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Chapter 91: Small Victory (Updated! Please subscribe!)

  The Ming army was shocked, the Yuan army was stunned, and then came the Ming army's morale-boosting bravery in killing the enemy, while the Yuan army's soldiers lost their will to fight and collapsed without a fight.

  There were two people with unbelievable expressions on their faces, one was the commander of the Ming army, Tang He. He had thought that after the crime camp came over, they would jointly defend against the Yuan army with the Ming soldiers and slowly devour them, but unexpectedly, Dugu Song actually gave him a beheading action, and in one move, he killed Ma Na, how could this not make him ecstatic?

  Another person was the deputy commander of the Northern Yuan cavalry, Hamer. He never thought that Dugu Song would really dare to kill Ma Naihai. According to past precedents in battles with the Ming army, any surrounded Yuan general would be captured and persuaded to surrender, and only if they refused to surrender would they be beheaded as a warning to others. But now, Ma Naihai, the second most powerful military officer of the Northern Yuan after Ping Zhang Zhengshi, was beheaded by Dugu Song like killing a chicken.

  But now he can't help but face the reality that their actions tonight have completely failed. At the moment of Manao's death, the morale of the Yuan army had already collapsed. As the deputy commander of the cavalry, he must lead his men to break through the siege. He no longer has the mood to dwell on Manao's death. The living Northern Yuan Iron Cavalry is what his empire needs.

  "Troops, listen to the order, mount and break through!" When shouting out this sentence, Ha Ma was so heartbroken, because many, many of the Yuanyi soldiers were fighting on foot, wanting them to hastily mount and retreat was simply impossible, and the Ming army would not allow the enemy to slip away under their noses. These people naturally became the objects of slaughter by the Ming army, their role was to delay the pursuit of the Ming army...

  "Give that commanding guy an arrow!" Dugu Song, with narrowed eyes, held up the head of Ma Nao and studied it carefully, without lifting his head, instructing a one-eyed man beside him.

  "Whoosh!" A swift arrow shot out like lightning, but unfortunately was blocked by Hammer's personal bodyguard with his own body. The one-eyed man swung his fist in frustration, and at this moment, if Zhang Feng were here, he would recognize that the one-eyed man was actually Ding Wu, the second master of North Mountain.

  And by Ding Wu's side was Tie Shan, the two of them were now also members of the 5,000-strong army in the Sinister Camp. Ding Wu had gained Dugu Xiong's appreciation with his exceptional archery skills and the two served as Dugu Xiong's guards, but from then on, there was no sign of Li Shui...

  The Mongol army began to break through in a state of panic, and the inevitable trampling of their own infantry occurred. Many Mongolian soldiers were trampled to death by their own cavalry, but at this time of escaping for life, no one cared about this. Hamer only wanted to lead the remaining cavalry to break through.

  At this moment, at the main gate of the big camp, Wang Bi and Cao Xing were still desperately killing enemies, and their 10,000 soldiers had lost more than half.

  Suddenly, the two of them heard what sounded like cheers coming from the front lines of the enemy army. The voices seemed to be those of their own Ming soldiers, and at that moment, the Northern Yuan cavalrymen they were fighting also seemed to have received some news, as their tight formation revealed gaps and the soldiers became flustered.

  Although Wang Bi and the others did not know what had happened, judging from the looks of it, their side, the Ming army, must have won; otherwise, why would the faces of the Yuan soldiers be so flustered?

  "Follow me, men! The Northern Yuan dogs are done for! Charge!" Waving his twin blades, Wang Bi, who had just said he was short of strength, suddenly seemed to have taken some powerful medicine. His two blades flashed up and down, scattering rays of light as he charged into the enemy's formation, beginning a reckless slaughter.

  Watching Wang Bi rush forward, Cao Xing's blood rushed to his forehead, and at his age, he also shouted loudly like Wang Bi and rushed forward. The remaining soldiers saw that their general was so desperate, what were they waiting for? One by one, they went crazy and killed the enemy in front of them.

  This suddenly disrupted the formation of the Yuan army's rear, killing them off guard, and many of the Yuan soldiers were still reeling from the news that their commander had been killed, only to be slaughtered by Wang Bi and his men, with many people unable to fight back in time.

  "Mana is dead! Mana is dead!" The distant shouting came in waves, and Wang Bi, who was still chopping people, finally knew why the Yuan army's morale had collapsed, and his hands moved even more swiftly.

  The shout was naturally from the order of the Ming army officer, who was chasing and killing the cavalry while shouting "Ma Na is dead" to affect the morale of the Northern Yuan people. Now it seems that the effect is obvious, many Yuan soldiers have lost their will to resist, and countless people threw away their weapons, got off their horses and surrendered...

  "Charge! Get out of here, charge!" Hammer's voice was hoarse from shouting. The small number of cavalry finally broke through to the front gate of the main camp. Wang Bi and others' legs were too lazy to catch up with them, they could only let them gallop away. However, the remaining Yuan soldiers who had lost their horses were still sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Wang Bi sneered again and charged into the crowd once more.

  The battle lasted for three hours, and it wasn't until the sun rose that it finally came to an end. The corpses were separated into two piles, one for the Yuan army and one for the Ming army. As for the relatively clean horse meat, it was all added to the main army's breakfast by the Fire Head Army.

  The fierce fire burned, two mountains of corpses turned into two gray hills, the wind blew and the ashes scattered, leaving behind pieces of broken bones...

  In the big camp, Tang He was gathering to celebrate this great victory. Dugu Song, this meritorious general, did not attend, and the other generals tacitly did not mention him. Only Fu Yongde sent a messenger over.

  "General! The Commander-in-Chief has awarded a prize of meat rations for meritorious service. This battle will be recorded as a great achievement for the Sinew Camp!"

  The horse meat was delivered, but the merits of Tang and Xu Nuo's battle disappeared without a trace. Not even one official came to record their achievements, and Dugu Song didn't ask about it either...

  "Marshal! This time our army has won a great victory, beheading over 20,000 and capturing over 20,000 more. We also seized over 30,000 war horses. If the camp hadn't been breached and the war horses hadn't scattered all over the place, I think we could have gotten over 10,000 more!" Zhao Yong said with a big laugh.

  "Having gained so much, what about the losses? Old Zhao, you continue, don't just report the good news and not the worries."

  "We lost 5,000 out of 20,000 soldiers, Old Wang's two units lost 3,000, Old Yu's unit lost 5,000, and the Sinew Camp lost over 1,000. Zhao Yong couldn't smile anymore, now calculating that their losses were about the same as those of the Yuan army, it could only be considered a small victory."

  "This time, I underestimated the determination of the Yuan army. I didn't expect them to actually dare to bring all their cavalry to raid our camp, resulting in significant losses for our army... All generals, listen to my orders! The army will rest and regroup for a day, and tomorrow at dawn, we will set out northwards, marching straight to Yingchang!" Tang He said loudly as he stood up.

  The generals all nodded in agreement, but at this time Fu Youde suddenly spoke up and said: "Commander-in-chief, we still have more than 20,000 prisoners of war, what should we do with these people?"

  "We'll discuss it again tomorrow! Let's all go down for now!" Tang He didn't respond directly and only put it off until tomorrow.

  "Hello!"

  Fu Yongde made a throat-slitting gesture with two fingers before leaving, the meaning of which Tang and others naturally understood. However, it was a big problem how to kill these captives and who would be responsible for killing them...

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