Ten miles west of the Sea.

In the vast grassland, more than 3,000 Tumut people are helping the old and the young, driving hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and livestock to flee in panic, their men have died on the battlefield, their homes have been destroyed by the Ming army, and now they can only take the old people and children, drive the cattle and sheep to flee to the camp of the Horqin people.

The ferocious Ming army was like a haunting wolf, following them closely, and whenever they wanted to stop and catch their breath, this group of wolves would pounce on them and bite them hard, so they couldn't and didn't dare to stop, they could only keep running away and running away again.

Ahead, the vast Ammonite Sea is already in sight, as long as it crosses the Amber Sea is the camp of the Korqin people, the Tumuts will be saved, however, before the Tumuts have time to rejoice in escaping, the sudden appearance of a large group of Ming troops kicked them into the abyss of despair!

Under the clear blue sky, the endless army of the Ming Dynasty swept in like black oppressive ants, and the poor Tumut women could no longer take care of the cattle, sheep and livestock that they regarded as their lives, and even the old people, so they could only take their children on horseback and scatter.

It was a ruthless and cruel hunt, only this time the Ming army was the hunter, and the Mongols became the prey.

In the course of two days of chasing and fleeing, the 4,000 iron horsemen led by Wang Pu consciously drove the Tumut people together, and when the Tumut fled to the vicinity of the Xiangqi Sea, more than 6,000 old and young women, children, and millions of cattle and sheep had gathered into three major stocks, the largest of which had more than 3,000 people and more than 500,000 cattle and sheep and livestock, and Zhang Zi'an intercepted this group.

More than 10,000 soldiers of the Ming army are like more than 10,000 viciously intercepting the escape of the Tumut people, and then rushed into the Tumut crowd with teeth and claws, and soon, the grassland was crowded with the Tumert people who fled in panic, and the Ming soldiers were chasing frantically behind them, and countless cattle, sheep and horses were scurrying around on the grassland...... "Hahaha, there are a lot of sheep, these sheep are Lao Tzu." ”

"I want this herd of cattle, and no one is allowed to rob them from Lao Tzu!"

"Damn, then these horses are mine!"

A group of Ming soldiers did not go to chase and kill the Tumuts who fled in all directions, but picked up the shepherd's whip to fight for the cattle, sheep and horses thrown by the Tumertes, and an old Tumert was sitting on the ground waiting for death because he was too old to run, and when he saw this scene, he shot an arrow at the group of Ming soldiers, and actually let him shoot one to death.

The remaining dozen or so Ming soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then surrounded them like crazy.

"Drive!"

Seeing that the old man was about to be dismembered by the Ming soldiers, a young Tumut woman suddenly galloped over from a horse not far away, seemingly trying to save the old man, when the Tumut woman who rode the Tumut rushed past the Ming army, the commander of the Ming army suddenly jumped up, opened her arms like an eagle catching a chicken, and pounced on the Tumut woman on horseback.

"Come down!"

The Ming army shouted loudly, and hugged the slender and toned body of the Tumut woman, and the two rolled down from the horse and rolled down in the grass, and soon, the Ming army turned over and sat up, and rode the Tumut woman under the crotch, looking up to the sky and laughing: "Those cattle, sheep and horses belong to you, and this girl belongs to Lao Tzu, hahaha......"

The Ming soldiers who gathered around burst into laughter.

"Whew!"

The terrible sound of breaking the air suddenly swept through the air, and the Ming army stopped the unbridled laughter abruptly, and when the dozen or so Ming soldiers who surrounded them looked at it urgently, they saw that the Ming army had inserted a thumb-thick wolf tooth arrow into the throat, and the feathers at the end of the arrow were still trembling slightly...... "hiss......"

The Ming army inhaled with a hiss, and tried hard to raise his hands to pull out the arrows on his throat, but unfortunately his hands were only half raised and fell, and then his head fell crookedly on the Tumut woman, and he died of anger, his eyes were round and round, and he couldn't look at it!

Suddenly, the faint sound of horses' hooves sounded in the eastern sky.

The group of Ming soldiers Huo Ran turned around, and was taken aback when he saw it, only to see that on the endless steppe, a large group of Mongolian cavalry had already swarmed in, and the first Mongolian cavalry had already aimed at them with bows and arrows, and heard a sound of "boom" breaking through the air, and another Ming soldier had been shot through the throat and fell to the ground with convulsions.

"Mongols!"

"The Mongols are coming!"

"Run, brethren, run......"

The remaining dozen or so Ming soldiers shouted, fled in the wilderness, and one of them ran two steps and turned back, and then fell down beside the old man who had just been killed, and wiped some blood from the old man's body on his neck and face, and finally lay down and did not move.

This group of Mongol cavalry who arrived in time was none other than the three thousand iron guards of the Korqin Division, and the Mongol warriors who took the lead were Banketu, the eldest son of Ukeshan, the prince of Heshuo Zhuoliktu!

The Horqin cavalry came quickly, and although the Ming army sent scout cavalry, they were all killed.

Therefore, when the three thousand iron guards of the Horqin Department suddenly appeared, the soldiers of the Ming army who were chasing and killing Tumut and robbing cattle, sheep and livestock were still ignorant, and Zhang Zi'an, who was waiting for news in the camp, was also unaware.

Before the expedition, Wu Keshan had repeatedly told Bandtu not to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, his task was only to entangle the Ming army, not let the Ming army calmly escape back to the Great Wall, and win time for the follow-up cavalry to encircle and annihilate the Ming army!

However, when Bandtu led 3,000 iron guards to the sea of Xiangji, what he saw was an angry scene, thousands of Tumut women and children were rushing on the grassland, more than 10,000 Ming troops were chasing behind them, and the Tumuts were constantly caught up, and then died tragically under the knives of the Ming army, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep of the Tumuts had become the trophies of the Ming army.

Because of the pursuit of the Tumuts and the snatching of cattle, sheep and livestock, more than 10,000 Ming troops have been in chaos, at this time, if an elite Mongolian cavalry launched a surprise attack from behind the Ming army, the Ming army will be defeated! The battle-hardened Banketu keenly sniffed out the fighter plane, and immediately led three thousand iron guards to launch a surprise attack on the Ming army from behind!

The sudden appearance of the 3,000 Horqin Iron Guards made the situation on the entire battlefield take a sharp turn for the worse, and the Ming army, which had been completely loose, could no longer organize an effective defensive formation, and the stubborn resistance of the small Ming army was a drop in the bucket at all, to no avail, and soon collapsed under the impact of the Horqin cavalry.

The Ming soldiers who were still chasing and killing the Tumuts just now fell into the prey of the Mongolian cavalry in a blink of an eye, but the Tumertes, who were rushing to the wolves, began to turn around and chase the Ming army.

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The sea is dying, and the Ming army is in a big camp.

When Zhang Zi'an was waiting for the good news of the attack on the Ming army in the tent, suddenly a little eunuch ran into the tent with a panicked expression, crying and shouting: "Godfather, it's not good, it's not good." ”

"What's wrong?" Zhang Zi'an said, "Don't panic, speak slowly." ”

"Yes." The little eunuch answered, gasping and said, "Just now my son saw it outside the camp and saw ......."

Zhang Zi'an frowned and said, "What do you see?" ”

The little eunuch said calmly: "Originally, our Ming army has taken advantage and is chasing and killing the Mongols everywhere, but somehow it happened, thousands of Mongolian cavalry suddenly killed from the east, and in a blink of an eye, our Ming army was killed, and now our Ming army has been chased by the Mongolian cavalry and fled to the west. ”

"No way, no way!" Zhang Zi'an was taken aback when he heard this, and said in a lost voice, "Master Horse, he didn't say that there are Mongolian cavalry in the Sea, are you mistaken?" ”

"Godfather." The little eunuch replied with a bitter face, "It's not wrong, or let's hurry back to Datong, if we wait for the Mongols to come back, it's too late for us to leave." ”

"Let's go?" Zhang Zi'an's expression was cold, and he said fiercely, "Do you want to leave?" ”

The little eunuch shuddered excitedly, he had already heard that Zhang Zi'an had moved to kill, and hurriedly responded: "Where you are, godfather, your son will follow you, and your son will never leave your old man's house for half a step." ”

"Pass on our family's military orders!" Zhang Zi'an shouted sharply, "Let the remaining two thousand men and horses guard the camp, and wait until the horse master comes back no matter what!" ”

Things have come to this point, Zhang Zi'an has no way out, even if he can escape, he doesn't want to escape, what's the use of escaping back? Not to mention that he didn't raise 600,000 taels of silver, now even the 10,000 troops in Datong Town have buried him outside the Saiwai, and he fled back like this, how could the Lord and the old ancestor spare him?

Now, whether Zhang Zi'an wants it or not, Wang Pu has become his lifeline! Only when Wang Pu returns, when Wang Pu's army defeats this group of Mongol cavalry that suddenly appeared, will things take a turn for the better, and then Zhang Zi'an can slowly gather the remnants of his defeated army, and then drive the cattle and sheep of the Tumuts back to Datong.

If he wins this battle, Zhang Zi'an will have nothing to do, and if he loses, everything will be over.

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When Zhang Zi'an was waiting for Wang Pu to save his life, Wang Pu was busy with one thing.

This matter is to collect the cattle, sheep and horses abandoned by the Tumuts along the way, the Tumuts fled very embarrassed and hurriedly, of course, they did not care about driving away all the livestock, and all the way to escape, there were cattle, sheep and livestock abandoned by them all the way, Wang Pu and his 4,000 cavalry followed behind to collect these livestock.

The king of cattle and sheep can not be wanted, but the horses cannot be without, this is a valuable strategic resource!

Wang Puqi attacked and naturalized, one is to train the army, and the other reason is to seize the horses of the Mongols!

However, it was not an easy task to collect the scattered horses, because the horses were active and came and went, unlike cattle and sheep, which were slow to move, and often stayed in one place waiting for the herdsmen to drive them, and in order to collect the tens of thousands of horses abandoned by the Tumuts along the way, Wang Pu's 4,000 cavalry tracked them everywhere and repeatedly surrounded them, so that they were dozens of miles behind.

Otherwise, long before the 3,000 Horqin Iron Guards arrived, Wang Pu's 4,000 cavalry should have joined forces with Zhang Zi'an.

When the soldiers of the Ming army suddenly fled in embarrassment on the grassland in front, Wang Pu had just gathered more than 50 horses by a small river, and at this time, Wang Pu only had more than 80 cronies led by Xiao Qi and a team of 100 people with Scarface, adding up to less than 200 people in total.

"General, look!" Lu Liu was the first to discover the rout of the Ming army that had fled in embarrassment, and shouted, "It seems to be the Ming army!" ”

Wang Pu's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly looked in the direction of Lu Liu's fingers, and sure enough, he saw a large group of Ming officers and soldiers rushing over from the front, not far behind this group of Ming troops, dozens of Mongolian cavalry were chasing and killing, and the Mongolian cavalry was chasing while holding their bows and arrows, and the Ming army was constantly screaming and falling in a pool of blood.

Farther on the steppe, more Ming troops were rushing forward, and more Mongol cavalry were chasing and killing.

Scarface shouted, "General, it's really a Ming army!" ”

"Ugh." Zhen Youcai gasped and exclaimed, "It's the Datong border army, it seems that Grandpa Zhang has an accident!" ”

"General." Scarface snapped and asked, "What now?" ”

"The brethren are scattered across the steppe to gather their horses, and if they order a retreat, they will be shot one by one by the pursuing Mongols, like these routs." Wang Pu immediately decided, "Now only by attacking forward and defeating the Mongolian cavalry in front of you may still have a chance of survival!" ”

"General." Zhen Youcai said worriedly, "But we only have less than two hundred cavalry in total, and the Mongolian cavalry in front of us looks like there are at least more than a thousand cavalry!" ”

"I can't care so much." Wang Pu shouted, "Xiao Qi, show the flag!" ”

"Yes!"

Xiao Qi suddenly agreed, raised the put away military flag high in the sky, and then shook it vigorously, the blood-stained flag suddenly stretched out in the wind, and on the plain white flag, the two pools of dark red blood stains were like two huge exclamation marks intertwined together, reflecting the blood color that made people palpitate under the light of the hot sun......

(To be continued)