The news that Fort of Victory was breached by Jianyu entered the city of Datong in the afternoon of the next day, along with some of the defeated troops who fled to Datong. Ｘ

After learning the news, Zu Dashou, the chief military officer of Datong Town, was full of remorse, but he was helpless.

If he stays in Fort Victory, Fort Victorious will probably not be captured by Yue Tuo and others so quickly, but if he always stays in Fort Victory, then what will happen to Datong City?

Once Datong City is lost, Datong Town will be completely finished.

And on the way to Juyong Pass, after receiving this news, Emperor Chongzhen was also helpless.

The number of Ming officers and soldiers in the entire Datong Town, including the battalion soldiers and the guards, who were verified by Fan Fucui and Wu Xiaoyue, is now only 30,000 people in total.

This is still added to the Fubiao and the supervised army standard battalions recruited and trained by Fan Fucui and Wu arrived.

If there were no 6,000 people who had been enriched in the past two years, it would be good to have 24,000 of the 30,000 people on Datong Town's books.

There are fifteen border forts along the border of Datong Town, such as the Inner Five Forts, the Outer Five Forts, and the Saiwai Five Forts, which are similar to the Kill Hu Fort and the Victory Fort.

The entire 30,000 people were all scattered on the border forts along the border, and on average, there were only 2,000 people in each border fort.

And each border fort has a series of supporting beacon towers, fire piers and other fortifications to be garrisoned.

In this way, the number of troops stationed in the border forts along each border pass is not even 2,000 people.

Under such circumstances, it would be difficult for any border fort to suddenly face a frantic attack by tens of thousands of enemy troops from the north of Cyprus.

In this sense, although the northern frontier of the Ming Dynasty garrisoned hundreds of thousands of troops, and forts were set up everywhere on the defense line stretching for tens of thousands of miles from Liaodong to Gansu, in fact, the defense line of tens of thousands of miles was full of loopholes, and it was impossible to defend at all.

There is no better way to achieve real security than to push the northern line of defense all the way north to the north, leaving a strategic buffer zone that is sufficiently wide.

It is precisely because of this that when Emperor Chongzhen received the secret report from Wu Fa Ziyang and Wei, there was nothing more to say except for letting him continue to sit in Yang Hewei and temporarily guard the Datong East Road jurisdiction he was responsible for and wait for the order to counterattack.

This battle has been fought so far, and the Ming officers and troops have always been very passive, but this is a stage that must be passed, which is both necessary and phased.

He believed that there would be a day of counterattack, as long as Datong and Xuanfu, especially important towns like Juyongguan, were not lost, the day of counterattack would come soon.

It is said that after Yue Tuo led the Red Banner Army and the Mongol soldiers of Uzhumuqin to attack the Victory Fort, he wanted to recruit the border soldiers and civilians in the fort to supplement his own losses.

However, to his surprise, after Liu Yingxuan died in the battle, although his troops fell into a situation of flanking and encirclement, they still fought to the death.

The same is true of the soldiers around Zukefa.

These people, like the permanent soldiers of Li Quan's Victory Fort, engaged in street battles with the Jianguo army and the Mongols in the fort.

A small street, a courtyard, and a house all have to go through repeated tug-of-war before they can be completely taken.

In this way, at noon, the commander of the Red Banner Protector Army, Lausa, led the most elite Swing Tooth Lama with the Red Banner to break through the water gate, but it was not until the night of the day that the victory fort was truly calmed down with the death of Li Quan and the surrender of the last few hundred soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Fort Victory is a small border fort, in which no ordinary people live except for the border soldiers.

In fact, by this time, ordinary merchants had already fled the border, who would dare to stay in this place and watch the situation when the soldiers were in danger?

After conquering the Victory Fort, Yue Tuo's approach was exactly the same as Huang Taiji's, and the next morning he ordered the demolition of the general cannon at the head of the North Pass of the Victory Fort, and then formed a Han army Niu Lu with those soldiers in the Victory Fort.

And the protector Alan Chai, a former Mongol of the Ao Han Department who had made a meritorious contribution to the battle with Laosa, was used as Niu Lu Ezhen, and used these captured Ming artillery for the operation of the battle.

Next, Yue Tuo left the Red Flag Gushan Ezhen Yechen, and his younger brother Man Dahai to lead a group of men and horses with wounded soldiers and Mongols to guard the Victory Fort, leaving a good way back for the army, while he personally led the main force of the Red Flag, escorted the soldiers in the fort, and took more than ten general cannons, all the way to attack the Acropolis of Yanghewei, that is, Yanggao in later generations.

Yue Tuo wanted to take the area of Yanghewei and Zhenyuwei in one fell swoop, that is, the area of Yanggao and Tianzhen in later generations, and completely eradicate the worries of leading the army to the hinterland of Datong.

However, by the time Yue Tuo led the army to escort the hard-earned general cannon to Yanghe Acropolis, Wu and Zhang Quanchang, the deputy general of the East Road of Datong Town, were already in full battle.

Yue Tuo ordered Alan Chai to lead the newly formed Han army Niulu artillery team and set up artillery to bombard Yanghe Acropolis.

Of course, the Yanghe guards led by Wu and Zhang Quanchang did not show weakness, and immediately fired artillery from the head of the city and fired at the Jianyu artillery array.

The result of the firing was, of course, the complete defeat of Yue Tuo's artillery array.

In addition to several large generals' cannons that were destroyed on the spot, nearly 100 people were killed by the surrendered soldiers of Fort Victory.

Because the artillery on the head of Yanghe Acropolis was not only denser, but also had a greater range and power than the artillery team temporarily pulled up by Yue Tuo.

Wu, who already attaches great importance to the use of firearms, has served as the imperial history of the superintendent of Datong Town, although he and Zu Dashou are not very compatible, but the reason why the two can get along smoothly is because Wu did not compete with Zu Dashou for the resources of Datong Town, especially the resources of war horses.

Zu Dashou wanted to build a cavalry team similar to that under the command of Liaodong Town, so he attached great importance to the war horse resources that came from the Hukou Mutual Market, and he also looked at it very closely.

However, Wu, who came from Beijing, focused on firearms and equipment.

Not only was a considerable part of the general's cannon dismantled in Datong Town sent by him to his standard battalion, but he also got the lion's share from the light firearms and equipment assigned to Datong Town by the Armament Institute.

Whether it is Chongzhen's flintlock pistol, the new grenades and incendiary bombs from the Armament Institute, and even several Chongzhen one-type rear-loading smoothbore guns that were assigned to Datong Town and improved from the Franco machine gun, were also attached more importance to firearms than to war horses, and Wu Yao, who attached more importance to firearms, to his standard camp of the supervising army.

Yue Tuo, who didn't know what to do, only tried to attack the city once after the bombardment of Yanghe Acropolis, and then gave up the idea of capturing Yanghewei.

In his eyes, the fierceness of the defensive firepower of the Yang and Acropolis was even stronger than that of the Victory Fort that had just been taken not long ago.

If the Red Banner Warriors under his command were to pay such casualties under the Yanghe Acropolis, it would be unacceptable for him, the banner master.

If there is a large number of cannon fodder troops, such as the Mongols surrendering troops, or the Han Chinese surrendering soldiers, he will of course choose to attack regardless of casualties.

But in the current situation, attacking is not his choice.

In this way, at noon on the second day of November in the second year of Chongzhen, that is, at noon on the second day of the day when Huang Taiji led the army to join forces with Mang Gurtai's troops under the city of Datong, Yue Tuo, who attacked Yanghe Acropolis after capturing the Victory Fort, gave up Yanghewei and other places on the east road of Datong, and personally led the main force with red flags to rush to the city of Datong.

And outside Yanghekou, which belonged to Yang Hewei, there was an army of yellow flags led by Hao Ge, so Wu and Zhang Quanchang did not dare to pursue.

In the evening of the same day, Huang Taiji summoned the two banner lords of Mang Gurtai and Yuetuo, Beyler, the Oba Khan of Brain Wen Korqin, the leaders of the various tribes of Monan, as well as Yanguli, Darhan, Fan Wencheng and other close ministers and henchmen Hanchen, gathered in his own gold-domed tent to discuss matters.

Huang Taiji looked at the jurchens and the Mongol princes and ministers who were full of elation and said:

"Since I have led the army to go out, it has been two months so far, the pioneer Lin Dan Khan, and then set the south of the desert, and now it is more broken Hukou, victorious, and driven straight into the important town of the Southern Dynasties, since the founding of the country, the prosperity of martial arts has not been like this! This is all the work of the ministers of Baylor! Every time I think about it these days, I am very relieved! ”

After Huang Taiji finished speaking, the Jurchen ministers, including Mang Gurtai and Yue Tuo, the Mongol chieftains, and Han ministers such as Fan Wencheng in the big tent were full of congratulations.

Huang Taiji's confidants, Darhan and Yanguli, said one after another: "It is really an honor for my courtiers to meet a British lord like the Great Khan in my Dajin Kingdom!"

"My Dajin Kingdom was able to settle Monan in one battle, break Hukou without much effort, sweep the hinterland of the Southern Dynasty, and come to the city of Datong, all of which are the merits of the Great Khan's strategy to win a thousand miles!"

Fan Wencheng, Ning Wan and other Hanchens who were qualified to participate in the deliberations also sang praises of virtue, and Huang Taiji's gold-domed tent was full of words, and Huang Taiji laughed heartily and raised his glass to drink.