Meng Ke and Wuhai agreed, and rushed to the front of Daxu with people and horses, and scattered dozens of Chahar soldiers who guarded the flag with a burst of slashing, and ran away when they pulled up the big Xu, Deshenzhuang saw that the other party grabbed Daxu, but he was helpless, what he could do now was to guard the big tent of Chahar Khan.

Once the leaders of the tribes were out of danger, they did not think of saving their Great Khan, but were busy gathering their own population and livestock, and by the way, they took advantage of the chaos to rob a little of other people's property, and some simply went to the enemy to take revenge, and the chaotic situation did not stop until the frightened Chahar Khan took Deshenzhuang to patrol the camp, and the eight hatuns of Chahar Khan all came out one by one, and told him with tenderness in their eyes, how dangerous they were last night, How they were worried about the Great Khan, thanks to Tengger blessed their Great Khan safe and sound, even the Getuthaiji did not know where to get out, and told his brother with tears that for the safety of the Great Khan, he risked his life to lead people out of the Chinese military camp to fight with the thieves all night, but fortunately the thieves were dragged down, so that the big tent was not breached.

Chahar Khan's face was pale, he didn't bother to pay attention to these people, the loss last night was not great, only less than 2,000 people died—most of them died at the hands of his own people, but a lot of tents, grain, grass and utensils were burned, and many of the people who were coerced and captured also took advantage of the chaos to escape, and what annoyed him the most was that his Daxu was snatched away.

"Who did this?" Chahar Khan roared.

"It was the Tumuts and the Yongshaob who did it." The leaders of the Chahar replied in unison, when the sky was dark, someone saw the sneak attacker running away with a black eagle flag with a red background, and no one had ever seen this banner, and everyone could only infer that it was the opponents of Kuku and Tun who had attacked them.

"Go to Kuku and Tun, kill these rebels, Tengger testifies, those wicked people deserve retribution." Chahar Khan shouted through gritted teeth.

When Chahar Khan stayed by the Butong River to gather his troops and swore to curse to kill people and take revenge, the battle of Kuku and Tun finally began, and there were many temples in Kuku and Tun, and it was also called Zhaocheng, so this battle was also called the Battle of Zhaocheng by later generations. Tuba received reinforcements from Chahar Khan, and immediately felt confident, so he commanded the troops of the Etoks to pounce on the coalition forces under the Daqing Mountains as soon as dawn, and almost at the same time, the coalition forces also took the initiative to pounce on them unusually, and the two sides collided head-on at Centipede Ridge, and then a great battle broke out.

Tuba soon found that today's coalition army is different from the past, the coalition army that was scattered and dragged two days ago suddenly rushed up in a swarm of spirits, the opponent's armored cavalry also shouted and outflanked their two wings, and the horseless troops in the coalition army also desperately shot arrows at them to cover their cavalry attacks, the opponent's formation was very chaotic, but the offensive was very fierce, the troops marched forward bravely, Tuba even saw that some small tribes of Taiji actually dared to personally take their few young men into battle to fight, The offensive of the Chahar people has not yet been launched into a passive defense, the formation of the Chahar people in the panic is chaotic, there is a bit of disconnection between the tribes, some tribes with few tribes are cut off and surrounded by the other party, Tuba is a little scared, the other party is a lot of people, if he plays with him like this, he will not be able to resist for long.

The sudden change of the coalition was due to the fact that Batu brought money from Ordos west of the Yellow River, and Boshuo Ketu Khan was finally willing to pay, and as soon as he made a move, it was three thousand taels of silver, and this money went down, and the Taiji people got the money more or less, and Subudi brought the most people, one person got three hundred taels of silver, and the small Taiji with few people also had twenty or thirty taels into their pockets. Batu also brought you the Khan of Boshuo Ketu Khan: Erinchen Jinong of Ordos recognized the status of the leader of the 30,000 households on the right wing of Boshuo Ketu Khan of Tumut, agreed that Ordos Wanhu joined the coalition army, and had begun to recruit men and horses to prepare for the war, and the Tumut and Yongshaobu people who stayed in the West Sea were also rushing to Ordos, and Boshuo Ketu Khan asked all departments to use the advantage of troops to fight the battle in front of them, first give Chahar Khan a dismount, and then quickly withdraw to the west of the Yellow River to join the Ordos and Xihai tribes, Joining forces with the forces of the right wing to fight to the death against Chahar Khan, Boshuketu Khan assured the Taiji that since everyone was a descendant of Altan Khan, as long as they were willing to obey his orders, he would never treat everyone badly, and he would give everyone pastures and goods. The Taiji took the money in their hands, and had a way to defect to Boshuo Ketu Khan, and immediately lifted their spirits, and the hatred for Chahar Khan also came to their hearts, everyone understood that Chahar Khan would never let them go, they were all descendants of Alatan Khan, and the enmity with Chahar Khan was formed decades ago, and now this situation is either you die or I live, let's fight!

Taiji went to the battlefield with hatred, and when they saw the Chahars, they rushed forward with red eyes, a team of men and horses was defeated, and immediately another team of men and horses pounced on them, Subu took the most money, and he was the most desperate, most of his people were fierce Duoyan people, and they were not afraid of the dense rain of arrows at all, and they repeatedly rushed to kill the front of the Chahar people, and almost beat the two otoks of Haozit and Sunit who were fighting against them to the ground, and the Chahars could not withstand it, they were more brave and good at fighting than the right-wing departments that had not fought seriously for decades, But there were too many people on the other side, and the Taiji and Baturu of the coalition army even took the lead in personally taking the lead in armor, and their men also hated the Chahars who were wantonly killing and plundering people, and they rushed forward almost without knowing whether they were alive or dead, and they stepped on the corpses of their comrades, screaming and rushing into the Chahar people's array, killing the Chahars with knives, spears, dung forks and even sharpened clubs, and messing up the Chahar formation.

Tuba shook his head, they would collapse sooner or later if they continued to fight like this, but fortunately he still had one hand, as long as he showed his back hand, it was Chahar who won the battle. Tuba ordered the Chahar Etok divisions to alternately cover and retreat to Kuku and Tun, the Chahar people began to retreat gradually, the young and strong troops gathered together to suppress the attack of the coalition army with a rain of arrows, and the armored cavalry was also transferred to the two wings by Tuba to desperately block the outflanking of the coalition cavalry, seeing the Chahar people retreating step by step, the morale of the coalition army was greatly boosted and immediately launched a more ferocious impact, and the Chahars were constantly intercepted and besieged by the coalition army, but Tuba couldn't control these people, he must now keep the main force able to withdraw to Kuku and Tun, Those who had no way out could only watch as they were killed by the arrows and swords of the coalition forces.

Omulun and Suburi stood side by side, proudly watching the coalition army advance step by step, and if the battle continued like this, the collapse of the Chahars was a foregone conclusion, and Subu pointed to the Chahars who were fleeing on the battlefield, and asked contemptuously: "Do you want these people?" I won't ask for it, you give me some more silver, and I'll give you my share. ”

"I don't have food to feed them, I won't want any captives, and if they kill our people, we will kill their people," Omulun replied coldly, and then turned his head and shouted to Zai Shenghang behind him: "You give the order to go down and kill all the Chahar people, and kill all the old and weak women and children, and leave no one behind, it was Chahar Khan who brought them to do evil, this is retribution, and the Buddha will not blame us." ”

Batu's face turned pale all of a sudden, and he was about to say something, but Omulun glared at him hatefully, and Batu didn't dare to speak.

The attack of the coalition army gradually turned into a massacre, the Mongols often carried their families, cattle and sheep to fight, and they were nomadic wherever they fought, Tuba retreated more quickly with the Chahars, and the coalition army attacked too fiercely, many of the old and weak women and children without horses in the Etok tribe were intercepted by the coalition army, and as soon as Omulun's order was given, the coalition army opened a killing spree, and the corpses of the Chahar people were left all over the road pursued by the coalition army.

The coalition army pursued all the way to the Heihe River in Kuku and Tun, at this time Tuba did not retreat, the horseless Chahar people formed a dense formation and began to resist stubbornly, arrows flew around in the air like raindrops, the cavalry on both sides fought back and forth on the wide and flat grassland, the black river immediately covered the field, blood flowed like a river, Omulun and Subudi saw the hope of victory, urged the troops to step up the attack, and must crush the Chahar people in one fell swoop.

Tuba finally took out his back hand, Chahar Khan's direct cavalry appeared, the five thousand cavalry of the nearly two thousand Konot cavalry in bright armor are particularly eye-catching, the Chahar Department first originated from Genghis Khan's cowardly cavalry, is the direct guard of the Mongol Khan, they followed the Mongol Khan to the east and west to make great achievements, so that all the enemies are terrified, although time has passed, but their prestige is still there. Guiyingcha and Gunchuk took Konot's of their own Bensumu as the vanguard, followed by a large number of unarmored cavalry of their own tribe, and suddenly appeared on the flank of the coalition army, almost effortlessly destroying the small number of coalition armored cavalry, followed by another massacre, the coalition army that was launching a fierce attack on the Etok in Chahar was taken by surprise and fell into chaos, and the Otok troops on the front took the opportunity to counterattack, and the coalition army that was attacked from both sides immediately collapsed. Tuba Jinong finally sighed, the tide of the battle had been reversed, he had considered in advance that the battle might be unfavorable, and the coalition camp in Daqingshan was at the foot of the mountain, and the terrain was rugged, which was not conducive to the impact of the ironclad cavalry, so he specially left the cavalry directly under the reinforcement of five thousand Chahar Khan to hide near Kuku and Tun, ready to take it out at a critical time to save the emergency, this trick was really used, and now it is time for the Tumut and Yongshaobu people to be unlucky.

Omulun and Subudi were taken aback, they can't care about anything else now, they must cover the attacking troops to withdraw and quickly form a formation to protect themselves, otherwise the collapse of the whole army is inevitable, the two of them each rushed towards the Chahar cavalry with the elite and slave soldiers in armor around them, they did not use bows and arrows to attack this time, but directly hedged, using melee hand-to-hand combat to block the opponent's offensive, and win the opportunity for their own people to regroup, their life-for-life style of play quickly paid off, Gui Yingcha and Gonchuk were not willing to suffer too many casualties, After killing hundreds of opposing cavalry, they quickly retreated to the two flanks of their own formation, and at the same time, the troops of Chahar Gotok also pressed upwards in a neat formation, forming a complete attack formation with the cavalry directly under them.

Under the cover of their elite armored cavalry, Batu and the Taiji took the opportunity to gather their own men and horses, and after beating and scolding the subordinates for a while, the coalition army finally barely completed the whole team, but the morale was already extremely low, and everyone was afraid, no matter how bad Chahar Khan was, he was also the Great Khan of Mongolia, and he was still the master of the steppe.

Omulun and Subudi's faces were pale, they already felt that defeat was approaching, and Batu trembled and said, "Brother Omulun, let's withdraw." ”

"I can't retreat now, I can't run." Omulon shook his head bitterly.

"Let's fight, when they have killed enough, and when they are tired of killing, we will run again." Subu said with a wry smile.

The road south of the Heihe River is full of people, there are Han Chinese, there are Mongols, and a small number of Hui Hui with little white hats, they are driving cattle, sheep and livestock in groups of three or five to rush to the south, carrying simple bags to the south, from time to time there are young people holding knives, spears or wooden sticks in the procession shouting: "Hurry up, there is a fight between Kuku and Tun", "The old people and children get on the cart, everyone should work harder and go faster."

These Bansheng villagers did not make up their minds to flee south until the end, they were reluctant to give up their land and houses, and many of them were still thinking about this year's spring ploughing - didn't Baturu take back all the Daxu of the Chahar Great Khan? There is nothing to fear from the Chahars, with Baturu here, our Bansheng soldiers will definitely be able to drive away the Chahars, but Baturu told them that the Chahars are much stronger than us, and they will definitely fight to retaliate, and if they want to live, they must leave temporarily, and if they can enter the pass, they will enter the pass, and if they can't enter the pass, they will hide in the Barbarian Mountain. Mr. Li, who wrote a good hand, also said that the Chahar people can take away our food and property, but they can't move our land, as long as we live, the land will still be ours in the future. The villagers were finally convinced, Kuku and Tun together, both sides will kill the red eye, stay in the village is to wait for death, or listen to Baturu's words to hide behind the Barbarian Mountain, it is said that there can not only hide, but also land to cultivate, there are also many people who want to try their luck at the pass of the side wall, everyone is Han Chinese, maybe the Ming Kingdom can be kind to allow them to enter the pass to hide, after all, the pass is safer.

In a makeshift tent on the side of the road, full of more than a dozen people, the Lama asked Li Yu with concern: "Yuzi, have you thought about it?" ”

"Do I have a choice? If this battle is not fought, the villagers of Bansheng will withdraw too late, and those Taiji lords will definitely be defeated, and the Chahar people will be killed later, and then there will be corpses all over the way. Li Yu said helplessly.

"Yuzi, you underestimate Omulun and them too much, they are also the descendants of Alatan Khan, they have the courage to fight, not to mention that they have 100,000 people." The old lama shook his head and said.

"Monk Erji, our scouts have discovered that there are about 5,000 cavalry directly under Chahar hidden east of Kuku and Tun, many of them are armored soldiers, Omulun and they may be able to defeat the Etok tribes, but they are by no means the opponents of the cavalry directly under Chahar," Zhao Ji interjected, and then said with a wry smile, "Actually, if we fight hard, we can't beat the cavalry directly under Chahar." ”

The Erji Lama stopped talking, Ulan hurriedly helped him sit down, the Erji Lama came this time to see if his Dazhao Temple was taken back, Ulan was afraid that he would be in danger, he was taken to the board as soon as he came, and the old lama was not worried about Omulun and Batu now, but worried about Li Yu.

"Our strength is too weak, we can only use the strength of Omulun and Subudi to fight with the Chahars, they can't hold out for long, we have to immediately send troops to Kuku and Tun," Li Yu whispered to everyone, he glanced at Li Fugui and said, "Brother Fugui, the villagers will hand over to you to take to the Barbarian Mountain, I will leave Qiu Xian, and he will escort you away with those horseless young people." ”

Qiu Xian was anxious when he heard it, he just wanted to speak, Zhao Ji glared at him, he had to close his mouth angrily, Li Fugui agreed nonchalantly, he has seen a rise in the market recently, and now everyone is short of food, and the potatoes he planted that no one ate have now become baby bumps, many people said that they would also follow him to plant potatoes this year, and his prestige has risen sharply, it just so happens that Li Yu is short of manpower here, and Li Fugui, who is literate and can plant potatoes, was immediately found by Li Yu as a helper, Li Fugui has already said that he has covered the matter of farming in Manhan Mountain, Not only potatoes should be planted, but maize should also be planted.

Li Yu arranged the dispatch of troops and was ready to go, as soon as he walked out of the big tent, someone called him, Li Yu turned his head to see, Boss Zhang, who had sold the Ming army's arrows, was running towards him, Boss Zhang was also frightened during this time, his business could not be done as soon as the battle started, and the Ming merchants in Kuku and Tun ran away, but he was worried about his shop in the city, so he stayed in Bansheng and waited for the situation to improve, but he didn't expect the battle to get bigger and bigger, and he was ready to slip away.

Boss Zhang is a cheerful person, and he asked, "Brother Li, do you need weapons to fight?" I can get you all the goods, the goods of the Datong Arsenal of Yishui, we are old acquaintances, I can give you a discount. ”

Li Yu hesitated for a moment and said, "Of course I want it, it's ......, but I don't have any money now, can you give it to me on credit first." ”

Boss Zhang shook his head, then he smiled mysteriously, and said in a low voice: "I heard that you became the capital of the Ming army, I should call you Li Dusi in the future, we are all the way, you have entered the customs, but don't forget me Zhang Shi'an - Boss Zhang, we will take care of each other in the future." ”

Without waiting for Li Yu to understand what was going on, Boss Zhang left with a smile.

The team has been lined up neatly, his 1,000 elite cavalry only killed about 30 people in the night attack two days ago, the loss is not big, and some people have been added when they come back, the team has increased to 1,200 people, Li Yu glanced at everyone, Zhao Ji, Zhang Ding, Meng Ke, Wuhai, Buck and others sat upright and saluted him one by one, Li Yu nodded and waved his hand: "Let's go, target Kuku and Tun." ”

"Wait for me!" Li Yu was about to pat his horse and leave, but he heard Ulan calling him, he looked back and saw that Ulan was riding a horse with the Lama of Xuerji, Ulan was already wearing armor and carrying a bow and arrows on her back, and Namur, Jeddah, and Hadari behind her were also fully armed.