Chapter 2, Section 12, Decisive Battle of Tongbai 136

The fog went away, when it was dark, the army had arrived five miles outside Tongbai Town, Ren Tianqi ordered the whole army to dismount and rest, camp on the spot, and prepare for a decisive battle with the Wanyan Fuqing rebels after dawn. The generals repeatedly asked to wait for the next army to come before the decisive battle.

Ren Tianqi refused, and said: "Our army is thriving, although it has gone through all kinds of hardships along the way, it is high-spirited, the fighting spirit is strong, and the spirit can be continued and cannot be discharged; and the enemy's morale is low, and there is no danger to rely on, there is no help to ask for, it has become a source of water, a soulless corpse, it is not enough to be afraid, our army can rush to defeat the enemy army in one go, and seize the road, this battle is not a confrontation, it is intended to relieve the siege of the imperial city, and the merit is greater than saving the driver! Destroy the remnants of the rebel army and leave the hundreds of thousands of iron horsemen of the old prince!"

In the middle of the night, the fog rose again, and a detachment of men and horses came to attack the camp on the right side of the outgoing sentinel, about 5,000 people, silently.

Ren Tianqi hurriedly ordered the whole army to mount and prepare to meet the enemy's attack on the camp.

As soon as the two sides looked at each other, each with a knife and a gun, they were about to fight.

Hearing that the other party's general was loudly issuing orders in Mongolian, Shaur hurriedly ventured forward to check, and the person who came was originally 5,000 Mongolian Tatar troops under the leadership of the leader Hu Litu to rush to the aid of Ren Tianqi, so the two sides joined forces. Ren Tianqi was very happy, and he and his brother suddenly drank and talked happily, and agreed on a strategy to break the enemy.

At dawn, the fog had not gone, and both sides took advantage of the dense fog to beat drums and set up formations, preparing for battle.

Ren Tianqi led 3,000 Tiger Guards and 1,000 heavy armored troops in the center, 5,000 Mongolian Tatar cavalry on the left, 4,000 Mongolian soldiers on the right, 3,000 ironclad troops, light archers on the left, gunners on the right, and 2,000 heavy archers lined up behind. Behind the heavy archers were nearly 20,000 cavalry, divided into four phalanxes of 4,000 men on the left, center, right and rear.

The heavy archers of the Xuzhou soldiers are particularly powerful, each person has a wooden bow and crossbow, can fire five arrows in a row, and can also fire arrows or thunderbolts, when firing people sit on the ground or horseback, one foot or two feet are drawn by hand, can shoot arrows 500 steps away, and send thunderbolts 300 steps away, while the common light archers can only shoot 15 to 200 steps away. This time the army went north, Ren Tianqi not only brought arrow feathers and thunderbolts, but also brought a lot of arrow feathers soaked in fire oil.

At noon, it is said that it is like a sword pulling the clouds, the sun is shining, the birds outside the town are singing and the flowers are fragrant, and the eyes are youthful and beautiful.

Outside Tongbai Town, the two armies faced each other in the green field. In front of the Xuzhou soldiers, three big black flags were raised, one side was embroidered with the words "Imperial Seal Expedition to the General of Peking University", the middle side was embroidered with the words "Xuzhou Ren", and the words "Black Water Ghost" were embroidered on this side. Ren Tianqi brought fourteen masked people, and each lined up.

The rebel army of more than 50,000 people lined up on the opposite side, with 3,000 archers in the front, 5,000 ironclad and horse soldiers in the back, 20,000 cavalry in the back, 10,000 infantry in the middle, and finally 20,000 infantry in the rear. Wanyan Fuqing led the rebel generals to watch.

The two generals each looked at each other's formations on their horses, pointing and pointing.

Ma Benqing led the order to come to the middle of the two armies with a small white flag and said in a loud voice: "Wanyan old general, my general specially ordered me to come to greet and ask the old general if he has anything to say? Is it to start a war immediately, or the old general will put down his sword and gun and strike the army twice!"

Wan Yan Fuqing looked up to the sky and laughed, and said, "The old man thanked himself for his kindness. At this point, it is useless to say more. The old man has nothing to say, so it's up to God to decide. Please tell your general, please fight to the death after the three drums, and besides, if the old father wins, he will never embarrass your general, and let himself go south!"

Ma Benqing returned to the team.

In front of Ren Tianqi's horse, he issued a loud order, and all the generals also returned to their own teams. Fourteen people, including the black and white double eagle, surrounded Ren Tianqi.

After the three drums of the other rebel army sounded, they slowly pressed over. Seeing that the rebels had crossed the middle line, the opponent's archers shrank into three pieces on the left, middle and right to release arrows to cover the charge of the ironclad army, and the 20,000 horse army had already run up in the shape of two arrows after the 5,000 ironclad horse army, and the 30,000 infantry army behind was already in the middle 10,000 with the horse army forward, and the last 20,000 stretched out to the two wings, wanting to run in the shape of wings.

Ren Tianqi raised his hand, and as soon as the two thousand archers let go, ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and a large number of opponents' arrow arrays fell; Ren Tianqi raised his hand for the second time, and one thousand people loaded with arrow feathers, and one thousand people decorated with fire oil arrow feathers, and ten thousand arrows were fired at once, and there were few rebel archers left.

The enemy ironclad army has charged rapidly. Ren Tianqi immediately raised the halberd, and the two thousand heavily armed archers were equipped with arrow feathers, pulled the bow on one leg, and raised the crossbow to the sky. A burst of rockets flew, and another burst of rockets, and the rebel ironclad army suddenly burst into flames, and there was chaos for a while. After all, the ironclad army was the most elite army in the Jin country, and the 5,000 ironclad army was still howling and dragging smoke in the shape of a silk to take the Xuzhou army, and the 20,000 cavalry behind were also outflanked from both sides. The rebels' intentions are obvious, capture the thief and capture the king first, and want to eat the thousands of Xuzhou soldiers in one fell swoop with 25,000 horse troops.

Gong Ming immediately shouted: "Ready, release!" All the archers and gunners loaded with arrows. The two thousand heavy archers also dismounted, and their legs were bowed. Suddenly, the arrows on the side of the Xuzhou soldiers were like flying locusts, arrows and feathers in the sky, and thunderbolts.

20,000 rebel light cavalry suffered heavy losses.

Seeing that the remaining rebel ironclad army was less than a hundred steps away from the front, Ren Tianqi whistled, the front army rushed out, and met in three ways, the archers and gunners retreated, and the four teams of cavalry stepped forward to protect and slowly pressed up. Ren Tianqi led 4,000 troops to meet head-on, intercepted the rebel horse army to fight, and besieged the rebels, but the Mongolian troops on both sides flew straight to both sides, straight to the infantry behind the rebels, and attacked from behind the rebels. Ren Tianqi's strategy was to drag all the cavalry of the rebels with his own 4,000 soldiers, and slowly encircle and stabilize the position with the long-range shooting of the Sanzhou soldiers accompanied by bows and arrows;

Wan Yan Fuqing underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Xuzhou tiger and wolf soldiers, and also underestimated the ability of the black water ghost, although Wan Yan Fuqing made a big arrangement for the fast horse penetration ability of the Xuzhou soldiers: the archers can shoot one, the abducted horse army can block the Xuzhou soldiers' soldiers, and then fight against the 20,000 horse army, and the rest will be solved by the infantry army. Unexpectedly, everything was not as he hoped, and he did not expect that the Xuzhou soldiers were so brave, the archers were so powerful, and the Mongolian army exceeded 10,000.

In less than an afternoon, the two sides tore apart, and the court here continued to have follow-up troops to join the battle, and the rebels were gone, in addition to thousands of rebels fleeing, 50,000 rebels were killed and wounded, and the Wanyan Fuqing brothers were also killed.

Ren Tianqi ordered the whole army to clean up the battlefield and count the losses:

There are only more than 600 people left in the 3,000 Wanyan Iron Armor Army;

Of the 4,000 Mongols, only 2,700 remained;

3,000 Tiger Guards, 1,000 heavily armored horse troops, and less than 1,000 remaining;

There are more than 3,000 people in the Tatar Ministry;

All archers, gunners did not suffer much loss;

More than half of the soldiers in the three states were killed or wounded;

Nearly 20,000 soldiers were killed, more than 50,000 were killed, and more than 1,000 were captured.

Ren Tianqi rode a horse to inspect the battlefield, saw that most of the Xuzhou soldiers were killed and wounded, and the cry shook the sky, thinking of the Xuzhou soldiers going north this time, the elite losses were exhausted, thinking of the hard-won army, thinking of how to protect themselves in the future, and unconsciously crying loudly. Suddenly, Ren Tianqi laughed again, spat out several mouthfuls of blood, and fell off the horse and fainted.

Frightened, the generals hurriedly stepped forward to help them up and carried them into a private house. After a long time, Ren Tianqi woke up in Dongfang Bai's arms, looked at the generals in front of him, and gently ordered: "Avenge the dead brothers, leave no one behind, kill them all!"

The army did not stop going north because Ren Tianqi was unwell, and still rushed to the capital, and received more than 60,000 reinforcements from all over the country along the way. At noon the next day, he rushed to the capital and surrounded the rebels.

The remaining 30,000 rebels saw that they were cornered, and after killing Yan Furen, they all disarmed and surrendered. After Ren Tianqi ordered all the rebels to be guarded by the Mongol soldiers, Fang set up a large camp outside the imperial city.

Seeing that the rebels had been controlled and no longer showing a trend of flooding, Lord Jin was very happy, and was busy sending orders to recruit the general of Peking University into the city, but when he heard that Ren Tianqi was sick on the bed, he hurriedly sent envoys and imperial doctors to visit with a large amount of property.

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