When the Daming battle flag was raised again when the iron gate was closed, the soldiers and horses of all the troops of the Duohuo Thorn Division were greatly moved, and the patriarch Bayanke saw this and hurriedly ordered all the troops to withdraw from the battlefield and retreat to the southwest of the Iron Gate Pass.

At this time, the various units of the Ming army and the 300,000 troops of the Piercing Division had been fighting fiercely for a whole day, and the casualties of each department were very large.

After the Ming army withdrew from the Duohuo Thorn Army at the same time, the three battlefields, including the Tiemen Pass, were silent, and after the Duohuo Thorn Army withdrew to the southwest, Liu Juntao sent some soldiers who did not collect the night to follow and investigate, and then ordered the soldiers of all departments to camp around the Tiemen Pass.

As the sun set, the officers and men of the Ming army began to clean up the battlefield one after another, Liu Juntao and the chief officers of the various departments climbed the head of the iron gate pass, and looked far away, and the eyes were full of blood and corpses, which was very tragic.

In this battle, the Vietnamese cavalry army lost more than 3,700 soldiers, the Changshui army lost more than 2,800 soldiers, the servant army lost more than 4,000 people, the captive army lost more than 12,000 people, and the rest of the Ming army lost more than 13,000 people, totaling more than 36,000 people!

In this battle, the infantry army of Duohuo Thorn Thorn Division lost more than 19,000 people, the 30,000 iron cavalry that blocked the main force of the Ming army lost more than half, and the 170,000 main iron cavalry army lost about 20,000 people, totaling more than 54,000 people!

In one day, the warring sides left more than 90,000 corpses outside the Iron Gate, which can be described as corpses all over the field!

In the Tiemen Pass, Liu Juntao convened the chief military officers of all ministries to discuss the matter.

At this time, the Long Xiang army was stationed in the Tiemen Pass, guarding the pass with the Vietnamese cavalry, and the rest of the Ming army soldiers camped separately and guarded the Tiemen Pass in the center.

"Bingxian, our army has suffered a lot of losses in this battle, especially the consumption of ammunition is even more amazing, and we need to rest for a period of time in order to replenish supplies."

"Bingxian, the soldiers of all departments are tired and need to rest for a few days to let the soldiers take a breath."

Liu Juntao also nodded, during this time, the soldiers of all departments were indeed very tired, and the army marched thousands of miles from north to south, and then plunged into the big battle, fighting with hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, even if it was an iron man, he couldn't hold on.

But now the Tartar side is also suffering a lot of casualties, this is a good time for the Ming army to continue to advance, if the Ming army stops the attack, it will inevitably let the Duohuo Thorn army also rest together, and then the current opportunity will be lost.

Liu Juntao pondered for a moment and said, "When will the next batch of supplies arrive?" ”

The head of the military department said to the group: "Enlighten the soldiers, and the soldiers of the Beijing camp will arrive at the Tiemen Pass in three days. ”

"Good!"

Liu Juntao said: "In this way, the army first rested at Tiemen Pass for three days, and on the fourth day, the army took the initiative to attack the army of Duohuo Thorn Division!" ”

"Order!"

Three days later, 5,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion arrived at Tiemen Pass with a large number of baggage, including not only a large number of weapons and ammunition, but also money and grain for the army to use for a month.

Liu Juntao immediately ordered the officers and men of all departments to prepare for departure, and ordered the 5,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion who came to transport the baggage to stay at the Tiemen Pass to guard the rear road for the army.

On this day, the Ministry of Intelligence sent an urgent report, providing Liu Juntao with bad news: the Hui people in various parts of the Western Regions had launched riots one after another!

At this time, all parts of the Western Regions already knew that hundreds of thousands of Ming troops had destroyed Turpan and defeated the Yili Commander, and the Western Regions had no existence that could compete with the Ming Dynasty except for the Duohuo Thorn Division.

Moreover, the various departments of the Western Regions were not optimistic about the Duohuo Thorn Division, believing that it was only a matter of time before the Ming army would win.

Now that the Ming army's recovery of the Western Regions has been a foregone conclusion, now the ministries of the Western Regions are beginning to worry about one problem: the legitimacy of Islam!

Whether it is the Gangaslan or Turpan, Yili Jiangli, and Duohuo Thorn Division, their subordinates all believe in Islam, but to different degrees.

These Hu people are no longer the descendants of the 36 countries of the Western Regions in the Han and Tang dynasties, but outright nomads, outright Muslims, in the hearts of these Hu people, Islam is a big thing, even some radical Hu tribes, the safety of Islam is above their own tribes!

It is precisely because of this that all the ministries of the Western Regions have spread that after the Ming army occupies the Western Regions, Islam will be completely banned, Confucianism and rituals will be spread throughout the Western Regions, and the Han civilization will return to the Western Regions!

In this way, all the Hu tribes in the Western Regions began to be restless, even if they were afraid of the strength of the Ming army and the national power of the Ming Dynasty, these Hu people were also ready to give it a go, and began to gather troops to riot, in the hope of responding to the resistance of the remnants of the Ming army, and even if they were lucky, they could turn defeat into victory and drive the Ming army out of the Western Regions.

This news shocked Liu Juntao, the strong control of Islam made Liu Juntao fearful, and at the same time, he was more determined to completely eradicate Islam, which is related to the centennial peace of the Western Regions, and there must be no mistakes!

Now in order to keep Islam, the Western Regions departments have rioted, which also just gave Liu Juntao an excuse to carry out a big purge, only by carrying out an unprecedented scale of purge of the Western Regions, and eradicating all the Hu tribes who regard Islam as everything and hate China, can we ensure a hundred years of peace in the Western Regions!

Therefore, Liu Juntao postponed the Ming army's plan to continue the attack, but continued to lead his troops to garrison Tiemen Pass, and at the same time ordered the officers and men of the Beijing battalion stationed in the rear to strengthen their vigilance, and ordered the two iron cavalry armies of the Changshui Army and the Servant Army to be ready to attack at any time.

The Military Department, the Intelligence Department, and the Inspection Department have dispatched their own elite spies to investigate the current movements of various ministries in the Western Regions, and strive to find out all the tribes involved in the riots in the Western Regions in the shortest possible time.

Five days later, Liu Juntao received a piece of information that had been put together.

According to intelligence, there are currently about one million Hui people in various parts of the Western Regions who have participated in the riots, and these Hui people believe in Islam as their own code of conduct, and force everyone to believe in Islam, and use violent means when they are responsible, without regard for the laws of the country!

At present, these Hui people took advantage of the chaos to annex all the small villages of the Han people and people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions, and it would be reasonable to say that they only annexed these territories, but they killed the people living in the villages with extreme cruelty, and all those who did not believe in Islam, whether they were men, women, or children, were left alive, this move was really inhumane, and Liu Juntao was furious.

At the same time, these Hui began to gather in Yili under the organization of the remnants of Yili Lili, and according to intelligence, the number of these Hui people has reached tens of thousands, and it is still increasing rapidly, and Yili has a great comeback posture.

After Liu Juntao thought about it, he discussed with everyone for a whole day, and finally everyone unanimously decided that the main force of the Ming army would continue to attack the Duohuo Thorn Division, and it must not give up halfway to let the Duohuo Thorn Division get a chance to breathe, otherwise the Ming army is very likely to be led by the nose of the Western Regions, and finally exhausted, and the battle will be a complete failure!

Liu Juntao made up his mind to concentrate his forces to defeat the Duohuo Thorn Division, and then go back to solve the remnants of Yili and deal with the Hui people ~ thugs in various parts of the Western Regions!

However, this does not mean that Liu Juntao turned a blind eye to these thugs, Liu Juntao decided to temporarily abandon the Tiemen Pass while mobilizing the army to prepare for departure, and sent back the 5,000 Beijing battalion soldiers in the pass, and concentrated tens of thousands of Beijing battalion soldiers to suppress the Hui people ~ thugs in various parts of the Western Regions first, and at the same time be vigilant against the remnants of Yili Jiangli who are recovering their strength.

For this suppression, Liu Juntao has only one word: kill!

These Hui people~ thugs are all cultists who have gone mad, and these people's hands are all stained with the blood of the descendants of Yan and Huang, their sins are unforgivable, and they must die!

After the 5,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion set off to the north, Liu Juntao led hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Ming army to take the initiative to attack on the same day.

This time, Liu Juntao concentrated the officers and men of the five Tiance Army of the Longxiang Army, the Yingyang Army, the Huben Army, the Yue Cavalry Army, and the Zhichong Army to meet the enemy head-on, and set up a battlefield thirty miles southwest of Tiemen Pass, deploying more than 30,000 soldiers from various departments of Shaanxi Town on the left flank of the army, deploying 90,000 captive troops on the right flank of the army, and more than 200,000 main forces to meet the battle head-on.

Then, Liu Juntao ordered Zhou Zongsheng to lead the Changshui Army directly south, and raided the sweat tent of the Duohuo Ti Department for thousands of miles: Ku Xian, come to the bottom of the kettle to draw salary; Deploy tens of thousands of servant troops in the rear of the main army, ready to surprise the enemy's military formations at any time.

This time, the patriarch of the Duohuorati tribe, Bayankla, also understood that the decisive battle had come, so he commanded the remaining 135,000 iron cavalry and more than 80,000 foot soldiers to meet the battle.

Bayankra personally commanded an army of more than 80,000 foot soldiers in the center, with 10,000 people as a phalanx, eight huge infantry phalanxes closely leaning on each other, and the first four and the last four formed a huge military formation.

The 135,000 iron cavalry was divided into three divisions, with 50,000 iron cavalry on the left and right flanks of the infantry phalanx to escort them, and the remaining 35,000 iron cavalry were assembled at the rear of the infantry phalanx.

On this day, there was no cloud, and there was a strong wind hanging on the vast land, blowing all the weeds on the battlefield to the ground, a decisive battle!

At this time, the 300,000 soldiers of the Ming army had already finished arranged, and their fiery red battle clothes were like flames, ready to sweep the entire battlefield and burn all the enemies.

And the army of more than 200,000 Tartars is not to be outdone, the strict military formation, the bright banner, and the excellent military equipment all tell the strength of this Hu army and the determination to defeat the Ming army!

This battle is already the last battle of the Duohuo Ti Division, and once it fails, it will be the disaster of extermination; And the same is true for Liu Juntao, once the Ming army is defeated, the Ming Dynasty will also completely lose the Western Regions!