The answer is that the Ming army set fire to them one by one, and the reputation of the Mongolian cavalry disappeared in the raging flames along with various armors.
We all know that the Yuan Dynasty The process of establishment is the process of conquest and massacre. From the time Temujin established the Great Mongol Kingdom to the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty. During this period, every battle would be won and every attack would be victorious. All the remains are ashes and corpses, which can be said to have destroyed the country countless times. However, less than a hundred years later, the Yuan Dynasty (Northern Yuan Dynasty), which withdrew from the Central Plains, suffered an unprecedented defeat. Since then, the various Mongolian tribes have fallen into continuous internal strife and no longer pose a threat to the Central Plains dynasty. This fiasco was called the "Jingkang Shame" of the Yuan Dynasty by later generations.
It is said that after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, although the Mongols lost their rule over the Central Plains, they still had great influence in the northern grassland areas. At that time, many areas in mainland China, such as Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, etc., were still in the hands of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, and the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were always the main threat to the new Ming Dynasty. In this case, in 1387, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang took Lanyu as his general and led an army of 150,000 out of the fortress, completely annihilating the desert and annihilating the small court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
According to historical records, the Ming army led by Lanyu once conducted raids on the south bank of Erhai Lake in Yuyue. At this time, Tan Malai confirmed that the small court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was more than 80 miles northeast of Diaoer Lake and ordered to take a piece of body armor and go straight to its camp. At the end of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Tuogu Sitamur and his officials believed that the Ming army was not familiar with the terrain and would have difficulty finding the location of the water source. They would never kill them so quickly. The Ming Army God quietly approached and launched a surprise attack.
The Beiyuan army was unprepared and had no time to line up, and collapsed at the first touch. Thousands of people died in the chaos. Except for a few missing fish, the main force of the Northern Yuan army was destroyed, and the small court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty was not spared. According to historical records, during the Erhai Battle of Fishing and Hunting, the Ming army captured more than a hundred slaves, concubines, princesses and other people living under the second son's land. He also captured more than 3,000 officials and subordinates of King Wu, Dali Ma and Pingzhang, more than 77,000 men and women, as well as more than 150,000 precious seals, Fuxi gold medals, gold and silver seals, horses, camels, cattle and sheep. When this good news was passed to Yingtian Mansion (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province), Zhu Yuanzhang, the ancestor of the Ming Dynasty, was very happy and issued an edict to him. He also compared Lan Yu to Wei Qing in the Han Dynasty and Li Jing in the Tang Dynasty.
History is ruthless, and a large number of royal family members were imprisoned in the Yuan Dynasty. This is similar to the "Jingkang Shame" in the late Northern Song Dynasty, so it is also called the "Jingkang Shame" in the Yuan Dynasty. These people include the wife of the late emperor Aiyou Zhili Dala, the queen and concubines of the current monarch, the second son Baonu and the princess of the land, etc. There are 2,999 senior officials and dignitaries in the country who have become prisoners. It is worth mentioning that the Ming army also captured Dorje, the king of Northern Yuan Dynasty, while fishing in Erhai Lake.
Dole is only the descendant of Genghis Khan and his mother's brother Hachuan. His capture of the hereditary fiefs meant that Genghis Khan's personal enfeoffment of the Khachivin Khanate suffered a devastating blow. Only the last emperor Tugustimur, Prince Tianbaonu and a few of his followers escaped from the encirclement with ten horses. It is said that after the fall of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Lan Yu captured gold, silver, jewelry and countless livestock captives. While looking at the gold and silver in Beiyuan Palace, I saw a beautiful noble concubine named Wu Yunqi. Lan Yu fell in love with her and ordered his entourage to bring the concubine to his room at night. In the end, Concubine Yuan could not bear the humiliation and committed suicide.
After that, the Ming army sent elite cavalry to pursue them for more than a thousand miles. Yu Tongyuan, the commander of the Ming Dynasty, fought all the way to the Clunemi River. As a result, he retreated. After the battle, Sapphire ordered all the armored prisoners to move away from the bodies as a precaution. In this way, various armors and leather armors piled up on the ground to form a hill. The Ming army set fire to destroy them one by one, and the reputation of the Mongolian cavalry also disappeared in the flames along with various armors. The Battle of Diaoerhai caused the Beiyuan nobles to suffer their greatest defeat. If they had any hope of reviving their military strength and controlling the Central Plains before this, this hope has been completely shattered now. Since the death of Togu Si Timur, Inner Mongolia has begun to fall into continuous civil strife. Although there were several unifications, they did not pose a subversive threat to the Ming Dynasty.