Looking at the sword coming towards him, Tu Tai swung his sword to block it.
With a clang, the weapons collided.
Seeing that the enemy commander was alone and deep in the enemy's territory, the Mongols around him immediately urged their horses to surround and try to kill Li Xingzhong in battle.
Li Xingzhong's two hundred personal soldiers rushed forward to rescue him without regard for their lives.
The supporting cavalry followed closely behind.
The two sides once again engaged in a positional battle.
As the attack was blocked, the Ming cavalry was forced to stop the charge.
Seeing this, the Mongolian cavalry on the periphery circled behind the Ming army, quietly surrounded them, and launched an attack.
The attack in front was blocked and the rear was surrounded.
The situation of the Ming army is not optimistic.
Looking at the Mongolian military flags waving around him, Li Xingzhong knew that he was surrounded.
But he was not panicked at all because he believed in the fighting ability of these soldiers.
Bang!
The reloaded three-barreled gun spewed out flames again, and the Mongolian cavalry standing in front of Tutai were either killed or injured.
Bang!
The second three-barreled gun fired bullets at Tutai himself.
The armor on Tutai's body was pierced by the bullet, and the hot lead bullet penetrated into his flesh, causing him to scream in pain.
After firing their guns, the Ming army immediately charged forward, wielding their three-barreled guns.
Under the swing and smash of the three-barreled gun, the Ming army cut a bloody path through the crowd.
"Die!" A Ming soldier took advantage of the chaos to come in front of Tu Tai and swung his sword.
The tip of the knife scratched Tutai's cheek. Before he could shout, another Ming soldier seized the opportunity and stabbed his sword into his armpit.
There is no armor protection here, and the sharp tip of the knife pierces directly into the chest cavity.
Jingtutai, the flag officer in charge of the Chahar tribe, lowered his head with difficulty to look at Xiongqi, then raised his head with difficulty to look at the murderer.
Finally, he fell off his horse unwillingly.
This Ming army achieved the achievement of beheading a general!
"Kill!" The dozen or so Ming soldiers who witnessed all this burst out with a momentum that only hundreds of people could muster.
They rushed towards the nearest enemy as if they were injected with chicken blood.
The first to fall were the Mongolian flag bearers.
He was hit by two arrows in the face, his body was covered with knife marks, and he was shot in the chest and stomach by a firearm. He died a very tragic death.
Not only him, but even the warhorse under his crotch was affected and shot into a big hedgehog by arrows from the Ming army.
As the central army's flag fell, the Mongolian cavalry began to collapse.
The Mongolian army was a tribal system, and once the commander died, the remaining ordinary soldiers had no fighting spirit.
"The flag bearer is dead, everyone run!"
"Rob the body. You can make a fortune if you take his body back!"
"It's too late. Run quickly. You can earn money but not spend it! If you don't run now, you will become a ghost under the knife of the Ming army."
Under the pursuit of the Ming army, the Mongolian cavalry fled in all directions.
Although the Mongolian cavalry's individual equipment was poor, their horsemanship was superb.
Under their control, the horses were as agile as loaches. Thousands of cavalrymen first broke up into small groups on the battlefield, then regrouped and fled after running far away.
Li Xingzhong only gave a symbolic pursuit and then hastily withdrew his troops.
You must never pursue rashly without knowing the surrounding situation, otherwise you may easily be ambushed and wiped out.
In the evening, the Ming army cleaned up the battlefield.
"Your Excellency the General, the number of enemies killed in this battle should be around 550, but most of the bodies were taken away by the Mongols. Only more than 30 corpses and over a hundred war horses were left on the battlefield." The soldier came to Li Xingzhong to report the results of the battle.
"I understand," Li Xingzhong smiled bitterly and shook his head.
It is so difficult to gain military merit from the Mongols!
"Are there any prisoners?" Li Xingzhong suddenly asked.
"There are four or five wounded prisoners!"
"Detain them separately. I want to question them one by one."
"Yes, sir."
A quarter of an hour later, Li Xingzhong came to a prisoner.
As a descendant of a military family in Liaodong, he naturally spoke some Mongolian.
After a brief thought, Li Xingzhong asked, "How far is your camp from here?"
The Chahar cavalry seemed to have no backbone and answered directly: "It is about 200 miles northeast of here."
"Have you asked the Jiannu for help?" Li Xingzhong asked again.
"have no idea."
"What else do you know?"
"I'll tell you everything I know..."
After listening to the cavalryman's account, Li Xingzhong questioned other prisoners and got the same answer.
After the others left, Tang Tong asked Li Xingzhong in a low voice: "What should we do next?"
"Send the food and grass to He Jin first, and then we'll talk about it after we join forces with him."
"This is the only way. The Chahar tribe does have too many troops. We will have a chance of winning only if we join forces." Tang Tong had no idea and could only nod in agreement.
The next morning, Li Xingzhong led the cavalry ahead, while Tang Tong continued to escort the remaining food and grass northward.
In the evening of that day, Cha Binxun led 4,000 cavalrymen to catch up with Tang Tong.
The next morning, Cha Binxun left first like Li Xingzhong.
In the evening, Li Shunzu led 5,000 cavalrymen to catch up with Tang Tong.
This time, Li Shunzu did not go ahead, but escorted Tang Tong for half a day to the abandoned Chahan Naoerwei.
This place is three hundred miles away from the Great Wall and can barely be considered deep into the grassland.
Inside the military tent, He Jin was reporting the battle situation to Li Xingzhong.
Li Xingzhong was the commander-in-chief of this expedition to the grassland, and all war matters had to be reported to him.
Tang Tong, Li Shunzu, Zha Binxun, Gao Yigong, Liu Tichun, Ma Shiyao and others were on the left and right.
"Reporting to General Li, after entering the grassland, my troops encountered a large tribe, a medium-sized tribe, and three small tribes. We fought more than a dozen battles with them and never lost a single one!"
"Although we killed only more than a thousand enemies, we captured a thousand war horses and nearly several thousand livestock. In addition, there were hundreds of elderly people, women and children." He Jin said calmly.
"Good, great job!" Li Xingzhong said with a smile, "I have already checked before dark, the number is correct, I will definitely commend you when I return!"
"Thank you, General Li!" He Jin took the lead in expressing his gratitude.
"Thank you, General Li!" Gao Yigong and other surrendered generals followed suit to express their gratitude.
After surrendering, one must make achievements in order to gain the trust of the court so that his future career can be bright.
But you can’t just report your achievements whenever you want. You need someone to guarantee it and report it.
Now that Li Xingzhong is willing to provide a guarantee, it means he wants to win them over.
This is undoubtedly good news for these surrendered generals.
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