Chapter 263: The Mongol Army Falls
Zhu Youdong had already gathered together at this time, looking at the appearance of everyone killed and covered in blood, although everyone was exhausted, everyone was extremely happy. Subsequently, all the ministries reported that a large number of Mongol prisoners had been collected. Zhu Youdong asked all the captives to be taken care of, and now the southern half of the canyon has basically been controlled by the Restoration Army, and the Mongol troops here have become prisoners.
Xia Guoxiang remembered that he had gathered hundreds of Mongolian leaders, and hurriedly said to Zhu Youdong: "Your Highness, these captives cannot be taken care of in a centralized manner, and now I am still holding more than 400 captives in the big camp." Their status is not ordinary, and many of them are leaders of Mongolian tribes. ”
Zhu Youdong was surprised: "How can so many leaders be captured? Xia Guoxiang hurriedly explained the situation at that time, and then said: "At that time, I was just thinking about letting these Mongolian leaders come and recruit these Mongolian troops. But I didn't expect that now there is no need for them to surrender at all, and the Mongol army itself has already surrendered so many people. ”
Zhu Youdong said: "It is indeed a trouble to keep them now. These Mongol captives, without their leaders, we can control some of them. With them here, there might be some accidents. Zhu Youdong turned around several times in a row, and said to Xia Guoxiang: "In this way, you immediately take people back to the military camp in Daguan Town." Take all those Mongolian leaders to the direction of Tongcheng, and say that they are going to take the Yangtze River into Huguang, and let them go to the southeast of Tongcheng. ”
Xia Guoxiang said: "Your Highness wants to take them." Saying that, Xia Xiangguo put his hand down everything. Zhu Youdong said: "No way, now we don't have time to make other choices, we are going to use these Mongols immediately." Use their hatred of the Manchus to contribute to our actions in Nanjing. If we keep these leaders, we won't be able to command these Mongols. When something happens, we won't recover. ”
Saying that, Zhu Youdong said again: "There is a lake in the southeast of Tongcheng, called White Rabbit Lake. After speaking, Zhu Youdong left directly and went to the north. As he walked, he said to Zhao Yun: "You wait for half an hour, and then take the Mongolian prisoners to Daguan Town." ”
Xia Guoxiang also understood what Zhu Youdong meant, and immediately hurried back to Daguan Town with a thousand people. Xia Guoxiang returned to Daguan Town and immediately left with the Mongol leaders who had surrendered. These Mongol chieftains have not been heard from since, and no one knows where they have gone. Even the 1,000 soldiers brought by Xia Guoxiang were all silent.
After Zhu Youdong dealt with these prisoners, he immediately led his army to the north of the gorge, but the current Mongol army had either surrendered or had fled. There were also not many Mongol troops along the way. Zhu Youdong led the army to chase two miles to the north, and then saw a large number of Restoration Army, attacking the Mongol army.
When Zhu Youdong looked over, it was indeed Liu Zhen and Feng Shuangli who were attacking. Zhu Youdong also thought that after the Mongolian army escaped, it was organized by the Mongolian generals, which caused the attack of the army to go unsmoothly. As a result, when Zhu Youdong saw the Mongolian army in front, he was relieved.
Because Zhu Youdong faintly saw that in the north of the Mongolian army, there was already a Fuming army attacking Xiangnan, which showed that the Mongolian army here was surrounded. What's more, these Mongol troops were not half calm at all, and everyone was panicked. The attack on the Restoration Army was only instinctive resistance, and there was no appearance of matching the formation at all.
At that time, Sonomu led more than 1,000 Mongolian cavalry and directly broke through the defense line of the Restoration Army on the northern front. Then he hit the horse directly to the north, without the slightest intention of staying, and he was about to leave. Who knew that he had just run north not a mile away, and Sonomu felt that the war horse under his crotch was short, and his body was light, and the whole person flew forward in the air.
The more than 1,000 cavalry that followed behind Sonomu were all following Suo Nomu and were charging towards Beixia Pass. At this time, as soon as Sonomu fell, the other cavalry also fell all over the ground. Sonomu fell a few feet away from his warhorse, and suddenly felt dizzy and in pain all over his body. I wish I was dead, lying on the ground motionless.
After waiting for a while, Sonomu endured the pain and struggled to get up. When he looked at his horse, he found that the ground was full of pits, and his mount had broken his horse's leg and could no longer ride.
The other horses around were also neighing, and most of the horses had their legs broken. And in the high-speed running, these cavalry were also thrown out a few feet away, and now they are all rolling on the ground, and no one can stand up at all. Seeing this, Badali, who ran out of the encirclement of the Restoration Army, was also startled.
I thought that this place was also ambushed by the Restoration Army, but after waiting for a while, I didn't see any Restoration Army killing, so I was a little relieved. But at this time, he didn't care about the Mongolian cavalry who fell to the ground. Just want this to get out of this nightmare canyon as soon as possible.
When they left in the morning, the official roads here were all fine, why did there suddenly appear so many traps? It was obvious that the Ming army had already arranged a defensive line in front, and when Badali thought of this, he turned his head to look at the Mongolian army beside him, and couldn't help but feel cold in his heart.
The 30,000 troops who entered the canyon are now without cronies around them, and the Mongol army that fled here is no different from calling Hanako. At that time, when he was in Taniguchi, he was killed and wounded by the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Xia State Ministers, and about 2,000 people were killed.
Later, in the melee, another 7,000 people were killed. When they fled north, they surrendered about 6,000 people in desperation. Then he fled all the way north, was trampled to death and chased by the Restoration Army, killing about 2,000 people. In the early stage, there were about 3,000 people who retreated, and now there are about 5,000 people who are still surrounded by the Ming army.
Now there are only 4,000 people who can take it out and still stand in front of Badaali. There were also a thousand more people who were falling to the ground with Sonomu. Seeing such a tragic situation, Badali didn't have time to be sad, and said to the surrounding Mongols: "Since the Ming army has dug a trap here, it is estimated that they will not let it go here, and now while the Ming army has not come, we have to leave quickly." ”
After speaking, he directly led the army, bypassed Sonomu and his party, and continued to the north with the army. The North Gorge Pass was already visible from afar, and all the Mongols seemed to see hope. Immediately, they all followed Badali and wanted to run to Beixia Pass.
Badali guessed that the Restoration Army would not let go of these Mongolian soldiers easily, and Li Gui and others, who were defending Beixia Pass, certainly did not let the Mongolian army leave easily. Just as Badali and his army had bypassed Sonom, the army was returning to the official road. Some of the people who had found the horses were trying to ride away quickly.
At this time, shouts of killing also sounded in the woods next to the official road, but not a single Restoration Army came out. Then Badali saw a large amount of dry wood and forage thrown on both sides of the official road. Originally, seeing the dry firewood, Badali also understood that the Restoration Army was going to attack with fire, but what was the forage thrown by the Restoration Army?
But then Badali was gone, and he was about to dismount, and had already gone over to eat forage on his own. No matter how he whipped, the horse would not move. Originally, the Mongolian war horses had not eaten forage for a day from morning to now, and their stomachs were already hungry.
Now the Restoration Army threw out a large amount of forage, even the war horses that had been ridden by the Mongol cavalry and were about to run north. Immediately, they all stopped, no matter how the knight on his back whipped, he just didn't want to leave again. Suddenly, all the Mongols watched as the people of the Restoration Army threw a large amount of dry firewood on the official road. I could only watch the army of the Restoration Army, assembling and arming in front.
All the Mongols understood that the Restoration Army was going to set fire. But now the war horse under the crotch doesn't listen to the command at all, and only cares about eating grass by itself. Some Mongolians wanted to rush over directly on foot, but at this moment, thousands of people from the Restoration Army gathered on the official road to the north, blocking the road for the Mongol army to go north.
If there was no forage at that time, many Mongol soldiers would have run over on horseback, but now the horses do not move, and they can only let the soldiers of the Restoration Army lay out the defensive line there. And now a large number of war horses are gathered on the official road to eat forage, and the Mongolian army cannot pass at all, and can only be blocked behind the war horses.
There were too few Mongols in front to break through the defense line of the Restoration Army. The Mongols in the back couldn't come again, and all the Mongol troops could only watch the Restoration Army move and deploy. Seeing that the Restoration Army on both sides was about to encircle, the four or five thousand Mongols here were all panicked.
If the Restoration Army is really surrounded, will they still have a way out? There are still many Mongolians who raised their butcher knives to the war horses in pain, but now these war horses don't care at all and are still blocked on the official road. It didn't take long for all the dry firewood prepared by the Restoration Army to be thrown onto the official road, and a lot of dry firewood was thrown into the Mongolian army. Then in the woods on both sides, countless rockets were fired, and the dry firewood soaked in oil ignited when it caught fire.
Immediately, the official road was ablaze, and some of the Mongols who had already entered the area where dry firewood was thrown were swallowed up by the fire before they could retreat. There are also countless war horses, which were originally eating forage, but now they are roasted by the fire, and they suddenly can't care about eating anymore. With a neigh, all the horses began to flee in all directions.
In the north and on both sides of the official road, everyone has been ignited. The panicked war horses, after a few laps back and forth, all ran south. Some Mongols who had not yet run out of the official road were suddenly trampled on countless times. The worst thing was the Mongolian soldier who fell on the official road just now, who was in pain and couldn't get up at all.
Now these war horses, it doesn't matter whether people or horses are lying on the ground. rushed over directly, and the Mongolian soldiers who were lying on the ground were immediately trampled to death by these running war horses. When Sonomu saw the war horse galloping wildly, he immediately wanted to run to both sides of the official road. But he had just broken his leg, was limping, and hadn't even run two steps. was knocked out by the running war horse, and then was drowned by the war horse behind.
Seeing this, the remaining Mongols also fled south. But how can they outrun the war horse, and there are countless people who were trampled to death by the war horse. And Li Gui and Jia Sibu, who were ambushed in the mountains, also followed the war horses at this time and chased the Mongols on both sides to the south.
Today's Mongols have become frightened birds, who dare to turn back to resist the Restoration Army, everyone is rushing to flee south. Who knows. These Mongol troops had just run about a mile south when they saw a large number of Restoration troops coming from the south.
Seeing such a situation, the Mongols, who had been running for a day, were desperate and could no longer run. Many Mongols sat on the ground and shouted, "If you don't run, you won't be able to run anymore, and you won't be able to run out, so it's better to surrender." ”
Someone started it, and immediately someone agreed: "Yes, you see that the previous 30,000 Mongol troops are now empty." No matter how powerful the Ming army is, it is impossible to kill it all quickly, and we will definitely accept surrender. ”