My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 489 The Battle of Xinghe

Zhu Zhanhe was woken up from his sleep, and then he learned that Arutai had attacked Xinghe City during the night.

Fortunately, Xinghe was prepared and set up an ambush in advance. As a result, Alutai was fooled and was now tightly entangled by Wang Huan, so Zhu Di ordered the entire army to assemble and rush towards Xinghe City.

The military situation was urgent, and Zhu Zhanhe knew that disobeying military orders in the military camp would be a dead end. Even if he was the emperor's grandson, he had to do it in accordance with the law, so he put on his armor as quickly as possible, then mounted his horse and came to the central army assembly.

Zhu Di was seen wearing a helmet and armor, riding on a horse and holding a spear in his hand. Although his beard and hair were gray, he was still majestic.

The first one to assemble was the cavalry, of which 5000 cavalry served as the vanguard and were immediately sent out by Zhu Di. Then there was a second cavalry group, also [-] people, heading towards Xinghe City from another direction, and finally only [-] people. Infantry, following two cavalry.

As for Zhu Di himself, he led [-] elite troops as a reserve army to prevent any accidents on the battlefield.

Zhu Zhanhe followed Zhu Di closely. It was his first time to visit the battlefield at such a close distance, and it was such a large-scale war. This made Zhu Zhanhe feel an unprecedented tension.

However, Zhu Di seemed very calm. It seemed that the more war he encountered, the calmer he became. There was no expression on his resolute face. Zhu Zhanhe stood beside him without even daring to express his anger.

The three armies in front quickly reached the battlefield, and Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanhe also arrived soon after.

When they arrived at the foot of Xinghe City, they saw flames soaring into the sky. There were shouts of killing and the clash of weapons everywhere. Because it was difficult to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy in the darkness, many accidental killings occurred.

Fortunately, the sky in the east turned slightly white at this time, and the first glimmer of light in the morning appeared on the dark land, making it possible to vaguely distinguish between ourselves and the enemy on the battlefield, but this also made the battle more intense.

Zhu Di stood on a high ground on horseback, holding a telescope in his hand and looking at the situation on the battlefield with the dim light and firelight.

Although Zhu Zhanhe didn't know how to fight, he had experienced several wars, so he could still understand the situation on the battlefield.

Everywhere you look, there are dead bodies everywhere, both Tatars and Ming troops, but the Tatars make up the majority, and the Tatar army has been cut into several sections, and now they are fighting on their own.

In contrast, the Ming army had an absolute advantage, especially after the three armies sent by Zhu Di arrived and surrounded the separated Tatar army. Even the established Tatar army was wipe out.

Faced with this unfavorable situation, the Tatars also had no fighting spirit. Many of them desperately retreated backwards, trying to escape from the battlefield.

However, the Ming army clung to the retreating Tatar army and did not give them a chance to escape at all, because Zhu Di had made a decision before the war to annihilate the Tatar army and completely eliminate Arutai's forces in one fell swoop. .

Faced with the desperate situation of being unable to escape or fight, many Tatars finally lost the consciousness of resistance, especially when the morning sun rose and the sky and earth were bright, and the cruel scenes on the battlefield were also stimulating. Tatar perception.

Finally, some Tatars threw down their weapons and began to surrender, and with the first one came the second and the third...

The Tatars who were finally surrounded, except for a few who stubbornly resisted and would rather die than surrender, most of the remaining people wisely chose to surrender.

Of course, there were some lucky Tatars. Because of the cover of darkness, they had not been surrounded or were on the outside of the encirclement. So they fought their way out of the encirclement and then ran to the north.

Zhu Di was not a kind person, so he immediately ordered the cavalry around him to pursue them. Compared with the exhausted Tatars, the cavalry around Zhu Di recharged their energy and caught up with the fleeing Tatars in the blink of an eye. It was a brutal pursuit.

Everyone knows how to beat a drowned dog. After controlling the situation on the battlefield, the Ming cavalry threw all the remaining finishing touches to the infantry, and then followed to hunt down the fleeing Tatars. "Your Majesty, the last general Wang Huanxing is fortunate to have fulfilled his mission!"

At this time, I saw a veteran coming, and then he cupped his fists and saluted Zhu Di. He was Wang Huan, the guard of Xinghe City.

"Well done, you finally didn't disgrace our Yanshan Guards!"

Zhu Di finally showed a smile on his cold face.

The Yanshan Guards were his personal guards when he was King of Yan, and Wang Huan was also an old man of the Yanshan Guards. It was indeed a great achievement to be able to desperately hold back the main force of Arutai this time and buy time for Zhu Di's arrival.

"Thank you for your praise, Your Majesty!"

Wang Huan was so excited that tears filled his eyes when he heard this. He thought that he was just a small householder at the beginning, and it was because he followed Zhu Di in the north and south that he was promoted to the post of commander of the capital.

"Have you found any trace of Alutai?"

Zhu Di then asked about the business again. He didn't want to keep Arutai as a scourge anymore, so this time he wanted to keep the other party in Xinghe forever.

"Your Majesty, at the beginning of the battle, I had been keeping an eye on Arutai's central army, but then the opponent led his army to break out of the encirclement. I watched him escape, hoping that the cavalry could catch up with them."

Wang Huan replied immediately.

Although the battlefield was chaotic, he had been paying attention to Alutai's movements, and even almost killed Alutai several times, but unfortunately he was stopped in the end.

"Escape?"

Zhu Di frowned. Although the cavalry had already caught up, with Arutai's status, if he really wanted to escape, it would be difficult for the pursuers to catch up.

"Grandpa Emperor, after this battle, Arutai, even if he could escape, he would have lost all the elite Asote troops in his headquarters, and the prestige he had established on the grassland would have been lost in one fell swoop. He will definitely not let go of this opportunity to take revenge, and it is estimated that Arutai will die at the hands of Tu Huan before long."

Zhu Zhanhe stepped forward and said.

Compared with Arutai, Zhu Zhanhe was most concerned about having sex. In later generations, it was this guy who defeated the Ming army in Tumubao and almost wiped out all the elites of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor named Men was also captured. He was definitely the best in the history of the Ming Dynasty. The most shameful scene.

"Are you so sure that having sex can kill Arutai?"

Zhu Di raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhu Zhanhe quite differently and asked.

Arutai went through many ups and downs on the grassland, and even almost wiped out the Wala at one point. Mahamu, the original leader of the Wala, fought with Arutai, and was finally defeated and killed.

The current leader Tuohuan was also a domestic slave of Arutai. Although he was later released, his strength is still weak. Now Wala can only rely on the support of the Ming Dynasty to barely contain the Tatars. Therefore, in Zhu Di's view, Wala's Tuohuan There is no way to compete with Arutai.

(End of this chapter)