Chapter 415, Dingbian Victory
In Dingbian, Shaanxi, the main force of the East Route Army of 80,000 people and the 20,000 army of the Sunit Department under Dayan Khan faced each other.
The battlefield took place in a relatively small valley area, and the 20,000 troops of the Sunit Department were preparing to sack Jingbian in the east, when they were ambushed by Liu Yu's army, which had already been ambushed here.
Although Liu Yu is the kind of person who likes to climb up, the kind who will do anything to climb up, this time, he saw his hope of climbing up.
Last year, under the Datong City Pass, he relied on the tall city wall built with cement to kill tens of thousands of Tartars, and he had already been rewarded by Emperor Hongzhi, and his promotion was expected.
If this time, if you can still lead the army of the East Road and make contributions, then you will basically be nine out of ten, and even the feudal marquis will not have any problems.
What's more, this time there is a real silver reward, as the commander of the Eastern Route Army, he has an army of 100,000 and kills tens of thousands of Tartars, and the reward is enough for him to eat for a lifetime.
Therefore, for this reason, he also tried his best to think of a way to deal with the steppe people, and his method was very simple, that is, to fight an ambush in a place that was not conducive to the development of the Tartar cavalry.
In this area of Shaanxi, the terrain is more complicated, and the Ming army is expected to have the advantage of a long range, Liu Yu sent a lot of scout teams, and soon discovered the 20,000 horses of the Sunit Department and figured out the movements of the Sunit Department, so this ambush battle was also set up here in this canyon.
At this time, in the long and narrow valley, the 20,000 horses of the Sunit tribe walked very leisurely, and the experience of many years of raiding southward paralyzed them.
Historically, the Ming army did not dare to fight them in the field, and even when they robbed, these Ming troops only dared to stay in the tall cities and let them sack small towns.
Naturally, they have developed this arrogant mentality, and they can be greatly assured in the field that it is impossible for the Ming army to come out to fight them.
So despite this small canyon, they are still very leisurely, without a trace of nervousness, talking and laughing with each other, talking about the world of flowers in the Central Plains.
"Hmm~"
Suddenly, a howl came from the mountains on both sides of the valley, and before they could react, a large number of stones continued to roll down from the mountains on both sides, and arrows rained down like rain.
At the same time, there were countless Ming troops rushing down towards them with red eyes, all of them were very fast, and there was a kind of scramble, anti-Buddha was grabbing food, for fear that they would lose.
"Ming Army!"
Hada, the leader of the Sunit tribe, instantly drew the scimitar at his waist and roared, "Kill them!" ”
He didn't expect the Ming army to dare to come out to fight with them in the field, and he didn't expect that he would be ambushed, but it doesn't matter, dealing with the Ming army is not a day or two, the Ming army has a few catties and a few taels of combat effectiveness, he knows too well.
He has 20,000 brave warriors under his command, who can easily tear apart any enemy, and in the field, they have never been afraid of the Ming army.
Especially these Ming troops in front of them, they look no different from the peasants, and there are even people with hoes, which is simply no different from sending them to death, and a group of peasants also want to defeat their own 20,000 warriors?
The two sides were like two surging waves, slapping together fiercely, and countless blood flowers were stirred up in an instant.
The Ming army was not as fragile and daring as he imagined, although the warriors under him were still very brave, but this time, these Ming troops were extremely brave, not afraid of death, and their eyes were blood-red and blood-red, and they rushed over like they were desperate.
Because it was in the canyon, there was no open area for the steppe cavalry to give full play to the advantages of their cavalry, so they could not use the cavalry at all.
The two sides soon mixed up, and the battle became white-hot in an instant.
The steppe people on the horse soon found that without the speed advantage, riding on the horse was no different from sending to death, in the face of the Ming army who was not afraid of death, and had a numerical advantage, in the blink of an eye, the Tartar on the periphery was stabbed off the horse, and then the head was cut off.
These Ming soldiers tied their heads around their waists, like demons, and their bodies were covered in blood, and they continued to kill the other steppe people.
These steppe people have never seen such a Ming army, nor have they ever fought with such a fierce Ming army, as if they don't know what fear is, as if they don't have the emotion of fear.
They are like demons in hell, and they are like cold machines.
No, it's not a machine, the more these Ming soldiers fight, the more excited they become, especially those Ming soldiers with their heads tied around their waists, they are simply excited, and the more they kill, the more energetic they are, and they don't see any fear at all.
As for the Ming soldiers who didn't grab the heads, they were all red-eyed, as if they had been robbed of their own food by hungry wolves, and then rushed towards the Tartars with red eyes.
"Are these Ming soldiers crazy?"
Hada looked at the scene in front of him, and the whole person was dumbfounded, the warriors of the Sunit tribe that he was proud of failed to defeat these Ming troops in front of him in the first time.
On the contrary, he was caught off guard by these Ming soldiers, and he felt a little blinded, and the people on the periphery didn't even block the other party's impact, and they were scattered by the impact in a blink of an eye.
Moreover, the entire team of 20,000 people was cut in the middle and turned into two regiments of surrounded, and the red-eyed Ming army was very terrifying, and its eyes were blood-red and blood-red.
He saw the scenes on the battlefield with his own eyes, and the warriors under his command were very powerful, but they were defeated by two fists and four hands, and they were stabbed to death in an instant.
He also saw with his own eyes that his warriors were beheaded by the Ming army, and the Ming army who got the head shouted happily and was extremely excited, and kept shouting 'one hundred taels of silver' and 'haha, another hundred taels of silver is in hand' and the like.
"Kill~"
"Kill all these Ming troops~"
Hada kept roaring, and rushed to a group of Ming soldiers with his personal guards, he wanted to go to the battlefield in person, and fought with the Ming army for a lifetime, this was the first time he had played in person.
Because this time, he always felt bad, this group of Ming troops was too unusual, too different, and the Ming army he had seen in the past was too big, too big.
Originally, the Ming army he looked down on, those Ming soldiers who were like hoes, actually had a brave side, and the hoe in his hand was hoeed down towards the head of the grassland warriors, which made the grassland warriors at a loss and were hoeed to death by the hoe.
He even saw someone on the battlefield with a kitchen knife, the kitchen knife in his hand was very short, but it was very heroic, after getting close, there was no discipline at all, and he cut it at your head, and he didn't care if he would be hacked to death by your scimitar first.
"Kill~"
"One hundred taels of silver is a head, but if it's slow, it's gone, and it's become someone else's dish."
Among the Ming army, such a voice kept echoing, making the Ming army who was fighting even more red-eyed, and this sentence was echoing in their minds, and they were not afraid of death to fight with the grassland people.
In just the blink of an eye, there was a strong smell of blood wafting in this narrow valley, and on the ground, the blood flowing out of the ground slowly gathered into a stream, the land was blood-red, there were corpses on the ground, and the armies of both sides were constantly fighting fiercely.
In this battle, the sky was dark, and the sun and moon were lost.
Killing from noon to late afternoon.
Hada looked at the Ming army who had killed them from all directions in disbelief, these Ming soldiers were like demons from hell, everyone had this head tied around their waists, their eyes were blood-red, and their eyes were cold.
There were only a few hundred people left around him, and more than 20,000 warriors were all confessed here, and none of them escaped.
And as time went by, when he was killed, there were more and more Ming troops besieging him, and now, the movement on the surrounding battlefield is getting smaller and smaller, and more and more Ming troops have gathered.
He was desperate, he never thought that in the field, he would lose to the Ming army, even though this is a canyon, which is not conducive to the deployment of cavalry.
Even though the Ming army had a numerical advantage, four times his own strength, he still couldn't accept this and accept such a defeat.
He was defeated, completely defeated, and all the 20,000 warriors of the Sunit Department brought out were gone, and even he himself was about to become a head on the waist of these Ming troops.
"Kill~"
With a roar, the surrounding Ming army killed again, although the warriors around them were extremely brave, but they couldn't stop this sea of people at all, not to mention that the surrounding Ming army was still a group of hungry wolves, and they all rushed up one by one.
In just a blink of an eye, hundreds of people around him all fell, becoming a head on the waist of these Ming soldiers.
"Ah~"
Hada picked up the scimitar in his hand and rushed towards a Ming army with all his might, but before he arrived, the other party threw a bag of quicklime on Hada's face, and his eyes fell blind in an instant, and then he suffered a sharp pain on his body, and he immediately lost consciousness.
"Haha~ I grabbed the last head."
The Ming army, who grabbed the head of Hada, was extremely excited, cut off his head and kept shouting at the people around him.
"Immediately report to the capital in an urgent manner for 800 miles, and my East Road army will destroy 20,000 Tartars in a battle in Dingbian!"
Liu Yu, who was on the high mountain, witnessed this battle with his own eyes, and when the last Tartar was destroyed, he immediately commanded the people around him.
Soon, a herald sent the written good news to the capital.
"Kill 20,000 enemies!"
"It's still in the wild, this is something I couldn't think of before, and sure enough, money can make ghosts grind!"
Liu Yu looked at the Ming army cleaning the battlefield in the valley below, and couldn't help but sigh.