Chapter 2711: How to compete with the enemy and me
Torre is probably the most familiar one among Genghis Khan's sons, because of the famous novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" in later generations.
In that book, the author portrayed Torre into a young man with a good heart and a pure and simple personality... But in fact, Torre in history was not the case.
According to the original records, the Torre was indeed stronger than his brothers in terms of ability and level, but he died young and died earlier.
Torre is extremely capable of leading his army to fight, and at the same time he is extremely cruel. He is also extremely cruel when killing the people of other countries.
According to historical records, Torre led 70,000 Mongolian troops to attack this city under the city of Malu in Khorasan region.
When the generals of Maru City proposed to surrender, Torre decisively agreed to his request.
As a result, after the city gate opened and the Mongolian army entered the city.
As soon as the defenders of Malu City put down their weapons, the Mongolian soldiers immediately began a massacre of the military and civilians in the city.
In addition to the 400 craftsmen they left behind, all 700,000 people in the entire city of Maru were massacred by Torre! In addition, Tarihan, Shabuer, and Zalandin... When countless famous Eurasian cities were captured, as long as someone dared to resist, Torre ordered the massacre to be massacred, so that countless people died at his hands.
So for the Mongolians, the Fourth Prince Tolei is undoubtedly a brave and decisive hero.
But for those who were conquered by him, he was an absolute demon! So at this time, the common people in Fancheng really thanked General Hai Mutang for leading his troops in time.
Otherwise, by dawn tomorrow, there will be only a few living people left in Fancheng! Torre is 38 years old this year, and he is very experienced in leading troops to fight.
You should know that when he was twenty years old, he led his troops to capture Dexing Prefecture of the Jin Kingdom (now Zhuolu County, Hebei Province), and later conquered the Jin Kingdom's Xiong, Ba, Mo, Hejian and other Hebei prefectures and counties and counties in Shandong.
So at this time, Tore was a young, strong, but cunning and vicious wolf! The face of this Torere did not grow up with a big face, with a rough face full of frost, like his eldest brother Shu Chi and his second brother Chagatai, nor did he look like his third brother Ogedei, with a sharp edge and fierce look.
Instead, it has a soft and relatively elegant face.
Tolei is the most like his father Temujin among his brothers, and he is indeed generous to his tribe members.
In addition, Mongolia has always had a tradition of young sons inheriting the family business, so his reputation among the Mongolian tribes has always been very high.
At this time, the middle-aged Marshal Tolei was sitting on the horse, quietly looking at Fancheng in the distance.
...There is another general in the Torre army, named Gong Wenbuhua.
This person is the son of Genghis Khan's half-brother Belegutai, and can also be said to be the elder brother of the Mongolian army commander Torre.
This gentle and cunning person is a very difficult general.
He was about forty years old, with wrinkles on his face as deep as a knife carving, but his beard and hair were already a little bit white.
Due to his bloodline, although he was older, Prince Torre was the commander of the army.
When the Mongolian army scouts tested Fancheng's defense during the day, the two brothers were all focused on watching the performance on the city.
When they saw that the shells fired by Tongzhou military artillery were so sharp that they could cause dozens of cavalry casualties with one shot, the two immediately became alert.
"Master, this Fancheng is not easy to fight!"
At this time, I saw that when I opened my mouth, I felt a thick sound: "The ladder has been built. Should we do an assault at night?"
"Don't worry, wait."
After thinking for a while, Tore said calmly: "There are Tongzhou troops guarding in Fancheng. If you want to take it down in a hurry, it will definitely cause a large number of casualties."
"Go to inform General Guo of Nan'an Camp and ask him to step up his attack on Xiangyang.
As for Fancheng here... when the artillery behind us comes, Fancheng will naturally fall."
Following the orders of Marshal Tolei, the messenger immediately ran down the Han River and prepared to cross the river to send a message to Guo Baoyu.
...And at this time, General Hai Mutang in Fancheng did something that seemed to have nothing to do with defending the city.
After the daytime battle, she arranged the night defenses on the city and rushed to the government office of Fancheng.
There he brought the soldiers to copy out a large number of government documents.
Hai Mutang took medicine according to the prescription and brought the war to the death. When the chaos occurred, all the wealthy families in Fancheng who had not suffered any losses were arrested.
Then the female general decisively punished the crime of colluding with the enemy, pushed the owners of these wealthy families to the streets and killed them completely!... Although the female general was cruel, the reason she raised was irrefutable - the people were poisoned during the war and were killed and seriously injured by the rebels.
But these wealthy families in the city almost didn’t even have any hair damage. Who would believe that these people didn’t cooperate with each other?
After that, Hai Mutang followed the land registered in the government.
All the land and locations of the wealthy households who were plundered by the rioters and those wealthy households who were killed by her tonight were investigated.
Then Hai Mutang took out a large stack of land deeds for the government to re-certify the land... These were printed blank forms, which were used for transferring to the government during trading.
Hai Mutang picked up his Tongzhou general's seal and asked his adjutant to cover several stacks of such deeds in one breath.
Then Hai Mutang summoned the neighbors in the city and asked them to go down to shout slogans to notify the people in the city.
Now the Tongzhou army needs manpower to defend the city, and at the price of 20 taels of silver and ten acres of good land, they recruit strong men as civilians! This time, the dark night in Fancheng was boiling by the excited and excited people!... Twenty taels of silver and ten acres of land, as long as they work with the army, this is a great reward! As long as the general helps defend Fancheng, even a beggar can transform into a life of food and clothing! So a large number of people ran around and told each other, and for a moment, countless strong men rushed towards the yamen like a sea of people.
You should know that before this, the Tongzhou army had always had a good reputation among the people.
Not only have these people in Fancheng never heard of, the Tongzhou army has acted to go back on their word.
Chapter completed!