"Sigh the law ......"

In a valley in the northeastern corner of the Haravan Mountains, nearly 100,000 people and hundreds of thousands of herds are gathered at this moment.

Tens of thousands of hides are set up on the hillside, with horses outside the tent and herds grazed in the valley below.

This is the middle reaches of the Nguyen Le River, and if you go up to the northern foot of the Hara Van Mountains, you can go down to the Nguyen Van River.

It is nearly 400 miles away from the Uliang Ha Bald Mountain and is located in the foothills of the mountain.

If attacked, you can immediately follow the cut road across the northern part of the Haravin Mountains to the grasslands in the eastern part of Mobei.

However, for Tulu Kuchaer, this road is the last dead end, and he will not take it until he has to.

"Shuerche stayed in the south with his men, and he must have wanted to use us as an opportunity to invite merit, so all the horses should not be released into the valley."

"If the Ming army attacks, the old and weak women and children drive the herd upstream, and we will camp here to prepare for the enemy."

Standing on the hillside, Tulu Kuchaer took two thousand households and more than twenty thousand households to direct how to retreat, and gave them confidence:

"We are condescending, even if Zhu Di comes, he will not dare to attack us."

"Their supplies set off from Daning, and there are very few soldiers and horses that can be brought here."

"But what if they send troops from Zhaozhou?" A 10,000-strong household asked this question, but after hearing this, he shook his head and said:

"How much grain can be grown outside the border? Even if Zhu Gaoxu led the troops to attack by surprise, it was only a few thousand soldiers and horses. ”

"Even if the Ming Dynasty is strong, it is not easy for Zhu Di to transfer troops here."

These words convinced everyone, after all, they all knew that it was difficult to cultivate grain outside the customs and the yield was not high.

Although the Bohai Sea has been vigorously cultivated, they do not know to what extent the Bohai Sea has developed, and their understanding of the Bohai Sea is still five or six years ago.

The reason for this is because during Meng Zhang's management of the Bohai Sea, the Bohai cavalry infested Modong many times and constantly attacked some small and medium-sized tribes, which caused Uliangha to be unable to recover for a long time.

Today, their strength is less than one-third of what they were at their peak.

But even so, it is impossible for them to retreat to Mobei, because the battle between the Tatars and Warat in Mobei is not over yet, and it is very likely that the Uliangha tribes will be eaten away if they are rashly involved in the battle now, not to mention that the road to the Tatar department is not wide, and it is not so easy for 100,000 people to go.

Tulu Kucha'er originally wanted to surrender to Zhu Di, but the reality was that few Wuliangha nobles were willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Di, the father and son, killed too many Uliangha, especially Zhu Gaochu's burial of Uliangha's prisoners alive was unacceptable to the ministry.

Therefore, in the face of Zhu Di's northern expedition to sweep the caves, they could only move again and again, and now they have no way to move.

"Beep-"

Suddenly, a shrill whistle came from the lower reaches of the valley, and everyone became nervous.

They looked downstream, and saw hundreds of sentry riders coming from the lower reaches to the upper reaches, and this was almost half the number of the Uliangha's sentry horses.

"The Ming army is coming......"

Tulu Kucha'er's face turned pale, and some nobles became frightened when they heard this.

They watched as the sentry rode out of the dozen cavalry and ran up the hillside.

When they came to everyone, they turned over and dismounted, and their tones were nervous and a little frightened: "The main force of the Ming army appeared forty miles away in the southeast, and at least 20,000 people ......"

"Twenty thousand!" Everyone gasped and couldn't help but set their eyes on Tulu Kucha'er.

With the fall of the Kharagu, Azashri and others, Tarukchaer became the backbone of the Uryanha tribes.

"The women and children drove the herds upstream, sent people to prepare the wood and gravel, and let the women and children cut down trees as they walked, hindering the pursuit of the Ming army."

It was not easy for him to be in trouble, but now he can't be chaotic, and once he is chaotic, the entire Uliangha tribe will follow the turmoil.

Seeing that everyone hadn't reacted yet, Tulu Huchaer raised his voice: "What? Unwilling to retreat, to surrender? ”

"It's not ......" The nobles shook their heads again and again, after all, most of their heirs died in Jixi Pass and Daning, and they swore to the death with Daming.

"It's impossible to surrender, then fight!"

"Hit!!"

Tulu Kucha'er roared angrily, and everyone followed, and for a while the sound of shouting and killing continued to echo in the river valley.

Under the command of Tulu Kuchaer, more than 60,000 old and weak women and children began to drive the herd upward, leaving only less than 30,000 men on the hillside.

They prepared to throw wood and stones, preparing to emulate Zhu Gaoxu's operation on the western slope of Hadaling when he attacked Jixi Pass.

It's just that the slope here is not as big as that of Hadaling, and they are not Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Di is not Halawu......

"Beep...... Beep ......"

In the early morning of the next day, when the whistles sounded one after another in the Hadaling River Valley, the Wuliang Ha men who had simply rested all night got up one after another.

They ranged in age from thirteen to their fifties, with only 16,000 of them able to wear armor, and the remaining 12,000 or so wearing simple animal skin clothing.

They had weapons, but they were very crippled.

The early morning fog in the river valley was often a helper used by Toru Kuchaer against the Ming army's firearms, but he was not sure how long the fog would last.

He stood among the layers of rubble walls and trenches, looking around at the group of teenage boys and the old Batulu in his fifties, and he didn't know how to feel in his heart.

At this time ten years ago, he, Haragu, and Azashiri had tens of thousands of armored soldiers, and even armored cavalry could pull out a certain number.

But now, all that is gone, and they seem to be living a life of poverty that they themselves could hardly even imagine.

"The Khan is like the sun high, I hold a bow and arrows and a spear, and the flag beats in the wind......"

I don't know who started it, but a song "Ah Ralai" was sung in the sound of whim, and even Tulu Kuchaer couldn't help but sing along.

The song spread out of the valley and into the ears of the Ming army who entered the valley.

Many naturalized Mongols in the Ming army heard the pathos in the song, and they stopped for a while, but the Jurchens and Han people under Meng Zhang's command were not affected and advanced steadily.

Fifty field guns were pulled by a hundred horses, so that they could keep up with the march of the army.

Three thousand gunners set up shelves in the saddles of their horses, some with gunpowder, others with stone shells.

Because the distance of the northern expedition was too far, the Ming army could not carry enough ammunition supplies, so they could only reduce the number of artillery to increase the number of shelling.

"If they are willing to surrender, I am willing to canonize Tolu Kuchaer as a hereditary guard commander."

On horseback, Zhu Di, as a "bosom friend of heaven", also heard the pathos in the song, so he said to Wang Yan.

Seeing this, Wang Yan immediately sent more than 100 Mongolian cavalry to set off with a letter of surrender conditions.

When they reached the bottom of the hill, they shot the letter with arrows and shouted in Mongolian:

"Daming Khan is willing to accept your surrender, if you surrender, you will not be responsible for what you have committed in the past, and the Taiji can obtain hereditary official positions."

", Han hound!"

An arrow was shot down from the hillside, but fortunately, the hundred household officials reacted in time and protected their faces with their gauntlets, and the arrow was also bounced away.

"Let's go!"

After the Baihu official made sure that it was safe, he immediately turned his horse's head and left, and the archery Tulu Kuchaer also handed the bow and arrow to the person next to him.

"Get ready for battle."

There was a hint of tiredness in his voice, and he turned and left the trench and went to his hut.

During this period, the Ming army did not rush to leave, because Zhu Di knew that the dense fog in the river valley would not disperse for a while and a half.

A quarter of an hour later, when the naturalized Mongols sent to deliver the message returned and reported the situation, Zhu Di brushed his beard.

"The slope of the hill is about fifteen degrees, and there is a stone wall of three or four feet on it, and there should be a moat."

"If nothing else, there should be sassalwood and falling stones, this Delu Huchaer wants to learn from the arrangement of the second child in Hadaling."

"But the slope of the place is not enough, and the valley is wide enough to spread out an army of thirty thousand."

Zhu Di said many new terms, but these terms were no stranger to Meng Zhang and others.

"Wait for the fog to dissipate before marching, and scatter Tang Qi and Butang, don't give them a chance to sneak attack."

"The last general commands!"

Zhu Di commanded, and Meng Zhang responded without thinking.

The arrangement of the army is still with Li Yuan and Xu Zengshou as the front army, Li Shi as the left army, Li Qi as the right army, Gan Yue as the rear army, and Meng Zhang as the middle army.

This arrangement was made because Meng Zhang knew that the emperor wanted Li Yuan and Xu Zengshou to make meritorious contributions, and Gan Yue was arranged by him in the rear army because he had offended the emperor at the beginning to avoid contact with the emperor.

The army waited, and from midnight to noon, the fog gradually lifted.

It was also as the thick fog cleared, and the situation in the river valley began to unfold in front of the Ming army.

The wide river valley is about six miles from east to west, and more than ten miles from north to south, and the whole river valley is divided into east and west by a Nguyen Li River in the middle.

Zhu Di and the others were in Hexi at this time, and they were also in Hexi, and they camped on a hillside on the north side of the river valley plain.

Hexi is about three or four miles from the foot of the mountain to the west of the Ruanli River, which is enough for Zhu Di to use artillery to deal with Tulu Kuchaer.

"If you look for death yourself, you will die with your subordinates."

Meng Zhang is undisguised sarcastic and undisguised, after all, Bohai and Wuliangha have a deep enmity in the sea of blood.

Although Zhu Di also saw that Tulu Kuchaer wanted to resist desperately, he felt the most regret in his heart, after all, he recruited the 100,000 Uliangha Mongols of Tulu Kuchaer, and he could at least pull out 20,000 Tartar cavalry to sweep the north.

Now it seems that this idea is hopeless, his second child and Wuliangha have a deep enmity, and the two parties are destined to not be good.

"The cavalry set off first in armor, the horse infantry in cuirassiers, and then the artillery battalion chose a position to prepare for the shelling."

In the face of the condescending of the Wuliangha army, Zhu Di commanded the army to advance with ease.

In addition to the three thousand cavalry on the periphery, who were already in armor, the rest of the cavalry also wore armor, and the horse infantry and artillery also wore cuirasses.

For a while, the valley seemed to be a little brighter, and the troops of the Ming army walked into the field of vision of the Uliangha army.

They marched north along the river, leaving enough distance for themselves and the army of Uliangha.

In the event of an incident, the horse infantry could dismount and form a spear formation within a single hour.

Although they were not fully armoured, the pikemen formation of the cuirassier light infantry was not something that the cavalry of the Uliangha could collide with, not to mention that the army still had 5,000 cavalry in full armor.

"Do you want to rush?"

"No need to ......"

On the hillside, the nobles asked about Truchuchaer, but he shook his head and said no.

How could he, who had rich experience in fighting with the Ming army, not know the power of the Ming army's artillery, and how could he not know the Ming army's ability to fight in short combat.

In fact, the current Wuliangha tribes are already poor in donkey skills, and when Zhu Di launched a northern expedition and set the target for them, God doomed them to defeat.

What can Toru Kuchaer do? He could only let the tribes of the Uliangha leave with great strength.

As for the old and weak women and children, if they can get out of that narrow beast road, then they may be swallowed up by the Tatars, but at least it is better than being captured by the Ming army.

Thinking of this, Tru Huchaer looked at his own arrangement.

The gap between his arrangement and Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement in Hadaling is too great, and Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement in Hadaling can completely treat 200 people as 2,000 people.

His arrangement, at most, used 28,000 people as 50,000 people, and when facing the Ming army, this effect will be greatly reduced, such as now......

"Target, hillside stone wall, distance one mile four, pre-shoot one round, prepare ......"

"Put!"

"Boom, boom—"

When the Ming army came to the plain of the river valley in front of them in front of the Uliangha army, the horse infantry began to cover each other, and the artillery positions began to fire pre-fire after they were firmly established.

"The whole army is ready!"

The timing of Tulu Kucha'er was the time for the Ming artillery to fire, but when he shouted out the whole army to prepare, the 5,000 Ming cavalry made him not know how to respond.

They looked like armored riders, but they didn't have the hip armor skirts, and the armor skirts on the ribs were much shorter.

With such a design, it can be said that there is no protection for heavy riding and no maneuverability for light riding.

But then again, this design also gives him better protection than light riding, and better speed and endurance than heavy riding.

Whether or not to give the order to charge was a dilemma for Truch, and this time he had no one to rely on.

The silence of the "......" made him miss a good opportunity, and watched the horse infantry of the Ming army dismount and form a formation.

"The artillery battalion hits a base number, after the infantry advances, the cavalry waits for our military order!"

Zhu Di saw that the 26,000 horse infantry were arrayed in armor, and when he ordered them to wait for the attack, the artillery battalion began to stuff the few cannonballs and propellants into the barrels, and began to shell the stone walls built by the Uliangha people at the rate of one round of shelling per word.

"Boom, boom—"

The dull sound of artillery continued to rattle through the valley, and with each round of shells, a scream could be heard from the opposite Uliangha line.

Five pounds of iron cannonballs destroyed part of the improvised stone wall, making the entire section of the stone wall look dilapidated.

"Three stone walls, but they don't work."

Zhu Di, who was holding the telescope, saw the general situation clearly, but did not think that the sassal trees and falling rocks cast by this slope could cause any fatal damage to the Ming army.

"Li Yuan, when the army goes up the mountain a little bit, be careful of the wood and falling rocks, so that the knife player can go to the front, and when he approaches, he will use the musket to shoot in a row, and then engage in a short fight."

"The last general commands!"

Facing Zhu Di's greeting, Li Yuan, who looked resolute, was respectful.

"Boom, boom—"

The dull sound of cannon fire continued for an hour, and by the hour had passed, many of the stone walls had collapsed through the gaps.

"Bypass the stone wall, climb the slope from the left and right, and attack!"

As soon as Zhu Di spoke, Li Yuan shook the reins of his horse, walked to Zhu Di solemnly, and then rode his horse to the infantry formation that had already formed a formation.

Of the 26,000 horsemen there were 5,000 musketeers, 15,000 pikemen, and 6,000 sword players.

Li Yuan quickly made adjustments according to Zhu Di's instructions, and the 26,000 army was mobilized by him, although it was not as good as Zhu Di's personal command, but the effect was barely good.

"Meng Zhang, do you think you can command 26,000 people like this?"

Zhu Di knocked on Meng Zhang's ability on the side, Meng Zhang, as a person who could be entrusted by Zhu Gaoxu with three escort tasks in the early days, was not simple, he knew that this was the emperor who wanted to judge the strength of his Royal Highness, so he shook his head with a wry smile: "Although the minister has the title of duke, he can only command more than 10,000 soldiers and horses so far." ”

Li Yuan is the third person of the Qingzhuang faction that Zhu Di regards as second only to Zhu Neng and Zhang Fu, and Meng Zhang happens to be the third person in Bohai.

Therefore, Meng Zhang's softness also means that Bohai is not as good as the Yanfu Qingzhuang faction, and Zhu Di smiled happily, but did not say anything.

Maybe he knew very well in his heart that Meng Zhang was just hiding clumsy, and Li Yuan's ability was probably not as good as Meng Zhang, and Meng Zhang was only twenty-nine years old now, but Li Yuan was already forty.

It seems that except for Zhu Neng, Zhang Fu, Meng Ying and others, Zhu Di really can't find a few handsome talents in his twenties and thirties.

Compared with him, the advantage of Zhu Gaoxu's generals is too great.

"I hope the second child can hold ......"

Zhu Di squinted his eyes and watched as Li Yuan split the 26,000 infantry into two, preparing to bypass the stone wall and attack the Wuliangha army.

At the same time, Li Wei and Li Qi, who commanded 5,000 cavalry on the left and right, also began to keep up with the infantry to ensure that they could protect their flanks at critical moments.

"Hear the horn and attack!"

Watching the main force of the Ming army come out of the battle, Tulu Kuchaer, who had been shelled for an hour, finally gave the order.

Soon, 16,000 armored cavalry mounted their horses, ready to condescendingly attack the left and right military formations of the Ming army.

16,000 cavalry was not superior to 26,000 infantry head-on, so what they had to do was to use their mobility to make a roundabout back attack, or a flank attack.

Once it can be successful, the results will not be much to say.

It's just that now the problem for them is to cover the cavalry on the flanks of the Ming army's infantry.

"The left and right sides each divided three thousand elite cavalry to entangle the Ming cavalry, and the remaining cavalry was mainly Ming armor (zha armor) cavalry charging into formation, and the light armor followed closely by the Ming armor cavalry."

After the defeat of Daning, the number of Mingjia cavalry in Wuliangha has plummeted, and now it can only pull out less than 4,000 people.

What he wanted was to use these 4,000 people as spearheads, and light horsemen wearing leather armor as spear shafts, and stab them from the flanks and backs of the Ming army.

Soon, the military order began to be transmitted, and the Ming army formation also came to the bottom of the hill and began to climb this gentle slope of only about fifteen degrees.

At first, they were relatively relaxed, but as the distance continued to rise, the lineup of the military formation began to be a little disordered.

"Take it one step at a time, don't be in a hurry!"

Zhu Di observed in the rear, and reminded him again, and Wang Yan also hurriedly sent Tang Qi to tell Li Yuan repeatedly.

After Zhu Di's reminder again, Li Yuan also began to let the pawns slow down, and the lineup became tighter again.

However, at this time, the wood and the rolling stone began to be thrown, and the angular rolling stone is good to say, and it may not be able to roll far in this 15-degree gentle slope, but the wood is different.

The wood was thrown down from the hillside, and the speed was getting faster and faster, even if there was a shield array of sword players, it could not be blocked, and it was either smashed open to the bottom, or it rolled into the air along the shield array, and then fell down and directly stoned the Ming army to death.

Seeing the death and injury of his brothers, Li Yuan was a little anxious.

If it weren't for Zhu Di reminding him to take steps to take the camp, and repeatedly reminding him, I'm afraid he would have let the cavalry attack by now.

“……”

Looking at the Ming army's non-arrogant and impatient lineup, Tulu Huchaer only felt that he couldn't get up in one breath, and the whole person was in a trance.

"How? When can I get my hands on it? ”

Some of the nobles still couldn't see the situation clearly, and Tulu Huchaer shook his head when he saw this: "There is no chance." ”

"If you don't have a chance, you have to create, it's a big deal to gather 16,000 people together, I don't believe that 16,000 people can't defeat the 13,400 Ming army."

The nobles wanted to gather superior forces and condescendingly attack the Ming army.

At this moment, it seems that this is the only way to do.

"Change the military order and launch a charge against the Ming army on the right flank."

Takhu Chaer accepted the nobles' proposal, and soon 16,000 cavalry charged with 4,000 Ming-armored cavalry as spearheads and 12,000 leather-armored cavalry as spear shafts.

They condescended and their horses downward, and launched a charge against the 14,000 men on the left flank of the Ming army in the lowlands.

"Cover our army!"

Li Shi blew the wooden whistle, and the two thousand cavalry under his command split into two and began to cover his flank.

However, in the face of the condescending charge, Li lost too few cavalry.

"Your Majesty!"

In the middle of the Chinese army, Wang Yan couldn't bear to look at it, and couldn't help but look at Zhu Di, but saw a smile on Zhu Di's face.

It is true that a condescending cavalry charge can crush an equal or small number of infantry in a low-lying area, but times have changed......

"Sons, kill the dog!!"

"Kill !!"

The Uliangha cavalry, who had a blood feud with the Bohai Navy, saw the familiar Vermilion Bird Banner and recalled their fathers and brothers who died at the hands of the Bohai Navy.

They raised their hammers, and the whole team divided into three lines, and launched an assault on the front and the two wings.

"Beep-"

A rapid and piercing whistle sounded, and after Li Yu heard it, he hurriedly ordered: "The cavalry on both wings retreat, leave space for them!" ”

In an instant, the Ming cavalry began to retreat, and this scene seemed to the Uliangha cavalry, that is, the Ming cavalry was afraid of them.

"Watch out for the muskets, be sure to break the formation!"

It was too late for Tru Kuchaer to convey his military orders.

When they condescendingly rushed towards the phalanx on the left flank of the Ming army, which was less than eighty paces, the only sword and pikemen who could withstand the onslaught of the cavalry crouched down on one knee.

Before the Uliangha cavalry could react, the musketeers in the rear of the Ming army also raised the large arquebus in their hands, which was nearly six feet long.

"Put!"

"Bang Bang Bang

"Hiss!!"

"Uhh

A thick white smoke appeared, and the large arquebus that pierced the armor hit the horses in an instant, and even pierced the Wuliang Hamin armored cavalry.

In the blink of an eye, the man flipped on his back and led the subsequent cavalry to fall.

They were planted, but the shooting of the Ming army continued.

The distance between the two sides was only about fifty paces, a distance that a musketeer with a large arquebus did not need to aim at all, and could penetrate it with a hit.

"Bang Bang Bang

White smoke kept appearing, but each appearance represented the neighing of a war horse and the demise of a famous cavalryman.

When Tru Kuchaer, who was at the back of the group on horseback, saw this scene, his worldview began to crumble.

Even though a small number of Uliangha cavalry had rushed to the front of the Ming army at this time, they were greeted by several spears that were three feet long.

They were picked off their horses and reaped by the knife players.

The three-wheeled platoon of 2,500 large arquebuses became the swan song of the Uliangha cavalry, and the 4,000 Ming armored cavalry used to break through the formation were routed and fell from their horses in a few breaths.

Even if there were lucky surviving Ming cavalry cavalry with the leather cavalry in the rear rushed to the front of the Ming army, but in the face of their charge, the Ming army quickly changed formation, the sword and card players covered the musketeers to retreat, and the pikemen were top.

In the hand-to-hand battle, tens of thousands of light cavalry and a small number of Mingjia Hu cavalry were picked off their horses by less than 5,000 Mingjia pikemen and were killed in hand-to-hand combat.

Looking at the scene in front of him, it was difficult for Tulu Huchaer to accept.

"Uliangha, you will perish in my hands......"

"Ming Taizong Record": "When he led the army to the Ruanli River, Hu rode 30,000 condescendingly, and 30,000 against each other, Hu soldiers rushed into battle, Wang Shi destroyed its edge with muskets, swords and guns broke its people, and the troops were defeated by Delu to death, and thousands of enemies were killed, 100,000 Hu soldiers, women and children were captured, and millions of cattle and sheep were killed. ”

"Northern Expedition Record": "Shang and Tulu fought against the Ruan Li River, when the Hu soldiers confronted Wang Shi, lined up in battle, the number of battles was combined, Tulu died, the troops surrendered, hundreds of beheaded, and countless Hu Kou and sheep and horses were captured. ”

(End of chapter)