Early in the morning, the clouds are thick, thirty miles east of Qinghe City, Yahu Pass. Starting

To say that Qinghe City is indeed one of the best fortresses along the Great Wall of Liaodong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, located in the valley, known as natural danger. Surrounded by mountains, and facing the Taizi River in the south, there are few places suitable for heavy troops to walk, but there are slightly more flat land in the southeast, which is very unsuitable for large army movement operations.

However, if Qinghe is a natural risk, then the Yahu Pass is the gate of natural danger, the danger of danger.

This pass is one of the most important passes on the Great Wall, is located in the mountain road canyon, both sides are steep peaks and mountains, a big road in the middle builds the city wall and blocks it horizontally, there are three pass walls before and after the gorge more than a mile long to form three lines of defense to block this road, so the local indigenous Liao people also call this place three passes.

The three layers of walls are separated by half a mile between each road, and they are all made of earth and stone mixed with wooden fences. It is more than five meters high, and there are barracks built under the city. The flags on the city are displayed, the iron cannons and guns are readily available, the border sergeants guarding the pass are bright and bright, and they stand on the top of the gate with guns and knives in high spirits, and they really look like they can really feel a bit of awe-inspiring and majestic military appearance.

On the top of the towering hill next to Erdaoguan, there is a brick pier platform, which is used as a beacon fire to look out, and there is a small road artificially carved out at the bottom of the mountain to climb the pier platform, which is actually a small earthen ditch. At this moment, there are hundreds of Ming soldiers in armor and knives, carrying bows and arrows standing on the edge of the ditch, with fierce expressions, vigilantly watching any target close to the pier, they are Zou Chuxian's standard camp family, and their task at this moment is to guard the people on the pier.

"My lord, please see, out of the Great Wall here, out of the Great Wall is the territory of the Jianzhou Jurchen, the Jurchen wants to invade the hinterland of our Liaodong, there are only two big roads to go, one is to enter from Fushun Pass, straight to Shenyang. The second is to go west from here, which can approach Liaoyang. If the brigade of men and horses with baggage wanted to reach Liaoyang, only the Crowhus had a large road that was flat and walkable, and most of the rest of the small roads had been blocked by the lower officials sending people to cut down wood and stones. ”

On the pier, Zou Chuxian was pointing in the direction of the east and introducing the geography around Qinghe City to Yang Ho next to him. He was a native general, so he was naturally quite familiar with the surrounding environment. Yang Hao climbed high and looked far away at this time, and saw the vast mountains in the distance, the vast land presented in front of him, and all things in the world were at the soles of his feet.

He imagined what kind of exciting scene it would be when he stood on this beacon tower in the future, and the overwhelming hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers under the guidance of his military flag, followed his orders to march towards the Jurchen territory through the road under his feet in an overwhelming array.

Zou Chuxian talked for a long time, but saw Yang Hao staring directly at the east and did not react. I thought he had seen something, and he looked east for a while, but he didn't notice anything unusual. Only then did I understand that the master who dared to love the master was distracted.

Accompanying them this time were Zhang Jing and Zhang Yuncheng, both of whom were senior generals in Qinghe City, and those who were not qualified enough could not come. And accompanying Yang Hao was the eunuchs Wei Gonggong and Li Jinzhong, and the other was Yue Xiang.

It stands to reason that he is not qualified with his identity as President Qian, but after all, he has a special status, and he still has a position of running errands, and Yang Hao and Wei Chao both named him to take him. Zou Chuxian and other Qinghe officials didn't know the inside story, and they thought that Yue Xiang was quite favored by Master Jinglu, and he was reused as soon as he came, and his attitude towards him was obviously polite.

But Yue Xiang knew that his relationship with Yang Hao, Wei Chao and others was very delicate now, and he had always believed that Yang Hao's malice towards him had not weakened, and he did not trust Yang Hao. The relationship between them is completely inseparable, and they all wish that each other would die quickly, and they also know that they will turn their faces at any time, but they seem to be quite compatible with each other.

So even if he was pretending, he still came.

As far as Yue Xiang is concerned, if this Yang Hao dares to come to Qinghe mostly for himself, then daring to come to Yahu Pass really shows that he does have considerable courage and vision. The most important stronghold on the periphery of Qinghe is the Yahu Pass, as long as the Yahu Pass road can be defended, the main force of the Eight Banners Army will not be able to reach the Qinghe, unless Nurhachi has the ability to open another road out of the mountains.

And this place is simply at the mouth of Jianzhou, the front line of the front line, as a strategy and governor of Liaodong, a first-class feudal official, dare to come to this extremely dangerous place to inspect, once the news spreads, the Jurchen soldiers come to raid, the consequences are unimaginable. But he still came without hesitation, Yue Xiang felt that no matter what his ability was, at least he was loyal.

In fact, he has been in contact with Yang Hao for a long time, and he once felt that this person might not be as bad as described in the history books of later generations. It is undeniable that he is still very active in the extermination of Jianzhou and the preparation for war. It's just that he alone can't compete with the inefficient Ming court bureaucracy.

It is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, Yang Hao is not even a good woman, there are no soldiers and no food at hand, and he is even more helpless, seeing that he can only endure here and wait for reinforcements from all walks of life to gather.

"Hehe, good, very good, General Zou is diligent and resolute, and he is really a good general. The generals are also hard, and there are many generals in Qinghe, so they will be foolproof. It was the Wei Dynasty who spoke, and only his identity was comparable to Yang Hao present, Yang Hao was distracted, and no one else dared to speak.

The generals hurriedly saluted modestly, and Yang Hao came back to his senses a little.

"It's a dangerous fortress, and there really is a tendency that a husband and a man can't open it!" Yang Hao obviously didn't remember Zou Chuxian's introduction just now, "If an elite army is stationed here, even if the Jianzhou rebels have millions of iron horses, they don't want to smuggle in." General Zou, can there be a road to build a captive place in this Kanto? ”

Yang Hao seemed to be a little energetic, and his eyes lit up as if he had picked up an ingots on the ground. After experiencing the anguish of things not going well, his confidence in the suppression of bandits and his worries about war increased in an inverse proportional proportion to each day. Today he finally saw something that made him happy, so he was in a good mood.

It seems that the situation in Liaodong has not been so bad that it is out of control, such a strategic place is still in the hands of its own side, and the morale of the soldiers below is still strong, it seems that this battle is still being fought, and their chances of victory are not very low. People really can't just nest in Shanhaiguan and go out and take a look at the actual situation. Otherwise, every day only look at those who want food and pay to push each other? felt that half of the battle had been lost before it was fought, and it did not affect his confidence.

When Zou Chuxian heard Yang Hao's question, his scalp suddenly tightened. I thought to myself that if I said that there was a way, would the next sentence be to let me order all the soldiers and horses out of the customs and go straight to the traitor's lair. But he didn't dare not tell the truth, so he had to deal with it head-on.

"If you go back to your lordship, you can go straight to Hetuala, the old nest of the rebel clan of Jianzhou, seventy miles to the east, and there is no particularly dangerous mountain pass along the way."

"Seventy miles?! So close? Yang Ho was taken aback, but then he was rejoiced. Hahaha, God help me, seventy miles! It doesn't take a day to arrive, I didn't expect it, hahaha, I didn't expect it! The more Yang Hao thought about it, the more comfortable he felt, as if a huge problem had suddenly been solved.

Yue Xiang didn't expect this place to be so close to Nurhachi, although he was on an errand in the Ming army, he was not familiar with the geography of the Jurchens.

In those days, there were no regular military maps, and all the maps were drawn by feeling based on the memory of people's trips, which can be said to be very inaccurate and particularly primitive. In this way, this kind of map still belongs to military secrets, and belongs to the category personally managed by the commander of the first army, and Yue Xiang usually has no chance to see it.

Moreover, in recent years, the armament of the Ming army was lax, and it was rare to send people to infiltrate the territory of the Jurchens to find out the news. Yue Xiang had asked his colleagues about this question before, but they didn't know anything, which made him think that the ghost place of Hetuara was probably far away from the border, but he didn't expect to know that it was so close to here today.

Only seventy miles! The route is relatively flat, if you can cooperate with accurate intelligence and choose an elite army to take advantage of the situation to raid, you may really be able to fight like Li Shuoxue attacked Caizhou at night in the Tang Dynasty!

Yue Xiang's heart suddenly boiled like boiling water in a pot.

He knew that countless Ming generals in Liaodong in later generations dreamed of entering Hetuala, and the four-way march directed by Yang Hao actually ended up in Hetuala, but no one ever succeeded, but today he knew that at the beginning of the war, the Ming Dynasty had such an opportunity, and the opportunity for victory was so close to the Ming Dynasty that someone reached out to seize it.

If Li Chengliang or Li Rusong in their heyday were still there......

Yue Xiang couldn't help but sigh slightly, those two people were not here now, and Liaodong did not have an elite army with enough combat power to undertake this heavy task and a general who could lead them. Yang Hao don't look at the laughter, but the light cavalry attack he said lacks the conditions for implementation, and after all, it can only be fishing for the moon in the water. And he probably knows this, and when he says this, he probably has something else in mind.

Zou Chuxian and other Qinghe generals listened to it and suddenly stiffened, daring to love this master who really had this idea. At the moment, it is simply logical that this unlucky errand will fall on the head of their Qinghe garrison, but they dare not express dissent, it is undoubtedly a show of weakness and cowardice, and the sweat on someone's head suddenly fell.

"Fu Shuai, there will be a return in the end." Just when everyone's faces changed drastically but no one dared to come forward, Yue Xiang suddenly came out of his voice next to him, and when the generals of Qinghe saw that it was him, they suddenly seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and secretly looked at him again and again, asking him to help him deal around.

"The light cavalry attack that Fu Shuai said is certainly a clever strategy, but now there are 50,000 or 60,000 people in Jianyu Iron Cavalry, and they are all fierce and brave warriors who have been killed, which is unusual. The art of war is cloudy, and knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles. If you want to attack, you need the cooperation of various conditions of intelligence and geography, and according to the general's view, the various conditions are not yet ripe. ”

Yue Xiang talked eloquently, although he was called the last general, but he clearly denied Yang Hao's strategy just now, and the people next to him were sweating, but Yang Hao was smiling: "Oh, so Ziyi must have a high opinion, but it doesn't hurt to say it, Ben Shuai wants to listen to what you have to say." ”

"Thank you Fu Shuai, you must know the geography of the march and battle, especially when you enter the thief realm. Nowadays, officers and men do not go out of the customs all year round, and their geographical familiarity does not take much advantage. However, Jianyu has been fighting in Liaodong for 30 years, and his geographical familiarity outside the pass is definitely better than that of the officers and soldiers. ”

"In terms of intelligence, although the Jurchen nest is in Hetuala, but its core is only Nurhachi, if you can't kill Nurhachi, it will be useless to destroy the old village of Jianzhou. The officers and soldiers did not know anything about Nurhachi's whereabouts, but Jianyu was widely distributed in our Ming Dynasty. ”

"In addition, even if they have accurate information, it is still unknown how many elite cavalry armor officers and soldiers can mobilize to break the enemy. I heard that Nanurhachi divided the Jurchens into eight banners, and selected the elite from each banner as the personal guard, specializing in the guards, and the two flags of Zhenghuang and yellow were his personal leaders, and the soldiers and horses were the most numerous and fierce, nearly 20,000 people. The number of the attacking army is small, and I am afraid that it may not be able to gnaw on this hard bone. At present, there are less than 50,000 soldiers and horses in the whole town of Liaodong, and there is not much left except for the garrison troops of each town and city. can be called an elite soldier...... It is even more limited, and to carry out such tasks, it requires the kind of elite force with a high degree of organization and discipline, and I am afraid that such warriors are rare among the officers and men at present. ”

"Also, since this Raven Pass is so close to Hetuala, like a sharp knife against his heart, I think that Nurhachi is not incompetent, how can he not be unguarded? Troops and horses must be sent to guard along the way. Some time ago, I heard that the officials of the East Factory said that the Jianzhou villages seen along the way were ambushed by elite soldiers, most of them were thousands and hundreds of them, so it can be seen that Nurhachi had also been prepared. Maybe an ambush has been laid long ago, waiting for the officers and soldiers to enter the city. ”

Yue Xiang said a lot, feeling that his analysis was very reasonable, but seeing that Yang Hao still had that unfathomable smile, it seemed that he had already thought of these meanings.

"That's it? Is there anything else to say? Yue Xiang hated Yang Hao's look as if he had everything under control, and it would be reassuring for a true wise man to make such an expression. But Yang Hao was still far from a wise man, and his pretense was profound, and Yue Xiang had a hunch that he might have brewed some stupid idea again.

“…… If you go back to Fu Shuai, the last general, there is nothing else. ”

"Hehehe, what Ziyi said is indeed the words of the soldiers. At this time, Liaodong's troops were insufficient, and it was indeed not the time to counterattack. The strategy of the attack mentioned by this commander is only to be used later when the troops are sufficient. As for Jianyu, he will definitely guard against this plan, and Ben Shuai has already expected it. But have you ever thought that he would be so guarded against it......" Yang Hao smiled smugly.

“…… But it is right in the hands of this handsome. ”