On the evening of November 20, in the midst of ice and snow, Huang Taiji and his men hurried to a village and town six miles east of Datong City.

The people in this village and town have long been slaughtered by Jianju, and now the houses in the villages and towns have all become the camps of the ten Niulu garrisons of Zhenghuang Banner outside Datong City.

It wasn't until they arrived here that Huang Taiji and his entourage breathed a sigh of relief, the march in the ice and snow was extremely tired, and the number of wounded and sick people in the team was increasing day by day.

And Huang Taiji himself is also haggard, and the long money rat tail that he had to clean and take care of every day in the past is now greasy and dirty.

On his forehead, which is usually shaved and shiny, he has also grown a half-inch long messy hair.

The whole person is disgraced and embarrassed, and he has lost the imperial spirit of directing the country and commanding all directions in the past.

The return of Huang Taiji's army made the news of Datong City, which had been cut off for many days, once again rumor, and the head of Datong City was once again ready to become nervous.

However, to the surprise of Fan Fucui, the governor of Datong, Zu Dashou, the chief military officer, Ma Shiying, the prefect, and Zhu Dingwei, the acting king who had been panicking in Datong City, and others were surprised that at noon on the second day, the Jianyu army that came from outside Datong City did not attack the city after meeting with the Jianyu army that had been guarding outside the city, but braved the wind and snow, and carried the baggage materials that had been stored outside Datong City, all the way to the north.

When Huang Taiji led the army of Jianyu outside the city to leave, the messenger of the Juyong Guan Ming army, who had already wandered around the periphery of Datong City, immediately came to the city and shouted at the door.

After Fan Fucui, Zu Dashou and others checked the identity of the token, they immediately put down the hanging basket and pulled it to the city.

It was not until this time that the civil and military generals in Datong City knew that Emperor Chongzhen had actually driven to Juyong Pass, and under Juyong Pass, he defeated the Jianyu and the Mongol army led by the slave chief Huang Taiji.

It was also at this time that all the officials in Datong City knew that the time had come to counterattack.

And everyone knows that if they don't seize the opportunity to go out of the city to pursue at this time, then they will never have a chance to prove themselves.

Now these civil and military generals guarding Datong, except for Ma Shiying, the prefect of Datong, can say that he is innocent, others such as Governor Fan Fucui, and Chief Military Officer Zu Dashou, one by one lost soldiers and lost the city and land, which one can say that he is not guilty?

If they don't seize the opportunity to make meritorious contributions in the counterattack, in the future, in front of the emperor who personally sat in the town and achieved a great victory at Juyongguan, what face would they have to speak of?

Therefore, just after the afternoon of the same day, Fan Fucui left Ma Shiying and Sun Yingyuan to lead 6,000 soldiers from Datong Fubiao and the newly recruited regiment to stay in Datong City, and together with Zu Dashou, he led 12,000 cavalry from Datong Town, which gathered in Datong City at this time, and went out of the city to pursue north.

At about 10 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Zu Dashou led the vanguard of more than 3,000 cavalry under his command to catch up with the cavalry of the Huangtai Ji Department on the bank of the Baideng River 30 miles northeast of Datong Town, and the cavalry responsible for the broken cavalry of the Huangtai Ji Department was responsible for the broken back of the army, and the fierce battle immediately began on the north and south banks of the Baideng River and the ice of the Baideng River.

Since Jianyu entered the customs, Zu Dashou can be said to have been hit, and the reputation of the famous generals who had been cultivated in Liaodong for many years of war was lost by most of them at once, not only lost the mouth of killing Hu and winning, but also first killed his cousin Zu Dacheng, his nephew Zu Keren, and then died his henchman Liu Yingxuan, and his adopted son Zu Kefa, who he relied on very much.

This breath, Zu Dashou has been holding it in his heart for a long time.

At this moment, catching up with the rear team of Jianyu's yellow flag, Zu Dashou immediately rushed into the enemy with a sword against the rain of arrows shot by Jianyu.

It stands to reason that the faster the speed is the better.

However, Huang Taiji, who has never escaped in these years, and his subordinates who have built the Yellow Banner have no such awareness.

Because this place is not far from the victory in the hands of Jianlu, and Huang Taiji and his ministers under the Yellow Banner, Gushan Jiala, are also reluctant to abandon the large amount of wealth plundered since entering the customs, and only return north with a horse.

Therefore, Huang Taiji sent Bai Yintu and Tobuqi to lead an army of 3,000 as the vanguard, and sent Chasuka and Zhunta who stayed outside Datong City to lead 3,000 people to break the rear, while he and others escorted hundreds of carts of gold and silver to advance in the center.

However, what they didn't expect was that Zu Dashou's department, who had been cowering behind Datong Jiancheng, actually dared to go out of the city to pursue, and it came so quickly.

The Datong Town cavalry under the command of Zu Dashou was trained by him in accordance with the rules of his time in Liaodong, and he has done almost nothing else for more than a year, and almost all his time and energy have been devoted to training this Datong iron cavalry.

At this time, Zu Dashou personally led 3,000 of the elite forwards to attack the Jianyu rear team, and the effect was naturally not ordinary.

Soon in the frozen course and banks of the Baideng River, you and I will fight inseparably and comparably.

Half an hour later, Fan Fucui took several other henchmen under Zu Dashou's command, Zhang Hongmo, Liu Tianlu, Cao Gongcheng, and Zu Zeyuan, and led the main force of 9,000 cavalry in Datong Town to the battlefield one after another, and surrounded the 3,000 people in the rear team of Zhenghuangqi.

Huang Taiji, who was unwilling to leave these 3,000 Yellow Banner troops alone, soon ordered the former army of Jianyu to return to the division to rescue with the Chinese army in his center.

In this way, more than 8,500 people from the Jianyuzheng Yellow Banner led by Huang Taiji, and more than 12,000 cavalry members of Datong Town led by Fan Fucui and Zu Dashou, chased after me in the shallow hills and hills around the Baideng River.

This cavalry against cavalry pursuit and fighting melee fought until it was completely dark, and Huang Taiji led the team to protect the batch of gold and silver, and retreated to the nearby Baishan Mountain, which was considered to be the end.

Baishan Mountain is very famous, when Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, was besieged by the Xiongnu army in this place for seven days and seven nights.

However, in this era at the end of the Ming Dynasty, after 1,800 years of vicissitudes of life, the once lush forests and springs full of white mountaineering no longer have the appearance of a mountain, and have become a loess ridge with a gentle slope and a height of more than ten zhang, which is not much different from the shallow hills and hills in the northeast of Datong.

That night, the cold wind howled angrily for a night, and the temperature also dropped again and again, and on the bare white mountain, there were no trees to cut down, and there was no fire to keep warm at night.

In the early morning of the next day, a large number of pigtailed soldiers, who had been wounded and sick in the previous trek and fierce battle, froze to death on Baishan Mountain.

Coupled with those who died in the battle in the area of the Baideng River, Huang Taiji asked people to count the Dingkou of all departments that morning, and finally followed Huang Taiji to the north, and the more than 8,500 people who followed Huang Taiji to the north were once again sharply reduced by more than 3,000 people, and less than 5,500 people survived.

At this time, although he was still reluctant to admit it publicly, Huang Taiji knew in his heart that this time he was already a big defeat and a loss when he went south to fight.

If the strong man breaks his wrist and withdraws quickly, the remaining people, including himself, may be buried on this small white mountain.

And at this time, Bai Yintu, Tobuqi, Cha Suka and others also persuaded Huang Taiji to simply lose those gold and silver property, throw away all the burdens, and hurry up to win first.

Including Fan Wencheng, who has been snubbed since Huang Taiji withdrew from Juyong Pass, he also asked to see Huang Taiji again without shame, and begged Huang Taiji to immediately abandon all interest calculations for the sake of the country's country, and lead the army to break through to the north to win.

The sudden defeat under Juyong not only collapsed Huang Taiji's previous understanding of the Ming Dynasty, but also made Tiancong Khan, who has always been firm, confident, calm and sophisticated, full of doubts about his various judgments.

But at this time, he himself knew that it was indeed a critical moment.

That morning, the gale subsided, and the sun rose above the horizon after a long absence.

Huang Taiji ordered the army of the Zhenghuang Banner under his command to eat all the dry food that could be found, and all the bannermen who could still put on armor and fight on horseback, a total of 5,000 people, and threw away all the chariots, horses, baggage and other things that transported gold and silver property, and still took Baiyintu and Tobuqi as the vanguard, and roared towards the company camp of Zu Dashou and others under the mountain.

On the night when Huang Taiji retreated to Baishan Mountain, Fan Fucui, Zu Dashou and others, who were a little eager to make meritorious contributions, surrounded them on all sides in the southeast, northwest and northwest within a radius of more than ten miles of Baishan Mountain, and arranged four camps one after another.

The original intention of Fan Fucui and Zu Dashou was, of course, to besiege for a long time and take advantage of the severe cold weather to trap the enemy on Baishan Mountain.

It's just that the encirclement time is too short, the weather is too cold, and Baishan Mountain is surrounded by bare barren mountains, even if you want to cut down trees to make things like Juma Deer Village, you can't find a place to get close.

Therefore, outside the camp of the Ming army in these four Datong under Baishan Mountain, there were no fortifications to speak of for a while.