The New Year, the second year of Chongzhen, this year, is far away in the belly of Liaodong, the Phi Island is a joyful ocean, but the capital of the Ming Dynasty is a gloomy cloud.

Because Huang Taiji has not left yet, although Zhang Bin led the 200,000 Qinwang army to defeat the combined forces of Houjin and Mengyuan in Nanyuan, but only thousands of shrimp soldiers and crab generals of Mengyuan and Yuan have been killed, and the Houjin Iron Cavalry in Huang Taiji's hands has not been affected much.

This guy doesn't seem to have the slightest intention of withdrawing to Liaodong, he didn't go east or return north, but went straight to the good hometown in the southwest of the capital!

Zhang Bin knew that this guy wanted to take his 200,000 army around in circles, he wanted to exhaust the 200,000 army first, and then suddenly turn to the northeast, and take all the cities from Jizhou Town to the capital in one fell swoop, so as to prepare for the next sneak attack on the capital.

However, Zhang Bin had no choice, because this guy would rob everything, gold and silver treasures, grain goods, poultry and livestock, men, women and children, as long as he took them, he would rob them all, just like locusts crossing the border.

If he is allowed to attack various county towns and leave it alone, I don't know how many people will be ruined by him.

Zhang Bin could only lead the army to follow him through gritted teeth, and kept sending Guanning iron cavalry to harass the foot soldiers of the Mengyuan tribes, preventing them from attacking the city with peace of mind.

It's the New Year, Zhang Bin has just driven Huang Taiji away from Liangxiang County, and this guy has gone to Gu'an, more than 200 miles south of the capital, to attack the city.

If there is a mobile phone at this time, Zhang Bin will definitely call him and warn him: "Don't be so crazy, boy, Lao Tzu can scare you with one move." ”

However, there is no mobile phone at this time, and he can't write a letter to threaten, let alone send someone to threaten, because at this time, there are still many eunuch remnants in the court who are looking for an opportunity to do the whole thing.

He could only grit his teeth and lead the army to set off from Liangxiang and hurry for more than 100 miles, and at the same time sent Guanning Iron Cavalry to the vicinity of Gu'an to harass and deter, so as not to be taken by Huang Taiji to take Gu'an City.

The Chinese New Year's Eve passed like this, watching the running panting foot soldiers preparing the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the cold snow, Zhang Bin really wanted to use a killer trick and immediately let the emperor Taiji fart and pee!

However, he can't, there is no news from Liaodong, if Huang Taiji runs back with urine and happens to catch the Dongjiang army under Mao Wenlong, it will be worth the loss.

The next day, it was more than 100 miles in a hurry, and at about midnight in the afternoon, Zhang Bin finally led the army to Gu'an, and the first day of the Lunar New Year was almost over.

At this time, Huang Taiji naturally ran, and he was still running south, seemingly wanting to run all the way to Bazhou and Baoding.

Zhang Bin stood at the head of Gu'an City, looking at the exhausted steps running below, not to mention the nest fire in his heart.

At this time, there was a sudden thunderous sound of horses' hooves in the direction of Wuqing in the east, listening to the sound of at least thousands of horses, a hurried command sounded, and the foot soldiers who were encamping hurriedly dropped the things in their hands and began to assemble and set up, and the soldiers of the Qi family army were even more speeding towards the Wuhan Iron and Steel car in the south.

Zhang Bin hurriedly picked up the binoculars and looked to the east, and it turned out to be the Ming army, dressed as more than 4,000 horsemen.

Which way is this Qinwang army, it turned out to be all cavalry, Zhang Bin held a telescope and stared closely at the cavalry that was approaching quickly, closer, closer, finally saw clearly, the leader turned out to be Cao Wenzhao!

Zhang Cha, Zhao Ru, Wang Er, Sun Biao, etc., one by one familiar figures appeared in the binoculars, Zhang Bin almost jumped up excitedly, he excitedly said to a herald guard: "Go, notify all the generals below, let them continue to camp, don't worry, it's your own people." ”

After saying that, he ran to the bottom of the city wall with his hands dancing, and Xie Zhenggang and Qi Fanghua hurriedly followed.

When he came to the city wall, he immediately beckoned the guards to lead the war horse, and then turned over and ran directly to the outside of the city.

Riding a horse out of the city, he had just run more than a mile to the east, and the more than 4,000 horses in front of him were only a few hundred paces away.

Zhang Bin stopped and stood there, waiting excitedly.

Soon Cao Wenzhao raised his hand to order the cavalry behind him to stop, and then led a general to beat his horse and run towards Zhang Bin.

Qi Fanghua behind Zhang Bin couldn't help but be surprised: "It turned out to be General Cao, didn't he go to Liaodong, why did he come here again?" ”

Zhang Bin laughed and said, "It must be something from Liaodong." ”

Sure enough, as soon as Cao Wenzhao leaned in, he arched his hand and said: "My lord, the weather in Liaodong is too cold, we can only move out more than 100,000 civilians along the coast, and there is no way to go deeper." ”

Zhang Bin nodded and said appreciatively: "Well, it's already very good to be able to move more than 100,000 civilians so quickly, don't worry, don't come again next time, by the way, this general is?" ”

The general hurriedly bowed his hand and said, "The last general, Chen Jisheng, the deputy chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, will see the governor." ”

It turned out to be Mao Wenlong's deputy, he went to Phi Island in a hurry last time, and he didn't specifically meet with the generals under Mao Wenlong, no wonder he didn't know him, Zhang Bin nodded, and said curiously: "Is this the cavalry of the Dongjiang Army, I don't seem to have seen so many war horses last time I went to Phi Island." ”

Chen Jisheng hurriedly explained: "Our Dongjiang Army originally didn't have many war horses, this time we went to Liaodong to rob people, and by the way, we also robbed the livestock raised by Jiannu in various villages, and robbed more than 2,000 cattle, more than 3,000 war horses and more than 6,000 sheep, and there was no forage on Phi Island, so Mao Shuai simply ordered people to kill all the sheep and stew them for the civilians to eat for the New Year, this horse is not easy to raise, Mao Shuai simply picked 3,000 soldiers with acceptable riding skills, and let me lead General Cao to King Qin." ”

This Mao Wenlong, he sent his subordinates to King Qin when there was no forage on Phi Dao, which was really weird, Zhang Bin couldn't help laughing and said: "Okay, I just have something for you to do, it's great, hahahahahaha." ”

Chen Jisheng hurriedly arched his hand and said, "But it is sent by the governor." ”

At this time, Qi Fanghua behind Zhang Bin couldn't help but remind: "Don't keep calling the governor, he is now the governor of Fuguang." ”

Hey, why is there a sissy next to the governor, no, it should be the governor, Chen Jisheng hurriedly congratulated him: "Congratulations to your lordship." ”

Zhang Bin shook his head with a wry smile, then waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's go to the Shuai tent to discuss." ”

After saying that, he directly turned the horse's head and slowly walked in the direction of the handsome tent, and Cao Wenzhao and Chen Jisheng hurriedly followed.

Not far away, Zhang Bin turned his head and ordered: "Zhang Pan, you go and lead these 4,000 cavalry to the Qi family's army to squeeze first, Uncle Xiaosix, let all the generals be notified to come to the tent quickly." ”

The camp of the 200,000 army stretched for more than ten miles, Zhang Bin did not beat his horse and run, but learned about the situation in Liaodong from Cao Wenzhao, while moving forward slowly, and when they came to the handsome tent, Yuan Chonghuan and Qin Liangyu and others had already arrived, Zhang Bin arranged Cao Wenzhao and Chen Jisheng to stand at the end of the position on both sides, and then walked to the handsome position, threw off his robe, turned around and sat down.

As soon as he sat down, everyone shook their hands, and then said in unison, "See Lord Governor." ”

Zhang Bin raised his hand to excuse everyone, and then said solemnly: "I invited everyone here today to discuss the next battle plan. ”

When everyone heard this, they all showed surprised expressions, there is no plan at this time, they can only follow Huang Taiji, if he is allowed to capture a few county seats, it will not be a disaster.

Zhang Bin then snorted coldly: "Huang Taiji is afraid that he is addicted to playing, and he has been running south, I know that he wants to lead us to suddenly run north after we are exhausted, and then take advantage of our army to take the first line of Tongzhou, Jizhou, Yongping, and Qian'an." ”

When the generals heard this, their faces changed greatly, and now the foot soldiers are a little unable to run, if they are led south by Huang Taiji for hundreds of miles, and then run back to the capital, I am afraid that it will take ten days, Huang Taiji, this guy, is so poisonous!

Zhang Bin then mocked: "He's already crazy, thinking that we all have to follow him, it's just a small trick of carving insects, I've let him lead his nose for a few days, and now it's my turn to lead his nose away." ”

The generals showed surprised expressions when they heard this, there were many cavalry, and they were running around, and if you wanted to lead people's noses, you had to pull them.

Zhang Bin then snorted coldly: "He is a little too arrogant, Zunhua is where his life, but he only left 800 people to garrison, really when we don't have cavalry, originally I wanted Guanning Tiecai to take Zunhua, and now General Cao Wenzhao and General Chen Jisheng just came with more than 4,000 horsemen to reinforce, which is enough." ”

Seize Zunhua and block Huang Taiji's way back, this move is really where his life is, everyone showed a sudden realization of the expression, and the gaze looking at Zhang Bin also became extremely reverent.

Zhang Bin immediately ordered aloud: "Cao Wenzhao and Chen Jisheng ordered you to lead 4,000 cavalry with 200 tiger squat artillery carriages, set off tomorrow morning, and take Zunhua within three days!" ”

When Cao Wenzhao and Chen Jisheng heard this, they hurriedly bowed their hands and said, "The last general will obey the order." ”

Zhang Bin then ordered: "Zu Dashou, order you to lead the Guanning Iron Cavalry, ready to stand by at any time, once Huang Taiji turns north, you immediately lead the Guanning Iron Cavalry to Zunhua at full speed to assist Cao Wenzhao and Chen Jisheng to defend Zunhua City." ”

When Zu Dashou heard this, he immediately bowed his hand and said: "The last general will obey the order." ”

Zhang Bin then ordered: "The rest of the departments will have a good rest in Gu'an tomorrow and prepare to return north quickly." ”

When the generals heard this, they arched their hands and said in unison: "The lower officials and the last general obey the order." ”

Zhang Bin immediately waved his hand and said, "Let's go down and prepare." ”

Everyone agreed and turned to leave.

Zhang Bin said proudly in his heart: "Hmph, if you want us to break our legs, I'll let you break your legs, if you continue to go around in circles, for a few more days, you will never go back!" ”

Huang Taiji was indeed very proud at this time, and then more than 100 miles to the south, went around Bazhou and Baoding, and led the 200,000 Ming troops over, he immediately led the main force of the Eight Banners to beat the horse and gallop to Tongzhou, when the time came, it was too late for the 200,000 Ming troops to go back to support.

The next day, he led the army to Bazhou, provoked outside Bazhou for a while, and he led the army to Baoding, and directly set up a large camp outside Baoding, he thought, the Ming army should run over.

As a result, the next day, he waited for a day, and the scouts in the north of Bazhou didn't see the shadow of the Ming army at all!

What was going on, he had to send a scout to Gu'an to investigate, and as a result, the Ming army was all resting in Gu'an, and there was no sign of continuing south.

This was delayed for another day, Huang Taiji was a little rough, and directly ordered to surround Baoding!

Of course, he didn't want to wave his army to attack Baoding City, just to scare and scare the Ming army behind.

And at this time, Cao Wenzhao had already led the army to besiege Zunhua, he was not just pretending, after besieging Zunhua, he immediately asked people to cut down trees to make ladders, in that way, he definitely wanted to attack the city.

Zunhua's Houjin Shou General was taken aback, his subordinates only had a total of 800 people, and there were only 200 people on each city wall, and in the face of the attack of 3 or 4,000 people, could he hold it?

He estimated that he would definitely not be able to hold it, so he immediately sent a fast horse to the south to ask Huang Taiji for help.

However, there are seven or eight hundred miles from Baoding to Zunhua, even if it is a horse galloping, it will take at least two days, and Huang Taiji will rush over after receiving the news, and the fastest will have to wait until four days later, four days, is it still too late?

Early the next morning, Cao Wenzhao ordered the artillerymen to directly line up the artillery and set it up 200 steps south of Zunhua City, and then ordered the infantry soldiers of the Dongjiang Army and the elite of the special operations battalion to tie their horses to the woods on the side, and then carry the ladder to stand behind the artillery carriage, ready to attack at any time.

Everything was ready, Cao Wenzhao immediately waved his hand without hesitation: "Tiger squatting cannon, target city wall, five rounds of continuous shooting, others, rush with me!" ”

"Rush." With a roar, four thousand soldiers immediately carried more than ten ladders and rushed towards the southern city wall of Zunhua.

Immediately afterward, "boom, boom", the roar of artillery sounded, and two hundred shells went straight to the city wall, so frightened that the two hundred defenders above hurriedly shrank their whole bodies behind the arrow stacks.

"Boom, boom, boom", the roar of artillery continued, Cao Wenzhao soon led nearly 4,000 soldiers to arrive under the city wall, the defenders on the city wall were suppressed by the cannonballs, and they couldn't stretch out their heads at all, so they could only hide behind the arrow stacks and shoot arrows indiscriminately, and they didn't hurt many people.

More than ten ladders went up to the city wall, and Cao Wenzhao took the lead in climbing up with a knife.

At this time, the five rounds of artillery had just ended, and as soon as the defenders on the city wall poked their heads out, Cao Wenzhao had already taken the lead in climbing the city wall.

How fierce Cao Wenzhao is, he is the master who enters and exits thousands of righteous troops alone as if he has entered a no-man's land, and two hundred Jiannu, even if they are all surrounded, they are not necessarily his opponents.

What's more, there is an even more fierce Cao Bianjiao, when this thing went to assassinate Huang Taiji, thousands of Zhenghuang Banner elites couldn't surround him, and he almost rushed up to do Huang Taiji!

It is no exaggeration to say that as long as these two uncles and nephews are allowed to rush to the city wall, Zunhua City will be finished!

Huang Taiji is indeed a little too arrogant, he really thinks that there is no one in the Ming army!

In fact, it is not that there is no one in the Ming army, but those eunuch remnants in the court and the central government cooperated with him to attack Yuan Chonghuan frantically, and the most elite Guanning iron cavalry fled to Ningyuan, otherwise, if they rushed directly to Zunhua, they could also easily take Zunhua City.

At this time, without the restraint of the remnants of the eunuch party, the combat power of the Ming army is still quite amazing, in less than an hour, Cao Wenzhao led people to take the entire Zunhua City, according to Zhang Bin's explanation, for the more than 100 cavalry slaves who escaped, he did not chase, let them go to the Huang Taiji scared to pee his pants!