Pan Yi glanced at Cheng Ping who was speaking, and said: "You think I don't want to stay. This is Shi Zheng's order. If you have the ability, you can tell Shi Zheng. I hope I can leave these prisoners alone and lead the troops to stay in Datong." .”
"Hey, what do you think the master is thinking, let our military camp escort the prisoners to the grassland." Cheng Ping complained.
Pan Yi also said with an unhappy face: "There is no way, we are so unlucky that we were arranged to stay at Xinping Fort, otherwise such a hard job would not have happened to us."
Cheng Ping had a wry smile on his face after hearing this.
When the officers and soldiers attacked Xinping Fort, their war barracks were defending the city. They caught up with the first battle with the officers and soldiers, but missed the opportunity to leave the city to attack the officers and soldiers' camp. In the end, they had to kidnap and escort the prisoners back to the grassland. errand.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
There was sudden thunder in the distance above the grassland.
"It's thundering!" Cheng Ping looked up at the sky in confusion. Seeing that the sky was cloudless, he looked in the direction of the sound.
At this time, Pan Yi had already taken out a monocular and looked into the distance.
After a while, he said: "It's not thunder, it's the cavalry of our Tiger Flag."
As his words fell, a black cloud in the distance was seen drifting towards Xinpingbao.
"No, I'm going to take people to suppress the prisoners. With so many cavalry appearing all at once, don't scare the prisoners away." Cheng Ping pulled the reins in his hand and prepared to guard the prisoners' team.
However, Pan Yi suddenly said: "I'll go, you stay. The division is leaving the matter of going to the grassland to me. You stay in Xinping Fort and command the soldiers and horses stationed in Xinping Fort."
As he spoke, he knocked his heel on the horse's belly and urged the horse to run towards the prisoner.
Cheng Ping, who was about to leave, heard these words and had no choice but to pull the reins and choose to stay.
Soon, Pan Yi appeared at the front of the captive team with a team of troops.
As the large group of cavalry in the distance approached, the prisoners' team was indeed in panic. However, Pan Yi led the people to suppress it, and stability was quickly restored.
"Don't worry, they are all cavalrymen of our Tiger Flag. As long as you keep going, no one will hurt you." Pan Yi asked people to shout to the prisoners in the team to comfort them.
With tens of thousands of prisoners, he couldn't help but be careless.
"Let them hurry up and get to the nearest fort before dark." Pan Yi told the people under his opponent.
Although I don't expect these prisoners to be able to compare with their Tiger Flag soldiers, I also don't expect these prisoners from the Ming Army to march too slowly.
If these prisoners were allowed to go on their own, the journey from Xinpingbao to Qingcheng would probably take two months.
As the black clouds of cavalry in the distance gradually approached Xinping Fort, it was gradually possible to see clearly the faces of these cavalrymen inside the black breastplates and iron helmets.
I saw a team of more than ten cavalrymen separated from the cavalry team, rushing towards the prisoners.
"It's Tan Yingzheng." A person following Pan Yi said excitedly.
More than a dozen riders quickly came to Pan Yi.
The leading cavalry general was Tan Zaiwang, who had recently taken up the post of commander of the armored cavalry battalion.
"I didn't expect that the proprietor sent the Tanying camp to Datong. Is the horse division also here?" Pan Yi was the first to say hello and at the same time looked at the faces of the other cavalrymen beside Tan Zaiwang.
Tan Zaiwang said: "Don't look for it. The proprietor only sent me here. Shi Zheng stayed on the grassland to guard against Lin Dan Khan from the Chahar tribe."
"It seems that the Chahar Department has suffered so many losses and has no memory, and it still wants to take advantage of our tiger flag!" Pan Yi said with a sneer at the corner of his mouth.
After knowing that their Tiger Banner had conquered the Tumote tribe, the Chahar tribe never gave up asking for the grassland occupied by the Tumute tribe.
For this reason, he even fought against Tiger Flag several times.
Tan Zaiwang said with a smile: "I heard that the Ming Dynasty sent envoys to Chahar to meet Lin Dan Khan. In order to prevent the Mongols from taking the opportunity to cause trouble, most of the armored cavalry division was left on the grassland."
"These Mongolians are just cheap bastards. If we don't deal with them severely, they won't be honest at all." Pan Yi said with a ruthless expression.
Tan Zaiwang smiled and agreed with Pan Yi's statement.
Since the Tiger Banner conquered the Tumut Tribe and occupied the Tumut Tribe grassland, it has never made a big move against other tribes. Neither Mobei nor the tribes on the left wing of Mongolia have sent troops to actively attack.
They also sent their tiger-flag convoys to transport various goods for trade with these tribes.
This also made some Mongolian tribes feel that the Tiger Flag was easy to bully, and they began to take advantage of the Ming army's targeting of their Tiger Flag.
"Pan Yingzheng, what's going on with these people?" Tan Zaiwang's eyes fell on the prisoners in front of him.
Pan Yi glanced around at the nearby prisoners and said: "They are all captured by the Ming army. Our division is ordering me to take these prisoners back to Qingcheng and hand them over to the owner for disposal."
"Zhang Shizheng came to Datong only a few days ago. I didn't expect to win a big victory so soon. If I had known, I would have rushed here sooner." Tan Zaiwang said enviously.
Later, I didn't arrive at Datong earlier, otherwise I would have been able to participate in this battle.
Pan Yi said: "It's not too late now. Deputy Division Chief Gao has already led his troops to Tiancheng Guard. If you rush there now, you will definitely be able to catch up with the battle to attack Tiancheng Guard."
"Wait a minute, are you saying that Zhang Shizheng has led his army to attack the city?" Tan Zaiwang widened his eyes and said, "I heard that the imperial court sent troops from Datong and Xuanfu. Could it be that these prisoners came from these two armies? Soldiers and horses?"
As he spoke, he glanced at the prisoner in front of him again.
Pan Yi laughed when he heard this and said: "You are right. Yesterday, Deputy Battalion Gao was leading troops to attack the Ming army camp. Both Datong and Xuanfu troops were defeated and fled. Even Yang Guozhu, the commander-in-chief of Datong, has become our prisoner."
"This," Tan Zaiwang said in amazement, "the Ming army is too useless. It's not that they came with an army of 100,000 people. I didn't expect them to be defeated so quickly."
Pan Yi waved his hand and said: "There are not as many as a hundred thousand troops, at most fifty or sixty thousand soldiers and horses. It is a pity that your cavalry division did not arrive at the battle yesterday, otherwise there would be more Ming troops captured."
There was no cavalry to pursue them. Although they won a great victory, many Ming troops were still able to escape.
As long as the fleeing Ming troops are gathered together, they will become an army of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.
"It's a pity. I tried to go as fast as possible along the way, but I didn't expect that I still missed such an important battle." Tan Zaiwang sighed.
Since the news that Liu Heng ordered the capture of Xuanda, I don't know how many soldiers and horses with the tiger character flag are preparing to come to Datong to participate in the battle with the Ming army.
It's a pity that only a part of the tiger-character flag soldiers and horses were able to come to Datong.
