Chapter 410: The Chief Director enters the city [1 more]
In addition to the news provided by King Ning, the Tatars were actually very familiar with the internal forms of the Ming Dynasty.
In particular, King Ning sent people to inform the Tatars of the news about the current powerful minister of Daming Chu Yi, and the one who mentioned Chu Yi was the key.
Whether it was King Ning or the Tatars, in fact, they thought that Chu Yi, as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, would definitely choose to sit in the capital when King Ning rebelled and the joints at the entrance of the Tatars.
After all, whether King Ning rebelled or Tatars invaded, it was a great disaster that could shake the foundation of a country. If Chu Yi did not take charge of the capital, it would be difficult to stabilize the overall situation of the world.
However, what Hulimu could not have imagined was that Chu Yi was so bold that he even left the capital.
Hu Limu didn't know that Chu Yi had arrived in Jiangnan and had already put down the rebellion of King Ning. Now he even rushed over thousands of miles with his great victory army.
After all, in this era, news spreads very slowly. Even if there are channels from the court and thousands of miles apart, the news will be delayed for three or five days.
Not to mention that the Tatars had very narrow channels for obtaining information from the Central Plains. At most, some Central Plains people who defected to the Tatars provided some information.
However, there are very few people who have defected to the Tatars. Even if the news received by these people, it is unknown how long it has been delayed.
It can be said that unless it is widely publicized by the imperial court, the Tatars may have to wait at least one month to learn that King Ning's rebellion was put down.
In a month, when the Tatars learned about it, the aftermath of the rebellion of King Ning was probably put down.
So at this time, in the eyes of the Tatars, King Ning was actually helping them to restrain the imperial soldiers and horses, and they were not in a state of isolation and helplessness.
Besides, the Tatars did not psychologically regard the Ming Dynasty as a great enemy. There was a Tumu Fort Incident. When the Tatars faced the Ming Dynasty, they were at least psychologically no longer psychologically than when the Ming Dynasty was first established.
Whether it was Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang or Chengzu Zhu Di, it really left a huge shadow on the descendants of the Mongol Yuan, especially Chengzu Zhu Di, who fought against the north of the Mobei for five times, was really chasing the remnants of the Mongol Yuan.
But a hundred years have passed, and the Central Plains dynasty has been in constant war, and it has long lost its courage as it was back then. Otherwise, the Tatars would not dare to go south in large numbers.
However, although Hu Limu knew Chu Yi's name, he did not think Chu Yi could do anything to them from the bottom of his heart.
So what if Chu Yi has a big name? After all, he is not a castrator.
What abilities can a powerful eunuch have? The most memorable eunuch that the Tatars remembered was Wang Zhen, who incited Yingzong to personally lead the Tumu Fort change.
So Hu Limu just thought Chu Yi was another powerful eunuch like Wang Zhen.
If the Ming Dynasty court really sent a general who could conquer warlike generals to occupy Taiyuan City, he would really worry about whether the retreat of Balesborot's troops would be affected.
However, Hu Lim was not so worried when he learned that the person who led the troops to occupy Taiyuan City was actually a powerful eunuch like Chu Yi, who was like Wang Zhen.
Sun Qiu naturally didn't know about Hulimu's psychological changes, but if he knew, he would probably laugh.
In fact, comparing Chu Yi with Wang Zhen is simply an insult to Chu Yi.
If Wang Zhen had one-third of Chu Yi's ability, there would probably be no Tumu Fort change that year.
Anyone who underestimated Chu Yi is now three feet tall.
With a burning look at Hulimu, Sun Qiu said slowly: "Hulimu, surrender!"
Hulimu looked at the few hundred men left, all of whom were wearing them, and their faces were a little tired.
After all, these subordinates were awakened from midnight, and in a few hours they fought with him, trying to find a way out.
Now he has fallen into the encirclement. Apart from surrender, he is afraid there is only one way to die.
Taking a deep breath, Hulimu's scimitar fell to the ground with a bang, and then he heard Hulimu say, "I have surrendered!"
Unlike the Central Plains generals who regard surrender as a great shame, Huli Munai was born in the grassland and had done his best. Since he was surrounded and able to survive, he would of course choose to surrender.
Hulimu chose to surrender, and Sun Qiu couldn't help feeling a little disappointed, but his face also showed a hint of joy.
The value of the living Hulim is naturally much greater than that of the dead.
As Hulim surrendered, the Tatar soldiers behind him also threw down their weapons one by one. The soldiers around him rushed forward, and in a blink of an eye, they tied up hundreds of Tatar soldiers.
At the gate of the south city, there was a pile of corpses, especially at the gate of the city, there was only a narrow area about ten feet wide, with corpses on both sides.
The Tatars had left the city before and were shot to death at the gate of the city. Many of the corpses would naturally be cleared aside. Otherwise, those corpses would block the gate of the city.
At this moment, the soldiers under his command of Sun Qiu were cleaning the battlefield. After all, the Tatars had surrendered, so there could not be a pile of corpses at the gate of this city.
Many war horses and the corpses of soldiers on both sides overlapped together, and the bloody soldiers, especially the corpses of soldiers on both sides were trampled by war horses. Some of them were trampled into distortion. When many soldiers were cleaning the battlefield and clearing the corpses, they were so excited by the bloody scene that many of them couldn't help but vomit.
At this moment, there was no chaos in Taiyuan City. After all, after the previous disasters of the Tatars, Miao family, Lu family and other families, the city was already in a panic. Every family was in danger. Many hid at home, holding sticks in their hands, ready to attack those who broke into their homes at any time.
Even those gangsters who always take advantage of the chaos and do evil will honestly hide and dare not show up at this time.
Because the Tatar soldiers in the city were gathered and taken away by Hulim, there were no defeated soldiers in the city, which saved a lot of trouble.
When Xu Tianzuo led a group of people into the city and found out that Hulimu led a team of cavalry to the south gate, he naturally rushed there with a quick horse.
However, when Xu Tianzuo arrived, he saw a group of Ming soldiers cleaning the battlefield at the city gate, and several familiar figures were in front of a group of war horses.
Seeing such a group of war horses, even Xu Tianzuo couldn't help but his eyes lit up. There were almost nearly a thousand war horses. Although some war horses were injured, most of them were minor injuries. It was naturally a big gain to be able to seize thousands of war horses at one time.
Although the Ming Dynasty itself was not very short of war horses, after all, the Ming Dynasty implemented horse politics. Although the horse politics had become a strategy to harm the country and the people at this time, the horse politics still played a certain role, that is, the Ming Dynasty did not lack horses.
However, the horses raised by those horse households were less wild than those on the grassland. The horses seized from the Tatars were natural war horses, and they could be used by themselves if they were familiar with them.
Sun Qiu noticed the movements of Xu Tianzuo and his group, turned around and looked at Xu Tianzuo, with a smile on his face and said, "Commander Xu, break the city with one battle, congratulations, congratulations!"
Looking at Sun Qiu, Xu Tianzuo said, "Congratulations to Commander Sun. I think the leader of the Tatars should have fallen into Commander Sun's hands."
Sun Qiu's eyes swept across the city wall in the distance, and a team of Tatar soldiers were tied up there one by one. In addition, so many war horses were intact, even if you guess, you could guess that the Tatars were not the last one to fight. The biggest possibility was that they chose to surrender after losing.
Sun Qiu smiled slightly and said, "I asked Commander Xu for the blessing, but Sun waited for the rabbit and forced Hulimu to surrender outside the southern gate."
A light gradually shone in the sky, and the sun was about to rise.
Taiyuan City has returned to peace. When the Tatars who guarded the other two gates wanted to escape, they had no time and had to choose to surrender.
As a result, Taiyuan City was captured this time, and the Ming Dynasty attacked and killed more than 3,000 Tatar soldiers, and more than 1,000 Tatar soldiers were captured, including about 2,000 war horses.
Of course, the most important thing is that Taiyuan Town, one of the important towns in the border, finally returned to the Ming Dynasty, blocking the gap in the northern part and blocking the retreat of the tens of thousands of Tatar troops that entered the Central Plains and were attacking Beijing.
Riding on a horse, Chu Yi slowly entered Taiyuan City surrounded by a group of generals.
At the east gate of Taiyuan City, there are still some traces of the battle. Although the corpses at the gate of the city have been cleaned up, even if the blood on the ground is covered with loess, it is still difficult to cover up the bloody atmosphere even if the loess is covered.
Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and other generals were already ready now. When they saw Chu Yi entering Taiyuan City from a distance, the two walked side by side and rode forward.
One of them turned over and dismounted, and the two and the generals behind him bowed to Chu Yi together: "The last general is welcome to the general manager!"
Chu Yi looked at Xu Tianzuo, Sun Qiu and other generals, smiled slightly, turned over and took a few steps forward, helped the few people up, and said with admiration in his eyes: "You have not disappointed the expectations of our governor!"
After Chu Yi praised him like this, everyone couldn't help but show a hint of joy on their faces. After all, it was quite rare for Chu Yi to praise them like this.
At this moment, Chu Yi patted Xu Tianzuo, and Sun Qiu and his two chuckled on the shoulders and said, "This time, the regaining of Taiyuan City and successfully blocked the Tatars' retreat, it is of great significance. When the disaster of the Tatars is pacified, our governor will definitely report to the emperor and ask for credit for the generals."
Chu Yi has always had a clear distinction between rewards and punishments. Since Chu Yi said that, it means that their military achievements have been recognized by Chu Yi, and there will naturally be no problems with the emperor.
Chapter completed!