Chapter 703: Chasing the Dead and Chasing the North, the Chief of Captivity Confers the Head
"King Khan, King Khan...... The Ming army is catching up, wake up! By the time the little prince came to his senses, he was already on his way to escape. 【】
From the moment the fire screen retreated and the army suddenly collapsed, he had lost the ability to think.
In fact, he knew very well that he knew that the Ming army did not chase Warat, but only themselves, in order to cause a new round of infighting in the grassland, and this time it was not fake, but real.
Although both he and Huosie knew very well that after the Ming army won this battle, they would soon set their sights on the steppe, and the Mongols had to unite in order to come up with a way to resist. However, who is the main and who is the second, always has to decide the top and bottom, and he has lost so badly this time, not to mention the fire sieve, even if it is inside the Tatars, I am afraid it will not stop.
He was also well aware that the losses from the rout would be much greater than the retreat of the entire army, the terrain of the battlefield was terrible, the Mongol cavalry was attacking from the south to the north, and the Sanggan River was to the west. If you win, the terrain will be very favorable, and with the help of the river, you can easily encircle and annihilate the Ming army, but if you lose, it will be very fatal.
To escape, there are only two directions in the southeast to choose, and the cavalry of the Ming army is pressed from the left flank, especially those scattered rangers, who inexplicably went around in a circle and blocked the way to the east.
The only direction left for the Tatar rout was to flee south of the river, wait until the water is shallow or where there is a bridge, and then cross the river to the west, cross the border wall, and flee back to the steppe.
Under normal circumstances, such an escape route is naturally difficult for the grassland people, their mobility is higher than that of the Ming army, and they are also familiar with the road in Datong, as long as they can flee with the army, there will definitely be losses, but they will not be fatal.
However, now the trouble is big, and the Ming army that is chasing and killing is mainly cavalry. And unlike the captive cavalry who fought hard for a long time, the cavalry of the Ming army was only put into the battlefield at the last moment, and they had been recuperating before, even if the comrades of the Chinese army fell into bitter battles many times and were almost unsafe.
The little emperor was insidious, and his scheming paid off, and after the collapse of the captive cavalry, the Ming army's light cavalry pursuit was carried out smoothly and the results were brilliant.
They don't get off their horses to cut off their heads when they kill people, and when they see wounded soldiers who fall to the ground, they go directly through their horses, and they don't even rob horses when they kill people! They mechanically repeated the same movements, riding forward, swinging their knives over the top, slashing hard, each time taking away a life, and each time they didn't look back, but raised their heads to the next target.
The little prince had been sitting on his horse in a daze, but all this was clearly reflected in his heart, and if it was possible, he also wanted to prevent the army from breaking up and fleeing like a fire sieve.
However, he couldn't. The bitter battles of late, as well as the repeated setbacks, had been suppressing the morale of the army, and finally when the fire sieve fled, it was finally discharged.
The madness of the attack was also reflected in the escape, whether he roared or roared, whipped or slashed with a knife, he could not stop his king's tent elite soldiers, as if in countless battles in the past, the elite cavalry ran and was unstoppable, only this time, they were fleeing.
After that, the little prince didn't know anything, or he knew but didn't want to think about it. Before today, a month ago, he was still the world-famous little prince of Tatar, and he was still dreaming of restoring the glory of the Great Yuan and entering the Central Plains. But now, he can only be a lost dog who fled in panic.
His army has vanished, and there is probably not one in ten who can return to the steppe; After returning to the grassland, he faced the expected series of infighting; Even if he can calm down the infighting, he is about to face the Northern Expedition of the Ming Kingdom...... There was no hope for the future, and there was no end to the darkness, so he could only be at the mercy of his own soldiers, sitting on his horse, and fleeing with the large force of the rout.
However, now the soldiers want to wake him up, what is going on? He knew that a Ming army, the mountain cavalry of the hundreds of scouts who had killed him, chased after them, and seemed to think that they were a big man, so they chased after them. And the one who is at the forefront is the woman who showed her skills in the outpost battle.
The pro-soldiers have divided their manpower to break the queen many times, but it has not helped. If there are many people who go, the other side will bombard them with firearms; If there are few people, they will die a miserable death, or a lasso, or a hidden weapon, and if they don't get close, they will be beaten into a sieve.
After seeing that someone broke the back, those cavalry became even more excited, and they didn't even pay attention to the other routs, but just urged the war horses wildly, and chased closely behind Boyan Mengke.
And those routs also lost the pride of the king's tent elite soldiers, knowing that the other party was chasing and killing their Great Khan, but no one stepped forward to stop them, but avoided the Great Khan from afar, and many people showed a happy look on their faces.
The elite soldiers of the king's tent who were beaten into mourning dogs were no different from ordinary shepherds, and in the face of invincible enemies, they were nothing more than jackals who bullied the weak and feared the hard.
"What are you doing? It's just a few dozen Han dogs, what is there to be afraid of, follow Ben Khan, rush up, kill them, and then gather a large army to turn defeat into victory! The little prince suddenly became furious, roared and took the reins of his horse from his own soldiers, then drew his scimitar and turned his horse's head.
"King Khan, you go first, and after the small one kills the Bright Army, I will go and join you!"
Defeat attracts the Ming army to pursue, and then attack with ambushes, this is a tactic that the Tartars like to use, especially in the face of the troops commanded by civilian officials, almost a hundred tests, the Tartars usually talk about it, and the little prince's statement is not unreasonable.
But now it's not like that at all, his personal guards are all descendants of the clan, and they are also generals when they are released, and they are all well versed in the art of war. Now that the rout has been achieved, all the cavalry are already frightened birds, not to mention Boyan Mengke, even if Genghis Khan is resurrected, or the immortal heaven appears, it is impossible for them to restore their morale.
That's right, if you don't consider the cause and effect, the cavalry around you adds up to thousands, and there are also routs in front and behind, and the vanguard of the Ming army has been trapped in the enemy formation and surrounded by regiments. But in fact, the situation was indeed reversed, nearly a thousand people were chased by dozens of people, and except for their own personal guards, no one was willing to turn back to face the battle.
Turning back to face the battle is just sending them to death, if it weren't for the fact that these guards were all members of the little prince's clansmen, and they were all in the same breath as each other, they would not have done such an act of death.
"What are you going to go? Instead of dying on the way away like a dog, it's better to have a good time! "Many of the cavalry's horses have lost their strength, and when they speak, people keep falling off their horses, and those who fall off their horses don't know whether they are dead or alive, and after they fall, they struggle twice at most, and then there is no movement.
The river has not yet been crossed, and when we escape a few more miles, it will be a shallow, and how many people will die because of trampling on each other, and how many will be buried in the water? As for after crossing the river, he will have to cross half of Datong Town and flee to the north and west, whether the fortresses on the road will be silent, and whether the fire screen will wait outside the side wall, the little prince can't even think about it.
"King Khan, it's really not good, you can still go to Huanzhou, Wang Xun is not ......" After such a delay, the pursuers behind chased closer, and the guards could even see the eyebrows and eyes of the woman at the head, that face was clear and beautiful, and at other times, it would only arouse their beastly desire, but now, what they felt was only Sen Han's murderous intention.
"He? Hmph, he can't protect himself, do you think Daming is the same as the tribes on the grassland? After we are finished, as long as the little emperor goes to Huanzhou to show his ...... Hehe, those who are not afraid of death are on the same as Ben Khan, and the other Ben Khan is not reluctant, if you can't gather a team, it will be a death to escape! ”
The little prince didn't know how many people Warat had lost, but according to his estimates, Warat could at least retain more than half of its combat power, and I have to say that the fire screen was really fast.
If he doesn't have enough people around him, he must not be able to get to Xinghe, rather than die in the hands of his own people, it is better to fight with the Ming army, the Ming army behind him is the vanguard force, and the backup is still far away, he firmly believes that as long as these people are defeated, there will be a chance to regroup.
"Kill!" Under the leadership of the little prince, dozens of guards turned around and launched the first counterattack since the retreat of the army.
"Good time!" Hu Sanniang didn't know who the enemy was, she just pursued them in line with the principle that the pursuit should first break the enemy's fighting spirit, this handful of Tartars still had the will to resist, if they left it alone, they might have the opportunity to organize a part of the rout, so it was imperative to defeat them.
"Here comes a big fat sheep." The eyes of the horses were shining, according to their experience of kidnapping and blackmailing, they could completely determine the identity of the other party, eighty percent was a chief or something, otherwise how could there be a personal guard at this time?
The great work is beckoning! Little Seventh Brother went to the Wa Kingdom and killed tens of thousands of Wa people, so he became a general, and now he is the chief of the Tartars! Their saliva was about to flow down, and there was a green light in their eyes, shouting and chasing after Hu Sanniang.
Flying knives, see flying knives again, can be on top of the battle array with the body of a woman, Hu Sanniang relies on a fast word, the knife is fast, and the hand is faster. One moment she was still dancing with both hands, and the next moment she was already handing the knife to her left hand, and her right hand was in her arms, and then shaking her hand was a white light, coming to her face.
In normal times, Boyan Meng might be able to dodge, but after a long battle, his movements were no longer very dexterous, and he could only watch as the deadly flying knife flew over, pierced the body of the leader of his personal guards, and made him turn over and fall off his horse. The latter is the protector of the heart and blocks it.
He was so furious that he raised his hand and wanted to return with a bow and arrow, but when he looked up, he found all kinds of hidden weapons flying all over the sky, and even a noose was mixed in with them. Fortunately, one of the guards didn't lose his shield and blocked him in time, otherwise he would have become a hornet's nest.
However, the shield is not omnipotent, the weapons of the horses are very messy, but the earth-shaking thunder of the Ming army is uniformly configured, the little prince did not notice, those hidden weapons, also mixed with a black iron ball, until the fire flashed, the two shield-holding guards flew in response, he found that his life had come to an end.
After the firelight, the sword flashed, the captive chief was beheaded, and the rest were crushed.
After that, the Ming army chased the dead and chased the north, and chased it out of a hundred miles away. Along the way, corpses were everywhere, and the blood and water even stained the Sanggan River red, and the little prince's speculations on the way to escape were fulfilled one by one.
(To be continued)