In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 65

Lin Rui's guess was correct. This group of Tatars was indeed the two remaining Khalkha tribes, the Naiman tribe and the Kato tribe.

The two tribes usually have a very good relationship, and the chiefs of the two tribes just got married this year, so the two of them decided to spend the winter together.

Originally, the two of them did not expect that anyone would attack them. They just wanted to get closer and have more fun. Who would have thought that someone would actually attack them in winter.

The two clan leaders immediately thought that it was the group of Han people coming from the south. After all, no tribe in the area dared to attack other tribes except them.

What's more, they also received a rescue from the Aruq Ministry a few days ago. Naturally, the two of them would not go to the rescue in this kind of weather.

Moreover, they also moved the camp close to them, just to prevent the group from attacking them again after they defeated Aruke's tribe. Who would have thought that the other party would actually come?

Seeing that the other party had a large number of people, at least more than 1000 adult warriors, which was more than the combined population of their two tribes, the two clan leaders immediately sent negotiators to ask the other party's purpose of coming.

This time Lin Rui did not go directly to the door of the tribe, but stayed a mile away.

"You...are the Han leader?"

"What do you want to do here? How is the Aruk department?"

The messenger was an old man, one of the three people who went to negotiate with Lin Rui and the others last time, so he recognized Lin Rui as soon as he was brought over, and his face was full of shock.

"You betrayed your trust and promised that we would all live in peace and not invade each other, but you took the initiative to beat us twice. This time, I came with a large army. Naturally, I wanted to retaliate and settle accounts with you. As for the Aruke tribe, There will be no more Aruke from now on!"

Lin Rui said coldly, taking the lead in standing on the commanding heights of justice.

"Dear Han leader, we were coerced by the Jurchens and had to attack you, and we also suffered a loss. We lost a total of more than 100 warriors twice, but we did not cause any substantial damage to you. s damage."

The old Mongolian also calmed down at this time and quickly explained.

"Humph, no matter who suffers, a fight is a fight. You took the initiative to hit us twice. I will only hit you this time. Go back and prepare for the war!"

"Chief Han, our two tribes combined have more than 1000 tribesmen and three to four hundred adult warriors. Do you really insist on starting a war?"

"How about this, how about we hand over all the Han people in the tribe and then compensate some cattle and sheep. How about we all continue to live in peace from now on?"

The old man tried to negotiate.

Lin Rui shook his head and said: "These are not enough. You must compensate fifty girls and fifty boys."

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible. At most, I will compensate you ten more girls." The old man refused excitedly, gritted his teeth for the last time, and took a step back.

"This is my bottom line. There is no room for negotiation. If you don't agree, let's start a war. Don't blame me for not reminding you. My rule is that no man will be left alive!"

Lin Rui waved his hand and said with murderous intent.

This is indeed his bottom line. If it weren't for the fact that the two tribes came together and it was a bit difficult to chew, how could he be so verbose?He rushed over and started a mass killing.

The old man was also frightened by Lin Rui's murderous tone. Seeing Lin Rui's resolute attitude, he had no choice but to return.

Sure enough, the two clan leaders were not frightened. When they heard that fifty girls and fifty boys were going to be sacrificed, they refused without hesitation.

Obviously, neither of them believed that Lin Rui dared to start a war with huge casualties.

The two sides argued back and forth several times, but Lin Rui still refused to give in. The two clan leaders also gave up completely and began to prepare for war.

"Han Jialang, if you don't want to get better, just accept it."

Na Muzhong had no choice but to persuade.

According to the casualties suffered by the Aruk tribe, if you want to destroy these two tribes, you will have to pay at least 500 casualties in the end, which is not cost-effective at all.Lin Rui was silent. He also knew that what Namuzhong said was right. The casualties required for the two tribes combined were absolutely different from the casualties required for one tribe to be dealt with.

This time, the maximum casualty level he could tolerate was 300%, which was 100 people, and the death rate could not exceed 200%, which was a maximum of [-] killed and [-] wounded.

Once this range is exceeded, the impact on the overall morale will be too serious, and it is very likely that the psychological defenses of these recruits will collapse, and then they will have the idea of ​​​​escape.

But this time his plan is to wipe out all three Khalkha tribes in the north. Only in this way can he deter the five Khalkha tribes in the south and the tribes further south.

"Haha, yes..."

While Lin Rui was racking his brains, thinking about how to eliminate these two tribes with relatively small casualties, he accidentally looked up at the hillside behind the Tatar camp, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he burst out laughing.

"Oh? Mr. Han, do you have an idea?" Na Muzhong asked quickly.

In this world of ice and snow, other than direct fighting, she really couldn't think of any other way to reduce casualties and eliminate these two tribes.

"Not bad, and it can also minimize casualties."

Lin Rui also looked excited and immediately called Huang Ben over.

After some instructions, Huang Ben took 200 people and took a detour from the left toward the hillside of the camp behind the Tatars.

Lin Rui led the army and continued to press forward for 200 steps before stopping.

Half an hour later, Huang Ben and his men finally reached the hillside behind the Tatar camp. In order to avoid the wind and snow, the two tribes also chose to spend the winter at the foot of a hillside like the Tuk tribe.

Although this hillside is not high, the vertical distance from the Tatar camp below is only about 100 feet high, but due to the gentle slope, it is more than [-] feet away from the top of the slope to the camp.

At this time, the Tatars in the camp naturally discovered the Han people on the hillside behind the detour, but they only thought that the opponent wanted to attack from the front and back, so they only sent a small number of people to watch behind, while the others still guarded the front.

As for taking the initiative, I never thought about it.

Not to mention that the opponent also has two hundred cavalry. Even if they don't, with such thick snow, it is better to stay in the camp and go out to charge.

What's more, once the warriors have gone out, the other side takes the opportunity to divide their forces and attack the camp. The old, weak, women and children alone cannot stop them.

"Brothers, we have all had snowball fights and built snowmen. Today we will let these Tatars learn a lot..."

After Huang Ben finished speaking with a sinister smile on his face, he began to greet everyone and started rolling snowballs on the top of the hillside.

Finally, they rolled all the snow on the top of the slope and rolled out two hundred large snowballs half as tall as a man. Each one of them was panting from exhaustion.

After resting for a while, when everyone was sitting on the snowballs and all out of breath, Huang Ben called out again: "Come on, everyone, work harder, aim at the Tatar camp, and kill all these snowballs." I push it down!"

"Okay, haha..."

"Haha, the young master is still wise. These two hundred snowballs rolling down will be enough for the Tatars."

Everyone rolled the snowball forward with sinister smiles on their faces, looking forward to what a spectacular scene it would be.

Not long after, the snowballs were pushed down the gentle slope. The snowballs rolled very slowly at first, but as the snowballs rolled bigger and bigger, the speed became faster and faster.

It just rolled out less than a hundred meters, and it was a full circle.

Two hundred snowballs rumbled down. The scene was so spectacular that the Tatars below were dumbfounded.

(End of this chapter)