Chapter 198: A Thousand Mile Attack (3)
After five consecutive days, Li Guodong's two thousand iron cavalry swept three small camps of Korqin people in a row, slaughtering more than 8,600 males, snatched all the horses, killed all the cattle and sheep used by the Korqin people to make them, and made them into fragrant pieces of meat to take them away. The women and children left behind were thrown into the burned camp. Many women and children were frozen to death, and some became food for the wolves in the grassland.
By plundering the beef and mutton supplemented by the Korqin people, it became Li Guodong's military rations, the hay and beans he stolen were supplemented with the feed of war horses, allowing this cavalry team to move on the Korqin grassland for a long time.
The robbed horses reached more than 37,000. In addition to dozens of horses eaten by wild wolves, more than a thousand injured and unusable horses were killed and made into horse meat. The rest of the horses were all left behind. Among them, more than 12,000 horses suitable for war horses, and more than 24,000 horses are not suitable for war horses.
Because when the Korqin camp was attacked at night, it was impossible for the unused horses to rush to the camp, so they were tied to one side by Li Guodong and the others, and were attacked by wolves. Fortunately, Li Guodong placed some old and weak horses on the periphery. When the wolves came, they were all old and weak horses to death. The good horses placed in the middle were safe and sound.
In this way, Li Guodong's cavalry reached the luxury of one man and nine horses, and even a slow horse that was not suitable for riding was useful. Li Guodong put the slaughtered pieces of meat into a cloth bag, including the seized grass, all transported by a slow horse camel.
He attacked three camps in a row, and none of Li Guodong's cavalry were killed, and only more than ten people were slightly injured.
Although many camps of Korqin people have been attacked, the grasslands in winter are white and the Mongolians do not walk much between them. They are not aware of this uninvited guest who broke into the Korqin grassland.
"We have made a fortune in so many horses!" Han Dashan said proudly as he looked at the capture of his team.
"When we go back, we will keep some of the war horses ourselves, and we will sell the rest as soon as possible, so we will sell them to the Ming Dynasty. We can't support so many war horses, and it will be worthless if they are kept to lose weight. A part of the slow horses can also be sold to the Ming Dynasty, and a part of us will keep the other part for the caravan." Li Guodong said.
In addition to the seized war horses, the cavalry team also grabbed a lot of gold and silver treasures this time. All the gold and silver treasures that were robbed were put into a solid cloth pocket and hung on the horse's back.
"There are more than 3,000 taels of gold and more than 10,000 taels of silver, as well as jewelry such as gems, pearls, agate, tortoiseshell, and valuable things like deer antlers, bear skins, old ginseng. These things are worth more than 200,000 taels of silver!" Zhang Wei said with a smile on his face and said.
Li Guodong saw a string of necklaces made of large pearls and red sapphires, and saw that the necklace was covered with blood. So he said angrily: "A lot of gold, silver and treasures are covered with the blood of our Han people! Before, the old slave slaughtered the Han people in Liaodong, and gave a lot of the wealth he snatched and rewarded them to the Korqin tribe. During the Jisi Incident two years ago, the Korqin Tatars also entered the pass with Jiannu and robbed them. They were the most active group of Mongolians! They also robbed them of a lot of wealth. Now we are just asking them back!"
"Brother, the camp where Zaisang Jinguan is located is not far from us, less than twenty miles away. We can attack their camp tonight, and it is best to catch Huang Taiji's father-in-law Zaisangzi." Han Dashan suggested.
"Don't rush to Zasang's golden tent. There are at least 50,000 people in the tribe where Korqin Beile is located, and we can't kill all 50,000 people. As long as we attack Korqin Beile's golden tent, our whereabouts will be exposed. Let's take advantage of these few days to sweep the small tribes around first." Li Guodong said with a smile. He was not in a hurry to attack Zasang's golden tent. The small tribes that attacked a few days ago, the women and children who survived had not yet run out to report the news, and they did not dare to leave the camp at will. It was snowy and the hungry wolves were worried that they could not find food.
That night, Li Guodong led his cavalry to attack a small camp with only more than 2,000 people, killed more than 1,000 male members of the Korchin tribe, and grabbed more than 5,000 horses.
"There are more horses I have grabbed, and our target is also bigger. As time goes by, the Korqin Tartars will probably find out about us. We will attack Zasang's golden tent tomorrow night! It doesn't matter whether we can kill Zasang or not. The most important thing for us is to kill their male tent as much as possible! Cut off one of Jiannu's arm!" Li Guodong finally aimed at Zasang's golden tent.
During the day, Li Guodong's cavalry hid behind a hill. Li Guodong personally led his people to reconnaise the camp. He found that the tribe where the Korqin Golden Tent was indeed large in scale, with more than ten miles of yurts and scattered on the snow. They were filled with Mongolian tents, with tens of thousands of yurts.
Li Guodong was watching the camp of Korqin people with a monocular lens in his hand. He found the golden tent located in the middle of the camp, so he handed the binocular lens to Han Dashan, Zhang Wei and others: "Look there, that is the golden tent of Korqin people. There are tens of thousands of Tartars here, and we only have two thousand people, so it is impossible to kill them all. Remember, after rushing in, I personally took a team of people to rush to the golden tent. You guys will protect us around. Han Dashan, you are still doing your job, go to the stable to untie the reins. But there are many stables here. Han Dashan, you disperse your people. Every time the stables are taken care of, drive the horses out, we set fires everywhere, and kill people as much as possible. Retreat immediately when dawn is approaching!"
Li Guodong's plan was to directly attack Zaisang's golden tent and fight to capture Korqin Beile. But he didn't know at all. In fact, at this time, the leaders of Korqin such as Zaisang, Ao Lebu and Man Zhu Xili were not in the tribe, but led the Korqin cavalry to follow the Jin army to participate in the Battle of Daling River. Most of the males in the tribe were not there, leaving only women, children, elderly and weak.
After careful reconnaissance, Li Guodong recorded the topographic map of the Korqin Jinguan Camp in his mind. Back at the back of the hill, he first drew a picture on the snow, and then called all the master generals under his command, gathered beside him, gestured the map on the snow in his hand, and began to arrange an attack plan.
Chapter completed!