When the little Tatar prince was beheaded by Zhu Gaojie on his own, the Tatar army, which was already in chaos, collapsed instantly.
Countless Tatar soldiers threw down their swords, knelt on the bloody battlefield, and raised their hands to surrender directly to the charging Ming soldiers.
On the one hand, they had been frightened by the fierce offensive of the Shenji Battalion and suffered heavy casualties.
On the other hand, even their own leader was killed by the Ming army, how could they continue to fight?
There were also a few stubborn Tatar generals who roared and fled back. In their view, although the front army led by the little Tatar prince was defeated, there was still an army led by the Tatar Khan himself behind. , as long as you can escape, you will soon be able to come back and take revenge...
Zhu Gaojie did not give orders to chase the Tatar generals who fled. He looked coldly at the group of guys running like wolves and rats in the distance, completely indifferent.
Just kidding, before the battle started, the Fengzi Battalion on the left had already made a long march and stole the Tatar army's retreat. Now these Tatar generals still want to escape, are they daydreaming?
The elite soldiers of Fengzi Camp did not get the chance to fight head-on. Their eyes were shining and they were eager to jump. This group of people fled back and just hit them directly. Whoever survived was their fate. big……
He turned around and looked back at the entire battlefield, and found that there were Tatar soldiers kneeling on the ground and raising their hands in surrender everywhere, while the Ming army soldiers were mercilessly killing those who were still resisting, and on the outermost side were groups of cavalry. He kept wandering, and from time to time he shot an arrow, killing those restless Tatar soldiers who wanted to escape.
And the Chinese army camp that he had just charged and killed was already in chaos, with fires everywhere and blood splashing.
At this point, the overall situation of the entire battlefield has been decided!
Almost all of the 30,000-strong forward army led by the little Tartar prince was defeated by him and completely destroyed!
"Pass my order to clear the battlefield quickly. Anyone who doesn't throw away their weapons and kneel down to surrender will be shot to death!"
Zhu Gaojie ordered in an extremely indifferent tone:
"At the same time, let the auxiliary troops enter, accept the Tatar prisoners, clear the battlefield, collect the living horses and send them back to the city, and send the dead ones to the kitchen."
After this battle, he estimated that among the 30,000 Tatar troops, at least 7,000 to 8,000 people had been killed, more than one-third of them killed in action. In addition, he immediately beheaded the leading Tatar army with a spear. The little prince and a group of senior generals, that's why the Tatars were defeated so quickly.
Next, we must seize the time to capture the prisoners, collect the spoils of war, and prepare to face the next war again.
After all, according to the previous secret report from the Jin Yiwei, this time the Tatars used the whole country to plunder southward. They wanted to take advantage of the instability and chaos of the Ming Dynasty to invade on a large scale, plunder the population and wealth of the Ming Dynasty, and maybe even fight. With the idea of moving into the Central Plains again and occupying the artifacts.
Defeating the leading little Tatar prince is good, but whether he can defeat the Tatar army he will face next is the most critical thing.
As long as all the Tatar troops coming this time can be wiped out, the Tatars will be faced with a state of empty military power, and he can take advantage of the trend and directly sweep across the entire northern grassland!
The only thing to worry about is whether the Oara in the west of the grassland will stand up and help the Tatars.
However, Zhu Gaojie had already taken this into consideration. If Wala retreated, he would really have a headache. After all, the army has been deep into the grassland, and logistics is also a troublesome problem.
But as long as Oara dares to send troops to help the Tatars, he can take this opportunity to directly destroy Oara's army on the battlefield, and then also clean up the western part of the grassland, and unify the entire Mobei under the rule of the Ming Dynasty!
Yes, with the help of Yue Fei's personality, Zhu Gaojie is so confident...
As the battlefield situation continued to be brought under control, the remaining Tatar soldiers also became prisoners of war. The soldiers on the Ming side were very excited.
As expected, following His Highness the Crown Prince, one can be said to be invincible!
These northern barbarians are no match for our Ming army!
While many soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, a noise suddenly came from somewhere, but it was quickly suppressed. Zhu Gaojie was slightly stunned, and turned his head to look in the direction. What's going on?
Soon, a group of soldiers came over escorting several frightened and disgraced people.
"Your Highness, the Crown Prince, when we were tying up the prisoners of war, we found that these people were moving around strangely, and their accents sounded like people from the Shuntian Mansion area, so we wanted to find out what happened."
"As a result, some people in this group of people suddenly rose up and wanted to kill us and then escape..."
When Zhu Gaojie heard this, he almost cried out in joy.
Escape?
Where do you guys want to escape?
The battlefield was full of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty wearing armor and holding swords, capturing prisoners of war. Anyone who was disobedient would be immediately attacked with swords and axes. There were also cavalry patrolling around. Under such circumstances, a few people actually wanted to escape. ?
I'm afraid he would have been hacked to death by the soldiers as soon as he took a few steps out!
After all, Zhu Gaojie's attitude towards foreigners is well-known. When he conquered the Japanese country, he almost killed all the soldiers there. The Shenji Battalion, which had been with him for a long time, naturally moved closer to him in temperament and treated these Tatar soldiers extremely badly. , if you can kill one more, it counts...
Zhu Gaojie was riding a horse, condescendingly staring at these people for a while, and then said coldly:
"Which family do you belong to?"
It is not that there are no Han people on the Tatar side. After all, they have robbed many Ming people before, but at most they were slaves with a higher status. Even those merchants who braved the imperial ban and secretly traded with the Tatars It was almost impossible to squeeze through the most dense center of the Tatar army.
Therefore, the identities of these people are almost obvious. They must be spies sent by some aristocratic families in the north, or messengers to deliver news.
Because Zhu Gaojie had already issued strict orders along the way, and the interrogation was very strict. Whether it was internal or external, it was difficult for spies, merchants, etc. to enter and exit easily, so these people must have gone to the Tatars to deliver the news, and they were arrested. Trapped and unable to come back.
This made Zhu Gaojie quite angry. These aristocratic families were really not afraid of death. They even dared to flirt with the Tatars when he personally went out to fight and made it clear that he was going to fight with the Tatars!
It’s simply asking for death!
When the people kneeling on the ground heard Zhu Gaojie's question, their faces suddenly showed panic, and their bodies wanted to tremble, but they were still talking nonsense:
"Spare your life, Your Majesty the Crown Prince, we are all decent people of the Ming Dynasty. We were kidnapped by the Tatars before..."
"Regular common people?"
When Zhu Gaojie heard this, he sneered, interrupted these people's begging for mercy, and waved his hand:
"Forget it, I know who it is even if you don't tell me."
"Kill them all."
