Emperor Zhengde

Chapter 220 Barbed Wire

Different from previous Mongol cavalry attacks on Ming border towns, this time the Mongol cavalry led by Wuliangha Daha attacked Wuhai City not because Wuhai City was easy to break through, but because Wuhai City gathered too many Mongolian escaped slaves.

"The Ming Dynasty has turned our slaves into their herdsmen. This is an attempt to destroy our Wuliangha. After this sneak attack into Wuhai City, no one will be left alive, regardless of whether they are Mongolian or Han!
This prince (Wulingha was originally one of the three guards who submitted to the Ming Dynasty, so I won’t call him the king here) wants to let those escaped slaves see that on the grassland, our Golden Family still rules the world, and they can only become subordinates of our Golden Family! Even if the Ming Dynasty can accept them, they can’t escape the punishment for betraying the Golden Family! "

Daha Ce Ma appeared outside Wuhai City. Looking at Wuhai City shining like a pearl on the grassland in the night, he thought not about how to appreciate this new grassland city, but how to destroy it and turn it into pasture again.

"Master Daha, please think twice. If you and your father Huadang want to achieve hegemony in the future, rule the Central Plains, rebuild the prosperity of the Yuan Dynasty, and seize the picturesque mountains and rivers within the pass, you should treat them with gentleness. These people, whether Mongolian or Han, are lowly, but they are also the foundation for your future struggle for the world. Killing them will not be good!"

Because Zhu Houzhao was too cruel to civil officials in the early days of his reign, some literati with ulterior motives began to support ambitious people and plot to rebuild the dynasty.

At this time, Xi Yi, a Han Chinese who had been living outside the Great Wall for several years and became a guest of Daha, was one of these literati. He was originally a disciple of Xie Qian, but because he had already expected that the emperor would severely punish his mentor, he fled north to the Great Wall, but was captured by Daha by coincidence. Eventually, he began to betray the Ming Dynasty, tricked the Uriankhai leader Hua Dang into becoming an enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and gradually instigated Hua Dang and other Uriankhai nobles to have the ambition to destroy the Ming Dynasty.

Because under the deception of Han scum literati like Xi Yi, Hua Dang and other Uriankhai nobles really believed that the Ming Dynasty was terminally ill and Zhu Houzhao was a tyrant who had angered the people and the world, so that the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed one day. In addition, Xi Yi's vivid description of the beautiful mountains and rivers within the Great Wall and Hua Dang and other Uriankhai Mongols' original desire for the beautiful mountains and rivers in the Central Plains made it easy for Hua Dang and other Uriankhai nobles to be fooled. Even if they did not believe in their hearts that the Ming Dynasty could be destroyed by themselves, they were willing to fantasize and continue to fantasize under the deception of Han scum like Xi Yi.

As Hua Dang's son, Daha was younger than Hua Dang and naturally had more unrealistic ambitions. Therefore, after hearing what Xi Yi said, he said, "Then kill all those who are taller than the wheel! No matter if they are Mongolian or Han!"

Seeing this, Xi Yi was speechless and knew that he could not persuade him any more.

"Charge in! Kill anyone taller than the wheels! You can rape the women first and then kill them. All the valuables inside belong to you! Warriors of the Wulingha!"

He drew his sword and shouted.

All of a sudden, these Uriankhai Mongolian cavalrymen rushed towards Wuhai City as if they were injected with chicken blood. They were unproductive and only knew how to plunder, just like the Mongolian cavalry in the 13th century. They were also excited and motivated by the plunder.

These Uriankhai cavalrymen rushed over rapidly, their horses neighing and their men roaring, the whole earth seemed to be shaking, they were like a flood and a ferocious beast, ready to devour everything in Wuhai City.

Bang bang bang!
A violent impact!
These Uriankhai cavalrymen crashed violently into the barbed wire outside the city of Wuhai!

When the galloping war horses rushed down with the force of thunder, the Wuliangha cavalry never expected that the Ming Dynasty would set up barbed wire outside the city of Wuhai!

Because of this, after the Wuliangha cavalry collided with the barbed wire at high speed, some of the Wuliangha cavalry were directly dismembered into pieces!

Some of the Wuliangha cavalrymen were thrown heavily to the ground, and both they and their horses were bleeding!

呲呲!

Ding ding! The barbed wire started to make noises due to the impact, and the copper bells on the barbed wire also made dense noises, which alarmed the soldiers and civilians in Wuhai City.

The Uriankhai nobleman Daha was very angry when he saw the hundreds of bodies of Mongolian cavalrymen lying dead under the barbed wire in front of him. He did not expect that the Han people could actually make such thin wires and make barbed wire, and even have barbs and copper bells on the wires.

Daha knew that this meant that his plan to launch a surprise attack on Wuhai City had failed!
He also knew that the Ming army was strong and that he would surely be successful if he attacked Wuhai City openly, so he chose to launch a surprise attack at night. The bright light in Wuhai City also provided his cavalry with the conditions for a night attack.

But Daha didn't expect that the Ming army would set up barbed wire outside the city! He didn't even expect that the Ming army would set up such a barbed wire!
Because of this, after Daha knew that his plan to attack Wuhai City had failed, he simply sent people to negotiate with the Ming Dynasty, demanding that the Ming Dynasty return the escaped slaves from Wuhai City to his Wuliangha.

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At this time, Hetao Governor Zhang Cong said something indignant and then hurriedly sent people to Yulin City to inform General Yang Yiqing about Daha leading his troops to attack Wuhai City. At the same time, he personally led his Fu Biao Battalion to the Wuhai city wall.

at the same time.

Zhang Cong also ordered: "The main force of the Third Division has just set out for Shajing. The defense of Wuhai Prefecture is not strict at the moment. These Tartars have come at the right time. According to the old method, give the Hanized Hu people crossbows, horses and sabers, and tell them that the Wuliangha are trying to take them back to continue to be slaves. Now that Wuhai City is short of troops, I will give them a chance to drive the robbers away by themselves. Those who die in the battle will be compensated with fifty taels!"

Therefore, the Wuhai City defender who received the order began to go outside the city, preparing to mobilize the refugees outside Wuhai City.

Wuhai City has been built for two years. Although the inner and outer cities are both built of cement concrete, the population in the Wuhai area has expanded too rapidly in recent years. There are still many people living in the outer city. They are all newly migrated Hu people. They are refugees who spontaneously came to Wuhai City to make a living and are not considered registered residents of Wuhai City.

But the Ming government in Wuhai City naturally could not ignore these refugees. After all, there were already tens of thousands of them, and if they were not managed they would easily cause trouble, and they could not be driven away. If they were driven away, many mining industries in the city would be unable to maintain.

Therefore, in the outer city of Wuhai, the Ming government also used iron wire to form a barbed wire fence, with openings only at the official roads, and built watchtowers and fortresses there to prevent the refugees living outside the city from being harassed and to facilitate management.

Most of the time, people used the outer gate made of barbed wire as the outer gate of Wuhai City.

Iron wire is a high-tech product produced by the advancement of steel smelting technology in the Ordnance Bureau in recent years. This mechanized metal wire drawing process originally appeared in Britain in the 14th century. It has now been improved by the Ming Dynasty Ordnance Bureau into barbed iron wire.

Historically, barbed wire was not invented by Americans until the mid-nineteenth century, and is called one of the seven most important inventions in human history by modern scientists.

The barbed wire enhanced the Ming army's defensive capabilities.

As a result, the nomadic peoples found it much more difficult to launch surprise attacks.

(End of this chapter)