In the late Ming Dynasty, rising from the grassland

Chapter 84 Psychological Warfare

"Brothers who are military households inside, don't be afraid, we are not Tatars, we are also Han people, and we are also military households in Xuanfu..."

"We were all captured by the Tatars and sent to the grassland. Later, we escaped under the leadership of my young master. We snatched these horses from the Mongolian tribes..."

"We came back this time just to seek revenge on your family. We all come from poor military families. We will never kill innocent people or plunder."

"Brothers from the military household, think about how your hundreds of households oppress you on weekdays. How many of your relatives have died at the hands of Qian?

You still have to fight for him now, is it worth it?

Are we going to continue to let him bully and exploit you after we leave?
Brothers of the military households, let us come in and directly kill Qian Baihu. When the time comes, everyone will avenge those who have grievances and avenge those who have grievances.

Moreover, we can also divide his family’s food and money, and those lands will belong to you, so you won’t have to pay rent in the future.

If the court blames us, it will only be blamed on us. Wouldn't it be better than working for him and being shot by random arrows later? "

Huang Ben and others raised their voices and continued to provoke and confuse the wall.

And the dozens of guardsmen were forced to respond.

"Yes, yes, brothers inside, what these people say is true. They are really Han people, not Tatars."

"We are the ones guarding the Great Wall. If the Tatars had killed us long ago, where would they have given us meat to eat?"

With the continuous shouting, the military households on the wall became agitated and began to whisper and discuss in low voices.

Because they found that although the people under the wall were wearing armor and riding big horses, they were indeed Han people. In addition, the Mongolian cavalry in the distance was far away and could not be seen clearly, as well as the dozens of guardsmen who testified.

Some people already believe that those who came are not Tatars, but strongmen and horse bandits seeking revenge from hundreds of households, or deserters.

"Don't listen to their nonsense. There are Tatars outside. Once they come in, everyone will die, and your wives and children will be captured by them."

The servants were also anxious when they saw this. They retorted loudly and yelled, and rushed to notify the adults of the hundred households.

However, the military households were not stupid either. The Tatars did not speak Chinese so smoothly, and they still spoke their Xuanfu dialect.

What's more, the smoke was the first to rise from the vicinity of their monolithic fort yesterday. If these people were really Tatars, they would have no time to escape to the fort, and the Tatars would not wait until now.

Qian He from Baihu hurriedly came to the wall. After listening for a while, he broke out in a cold sweat.

If it were the Tatars, he would still be sure to hold on. These mud-legged military households would definitely defend the city to the death in order to survive, but if it were the Han people, I'm afraid they wouldn't be so desperate.

He knows better than anyone how much these military households hate him. I am afraid that in his dreams at night, he would like to curse himself for a good death.

Thinking of this, Qian He also panicked a little, and hurriedly shouted to Huang Ben: "Brother Huang, if you have anything to say, I agree to your terms. One horse will be exchanged for five stones of grain, no, six stones..."

"Hmph! I told you to change earlier, but you didn't change. Now it's too late!"

Huang Ben sneered repeatedly and didn't bother to pay attention to him anymore. He asked everyone to continue shouting to shake the determination of ordinary military households in the fort to resist.

Qian He's compromise further confirmed that the people who came were Han people, and the Tatars would not exchange war horses and hundreds of households for food.

In this way, Huang Ben and others shouted when they were tired and took a rest. When they had rested enough, they shouted again. They kept shouting from morning to afternoon, and their voices were almost smoking.

At this time, Zhou Meng and his men finally built hundreds of simple wooden ladders. Lin Rui didn't waste any more time and immediately issued the order to attack.

He personally led the Mongolian teenagers with armor studded with iron spikes, breastplates and helmets, and rode forward to shoot arrows for cover.

The other Mongolians dismounted and joined the soldiers in attacking the city. Their hair had long been tied into Han hair accessories. In order to let the military households on the wall see clearly, they even took off their leather helmets. .Not to mention, if you don't look at them closely, you really can't tell whether they are Mongolians or Hans.

Namu Zhong took the remaining girls to watch the battle from a distance.

First, hundreds of cavalrymen circled the castle and fired arrows. After people were hit by arrows one after another, the military households on the wall were so frightened that they no longer dared to show their heads.

The servants followed Qian He's orders and fought back with bows, arrows and firecrackers, but they couldn't hit the moving target at all.

"did you see it?"

"Only the Tatars can ride on horses and shoot arrows so accurately. If you don't fight hard, when the Tatars attack, you will all die, and your wives and daughters will be ruined!"

Seeing more than 1000 people carrying ladders coming from all directions towards the city wall, Qian He was so anxious that he shouted loudly.

Obviously, he also knew that at this time, neither forcing him with a knife nor promising a large reward would have much effect, and he could only let these military households fight to the death on their own defense.

Unfortunately, after a whole day, the military households were still affected. As long as there was a chance of survival, they would not fight for Qian He to defend the city.

Some people even hoped to wait for these people to break in so that they could take advantage of the situation, so even though they all stood up and prepared to defend, their determination was not comparable to that when the Tatars attacked the fortress before.

The military households were dodging and dilly-dallying without working hard. Just relying on dozens of servants was a drop in the bucket.

So Huang Ben and others quickly rushed to the wall, put up a ladder, and while climbing up, they did not forget to shout, "Kill a hundred households to share the food."

More than 1000 people chose to besieged on all sides. Although many people were hit by rolling logs and thunder stones thrown from the wall, under the desperate firing of arrows by the cavalry at the rear, soldiers quickly climbed up the wall.

When the ordinary military households saw someone rushing up to them, they didn't know who took the lead in running away, so they all followed and dispersed.

Qian He couldn't even kill several people to resist the fleeing military household, so he had to lead his servants to rush towards the people who rushed up the wall.

I have to say that servants are different from ordinary military households.

They knew that no matter whether the opponent was a Tatar or not, as long as they invaded, they and their family would definitely be destroyed, so they fought to the death.

Qian He also dragged his fat body of more than 200 kilograms and stayed on the wall to fight to the death, but he regretted in his heart. He should have been so reluctant to give up money and food before, and he would have been better off raising more servants.

Although the servants were not afraid of death, they were too few after all. There were only a few dozen. They ignored the others and were quickly killed by the soldiers and Mongolian teenagers who rushed up. Qian He was also cut into pieces with random knives. .

At this time, the entire castle was in chaos, and countless military households rushed into the official hall and began to take advantage of the situation.

When Huang Ben and Zhou Meng led their men to stabilize the order, Qian Bai's family, young and old, and the family members of those servants, a family of three to four hundred people, were all beaten to death by the military households.

Those female relatives were even more naked and died in miserable conditions. This shows how much these military households hated Qian Baihu and those servants, and most of them had feuds.

This is also due to Lao Zhu's hereditary system. Ordinary military households have been oppressed and exploited by the military attache family for almost generations.

Since military attachés do not need to care about reputation or merit, their methods are often extremely cruel.

Also because servants can be equipped with armor, firearms, bows and arrows and other weapons, which are more powerful than the gentry and landlords, oppressing military households often have no choice but to flee instead of resisting.

It can be said that the class conflict between the Ming Dynasty's military attaches and ordinary military households was more intense than that between landlords and tenants.

It has almost reached the point where it is ready.

(End of this chapter)