Chapter 367: Unfortunately, the mission was not completed, but the results were amazing
"Uncle Wencheng, Huang Taiji is so cruel!"
Fan Yubin rode on a top-grade dragon-scale horse, and fled with the Sauron dead soldiers led by Huang Taiji. He used telepathy to transmit a message to Fan Wencheng who was riding beside him.
"He is now using the military killing formation to mobilize the blood and energy of these Sauron dead soldiers with all his strength, without holding back at all. He didn't even have a break for the whole day and night."
"If this continues, this group of Sauron dead soldiers will definitely be destroyed by Huang Taiji."
"He is so ruthless in his use of troops. Could it be that he has a grudge against these Sauron dead soldiers?"
"The pursuing troops led by Li Dingguo have been left behind by our army for hundreds of miles. Once these dead soldiers of the Sauron tribe are exhausted and encounter an ambush by the Renaissance Army, what should we do?"
He and Fan Wencheng, along with several Qi Refining Realm servants and guard leaders, would naturally choose to follow Huang Taiji in order to successfully escape the pursuit of the Fuxing Army.
Fan Yubin, who possessed an innate magical weapon, knew very well that Huang Taiji, who possessed tremendous luck, would not fall so easily.
If we were to ask who among the 800,000 Tartar troops was most likely to escape from this defeat, it would undoubtedly be Huang Taiji.
In addition to the 40,000 dead Solon soldiers, the Later Jin soldiers who fled with Huang Taiji along with Fan Wencheng's uncle and nephew also included 30,000 core warriors of the Plain Yellow Banner led by Oboi himself.
These people were carried away by Huang Taiji using the military killing formation, and under the protection of the formation formed by 40,000 dead soldiers of the Sauron tribe, they fled along the way they came.
Huang Taiji chose this route to escape, of course, in order to leave the Ming Dynasty as soon as possible.
Only in this way can they return to the prairie familiar to the Tatar soldiers as soon as possible, gain home advantage, and then easily get rid of the Fuxing Army that is chasing them relentlessly.
The main reason why Huang Taiji fled at such a high speed at all costs was that the level 5 spirit birds of the Fuxing Army posed too great a threat to the fleeing Tartar soldiers.
No matter which escape route the defeated Later Jin and Mongolian soldiers chose, it was difficult for them to escape the surveillance of those level five spirit birds.
In this case, the wisest choice would be to leave the country and return to the prairie as soon as possible.
In order to avoid being hunted by the fifth-level spirit birds in the sky at any time, the Tatar soldiers who were fleeing for their lives needed to form a military formation and run away.
Only in this way can we prevent the enemy from launching siege attacks at any time, which would cause heavy losses to the soldiers.
"Master, Huang Taiji is not as kind to the dead soldiers of the Sauron tribe as you think."
Fan Wencheng patiently taught Fan Yubin, who was not yet an adult, and said, "The Sauron people have strong demon blood, and their individual combat power is too strong. They pose a great threat to the Houjin people."
"This time, Huang Taiji was planning to kill more than half of the 100,000 dead Solon soldiers he brought with him."
"Especially since Huang Taiji was defeated this time, I am afraid that I will not be able to suppress the rise of the Sauron tribe in the future. I must suppress them all the time."
"It's also fortunate that the Solon people are not very smart and have upright personalities. Otherwise, among the various Jurchen tribes in Liaodong today, it is very likely that the Houjin tribe will not be in charge."
"Huang Taiji is now desperately consuming the blood and energy of these Sauron soldiers, turning them into a tired army. He must be thinking of using Li Dingguo's sword to destroy these 40,000 dead Sauron soldiers."
"Master, you are still young, and you need to be careful because people are treacherous."
"Even if Huang Taiji's Later Jin clan takes over the nine provinces of China in the future, my Fan family must have enough backup plans and cannot pin everything on the generosity and kindness of the Later Jin clan."
"From ancient times to the present, it is not uncommon to abandon a donkey after it has done its job. It was not so bad when Huang Taiji was alive, but once he is gone, our Fan family may soon be in big trouble."
As one of the outstanding geniuses in the Fan family, Fan Wencheng has his own clear understanding and is very concerned about the resurgence of the Fan family.
"I see."
Fan Yubin suddenly realized what was going on and said to Fan Wencheng, "I understand. I will keep it in mind in the future."
"I am more familiar with the terrain here."
He raised his eyes to the nearby terrain, scanned it with his powerful divine sense, and said to Fan Wencheng, "Three hundred miles ahead is the Piantouguan Fortress. After passing this important border town, we will be not far from Laoniuwan."
"I guess the Fuxing Army's pursuers will most likely intercept us in the Piantou Pass area."
"They have so many treasure ships, and their speed going upstream at full speed must be faster than our army. After all, there is no need to take a detour along the huge Yellow River. They can just sail at full speed."
"I have a vague sense of crisis. It seems that a war is inevitable."
He turned his head and looked at the sky behind him, staring at the golden figure, his brows slightly furrowed.
There was no need to think too much about the origin of that figure, it was the level six golden eagle that Li Dingguo was riding.
It was impossible for Li Dingguo to do the same as Huang Taiji, endlessly consuming the energy and physical strength of his soldiers and using the military killing formation to launch a long-term pursuit of Huang Taiji's army.
Faced with this situation, the only way was for him to follow alone on a golden eagle and pay attention to Huang Taiji's every move.
If Fan Yubin guessed correctly, the soldiers of the Fuxing Army who were chasing Huang Taiji's army were now sailing on a large treasure ship in the Yellow River on the side.
Now that he has officially torn relations with the Ming Dynasty, it is only normal for Li Dingguo to take advantage of the opportunity to capture various important border towns in the northwestern border area of Shanxi.
In this way, the defense zone of the Fuxing Army will be expanded by tens of thousands of miles in the future, which will better block the entry of the Tatar army in the future and reduce the difficulty of the Fuxing Army's future defense.
Especially Laoniuwan and the Piantouguan fortress in front, which were entered by the Later Jin soldiers from these two places. For Li Dingguo, it is imperative to plug this loophole in the defense line in time.
As for the capture of some important border towns in Shanxi Province, what would the Ming court think?
Since the Fuxing Army has already rebelled, they certainly won’t care so much.
"Master, your guess should not be wrong. We are not here as guests in the territory of the Renaissance Army. They will naturally not send us out with formal etiquette."
"We saw six large fleets of the Fuxing Army earlier. Each fleet had sixty to seventy large treasure ships. It was too easy for them to deploy troops in the Yellow River Basin."
Fan Wencheng nodded and said to Fan Yubin, "As long as Li Dingguo is not stupid, he should have sent a large army to capture the Piantouguan Fortress in front, and then wait for us to come to him."
"Master, this is no joke. I will go and remind Huang Taiji."
After Huang Taiji was defeated twice in succession by Li Dingguo, Fan Wencheng lost his awe-inspiring attitude towards him. He used to call him the Great Khan, but now he called him by his name in private.
this is the truth.
After Huang Taiji's disastrous defeat, not only Fan Wencheng and Fan Yubin, uncle and nephew, would experience such a psychological change, but most of the generals and soldiers from the various banners of the Later Jin and Mongolia would also experience the same.
After a series of failures, Huang Taiji was no longer an invincible god, but just the ruler of the Later Jin Dynasty.
This situation, which Huang Taiji least wanted to see, would naturally happen and was unavoidable after the million-strong army led by him was defeated by the army led by Li Dingguo.
If he wanted to re-establish his absolute prestige, it would not only take a lot of time and energy to make up for it, but he would also need several big victories to re-establish his authority.
As his own life was at stake, Fan Wencheng dared not delay, and immediately urged his top-grade dragon-scale horse with all his strength, galloped to the side of Huang Taiji, and explained his guess and the location of his own army.
"Wen Cheng, I expected this a long time ago, you don't have to worry."
Huang Taiji nodded after hearing this, and after a little thought, he made a decision, "It is not appropriate to cause any more trouble at the moment. It is not appropriate to continue fighting with the Fuxing Army led by Li Dingguo. It is urgent to get out of the pass and return to the prairie as soon as possible."
"We have suffered a huge loss this time. We can only make up for it from the Ming Dynasty after we go to the northern hinterland of the Ming Dynasty and reunite with the brothers Dorgon and Duoduo."
He turned to look at Aobai who was standing silently beside him and said, "Aobai, our army must take a detour immediately."
"Not only do we need to bypass the Piantouguan Fortress ahead, we also need to bypass the Laoniuwan Fortress and exit the border away from the Yellow River basin."
"The Fuxing Army has too many treasure ships. If we continue to go north along the river, it will be very disadvantageous."
"It would be best if we take a detour through Yongquanying Fort in the northeast and avoid contact with Li Dingguo's army." The current situation is urgent, and Huang Taiji gave up his previous idea of using Li Dingguo's Renaissance Army to wipe out all the dead soldiers of the Sauron tribe.
If you keep playing like this, you might even lose your life.
After making the decision, Huang Taiji, as the master of the military killing formation here, immediately turned his Qi and changed the direction of the army's advance, and soon disappeared into the mountains in the east.
It is quite dangerous to change the marching route here.
Apart from the flat land in the Yellow River Basin, there are all kinds of large and small mountains nearby. If you want to take a detour, you must cross some huge mountains.
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"Huang Taiji led his army to flee eastwards, bypassing the Yellow River."
"This guy is really cunning and not so easy to deal with."
Li Dingguo, who was following Huang Taiji's army in the sky behind, shook his head helplessly as he watched the enemy's advance direction change.
It's not that he didn't want to destroy the defeated army led by Huang Taiji, but that he was powerless to do so.
While escaping, Huang Taiji never disbanded the military killing formation and fled at an extremely fast speed. However, he could not be as cruel as Huang Taiji and desperately squeeze the potential of the soldiers of the Fuxing Army.
If Huang Taiji maintained the military killing formation and marched thousands of miles quickly, it would easily damage the foundation of the soldiers, which would be difficult to make up for in the future.
Although Li Dingguo brought some elixirs of various levels that could quickly restore the soldiers' condition, it was impossible for him to supply nearly 100,000 soldiers.
If the number of soldiers accompanying them was not enough, they would not be able to defeat the tens of thousands of elite troops led by Huang Taiji even if they caught up.
Faced with Huang Taiji, who was determined to escape, and the 70,000 elite Tatar soldiers led by him, Li Dingguo really had no other options.
The fundamental reason is that the current Jin Province is not under the control of the Fuxing Army.
If the northern part of Shanxi Province was under the control of the Fuxing Army, they could block the enemy's escape route to the north at any time, and then mobilize a large army to completely destroy the 800,000-strong army led by Huang Taiji.
Knowing that he could not kill Huang Taiji this time, Li Dingguo did not let them escape. He still followed them in the sky on his Dajin horse to see if he could find an opportunity to strike.
Even if we cannot kill Huang Taiji himself, killing some of the Later Jin Tartars would be good too.
Something happened that surprised Li Dingguo: Huang Taiji led his 70,000 troops in formation and was incredibly lucky. Not only did they have a smooth journey, they didn't even encounter any large groups of monsters and demons along the way!
This made Li Dingguo, who was monitoring the situation from high in the air at all times, very depressed.
Whenever the other side encountered a large group of demons and monsters and the two sides engaged in a war, Li Dingguo would undoubtedly have an opportunity to take advantage of it, or at least kill some Tartar soldiers.
"The great fortune that Huang Taiji possesses is no joke."
Li Dingguo shook his head secretly, "Under such circumstances, he was able to turn danger into safety time and time again. It's really not his destiny to die."
Although he had expected it, after witnessing it all with his own eyes, Li Dingguo gained a deeper understanding of the mysterious destiny.
Li Dingguo did not find an opportunity to take action until Huang Taiji led 70,000 exhausted Tartar soldiers successfully out of the dilapidated Yongquan Fort and disappeared into the vast grassland.
Li Dingguo was speechless. Knowing that Huang Taiji had escaped successfully, he did not continue to track him and returned to the Laoniuwan Fortress in the west.
If things go as expected, the remaining defeated troops of the Later Jin and Mongolian Tartars, those Tartar soldiers who are fleeing in all directions, will not be as lucky as Huang Taiji.
According to conservative estimates, it is already very good that 200,000 Tatars were able to escape this time.
In any case, the first war between the two sides lasted less than a month, and the Restoration Army won an unprecedented great victory.
The western army led by Huang Taiji himself was composed of 800,000 Tatar combat soldiers, 100,000 logistics battalion soldiers, and 100,000 Han Three Banners Firearms Battalion soldiers, a full million-strong army.
As a result, after suffering a great defeat, only 200,000 Manchu and Mongolian soldiers escaped.
This was the first time that the Later Jin clan suffered such a serious loss.
Once the results of this war spread throughout the world, it is bound to cause an uproar.
The Fuxing Army will also take advantage of the victory of this great war to become a top force that can compete with the Later Jin clan and the Ming Dynasty, and officially step onto the stage of history.
When Li Dingguo rode the golden eagle back to the Laoniuwan Fortress, the gateway to the south of the Yellow River, he found, as he had expected, that this crucial fortress had fallen into the hands of the Fuxing Army.
A day ago, the Suzaku Legion, sailing upstream in a large fleet, arrived at this large port town and easily captured this border fortress town in the northwest of Jin Province in one battle.
From then on, all the checkpoints and fortresses where the Yellow River enters the country were controlled by the Fuxing Army, which played a very important role in future defense.
According to the latest intelligence, the Pixiu Corps led by Cao Bianjiao and the Taotie Corps led by You Shilu have completely occupied the vast grassland area west of the Yellow River on the Dongtao Plain and wiped out all the large and small Tatar tribes living there.
Until now, the entire Dongtao Plain has completely fallen into the control of the Renaissance Army and has become its true base.
Cao Bianjiao and You Shilu are indeed worthy of their reputation. After stepping onto the big stage of the Fuxing Army where they can fully display their talents, the abilities they displayed are more than ten times better than when they were in the Ming Dynasty official army!
In just three or four months, the 180,000 elite cavalry soldiers led by the two men doubled the territory occupied by the Fusion Army in the northern prairie!
If this astonishing achievement were to be known to the various forces within the Ming Dynasty, it would surely cause an uproar!
When did the ferocious Mongolian Tartars become so vulnerable?
The latest intelligence Li Dingguo received said that Cao Bianjiao and You Shilu were now killing madly.
After they led their soldiers to finish the sweeping operation on the eastern part of the Dongtao Plain, they immediately boarded a large fleet to the north, preparing to sweep across the 100,000-mile grassland to the north of the Dongtao Plain!
According to the plan previously set by Li Dingguo, after completing regular combat training, their two legions began a new round of large-scale military expansion.
A few days ago, their two major legions each received 90,000 new warriors from the interior, and were currently expanding and reorganizing their forces while heading north.
As for the large number of spiritual beasts and war horses needed for the expansion of the army, their two main combat corps have destroyed so many Tatar tribes in the past three or four months and seized a large number of spiritual beasts and war horses, which are enough for the soldiers to use after the expansion of the army.
After waiting for ten days or half a month, when their new round of military expansion is completed, they will launch a sweeping operation on the northern prairie, and their efficiency will undoubtedly double again.
After three to five years, it would not be impossible to accomplish what Cao Bianjiao said about expanding the territory of a million miles for the Fuxing Army.
Although there were innumerable Tartar tribes of all sizes in the northern prairie, they were scattered and could not stop the two main combat corps led by Cao Bianjiao and You Shilu from sweeping across the country.
For both of them, there was nothing more exciting than this.
There is no doubt that once the desired goal is achieved, the two will be remembered in history.
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"Great Commander!"
As soon as Li Dingguo arrived at the City Lord's Mansion of Laoniuwan Fortress, Wei Jinfan came to report, "Our six legions have basically completed this round of pursuit mission."
"The preliminary statistics of our intelligence department show that the number of Tartar soldiers who were able to successfully escape our army's pursuit, including the 70,000 troops led by Huang Taiji and Aobai, will not exceed 180,000 in total."
"After the war and during the pursuit, our army collected more than a million spiritual beasts and horses!"
"Among them, there are even more than 300 dragon-scale horses, most of which are low-quality dragon-scale horses. The number of mid-quality and high-quality dragon-scale horses combined is less than 30."
"As for the top-grade dragon-scale horse, I didn't get it."
"Of the large fleet assembled by the Shanxi merchants, three of the top-grade treasure ships were all captured by our army. Only five of the medium-grade treasure ships were rescued in time. The remaining medium-grade and low-grade treasure ships were all sunk by our army in the battle and sank into the surging Yellow River."
"Fortunately, the important materials brought by the Tartar army were basically not lost, including all the spiritual energy cannons, crossbow carts, soul beads, magic cores, spiritual food and cultivation resources that accompanied the army. They were all loaded on the three high-quality treasure ships and were seized intact by our army."
"This means that the various resources consumed in our war have not only been compensated, but have also been multiplied."
There is no doubt that the Fuxing Army made a fortune after winning this great battle with the Later Jin clan.
(End of this chapter)
