Chapter 5

Yelu Shuogu's mind is naturally different from the coalition army, his 80,000 tribal army is eighty percent of all his troops, if this army is consumed on the battlefield of the Tuwu River, I am afraid that his future will come to an end, so the scheming Yelu Shuogu naturally needs to wait and see.

Baili Wuji is not worried about Yelu Shuogu's loyalty, Yelu Shuogu's power comes completely from the support of the Ming State, and even his tribal army, most of which is composed of Liao soldiers captured by the Ming State.

As long as the battle situation is clear, not only the Yelu Shuogu Division, but even the coalition forces of Langgai and Zhijia will launch an attack on the Obstruction Army at any cost "desperately" to show their loyalty to the Ming Kingdom.

These two armies were in a stalemate with Zhubu for more than a month, until mid-May, when Bailiyi led the First Army of the New Army from the southern end of the Tuwura River back to the south of Zhenzhou, and launched an all-out onslaught on Zhenzhou.

Bailiyi's tactics were quite simple, and the whole army of 100,000 new troops advanced northward, and on this plain and desert, they pressed towards Zhenzhou City with overwhelming momentum.

The 200,000 Blockade Army stationed in Zhenzhou transferred 60,000 troops to prevent the Yelu Shuo Ancient Division, and in the face of the attacking Ming Army, the Blockade Army, which thought it was superior in strength, chose to meet the attack.

The two armies fought a decisive battle 30 miles south of Zhenzhou City, and more than 200,000 people fought to the death, which lasted for three days and two nights.

The combat power of the new army is strong, but the Hinder Army has a geographical advantage, and its natural skill in riding makes up for the gap in strength with the new army's ordnance and firearms.

The desert terrain is open, and more than 200,000 people are fighting together on the same battlefield that stretches for dozens of miles, and there is only a trace of crowding. Because of this, the lethality of muskets and pistol bullets was also minimized, especially as soon as the two armies entered a state of hand-to-hand combat. All that can be relied upon is horsemanship and mastery of ordnance.

Fortunately, the steel used in the military spurs cast by the Ming army was far beyond the reach of the iron tools of the Hindu Army.

After three days and two nights of bloody fighting, the battle loss ratio of the two armies was one to four. The casualties of the Forces nouvelles amounted to more than 12,000, while the casualties of the Obstruction Army exceeded 50,000.

This loss sounds like a big victory, but if you look at it from the perspective of Baili Wuji, this is a war of attrition, and the new army, as the most powerful army in the Ming Kingdom, consumes more materials and money than a single soldier.

The soldiers of the Obstruction Army were assembled by herdsmen on horseback. The bow and arrow used in the hand is even a hunting bow, and this almost negligible expense is far from being comparable to that of the Ming Kingdom.

Baili Yi was the highest-ranking general in the Ming Army. How could this Northern Expedition use this kind of achievement to report to Baili Wuji?

On the fourth day after the start of the battle, the two armies fought bloody battles again.

The iron cavalry that Jeruzara had handed over to Bailiyi emerged from the right side of the battlefield like a ghost, until the ground beneath his feet shook like an earthquake. It was only then that the soldiers of the Obstruction Army felt abnormal.

As a nomadic cavalryman, the soldiers of the Obstruction Army already felt unusual. They gathered 100,000 cavalry, and the shock they produced was far less powerful than the current one.

In the midst of this hesitation, a black line gradually appeared on the horizon, accompanied by a strong vibration, thicker and thicker, larger and larger .......

The Iron Cavalry had already entered a state of acceleration, and they were lined up in thousands of columns, like a black iron plate. Slammed straight into the waist-high array of the Blockade Army.

Bows and arrows, machetes, and even desperate ramming. For the Iron Cavalry, who has accelerated his charge, it is like a kindergarten child waving his fist at a thirty-year-old adult.

As soon as qiē became so ridiculous, the bodies of people and horses were like broken toys, flying in all directions.

On a battlefield that stretched for dozens of miles, the array of the Obstruction Army was so light that it was pierced by 30,000 iron cavalry from east to west, and it took no more than a pillar of incense.

The Iron Cavalry, after breaking through the array of the Blockade Army and running for five miles, turned around and charged from west to east again.

After plowing back and forth three times, the entire array of the Obstruction Army split in two.

The forwards who were stuck with the new army had no way to escape, and fell into a situation of advancing and retreating, and the rear army was frightened by the iron cavalry, and longed for their parents to have a few more legs, and tens of thousands of troops collapsed and fled to Zhenzhou City like a plate of scattered sand.

The total population of all the tribes was only four or five million, excluding the old and weak, women and children, and the able-bodied were only about one million, and in two years they followed the Liao army south to invade the Ming and Zhou countries, and the loss of soldiers had exceeded 100,000.

100,000 people may not be a big number for the Central Plains, but for a country composed of nomads, 100,000 is an astronomical number.

After this battle, more than half of the 140,000 Zhenzhou Blockade Army suffered casualties, and this time it was a fiasco, completely destroying the will to resist of the Blockade King Mockus.

After convening the tribal leaders for urgent discussions, Mokus decided to take two steps: first, immediately surrender to the Ming State, as long as the Ming army is willing to retreat, the blockade will bow to the Ming State and pay tribute. In the hearts of these nomads, they never thought that the Central Plains Dynasty would have a claim for their land, they thought that as long as they bowed their heads, the Ming army would still ask for annual tribute as it had done in previous dynasties, and then give an official title such as Khan and King, and finally withdraw their troops and return south.

The second route taken by the Hindu was that if the Ming army did not agree to withdraw, then Mockus would recall the 100,000 troops on the south bank of the Xue Lingo River and the 60,000 troops on the west bank of the Tuura River, converge and retreat westward.

After this battle, it was impossible for Zhenzhou to hold it, and as soon as Zhenzhou was lost, the Great Palace, which was exposed to the iron hooves of the Ming army, could be under the city within a day or two.

Mockus could only choose to retreat, he could not imagine the tragic situation caused by the decisive battle with the Ming army with the power of the Hind tribes, even if the battle was won, the Hindu tribes would be weakened by the lack of males, and they would be reduced to an inaccessible race to be swallowed up by powerful races such as the Western Uighurs and the Black Khan.

If the Ming army does not accept the surrender, then fleeing west has become the only option, and there are obstructive sticky eight tribes around the Altai Mountains in the west, as long as the more than 100,000 troops are brought out safely, perhaps with this army, they can also gain a firm foothold around the Altai Mountains.

Although Baili Yi is rough, he has a benevolent heart.

If the Divination Army was determined to fight to the death, Bailiyi would not hesitate to give the order to annihilate, but the Obstruction Messenger came to pray for surrender, leaving Bailiyi in a dilemma.

If you accept it, then Baili Wuji's strategy of including the territory of blocking the territory will fail, in any case, the matter of enclosing and plundering the people under his rule will not be done by Baili Wuji, but if he does not do it, he will inevitably lose his trust in the people of the Ming Kingdom. (To be continued......)