When the Ming army appeared, the Tatars were all shocked...
"Hurry up, don't let them attack halfway!" Shi Nigan, who was the first to react, shouted loudly. The Tatars also knew that once the Ming army broke through the front army, the army would be completely finished! The situation was extremely urgent.
, the Tatars finally burst out with the bravery hidden in their blood, and regardless of their superiority, they mounted their horses one after another and followed Sunirgan to face the enemy!
But at this moment, the situation of the Tatars is really extremely bad. The army has been marching at super intensity all day and night. The people and horses are extremely exhausted. Many people are lying in the grass, snoring like thunder. No matter how loud the noise is, they can't wake them up. The people who are awake are not having a good time either.
General fatigue is another factor. The key is to keep running for your life without regrouping. You are huddled together like headless flies. Suddenly you find that the enemy is coming. You can't find the general, you can't find the soldiers, and you can't even find the weapons and horses.
Can't find any!
As a result, 20,000 Tatars had already crossed the river. In a hurry, only more than a thousand people found their horses and weapons, and followed Sunirgan and the nobles to meet the enemy.
Of course, those 19,000 people may not just be unable to find war horses and weapons, but simply do not want to die...
The Ming army arrived in a blink of an eye, and the Mongolian soldiers of the Four Guards Battalion were all on horseback with bows and arrows. They grew up on horses and were skilled in bows and horses since childhood. Even the Han cavalry could not catch up with them. But the Han cavalry was equipped with crossbows.
And there are also specially modified muskets suitable for cavalry!
As soon as they entered the shooting range, the Ming army fired their bows and crossbows, and their muskets roared! Fierce firepower poured in, and the Tatars fell to the ground like cattails destroyed by the wind!
The Tatars were all stunned. They had never seen such terrifying lethality. They saw that more than a thousand people rushing in front were destroyed in half at once, and their horses were turned upside down, with dead and injured everywhere...
Immediately afterwards, the Ming army attacked again, with another round of crossbows and muskets roaring. This time the distance between the two armies was closer, and the damage was naturally greater! The remaining five or six hundred people were all killed...
Shi Nigan and the Tatar nobles were horrified to find that they were on the front line, with the Ming army approaching within dozens of steps in front of them!
When the Ming army raised their muskets and crossbows again, the Tatars' souls fled from head to toe. The bloody courage evaporated in an instant with cold sweat, and there was only one word left in each of their minds - escape!
"Can't retreat!" Shi Nigan waved his weapon and shouted anxiously: "The army behind is crossing the river!"
However, it was of no use. The Tatars were all turned into headless flies. Whether they were noble nobles or ordinary Tatar soldiers, they all mounted their horses and fled back. No one paid attention to him at all!
Shi Nigan looked desperately at the Ming army rushing forward, waiting to be shot by their muskets. However, the Ming army did not fire bows and arrows anymore, but picked up the horse-killing sword!
Shi Nigan's soldiers quickly grabbed his horse's reins, turned around and ran away. At that moment, Shi Nigan's heart suddenly realized that the Ming army could only shoot two rounds. In other words, the Ming army could only fire two rounds.
Now, it’s just a bluff...
Unfortunately, it was too late to say anything now. He glanced at his own soldiers who had been defeated, and then looked back at the overwhelming Ming army that was sweeping in. He knew that the situation was over and the gods could not save him. Shi Nigan swallowed hard and quickly focused his thoughts on
Escape for your life...
As Shi Nigan said, the Tatar army cannot retreat because half a mile behind them is the Tabu River. The river is still full of people and horses crossing the river like crucian carp crossing the river. Those who have just landed have not yet
After understanding the situation, he collided with the fleeing troops and horses, and the situation was extremely chaotic!
The Ming army had already entered the Tatar formation, waving their sabers and mercilessly harvesting the lives of the Tatars! The vast majority of the Tatars turned their backs to the Ming army and were hacked to death.
Cutting melons and vegetables is even easier! There are even some people who are extremely sleepy. When they hear the sound of fighting, they think they are dreaming. In a daze, they are trampled by horse hooves. Immediately, their intestines are pierced, their brains are burst, and they die.
Extremely useless...
The encirclement of the Ming army was getting smaller and smaller, and the Tatars were constantly being squeezed and had no place to stand by the river. There were also Tatars who tried to organize themselves and desperately tried to break out to both sides of the river, but this section was less than half a mile from the river bank.
, surrounded by the Ming army with three layers inside, three layers outside, and three layers in the middle, they were surrounded like iron and impenetrable. How could these small groups of Tatar troops have any possibility of escape? They were all like moths rushing into the fire, and were annihilated on the spot by the Ming army.
, no one can escape!
Seeing this, the remaining Tatars had no choice but to jump into the river... Almost none of the Tatars were accustomed to water. Those on horseback were better off, but most of the Tatars were in confusion and did not even get on their horses.
He fled to the river on his two legs, and was driven into the rushing river in a daze...
Stirred by the cold river water, the Tatars who had been killed and stunned suddenly realized that they couldn't swim at all! They quickly used their hands and feet to jump on the water!
In the Tabu River, there have never been so many landlubbers flopping together, but if they flop a few times, they can learn to swim, and no one will drown... Countless Tatars flopped a few times, and then sank into the water.
Some of them were lucky enough to catch the compatriots on horseback, and they immediately refused to let go as if they were grasping a life-saving straw.
The water quality of Mongolian horses is mediocre, and the river is very fast. Carrying a person across the river is extremely dangerous. If a person pulls its hind legs in the water, it can no longer support itself, and the horse sinks into the water. The person riding the horse is shocked.
, hurriedly roared to ask the people in the water to let go, but how could the people in the water listen? No matter how hard they were punched or kicked, they refused to let go, slowing down the other party. This delay didn't matter, more and more hands grabbed him.
Come here, pull the men and horses and sink into the water together...
Scenes like this can be seen everywhere on the river. The result of you pulling me is that no one can cross the river. The Tatar army has packed the river like dumplings, but only a few can escape ashore...
At this time, the Tatars on the north bank of the river were basically eliminated, and the remaining small groups were divided and surrounded. It was only a matter of time before they were all wiped out. The main force of the Ming army came to the river and saw densely packed Tatars on the wide river.
Everyone was dumbfounded for a moment. None of them had ever seen such a scene...
It was the Mongolian soldiers from the Fourth Guard Camp who came simply and without hesitation took down their bows and arrows and shot the Tatars in the river. Contrary to popular belief, it was not the Han soldiers who hated the Tatars the most.
It's these Mongols who came from the grassland.
This is actually easy to understand. Most of the Han soldiers were born in the late years of Hongwu or even the early years of Yongle. They were born in an era when the Han army was at its peak and swept across the wilderness. In their impression, the Mongols have always been the defeated generals of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, these bandits
Hateful, but far more than hateful.
Most of the Mongolians in the Four Guards Camp were forced to leave their homes and grasslands by the Tatars and Oaras. The jungle was a place where the strong preyed on the weak, and the Tatars' hands were stained with the blood of their tribesmen. They dreamed of returning from the counterattack.
One day, I wish I could tear the Tatars apart and eat their flesh. How could I miss this great opportunity for revenge now?
"What are you doing here, you fools!" Liu Sheng caught up and saw that only the Mongolian officers and soldiers were shooting at the Tatars in the river, while the Han soldiers were just watching like geese. He was so angry that Anyuan Hou jumped into a rage and waved his hand.
The horse whip whipped the officers and soldiers, and roared: "Three years ago, these Tatars were at the Tru River, but they did not put down their butcher knives just because our Ming army jumped into the river!"
The Han soldiers woke up from a dream, quickly strung their crossbows, charged their muskets, and started shooting on the river. The Tatars struggled helplessly in the Tabu River. Most of them had their backs to the Ming army, and they were densely packed, and they were all people. They shot and killed them.
It's not difficult at all. It's not a battle at all, it's just an easy and bloody massacre...
There were also Tatars who knew they had no way to escape, so they turned their heads and looked at the Ming army imploringly, and loudly begged them for mercy.
But the massacre had already begun, and no one could stop it. The Ming army's arrows and projectiles poured down like raindrops, and the screams on the river shook the sky. The blood had already dyed the river water into an almost blackish dark red...
Anyuanhou became even more angry and continued to whip his soldiers violently, yelling: "Idiots, shoot those who are about to land!"
Upon hearing the order, the soldiers of the Ming army quickly raised their guns and started shooting at the Tatars who were approaching the other side. The Tapu River was nearly a hundred paces wide at this season, which was the shooting range of the Ming army's muskets and bows!
Those lucky Tatars had already arrived at the river bank. And on the river bank, the anxious faces and outstretched hands of the compatriots...
As long as you go a little further, you can escape and ascend to heaven!
Unexpectedly, before they had time to rejoice, the Ming army's gunfire and bullets suddenly came over. The soldiers who were about to land were hit by bullets and arrows one after another. Almost no one was spared. The joyful expressions at the previous moment were frozen in their faces forever before they had time to dissipate.
superior……
The Tatars who were preparing to respond on the south bank also suffered disaster. Many were injured by the Ming army's arrows and fell into the river screaming. The rest were so frightened that they quickly retreated out of the Ming army's range and no longer cared about the river.
My comrade...
The Tatars in the river are now in a desperate situation with no way to the sky and no way to the earth. The other side has been blocked by the firepower belt of the Ming army. Turning back, the butcher knife of the Ming army is waiting. Drifting along the river is a dead end.
——The reason why the Ming army was able to conclude that Arutai would cross the river here was because it was the place with the widest water surface and the slowest and shallowest water flow within dozens of miles nearby. In the past section, the river suddenly narrowed, and the water flow would
If the turbulence doubles, the depth of the water will double, and everyone will drown.
This massacre lasted for two full hours before the Ming army slaughtered all the Tatar troops in the river. On the south bank of the river, Abu'an's troops saw that the situation was hopeless. Halfway through the massacre, they led the troops who had not yet crossed the river.
He fled eastward along the river.
In this battle, the Ming army outnumbered 40,000 to 40,000, and only suffered less than 100 casualties. They annihilated 20,000 elite Tatar cavalry, which is known in history as the "Victory of the Tapu River". In the same way, the Ming army retaliated with an arrow from the Tru River.