At this time, Fan Wencheng suddenly said: "Your Majesty! The death of Yanguli shows that Juyongguan has been prepared, and it is likely that there is a large army hidden!

"The minion has been persuading His Majesty to be quick and go straight to Juyong Pass, and it seems that now the opportunity has been lost! I'm afraid that Juyong Pass will be difficult to win by ingenuity! ”

When Darhan heard this, his face was unhappy, and he turned his head to stare at Fan Wencheng and said, "What does Fan Jian mean by this?!" Since the master has doubts in his heart, we as slaves still have to explain what we say! ”

When Fan Wencheng heard this, he sighed, and just like Ahsan and Ma Zhan, he knelt on his knees, kowtowed to Huang Taiji and said:

"Your Majesty, do you remember what the minions said outside Datong City? At this point, the opportunity has been lost, and I am afraid that this is the only way to do it! ”

When Darhan heard this, he shouted along with Ahsan, Majan and the others, "What did you say!? ”

Behind this sentence, Darhan is surprised, while Ahsan and Majan are angry.

When Huang Taiji heard this, his face became even more gloomy, and the purple-red face formed by the accumulation of blood and qi showed a purple-red color.

Huang Taiji didn't speak, staring at the mountains in the distance and fell silent again, and after a long time, the Zhenghuang Banner Guard, who was in charge of guarding the periphery, waved his teeth and pulled the Niu Lu Zhen He Luohui, suddenly ran over to salute, and then said:

"Great Khan, wolf smoke is rising in the valley ahead, and there seems to be a Ming army sentry on the mountain to watch. Please advise the Great Khan, what should our army do? ”

When Huang Taiji heard this, he sighed and said faintly: "Withdraw!" Let's withdraw from the arms first! ”

Before withdrawing, Huang Taiji asked He Luohui, one of the Yellow Banner Protectors, to destroy the town.

It's a pity that He Luohui found three hundred guards who were good at using heavy weapons such as bones, but they couldn't destroy this tower for a while.

The material of the tower, which was neither earth nor stone, was something they had never seen before, and it was either undamaged when a bone was smashed down, or it was just a small pit, as hard as a stone, but not as brittle as a stone.

He Luo would personally smash the ground with his hands, but he only left some traces of deep and shallow potholes in Tati Mountain.

Huang Taiji, who was riding on a horse and wanted to see the destroyed town tower before leaving, sighed, endured a headache, and beat his horse to the west.

Others followed.

And He Luohui also gave up the destruction in shame and anger, mounted his horse and followed the team, left the entrance of the valley, looked back from time to time, and galloped all the way west.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen did not wait for a large number of Jianyu cavalry to rush to Juyong Pass.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was on the Yongsheng Tower, the commanding heights of the northern Guancheng of Juyongguan, of course saw the wolf smoke burning on the Badaling and Shixia Ridges.

The Ming army transmitted military intelligence warnings through wolf smoke, and there were also rules, and lighting a few pillars of wolf smoke was said again.

In general, a column of wolf smoke indicates that the enemy is coming, and this is an alarm!

The two pillars of wolf smoke show that there are many enemies, at least more than a thousand.

As for the three pillars, the four pillars, and even more, that meaning is even richer.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen certainly doesn't know much about this, but there are a lot of people around him who really know how to do it.

The enemy platform on Badaling had just ignited wolf smoke, and Ma Shilong, a veteran of the first town of the Guards Army, who had been following the emperor's side, said to him: "Your Majesty, look at the wolf smoke, the enemy should be around 5,000!" ”

As for wolf smoke, of course, it can't really be made of wolf dung, but all kinds of dry firewood, wet firewood and animal fat are piled together to form something that is easy to ignite and not easy to extinguish, and can produce thick smoke.

The reason why it is called wolf smoke is just a conventional saying.

In the past, whether it was the Xiongnu or the Khitan, when these steppe barbarian peoples went south to invade the Central Plains, they often waved the banner of the wolf's head.

The Central Plains army guarding the frontier will light a beacon fire as soon as it sees such a wolf flag appear, and over time, such a beacon fire will be called wolf smoke.

Looking at the sky-high wolf smoke burning in the direction of Badaling and Shixia Ridge, Emperor Chongzhen's heart did not have the slightest fear, but had infinite expectations.

And Ma Shilong, who had just made a contribution before, also immediately ordered the first town of the Guards to load ammunition and go to the city to be on guard, just waiting for Jianyu to come and start killing again.

Since the first town of the Guards Army became a town, it is still practicing queues, assassination, cooperating with the cavalry battalion and the wolf milling spear battalion to practice formations, practicing aiming and shooting, and so on.

I have practiced everything very well, but I have never been on a real battlefield, and I have never shot a real enemy with live ammunition.

The massacre on the seventh day of the first month of November surprised Ma Shilong, the commander of the first town of the Guards, and Qian Yuanyu, the imperial historian of the supervising army.

They knew that the First Town of the Guards under their command was a well-trained and elite army, but they did not expect that just a few musket battalions standing still on the top of the city and pulling the trigger would slaughter the 3,000 elite soldiers of the previously invincible Jianyu Iron Cavalry.

Those inconspicuous projectiles were much more powerful than the arrows shot by Jianlu, who was proficient in mounted archery, and much faster than the batches of warhorses whistling back and forth!

Now there are sixteen battalions in the first town of the Guards, of which there are five musket battalions that are similar to the feats, in addition to the four cavalry battalions that have not yet been used, five wolf milling spear battalions, one cart artillery battalion, and one baggage carpenter's battalion.

This time, it only used the strength of a few musket battalions to wipe out the 3,000 vanguard troops of Jianqing, a feeling that even the battle-hardened veteran Ma Shilong had not had for many years.

What's more, the second town of the Guards Army, which is also organized now, still has sixteen battalion heads like this!

Whenever he thinks of the Battle of Salhu that year, the Ming army suffered tens of thousands of casualties, and there has never been such a gain and result, Ma Shilong admires the young Emperor Chongzhen in front of him from the bottom of his heart.

Without His Majesty the Emperor in front of him, there would be no Guards, and there would be no confidence when fighting against the Jianlu army: he was not afraid of Jianguo coming, but he was worried that Jianguo would not dare to come!

I haven't felt this way in years!

Ma Shilong changed his emotion, and among the others around Emperor Chongzhen, someone suddenly said: "Your Majesty! The wolf smoke on Badaling is extinguished! The wolf smoke on the Stone Gorge Ridge has also been extinguished! ”

As soon as these words fell, someone said, "Your Majesty! It seems that the captives have retreated! ”

Emperor Chongzhen, who was thinking about something, looked up and saw that the wolf smoke in the distance was indeed faint.

As soon as he stretched out his hand, Chen Songting, the military attache of the imperial attendant who barely left and right every day except for sleeping time, immediately handed over a pair of binoculars carved with dragon brass texture.

Emperor Chongzhen stretched out his hand to take it, looked into the distance through the binoculars, and saw that the wolf smoke in the direction of Badaling was indeed extinguished, and the wolf smoke on the enemy platform in the mountains from Badaling to Juyongguan was also extinguished one column after another.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen knew that he was overjoyed, and the Jianlu or Mongol soldiers who came to the military capital retreated after stopping for a while for some reason.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen didn't know at this time that it was Huang Taiji himself who personally led the troops here, and he was almost stunned by him under the Zhenyu Pagoda that he asked Liu Xingzhi and others to build.

In fact, Huang Taiji's death in history is said to be a sudden death of grief and overwork, which should be quite related to his usual symptoms such as dizziness and stroke.

Of course, if Emperor Chongzhen, who was in Juyong Pass at this time, knew that Huang Taiji dared to lead an army of 5,000 to the foot of Badaling, and there was such a situation under the Zhenyu Tower, he would definitely send the first town of the Guards Army to fight Huang Taiji to the death.

That night, just when Emperor Chongzhen, who was in Juyong Pass, was still disappointed in the coming and going of Jianyu, Huang Taiji, who returned to Huailai City, after repeated thinking and weighing on the way back, finally did not accept Fan Wencheng's suggestion.

Although the entry to the customs went smoothly this time, it did not fight a decisive battle and did not achieve a decisive victory.

Tactically speaking, they were generally considered successful, and some were even very successful, but from the perspective of the strategy set at the beginning, the strategy did not achieve all the goals set strategically.

Although Lin Dan Khan fled and Chahar was not fully subdued, the land of Mo Nan was included in Dajin's territory, and half of the goal was completed.

Returning to Liaodong at this time is of course not a failure, but going back like this, Huang Taiji feels unwilling.

Of course, he also understood Fan Wencheng's worries, including Yue Tuo, the owner of the Red Flag Banner, whom he valued very much, also suggested to him many times, saying:

"Great Khan, you personally led a large army, trekked thousands of miles to expedition Chahar, and went south to attack the Ming Dynasty, which is indeed a feat that the first Khan and even the emperors of ancient times have never had!

"But Houjin is full of eight banners, and the Great Khan has taken away the four banners, if Dongjiang Town and Liaodong Town suddenly send troops to attack the land of Liaoshen, wouldn't our back road be very dangerous?"

Now on the way back to Huailai City from the foot of Badaling, Huang Taiji repeatedly weighed and recalled the meaning of these words, although he was faintly uneasy in his heart, and he was very worried about his Liao Shen henchman, but he still decided to work hard for the original goal.