Chapter 303: The Brave Wins (4)
Niu Lu Zhangjing of the pro-military camp was killed so quickly, which made Abatai dumbfounded.
At this time, Abatai's cold sweat came out, although the strength of the explanation army had left a deep impression in his heart, but his idea was just to break through the siege, quickly report to Azig or the emperor, he must find ways to exterminate this Ming army, and he can't let it survive, but looking at the Ming army rushing over, Abatai suddenly understood that things were not as simple as he wanted, and people were thinking about killing him.
It is impossible to sit and wait to be killed, but there are less than 200 pro-soldiers around him, seeing that Niu Lu Zhangjing in the pro-military camp was quickly killed by the Ming army, and watching the pro-soldiers roll off the horse one by one, Abatai knew that he had to find a way, if he was killed or captured by the Ming army, it would be a shame for the Qing Dynasty.
Abatai roared angrily, raised the spear in his hand, and rushed towards the Ming army, and the personal soldiers around him also rushed over, Abatai rushed directly to Yang He, and he vowed to kill this Ming army officer.
A rain of arrows struck, and Abatai watched as his own soldiers fell from the arrows.
Yang He led 2,000 soldiers of the Zheng family's army, and there were only 200 personal soldiers left around Abatai, and the disparity in strength was completely exposed at this time.
After the rain of arrows, the pro-soldiers who had not yet reacted were quickly surrounded by nearly ten Ming soldiers, even if they had three heads and six arms, they could not resist, and could only fall down screaming in a burst of sword light and sword shadows.
Some of the Houjin Tartars had already found out that Abatai was under attack and began to try to move towards this side, but they could not completely get rid of the attacking Ming army, and the reinforcements that came only caused more casualties.
The Ming army had formed a defensive line on the periphery. So that the Houjin Tartars, who wanted to come to reinforcements, couldn't enter it at all.
Abatai's face had turned pale, and there were more than a dozen Ming soldiers around him, and they were just riding horses around him, and they did not attack. It seems that he was thinking about capturing alive, Abatai charged and attacked several times, but was lightly defused by the other party, and at this time, Abatai knew that he had no chance to escape. I didn't expect to follow Azig to lead the army into Gyeonggi this time, and I would encounter such a situation.
Abatai, who roared angrily, pulled out the steel knife on his waist and wiped it towards his neck, he didn't want to be captured alive by the Ming army when he was dying.
It's a pity that Azig didn't have a chance to commit suicide. Yang He, who had been staring at his actions for a long time, rushed forward at this time, and the spear stabbed Abatai's right hand holding the steel knife, and the steel knife quickly fell to the ground, followed by the scout, swept the spear, and hit Babbitt's back, and Abatai fell to the ground in response.
The crowd had been paying close attention to Abatai's mount in his crotch. This mount doesn't look simple.
Abatai was captured alive, and Zheng Jiajun captured the handsome banner of the Golden Tartars. The roar began.
Known as the incomparably strong Houjin Tartars, in the case of the handsome flag being taken away and the boss being captured alive, there was finally a rout, and a large number of Houjin Tartars gave up resistance and began to rush towards the exit of the hills in the direction of the three rivers.
Zheng Jinhong led the soldiers of the Zheng family army and began the pursuit.
The losses of the post-Golden Tartars increased rapidly. Many of the escaped rogues were shot with bows and arrows. More rogues were picked off by the soldiers of the Zheng family......
A smile appeared on Xu Wanghua's face, this was an extremely cruel fight. The casualties of the Zheng family army were not small, but the battle was almost over, and the Houjin Tartars finally began to rout, their commander was captured, and the handsome flag was deprived, which meant that they were completely defeated, and the defeat was very miserable, very complete.
Zheng Xunrui didn't have much smile on his face.
Xu Wanghua was about to speak when the herald came.
"Report, after five thousand, the Golden Tartar is less than ten miles away from the hills."
Zheng Xunrui turned his head and spoke.
"Do they know about the fight here?"
"I don't know yet, but they seem to be alert."
Zheng Xunrui smiled.
"At this time, I knew that it was too late, so I ordered Liu Zeqing to lead 10,000 soldiers of the Zheng family army and 3,000 soldiers of the Yulin border army to surround the 5,000 Houjin Tartars, and not allow the Houjin Tartars to escape, and they must be completely exterminated."
The soldiers of the Zheng family army led by Liu Zeqing, as well as the soldiers of the Yulin border army, rushed towards the five thousand Houjin Tartars with lightning speed, and many soldiers still had blood on their bodies, and some of the soldiers who were slightly injured, regardless of their own wounds, rushed to the Houjin Tartars.
The soldiers of the Yulin border army who guarded the entrance of the hills, the losses were heavy, they held on for nearly two hours, and they did not let a Houjin Tartar escape from here, they experienced several impacts of the Houjin Tartar, and always persevered, it was their tenacity that made the back five thousand Houjin Tartars, who did not know the battle ahead, still headed towards Sanhe County.
The arrogance and self-confidence of the post-golden tartars really buried themselves.
After 5,000 golden tartars, more than 20,000 people were carried, and their speed was not fast, although they fought and even slashed prisoners with unfast movements along the way, but these people were ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty, and fear and hunger made it impossible for these people to be fast.
Suddenly encountered the attack of the Ming army, these Houjin Tartars suddenly panicked, and they already felt something from the blood of the Ming army and the murderous aura they expressed.
This fight is not as cruel as before.
More post-gold tartars, choose to flee.
Yang He led 5,000 soldiers of the Zheng family army to wait on the official road, Zheng Jinhong led the rest of the soldiers and soldiers to support Liu Zeqing, Zheng Xunrui's order has arrived, do not continue to pursue the Houjin Tartars who have fled, and do your best to exterminate the 5,000 Houjin Tartars behind.
An army of nearly 30,000 pressed against the 5,000-year-old Golden Tartars, and their fate can be imagined.
It was dark, and the battle was basically over.
The matter of cleaning up and cleaning up the battlefield has been going on for a while.
What gave Zheng Xunrui a headache was that there were nearly 20,000 people rescued by Zheng Jiajun, and some people could not avoid bows and arrows and swords and guns in the fighting, but most of the people survived and were rescued by Zheng Jiajun.
The people who survived the catastrophe saw with their own eyes the bravery of the Zheng family's army, saw the Houjin Tartars who fled in all directions, and saw the Houjin Tartars who were surrounded by the imperial army, how they screamed and fell.
These people, some of them are from Baodi County, and some of them are from Wen'an County, they have seen the fleeing imperial court army, they dare not face the Houjin Tartars, they dare not fight, they have despaired of the imperial army, in the face of the sudden appearance of the Zheng family army, they are a little overwhelmed, and even dare not believe that when the imperial army is so brave and good at fighting.
When it was time to clean up and clean up the battlefield, many people participated.
Most of these people are young and strong, and they have seen brutal fighting in the county, and they have basically adapted to it.
There were two battlefields, and when these people went to the hills to clean the battlefield, they learned that the imperial army had actually defeated the Houjin Tartars in two places. These people knew how many Houjin Tartars there were, and when they set off from Baodi County, the Houjin Tartars' team couldn't see the end at a glance, and so many Houjin Tartars were actually defeated by the imperial army.
This gave the people hope.
Zheng Xunrui didn't think of these, the people's food and drink, this must be considered, a lot of money and food were seized, especially the money and money found from the Houjin Tartar.
There is a characteristic of the Manchurian Eight Banners operation, that is, there is no special logistics troops, and there is no need for the operation of food and ammunition during the battle, they all provide their own rations and salaries, which is also one of the reasons why their combat speed is extremely fast.
This time, the Houjin Tartars, who were defeated by the Zheng family's army, plundered several cities along the way, and everyone had already accumulated a lot of money, and now all of them belong to the Zheng family's army.
The captured grain, grass and livestock were not particularly large, and Abatai sent an army of 20,000 to transport grain, grass and prisoners to Miyun, and some of the grain, grass and livestock had already been transported.
While cleaning up the battlefield, some of the people began to make fires and cook.
After the battle, Zheng Xunrui's plan was to leave here quickly after cleaning up the battlefield, after all, after Azig learned the news, he must have led the Houjin Tartars to set out, and the Zheng family's army stayed here, it was definitely not a countermeasure, and it had to be transferred to other places, but in the face of so many people, he was a little annoyed.
At the end of the day, the battlefield was basically cleaned.
Zheng Jinhong had a calm face and came to report.
"My lord, in this battle, more than 18,000 people were killed and more than 3,100 people were captured, more than 6,400 people were killed and more than 700 people were seriously injured in the Zheng army, and 7,100 people were killed and more than 1,000 people were seriously injured in the Yulin border army......"
Zheng Xunrui gasped, and killed and captured the Houjin Tartars, close to 22,000 people, but the casualties of the Zheng family army and the Yulin border army also reached more than 15,000 people, which is really a thousand self-losses of 800 enemies, and the combat effectiveness of the Houjin Tartars is indeed not comparable to the Liukou.
In particular, the Yulin border army had a total of 10,000 people, and the casualties reached more than 8,000 people, which was almost the same as the annihilation of the entire army.
The Yulin border army was particularly brave, guarding the exit and entrance of the hills, and the losses of several collisions were huge, at that time, the Houjin Tatars were trying to find a breakthrough in the encirclement, and the attack was also sparing no effort and desperately, and the Yulin border army was able to resist, which can be said to have made a huge contribution in this battle.
Of the 30,000 Houjin Tartars led by Abatai, only more than 8,000 escaped, and more importantly, Abatai was captured alive, which was an unbearable loss for Azig.
All the soldiers of the Zheng family army who died were buried, there were too many people, and it was impossible to take them away, and the golden tartar blamed him for cutting off his head, and Zheng Xunrui gave an order to bury the rest of the corpses as well.
As for the captured war horses and weapons, they all belonged to the Zheng family's army, and the remaining more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Yulin border army were all incorporated into the Zheng family's army.
At the ugly time, Zheng Xunrui made a decision to take more than 10,000 people and more than 3,000 prisoners of the Houjin Tartars to Tongzhou, handed over to Zhang Fengyi and Gao Qiqian for processing, and led the remaining more than 25,000 soldiers of the Zheng family army to quickly evacuate to the area of Wuqing County to rest and recuperate, and wait and watch the movements of Azig. (To be continued)