On the Jin side, Hauge led an army of 25,000 to Guazhou, and after joining Sun Kewang, he continued to follow Jungar forward.

This time, Haoge still praised Sun Kewang for guarding Guazhou City, and his insistence in Hexi dispersed the forces of Zhunger, otherwise the Chechen Ministry would also press to the line of the Great Wall, and the Jin State might not be able to withstand it.

Moreover, the Jin State guarded Guazhou, which would have a long-term impact on the Hexi Corridor and even the Western Regions, laying the foundation for the westward expansion of the Jin State.

On these two points, Haoge admired Sun Kewang very much, but for Sun Kewang to annex 10,000 people of Liu's department, Haoge was very jealous and dissatisfied in his heart.

He knew that Sun Kewang's ambition was immortal, but he had to use Sun Kewang now.

The situation in Hexi is more complicated, the Jin State destroyed Turpan and defeated the Heshute Mongols, it has been five years, but in the first four years, the Jin State basically only nominally controlled the Hexi Corridor, and the Jin court did not get much benefit from Hexi, which is also one of the reasons why Haoge wanted to take Shu, but Sun Kewang only used one year in Hexi to open up the situation in Hexi, so that the Jin State obtained a large number of cattle, sheep, horses, and obtained rich benefits.

This made Haoge know that if he wanted to run the Hexi Corridor, he needed a capable person like Sun Kewang, and looking at the Jin Kingdom, it seemed that there was no existence that could replace him, so Haoge knew that Sun Kewang's ambition was not dead, and he still had to reuse him.

Liu Jinzhong, a mediocre talent, although easy to control, but he does not have the ability to expand the territory for the Jin State, although Sun Kewang is dangerous, but his ability is strong, and he can make the Jin State stronger.

If Jin was a strong country, Haoge would not hesitate to find an excuse to kill Sun Kewang, but among the Jin, Qing, and Ming parties, Jin was the weakest party, and Jin needed capable people to change the law and become strong.

Therefore, regarding Sun Kewang's annexation of Liu Bu, Haoge decided not to pursue it for the time being, but to record it in the account, and then liquidate it when the time is ripe.

The 60,000 people of the Chechen Department did not capture Guazhou, which made many tribes in the Hexi Corridor have a sense of awe for the Jin State, and they dare not resist the decree of the Jin State, nor dare they dare to think anything wrong about Guazhou.

Sun Kewang left his general Jiang Jianxun to lead more than 5,000 wounded soldiers to guard Guazhou, so he took 8,000 infantry troops and 2,000 cavalry to follow Haoge on the expedition. The 8,000-foot army was slow, led by Zhang Sheng and followed behind the army, while Sun Kewang led 2,000 cavalry, following around Haoge.

The cavalry of the Jin army pursued for a day, but still kept a distance of 100 miles from the army of Zungar.

On the second day, there were some changes in the situation, and the Jin army calculated the distance and continued to move forward, but after walking more than fifty miles, the scouts in front suddenly came back to report that a Mongolian cavalry of more than 10,000 people was still in place, and did not continue to move north, as if waiting for them!

Hauge frowned slightly when he heard this, and saw that it was noon, so he ordered the whole army to rest on the spot, and the 27,000 gold troops sat down to rest, eating dry food, and many people also took out dried meat.

For the Central Plains Dynasty, meat was still a luxury, and the same was true for the Jin Kingdom, but because of the trade in Hexi, a lot of livestock flowed into Guanzhong, which greatly improved the structure of things in Guanzhong and the physical fitness of the soldiers of the Jin State.

Although the Ming Dynasty was rich and had abundant materials, because the trade network did not border the pastoral areas, it was impossible to obtain a large number of cattle and sheep through trade.

At this time, as soon as Haoge sat down, Sun Kewang came over and saluted: "Your Majesty, Baturhui suddenly left more than 10,000 cavalry to block us, and the minister suspects that the Qing army may have arrived at Xingxing Gorge!" ”

Sun Kewang has been running Hexi for a year, and has done some research on the landform of Hexi, Baturhun left men and horses to block at this time, it must have been attacked from both sides, and he wanted to drag them down and defeat the enemy on head.

Haoge also thought this way, and said with a smile: "What does the Qing family think?" ”

"Your Majesty, I think that in the direction of Xingxing Gorge, a big battle may occur at any time, and we are too far away from the enemy, I am afraid that we will lose the initiative!" Sun Kewang arched his hand and said.

Since Zhang Xianzhong's death, he has been the leader of one party for four or five years, and now there is a haoge on the top of his head, he is still a little unaccustomed, but it is not difficult for a character like him to control himself and make him look respectful on the outside.

The Jin army has been chasing behind, losing such a long distance, and now there is an extra cavalry to delay, in case the battle really starts on the other side of the Star Gorge, and the Jin army misses the opportunity to join the battlefield, then it will be necessary to let the tiger return to the mountain.

Hauge bowed slightly, Sun Kewang understood as soon as he said it, but in fact, his heart was also a little entangled, Dolgon had yin against him so many times, and he also wanted to take the opportunity to put Dolgon together, but reason told him that this would not work.

There are more than 100,000 iron cavalry in Zhunger, and the cavalry is more than Jin and Qing combined.

In the event that Jungar had defeated the Qing army and recaptured the pastures and tribesmen, a formidable enemy would rise in the northwest of the Jin Kingdom.

In this way, the Jin State will fall into the middle attack of Zhungeer and the Southern Ming, and gradually lose the space for survival, and once the Qing army is defeated, it will inevitably lead to the weakening of the Qing State's strength, unable to contain the Southern Ming, making the Ming Dynasty too powerful and will move north at any time.

Now the three forces are desperately accumulating strength, and the next big war will inevitably be a war to destroy the country.

Nanming inserted a tube into Japan and a tube into Nanyang, desperately sucking the blood of the two places to strengthen himself, and Jin and Qing only by uniting to carve up Jungger could they have the ability to deal with the next big war related to the fortunes of the country.

Of course, if the Manchus were allowed to win easily, it would not be in the interests of the Jin State.

Hauge wanted to play the trick of profiting from the fisherman, but he couldn't master the scale.

At this time, he couldn't help but look up at Sun Kewang, and immediately remembered the Battle of Sichuan in his heart. At that time, Sun Kewang asked him for help, he was thinking of profiteering, and wanted to wait for Sun Kewang and the Ming army to be exhausted, and then enter the battlefield and settle the battle, but he didn't expect that in the end, he smashed it, Qiankun was not decided, and the fishing profits were not received, but he lost tens of thousands of elites, lost Sichuan, and the national power of the Jin State also changed from prosperity to decline, and it was simply a loss to his wife and soldiers.

Thinking of this, Hauge immediately said: "What Sun Qing said is reasonable, we must grasp the initiative and be able to intervene in the war at any time. ”

"Your Majesty, it will only take one day to get from here to Xingxing Gorge, and I think that I must defeat the 10,000 Mongolian troops in front of me as soon as possible!" Sun Kewang hurriedly said.

Hauge stood up and looked at the sky, it was past noon, and if he galloped over without a chance to rest, he would have to fight the Mongols, and the Mongols would be at ease.

"You immediately lead two thousand cavalry first, rush to the Mongol garrison, don't engage them, just attack them at night, deepen the fatigue of the Mongols, affect their combat strength, tomorrow when I will kill and defeat the Mongols who stand in the way!"

Sun Kewang just made a suggestion, but he didn't expect Hauge to give him the task, he wasn't very good at night attacks, but he still responded with his fists, "Chen, let's lead the troops to set off!" ”

Sun Kewang received the military order, so he left the brigade with 2,000 cavalry and made a detour to the north.

Because the task he received was to harass the tired enemy, he could not take the main road and go straight, if the Mongolian sentry found out, the terrorist attack could not succeed, but would fall into the tiger's mouth, so he chose the trail at the southern foot of the Horsehair Mountain, although it was not easy to walk, but he could quietly approach the Mongols.

The Jin army and 10,000 Mongols gathered only more than 50 miles, and the cavalry galloped in no two hours to kill, but because of the detour, Sun Kewang set off from noon and arrived at a hilly area more than 200 miles south of Xingxing Gorge when the sun set.

After Zhuot Babatur led 10,000 men to break off, he set up a formation, and when the Jin army collided head-on, he was ready to defeat the Jin army, but after waiting for a day, there was no trace of the Jin people.

But it's okay in this way, the people of Jin didn't dare to come up, they still kept their distance from him, he didn't have to fight, he could complete the task assigned by Baturhui, and avoid the army being attacked from both sides.

At this time, it was getting dark, and the Mongol army, which had been waiting for a day, was preparing to rest.

When Sun Kewang arrived nearby, he also let the cavalry who had been gone for half a day dismount to rest, and then sent a team of sentry horsemen to check on the situation of the Mongols.

After a short time, several scouts galloped back, "King, the Mongols are in front, but the other party has arranged a secret sentry and has already discovered us." ”

Sun Kewang frowned slightly, stood up, and sure enough, he saw several black shadows in the woods in the distance, they stood halfway up a mound, looked at the cavalry of the Jin Army for a moment, and then rushed down the hillside, turned the horse's head and ran back to the station.

There were only two Jin troops, and they galloped for a long time, but they were no match for 10,000 Mongols.

Seeing this, Sun Kewang immediately called the commander of the guards, and gave him a few commands, the commander nodded, and he walked to the side of the war horse and turned over his horse, waved his hand and said, "Leopard Tao Battalion A team, come with this king!" ”

After saying that, he grabbed the belly of the horse and galloped out, and when a hundred cavalrymen heard the order, they immediately turned over their horses and followed him along the ramp and rushed up the hill.

Just when the hundred cavalry entered the woods on the hill, a low horn suddenly sounded not far away, Sun Kewang stood on the hill and could clearly see that on the north side of the hill, 10,000 Mongolian troops turned over their horses in unison in the sound of the horn, and then rushed out along the road below the hill to the south.

At this time, Sun Kewang's personal guard commander had already led the cavalry to mount his horse and quickly evacuated. Zhuot Babatur led the troops to kill, saw the Jin cavalry fleeing south, looked up at the sky, it was about to be dark, afraid of an ambush, scolded angrily, and then led the troops back to the station.

The Mongol soldiers returned to the camp, had dinner, and were ready to go to sleep, when there was a sudden "Dang! While! While! The sound suddenly woke up the Mongols who had just fallen asleep.

The Mongols got up in fright, and a cavalry in the distance suddenly rushed over, throwing a wave of arrows and a rain of arrows, shooting dozens of Mongol soldiers on the edge of the garrison.

Zot Babatur hurriedly mounted his horse and rushed out of the garrison, but after a rain of arrows, the attacking Jin army disappeared again.

(Thanks to the wolfdog for the five hundred bounty for defending the slaves, thank you all for your support.) ）

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