"Avalanche!"

"Dismount and surround them! Hurry up ......"

Ulan Gouzhong, Huoluochi, and Baltu, as well as a large number of the five major lords and Taiji, were all shouting desperately, but their voices were nothing compared to the sound of the avalanche.

The surging snowflakes rushed down, but unfortunately there was too little snow, and although the heavy snow swept the people down, it did not completely engulf everyone.

After a large number of nobles who were overturned in the snow got up, their first reaction was not to organize their troops, but to pick up the fallen war horses, turn over and rush towards the mountain pass.

Their behavior was immediately seen by Cao Wenzhao on the top of the mountain, and he did not have a lake, so he immediately led five hundred cavalry to rush down the mountain.

The mountain pass of Wulan Gou was only more than thirty steps wide, and Cao Wenzhao and them were condescending, so at the moment when Huoluochi and they stood out from the mountain pass, Cao Wenzhao led the cavalry to raid them from the flank.

"Kill!"

The wind and snow made the ignition rate of the flintlock pistol touching, so Cao Wenzhao did not use cavalry and infantry guns, but chose to fight in short arms.

Among the more than 1,000 cavalry scattered in the 500 cavalry raid formation, it was like a tiger descending the mountain in an instant, cutting off the team at the same time, and the striker who hit turned on his back.

Huo Luochi was beaten by the Ming army and lost his hat, and he was so frightened that he was sweating profusely, and after reacting, he immediately waved his horsewhip and fled to the northwest.

"Abu!"

"Abu save me!"

There were cries for help from a large number of Huo Luochi's heirs in the surrounded vanguard troops, as well as the voices of many wives and daughters, but at this moment, he was like a lost dog, and he didn't even have the idea of returning to save his family.

He believed that the Ming army had a large number of soldiers and horses stationed in this area, so he only wanted to escape.

However, his escape made the besieged Baltu, Mengkeshili, Sha Jinai and others react, and they glanced at the Ming army around them, although the sky was dark and the lake was dark, they could still see that their number was not large.

"Calm down! There are not many people in this Ming army, and everyone rushes out with me! ”

The three of them shouted and rallied the guards around them, and then began to gather the stragglers and fight against the Ming army.

Seeing this, the other troops in the rear of the Ulan ditch also drove their horses to prepare to break through, only some people further back did not know why, thinking that the front had been attacked, and kept squeezing to the back.

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

The Yanshan general cannon of the arquebus ignition device was powerful at this moment, and the scattered stones and iron nails loaded with five catties became a sharp weapon for harvesting the lives of the Inner Mongolians in the river ditch.

The stones and nails rained down like a shower, and everyone was caught off guard and wailed all over the ground.

But even though the Chinese army was in chaos, the front army, which knew that it could break through, frantically rushed to the mountain pass.

The attack of thousands of soldiers and horses made it difficult for Cao Wenzhao's 500 people to support alone.

For a while, many captives rushed out of the mountain pass, and at the same time, a "fire dragon" also appeared on the south side of the mountain pass.

"Drive!"

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves continued to sound, and for a while it even overshadowed the shouting of killing in the mountain pass, and after learning that Huoluochi had chosen Wulangou, Zhu Youzhen immediately led his troops to come.

In addition to the 2,000 soldiers and horses who stayed behind to guard the Hashangou Pass in Halegai to prevent Caritas and other rear troops from changing their ways to break through, Zhu Youzhen led 8,000 cavalry to help.

The long line of flames, in the eyes of the five major departments at this moment, is undoubtedly a crimson fire dragon attacking.

Everyone abandoned the Ming army in front of them, even if they would rather be stabbed, they had to ride their horses and flee to the northwest.

Their fleeing behavior seemed to be the last straw that broke the camel's back.

As soon as they ran away, the people behind them also began to run and flee in a hurry.

At the same time, in the Ulan Valley, Caritas, as the rear army, saw the turmoil in front and immediately began to retreat with his own troops.

As soon as they withdrew, the Ming army, which was hidden in the Zasak Banner, immediately began to help each other, and Wu Lie also commanded the people to begin to form a formation and retreat.

The Ming army retreated while wearing armor, and in the end, all of them were armored, and simply shouted for Wu Lie to lead his people back and retreat with Caritas's soldiers and horses.

When Wu Lie heard this, he immediately fled with his subordinates following Caritas's subordinates, while more than 500 Ming troops blocked the ravine, and wantonly began to unite with the Ming army at the mountain pass, squeezing and rushing to kill the three major tribes in chaos.

"Those who descend will not be killed! Those who descend will not be killed! All crouch! ”

Suddenly, there was a Mongolian word for surrender and not killing, and the three major tribes who heard this immediately squatted down.

More than 30,000 people were blocked in the ravine, and Huo Luochi led more than 10,000 people to successfully break through.

"Cao Wenzhao! You'll take care of the matter here! ”

Zhu Youzhen, who was on the battlefield, saw the Mongols in the ravine surrender, and after shouting at Cao Wenzhao, who was more than a dozen steps away, he immediately rode his horse and chased towards the northwest.

Seeing this, the standard-bearer beside him also held aloft the Da Xu, beat the drum and led the army to the northwest.

Eight thousand straight iron cavalry followed him to the northwest, while Cao Wenzhao stayed behind to appease the surrendered Mongols.

Huo Luochi and they fled in too much hurry, and many people even fled with only one horse, but Zhu Youzhen was well prepared, and one person and four horses kept pursuing.

The two sides rushed out of the range of Wolf Mountain and fled towards the Hanhai Sea in the northwest.

In the face of some lone captives who lack horsepower, the guards beside Zhu Youzhen often raise their hands to harvest with a knife.

The army pursued along the horseshoe prints, even if the wind and snow covered the horseshoe prints, but on the way to pursue, from time to time you could see some conspicuous horse manure in the snow and seriously injured people who fell from their horses.

Zhu Youzhen did not give any orders, but blindly led the troops to pursue.

While the army pursued to the northwest, the wind and snow began to decrease with distance, which also proved that the main scope of this blizzard was still Shaanxi and Hetao.

However, Zhu Youzhen didn't have the heart to study the weather at the moment, because with the pursuit, he could see a dark shadow gradually appearing in front of him.

Some people who lacked horsepower began to fall alone, and the Ming army that passed by in this regard raised their swords and sent them to see Changshengtian.

The wind and snow were getting smaller, and gradually, the army rushed into the Hanhai, which was completely desert, and as they rushed in, Saihan, who was in the team, also rode a horse to catch up, and reminded Zhu Youzhen loudly:

"Your Highness! We have already rushed into the desert sea, the desert sea of Xitao is 800 miles long from east to west, and our supplies and water are only enough to support the pursuit of 500 miles. ”

The sound of the wind and snow made Saihan's voice seem to be in the lake, but it was still heard clearly by Zhu Youzhen, but he said to this:

"They don't have enough horsepower to run eight hundred miles, we can't get out, and they can't get out."

"Order the whole army, pursue it for another three hundred miles, and discard everything except the stomach, food, and water!"

"Yes!" Saihan could only bite the bullet and then tell the army to discard the load.

Soon, some of the felt was dropped by the army, and the supplies were scattered all over the place, but the Ming army was still chasing after them.

Whoever has no horsepower will leave a hundred men to take care of the horses, and the others will change horses and move on.

Under such pursuit, more and more people fell in front due to lack of horsepower, and they had to stop to rest because of the problem of horsepower.

It was only as soon as they stopped that the dull hoofs of horses sounded in the wind and snow behind them, urging them to continue to flee northwest.

During the pursuit, even the Ming army didn't know how many traps they had packed, only that they must have been corpses all the way back.

From dark to dawn, from dawn to dark, from dark to dawn, the intermittent attacks of one day and one night made Huo Luochi and others exhausted, and some war horses even vomited blood and died, exhausted to death.

Not to mention them with such a swift attack, even the Ming army was a little unbearable.

They had already replaced all four horses, and the only two horses around them were exhausted, not to mention that the horse guards in the rear were estimated to not be able to keep up for a while and a half.

Therefore, after finding that Huo Luochi and the others' horses were slowing down, Zhu Youzhen immediately raised his hand to signal the army to stop, and the guards on both sides also took out the horns and blew them decisively.

The sound of the horn "woo-woo" sounded, and one after another the heralds followed, and finally spread to the whole army.

The army began to slow down their horses at the sound of the bull's horn, and then everyone turned over and dismounted, and the horses were tired and kept breathing, and the white mist between the breaths was evaporating and spreading.

There was no chance of hypocrisy, Zhu Youzhen sat in the snow with his buttocks, took out the jerky and began to chew.

Others also skillfully began to feed the horses water, feed beans, and even help wipe their sweat.

Zhu Youzhen, who was eating jerky, rested for a while, then picked up his binoculars and looked at them in the fire.

Although they are molded in the lake, they can vaguely be seen to be "resting", but this rest is that after people get off the horse, they lead the horses and feed the water as they go.

Most of them had only one horse left, and the rest of the depleted horses were left along the way.

If nothing else, the horses will be included in the herd by the Ming army's horse guards, who will then arrive on foot.

After leaving a few horse guards, the number of the Ming army was also reduced to seven thousand two, but compared to them, Huoluochi's side was even more miserable.

70,000 people fled from the Red Salt Pond, and when they arrived at Wolf Mountain, there were still more than 60,000, and there were more than 10,000 horsemen in the prominent mountain pass, and now they only have five or six thousand people left.

After a day and a night of pursuit, they ran more than 200 miles in one go, from the Wolf Mountain to the south of the Mongolian Plateau, in the northeast of the Badain Jaran Desert.

The closest large water source to this place is at least more than 600 miles away from the Juyan Sea.

Fortunately, the wind and snow left a lot of snow on the desert, although it was only a thin layer, but the Ming army and Huo Luochi still collected the snow into a water bladder and put it in their clothes, ready to cover them with their body heat.

However, before the Ming army began to do anything, Zhu Youzhen turned his head and scolded:

"Stop!"

Zhu Youzhen angrily snatched the cold water bladder from the arms of a soldier and threw it on the ground, and scolded the surroundings:

"The enemy army is only more than ten miles away from our army, and at this time, you don't go to grab their water to drink, and you still delay time here?"

"Pass my order, the whole army will mount and continue the pursuit!"

"Yes......" Although some soldiers were disgraced after being scolded, they did think about it.

The snow will not melt suddenly, and with the horsepower of the Ming army, it is enough to catch up with the fire and fall red them.

Thinking of this, everyone turned over and mounted their horses under the command of Zhu Youzhen, like a red dragon, and continued to pursue Huoluochi and them at night.

They did not go far on foot, so that less than a quarter of an hour after the Ming army had started, they heard the sound of horses' hooves in the rear, and then everyone mounted their horses without command, and drove the horses on their way to the northwest.

The two horses began the pursuit again, and the horses' hooves marched on the sandy sea, and a gust of wind blew, and all traces were gone.

The Ming army can't care about the end, and they only have one goal at the moment, that is, to catch up with the captives and capture them alive.

The constant rush exhausted the fleeing soldiers and horses of the three major divisions, but the sound of horses' hooves behind them did not become quieter, but became louder and louder.

The companions around were constantly left behind, harvested by the Ming army pursuing in the rear, and the survivors could only keep burying their heads and running wildly.

The feeling of being chased like this is terrifying, and at the same time, Zhu Youzhen also realized that he couldn't catch up with such a pursuit, so he said to Saihan next to him: "Take a shortcut!" ”

"I know where to go, Your Highness comes with me." Saihan hurriedly responded, and then the more than 7,000 Ming troops were divided into two, one continued to pursue, and the other was detoured by Zhu Youzhen to the desert to the south, trying to intercept Huoluochi and them.

At the same time as they divided their troops, Cao Wenzhao of Wolf Mountain smoothly made peace with Sun Chuanting.

Caritas, who tried to break through through other mountain passes, was stabbed in the back by the Zasak Ministry, and then Cao Wenzhao and Sun Chuanting led the troops to arrive, and Caritas, as one of the five major Taiji of the anti-Ming Dynasty, was slashed by Cao Wenzhao and fell off the back of the horse, and the entire Orok Department completely surrendered.

It's just that after receiving the surrender of the Orok tribe, Cao Wenzhao and Sun Chuanting were not happy and happy, but hurriedly took 4,000 Shangzhi cavalry, prepared sufficient water and military rations, and chased towards the northwest.

They searched for visible traces of corpses and horse dung, but they couldn't go fast because they were carrying a baggage truck.

It wasn't until a day and a night later that they finally caught up with the first horse escort team of Zhu You's inspection department.

"Your Highness, what about them?"

"Back to the general army, I haven't seen it, not only us, but even the horse guard team in front of me haven't seen it, it is estimated that His Highness has led the troops into the depths of the desert sea."

Hearing the news of the 100 households of the horse guard team, Cao Wenzhao and Sun Chuanting's faces were a little unpleasant.

"The desert sea is dangerous, if the army goes the wrong way and runs out of military rations, it will be unimaginable."

Cao Wenzhao frowned and spoke to Sun Chuanting next to him, but Sun Chuanting was much calmer, and he explained to Cao Wenzhao:

"Now that the wind and snow are getting smaller, His Highness's soldiers and horses are pursuing, and there will inevitably be a lot of corpses left behind, and now all the horse guards have not lost them, but the distance we fell is too large."

"What we need to watch out for is that after entering the sea of sand, the yellow sand covers the corpses and makes us lose our traces."

"The speed of the sea of sand is fast, and when the wind is strong, an hour or two is enough to cover a corpse."

"All we have to do now is to increase the speed of our horses and continue to chase after Your Highness, while taking care not to get lost ourselves."

"Okay!" Hearing Sun Chuanting's words, Cao Wenzhao also understood that what the other party said was right, so he simply followed Sun Chuanting's suggestion.

The army and the horse guard team exchanged horses, and then continued to chase Zhu Youzhen's whereabouts.

But until they caught up with the sixth horse escort team, the hundred households here still told them that there was no trace of His Highness ahead.

"Your Highness won't be going deep into the sea of sand......"

Looking at the vast Gobi Desert around, Cao Wenzhao was a little impatient, but even so, Sun Chuanting was still very calm, he knew that Zhu Youzhen would not fight a battle that he was not sure of.

The reason why they did not catch up was because they were cautious and marched only one hundred and twenty miles a day.

But if it is a close pursuit, I am afraid that Zhu Youzhen and they will be eager to run out of horsepower.

It's just that no matter what, if they continue to chase, I'm afraid they will chase Juyanhai.

"Governor May, where have they arrived?"

Sun Chuanting turned around and asked the official Fumin beside him, and the official Fumin also said with a sad face when he heard this:

"Jingluo, we are also deep into the Hanhai, and the pond riders in the rear probably can't find us."

"The latest news is also three days ago, three days ago, Governor Mei and General Li went north along the Zhangye River for 300 miles, according to the calculation of a one-day march of 50 miles, now they are probably close to Juyanhai."

"Juyanhai ......" Sun Chuanting asked people to take out the map, looked at it, calculated the distance, and then pointed to the map and said to Cao Wenzhao:

"We should now be about four hundred and sixty miles northeast of Juyanhai, and according to His Highness's military rations, we can hold up to two hundred miles northeast of Juyanhai."

"If they completely annihilate the Huoluo Chibu, they can probably go to the Juyan Sea, even if they can't completely annihilate the Huoluo Chibu, then there should be several oases nearby."

"His Royal Highness follows Saihan with the army, Chief Cao doesn't have to worry."

"According to what Jingluo said, we only need to search now, and then send troops to Juyanhai?" Cao Wenzhao also reacted in hindsight.

"Exactly." Sun Chuanting bowed slightly, and Cao Wenzhao also said:

"I hope Your Highness doesn't go deep into the sand sea, I heard that there is quicksand in the sand sea, and if it is swallowed, it cannot be saved."

"This is naturally not, His Highness is born rich and noble, and if he wants to come to heaven, he will not let His Highness be in danger." Sun Chuanting relieved Cao Wenzhao's nervousness with a smile, and Cao Wenzhao was infected and quickly calmed down.

After a short rest, they exchanged horses with the sixth escort team, leaving behind a lot of supplies, and then continued to explore northwest.

It's just that compared to the danger they thought, Zhu Youzhen successfully bypassed the sand dunes under the leadership of Saihan.

It's not that he didn't encounter quicksand along the way, but for Zhu Youzhen, quicksand, a typical non-Newtonian fluid, is not terrifying, especially when he is still accompanied by thousands of people.

Compared with Huo Luochi's cautiousness, his march was very bold, and even Saihan, who was guiding the way, was a little afraid when he saw it.

However, as time and distance passed, and as he personally rushed to the last dune, the sky also brightened again.

The sky lit up again, which also meant that they had pursued Huoluochi for three days and four nights.

For three days and four nights, the army soared six hundred and twenty miles and came to a place where Sun Chuanting had calculated about the same.

The wind and snow were still howling, but they were much smaller than the Hetao, and when Zhu Youzhen climbed the sand dunes, what he saw was a desolate Gobi desert.

"Are you sure they are going this way?" Zhu Youzhen asked Tang Qi, and Tang Qi also replied:

"At six o'clock last night, according to the news sent by Liang Baihu, the captives should be less than thirty miles away from our army at this moment."

"Your Highness......" Saihan also came over when he heard the words and said:

"This is the only way to go to Hangai Mountain, and twenty miles further north is a small oasis, and Huo Luochi must go there to replenish supplies, otherwise the army will collapse soon."

"Good!" Hearing Saihan's affirmation, Zhu Youzhen also bowed his head and said, "Then make a break with Huo Luochi here." ”

After that, Zhu Youzhen sat on the sand dune, without the slightest shelf of a prince.

But it was his appearance without a frame that made the people around him feel inexplicably close.

There is nothing high, although Zhu Youzhen will also show his majestic side at some times, but more often he is still close.

Everyone sat next to Zhu Youzhen, and Zhu Youzhen saw that the war was about to end, and he also thanked Saihan:

"Saihan, if you didn't lead the way in this reset, I wouldn't have been able to break through the Su Capsule Department so easily, and skillfully intersperse and encircle the Ordos Department, you should be the first to make the first contribution after the war."

"His Royal Highness praised it falsely, the last general was favored by His Highness, if it was exchanged for other rewards, even if the last general was familiar with the terrain, it would be impossible to help His Highness establish such a feat." Saihan was modest, but Zhu Youzhen patted him on the back:

"I said that the first merit is yours, it is yours, and you can't fail to take what I gave you."

"This ...... It's ......" Saihan was a little speechless by Zhu Youzhen's strength, and finally could only smile bitterly, but he was a little grateful in his heart.

In the past, there were not many generals who turned to the Ming Dynasty in the Mongols, but he was probably the first to get such love.

"Your Highness! Fire falls Akabe is coming! ”

When Zhu Youzhen and Saihan were chatting, Tang Cai, who was observing the battlefield on the sand dunes, trotted over all the way to pass information to Zhu Youzhen.

When Zhu Youzhen heard this, he also took over the binoculars, and from them, he saw the Huoluo Chibe on the horizon in the distance, who was slowly marching towards this place.

Their number is even smaller than when they escaped from the mountain pass, perhaps less than 4,000 people, and such a number also created an opportunity for Zhu Youzhen to annihilate them completely.

Seeing this scene, he turned his head and said to the commander of the Xiao Cavalry Guard:

"The whole army is ready to get on the horse, and after hearing the sound of the horn, everyone follows my Daxu, ready to rush and kill the captives, and capture the three Taiji!"

"The last general commands!" The commander of the cavalry guard responded, and the Ming army began to prepare for battle.

Everyone turned over their horses and walked the sand dunes on the plains to the side of the Gobi Desert to ambush, while Zhu Youzhen was in charge of the front army, making people hold his big army high.

With the passage of time, the Ming army in the front row can clearly see that there are more and more captives on the horizon, but their marching ranks are scattered, and even the Tang cavalry is no longer dispatched.

Obviously, they had been pursued and almost collapsed, and all they had to break their nerves was a horn......

"Woo-woo-"

The trumpet sounded, and the fire fell like a frightened bird, and the people did not even look at the direction, but continued to flee to the northwest with their heads buried.

However, when the Ming army rushed out of the sand dunes on the side of the Gobi Desert, everyone was in despair.

"How did it appear in front? Aren't they in the back? ”

In Huoluochi's sunken eyes, only unbelievable despair remained, chapped lips and sand covered in sand that spoke of his embarrassment.

In the face of the Ming army's divine soldiers, he didn't even have the mind to run away again, or rather, he chose to give up......

"Kill!"

Zhu Youzhen, who was galloping wildly, pulled out his long knife and pointed obliquely at the cloudy sky, and charged forward with the army.

The Ming army rushed over like an iron wall on the smooth Gobi Desert, leaving the last trace of memory for the remnants of the three major divisions is suffocating despair......

"Peng—"

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