Chapter 420: The Overall Situation Has Been Decided [1 Update]
The armies of the two sides collided together, and if the Ming side belonged to a clear purpose, then the army of nearly 70,000 Tatars was in chaos.
You must know that this is a full 70,000 Tatar cavalry, if you say that on this wilderness, the cavalry runs, once they charge into battle, it is absolutely overwhelming, even if it is one or two hundred thousand foot soldiers, I am afraid that it cannot be its opponent.
However, Balsborot was too careless, he didn't pay attention to safety, and fell into the hands of Chu Yi when he was about to fight, which directly led to the Tatar crowd being leaderless, and when facing the siege of the Ming soldiers and horses, the Tatar tribes and the commanders fell into chaos.
Even if these Tatar leaders knew that they should unite at this time, they were always at the behest of Baalsborot's orders and orders, and rarely cooperated.
The 100,000 Tatar army brought by Balsborot was brought together by dozens of tribes on the steppe, and it is conceivable that in this case, if there is no leader who can suppress everyone below, the respective leaders of dozens of tribes alone may be dissatisfied with each other and cause the army to be in chaos.
At present, the Tatar army is not completely chaotic when facing the siege of the Ming army, it is already the result of the efforts of these leaders to control the situation.
It's a pity that some of these people want to take advantage of the chaos to rush out of the encirclement, and some are clamoring to teach the Ming army a lesson, some want to fight, some want to escape, and the result can be imagined.
And in the army, Chu Yi was riding on a horse, and around it, thousands of soldiers stood there, even in the confrontation of the army, they were still motionless, which could be described as the elite of the elite.
Balsborough has been tied up at this time, and he is also a Tatar prince anyway, Chu Yi did not humiliate the other party, but let Balsborough sit on the horse.
At this time, Chu Yi's location is quite high, and he can almost look at the entire battlefield.
Of course, at most, you can see most of it, after all, there are more than 200,000 men and horses on both sides combined, fighting each other within a radius of more than ten miles.
Even if Chu Yi has great ability, it is impossible to truly control the overall situation.
However, I can't see the subtleties, but I can still see one or two in the overall situation, not to mention the rest, who is beneficial to the general trend, Chu Yi can see it clearly.
Balsborot on the side also saw it clearly, especially when he saw that the Tatar cavalry had lost its advantage and fell into the encirclement of the Ming soldiers.
Originally, the cavalry rushed into battle, even in the face of several times the enemy, they were fearless, and even rushed through to take the lives of many foot soldiers.
But now these cavalrymen were like stuck in the swamp quagmire, and the foot soldiers around them were like a tidal wave, but the Tatar cavalry on the tall horses were targeted one by one.
Seeing this situation, Balsborot's eyes were full of chagrin and regret, knowing that if this was the case, it would be absolutely impossible for him to face Chu Yi alone, and as a result, he fell into the hands of Chu Yi and the Tatar army was leaderless.
Chu Yi's gaze fell on Balsborot's body and said, "Prince Bals, can the combat power of my great Ming soldier still enter the eyes of the prince?" ”
In Balsborough's opinion, this was a show off of Chiguoguo, and Balsborough couldn't help but stare at Chu Yi viciously and said: "Eunuch, don't be complacent, my immortal warrior will not give in......"
Chu Yi smiled slightly and said, "I hope it is as you say, Prince Bals!" ”
Cheng Xiangwu, Lu Dazhu and others led a large army to rush and kill in the Tatar army, but the Tatar cavalry, which was quite tricky in Suri, was like a lamb to the slaughter at this time.
At the beginning, in the land of the Beijing Division, Cheng Xiangwu once led the tens of thousands of cavalry from the Beijing Division out of the city to contain the Tatars to buy time for Chu Yi.
You must know that Cheng Xiangwu only brought out tens of thousands of cavalry out of the city, but after several melees, there were only more than 6,000 cavalry left, and more than 3,000 people were killed in the battle.
However, after several battles, the soldiers brought out by Cheng Xiangwu have grown rapidly, after all, in the midst of killing, if they can't grow up quickly, then there will only be one result, and that is death.
Therefore, when Cheng Xiangwu came this time, the army brought with him the thousands of cavalry who survived the bloody battles.
Of course, there were about 6,000 cavalry when they left the city of Beijing, but now there are only about 5,000 left, and more than 1,000 people have died fighting with the Tatar cavalry on this road.
After all, in the face of Cheng Xiangwu's army of more than 100,000 people following all the way, it is impossible for Balsborot and other Tatars to try to deal with the Ming army more than once as if they did not see it.
It's a pity that Cheng Xiangwu is too cautious, and has been camping all the time, and even the sentry detectives are released dozens of miles away, but whenever the Tatars have a hint of wind and grass, the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Cheng Xiangwu will gather together, just like a hedgehog that is difficult to start, giving the Tatars a headache.
The Tatars also gave up dealing with Cheng Xiangwu and the other armies after several attempts to no avail, otherwise, how could they let Cheng Xiangwu lead the army to follow them.
Originally, the Tatars such as Balsborot did not take the army led by Cheng Xiangwu to heart, but at this time, the hundreds of thousands of troops brought by Cheng Xiangwu made the Tatars suffer.
If it is only the more than 20,000 horses brought by Chu Yi, to be honest, even if Balsborot was captured by Chu Yi, which caused the internal command of the Tatars to be poor and the army was chaotic, but only 20,000 horses and horses really could not move the root of the Tatars.
But if you add the hundreds of thousands of troops brought by Cheng Xiangwu, then the consequences will be different.
The Tatars were surrounded by soldiers more than twice as large as the Tatars, and the army fought from noon until dusk, and the battle continued unabated.
By this time, the Tatar top brass had actually reached a consensus and even elected a leader, but by this time the Tatars had already suffered a great loss of vitality.
Originally, there were nearly 70,000 Tatar soldiers who fought for most of the day, but by this time, there were about 40,000 soldiers who still had the strength to fight.
From the 100,000 troops of the Tatars to only about 40,000 men and horses left, it was only a little more than two months, and the Tatars had lost most of them, which was already a great loss of vitality.
Even if they can return to the grassland, I am afraid that the various tribes on the grassland have suffered such great losses, and the grassland will inevitably fall into chaos at that time.
On the grassland, the strong are respected, but this will not change, this time, many tribes are either directly destroyed, or the warriors in the tribe have suffered heavy casualties, and the direct consequence is that the tribe has collapsed since then.
Therefore, even if these Tatars can escape back to the steppe, the first thing they do is not to retaliate against the Ming Dynasty, but it is more likely to start the annexation between various tribes.
Of course, the premise is that these Tatar soldiers can return to the steppe, if they can't escape this catastrophe, then everything is over.
As the night gradually fell, Chu Yi sighed slightly, in the night, whether it was for the Ming or the Tatars, the war obviously could not continue.
A sound of gold sounded, and the Ming soldiers who were originally frantically besieging the Tatars suddenly retreated like a tide.
The Tatars couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they saw the Ming soldiers retreat.
In the big tent
Chu Yi sat upright in the middle, and in the big tent, dozens of figures were filled with a sinister aura one by one, and the faces of many generals were filled with excitement, which showed how happy these people were to kill during the day.
Cheng Xiangwu, Lu Dazhu and the others all looked eagerly at Chu Yi who was sitting there.
They were able to surround the Tatars this time, and in the final analysis, it was because Chu Yi unexpectedly captured Balsborot.
Cheng Xiangwu looked at Chu Yi and said: "The chief manager, this time the overall situation has been decided, the Tatars are difficult to fly, everything is given by the chief manager, if the good news reaches the Beijing division, the whole country will be shaken, and the chief manager will definitely be famous in history and glorious through the ages." ”
Lu Dazhu stroked his beard and looked around at the generals in the big tent and said with a smile: "The name of the chief manager will remain in history, and we will inevitably be like the chief manager, and we will leave a name in history, hahaha......"
When the generals heard this, their faces were full of excitement.
The destruction of the Tatar army of nearly 100,000 in the First World War would be strange if it could not be remembered in history.
Everyone looked at Chu Yi eagerly one by one, as long as they were not fools, they could think that this time thanks to Chu Yi, but all the soldiers and generals who participated in this battle will be added to the rank and knight, and the soaring will be just around the corner.
It's just that in this battle, the imperial court is afraid that it will take out a few marquis positions and more than a dozen earls to reward meritorious soldiers, and as for other titles, I am afraid that it will be hundreds.
Soldiers are like this, whoever has a strong fist will be convinced, and whoever can lead them to military merit, they will listen to whom.
It can be said that most of the soldiers who participated in the war this time were soldiers of the Beijing camp, if Chu Yi controlled the Beijing camp before relying on the reputation of the evil that spread and the white flowers and silver that were spilled, then after this battle, Chu Yi could be regarded as completely controlling the heart of the army.
Chu Yi bowed slightly, and lightly swept over the crowd: "Everyone, don't forget, the Tatars still have tens of thousands of horses, and only by completely annihilating these Tatars, this battle can be regarded as a complete achievement." ”
Cheng Xiangwu laughed and said, "Although the chief manager can rest assured, now that our army of more than 100,000 has surrounded those Tatars within a radius of several miles, we can fight with only Tianming." ”
The other generals also nodded their heads one by one, this battle was really a pleasure to kill, as for whether they could completely annihilate those Tatars after dawn, to be honest, these generals can be said to be full of confidence.