To the east of Fushun, on the west bank of the Hunhe River, the voices of people are boiling, and all kinds of military flag camps are spread out along the west bank for more than ten miles.

In the river, the Ming army was building a pontoon bridge with dozens of small boats.

The Ming army built a pontoon bridge in a different way than before, which was to connect small boats with iron chains, and then lay down large trees on them.

However, because this section belongs to the upper reaches of the Hunhe River, and the water flow is faster than the middle Shenyang section, even if the officers and soldiers of this Ming army tried their best, they only barely fixed the boat, and they did not have time to lay the wood.

The person in charge of directing the construction of the pontoon bridge was Xu Xianchun, who rushed to the Juniper Department a few days ago on the order of Yang Hao.

Xu Xianchun was born in Jinyiwei, and it is reasonable to participate in the war directly, but he has an engineering unit of 1,500 people under his command, who has participated in the construction of Ming military fortifications in the Battle of Dadian, and is very good at repairing bridges and paving roads, and Xu Xianchun himself has asked for war many times, so Yang Hao sent him to the Juniper Department.

Juniper, who was worried about how the army would cross the river, learned that Xu Xianchun was good at repairing bridges, so he immediately ordered Xu to build bridges on the Hunhe River immediately.

After receiving the order, Xu Xianchun immediately ordered this engineering unit composed of former Yiju people and Korean servants to quickly carry out the task of repairing the bridge.

But just as Xu Xianchun was in the center of the river and was going all out to direct the construction of the bridge, he overheard the horns on the shore one after another, and then saw a group of officers and soldiers driving out of the camp to the shore. Looking at the posture of those officers and soldiers, they were forced to cross the river without waiting for the pontoon bridge to be built!

Xu Xianchun was taken aback, hurriedly asked someone to row the boat to the shore, and hurriedly went ashore to ask the prison guard Zhou Tiexin what had happened.

"General Du's military order ordered our army to cross the river tonight."

Zhou Tiexin's brows furrowed, Juniper's military order made him stunned. But although he is a prison army, he cannot interfere with Juniper's deployment and command, and Juniper has been famous for a long time, and he does not listen to his opinion as a prison army at all. So I couldn't dissuade myself in the tent just now, so I came out by myself in a fit of anger.

"The pontoon bridge has not yet been built, how can more than 30,000 people and horses of our army cross the river!"

Xu Xianchun was shocked and anxious, the army swam across the water without a bridge, and it was bound to abandon a large amount of baggage, so that after crossing the river, it hit the main force of Jianzhou, how to defend and how to attack.

"You ask me, who do I ask?"

Zhou Tiexin glanced around, pulled the corner of Xu Xianchun's clothes, and said in a low voice: "I'm afraid that this time crossing the river will be more auspicious, and you and I will move more slowly, if things change greatly, you can rely on my responsibility to supervise the army to gather people and horses, and you must not let these more than 30,000 soldiers run away." ”

Xu Xianchun nodded, and the secret order he received from Gonggong Wei included that if the Juniper Department met the main force of Jiannu, he Xu Xianchun would protect the safety of the prison army Zhou Tiexin, and then collect the defeated troops as Zhou Zhi. If Juniper wins, he will join forces with Du Bu and Liu Ling.

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In Juniper's military tent, the chief soldier Zhao Menglin was also trying to persuade Juniper not to cross the river now.

"General Du, it's dark, we don't know the reality on the other side, can we wait until tomorrow when the pontoon bridge is built before crossing the river?"

Liu Yujie, the capital secretary, also did not agree to cross the river now, he believed that there must be a hidden army of Jiannu in the mountains on the east bank of the Hunhe River.

Zhou Tiexin, the superintendent of the army, told him that there were more than 7,500 soldiers in each of the eight banners of Jiannu, all of whom were selected from various tribes in Jianzhou.

On the other hand, on their own side, the soldiers who can be called soldiers are the families of the subordinates of various generals, most of them are hundreds, and the few are dozens, and the other soldiers are all gathered in five Taiwans and six groups.

Don't see that there are more than 30,000 people on the surface, in fact, the most that can really fight is 10,000, if Jiannu waited for the Ming army on the east bank of the Hunhe River with the main force of the Eight Banners, went to Yi with labor, took the enemy as a guest, and hastily crossed the river and discarded a large number of heavy Ming troops, it would be difficult to win.

"General Du, I heard that the emperor's army under the Imperial Horse Supervisor fought with Jiannu twice, but they defeated Jiannu with a dull battle method."

Liu Yujie explained in detail the so-called tactics of the imperial army of "fighting a dumb battle and forming a hard village" to Juniper.

After hearing this, Juniper shook his head and said: "This kind of tactic is good, but the logistical pressure is too great, and it takes a long time, and we can't learn it now." ”

"The last general didn't let the general soldier learn the stupid tactics, but really persuaded the general soldier not to rush to cross the river, Jiannu is good at field warfare, and there are many cavalry, if our army throws the baggage cart on the south bank, after crossing the river, it will not be able to resist the attack of Jiannu at all!" Liu Yujie said.

"If I don't have to rush in, I really have to go in."

Juniper sighed and told the generals that Jinglu had sent someone to urge him to cross the river quickly.

"How?"

"Lord Jingluo has been in Liaodong for a long time, how can he be so rash?"

The generals discussed a lot, and they all felt that Lord Jinglu should not urge the troops. Juniper told them that it was not the strategy that was urging the troops, but the military department.

"One more day when the army is out will give us one more day of money and food, and the court wants us to fight quickly... I don't know that I crossed the river in the middle of the night, and once Jiannu attacked, I would cross the river and ignore it. If Jiannu does not attack, our army is also in a difficult situation. Our department has been staying for a few days since Fushun went east, the imperial court is urging very strictly, and the strategy is also urging very urgently, if our department does not cross the river again, and misses the day of the meeting with General Liu, the military law is also ruthless. ”

Juniper was really helpless, and in addition to sending someone to urge him to cross the river, he also sent him Juniper 50,000 taels of silver.

Where did Yang Hao get this silver, Juniper couldn't control it, but he knew that once the silver was collected, even if it was a knife in the sky, he Juniper would have to fight.

At Juniper's insistence, the generals had no choice but to gather men and horses to prepare to cross the river.

Zhao Menglin, the chief soldier, asked people to test the water potential of the Hunhe River and choose a place where the water is shallow and not in a hurry to cross the river. Half an hour later, the following people reported that they had found a place to cross, less than two miles from the place where the pontoon bridge had been built, where the river was not deep but only the belly of a horse, and dozens of small boats had been collected.

At that moment, Jun Song ordered the army to cross the river from the Na Ke crossing, and the general Gong Niansui and others asked to cross the river from the pontoon bridge built tomorrow because of the difficulty of crossing the river.

Looking at the soldiers of each battalion hurriedly crossing the river downstream, Xu Xianchun and Zhou Tiexin were worried.

In the middle of the night, Juniper came to the river with his own soldiers, and he abandoned the boat and rode his horse directly into the Hunhe River. Juniper's own soldiers hurriedly shouted for the general soldiers to put on their armor.

Juniper laughed and raised his voice: "Wearing iron armor on the battlefield, how can it be done by a big husband!" Since the old man tied his hair and joined the army, he didn't know how heavy the armor was? You turtle grandsons, don't you think the old man is not heavy enough! ”

As soon as the words fell, Juniper was already whipping the horse, and at this time, in addition to Juniper's headquarters, there were 5,000 cavalry of Liu Yujie, the general soldier, and 10,000 soldiers of Wang Xuan's department.

In the mountains on the east bank of the Hunhe River, there are countless pairs of eyes staring at the Ming army who are crossing the river.

"When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins, to put it well, no matter how many ways I go or how many ways he goes, in the end, I still have to speak with courage. They want the head of Ben Khan, and Ben Khan wants the head of their dog!"

After Nurhachi finished speaking, he tore the letter paper in his hand into several pieces, and then heard the sound of trumpets and cannons sound three times, and the east bank of the Hunhe River immediately heard the earth-shattering shouts of killing.