"These Nikans are really here."

A white armor with a beastly light in his thin eyes, and beside him were several vests, all wearing iron armor like him, and the white armor and the vests were lying on their stomachs in the muddy wetland, and some rotting aquatic plants were crushed against them, emitting wisps of rancid smell.

A few Jurchen soldiers didn't mind any of this, even if a small water snake crawled slowly not far from them.

They have been lurking here for more than a day, when they are hungry, they will nibble on a few mouthfuls of dry food they bring with them, and when they are thirsty, they will drink water from the swamp, and they have grown up in a harsh environment, and no one in such a situation is physically exhausted or has drunk dirty water and diarrhea, and sure enough, the body of a savage is a hundred times stronger than that of modern people.

It has been three days since Niu Lu Ezhen received the information from the barbarian, and Ezhen sent people to Liaoyang to report while preparing for war.

It must be too late to count on reinforcements, and the Liaoyang side received the news the next day and then urgently dispatched troops and horses, which would be delayed for at least three days.

Hundreds of Nikans have crossed the river here, and Bai Jia did not dare to move when he saw that all the ironclad cavalry were armoured, and the reinforcements should also take into account the number and combat strength of the Ming army, and then consider how to fight this battle, in short, at least within ten days, Yaozhou's side must only rely on itself.

Even after a few hundred years, whether it is a strong country or not depends on its ability to react quickly, and not every country can dispatch troops within 24 hours and deploy tens of thousands of troops within a week to fight.

Of course, it is impossible to escape, if Niu Lu really dares to say a running word, no one in this Niu Lu will dare to follow.

"Nikan is really slow to cross the river." A vest watched a big-flowered mosquito lying on his face sucking blood, but he didn't dare to move, the distance here is too close, only a few dozen steps away from the ferry, the movement was discovered by those Ming people, but it was very bad, compared with the head, it was still sucked by mosquitoes two mouthfuls of blood.

"Not really." The other vest also suppressed his voice and said: "It's been three days of fucking, and I use a small boat to transport it back and forth every day, which really makes me laugh to death." ”

At this time, Bai Jia glanced at these vests coldly, and everyone didn't dare to speak again.

Bai Jia looked at it for a while, and made sure that there were only the eight hundred people in front of him tonight, and he made a hand gesture, and everyone slowly crawled in the water and mud with their hands and feet, until they climbed out of the two hundred paces, and then everyone stood up, and bent down in the reeds for a while, until they were half a mile away, there were a few war horses, and everyone didn't have time to wash the mud and aquatic weeds on their bodies with clean water, so they turned over and got on their horses, and the horses' hooves stepped on the muddy wetland, making a dull sound, because of the noise of the river, The sounds made by these horses could not have been heard in the downstream direction at all.

A few sentinels ran all the way to the southwest, bypassing the Tianfei Palace, followed by the big stone bridge, then the reed bridge, and then walking on the dilapidated official road where the grass grows, and only Yaozhou City, which is more than one person high, is in front.

The name of Niu Lu stationed in Yaozhou is Tun Bu, originally a Jurchen aristocratic family in the Changbai Department, after leading the people to serve the Eight Banners, there were only two flags at that time Nuerhachi accepted them, and at the same time announced that this Niu Lu was hereditary Niu Lu, that is to say, this Niu Lu will always belong to the Tun Bu family, even if Niu Lu Ezhen committed a crime and was dismissed or arrested and killed, this Niu Lu Ezhen successor can only be produced within his family, even Nurhachi himself cannot announce that this Niu Lu has changed the master, At most, Niu Lu is attributed from the blue flag to the blue flag or two red flags, but Niu Lu is really owned by the Tunburu family forever.

This is actually a remnant of the backward tribal system, but it is also quite effective at this time, and each Niu Lu will try its best to expand the strength of its own Niu Lu, obtain more military exploits, and make the people of this Niu Lu have more power and more right to speak.

The sentry took advantage of the twilight to enter the city wall, and a group of armored soldiers patrolled the perimeter, and when they saw that it was Ben Niulu's sentry back, they naturally let go of the road.

"The slave has seen the master." Bai Jia and his entourage galloped into the city gate, and dismounted and knelt in front of Niu Lu Ezhen.

Niu Lu Ezhen Tun Blue was nearly sixty years old, and had been fighting for nearly forty years, his eyebrows were white, and the weather was very hot, and he sat barehead in the street not far from the city gate, and there was a well mouth where people could sit, and he was bubbling with a little coolness.

This well can only be used after dredging, two years ago when this Niu Lu was ordered to garrison Yaozhou City, here is a barren city, the Acropolis within a radius of more than three miles is already a dead city, there are white bones everywhere in the city, there are wild things such as foxes and badgers in the city in broad daylight, the whole Niu Lu people cleaned up for more than a month, knocked down many houses, used old bricks and old tiles to build houses, dredged dry wells, discarded white bones, looking for furniture that can be used, and then outside the city to open up wasteland and farm, two years down, the whole Niu Lu settled down in Yaozhou, No one had thought that the Ming army would dare to counterattack and cross the river to attack Yaozhou.

Tun Buru sat with a golden knife, his face shaking, he was not afraid, but a burst of anger that was difficult to contain.

This old man was a representative of the Jurchens, in his youth they were in awe and fear of the Ming Dynasty, and even did not dare to show their hatred, they went to the horse market of Kuandian or Fushun Pass to see the bustle, and were reprimanded by the officials of the Ming Dynasty and the soldiers of Liaozhen as savages, and the merchants of the Ming Kingdom also looked down on them, and regarded them as barbarians.

In middle age, they followed the old Khan to fight in the east and west, and when the old Khan raised the banner to build the country and call it Khan, all the old people felt a burst of fear.

Even Wang Gao and Dong Wutang didn't dare to do this, would the Jurchens be wiped out by the Ming Dynasty?

As a result, from the forty-seventh year of Wanli to the present, the Ming army has been defeated repeatedly, and the scene of ambushing corpses has appeared again and again, by this time, these Jurchen old people have despised the Ming people to the point of no return, the Han people are weak and lack of blood and bravery, the Ming army is north in every battle, and the Han people are cowardly and useless, these are already the deep-rooted views in the hearts of these old men and children.

As soon as he heard that the army was taking the initiative to attack, Tunburu's first reaction was of course not fear, but anger, quite angry.

The Ming army didn't go to attack other Niulu to fight other cities, but actually took the initiative to come to his Tunbru territory, isn't this contempt and provocation?

While sending people for help, Lao Ezhen gathered the scattered bannermen and soldiers around him.

In two days, a team of 100 people was formed.

Fifty armors, seven of which are white, more than thirty waistcoats, and more than ten foot armors.

There are fifty bannermen, including more than 30 Jurchen bannermen, more than a dozen Han army bannermen, and more than a dozen Mongolian bannermen.

In addition, there are more than 300 people, including more than 200 Jurchen women and children, old and weak, and dozens of Han people.

In the face of the attacking Ming army, what Tun Buru could take out was the old and weak plus the coat as the main number, about 100 soldiers, including the elite team of 50 people in armor.

The Ming army was a pure iron cavalry of 800 people as the vanguard, and there were about 1,500 to 2,000 cavalry and car and artillery battalions, and all of them were stubborn soldiers.

Tun Bulu understood that as long as there was a stalemate in the early stage, the Ming army would not be able to do it for a while, but after two days of stalemate, the soldiers of Liaoyang might not be able to catch up, and the Ming army would come over with a thousand people, so he would not be able to stop it no matter what.

"The Ming army came over tonight to attack Yaozhou?" Tun Bulu stood up violently and laughed wildly: "This group of Ming rats, if a dignified and upright teacher comes to fight, we are afraid that we will not be able to defend the first round of attacks, they actually want to sneak attack at night, they are really unconfident, what a group of rats." Well, it took them three days to cross the river, and the scene was very chaotic, and although they were strong and sharp, most of them were recruits who had not been on the battlefield, so the generals did not have much confidence to attack head-on, so they simply had the idea of sneak attack...... These rats, if they don't want to make war merit as soon as possible, how good it is to attack in a dignified manner and wait for backup, and they want to make merit, but they are afraid that the loss will be too great, and they think of the idea of sneaking up at night, if I am the commander of the Ming army, I have to cut off all their heads. ”

A Niu Lu Zhangjing asked, "Master, how should we deal with the enemy?" ”

"Since they came in the middle of the night to attack," Tunburu said, "we will take advantage of the situation to make a counterattack." The soldiers and bannermen followed me, riding horses and ambushing on both sides of the outside of Yaodao City, and the city bluffed with old and weak women and children, and as soon as the enemy arrived, they beat gongs and drums and shot arrows and cannons, startling their ranks, and the cavalry on both wings charged suddenly, and the enemy formation was in chaos, and it would not be our opponent. ”

Everyone present was taken aback, and when they looked at the old man with white eyebrows in front of him, it turned out that he was really old and spicy.

Not only to fight, but also to think that I can fight a big victory!

"How?" Tun Blu's eyes showed murderous aura, and he glanced at everyone: "Which of you doesn't dare to fight?" ”

"Slaves dare to fight." The white armor of the sentinel replied first: "The Ming people are well-armoured, which seems terrible, but in fact they are quite weak and weak, and the whole team can't do it on the river beach, this time I feel that we can not only win a big victory, but also get a large amount of armor, which is enough to please the master of the banner lord Baylor, and give us more dingkou and cattle, horses and livestock." ”

Of course, the harvest of this Niu Lu's military exploits does not have to be handed over, but with the merit of a big victory and the surrender of a part of the armor, I am afraid that the benefits will be more than keeping and seizing.

Tun Buru finally decided: "Zhang Jingleng led fifty people on the left side of the road, I led fifty people on the right side of the road, and the white armor vest was half on each road, and Zhang Jing Saidai led the old and weak in the city, and when he heard the sound of arrows, he led people to the city to beat drums and make noise, and shot arrows at the enemy. ”

"Lie Liehun, Bei Hun, Niyahan, Tar Jiangxi, you wait for Bai Jia to hear the sound of the arrow, then lead the vests around him to rush to both sides of the enemy, to find the enemy's main general and kill him, kill the enemy general, then the Ming national soldiers will be in chaos in an instant."

Tunbuu's explanation is quite simple, designating both sides of the official road outside the city as the main force to ambush, the old and weak stay in the city, see the enemy and shoot arrows noisily, because it is the middle of the night enemy attack, Tunburu got the information in advance, can calmly make countermeasures.

"Wow!"

There was a resolute chirping all around, and the faces of the armor soldiers were smiling, and Tun Blu saw a young man not far away, who was not yet fifteen years old, with the help of the old man, putting on shining chain mail and holding a bow that grew the same length, and he smiled on his face.

The Jurchen elite who has won a hundred battles is by no means a powerful existence that Ming Guoxiao can resist the enemy!