Let's say that since Huang Taiji led the army out of Datong City, he divided his troops all the way to the east and plundered, first let Mang Gurtai lead the way, crossed the Sanggan River to the south, and plundered Hunyuan Prefecture, Ulzhou and other places in the southeast of Datong, and then led the main force all the way, together with Yue Tuo, the lord of the Red Flag Banner, to plunder Xuanfu.

At noon on the 8th day of the first month of November, Huang Taiji led the army to the outside of Xuanfu City, and after besieging Xuanfu Town and City, and suffered a loss, Huang Taiji, who was a little angry, was angry and divided his troops with Yue Tuo, and began to attack other large and small cities west of Xuanfu Town.

At the same time, Haoge, Zhaisang, and others, who led the army of the Yellow Banner and Horqin and other Mongolian servant armies outside the border of Xuanfu, also led the army to storm Dushikou, hoping to open another gap from Dushikou and attack the Xuanfu East Road to directly threaten Gyeonggi.

The army led by Haoge and Zhaisang encountered the stubborn resistance of Deng Zuyu, the deputy general of the Xuanfu who was sitting in Dushikou, outside Dushikou, and could not attack for a long time.

However, within the border walls of Xuanfu Town, Huang Taiji and Yue Tuo were very smooth.

In just a few days, Huai'anwei, Wanquan Zuowei, Baoanzhou City and other places were successively breached.

The Jianguo army led by Huang Taiji and its Mongol servant army in southern China not only seized a large amount of gold, silver, grain, people, livestock, but also seized a large amount of artillery and ammunition deployed on these guard castles.

The Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion under the command of Huang Taiji under the command of Sun Degong and Alancha also continued to grow, and the two Niu Lu after the merger of the Red Flag Artillery Team outside Datong City jumped to ten Niu Lu.

The various types of artillery that we possess have also expanded from more than 20 general cannons and more than 100 other small cannons to 161 general cannons and more than 500 other small-caliber artillery pieces.

With these Ming artillery pieces seized from the castles of various guards in Xuanfu Town, Huang Taiji's confidence in breaking through the fortified city suddenly increased countless times, and he thought about attacking Xuanfu Town or Zhangjiakou Fort again, but in the end he gave up under the persuasion of Yue Tuo, Darhan and others.

Because Yue Tuo and Darhan had already keenly felt that on such fortified cities as Datong and Xuanfu, there were heavy artillery similar to those at the head of Ningyuan City that could shoot as far as five miles away.

Although Yue Tuo and Darhan did not explicitly say that the artillery battalion of the Wuzhen Chao Hahan army directly led by Huang Taiji was inferior to the people, they insisted on bluntly admonishing not to attack Jiancheng with cavalry.

Although Huang Taiji was unwilling, considering that the leaders of the various tribes who had been attached to him in Monan Mongolia had suffered too many casualties recently, and they did not hesitate to attack the city with casualties, I am afraid that these people had other ideas, so they would not stop.

Finally, under Fan Wencheng's repeated advice, he joined the Zhenghuang Banner, the Red Banner and the Mongolian servant army, escorted a large number of artillery, grain and grass, and population, and marched all the way to the direction of Juyong Pass.

At noon on November 11, Huang Taiji's army drove to Huailaiwei, and while besieging the Huailai Acropolis, it also sent a sentry of 300 men to Yulin Fort behind Huailaiwei.

It wasn't until he came to Huailai in the east that Huang Taiji's heart suddenly became alert, after Yanguli and the others went east with three thousand elites, there was no news back for a few days!

This has never happened before!

Not to mention that Yanguli was a veteran who had already conquered the Quartet during the period of Heavenly Mandate Khan, even young Zhuang cadres like Dardai and Turai would not be so ignorant of the rules!

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and messengers need to be kept in exchange of information anytime, anywhere.

Whether it is defeated or defeated, it is necessary to send someone back to report the situation.

However, this time, Yanguli and the others took three thousand elite iron horsemen all the way to the east and ran to Juyong Pass, but there was no news from them!

In the evening, the more Huang Taiji thought about it, the more he felt that something must have happened beyond his control.

Therefore, after leading the army to set up a large camp outside the city of Huailai and settling down, he immediately sent people to pass on Yuetuo, Ma Zhan, Darhan, Fan Wencheng and others to his tent to discuss matters.

When these henchmen came to their golden-domed tent and saluted, sat down and stood, Huang Taiji said, "Have you ever received news from each of you about Yanguli? ”

As soon as Huang Taiji asked, everyone knew that after Yanguli and the others led the army to the east, they had not sent back any news to Huang Taiji, and they immediately felt that the matter was serious.

But at this time, no one in the tent could figure out what was going on, what had happened to Yanguli and the army he led, and what had happened.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Huang Taiji knew that everyone had not received the news of Yanguli, and he felt more and more inexplicable in his heart, and he had a faint sense of foreboding.

Just as he was about to discuss with the people in the tent about the next place for the army, he suddenly heard a noise outside the tent, looked up, and saw that the tent had been opened, and a tall man with a beard and a beard came in to salute and say:

"Great Khan! The sentinel sent by the minions came to report that this afternoon near Yulin Fort, forty miles east of Huailai, they encountered a large force of cavalry of the Ming army! The sentinel reported that there were about 2,000 of these strange soldiers! ”

The person who came was another henchman under the Zhenghuang banner directly led by Huang Taiji, Jia Lae Zhen Ashan.

As soon as Ah Shan's words were finished, everyone in the tent was stunned.

Although it was the first time that these Jurchen high-level leaders broke through the barrier and entered the interior of the Ming Dynasty, they had quickly become accustomed to the feeling of being in a no-man's land.

Because no matter which city you encounter, or whether there is a large army in the city, the civil and military generals of these cities all close the city gates, and everything that happens outside the city has nothing to do with you.

Those people who gathered outside the city gates, begging for refuge, did not care at all.

In addition to some setbacks in the attack on Jiancheng under Datong City and Xuanfu City, the army led by Huang Taiji and others was really devastating and invincible, and no Ming army dared to go out of the city to fight with it.

This situation made the top management of Jianyu both surprised and ecstatic.

Including the middle and lower-level Jurchen generals, what Jia Lae Zhen, Niu Lu Ezhen, and even ordinary banner soldiers, the apprehension when they just broke through the border and entered disappeared all at once.

As more and more cities were breached, more and more Han slaves were captured, and more and more gold and silver wealth were grabbed, the morale of the Jianyu army was naturally rising and rising, and on the other hand, the cowardly Ming army was of course more and more despised and despised.

Now I suddenly heard that there are such cavalry of the Ming army, who dare to go out of the city and fight against the cavalry of the Dajin Kingdom, and I am still a little uncomfortable for a while.

Huang Taiji was also stunned, and then immediately asked: "You said that there was a cavalry of the Ming army east of Huailai?!" ”

Ah Shan once again recounted the report of the sentry cavalry on one side, and said: "That cavalry is quite daring to fight, and the sentry cavalry under the command of the minions has lost more than 30 people!" ”

When Huang Taiji heard this, he was not angry but happy, and said, "Very good! It's good if the Ming army dares to go out of the city! ”

After saying this, Huang Taiji immediately said: "Ah Shan! I order you and Ma Zhan to take their own men and horses, and quickly go to the direction of Yulinbao to find the enemy in the field, and be sure to capture a group of Ming prisoners back! ”

Originally, Huang Taiji only waited for the army to finish camping, and Sun Degong and others arranged the artillery array of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion, and then prepared to attack Huailai City.

But with this current turn of events, Huang Taiji decided to wait for Ma Zhan and Ah Shan to return to Yulin Fort before making a decision.

Forty miles away, the fast horses arrived in less than an hour.

Ma Zhan and Ah Shan led a total of 5,000 cavalry with red flags and yellow flags, galloping on the spacious post road leading from Huailai to Yulin Fort, running wildly all the way, but did not encounter a single Ming cavalry.

It wasn't until they came to the vicinity of Yulin Fort that they saw dozens of corpses with their heads cut off in an open field, which were the tribes of Zhenghuang Qijia La'e Zhen'ashan.

Seeing this, Ah Shan was furious, and asked people to clean up the corpses of these people, and then despite Ma Zhan's dissuasion, he led a cavalry under the Zhenghuang Banner and rushed to Yulin Fort.