A wasteland in the northwest of the lake is called "the land of abundant springs".

In the Tatar camp there was a huge round tent. A large white flag is erected on top of the tent, and an intricate pattern is painted on it, called "Nine White Silks". The many motifs revolve around a golden spear inserted in the mane of a black horse, also known as "Sulid".

Countless Tatar nobles and soldiers knelt in front of the big tent and bowed to the white flag. The Great Khan, dressed in robes, turned his back to the crowd and recited prayers in Mongolian.

"Su Lide, who can subdue the stubborn enemy of the fierce demon! Urgently call for Jinsulid! Holy Lord Genghis Khan Sulid, please send out a gift to bless the royal descendants and the common people......"

After the Great Khan chanted for a while, everyone bowed and raised their hands and cheered: "Su Lide! ”

The slaves and Han people of various ethnic groups in the distance could not get close, so they could only kneel in the distance to watch the ceremony. Among them is the Han eunuch Huang Yan.

Huang Yan was not appreciated by the Tatar Khan, he did not even see the Khan, but only saw the back of the Khan from afar. For several months, Huang Yan could only follow a low-level military general named Toto.

When the prayer ceremony was finally over, Huang Yan walked into the camp, found Toto, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What is Su Lide?" ”

Tokhtar replied: "It's a long story, but it's simply a relic of Genghis Khan's golden spear, which has divine powers. ”

Tokhtar is a Tatar, and he has been with Huang Yan for a long time, and his Chinese seems to have improved a lot.

Huang Yan seemed to understand a general idea, so he nodded, and asked casually, "Su Lide really has divine power?" ”

Tokhtar thought for a moment in great distress and replied, "Sometimes there is infinite divine power, sometimes there is nothing. ”

When Huang Yan heard this, he suddenly felt that this dirty Tatar had quite an idea.

After the sacrifice, the surrounding camp gradually became very turbulent. Many Tatars, clad in stubborn cloaks, shouted and rode out of the camp and were converging towards the banner painted with Surid.

Without waiting for Huang Yan to ask, Tokhoff took the initiative to say: "The enemy army is coming, and the Great Khan will lead the army to meet the Ming army and defend the king's tent!" ”

Huang Yan's expression was panicked, he hurriedly looked around, but saw that the ice and snow were barren all around, and there was no sign of the Ming army.

The surrounding camp was in chaos at this point. Between the countless tents, some sheep that were not favored by the people ran out and scurried between the tents. Wooden carts loaded with all kinds of miscellaneous items were discarded on the ground.

Huang Yan finally couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "Can the Yuan army win against the Ming army?" ”

Toto's face was ugly, and he said in a low voice: "When the time comes...... If we see the Tatar nobles running, we will flee with them. ”

Huang Yan's expression was also very ugly.

Tokhtar looked at the men and horses gathered in the distance, and said, "I am from Arutai, so no one ordered me to go with the army. I heard a nobleman I know say that the Great Khan had a dispute with Arutai. The Great Khan wanted Arutai to gather an army and flank the Ming army from the east; However, Arutai was frightened by the battle in the fishing sea, refused to continue the fight against the Ming army, and advised the Great Khan to abandon the king's tent and avoid the west. ”

Huang Yan whispered: "Arutai should be right. Since the Great Khan had no chance of victory, it would be useless to go to war again. ”

Tokhtar looked at the banner on the king's tent in the distance, and said in a pretentious manner: "The king's tent can get countless people, animals and wealth. ”

The two of them walked all the way for a while, and suddenly they heard a woman's scream. Huang Yan turned his head to look, and saw a woman wrapped in sheepskin, with her hair disheveled, just running out of the tent. He saw it clearly, this woman was the Han female slave he had seen, and Huang Yan had seen this person on the first day he arrived in the Tatar camp.

In a few moments, a Tatar man chased him out of the tent. The Tatar, standing at the door with a whip in his hand, suddenly stopped, laughed a few times, pointed the whip at the woman's back, and "gurgled" and cursed.

Tokhtar and Huang Yan hurriedly stood in place, pressed their hands to their chests, and bowed to the man.

The man didn't continue to chase, glanced at Huang Yan and others, turned around and walked into the tent.

Huang Yan then asked, "What did that person say?" ”

"He said that it was very cold on the grassland, and the slaves would not be able to run far, and they would come back themselves. ”

Huang Yan turned his head to look outside the camp, only to see the woman fall into the snow.

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The white sun had set in the west, and the horses of the Ming army jogging on the ground made a huge roar. The rangers in front were galloping, and someone shouted: "The enemy is coming!" Enemy! ”

Ping An put his palm on the left front side of his head, looked at it for a while, and sure enough, he found that there was a dark shadow surging on the horizon.

However, Ping An didn't say anything for a while, and he was not in a hurry; The soldiers were not in a hurry, and continued to keep the pace of jogging. In this open and flat field, even if it seems to be close, it will be better to run a horse for a while, not to mention that the enemy army is still far away "in the sky".

Ping An continued to wait and see for a long time, and then ordered: "Order the left battalion and the right battalion to spread out and outflank them from both flanks!" ”

The pro-soldier shouted: "Order! ”

In the "Land of Abundant Springs", in addition to the safe men and horses, it is impossible to have a Ming army brigade. So Ping An and the others haven't seen the enemy's flag clearly, and they can already be sure that it is the enemy!

After a long time, the two armies gradually approached. The size of the numbers on both sides is indisputable, and the number of enemy cavalry is far less than that of the Ming army.

After a short time, the Tatar horses began to make a detour to the left flank.

Under the watch, he couldn't think of what the other party wanted. He pondered for a long time, then swung his axe, pointed ahead and shouted, "Kill! ”

The surrounding elite horsemen shouted one after another: "Kill! Kill ......" The cavalry on both flanks shouted "Long live" and also began to accelerate.

The sound of horses' hooves on the grassland gradually became louder, and a deafening roar resounded across the land. The flag of the Ming army leaned forward and fluttered quickly in the wind. The horse team on the left flank was the first to approach the enemy horses.

"Bang bang bang ......" the strings in the wind sounded messily. The black shadows of arrows in the air flew wildly, and the neighing of people and horses came from all directions, and the men and horses fighting on both sides immediately became chaotic.

The cavalry on the west side of the enemy army shot arrows while taking a detour to avoid the Ming charge; The Tatar crowds on the eastern side turned around and scattered.

The cavalry of the two armies chased and galloped, but the Ming cavalry charged quickly, and successively caught up with some enemy horse teams. In the sound of strings, the shouting of killing suddenly became louder. The cavalry of the Ming army with spears slaughtered into the enemy group, and people were constantly injured and fell off their horses, and the galloping horses were in a scuffle.

Ping An rode his horse for a long time, and his handsome banner also moved; The surrounding cavalry only looked at the handsome banner, kept a distance from far and near, and chased and killed everywhere. The horse army on the grassland was raging, and the horse teams rushed to kill like a whirlpool, and the sound of killing on the ground shook the sky.

The cavalry on the right flank of the Ming army rushed straight forward, and then outflanked the combined attack from the right front. Ping'an carried an iron axe and followed the army all the way to kill, his weapon waved in the air for a long time, but he never caught up with anyone. The enemy fought and left, and some people were surrounded by the Ming army before they escaped, and were soon killed by the superior Ming army; Some of the enemy horsemen had fled in a northwesterly direction.

The cavalry chased for a long time, and at this time, a large tent camp in the distance gradually appeared in people's sight. Men on horseback were constantly running out of the camp in the distance, scattering like frightened ants.

"Northern Yuan King's Tent!" I don't know who shouted, and the army shouted one after another. After running for hundreds of miles, everyone finally found their goal!

Under the orders of Ping'an, the cavalry of the left battalion took the lead in rushing to the enemy camp in the distance. Crazy cavalry, pouring into the camp in the distance, as if to trample everything to the ground.

…… The sun had set below the horizon, and the light on the earth was dimming. However, a more dazzling fire has taken its place.

The Ming cavalry rushed into the Tatar camp and soon set fires, and the tents on all sides were lit one after another, illuminating the sky clearly. The arrows of fire, dragging black smoke, shone and flew in the air, like fireworks.

Even the huge Northern Yuan king's tent was also set on fire; The big tent burned very vigorously, and the fire soared to the sky, like a big bonfire. Many Tatars ran between the tents, and the Ming soldiers on horseback in the light of the fire also rushed to kill in all directions. There was a lot of noise in the camps, and screams and cries could be heard everywhere.

The soldiers couldn't tell which were herdsmen and which were enemy soldiers, and the army was also very chaotic at this time, and it was simply a massacre. Some of the Tatars seemed to be begging for mercy, but the Ming soldiers did not understand.

Outside a tent, a Han female slave huddled in a corner had just woken up from a coma. Suddenly, she saw that there was chaos around her, smoke and fire on all sides, and she didn't know what was happening, and she looked there in a daze.

When she was panicking, she suddenly saw a group of soldiers running on horseback, and those people were actually wearing Han clothes! She froze there, as if she was still dreaming.

Then the Tatar generals in the tent came out with bows and arrows, and when the woman saw the man, she was so frightened that she took two steps back.

"Da da da......" The sound of hurried horses' hooves sounded in front of him, and a horse rushed past the Tatar general, and suddenly slashed sideways with a sword. With a click, the Tartar general's bow was split in half, and he fell to the ground with a scream.

A moment later, a Ming cavalryman turned on his horse, stepped forward and kicked him, knocked down the Tatar, swung his sword and slashed at his neck. Until the bloody head was cut off, the knight went away with his head satisfied.

The trembling woman leaning against the tent stared at the headless corpse on the ground. She couldn't believe that this Tartar who had ravaged her like a nightmare for more than a year should die like this!

At that moment, she saw a horse rushing towards her, and the man on horseback aimed his bow and arrow at her. The woman finally reacted and shouted: "The slave family is Han!" ”

The cavalry actually heard it, and there was a "snap" sound, and the cavalry raised his hand and shot the arrow into the air, and then patted the horse and whistled past.

More and more tents were on fire, and the chill seemed to be dispelled on the bright camp.