Among them, Xue Hong's troops were the fastest moving, reaching Liaodong Town in just one day.
After half a day's rest, Xue Hong led his troops straight to the hinterland of Houjin!
Xue Hong ordered to bring only three days' worth of food and grass, and the rest... of course would depend on enemy support!
Transporting food is so laborious, it's a waste of time, there's no need to grab it... ahem, it's so fast to get local materials!
On the first day after entering the hinterland of Houjin, Xue Hong even took away a lot of cattle, sheep and horses.
The soldiers all ate with mouths full of oil. It can be said that the food was great, all freshly grilled meat!
Moreover, Xue Hong ordered the soldiers to select strong horses in Houjin's horse farm, and strive to have four horses per man, with captured dried meat on the horses.
Xue Hong is going to lead these ten thousand people, bypassing several important Houjin towns, and go straight to the capital of Houjin! When the main force of Houjin comes out of the nest to fight with the main force of Ming Dynasty, he will take the opportunity to capture the capital of Houjin and launch an ultimate sneak attack!
But what Xue Hong didn't expect during this trip was that a surprise would come to his door.
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In the Houjin Palace, the Duke of the Romanov dynasty, Pyotr Lashsky, was chatting with Ji's daughter.
Ji's daughter cried so hard that it aroused Peter's animal desires.
After three sticks of incense, Peter walked out of the room with a satisfied look on his face and met Ji.
Peter looked happy: "Dear Ji, your daughter is really... very smooth. I am so happy."
Without any expression, he said calmly: "Grand Duke Peter, I have something serious to tell you, come with me."
The two came to the main hall and took their seats one by one.
Ji was the first to speak: "I feel that the Grand Duke and His Majesty the King are not sincere."
Peter looked confused: "No, no, no, my dear Ji. I have brought a full 50,000 people, as well as 20,000 young troops mobilized by my king. The number is already large enough."
Ji: "No, I'm not talking about the number of people, but their weapons!"
Peter looked confused: "Is there anything wrong with the weapon?"
Most of the weapons Romanov uses now are cold weapons, and a small part of them are long-barreled muskets that use a small stick to poke projectiles in from the front.
In the middle of his anger, he suddenly slapped his forehead and remembered one thing. The Ming army's advanced weapons were obviously abnormal compared to other countries!
As far as I know, most countries now use match ropes and fire door guns.
Then why did Ming Dynasty suddenly advance so much?
There was also information sent by merchants from the Jin region, a small mass-produced cannon that could be carried by one person. His father, Chi, was defeated by such a cannon.
Some time ago, the remaining members of eight Shanxi merchant families ran out with their families and their families, and they also brought specific drawings of the kind called mortars!
This made Ji extremely happy, and he directly raised the flag for these Shanxi merchants.
However, after Ji ordered people to build the mortar according to the drawings, they found something was wrong. Isn't the explosion rate a bit too high? It's so high that it's scary! Ninety percent! Nine times out of ten, it explodes!
Moreover, the launch distance is also touchingly short, shorter than his own!
The power of the cannonballs is also far different from what was imagined.
So Ji politely invited Shanxi merchants over and asked: Well, why is our cannon different from the Ming army's?
Shanxi merchant: I don’t know.
Ji: "How did they manage not to explode?"
Shanxi merchant: "I don't know."
Ji: "Then you still have their gunpowder formula, right?"
Shanxi merchant: "I haven't heard of it."
As a result, they didn’t know anything about it!
Ji: Are you here teasing fools with your crappy stuff?
Then, in a rage, he castrated the men from eight Shanxi businessmen and sent them to the palace, while the women served as official prostitutes!
Ji looked at Peter who looked puzzled and sighed: "I'm sorry, Your Excellency. My information was wrong.
But there is one thing you need to know, Your Excellency, the Ming army we are going to face is definitely the most powerful army in the world! They have the most advanced firearms, so we must be prepared."
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Sun Chuanting also led his troops to arrive outside the Horqin tribe. He first ordered people to send a message, only two sentences in total.
"Those who surrender will be reborn; those who do not surrender will be reincarnated!"
Then, Horqin Khan came with a group of people and surrendered, very neatly!
Horqin Khan said: I am not a fool. The last time I was in alliance with Houjin, I was beaten like a fool and I had no chance to resist. Doesn’t this explain the problem?
What? Ji is the son-in-law of Ben Khan? Yes, it is true that my daughter married him, but does this conflict with my surrender to the Ming Dynasty? There is no conflict!
Sun Chuanting looked at the surviving soldiers with a regretful look on his face, then sighed and "respectfully" invited Horqin Khan and a group of nobles to the capital of the Ming Dynasty as guests.
The most interesting thing is that Horqin Khan wanted to dedicate his granddaughter to Sun Chuanting, but Sun Chuanting politely refused.
It's not Mr. Sun Chuanting. He is so moral and not close to women. He is really weak and he is already sixty!
Sun Chuanting sent someone to "escort" the Khan family to Beijing, and then led the army to continue to the next tribe.
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On the other hand, Sun Chengzong encountered a little trouble.
Instead of surrendering, the enemy dared to resist our troops!
A total of more than 20 tribes, large and small, pieced together 150,000 cavalry, basically everything that could go on the battlefield.
This is great! If Sun Chengzong led his troops to sweep them one by one, it would take a lot of effort and time!
Now it's good, the other party has great military prowess and will get together on its own!
Sun Chengzong was not such a cruel man. After all, he was still very kind and charitable despite his age. He could not bear to see these 150,000 people with their heads mutilated.
So...he chose to plow the land with artillery fire!
Just mount all the guns and bomb indiscriminately!
Then in front of the artillery position, the muskets didn't stop after they started firing!
There's nothing wrong with it. If you blow up the corpse, you won't be able to see anything anymore!
After the artillery bombardment for a while, the deputy general asked hesitantly: "Sir, should we stop for a moment? The other party seems to have no ability to resist."
Sun Chengzong snorted coldly: "Women's kindness, they are not unarmed people, they are enemies! They are the army!
Do you know how much we would have paid in this battle if we had not relied on the power of firearms?
After returning to the court, I will continue all the impeachments, but not a single one of these troops will be left behind! Send my order and the artillery fire must not stop!
It doesn’t matter even if the cannon is destroyed.”
In the sky at this time, a large dark cloud pressed towards the north from the direction of Ming Dynasty. It was like a giant beast trying to take the entire grassland into its mouth.
Many of the tribe's cavalrymen were beaten stupidly, and they knelt on the ground and prayed to the Immortal God for blessings.
Little did they know, their shaman's ashes had been scattered by Xue Hong, and the Immortal Heaven composed of luck had been fed to dogs...and dragons by Xue Hong.