Chapter 17 Battle of Thirteen Wings: Victory without Victory

One mountain cannot contain two tigers, and there cannot be two big guys in a Mongolian tribe.Everyone knew that there would be a battle between Temujin and Jamuka, but no one expected that the battle would come so soon. A month after Temujin proclaimed Genghis Khan, two insignificant figures stepped into the historical spotlight.One is Tutaichaer, the younger brother of Jamuka, and the other is Zhuchitarmaa, a subordinate of Temujin and Zarayier. That day, Zhuo Chida'er Maji watched his horses grazing leisurely on the grassland, and fell asleep as he watched the sleepiness strike.Bald Tai Cha'er observed the horse owner's dereliction of duty in the dark, ran out and drove away several horses, and fled at a gallop.

After waking up, Zhuo Chida'er found that a few horses were missing. He jumped on the horse's back and followed the horse thief.In the evening, he caught up with the horse thief Tutai Cha'er, and he shot an arrow at the horse thief's blurry figure. Tutai Cha'er was unlucky, and the arrow hit the heart, whining on the spot.Clumsy Chida'er Horse Spur looked absently at the horse thief before taking it back.This glance made him almost fall off his horse, he recognized that this was Jamuhe's younger brother! Killing the horse thief was not a crime, but under the circumstances at that time, if the horse thief was from Jamuka, it would be a serious crime.He ran to Temujin in panic and reported the bad news.

Temujin immediately convened a meeting to discuss countermeasures. Borshu asserted that Jamuka would definitely send troops.Hesar said dubiously: "No, it's the law on the grassland, killing horse thieves is justified, and Jamuka has no justice." Temujin agreed with Borshu's judgment and ordered to enter a state of combat readiness.At the same time, spies were sent to pay close attention to Jamuka's movements and report at any time. A few days later, accurate information came.Zamuhe has gathered 30,000 horses from thirteen tribes, divided them into thirteen combat units and headed towards Lanhu.

Intelligence pointed out that Jamuka’s main forces were its headquarters, Zadalan, and Temujin’s deadly rival, Taichiwu. The Zhu'erqin tribe in the Muzhen camp is known as the three Mongolian thugs, and they are all brave and skilled tribes. It was at this time that Temujin began to attach importance to intelligence collection. His army was invincible, and he made outstanding contributions to intelligence work. Armed with intelligence, he and his colleagues began to formulate a battle plan.He secretly learned a lot of tactics from Jamuka, but he has never actually fought. This is the first time he has formulated a battle plan, and it is also the first time he has entered the battlefield as the supreme commander. He is inevitably a little excited.

His plan was to imitate that since Jamuka was divided into thirteen combat units, he also divided the troops into thirteen combat units, also known as the Thirteen Wings.Due to lack of manpower, even his mother, Hoelun, served as the commander of a unit. Temujin had less than 5,000 troops, so when the enemy was outnumbered, he had to work hard on the formation.Temujin decided to take advantage of the location, that is, to line up in a narrow area where the enemy is not easy to conduct a large-scale attack, and to attack the enemies trying to pass through the aisle.He took a fancy to the terrain around the Dalan version of Zhusi Mountain in the upper reaches of the Onon River, so he began to carefully arrange the battlefield there.

Three hundred people were deployed on the east side of the mountain, and the commanders were his mother Hoelun and his younger brother Khasar; five hundred people were deployed on the west side, and he personally commanded them.At the exit of the mountain is the main force of 3,000 people, and at least eight combat units are defending here.Fences and traps were set up fifty meters in front of the defensive position to slow down the enemy's attack speed. It looks like this is a perfect battlefield layout.Theoretically, the mountain pass was narrow, and Jamuka lost the advantage of having a large number of people, and his troops could only form a horizontal team of less than ten people to launch an attack.But if you think about it carefully, you will find that this layout has a fatal flaw.The forces were dispersed, and if Jamuka attacked the mountain pass while attacking the east and west sides of the mountain, Temujin would be in danger of being divided and surrounded.

This is not to blame for Temujin, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and there are too few others, so no matter how to arrange it, it will be difficult.He just hoped that Jamuhe would be more stupid and not think of a plan to attack at the same time. At the beginning, Jamuka didn't think about it, because he didn't know Temujin's layout.His first wave of attacks was carried out by two unremarkable tribes. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this was Jamuka's reconnaissance attack. He wanted to find out Temujin's layout and structure. The cannon fodder of a thousand people rushed towards the mountain pass. Although the fences and traps slowed their progress, they were quickly dismantled. Seeing that they had entered his attack range, Mu Zhen immediately ordered to attack.At the same time, Hoelun also issued an attack order, and more than 800 people rushed out from the east and west sides of the mountain. As he expected, 1,000 people from Jamuka became cannon fodder.

He watched the first wave of attacking troops wiped out, and laughed wildly: "Brother Temujin, your layout is too poor. Just wait! Watch me capture you alive." Temujin yelled that it was not good. Jamuka's second wave of attacking troops had already rushed forward, shouting wildly. This was a tiger-wolf division composed of the Wuluwu tribe and the Mangwu tribe.With fences and traps destroyed, there was no longer any power to slow their advance, and they crashed into Temujin's defensive position on the mountain pass like a tidal wave from the Qiantang River. Tiemu really wanted to order the troops on the east and west sides of the mountain to carry out rescue, when he suddenly saw an enemy army approaching him, and the west side where his mother was located had already exchanged fire with the enemy.

What he was most worried about finally happened. Jamuka adopted a three-way attack at the same time.The enemy was right in front of them, and the soldiers found that he was not panic or suffering, but shouted happily: "Zamuka is really good at using soldiers, I have too much to learn!" The victory and defeat have been divided, and Temujin faced the enemies all over the mountains and plains, so he had to order to retreat.His soldiers were chased by Jamuka's troops like rats crossing the street, with no manners at all. Temujin fled for 300 miles and fled into the Zhelene Gorge on the south bank of the Onon River. Temujin expressed regret and anger about the matter, and when he set up camp on the way back to the teacher, he called the seventy captives he had caught to speak in front of him.The vast majority of these seventy people rebelled and ran away from his camp. He scolded this group of people for being ungrateful and not knowing how to manage their lives. Water flows downhill and people go uphill. In his opinion, This group of people happened to have elm heads, and they tended to walk low.

In the end, Jamuka said in the name of God: "You people will pay the price for treachery. My punishment is to boil you alive." The punishment of "cooking to death" mentioned by Zamuhe is called "soup wok" in the ancient Chinese criminal law. They were scalded to death in a footless cauldron filled with boiling water at 100 degrees Celsius. This is a cruel punishment. Jamuka used this method to deal with his Mongolian compatriots, which is chilling.Chief Zhu'er Chabai of the Ulu-Wu Tribe and Kuyil Da'er of the Mangwu Tribe came to persuade Jamuka: We are all Mongols, this is a civil war, not a foreign war, there is really no need to be so cruel.

Jamuhe jumped up sensitively. During this time, there were too many rebels in his tribe, and the leaders of two powerful factions said this about him, which made him realize that the two might be rebellious. He glared at the two of them and shouted: "I am punishing a traitor, how can I call it cruel? Temujin is not cruel, you go find him!" The two immediately shut up, and Jamuka ordered to take the last prisoner: Chahean, the chief of the Nyagusi tribe, who was one of the first rebels and was also the commander of a combat unit of Temujin in this battle. .Jamuka pulled off his beard and hair first, and reprimanded him angrily: "How kind I am to you, everyone can betray me, but you are the only one who has no fucking right to betray me!" Chahe'an screamed because of the pain, and in the interval between howling, he cursed Jamuka to die.Jamuhe smoked from his seven orifices, and ordered someone to cut off his head, tied the body to his ponytail, and dragged him back to the base camp. Jamuka's cruel behavior made many people in his tribe terrified and disappointed at the same time.Most of the leaders on the prairie were cruel. For example, Temujin would often massacre cities and torture captives in the future.But Temujin and Jamuka's cruel implementation goals are different. Temujin's cruelty has never been imposed on the Mongols, but Jamuka treated his compatriots so cruelly. Obviously, this is the worst thing to go after defeating Temujin. chess.Two days later, the chieftains of the Ulu-Wu Tribe, Ju'er Tabai, and the chieftains of the Mangwu Tribe, Kuyil-Da'er, took refuge with Temujin overnight. Temujin exclaimed in surprise: "The three most war-fighting tribes in Mongolia are all under my command!" A few days later, another group of rebel tribes from the Jamuka camp came. Temujin said confidently: "Jamuka is undefeated but defeated, and I am undefeated and victorious." Jamuka was the most noble person in Temujin's life. At the beginning, he provided Temujin with a source of strength, and now he drove people to Temujin's yurt.It seems that whoever doesn't go is the right partner to cooperate with him.Not only were the tribes under his control unconsciously driven to Temujin, but most of the Mongols in the Onon and Kerulun River valleys involuntarily gathered there. Temujin is like the word "forbidden" written by Maitreya Buddha in the palm of Sun Wukong, attracting all kinds of yellow-browed monsters to come.This is not the heaven taking care of Temujin, but the result of Temujin's personal efforts. Temujin was generous, and the prey distributed to those tribes after hunting was always far beyond their imagination. He was too kind to his compatriots, not only did not exploit them, but helped them vigorously.Compared with the harsh and ungrateful chiefs of other tribes, Temujin became the representative of Changshengtian. All of a sudden, Temujin's good reputation spread like wildfire and spread throughout the grasslands. Before people came to join him, they swore to Changshengtian that they would swear allegiance to him to the death. People see the fact that as long as they are loyal to Temujin, they can get benefits that were impossible to get before. The result of the first battle with Jamuka - the battle of the thirteen wings was a failure, but Temujin stood up again relying on the positive energy in his character and the strategy of consciously buying people's hearts. Ten times stronger than before.