The cold land of western Liaoning, the vast mountains and fields of the northeast, the rolling cavalry troops, and the overwhelming rout in the rear...... All of this together formed the end of the great battle that took place at the end of 1631.

Li Jichun took the lead and ran in front of the array.

Lord Li was so panicked, not because he was afraid of death, but because he had to run in time to contact his subordinates in order to seize the opportunity in the next battle.

Thanks to the previous continuous telegrams and the sand table deduction made with the staff team, Li Jichun is now very clear about the battlefield situation.

If before the start of the war, someone still had reservations about the previous homework, now Li Jichun no longer has the slightest doubt: everything that happened today was expected by those telegrams about the war situation!

So Master Li was the first to turn in. He had to follow the plan and make contact with the ambush in the rear as quickly as possible. In this way, in this rout drama, it is possible for the Spring Thunder Battalion to stage a drag-and-drop plan and go home with a big fortune.

So where are the ambushes?

When reporting before, Li Jichun claimed to have 500 fine riders. However, when he entered the customs, he had 900 subordinates...... The remaining 400 people ran away on the road? Joke, those people stayed behind the battlefield and went to find the preset positions!

In this way, at the first moment of the rout, Li Jichun's division, which was located at the southernmost end of the battlefield, began a fleeing journey with full men and a strict formation. Because the whole army had one person and two horses, the speed of the 500 transfer into the army was very fast, and it ran to the foot of the west mountain in a short time.

Xishan, located in the east of Jinzhou, is a mountainous terrain composed of Baicao, Siding and other mountains, and the location happens to be in the middle of the Xiaoling River.

In other words, the location of the battle between the Ming and Jin sides is actually not far from Xishan, just between Xishan and Dalinghe Fort. When marching before, the army also passed by the western mountain. So when Li Jichunbu ran from east to west at this moment, he soon arrived at the foot of the West Mountain.

"Woo...... All the army stopped! ”

As the earth-shattering shouts behind him became farther and farther away, the main force of the Spring Thunder Battalion, which passed through a field, was facing a large pine and birch forest at the foot of the West Mountain at this moment. Probably got the hint of the four-character mantra of "Fenglin Mo enters", Li Jichun immediately reined in the horse, raised his hand and ordered his subordinates to stop.

In fact, "every forest is not in" is only one of the reasons. The real reason for stopping the Chunlei Battalion was because this place was the first contact point that Li Jichun and the follow-up troops had discussed.

"Contact, hurry up!"

The panting General Li didn't wait for his crotch to stop his horse, so he shouted loudly: "It's here that you are near, quickly contact Feng Shiming with the general!" ”

Feng Shiming belonged to the earliest group of officers of the Guards Battalion. Because of his age, he was sent to Hebei by the base camp last year to become a member of Li Jichun's staff team and serve as an adjutant of the Chunlei Battalion. This time, Feng Shiming, who was good at reconnaissance and mapping, was responsible for leading the remaining 400 soldiers in the rear.

The signal soldier, who was located at the core of Li Jichun's side and carried a military telegraph on his back, immediately turned on the machine when he heard the words and tried to contact Feng Shiming's department.

After hearing the "beep" sound of the iron box, Li Jichun, who was anxious, subconsciously shook the horsewhip and kept looking at the surrounding terrain.

It's no wonder that the ginseng general is full of anxiety. Although he still doesn't understand the principle of electromagnetism, he knows that walkie-talkies are easy to communicate in mountainous conditions, which is what Li Jichun is most afraid of.

After the Chunlei Battalion arrived in Jinzhou, according to the prior deduction and combined with the topographical data of the field investigation, all the staff officers, including Li Jichun, finally unanimously decided: Assuming that the Ming army was defeated and Huang Taiji set up an ambush in advance, the location of the ambush troops would definitely be in Xishan.

The location of the West Hill is very important. The mountain range with a radius of more than 20 kilometers happened to be sandwiched between most of the Ming army together with Dalinghe Fort. At this moment, if the defeated Ming army wants to flee back to Jinzhou, the nearest stronghold, then it must pass through Xishan.

At that time, the rout army, which had been in a hurry for one or twenty miles to the west, suddenly saw the Houjin cavalry killed in front of them when they were sleepy and lacking their armor...... The picture is too beautiful to think.

Li Jichun thought to himself, if he changed his home and wanted to throw ambush soldiers, he would also be in Xishan.

And this inference is the source of his anxious mentality at the moment: according to the pre-plan, after Li Jichun's troops set out to participate in the battle, Feng Shiming's troops will lurk in the Xishan area, and do their best to detect the possible ambush location of Houjin.

Therefore, Li Jichun, who ran away to the foot of the West Mountain, now urgently needs to contact Feng Shiming's department in order to obtain specific information about the enemy ambush with a high probability.

This is also the reason why he is not in the forest: the ghost knows what is in the forest? The advantage of the Chunlei battalion is the musket, and Li Jichun will not rashly let the troops drill into the forest unless his head is kicked by a donkey.

However, the heavens did not grant people's wishes. Although the general was extremely anxious, five minutes after the machine was turned on, the signal corps still did not contact Feng Shiming's department.

Due to the long distance, the battlefield shouts that had reached Li Jichun's ears before had turned into a faint roar. But after 5 minutes passed, Li Jichun felt that the roar in his ears became clearer and clearer. He knew that the forward of the Ming army, which had been left behind, had approached Xishan.

This ominous judgment made Li Jichun seem to smell the smell of a corpse, so he immediately ordered after a stirring: "Don't wait, go around the forest!" ”

At this moment, the hunter and the prey are changing identities at any time. The 500 people in the Chunlei Camp wanted to take millet from the fire, and now they have become prey without information superiority, and their situation is in an extremely dangerous state.

General Li knew very well that as the rear battlefield approached, it would be too late if he didn't leave. He was very worried that he had already entered the attack range of the enemy's ambush, and if the enemy cavalry rushed out of the side of the road in the next moment, Li Jichun would not be surprised at all.

The reason why the ambush did not rush out now may be because it is indeed far away from the attack range, and it is more likely that because most of the Ming army has not arrived, the ambush soldiers held back and did not make a move.

The identities of the hunter and the prey were blurred, which made someone have to order the troops to abandon the first point of contact and continue in the direction of Jinzhou.

In fact, this order is also within the plan.

Li Jichun received a strategic request from the General Staff in advance: Give priority to self-preservation, and second, consider subduing the enemy and training the troops. In other words, today it is better not to reap any benefits, and Li Jichun will also bring the troops back in their entirety. So seeing that the momentum was not right at this moment, the main force of the Chunlei Battalion went to the direction of Jinzhou for the first time.

The world is unpredictable and unpredictable.

At the moment when the 500 cavalry of the Spring Thunder Battalion bypassed the pine birch forest and even the ridge behind the woods, the signal corps shouted in surprise on the horse: "Contacted!" ”

General Li was also pleasantly surprised, took the microphone directly after holding the reins of the horse, and shouted in plain language regardless of the communication rules: "Feng Shiming, Feng Shiming, report the location!" ”

Feng Shiming's voice soon came out through the walkie-talkie.

If you can communicate by voice, it proves that the straight-line distance between the two sides is not far. In fact, after resuming contact, Li Jichun learned that Feng Shiming's department was on a small hill about 5 miles away after the two ridges in front.

As for a certain team that both sides care about...... Feng Shiming clearly told Li Jichun: The Houjin ambush soldiers not only existed, but also the location was in the middle of the two ridges.

This is also the reason why Feng Shiming's ministry chose to stay in the current position: it can monitor the Houjin Ministry and launch an attack at any time.

The hunter and the prey changed their identities again, and the old driver Li was covered in chicken blood at this moment...... The adrenaline was pumping, and he knew his own highlight was coming.

After asking in detail about the terrain and the scale and equipment of the enemy's army, the next moment, General Li gave the order that the whole army should advance at a uniform speed and prepare for battle!

When Gualjawotu heard the report that the enemy advance was about to pass through the mountain pass, he smiled contemptuously. The big thorn sat on a stone and was not moved by the military situation: "Where is the Ming Dog Brigade?" ”

"It's really 10 miles away."

"What are these guys doing? Let it go! ”

"Huh!"

Guerjia Wotu is a person from the Yellow Flag. As a descendant of the Jurchen clan Guerjia clan, the 30-year-old Wotu is already one of the few Jiala Ezhen under the jurisdiction of Zhenghuang, which can be described as a high power.

And this time, when he came out to fight with Ming Dog, the Great Khan Emperor Taiji, who had always been close to Wotu, assigned him an important task: an ambush.

Wotu understood that this was the Great Khan's grace to him. Ambushing and fleeing the enemy, that is, there is no danger, and it is easy to capture the enemy's important people and assets, which is really the best errand.

So Wotu was very attentive and decided to do a good job of the errand assigned by the Great Khan: he took the 5 Niu Lu under his own jurisdiction, as well as the 500 elite soldiers that the Great Khan had squeezed out to him before the war, and specially made a big circle before the war and drilled in from the northern part of the West Mountain.

Today, the 2,000 elite horsemen of the Wotu Department have been in ambush for a whole day and a half in this stone ditch at the foot of the West Mountain.

Now, it's harvest time.

So, when Wotu received early in the morning that a cavalry was resting in the woods 5 miles away, he was unmoved: the news of the Ming army's rout had been reported here by the wolf smoke released from the battlefield. So when the lookout post at the height came to report, Wotu knew that this group of hundreds of cavalry must be Guan Ning's mischief who ran away in advance.

For this kind of cavalry, Wotu had no idea at all. These bastards can't fight, they run away, and the horses will slip away, which is not worth his shot.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the cavalry to restart, bypass the woods, and retreat along the foot of the mountain in the direction of Jinzhou.

After another quarter of an hour or so, the frustrated cavalry began to pass by the valley where the Ottu tribe was, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves reached Wotu's ears.

"That's not right!"

The hairs of the horses stood up at this moment: the sound of horses' hooves from outside the stone valley was neat and soothing, and it was still slowly slowing down to collect the Jurchen warriors, who were also controlling the horses in this way before the round-up every autumn hunt.

"Get on the horse, get on the horse, draw the knife!"

Just as Wotu suddenly got up and opened his mouth to roar, a series of sharp bone whistles came from the high lookout post.

However, the Houjin cavalry in the valley no longer needed to call the police at this time, because the sudden and rapid sound of horses' hooves clearly exposed the cavalry raid of the comer!