In Ulzhou City, Datong Prefecture, a tragic offensive and defensive battle is underway, the attacker is the Mites-Qing coalition army led by Huang Taiji, and the defender is only thousands of villagers and few poor hundreds of border soldiers organized by Ulzhou Zhizhou.

Huang Taiji stood expressionlessly outside the north gate of Ulzhou City, coldly looking at the siege soldiers in front of him, behind him, 30,000 Manchurian iron cavalry lined up in a neat phalanx, standing there motionless, as if protecting, and as if deterring.

The rolling stones and sassalwoods on the city wall continued to pour downward, and the ghosts of the siege soldiers who were smashed cried wolf and howled, but he did not react at all, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

The siege foot soldiers really have little to do with him, because those are Meng Yuan foot soldiers, not the elite of the Eight Banners under him at all, and he won't frown no matter how many deaths he makes!

This time he still didn't bring his elite heavy infantry over, because the main purpose of his trip was not to conquer the city, and Liaodong must also send people to stay, although Hong Chengchou is a fake commander with no ability, there are more than 100,000 Liaodong troops under his command, and Mao Wenlong of Phi Island has also been eyeing him, he has to guard.

Therefore, this time he only brought the cavalry of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and the rest of the cavalry and foot soldiers were all assembled by the Mengyuan and Yuan Departments, and even the foot soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty did not take with him, and they all stayed in Liaodong to garrison.

This siege battle did not last long, the fight was less than two hours, Meng Yuan infantry occupied the northern city wall, soon, the north gate was wide open, Meng Yuan infantry and Meng Yuan cavalry poured into the city like locusts, began to plunder frantically, money, food, women, livestock, etc., as long as they could rob, they did not let go, the city suddenly resounded with all kinds of heart-rending screams, like hell on earth!

At this time, Huang Taiji showed a little smile on his face, and he turned around and said cordially: "Yue Tuo, you take Haoge and lead 10,000 cavalry in, be careful, don't clash with the people of Meng Baqi." ”

When his eldest son Haoge heard this, his face couldn't help but turn red and he was excited, while Yue Tuo calmly arched his hand, and then ordered 10,000 cavalry and rushed to the city with Haoge, who couldn't wait.

Now, the common people in Ulzhou City are even more miserable, because the Eight Banners of Manchuria do not even let go of men, women and children, in their opinion, these can be captured and taken back as slaves!

The looting in the city was ongoing, but the 50,000 mite Qing cavalry surrounded the city and remained motionless until someone came to report that the other three city walls had been taken, and there was no resistance in the city. ”

The so-called collection of grain and grass is actually robbing, not only grain and grass, but everything!

Soon, the 30,000 Manchurian elite horsemen were like a bunch of wild men, howling excitedly, and scattered in all directions, and a new round of looting began, and the entire Ulzhou would become a hell on earth, and it was unbearable!

In his opinion, the war is so ruthless, one of the mites and the Ming will fall, no matter who wins, they will mercilessly clean up the other party's forces, without any mercy at all.

And at this time, in the palace of the capital, Chongzhen has not rested for several days, the twists and turns of the emergency are like snowflakes flying, Datong emergency, Huairen emergency, Hunyuan emergency, Guangling emergency, Ulzhou emergency, in less than half a month, Jiannu captured nearly half of the city of Datong Town, in addition to the city of Datong Mansion has Xuanda Governor Zhang Zongheng led thousands of border soldiers in the hard support, for the time being will not fall into the hands of Jiannu, other places have no defense at all, Jiannu everywhere, it is simply chickens and dogs do not stay, goods and grain, poultry and livestock, Men, women, and children have all been looted by Jiannu, and if this continues, Datong Town will become a deserted ghost domain!

At this time, Chongzhen had no way, because he didn't dare to mobilize the soldiers and horses near the capital, Ulzhou was less than six hundred miles away from the capital, if Jiannu suddenly went east and rushed straight to the capital, with Jiannu's terrifying maneuverability, it didn't even take three days for them to arrive in the capital, at this time, how dare he move, he could only look forward to Zhang Bin, hurry, hurry, hurry.

Zhang Bin had no choice, he was in Hanzhong when he received the order, and it was not easy to rush to Datong Town near the capital.

Besides, Jiannu is not a peasant army, if there are fewer people with him, it is not impossible to be beaten by Jiannu, he can only choose to cross the Qinling Mountains to meet Sun Chuanting first, and bring enough people and horses before he can go to compete with Huang Taiji.

Qinling Six Roads, he chose the best way to go.

Bao slope road is also known as the slope valley road, is a valley road formed by the two river valleys of the Han water tributary Baoshui and the Weishui tributary, since the Song and Yuan dynasties, all take the slope valley road as the big post road into Shu, its road is not as difficult to walk as the meridian valley, but the distance is longer than the meridian valley, there are nearly 800 miles or so.

If it is 800 miles expedited, it may not take two days to cross, the problem Zhang Bin is not a single horse, he took the Qi family army, the Tianxiong army, and the Shanxi army to 60,000 horses, plus the weight of grain and grass, it is the limit to be able to travel more than 100 miles a day.

Among them, there were many defeated thieves and cavalry, one on the left and one on the right, and it was not good to ignore them, and he had to send people to drive them into the mountains, so that they would not make trouble on the road.

At this time, Sun Chuanting had already waited there with 30,000 Qin troops and nearly 30,000 war horses captured from Gao Yingxiang, plus these 30,000 war horses and 30,000 Qin troops, Zhang Bin had gathered 90,000 troops and more than 50,000 war horses.

After a little rest in Meixian County, he did not hesitate to lead an army of 90,000 through Xi'an Mansion, cross the Yellow River through Suidezhou and enter Taiyuan Mansion, and rushed all the way to Datong Town.

Although Huang Taiji did not bring heavy infantry and Han Eight Banner infantry this time, he actually had a lot of troops, and the cavalry and foot soldiers gathered by the Mengyuan and Yuan tribes alone exceeded 100,000, and if you add the 60,000 Manchurian iron cavalry led by him, he had an army of 1670,000 troops, which was twice as much as Zhang Bin.

If he fights Zhang Bin according to the occupied city, although he may not have done Zhang Bin, but Zhang Bin has been injured and suffered heavy losses, there is still no big problem.

However, a strange thing happened, Zhang Bin just led the army to run wildly for more than ten days, and rushed to Shuozhou in the south of Datong Town, and the Mengyuan defenders entrenched in Huairen actually fled in the wind and went straight to the direction of Yanghewei!

Zhang Bin is strange, the information he got is that Huang Taiji is leading nearly 200,000 troops to wreak havoc in Datong Town, he has a total of 90,000 horses, and he has been driving for more than 20 days, he is already exhausted, Huang Taiji does not give himself a head-on attack, it is good, look at the wind and flee, what does this mean?

Is Huang Taiji cowardly?

This, Zhang Bin really doesn't believe it, even if Huang Taiji is cowardly, there are more than ten cities in hand, he doesn't even play any tricks, just stick to himself, he has to pay a huge price to capture these more than ten cities, Huang Taiji's subordinates are not peasant troops, even the miscellaneous army of the Mengyuan tribes is stronger than ordinary guards, if they defend the city, the casualties on their side are simply immeasurable.

He thinks that this is very likely that Huang Taiji is playing with himself to lure the enemy, this guy wants to lure his army to chase, because his men and horses are already exhausted, and if they chase for a few hundred miles, it is estimated that they will be exhausted, and when Huang Taiji is gathering a large army to give himself a wave of ambush or sneak attack, then his casualties will be heavy.

At this time, absolutely not reckless, Zhang Bin did not lead the army to catch up, but step by step, rushed to Huairen first, rested for a day, and rushed to Datong City, Huairen was less than a hundred miles away from Datong City, the next afternoon, he led the army to Datong outside the city, to his surprise, the original siege here Mengyuan army also fled, did not let a fart run away, he led the army all the way to Datong City, even an enemy scout has not been encountered!

Zhang Bin led the reinforcements to arrive, Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, was naturally excited, his subordinates at this time were less than 10,000 border soldiers, but Jiannu had more than 100,000 troops, if Jiannu desperately attacked the city, he really didn't know how long he could hold on, he was even ready to be martyred, but he didn't expect that Zhang Bin, who was far away in Hanzhong to suppress thieves, appeared in front of him magically, how could he not be ecstatic.

Zhang Bin was not excited at all, because Huang Taiji's performance was too strange, in the case of the superiority of the army, Jiannu would be afraid of the Ming army, this is simply a fantasy, in history, not to mention the superiority of troops, even if the strength is about the same, Jiannu will not hesitate to attack the Ming army, like the battle of Sarhu, the Ming army is known as 500,000 troops, to attack the Jianzhou Jurchen Department with a total population of less than 500,000, Nurhachi dares to take the initiative to attack, and the Ming army will be broken, at this time 1670,000 against 90,000, Huang Taiji will be afraid!

What does Huang Taiji want to do?

Zhang Bin didn't dare to act rashly, after he entered Datong City, he immediately sent scouts to scatter to investigate, wanting to see if Huang Taiji was ambushing somewhere, or gathering cavalry to prepare to give himself a fatal blow.

The results of the investigation made his jaw almost drop, after he entered Datong City, the Mites Qing Coalition Army was so frightened that he took the initiative to abandon all the cities south of Datong City, and fled straight to the north, which was like fleeing for his life.

The defenders of Hunyuan ran, the defenders of Guangling ran, the defenders of Ulzhou ran, and even, the main cavalry of the Manchurian Eight Banners led by Huang Taiji also ran, Zhang Bin did not spend a single soldier, and recovered nearly ninety percent of the lost territory in Datong Town, only Yanghewei, Gaoshan Wei, Zhenyuwei, Tianchengwei and other guards near Yanghekou are still under the control of Jiannu.

Huang Taiji didn't suddenly have a stroke, which one is this singing?

Of course, Huang Taiji did not have a stroke, because his strategic purpose had been achieved.

At this time, he has plundered nearly 200,000 people, nearly 500,000 stones of grain, and all kinds of gold and silver goods worth more than 2 million taels of silver, he has already made a lot of money, and Zhang Bin was also forced by him to travel more than 2,000 miles, from Hanzhong all the way to Datong Town, those anti-thieves should have already taken the opportunity to escape, and Daming's plan to exterminate the anti-thieves was also destroyed by him, why did he still have to fight with Zhang Bin?

Although it is said that the brave one of the two armies wins, the purpose of fighting a war is not to compete with anyone who is fierce and who will not want to die, but to fight a war for the sake of profit in the final analysis.

Now, the benefits of Huang Taiji have also been reaped, Zhang Bin has also been played by him for more than 2,000 miles, it can be said that he has made a lot of money, and it will be a loss for both sides, he knows that Zhang Bin will definitely not be able to clean him up at this time, but he also can't clean up Zhang Bin, fighting back and forth, only increasing casualties, for him, there is no benefit, so he decided to retreat and stop playing!

Just as Zhang Bin sent people to desperately find the ambush or hiding place of his main force of the Manchurian Eight Banners in the valleys and key passes around Datong Town, he had already led all the cavalry and foot soldiers of the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Mengyuan tribe to escort the captured "slaves", and Shi Shiran went out of Yanghekou with the looted grain and grass materials and went to the direction of the Tumut Department.

This guy may be addicted to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in order to disgust Zhang Bin, he actually ordered people to put straw men on the city walls of Yang Hewei and Gao Shanwei, and put some clothes on the grass men, and also planted countless flags full of eight banners and eight banners on the head of the city, which makes people think that there are many people stationed in these two places from a distance, in fact, even the ordinary people inside have been taken away by him, these two places are completely two empty cities, and no one is gone!

Of course, Zhang Bin has also watched the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but he didn't expect Huang Taiji to give him such a play.

At this time, he reorganized his troops and horses, leaving 20,000 Shanxi troops to guard Datong City, and then led the Qi Army, Tianxiong Army, 30,000 Qin Army and 20,000 Shanxi Army, a total of 70,000 horses, lined up in a neat formation, and cautiously rushed to the direction of Yang and Wei.

Yang and Wei are less than two hundred miles away from Datong City, in less than two days, he rushed to the outside of Yang and Acropolis, he raised his binoculars to look at the city wall, so he was so angry that a mouthful of blood spurted out, where are there any defenders on the city wall, all of them are straw men!

He sent a team of elite special operations battalions to climb the city wall with hook locks and take a look, the entire Yanghe City was really empty, and there was not even a single civilian!

Did Huang Taiji really run?

He ordered people to hurry up and rush to Gaoshan Wei, who was less than fifty miles away, the situation was exactly the same, and there was no one in Gaoshan City!

Now, he finally believed that Huang Taiji really ran away, and before leaving, he played "empty city plan" with him.

Zhang Bin couldn't laugh or cry, he thought about it carefully and found that Huang Taiji really didn't need to fight with him here, because Datong Town was too far away from Liaodong, even if Huang Taiji occupied it, it would not be of much use, but it would lengthen the supply line and consume grain and grass.

At the beginning, he was also swayed by habitual thinking, Jiannu led more than 100,000 troops to invade, and if he didn't fight a few battles, could they retreat?

Now that I think about it, I really can, at this time, the Huang Taiji people have also been robbed, the food has also been robbed, the money has also been robbed, and the entire east and north of Datong Town have been looted by him, why is he staying, do you have to fight a few battles with yourself to be comfortable!