Yang Yi and the others not far away saw this situation clearly, their lord rushed to the river with his naked body and the smell of wine all over his body, Zhou Daniu opened his mouth wide, saliva flowed out, Li Mingli said very respectfully: "The handsome man is so fierce, he is worthy of the Du Taishi who is feared by the Beiyu." ”

Yang Yi snorted coldly and scolded in his heart: "Fool." ”

……

Nurhachi received a report in the middle of the night, and immediately determined that the main force of the Ming army was coming, and this time it was a boot falling from the upper floor, and the worst thing he had been fearing finally happened.

He summoned the eight banners, except for the two big bailes and the general army ministers who went out, the banner owners of each banner and the generals and officials of the middle and high-level all arrived, and even the civilian Erdeni and others were ordered to follow the expedition.

The old slave also has a sense of pride and history mixed in his heart, to his position, if it is not ambitious, there is no need to turn against the Ming Dynasty, how to toss the Ming Dynasty outside the customs of the Houjin has no heart to pay attention to, unlike the previous Ming Dynasty, the Jurchen tribes will fight whoever takes the lead, do not give the Jurchen a chance to reunify, under the deliberate support of Li Chengliang, Nuerhachi has been on the road of annexation, which was not allowed before, whoever dares to annex the ministries, the Ming army will definitely sweep his tribe and walled city, Do not give the Jurchens a chance to grow.

Thirty years after Wanli, the trend of Jurchen mixing was obvious, Li Chengliang, who took office for the second time, felt the pressure, and the imperial court also knew it, and then simply agreed to abandon Kuandian, and gave the six forts of Kuandian to the Jurchens, tens of thousands of people were forced to evacuate, and the Ming State also killed many people when forcing the people to evacuate.

By this time, except for Yehe, the Jurchen tribes were united, if they guarded their own small country, as Nurhachi declared, as long as they survived, the Ming Dynasty could actually allow it, the Jurchens could continue to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and they could live their own small lives behind closed doors, but what Nurhachi wanted was the land and Dingkou of the Ming Dynasty, and what he wanted was to continue to grow his tribe, so if he wanted to turn fishing and hunting into farming, he needed more land.

The Jurchens have always wanted the vast land of Liaodong, and they have been migrating for hundreds of years, from the far north in the deep jungle to the border of Chao and Xian, and then to the border of the Ming Dynasty, and now they are finally going to fight a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty, and finally obtain the land and people within the border walls of the Ming Dynasty.

A strange sense of mission rose in Nurhachi's heart, and the last bit of fear and hesitation in his heart disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Han and Li Yongfang and others witnessed the old Khan leading his troops to march, before dawn, the army gathered by the Eight Banners finally gathered from Hetuara and the camp outside the city, in front of Zhang Han's eyes, more than 50,000 troops poured through, of course, not all of them were armored people, among them there were a large number of bannermen, but whether they were old or weak, all cavalry or mounted infantry, whether they were fifteen-year-old boys or fifty or sixty-year-old men, they could shoot arrows, and the accuracy was very good, but the strength was much worse than that of the armored soldiers.

All the soldiers of the Eight Banners, except for those young bannermen, most of them have combat experience, which is much stronger than the Ming army.

Nurhachi gathered all the men who could be dispatched, and Zhang Han had a calm face, silently counting the number of people in his heart.

There are now more than 300 cattle in Baqi, and the number of people is more or less, ranging from more than 100 to 3 or 400 people per cow, with an average of about 200 people and about 65,000 people.

In addition to the more than 500 people who were already on the South Road, there were also more than 10,000 people in Jilin Cliff, and the total number of people dispatched in Hetuala was about 50,000.

There are about 30,000 Ming troops on the West Road, including more than 20,000 soldiers, and the number of soldiers in the Eight Banners is actually equivalent to that of the Ming army, but with the strength of the whole banner, the number of the Ming army is still at a considerable disadvantage.

At dawn, Zhang Han and Li Yongfang followed the back of the team on the road, at which time the striker no longer knew where to go, and could only rely on continuous Tang Ma to transmit news from the front and everywhere.

At this time, you can see the importance of Tangma, a good army must have a sense of unimpeded information, because no one can know the overall situation as well as watching TV or books, even Zhang Han, who already knows the results.

There are only a few hundred people at the end of the team, and the front team has opened some distance, all surrounded by mountains and dense forests, and there seem to be figures walking around in the shadows, at this time, if it is a new recruit, the psychological pressure is really great, because the battlefield is not playing games and playing at home, and there are worries about life at any time, the so-called rumors and grass and trees are definitely summed up by experienced people, at least Zhang Han feels that if they are not killed all the way from the grassland to Liaodong, I am afraid that the psychological burden and pressure at this time will never be small, The most important thing is that people are always afraid of ignorance and ignorance, and in the state of fear, the psychological pressure brought by the unknown environment will be amplified, and then it is easy to collapse after an unexpected situation.

This is also the reason why generals must be brave and plant their image in the hearts of the army, the military system of the Ming Dynasty is good and bad, the advantage is that the generals have a strong sense of presence in the army, and the disadvantage is that it has contributed to the pure force type of generals such as Du Madman, because the matter of coordinating the overall strategy falls on the heads of civilian officials.

After dawn, Tangma returned, and traces of the Ming army were also found in the Dong Ejie outside Qinghe Fort on the South Road.

Nurhachi's reaction to this is, of course, to ignore it, and the Ming army along the way will not appear on the battlefield soon, and may not even appear at all.

The army continued on its way, hurrying to the area around Salhu.

……

Soon after the departure of Nurhachi, Zhang Han and others, the Ming army was divided into three parts.

An elite Ming army of more than 10,000 people, led by Juniper, crossed the Hunhe River and attacked Jilin Cliff in order to take the boundary domain.

The other remained on the other side of the Hunhe River and marched towards Salhu.

There is also a baggage vehicle artillery battalion, led by General Gong Niansui, who followed the action of the Juniper Division.

After morning, the Ming army began to cross the river under the command of Juniper, and soon it was the turn of Yang Yi and the others' team.

They took off their robes and armor, raised their hands in the air, and crossed the river in the shallow waters that the sentry had explored.

"It's cold, it's cold."

Zhou Daniu's feet were out of the water, and his whole body was full of fierce spirits.

Liaodong on the first day of March is by no means Jiangnan, even the water in Jiangnan must be very cold, the temperature is below ten degrees, the temperature at noon is also very low, the surface of the river is cold, mainly because the snow has fallen more than ten days ago, which makes the river even colder.

"It's warm underwater." Yang Yi shouted to everyone: "Hurry up and get into the water, take off your clothes and stand in the wind, it's even colder!" ”

This is indeed true, and everyone can't wait to jump into the water.

Sure enough, the water was wrapped in the body, but there was a strange feeling of warmth, and Zhou Daniu, who was like a frozen pendulum, gradually recovered.

The Hunhe River is very wide, and people can also see another river meandering in the upper reaches, and the two rivers converge here, that is the Suzi River, which is also the mother river of the Jianzhou Department, which has been divided into several small tribes for more than 200 years, relying on the feeding of the Suzi River.

Walking in the river, the river only reaches the waist and even the abdomen of the people, the river is not very urgent, the initial anxiety disappears, the soldiers feel comfortable, the whole river is full of Ming soldiers who are trekking, a small number of family members and cavalry lead the war horses to pass first, there are more than 20,000 brothers along the river bank to the direction of Salhu, the two armies are very close to each other, there are already some places burning in the valley of the Jiefan, when they reach the middle of the fast river, the front team sends Tang Ma to report back, burns two fences set by the Jurchens, kills and beheads the fourteenth level, Then Yang Yi and others saw that there were Tangma continuing to the east, and it should be Juniper who sent someone back to Shenyang to report the victory.

At this time, Yang Yi felt that the water under his feet began to become rapid, and he saw that the water in the upstream direction also began to become turbid, and on Yang Yi's left hand side, that is, there were a large number of robes above and they also crossed the river with their clothes, and a group of naked Ming soldiers were trekking in the river without any obstacles.

The brigade has crossed the river about eighty percent, far behind Yang Yi is the baggage battalion, there are thousands of soldiers and horses to guard, there is grain and grass in it, more guns and sub-medicines, the Ming army has a large number of firearms soldiers, the baggage battalion has a lot of chariots and big guns, such as the general and the second general cannon, the Franco-Lang machine gun, there are also a large number of sub-medicines, but now the baggage battalion can not cross the river, Juniper intends to capture the Jilin Cliff with light troops, and the heavy troops are placed in Salhu, and the baggage battalion slowly decides the movement according to the changes in the battlefield.

Yang Yi didn't have time to think too much at this time, he shouted: "Big Niu, Chengfang, Mingli, go faster, don't be afraid of sticking your feet, hurry up!" ”

Yang Yi had a high prestige in his team, and under his shouts, the people who had been slowly trying to walk underwater began to speed up their pace, and the rest of the people began to walk very fast under their guidance.

When you reach knee-deep water, the current speed is faster, and the water rises sharply at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this time, panicked shouts sounded everywhere, and the people who were wading across the river couldn't help but speed up, and those who had crossed the middle of the river quickly ran to the bank of the river, and those who had just gone down the river quickly retreated, only those who stayed in the middle of the river were at a loss, and they didn't know what to do at all.

Yang Yi felt that the flow speed increased, and the river became extremely turbid, he moved forward violently, the depth of the water rose from his knees to his waist, fortunately, he was very close to the river bank, and after struggling forward for more than a dozen steps, he finally grabbed a few withered reed branches on the bank and climbed up with a few feet.

Their robes were thrown indiscriminately on the shore, and the people were naked and panting, and they didn't have time to put them on.

There are hundreds of people in the middle of the river, at this time the flow rate has been so large that it is amazing, a lot of dead branches and leaves are washed down by the river, from time to time to crash into those struggling Ming soldiers, almost in the blink of an eye, the river water has reached the height of no head, and the flow speed is extremely fast, in front of Yang Yi and others, these people in the river first exclaimed, and then cried for help, but such a flow rate and the temperature of the river suddenly became colder, even if the water is high, people dare not go into the water, and then so many people, who can be saved by going into the water?