Chapter 242: A Glimmer of Life
Nair didn't spend, bit the army and fled, eager to get rid of Zhu Di's pursuit, but the tens of thousands of troops went through a bloody battle, not only lost more than 10,000 soldiers, but also suffered serious injuries, and the bleeding wounded soldiers were countless, along the way there were constantly people killed under the horse, leaving a corpse all the way, and it was impossible to get rid of the tracking of the Ming army scouts behind him.
After escaping for dozens of miles, seeing the cold wind howling, it was almost dusk, Nell Buhua's heart was extremely heavy, just because looking at this sky, it would definitely snow tonight, if it was forced to brave the snow, how many of this army of countless wounded soldiers could survive tonight? In desperation, he had no choice but to pass down the military order, so that more than 30,000 troops camped on the spot, with a trace of luck in his heart, hoping that the sky would come down as soon as possible, so that the pursuing Ming army would lose its traces.
Zhu Di, Zhu Quan got a scout report all the way, and led the big army to chase after him. At dusk, the first snow of the winter finally fell in the sky. The north wind blew in the face, rolled up a little snowflake, and tens of thousands of Ming cavalry finally came to a distance from the Northern Yuan army.
Zhu Di stood tall on his sweaty and bloody horse, and looked at Zhu Quan, who was riding the "dark clouds and snow" slowly, and Fu Youde beside him, he couldn't help but be high-spirited, and laughed: "Brother Quan, Ying Guogong, tonight we will wipe out the entire Tartar army." ”
Zhu Quan looked at the bandage on Zhu Di's right arm that was still dripping with blood, but what he recalled in his mind was the unstoppable state of chasing and killing the Northern Yuan Emperor with the blue jade long tassel in his hand, and secretly thought to himself: Speaking of which, Zhu Laosi and Lan Yu fought with a virtue of not caring about life and death. Thinking like this in his heart, he said with a smile: "The younger brother is willing to follow the fourth brother before and after the saddle, and he doesn't dare to take a step." ”
The camp of the Northern Yuan army has not yet been completely set up, seeing that the Ming army is not relenting in pursuit, a group of commanders and commanders are busy shouting and scolding, asking their corporals to turn over and prepare to fight, and the military camp is in a panic.
As a civil official, the bite was also in chaos at this time, looking at Nell Buhua, who was pacing back and forth, he couldn't help but tremble and said: "Take advantage of the fact that the sky is not dark at this time......"
"Tens of thousands of cavalry left with wounds on a snowy night, how many of them can survive until tomorrow?" Nell Buhua listened to the noise endlessly, and his heart was even more disturbed, Huo Ran stopped, and interrupted his words with a blue face. Thinking of today's exhaustive situation, I can't help but regret my intestines, I knew that this Ming Dynasty prince Zhu Di was brave and brilliant, not inferior to Chang Yuchun in the past, Li Wenzhong, he should not have led the army south under the bewitchment of biting, close to the Great Wall. He was killed by Zhu Di and Zhu Quan today, and the two Ming armies suffered heavy casualties, and the corpses were all over the field, and Fu Youde, who he was deeply afraid of, appeared, and he had completely lost the courage to lead the army and Zhu Di to fight to the death.
Biting Wen Yan, he couldn't help but turn pale, and a chill rose in his heart, just because the situation on the grassland was also surrounded by wolves, which was quite dangerous. Since the death of the father and son of Togus Timur, and the Northern Yuan Golden Horde army and the army under the command of Harazhang have perished in the hands of Lan Yu, they have become independent one after another, and have turned to the gradually expanding and powerful Tuhuan, Arutai, and Guilichi. Even if they were lucky enough to escape, losing the support of tens of thousands of troops, and returning to the grassland, it would be difficult for him and Nell to escape the fate of dying in the hands of the cunning and warlike Tohuan, or the scheming Arutai.
Zhu Di glanced at Zhu Quan, Fu Youde, Yang Ling, Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and others, and ordered in a deep voice: "After the night goes dark, the army dismounts and walks, raising fire and fighting at night. Speaking of this, looking at the place where the panicked Northern Yuan army was stationed, he said coldly: "Our army is bound to suffer heavy casualties in the night battle, and the army must not show mercy." "Just because night battles are not good for the cavalry, it is very easy to have chaos of self-collision and trampling, Zhu Di saw that the sky was about to get dark, and he had no choice but to give such an order.
The morale of the generals was high, and they all responded to the promise, only to see a figure hurriedly turn over and dismount, kneel on the ground, and plead with Zhu Di in quite blunt Chinese: "The general dares to ask His Highness to give the Yuan army a way to live, let me go and persuade Nell to not spend and bite." ”
Zhu Di, Zhu Quan looked fixedly, but it was Nahachu's deputy in the past, Guantong who was named Marquis by Zhu Yuanzhang after returning to the Ming Dynasty.
When Zhu Quan and Fu Youde led the army suddenly, and suddenly killed Nell without spending heavy casualties, and lost a big defeat, Guan Tong couldn't help but be stunned, and then he understood that His Royal Highness King Yan, who loves bow horses, is not rash against the enemy, and the lone army is deep, and the one way he uses is to attract the attention of the enemy head-on, and the tactics of the other way to raid behind the enemy are also the essence of the cavalry of the Mongolian army in the past. What is even more chilling is that His Royal Highness King Yan said in public that he wanted the army not to show mercy, which obviously wanted to cut down the tens of thousands of Northern Yuan troops to the roots, and he hurriedly came forward in his heart, hoping to fight for a glimmer of life for these tens of thousands of Northern Yuan soldiers.
The Ming army must have suffered heavy casualties in the snowy night, Zhu Di knew in his heart, and naturally hoped that Nell would not spend money to lead the army to surrender, but Guantong was a former Northern Yuan general after all, if he was not tough enough when he went to persuade him to surrender, it was difficult to guarantee that Nell would not spend money and be lucky, and deliberately delayed. Seeing the falling snow, for the Ming soldiers who were not tolerant of the cold, the night of the wind and snow was also particularly dangerous. He pretended to enter the army immediately, which was to induce Guan Tong to come out on his own and willingly become this lobbyist. At this moment, seeing the plan of Guan Tong, Zhu Di was very happy in his heart, and turned his head to Zhu Quan with a gloomy face and pretended to be embarrassed: "What does Brother Quan think?" ”
Zhu Quan saw Zhu Di's eyes flickering, and vaguely guessed his thoughts in his heart, and said with a secret smile in his heart: It seems that Zhu Laosi and I have become the second general. Thinking like this in my heart, I said with hatred in my mouth: Once the night is dark, the army will cover up and kill, and the chickens and dogs will not be left, I hope you know for yourself.
Guan Tong was overjoyed when he heard this, and he didn't care about thanking Zhu Di and Zhu Quan, so he hurriedly turned over his horse and galloped towards the camp of the Northern Yuan army.
Nair led a group of 10,000 commanders without being distracted, and the commander was assembling his subordinates from the Northern Yuan soldiers, preparing to fight the trapped beasts, but saw several Northern Yuan soldiers escorting a person wearing a Ming army uniform to come to him, and his face was vaguely familiar. When this person opened his mouth to speak, he suddenly realized that this person was an old acquaintance, a former general of the Yuan Dynasty, who later surrendered to Feng Sheng of the Ming Dynasty in the Battle of Jinshan, and Guantong, the deputy commander of the Nahachu Liaodong Yuan Army.
After listening to what Guan Tong said about Zhu Di and Zhu Quan's surrender. Nair couldn't help but look like ashes, and he couldn't do anything for a long time. He knew in his heart that in such a snowy night, even if he led the army to escape, he was afraid that tomorrow more than 30,000 scarred and exhausted soldiers would die in the severe cold of the wind and snow. Even though the melee with an unclear vision at night will cause huge casualties to the Ming army, I am afraid that I and my men will inevitably give a huge advantage in the troops, and the morale of the Ming army will not be left.
The snow in the sky became more and more powerful, and a commander could no longer hold the scimitar in his hand, and the weapon fell to the ground. Immediately after that, dozens of people, hundreds of Northern Yuan generals and soldiers abandoned the weapons in their hands, like ripples on calm water, gradually rippling away. The emperor of the golden family has died, so that these soldiers and generals have long lost their allegiance, and in the past, after Feng Sheng captured 200,000 soldiers and civilians under Nahachu, he also let go of tens of thousands of Northern Yuan soldiers and civilians who were unwilling to go to Beiping.
Biting the trembling voice and asking: "I heard that after the surrender of the former Yuan Dynasty officials...... Seeing that the surrounding subordinates with frightened faces dropped their weapons one after another, seeing that the army's heart was shattered, the words in their mouths were abruptly broken, and they could no longer be heard.
Heavy snow fell, and tens of thousands of Ming troops with torches slowly approached the camp of the Northern Yuan army.
Zhu Di, Zhu Quan led a group of generals to the gate of the Yuan army camp, and saw a kneeling figure in the snowfall. After listening to Guan Tong's explanation, he realized that the leader was Nell Buhua, and the bite of the two of them was very sincere, and he couldn't help but put his heart at ease.
Under the light of the torch, Nell couldn't help but see that the sweaty and bloody horse that Zhu Di was riding was the thing that had been paid to Togus Timur in the past, and he couldn't help but feel a wave of sadness and desolation in his heart.
Zhu Di immediately passed down the military order, allowing Zhang Yu to lead 5,000 Ming troops into the camp, confiscate the weapons of the Yuan army, and strictly guard them. He and tens of thousands of Ming troops under Zhu Quan camped on the periphery of the Yuan army camp.
In the tent of the Ming army, Zhu Di and Zhu Quan were listening to Nell Buhua, biting the two of them to tell the current situation on the grassland.
It turns out that the Mongolian tribe is actually a collective term for the large and small tribes of the steppe. It can be roughly divided into two parts: steppe Mongolia and forest Mongolia, and the Oirat tribe to which the father and son belong is the most powerful one in forest Mongolia. After the victory of the blue jade fisher, the Golden Horde army was swept away, and the father and son of Togus Timur died. The leader of the Oirats, Mahamu, established his own state called Warat, and with his brave and warlike Oirat cavalry, he gradually subdued other weak tribes in the forest Mongolia, and Warat was slowly rising. The leader of the Qierjiz tribe, Gui Lichi, not only sheltered many Northern Yuan officials who escaped by luck on the side of the fishing sea, but also supported a Tartar named Benya, who was said to have the blood of the golden family, as a puppet called Khan, and went to the Northern Yuan Kingdom to change his name to Tatar. In the intervening years, the Tatars and Varat fought fiercely on the steppes in order to compete for territory and expand their strength. Nair didn't spend, biting the reason why he surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, in addition to being forced by the situation at the end of the mountains and rivers, he was more afraid of the great loss of military strength and fled back to the grassland and fell into the hands of Dehuan, which is also an important reason.
When Ma Sanbao relayed the biting words, Zhu Quan couldn't help but hate in his heart, and secretly thought to himself: The last time he was caught with his hands tied, he didn't cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and he really returned to the mountain.
Seeing that his soldiers escorted Nell Buhua, he bit and waited for others to come out of the account. Zhu Di said categorically: "Whether it is Warat or Tatar, they are all barbarians, and they must have wolf ambitions for our Han people." In my brother's opinion, it is in the best interests of my Ming Dynasty to allow any nomadic tribe to dominate the grassland. ”
Zhu Quan couldn't help but bow his head slightly when he heard this, and secretly thought to himself: The Xiongnu in the Han Dynasty, the Turks in the Tang Dynasty, the Jurchens and the Mongols in the Song Dynasty, these nomadic tribes are cruel and easy to kill, advocating conquest, and once they become strong, they will inevitably bring great disasters to the Han dynasty in the Central Plains. Seeing the back of Nell Buhua and the others, he turned his head to Zhu Di and said in a deep voice: "Fourth brother, although our army has won a great victory and captured this group of Tartars, but it is snowing heavily tonight, and it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no change, so it is better to hand over all the brains of these Tartars to the younger brother to take care of." ”
Zhu Di's first unified army campaign was defeated by Nell Buhua, capturing more than 30,000 Yuan troops, and it was inevitable that he was a little complacent in his heart, at this time he heard Zhu Quan's words, and his mind gradually cleared up, and the head agreed to Zhu Quan's request, and immediately passed down the military order, tonight all the Ming army except for the seriously injured and difficult to support, the rest of the soldiers were divided into two rounds to guard the Northern Yuan prisoners, Zhang Yu led the army in the first half of the night, and Zhu Neng led the army in the second half of the night, in case of accidents.
Zhu Quan hurried out of the tent, passed a military order to Feng Tieling, and escorted hundreds of prisoners, including Zi Er Buhua, to the commander of ten thousand, the commander of a thousand, and the commander of a hundred, to the camp of the Ming army for care.
In the middle of the night, snowflakes fell from the sky and disappeared over the blazing bonfire at the entrance of the tent.
Zhu Quan slowly unsheathed the three-foot long sword after wiping it in his hand, turned his head and said in a deep voice to Feng Tieling: "The army is returning all the way south, Nell does not spend, bite and wait for others to be taken care of by the old man's men, if there is any wind and grass, you must make a decision immediately." ”
Although all the Northern Yuan soldiers disarmed and surrendered, after all, there were still more than 30,000 people, and they were close at hand. Zhu Quan is so worried for his own reasons, Feng Tieling is also a battle-hardened general, he can understand Zhu Quan's words, and he will go out of the account with a slight bow, and he will give orders in the army.
Qin Zhuofeng poured half a bowl of warm spirits and handed it to Fang Jinsong, who was sitting on the side of the fire.
Fang Jinsong is not very good at drinking on weekdays, at this time, seeing a little blood stain on the armor, thinking back to the fierce battle of the Yuan army during the day, he only felt a lot of anger in his chest, took the wine bowl and drank it all, wiped his lips and sighed in a low voice: "The Ming Emperor has never killed and surrendered, but it is quite different from the former Han King, Zhang Shicheng." ”
"These dog tartars, in the past, we Han people were bullied to the point that pigs and dogs were not as good, if they were in the Han army, they would have pulled their heads down one by one for my brother." Qin Zhuofeng said with some hatred when he heard this.
Although the first snow of the winter came early, fortunately it stopped in the middle of the night. In the early morning of the second day, the weather gradually warmed up under the sunny weather, Zhu Di got Zhu Neng to report the military situation, saying that there were two or three thousand seriously wounded soldiers among the Ming army and prisoners who died. It turned out that in the fierce battle yesterday, many wounded people from each of the two armies rushed with wounds, and it was difficult to support them under a snowstorm last night.