"Bang Bang Bang-"

"Those who descend will not be killed!!"

In the scorching summer, in the valley of the northern mountain ravine, the 30,000 Tatar cavalry of Arutai who had finally reunited were caught in the valley by Zhu Di and Chen Chang.

In the face of a flanking attack from the south and a north, Arutai constantly commanded the cavalry to break through to the north, but the spear formation combined with line tactics, coupled with the depth of space not enough to charge, made it impossible for the Tatar cavalry to break through the heavy defensive lines of Chen Chang and others in the north no matter what.

Compared with the difficult advance in the north, the more than 10,000 Ming troops led by Zhu Di in the south are advancing step by step, squeezing their space more and more narrow.

The rock wall on the left side of the river valley is towering, overlooking the far as the eye can see, and on the right side is the river of difficulty, although it is summer, the river is still more than 100 steps wide, and it cannot be crossed at all.

The shouts of killing filled the entire river valley, and the faces of the Ming army were full of excitement and mania.

Under the command of Zhu Di, the front row of cavalry unhurriedly loaded muskets and gunpowder on horseback, and pulled the trigger on the Tatar cavalry at a distance of seventy paces.

As soon as the Tatar cavalry made a move to break through to the south, the Ming hand-to-hand cavalry immediately rushed forward and repelled the Tatar cavalry.

Faced with such a predicament, the faces and expressions of the Tatar cavalry were full of nervousness and anxiety.

In the heat of the scorching sun, they were sweating profusely and thirsty.

A quarter of an hour ago, they were fearless Mongol cavalry, but now they were exhausted by the attacks of the Ming army.

They could only watch the people around them keep falling, and watch the Ming army keep advancing.

"What are you doing with Polo first! Why can't the front army break through the defense of only 4,000 people! ”

In the middle of the army, Arutai couldn't see the situation of the front army through tens of thousands of heads, but he knew that Zhu Di of the rear army was constantly squeezing their space.

He didn't expect the Ming army to carry artillery, and he didn't expect Zhu Di to think of cutting off his retreat before the war started.

He overestimated himself and underestimated Ming Jun and Zhu Di.

"Kill!!"

In the front army, because there was not enough distance to charge, the Tatar cavalry had already dismounted and began to engage the Ming army in hand-to-hand combat.

Under the command of Chen Chang, the 4,000 Ming army fought and retreated, and the Tatar headquarters often had to pay hundreds of lives to force the Ming army back a few steps.

The Ming army became more and more proficient, and the Han and Mongolian cavalry under Wang Zhong and Wang Cong drove the horses northward, while listening to the whistle of Chen Chang's headquarters and firing at the Tatar headquarters in a row of guns at intervals.

The battle line was so tormented, the Ming army's spear formation fought and retreated, from time to time flattening the spears and crouching down to make room for the musketeers in the back row to shoot.

It was such a simple tactic, but it made the Tatar soldiers and horses complain.

Their morale was getting lower and lower, and gradually they were unable to shake the Ming army's position.

"Damn! Damn! Earn a fortune! ”

Wang Zhong looked excitedly at the Tatar soldiers and horses whose morale was declining, and couldn't stop shouting.

They hadn't cooperated with Chen Chang, so they didn't know that this seemingly dull tactic could burst into such power in this terrain.

At the time of the hand-to-hand battle alone, no less than a thousand people fell in the Tatar headquarters, and although hundreds of people in the Ming army fell, most of them were only injured in the face of the cavalry onslaught, so as not to hurt their lives.

At this moment, the morale of the Ming army is high, and the Tatar cavalry has lost a lot of brothers because of the battle in the river valley plain, and they are even more worried about being blocked in the zigzag river valley, and they don't know what to do next.

Time was passing, the wind had gradually stopped, and the Ming army's surrender was getting louder and louder, like a sharp sword, poking into the heart of every Tatar soldier.

They were struggling to resist, but no matter what, the northern front could not advance, and the southern front was irretrievably defeated.

Under the offensive of the Ming army, it is certain that the Tatars could not obtain any support points.

"More and more people are dying, what should I do?!"

"What can you do now?"

"Only hard top, open the north side!"

"I can't open it, the morale of the north has fallen!"

"So what to do...... Surrender, or when the Ming artillery arrives, we will all have to explain here! ”

At this moment, under the fierce offensive of the Ming army, the nobles of the 10th battalion of Yongshebu broke out into a violent internal conflict as in history.

Anyone can see that the 30,000 people in the headquarters will only be wiped out if they continue to fight, and while they still have some capital, they may be able to get a better treatment if they surrender in advance.

Arutai was so troubled by the quarrel that he could only give his hope to Alitai in the south, and all he had to do was stall for time.

"Polo first, you go to the rear army to deliver news to Zhu Di, saying that we are discussing surrender and ask them to postpone the attack."

Arutai was ready to buy time, and even if Alitai couldn't rescue them, they could use this time to regroup their team and launch another round of charges against Chen Chang's troops in the north.

This river valley Arutai is clear, and there will be a small river valley plain two miles further north of the hard top, and the width from east to west is at least two miles, and Chen Chang's 4,000 people will definitely not be able to stop it.

With this little time to deceive peace, they could regroup their team, push Chen Chang's 4,000 men to the river valley in one go, and then flee north.

He had just learned about the supply situation of the Ming army from some corpses of the Ming army, Zhu Di was traveling lightly this time, and the food carried by the soldiers was enough to eat for half a month at most, minus the return time, at most four days.

They fled north for four days, and once Zhu Di couldn't pursue them, he could only let them go.

Thinking of this, Arutai looked firmly at his second son Ye Polo, and also nodded solemnly when he saw this, and then rode his horse to squeeze through the crowd and rushed to the rear.

A quarter of an hour later, when Polo came to the rear, he saw his own side dismounted and retreating, and the Ming army pressing forward with arquebuses and spears.

"Beep-"

As the wooden whistle sounded by Polo, he led dozens of people on white horses, raised the white flag, and walked out of the Tatar array.

"Beep-"

Almost as soon as they saw them, a wooden whistle sounded in the Ming army.

White horse chariot and white flag, this is a kind of surrender signal that has appeared since the end of the Qin prince, seeing that Polo and others raised the white flag and rode out on a white horse, Wang Yi of the former army immediately ordered a ceasefire and passed the news to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di was surprised when he heard this, and immediately stepped forward, and soon saw Ye Xian Polo and others who had passed through the Ming army and came to him.

They were shirtless, wearing white cloths, riding white horses, and holding white flags.

I have to say that although Arutai is a Semu of the Asu Department, he still has studied the Central Plains more thoroughly, and there are no mistakes.

"Arutai is going to surrender?"

Zhu Di grinned and asked, and the Tartar official next to him was in charge of translation.

"I am the second son of the Taishi and the first Polo, and my father is convincing the Zhubu Shangshu to surrender, please give us some time."

He didn't know that the sturdy dark man in front of him was Zhu Di, and he just followed what his father said to confuse them.

In the face of his sincerity, Wang Yi, Li Yuan, Qiu Fu, Xu Zengshou and others all showed joy on their faces, if they could capture the 30,000 people of Arutai and the nearly 10,000 people of Alitai in the rear, then the Tatar headquarters would be removed from the grassland.

Thinking of this, everyone was a little excited, but Zhu Di said cautiously: "Apart from your father, who else wants to surrender, and who doesn't want to surrender?" ”

"They don't want to surrender, my father is persuading." also explained first, but Zhu Di grinned when he heard this: "Tie him up to me!" ”

With Zhu Di's order, the Jurchen soldiers of the left and right guards of Zhaozhou under Li Shu controlled more than 20 people who were also Polo.

"Your Majesty?" Qiu Fu looked at Zhu Di in confusion, but Zhu Di grinned:

"Then Arutai is deceitful and delaying time, don't give him a chance, the army advances, take advantage of his illness to kill him!"

"The last general commands!" Wang Yi didn't say much, since it was ordered by Zhu Di, he just had to carry it out.

Soon, the left and right guards of Zhaozhou continued to advance northward, but they saw that the Tatar soldiers and horses on their side holding white flags to the south were caught off guard and kept retreating.

"The two countries are at war without slashing, and you have broken the oath made by your ancestors!"

also Polo continued to struggle, and his heart sank to the bottom.

"Hehe, your dad told you to stall for time, right?"

Zhu Di grinned and said Arutai's true intentions: "I am Zhu Di, does your father think that I don't know anything about you?" ”

"If you say that Uncle Duo'er wants to surrender, and your father doesn't agree, then I will still believe it."

"Now you say that Uncle Duo'er doesn't want to surrender, and your father wants to surrender, are you a fool for me?"

Zhu Di knows the Mongolian generals very well, and it is true that Duoer is a general under Arutai, but he followed Arutai to many people in his early years, and he also broke away from Arutai several times in private and took refuge with many people.

Compared to him, Arutai is a stubborn guy, he can't even cooperate with Warat, how can he surrender to the Han people.

Therefore, it is as ridiculous as a Han saying that "Qin Hui resolutely resists Jin, and Yue Fei chooses to negotiate peace".

For those who don't know the generals of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, if they say Polo first, they may be able to delay for some time, but for Zhu Di, this is simply self-defeating.

"Zhu Di, you ......"

Polo was dragged down, and what he said was not translated, but it was probably not a good word.

It's just that for Zhu Di, let him scold, anyway, I'm afraid the Tatar headquarters will suffer a heavy blow after today.

"Beep-"

"Bang bang bang!"

Wooden whistles and muskets continued to sound, and the Ming army relied on spears and muskets to press forward step by step in this not wide river valley, shrinking the space of the Tatar headquarters.

A quarter of an hour had passed, and Arutai's face had turned pale, apparently he already knew the situation in his headquarters.

At this moment, whether to surrender or not became the only decision he could make.

In his ears were the wails and screams of the cavalry of his headquarters, as well as the exhortations of many nobles.

It seemed that everyone was demoralized, including himself.

"I ......" Arutai didn't have the courage to say that, so he parted ways with the ghost power, and turned around and surrendered to the Ming in the south.

If he does surrender, then he ......

"Surrender......"

Arutai's face turned pale, his reputation was important, but the survival of his Tatar headquarters was even more important.

Now that he has surrendered, the 30,000 soldiers and horses and the 200,000 troops in the north can still be sold for a good price, and they can live and they can do it themselves.

If he didn't surrender again, and waited for the Ming artillery to pull to the south, then he would have no chance to surrender.

With his order, the Tatar soldiers and horses began to stop resisting, and Arutai also took the place of his son, riding a white horse, shirtless, holding a white flag, and appeared in front of the Ming army with an ugly face.

"Who's that man?"

Zhu Di asked the Hu soldiers who had just been captured next to him this time, and the Hu soldiers also replied tremblingly: "It's the Taishi ......."

"Did you really surrender?"

Zhu Di grinned, he still thought that if Arutai played trickery again, he would give him a round of guns, but he never thought that he would come to surrender in person.

"Okay...... "Okay," he muttered, and he already thought of the surprised look of his own second child over there.

Even Zhu Di himself didn't expect that he would be able to capture so many soldiers and horses of Arutai and Tatar headquarters in one battle.

"The Great Mongolian Emperor Aluktai, please ......surrender to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

When Arutai rode a white horse to the Ming army and saw Zhu Di under the banner of the Son of Heaven, he dismounted and knelt on the ground with a sad face, and presented the Mongolian Taishi Baoxi in his hands with both hands.

Qiu Fu waited for a long time, and hurriedly stepped forward to take the treasure seal and handed it to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di took the treasure seal, held it in his hand and said at the same time: "Can you persuade all the subordinates to surrender to the imperial court?" ”

Arutai can speak official language, so he can talk directly to Zhu Di, but in the face of his words, Arutai shook his head:

"After the news of my defeat broke, many tribes are expected to go west to Yuelu Timur and Mahamu and Taiping."

"Can you convince the troops to the south, then?" Zhu Di was a little unhappy when he heard this, but Arutai nodded this time:

"I can convince Alitai's soldiers ......"

"Okay, then I will accept your surrender, and will choose a pasture for you in the Daning Dusi, as for you and your brother and the scholars of Yongxieb, I will not treat you badly."

Seeing that Arutai still had some effect, Zhu Di calmly accepted his surrender, and sent some thousands of Tatar households from the headquarters to the north under the supervision of the Ming army to recruit the Tatar troops who had fled north.

At the same time, Zhu Di also sent Tang cavalry to let Meng Zhang march to Kuoluan Haizi, appeased the Tatar tribes along the way, and divided his troops to the south to appease the Tatar tribes entrenched in the northern part of the Xilin Gol grassland.

Zhu Di didn't want to make a wedding dress for Warat, he had to appease the Tatar tribes first, and he couldn't let Warat grow.

Therefore, when the army camped in the valley grassland of the northern mountain valley and surrendered all the armor and weapons of the Tatar cavalry, Zhu Di sat in his big tent, lying on the couch to study how to expand the results of this battle.

Arutai has been captured, and the power on the steppe is out of balance.

Now he needs to figure out how many soldiers and horses can be pulled out by Warat, and how many soldiers and horses can be pulled out by Ghost Lichi, and then make arrangements for the grassland.

"Wang Yan, call Arutai, I have something to ask him."

"Yes......"

Zhu Di instructed Wang Yan in the tent, and when Wang Yan heard this, he hurriedly sent someone to spread Arutai.

However, what he didn't expect was that it was not only Arutai who came back a quarter of an hour later, but also Zhu Neng from the rear army.

Their faces were not very good-looking when they entered the account, which made Zhu Di think of the reason.

"Alitai ran away?"

Zhu Di asked Arutai and Zhu Neng, Arutai nodded, and Zhu Neng said ashamedly:

"When Alitai saw that our army appeared with a Tatar headquarters, he immediately left behind more than 2,000 horsemen and retreated with less than 7,000 horsemen."

"The last general wanted to chase him, but they set up things at the south pass, delaying our army for a quarter of an hour."

"I've ordered Huo Zhen and Zheng Heng to go in pursuit, but it's just ......"

Zhu Neng wanted to say something, but Zhu Di raised his hand and said, "That's it." ”

Raising his hand, Zhu Di's thoughts turned around, and then he asked Arutai: "Do you think your brother will surrender to Wara?" ”

"I shouldn't ......" Arutai was unconfident, or didn't want to answer.

He didn't want to surrender in the first place, but he had no choice but to survive.

Now that Alitai has successfully broken through, maybe he can reunite with the Tatar tribes involved, and he will naturally not help Zhu Di deal with his brother.

It's just that he never thought that in the face of his prevarication, Zhu Di regretted:

"That's a pity, I originally wanted to let you go to the helm of Tatar and let Tatar become a barrier for the imperial court, but now I'm afraid it won't work."

Knowing that Alitai broke through successfully, Zhu Di was annoyed and a little happy.

With the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, there is no doubt that it will no longer be able to gain a foothold in Mobei, whether it is population or logistics.

If the Tatar Ministry really collapses, there is no doubt that Navarat will get a better environment for development and will be able to dominate as a single country.

In this situation, the rise of Wara is obviously not in line with its own idea of attacking Mobei.

Therefore, after learning that Alitai broke through, Zhu Di did not want to encircle and suppress Alitai, but to support Alitai.

In Zhu Di's opinion, even the closest relatives will have gaps, and Alitai, who is Arutai's elder brother, is the same.

As an elder brother, he has always been pressed by his younger brother, and no matter how much Alitai admires his younger brother, he will inevitably have some resentment in his heart.

In this case, it is better to take this opportunity to support Alitai and let him help Daming fight against Warat and balance the situation on the grassland.

If Alitai does not obey the discipline, then he can release Arutai back to the grassland.

Compared with Alitai, Arutai is more prestigious, and the two brothers are afraid that the two brothers will fight for power.

Zhu Di's mind was active, and the meaning of his words was also detected by Arutai, which made his face ugly and at the same time, he couldn't help but have a trace of anticipation.

If Zhu Di really dares to let him go, then he will definitely "repay" Zhu Di in the future.

"In this case, you write a letter to your brother, and say that the court is not guilty of his past crimes, and as long as he is willing to be a minister, I am willing to canonize him as the king of Changning, and allow him to pay tribute."

Zhu Di looked at Arutai with a smile, but Arutai felt that Zhu Di was smiling treacherously.

It's just that people had to bow their heads under the eaves, so he could only write a letter to Alitai in front of Zhu Di, and the captives selected by Zhu Di and them were sent to the Tatar tribes.

"By the way, I called you here and wanted to ask you, how many soldiers and subordinates do they have, such as Ghost Lichi, Mahamu, Taiping, and Bald Polo?"

Zhu Di remembered the matter of probing the intelligence of various ministries, and Arutai also said in a low voice after hearing it:

"There are 1 to 20,000 soldiers and horses each, of which Mahamu has the most soldiers and horses, about 20,000, counting the Taiping and the Bald Polo, Warat can pull out about 50,000 people, but the troops who fight with me all the year round are only 30,000, after all, they still need to defend the south and west, and the troops are about 450,000."

"Yuelu Timur (Guili Chi) has less than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and tens of thousands of troops."

Arutai briefly introduced the situation of the three warat tribes and the Mongolian Great Khan at this time, Zhu Di said after hearing this: "I will seal you and the king of Ning, and let people build a mansion for you in Nanjing, after you go to Nanjing, I will allow you to leave two hundred guards, and your troops will be placed in Modong and Beiping, Liaodong, and Bohai." ”

"By the way, your money will be allocated according to 1,000 stone per year and 500 yuan."

Zhu Di proudly said the treatment he gave to Arutai, but it sounded extremely harsh to Arutai.

Yesterday, he would never have thought that he would become a prisoner in just one day.

It's just that it's too late to say anything now, and he can only pray that Alitai can make things bigger and give him a chance to return to Mobei.

Taking a deep breath, Arutai put on a smiling face: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your favor......"

"Uh-huh, stand down." Zhu Di waved his hand and asked Zhu Neng to withdraw from the big tent with Arutai.

After they left, Zhu Di stroked his beard, thinking about what Arutai had just said about the strength of Warat and Ghost Power.

According to what he knew about the Tatar situation before the war, if Alitai could gather the Tatar tribes, he would be able to pull out more than 200,000 troops and about 20,000 cavalry.

With such strength, even if Warat led 30,000 cavalry to fight him, he would be able to flee south and join himself.

But even so, I have to prepare early, and I have to clean up the Warat next time I go out.

Not only that, but the infiltration of Hami in the west has to be stepped up.

Judging from this encounter, the Tatar headquarters is indeed stronger than the strength of Uliangha, but it is not too outrageous.

The Ming army was able to win so easily, mainly because the terrain limited Arutai, and the coordination of arquebuses, spears, and field artillery was correct.

As soon as he thought of the cooperation of spears, arquebuses, artillery, and cavalry during the day, Zhu Di couldn't help but rub his beard and sighed: "Good thing......"

"Your Majesty, do you want to write good news to Your Highness?"

Wang Yan came up to ask, and Zhu Di immediately looked proud after hearing it:

"Naturally, I want to write, write beautifully, and let the second child see how his father and I fight!"

(End of chapter)