The Goose Cart, which had been worked overtime to build since June or Seven, was easily defeated by the Ming army in the first exploratory siege of the city. It did not even touch the foot of the city wall. It was directly hit by two rounds of artillery and was unable to hold its head up.
The cannon fodder soldiers under the city were almost beaten to the point of betrayal. This was a situation that Tumen Khan never expected.
The Tumen Khan ordered his troops to retreat with a livid face, and returned to the Chinese army tent in an extremely angry manner.
Burihatu followed in without saying a word, but did not speak immediately. He just frowned and thought about something quietly.
Tumen Khan originally wanted to be patient, but in the end he was still not disciplined enough. He took out the scimitar from his waist and slashed suddenly, splitting the table in front of him in half, breathing heavily.
Burihatu glanced at it, but still did not speak.
But Tumen Khan couldn't help it anymore, and asked with suppressed anger: "Why is this happening! Ah? When did the Ming army's artillery become so powerful? I have been fighting with the Ming army for decades, and I have never discovered their
The artillery was so accurate, and I didn’t realize that the Ming army’s artillery interval could be shortened to this extent! What on earth is going on?!”
Burihatu took a deep breath and sighed: "It seems that we have underestimated Gao Pragmatism after all."
"It's none of his business!" Tumen Khan's right hand holding the knife was shaking with anger. He looked very unhappy with this guy Gao Jingshi, and said loudly: "Are these cannons so powerful because of his Gao Jingshi?
?He is a god, can he do magic?!"
Judging from these angry words, Tumen was really furious.
Burihatu said calmly: "Of course he doesn't know magic, but he seems to be more difficult to deal with than if he knows magic."
Tumen looked at Burihatu coldly and said nothing.
Burihatu seemed to have not seen him before, and continued: "As far as I know, the Ming army has been changing its equipment over the years. The original old artillery has gradually been retired from the front line of defense, or moved to the rear.
Most of the important towns such as Liaoning have now been equipped with new cannons produced by Jinghua, and these new cannons are of high quality. The original old cannons were prone to bombing, misfiring, etc., but these new cannons are much less likely to... But sweat.
, this matter is not that simple.
First, when Gao Gong was in power, the financial situation of the Ming Dynasty continued to improve, which enabled the Ming Dynasty to start to have money to change its equipment. Then Gao pragmatically established the Jinghua Artillery Factory and the Jinghua Musket Factory, and began to seize the arms of the Ordnance Bureau and the Warfare Bureau.
Buy, sell and supply border weapons, gradually phasing out old artillery and muskets.
The same was true after Guo Pu Bingzheng. This policy has been implemented for more than ten years now. The Ming army itself has also discovered the reliability of these artillery, so it has less worries during combat. So this has formed the idea that if the artillery is good, the Ming army dares to fight.
If the Ming army dares to fight, the power of these artillery fires will increase even more. Therefore, if there is a 'magic', the first person to have it is probably Gao Gong, and of course Gao Pragmatic is not bad either."
Tumen Khan said coldly: "I don't care how powerful Gao Gong and Gao Pragmatic are. I only care about how to break their magic."
Burihatu was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "It is difficult to defeat in the face of battle. If you want to defeat it, you can only defeat it in the Ming court hall."
Tumen Khan sneered and said: "Mingting court? Even this Khan has to learn some magic first - there may be someone in the Mingting court who is willing to speak for Tumote, but who is willing - or even dares -
Speak for Ben Khan?"
He paused and then said: "Besides, even if the Ming Dynasty can break the 'magic' of the uncle and nephew of the Gao family, it is not something that can be done in a short time, and this Khan has to face this big thing now."
Trouble, by the time he breaks his pragmatic magic in the Ming court, I am afraid that I will have already been defeated and escaped!"
Burihatu said nothing. It was not that he refused to speak, but that he really had no choice.
There is a saying that goes well, in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are of no avail.
Burihatu did see Gao Pragmatic's "weakness", that is, all his successes were based on the Ming court's support for him. As long as the court denied him, these "spells" would naturally be broken.
Already.
But Tumen is right. It is not easy to kill Gao Pragmatic in the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention that in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, the Chahar tribe is the most powerful enemy in the world. No one dares to risk the world's disapproval to speak for them.
To harm Gao Pragmatic, even if there is such a person, and everything goes well, it will never be something that can be done in the short term, and Tumen Khan's current problem is an immediate problem: he cannot conquer Shacheng, so he sends troops this time
It's about to become a joke!
Now the Chahar family doesn't know whether they were taken over by Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang. Even if not, the Chahar tribe has lost three powerful peripheral forces.
If Tumen Khan could pacify Tumute and make Tumute and even the entire 30,000 households on the right side obey the orders of the "Great Yuan Khan Court" again, then there would still be an explanation for the previous losses, which could cover up the past.
But if Tumote cannot be put down, or even worse, if he is defeated in the sand in the sand city and returns to Chahanhot in disgrace, then... the last bit of prestige of the Great Yuan Khan Court will disappear.
After all is done, it is hard to say whether the Mongolian leader can continue to do so.
Tumen Khan saw sweat on his forehead, and he was frightened. He couldn't help but turn from anger to panic, and asked: "Buriha Tu, you said... if this Khan now uses the excuse of returning to the army to rescue... or to regain the old place of Duoyan
Is it okay for my master to return to the court?"
Whether it can be done or not does not mean whether it is possible to withdraw, because in Tumen's view, withdrawal is definitely possible. The key issue is the subsequent impact - whether others are willing to believe that it is not because he cannot defeat Shacheng, but because he really
To rescue or regain Duoyan's old territory and withdraw the troops.
The key here is still the issue of face, that is, the issue of prestige.
But Tumen forgot that it was stupid for him to ask Burihatu this question, because after all Burihatu was still the son of Xin Ai. How could he support Tumen to give up the Tumote strategy and flee back in despair to survive?
Maybe for the Tumen, they can barely survive for a while after returning, but for their beloved father and son, once the Tumen give up Tumut, they may not even be able to survive!
Because when Xin Ai ran away before, he gave up the tribal people and escaped with only the army!
On the Han side, perhaps as long as they have an army, they can have everything, but this is not the case in Mongolia. Without tribal leaders, cattle, sheep, and horses, what are these people going to eat?
Xin Ai brought more than 10,000 people and horses, which is not too much, not too much, but to support such a group of people, it is absolutely impossible without two to three hundred thousand cattle and sheep, and two to three hundred thousand cattle are needed.
Sheep must have at least 30,000 to 40,000 tribesmen.
With thirty to forty thousand tribesmen, do you expect the great Zasaktu Khan to give his tribe to Xin Ai?
They are not **!
What's more, after Dong Hu died in Subahai and Chang Ang escaped with his tribe, Tumen's own strength was already somewhat insufficient. At this time, could he still be expected to cut meat to feed the tigers?
Therefore, for the Tumen, this Tumen battle was just a matter of whether the Great Khan of Mongolia could continue to carry out his duties legitimately, but for their beloved father and son, it was already a matter of life and death!
Burihatu said decisively: "It's absolutely impossible, no Mongolian is willing to believe it."
The corner of Tumen Khan's mouth twitched a few times, and he sat down on the felt mat slumped, sighing: "If I had known that Mingren was so good at guarding, I shouldn't have come to Shacheng so easily... If I had listened to your previous advice, I would have laid the big plan first.
Just raise the city. Daban Shengcheng is the home of Hannaji. It requires people to lead people, cattle and sheep to cattle and sheep, and wealth and silk. As long as you win the big board to rise to the city, you can even withdraw to the inspection with the loot.
It’s not like Hal can’t do it either.”
Burihatu cursed in his heart, but showed no expression on his face. He shook his head and said: "One moment and another...and judging from today's situation, Daban Shengcheng may not be as easy to fight as we originally imagined.
"
"Why?" Tumen frowned and said: "Daban Shengcheng has no Ming army to defend it, and Han Naji is the same as us. How can he make Daban Shengcheng look like Shacheng with so many cannons? Isn't this right?
I believe Akito will give him a cannon."
This is true. It is impossible for Gao Jingshi to cannon Han Naji. Gao Jingshi will not do such stupid things like Tai Ah's inversion. Unless Thumut is like Annan, he has made Gao Jingshi his reality.
Your Majesty.
This is obviously impossible. The Ming court could not care whether Annan was behind the Ming Dynasty or Gao Pragmatism, but Tumote was close at hand. If it was not the Ming Dynasty but Gao Pragmatism who was behind it, then... King Shunyi might as well give Gao Pragmatic a hand.
Forget about being pragmatic, why do you still need Tumut’s name?
But how could King Shunyi let Gao Jingjing do it? With Gao Jingjing's financial resources, if he controlled Tumut, the strongest tribe in Mongolia with a hundred thousand strings, and he had all the artillery and guns on hand, what if he had something?
Ambition, I'm afraid we won't be able to attack Yanjing within three days!
Even if Zhu Yijun had a good relationship with Gao Pragmatic, he would not be so arrogant if he and his ministers were in harmony with each other.
But Burihatu still had a point to say, but before he could continue to deceive Tumen Khan, an urgent military report came from outside: "Great Khan, something serious has happened. There are large armies approaching from both the east and west sides of Shacheng.
!”
Tumen were shocked: "Army? Whose army? How many people are there?"
Tan Ma hurriedly reported back: "The army on the West Route is carrying the banner of Dacheng Taiji, bringing yellow sand rolling all the way. There are at least 40,000 to 50,000 people under its command!"
Tumen jumped up in shock, and his voice changed: "How can there be so many people in Bhan Naji? He has sent all the Tumotexi sentry out? Don't even want the big board to rise to the city?"
"Yes, Khan, there are really so many people!" Tan Ma was also sweating anxiously, and continued to report: "The army on the East Road also has a large number of people, estimated to be no less than 30,000, but the flags are quite mixed, so there must be
There are at least a dozen Taiwanese and Kyrgyzstan flags.”
Tumen gasped, adding 40,000 to 50,000 to 30,000, this amounted to at least 70,000 to 80,000 troops, which was already as much as he and Xin Ai's troops combined.
If we add the unknown number of Ming troops in Shacheng City...