believed that his handling of the situation was very correct, and he planned to continue to carry forward this correct handling.
"Otherwise, let's just do it again and seize Yaozhou too before the Tatars in Yaozhou get the news!"
Cao Wenzhao said to his nephew thoughtfully: "Unfortunately, Cheng Rui from the Military Intelligence Department has gone back to Zhenjiang Fort to report military intelligence. We don't know the situation there!"
"Uncle, uncle!" Cao Bianjiao was not surprised at all that his uncle had such an idea; "Let's agree first. If you really want to attack Yaozhou, you really have to wait for our artillery team to arrive before starting the attack this time. How far away is that?
Liaoyang is only a few dozen miles away. Once the fighting starts, you can't capture the opponent quickly. When reinforcements from Liaoyang arrive, the artillery team can still cover your retreat!"
"Who are you looking down on? Little bastard!"
Cao Wenzhao raised his eyebrows and glared at his nephew unhappily: "When did your uncle and I retreat from the war? Let me tell you, for those of us who are in the army, I'm afraid the word "coward" means the more cowardly we are.
People, the sooner you die, as long as you are not afraid of death, swords, guns and arrows will avoid you!"
"Can cannonballs and musket projectiles also hide and move away?"
Cao Bianjiao rolled his eyes: "Uncle, that was a thing of the past. We have been out of date a long time ago. Now our Liaodong Division relies on cannons and muskets. Otherwise, why would our Marshal Jiang work so hard to build so many firearms?
I heard that the Tatars also have firearms, can we, a little, I mean a little, just a little less brave!"
"The firearms of the Tatars are nothing. They are inferior to the firearms made by the corrupt officials in Beijing, let alone the firearms of our Tieshan!"
Cao Wenzhao shook his head and sighed: "You said that at that time, if Governor Yuan's subordinates had so many firearms for the brothers, the fighting in Beijing would not be like that, hey..."
"Uncle, be careful what you say!" Cao Bianjiao glanced around and said in a low voice: "Don't say this nonsense. You may not know when the corner of the corner will be like a person from the Military Intelligence Department. We are now from the Liaodong Dusi.
Marshal Jiang’s soldiers, please don’t talk about what happened in the past all the time!”
"Shuai Jiang is a good person!" Cao Wenzhao nodded and agreed with his nephew's statement: "He is a ruthless man. Anyway, in my eyes, Lao Cao, he can defeat the Tatars, and he can even defeat the Tatars.
Those who make the Tatars fearful are ruthless people, and we are not aggrieved by being under his command!"
"So, let's just stay here and wait for Yao Shuai's reinforcements!" Cao Bianjiao said: "When the news reaches Yaozhou, Yao Shuai's reinforcements should arrive. Even if we finish our errands, we can go back to collect the reward.
!”
Cao Wenzhao thought for a while, but shook his head: "No, I think we still can't miss this opportunity. Otherwise, I will leave half of the men for you, half of the gunners, and the entire artillery team. I will lead
Grab the remaining people and set off for Yaozhou in the afternoon!"
"Uncle, this is rashness!"
"Don't worry, I'm fierce, not stupid!" Cao Wenzhao glanced at his nephew: "If we leave in the afternoon, we can probably reach Yaozhou before dawn tomorrow. Didn't we capture a lot of horses?
, Anyway, we have quite a few of these war horses, and we won’t feel bad if we are exhausted. One horse can take two or three people, and we can definitely reach Yaozhou in about ten hours!”
"When we get to Yaozhou City, I will take a look at the situation. If Yaozhou is similar to this place and is a bunch of trash that can collapse in one attack, then of course I will not be polite. If Yaozhou is well prepared and heavily guarded, you will not
I think I will take my hundreds of thousands of brothers to attack the city!"
"You're not attacking the city, you're seeking death!" Cao Bianjiao snorted: "I don't want to pay you tribute yet. Even if you want to die, you have to wait until I marry a wife and have a son, and then our Cao family will have one.
die!"
"I'll beat you to death!" Cao Wenzhao raised his palm and tried to hit him. Cao Bianjiu slapped his neck, but he didn't avoid it as usual. He even raised his chin and looked at his uncle unconvinced.
"Okay!" Cao Wenzhao sighed and put down his slap: "I promise you that I will not seek death, okay? You look dejected, why don't you go prepare a war horse for me! There are no outsiders here, you are acting like this
Show it to someone!"
"Whether we fight or not, you have to live!" Cao Bianjiao said seriously: "Uncle, there is no suspense for our Liaodong Division to capture Yaozhou and Liaoyang. If you die trying to grab credit, I will live in front of everyone for the rest of my life.
We can’t even start talking about it!”
"Okay, I got it, I got it!" Cao Wenzhao waved his hand, "Go quickly, go quickly!"
Cao Bianjiao then stood up and walked outside to deploy troops and horses. Cao Wenzhao looked at his nephew who was like his own son and muttered something: "...It's so long-winded. People who know will know that you are my nephew."
, people who don’t know, think you are my mother! Mother-in-law, you really don’t look like a soldier!”