Until noon on the next day after the collapse of the Western Route Army of the Coalition Army, the main force of the coalition army of the Eastern Mongolian Tribes stayed in the old city of Daningwei, waiting for the news of various sentinels, and the first thing he was waiting for was not the news of the destruction of the Western Route Army, but the news that his second son Chahan was killed in battle. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Chahan, the second son of Zhaisang, was ordered to lead more than 1,200 horsemen to return to the rear of Horqin first, because the situation in the rear was urgent, after Chahan received the order, he went into battle lightly and set off immediately, and did not honestly return along the east bank of the Laoha River, but chose to take a shortcut, wanting to bypass the northwest edge of the three towers, and then go to the Ao Han Department to supplement the supplies, and then rush all the way north back to Baiyintao.

Of course, Chahan's mood is understandable, there are not only his father's wives and daughters in the rear, but also his own wives and daughters, Hari Zhula was robbed as his sister, he can not care, but Chahan's own wives and daughters can't be robbed.

Although this feeling is understandable, it does not mean that you will be able to survive on the battlefield of your life and death.

Chahan's death was brought on by him, because he should not have taken a shortcut to the east, trying to bypass the three towers and go north.

The three towers are the name of the steppe tribes. Its name in the Ming Dynasty is actually the former guard of Yingzhou, and it is the Chaoyang of Liaoxi in later generations.

Because this place preserves the three white pagodas built in the Liao Dynasty, the nearby Mongolian tribes call this place the three pagodas.

When the three towers were still the guards of the Ming Dynasty, of course, there were troops of the Ming Dynasty, but when the Yingzhou Guards moved to Jizhen Pass, the Ming military guards of the three towers had long been abandoned, and now there is no permanent Ming army.

It wasn't until Lu Shan succeeded Ji Liao that on the one hand, according to the emperor's will to rebuild the city of Yizhou, on the other hand, he arranged for Chen Renxi to take people to the Yingzhou Houtun guard outside the border wall to set up a field, in order to prevent the Eastern Mongolian tribes from attacking and harassing the construction of the city of Yizhou, Lu Shanji sent some Ming army outposts in Liaodong Town from time to time to patrol the perimeter of the three towers.

Of course, Zhai Sang knew about this situation, and just before Chahan left, Zhai Sang also explained to him, asking him not to approach the three towers, because this place once appeared in this place The elite sentry cavalry of the Ming army in Liao Town did not collect at night.

The night is not collected, it is a unique type of military in Liaodong Town since Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, and it is mostly composed of some outlaws who are skilled and bold.

These people dare to travel thousands of miles alone or in groups of three or five, deep behind enemy lines, spy on enemy troops, or assassinate enemy generals.

These men are the most highly paid in the military, but they also carry out the most dangerous tasks.

Therefore, wherever there is a place where the Ming army does not collect at night, it must be the most likely place for Liaodong Town to use troops, and therefore the most dangerous place for the enemy.

But Chahan didn't take this to heart, and he also despised the departments near the border wall of Liaodong, such as Kulun, Naiman and other departments, for their cautious appearance in the face of the Ming Dynasty.

For Chahan, who is not afraid of tigers in newborn calves, he will definitely not give up this shortcut and the supply to the Ao Han Department because there were elite sentinels of the Ming army around the three towers and do not collect them at night, and walk an extra 200 miles in vain and delay a whole night.

And this is precisely destined for his choice to be a point of no return.

Chahan was ambushed near the source of the Aolian River, sixty miles northwest of the three towers.

It is said that Chen Renxi asked for 5,000 cavalry from Lin Maochun, the commander of the left road in Liaodong Town, and at the same time reported to Lu Shanji the situation of going west out of the border wall to rescue the Karaqin tribes.

Two days later, with Lu Shanji's consent, Chen Renxi soon led his own standard battalion of 2,000 supervisors and 5,000 cavalry on the left of Liaozhen, a total of 7,000 cavalry, each with a heavy load, and left Yizhou City, which was not far from the border wall of eastern Liao.

A day after leaving the city of Yiju, the 7,000-strong army carried their baggage and went west along the Daling River, and exited the side wall through the side gate of Dading Fort.

The border wall of eastern Liaodong was first built in the Yongle period of Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, mainly used to delineate a military demarcation line between the command of the eastern Liaodong capital and the Mongol, Jurchen and other tribes in the northeast.

After the Ming Dynasty became the ancestor, in order to prevent the invasion of the Wuliangha Mongols and the Jurchen tribes, the border wall of eastern Liaodong was continuously lengthened, and finally formed a simple border wall that stretched to the Yalu River in the east, Shanhaiguan in the west, and Kaiyuanwei in the north, which was more than 1,700 miles long.

Of course, by the time of the first year of Chongzhen, in addition to the existence of this side wall in western Liaoning, the border wall that originally divided the boundary with the Jurchen tribes of northern Liaobei and eastern Liaodong had already been broken through by Jianyu.

Out of the side gate of Dading Fort, Chen Renxi and his entourage continued to march west along the Daling River, and after another day, they arrived at the three towers of the predetermined garrison, that is, the Yingzhou Qiantun guard set up in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, and the Chaoyang in later generations.

The geographical location of the three towers is very important, it was also an important town in Mongolia in the early Ming Dynasty, but now Yingzhou Wei has moved to the interior for nearly two hundred years, and the once important military town is now in addition to the three white towers built in the Liao Dynasty, there is no intact building.

However, although the city walls are dilapidated, it is better than camping in the wilderness, after all, the weather has begun to turn cold in the grasslands in late September.

Chen Renxi led an army of 7,000 people, carrying heavy supplies, and entered the Qiantun Acropolis of Yingzhou, where the city walls had been crumbling for many years and the city was overgrown with weeds, before dark.

Fortunately, there were many people and strength, and some of the dilapidated houses that remained in the Acropolis were quickly cleaned out, and they could barely stay overnight.

For the next few days, Chen Renxi continued to send outposts to the west, north, and south, while leading an army of 7,000 to roughly renovate the former guard acropolis of Yingzhou near the three towers.

There is also an outer city outside this acropolis, but the outer city has collapsed for many years and has no value for renovation. The acropolis inside the outer city, although it is not large, but after a simple renovation, it can accommodate the garrison of 7,000 troops.

In this way, Chen Renxi led the army and stayed at the three towers, while letting Zuo Guangxian, Lin Chaoen, Zhu Jialong and other generals take their respective subordinates to renovate the city gate of the Acropolis and the barracks in the Acropolis and other necessary facilities, while patiently waiting for the news of the sentinels.

Due to the inconvenience of communication in this era, Chen Renxi, who was in the three towers at this time, did not know a series of changes that had taken place on the grassland, nor did he know whether the reinforcements of the Rehe Town Garrison that Wang Zhenyuan had mentioned earlier had arrived in Ulan Hada on time, and what was the current position of the Eastern Mongolian Coalition Army and Karaqin. So he could only send out spies while waiting for news.

In this way, after a few more days, the spies sent out brought back two pieces of news one after another, one was that the Guiyi Palaces in Ulan Hada had been destroyed, a large number of old and weak people in Karaqin had been killed, and the main force fled south; The other is that the main force of the Eastern Mongolian coalition army has pursued southward, and now it has pursued the old camp in Karaqin, and may have marched to the source of the Laoha River, which is the original Daningwei's hometown.

The return of these two pieces of news gave Chen Renxi and his subordinates a general judgment of the current situation on the grassland.