Eseku did send a letter asking for help, but that was not what it was meant to be.

On the night he saw the railroad with his own eyes, Eseku barely slept all night.

Although the Buryat family has been the leader of the Warat for generations, it was not until the Ugqi era that they really unified the tribes and held real power, but the time was still too short, and it was less than six years, and there were not a few nobles with different intentions, such as Shut, who was nomadic near the Irtysh River and claimed to be a descendant of Genghis Khan's own brother Hesar, and his second brother, the nomadic Duoben in the Ili River valley, and so on......

So, as the new leader of the throne, Eseku needed a victory too much.

Moreover, Eseku also thinks that the spies must have seen it wrong, the railway is just a hardwood wrapped in iron sheets, and the words of the merchants and the envoys are mostly just the braggings of the Ming people, just like the flying ball that carries people, and we are really barbarians!

But as it turned out, he was wrong.

He needed to make a decision, though not easily.

......

Early the next morning, Eseku ordered Suril to continue as a striker, and Eseku asked him to keep an eye on his flanks to prevent a sneak attack by the Ming army, while Eseku himself stayed where he was, as he had more important things to do.

Esekul had to interrogate the captives, and more about the railroad and trains.

There were no Akito among the captives, because the Akito were all pulled away by train.

In the descriptions of the Koreans and the Japanese people, most of the Ming people here are overseers, engineers and the like, even if they do manual work, they are also small leaders, and when the wolf smoke rises in Tongliao, the escape train pulls away all the Ming people.

This filled the remaining Koreans and Japanese with anger, so they were almost completely aware of Eseku's inquiry.

After a morning's interrogation and collection, Eseku could determine that the railway was built for trains, and the speed of the train was not fast, about half the speed of riding a horse, but the strength of the train was very great, and the piles of sleepers, rails, sand, and cement not far from the roadside were only the volume of the train.

And the train only needs enough coal to start, one or two drivers, three or five boilermen.

This is all that these Koreans and Japanese people know.

When Minato heard that the train was slow, Eseku smiled, this is normal, how can there be something faster than a horse?

But soon, Eseku's face became gloomy, and he found that each track required nearly twenty men to lift it, and that it would not be far enough for those twenty men to rest, while the train could carry thousands of rails from tens or hundreds of miles at a time.

And the effect of cement and sand and gravel surprised Eseku even more, such a simple material could solidify into such a hard substance, sticking the rails tightly to the ground......

After understanding the usefulness of these things on the side of the road, Eseku was a little hot-eyed, but soon gave up in despair, and he couldn't take these things with him at all.

Standing in the middle of the railway, looking at the sunset on the horizon, Eseku finally made a decision to destroy it! Behind you, you can't have a railway, otherwise you are in danger of being cut off from the back road!

The railroad is easy to build, but it is easier to tear down, so under the order of Eseku, these road builders were all turned into road destroyers, and sections of railroad tracks were dismantled and thrown on the side of the road......

Later, a Japanese man suggested that he should dismantle a section at intervals without dismantling it completely, but after understanding what it meant, he immediately adopted it and promoted him to overseer.

Later, more than 2,000 road construction workers were divided into 10 groups and dismantled together at intervals of more than 100 meters.

When the sun goes down and the moon rises, looking at the intermittent and messy railway line, Eseku laughs heartily......

It's a pity that the next day, a bad news came.

Su Rile encountered the Ming army outside Shuangliao City and was defeated!

Eseku was shocked, and after becoming aware of the situation, he immediately led his army to Shuangliao.

......

Shuangliao, named after the East Liao River and the West Liao River.

The Xiliao River bends here and flows southward, and on the west side of the river, the Ming army built a city called Hexi City; To the east of the river, the Ming army built another city, called Hedong City, in the east of Hedong City more than ten miles, is the East Liao River.

Between the two cities, there is a pontoon bridge, and the railway terminates on the west bank of the Xiliao River, and the bridge over the Xiliao River is still under construction.

When Su Rile arrived here, the city seemed to be defenseless, the city gate was open, and there were herdsmen grazing comfortably nearby, so Su Rile wanted to make a time difference and sneak attack Hexi City.

It was smooth at first.

Looking at the Warat army that covered the sky, the nearby shepherds threw away their cattle and sheep in panic and rode to the city, while the soldiers in the city rang the bell in panic, ran in a panic, and the cries and cries for help kept ringing.

But not long after the front army rushed into the city gate, a cannon rang out in the city, and ambushes broke out.

The jack gate of the city gate then fell, cutting the Wara army into two, there was an ambush at the head of the city, the sound of bowstrings and muskets came and went, and a large number of Ming cavalry also appeared in the hills and woods outside the city, covering from behind.

Under the internal and external attacks, Su Rile was defeated, and the Ming army pursued and killed ten miles away before slowly retreating.

In the end, Surile counted the number of people, lost nearly 2,000 people, and had to ask for help from Eseku.

......

"Su Rile, you are too careless!"

Riding on a horse, he observed the Eseku of Hexi City from afar, sighed, and said.

"yes, I didn't expect them to be on guard!"

"Hehe, you forgot their train!"

"Trains?"

Seeing Su Rile's stunned look, Eseku was a little angry, and waved his hand: "Go down and get ten whips, and then ask Bai Re, you will know!" ”

"Yes! Big Boss! ”

Listening to the whipping behind him, Eseku's face sank like water, and he decided to withdraw his troops, this road was no longer passable.

......

Su Rile limped to the map and said, "The Ming army should have learned the news of our army's attack through the beacon fire and the train, so it will ambush our army." ”

"However, according to my observations, the number of Ming troops was not large, the cavalry was only about three thousand, and after the war, they all passed the pontoon bridge to the city of Hedong on the other side of the river."

"There is Hedong City to guard the opposite bank, and there are cavalry patrolling the river, it is not easy for our army to cross the river, but it should not be difficult to conquer Hexi City, the city wall of Hexi City is not high, there is no moat, our army is 30,000 people, it is not difficult to overcome it."

"What do you say?"

Baire is short in stature, with a slightly protruding jaw, a slightly upturned nose, a bit of a hook feeling, slightly smaller eyes, and his eyes tend to narrow into a slit when he thinks, and he is valued by Eseku for his wisdom, and when he saw Eseku asking, he was silent for a while before he said: "Big leader, I think it's time for us to withdraw our troops!" ”

"What?" Su Rile Huoran stood up: "I don't agree, the Ming army attacked and killed 2,000 of my subordinates, I must avenge them!" ”

"Hehe, Su Rile, have you ever wondered why the Ming army attacked and killed your subordinates?"

"Do you need to ask why?" Su Rile was a little puzzled.

"Great chief," Baige ignored Su Rile, arched his hand towards Eseku, "The terrain here is not suitable for cavalry combat, there are hills here, the speed of war horses cannot be raised at all, if we are surrounded here, it will definitely be the end of the whole army, the Han people say 'gentlemen do not stand under the dangerous wall', this is the first reason for me to advocate the withdrawal of troops." ”

"Second, Su Rile also said just now that crossing the river is a very difficult thing, and I have just looked at the terrain and agree with Su Rile's opinion; However, the seriousness of the problem does not stop there, if our army crosses the West Liao River, our army will be sandwiched in a narrow area of ten miles from the East Liao River and the West Liao River, and we will be in a dilemma; And if we had crossed the Dongliao River, the problem would have been even more serious, because we would have to cross two rivers when we returned. ”

"Third, I suspect that we are attacking the northeast of the Ming Kingdom to the east this time, and the Ming Kingdom has already received the news in advance."

Eseku raised his hand to stop Su Rile, who was about to speak, looked at Baire, and said, "Why do you say that?" Along the way, we captured road construction workers, broke through the beacons of the Ming army, and even captured many nearby herdsmen, who didn't know the news that our army was coming? ”

"Great Chief, it seems that this is indeed the case on the surface."

"However, the place where the last general is puzzled is here, our progress is too smooth, before Shuangliao, there is almost no obstacle, and more importantly, not even a single Ming person has been caught!"

"So the last general thinks that this is likely to be a trap made in advance by the Ming army in anticipation of the arrival of our army."

"If that's the case, the Ming army shouldn't attack our army, they should continue to show weakness!" Su Rile was a little unconvinced.

"This is also easy to explain, they just want to confuse us, Su Rile, think about it, if the Ming army wants to annihilate you, it shouldn't be difficult!"

Seeing that Su Rile was a little unconvinced, Bai Re's squinted eyes showed a hint of pride: "I asked your subordinates, as soon as you entered more than 500 people, the Ming army lowered the jack gate, which is very unreasonable!" ”

"How unreasonable?"

"The Ming army can wait for most of your men to go in, and then close the city gate, at that time there are 3,000 inside the city, 2,000 outside the city, plus the ambush soldiers, you will be wiped out nine times out of ten."

"This," Su Rile's face suddenly turned pale, but he still said stiffly: "Maybe there are not enough people in the city to eat three thousand cavalry!" ”

"Hehe, do you believe that yourself?"

"If the troops of Hexi City are insufficient, why don't those cavalry enter the city, but cross the pontoon bridge and cross the river?" Baire waved his hand lightly: "This shows that the cavalry outside the city was originally from Hedong City, and they crossed the river to help Hexi City." ”

"Then the number of Ming troops in Hexi City is very interesting, it is possible that the number is indeed as you said, the number is very small, but this possibility is very small, Shuangliao is so important, the Ming army will inevitably be equipped with heavy guards."

"Therefore, the Ming army's attack on our army this time actually revealed its true intentions."

"That's to hold back our army!"

"And then?"