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After hearing Harriman's shouting, the fleeing Tatar dignitaries subconsciously slowed down and looked back. After all, they were not fools. They knew better than the average person that if their leaders took the lead in running away, what would happen to the tribesmen.
What kind of impact will it have on morale?
Everyone slowed down and looked back, but they happened to see the scene where Harriman was stabbed through the chest with a spear by Li Huan and lifted up in the air.
"The high priest is dead, the high priest is dead!"
Although the high priest said that his strength was not very good, he was not incompetent. As a result, Li Huan flew him into the air as soon as he met him. This made these Tatar leaders not afraid of him.
Previously, the strong men in the clan could not make a move in front of Li Huan and were killed by Li Huan. Now they saw the death of the powerful Harriman with their own eyes. Suddenly, the fear of Li Huan was suppressed in the hearts of these Tatar leaders.
After giving up everything, all he could think about was how to save his own life.
As for the outcome of this battle, they had no intention of thinking about it at the moment. Seeing how fierce Li Huan was, they were afraid that the final result of this battle would not be much better.
At the same time, these leaders also suddenly understood why Li Huan led the Ming army to be invincible on the prairie and massacred more than a dozen tribes, large and small.
Although no tribe among the large and small tribes that were slaughtered by Li Huan could compare with their Iliha tribe, some large tribes could still gather thousands of young men to fight hard, but in the end they were still killed by Li Huan.
To be slaughtered.
Originally, they were a little curious as to what kind of methods Li Huan had that could actually kill so many tribes. Now that they saw with their own eyes the horror of Li Huan, these people finally understood.
Li Huan is just like Xiang Yu, the legendary overlord of the Han people, with invincible bravery. When such an invincible general charges into the battle, who can withstand it?
With Harriman being beheaded by Li Huan, and the leaders and nobles of the Yiliha tribe fleeing for their lives, the entire Yiliha tribe's nearly 20,000 men were reduced to headless flies.
If these Tatars had a backbone, they could really inflict great harm on the Ming army and force Li Huan to retreat.
But now the Tatar dignitaries who were scared out of their wits by Li Huan did not dare to lead the army to surround and kill Li Huan. As Harriman's body was picked up in the air, panic and collapse quickly spread.
The Tatar soldiers who were fighting with the Ming army in the distance heard the death cry of the high priest and suddenly became panicked.
For the lower-level soldiers, once their leader dies, the morale of these lower-level soldiers will inevitably plummet. This is extremely obvious in this era.
Initially, some Tatar soldiers did not believe it, but when they saw their high-flying flag collapse, those Tatar soldiers completely lost their will to fight.
In particular, the Tatar dignitaries took the lead in fleeing, which directly triggered the Tatar people to flee.
After all, these powerful people would summon their cronies and close men to save their lives. A dozen leaders summoned thousands of their cronies to run away.
It wouldn't be obvious if only a few dozen people were running for their lives, but if thousands of people were running for their lives, the impact would be huge.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
When these Tatar soldiers and horses who were still fighting with the Ming army saw their leaders fleeing in the distance, the last trace of morale in their hearts completely dissipated.
The Tatar army collapsed completely.
On the prairie, if you look down from the sky, you will find that the Iliha tribe army, which originally had a numerical advantage, fled for their lives as the leader nobles, and the entire army also collapsed, and a large number of people began to flee.
At this time, there was no need for Li Huan to remind or order Li Huan. The Ming army officers and soldiers were already accustomed to such situations and naturally knew what to do.
As the generals became more familiar with the situation and began to divide into teams to kill the fleeing Tatar soldiers, the Iliha tribe completely lost hope of making a comeback.
The chase lasted for most of a day.
After all, it was one of the largest tribes on the grassland. Even if more than 20,000 soldiers and horses were defeated, it took a long time for the Ming army to pursue them. Even so, they only killed most of them, and the rest fled in.
Deep in the prairie.
According to the usual practice, these fleeing Tatar soldiers and horses will be pursued and killed if they can, and if they cannot be pursued, they will give up. After all, they only entered the prairie to defeat each tribe. If they really want to pursue the annihilation of every tribe, they will not let them go.
It is simply impossible to achieve it by one person.
For example, the Iliha tribe has more than 20,000 men and horses, not to mention war-ready men, and the total number of old, weak, women and children in the tribe is tens of thousands.
When tens of thousands of Li Huan's men rushed into the Yiliha tribe, the people of the Yiliha tribe had already learned the news of the defeat from the defeated tribesmen.
Those who moved quickly had already escaped for their lives.
Among the Iliha tribe, there are many Tatars who fled all the way to the Iliha tribe directly because the tribe was destroyed by Li Huan.
These people originally hoped that the Yiliha tribe could stop Li Huan and even surround and kill Li Huan to avenge their relatives.
Unexpectedly, even the numerous Yiliha tribes on the grassland were no match for Li Huan, and were even defeated by Li Huan.
These people were also the first to flee for their lives. After all, they had experienced it once and they would naturally know how to save their lives from the pursuit of the Ming army when they fled again.
Fires were blazing into the sky, killing sounds were everywhere, and everywhere you looked you could see Ming soldiers chasing the Tatars.
At this time, Li Huan was standing on a high place under the guard of his own soldiers, watching from a distance the Iliha tribe station which was in chaos.
Looking at the Tatars fleeing in all directions, Li Hu's body was covered with blood. He glanced at Li Huan and said: "General, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to keep so many Tatars in this battle. Wait a minute.
Do you know how many Tatars will escape?”
Following Li Huan these past few years, both Li Hu and Li Guo are no longer as knowledgeable as they used to be.
After all, if you follow Li Huan, unless you are really unworthy, you will still make progress even if you are influenced by him.
Just like Li Hu, Li Guo and others, if they are really placed in the army, I dare not say that they will become qualified low-level generals without any problem.
Therefore, Li Hu could tell just by looking at the situation in front of him that it was simply unrealistic for them alone to annihilate the Yiliha tribe.
Didn't you see that they didn't even send people to hunt down the fleeing dignitaries of the Iliha tribe?
It's not that Li Huan and the others don't want to keep those powerful people, it's actually that Li Huan still wants to conquer the Iliha tribe. If they divide their troops to hunt down those powerful people, they already don't have many people. If they divide their troops again, who knows what will happen.
What happened?
When Li Huan heard this, he just smiled and said: "If you run away, you will run away. Wouldn't it be better for these people to escape and spread our reputation to all directions?"
As he spoke, Li Huan looked towards the direction of Ming Dynasty and said, "I don't know what is going on with the Governor now."
Li Huan's side set off a bloody storm on the prairie, and when Dayan Khan stirred up trouble in the rear, the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
Dayan Khan recruited hundreds of thousands of troops to go south. Not to mention how much energy was spent on this, the amount of food and grass consumed was not a small number.
After spending a huge amount of manpower and material resources, if this battle cannot achieve a brilliant enough result, then Dayan Khan will not be able to explain to the Tatar tribes who responded to his call.
The people on the grassland have the most important interests. Although Dayan Khan said that he united the Tatar tribe with his iron blood, if he could not bring enough benefits to these tribes, no matter how high Dayan Khan's prestige was, he would not be able to secure the grassland commonwealth.
The seat of the Lord.
Under such circumstances, Dayan Khan reacted immediately after receiving the news that Wang Yangming had divided his troops into three groups.
Dayan Khan decisively dispatched his most elite 30,000 cavalry, and sent his son Tulu Borot to personally lead the army to deal with the divided troops of Li Huan.
After all, according to the information Dayan Khan received, Li Huan led 20,000 cavalry around to his flank. In Dayan Khan's view, this was a stupid move. He only had to swallow up Li Huan's cavalry team, and then the Ming Dynasty would be destroyed.
One of the most important mobile troops was lost conveniently.
What Dayan Khan sent were the real elites under his command. There were only more than 50,000 elites directly under Dayan Khan. In order to capture Li Huan in one battle and eat up the Ming Dynasty's cavalry, Dayan Khan did not hesitate to send out half of the elites directly under Dayan Khan.
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Even in order to deal with Li Huan, Dayan Khan sent several powerful Dharma kings such as Beiye Dharma King and Qianmu Dharma King together with Tulu Bolot.
In addition to sending Tulu Borot's troops, Dayan Khan personally took charge of the central army and led more than 70,000 troops under him to move south to prepare for a battle with Wang Yangming.
As for Yang Yiqing on the flank, Cao Xiong's unit, Dayan Khan did not pay too much attention. There were 30,000 elite cavalry staring at Yang Yiqing's unit, and Dayan Khan did not think that Yang Yiqing could threaten him in a short time.
In Dayan Khan's view, as long as Tulu Borot's troops can defeat Li Huan's troops as quickly as possible, then as long as Tulu Borot returns, he can kill Li Huan with his troops.
With great momentum, they attacked the Ming army.
Among the Ming army, only Li Huan really stood up to Dayan Khan, and of course Yang Yiqing, who was the governor of the three sides.
As for Wang Yangming, the commander of the army, to be honest, Dayan Khan didn't take it to heart at all.
After all, Li Huan and Yang Yiqing both had some military merits and could be looked down upon by him, but Wang Yangming was nothing.
Not to mention Dayan Khan, I am afraid that many generals in the Ming army are not optimistic about Wang Yangming as the coach. Who knows that Wang Yangming is a scholar and has no experience in commanding an army. How can this make him?
People are convinced.
Therefore, under such circumstances, it would be strange if Dayan Khan took Wang Yangming to heart.
In addition, Wang Yangming took the initiative to divide the Ming army into three groups and planned to surround him. This made Dayan Khan not to take Wang Yangming to heart.
If Wang Yangming really gathered hundreds of thousands of Ming troops in one place, then no matter how arrogant Dayan Khan was, he would not dare to say that he could severely damage the Ming troops.
After all, there is still a certain gap in the number of armies between the two sides. If hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses attack an army of 200,000 to 300,000, if one is not careful, both sides may suffer losses.
The Ming Dynasty could bear the outcome of losing both sides, but the Tatars could not bear it.
Originally, Dayan Khan was worried that Wang Yangming would gather a large army and huddle up to fight him for a protracted war. Unexpectedly, Wang Yangming would divide his troops.
Dayan Khan felt that such a commander who had no knowledge of military skills and divided his troops randomly was a blessing from the gods. If he worked harder, he might not be able to reproduce the glorious results of the Tumu Fort battle.
For this reason, Dayan Khan personally supervised his troops to go south to fight Wang Yangming in Shilibao.
Shili Fort was just an unknown place in Qingyang Mansion, but now it has become the focus and center of the world.
The Tatar and Ming armies gathered hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses here, and they fought several battles in a few days.
Wang Yangming personally took charge of the central army and built a huge camp that stretched for more than ten miles. Facing Dayan Khan's temptation, Wang Yangming stood there as steady as Mount Tai, blocking Dayan Khan's offensive.
Dayan Khan made several attacks and tests, and both sides suffered injuries. Although it seemed that the Ming army suffered thousands of casualties, more than the Tatars, Dayan Khan no longer dared to be complacent after several days of testing.
He looked down upon Wang Yangming, the Ming army general whom he had previously despised.
In a large tent, Dayan Khan looked solemnly at his generals and tribal leaders.
There were hundreds of people gathered in the huge tent. If in the past few days, each of these people had clamored to join forces and take the head of Wang Yangming, the Ming army commander, then no one was so arrogant now.
Shout out something like that.
In just a few days, Wang Yangming faced their attacks one after another and calmly dispatched troops to deal with them. After several battles between the two sides, Dayan Khan and others suddenly discovered that they had not taken any advantage.
If it were once or twice, then that would be fine. It could be chalked up to coincidence. However, after several battles, they were unable to gain any advantage. This only meant that Wang Yangming was much more difficult to deal with than they imagined.
Dayan Khan, who was sitting there, saw the expressions of everyone in his eyes and sighed secretly in his heart.
I originally thought that Wang Yangming was a soft persimmon because he had no military skills. As long as his army rushed forward, he could steal Wang Yangming's mind. But if there was a flaw in Wang Yangming's side, he could take advantage of the situation to launch a fierce attack and defeat the Ming army.
With various thoughts flashing through his mind, Dayan Khan took a deep breath, glanced at everyone and said, "Everyone, the Ming army is hiding in the camp. Who is willing to attack and lure them out?"
The previous battles relied on showing the enemy weakness to lure the Ming army out of the camp. But who knew that although the Ming army said they would break out of the camp, they were not fooled at all. They just chased and killed them and then retreated back to the camp.
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After several times, instead of taking any advantage, they suffered many casualties. If the Ming army had not also suffered thousands of casualties, they would have considered whether to withdraw their troops and return to the grassland.
When everyone heard this, you looked at me and I looked at you, but no one was willing to stand up.
It was said to be a lure, but in fact it was to storm the Ming army's camp and then pretend to retreat.
But this obviously cannot deceive the Ming army. If it is really effective, the Ming army will not see through it the first time and take the opportunity to kill thousands of them.
Later, they were able to pick up a lot of people several times. Although the Ming army would rush out of the camp every time, they would stop at the touch of a button and not give them a chance.
One of Dayan Khan's trusted generals saw that everyone was silent and could not help coughing slightly and said to Dayan Khan: "Great Khan, since the Ming army has seen through our intentions, it is better for the army to attack its camp..."
Before the man finished speaking, someone said with a bit of disdain: "How can it be so easy to storm the camp? Just look at the posture of the Ming army. If you want to break through the opponent's camp, I don't know how many lives it will cost. It's your troops."
To attack, which general is willing to be the vanguard..."
Immediately, everyone started to object. It was obvious that they had suffered a lot after attacking the Ming Dynasty camp several times, and no one was willing to risk the lives of their men.
A burst of rapid footsteps came from outside, and a general came in and bowed to Dayan Khan and said: "I will pay my respects to the Great Khan."
Dayan Khan saw a bright light flashing in the other person's eyes and said with some expectation: "Mengcha, is it true that my son has received good news and has completely wiped out Li Huan's troops?"
Meng Cha was one of the generals he sent to Tulu Borot, so when they saw Meng Cha return, the first thing Dayan Khan and others thought was that Tulu Borot had annihilated Li Huan's troops according to his plan.
, is about to return with a great victory.
There are only about 70,000 people under his command, which is more or less. There is no problem in confronting Wang Yangming's troops, but if he wants to attack by force, he is unable to do so.
If he could get help from Tulu Borot's 30,000 elite soldiers who returned from victory, he could give it a go and attack the Ming army's camp.
This was Dayan Khan's previous plan, and everyone present knew it, so everyone was looking at Mengcha who was kneeling there.
Being stared at by everyone, Meng Cha had a faint cold sweat on his forehead. He took a deep breath and said to Dayan Khan: "To report to the Great Khan, His Highness the Prince sent someone back to report to the Great Khan. Li Huan's troops
He is extremely cunning and will not confront us in the face of our fierce attack. The prince cannot guarantee that he can annihilate the opponent in a short time, so I beg the Great Khan to give the prince ample time..."
Originally, everyone had great expectations for Mengcha. After all, Tulu Borot took away 30,000 elite men directly under Dayan Khan. In addition, several Dharma kings were also helping in the army. In everyone's eyes, Tulu Borot took away
It is definitely not a problem for Boluot to capture Li Huan's headquarters.
But now Mengcha actually told them that Tulu Boluot was helpless against Li Huan's troops. How could this not disappoint everyone?
Even Dayan Khan couldn't help but show anger on his face, and felt a little disappointed in Tulu Borot in his heart.
However, Dayan Khan took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart and stared at Meng Cha: "Meng Cha, what is the strength of Li Huan's troops?"
Meng Cha smiled bitterly when he heard this and said: "Back to the Great Khan, we really don't know the strength of Li Huan's troops!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone couldn't help but open their eyes wide and looked at Meng Cha with blank faces, as if they couldn't believe what Meng Cha said.