In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 169 The first battle in Mobei

Ten thousand troops drove sleds and marched north for seven or eight days, covering almost five or six hundred miles. They were still surrounded by a vast expanse of white. There were no tall mountains, and they didn't even know if they had left the Gobi.

However, the temperature is getting warmer day by day.

"Commander, our horses only have three days of rations left. If we can't find the Mongolian tribe again, we may have to go on foot."

Huang Ben said worriedly, and everyone else's faces were also very worried. If they were hiking on the vast snowfield, it would be good to be able to walk ten or twenty miles in a day.

"Commander, we have walked out of the Gobi Desert..."

Just when Lin Rui was about to appease everyone, Takuyan ran over from a distance with a few horses and shouted excitedly from a distance.

"Great…"

Everyone stood up excitedly when they heard that they had left the Gobi Desert, and their sluggish morale was immediately lifted a lot.

"Takuyan, have you discovered the tribe in Mobei?"

Lin Rui also greeted him excitedly.

If the Mongolian tribe is no longer found, not only will they starve to death in the snowfields, but everyone in the camp will eventually starve to death in the Gobi Desert.

"No…"

Takuyan pulled the reins of the horse, shook his head, and jumped off the horse.

"Then how do you know we have walked out of the Gobi?" Lin Rui was disappointed, and then frowned.

"Commander, go more than 30 miles north and dig out the snow. The grass on the ground has sprouted an inch high. We must have left the Gobi." Takuyan quickly explained.

"Oh, so it's very possible that we have left the Gobi and arrived at the habitat of the three parts of Mobei."

"Yes, Commander. According to what Queen Khan said, among the three tribes in Mobei, the one with the southernmost habitat should be the Tuxie Tu tribe. I will definitely be able to find their tribe's headquarters in two days at most."

Takuyan said confidently, if he hadn't been unfamiliar with the terrain here and worried that he would get lost if he ran too far, he would have found it long ago. There would be no need to act like a headless fly.

"Well, the army will rest here for two days. You bring more food and go farther. When we find the tribe's headquarters, we will kill them directly."

Now that he has left the Gobi, Lin Rui does not intend to continue going north. Going further will only waste food. It is better to stay here and send scout horses to find the target.

After all, if the war horse is not carrying heavy weight, two or three kilograms of grain a day will be enough, but if it is pulling a sleigh weighing one or two thousand kilograms, it will definitely not work without ten kilograms of grain a day.

Sure enough, Huangtian paid off. Three days later, Takuyan finally discovered a nomadic tribe's settlement more than 50 miles northwest, with a population of about [-].

At this time, there were only ten thousand handfuls of kilograms of food left, and a war horse could only divide ten kilograms. Even for a tribe of 5000 people, let alone a tribe of 5 people, Lin Rui would not hesitate to go.

So the army rode on sleighs and killed them overnight.

There is no way, now it is possible to run horses in the snow. Once discovered by the other party in advance, they will have no chance.

After all, the tribes in Mobei are not scattered. According to Namuzhong, each of the three major tribes in Mobei has a population of 8, and each tribe can easily gather [-] or [-] riders.

Perhaps it is because the three tribes are all about the same strength. With mutual checks and balances, although wars will break out from time to time, no one can annex the other.

This time, Lin Rui no longer cared about the war horses. He squeezed the potential of the war horses to the extreme and finally arrived at the outskirts of the 5000-man tribe before dawn.

The price was that nearly a thousand war horses fell on the snow, foaming at the mouth and twitching constantly.

Perhaps because of the long-term comfort, in the huge camp, in the dark night before dawn, there was not even a bonfire, not even a patrolling person, which made everyone ecstatic.

Indeed, because this tribe is closest to the southern Gobi, and it is winter, there are tribes with Tuxietu on the east, west, north, and west, so they have no defense at all.

I never thought that there would be enemies coming from the south at this time. Otherwise, as long as they sent some sentries to investigate the south, Lin Rui and the others would have been exposed long ago and would not be able to get close to the tribe.

"Huang Ben, you lead 2000 people to attack from the left. Takuyan, you lead 2000 people to attack from the right. Zhou Meng, you lead 2000 people to detour to the north for me, and the remaining people will follow me to attack from the south. Remember, Don’t let one horse go, kill them all regardless of gender or age!”

It was only more than half an hour before dawn, and Lin Rui did not dare to delay at all, and immediately began to arrange combat tasks.

Everyone was stunned. Takuyan hesitated for a moment, then asked weakly: "Commander, don't you want to keep any women?"

"If you don't stay, we already have enough women. Remember, this is Mobei. Food is limited and we can't feed too many people."

Lin Rui shook his head and explained.

It's not that he is cruel, but the situation in Mobei is here. If more people can be fed, the three parts of Mobei will not always have a population of more than 20.

After all, there won't be any big wars here, unlike Monan, where the population has almost been reduced by half in the past ten years.

Now Mobei wants to have 10 more people, and the consequences can be imagined.

"It's handsome!"

Huang Ben, Zhou Meng and others hurriedly replied, and Takuyan stopped being verbose.Immediately, Zhou Meng led 2000 people to circle north. A quarter of an hour later, Huang Ben and Takuyan also circled left and right. After waiting for another half-quarter of an hour, Lin Rui led the last 4000 people to press forward from the front. .

Although everyone was paying great attention, the movement of thousands of people walking in the snow was still too loud. When they approached about a mile from the station, they were noticed by the people inside.

There was a roar of people and the sound of dogs. After a while, the entire camp was in chaos.

Obviously they were both Mongolians, so when the tribes in Mobei were attacked, they were far worse than those in Monan.

"Enemy attack!"

"Quick, everyone pick up their bows, arrows and scimitars and prepare to face the enemy!"

When they found that there were a large number of enemies pressing up from all sides, the people in the tribe panicked, and the leader yelled anxiously. He immediately sent people to the surrounding tribes and the great Khan Tiemu of the Tuxie Tu tribe. I ask for help.

Unfortunately, the Lin family's army had surrounded them from all sides, and all the cavalrymen who rushed out of the camp to report the news were shot dead in the snow.

"kill!"

"rush!"

After Lin Rui led the army to approach two hundred steps, he roared and took the lead in launching the attack.

Two swordsmen, shield soldiers and spear soldiers advanced quickly with shields in hand, while two thousand Mongolian soldiers followed closely behind with bows in hand.

The other three directions also launched attacks one after another. They were also led by a thousand sword and shield soldiers and spear soldiers, followed by a thousand Mongolian soldiers with bows.

There are only about 3000 people in this tribe who can shoot bows, and only about 2000 people who can lift swords to fight. In addition, Mobei is barren and backward, and lacks swords and arrows. Faced with the [-] elite Lin family troops who are besieging them from all sides, they are focused on one thing and not the other. He was easily rushed into the camp by the Lin family army.

What followed was a one-sided massacre. Even though many people were mounted on war horses, they still didn't last even a quarter of an hour. All more than 5000 people fell in a pool of blood.

"Zhou Meng!"

"The commander-in-chief is here!" Zhou Meng rushed over covered in blood.

"You immediately lead a thousand war horses over, pull our sleds over, and bring all the horse corpses over to me." Lin Rui greeted immediately.

If it were in Monan, those dead horses Lin Rui might still look down on it, but in Mobei it must not be wasted.

"Yes!"

Zhou Meng immediately took the people to work.

"Huang Ben, you are responsible for cleaning the battlefield, treating the wounded, and counting the loot. Takuyan, you pick some people to ride on horses and continue to investigate nearby."

"It's handsome."

The two of them did not dare to delay and agreed one after another.

After Zhou Meng returned with his men, the battlefield had been cleaned. More than 5000 horses, more than 2 cattle and sheep had been seized. There was almost no food. In addition to weapons, there were also very few iron tools.

Bupi Yanba tea and the like are even more rare.

A large tribe of 5000 people could not keep up with a small tribe of 2000 people in Monan, which made Lin Rui's heart sink to the bottom.

It was already daybreak, and Lin Rui immediately asked Zhou Meng to take 1000 people, fill up the sled, and then return to the camp to pick up the people. This time, two horses pulled one sled.

This round trip takes at least half a month, so two hundred of the thousand sleds are loaded with hay, and the rest are loaded with freshly slaughtered cattle and sheep.

Lin Rui knew that it would be unrealistic for the 1 of them to wipe out the entire Tuxie Tu tribe, so they had to bring in more troops and move faster.

As for the women and support staff, they can wait until the snow melts before migrating slowly, otherwise he would not transport so many cattle and sheep back.

After Zhou Meng left, Lin Rui began to direct other people to build a half-person-high snow wall on the outside of the camp. The five thousand corpses were also used to build the wall.

There is no way. Although there are more than 3000 war horses left, if there is no food and they only eat forage, the range of the war horses will be only thirty or forty miles at most.

Therefore, we can only choose to defend this camp first, wait for the opponent to attack, and take the opportunity to consume the strength of Tu Xie Tubu, and wait until they can no longer attack before attacking.

As for using sleds to pull hay to attack other tribes, the risk was too great when the enemy's situation was unknown, and Lin Rui ultimately rejected it.

After all, they still have 9000 people guarding the camp, and they are not afraid even if all the warriors from the three major divisions attack him together.

Only five days later, Lin Rui and the others were discovered by three nearby tribes. After all, after the weather got warmer, the contacts between the tribes became more frequent. There was no news for several days in a row. Naturally, the other three tribes Someone will be sent to check.

However, these three tribes did not act rashly. Instead, they monitored Lin Rui's movements and sent the news back to the Khan Court.

Until this moment, the three tribes still had not thought that Lin Rui and the others were coming from the south, so they did not conduct in-depth investigations southward.

(End of this chapter)