Throughout the second half of the night, the Ming army fought hard in the rain, chasing death and chasing north.
At the back, not long after the Oara army bombed the camp and collapsed, the remaining hundreds of thousands of Ming troops were also neatly dressed and joined the military feast created by Zhu Qiyu for the Ming soldiers.
However, the main credit must have been taken away by the Six Guards of the Second Battalion who were clearly loyal to the emperor.
The Shenji Camp and the Xiaoqi Camp were the imperial army's Beijing troops. The Four Guards of the Yumajian belonged to the Shangzhi personal guards, while the Yingzhou Guards and Tiance Guards were Zhu Qiyu's exclusive personal guards.
These two battalions and six guards totaled more than 40,000 people. They were direct line troops that could be personally deployed by the emperor in advance. The remaining hundreds of thousands of people did not pay attention to the attack on the camp until the shouts of killing were loud.
People like Shi Heng, Sun Boring, Liu Yongcheng, Liu Ju, Shi Biao and others were also brave and brave generals. When they heard the cry of killing, they all went out of the camp to inspect. After inspecting the military situation, everyone felt a little bitter.
The emperor clearly distrusted several generals, but the emperor could not be entirely blamed. This was all the result of the generals not being decisive in taking sides.
Especially Shi Heng, he didn't care if he stood in a specious way. He even recruited a fellow warlock under his command to predict the emperor's restoration sooner or later.
Zhu Qiyu didn't kill Shi Heng and Shi Biao, his uncle and nephew, even if he had a good temper.
As for the uncles and nephews Liu Yongcheng and Liu Ju, things were a little better. Liu Yongcheng was a great eunuch in the early Ming Dynasty whose military exploits and prestige were second only to Zheng He. He is also relatively neutral in his stance. He neither openly leans towards the Supreme Emperor nor is he clearly loyal to the new emperor. He is the type who recognizes the jade seal but not the emperor.
Zhu Qiyu was no longer too lazy to win over these immature generals. Even excluding some of the Shenji battalion officers who are not loyal enough, he now has 30,000 direct descendants in Beijing. After the war, he will transfer another 20,000 personal guards from Daning Dusi and Xu Heng's elite frontier army from Shaanxi. Transfer thirty thousand.
In this way, there are 80,000 troops loyal to the emperor. As for the generals such as Shi Heng, Sun Boring, Liu Yongcheng, etc., they can think whatever they want. Their future is to obtain a decent title, and then go to the border to kill the enemy and perform meritorious services. If you have nothing to do, don't go back to the capital.
The one who regrets the most here is Sun Bor. When the emperor first came to the throne, he repeatedly tried to win over Sun Bor. As a result, Sun Bor disliked this and that, and now he was kicked out of the inner circle by the emperor, attacking such a large camp. Action, it has been so messed up that it no longer even has the right to know.
This is why you used to ignore me, but now you can't reach me. If you miss the emperor's win, it will be extremely difficult to enter the emperor's inner circle again.
However, although several generals have different mentality, they still have to take credit. Although I can't eat big meat, I can't help but drink the broth right next to my mouth.
When the Second Battalion and Six Guards broke through, the Chinese army took the lead. When Wala bombed the camp, Shi Heng, Sun Boring and others also assembled their troops and began to hunt down the scattered Wala soldiers.
But as soon as the battle started, Shi Heng and others saw a problem. The night fighting ability of the emperor's direct lineage is obviously much stronger than that of other armies. With only about 40,000 people, they can completely defeat the Oara army of similar numbers.
Shi Heng's Fifth Army Camp, Sun Boring's Three Thousand Battalion, and another part of Liu Yongcheng's Royal Horse Guards were all blinded as soon as they left the camp. Most of the soldiers had symptoms of night blindness and could not see clearly, and even more so. Don't talk about killing people in the dark.
The most important thing is that it's still raining heavily, so don't even think about lighting a fire.
Fortunately, with more than 100,000 people, even if they bump around everywhere, they are still enough to run into a lot of Oara deserters. Moreover, the Oara deserters did not speak Chinese. As soon as everyone met and communicated with each other, they could distinguish between ourselves and the enemy and start killing.
In addition to the hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, there were two groups of people who participated in the pursuit of the defeated army: one group was the loyal and brave soldiers who spontaneously gathered to behead their heads to receive the reward after the emperor placed a reward on the heads of Walaye; the other group were the Xun The noble servants and nobles are not here to receive the reward from the emperor, but to find a sense of presence and see if they can make some contributions to change the emperor's attitude.
However, there are some special people here: some nobles who have had problems and have been cut off from their titles, including the Duke of Ying, the Marquis of Wuding, the Marquis of Fuyang, the Marquis of Anping, and the Marquis of Guangping families.
This was also thanks to the nobles who were loyal to the Supreme Emperor. Zhu Qiyu felt that the nobles of the Supreme Emperor's faction were numerous and deeply rooted, so he sent people to secretly remind these families who had stopped trying to seize the title. As long as the heirs of these families come out with their servants to chop off some heads and make some meritorious deeds, it is almost tolerable, and Zhu Qiyu will be restored to the nobility of these families.
Except for Guo Chang and Guo Cong of Wudinghou's family, and Li Xuan of Cao Guogong's family, who acted with the emperor's personal guards, the rest of the down-and-out noble families just drank soup with their servants outside.
The fighting continued like this all night, and finally lasted until dawn. The heavy rain gradually stopped, and the shouts of killing finally stopped. The Wala soldiers who could run had already run away, and those who couldn't had their heads chopped off long ago.
The Emperor's Second Battalion and Six Guards did not leave the Wala Camp at all throughout the night. Not only were more than 10,000 heads chopped off, but the eight carts full of rare treasures given to Ye Xian by Empress Dowager Sun and Empress Qian, as well as 600,000 taels of silver, were all used by the soldiers of the Second Battalion and Six Guards. They were allotted.
Then it was time to clean the battlefield and collect the horses, grain and grass in the Oala camp, as well as the armor and weapons from the slain Tartars. The silver and jewelry can be divided. This is what Zhu Qiyu hinted and tacitly approved. The remaining ordnance cannot be divided anymore and must be handed over to the emperor for unified deployment.
As expected, these ordnances will soon be delivered to Tuotuo Buhua, and then Tuotuo Buhua's army will use these ordnances to continue attacking the rest of Ye Xian. In this way, the Ming Dynasty only produced some ordnance and could reap the benefits.
As for the other Ming troops, volunteers, and noble servants, they were not satisfied with their achievements and continued to pursue and search. This is like a pleasant and exciting hunting game. These people can be found within fifty miles of the Wala camp.
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In the Fengtian Palace, Zhu Qiyu stretched and then ordered his guards to open the palace door.
A gust of cold wind blew in, and the emperor and his ministers became energetic. The rain outside has stopped and the sky is bright. After this long night, the monarchs and ministers are finally facing a new beginning.
Zhao Xuan walked into the hall at the right time and reported the preliminary battle situation to Zhu Qiyu and other ministers.
When he heard that he had killed at least 15,000 people this time and that he had directly joined the army first, the palace completely exploded. The biggest reaction was from the Sun family. Brothers Sun Jizong and Sun Xianzong felt dizzy and almost couldn't sit still.
The Sun brothers had a feud with Princess Qi before, but Princess Qi bet 300,000 taels of silver and 50,000 taels of gold in the casino owned by the Sun family. Bet one and pay five, and bet that Zhu Qiyu could behead at least 40,000 Tatars in this battle to defend the capital.
At that time, people thought that Zhu Qiyu was whimsical and daydreaming; while Lin Xiangyu, a prodigal princess, was sweet, flattering, and brainless, and she went crazy with the new king.
Now that the outcome has been decided, the Sun family must pay Princess Qi a total of 1.5 million taels of silver and 250,000 taels of gold. Now it's okay, just wait until you lose everything.
The other civil servants and generals didn't think so much. They all knelt on the ground and shouted, "God bless the Ming Dynasty, long live the emperor." Even the ministers who were hostile to the new emperor had to admit that the emperor was indeed wise and mighty, and he was beginning to look like a rejuvenating holy lord.
(End of chapter)
