It took Yue Zhen four days to capture Maying Fort, and he wanted to rest in Maying Fort for two days, but on the second day of breaking the fort, he received an urgent report from Mayi City: Laosa's army was almost completely annihilated, and it was very likely that Qin Chuan would defeat Laosa.

Yue Yu hurriedly led his troops out of Maying Fort, escorted the captives and money, grain, and finances, and marched towards Mayi City.

A day later, another urgent report came from Sanggan River: Wanyan Yechen's troops were also defeated by Qin Chuan, and they were almost completely killed and wounded.

Yue Zhen was shocked and angry, and was afraid that Qin Chuan would defeat Dai Shan with his army in Shanyin County, so he hurriedly accelerated his march and wanted to discuss countermeasures with Dai Shan's division.

After two days of driving, the whole army was exhausted, but when they were camping and resting the next day, there was suddenly an urgent report: a Ming army with about 4,000 troops had appeared in front of it, and it had set up camp twenty miles away.

Yue Zhen was shocked again, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to strengthen their defenses, and summoned his third brother Sakhalian and other generals to discuss countermeasures.

The first point to discuss is how many troops Qin Chuan has.

Before entering the customs, according to the news sent by Zhangjiakou Fort, it was learned that Qinchuan's troops were about 10,000, and when they entered the customs, they got the news that they had completely turned against the Ming court and occupied the northwest of Shanxi, including Ningwu Pass and Yatou Pass.

Moreover, he is likely to have more than 10,000 troops there, and the total strength is likely to be between 20,000 and 25,000.

However, he had to divide his troops and garrison the passes of various states and counties to prevent the Ming court from counterattacking, and also to prevent civil strife, and it was certain that a thousand troops would be stationed in one state and county, and even more troops were needed to garrison several important checkpoints and military forts.

Yue Zhi and several generals carefully calculated, and roughly estimated that Qin Chuan would have to leave at least 15,000 troops to garrison various places, and the number of troops that could fight was only about 10,000.

According to the reports of these two days, Qin Chuan had 4 to 5,000 troops when he defeated Laosa at Mayi City, and 8 to 9,000 troops when he defeated Wanyan Yechen at Sanggan River.

These eight or nine thousand people are likely to be all the troops sent by Qin Chuan, and there may be more.

In the two battles of Mayi City and Sanggan River, the number of dead and wounded should be several hundred, and after a large amount of money, food, and prisoners of Wanyan Yechen's troops fell into his hands, he also needed to divide his troops to escort him back.

In other words, Qin Chuan's strength is likely to be only eight thousand.

Now, four thousand were in their way, and the other four thousand were probably lying in ambush nearby, or were making a detour to outflank them, trying to flank them in front and back.

It's also possible to attack Daishan.

But this possibility is low, because the Daishan Department has 6,000 soldiers, all of whom are the elite of the Red Banner, compared to their partial division with the Red Flag and the Mongolian Division, the combat power is much stronger, if Qin Chuan only brought 4,000 soldiers and horses to block Daishan, it would be tantamount to throwing himself into the net.

Therefore, Qin Chuan is likely to pick them all the way first.

After making a rough estimate of Qin Chuan's strength and analyzing the current situation, Yue Chuan began to discuss countermeasures with his generals.

After discussing for half a night, four countermeasures were finally decided.

If Qin Chuan has ambushes around them, or divides them to outflank them, they will not move, strengthen their defenses, only defend but not attack, and wait for the army of Daishan to come to help.

If Qin Chuan divided his troops to attack Daishan, they would take the initiative to attack, contain the 4,000 soldiers and horses on the front road, and cut off the echo of the soldiers and horses on the two roads.

If Qin Chuan's soldiers and horses were not only 8,000, but more than 12,000, and they were mainly attacking Daishan, they would throw away their money, food, and prisoners and gallop to the aid of Daishan.

If 12,000 troops are all coming at them, or if a small number of troops are divided into a small force to contain Dai Shan, and the main force attacks them, they can only retreat to the Maying Fort, and they can bring as much money, food, and prisoners as they can.

After discussing countermeasures, Yue Zhi continued to increase the number of sentinels, sent hundreds of scouts to investigate the surroundings overnight, and sent fast horses to make a detour to report to Daishan.

In the early morning of the next day, the horses reported one after another: within a radius of thirty miles, no other Ming troops were found.

Yue Zhi immediately made a decision and immediately led his troops to twenty miles away to contain the 4,000 Ming troops.

Because, Qin Chuan must have divided his troops to attack Daishan.

As soon as he traveled ten miles, there was a report from the Malays, and the Ming army was coming head-on, and it was five miles away.

Yue Yu hurriedly asked the army to stop, set up a position, and stood still.

He had only 5,000 soldiers under his command, many of whom were Mongols, and he had to divide his troops to guard the prisoners and money and food, and only 4,000 men could meet the enemy.

The most important thing is that he doesn't know how many artillery and bird guns the other side has, and Rausa and Wanyan Yechen are defeated, so he doesn't dare to underestimate the enemy.

As soon as he had halted the army, and had returned from the horses, the Ming army had also stopped, and was arraying three miles away, among them about 2,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry.

Yue Zhi sent a large number of scouts to spy on the number of firearms of the other party.

However, as soon as his probe horse approached, a group of bird gunners came out of the opponent's formation, and released a round of guns at a distance of hundreds of paces, injuring several probes, and the rest of the probes did not dare to approach again.

Yue Zhen had no choice but to let Tanma travel a long distance and cruise nearby.

He was waiting, waiting for news from Daishan's side.

The other party has never attacked, and the two sides have confronted each other like this.

About an hour later, a horse from the north suddenly came galloping forward, holding a small red pennant in his hand.

This is the herald of the red flag.

Yue Cheng hurriedly greeted him, only to see that the herald's face was solemn, and after dismounting, he galloped to Yue Chen's side, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "Qi Beile Ye, Da Beile was attacked in Baifang Village, thirty miles to the north, the enemy firearms are sharp, and the situation is critical, please help Lord Beile quickly." ”

"Huh?"

Yue Zhen's face changed: "How many troops are the enemy?" ”

"Eight thousand."

"Why didn't you report it last night?"

"Cavalry Lord Belle, when Big Baylor was attacked by the enemy last night, he sent three groups of heralds, but these three groups of heralds did not respond, and they were probably intercepted and killed by the Ming army."

Yue Zhen frowned, thought for a moment, and then turned over and got on his horse: "Quick, immediately pull out the camp and gallop to the aid of Mafang Village." ”

Sakhalian on the side hurriedly asked, "Agu, what about the money, food, and people?" Do you really want to throw it down? ”

"Throw them all away, don't want them all, and then grab them when you save Amai, and grab as much as you want."

"What about those Aha?"

"Let them untie all the horses and mules of the carts, and ride the horses and mules, and those who have no mounts will run after them."

"Alas!"

Sakhalian stomped his foot reluctantly, and then turned on his horse.

Soon, Yue Zhi led 5,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 Aha on mules and horses, threw away the money, food and prisoners, and ignored the Ming army arrayed three miles away, and rushed straight to the north.

The soldiers and horses lined up three miles away were Li Dingliang, Feng Yilong and Liao San's spear department.

Seeing Yue Zhi lead his troops away, Li Dingliang immediately made a decision, and immediately asked Liao Sangun to lead a 1,500 tiger and leopard battalion to pursue, one is to intercept those Aha who rode away mules and horses, and the other is to prepare to attack Yue Cheng with Qin Chuan on both sides.

By the time Yue Yu arrived, Qin Chuan should have already defeated the Dai Shan Ministry.

After Liao Sanshu led the tiger and leopard battalion to chase after him, Li Dingliang led the remaining soldiers to collect the fleeing people and take over the money and food thrown by Yue Zhi.

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As early as one night ago, after Dai Shan and Kadahun converged, they camped overnight in Mafang Village.

At this time, Huang Taiji's order also arrived, ordering Daishan not to rush forward and wait for his army to arrive before making plans.

Dai Shan knew Qin Chuan's tricks well, and guessed that the other party would come to attack at night, so after camping, the soldiers did not take off their armor and would not leave the army, and the six thousand soldiers were waiting in the camp surrounded by mules and carriages and horses, waiting for Qin Chuan to attack.

At about three watches, Qin Chuan arrived.

Seeing that the opponent's camp was tightly surrounded by mule-wagons and rejecting horses, and there was no loophole, Qin Chuan did not rush to attack, but camped two miles away, let the soldiers sleep and recuperate, and sent hundreds of men and horses to cruise in the south and east to intercept the heralds sent by Daishan at any time.

At the same time, Qin Chuan also sent a hundred Guan imperial troops to harass Dai Shan's camp.

Unexpectedly, the 100 Guan Imperial Army encountered a group of Jiannu on the road, and Dai Shan also sent people out to attack and harass, but the two groups of men and horses met halfway, and the 100 Guan Imperial Army was killed and wounded more than 40 people, and the rest were able to escape back by taking advantage of the lack of vision at night.

Qin Chuan was a little annoyed, so he simply sent five hundred men and horses out with enough javelins, and also brought twenty tiger squat cannons, and swept away the Jiannu who were coming to disturb with fierce artillery fire.

He didn't dare to send a flintlock pistol to attack and disturb, because once this thing fell into the hands of Jiannu, the other party could imitate it in minutes.

Under the indiscriminate bombardment of a large number of javelins and twenty tiger squat cannons, the control between the two armies' camps was soon in Qin Chuan's hands.

Then, the constant harassment began, and twenty tiger squatting cannons separated by one hundred and twenty paces, under the cover of shields, continued to bombard the camp of Jiannu.

In addition, Qin Chuan also improvised two small catapults, wrapped gunpowder and gravel in linen, and then connected a fuse also made of gunpowder and linen cloth to make explosives bags, and then used catapults to smash these ignited explosives bags into the slave camp a hundred steps away.

The explosives package made of black powder is not very powerful, and it can't kill people from a distance of a few meters, but it can also hurt people, and the sound is not small, and the effect of the attack is very good.

The Jiannu were frightened and irritable by the explosion, and many people were injured by the stones, and the screams that rang out from time to time were particularly loud in the night.

Dai Shan knew that it was not a way to go on like this, and if his soldiers and horses were harassed to the point of exhaustion, he was afraid that the next day would be more than lucky.

So, Dai Shan simply took the initiative to attack, sent Ka Dahun to lead 3,000 elites out, wanted to chase and kill the harassing Guan Di army, and took advantage of the situation to attack Qinchuan's camp at night.

The movement in their camp had long been detected by the telescopes of the Guandi army, and before the soldiers and horses of Kadahun left the camp, the Guandi army that was harassing outside the camp immediately retreated, and even the two trebuchets were dismantled into wood and moved back.

Kadahun, who was harassed and impatient, lost his composure during the day, and went straight to Qinchuan's camp according to Dai Shan's order.

As soon as they reached a hundred paces outside the camp, before they could charge, a dense burst of gunfire sounded in the camp, and many soldiers and horses in front of the Kadahun array fell one after another.

The heavy artillery fire made Kadahun quickly come to his senses, and hurriedly led his troops to withdraw, and went straight back to the main camp.

After a brief count of the number of people, it was found that there were nearly 300 people missing, that is, his night attack was not only unsuccessful, but also lost nearly 300 elites.

In desperation, Dai Shan had to give up the night attack.

For the next night, his 6,000 soldiers were constantly harassed, and every time he sent troops to attack, the other side could always retreat in advance, and if he did not send troops, or sent less, the other party would not even retreat.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, Qin Chuan launched an attack, advancing the army to a hundred steps away from the Daishan camp, using his shield against Jiannu's light arrows to bombard the Daishan camp indiscriminately.

Dai Shan knew that his soldiers and horses had been harassed all night, and he was already exhausted, and Qin Chuan's firearms were numerous and extremely powerful, so he might not be able to get benefits.

Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more crisis, Dai Shan hurriedly sent several groups of heralds and asked Yue Zhen to lead troops to help.