Chapter 877: Capturing Fan Wencheng

In the wilderness, the Warat cavalry scattered and fled, some running to Shache, others fleeing into the desert, while the clever Baburhun and Fan Wencheng chose to flee directly to the north.

The front army of the Wei army and the left and right flanks, the three-way army pursued forward, the front army was like a cluster of tanks crushed head-on, and the two wings were like shepherd dogs, driving the Warats who wanted to scatter and flee to the middle, harvesting the panicked Warat cavalry.

The Wei cavalry with flintlock pistols in their hands outflanked them from both sides, shooting the Warat cavalry who fled the way, and the Wei cavalry galloped and hit the back of the Warat cavalry, knocking the Warats off their horses, and the ownerless horses continued to run forward.

The musketeers outflanked them from both flanks, turning the Varats' riding bows into toys, and seeing that they were about to surround them, the shock cavalry with their horses and lances advanced like a wall, so that the Varat cavalry did not dare to turn back and rushed out of the encirclement.

The defeat was like a mountain, Baturhun knew that the defeat could not be reversed, and watched the Warat people rush to flee for their lives, and countless surrenderers, he led tens of thousands of Warat cavalry to flee north.

Baturhui ran for more than 50 miles, and met a team of people in front of him, but it was Fan Wencheng who fled first, but Fan Wencheng was not a Warat after all, he was not good at riding, and he was caught up after a while.

The two men and horses joined forces, and Baturhun remembered that the 100,000 army and his ambition and hegemony disappeared together, and he couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, and said to Fan Wencheng: "I really regret not listening to Mr. ”

Now, Fan Wencheng didn't want to say anything, and was trying to persuade Baturhun to start all over again, when suddenly a thunderous sound of horses' hooves came from the side.

This made Fan Wencheng's face change, he knew the truth that the stupid bird flew first, and without saying a word, he waved his horsewhip, shot it like an arrow, and continued to run north in a puff of smoke.

Baturhun was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted, and saw that the side of the army suddenly galloped with thousands of horses, and a team of Wei cavalry rushed directly towards him, and his face was immediately full of horror.

Gao Yihuan went out to bring 50,000 Wei troops, 10,000 Mongol and Tibetan vassal soldiers, and 7,000 vanguards, with a strength of more than 67,000 troops.

In Balchuk, only 45,000 Wei troops appeared, and there were more than 22,000 people, except for more than 7,000 people stationed in the cities occupied by the army along the way, the remaining more than 15,000 people, led by Zhao Daxian, marched to the north of the main force.

Gao Yihuan knew that Baturhun was waiting in ambush, and the cunning Gao Yihuan naturally could not crash directly into it without preparation, and while his army stayed in Awati for three days, he ordered Zhao Daxian to rush to the north of Balchuk first.

Zhao Daxian is Gao Yihuan's trusted person, in case Gao Yihuan encounters danger in Balchuk, the 10,000 Wei army plus 5,000 Mongolian cavalry will be killed from the north to save the situation.

After the scouts informed the Warats to flee north, Zhao Daxian immediately made a decision, changed the direction of the march, and launched a pursuit.

Xu Heihu was named the Duke of the Kingdom, which deeply stimulated the generals of the Wei army, and Zhao Daxian, as a confidant of the King of Wei and a relative, was naturally unconvinced.

He led the Wei army to pursue all the way, making Baturhun miserable, and ran north for hundreds of miles, but he still couldn't get rid of the Wei army behind him.

Seeing that it was not a way to run like this, Baturhun also became more and more angry the more he ran, and before the 100,000 army could understand it, he lost in a daze, which made him very unwilling and indeed too embarrassing.

When the army ran to the banks of the Toshkent River, Baturhun mustered up his courage and turned back to fight again, only to be defeated again by Zhao Daxian.

This made Baturhui, who had lost face, completely frightened, and forced the leader of the Heshute tribe to stay behind, and then turned around and ran away.

Seeing that Baturhun was not a thing, Heshute Mongolia simply surrendered to Zhao Daxian.

The battle of Balchuk ended quickly, and the Wei army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, mainly killed and wounded by the Warats who fell to their horses, but also created a brilliant record, killing 20,000 enemies and capturing 30,000 or 40,000 people, while the remaining Warats scattered and escaped.

This is also no way, it is indeed not easy to annihilate the cavalry, the Warat people ran up and smoked, and the Wei army could only chase the main force to fight, and there was no energy to pursue the Warat cavalry who scattered and fled.

Xu Heihu and others continued to pursue the Warat people, and the rear army of 5,000 Mongols and Tubo light cavalry also participated in the pursuit, they were light cavalry, and they were better at long-distance pursuit.

The Wei cavalry pursued for dozens of miles, and the musketeers began to clean up the battlefield after finishing the muskets one after another, escorting groups of prisoners of war, and driving groups of war horses in the direction of Shache.

Near Maigaiti, a small city north of Yache City, tens of thousands of Wei troops gathered here.

Gao Yihuan wore gold helmets and gold armor, surrounded by all the soldiers, came to the captured horses, he looked at tens of thousands of war horses, all over the field, stepped forward to stroke a war horse, and smiled at the soldiers: "With this batch of war horses, the strategy of the army going out of Datong, outflanking the Liaoxi Corridor, and rolling together and annihilating Doer in the pass can be realized." ”

Previously, the pattern between Wei and Qing was that the cavalry of the Qing army was strong, and after this battle, the cavalry of the Wei army would be stronger than the Qing army.

With this batch of war horses, Gao Yihuan was able to expand the cavalry of the Wei army, of course, mainly on horseback, to more than 100,000 people.

At that time, the Wei army was fully capable of controlling Liaoxi and Southern Mongolia, and even forced Eastern Mongolia to break with the Manchus.

"King, the minister has caught one person!" At this time, Zhao Daxian, who had just come to the meeting, heard that Gao Yihuan was checking the war horse again, and hurriedly dared to come over to ask for credit.

Gao Yihuan looked back and saw Zhao Daxian leading more than a dozen soldiers and escorting a man about fifty years old.

The man's body was slightly fat, white and pure, and he was not a Mongolian at first glance, and when he saw Gao Yihuan, his face immediately turned pale, his legs trembled, and he lowered his head timidly.

Gao Yihuan looked at him suspiciously, and said in his heart: "Is Lao Tzu so terrible?" ”

At this time, Zhao Daxian smiled and said: "King, the minister intercepted and killed Batur Hun halfway, this person was mixed among the prisoners of war, and was reported by the head of the Heshuo Special Department, his name is Fan Wencheng." Zhao Daxian smiled flatteringly: "As soon as the minister heard the name strangely familiar, he remembered that he had often heard the handsome man read this name before, so he brought him to the king!" ”

Gao Yihuan raised his eyebrows, glanced at Fan Wencheng again, and saw that Fan Wencheng was trembling even more, and his face immediately became cruel, "No wonder, I'm afraid of the lonely king!" ”

"Haha~ Fan Wencheng, you also have today!" Gao Yihuan looked at him and suddenly laughed.

Fan Wencheng shuddered, knowing that he was going to die, and said with a pale face: "If Baturhun listened to my advice, I wouldn't be like this!" ”

Gao Yihuan raised his eyebrows, listening to the tone, Guisun was still not convinced, Gao Yihuan immediately beckoned, and said word by word: "Gao Yicheng, let Xuanyiwei entertain him first, and give Gu a good trial!" ”

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