In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 140 Performing their duties
"Sister, look quickly, there is the Great Wall in front of you, and beyond the Great Wall is the river. We are finally here."

Looking at the earth wall in the white snow in the distance, Ebutu shouted excitedly.

Obviously he is very familiar with the terrain and environment of Ningxia.

"This...is this the Great Wall?"

Huang Ben looked at the one-foot-high earthen wall, and his jaw almost dropped.

This city wall is low, even if it is not covered with wall bricks. It is also weathered and has many pits. It is not even as good as the smallest castle wall in Xuanfu. I really can't believe that this is the Great Wall.

The young people who came from Datong also had their eyes widened, obviously unable to accept that the Great Wall looked like this.

"The Great Wall here is like this, but the one in Gansu is worse than this one."

Namuzhong explained that when she followed Lin Danhan to the West China Sea, she went from Ningxia and Gansu, and she knew the Great Wall well.

The earthen wall here in Ningxia is still more than ten feet high and relatively wide. Going over there, the Great Wall is about as tall as a war horse.

"Sister, there should be no one guarding here, let's go directly!" Ebutu said.

"It's better to send a team of people over to take a look first!"

Na Muzhong waved her hand, to be more cautious. After walking for so long, it was not less than half an hour.

"All right!"

Although Ebutu felt that his sister was no longer as cheerful as before, he had no choice but to send a team of cavalry to investigate.

Sure enough, it was such a cold day and it was so remote that no one was guarding the Great Wall.

Only then did Namuzhong feel relieved and ordered the army to go over.

After the army arrived at the earth wall, the craftsmen directly picked up the tools and started to cut the wall. Although if they went north and went around, they should be able to go directly to the end of the Great Wall and enter Ningxia from the Yellow River, but Namuzhong didn't want to take the wrong path again.

A journey of four to five hundred miles. In order to prevent their horses from being damaged by frostbite, they only walked thirty miles a day. In the end, they walked for half a month.

Although the earthen wall was frozen extremely hard, with the strength of many people, it only took half a day to carve out a large gap ten feet wide in the earthen wall.

The army then poured in like a flood. It was not until the army arrived at the Yellow River that a beacon tower in the distance lit up with smoke. After entering the Great Wall, the temperature was obviously much higher, and the temperature became higher as it went forward.

After crossing the Yellow River, although there was still a thick layer of snow on the ground, it no longer affected the horses' running.

"It is indeed much warmer here in Ningxia. If I had known earlier, we would have come here to spend the winter."

"Sister, more than 60 miles south of here is the Pinglu Station of the Han people. After passing Pinglu Station and walking more than 100 miles south, you will reach the Han people's town of Ningxia."

"We are not here to rob the Han people. Don't worry about the Ming army. Where is the habitat of the Hui people?" Namuzhong waved his hand and after asking, he once again emphasized military discipline and the purpose of this time to the Mongolians.

"Sister, the Huihui people are all in the west and north, and most of the Han people live in the south. There should be a Huihui tribe more than 50 miles southwest of us, but they are different from us Mongolians. Although they also herd animals, they can also Farm and build houses.”

Ebutu quickly explained.

"Oh, how many are there about them?"

Half of the army was Han Chinese, so Namuzhong was not worried at all about the houses and earthen walls built by the Hui people.

"It's winter now, so there should be 4 or [-] people, right?" Ebutu said with some uncertainty.

"Okay, let's go to the Huihui tribe in the west first. The army will press directly over. Give orders to go down. Do not harass the Han people along the way. Anyone who disobeys the order will be subject to military law!"

Namuzhong waved his hand.

But Ebutu said quickly: "Sister, why don't you let me lead the cavalry to kill them first and catch them off guard? Otherwise, if the army goes directly by, those Hui Hui will definitely be on guard."

"No, it's better for them to be prepared. It will be easier to defeat all their men in one battle."

Immediately, the army quickly approached towards the west. The Han soldiers were still sitting on sleds and pulled by horses, but the Mongolian cavalry all mounted war horses.

Although this is the northernmost point of Ningxia, Han villages will appear from time to time along the way, and occasionally one or two castles will appear.

At this time, all the Han people were hiding in their homes in fear, and the castles along the way had already closed their gates.

It's not that the military households don't want to hide in the castle, but that the military households here are too poor. They don't even have cotton-padded clothes to protect themselves from the cold, so they can only choose to hide in the house.

It was not until they discovered that this unknown army was heading west instead of looting that all the Han people breathed a sigh of relief and began to speculate whether they were Tatars.

The Huihui tribe in the west had actually discovered the wolf smoke a long time ago. Although they were very surprised as to why the Mongols came to Ningxia in winter, they did not panic like the Han people, but just did what they should do.

Because the Huihui are more united and are all cavalry, generally when the Tatars come they will only rob the Han people and will not provoke the Huihui tribe.

It wasn't until Tan Ma, who was sent out to inquire about the news, discovered that the incoming army did not rob the nearby Han people, but came towards them, Hui Hui then gathered the troops and sent people to other tribes for help.

When Namuzhong led the army to the Huihui gathering place, the Huihui tribe had assembled six to seven thousand cavalry and came outside to prepare.

There is only an earth wall about one foot high around the entire camp.

"Who are you? What do you want to do here?"

When the leader returned to see that this army had both Mongolian cavalry and Han infantry, he was confused for a while. "The infantry attacks from the front, the cavalry detours from the left and right, kill!"

Namuzhong didn't bother to talk at all. She pulled out her scimitar and immediately gave the order to attack. Obviously she wanted to make a quick decision and defeat the tribe first.

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"go ahead!"

Huang Ben immediately shouted loudly, and eight thousand Han soldiers formed two square formations and began to press forward slowly.

The spearmen were all at the front, followed by the spearmen with swords and shields, and the archers in the middle. The border troops trapped in the camp followed in a chaotic manner.

Obviously, with eight thousand cavalry pressing down on the formation, there was no need to worry about the opponent attacking the flanks and rear of the infantry, so all the infantry pressed forward boldly.

Hui Hui, who was far away, saw that the other party was too lazy to negotiate, so he pressed forward directly, knowing immediately that the other party was not a good person.

Behind them is their home, where their wives, children, and parents are, so there is no way out. They originally planned to delay for a while and wait for reinforcements, but now they can only choose to fight hard.

"kill!"

With a loud shout from the leader Hui Hui, six thousand cavalry rushed toward the front infantry like a flood.

"Belle, you lead the female cavalry here to protect the logistics personnel and sled supplies. Ebutu, you follow me and charge from the right, and Taku Yanqian leads the people to charge from the left!"

"Yes!"

All three people answered quickly.

Then seven thousand cavalry rushed forward from left to right.

Only Hubbell stayed there with a thousand female cavalry in a somewhat depressed mood. The two thousand logistics soldiers also held weapons and climbed onto the sled with their necks raised to watch the battle.

"Fire arrows!"

Looking at the swarming cavalry, the two infantry phalanxes immediately took up their positions, holding sharp spears forward diagonally. Shield bearers and pikemen also stepped forward to help. Thousands of people were gathered together. They were tightly packed into a pile. When the cavalry rushed within the shooting range, the archers behind them bent their bows and nocked arrows, and started firing with all their strength.

For Hui Hui, this was an extremely brutal and bloody battle.

After three rounds of arrow rain attacks, many of the cavalry in front fell.

Then he ran into the forest of spears again. Although many spearmen were killed and knocked away, the cavalry behind them were unable to follow up. Then the Mongolian cavalry rushed directly into the formation from left to right, swords and shields. Soldiers and spearmen also rushed forward, and a melee broke out between the two sides.

The battle lasted only a quarter of an hour and ended with all [-] Hui killed.

Obviously, facing the siege from three sides by cavalry and infantry, the number of troops was doubled. Even if they were all brave and fearless, they could not change the fate of being completely annihilated.

Of course, if you want to escape, you can still escape with some cavalry, but almost all Hui Hui choose to fight to the death to defend their homeland.

Even though the number of troops was doubled, and the combined battle of cavalry and infantry, plus the help of longbowmen, gave them the advantage, they still suffered nearly a thousand casualties.

It can be seen that as long as it is a tough battle, both the enemy and ourselves will have to pay a price. This is why the Tatars generally do not provoke Huihui.

This is also the reason why this group chose to gather and show their strength instead of staying in the camp.

Because in the opinion of the leader Hui Hui, as long as they pull all the men out and show their strength and determination to fight to the death, the Tatars will definitely retreat and turn around to rob the weak Han people.

After all, they had no grudge against the Tatars. The other party came here just to plunder. On one side were hard bones that could break teeth, and on the other side were soft, beautiful meat. Anyone who wasn't a fool would know who to rob.

Unfortunately, Hui Hui's leader didn't know that this time the enemy was coming for them, and they started fighting without even giving them a chance to negotiate, leaving him without any mental preparation.

7000 people, almost all the adult men in the Huihui tribe. As the last Huihui was killed, Namuzhong immediately led the Mongolian cavalry and [-] border troops, directly into the earth wall and started looting.

The infantrymen would not do such dishonest things either. Although they wanted to rush forward and grab them, under Huang Ben's command, they had to retreat and sort out the already chaotic formation.

And the two thousand logistics soldiers finally stopped watching the show and rushed forward in a rush to rescue the wounded and clean the battlefield. Their movements were as agile as possible.

Hubbell also continued to send out female cavalry to expand the scope of surveillance and investigation.

Obviously, under Lin Rui's continuous indoctrination and training, the entire Lin family army has basically been able to divide labor and cooperate and perform their respective duties.

"Everyone sit down and rest where you are!"

"Don't envy them. Everything you capture must be turned over. In the end, rewards will be given based on merit. It doesn't belong to whoever grabs it.

We are infantry, and the commander-in-chief said that infantry must have the reserve of infantry. Those shameless things are not what we should do! "

Although the infantry boys were sitting neatly on the spot, their hearts had already skipped a beat when they heard the noise in the gathering place in the distance.

Huang Ben saw that the teenagers were a little commotion, turning around and looking around frequently, and chatting in low voices. He immediately got on his horse and scolded them back and forth.

"The combat alert has not been lifted yet, stay quiet!"

The young men all shut up and began to wipe their weapons.

(End of this chapter)