Chapter 489: The Mongolians with big eyes but small hands and crazy dreams (first update)
The northern battlefield was not so tender. Facing 12 Mongolian cavalry, Xiao Mingqian arranged 60,000 cavalry troops here to completely bury the Mongolian era here.
Lin Dan Khan, the last Great Khan of the Mongols. However, during his reign, because of his persistent belief in the Red Religion and forcing other tribes to believe in the Red Religion, the Mongolian tribes who believed in the Yellow Religion alienated him.
At the same time, under the constant instigation of Nurhaci and Huang Taiji, they gradually lost control of the Horqin, Neikalkha and other tribes.
Generally speaking, Lin Danhan¡¯s political skills are not comparable to those of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji. However, this situation changed dramatically after Taiwan's army captured Liaodong.
Except for the Horqin tribe, which surrendered to Taiwan, other Mongolian tribes that married Hou Jin suddenly lost their big backer. Moreover, Huang Taiji's behavior of forcibly seizing Duoyan Wei also made them no longer trust Huang Taiji's promises, allowing Lin Danhan to once again control the situation through threats and inducements.
Threat can be achieved through the powerful strength that Lin Danhan has in his hands. As for inducements, Lin Danhan himself is not very wealthy, so it is naturally impossible for him to use his own things to seduce those tribes.
However, after Taiwan took control of Liaodong, countless supplies rushed into Liaodong as if it were free of charge, making Liaodong suddenly become a serious big fat meat for all forces. This temptation is enough.
Lin Dan Khan promptly sent people to contact the leaders of those tribes and asked them to join him in sending troops to plunder Liaodong. In this way, everything was solved.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty dismissed its envoys and asked Mongolia to send troops to Liaodong to eliminate the more than 200,000 troops in Liaodong. He also promised that all gains from Liaodong would belong to Mongolia.
This promise made Lin Danhan's greed expand even more uncontrollably. He was even thinking about whether to take this opportunity to bring the entire Liaodong under his rule. With this conjecture, Lin Danhan led an army of 120,000 troops and marched eastward in a mighty manner.
This time, Lin Danhan¡¯s choice of attack direction was not the Tieling Kaiyuan line as Xiao Mingqian had estimated. Lin Danhan had a bigger heart. He wanted to directly contribute to Shenyang, so that the areas east and north of Shenyang could be directly included in his rule.
In this way, even if the armies of the Ming Dynasty and Hou Jin Dynasty arrived in Shenyang, they would be helpless with the territory they had already occupied.
"My ability is not that great, but my ambition is not small! In this case, let him come over. I will keep these 120,000 Mongolian troops and Lin Dan Khan himself this time." After receiving Lin Dan Khan's marching target, Xiao Mingqian sneered. .
With Xiao Mingqian's order, the people in the area east of Shenyang were quickly moved into Shenyang City. At the same time, the ten cavalry divisions located in Tieling and Kaiyuan immediately crossed the Liao River, entered the interior of the Khalkha tribe, and detoured to the rear of Lin Dan Khan's army.
During this process, in order to maintain confidentiality, the Taiwanese army adopted an extermination policy for the first time against the Mongolian tribes along the way, and all the Mongolian tribes they encountered were slaughtered.
Although this is a bit cruel, in order to prevent the actions of his own army from being exposed, this is not allowed. In this way, 60,000 elite cavalry made a huge circle and came to the rear of Lin Dan Khan's army.
When Sun Chengzong led the army to Yizhou, Lin Danhan also led 120,000 Mongolian troops to the edge of the Liao River.
"Warriors, after crossing this river, you will reach the place where the cowardly Han people live. There are countless wealth there, and there are countless women. There is the pasture of our Mongolian warriors. Now tell me what you want to do. ?" Lin Danhan looked at the gradually thawing Liaohe River and roared loudly and energetically.
"Kill, kill, kill¡ª¡ª"
The crazy shouts of 120,000 people made people feel chilly.
"Kill all the Han men, and rob all their women and wealth. I order you to attack Shenyang and not seal the sword for ten days!"
Genghis Khan, an extremely cruel man, is the idol of all Mongolians, and Lin Dan Khan is no exception. Almost all his actions are consciously or unconsciously imitating Genghis Khan. So from the beginning, the warring parties aimed to massacre each other.
After crossing the Liao River, the Mongols spread their soldiers within hundreds of miles near Shenyang, hoping to satisfy their animal desires through looting. But what disappointed them was that after searching all the places within a hundred miles, they could not find anyone or get even a grain of food.
Lin Danhan himself doesn¡¯t care at all about this. In his opinion, this just confirmed his judgment of the Han people as cowardly and afraid of death.
In this era, there were no Han people who would seek refuge with the Mongols, so the wholeThe senior officials in ancient times thought that their own army had scared away the cowardly Han people. In their brains filled with muscles, they simply can't tell the difference between fleeing and clearing the country.
"This is better. The warriors will work harder when attacking the city."
Lin Danhan said while sipping the fine wine he bought from Taiwan a few years ago and chewing on the mutton.
Over the years, the Mongolians have benefited from the trade with Taiwan. Countless Taiwanese goods flow into Mongolia every year. For example, these fine wines. When trading with the Ming Dynasty in the past, one pound of wine cost three or four sheep. .
But since Taiwanese businessmen came, one pound of wine only costs one sheep. Moreover, those Taiwanese businessmen were crazy about buying useless wool, allowing the Mongolian nobles to enjoy the benefits of various luxury goods.
However, don¡¯t think that the prosperity of business can bring benefits to ordinary people. In fact, the benefits brought by Taiwan¡¯s large-scale demand for Mongolian materials have not fallen on ordinary Mongolian people at all. All of them have gone to the nobles of various Mongolian tribes. inside the pocket.
However, before that, Huang Taiji blocked the trade route from Houjin to Mongolia for Taiwanese merchants. Later, the Ming Dynasty blocked the trade route from Taiwan to Mongolia, causing this benefit from trade to suddenly disappear.
This makes the Mongolian nobles extremely uncomfortable. Now that they are better, they can finally get these good things again, and they don¡¯t have to spend so much time buying and selling, they just need to grab them. So all the Mongolian nobles were extremely excited.
"These Mongolians are really stubborn. After crossing the Liao River, it actually took them two days to reach Shenyang City! With such qualities, it is really a wishful thinking to recreate the glory of Genghis Khan's era!"
Looking at the loose Mongolian army outside the city, Xiao Mingqian realized that he had overestimated the Mongols. Just like this, 60,000 cavalry are enough to annihilate them without any strategy.