roccoschili Chapter 285 Victory
Chapter 285 Victory
The rebels, who were fighting fiercely with the criminal army, were suddenly attacked by thousands of cavalry in the north and immediately collapsed.
The criminal army forcibly broke through the army formation, killed them fiercely, and surrounded them in circles.
Of the criminal soldiers who escaped, only a thousand or so were left back in the barracks, and they closed the city gates tightly.
The criminal army's mission is to resist this group of rebels.
The remaining 30,000 southern soldiers, 40,000 Beijing troops, 10,000 temporary troops, as well as the book boys, the firearms battalion, and more than 80,000 soldiers and horses, continued to divide and surround, and deal with the barbarian cavalry who had lost their speed one by one.
Finally, several thousand cavalrymen in the formation fought hard and rushed out of the chaotic and surrounded army.
But they ran straight to the west without looking back, and did not even dare to go to the north because their military camp was blocked by the cavalry of the Dawu Kingdom.
Aturu watched the battlefield in the south with his own eyes, and saw only groups of scattered soldiers running westward, not even daring to return to the barracks.
The other tens of thousands of cavalrymen did not come out from beginning to end until noon.
Instead, wait until all the troops of the Dawu Kingdom are finished.
Teams of Dawu soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield.
Batches of barbarian cavalry were now taken captive and escorted out.
This battle made all the soldiers of the Dawu Kingdom cheer. They won, they really won.
Who would have thought that they had similar military strength to the barbarians, but most of them were infantry, and they actually defeated the cavalry.
Moreover, the cavalry had no way to escape and could only die in battle or surrender.
If you tell this to others, who would dare to believe it? These were cavalrymen who were defeated on flat ground.
Ning Yi saw that the battle was almost over and said with a smile: "Haifeng, you said the barbarian cavalry is strong?"
"That's it?"
Qin Haifeng was also staring with his eyes wide open. He still couldn't understand why the simple and weak hollow square formation trained by His Highness could actually wipe out so many cavalrymen.
"Next, it's time to clean up that old guy Aturu's camp."
Although Qin Haifeng was shocked, he still said, "Your Highness, although the army has won, they are exhausted. Why don't we have lunch first and then launch the attack?"
"After all, the barbarians still have over 20,000 cavalrymen. They should not be underestimated."
Ning Yi shook his head: "There's no need to storm with a large army. We just need to get close to their camp and fire a few more arrows into it, and the old fox will run away on his own."
"It's not too late to eat after we send him away."
Qin Haifeng thought about it and gave an order on the spot, asking the army to approach the barbarian camp, but not to attack by force, and just to shoot arrows.
The army was now extremely excited. The southern army, which had only the 30,000 soldiers in front and had the shortest time on the battlefield, approached the barbarian camp and kept shooting arrows into it.
Aturu really couldn't accept this reality, as he had only 100,000 elite cavalrymen.
How could so many people be killed in such a short time? There were less than 20,000 cavalrymen left around him.
Looking at the tens of thousands of infantrymen of the Dawu Kingdom approaching and continuously shooting arrows into the military camp, he felt his teeth itching.
In the past, if these infantry dared to approach the camp, the cavalry would have rushed out to deal with them.
But Aturu didn't dare to do it now, because the cavalry of the Dawu Kingdom were still watching him closely.
Staying here would be pointless and would even result in more casualties.
He gave an order on the spot for everyone to mount their horses and head north.
The barbarian army fled, and the soldiers of the Dawu Kingdom did not pursue them because they were all too tired.
However, a large amount of military rations and horse fodder were found in the barbarian camp.
There were even tens of thousands of war horses.
These were the supplies that Aturu's 100,000-strong army was planning to consume here for a long time, and they were all confiscated by Ning Yi.
There were even nearly 10,000 able-bodied men and more than a thousand rebels who were all captured.
The entire battlefield was cleared in the afternoon, and a total of 50,000 barbarian prisoners were captured.
Ning Yi really wanted to kill them all, but he also knew that killing too many people was not a good thing.
They had no choice but to pull out the officers and chop them to death, and deal with the wounded soldiers.
The others were taken as prisoners and only needed to be dealt with by a group of menial soldiers.
The seven or eight thousand captured rebels were screened and imprisoned together with the prisoners captured under the city wall a few days ago.
As for the war horses, there were more than 100,000 of them, which shocked Ning Yi. Such a large number of captured horses was indeed terrifying.
There is nothing much to say. Except for the injured horses, all the other good horses were selected and raised first, and then sent to the base one after another.
Even if the last few war horses were eliminated, they were still good animals.
Of course, they suffered heavy casualties in this decisive battle.
The casualties reached more than 10,000, especially among the infantry in the hollow square formation.
Fortunately, we won the battle, and we immediately ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield and treat the wounded quickly.
The cavalry suffered more than 6,000 casualties.
Fortunately, most of them were injured, and Ning Yi immediately sent people to treat them.
He told Qin Haifeng: "These wounded soldiers must be taken good care of. Once they recover, they will all be our soldiers."
Qin Haifeng was very surprised. He finally understood why His Highness always said that if he wanted to really take over the Northwest Cavalry, he had to fight a big battle.
The feeling is that he wants to let them get hurt first, and then reorganize them under his command after their injuries have healed.
Qin Haifeng was quite impressed. This prince was indeed extraordinary.
The war has come to this point, and he is still thinking about gaining benefits for himself.
It’s no wonder that if these thousands of wounded soldiers are treated, except for the disabled ones, they will all be good cavalrymen.
The infantry suffered the most casualties among the 30,000 southern troops of the Beijing Camp. They were the first to come into contact with the attack of the barbarian cavalry and suffered the heaviest casualties.
There was even a guard with 5,000 soldiers, but only 2,000 were killed, almost half of them.
On the contrary, the criminal army at the forefront suffered relatively few casualties. They were all wearing armor and fighting fiercely with a group of rebels, which was actually not very difficult.
Ning Yi first settled the wounded soldiers and then began to prepare to reorganize the Beijing camp.
After all, the Beijing Army had 30,000 soldiers, and nearly 8,000 of them were killed. With such a large force of over 10,000, three of the guards were almost no longer an army.
For several days afterward, post-war issues continued to be resolved.
He forcibly merged the troops of these three guards into two guards.
They also randomly stuffed in the border troops who had performed well among the criminal troops.
He even forced the tenth batch of servants in. After various integrations, these three guards became his private army.
In name, it is to continue to maintain combat effectiveness, but in fact it is just continuous swallowing.
But you can't say that on the surface. You even forcibly promoted an injured guard commander and sent him to the capital.
He asked the emperor for soldiers again, saying that the losses after this battle were too great and they needed to be replenished as soon as possible.
The barbarian army has suffered a great loss and will surely move south quickly. By then he won't be able to hold on.
At the same time, Ning Yi would not miss the opportunity to expand his army while he had weapons, food and money.
Tens of thousands of people were quickly selected from the captured rebels.
There were even thousands of people selected from the miscellaneous border troops who had escaped and performed well, and combined with the good performance of the criminal army, the two armies were merged.
In order to take power as quickly as possible, the ninth batch of servants who were supposed to enter the Firearms Camp, as well as the tenth batch of servants who had been trained for less than half a year, were all sent in.
Although this was done hastily, after training, the army was definitely not as stable as other armies.
But that was also a large army. Ning Yi felt that it was a rare opportunity to use the money and food from the court to support his own private army.