Mang Gurtai walked more than 20 miles, and the Houjin soldiers were tired and hungry, and their morale was extremely low. Mang Gurtai had to order to cook first, and then leave for the wine and Maji Castle after eating.

Anyway, there is hay, at least the firewood and grass don't have to be beaten anymore. However, Mang Gurtai still released sentinels around him, fearing that the Ming army would suddenly attack.

When the meal was finally ready, and everyone was eating, suddenly smoke began to rise from a ball of hay, and Mang Gurtai shouted angrily: "Didn't you say earlier that you should pay attention to fire prevention, and you will soon put out the fire." ”

At this time, the hay everywhere began to smoke, and soon the hay in the whole camp was burning, although there was no burn to the Houjin soldiers, but the meal that had just been prepared seemed to be inedible, and one by one it smoked as if it had crawled out of the stove hole.

In a bush a mile away from them, two Dongjiang soldiers were complaining to each other, and one said: "I said that the time should be set later, but you said that it should be earlier, but now it's good, and no one will be burned at all." ”

The other said: "Obviously, I said it later, you are cowardly, and you want to run when you see Houjin Bing coming, so that the fire will start in advance." ”

The first one said: "Forget it, anyway, the chief soldier only said that he would burn the hay and make Jiannu shocked, we have overfulfilled the task, let's go back and report the news." ”

The other said: "What kind of news, do you think you can't see such a big smoke over there in Yunyang, let's go back, don't let Jiannu find out, and when they are finished, we will go to Yunyang." ”

After Jin Bing finally made a meal that he couldn't eat, everyone was in a bad mood, Mang Gurtai said: "Let's go back to Wine Maji Fort." The man who had the idea did not dare to look at him, and led the soldiers to the castle of Jiumaji.

If you take the main road to return to Jiu Maji Fort, you have to pass through Yunyang Fort, although it is about 300 steps away from the fort, but Mao Wenlong did not let go of this opportunity, let the Dongjiang soldiers release their guns at the Houjin soldiers two hundred steps away from the fort, and injured some Houjin armor soldiers. If the Houjin armor soldiers charged, they would retreat backwards and rely on the cannons on the city wall to deal with the Houjin army. After such a toss, all the Houjin soldiers were weak, and they just wanted to return to Jiumaji Fort quickly and sleep well.

Mao Wenlong took the Dongjiang soldiers, followed the Houjin army and kept releasing the guns, the Houjin soldiers were overwhelmed, but they couldn't do anything, until they were five miles away from Yunyang Fort, Mao Wenlong was satisfied with the cut off head, and the armor and weapons back to Yunyang Fort.

In this battle, Mao Wenlong obtained a total of 570 Houjin soldiers, as well as weapons and armor, which can be regarded as a great merit. And the most important thing is that he has almost no losses, and the material harvest in Yunyang Fort is enough for Dongjiang Town to live a relatively comfortable life.

The change in the combat style of Mao Wenlong, who has always been the guerrilla leader, made Mang Gurtai suffer a big loss. And Huang Taiji's support for Haizhou is also not going well.

Cao Wenzhao took two brigades and one battalion to attack Haizhou, which was equivalent to taking out two-thirds of the strength of the first division. At the same time, Cao Wenzhao also widely distributed scouts to investigate the situation of the reinforcements of the Jin army.

When he received the news that Zhengbai Qi had come to reinforce Haizhou under the leadership of Huang Taiji, Cao Wenzhao was overjoyed, because he knew that the emperor attached great importance to Huang Taiji, and thought that as long as Huang Taiji was removed, Houjin could not make any waves at all, and as for Nurhachi, there was no need to worry about it at all.

Therefore, in the table of hostility of the Guards, Huang Taiji was the first slave chief to be eliminated, ahead of Nurhachi. Cao Wenzhao felt that if he took this opportunity to kill Huang Taiji, it would be just around the corner to level Liaodong.

On the other hand, the generals of the Guards were not very impressed by the emperor's admiration for Huang Taiji so much, but he was just one of the sons of the wild boar skin, and I had never heard of him doing anything vigorous. Therefore, Cao Wenzhao wanted to catch Huang Taiji the most, see where he was powerful, and let the emperor regard him as the number one enemy.

Cao Wenzhao personally took Zhang Zongling and Du Guangting to inspect the terrain to the east of Haizhou, and finally selected a canyon to the north of Ximu City. This is the only way to go from Xin'anbao to Haizhou.

If there is an ambush of soldiers here, the Houjin soldiers will definitely search the mountain first before deciding to act, so this method is not feasible.

Du Guangting said: "It is better to ambush a force ten miles away from the entrance of the canyon, and then use a small force to block it at the exit, and then arrange a brigade in the rear to block them from fighting in the canyon." ”

Cao Wenzhao's eyes lit up: "You mean to ambush a small army, the enemy will not care, will definitely attack and expel it, and after hearing the gunshots, the large army will come again, so that they can be blocked in the canyon?" ”

Du Guangting said with a smile: "The division commander knows what he knows, and admires and admires. ”

Cao Wenzhao said with a smile: "Come less, I still know it myself, dare to rush and dare to beat me, but you still do a good job of these thoughtful things." ”

Zhang Zongling said: "I'm not good at it, so let me, the old man, be the bait." ”

Cao Wenzhao smiled: "If a big old man can write words like you, then everyone wants to be a big old man." But you can be used as bait, be careful, don't let Jiannu eat you. ”

Zhang Zongling laughed and said, "I'm afraid he doesn't have such good teeth." ”

The plan has been decided, after calculating the speed of Huang Taiji, Zhang Zongling took half a battalion to ambush on both sides of the canyon, Du Guangting took two battalions to ambush on a small hillside five miles away from the entrance of the canyon, and Cao Wenzhao took two battalions to ambush five miles behind Zhang Zongling.

Although the Houjin army was anxious to support Haizhou, Huang Taiji was cautious by nature, and there were scouts along the way to explore the way, and the large army would only advance after it was sure that it was safe. On this day, it was only a day's journey from Haizhou, and the scouts reported that there was an ambush of the guards in Shenlong Gorge in front.

Huang Taiji carefully inquired about the location and number of people in the ambush, and said with a smile: "With these people, it is impossible to stop us, they must have ambushes in other places." Let's go the other way and don't let it fall into their pockets. ”

The newly appointed Gushan Ezhenguo replied: "Lord Belle, then you have to walk one more day." ”

Huang Taiji said: "It's better to go one more day than to lose your life, one day late, you always have to arrive, if you lose your life, you can't come back." ”

So the Houjin soldiers changed to another road, the guards waited and waited, the time when the Houjin army should have arrived had already passed, and they had not seen the shadow of the white flag, at this time Du Guangting received the news that Jiannu did not go to Shenlong Gorge at all, but from another road ten miles away from Shenlong Gorge.