"Your Majesty, the servants think that different places should have different approaches to the attack on the pirates." Sonny thought for a moment and replied.

Huang Taiji nodded and said, "Say." ”

Sonny replied: "The minions feel that other places can give up the coastal position, such as in southern Liaoning, we can abandon some coastal territory. These pirates rely on the strength of their ships, and they can quickly concentrate their forces to attack our weak points when they are on the coast, and they can escape by relying on the ships in case of disadvantage. We have limited manpower, and if we want to defend the coast, we will inevitably fight more with less everywhere and be passive everywhere. On the contrary, if we give up twenty or thirty miles along the coast, if they dare to go deeper, we will have the opportunity to concentrate our forces and give them a hard beating. In fact, the coastal areas of Lushun and Jinzhou are basically like this. And the pirates have never been ten miles from the coast. ”

Speaking of this, Sonny quietly raised his eyes and glanced at Huang Taiji, and saw Huang Taiji sitting there, with his head down, his right hand on the tabletop, and he was gently tapping the table with his index finger, obviously thinking about things.

Huang Taiji saw that Sony's voice stopped, so he raised his head and said, "Why don't you say it?" Go on. ”

Sony continued: "It's just that Liaoxi is different. From Jinzhou to Shanhaiguan, these hundreds of miles, the terrain is long and narrow, but it is the throat of the Central Plains, if our country wants to enter the Central Plains, here is no matter how you can not give up. And the Zheng family's pirates will definitely attack our army's grain road from here. This Liaoxi corridor is narrow, but it is within the scope of Haikou's activities. Therefore, the minions felt that this area had to be defended more defensively. ”

Huang Taiji nodded and said, "How to strengthen the defense?" ”

"Your Majesty, we have one thing that we can learn from the Ming Kingdom, and that is the beacon tower." Sonny said, "The Ming Kingdom built a series of fortresses along the Liaoxi Corridor, and built a lot of beacon towers. Now these beacons and fortresses have been abandoned by the Ming army. We have few Manchurians, and it is impossible to be like the Ming State, where a bunch of soldiers are placed in each fortress. But we can leave one or two teams in key positions, and a little bit of pawn in each of the rest castles, in each beacon, is still fine. In this way, as soon as the pirates approached, we lit a beacon fire, and then our army could find a nearby fort to hold on. And the great army of our army can also react quickly. This should ensure the safety of the grain routes. ”

Huang Taiji listened, nodded and said, "What you said is good. It's just that it's really ...... to keep so many people tied up like this Fortunately, the Zheng family's sea ship can't float on the sea forever, otherwise, it will be another Mao Wenlong, even ...... than Mao Wenlong."

Speaking of this, Huang Taiji suddenly remembered something, stood up and said, "Quick, let people go to Beacon Hill to have a look, and guard Beacon Mountain, if this place falls into the hands of Haikou...... Immediately inform Aobai and ask him to take the cavalry and set off immediately. If the enemy army does not occupy Beacon Hill, it must be defended, if it is the enemy army, then take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold and quickly seize this place, otherwise, the future will be endless! ”

Sony hurriedly retired, went out to inform Aobai of the matter, and told Aobai: "The emperor said that although Beacon Mountain is small, it has a lot to stake, and it must be taken down!" ”

Ao Bai has also been to this place on Beacon Mountain, so after listening to the situation relayed by Sony, Ao Bai immediately understood the danger here. Beacon Hill is easy to defend and difficult to attack, once the opponent has gained a firm foothold, it is equivalent to inserting a knife in the choke point of the Liaoning West Corridor. In order to ensure the safety of this corridor in the future, it is necessary to invest an unknown amount of manpower and material resources.

Ao Bai said: "The soldiers are fast, without further ado." You go and inform Prince Su, and I will immediately mobilize the army and set off. ”

It's just that the army set off, and there were still a lot of preparations anyway, although Huang Taiji and others worked hard to cooperate, but when Ao Bai set off with more than 3,000 cavalry, another hour passed.

Of Aobai's 3,000 cavalry, there were 1,000 Manchurian heavy cavalry (in fact, more mounted heavy infantry who dismounted and fought on foot) and 2,000 Mongolian cavalry. In order to ensure the speed of the march and the combat effectiveness of the locality, Huang Taiji temporarily transferred the horses of some other cavalry units to them, so that each of the 3,000 cavalry had three horses. In this way, when they are marching, they can save horsepower and speed up by taking turns riding.

Ao Bai set out with these cavalry, day and night, but in a day and a half, he arrived at Ningyuan in the afternoon of the second day. The Manchus also had some garrisons in Ningyuan, so Ao Bai asked the cavalry to rest in Ningyuan, and at the same time ordered the defenders of Ningyuan to immediately send cavalry to investigate in the direction of Jinzhou.

After resting in Ningyuan for two and a half hours (mainly to let the horses rest and eat, and let people sleep), before dawn, Ao Bai set off again with these cavalry and continued to march in the direction of Bijia Mountain.

"Ladies and gentlemen, can you still hold on?" Ao Bai rode on his horse and asked the Qing troops around him.

"If you can hold it, the horse can hold it, how can anyone not hold it?" The people around him responded with a bang.

"Everyone has worked hard, and when the Haikou is destroyed, the emperor will have to reward everyone!" Ao Bai shouted encouragement.

Even though it was a three-horse cavalry, it was still very tiring to run such a long distance. Even if a man can rely on willpower to support the march, it is difficult for a horse to continue to advance with such high intensity. Some of the horses with poor physique had already shown physical exhaustion, so Ao Bai had to slow down the pace of the march and let the soldiers dismount and walk, so that the horses could rest.

There is a distance of more than 100 miles from Ningyuan to Bijia Mountain, and by dawn, Aobai's cavalry has already walked almost halfway, and Aobai asked his younger brother Mulima to bring more than 100 cavalry to explore the road in front, and he slowly followed with the main force.

At about three o'clock in the morning, Ao Bai received news from Mulima that he had found the enemy's cavalry, about a dozen horsemen.

"Zhang Jing asked us to come back and report the news, and I took someone to catch up." The man who sent back to deliver the letter.

Ao Bai listened, but his heart sank. This place is still quite far from Jinzhou City. If the enemy army is still in Jinzhou, it is unlikely that you will encounter the enemy's scouts in this position, unless it is ......

Ao Bai thought about it, and ordered the Manchurian soldiers to mount their horses, but let the Mongols still lead the horses and speed up to Beacon Mountain. Although the Manchurian soldiers were cavalry, they could also dismount and fight on foot with heavy armor. Even when it was really difficult, they simply fought on foot, so for them, their physical strength was more important than the physical strength of the horses. However, those Mongols mainly relied on horses to fight, and their ability to dismount and fight on foot was limited, so for the Mongols, the physical strength of horses was more important than the physical strength of people. Therefore, Ao Bai let the Manchurian cavalry ride on horseback, but let the Mongol cavalry lead the horse and follow.

After a short time, he saw Mulima waiting there with the cavalry. Seeing Aobai, Mulima hurried up to report.

"You're saying you didn't catch up with them?" Ao Bai listened to Mulima's report and asked.

"Brother, those enemy horses are better than ours, they are all the kind of horses that are worth a thousand gold. And our horses themselves are tired, where can we catch up with them? Mulima said.

"Where did they go?" Ao Bai asked.

"Over there, it looks like the direction of Beacon Hill." Mulima replied.

As he was talking, he saw another group of cavalry approaching in the distance, and he saw that there were not many people, but there were only about a hundred people. I didn't fly any flags, but slowly approached.

"Just such a few people, dare to come to the door? Brother, let me bring some people up and give them a good look. Mulima glanced over there.

Ao Bai shook his head and said, "You can't catch up with them." Beacon Hill must now be occupied by them. However, most of them are still unfounded, so they have sent such a small number of cavalry to contain us, trying to hold us back so that they can have more time to defend. We can't get entangled with them. I'll give you two hundred Mongols, watch over them, don't let them interfere with the actions of the army. ”

"Huh!" Mulima responded.

When Mulima had mobilized the two hundred Mongols, the cavalry approached and stopped at a distance of seventy or eighty paces from the Qing army, and with a whistle, the cavalry jumped off their horses.

"What are they going to do? Do you want to charge on foot? Mulima looked at the cavalry of the model army and was puzzled.

But the cavalry took a musket from their horses and pointed it at the Qing army. With a whistle, these cavalry fired a volley, and immediately knocked down more than 20 Qing cavalry, but some of them were shot and some were shot.

"Damn! Their cavalry was actually made with birds! Mulima exclaimed.

At this time, the Qing army's will to fight and discipline were not bad, and after eating this blow, the soldiers did not panic, and they did not even move.

"Rush with me!" Mulima shouted and rushed over with the two hundred Mongol cavalry. The enemy on the opposite side did not panic, and immediately turned on their horses after firing this shot, but did not engage Mulima, but only urged the horses to flee. Their horses increased rapidly, and in a flash, they left off a large part of the Mongol cavalry led by Mulima, and in a short time, they ran away.

Mulima knew that his side would definitely not be able to catch up, so he stopped chasing it. But the cavalry stopped at a distance, jumped off their horses, and stood there as if to reload their muskets. Apparently they were planning to do another round as soon as they had loaded their bullets.

Mulima looked at the distance and estimated that he rushed over with people, most of whom happened to be smeared with muskets. Then they fled as well, but they still couldn't catch up. He did not chase after them, but retreated, and said to Ao: "Brother, the cavalry cannot catch up with them, so they can only let the archers shoot at them, and I see that they do not seem to have armor, even light arrows can shoot them." ”

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