I am one year older than Chongzhen

Chapter 246 The Battle of Daling River

How to find horse thieves, how to fight horse thieves, Huang Yi's team has such talents.

Because Yu Shaoshan, Luo Buqi, etc. are the horse thieves who were subdued.

Most of the horse thieves captured last spring settled down in Xinghe City, and more than a dozen horse-bowmen who were skilled in battle have already become the general flag officers of the seventh rank.

Yu Shaoshan and Luo Buqi have long been the top six ranks and one hundred bosses, and they cherish the hard-won cleansing.

Seeing that the previously invincible Karaqin Datai Jisubdi was wiped out, the loyalty of Yu Shaoshan, Luo Buqi, etc. has increased a lot.

They simply racked their brains and successfully rounded up horse thieves many times, took away the lair of horse thieves, seized a large amount of gold, silver, treasures and beauties, and surrendered seven to eight hundred young and middle-aged horse thieves.

Musketeers and heavy infantry have been screening the captives of the Karaqin tribes, encouraging the oppressed herdsmen to expose the Tabunang family who had been beaten to the bone.

A new system was established, and activists who dared to resist slave owners, slaves, pariahs, and lowest-level knights who had made military exploits turned themselves into masters and became grass-roots chiefs.

The tribal chiefs who followed Huang Yi in battle were rewarded with population, cattle, sheep, and food.

There is also a kind of reward that the chief doesn't like, but there is nothing he can do about it, because the warriors in the tribe like it.

Huang Yi can only allow him to be an absolute authority, treat everyone in the base area as the people, and cannot allow the people to be loyal to some people who have become grassroots chiefs.

This time the battle lasted for a relatively long time, and loyal and brave warriors emerged from all tribes, with a total number of several hundred.

It is already based on the level of chiefs at the ground level, according to the degree of credit, the population of five, ten or fifteen households, including the property, cattle, sheep, and grain of these populations.

Make great contributions to the general herdsmen will face two choices.

One is to accept the selection to become an honorable soldier knight, get a monthly salary of two taels of silver and five buckets of wheat, and become a public servant.

The second is to be appointed as the chief of a small tribe, leading [-] to [-] herdsmen to produce and live.

The result was very good. Huang Yi added more than 300 Mongolian cavalry who were skilled in arching horses, and the actual increase was [-] after deducting the battle damage.

The new chiefs of more than 100 new tribes used to be ordinary herdsmen, some came from herdsmen groups close to the base area, and some came from newly formed tribes after swearing allegiance to the base area last year.

Poor herdsmen who are not nobles and have no property can also become chiefs, which immediately gave many ordinary herdsmen hope and self-motivation.

They all understood that obeying orders and obeying commands, and being brave and fearless when charging will not be ignored, and they will be credited by the town governor, and they will be rewarded for their merits after the war.

Too many herdsmen think in their hearts that the next time Huang Yibatulu is recruited again, they must actively participate in the battle and strive to make meritorious service and become the leader of a regular soldier or a small tribe.

The Great Revolution, which completely overthrew the rule of feudal lords and slave owners, intensified in Bashang Grassland.

The Kalaqin tribes no longer became the accomplices of Jiannu. On the contrary, at least [-] of the remaining [-] to [-] men were willing to be recruited by the base area.

Subudi has the largest territory, and the winter camp is more than 1000 miles away from the base area and [-] miles away from Jinzhou.

For the sake of safety, Huang Yi decided to leave the buffer zone to give up the three hundred miles of territory, and ordered the newly formed grassroots tribes to go west and redistribute the pastures.

Counting the time, Zu Dashou, He Kegang, etc. should start rushing to repair Dalinghe City at this time.

This battle is relatively famous, because Zu Dashou played with Huang Taiji, cheated to gain trust after surrendering, left his son, confidant general, and all the soldiers, and fled back to Jinzhou alone.

Daling River City is more than [-] miles east of Jinzhou. The Daling River Valley was a transportation hub connecting the Northeast and the Central Plains in ancient times. The location is indeed quite important.

Therefore, the Ming army needed to build Dalinghe City to shield the Jinzhou defense line, and Jiannu could not bypass this place when launching an attack, so the Ming army was determined not to let it be repaired.

Huang Yi knew clearly during this period of history that it was not that Zu Dashou, He Kegang and other Ming army generals could not defend Dalinghe City, but that they were besieged by Huang Taiji's heavy troops and their food and grass were cut off, so they surrendered as a last resort.

At that time, there was no food, no firewood, all the horses in the city were eaten up, the saddles were all burned, and [-] to [-] people were eaten.

Huang Yi originally had no intention of changing this period of history, because people who speak lightly and want to change have no way of doing it.

But he suddenly thought of Wu Xiang, who was called a brother and brother, who was already the commander-in-chief of Jinzhou.

It was not that the long-legged general Wu Xiang would go to war, but he wanted to write a letter to Wu Xiang, reminding him to propose and assist Zu Dashou, He Kegang, etc. to prepare enough food and coal.

Wu Xiang is not a general, but that doesn't mean he has no brains, on the contrary, his brains are even better than Zu Dashou and He Kegang.

Huang Yi made it clear to him the importance of food and fuel, and he will definitely spare no effort to do it for the common interests of Liaodong generals.

The distance between Jinzhou City and Dalinghe City is only tens of miles. As long as preparations are made early, Zu Dashou will definitely be able to avoid surrendering due to lack of food and fuel.

In all fairness, Zu Dashou was the least willing to surrender and become a slave, and he was even more unwilling to see the Ming Dynasty perish.

It's not because of his loyalty and bravery, but because of his interests.

What can Jianu give him?The traitor king who built slaves was just a slave.

Daming pays millions of taels of silver every year to support Liaodong generals, and his ancestors live in Liaodong like a local emperor, living a prosperous life.

Huang Yi had reason to believe that Zu Dashou was not hungry or faced with a desperate situation, so he would definitely not surrender and would definitely cause Jiannu to suffer a lot of casualties.

Even if Zu Dashou still surrendered in the end, it would be beneficial to the base area if he could kill hundreds more Jiannu and spend half a year more on Huang Taiji.

It happened that Bi Daxi participated in the battle to save Wu Xiang in the woods, and Wu Xiang must have known him.

So Huang Yi sent Bi Daxi to lead 36 cavalry to Jinzhou to deliver the letter.

Try to make as many friends as possible, of course you can't just talk about it, you must have a relationship.

Bi Daxi went to Jinzhou and brought Huang Yi's gift to Wu Xiang.

This gift is a little special, and the taste is too big.

Three days later, Wu Xiang saw Huang Yi's letter, nine heads of real slaves, and 72 heads of Tartars, and was so happy from ear to ear.

When he wrote back, he not only thanked Huang Yi for the gift, but also thanked Huang Yi for his reminder.

Wu Xiang said that he would personally arrange to send 50 shi of grain and [-] jin of rock carbon to Dalinghe City within a month to ensure the needs of the soldiers and civilians guarding Dalinghe City for half a year.

He is a showman and a smart man, he didn't take those heads for nothing, and took out 5000 taels of silver notes for Bi Daxi to bring them back.

He also enthusiastically persuaded Bi Daxi to stay overnight, and hosted a banquet for Bi Daxi and other 36 riders.

At the banquet, Bi Daxi and Wu Sangui actually chatted very speculatively. They put down their chopsticks to compete in archery after half of the wine.

In the end, Bi Daxi, who was one year older than Wu Sangui, won.

(End of this chapter)