The defeat in the battle of Jiaxiang, coupled with the return of the cavalry sent out to reconnoitre, did not find any trace of the four teams of Niu Lu Tartars.

As the Zhenglan Banner Gushan Ezhen Darhan really woke up, the Ming army also had a field mobile cavalry with strong combat power that was constantly harassing and attacking the sergeants who went out to loot in the Zhenglan Banner.

The 25 cattle records he brought out of the Zhenglan Banner have now lost 7 cattle records, leaving only 18 cattle records under the city of Jining, and Jiaxiang County, which was hoarding grain and grass, has also been breached, and all the looted grain and grass have been lost.

Such heavy losses occurred before the Ming army field troops were seen, which was unheard of in the history of the Manchu Qing and Ming armies.

At this moment, Darhan was completely in a dilemma.

Let's go ahead and besiege the city! There are also 100,000 Ming troops of Liu Zeqing in Jining City, and no matter how weak the combat strength of these 100,000 Ming troops is, with only 18 Niu Lu, 56,000 people will not be able to break it for a while and a half.

The food and grass are in a hurry, withdraw the army and join Abatai! lost 7 Niu Lu and 2,100 Manchu sergeants, but they didn't even see the shadow of the Ming army's field troops, and it was also dealt with by military law when they went back, and it was unknown whether they could save their heads.

Darhan is like a gambler who has lost a red eye, and it is impossible to stop it, so he can only bet on the stakes bigger and bigger, hoping that he can get his money back. If you want to be exempted, you must defeat this dragon guarding the tail of the Ming army's mobile cavalry.

Darhan immediately divided the remaining 18 cattle records of the Zhenglan Banner into 10 cattle records, a total of 3,000 people, led by him personally, brought enough rations, and immediately rushed to Jiaxiang County to find the traces of the Ming army's mobile cavalry, and then pursued along the way, and must be annihilated.

The remaining 8 Niu Lu guarded under the city of Jining, continued to besiege the city, and compressed Liu Zeqing's 100,000 Ming troops in the city, not daring to go out of the city for half a step.

When the Manchu cavalry of 10 Niu Lu of Darhan arrived in Jiaxiang County, they found that Jiaxiang County was already in a mess, and the people in the city had already fled for their lives with the only remaining grain in the granary under Fang Yuan's appeal.

In the granary, it was empty; Dozens of Manchu Tartar corpses that had been burned to charcoal were hung directly at the door of the granary by Fang Yuan to demonstrate to Darhan.

Darhan was so angry that he could only attract more than 300 big families in the city who still had illusions about the Manchu Qing Dynasty and had been traitors before, and all the old and young families destroyed the door to vent their anger.

Based on the clues left by the survivors and the footprints left by the cavalry on the official road, he led the cavalry to chase after him directly.

When Darhan led the party to kill traitors in Jiaxiang County to vent his anger, Fang Yuan had already led his army back to Liangshan Shuibo to rest. In less than a month, it annihilated 7 Manchu cavalry of Niu Lu, while the Xuanjia army only lost 130 people, which was already a shocking record.

Fang Yuan deliberately left clues such as camps, fires, and hoof prints to lure Darhan to Liangshan Shuibo, relying on the Manchu Eight Banners not to be accustomed to water, and borrowing Darhan's courage, he did not dare to attack Liangshan Shuibo.

Fang Yuan's purpose was to lengthen the battle line of the Zhenglan Banner, and then wait for the opportunity to annihilate them one by one.

After seven days and seven nights of pursuit along the way, Darhan arrived in front of Liangshan Shuibo, and faced the Manchu cavalry, which had no ships and was not good at water warfare for 800 miles, and could only temporarily camp in a bazaar under Liangshan Shuibo.

After seven days and seven nights of pursuit, the food of Darhan and his entourage had been exhausted, and the people of the villages along the way had already been 'invited' to Liangshan by Liang Min, and the fishermen who lived by the water dock also hid the fishing boats and drove the fishing boats to the hidden places of the water docks to temporarily take refuge.

Wherever Darhan passed, there were no people for hundreds of miles, and there was no logistical supplement at all.

In desperation, he sent scouts around to reconnoiter if there were any villages that could be restocked. The spies reported that a hundred miles from the north and south, there was a village where the people had not fled, there were cattle and sheep in the fields, and cooking smoke had risen, and it was estimated that the military rations could be plundered.

There were only three days of military rations in the Darhan army, so he could only take the risk again and choose to divide the troops, and divided the cavalry of 10 Niu Lu under his command into a team of 5 Niu Lu, and divided the troops to the north and south to plunder.

When the Tartar soldiers from the north and south arrived at the two villages, they found that the cattle, sheep, and grain had all been transported by Liangshan's boats, and they were all empty.

This is Fang Yuan's exhausting strategy, which is to consume the physical strength, energy, and willpower of these 10 Niu Lu Manchu Qing Tartars. The people of those villages were all pretended to be Liangshan's brothers, in order to carry Darhan around Liangshan in a circle.

After seven days of rest and replenishment, Fang Yuan's Xuanjia Army had already eaten and drunk enough, and was full of energy, regardless of combat strength, physical strength, and the replenishment of gunpowder was already in the best condition. The warships from Liangshan were directly transported in batches to the beachhead 80 miles away to land, and they were out of the surveillance range of Darhan.

Fang Yuan once again changed into a military uniform with a blue flag, but he only wore a red cloth on his arm to distinguish him.

He sent a team of 100 men to lure the Manchu cavalry of 5 Niu Lu who were plundering northward, looking for fighters.

Zaran Ezhen, who commanded 5 Niu Lu, finally saw the trace of the Ming cavalry, and he was eager to atone for his crimes, and he could no longer wait for Darhan's support, so he directly launched a whole army pursuit, and he must annihilate this elusive Ming Dynasty cavalry in one fell swoop.

Fang Yuan saw that these 5 Niu Lu's Manchu cavalry dared to pursue without waiting for other support, and shouted in his heart God help me, it seems that this time he will definitely be able to eat these 5 Niu Lu's Tatar cavalry.

In order to reduce casualties, he did not immediately fight the Tartar soldiers, but continued to go around the north with 5 Niulu's Tartars, maintaining a half-day horse journey.

The two sides circled around Yuncheng County in Jining Prefecture, and the Manchu cavalry was exhausted, but due to the lack of uniformity, they could not catch up with the Xuanjia Army in the upper plains, but the formation was torn into a long snake shape.

Among them, 2 Niu Lu are two war horses per capita, and they are more mobile, brave and in the lead, and chase closely. However, the remaining three Niulu's Tartars had only one horse, and they could not keep up with the large army in terms of mobility and physical strength, and they were pulled down by sparse pulls for two or three hundred miles, at least a day's journey.

Fang Yuan, under the leadership of the Liangshan guide, who was familiar with the local terrain, had already preset a burial ground for the two Manchu Tartars who were chasing after him, which was a small market fifty miles away from Yuncheng County.

Due to the invasion of the Tartars, this usually lively small bazaar has long been deserted.

Fang Yuan, who had arrived for half a day, ordered the Xuanjia army to guard the horses behind the house, and covered the horse's mouth with a horse halter to avoid making a sound.

After arranging the horses, the Xuanjia army immediately occupied the commanding height on the roof of the bazaar, and nearly 2,000 men were ambushed on the roofs of 1 or 200 houses, and the guns were loaded and bows and arrows were ready.

The entire bazaar has become a trap for hunting animals, and as long as these two Manchu iron horsemen of Niu Lu enter the trap, they can deliver a fatal blow.

By dusk, the pursuing Manchu cavalry had finally arrived.

As soon as they stepped into the market street, the Manchu cavalry saw a hundred Xuanjia sergeants that Fang Yuan had arranged on the side of the market to lure the enemy.

"Help! The Manchu Tartars are coming! ”

Sergeant Xuanjia shouted, panicked and ready to get on his horse and flee.

When the Manchu cavalry saw that they had finally caught up with the Ming cavalry, they were overjoyed and immediately drove straight into pursuit of the fleeing Ming cavalry.

When most of the Manchu cavalry of the two Niu Lu chased into the bazaar, Fang Yuan immediately sounded the trumpet of the attack.

All the Xuanjia troops who were ambushed in the bazaar poked their heads out together, and without saying a word, they directly began to annihilate the Manchu Tartars who entered the ambush circle.

"Crackle!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Hisss hiss!"

Under the onslaught of the Xuanjia army's intertwined firepower network, the Manchu Tartars who chased into the bazaar were defeated and had no power to fight back.

In the entire market, the screams of Tartars and war horses were endless.

After the fire was over, the Xuanjia army shot at each other with bows and arrows and Manchu Tartars.

The war lasted for half an hour, and the Manchu Tartars, who had been annihilated for the most part, finally showed their cowardice and began to retreat.

Fang Yuan would not give these Tartars any chance to escape at all, and immediately ordered the entire Xuanjia Army to mount their horses and began to pursue the one or two hundred defeated soldiers who had fled in the Tartars.

The two sides followed the official road where the Tartar cavalry came, rushing one after the other, and the distance between the front and back was only less than five miles.

After half a day of pursuit, most of the defeated soldiers who fled had been annihilated by the Xuanjia army that pursued later, and there were less than fifty horsemen left.

On the official road, the two sides met the Tartar cavalry of 3 Niulu who were slow in mobility and then pursued.

The three Niulu's Tatar cavalry saw a group of cavalry wearing blue flag uniforms rushing towards them, and they couldn't tell who was who, and when they were stunned, they were directly scattered by the defeated soldiers who fled on their own side.

Before he could come back to his senses, Fang Yuan's Xuanjia army had already killed in front of him, and first muskets, bows and arrows greeted fiercely towards the Manchu Tartars who could not distinguish between the enemy and me.

After the muskets were finished, the musketeers of the Xuanjia Army immediately put on the accompanying explosion-proof helmets and directly began to charge and kill the Tartar cavalry that had been disrupted in formation.

The Xuanjia army is full of morale, well-equipped, and has taken the lead; And the Tartar cavalry was hungry and hungry, and was taken by surprise. Under the elimination of one and the other, how far apart is the combat power?

The battle of annihilation lasted for a full hour or two, and the Xuanjia Army finally completed the complete defeat of this Tartar cavalry.

A total of 5 Niulu (1,500 people) of Tartar cavalry that marched north and plundered were annihilated by the Xuanjia army, and only less than 200 horsemen galloped back and rushed back to join Darhan.

Fang Yuan counted the casualties after the battle, and the casualties of the Xuanjia Army in this battle also accumulated to 200 people, and the total number of losses reached 350 people. There were 1,000 captured horses, and after a series of fierce battles, the number of horses not only did not lose, but reached 5,000.

Darhan saw that the five cattle that had been plundered by the north were annihilated again, and only less than 200 people escaped. Moreover, in order to alleviate the crime, the defeated 1,200 Tartars boasted about the strange equipment of the Ming cavalry, as well as the excellent firearms.

Darhan counted the casualties, and after entering Jining Prefecture, the Zhenglan Banner led by him had lost 12 Niu Lu, and only 13 Niu Lu were left in his hand.

This cavalry of the Ming army is too weird, the combat power is above the Manchu cavalry, and the mobility is also extremely strong, and it is also better than the horse configuration of the blue flag. Moreover, in Jining Prefecture, logistics are not guaranteed at all, and what's more, there are still 100,000 Ming troops ready to move in Jining City.

Darhan immediately made a judgment on the battlefield situation, if the Zhenglan Banner continued to entangle with the Ming army in Jining Prefecture, the only 13 Niu Lu under his command would even be in danger of being wiped out.

He immediately decided to kill 100 war horses, feasted the 5 Niu Lu soldiers, and withdrew back to Jining overnight, where he joined the 8 Niu Lu besieging the city.

Darhan was worried that the Ming army in Jining City would suddenly go out of the city and sneak attack, so he only dared to take a short rest under Jining City, so he ordered 13 Niulu's Tatar cavalry to pull out of the village and leave, and withdrew from Jining Prefecture in less than seven days, and went straight to Yanzhou Mansion to take refuge in Abatai's Zhenghuang Banner that was besieging Yanzhou City.