Zha Hualu turned his head to look at his side and behind him, the dense soldiers and horses stretched for several miles, various phalanxes one after another, many phalanxes did not come to the battlefield and were put into the battlefield, the military formations were very neat, and he still had at least 200,000 soldiers who could fight.

"Ordering the -—— of all departments" As soon as Zha Hualu started, he saw a phalanx of people in the river not far away, obviously at least two miles away from the center of the battlefield collapse and defeat, and the original lineup was also very tight, but he suddenly turned his head and ran back.

As soon as the phalanx of the people in the river ran, several phalanxes beside him also turned their heads and ran back.

"Shhh

At this time, the whole battlefield is about the same performance, and the people behind see that the front is defeated, and they don't care about 3721, so they turn around and run.

Shaharu's army was originally a coalition of various client states that were conquered by him, and now Zahualu was first attacked by the Ming army, and then suffered a crushing defeat head-on, and these client states were not stupid, and they all turned around and ran.

Many people even ran and shouted: "Timur is finished, Timur is finished—"

The people in the river were the most happy, and the commander of the army did not say a word, and the army in the river retreated to his hometown and Uzbekistan.

This lord is very smart, he was defeated by Timur and did not accept it, and now if Timur is defeated in the territory of the Ming Kingdom, after returning it will be the time for them to rise in the river, now of course they must save their strength and hurry home.

There are a lot of people who think like the people in the river, so many big formations in Zha Hualu's eyes that did not participate in the battle turned their heads and began to run one by one.

But the battlefield is too huge, there are still phalanxes behind the various formations, the front is defeated, and the middle and rear have to turn around and run, which soon turns into a big chaos, and the client states even fight with their own people, and will only try to rush out of a way to retreat and escape.

After all the cavalry of the Ming army rushed out of the Wugang car, the defeat of Zha Hualu was irreparable, and the 300,000 troops scattered and fled.

This Ming army has experienced two major wars, Jing Yan and rebellion, and is very experienced in chasing and killing the defeated soldiers who have fled, they are not in a hurry to shoot in the back, chase and slash, and compared with Jing Yan and rebellion, the Ming army is even more reluctant to show mercy.

The first two wars were also civil wars, and now they are not polite to these Hu people.

It had only been a quarter of an hour since the chase began, and Zhu Gaoxu already felt that something was wrong.

The Ming army went crazy, more than 20,000 horsemen scattered in all directions, and the infantry following behind could not catch up with the cavalry.

Many Ming infantry began to grab horses, and then also rode on horses to chase and kill.

When Zhu Gaoxu came out of the big formation under the support of the front and back, there was hardly a Ming cavalry within a radius of two miles, and he saw the Ming infantry running around all over the mountains, some were grabbing horses, and some were picking up and killing people.

Zhu Gaoxu looked back at his side, there were only more than 200 personal soldiers and cavalry, and immediately said loudly: "Special mother, are you crazy?" Be careful of being ambushed, inform the guards, don't chase too much, and stay in formation--"

He sent more than 20 horsemen in one go, pursued them in all directions, and notified the Ming troops of all departments.

Then he ordered each infantry battalion to collect and plunder the Hu people's baggage, grain and grass, as well as a large number of cattle, sheep and livestock, etc., and at the same time recaptured the Fort of Hu, preparing to block Shaharu's way back.

And not far behind Zhu Gaoxu, Zhao Zhezheng, the commander of the Baoding Left Guard, sent people to gather soldiers and horses, because even his infantry rushed out, and finally gathered more than 1,000 people, and hurriedly surrounded the emperor, first to protect the emperor, and at the same time kept sending a small number of people with horses to go out to summon people.

Zhu Gaoxu was amused: "It's okay, we don't have to be afraid, the Hu people have collapsed, unless Shaharu returns to the army now." ”

"First, occupy Fort Hu."

At this time, the Hu people and horses scattered along the grassland, and most of them fled westward to their hometowns.

Zhu Gaoxu walked all the way, except for the corpses of the Hu people, all kinds of baggage, grain and grass, the Hu people almost lost everything and fled for their lives.

Zhu Gaoxu felt that after this battle, he would be able to make a fortune.

When it was two miles outside the fortress, the scene was even more shocking.

Because there were too many materials, Zha Hualu put down in the Blocking Fort, and there were still many things that had not been transported in, so under the wall on the north side of the Blocking South Fort, there were mountains of various materials, grain and grass.

The gate of the fort is now blocked by hundreds of carriages of various kinds, and there are thousands of Hu people on the fort, because the fort is small, these thousands of Hu people are simply crowded with the fort.

The cavalry of the Ming army was not there, and they all went to chase and kill the enemy, and thousands of Ming infantry battalions outside were preparing to attack.

But as soon as the emperor arrived, everyone stopped temporarily, and several commanders and envoys gathered on the emperor's side.

"Your Majesty, the fort gate has been demolished, and the Hu people have piled up a large number of wagons and baggage at the door, as long as they push the cannon over, they can rush in immediately." Someone reported to the emperor.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded decisively: "Go on." ”

He asked again, do you know who the commander of Hu Qi is?

A commander immediately said loudly: "Back to Your Majesty, the minister caught an enemy general and asked, the commander is Shaharu's second son, Zha Hualu." ”

"This guy saw that the situation was not good, and fled west."

"He didn't enter Fort Hu?" Zhu Gaoxu said strangely: "This is even my father's care." ”

"Hahaha." The generals laughed.

Shaharu is wreaking havoc in the territory of the Ming Kingdom, and he must not know that the fart drum has been beaten by the Ming army, Zha Hualu doesn't care about his father, and runs west by himself, Shaharu wants to know, will he be angry.

Knowing that the main generals had fled, Zhu Gaoxu's confidence increased, and he organized the collection of the heavy grain and grass of the Zha Hualu army, especially a large number of livestock, while preparing to attack the fort.

After a while, some horses and mules came to the front with a few cannons.

The Hu people on the Fort were shocked when they saw the Ming army launch the cannons, and then some people ran under the fort and did not dare to stand on the fort.

With the sound of the Ming army's artillery, the things blocking the fort gate shattered in an instant.

There was almost no difficulty, and the Ming army broke through the Fort of Zhuhu again with one attack, and the Hu people in the fort surrendered after a little resistance.

This time, the Ming army did not kill them all, but captured more than 2,000 surrendered troops, and asked them to build the gate of Zhuhu Fort, and at the same time dug a ditch and built a wall in the east direction of Zhuhu Fort (that is, in the Great Wall) to prevent Shaharu's returning army from trying to break the fort from here again.

After recapturing Fort Zhuhu, Zhu Gaoxu was not in a hurry, on the one hand, he sent sentinels to explore the main force of Shahru, and on the other hand, he first held on to Fort Zhuhu, and at the same time gathered troops and horses to prepare for Shaharu's counterattack.

But two days later, the cavalry chasing the Hu people returned one after another, but Shaharu's counterattack was delayed.

At this time, the news was obtained from Shuozhou, Shaharu's soldiers and horses took advantage of the local rain to attack Shuozhou two days ago, and they were almost about to break through Shuozhou, and at the last moment, the Hu people suddenly withdrew their troops, and then retreated in the direction of Datong.

The defenders of Shuozhou initially thought that reinforcements were coming, but later learned that the Ming army had recaptured Fort Zhuhu.

The Hu people who attacked Shuozhou had a disagreement at that time, part of them wanted to recapture the Fort of Zhuhu and ensure the way of retreat, and part of them wanted to join Shaharu and then decide, and in the end they still unified their thinking, and the whole army went to chase Shakharu in the direction of Datong, because in their opinion, the Great Wall of the Ming Kingdom was thousands of miles long, and they could kill it wherever they wanted.

The Hu people did not come to counterattack, and Zhu Gaoxu had enough time to prepare for the fort, and distributed the cannons one by one to the location of Fort Hu and nearby forts.

At the same time, the cavalry returned one after another in the past two days, and the infantry also gained a lot.

In this battle, more than 150,000 Hu people were killed, more than 200,000 horses of various kinds, millions of mules, cattle and sheep, more than 5 million stones of grain and grass, and countless other materials, but this was still part of the materials within dozens of miles nearby

More supplies were farther away, and some of the Ming cavalry were still looting.

Shaharu's army brought supplies and grass that could be eaten for two years, and most of them were lost in this battle, except for a few that followed him into the pass.

When Shaharu got the news, he was leading his troops to besiege Huairen County.

Huairen County is the Datong Barrier, after Shaharu broke through the Fort of Yuhu, the 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Ming army originally stationed in Yulin Guard knew that it was too late to support, so they immediately retreated to Huairen County.

Shaharu led the army all the way to Datong, and encountered Huairen County on the way, preparing to capture the slaughter city first, so as to deter the Datong defenders from surrendering.

Unexpectedly, there were 20,000 defenders stationed in Huairen County, and they attacked for several days.

A few days ago, Shaharu's old trick was repeated, letting the cavalry plunder everywhere, arresting the Ming people who had not yet arrived and ran away, and finally gathered more than 3,000 people, ostensibly to drive the people ants to attach themselves to the front, and the Hu soldiers and horses followed behind, among which there were Hu people mixed in the people.

This trick he often used when he was in Central Asia, and it was also very effective.

The Ming army guards really couldn't bear it, and they were almost rushed to the city by a large number of Hu soldiers and horses.

Fortunately, there is still a difference between the appearance of the Ming and the Hu people, a certain section of the city wall in Huairen County was once breached, and the Ming army recaptured it, and then bombed it with 10,000 enemies in several waves, which repelled the Shahru army.

Shaharu stormed Huairen County for a few days, and he was a little frightened.

He thought that the Ming army had so many troops in every county.

In this way, he has to fight one by one, and the millions of troops will not be able to defeat the Ming Kingdom.

When I heard that Datong was still an important town, and there were more soldiers and horses stationed, I immediately retreated.

When he first entered the Ming Realm, he wanted to encircle the point to send reinforcements, wait for the Ming Emperor to send the main force to support, and then fight the main force of the Ming Army in a battle.

Unexpectedly, after entering the Ming Realm for more than half a month, there were almost no Ming troops of more than 1,000 people in the field, and they were all kinds of sentinel cavalry detachments.

The Ming army was strong and clear, and it was extremely difficult for them to attack the county towns one by one.

In the past few years, when they were roaming the countries of Central Asia and Europe, all countries liked to concentrate their troops and horses to fight them in a decisive battle, and then they were able to win a battle, thus establishing their invincible record in Central Asia and Europe.

Before entering the Ming Kingdom, when the Ming army was in Jingjing, they even defeated the invincible and prosperous Ottoman Empire in a battle.

In the Battle of Angola at that time, Timur was under the city of Ankara, and then the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I led an army of 70,000 people, did not defend the city, and went out of the city to fight with them, and the whole army was annihilated.

Why did the Ming Emperor fight without martial virtue?

Shouldn't we concentrate our troops and horses to compete with us?

Just when Shaharu was secretly scolding the Ming Emperor for not having martial virtue, he suddenly heard an earth-shattering news.

More than 100,000 Ming troops went around the pass, broke their army blocking Fort Hu, and then blocked their retreat.

Shaharu was shocked, angry, and frightened.

Not only did the Ming people not have martial virtues, but they also fought so insidiously.

(End of chapter)