In order to rescue Jumala, Mulima went east from Zhuohua Town and attacked Jurong County, but the Chu army in the city had already prepared and repelled it with tenacious defense. It's just that the main force of the Chu army is scattered in the mountains of Ningzhen, and there are not many troops in Jurong County, so they did not take the opportunity to go out of the city to counterattack, so the casualties of the Qing army are not large.

The casualties are not large, but the battle is lost!

Counting the battle of Shangshan and the battle of Zhuohua Town, Mu Lima has suffered three defeats in a row, and although the casualties are not large each time, he has lost more than 1,400 people in piecemeal, and the total casualties are not small, not to mention that half of them are the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners who have experienced a hundred battles.

After the battle, Mulima was distressed.

But more than that, it is anger, self-blame, the sense of humiliation after falling victim to the enemy's tricks, and a strong desire for revenge, and the fierce battle intentions all over the body are burning!

Mulima and Ao Bai are siblings, born in the Eight Banners, with the pride of the sons of the nobles, eager to make contributions on the battlefield. After entering the customs, he has been staying in the north for several years, and has not encountered Wang Kefan's Chu army, but he has heard the name of the Chu army many times, and even Luck Dehun and Kong Youde have folded under them...... It was the glory and opportunity of the generals to encounter such a formidable enemy, and Mulima was eager to start a bloody duel with the Chu army, defeat them, and then cut off Wang Kefan's head with his own hands to show his respect.

(Mulima was the younger brother of Aobai, and their father's name was Wei Qi, a close military general of Nurhachi, who served as the governor of Shenyang's Eight Gates for a long time, somewhat similar to the later Admiral of the Nine Gates, who was equivalent to the commander of the Gyeonggi garrison, responsible for protecting the emperor's safety.) Their uncle Fei Yingdong is even more famous. Houjin, the "Five Founding Ministers", is known as the enemy of ten thousand people. Worthy of the temple. ）

But Mu Lima never expected that Wang Kefan would be so cunning. is so insidious, he didn't dare to fight with the Eight Banners in an upright manner, but he got into the ravine like a poisonous snake that always liked to hide in the dark, and he burst out and bit him fiercely......

Fang Shan lost the first battle too much, Mu Lima didn't calculate that it was a flat-topped mountain, Wang Kefan actually put a cannon on the top of the mountain and killed hundreds of Eight Banner soldiers. These Eight Banner soldiers are all elite soldiers of the Two Yellow Banners, and there are more than 100 Bayala soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles and fought countless vicious battles. But he was stoned to death at the foot of Fang Mountain in a daze, and there was no chance to draw his sword to fight.

Vile!

Shameless!

The battle of Zhuohua Town made him see clearly how insidious and vicious the Chu army was, and how cowardly and cowardly it was. As soon as the main force of the Qing army left Zhuohua Town on the front foot, the Chu army ran on the back foot to attack Zhuohua Town, and Mulima immediately came back with the main force, but the Chu army slipped away like a weasel stealing chickens, leaving only blood stains and chicken feathers in one place.

"Jurong fights, we must not let these southern dogs run away again!"

Mulima slammed his fist on the table. And another punch, another punch...... He smashed a crack on the tabletop, but he was not a martial arts master who broke Yue with one punch, and there were already blood stains on his fist. Still didn't smash the table. With a "poof", Mulima drew his saber and raised it high against the table. He was about to slash down, but suddenly he stopped in mid-air and didn't move.

"Don't get angry. Calm down, be sure to be calm! ”

After some venting. Instead, Mulima calmed down and repeatedly warned himself not to be impulsive and not to be in a hurry, Chu Jun was undoubtedly a difficult opponent, and the more this happened, the more he needed to be calm.

The battle of Jurong is the best opportunity to take revenge, no matter how many tricks and tricks the Chu army has, it is impossible to play flowers in the big strategic aspect, as long as it captures Jurong, it can use this county town as a bridgehead, open the passage between Yanling Town to the southeast, and rescue Jumala back to Nanjing.

The city defense of Jurong County was quite strong, and the Chu army obviously spent a lot of effort, but Mu Lima felt that it was not a big problem.

Although the Eight Banners are not good at attacking fortifications, it does not mean that they will not be able to attack fortifications, otherwise how would these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains be defeated? This time he was too anxious, and only used the ladder ant to attack the city, so he suffered a loss, as long as he calmed down and spent a few days building enough siege equipment, Jurong A small county town would definitely be able to fight down.

Just do it!

Mulima set up a large camp outside the city, cutting down trees to build siege equipment, and on the other hand, he sent people back to Nanjing to ask Ma Guozhu for soldiers and supplies to supplement the consumption of these defeats. Ma Guozhu saw that Nanjing was not in danger for the time being, gritted his teeth and sent 1,500 green battalion soldiers to support Mulima.

With enough green battalion soldiers as cannon fodder, Mulima felt much more at ease. You must know that the casualties of the battle are very large, and you can't sacrifice the precious Eight Banners soldiers to fill the trenches and climb the city walls, all relying on the green battalion soldiers to stand in front.

After several days of busy preparations, the required siege equipment was basically completed, and this morning, Mulima gathered all the generals and went out of the camp to check the defense of Jurong City, preparing to launch a general attack the next day.

They had just arrived at the bottom of the city, only a stone's throw away from the moat, but they saw that the gates of Jurong suddenly opened to both sides, and the drawbridge also creaked down.

"Enemy attack!"

Mu Lima was slightly startled, pulled out the tiger tooth knife with a bang, and the Qing generals behind him also showed their weapons one after another, preparing to meet the Chu army that went out of the city to counterattack.

"It's not an enemy attack!"

Mulima stared murderously at the city gate, but a white flag flickered out of the hole in the gate, and several gentry followed behind, kneeling carefully on both sides of the gate......

Last night, Chu Jun had already sneaked away in the night!

Although the soldiers occupied Jurong bloodlessly, Mu Lima felt very aggrieved, and he was eager to send the Eight Banners cavalry to chase into the ravine and capture the Chu army that had escaped from the battle and beat it violently. Of course, as a qualified general, he would not really make such an irrational decision, although it was uncomfortable to punch him in the air, but after occupying Jurong County, Mulima had regained the initiative on the battlefield, and in any case, this was a victory worth celebrating.

The next step is to open up the connection with Yanling Town and do everything possible to rescue Jumala.

After the occupation of Jurong County, Zhuohua Town had lost its strategic value, and Mu Lima did not hesitate to transfer the more than 2,000 Qing troops there to Jurong, leaving only a group of green battalion soldiers to play an early warning role.

After mobilizing enough troops, he began to advance towards the town of Yanling.

In order to avoid being ambushed, his advance speed was very slow, anyway, the distance was less than a hundred miles, even if he only walked thirty miles a day, he would be able to join Jumala in three days. He always set out at dawn, set up camp before noon, carefully selected the location of the camp, and spent most of the day to build the camp very strong.

Walking thirty miles a day, a total of three days, so that two camps must be built in the middle, and these two camps are the strongholds connecting Jurong County and Yanling Town, so as not to go to Yanling Town, but be copied by the Chu army. There were 2,000 Qing troops left in each camp, and even if the Chu army attacked with several times the number of troops, it could hold out for at least three or five days, which was enough for him and Zhu Mala to return from the same route.

Infallible!

Learning from the lessons of the Battle of Fangshan, after Mulima left Jurong County, he would send a large number of scouts before each march to repeatedly reconnoiter the surrounding terrain, and repeatedly confirmed that there were no ambushes from the Chu army before ordering to advance. Walking all the way down like this, there was really no danger, and no trace of the Chu army was found for two days in a row, and Yanling Town was already in sight......

Fifty miles behind them, in a forest in the valley, several Chu army officers were holding binoculars to observe the Qing army camp in front of the mountain.

"Mulima this camp is a good place, on the top of the mountain it seems to be a flat river, down the mountain and then look at it, but the terrain around the camp is undulating, full of ravines, plus the trench and antler formation in front of the camp wall, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack." Wang Jincai's strategic vision is a little worse, but in the end, he is a veteran of Rongma for many years, and he is very familiar with the specific problems of marching and fighting, and he can see at a glance that the location of this military camp is very ingenious, and it can be said that it is the best choice under the existing conditions.

"Why don't the Tartars camp on the top of the mountain?" Zhang Jiazhen, the Xiaofei general of the Dongguan camp, asked: "I always don't understand when I read the Three Kingdoms, what is wrong with Ma Tan camping on the top of the mountain, is it just because there is no water source?" But isn't encamping on the top of the hill a condescending position? ”

"It's generally not okay to camp at the top of a mountain."

Wang Jincai explained with a smile: "In addition to the water source, the key is not to block the road under the mountain, if you attack from the top of the mountain, hundreds of steps of the mountain road rush down, and there is no strength to fight in front of you, Ma Tan wishful thinking wants the Wei army to attack the mountain, but the Wei army does not attack the mountain, and he himself will be in chaos......

In the cold weapon war, there is no long-distance shooting weapon such as machine gun artillery, and it cannot hit the foot of the mountain at the top of the mountain, even if the mortar artillery of the Chu army cannot achieve a fire blockade at the foot of the mountain, so it is pointless to camp at the top of the mountain.

Mulima's military camp was built at the foot of the mountain, and there was still some distance from the foot of the mountain, and it was obvious that he had taken into account the power of the Chu army's mortar artillery, and deliberately built the military camp outside the range of the mortar cannon.

"It's a hard bone, it's not easy to gnaw, I'll give up." Zhang Jiayu also agreed with Wang Jincai's opinion.

"What then? The military gate asked us to collect our pockets, and if we don't destroy this military camp, Mulima and Jumala will flee back to Nanjing! Zhang Jiazhen smashed his fist in the palm of his hand, looking very anxious.

"It looks like we'll have to ask the engineer battalion for help. Let's avoid the two barracks of the Tartars, build two strong fortifications in the middle, and block Mulima and Jumala! Wang Jincai patted Zhang Jiazhen on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Since the hard bones are not easy to gnaw, put them aside, find a good place to gnaw, this hundred miles of mountain roads, wherever you block it, you can seal your pocket......"

Chu Jun is ready to play big!

Not only did they not fight Jumala, but they also didn't fight Mulima, so they let them "join forces in victory" in Yanling Town, and then put them in their pockets together, and then surrounded the points to send reinforcements to eliminate the main forces of Jilharang and Tan Tai...... This is the latest operational plan put forward by the General Staff, which was unanimously agreed at the military meeting and approved by Wang Kefan for implementation. (To be continued......)