When Wu Huai led the First Cavalry Wing to attack, the Ming army, which was originally fighting with the enemy on the battlefield, suddenly gave way to the two sides for the First Cavalry Wing to charge.

Since the 1st Cavalry Wing's charging route was from northwest to southeast, most of the Ming army took refuge in a few hills in the northern part of the battlefield.

Originally, there were nearly 5,000 Ming troops on the battlefield, and there were 2 or 3,000 people gathered in these hilly areas. After these Ming troops dodged the onslaught of their own cavalry, they dismounted in a safe place this time as soon as possible.

After untying the copper kettle from their belts and taking a few sips of water, they began to feed their mounts with the water. Some people also took out a few pieces of candy tightly wrapped in woolen paper from the leather box on their waists and placed them on the palms of their hands to lick their mounts.

These cavalrymen obviously knew very well that having a mount with sufficient physical strength on the battlefield was equivalent to giving themselves an extra life. Therefore, they did not hesitate to give priority to their mounts water and precious sugar.

When the cavalry regained their horses, it was natural for some of the officers from the Army Military Academy to gather together to discuss what they should do next.

This was unthinkable in the previous Ming army, because in the previous Ming army, every army was the private property of the chief officer. Middle- and lower-ranking officers like them are not in a position to decide whether or not to merge these armies and who to put them under their command.

And the low-ranking officers who dare to do this will also be rejected by their own commanders after the war, and it will be difficult to get the opportunity to be promoted again.

However, for the graduates of these army officer schools, their future is out of the control of the generals, but on the will of the General Staff and the emperor, who have their files.

Therefore, they no longer need to think about whether it will make Shangguan unhappy if they temporarily merge with other friendly forces to fight after losing contact with their superiors on the battlefield.

In accordance with the habit they had developed in the school, the dozen or so officers took turns to express their opinions, and then they voted on the next plan of action and command of the army.

The three or four officers from Jiangmen led by Cao Bianjiao believed that they should continue to attack the Mongolian right flank defense line along the gap opened by the First Cavalry Wing, and eventually destroy the ability of the Mongol right flank troops to continue fighting.

A few veteran officers believed that they were all tired, and that the Mongolian right-wing troops on the opposite side, although they had just been attacked, were still fresh troops that had just entered the battlefield.

I am afraid that it will be difficult to obtain good results by attacking alone with their strength, so it is better to continue to collect the scattered troops of the nearby Ming army first, and ask the main general for a new force. As long as there is a thousand-strong team of men, plus these horses and horses, they should be able to crush the Mongol right wing troops on the opposite side.

Most of the officers chose to support the ideas put forward by the old officers, and elected Shang Jingluo, Cao Bianjiao, and Guo Chong as their temporary commanders.

However, as soon as they had decided on the command sequence and battle plan, they realized that the battle plan had to be revised. Because the main general Cao Wenzhao had already personally attacked with the last troops, and issued an order to all the Ming troops on the battlefield, asking them to follow him in his rear and attack the Mongols together.

Shang Jingluo, Cao Bianjiao, and Guo Chong hurriedly discussed, and decided that Shang Jingluo would take the 2,000 people who had been reorganized and assembled, and follow the main force to attack.

Cao Bianjiao and Guo Chong each brought more than 200 people, separately collected the lost Ming army scattered cavalry on the battlefield, and attacked the Mongolian cavalry that was scattered by the main force of the Ming army, and tried to regroup.

When Daleng fled decisively again, more than 30 Mongolian cavalry also followed him out of the chaotic ranks. Of the more than 30 cavalrymen, more than half of them had fled with him last time.

The cavalry seemed to have used Daleng as a guiding light, as if following him would hide from death.

If it was the first time to face the enemy and flee the array, it made Daleng's heart beat faster. This time the escape was a little calmer for him.

However, the experience of escaping twice also made Daleng understand that he could no longer return to the tribe. Even if the leader of the tribe did not know what he had done on the battlefield, the cavalry behind him would confess to him in order to exonerate him. Maybe the first thing these cavalrymen did after the war was to tie him up and hand him over to those noble lords.

Although he didn't look back, he could feel the malicious gaze of some cavalry behind him on his back. He was now racking his brains thinking about how to get rid of the group of cavalry behind him and flee to the border of the Ming people.

However, after he got out of the direction of the Ming army's attack, he found that the cavalry behind him had exceeded more than 200 people, which made it a little difficult for him to run quietly.

Daleng pulled the reins to stop the horses, this happened to be a depression between several hills, and their hundreds of men and horses were hiding here, but there was no danger for the Ming army to find out for the time being.

The hundreds of Mongol cavalry also stopped quietly, no one made a sound, and no one dismounted. Even the mounts of these cavalrymen only kept their heads down and gnawed on the grass at their feet, and did not make any movement.

Everyone nervously listened sideways to see if the sound of the Ming army's horses' hooves was far away.

Cao Bianjiao led more than 200 people to the northeast, and while he gathered the scattered cavalry of the Ming army here, he attacked some small groups of Mongolian cavalry that had been assembled.

He soon found that most of these Mongolian cavalry had lost the will to fight, as long as more than 10 Ming cavalry appeared in front of them, even a Mongolian cavalry group of dozens of people laid down their arms and meekly became prisoners of these Ming troops.

After they defeated more than a dozen small groups of Mongolian troops and captured 3 or 400 Mongolian cavalry, Cao Bianjiao became a little careless.

He divided the Ming army, which had become 341 people, into three parts, a disgruntled hundred-man team guarded the prisoners, he himself led a hundred-man team forward to search, and the remaining Ming cavalry cleared the surrounding area with a team of 50 people.

So Cao Bianjiao, who led a team of 100 people to search forward, climbed to the top of a low hill in front of him, and happened to see the enemy troops huddled below, several times his own. The Mongol cavalry, cowering in the depression, still gathered around a leader, clearly an army that had not lost its organization.

This discovery made Cao Bianjiao's scalp a little numb, if these Mongolian cavalry were allowed to rush out, the scattered troops behind him would obviously become the other party's food.

In an instant, Cao Bianjiao made a gesture to let the cavalry behind him call the police, and at the same time prepared to call for the men to strike first, and attacked these Mongolian cavalry who had not yet reacted.

However, before Cao Bianjiao's gesture was finished, the leader who was surrounded by these Mongolian cavalry below had already jumped off his horse quickly, ran forward a few steps in small steps, knelt on one knee in front of him, and said with his weapons in both hands: "Master Mingguo, I am willing to surrender." ”

This person who was mistaken for the leader by Cao Bianjiao was Daleng, who had successfully escaped twice. His move not only shocked Cao Bianjiao, but also the Mongolian cavalry who fled with him were also stunned and at a loss.

These Mongol cavalrymen just wanted to escape from danger, and they did not think about surrendering to the Ming army. Most of them did not agree with Daleng's decision.

But the people who can escape from the battlefield with Daleng are by no means people who are willing to take risks, and they all cherish their lives.

And although there are 3 or 400 people here, most of them don't know each other, they just run away. It was not clear whether their companions, like Daleng, wanted to surrender to the Ming army.

They were afraid that if they objected, they would be stabbed by the knife, so they all seemed hesitant.

Seeing this scene, a general banner who followed Cao Bianjiao immediately responded quickly and shouted to the Mongolian cavalry below: "If you want to surrender, immediately dismount and abandon your weapons." Whoever is willing to surrender lives. Those who refuse to surrender, kill. ”

With the shouting of the general banner, dozens of Ming cavalry appeared on the hills, holding weapons and looking like they were about to rush down.

At this time, Daleng suddenly turned around, called the names of several people he knew, and asked them to dismount and surrender immediately. The few people whose names he called hesitated for a moment, and then obeyed Daleng's request. With these men taking the lead, these Mongolian cavalry finally began to dismount one after another, knelt on one knee, and expressed their willingness to surrender to the Ming army.

Seeing that he easily disarmed this large number of Mongolian cavalry, Cao Bianjiao's heart was about to jump out of his chest, and he settled back.

He didn't dare to take chances anymore and regrouped his troops, and only then did he escort the Mongol cavalry out of the depression.

Looking at the number of thousands of prisoners, and his troops who were just in their early 400s, this made Cao Bianjiao a little worried, how should he deal with such a large number of prisoners.

It was obviously not appropriate to send them back to the camp, which now consisted of only a few untrained auxiliaries and men, and it would be enough to send these Mongols back to cause a disturbance.

And these Ming cavalry he collected still need to support his uncle, if he can't defeat the main general of the Mongolian right wing and can't win this war, then no matter how many prisoners of war he catches now, it is meaningless.

At such a critical moment, every ounce of strength cannot be wasted, and it needs to be used on the blade, which is also what he learned in the military academy.

Cao Bianjiao gritted his teeth, looking at the eyes of these captives with a bit of fierceness. The general flag who had just seen the opportunity to surrender was still by his side, and seemed to see what he wanted to do, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said to him.

"Lord Cao, now that there are many prisoners and our army is outnumbered, the victory or defeat on the battlefield has not yet been decided, if you act too carefully, I am afraid it will provoke the resistance of these captives. If the other Mongol cavalry were to fight to the death, the gains would outweigh the losses. ”

"And what do you think we should do with them?" Cao Bianjiao immediately asked the general banner from a good perspective.

"According to the officials' opinions, it is better to take the horses and weapons away, and let these Mongols stay here and wait for the war to end. If our army is victorious, they will not be able to flee from this place without horses, and they will still be our prisoners.

If our army loses, there is no need to worry about these people turning back. In addition, we can also recruit some cavalry from the bottom of the herdsmen, and let the Mongols who have surrendered to us lead the team.

We don't have to expect them to work hard, but we can use them as a precursor to disrupt the opponent's position. Let's make up for the lack of our troops..."

Cao Bianjiao suddenly stretched his brows and said, "Your idea is good, how many times have you been in the officer school?" ”

"Xiaguan Chen Mingcheng is a student of the second class of the 3rd Cavalry Section." The general flag replied suddenly.

Cao Bianjiao patted him on the shoulder and said, "This matter will be left to you to handle, if it can be done, after this battle is over, I will invite you to have a good drink." ”