Abatai and Hauge immediately became nervous, and hurriedly summarized the news they received for analysis, but after they summarized the news, they found that every sentry who sent back the news did not say that they had found a large number of enemy troops, and some sentry even captured a few enemy soldiers when they fought with the enemy army, and after torture and questioning, they had forced two of the enemy soldiers to confess their identities, and these enemy troops should all be from the side of the Great Chinese Army, according to the enemy soldiers who confessed, They were all part of a cavalry battalion on the side of the Dazhong Army, and they belonged to the scout trade, and they were only here to monitor and harass their Jiannu army to attack Tongzhou City.

So Abatai and Hauge were relieved, but they knew there that even these two enemy soldiers who could not stand the torture and confessed, although they confessed their identities, they did not tell the truth, they only stated their purpose, but they concealed the strength hidden behind them, which was not expected by Abatai and Hauge, and they really believed it, thinking that these cavalry of the Xingtian thieves who appeared on the outskirts of Tongzhou were just the forward scouts of the Xingtian thieves. The main force of the Xingtian Thieves is still a certain distance away from Tongzhou, so they still have time to take Tongzhou City, so they don't have to worry too much for the time being.

Now they have also received the news, and learned that Xiao Tianjian, the leader of the Xingtian Thieves, is leading a large army with a strength of more than 30,000 people at this time, attacking Tianjin Wei, at this time there is still a distance of more than 100 miles from Tongzhou, at least within a day or two, it is impossible for the Xingtian Army to reach Tongzhou, so Abatai and Haoge both think that they still have enough time to defeat Tongzhou first, and then decide whether to wait for the arrival of the Xingtian Thief Army here in Tongzhou, or simply pounce directly on Tianjin Wei and take the initiative to attack this Xingtian Thief Army.

Abatai believes that he currently controls an army of nearly 40,000 Jiannu, and the main force of the right army of the Dazhong Army led by Xiao Tianjian is only more than 30,000 people, and they still have an advantage in terms of strength, so they don't need to be afraid of the men and horses of the Dazhong Army led by Xiao Tianjian.

Even this is still a huge temptation for Abatai, think about if he can defeat Tongzhou at this time, and then defeat the main force of the Dazhong army led by the emperor of Dazhong in one fell swoop, then for him, what a great credit for this matter! And he reversed the situation of the entire war in one fell swoop, even if the defenders of Shanhaiguan persisted, the main force led by their emperor was defeated later, what is the point of them guarding Shanhaiguan? In that case, he Abatai will become the first fierce general of the Qing Dynasty, and his status in the Qing Dynasty will definitely be in the ascendant in the future, although because of his background, it may not be possible to win the throne, but at least there is no problem with being crowned a prince, it is better than he is still a broken Belle Lord much stronger.

So after Abatai learned the news, instead of being too nervous, he was eager to try, wanting to discuss with Haoge and follow his ideas, but Haoge understood the power of the Xingtian Army, more than two years ago, he followed Dolgon to understand the fierceness of Xiao Tianjian and the generals under his command, and now although they have been preparing for this for more than two years in the Qing Dynasty, this Xiao Xingtian has also developed for more than two years, and the territory occupied has far exceeded their territory in the Qing Dynasty. Although the number of generals under his command is probably far more than their Qing soldiers, although the troops he led in the north this time are not very many, but Haoge believes that all those subordinates who can be brought to the north by him must not be general, they must be the elite of the elite of the large Chinese army, so he shook his head again and again, and did not agree with Abatai's proposal to take Tongzhou City, then lead the troops to fight with the men and horses of the large Chinese army led by Xiao Tianjian, but first conquer Tongzhou and then talk about what to do next.

Abatai saw that Hauge did not agree with his opinion, although he was very unhappy, and felt that Hauge, as the prince of their Qing Dynasty, was inferior to him, a broken Baylor, and it was really a shame for them to build the face of the warriors of Jianzhou, but because of Hauge's identity as the prince and the owner of the blue flag, although he was the commander of the customs this time, he also had to listen to some Hauge's opinions, otherwise, even after he won, Hauge only needs to enter a few words of slander in front of his father Emperor Taiji, and then he Abatai will still not be able to eat and walk around, and he will not be able to get the credit. It will also be wiped clean by their father and son, so Abatai had to temporarily agree with Hauge's opinion and fight Tongzhou City first.

So early on the morning of the third day when Abatai and Hauge led their troops to besiege Tongzhou City, Abatai once again supervised his division and began to launch a fierce attack on Tongzhou City.

But as everyone knows, just when they were determined to conquer Tongzhou City, more than 30 miles northeast of them, there were thousands of elite cavalry of the Chinese army, quietly assembling and staring at them silently, like a fierce beast waiting for an opportunity to hunt, just waiting for his prey to appear flawed, he burst into pounce on his prey and bit off the neck of the prey.

At the same time, under the cover of a large number of scouts, a large army of soldiers and horses, armed to the teeth, under the leadership of their emperor Xiao Tianjian, was also marching at a rapid speed from Tianjin Wei along the south bank of the Lu River, that is, the North Canal, towards the city of Tongzhou.

The rangers and scouts under Wang Chengping were in the southeast of Tongzhou, and finally met with the scout brigade of the Right Route Army under Xiao Tianjian, and the commander who led these Right Route Army scout brigades was also Lin Luo, who now succeeded Shi Ran.

After Lin Luo met the cavalry and scouts under Wang Chengping, he immediately temporarily took them over, and ordered him to cooperate with the scouts of the scout brigade under his command, and opened a dense spider web-like warning curtain within twenty miles in front of the main force of the right army.

Although the rangers spilled out by Jiannu are also quite fierce and brave people in the slave army, but the gap between the two sides in the field of vision is very large, the large Chinese army has begun to generally equip the scouts and the officers above the battalion general with clairvoyance, so in the daytime, the scouts of the large Chinese army can find the enemy many times earlier than the sentry of Jiannu, so after the two sides of the guard curtain meet, the scout team of the large Chinese army can be far earlier than the Jiannu sentry cavalry, and then find the Jiannu sentry, and either gather more scouts to launch an encirclement and suppression of it, or set up an ambush to attack and kill these Jiannu sentinels, in short, the result of the scouts on both sides was that the Jiannu side suffered a one-sided loss, and a lot was quickly cleaned up.

To some extent, the war pursues the unilateral transparency of the battlefield, before the ancient telescope was not popularized, the scouts on both sides fought for courage and skill, to see who could find the enemy in advance within the scope of sight, but once one side mastered the telescope, the scale of victory on the battlefield began to tilt towards the possession of one side, obviously the large Chinese army has these still simple monoculars, which has made the Jiannu army no longer able to grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

Although individual Jiannu sentries were surrounded and suppressed by a large number of scouts of the Dazhong Army, they were able to escape, but they could not detect that there was an elite force of the Dazhong Army at this time to kill Tongzhou City, even if they fled back to the Tongzhou Jiannu Army, the news they could bring back was only in the southeast of Tongzhou, a large number of Xingtian Army scouts were found, and the information that could be provided to Abatai and Haoge was also extremely limited, and such information asymmetry made Abatai and Haoge unable to determine the situation of the entire battlefield in a short period of time.

On the contrary, Xiao Tianjian firmly grasped the initiative of battlefield information in this scout war, basically obtained the unilateral transparency of the battlefield, and always grasped the dynamics and division of the Jiannu army through the actions of the scouts.

In this way, Xiao Tianjian led this elite army of soldiers under his command like a sharp sword to the waist and abdomen of Jiannu in the area of Tongzhou City.

At this time, Abatai and Hauge, who still knew nothing, led the troops under Tongzhou City to oversee the army launching one onslaught after another on Tongzhou City.

On the third day, the offensive of Jiannu was not as easy as Abatai and Hauge thought, the Tongzhou defenders who had lost morale two days ago, but on the third day, for some reason, suddenly their morale was boosted again, especially the defenders around the north gate of the main attack of the Jiannu army, and they got up early in the morning on the third day, as if they were as excited as chicken blood, under the leadership of the main general Tang Tong, they actually exerted their combat effectiveness beyond their own strength, and in the face of the tide of these Jiannu army attacking the city gate, The defenders of the city were all arrows, and one after another repelled the Jiannu army that was approaching the city.

Tang Tong swept away the decline, on this day he personally put on two sets of armor, and took all his subordinates to the city to command and defend the city, constantly running back and forth on the city, cheering up the soldiers under his command, and dispatching the people to continuously transport the guards to the city wall for the defenders.

This situation made Abatai and Hauge a little confused, they thought that the defenders of Tongzhou had no reinforcements outside, and there was no fighting spirit inside, after the third day, the army must be scattered, and in the face of the strong attack they launched, it would definitely collapse like rolling soup and pouring snow, so that they could easily capture Tongzhou City, but they didn't think that things were not as simple as they thought, and the defenders were greatly boosted after the third day, and the fight was much more tenacious than the previous two days, which actually made them repeatedly launch offensives, All ended in failure, and the angry Abatai and Haoge couldn't help but scold, vowing to slaughter the soldiers and civilians in Tongzhou City after breaking through Tongzhou City.

It's not the Tongzhou military and civilians, on the third day, there was a sudden explosion of character, with the consciousness of defending Tongzhou City, it turned out that for the Tongzhou soldiers and civilians, they can be said to be in a lonely and desperate perseverance, this despair makes them unable to see a trace of the future, both horizontal and vertical are a death, some people can't help but fantasize that even if Jiannu invades the city, they don't necessarily have to kill them, so some people are reluctant to fight to the death, which is inseparable from people's psychology, but since last night, I don't know from what mouth in the city, there is a "rumor", the entire Tongzhou city is secretly rumored overnight that the Dazhong army will arrive soon, the Dazhong Emperor swore that as long as Tongzhou City can hold on to Jiannu for two more days, then the Dazhong army will inevitably kill the Tongzhou outside the city, this group of Jiannu will be defeated, save the lives of the soldiers and civilians in Tongzhou City, and now there are people and horses of the Dazhong Army who appear not far outside the city, and the soldiers and civilians in the city only need to hold on for two days, and the Jiannu will be defeated!

Although this rumor cannot be confirmed to be true, it is undoubtedly like a shot in the arm for the soldiers and civilians in the city, so that they can see a glimmer of hope, although the defenders of the city think that the Dazhong Army is also their enemy, but compared to Jiannu, the two powers harm each other, the lesser of the two powers, although the Dazhong Army is a traitor of the Ming Dynasty, but there are many rumors about the Dazhong Army.

At least the common people and the soldiers all think that the generals of the Dazhong army are by no means brutal people, and since they rebelled, they have rarely heard of the slaughter of the city after the Xingtian army broke the city, (Yan Chongxi's slaughter of Jiezhou was not a complete slaughter of the whole city, but a selective slaughter of a group of recalcitrant people!) For the majority of the population, there was no massacre! And the Dazhong Army never abducted the people as slaves, and even the rape of Yin women is rarely heard, everyone knows that the Xingtian Army has been very strict with his subordinates since the day it became an army, and the Xingtian Army has its own set of strict military laws, which makes the Xingtian Army have an excellent reputation among the people, so this is also the reason why the Dazhong Army has been going north for more than two months, and the siege of the city has hardly encountered much resistance, everyone knows that the city is broken, and their life is not much better than before, if the soldiers and the people in the city are desperate, Hell yes!

But often the most fierce resistance is those officials and some gentry, the Xingtian Army rebelled, it can be said that the spearhead is pointed at them, so often rebel against the Xingtian Army, it is the people who used to be powerful in the heads of the military and civilians, but this small group of people can not save the situation at all, now when the soldiers and civilians in the city learned that the Dazhong Army was about to come to Tongzhou to fight the Tartars, they were all excited again, and the flame of hope was rekindled in their hearts, two days for them, it was not too long, Haven't they been blocking Jiannu for two days? Didn't Jiannu fail to enter the city as well? Therefore, after the experience of these two days, the soldiers and civilians in the city now have hope again, so when the Abatai overseer army stormed the city of Tongzhou on the third day, the morale of the soldiers and civilians in the city was greatly boosted, and the city fought to the death with Jiannu.

(Today's update, 4,000 words, don't wait!) Hehe! ）