Text Volume 2 Dawn Morning_Chapter 269 The First Building Block That Fell
After Cao Bianjiao handed over these captives to Chen Mingcheng for disposal, he watched coldly from the sidelines how this junior, who had no impression in his memory, would deal with this matter.
He was born in Jiangmen, although he looked down on the style of some big families, but there was one thing he still paid more attention to, that is, he befriended some outstanding low-level military attaches in the army as a help for his family.
He saw that Chen Mingcheng was talking about the truth, and he couldn't help but have the intention to let this person let go of the last game, if he could solve the problem in front of him, he wouldn't mind introducing his own parents for Chen Mingcheng.
If not, then it's nothing, but it just proves that this person is a person with low eyes. However, just in case, he ordered his subordinates to gather and guard the Mongol captives who had gathered.
Chen Mingcheng first pulled out the most impressive Daleng, and the two left the brigade of Mongolian prisoners to talk for a while, and Daleng turned back and returned to the captives.
A moment later, three or four Mongol captives followed him, and they walked about 2 or 30 steps away from the captive crowd and stopped in front of Chen Mingcheng.
At this time, Daleng said a few words to them, and several of them either bowed their heads and said nothing, or just shook their heads, and no one seemed to agree to Daleng's request.
Daleng continued to ask a few words, but several people still did not answer. Daleng seemed to have lost his patience, and he said a few words to Chen Mingcheng on the same side, and Chen Mingcheng asked the cavalry around him to give him a waist knife.
After receiving the weapon, Daleng did not hesitate to face the person who just shook his head, and slashed his head, the Mongolian cavalry subconsciously raised his right hand to block it, and was immediately cut off by Daleng's arm.
Ignoring the wounded and wailing Mongol captive, Daleng continued to slash a few more times, and the Mongol captive was completely slashed.
Only then did he carry his knife and look up at the remaining three captives and say a large bucket of words, and the three captives nodded their heads to him repeatedly.
Then Daleng returned to the brigade with these three captives, and again raised more than a dozen prisoners. After some arguments and the addition of two more corpses, Dalen re-entered the group with 16 guards behind him.
He selected the people again and again, persuaded the prisoners again and again, and finally selected 332 people from this pile of nearly 1,000 prisoners. Two-thirds of them were deserters who fled the battlefield after him.
Cao Bianjiao estimated the situation and found that the Mongol cavalry, who was now persuaded by Daleng, was close to the subordinates he led. Seeing that the other Mongol captives also became flustered and angry at Daleng's actions, he stopped Daleng's actions.
He took more than 300 surrendered Mongol cavalry, nearly 400 of his own subordinates, and more than 1,100 horses to the south, and once again reconciled with Guo Chong.
At this time, Guo Chong also gathered more than 500 Ming troops, 1,500 or 600 prisoners, and nearly 2,000 horses.
Cao Bianjiao asked Daleng to screen these new Mongol captives, and expanded the Mongol cavalry to more than 600 people.
He consulted with Guo Chong and the others, and decided to select the wounded Ming soldiers in the team, and bring these horses back to the rear camp first, while the others went together to reinforce their own commanders.
Chen Mingcheng and Daleng took 50 Ming soldiers and divided more than 600 Mongolian cavalry into 10 squads to open the way for the Ming army in front, while Cao Bianjiao and Guo Chong followed with 7 hundred-man teams.
In order to be able to distinguish these Mongolian cavalry during the battle, Chen Mingcheng also ordered these Mongolian cavalry to cut off a sleeve of their left hand.
Cao Bianjiao and other Ming army officers observed the battlefield and decided to bypass the left flank of their own front and cut off the connection between the central army and the rear camp of the Mongol right flank.
When this cavalry force of more than 1,000 people attacked *, Chen Mingcheng also deliberately guided his own unit and attacked several small groups of Mongolian cavalry that had just gathered.
At first, the Mongol cavalry in the team could not bear to swing their swords at these just companions. On the battlefield, however, this kind of womanly kindness is clearly out of place.
Under the resistance of the opposing cavalry, the Mongolian cavalry, which lost several people, finally couldn't help but do something to his comrades.
And as long as you swing the sword once at your comrade, and then swing the sword again, there seems to be nothing uncomfortable.
And under the surveillance of the Ming army and some Mongolian captives who sincerely surrendered to the Ming army, the Mongolian cavalry, who could not break away from the team and could not create chaos in the ranks, soon accepted their fate.
When Cao Bianjiao commanded this army mixed with Mongolian cavalry and appeared between the temporary camp of the Mongolian right wing and the Chinese army, Cha Gan also happened to lead the selected 2,000 cavalry out of the camp to prepare to reinforce Guiyingcha.
In the quarrel of these tribal leaders who stayed in the camp, Chagan, who was originally hesitant to reinforce, suddenly figured out his situation after seeing the guards who came with Guiyingcha's order.
He was just sent by the Great Khan to urge Guiyingcha to send troops, and how to mobilize the right-wing troops is the responsibility of Guiyingcha, the right-wing commander-in-chief. If he intervenes in the command of the right-wing troops and leads to the defeat of the right-wing, won't he become Gui Yingcha's substitute for the dead.
Chagan not only immediately agreed to select men and horses to attack, but also decided to personally go into battle to support, lest Guiyingcha hold him accountable for deliberately delaying the fighter plane after the war.
However, the time wasted before because of indecision finally made Chagan suffer.
As soon as he left the camp with two thousand-man troops, he saw a cavalry rushing from far to the northwest. The first few people in front of this cavalry were dressed in Mongol clothing, which made Chagan's brain a little overwhelmed.
He was about to verify whether the rushing cavalry was a friend or foe, but the cavalry had already accelerated in his direction.
Cha Gan, who was a little slow to react, finally realized that it was the cavalry of the Ming army on the opposite side, so he shouted loudly to his subordinates, asking the Mongolian cavalry behind him to line up to meet the enemy, and he personally led a small group of cavalry to meet him.
Although there were still 5,000 Mongolian cavalry in the rear battalion, only some of them were old, weak, sick and disabled. It also took a lot of time for Chagan to select these nearly 2,000 cavalry who still had the strength to stand on it.
But most of these elites, selected from the five thousand-man teams, were not familiar with the cavalry around them. Chagan did not properly organize the command system, but only appointed a few commanders at random.
When encountering a sudden attack by the Ming cavalry, Chagan's instructions by roaring only reached the ears of a few hundred-man teams around him.
Most of the Mongol cavalry in the ranks behind Chagan did not know anything about the new order, and they were still carried by a large group and marched slowly towards the Chinese army.
Many of the Mongol cavalry in the middle of the team still wondered why their comrades in front of them had left the direction of the march and ran to the northwest.
Because of poor command, Chagan, who obviously led 2,000 cavalry out of the camp, when he stepped forward to meet the enemy, there were less than 3 or 400 people around him.
When Chagan was still thinking about why the troops behind him didn't follow, the Ming army's vanguard had already drowned out their men and horses who had broken away from the main army.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the 3, 400 Mongol cavalry brought by Chagan collapsed. After witnessing the annihilation of Chagan's cavalry, the remaining members of the Mongol cavalry team brought out by Chagan immediately turned around and returned to the temporary camp.
The Mongols themselves were not very proficient in civil engineering, and they had never imagined before the war that the Ming army would be able to attack their camp, so the makeshift camp was very rudimentary, and there were no defenses at all.
After nearly 400 of the 2,000 people brought out by Chagan were wiped out by the Ming army, the remaining team of half a thousand people immediately turned around and broke the entrance and exit of their own camp.
Cao Bianjiao and several other officers of the Ming army obviously would not let go of this good opportunity, so they followed the Mongolian cavalry that attacked their own camp and attacked the temporary camp on the Mongolian right flank.
Several tribal leaders who had no intention of defending the camp fled with their men and subordinates after the Ming army stormed the camp. These tribal leaders either fled to Lin Dan Khan's Chinese army, or simply fled north to the Jining Haizi region.
After Guo Chong led his team into this temporary camp, he did not hesitate to order the temporary camp to be set on fire.
He thought that the number of Ming troops was too small, and if these fleeing Mongols reacted, they would not be able to hold this undefended camp, so it would be better to burn it clean.
When the black smoke from the burning camp of the Mongolian right wing rushed into the sky, the situation on the battlefield immediately changed drastically.
First of all, after Guiyingcha and other Mongolian troops, who were still desperately resisting, found that their rear camp had been burned, many Mongolian cavalry who were still working hard before were immediately discouraged. Many of them turned their horses around and quickly fled beyond the battlefield.
The Mongols' already precarious defensive line was immediately crushed by the main force led by Cao Wenzhao.
After seeing the pillar of smoke in the rear, Dari Achi immediately gave up on the enemy in front of him, rushed to the area where Gui Yingcha was located with the remaining Golden Horde warriors, snatched out the Great Khan's confidant and brother-in-law, and ran south.
After seeing the back camp on fire, Gui Yingcha was a little crazy, he really couldn't figure out why he would let the Ming army turn the tables when he had a good situation in hand.
With such an advantageous force, he actually had to lose to the Ming army, which made him feel shameless. Enraged, Gui Yingcha immediately picked up his weapon again and rushed towards the Ming army in front of him.
If it weren't for the arrival of Dari Achi, the main general of the Mongolian right wing might have fallen under Cao Wenzhao's spear.
With the flight of Gui Yingcha, the Mongolian right-wing Chinese army also collapsed suddenly, and the Ming army began to drive these Mongolian cavalry who had lost their willingness to fight and went south.
The First Cavalry Wing led by Wu Huai, after defeating the Mongol forward center from the flank and rear, drove the rout to attack the left flank of the forward.
Although in the formation of the 1st Cavalry Wing, there was not much resistance from the Mongols. But after all, there were only more than 1,000 people left in the 1st Cavalry Wing, and after the 6 or 7 thousand people in the Mongolian right flank were dispersed, the 1st Cavalry Wing was a little powerless.
However, after the smoke pillar of the rear camp was raised, coupled with the arrival of the main force of the left wing of the Ming army led by Cao Wenzhao, the remaining more than 8,000 cavalry on the right wing of Mongolia were suddenly driven to the south, and there was no Mongolian cavalry to fight against the Ming army.