"Ahead, our army's Western Route Army had a head-on contact with the Houjin cavalry behind the Hunhe River, and the Western Route Army led by General Du fell into the enemy's trap, resulting in a siege. The army of the Western Route was almost completely annihilated. ”

Ye Fu told Yang Hao all the details of the process.

Yang Hao didn't finish listening, his face was already like ashes, and his face was very ugly.

Although the reason for the destruction of the West Road this time is mainly due to Juniper, as the person in charge of the entire battle situation, I am afraid that he will not be able to escape responsibility.

And those sworn enemies above the court, but they all hope that something will happen to her, so that he can fall big.

"Fortunately~~~~"

Ye Fu then said.

"Thankfully, what?"

Yang Hao heard that there was still a turnaround, his whole eyes lit up, and he looked at Ye Fu and asked.

"Fortunately, General Liu of the Eastern Army led his troops to help, and the remnants of the Western Army flanked the front and rear and swallowed the five thousand cavalry of Houjin."

Ye Fu said lightly.

"Good! Good job! ”

Yang Hao immediately applauded loudly.

Although the Western Army suffered heavy losses, if it had a little credit, it would no longer be a certain death.

Yang Hao, who escaped death, was naturally extremely excited.

"Here, there is a letter from General Du."

Ye Fu took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Yang Hao.

Yang Ho couldn't wait to take the envelope, and then looked at it seriously.

"Since ~~.. The battle is already like this, so let's go back. There is no point in continuing to dwell on it. You go back and tell Liu Juan Juniper and order them to withdraw within three days. ”

After reading the letter, Yang Hao was silent for a while, and then nodded and said.

"Subordinates receive orders."

After Ye Fu received the order, he did not delay for a moment, and immediately left.

But Yang Hao is extremely anxious, this crusade, in the end, is it just a thunder and a small rain?

Then, they are all likely to be slandered by those political enemies as the crime of deception!

Thinking of this, Yang Ho was pacing back and forth in the front hall.

After a while, he entered the study and began to repair the book to the emperor.

Ye Fu, who received the order, didn't say a word, and rushed back with his subordinates. The weather is getting colder and colder, with the winter wind mixed with snowflakes.

Frostbite had already appeared in the barracks, and if it had been delayed, I am afraid that the whole army would not have died in the war, but more in the cold and hunger.

"My lord, Lord Jinglu ordered us to retreat on all fronts."

Ye Fu went straight to the Chinese army camp, dismounted and rushed into the Chinese army camp, knelt down and said to more than a dozen general soldiers such as Juniper.

"Good! This sentence is too timely. Now there is a serious shortage of grain and grass, and I am afraid that it will be a little later. We just have no more food to eat. ”

Juniper breathed a sigh of relief.

It turned out that this time, because of Ye Fu, the Western Army and the Eastern Army were able to work together to encircle and annihilate a 5,000-strong army in Houjin.

And the war horses left behind in this army, although difficult to eat, are the best food in winter.

It was with these 5,000 war horses that tens of thousands of the entire coalition army were able to fill their stomachs and wait for the order to be issued in the rear.

"Then we'll leave now?"

Juniper looked at the other generals around him and asked.

"Then can the wine go away so easily? If you don't give those tartars some color, won't they run back in the dust?"

Liu Shu snorted coldly and said unhappily.

"Then what do you want, let's go deeper?"

Everyone asked curiously.

"No, isn't he going to build a defense in Salhu? Then we will destroy his defenses. In the area of a flat river, I want to see if they are afraid or not! ”

Liu Wei shook his head and said angrily.

As soon as this idea was spoken, many soldiers and others nodded in agreement.

This expedition made them all full of anger, and if they couldn't get some bargains back this time, the anger in their hearts might not be eliminated.

So, the artillery battalions of the four armies were concentrated and moved forward.

As for the water of the Hunhe River, there is no time for the upstream to intercept it again, and the water is extremely shallow.

After crossing the Hunhe River, the artillery battalion was only bombarded by artillery fire, regardless of whether there were enemy troops behind the building.

"Bang! Boom!"

The sound of artillery fire was deafening, and the artillery fire hit the inner courtyard one after another, straight towards the half-finished building under the dark night.

Huge iron balls smashed into the stone walls and destroyed the buildings that Houjin had worked so hard to manage.

Even the rocks on the cliffs not far away were completely destroyed.

"I can't bear it anymore, what if I die here today? No matter what, I'm going to kill all this waste today!"

Nurhachi's son, Huang Taiji, was furious.

It was not that there was no one behind this cliff, on the contrary, they mistakenly thought that these Ming troops would gather together and take advantage of the darkness to go straight to the Houjin capital, so they arranged manpower to build fortifications outside of Salhu.

As long as these Ming troops dare to advance, these ambush troops will take a hard bite on these Ming troops.

It's a pity that Houjin's Nurhachi thinks too much. Let the elite troops of more than 1,000 people under his command fall victim to artillery fire.

"Shut up! The loss of our Houjin is already big enough, do you think we should continue to lose it? We have lost 7,000 warriors in a row, and if we continue to go crazy like this, we will all kill ourselves without those pigs of the Ming Dynasty attacking!"

Indeed, the predecessors of the Houjin were nomadic people, and since ancient times, there has been a tradition of getting on the horse to get off the horse for the people, so those who died were farmers.

If you continue to bury the population, you will not be able to keep up with even the most basic population supply, so how can you compete with the Ming Dynasty?

Nurhachi's words made Huang Taiji take back his anger, even if he really wanted to kill these Ming people at this time, but thinking that one of his anger might require thousands or even tens of thousands of soldiers to bury, he could only hold back.

In this war, the lack of 7,000 cavalry was enough to break their bones.

"What if they keep going? Are we watching them invade? ”

Erbeile looked at Nurhachi and asked.

"The grassland is the world of our Houjin, do you think that once they enter the grassland, their advantages will still exist?"

Nurhachi is confident that as long as Da Ming dares to set foot on the grassland, they will definitely taste it, what is fear.

It's a pity that his wishful thinking is difficult to knock. After three rounds of artillery fire. The fortifications built by Houjin were completely reduced to ashes.

The Ming army did not mean to continue to go deeper, but turned away and returned to the road where it was coming.

"What's going on? Could it be that these Ming people have arranged a traitor among us?"

Nurhachi was furious, thinking that these Ming troops would definitely enter the grassland area, and then he would be able to eat all these Ming troops with fast horses.

However, the Ming army seemed to fully understand their intentions, and after only three rounds of artillery fire, they began to retreat. There is no intention of stepping in.

"Humph! There must be someone among those generals who is secretly communicating with him!"

Huang Taiji snorted coldly, and then pointed his head at the Ming rebels present.

Among them, the people led by the generals of the Ming Dynasty began to sweat profusely.

These people are no longer human beings inside and out. It is no longer possible for Da Ming to retreat.

And after entering the wealth, Jin's status is also not high, and it can even be said that people don't regard them as their own people at all.

They do all the dangerous things. In other words, it's thankless.

"General! Our hearts can be seen by the sun and the moon! We don't have the heart to rebel!"

As a sign of loyalty, the men quickly dismounted and shouted at Nurhachi.

"Humph! I don't think so, but I think that every one of you people is suspicious!"

Huang Taiji looked down on these rebellious Ming soldiers very much, he snorted coldly, and said contemptuously.

Indeed, with the first rebellion, what is so strange about a second?

As long as it is for survival or profit, everything must be put back.

"General! You can't think of us like that! ”

The soldiers suddenly turned pale with fright, and each of them began to cry out for injustice, began to defend themselves, and stubbornly said that they were right.