After calming the morale of the army, Li Yinglin took 5,000 soldiers as the front army, and Cao Xun led 3,000 people as the rearguard, marched north, and encountered the main force of the advancing rebels on the bank of a tributary of the Danube, a river called Prut.

The generals suggested fortifying the river to intercept the enemy. Eight thousand men for a decisive battle is still too little, but it is enough to prevent the other side from crossing the river. You can wait for the reinforcements gathered by Captain Wang to arrive, and then have a decisive battle.

Li Yinglin explained that although there are many rebels, they all have their own evil intentions. The reason why the tribes of the Northern Ya rebelled was for the selfish interests of the nobles, and under this premise, it was impossible for them to advance and retreat together and sacrifice themselves for their "comrades-in-arms".

It is not necessary to use prestige and rules to suppress them and force them to abide by military discipline and orders when the Taishi is still there, so as to maintain their combat effectiveness. And now, the Boyan they support is just a puppet acceptable to all the nobles, and he has no power to command at all.

As for the "friendly forces" from Poland, Rus' and other countries, they have their own thoughts. They gathered simply because the previous khanate was so powerful that they were afraid of being annexed, so they wanted to fight together. If they see that the Khanate's army is small and will not threaten their safety for a while, they will immediately start intrigue and go their own way.

These people don't even have a unified order. An army without a commander is called a rabble. Even if there are many people, what kind of battle can be fought?

Now it is the time when the enemy is weak. If they were given time to integrate, or if more Polish and Hungarian troops arrived, the situation would have been more passive. So don't wait, now is the best time to fight.

100,000 people is a lot of size. In Europe, such an army can even decide the fate of a country.

But an army of 100,000 is not very large. If there is no effective organization and command, let alone 8,000, even if there are 800 people, they can still fight.

So, instead of staying at the ferry, Li Yinglin moved upstream, looking for a ferry to cross the river.

The rebels spotted them early on, and seeing that they were few in number, they sent their vanguard to continue their preparations to cross the river, while at the same time the army immediately came out to meet them, preparing to destroy this force in one fell swoop before they had completely crossed the river.

The rebel units were not in the same direction, some fast and some slow, and could not form a situation of advancing in unison. Of course, the disparity in numbers between the two sides is too great after all, and no one takes it seriously. The cavalry of the elite Kipchak Left Guard of the Northern Ya rushed out first and surrounded them.

Li Yinglin ordered the other soldiers to continue to cross the river, personally mounted their horses, and led 200 armored cavalry to counterattack him. The Kipchak guards surrounded them, and Li Yinglin shouted and galloped, fighting left and right, and everyone who was in charge was invincible. Seeing this, the commander of the left guard made Berkdieer see this, and led his companions to rush to intercept him, and Li Yinglin clashed with a spear and stabbed him under the big sword. The Kipchak cavalry broke out one after another, and Li Yinglin's troops were able to completely cross the river and line up high on the bank.

Seeing that the Kipchak Left Guard was frustrated, the leaders of the various departments really hesitated and wanted others to go first. Li Yinglin sent troops to shout and curse everywhere, saying that Boyan was a waste puppet, hurry up and surrender, and don't follow him to death.

The rebels were clamoring, and Boyan had no choice but to draw more than 10,000 main forces from the Kipchak left and right guards and Briar right guards that he could control, and went forward to attack, and asked Władysław, the chief general of the Polish reinforcements and the "White Duke", to act as a backup for him. Boyan said truthfully that although there are many people now, only the combat effectiveness of the Polish army can be trusted. For the sake of a common goal, at least this time, I hope that everyone will work together.

Boyan personally put on his horse and came to the front of the battle to command. The cavalry archers of Kipchak Wei and Briarwei constantly threw arrows at Li Yinglin's troops. After firing for a while, he found that the opponent's armor was solid and could not take advantage, so Boyan ordered all his troops to take turns to charge, and the right guard of Briar, who had maintained the best state before, went first.

The right guard of Briar and Li Yinglin fought for a round, but there was no winner or loser. Li Yinglin said that the enemy will definitely be in a hurry. He ordered the soldiers to dismount, throw away their bows and arrows, and retreat to the dirt slope, leaving only the sentries on guard. Another thousand veterans were sent to the back of the defended mound and on the banks of the river as a reserve.

Seeing that the opponent was no longer shooting, the forward of the Boyan army began to retreat, disappearing behind the ridge, and hurriedly reported to him. Boyan really increased his troops, joined all the cavalry into the formation, and began to charge. In the rear, the Polish army also reorganized its formation, with knights as the lead, and slowly followed.

The cavalry of the Boyan division rushed close to the dirt slope, the sentry waved the flag, and Li Yinglin's division returned to the top of the hill and rushed down towards the enemy.

The two sides were huddled together, and the advantage of the cavalry could not be brought into play, but became very passive. Some of the cavalry went around to the flank, preparing to go around the mound and attack the rear of Li Yinglin. However, in the woods under the mound, there were also people blocking and could not pass for a while. Boyan was ruthless and decided to rely on the number of people to squeeze through, so he ordered all the troops to attack, and at the same time sent a signal to the Poles for help.

The Duke of Władysław sent a number of Polish knights to come to their aid, and the Briar Left Guard agreed to join in. This time, he succeeded in squeezing Li Yinglin's troops down the mountain. Boyan then threw all the reserves in his hand into the battlefield, and sent people to call back the few troops that were still trying to make a detour, so that they would stop wandering around, and hurry back to add another weight to the enemy who was about to collapse.

After fighting for more than half an hour, Li Yinglin's troops were squeezed and retreated, and they had already retreated down the dirt slope to the bank of the river. The cavalry and Polish knights of Boyan thought that they could drive them down the river in one fell swoop, and their morale was high for a while. As soon as Boyan's reserves arrived, they were at their best, and the officers moved out of the way, and they took the lead, ready to launch a final charge.

However, this is already a river beach, the soil is muddy, and the war horses cannot run at all. The 1,000 veterans prepared by Li Yinglin took the opportunity to start a counter-charge.

These men have great axes and iron rods, and they see men smashing heads, and horses cutting off their legs. The cavalry could not be turned, and it did not have the same density as the infantry, and one person was often besieged by several people in front and behind. One of them resisted him, and the others took long axes and sledgehammers, and they took turns to greet him. The hundreds of people in the front row were killed and injured almost as soon as they saw each other, and the others couldn't dodge, so they could only fight hard.

Some of the soldiers also jumped off their horses and tried to form a formation and fight on foot. Others turned their horses' heads around and tried to squeeze in a different direction. The commanders screamed and cursed, shouting and waving flags in an attempt to restore order to their subordinates.

Boyan also came to the top of the mountain at this time to observe the situation. After discovering that the front was blocked, he hurriedly ordered the follow-up troops to dismount and prepare for foot combat.

The veterans of Lee Ying-rin's unit were not too affected, and they were still pushing forward, methodically knocking open the enemy's heads like swinging hoes in the fields. The soldiers who had been pushed to the rear, some of whom were on standby under his orders, others, who were still in good physical strength, regrouped and rounded the enemy through the woods.

The remaining cavalry in the forest was quickly driven away by them. The crowd then turned around in front of the mound and attacked the enemy's flank. Some of the more clever enemy horsemen realized that the situation was not right and began to flee.

The nobles of the other departments just tried a few detours, and after finding that they couldn't win, they began to watch the excitement on the side. Some people found the fighting too fierce and were cowardly, and wanted to find an opportunity to slip away.

Sensing that the situation was not right, Boyan immediately sent another message to the Poles, asking their knights to intercept the infantry of Lee Yinglin's army, who were trying to surround him, and the infantry also sped up to follow and expel the possible enemy from the woods. If it succeeds, use infantry to make a detour and counter-encircle the opponent from the outside.

However, the Polish knight simply ignored his orders. The knights complained that they had come here to mingle with the civil war of the pagan barbarians, to wallow in the mud for the ambition of a few Tatars? The enemy in the woods is not clear at all, and even if those people are intercepted, God knows if there will be more people coming.

Now some of his colleagues, because of the blind command of this Tatar prince, have fallen into it, and their lives and deaths are still unknown. They will either look for an opportunity to save people and then hurry home, or they will simply watch these people finish the fight first. In any case, I will not go to die again.

The knights originally disliked these temporary comrades-in-arms very much, and the way they were doing now made everyone very resentful, and the duke's personal persuasion was to no avail.

But their judgment is not unreasonable. It didn't take long for the collapse ahead.

The Kipchak Left Guard had just been defeated head-on once, and the main general was also dead. It's just that it was smooth sailing just now, and their previous record was not bad, so Boyan assigned them to the second wave and let the new commander lead them to charge together.

The situation was clearly not quite right, and these people began to waver first. However, the push just now was too strong, and there were people in all directions, and I couldn't leave if I wanted to.

Boyan could see clearly from a high place, but the soldiers everywhere didn't know the situation on the battlefield at all. The people on the front line wanted to go back and open up space, but the people behind didn't know what was going on in front of them and were still squeezing down the hillside.

In the end, presumably, more and more people understood what it meant for those on the front lines to try to retreat. Fear began to spread among the army.

At this time, a fire broke out in the direction of the ferry camp.

Cao Xun's 3,000 men arrived here, and they brought sappers and baggage, so they were a little slower. However, after arriving at the place, Cao Xun saw the fighting on the hillside on the other side of the river, and immediately ordered the soldiers to make a big show and recruit warriors to cross the river at the same time.

In front of the ferry, there was the army of the Grand Duke of Smolensk. Seeing someone coming on a raft, the soldiers formed a formation on the river beach, ready to intercept.

When the raft landed, everyone rushed up. However, the chest cabinet in the bow of the ship suddenly erupted in flames, and the burned ghosts of the Rus' soldiers howled wolves, while the survivors shouted "The Romans are coming!" "Duck back.

The Grand Duke hurriedly looked around, and found that a large number of flags of various kinds appeared on the other side of the river, covering the line of sight. Looking at the river, only a few rafts were launched, and the soldiers on the opposite side did not continue to release the boats, but were assembling and fixing the pontoons, obviously to build pontoon bridges on the spot and let the army rush over. The people who crossed the river were not afraid of them, but shouted everywhere that the army of the imperial court had arrived, and that those who knew each other should hurry up and surrender and be exempted.

He looked further to the front line on this side, and there was still a stalemate between them. If I'm not mistaken, Boyan said at the time that there were thousands of people there at best. Looking at it now, it is obvious that it is just a vanguard force, but the battle has not been solved until now, and if the army presses up, I am afraid that there will be no way to survive even if I am a little bit of a person.

The Grand Duke hurriedly told the soldiers to stop fighting and withdraw from them. Then he summoned the nobles and sent someone to contact the Grand Duke of Chernihiv, who was also in the army, to discuss together.

The Smolensk people had very bad relations with Poland and Lithuania, because the two countries had always wanted to annex them in the same way that they had carved up the Galich-Volyn principality. Chernihiv was also the main target of the Lithuanians, and if it had not been for the intervention of the Purple Horde, it would have been wiped out by Lithuania.

Although they were coerced by the Northern Ya Army, everyone discussed a few words and immediately reached a consensus. Boyan's waste can't even beat the Purple Tent striker, and he is obviously a playboy who can only boast about himself, being picked up by the Poles and used as cannon fodder for others. As soon as the army comes, it will definitely be finished.

And, even if he wins by chance, what can he do? Smolensk was a place that the Poles had long coveted, and he would definitely turn around and sell it to Poland, who had helped a lot. Mrs. Chernigo will face a similar fate.

Now that this battle has been fought like this, instead of waiting to be sold, it is better to sell him first and show favor to the Khan's court.

Everyone has made up their minds and started to act immediately. The Grand Duke of Smolensk personally carried the lowering flag and rushed to the river to negotiate with the Purple Horde army. The Grand Duke of Chernihiv gathered the soldiers of both countries and hunted down all the Poles in the camp to prevent the watchmen from discovering anything unusual, to his advantage.

The soldiers roared loudly, rushed into the tents, and cut down the men with Catholic crosses at sight. The scene was so chaotic that some of the Rus' were killed by mistake. Some Polish and Lithuanian mercenaries were stationed in the camp, and the Rus' set fire to them several times when they could not get in. Soon, smoke rose high and could be seen from afar.

This signal was too obvious, and the Boyan Department on the front line also noticed the situation.

The last of the Briar Left Guard, who was not a close confidant of Boyan, immediately retreated when he found something wrong, and withdrew from the semi-encirclement. Boyan still had the illusion of turning the tables, hoping that they would carry out volleys and flanking missions in place of the Poles, and send messengers with their tokens, promising to appoint their leader as a Taishi as long as they obeyed the order.

However, the Breal Left Guard ran away without a trace, and the Courier did not bring a reply at all. I don't know if he was intercepted by enemy troops on the road, or if he didn't bother to pay attention to his orders at all.

In the midst of the chaos, the front began to collapse completely. The soldiers pushed and trampled each other, scrambling to run backwards. Duke Władysław fled in a hurry under the protection of his attendants, gathered the remaining knights, and rushed out of the encirclement. Seeing that the general trend was gone, Boyan committed suicide by drawing a knife by the river.

In the area of the river and the mound, in the long open space, there were tens of thousands of corpses of the guards of the Northern Ya, and the elite was almost lost. The Polish knights fled a lot, but after Cao Xun's sappers came to help, they quickly broke through the camp. Most of the remaining infantry and Lithuanian mercenaries were killed by the angry Rus', and even the Purple Horde could not stop them.

The tribal nobles who fled in advance ran away, and some simply wandered outside the battlefield and looted the deserters. The so-called 100,000-strong army collapsed in one day.