My father is Jiajing

Chapter 149 What is Cruelty

Teng Xiang was full of pride at this moment. After he and Zhu Zaigui had dealt a heavy blow to the Tatar bandits' advance in Huangyu Valley, Teng Xiang finally experienced what it meant to be refreshed!
The tumbling boulders and logs and the screams of fear coming from the Huangyu Valley seemed like a wonderful piece of music that made people linger on. Whenever he had free time, Teng Xiang's mind would keep repeating this exciting scene.

This time, Zhu Zaigui gave him the important task of launching a surprise attack on the Tatar bandits in Shixiaying. Teng Xiang's excitement can be imagined.

This time, Teng Xiang led a team of troops to launch a surprise attack from the right side of Shixiaying, and the second team led a surprise attack from the left side.

According to Zhu Zaigui's instructions, the two sides did not need to launch a surprise attack at the same time. Instead, whoever arrived at the appropriate attack location first would go first. The main strategy was to catch the enemy off guard and to fight fast.

As long as they seize the opportunity and throw these specially modified ground bombs as palm mines into the Tatar bandits' camp, and then turn around and run away, the sneak attack will be successful.

So the mission of this sneak attack is also very simple, without any constraints, we just need to be quick.

Teng Xiang looked at the 500 men he led, his eyes revealing an unconcealable desire for victory. Teng Xiang lowered his voice and said to the people around him: "This sneak attack must succeed and not fail, and we must act before Team Two, so that Team Two can see that Team One is the most courageous warrior!"

Teng Xiang's words immediately aroused the restlessness of the people around him. They were rubbing their hands, and could not wait to rush out to the Tatar tent not far ahead and release the explosives in their hands as if they were thunder from the sky.

Teng Xiang narrowed his eyes and looked from afar at the camp where the Tatar bandits were gathered.

Teng Xiang saw that the Tatar camp in the distance had not yet fully erected the chevaux de frise, and the Tatar soldiers who were responsible for setting up the chevaux de frise all looked listless. It was obvious that their morale and energy had been greatly consumed by the fear of the previous night.

Moreover, given their current state and mentality, they would never have thought that the cowardly Ming army that had set an ambush in Huangyu Valley and then fled away would launch a surprise attack at this time.

Therefore, even if they received orders from their superiors to put up chevaux de frise around the camp as soon as possible to protect it, they did not carry out the orders effectively.

They even felt unhappy. Why should they have to keep up the spirits and set up the barricades while others can rest?

Moreover, in their view, the dead and injured were either the Liaoyang Army (Doyan Tribe) that the Khan had just surrendered or the unlucky tribe that went up the mountain, which had little to do with them.

Therefore, when they were performing these tasks, they must have felt unhappy.

The reason for this is that the composition of the grassland soldiers is complex. They seem to be Tatar warriors who obey the orders of Anda alone, but in fact they are a team temporarily formed by different tribes.

When the situation was favorable, they were all brave and good at fighting, and they dared to raise their scimitars and bows and fearlessly charged towards the Han people's Great Wall and the cities and castles where the Han people lived, because they knew that if they won, they would get a lot of wealth, slaves and other rewards.

However, once the situation turns unfavorable, these temporary armies composed of various tribes will show various disciplinary problems, and they will always unconsciously calculate who has done more and who has done less, who has suffered greater losses and who has suffered less losses.

It can be said that under the influence of this mentality, they have no sense of dedication and only feel that they are the ones who suffer losses.

This is why Anda has always been asking for trade with the Ming Dynasty, because he knows the habits of the grassland people too well.

Now with him in power, the grassland can still maintain a certain degree of unity. Once he gets old and other ambitious grassland heroes rise up, the situation he has worked so hard to maintain may collapse in an instant.

Therefore, in order to delay this collapse and for his family to survive on the grassland for a long time, even though he and the Ming Dynasty were always in a state of hostility, he would continue to strive for mutual trade with the Ming Dynasty and obtain the official recognition of the Ming Dynasty court to be canonized as the king of the grassland, so that he could always share the interests of the Central Plains. This would also distinguish his family and tribe from those barbaric tribes on the grassland who only knew how to fight and kill without considering the future.

Anda knew too well the gap between the grassland and the Central Plains.

Today is no longer the era when Genghis Khan dominated the world and Kublai Khan conquered the Central Plains. His ancestors had been fighting with the Ming Dynasty for two hundred years in the nine borders of the Ming Dynasty.

Although it seemed that they had been winning in terms of their winning rate and significant achievements, Anda was very clear that they had never truly occupied an inch of Han territory in the past two hundred years.

Every time they can only rob like bandits, robbing once and leaving, and they are simply unable to maintain long-term interests.

Moreover, as the grasslands have become increasingly colder over the years, their production space has become precarious. What's more, the Xuanda Nine Borders that they have been robbing for two hundred years have become increasingly poorer, and they can no longer rob any good things.

So under this circumstance, all Anda could think of was to do his best, whether by begging or fighting, to ensure the trade with the Ming Dynasty.

Only in this way can the relationship between him and the Ming Dynasty enter a stable zone, and his tribe can continuously obtain food and various winter supplies provided by the Ming Dynasty through mutual trade.

Otherwise, if the war continues like this, no one will benefit in the end, which is absolutely unacceptable for Anda, who is determined to keep the tribe alive.

But unfortunately, not everyone can understand his heart.

The tribes that followed him south wanted to make a big grab and then have a good year.

But if they were asked to come here just for a spin, with no benefit and even the loss of lives, they would never petition.

So the situation now is just like these people who were arranged to set up the barricades. They all thought that they could get everything they wanted by riding on horses and holding knives.

But someone prevented them from riding horses and instead forced them to do this extremely boring and tiring job. This was undoubtedly a psychological and physical torture for these grassland people who were used to being free and undisciplined.

So now the people who are setting up the barricades are extremely unbalanced psychologically. They don't regard the other people who are resting in the camp as a whole with the same interests. They just think that others can eat and sleep, but they have to stay awake and work all the time. Who the hell is happy with this?

Therefore, they were very slow in setting up these defensive chevaux de frise stakes, without any sense of urgency as if a powerful enemy was approaching.

And it was precisely because of their mentality that Teng Xiang and other two sneak attack teams had the opportunity.

Teng Xiang was excited when he saw the gap in the chevaux de frise. This was a godsend opportunity. If they were lucky, they could ride their horses to the enemy's center and drop bombs on the ground, instead of launching a surprise attack on a group of bandits near the edge of the camp as originally planned.

"Brothers, do you see that gap? Get ready in half a cup of tea, and we will start the charge! This time we will also let these Tatar bandits feel what cruelty is!"

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