Chapter 214: Cutting the Weeds and Eradicating the Roots
When Wang Bi led the army to attack, he saw that the enemy army was divided although the men and horses were scattered, and he knew that under such circumstances, he must not divide his troops to pursue the poor Kou, so he led Chang Mao, Feng Tieling and others, as well as tens of thousands of Ming troops under him.
At this time, to Lan Yu, Guo Ying, Chang Sheng and others led the army to besiege Harazhang, seeing that Nell did not spend a lot of money and led the army to flee, and he was in a desperate situation, he couldn't help but feel miserable. The hundreds of still stubborn Northern Yuan cavalry on his side saw that they were abandoned by their allies, and their faces were full of despair.
Lan Yu sneered and rode the horse slowly, and under the horse's hooves, there were bloody corpses of people and horses. Reach out and remove the stiff bow from the side of the saddle and bend the bow to take the arrow. Under the loosening of the two fingers in the food, the feather arrow flew through the air and flew to the Northern Yuan Prime Minister Harazhang, who was sitting on a horse in the distance.
Seeing that the general trend had gone, and just as he was about to dismount and lead the army to surrender, a sharp pain suddenly came from his throat, and his eyes glared at Lan Yu in the distance fiercely, and he turned over and planted his horse. At this moment of death, a deep hatred surged in his heart, not for the blue jade who shot him, but for the escape of the army who led the army.
Lan Yu stared coldly at the corpse of Harazhang planted under the horse in the distance, and let out a long breath of evil breath from his mouth, and suddenly felt comfortable. If you capture this high-ranking official of the Northern Yuan Dynasty alive, it will naturally be a great achievement, and countless high-ranking officials of the Northern Yuan Dynasty have been captured on the side of the fishing sea, and Lan Yu no longer cares whether to catch one more or kill more, but the evil spirit in his chest that has been oppressed by the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty since he was a child has to be vomited to be happy.
For the soldiers of the Chang family brothers from Chang Yuchun's former army, the throat-piercing arrow of the commander Lan Yu was tantamount to a wordless military order, and they all roared angrily and swung their knives upwards and slashed the past......
Although the cavalry of the Ming army led by Wang Bi was far superior to any enemy army that fled all the way, it was only because the cavalry of his soldiers was not as good as these nomadic soldiers who grew up on horseback since childhood, but they could not catch up with the enemy on this flat and open grassland.
Seeing that Nell, who was half a mile away, led the crowd to run wildly and fled farther and farther, Zhu Quan couldn't help but feel very helpless in his heart, and secretly thought in his heart that these Tartar riding skills were indeed exquisite, but he was afraid that it would be difficult for our army to expand the results of the battle. In the past, he had chased and killed a centurion of the Yuan army in anger, and almost died under the enemy's bow and arrow, so he naturally knew how powerful these Tartars were at running and shooting.
Wang Bi looked back and saw that tens of thousands of Ming troops under his command were in this hurry, because of the strength of the horses and the difference in horsemanship, the formation was more and more scattered, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, and shouted the military order, and the whole army stopped pursuing. After a little rectification, he will lead the army to chase and kill several miles away, and the Northern Yuan army is not as good as the 20,000 foot soldiers who have fled away. Earlier, the scout reported that he and Lan Yu both knew that there were still about 20,000 foot soldiers in the headquarters of Hara Zhang, but there were many enemy cavalry, and their own army strength was not superior, so they naturally did not dare to rashly divide their troops to attack the opponent's foot soldiers.
In the camp of the Northern Yuan infantry a few miles away, the commander of 10,000 men with his own soldiers, and the 20,000 people below the commander of the 1,000 commanders, saw the defeat and flight of their own army from a distance, and they were already panicked, and they scattered one after another. They who are proficient in cavalry and archery naturally understand that under such open terrain, 20,000 foot soldiers have no chance of dealing with the more than 100,000 cavalry of the Ming army.
Tens of thousands of Ming cavalry under the leadership of Wang Bi, Marquis of Dingyuan, divided into several roads and outflanked the past. For a while, within a radius of several miles, the Northern Yuan soldiers who were running wildly could be seen everywhere shooting down the Ming soldiers who were galloping on horses, and slashed down with knives.
Zhu Quan rode his horse and galloped with a group of black-armored cavalry, sweeping through the Yuan army camp like a tide, leaving corpses everywhere.
Although the soldiers of the Northern Yuan Dynasty fled for their lives, they had no choice but to run on the flat ground with two feet where they could run over the horses with four hooves and flying, except for some lucky people who escaped, most of them were killed by several cavalry who were outflanked by a roundabout, and gradually drove them together, more than thousands, less hundreds, and threw away their weapons to signal surrender.
Chang Mao led more than 2,000 cavalry under his command to besiege hundreds of Yuan soldiers and was about to give the order to shoot them all, but saw a group of Ming cavalry jumping off their horses one after another, rushing into the encirclement to receive the prisoners. Helplessly, his own people were already mixed up with the Yuan soldiers, so he had to let his subordinates put down their bows and arrows.
Most of Chang Mao's subordinates are the soldiers of Chang Yuchun, the king of Kaiping in the past, who followed Chang Mao at the border pass on weekdays, and they were all rampant. At that moment, there were several thousands of households with violent tempers, and hundreds of households jumped off their horses, cursing foul words and rushing forward, trying to beat these peache-picking guys.
Wang Bi rode his horse and smiled at Chang Mao, "These captured Tartars are all your credit, let your soldiers dodge." It turned out that he knew that Chang Mao had followed his father Chang Yuchun since he was a child, and after capturing the Yuan army, he often killed all of them, so he let his soldiers take care of the prisoners first.
Chang Mao remembered that when his father Chang Yuchun was alive in the past, he also had a lot of respect for Wang Bi, the double-sword general, and after all, the other party was the deputy marshal of the Northern Expeditionary Army, although he was extremely reluctant in his heart, he still shouted and scolded to recall those subordinate generals who were still angry, and turned to Wang Bi and said lightly, "These captives are all counted as the credit of my brothers." Then he rode his horse and led the crowd to receive the other captives.
Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Hongwu in order to avoid the generals and colonels of the army to Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu's chaotic actions have been the same, there has already been a clear order, the merit of the prisoner is greater than the beheading, although Chang Mao inherited his father's title of duke, he does not care about these military achievements, but he has to consider the generals and soldiers under his command.
Wang Bi turned his head to look at Ning Wang Zhu Quan and Qin Zhuofeng's master and apprentice, who led a group of black-armored cavalry to "clean up the battlefield" in the distance, and couldn't help but show a little wry smile on his face, "Chang Mao, I can manage it, Your Highness, I can't control it, let's settle my destiny." Thinking about this, he ordered his subordinates to go to the Northern Yuan military camp to clean up the grain and grass that the Northern Expeditionary Army had abandoned to the Yuan army after leaving Gyeongju and had recovered it today.
In the tent of the Ming army, Lan Yu took off his bloodstained armor while listening to Wang Bi and other generals tell the results of today's battle.
In this battle, the army of more than 100,000 yuan under the command of the Northern Yuan Prime Minister Harazhang, the Oirat, Asut, Qierjisi tribes and the Yuan army's commander Nerbuhua led tens of thousands of Northern Yuan cavalry to escape, and the harvest was still quite large, killing more than 12,000 generals and soldiers under the commander of the Northern Yuan army, and capturing more than 15,000 Northern Yuan infantry soldiers. However, the casualties of the Ming army in this battle were also quite tragic, with more than 6,000 casualties, especially Guo Ying, the Marquis of Wuding, who led the army to intercept the thousands of Yuan troops of Harazhang, had the most troops, and the 2,000 people led by two thousand households were almost all wiped out. The second is the bloody battle of the Yuan army to which Nerbuhua belongs, and the black-armored cavalry under the command of Feng Tieling, with more than 1,000 casualties.
Lan Yu heard Wang Bi tell that after killing 20,000 Northern Yuan soldiers, some of the grain and grass that had been discarded in the past were lost and regained, and he sighed softly, and his heart couldn't help but feel a sense of relief.
Originally, after the Northern Expedition army annihilated the main force of the Golden Horde on the fishing side of the sea, although it also seized some grain and grass, the total number of cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock obtained was more than 150,000, in order to keep the cattle and horses, he had to slaughter camels and sheep as much as possible, and the relatively small livestock met the rations of the whole army and many prisoners.
Zhu Quan stood in the continuous barracks, looking at the remnants of the sun in the sky like blood, recalling the tsunami in the mountains when the two armies were fighting today, and the tragic and unparalleled fighting, he still had some fear in his heart, and secretly thought to the ancients, one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, and I will not deceive me.
Zhu Quan walked into the tent where he lived, and smelled a burst of fragrance, and he was salivating. Quickly walked up and snatched a cake made by Ma Sanbao, took a big bite and swallowed it, recalling the sins he suffered when he followed the Northern Expedition of Lanyu and crossed the desert, he couldn't help but laugh in his heart, turned his head and muttered to Ma Sanbao, "When we came, we didn't have as good as a flower, and we couldn't eat half-cooked things, but now we are so rich that we can eat meat all at once." After that, he sat down beside his master Qin Zhuofeng, picked up the wine gourd and poured a big sip, feeling the kind of reverberation of the liquor passing through the intestines, recalling the difficulties and dangers experienced by the Northern Expedition, it was like having a big dream, and said with a smile, "I can finally go home." ”
The Northern Expedition of the Ming Dynasty was more than 140,000 people, carrying more than 90,000 captured Northern Yuan soldiers and civilians, as well as a large number of captured livestock, and slowly marched on the grassland with heavy baggage, and the class returned south.
A few days later, at dusk, the army had just set up camp, and several scouts scattered around the camp noticed a Yuan army following them, and hurried back to inform the commander Lan Yu.
Lan Yu hurried out of the tent, turned over and stepped on the jujube red horse, and went out of the camp with Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, who rushed to check on the news.
Zhu Quan looked at the banner of the thousands of Yuan troops stationed in front of the horse a few miles away, vaguely the Oirath tribe of Dehuan, and couldn't help frowning and wondering that Tuhuan This guy is insidious and cunning, some time ago, he led 20,000 or 30,000 horses and did not dare to fight to the death with our army, I don't know what he wants to lead the army to follow today?
At this moment, I saw a knight of the Yuan army galloping forward, far away from Lan Yu and the others more than 200 steps away from the bow and arrows, an arrow flew through the air and landed in front of Zhu Quan.
Zhu Quan saw that the arrow seemed to be tied to something, and his heart couldn't help but move, and he ordered Ma Sanbao to bring the arrow, took off the letter tied to the arrow shaft, looked at the crooked Chinese characters on it, couldn't help but sneer, turned his head to Zhu Di and Lan Yu and said in a deep voice, "This kid said that this kid said that he came with 5,000 men and horses this time, and he is not hostile to our Ming Northern Expedition army, he just wants to meet the marshal and have important matters to discuss." ”
Lan Yu snorted coldly when she heard this, but she didn't speak.
Zhu Di and Tuhuan have never met, but in the past, they had heard that Zhu Quan had told Zhu Quan to follow Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, to fight against the former Northern Yuan Taiwei Nahachu, and the leaders of the three tribes of Oirat, Qierjis, and Asute, and he had a little impression of this Dehuan. Thinking about this, he immediately said in a deep voice, "That's it, let him come to our big tent by himself." ”
Lan Yu waved his hand to summon the peace of a thousand households not far away, and commanded in a low voice, "You bring two people over to see this Tartar of Tuhuan, and let him garrison five miles away, and only bring a hundred guards to meet him." Speaking of this, after a slight pause, he turned his head to Chang Mao and said in a deep voice, "Many scouts are sent to closely monitor the Oirath cavalry, and your men and horses are on guard at any time in case of accidents." ”
After stepping into Lan Yu's tent, Zhu Quan suddenly said coldly, "After our army wiped out the Golden Horde Yuan army from the fishing sea and defeated the Yuan army under the Hara Zhang, although the Tartar Emperor was lucky, the Northern Yuan was also dying, and he was no longer able to control the three tribes such as Oirat on the grassland. The people of the Oirat tribe are brave and good at fighting, but I am afraid that in time, such barbarians will become a problem for my henchmen. "He and Xu Ying had met by fate and followed Shen Peng's caravan to encounter the tribe of Tuhuan, and they had long been wary of the calm and composure of the tribe of Tuhuan in the face of the assassination of him by the Guilichi faction, as well as the brute force of the people of the Oirat tribe.
After Zhu Di heard this, Huo Ran turned around, looked directly at Zhu Quan and asked, "What should we do with Brother Quan?" ”
"Since he sent it to the door himself, cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and never suffer in the future." Zhu Quan said loudly.
Lan Yu heard Zhu Quan's words, and remembered the cunning and fickleness when Tuhuan led the 103 clan alliance army and the thousands of households under his command to fight peacefully, and bowed slightly, "This is very good." ”
Zhu Di couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and asked in a low voice, "Brother Quan used to live in the Dehuan tribe for a few days, and as far as you can see, how is the military strength and population of the Oirat tribe compared to the other two tribes?" ”
Zhu Quan recalled what happened in the past, and said in a deep voice, "From what the foolish brother can see, the population of the Oirat tribe is only the least among the three tribes, and the soldiers should also be the least, but its people are fierce and good at fighting, and I am afraid that in terms of military strength alone, it will be the first among the three tribes." ”
After Zhu Di slowly sat down, he said lightly: "According to the Jinyi Wei torture of the Northern Yuan officials, the territory of the ancestor of the Oirat tribe "Forest Mongolia" is north of the fishing sea. In the opinion of the foolish brother, after the decline of the Northern Yuan, it is inevitable to be afraid that the rise of these three tribes in the grassland, for us, the threat of the Qiergis and the Asut tribe, which is closer to our Ming frontier, is more than that of the Oirat tribe that is farther away. ”
When Zhu Quan heard him say this, he couldn't help but bow slightly, and thought in his heart that although we can use a huge military force to wield the Northern Expedition, we can't actually control the grassland, and the three clans rise in the grassland, which is also helpless. For the most mobile cavalry in the Cold Weapon Era, hundreds of miles away will also greatly restrict its combat power.
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