The Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was extremely rebellious

Chapter 310 The End of Invading Ming Dynasty

Huo Chiluo was just a little desperate.

Bingtu Taiji was completely desperate.

He never expected that the main force of the Ming army would suddenly attack from Xining Wei.

Xining Wei is too close to Qinghai Lake, less than two hundred miles away.

He did not react when nearly 100,000 Ming cavalry rushed out of the mountain pass. By the time he received the news and began to gather troops, the Ming cavalry had already rushed in three or four hundred miles away.

He had just assembled more than 10,000 cavalrymen, and the Ming cavalry were about to rush to him.

He had no choice but to abandon all the tribes and quickly flee to the northwest.

The problem was that the Ming cavalry was like crazy. They chased him and chased him, all the way from near Qinghai Lake to near Jiayuguan, chasing him for thousands of miles, and only gave up when they chased him into the Gobi Desert near Jiayuguan.

This time he was chased away and lost everything except for the ten thousand cavalrymen under his command.

He didn't dare look back, for if he did he would be dead.

He had no choice but to bypass Jiayuguan and head east to find his eldest nephew Chelike and Sanniangzi.

In fact, he is not miserable.

Huo Chiluo was such a miserable person.

At least he still had somewhere to run, but Huo Chiluo had nowhere to run.

After the Ming army occupied the north bank of the Yellow River, tens of thousands of cavalry immediately rushed out from the direction of Taozhou Wei.

These guys were much more terrifying than the Ming army they had encountered before. Their horse and archery skills were more accurate than each other. If they encountered a few thousand people, they would be wiped out in one or two rounds of arrows. If they encountered tens of thousands of people, they would only need a few rounds of arrows to kill them.

Moreover, these guys are very ferocious. Just a few dozen of them dare to charge into a tribe of hundreds or thousands of young men. What's more terrifying is that hundreds or thousands of young men can't beat just a few dozen of them!

Huo Chiluo was really beaten badly.

At this moment, Wanli was very comfortable.

Less than three days after he occupied the north bank of the Yellow River, Deng Zilong arrived with tens of thousands of musketeers from the navy escorting thousands of carts of grain.

Immediately afterwards, Man Gui ordered his men to drive the captured cattle and sheep over in groups.

Moreover, there are many fish in the river here, and they taste very delicious.

They ate delicious roasted lamb and drank fresh fish and mutton soup every day, and their life was simply too good to be true.

There were frequent reports of victory from the north and south. The Duolun Tumed and Weiwushen tribes were both severely defeated by them.

It turns out that the area near Qinghai Lake in the north was the territory of the Weiwushen tribe.

Bingtu Taiji did not have many men under his command, and the total number of young and strong men seemed to be only about 40,000 to 50,000.

Man Gui suddenly led 80,000 cavalry to charge forward. Bingtu Taiji was unable to stop him at all and could only flee to the northwest with tens of thousands of cavalry.

As a result, in less than ten days, they chased them into the Gobi Desert near Jiayuguan and disappeared without a trace.

The two large grasslands in the south are the territory of the Duolun Tumed tribe.

Huo Chiluo has more men under his command, but the total number of young and strong men seems to be only 50,000 to 60,000.

If we consider the number of people alone, the troops of Qi Jiguang and Xiao Ruxun in the south did not seem to have much advantage. More than 60,000 versus 50,000 or 60,000, which is about the same.

However, their group included 5,000 military candidates who came to take part in the imperial examination.

Today's martial arts candidates are much more powerful than those a few years ago.

This "awesome" does not mean that there are many brave generals who have left their names in history among the martial arts candidates in this session, but refers to the overall level.

Today's military candidates have all passed the examinations in a serious manner. Moreover, in order to become a military scholar and lead the army to achieve great success, these military candidates have studied hard and practiced hard. Their skills are quite high. Fighting ten people alone is a piece of cake for them. Their riding and archery skills are also quite good.

In other words, these 5,000 martial arts candidates alone are equivalent to 50,000 troops. In terms of strength, Qi Jiguang and Xiao Ruxun's group is stronger than Man Gui's group.

These guys are like crazy in their pursuit of fame and fortune. A few martial arts candidates with dozens of people dare to charge into a tribe of thousands of people.

Originally, Qi Jiguang and Xiao Ruxun only sent them to investigate the enemy's situation, but who would have known that every time they killed all the young and strong men of the enemy and took over the entire tribe.

Seeing this, Qi Jiguang and Xiao Ruxun simply divided them into groups of ten and asked them to spread out with hundreds of light cavalry to search everywhere. Once they found the Northern Tartar tribe, they would rush up and attack!
Anyway, even if I can't win, I can still run away, so nothing serious will happen.

Five thousand martial arts candidates and fifty thousand troops can be divided into five hundred groups.

How could Huo Chiluo have five hundred tribes under his command?

The teams led by those who had passed the military examinations usually had to go through several or even dozens of troops to get one. Many teams that arrived too late would not even get a single military merit. As a result, in less than ten days, the vast grassland in the southeast near Taozhouwei was cleared out by them.

Immediately afterwards, they swarmed towards the grassland near the Yellow River in the north.

Huo Chiluo had also thought about gathering troops to deal with the scattered Ming cavalry.

However, these guys were very sneaky. They ran away when they saw their large group of cavalry, and they could not catch up with them at all.

What's even more terrifying is that after they drive away a few groups of such cavalry, the scattered cavalry will swarm in like vultures discovering rotten meat.

Moreover, these guys really rushed over to grab them like vultures, so people shot arrows at them in groups within a hundred steps around them, and each time they were able to knock down a large number of them.

There's no way. These guys are all using strong bows with only one stone, and their arrows can't shoot as far as theirs.

As a result, when they went to deal with others, they were dealt with by others instead. Every time they fled in panic, and their number of people became smaller and smaller.

Huo Chiluo was chased by this group of guys and had no choice but to take the remaining less than 20,000 cavalrymen to the bank of the Yellow River to build a pontoon bridge, preparing to cross the river to see if he could escape.

He did not choose the mudflat in the west grassland, but the mudflat in the middle of the sand in the east.

Who knew that when their floating bridge was about to reach the other side, a bunch of sticks suddenly appeared on the mudflat where there was nothing.

The sticks hit their sheepskin raft and broke it into pieces, and then a rocket was shot over.

In a flash, the floating bridge that they had worked so hard to build was set on fire.

Not only was the raging fire not put out, many soldiers who were building the pontoon bridge couldn't put out the fire on their bodies even after jumping into the water.

terrible!

There are pursuers behind and blockades in front, and we can’t even build a pontoon bridge. What should we do?
In desperation, Huo Chiluo actually ordered his men to raise the white flag and surrender!

Early the next morning at about noon, Wanli ordered people to build a floating bridge and bring Huo Chiluo over.

There were dozens of strong and burly generals lined up in the battle hall specially for receiving civil and military officials. They were all murderous and their eyes seemed to be able to kill people.

Huo Chiluo was so frightened that his calves trembled and he fell to his knees.

Seeing this, Wanli coldly asked, "Huo Chiluo, tell me the truth. Who ordered you and Bingtu Taiji to join forces and invade Taozhouwei?"

This guy has caused me so much trouble, I won't keep it a secret for him.

Huo Chiluo answered honestly, "It's Wang Chongya from the Wang family of Puzhou."

This guy actually came here.

Upon hearing this, Wanli immediately asked, "Where is Wang Chongya?"

Huo Chiluo said without hesitation: "Last month, when your emperor led a large group of cavalry to Lintao Prefecture, he said that there was no chance this time and asked us to be careful, and then he left."

He didn't know that the person wearing military uniform was Wanli.

When Wanli heard this, he was extremely angry.

This guy actually ran away like that!

He was quite annoyed and asked, "Why did you listen to him? They told you to fight, so you just fought?"

We have been fooled.

Huo Chiluo said helplessly, "He said that if we could capture Taozhouwei and Lintao Prefecture, the northwest would be in chaos, and Chelike and Sanniang would take the opportunity to recapture the Hetao region, and our Tumed tribe would be able to rise again."

stupid guy!

Wanli cursed directly: "You are stupid, you know, do you think it is still the same as before, and nothing will happen if you invade the Ming Dynasty?"

I..

Huo Chiluo was speechless.

Do you think I will forgive you if you don’t talk back?
Seeing this, Wanli shouted, "Come here, drag this guy out and chop him up!"

Huo Chiluo still wanted to beg for mercy.

Wanli ignored him and then said loudly: "Issue an order that all captured young and strong northern barbarians be taken to the coal mines. All captured men, women, old and young, as well as cattle, sheep and horses, be carefully counted and prepared to reward meritorious officers and soldiers."

This is the fate of invading the Ming Dynasty!

(End of this chapter)