In Dingbian, Shaanxi, the main force of the East Route Army, an army of 80,000, faced off against the 20,000 troops of the Sunit tribe under Dayan Khan.
The battlefield took place in a relatively narrow valley area. Sunit's 20,000-strong army was preparing to loot Jingbian in the east, but was ambushed by Liu Yu's army, which had already been ambushing here.
Although Liu Yu is the kind of person who likes to climb up and will do whatever it takes to climb up, this time, he saw hope of climbing up.
Last year at Datong City Pass, he relied on the tall city wall built with cement to kill tens of thousands of Tatars. He had already received a commendation from Emperor Hongzhi and was expected to be promoted.
If we can lead the army on the east route and make great achievements this time, we will basically be sure of it, and there will be no problem in even being granted the title of Marquis.
What's more, this time there was a real silver reward. As the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army, he had an army of 100,000 and killed tens of thousands of Tatars. The reward was enough to last him a lifetime.
So for this reason, he was racking his brains, thinking hard about ways to deal with the grassland people, and his method was very simple, that is, to conduct an ambush in a place that was not conducive to the deployment of the Tatar cavalry.
In this area of Shaanxi, the terrain is relatively complicated. The Ming army had the advantage of telescopes. Liu Yu sent out many scout teams and soon discovered the 20,000 troops of the Sunit tribe. He figured out the movements of the Sunit tribe, so he also
This ambush was set up in this canyon.
At this time, in the long and narrow valley, the 20,000 horses of the Sunit tribe were walking very leisurely. They were numbed by the experience of looting southwards for many years.
Historically, the Ming army did not dare to fight them in the wild. Even when they were looting, these Ming soldiers only dared to stay in the tall city and let them loot the small towns.
Naturally, they have developed this arrogant mentality. In the wild, they can rest assured that the Ming army will never come out to fight them.
So even though they were in this narrow canyon, they were still very leisurely, without a trace of nervousness. They were talking and laughing with each other, talking about the colorful world of the Central Plains.
"Hmm~"
Suddenly, bursts of howls came from the mountains on both sides of the valley. Before they could react, a large number of stones rolled down from the mountains on both sides, and arrows fell like rain.
At the same time, there were countless Ming troops rushing down towards them with red eyes. They were all very fast, and they seemed to be scrambling for the first place, as if they were snatching food, for fear of losing.
"Ming Army!"
Hada, the leader of the Sunit tribe, instantly drew out the scimitar from his waist and roared: "Kill them!"
He didn't expect that the Ming army would dare to come out to fight with them, and he didn't expect that he would be ambushed. But it didn't matter. He didn't have to deal with the Ming army for a day or two. He knew very well how much combat power the Ming army had.
.
He has 20,000 brave warriors under his command, who can easily tear apart any enemy. In the wild, they have never been afraid of the Ming army.
Especially the Ming army in front of them looks no different from the farmers. Some of them even hold hoes. This is no different from dying. A group of farmers also want to defeat their own 20,000 warriors?
The two sides were like two turbulent waves, slapping together fiercely, instantly stirring up countless blood flowers.
The Ming army was not as weak and fearless as he imagined. Although the warriors under his command were still very brave, but this time, these Ming soldiers were extremely brave and fearless of death. Every one of them had blood-red eyes, as if they were desperate for their lives.
Rushed over.
Because it was in the canyon, there was no open area for the prairie cavalry to take advantage of their cavalry, so they couldn't use the cavalry at all.
The two sides soon became mixed up, and the battle became intense in an instant.
The prairie people on horseback soon discovered that without a speed advantage, riding on horseback was no different than committing suicide. Facing the Ming army, which was not afraid of death and had a numerical advantage, in the blink of an eye, the Tatars on the periphery
He was knocked off his horse and his head was cut off.
These Ming soldiers tied their heads to their waists, like demons, with blood all over their bodies, and continued to kill other grassland people.
These grassland people have never seen such a Ming army, and have never fought with such a fierce and fearless Ming army. These Ming soldiers seemed not to know what fear was, as if they had no fear.
They seem to be demons from hell, and they also seem to be cold machines.
No, it's not a machine. The more the Ming soldiers fought, the more excited they became. Especially those Ming soldiers with heads tied around their waists. Every one of them was extremely excited. The more they killed, the more energetic they became. There was no trace of any fear at all.
As for those Ming soldiers who had not snatched the heads, their eyes turned red, just like hungry wolves who had been robbed of their own food, and then they rushed towards the Tatars with red eyes.
"Are these Ming soldiers crazy?"
Hada looked at the scene in front of him and was dumbfounded. The Sunit warriors he was so proud of could not defeat the Ming army in front of him in the first time.
On the contrary, they were caught off guard by these Ming troops, and they felt a little bit blinded. The people on the periphery didn't even block the opponent's attack, and were knocked to pieces in the blink of an eye.
Moreover, the entire team of 20,000 people was cut open in the middle and turned into two groups surrounded. The red-eyed Ming army was very scary, with blood-red eyes.
He witnessed the scenes on the battlefield with his own eyes. The warriors under his command were very powerful, but their fists were no match for their four hands. They were stabbed to death with spears one after another.
He also saw with his own eyes that the heads of his warriors were beheaded by the Ming army. The Ming army who got the heads shouted happily and were extremely excited. They kept shouting "one hundred taels of silver" and "haha, again".
I got one hundred taels of silver, something like that.
"Kill~"
"Kill all these Ming troops~"
Hada kept roaring and led his bodyguards towards a group of Ming troops. He wanted to go to the battlefield in person. After fighting with the Ming troops all his life, this was the first time that he went on the battlefield in person.
Because this time, he always felt that something was wrong. This group of Ming troops was too unusual, too different, and too different from the Ming troops he had seen before.
The Ming army that he originally looked down upon, those Ming soldiers who were holding hoes, turned out to be extremely brave. The hoe in their hands was hoeing towards the heads of the prairie warriors. The prairie warriors were so helpless that they were hoed to death before their eyes.
He even saw someone going to the battlefield with a kitchen knife. The kitchen knife in his hand was very short, but it was very brave. Once he got close, he didn't have any plan at all. He just slashed at your head without caring at all.
Will he be chopped to death by your scimitar first?
"Kill~"
"One hundred taels of silver per head, but if it's too late, it will be gone and everyone will become someone else's food."
Such voices kept echoing among the Ming army, making the fighting Ming army's eyes even redder. With these words echoing in their minds, they fought with the grassland people without fear of death.
In just the blink of an eye, a strong smell of blood wafted through this small valley. On the ground, the blood flowing out slowly gathered into a stream. The land was blood red. There were corpses on the ground, and
The armies of both sides continued to fight fiercely.
In this battle, the sky was dark and the earth was dark, and the sun and the moon were eclipsed.
The killing continued from noon to evening.
Hada looked in disbelief at the Ming troops who came from all directions and killed them. These Ming troops were like demons from hell. Everyone had this head tied around their waist, and each of them had blood-red eyes and looked at them with cold eyes.
There were only a few hundred people left around him, and all the more than 20,000 warriors were here, and none of them escaped. No matter how Hada broke out, he never broke out and was tightly surrounded.
And as time went by, more and more Ming troops besieged him as they fought to the rear. Now, the movement on the surrounding battlefield is getting smaller and smaller, and more and more Ming troops have gathered.
He was completely in despair. He never thought that he would lose to the Ming army in the wild, even though the place was a canyon, which was not conducive to the deployment of cavalry.
Even though the Ming army had a numerical advantage, four times his own strength, he still could not accept this and such a defeat.
He was defeated, completely defeated. All the 20,000 Sunit warriors he brought were gone. Even he himself was about to become a head on the waist of these Ming troops.
"Kill~"
Along with a roar, the surrounding Ming troops came to kill again. Although the warriors around them were extremely brave, they could not stop this huge crowd of people. What's more, the surrounding Ming troops were still a group of hungry wolves, and they were all rushing to rush in.
Come up.
In just a blink of an eye, hundreds of people around him fell down and became heads on the waists of these Ming soldiers.
"Ah~"
Hada picked up the scimitar in his hand and rushed towards a Ming army with all his strength. But before he arrived, the opponent threw a bag of quicklime into Hada's face. He was blinded instantly, and then there was a sharp pain in his body, and he immediately lost it.
Awareness.
"Haha~ I grabbed the last head."
The Ming army who had snatched Hada's head was so excited that they chopped off his head and screamed at the people around him.
"Immediately report to the capital from eight hundred miles away. Our east-route army will destroy 20,000 Tatars in a single battle at Dingbian!"
Liu Yu, who was on a high mountain, witnessed this battle with his own eyes. When the last Tatar was killed, he immediately gave instructions to the people around him.
Soon, a messenger sent the written victory report towards the capital.
"Kill twenty thousand enemies!"
"Still in the wild, this is something I never dared to think about before. Sure enough, money can make all the difference!"
Liu Yu looked at the Ming army cleaning the battlefield in the valley below and couldn't help but sigh.