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Chapter 216 A great victory in fishing sea
My charming and short-lived ancestor:? ? ? Why don't good Han people become Annan's sons? No wonder he had to be Zhu Yuanzhang’s opponent!
His Majesty Han Xiaowu: Alas, after all, he turned out to be just a fisherman, and his experience was average.
I can't sleep at night (Guan): But they are all poor people under the oppression of the Yuan Dynasty
Who in the clouds sent me a brocade letter: Agree! So these people are very pitiful.
Crock Huadiao Chicken: He is someone who can fight Zhu Yuanzhang! How could he be a mediocre person?

Su Yue looked at the comment area and said: "Forget it, but the next battle is also related to Zhu Yuanzhang! This time it is the Battle of Yuerhai!"

Taizu of the Ming Dynasty appointed Lan Yu as a general to conquer the next major target, Tuogu Si Timur. He believed that "clearing the desert is the first step", so he asked Lan Yu not to lose the opportunity and must succeed.

In September of the 1387th year of Hongwu (), Zhu Yuanzhang, who continued his efforts, appointed General Lan Yu, Tang Shengzong and Guo Ying as left and right deputy generals, and led an army of people out of the fortress. The purpose of the battle was to completely annihilate the small imperial court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

In March of the 1388st year of Hongwu (), Lan Yu led an army of troops to march northward, and in April they came to Yuerhai (near today's Bell Lake).

In the Northern Yuan Dynasty, after Aiyou Shili Dara left Helin, he died in the eleventh year of Hongwu (1378), and Tuogusi Timur succeeded him.

In the 1388st year of Hongwu (), Togu Si Timur led his nomadic troops to the area of ​​​​the Khalkha River, Beir Lake, and Kherulun River, where they suffered an annihilating attack by the Ming army.

In the 1388st year of Hongwu (), the frontline headquarters obtained important information and found out that the small imperial court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was nomadic to the Khalkha River, Bell Lake, and Kerulen River.

Not missing the opportunity, Lan Yu personally led the army from Daning (today's Ningcheng area in Inner Mongolia) to Qingzhou (today's northwest of BLZQ in Inner Mongolia) in March of the same year. They searched all the way and finally targeted a man named "Yu'er". sea” place.

The so-called "Fishing Sea" is the ancient name of today's Bell Lake. When Genghis Khan, the Taizu of the Yuan Dynasty, enfeoffed his relatives according to the tradition of the Mongolian nomadic nobles, he enfeoffed Uluru Huihe and other places (equivalent to the Ujimqin Banner area) to the descendants of his brother Hachiwen.

The nearby fishing sea should also be the sphere of influence of Ha Chiwen's descendants.

The small court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty used the "Fishing Sea" as its residence, which shows that the descendants of Hachiwen were still loyal to the Great Khan Togusi Timur.

The soldiers "did not take off their armor and their horses would never leave their saddles" and marched along the road. On April 9, they arrived at the South Road of Wandering Souls. However, they could not find any water source here and were suddenly hungry and thirsty.

At the critical moment, the surrendered Mongolian officer Guantong discovered a spring near the camp based on his years of life experience outside the Great Wall, which solved the urgent need of the entire army.

After overcoming many obstacles, Lan Yu arrived at Baiyanquan on the 11th, which was still more than 40 miles away from Yuerhai. However, he suddenly could not detect any trace of the enemy and lost any clues.

He once misjudged, thinking that the enemy had smelled some clues and hid without a trace, wanting to withdraw his troops from this harsh environment.

But he soon changed his mind under the dissuasion of Dingyuan Marquis Wang Bi, and decided to stay where he was and see what new discoveries he made. In order not to alert the enemy, Lan Yu ordered the officers and soldiers to dig holes in the ground to cook, so as to prevent large amounts of thick smoke from rising into the sky and being seen by enemy sentries.

At dawn the next day, the Ming army searched the south bank of Yuerhai, but there was no one there and the troops stopped.

"Don't worry about drinking horses." The good news suddenly came. Lan Yu received information from the patrolling cavalry and determined that the small court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was more than eighty miles northeast of Yuerhai. He immediately ordered Wang Bi, who was eager to fight, to be the vanguard and "hold a scroll armor" until he arrived. Attack his camp.

Togu Si Timur and his ministers believed that the Ming army was not familiar with the terrain and had difficulty finding the location of the water source, so they would never attack it so quickly, so their defenses were loose.

The soldiers in the camp were leading horses and saddles, organizing baggage, and turning the heads of a large number of vehicles to the north in preparation for transfer. It happened that at this time, strong winds arose, the ground was filled with sand and dust, and the day was like darkness, which provided a good cover for the Ming army.

Wang Bi, armed with two swords and his troops, approached quietly without anyone noticing and launched a surprise attack.

The Beiyuan army was caught off guard and had no time to form a formation. Thousands of people died in the chaos. In addition, more than 77,000 people and 47,000 war horses were captured.

In addition, the Ming army's trophies included 4,840 camels, 112,452 cattle and sheep, more than 3,000 vehicles of various types, and a large number of logistical equipment.

Two powerful generals in the Central Guards directly under the small court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Taiwei Manzi and Taishi Harazhang, who had participated in the battle to defend Helin, tried their best to resist.

Among them, Manzi was killed by Guo Ying with a knife on the spot, and Harazhang's camp was also defeated by Lan Yu more than ten days later. His "15,830 households" and "48,100 horses and donkeys" More than fifty horses" were captured, and the whereabouts of Halazhang himself are unknown.

These two old officials of the Yuan Dynasty fought side by side with Lin in the past and survived in death, but they were unable to escape in the fishing sea. The Central Guards, as the main force of the regular army of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, were finally completely wiped out by the Ming army in this decisive battle.

The main force of the Beiyuan local army, Tuoyin Timur's troops, also acted like a mantis and could not escape the fate of the entire army being destroyed.

When Timur was escaping, he fell under his horse and had to lurk among the grass, but in the end he failed to escape the search of the Ming army officers.

Since then, there are no records of Wang Baobao's old troops in various historical materials. From this, we can know that this army, which started by suppressing the Red Scarf Army, has ended with the small court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in Yuerhai.

Since the main force of the Northern Yuan Dynasty had suffered a devastating blow, the small imperial court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was not spared either.

A large number of members of the royal family are behind bars, including the wife of the late monarch Aiyou Shili Dara, the concubines of the current monarch Tuogusi Timur, and his second son Dibaonu, princesses, etc. All kinds of dignitaries have become prisoners. There are two thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine people.

It is worth mentioning that the Ming army also captured Duo'er, the king of Wu in the Northern Yuan Dynasty, at Yu'erhai.

Duo'er is only a descendant of Genghis Khan and his brother Hachiwen. His capture in the hereditary fiefdom meant that the Khachivin Khanate, which Genghis Khan personally entrusted, suffered a devastating blow.

Only Togu Si Timur, Prince Tianbaonu and a few followers took advantage of the chaos to escape from the encirclement.

The Ming army dispatched fine cavalry to pursue them for more than a thousand miles. Commander Yu Tongyuan's troops fought all the way to the Kerulun River. Because they could not catch up, they withdrew. After the battle, Lan Yu ordered the captured soldiers wearing armor to remove their armor just in case.

Various types of iron armor and leather armor were piled up into hills on the ground.

The Ming army set fire to them one by one, and the reputation of the Mongolian cavalry was also destroyed in the raging flames along with various armors.

But this does not mean that the long-established Mongolian cavalry has disappeared. Whether this dispersed nomadic army can make a comeback remains to be seen by future generations.

After the Ming army set off this huge fire, they took up their positions.

Battle results
In the Battle of Yuerhai, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty lost about 100,000 people. However, the losses of the Ming army were negligible. It is said that "no troops were wasted to achieve the effect."

The Mongolian and Yuan armies that survived the Battle of Helin in the fifth year of Hongwu mainly included the armies of Manzi, Halazhang and the army that originally belonged to Timur. All of these armies participated in the fishing sea in the twenty-first year of Hongwu. battle.

Although they escaped the fate of destruction in Helin, they did not survive in Yuerhai.

First of all, the armies of Manzi and Harazhang, who were directly under the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, have been tasked with protecting the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties. The "Records of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty" records in detail their battles with the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties at Yuerhai. The process of destruction together.

Secondly, there is the expansion of Timur's army.

After the battle of Helin, Kuangkuo Timur followed Aiyu Shiridara and moved to the "Golden Mountain". Naturally, Kuangkuo Timur's army should also join forces with Aiyu Shiridara's army.

"Records of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty" records that Kuokou Tiemur "died in the Ya Ting of Harana Sea" in August of the eighth year of Hongwu.

Later, in the Battle of Yuerhai in the 21st year of Hongwu, the Ming army captured the Meng Yuan "Zhanshiyuan Tongzhi Tuoyin Timur", and Tuoyin Timur was the younger brother of Kuokou Timur. .

After this battle, there are no records in various historical materials about the army that originally belonged to Timur.

It can be seen from this that the army originally belonging to the expanded Timur, including the uninhibited Timur, had already suffered a devastating blow from the Ming army in the Yuerhai Sea.