Chapter 307: The Battle of Beijing (6)
Seeing this, Warat Khan was suddenly startled, and he dispatched 40,000 elite iron cavalry to attack the Ming army's large array of less than 30,000, and it was defeated in less than an hour, which was really unexpected.
At this time, Totokh Buhua couldn't care about anything else, and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat five miles, leaving behind Liu Juntao's 28,000 troops, and quickly retreated.
Of course, when he retreated, he didn't forget to send someone to inform Yexian, so that he could immediately lead the army to withdraw and join him.
In this battle, the detachment lost nearly 5,000 soldiers and horses, while Liu Juntao's division lost only more than 30 soldiers!
In this battle, Tokhtobuhua was depressed, his heart was full of anger, and he led the army to retreat all the way, and only stopped after retreating for several miles.
At the same time, when he learned that the Ming army who came to support was Liu Juntao's department, he was shocked and vaguely felt that something was going to happen.
Not long after, he also received an order from Totoku Buhua, and immediately scolded angrily: "Totoku Buhua is a big sweat!" 100,000 iron cavalry couldn't take 30,000 Ming troops, and they were beaten back for miles, which is really a great shame! ”
But angry is angry, at this time, Totooff Buhua has already led the troops to retreat, and the back of the first is suddenly exposed, and Liu Juntao can lead the troops to copy it from the back bread at any time.
In desperation, he could only lead the army to retreat, but as soon as he gave the order for the whole army to retreat, he suddenly saw another Ming army appear in the north!
I saw that the strength of this Ming army was about 40,000, and it was forming a formation to kill Xizhimen, and the soldiers were rushing straight to the large array of the Chinese army in the first place!
Seeing this, he was taken aback, and hurriedly led the 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Chinese army to change formations, and lined up to defend to the north, and at the same time urgently ordered the 30,000 soldiers and horses who were fighting fiercely in the area of Xizhimen to withdraw.
"Warriors! Charge with me! ”
At this time, the 40,000 soldiers of the Ming army who rushed to support from Deshengmen had already pressed to a place less than a mile away from the first array, and they were so anxious that their eyelids jumped, if they did not lead their troops to charge, the iron cavalry army would have no distance to charge, and they would not be able to raise the speed of the army's charge.
In this way, the 100,000 iron cavalry lost the greatest power of the cavalry and became a target in the eyes of the infantry, and under the siege of tens of thousands of Ming troops, there would definitely be many casualties.
So, he also took the lead and led 100,000 iron cavalry to charge, and the huge cavalry array rolled forward, and soon collided with 40,000 Ming soldiers.
However, the 40,000 soldiers of the Ming army had stopped at this time and stabilized their positions, and the 100,000 Worat Iron Cavalry were far from increasing their speed, at best they were just trotting, and they could not rush the Ming army at this time.
More and more Varat iron cavalry were crowded in front of the Ming army's array, and were continuously attacked by the archers and musketeers in the Ming army's array, and the tens of thousands of pikemen in the front of the phalanx were also struggling to meet them, and the jungle-like spear array continued to poke the Warat cavalry blocked in front of the formation.
Seeing this, he was immediately furious, and hurriedly ordered the iron cavalry army in the rear to divide and began to attack around the Ming army's array.
However, at this time, the Warat Iron Cavalry army was already a little disorganized, and it was impossible to quickly change formations easily.
The 30,000 Walar iron cavalry outside the Xizhi Gate withdrew at this time, and after converging with the main army, the confusion of the army was even worse.
He also roared angrily first, but the speed of the army's change of formation was still slow, and even the tens of thousands of Walar iron cavalry engaged with the Ming army had no formation at all, just wandering in front of the Ming army's formation, fighting separately.
These Warat iron cavalry lost the speed of the charge, and they lost their ground on their horses, and immediately exposed themselves to the blows of the Ming soldiers.
As a result, more and more Warat soldiers jumped off their horses and began to fight fiercely with the Ming soldiers on foot.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
Suddenly, the sound of the war drums of the Ming army came from the flank of the battlefield, and I looked at it in surprise, only to see Liu Juntao leading his troops to kill from the flank, and nearly 30,000 soldiers marched in formation, directly towards the flank and rear of the Wara army.
I also saw it clearly, and understood that Liu Juntao was preparing to cut off the back road of the Wara army, and suddenly sweated like rain, although he had more than 100,000 iron cavalry troops, but at this time he had been trapped here by the Ming army and couldn't move, if he was intercepted by Liu Juntao's elite soldiers, then he would probably be defeated here!
Thinking of this, he didn't care about anything else at first, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat, as for the thousands of soldiers and horses in front of him who were in a fierce battle, they couldn't take care of it for the first time, so they could only let those soldiers and horses fend for themselves.
"Woo~~~"
A muffled trumpet sounded, and the hundreds of thousands of Varat Iron Riders finally began to start, only this time the direction of progress changed to the west.
Under the leadership of Yexian, the Wara army galloped towards the west, and hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen galloped wildly on the battlefield, and there was no formation at all.
Seeing this, Liu Juntao laughed loudly, laughed heartily, and said loudly to the herald beside him: "Herald: The soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Battalion immediately pursue!" Pursuit! ”
The herald cheered, and immediately rode his horse to give the order.
After a while, Zhou Zongsheng, who received the order, led three thousand soldiers of the Iron Cavalry Battalion to launch a pursuit.
The three thousand iron cavalry of the Ming army charged in formation, chasing behind the hundreds of thousands of Varat defeated soldiers for a while, biting tightly, and many of the fallen Varat soldiers were killed on the spot by the angry iron cavalry soldiers.
At the same time, among the 40,000 soldiers of the Ming Army who came to support from the direction of Deshengmen, 2,000 iron cavalry also joined the ranks of the pursuit of the Wara army.
The defenders on the Xizhi Gate were cheering and jumping, the war drums on the city head were beating loudly, and the majestic Han war drums were heard all over the four fields, making the fleeing Wara army frightened, and the pursuing Ming army iron cavalry soldiers were full of fighting spirit.
In the evening of that day, the battlefield that had been noisy all day finally calmed down, blood stained the earth, corpses everywhere, and scattered ownerless war horses neighed on the battlefield, as if telling the tragedy of the great battle.
Liu Juntao met with the Ming army of Xizhimen and the Ming army of Deshengmen one by one, and then prepared to lead the army back to Zhangyimen to garrison.
At this time, the soldiers of each battalion were resting on the edge of the battlefield, and Liu Juntao was also sitting on the ground quite leisurely, looking at the soldiers of the Ming Army who were busy cleaning up on the battlefield, the young and strong people in the city, looking at the joyful smiles of everyone, and the unyielding fighting spirit, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart: "Daming! The backbone of China! ”
At the same time, the one who led the army to defeat and flee finally joined the Great Khan when it was getting dark, and the two quarreled after they met.
He also angrily reprimanded Tokh for retreating from the battle, and put himself and more than 100,000 soldiers in a desperate situation.
And Totobuhua shouted loudly and angrily, thinking that he deliberately let himself lead the army to face Liu Juntao's subordinates, so that the soldiers and horses of the Khan Court were seriously damaged.
The two quarreled for a while, if it weren't for the fact that the army was still in the territory of Daming at this time, and there were many Ming troops around, it was estimated that they would even fight with Tokh Buhua first.
Although Tokhtar is the Great Khan of Warat, in the hearts of the Hu people, he has always respected his strength, even if he is the Great Khan, if his strength is not good, there are not many people who are willing to be loyal, and there is no courtesy, righteousness and shame at all.
Therefore, this matter was also quarreled with Tokhtar Buhua first, and the generals did not reprimand Yexian, on the contrary, there were many people who thought that Tokhtar Buhua, the Great Khan, was too weak to bear the burden of Warat Khan.
However, after arguing with Tokhova first, they also calmed down, and the two began to face the predicament in front of them.
In this attack on Xizhimen, the Great Khan lost more than 5,000 soldiers and horses, and about 95,000 troops; Taishi also lost a lot of soldiers and horses, probably more than 10,000 killed, and 120,000 soldiers and horses in hand.
At this time, it is also added together with the soldiers and horses that do not take off, and there are 21 or 20,000 soldiers and horses, and since the attack on the Ming Dynasty, the Wara army has lost 80,000 or 90,000 soldiers and horses!
Such casualties are enough to make a medium tribe in the steppe disappear completely!
At the same time, both of them were angry, especially for Liu Juntao's department, they were eager to kill him quickly, after all, Liu Juntao's department caused the most casualties to the Wara army.
At this time, the two of them wanted to preserve their strength and withdraw from the Ming Dynasty to return to the grassland, but they were not willing to be damaged by the army, and wanted to continue to attack Beijing in order to make up for the losses of the army.
Just when the two were discussing, they also said angrily: "I think we should fight again, isn't Liu Juntao stationed in Zhangyimen?" Let's concentrate our troops and horses to storm Zhangyi Gate! If I can break into Beijing City, it's best, even if I can't get in, I have to kill Liu Juntao to eliminate the hatred in my heart! ”
The sweat was also nodding frequently when he heard the words, obviously hating Liu Juntao to the core.
That night, the army of more than 200,000 warats marched in the darkness of the night and drove in the direction of Zhangyimen.