Chapter 118: The Fall of Tushetu Khan

Tushetu Khan's plan was to use the largest number of troops, lure Sun Chuanting's army to the area most favorable for his cavalry to fight, and then gather and annihilate it. Although this person's ambition is ambitious, but his strength does not match his ambition, he has not directly seen the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Ming army, if when he received Lin Dan Khan, Tushetu Khan came into contact with Li Hongji of the Ming army, he would not be so ambitious to win a battle, maybe he stayed at the top for too long and lost the ability to think about reality. In short, this time Tushetu Khan made a serious mistake, and then he will pay for this mistake.

In April and May, Mobei Mongolia began to become vibrant, and at this time of the year, a large number of herdsmen began to drive their cattle and sheep out of the pen and go out to graze. But this year something happened, the arrival of the Ming army made their hearts full of unease, a large number of young men were told to fight the Ming army, and the rest of the old and young had to go to graze. The mood of the shepherds is not as vigorous as that of the grassland, but like lambs facing wolves, all of them are full of uneasiness.

In fact, people are very strange animals, when hunting weak prey, one by one is excited, emotional, full of passion, when besieged by powerful forces, one by one is depressed, such as mourning. For example, the nomads have gone south all the time, and when they give an order, they are like wolves and tigers, riding their own war horses, and robbing and killing like bees, but once they encounter fierce generals such as Wei Qing and Huo Quai, they will be scattered, and even the ability to resist is weak and vulnerable. In addition to the disproportionate number of people after entering the Central Plains, the most important thing is the quality of the army, after all, their regular military training personnel are limited, most of them are temporary herdsmen, when the regular army is defeated by a large number of Han regular army, the ordinary herdsmen will immediately lose their will to fight, and will eventually be driven back to the desert.

Therefore, when Tushetu Khan recruited herdsmen to fight against Sun Chuanting, there were not many herdsmen who were really full of passion for fighting, and they were just a few people. Their military literacy or combat ability is not at the same level as Sun Chuanting's formally trained army, especially the Ming army, which is equipped with modern firearms. Sun Chuanting's regular army numbered more than 50,000 men, and Tushetu Khan recruited 100,000 young herdsmen, but Sun Chuanting was the attacker, and he could choose any place that was favorable to him to attack, while Tushetu Khan had to guard against every part of his place. Therefore, the method of using soldiers, ten is to encircle, five is to attack, and the enemy can be divided, less can escape, and if not, it can be avoided. Therefore, the small enemy is strong, and the big enemy is also captured. Anyone can memorize these tactics of war, but the actual situation now is that Tushetu Khan's strength is twice as strong, but his strength is not enough to fight a battle, and he can't give up this great benefit, which causes him great confusion.

However, Sun Chuanting solved this matter for him, and Sun Chuanting's purpose was to succeed in one blow, and there was no intention of dragging mud and water, so the 50,000 army advanced directly, and let Tushetu Khan concentrate all his forces for a decisive battle. Defeating the other party in a dignified manner, making the other party convinced, and no longer able to raise the will to resist, this is Sun Chuanting's only purpose, only in this way can he completely subdue the tribe of Tushetu Khan.

On the flat steppe on the banks of the Hara River, Tushetu Khan's 100,000 horses and 50,000 Ming troops opened their formations. As the saying goes, if there are more than 10,000 people, there is no boundary, not to mention that the current 150,000 horses are placed together, and the wide area of more than ten miles is crowded together, and there are soldiers ready to fight everywhere. Since Sun Chuanting wanted the other party to be convinced, he had to rely on sharp attacks to smash the enemy's positions, so that Tushetu Khan's soldiers could experience what a regular army attack was.

The warm spring sun also seemed to be a little cold, and Sun Chuanting's 30,000 cavalry began to attack in formation. The first attack was a camp of 30,000 people, when riding a horse and quickly approaching a distance of half a mile, Tushetu Khan's 50,000 horses lined up from the camp to meet the attack, the Ming army immediately dismounted, and sent out a five-column five-layer formation of shooting in an orderly manner, the horses were also arranged separately on both sides of the soldiers, and the mortars behind were lined up, and began to cover the attack on the camp gate of Tushetu Khan, for a time the smoke of gunpowder was filled, the blood and flesh at the gate of the camp were flying, and a small number of soldiers who rushed through the gate of the camp rushed towards the Ming infantry cavalry, But under the non-stop platoon fire of the five platoons of soldiers, it was impossible to get close to a distance of twenty zhang at all. In addition to blocking the camp gates, the rest of the mortars began to cover the places where the men and horses of the large camp gathered.

The infantry began to attack and advance, the platoons of bullets covered the front in an orderly manner, and the fish that escaped the mortar bombardment were also killed on their horses one by one, and the shooting distance of the bow and arrow was always outside the firing gun, and they could only be beaten and could not be beaten. Some of the Tushetu Khan soldiers tried to rely on the wooden walls of the camp to shoot arrows, and the mortars that had disrupted the camp began to bombard the wall again, and the infantry cavalry did not panic to attack the camp, but fired around the wall outside the range of bows and arrows.

When the mortars cleared a clearing in front of the camp, more than 10,000 Ming infantry cavalry began to enter the camp, and the next thing was to start lining up to shoot. The cavalry that has lost its war horse is no longer a cavalry, and the cavalry without the impact of modern firearms can only wait for slaughter, without any effective means to resist the attack of the Ming army. In less than half an hour's attack, Tushetu Khan's soldiers suffered heavy casualties, especially in the places where the mortar attacked, the soldiers suffered the most casualties, and when they reached the range of the infantry attack, there were no injuries, all of them were killed.

In less than half an hour, Tushetu Khan's first battalion was scattered, and the soldiers desperately fled from all the places they could, but the Ming army around the wall shot with precision every soldier who tried to escape from the camp. As the first soldier laid down his arms and all the soldiers knelt down and surrendered, it was only a split second, and the Ming army captured nearly 20,000 Tushetu Khan soldiers, almost about the same number as their own, and these people were already frightened, and they all trembled and raised their hands to accept the command of the Ming soldiers. The mortars of the Ming army quickly entered this large village and deployed under the walls of the camp, waiting for the next battle.

As Sun Chuanting expected, seeing that this camp was quickly breached, Tushetu Khan was taken aback, afraid that the remaining Dazhai would be attacked by the same tactics, just when the Ming army had just occupied this Dazhai, the soldiers of the other two villages poured out, trying to take advantage of the Ming army's unstable foothold, to recapture this Dazhai, and by the way, to use cavalry against infantry, to carry out killing and poking. When Tushetu Khan's soldiers outflanked from both sides and were about to make peace, the cavalry of the Ming army met them from behind in two ways, and the mortars that had just entered Dazhai began to bombard the cavalry, and they blew up these cavalry in a mess at once. The cavalry of the Ming army attacked forward along the explosive point of the mortar, and the chaotic Tushetu Khan soldiers could not stop the fierce attack of the Ming cavalry, and the melee bow was not as good as the crossbow, and the slashing was not as good as the "Snow Maple Knife" of the Ming Army, nor as sharp as the "Snow Maple Knife". Under the command of Cao Wenzhao, the Ming army was like an arm, with sharp attacks, tight formation, and just the right coordination. On the other hand, the soldiers of Tushetu Khan were killed more and more as a result of the mortar bombardment, which was disorganized and the soldiers fought separately.

Seeing that Tushetu Khan's soldiers were about to disperse, Sun Chuanting in Dazhai ordered his own guards to lead 5,000 cavalry to storm Tushetu Khan's rear camp. Tushetu Khan was also crazy today, and sent almost all his troops to counterattack, and he himself had less than 2,000 guards around him, and when he found that He Renlong was rushing towards him with 5,000 men, he felt bad, and ordered 1,000 men to meet him, and the rest protected him and retreated backwards. As soon as the Great Khan's banner moved, everyone knew that defeat was inevitable, and the morale of these irregular troops, who were usually untrained, immediately dispersed, and soon turned into a rout.

The pro-soldier team led by He Renlong quickly got rid of the blocking enemy, handed them over to the infantry cavalry who attacked with the team, and he just stared at Tushetu Khan, this hundred people were like swordfish in the sea, rushing to the direction of Tushetu Khan's banner at a very fast speed, killing waves of intercepted cavalry, rushing to open a bloody road, the target was just the fleeing Tushetu Khan, the ferocious slashing, the fierce attack, so that the meat shield sent by Tushetu Khan was helpless, and the sharp pro-soldier guards chased Tushetu Khan to the sky and the ground. After running for thirty miles, Tushetu Khan, who had been pampered for too long, had no choice but to dismount and surrender, ending his escape.