Chapter 420 The overall situation has been decided [1 more]
The armies of the two sides collided together. If the Ming side had a clear purpose, the Tatar army, which numbered nearly 70,000, was in chaos.
You must know that these are a total of 70,000 Tatar cavalry. If the cavalry is running in this wilderness, once they charge into the formation, they will be absolutely overwhelming. Even if there are 100,000 or 200,000 infantry, they will not be able to defeat them.
May be his opponent.
However, Balsborough was too careless and did not pay attention to his own safety. He fell into the hands of Chu Yi just before the battle, which directly caused the Tatar crowd to be leaderless. When faced with the siege of the Ming Dynasty soldiers and horses, the Tatars each
The tribe and the various captains fell into chaos.
Even though these Tatar leaders knew that they should unite together at this time, they usually followed Balsborough's orders and orders, and rarely cooperated.
The 100,000 Tatar army brought by Balsbrot was made up of dozens of tribes on the grassland. It is conceivable that in this case, if there is no leader who can suppress everyone below,
If so, just the leaders of dozens of tribes may be dissatisfied with each other and cause chaos in the army.
At present, the Tatar army is not completely in chaos when faced with the siege of the Ming army. This is already the result of the efforts of these leaders to control the situation.
It's a pity that some of these people want to take advantage of the chaos to break out of the siege, while others are clamoring to teach the Ming army a lesson. Some want to fight, while others want to escape. The results can be imagined.
In the midst of the army, Chu Yi was riding on a horse, with thousands of soldiers standing around him. Even in the midst of a battle between the armies, he remained motionless. He could be said to be the elite among the elite.
Balsbrot was already tied up now, and he was a Tatar prince after all. Chu Yi did not humiliate him, but asked Balsbrot to sit on the horse.
At this moment, Chu Yi was located at a high altitude, and from a high position he could see almost the entire battlefield.
Of course, at most, most of them can be seen. After all, there are more than 200,000 troops from both sides fighting each other within a radius of more than ten miles.
Even if Chu Yi is extremely capable, he still cannot truly control the overall situation.
Although I can't see the subtleties, I can still see the overall situation. Chu Yi can clearly see who is benefiting from the general trend, aside from other things.
Balsbort on the side also saw clearly, especially when he saw that the Tatar cavalry had lost its advantage and fell into the encirclement of Ming soldiers.
Originally, when the cavalry charged into battle, they were fearless even when faced with several times the number of enemies. They could even take away the lives of many infantrymen in a single charge.
But now these cavalrymen seemed to be stuck in a swamp one by one. The infantry around them were like a tidal wave. On the contrary, the Tatar cavalrymen riding on the tall horses seemed to be targets one by one.
When Balsborot saw this situation, his eyes were full of annoyance and regret. If he had known this, he would never have been able to face Chu Yi alone, and as a result, he fell into the hands of the Tatars killed by Chu Yi.
The army is leaderless.
Chu Yi's eyes fell on Balsbrot and said: "Prince Balsbort, can the combat prowess of my soldiers of the Ming Dynasty still be worthy of the prince's attention?"
In Balsbrot's view, this was Chi Guoguo's showing off. Balsbrot couldn't help but stare at Chu Yi fiercely and said: "Eunuch, don't be proud, my warrior of Changshengtian will not give in..."
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Chu Yi smiled slightly and said: "I hope it is as you said, Prince Bals!"
Cheng Xiangwu, Lu Dazhu and others led the army to charge into the Tatar army. The Tatar cavalry, which was usually quite troublesome, were now like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Back in the capital, Cheng Xiangwu once led the tens of thousands of cavalry gathered by the capital out of the city to contain the Tatars and buy time for Chu Yi.
You must know that Cheng Xiangwu only brought tens of thousands of cavalry out of the city, but after several melees, the tens of thousands of cavalry were eventually left with only more than 6,000 people, and more than 3,000 people were killed in the battle.
However, after several battles, the soldiers brought by Cheng Xiangwu grew up rapidly. After all, in the midst of the killing, if they cannot grow up rapidly, there will only be one result, and that is death.
Therefore, when Cheng Xiangwu came this time, he brought with him thousands of cavalrymen who had survived bloody battles.
Of course, there were about 6,000 cavalrymen left when they left Beijing, but now there were only about 5,000 left, and more than a thousand people died fighting the Tatar cavalry along the way.
After all, facing Cheng Xiangwu's hundreds of thousands of troops following him all the way, it was impossible for the Tatars such as Balsbrot to pretend they didn't see it and try to deal with the Ming army more than once.
It's a pity that Cheng Xiangwu was too cautious. He had always set up camp and even sent out sentries dozens of miles away. Whenever the Tatars had the slightest sign of trouble, the hundreds of thousands of troops led by Cheng Xiangwu would gather together like an insurmountable enemy.
Hedgehogs usually give Tatars a headache.
The Tatars also gave up dealing with Cheng Xiangwu and other large armies after several trials and finally failed. Otherwise, how could they have allowed Cheng Xiangwu to lead the army to follow behind them.
Originally, Balsborot and other Tatars did not take the army led by Cheng Xiangwu seriously, but now, the hundreds of thousands of troops brought by Cheng Xiangwu made the Tatars suffer a lot.
If it is just the more than 20,000 troops brought by Chu Yi, to be honest, even if Balsbrot was captured by Chu Yi, resulting in poor internal command of the Tatars and chaos in the army, a mere 20,000 troops are still really
The fundamentals of the Tatar people cannot be touched.
But if we add the hundreds of thousands of troops brought by Cheng Xiangwu, the consequences will be different.
The Tatars were surrounded by soldiers who were twice as many as the Tatars. The army fought in a melee. They fought from noon to dusk. The battle still did not stop.
By this time, the Tatar high-level leaders had actually reached a consensus and even elected a leader. However, at this time, the Tatar people were already severely weakened.
Originally, nearly 70,000 Tatar soldiers had been fighting for most of the day. By this time, there were about 40,000 soldiers still capable of fighting.
From the 100,000-strong army that the Tatars invaded when they invaded to only about 40,000 troops now, it only took a little more than two months. The Tatars had lost more than half of their troops. This was already a serious loss of vitality.
Even if they can return to the grassland, I am afraid that the various tribes on the grassland have suffered such heavy losses, and the grassland will inevitably fall into chaos.
On the grasslands, the strong are respected, but this will not change. During this invasion, many tribes were either destroyed directly, or the warriors in the tribes suffered heavy casualties. The direct consequence was that the tribes have been unable to recover since then.
Therefore, even if these Tatars were able to escape back to the grassland, the first thing they would do would not be to take revenge on the Ming Dynasty, but more likely to initiate annexation among various tribes.
Of course, the premise is that these Tatar soldiers can return to the grassland. If they cannot escape this disaster, then everything is over.
As night gradually fell, Chu Yi sighed slightly. In the night, it was obvious that the war could no longer continue for both the Ming and the Tatars.
There was a sound of ringing gold, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who had been frantically besieging the Tatars suddenly retreated like a tidal wave.
The Tatars couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the Ming soldiers retreating.
In the big tent
Chu Yi was sitting in the middle, and in the big tent, dozens of figures were filled with evil aura, and many generals' faces were filled with excitement. It can be seen how much these people killed during the day.
happy.
Cheng Xiangwu, Lu Dazhu and others all looked at Chu Yi who was sitting there eagerly.
The reason why they were able to attack the Tatars this time was because Chu Yi unexpectedly captured Balsbrot.
Cheng Xiangwu looked at Chu Yi and said: "General Manager, the overall situation has been decided. The Tatars have no wings to fly. Everything is given by the General Manager. If the news of victory reaches the capital, the whole country will be shocked, and the General Manager will leave his name in history."
, shining through the ages.”
Lu Dazhu stroked his beard and looked around at the generals in the big tent and said with a smile: "The General Manager's name will be remembered in history, and we will definitely be like the General Manager, and our name will be remembered in history, hahaha..."
When the generals heard this, their faces were full of excitement.
If the Tatar army of nearly 100,000 people was wiped out in one battle, it would be a strange thing if it did not go down in history.
Everyone looked at Chu Yi eagerly. Anyone who was not a fool would have thought that thanks to Chu Yi's gift, all the soldiers and generals who participated in this battle would be promoted to high positions and rise to great heights soon.
But for this battle, the imperial court may have to use several marquises and a dozen earls to reward meritorious soldiers. As for other titles, it may cost hundreds.
This is the case with soldiers. They will believe whoever has a strong fist, and they will listen to whoever can lead them to military glory.
It can be said that most of the soldiers who participated in the battle were soldiers of the Beijing camp. If Chu Yi previously controlled the Beijing camp by relying on the evil reputation spread and the free money, then after this battle, Chu Yi can be regarded as
Completely controlled the morale of the army.
Chu Yi nodded slightly, glanced at the crowd and said: "Everyone, please don't forget that the Tatars still have tens of thousands of troops. Only by annihilating these Tatars will this battle be considered complete."
Cheng Xiangwu laughed and said: "General Manager, don't worry. Now our army of more than 100,000 has surrounded the Tatars within a radius of several miles. We can decide the battle with only Tianming."
The other generals also nodded their heads one by one. This battle was really a thrilling battle. As for whether they will be able to annihilate all the Tatars after dawn, to be honest, these generals are very confident.
