Balinga sold the Han girl and exchanged it for several weapons at the bazaar, from which he picked out the Ming army lancet and threw it to Ulleden. X Ulledon waved a few times, and it felt more handy.

The expedition was imminent, and the two didn't have the heart to wander around the market town and soon returned home.

A few days later, Uledeng wore a warm hat, carried the fried noodles made by Eniang, and rushed to Shenyang to assemble with the soldiers of Honzhuangtun.

Huang Taiji personally sent the expedition commander Abatai out of Shenyang City, and the chief Jian finally advised: "Rao Yu Belle, if you encounter a rogue after entering the pass, you must talk to them well, and warn the soldiers not to kill one of the rogue by mistake, so as not to make a bad deal with them." ”

"The minion remembered."

Huang Taiji is so fat, it's like a mountain of meat, and he is so tired that he pants after a short distance. He sat down in the sedan chair again, and called Dorgon, "Morgan is young, and I will send Rao Baylor on my behalf." ”

Dorgon bowed his head: "The slave obeys." ”

According to the military salute of Jianzhou, the army and the squad division must be sent and welcomed by the king minister at the level of the flag master. After the death of the old slave, Jianshen himself rarely went out of the city to do such things. The most recent one was when Kong Youde surrendered more than ten years ago, and Huang Taiji welcomed ten miles in the suburbs and swore an oath to heaven hand in hand with Kong Youde.

A few people sent Huang Taiji away, and Dolgon changed his smiling face and took Abatai's hand, "Seventh brother, let's go too." ”

This expedition was not only carried out by Abatai's expeditionary force to invade the Ming Kingdom, but also by Duoduo. In order to cover Abatai's exposed left flank, Duoduo would lead an army to Ningyuan and crush Wu Sangui's Guanning army.

On November 4, the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Ningyuan Fort.

Ningqian military preparation Dao Yamen, deputy military envoy Han Zhaoxuan ranked first, and Ningyuan town guard chief military officer Wu Sangui ranked second.

After the loss of the three cities of Jinzhou, Songshan and Xingshan, Ningyuan was already at the forefront.

Winter is the high season for Jianzhou to enter the city, and Wu Sangui has several cavalry teams outside Ningyuan Fort to carry out reconnaissance curtains, at this time, his cavalry team is returning to the city with emergency army information.

"Two adults, Jiannu opened a camp from Menjia Mountain and marched south, and the brigade is now camped in Wang Baoshan."

"My lord, the first section of Jiannu has bypassed the west of the city and is currently choking Caozhuang in the south of the city."

"My lord, Jiannu is spying on Haikou."

……

Han Zhaoxuan was very anxious, "Uncle Chang, Jiannu came in three ways, and the situation is very fierce, you see what to do." ”

In the decisive battle of Songjin, the Ming army buried 100,000 troops. Now in the entire Liao Town, only Wu Sangui, the general soldier of Ningyuan, and Li Fuming, the general soldier of Shanxi, who maintained a certain formation from Songjin to break through, still have the strength to fight.

Wu Sangui asked his subordinates, "Do you see how many soldiers Jiannu has?" ”

"My lord, I waited for a few bloody battles with the Jianzhou scouts before we found out that there were less than 10,000 slave soldiers."

Wu Sangui nodded slightly. In the era of classical warfare, access to information was necessary to establish contact. Only through engagement can we get more reliable information, and it is impossible to open the fog of war by relying on a few spies who do not collect at night, how big can a few people see? The enemy's outposts and cavalry curtains the brigade behind you, and you don't know what he's doing behind you. Maybe tens of thousands of cavalry, maybe only a thousand.

Relying on the word of mouth of spies and homeless people at night will only produce a lot of garbage information in front of the coach, and there are tens of thousands of captives everywhere. Blindfolded decision-making, as long as it takes a long time, the coach is suspicious, and it is too normal to make a few stupid moves. If the opponent is a genius in the war, he will seize the loophole and attack continuously, and there will be no chance of turning the tables around. The defeat of Songjin is a typical example.

The Ming army may not dare to fight a big war sometimes, before the Songjin War, they were "very strong", Wu Sangui, Li Fuming, Bai Guangen, and Cao Bianjiao's troops were very combative. However, when the Jianzhou Army Brigade was encountered in the field, the Ming army lost almost all the peripheral battles and became blind. As a result, they could only get together to keep warm, and the result was that 130,000 troops gathered together to set up a dead battle. Jianzhou cut off the back road of the Ming army and tied it tightly, and the Ming army sent nearly 100,000 heads.

In order to win the battle and fight a big battle, it is necessary to advance separately from multiple routes and try to control more battlefields on a wide front, in fact, from this point of view, the decision of Yang Hao to attack in four ways in the Battle of Salhu is not wrong, but the combat effectiveness of the four major general troops of the Ming army is not good.

Wu Sangui couldn't defeat the entire division of Jianzhou led by Huang Taiji in Songshan, but this time relying on his hometown Ningyuan Fort, Wu Sangui's soldiers took the initiative a little.

Han Zhaoxuan was already in a mess, "Uncle, although the slave riders are less than 10,000, now Ningyuan Fort is still a little capable of fighting with your three thousand families, how can this be good." ”

"Lord Bingxian, don't worry," Wu Sangui didn't panic, "What is the banner of the thief chief?" ”

"White Flag Lord Duoduo."

"Who? You repeat. Wu Sangui couldn't believe it.

"My lord, Dodor."

Wu Sangui laughed loudly, "Is Chief Jian crazy, send a waste to send him to death." ”

Han Zhaoxuan was surprised: "Uncle, what did you say?" ”

"Lord Bingxian, you just came to Liaodong, and you are not familiar with Jiannu." Wu Sangui arched his hand towards Han Zhaoxuan, and immediately ordered his subordinate generals, "Sons, order the soldiers and horses, we will go out of the city for a while." ”

Han Zhaoxuan got up from his chair and stomped his feet in a hurry, "Chang Bomo is laughing, you can't fight with Jiannu in the wilderness." ”

"Don't worry, my lord," Wu Sangui said calmly, "If it were other kings, I wouldn't attack." There will be no problem with playing Duoduo. ”

Wu Sangui beat the snare drum and summoned his subordinate town generals, "Generals, it's Duoduo who is here." As soon as the slave rider arrived, the town had already planned a decisive battle and folded the arrogance of the slave rider. ”

"We will obey the orders of the commander." When they heard that it was the big waste of Dordor who came, everyone's faces were filled with joy. It would be nice if all the kings of Jianzhou were Dolgon and Dordor.

"Excellent! The slaves are outnumbered, and the generals must fight to the death with their lives. Our army will take one as ten, and the town of Japan will personally supervise the battle, but if one person stays and does not advance, he will not ask the officers and soldiers, and he will not show favoritism before he stands up to the battle. Wu Sangui looked around at his subordinates and accentuated his tone, "No one is allowed to dismount and cut the ranks, and those who violate it will be beheaded." ”

"No!"

At 5 o'clock in the morning of the next day, three low military trumpets sounded through Ningyuan Fort, Wu Sangui opened the city gate, and he divided his subordinates into 3 teams. The striker was led by He Qifeng, the general of the Zhenbiao battalion, and pounced on Wang Baoshan's Duoduo camp; The second team was commanded by Pan Yongchang, a general of the left battalion of Zhenbiao Pingyi; The third team was temporarily controlled by Wu Sangui himself.

Duoduo got up early that day, and whipped a whip on one of the coats, sweating slightly, and moving his muscles and bones.

His white flag and white flag Lama Zhangjing pierced down one by one, "Master, Ningyuan's Nikan is out of the city." ”

"Oh, take me to see it." Dodor blinked, tossing aside the sweaty towel.

The Ming army rushed back and forth in front of the Jianzhou camp, and Baya Laxu Zhangjing asked: "Master, Nikan is too arrogant, so the servants will take the troops out and cut them." ”

"What's the hurry? Wu Sangui is luring us to attack, leave them alone, stay good. ”

Duoduo had a lot of soldiers, and 5 armor soldiers were transferred from each of the Eight Banners, with a total of more than 3,000 people. With the addition of attached followers and Mongol soldiers, there were a total of 89,000 men. If there was a Manchu king with troops, such as Azig, he would have been killed and cut down a long time ago.

Wu Sangui saw that Duoduo did not move, so he joined Pan Yongchang's second team and changed the lure of the enemy to a strong attack.

Seeing that Wu Sangui was really coming, Duoduo also sent cavalry to hedge against the Guanning army. At the same time, an order was issued to his Baya Lama Zhangjing to "immediately recall the troops of Caozhuang and Haikou in the south of the city." ”

"Wow!"

Wu Sangui did not have many effective troops at his disposal, and he had to use them carefully. Seeing that the slave cavalry in the south of Ningyuan City and Haikou returned to the division and attacked his front formation, Wu Sangui threw himself into the third formation. The Ming army and the Jianzhou soldiers fought into three regiments, and it was difficult to distinguish between them.

"Zu Jinzhong, Zhao Shizhen."

"The end will be."

Wu Sangui instructed the deputy commander-in-chief and garrison of his town standard left battalion, "You two immediately go out and tear apart the Jiannu army formation from the ribs." ”

"No!"

Wu Sangui smashed all the strength in his hands, and more and more people fell from power in Jianzhou, and it seemed that there was a sense of discouragement. From the rear camp of Menjia Mountain, two more Jianzhou reinforcements were driven, which could withstand the soldiers and horses of the Wu Army.

At the head of Ningyuan City, Tong Shisheng, the deputy chief soldier of the Fubiao Middle Battalion, stood up and hugged his fists to Han Zhaoxuan, "Lord Bingxian, General Wu is going to win." ”

Han Zhaoxuan also saw it, and his hands trembled with excitement, "Quick, you go and support the eldest uncle." ”

"No."

The Fubiao Middle Battalion led by Tong Shisheng was a hoplite unit equipped with firearms and artillery, and he carried the artillery out of the city, crossed the small river separating Ningyuan Fort from the battlefield, lined up on the flanks of Jianzhou, and set up artillery to bombard the Jianzhou Central Army.

The cannonballs occasionally fell around Duoduo, and the face of the white-flaged flag owner changed, and he called Baya Lama Zhangjing, "Don't fight, let's go." ”

"Master, there are still a lot of people in front of you who are mixed with the Ming army, should we wait for them to withdraw."

Duoduo pulled the horse's head, "What do you care about those minions, let's go first." ”

"Wow."

Jianzhou Mingjin, Duoduo couldn't wait for the front line to withdraw, and left first with his two white flag guards. The front line of the Jianzhou Army wavered, and the various departments retreated one after another from contact with the Ming army. The Guan Ning army chased the retreating Eight Banners until they reached the Menjiashan camp, and Wu Sangui saw that the terrain here was dangerous and difficult to attack again, so he withdrew to Ningyuan.

Dodor yawned and went into his tent. Duoduo was the youngest banner master, and the old slave was already strong when he was born. The old slave doted on him very much, and he never suffered since he was a child. Duoduo's tent was luxuriously furnished, the fire pit was burning warm, and the four stunning Han women served Duoduo to take off his armor. Duoduo's armor is incomparable to Huang Taiji's, and the heavy armor that Huang Taiji wore when he was young is simply extraordinary. Duoduo's armor is not inlaid with many pieces of iron, and it is useless.

Baya Lama Zhangjing came in and asked for instructions, "Master, today we lost for a while, rest for one night, and tomorrow I will lead the troops to defeat Wu Sangui's Nikan." ”

Duoduo sneered, "Lao Qi led the troops into the pass to make a fortune, we are here to gnaw Ning Yuan's bones, you slave still thinks the bones are not hard enough, right?" ”

"The minions don't dare."

"Pack our things and we'll go home tomorrow. Counting the days, Lao Qi is climbing, and it is time to climb to the Great Wall of the Ming Kingdom. ”

Duoduo's estimate was very accurate, and on November 5, at the same time as he was fighting Wu Sangui. The left-wing Four Banner Army led by Gushan Ezhen Turg with a white flag has arrived at the mouth of the Jieling. Along the way, the Ming army was extremely small, and Turg only killed 73 defenders, including the scout sentries, before breaking through the Great Wall. Later, Turg encountered a Ming Dynasty field unit. 2,500 Datong soldiers were ordered to reinforce Shanhaiguan, and at this time they just walked near the Jianzhou Pass, and Turge dispatched the Eight Banners Guard Battalion and cavalry to attack the Ming army on both sides. The Datong soldiers fought back, and after losing more than 430 cavalry under the attack of Bayala, the Ming army did not retreat.

The 4th Banner of the Right Wing led by Abatai encountered some trouble, and his road was difficult to navigate with many passes. The Jianzhou Army transferred Ge Bush Xianchao Ha Forward Battalion; The Han army has 1 cavalry school and 6 armor soldiers per banner; Plus 40 Bayala to form a small elite force. The Eight Banners went around Shicheng Pass from the path, eliminated 50 Ming defenders, captured 4 cannons and dismantled the minefield outside the pass. On 8 November, the Right Wing Army broke through the pass at Huangyakou. Abatai immediately selected the elite from the Bayala outpost, Bayala and horse armor, and formed three teams of forwards, guards and horsemen to attack Jizhou.

The two invading Eight Banners met under the city of Jizhou, and on the same day, they broke the second division of Bai Tengjiao, the general soldier of Jizhen Town, and Bai Guangen, the general soldier of Ma Lanyu, who came from the reinforcements. Subsequently, Abatai led his army to rush between Tianjin and Beijing, all the way to the south, and broke through the Xianghe River and Zhending. Some Mongolian tribes with low expectations were loaded with goods, with male heads hanging in front of the horses and women behind the horses, and went home satisfied.

Of course, this harvest could not satisfy the appetite of Jianzhou, and Abatai led his army to continue southward, arriving at the southern boundary of Beizhili on the 6th day of the 11th month of the leap month.

Dingzhou Prefecture, the Ming army guard Zhang Jing drank a big bowl of wine, smashed the wine bowl, and smiled at Zhizhou: "Lord Taishou, hundreds of thousands of elite border troops can't stop the captives, but I want to fight with them." ”

As soon as the governor of Dingzhou reached the ground, "The people of all the people in the city have asked the general." ”

Zhang Jinggong arched his hand, "Please rest assured, if Jianyu wants to enter the city, he must first step on Zhang's corpse." ”

Zhizhou held a plate, "This is my savings for many years as an official, a total of 300 taels of silver, all donated to General Zhang's soldiers." ”

Zhang Jing accepted the silver, "I won't be polite to you if I am too guarded, now is indeed the time to spend money." ”

Zhizhou nodded, "I know, please rest assured, I will go to the big households in the city to persuade donations, silver and food, and I must satisfy the soldiers." ”

Zhang Jing: "Thank you too much." He also asked the Taishou to recruit Ding Zhuang in the city to assist our army in defending the city. ”

Zhizhou said angrily: "It should be so, it's all on the old man." ”

The whole city of Dingzhou mobilized to collect weapons, a total of 30 large and small cannons, 2,000 catties of gunpowder.

Hu rode around the city, and the banners spread all over the mountains.

Zhang Jing personally calibrated a Franco machine and fired the first shot.

A day later, the Jianzhou coach made a big tent.

Abatai opened the military newspaper, "What? Dingzhou and the river have not been beaten? ”

Turg frowned and said, "Lord Belle, there are not many defenders in these two cities, but the Nikan people in the city are very strong. If we want to attack, we have to stop and build equipment. ”

Abatai shook his head, "No, Hejian Mansion has already shipped this year's 500,000 taels of silver to Beijing in advance, and there is nothing to start here." Let's go