Chapter 418, The Fall of the Eagle (II)

In a basin less than thirty miles away from Hukou Pass, the army of the southeast, east and west caught up with the 40,000 men and horses of Dayan Khan's headquarters, and surrounded these 40,000 people in this basin.

The speed of the steppe people's evacuation was too slow, because there were too many, too many things that they were reluctant to discard, and the iron pots, grain, salt, tea, gold, silver, jewelry, etc., everything they grabbed were things that could never be discarded for these steppe people.

In this way, because of the drag of these things, Dayan Khan, who could easily withdraw to the steppe, was surrounded, and was surrounded in this word basin.

In the center of the basin is the Golden Horde of the little prince Dayan Khan, and at this time, Dayan Khan is holding a meeting to discuss the immediate countermeasures, and no one expected that the Ming army would come so quickly.

These Ming troops flew from the sky as if they had wings, and they surrounded them here at once.

"Khan, please give me 10,000 elite soldiers, I will kill these Ming troops and defeat them!"

Altan was the first to stand up and ask for battle, he knew that at this time, someone needed to come out to act as a vanguard, and he was definitely the most suitable.

"Good~"

Dayan Khan suddenly laughed happily and said, "I'll give you 10,000 fine horses, but you only need to rush north, open the gap, and break through the Hukou Pass." ”

Dayan Khan is still empty, and he lost 80,000 troops for no reason, he doesn't know what happened to the Ming army, why it suddenly became so brave and good at fighting, and the 80,000 army is gone.

Now he is surrounded again, and he only has 40,000 horses in his hands, and the Ming army gathered around him is at least 200,000, 40,000 against 200,000.

If it was before, he was not false at all, and even dared to say that he could easily eat the 200,000 Ming troops, but now, he has no confidence in his heart, and he is very empty, so he still retreats first, opens the gap, and evacuates from Hukou Pass.

"Yes!"

When Altan heard this, he was slightly stunned, but soon said respectfully.

"We are the eagles on the grassland, we are shoulder to shoulder with the sun god, we look down on the earth, and the place where the sun shines is our pasture."

"Nothing can stop our eagles, and we will return to the grassland."

Then Dayan Khan stood up and said in a loud voice, he was cheering up his men, he realized that the battle in front of him was definitely a battle of life and death, so he needed to cheer up his troops and let them show more powerful combat effectiveness.

"These Ming troops in front of them, they are just a group of lambs, lambs to be slaughtered, in the past, they only dared to hide on the city wall and tremble, and never dared to fight with our grassland eagles."

"Warriors, pick up your scimitars, ride your horses, like fierce wolves, tear all these lambs in front of you, and leave these Ming Dynasty people with wounds that will never heal."

Dayan Khan drew the sword in his hand and shouted loudly, and his voice came out of the Golden Tent and into the huge crowd waiting outside, and suddenly all the people shouted together, like a howling wolf.

On the top of a mountain in the four high mountains of the basin, Liu Yu, the commander of the East Road Army, Wang Yue, the commander of the West Road, and Li Gao of the South Road, gathered together.

According to the order from the capital, the veteran general Wang Yue became the commander of the three armies, responsible for launching the final battle against the 40,000 men and horses of Dayan Khan's headquarters.

"Prince, how should this last battle be fought?"

Liu Yu smiled and said to Wang Yue, the war has been fought so far, he, the commander of the Eastern Route Army, can be said to have gained a lot, the Eastern Route Army has killed 25,000 enemies, and he, the commander, can almost get a reward of more than 200,000 taels of silver, which is definitely a very large number, even at his level, he still has to be ecstatic.

The key is that this silver comes from the right and the name is right, everyone will only say that you are powerful, and no one will say that you are corrupt.

In addition to the silver, he is also expected to be promoted, he has already sent people to the capital to carry out activities, visited his fellow countryman Liu Jian and his boss Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the military department, and got the reply that as long as this last battle is fought, he can join the sixth department as a squire in the second half of the year.

This good thing of making money and making a fortune is definitely everyone's favorite thing.

At this time, he looked at the grassland army below and his eyes were full of silver, all of which were bargaining chips for his promotion, just a pot of vegetables, a pot of vegetables that were still drooling.

Of course, not only him, but also Wang Yue, a veteran, as well as Li Gao and other senior generals, looked at the grassland army below, without the slightest fear, but felt a little little, not enough to share the feeling.

There are more than 200,000 horses in the total of the three road army, and there are only more than 40,000 grassland people in front of them.

"These Tartars will definitely find a way to break through, this is only thirty miles away from Hukou Pass, so the pressure on the north side will be very large, Liu Yu, can you withstand it here?"

Although Wang Yue was born in Wenchen, he has been sitting in the northwest for a long time, and he is considered a veteran, and he used to fight a tough battle with the Tartars, but he has never fought such a smooth battle as now.

These generals and soldiers under his command are crazy, one hundred taels of silver for a head of Tartar, plus a pension of two hundred taels of silver after death, under such a high reward, the soldiers under his hands are red-eyed hungry wolves, and they don't need to supervise the battle at all, nor do they need any tactics, and they can easily sweep away the Tartars.

He still has a lot of combat experience, and after a simple analysis of the situation, he deduced that the pressure on the north side would be very large, so he also asked Liu Yu first.

"There is no problem, our Eastern Route Army has the armor and weapons donated by the Miyun Iron Factory, and I have gathered those brave people together these days to form a 20,000-strong camp, there is absolutely no problem in blocking their breakthrough, and if they want to get out of the tiger's mouth, unless they have wings."

"I have already ordered people to use cement to seal the tiger's mouth, and they don't want to escape."

Liu Yu thought about it and said very affirmatively.

"Good~"

"Since there is no problem in the north, then it's okay, we don't have any tactics in this battle, that is, we let go of our hands and feet to fight, without any restrictions, we can fight as much as we want, bully the few, give full play to our numerical advantages, give full play to our advantages in brave combat, and strive to eat the last 40,000 people of the little prince in one bite."

Wang Yue nodded happily, and then stroked his gray beard and said.

"Yes~"

When Liu Yu, Li Gao and other generals heard this, they hurriedly replied respectfully.

"Pass the order, Your Majesty has already issued an order, who can capture the little prince alive, or behead the little prince, and directly seal the marquis, and at the same time, the Ming Morning Post has also conveyed the will of the prince's mansion, and the one who beheads the chief will be rewarded with 100,000 taels of silver!"

"Wow~"

Hearing Wang Yue's words, these people around him couldn't help but exclaim.

After beheading this little prince, he can directly become a marquis, and at the same time, he can also reward 100,000 taels of silver, this reward is also instantly eye-catching, and he can't wait to kill the little prince in the army of the little prince right now and kill the little prince.

"The one who beheads the chief will be crowned a marquis and rewarded with 100,000 taels of silver!"

Soon, the person in charge of the interrogation shouted loudly, and then one voice after another, and soon the news spread throughout the entire army, and suddenly the eyes of countless people became even redder.

Directly seal the marquis, and reward 100,000 taels of silver.

This is definitely an unprecedented reward, since the Tumubao Change, after the Ming Dynasty's military generals and nobles were suppressed, there have been few people in the Ming Dynasty who have been knighted by military merits.

Of course, there will be people who are knighted in every dynasty, but basically they are all earls, and there are very few marquises, very few, and there is no one who is crowned a duke.

These marquis and knights are basically relatives and elders of the court, rather than relying on military merits, and most of them are not hereditary, that is to say, this title can only be passed on for one generation, or it is constantly decreasing.

Unlike the British Duke, the Dingguo Gong, and the Chengguo Gong, these are the kind that generations of Guogong and share with the country, as long as the Ming Dynasty is not extinguished, as long as they are not rebellious, they can practice with the country.

Now it's okay, Emperor Hongzhi actually gave the marquis directly, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince even offered a sky-high price of 100,000 taels of silver to buy the head of the little prince.

As long as you kill this little prince Dayan Khanben, this is another feudal marquis, and the advent of 100,000 taels of silver, it will definitely be fame and fortune.

"Da Ming will win!"

When the soldiers heard this, their eyes turned blood-red and blood-red.

Who doesn't want to seal his wife and son, who doesn't want to seal the wolf Juxu, who doesn't want to leave a name in history, and who doesn't want to have a lot of money?

And now is the best chance, the best chance for these people.

In the past, these border troops and military households were all despised existences, and they were named in tatters, as the so-called good iron does not nail, and good men are not soldiers, which is enough to explain all this.

Under the restrictions of the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty, these people will never have the possibility of turning over, and even for generations, they are all tattered military households.

But now, a chance for a salted fish to turn over is in front of them, and a reward of one hundred taels of silver for killing a Tartar, if they can kill the enemy chieftain and directly seal the marquis, they can also reward one hundred thousand taels of silver.

One by one, the soldiers continued to roar, and the sound of the Ming Dynasty's victory resounded in the sky, and everyone waited silently, waiting for the arrival of the decisive battle.

"Hmm~"

"Hmm~"

Everyone didn't wait too long, with the sound of horns, on the mountains around the basin, more than 200,000 Ming troops shouted the slogan of Ming victory, lined up in a neat line and slowly closed to the middle.

"Hmm~"

Soon, there were also bursts of horns in the grassland army in the middle of the basin, and the steppe people turned over their horses, drew their scimitars in their hands, and slowly walked out of the barracks on war horses, slowly setting up a formation on the wide flat land outside.

In the sky, eagles circled, and the thick smell of gunpowder smoke rose into the sky.

A big war between the two sides was on the verge of breaking out.

On the flat ground on a mountainside, 300 cannons produced by the Miyun Iron Works are lined up, and the students from the Tianjin Maritime Academy are holding pens and paper in their hands, constantly recording and calculating something.

Miyun Iron Works donated 1,000 artillery pieces, in order to give full play to the advantages of these artillery, Liu Jin naturally would not let the artillerymen of the Ming army to control, so he also sent a group of students from Tianjin Maritime Academy to be responsible for controlling artillery, implementing accurate shelling, and giving full play to the advantages of artillery.

There are two artillery positions similar to this, a total of three artillery positions, which have already aimed their cannons at the Tartar army below, and they can immediately open fire after Wang Yue's order.

"Knock~Knock~"

"Hmm~Hmm~"

Soon, another deafening drum beat came, accompanied by a flurry of horns, which was the signal for the attack.

"Distance 8 miles~"

"Wind speed level 3~"

"Ten percent of gunpowder~"

"Open the gun~"

The Tianjin maritime trainees, who were in charge of directing the shelling, continued to calculate the data, and after the calculations, the flag in their hands waved heavily, and the artillerymen, who had already been prepared, lit the fuse with torches.

"Boom~"

A dull loud bang rang out in the mountains, and three hundred artillery pieces fired at the same time, and the sound alone was deafening and resounding through the sky.

Three hundred projectiles rose from the sky and fell towards the Tartar barracks.

"Boom~"

In an instant, the Tartar barracks exploded, although it was only a test firing, but the shelling of such a fixed area, with data calculations, and auxiliary aiming equipment, can still be done very accurately.

All 300 shells fell into the Tartar barracks, tents were blown open, blood mist erupted, terrifying loud noises, and terrifying power caused a large number of casualties in an instant.

However, this was only the beginning, as the three artillery positions opened fire almost simultaneously, a thousand guns let out a terrifying roar and roar, and thousands of shells exploded in the Tartars.

There were also artillery on the Tartar side, but their artillery was taken care of by another artillery position in the first salvo, and without a single shot, all these Tartar guns were scrapped.

"Distance 8 km ~"

"Custom Level 3~"

"Gunpowder 10 into ~"

"The angle is raised by two degrees~"

"Attack~"

Another salvo, the artillerymen's goal is very clear, that is, the golden tent in the middle, everyone wants to kill the little prince with one shot, so as to seal the marquis and get a reward of 100,000 taels of silver.

Projectiles fly in the sky, and each landing can bring a large number of casualties.

At the same time, on the battlefield in the basin, the two sides are also officially launched.

The steppe people kept slapping their war horses, and the sore war horses kept running, and the scimitar in their hands had already shone out, flashing with cold light.

On the side of the Ming army, with the sound of war drums, these Ming troops were like crazy, with red eyes, and rushed towards the Tartar army with the speed of a 100-meter race.

Some of the Ming troops who captured the Tartar war horses were even like the Tartars, riding war horses, raising the scimitars in their hands, and rushing over like the wind.

"One hundred taels of silver for a head~"

"Kill~"

"Da Ming will win!"

Slogans like this kept ringing, making the Ming army, who was originally red-eyed, rush forward even more desperately.

The two sides were like two turbulent waves, colliding together fiercely, instantly stirring up countless blood flowers.

The power of cavalry is undoubted, and once the speed is up, it can be turned into a simple and efficient killing machine just by relying on speed and a sharp scimitar.

However, the Ming army was not afraid at all, and had already found effective weapons against these Tartar cavalry.

Seeing that the two sides were about to collide together, the Ming army at the forefront took out lime bags from their arms one after another, and struggled to push these lime bags towards the tartars.

In an instant, a blockade area composed of quicklime was formed on the battlefield, and as soon as the Tartars entered it, whether it was a person or a war horse, they would be blinded by these quicklimes in an instant, or close their eyes.

Countless quicklimes were thrown out continuously, and the Tartar cavalry rushing in front was very sharp, although the speed had increased, although the scimitars in their hands were very sharp.

However, his eyes could not see clearly, and he could only rely on instinct to rush over, and he was soon stabbed down with a spear or tripped over a rope.

The cavalry behind was also treated like this, and the Ming army almost had a few bags of quicklime per person, and when they saw the Tartars, they beckoned to the past, and all of a sudden, countless white dust was raised on the battlefield.

The battle was very fierce, the Tartar cavalry was very fierce, the bows and arrows were extremely sharp, and many times before they had been contacted, a large number of bows and arrows had been put into a large area, a large area of the Ming army.

Then the Ming army was not afraid of death, with red eyes, even if someone fell on the road, the people behind still did not flinch in the slightest, and the battle between the two sides soon entered a white-hot stage.

The war horse is constantly roaring~

The sounds of fighting, roars, screams of pain, and the sound of war drums resounded in the sky.

"Boom~"

Another round of shelling landed very accurately in the Tartar barracks, where Dayan Khan was located, had long been razed to the ground, but Dayan Khan was no longer in the Golden Horde.

At this time, he rode on top of his BMW, holding a scimitar in his hand, and watched every move on the battlefield with his eyes.

It was completely different from what he expected, although the warriors under his command were skilled in bows and horses, the two sides had not yet made contact, and they had already killed and injured a large number of Ming troops with bows and arrows.

But the Ming army did not flinch in the slightest, and approached quickly at a terrible speed, followed by all kinds of things constantly entertaining, and the red-eyed Ming army was extremely terrifying.

I saw that after the Ming army killed the grassland warriors, they cut off the heads of the grassland warriors and tied them around their waists, bathed in blood all over their bodies, like demons from hell, and when they kept running, the heads tied to their waists were constantly shaking.

Dayan Khan clearly saw that these warriors under his command were frightened by this scene, and saw that some people were stunned and stabbed to death in a daze.

"Is this still the Ming Army?"

Dayan Khan couldn't help but ask.

This is still the Ming army I know, if the Ming army was so brave and fearless of death before, where could I go south every year?

After repeated confirmations, he could be sure that these Ming troops in front of him were indeed Ming troops, but they had changed, becoming hungry wolves, with scarlet eyes, like demons from hell.

At this moment, he finally understood why his 80,000 big move was gone without explanation.

At the same time, he also realized that if he didn't leave, he would most likely be left here, relying on the terrible impact of the cavalry, there was no way to open the gap, and there was no way to make these Ming troops take half a step back.

"Altan ~ Assault to the north!"

Without further hesitation, Dayan Khan gave the order.

"Yes~"

When Altan heard this, he drew the scimitar in his hand, waved his hand, and led 10,000 elite cavalry to the north like a torrent, preparing to break through the encirclement and cover Dayan Khan's withdrawal.

The 10,000 elite cavalry led by Altando is the most elite cavalry in Dayan Khan's headquarters, there are only 20,000 such cavalry, 10,000 were handed over to Altan, 10,000 are still in Dayan Khan's own hands, and the more than 20,000 troops fighting on the periphery are also his own men.

It's just that these are improvised herdsmen, not elite cavalry.

With the addition of Altan's 10,000 elite cavalry, the pressure on the north side suddenly increased, and bloody killings continued to be staged.

However, unexpectedly, Altan did not open the gap, but attracted more Ming troops to gather around, in the eyes of these Ming troops, Altan's 10,000 cavalry are all silver from Baihua Lake, they don't care whether you are an elite cavalry or not, the quicklime in their hands is sprinkled over, and they immediately stab the spear.

Dayan Khan has been paying attention to every move on the battlefield, the battle situation is very stalemate, the cavalry can not open the gap means defeat, and continuous stalemate will only be more and more beneficial to the Ming army.

Moreover, the artillery of the Ming army was unusually sharp, unprecedentedly sharp, where there were many people, the artillery of the Ming army would greet wherever it was, and thousands of shells fell into the army formation of the Tartars at one time, and there would be a large number of casualties every time.

In just a few waves of shelling, Dayan Khan's men had already lost thousands of men, and they were the most elite cavalry of the headquarters who remained with him.

"I can't go on like this, I have to break through~"

"Warriors, kill me~"

He drew his scimitar and rode his horse headlong towards the north.

With Dayan Khan personally joining the battlefield, these steppe people became more fierce as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and here in the north, they were almost broken open by Dayan Khan several times, and at critical moments, the artillery deployed in the north was always able to help suppress Dayan Khan's impact.

Again and again, each wave of impact was blocked, and time was slowly passing.

This battle was fought from morning to afternoon, and the more he fought, the fewer Dayan Khan's men became, and the more powerless the organized impact became, and in the end, the little prince Dayan Khan was already desperate, because no matter how he attacked, he could not rush away.

"Ga~"

Dayan Khan's body was covered with blood, his hair was scattered, and the remaining thousands of people around him firmly protected him in the middle, but the surrounding Ming army, with red eyes and human heads tied around his waist, was like a demon from hell, slowly gathering around.

The person at the head has a human head tied around his waist, and at the same time there is a bamboo basket behind him, which is also full of human heads, with a horizontal knife in his hand, and his body is full of blood, this is the real demon god, looking at the little prince Dayan Khan in the middle with cold eyes.

"Eagle~"

"I'm going to fall here~"

Dayan Khan looked at the eagle in the sky, the whole person was blind, he was a generation of male lords, he once fantasized about reproducing the glory of his ancestors, turning the place under the sun into the pasture of their steppe people, fantasizing about entering the flower world of the Central Plains, but everything is about to come to a conclusion, a generation of eagles looked at the last sunset, and soon slowly sank.