After discovering that the Santun camp had become a trap, the messenger hiding behind the tree silently bent down, retreated in small steps, galloped downhill quickly, ran to the bolted horse in a cold sweat, untied the reins, got on the horse and left.

Although there were not many roads in Yanshan for the march of large troops, and they were all guarded by passes, there were many paths for the sentry cavalry army, so the messenger quickly disappeared into the vast mountains.

In fact, the messenger did not go far. Since there were only 200 soldiers in the camp and there was no ability to place patrol posts around it, the messenger would only need to bypass the camp from the mountains to the north.

After less than ten miles, the messenger emerged from the mountains.

Santun Camp is only 40 miles away from Zunhua, and the messenger with three horses does not have to worry about horsepower at all, and rushes to the city of Zunhua in the first half of the night with all his strength by starlight.

The 2,000 post-Jin soldiers in Zunhua City were confronting the 200,000 Ming army in Jizhen at this time, and were on alert day and night, so the messenger soon met the defender of Zunhua City, Aixinjue Luo Shuotuo.

The Chinese New Year's Eve-year-old Shuotuo, burly, shrewd and capable, is the peak age of military generals.

Shuoto is the grandson of Nurhachi, whose father is the head of the four great beylers and the second son of Nurhachi.

Shuoto is undoubtedly the best of the third generation of Houjin. When this person was weak, he attacked the Ming Dynasty with his elders, attacked Mongolia, attacked North Korea, and attacked the Ningjin defense line.

This time to guard Zunhua, Shuotuo was to lead the Zunhua soldiers and horses as Amin's deputy commander. One in the west and one in the east, each responsible for both ends of the dumbbells.

When he heard the news that Santun Camp had been captured and Amin was attacked by the enemy in the middle of the night, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and almost thought that he had heard it wrong.

What surprised Shuotuo was not Amin, but the news of Santun Camp.

The Houjin army has been in the customs for several months, calculating the time, there are already too many soldiers and horses of King Qin from all over the Ming Kingdom, so some of the soldiers and horses are not in Jizhen in the west, but from the North China Plain in the south, and it is normal to find Amin directly.

However, the loss of the Santun camp smashed on Shuotuo's head like a thunderbolt from the sky, making him dizzy.

With a "bang", Shuoto smashed down with a punch, the candlesticks on the table jumped, the light and shadow on the walls flickered, and the room was lit and out.

"Come on, send Dongmen Niulu to see me."

Shuto, who got up from the official hat chair, kept walking around the room, his face full of solemnity, and the first thing he had to do now was to verify the authenticity of the news.

However, he himself knows that this news is most likely true: Santun Camp is 40 miles away, and he will find out if he sends someone to check, and there is no way to fake it.

After a while, seeing Niu Lu guarding the east gate entering the door, Shuo Tuo asked with a split face: "Is there a reward for the sentinel sent to the east a few days ago?" ”

Niu Lu looked puzzled: "I haven't seen anyone yesterday or today. ”

With a "snap", Shuoto was a whip on his head: "Why don't you come to report?" ”

Niu Lu was beaten stupidly, covering his bleeding forehead and not knowing what to say.

Under normal circumstances, it is not uncommon for sentinels returning from Amin to be delayed for a day and a half due to the journey. Although it took a little longer this time, it was not serious enough to alarm Shuoto?

So Niu Lu was dumbfounded.

"Someone, pass on Muerte."

Shuotuo couldn't care about this fool Niu Lu at this time, and after waving his hand to drive people out, he hurriedly sent his own personal soldier Niu Lu, hurriedly taught him the opportunity, and ordered him to take people to Santun Camp to check.

After sending Muert away, Shoto questioned the messenger carefully, and after that he went about about the house like a trapped beast.

Shoto would not have pinned his hopes on the Courier's lying, so the situation was now extremely dangerous for him.

Compared to losing the Santun camp, Amin's side is already insignificant, Amin can leave at any time, but his back road has been cut off!?

The reason why Santun Camp is a choke point is because the north of Santun Camp is Xifengkou, and the army can go all the way north along the Luanhe River Valley, solve the problem of drinking horses along the way, and then go out of the wall, go east, and then drill out of the West Liaoning Corridor to go home.

Now that someone has unknowingly exploded the chrysanthemum, the situation of the Shuotuo Department is very dangerous: it is in a state of being caught between the front and back, not to mention, even if you want to go, a series of checkpoints that were broken when you entered the customs are all east of the Santun camp, if you don't take back the Santun camp, how to go?

Or do you bite the bullet and go straight north of Zunhua into the mountains?

"No." Thinking of this, Shuoto shook his head wordlessly.

The Great Wall passes north of Zunhua are in the hands of the Ming army, although these passes are not well defended, but don't forget, now the soldiers and horses in his hands are only 2,000 lost dogs, no longer the hungry and red-eyed Eight Banners army when they entered the customs before.

A slight block is enough for the opponent.

Because once the Zunhua soldiers and horses abandon the city, then the Jizhen Ming army, which has been nervously facing each other for more than a month, will definitely chase after them...... When the time comes, there are dangerous mountains and Xiongguan in front of him, and there are countless chasing soldiers in the back, and his two thousand people can't even set up a cavalry formation in the lofty mountains and mountains of Yanshan, and the whole army will inevitably be wiped out.

"You still have to go from Santun Camp!"

Shuoto made up his mind at this moment.

The reason for his decision was simple: there were few opponents.

According to the courier's confession, the Santun camp should have been attacked by a small force, and the opponent was not enough in number, and there were no sentinels near the left of the city.

Shuotuo himself agrees with this judgment: it is impossible for a large group of men and horses to sneak past the three cities on Zunhua and Amin's side without being discovered, so the Santun camp must have been attacked by a small group of elites, maybe there was a secret passage under the city, and it was exploited by the Ming army who were familiar with the terrain.

In this way, the Shuotuo Department has a chance to retake the Santun camp and then leave.

In addition, since the opponent is not numerous, if it is really not possible, the large army can also forcibly rush in front of the Santun camp, go to the east of the corridor to join Amin's troops, and then flee together from Lengkou Pass, Baiyangyu and other passes.

Having made up his mind, Shoto began to anxiously await news from the sentinel.

As dawn approached, Murte, whose face was covered in blood and galloped back, brought the exact bad news: the Santun camp had been occupied.

At that time, a group of cavalry carrying torches ran to the city of Santun camp at night, and sent people to knock on the door, but the city saw that it could not be concealed, so they shot down a series of guns, killing several banner soldiers, not to mention, Muerte's mount was also knocked down, and he was bloodied.

When Shuotuo heard this, he didn't hesitate anymore, and immediately stood up and shouted: "Pass my general's order, the whole army will take care of it for half an hour, and then leave one Niu Lu to defend Zunhua, and the rest of the people will follow me to take down the Santun camp!" ”

With Shuotuo's order, the two thousand soldiers and horses in Zunhua City began to prepare for the whole army to leave the city as if they were boiling.

At half past six o'clock in the morning, Shuotuo led the whole army to open the east gate of Zunhua and went straight to the Santun camp 40 miles away.

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At the same moment when Shuotuo opened the city, billowing black smoke suddenly came out of the mountains and forests on the north and south sides of Zunhua.

Zunhua City, as a salient department, has been guarded by the Ming army in Jizhen for a period of time.

Not only the mountains in the north and south of Zunhua are expected to be sentinels, but also the small plains in the west of Zunhua, which are the areas where the Ming army and the Tartar cavalry infiltrate each other on weekdays.

Therefore, when a large army of 2,000 people and more than 4,000 horses rolled out, various lookouts and spies around Zunhua sent out signals to inform the direction of Jizhen: Zunhua has changed.

Sun Chengzong's close comrade-in-arms, Wu Jingluo, was given Shang Fang Sword, Prime Minister Zhulu Qinwang Dajun, and Comrade Ma Shilong, the right governor, learned the news of Shuotuo's escape for the first time in the military city of Jixian County in the later generations.

Ma Shilong is a hereditary officer of Ningxia Wei and a Hui ethnic group. Before that, he was tested by Wuju, and successively served as a guerrilla in Xuanfu and the chief officer of the Santun Battalion.

At that time, Sun Chengzong, a university scholar and a scholar of the military department, went out of Liaodong, so he recommended Ma Shilong to accompany him and serve as the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan to assist in guarding Liaodong.

In 1625, when Ma Shilong was guarding Liaodong, he mistakenly believed the words of the general Liu Bo, and sent Lu Zhijia and Li Chengxian to attack Yaozhou, but the two of them were killed and lost more than 400 people.

This incident gave Wei Zhongxian, who was fighting fiercely with the Donglin Party at that time, a big handle for the nine thousand years old, and then Sun Chengzong and Ma Shilong were all driven back to their hometown by the nine thousand years old to eat old rice.

In the change of Jisi 4 years later, when the Houjin army invaded Gyeonggi, Chongzhen was in a hurry, and he remembered the combination of the old Sun Tou who had supervised Jiliao and the Ningxia Ma Huihui who guarded the Shanhaiguan.

So these two were used again. Sun Chengzong hung up the university scholar, the title of secretary of the Ministry of War, and the prime minister Qin Wang Jun. Ma Shilong took the post of Mangui Wu Jingluo, who died in battle, was given Shang Fang Jian, and served as the commander of the capital army.

This pair of combinations is one article and one martial arts, and they cooperate tacitly. Now one guards the throat of Jizhen, and the other guards Shanhaiguan, commanding all the Qinwang Army and the resident army of Shanhaiguan.

In real history, Sun Chengzong, who was sitting in Shanhaiguan, would communicate with Ma Shilong in Jizhen in early May, and then the two sides sent troops at the same time to drive away the Houjin soldiers in Zunhua and Yongping, and Ma Shilong also fished out more than 400 heads.

And in this plane, due to the intervention of the traversal crowd, Ma Shilong encountered an unexpected situation today: Shuoto ran away?

Soon after the wolf smoke rose, the surprised Ma Jingluo received a series of sentinels: Shuo Tuozhen ran away!

By this time, Ma Shilong, who had dealt with Tartars for many years, was already a little skeptical.

Yes, it's just half-believed. At this moment, many of the generals around Ma Shilong, including the ogre ancestor Dashou, are all in a state of half-belief, could it be that Shuotuo dug a pit for everyone? Back to the carbine?

There's no way, I've been scared of the Tartars in the past few years, and everyone has to be careful.

Therefore, after full discussion and careful consideration with his subordinates, Ma Jingluo made the following prudent choice: first send 5,000 infantry to tentatively attack Zunhua City, and at the same time, send 500 cavalry to bypass Zunhua and hang behind Shuotuo to see which direction the wind is.