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Kuku and the allied forces under Tuncheng wasted time in fighting each other, as they did in Weining Haizi, and Chahar's reinforcements finally arrived.
Chahar Khan has survived a difficult winter, already like a hungry red-eyed wolf, the Ming State ignores him, Yongshao Bu, Tumut and the tribes are stalking with him again, and if this continues, his supplies will not be able to hold on, he is not willing to go back to the Xiliao River, where he is too poor to live, and the sworn enemy Jin Guo is eyeing him, this is his homeland, it was the ambitious Altan Khan and the right-wing departments who drove the Chahar tribes out of the desert grassland with abundant water and grass, and he wanted to take the Chahar tribes back to his homeland, Kill all the hateful leaders of the right-wing tribes, the Tumuts and Yongshaobu people came just in time, then decide the battle or the loser, Chahar Khan issued an order in the old upper capital, ordering all the Otok tribes to immediately set off to kill Kuku and Tun, and all 10,000 households directly under Chahar were assembled in the old upper capital and set out with the Great Khan.
According to the previous rules, Chahar's Etok was at the forefront, and they had to explore the way for Chahar Khan, Chahar originally had eight Etoks, but their strength was weakened before the Western Expedition - Ao Han and Naiman surrendered to the Jin State, and in addition to the young and strong expeditions, most of the people in the Duorot Department were still staying in the West Liao River, in order to supplement their Etok strength, Chahar Khan sent his important retainer Tuba Jinong to take the lead and lead the Etoks on his behalf, At the same time, the various tribes that had been brought from the Xiliao River and along the way were also handed over to Tuba Jinong, and set out with the various Etoks.
As soon as Tuba's army arrived, they immediately frightened Omulun and Subudi, and immediately retreated to the foot of Daqing Mountain with their troops, which was safer than Kuku and Tuncheng, and they could flee into the mountains if they couldn't pull their legs. Tuba Jinong was also taken aback, he didn't expect Tumut and Yongshao Buwanhu to be able to cobble together so many people, it seems that there will be 100,000 people, Chahar Ge Tuoke plus the scattered tribes that came with it are only 50,000 or 60,000 people, the difference in strength between the two sides is too great, Tuba does not have the courage to hit the iron plate with his head, he dispelled the delusion of teaching the right-wing departments a lesson first, and decided to rely on Kuku and Tun to wait for the arrival of the 10,000 households directly under the Chahar Great Khan, so the two sides fell into a stalemate - the Chahars did not dare to fight, The combined forces of Tumut and Yongshao Bu wanted to fight but could not muster up the courage, and they were a little unwilling to escape, and the battle of Kuku and Tun, which both sides had been looking forward to, became unexpectedly lifeless.
There is a hill more than fifty miles from the Karamangnai Avenue, the mountain and the mountain are full of trees, at this time the snow has begun to melt, the trees spit out green shoots again, and from a distance there are scattered green on the snow-covered mountain, there is silence here, only occasionally from the forest there are a few horses chirping, but soon stopped, into the forest will find that there are actually many people and horses hidden inside, and everyone is carrying weapons, they do not speak, just silently tidy up their horses, dress.
Li Yu squatted silently on the snow, gulping down dry food, Zhao Ji, Zhang Ding, Wu Hai, Buck and others were all around him, they had just arrived here, they had been running on horseback since yesterday afternoon, and now they could finally find a place to take a breath.
"Elm, are you doing this? We are only 1,000 people when we are full, and those Taiji people have gathered so many people and don't fight, what are we fighting! Zhao Ji muttered in a low voice.
"There are few of us, but all of us are good at horses, as long as we hit the right way, the Chahar people are nothing remarkable," Li Yu said lightly, except for the group of horse thieves pulled up by Zhao Ji and the group of people he brought, most of the others were Bansheng Qingzhuang who had been trained in the Bayala camp with him, and the few remaining people were also selected by him, he believed that his gang could defeat the rabble of Chahar, he pointed to the distance and said: "I have fought with the Chahars, I know that their weakness is there, Monk has already taken someone to investigate, and when he returns, we will know that this is the case. β
Zhao Ji didn't say anything, this time he admired Li Yu a little, he had been tossing in Bansheng for so long, few people paid attention to him, everyone still took care of their own affairs, but as soon as Li Yu declared that he wanted to establish his own army of Bansheng people to defend his homeland, he immediately gathered thousands of young people - in fact, Bansheng people are more afraid of the Chahar people who have robbed them once, the Mongols can roll up their luggage and drive away with cattle, sheep and livestock, they don't have the ability to move their crops and houses, of course they hope to have an army to protect them, Many of the Mongols in Bansheng heard that Princess Ulan was with him, and they also rode horses to defect, if it weren't for Li Yu's request to ride ** Zhan, one person and two horses, they could pull out four or five thousand people to fight.
Zhang Ding patted Zhao Ji on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Fly on the grass, you don't understand this, this kind of rush is the most suitable for us, in our hometown of Yulin, seven or eight-year-old children know that this is a method used to pound the nest." "ββThe Ming army used two methods to deal with the Mongols, one is to burn the wasteland, every year at the beginning of spring and late autumn, when the grass is yellow and dry, a fire burns the grassland of hundreds of miles outside the border into a wasteland where the grass does not grow, and the other way is to smash the nest, select hundreds of elite cavalry, each with several horses, run hundreds of miles in one day, suddenly attack the big tent of the Mongolian chieftain, and destroy it in one fell swoop. He is no stranger to Li Yu's style of play.
"Who said I don't understand, we didn't use this method in the past, I just think that those Taiji don't fight, but it's not worth it for us to fight for them." Zhao Ji argued.
"You Han people like to use this kind of sneaky way to fight, just like we Mongols want to fight in a dignified manner." Na Mu'er said very dissatisfied, he was still the same as before, he followed Ulan wherever he went, but last time he was beaten by Botok more ruthlessly, and he lay down in Bansheng for two days, and he heard that Li Yu was going out to fight, and he wanted to follow.
"I told you that everyone will be from Fengzhou in the future, and you will still talk nonsense about Mongolians and Han Chinese." Buck kicked Namur and whispered a reminder to him, and Namur immediately shut up.
Li Yu clapped his hands after eating the dry food, and said to everyone: "The Chahar people are overwhelming, we will definitely suffer a big loss if we work hard, and those Taiji will not help us, maybe we hope that we will die the best, so as not to cause trouble for them in the future, so we can't get involved with Omulun and Subudi them, we will fight with them separately, we have to fight according to our own way, Chahar division of troops to advance gives us a chance, we don't care about the Chahar miscellaneous soldiers in front, and how many Chahar Khan those people die will not be distressed, We will fight the headquarters of Chahar Khan, and this battle will be fought so that he will not dare to advance easily, so that we may have the opportunity to find fighters in Kuku and Tun, and try to defeat the Chahars there, I do not believe it, 100,000 men cannot defeat the rabble of 50,000 or 60,000 Chahars. β
Li Yu paused for a while, seeing that everyone had no objections, and then said: "Our strength is too small, and one or two victories will not have much impact on the entire battle situation, Chahar's strength is much stronger than that of the right wing departments, and those Taiji have lost this battle, so after we return to Kuku and Tun, regardless of victory or defeat, we will immediately move to the south of Manhan Mountain with the villagers of Bansheng, if the Ming Kingdom accepts us, we will enter the customs and annex it, if the Ming Kingdom rejects us, then we will struggle between Matou Mountain and the Manhan Mountain, Do you all understand? β
Everyone agreed in unison, during this time, everyone unconsciously regarded Li Yu as their leader, Zhao Ji was not convinced at first, but soon he found that he was not as good as Li Yu, and now he may not be able to beat Li Yu, and he is not as good as Li Yu, who has read books, and he is not as good as Li Yu when he has a relationship with Mingguo - Li Yu has the title of the capital of Mingguo, and he Zhao Ji is a thief, he is like a turtle in front of Li Yu, and he is gradually used to obeying Li Yu.
In the middle of the night, Meng Ke and Jida, who had gone out to investigate, came back, and as soon as Meng Ke saw Li Yu, he shouted loudly: "Big boss, why are the Chahar people still the same, and they haven't learned to camp until now, we can clean him up again this time like the Xilamulun River." β
Li Yu and everyone gathered around, listening to Meng Ke's eyebrows fluttering about the situation he had investigated, Jeddah helped him add a few words from time to time, the Chahar people divided their troops again, there were almost 5,000 cavalry to Kuku and Tun, of which there were about 2,000 armored soldiers, Meng Ke saw that there was the banner of Gui Yingcha and another guy he didn't know, and Chahar Khan's army was camped by the Butong River, the Chahar people still did not learn their lesson, the camp had no fences, deer barbs, and no trenches, and each tribe had its own management, and the camp was sparsely entrenched. There weren't many sentinels, and the scouts didn't see them.
Zhang Ding laughed when he heard this: "This is their old problem, we have been fighting with them for more than 200 years, and they just can't seem to change it." Namur sighed when he heard it, it's not that he can't change it, it's that he can't change it, all the Mongolian tribes are used to living their own lives, what does the Great Khan want to do is his own business, how easy it is for everyone to come.
Li Yu's spirits were greatly lifted, and if the Chahar people wanted to find death, they would be satisfied, and he immediately ordered the team to be divided into three teams, with him, Zhao Ji, and Zhang Ding each leading a team, and all the officers and soldiers wore sheepskin jackets, and took three sounds of the hammer and the sound of the trumpet as the trumpet, and at the same time entered the Chahar camp.
Li Yu said to everyone: "We will set off immediately, we can rush to the Butong River in the second half of the night, everyone will kill me fiercely, do not take prisoners, do not want livestock, property, we must keep killing and burning, so that the Chahar people are terrified, we must withdraw before dawn, rush here to rendezvous, the trumpeters of each team are ready to contact with the trumpet, and no one is allowed to leave their ranks." β
After a brief preparation, Li Yu set off with three teams of cavalry on thin snow.
Chahar Khan couldn't have imagined that anyone would fight him, there are still hundreds of miles away from Kuku and Tun here, and there are tens of thousands of his horses and horses confronting the right wing of the various departments, who has the heart to run here to fight him, as for Bansheng's gang, he has not heard of it, and he will not believe it if he says it, his attention is now all on Kuku and Tun, Tuba is old, he has long lost the courage of his youth, and he has not dared to fight a battle until now, but he keeps sending people to ask him to march quickly, Chahar Khan thought about it and sent his two brothers-in-law, Guiyingcha and Gunchuk, each with Bensumu's Konot cavalry, as well as the young men of their respective tribes to quickly reinforce Tuba, he asked Tuba to attack as soon as possible, even if he could not defeat the coalition army, he must consume their elite to the maximum, his Chahar headquarters of the elite of 10,000 households could not be easily used, as for those Etoks were originally raised by the Great Khan to fight, they always went their own way on weekdays, did not listen to the Great Khan, and deserved to die.
After arranging for reinforcements to set off, Chahar Khan set up camp early to rest, he was not willing to rush to the battlefield, and it was better to wait for his Otok to fight almost with the Tumut and Yongshaob people, and then he would come out and destroy the coalition army in one fell swoop. With this thought, Chahar Khan felt that he was too tired and needed to sleep well, he was now facing not only the matter of eating, how to give birth to a son was also a major problem, he was already middle-aged, but only Sutai Hatun gave birth to a son under his knees, this is simply terrible, if this infant child has an accident, how to pass on this throne in the future.
The second half of the night is the most tired time for people, the Chahar tribes who have worked hard all day are immersed in sleep, the sentries can't help sleeping, sitting by the fire and falling asleep, a cold wind blows, a sentry is frozen awake, he stands up and moves his body, and when he looks up, he suddenly finds a team of firelight galloping, he rubs his eyes and looks carefully for a while, there is indeed a team of cavalry rushing towards them, who is this? Could it be that Tuba Jinong sent someone back, and before he could figure it out, the cavalry had already rushed over, and then three branches sounded in the sky, and the sound of bull horns was also heard, and the sentry was frightened and wanted to sound the alarm, but it was too late, and hundreds of iron horsemen drowned him in the blink of an eye.
The Chahar camp was in chaos in an instant, the soldiers sleeping around the fire had not yet picked up their weapons, they were trampled to the ground by the iron horsemen who rushed up, and a tent was also lit by torches, the Chahar camp was in flames, a wolf howled and ghosts howled, the Chahar people ran around in terror, shouting and screaming, no one knew what was happening, and some tribes even mistakenly thought that someone was seeking revenge, and fought with each other. Some tribes reacted that someone was attacking them, so the cries for help from the tribes came and went, and the Chahar people who came to their senses moved closer to their leaders - Chahar is the same as other Mongolian tribes, whether it is Etuoke or Wanhu directly under it, it is composed of large and small tribes, the people recognize their own tribes, and the tribal leader recognizes his own Great Khan, it depends on his consciousness, the Chahar households with many tribes are now looking at their own places to protect themselves, and countless circles of large and small have been formed in the camp, It became a situation of fighting on their own, so that their counterattack was lost, and instead it made room for the attackers to move back and forth and speed up the horses, and the weaker tribes were soon swept to pieces, and the scattered troops ran in all directions, causing the camp to be even more chaotic.
Li Yu held a bow and arrow and kept shooting at the dense crowd, Meng Ke, Jeddah guards continued to swing their knives left and right to slash down the Chahar people who crashed into front of him, Li Yu kept shouting while shooting: "Accelerate, accelerate, change horses immediately when you are tired, don't stop,." β
He jumped on the galloping empty horse, looked back, and shouted: "Na Mu'er, follow me, don't leave a single step, shoot them with arrows, Chen Erzhu, blow the trumpet vigorously, don't stop." β
Namur shouted excitedly: "I saw Chahar Khan's Daxu, just over there, let's go and capture Chahar Khan alive." β
"Follow me!" Li Yu shouted, turned around and galloped towards the other side, Wuhai, Buck and Meng Ke immediately commanded a beautiful little detour of their team to complete the turn, and rushed over with Li Yu.
Chahar Khan was already frightened awake, his first reaction was to flee quickly, and when he put on his clothes and went out of the tent, it was too late to run, the whole camp was in chaos in the firelight, and the shadow of his younger brother who was responsible for guarding the big tent was gone, and there were few people in the Baya Lakonot cavalry Sumu brought by Tu Taiji, Chahar Khan now really regrets that he shouldn't have transferred the two elite Sumu of Guiyingcha and Gunchuk to Tuba, no matter how bold the two guys are, they dare not leave the big tent without permission, but the bastard of the bastard of Gutu dare, Chahar Khan gritted his teeth and shouted to the commander of the Chinese army, Deshenzhuang: "Transfer all your Bayala guards to Ben Khan, no one is allowed to run, Ben Khan will take you to drive away these bold thieves." β
Chahar Khan ordered the servants to immediately put on his armor, although he was small but also knew that it was more dangerous to run out at this time, it was better to stay here and desperately survive, and he slept with the sac Dahatun who slept all night said that he wanted to find her Aqi Tuman Wanhu escort, and ran away without waiting for him to agree, and the honest Chahar Khan had to work hard in the big tent with a single one, but fortunately, the people of Deshenzhuang were kind, and took his subordinate Bayala to surround the Chinese army camp to death, and kept shooting down people who tried to get close to the big tent with arrows.
Li Yu rushed over, but he quickly gave up the plan to attack, the opponent's arrows were too dense, he immediately ordered to blow the trumpet and call for reinforcements, and at the same time took his more than 300 cavalry along the edge of the middle camp to move continuously, with the same dense arrow rain to pay tribute to the other party, Deshenzhuang was suppressed by the arrow rain a little unbearable, began to gradually shrink back, soon heard the horn Zhang Ding, Zhao Ji also arrived, the attack of a thousand cavalry quickly made Deshenzhuang unable to parry, he now can't care about anything else, and retreated his Bayara to the big tent, Together with Chahar Khan's guards and slave soldiers, he tightly surrounded the big tent, this time he didn't dare to retreat anymore, brandishing his sword and commanding his men to desperately shoot arrows at the opponent who rushed up, the arrow rain became more dense, there were casualties around Li Yu, and the sky was already a little bright at this time, Li Yu understood that he had no time.
"Chen Erzhu, blow the trumpet, and order all teams to abandon the attack and immediately withdraw from the Chahar battalion." Li Yu shouted loudly, and then he pointed to the Chahar Khan Daxu outside the big tent and shouted, "Go to a few people, grab that Daxu back for me." β