It's not a machine, and livestock isn't a machine, even if a person who is used as cannon fodder can practice and urge without being in vain or black, if it passes, it will backfire on itself. >

In fact, after the Manchu soldiers and horses drove the cannon fodder to charge during the day, even Duoduo and Ao Bai were sweating in the end, such madness could not only break down the fortifications and make the defenders in Seoul embarrassed, but if something was wrong, these crazy cannon fodder would fight back and cause more damage to themselves.

So after these cannon fodder were frightened back, Duoduo hesitated and decided to make a truce today, charge according to this situation, and the next day he could directly engage in the battle on the side of the earth wall.

The Korean garrison led by Wang Hai did not engage with the Tartar soldiers outside the city, but everyone was tired, but they could not relax in the slightest, and the defenders were so tired, the enemy outside would also know, and perhaps arrange night attacks and sneak camps.

Therefore, Wang Hai still left 20% of the soldiers and horses for rotation defense and night duty, although these officers and soldiers who were stationed on guard were also tired and couldn't do it, yawning for two days.

The night was quiet, in fact, both sides were exhausted from the daytime battles and were seizing this time to rest.

The silence of the night was broken by several horses galloping from afar, and the arrival of these horses made the Manchu military camp and the Korean garrison in Seoul extremely nervous.

However, these cavalry eventually galloped into the Manchu military camp, perhaps because there was some news from the Tatar base camp. It is now June 20 of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen.

Ten days forward, on the tenth day of the sixth month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the capital of the Chahar Department led more than a dozen personal soldiers, each with three horses, ready to investigate the camp of the Tumut Department.

If the cavalry of the Tumut tribe is strong, then this commander will go to Shengjing to ask for reinforcements, if it is just a bluff, this commander will lead the cavalry of the Chahar tribe and the Jurchen bannermen to personally defeat these Mongolian herdsmen who do not know the height of the sky.

Xingzhong was only a little more than a day's journey from Yizhouwei, and these Jurchen spies, who had sufficient horsepower and were familiar with the distance, arrived at their destination in the early morning of the next day.

This was originally the place where merchants from the northern land of the Ming Dynasty did business with various tribes of Mongolia and Jurchen. It is called Xingzhong Town. It doesn't look like a prairie here. It is a town in the interior of the Ming Dynasty.

There are other reasons for the formation of settlements. One is the bank of the Daling River. Water is plentiful. The second is that the surrounding terrain is high. In this wind-blown sand area. There's a shield.

Such topography. But it is a lot of convenience for people who are exploring the land. Just choose a place on higher ground. Condescending surveys. You can see some useful information.

These Manchu generals in the Mongol garrison. It's not the kind of person who enjoys happiness in North Korea. They are also proficient in bow horses. A veteran general with high vigilance.

They found a secluded place to tie the horses first. Then he lurked in this place to investigate. When walking out of town. You can see that there are sentry cavalry in all sensitive places. There are even some secret sentinels watching there in the hiding places. Fortunately, I was hunting in the old woods back then. Alertness still has a place.

Finally found an upwind dwarf. These people began to crawl more than a hundred steps away from the low hills. After going up to the top of the low hill. I saw the scene inside Xingzhong Town.

It was early in the morning, the darkest time of the day, and the Chahar man thought that he would have to lurk until daylight to see what was going on, because at night there was nothing to see because of the light and other reasons.

Whoever thought that when he reached the top of the low hill, he saw a scene that stunned him, even if he camped at night, the whole place in this revival was brightly lit, and from one end to the other, it was full of lights, and this kind of scene could only be seen in some revelry of Chahar.

Looking at the distance between the lights and the lights, you can judge that these lights should be used to mark the areas of the battalions and the lighting at night, and not intentionally, so how many people and horses you see.

On the low hills, the wind was slightly stronger than on the flat land, and a light wind blew, bringing with it a strong fishy smell from the other direction, which was the smell of cattle and horses.

The dwarf was barely a dead end, and the man couldn't find him by the light, so he stood up boldly, and several of his attendants were frightened, and thought that their adults were crazy.

It was all on the low hill in the direction where the stench was wafting, and the lights there were also far away, and the area where the cattle were kept could be seen clearly, but there was no place where the animals were raised. At such a distance, and with such a strong smell, this must be a large herd of livestock.

Judging the number of livestock from the distance and taste, and judging the number of people in the camp from the number of livestock, Du Tong, who roughly estimated a number according to experience, stood there stunned for a while, and the soldiers lying beside him finally couldn't stand it, and had the courage to pull down the capital.

When the soldiers pulled down Dutong, they were ready to be scolded, but now they didn't say a word, as if they were dragged like a piece of wood, and their bodies seemed to be swinging, trembling extremely much, seeing that there was a dawn in the sky, this Dutong could be regarded as reacting, and said in a trembling voice:

Return to the ...... of the Golden Horde of Chahar"

"Master, let's not wait until dawn to see how many enemies there are......"

Look, those herdsmen who came over from Korqin and Harashen did not lie to us, and tens of thousands of cavalry really came to us!! ”

After saying it in a hurry, he turned around and trotted towards the low hill with people, and when he was about to run down the mountain bag, he could hear the noisy noise on the back getting louder, it was only the morning, there was such a big momentum, the number of people was really a lot, and after the group got on the horse, they didn't dare to look back, and hurriedly rode away.

Although each person carries three horses, the horse can be guaranteed during the march, and the horse is constantly changed, but these three horses also galloped for most of the night, and in the morning they have to go to the back, and the endurance and degree will inevitably not keep up.

After walking for two hours, when the sun had just risen, he really couldn't walk, and although he was anxious, he also knew that if the horse ran down, the delivery of the news would be delayed.

In desperation, the commander had no choice but to order the soldiers to dismount and give the horses some hard ingredients such as bread and beans, so that the horses could be corrected for a short time and wait for them to be on the road.

The bureau of the past few years

After settling down, the Jurchen officers and chieftains stationed in various parts of the border actually 7V relaxed.

Anyway, there is no threat from foreign enemies, just need to transfer people on time, loot money and provide it to the hinterland of the mother country, this commander is in charge of the grassland, even if it is a threat from foreign enemies in peacetime, there is no need to consider it, and Kharashen and Korqin are allies of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

From the Yizhou side to the west, the ground mountains for nearly thousands of miles were guarded by these allied tribes, and they were very safe, but suddenly, there were hostile tribes of nearly 10,000 orders of magnitude here, and there was a fierce attack posture.

Could it be that as soon as the emperor died, the regent ruled this result, when the emperor Taiji was defeated by the various Mongolian tribes on the grassland, Dolgon and others led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and dared to go from Liaodong to the Hetao area, and the various tribes on the grassland were frightened and did not dare to approach, why did the soldiers and horses of the army today actually kill them.

The horses were tired, and even the men were so tired that they dismounted and stuffed them with a strip of lehe, a kind of snack made of butter, flour, and honey, and passed the water bags to each other, and soon they drank to the bottom.

Suddenly, someone in the Jurchen squad sitting here felt the ground tremble, and the people on the grassland were very sensitive to this trembling, because it often symbolized the arrival of a large force of cavalry.

The man immediately turned over and knelt on the ground to listen, and when he got up, his face was already distorted, and he shouted loudly:

"Get on the horse! Get on the horse for me!! The cavalry of the tribe of Tumut came, and they were going to the Golden Tent of Chahar!!! ”

Coming so quickly, seeing the scale of the night camp, everyone was already frightened, knowing that with the current strength of the Chahar Department and the soldiers and horses stationed there by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they would definitely not be able to stop it, and they would go back to ask for reinforcements this time, but they didn't expect that the other party would come so quickly.

From the time the scattered tribal herdsmen reported the news, until the investigation was completed, the time from the arrival of the other party in Xingzhong to the dispatch of troops did not exceed five days!

The information that Fang heard from the trembling on the ground, this cavalry is afraid that it is not worth a few thousand people, the opponent has sufficient horsepower, and his own mounts are tired, can he go back in advance to make preparations and spread the news to the tribe.

At this time, no one cared about the tiredness of the horse, and after getting on the horse, they desperately urged the horses to move forward, so that regardless of the use of horses, their mounts could not support it, and when they ran in the afternoon, they were already directly tired and dead on the way to run.

When it was dark, the shaking on the ground finally stopped, and this large group of cavalry also had to rest and form a whole team at night, and what embarrassed these Jurchen Eight Banners from the Chahar Department was that their horses also had to rest, and if they didn't rest, they would have to walk back to the Chahar Department the next day.

By noon the next day, the commander could already see the smoke and dust behind him, and the distance between the two sides was even closer.

Finally returned to the Chahar Ministry, but the time left for them at this time would not be half an hour, and the only thing this Dutong could do was to go and bring Chahar Khan, the nominally noblest heir of the steppe bloodline, to the Manchu territory.

Unexpectedly, more than 1,000 Jurchen bannermen here had not yet been gathered, but someone came to tell him that more than 100 cavalry led by Chahar Khan Ezhe had just taken advantage of the chaos to escape, perhaps to defect to the Mongolian tribe over there.

The Jurchen Dutong who heard the news only felt that his whole body was weak, and he sat on the ground all of a sudden, and the personal soldiers around him helped him up with all hands and feet, while arranging for people to pursue, but he was stopped by the Jurchen Dutong weakly, and said:

"Run away from the little prince, let's go back to Shengjing is also a life, lose Chahar, and I won't be able to ask for benefits after I go back, gather soldiers and horses to fight with the people on the other side!!"

The significance of the Chahar Department in the hands of the Manchus is not only the population and livestock of this Mongolian tribe, but also the legal system of the steppe power, although Ezhe, who enjoys this right, is a puppet, but he is the same as the jade seal of the Central Plains, it is a symbol, and some of the orders of the Manchu Tatars are still going out in the name of this little prince, and after losing such an important person, this Jurchen knows that there will be no good.

The original Chahar tribe had long disappeared under the continuous blows of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and now this tribe was put together by the Manchu Qing with many small tribes.

Therefore, the army that was summoned to fight could actually have about 4,000 cavalry, and what made the commander jump to his feet and curse was that Ezhe left his wife and mother in this golden tent, and only ran to the opposite side with his two youngest sons and a group of cronies.

This little prince is not a fool, here he is the puppet of the Jurchens, opposite is the Tumut Department, that is the right 30,000 households that Chahar divided out back then, and he will definitely be much stronger than here to be a puppet there, and there may be a day when the situation will be turned again, where to go, it is easy to choose.

By the time the Jurchen had pulled out more than 4,000 cavalry, the cavalry brigade of the Tumut Department was only about 400 paces away from the Golden Tent of Chahar.

The smoke and dust in the sky have also settled, and the grassland is also quiet and abnormal, but this silence represents ominous and death.

Looking at the other side is a little scattered, noisy, many herdsmen crowded in front, this is indeed the herdsmen's cavalry, looking at about 10,000 people from a distance, this is the brigade of the Tumut Department, the Jurchen capital led more than a thousand Jurchen bannermen and thousands of cavalry who did not run out of the Golden Tent in Horqin to line up.

After a moment's pause, a cavalryman jumped out of the formation and ran towards the large array of Tumut, taking off his fur hat and waving it in his hand as he ran, which was the rule of the steppe, and this cavalryman was an envoy, and if the other party obeyed the etiquette, he could not shoot or block it.

The cavalryman ran a few dozen paces in front of the Tumut formation, shouting at the top of his voice:

"The Tumut Ministry is the courtier of the Chahar Ministry, and the Taiji of the Tumut Department is the reward of the Chahar Khan, and now he is treacherously attacking, such behavior will be punished by the Immortal Heaven, and the Buddha will also condemn you!!"

The large array of the Tumut division was silent, but occasionally a few laughs were heard in the rear column, and the cavalry sent by Chahar swallowed and spitted, shouting such words on weekdays, as long as it was a tribe on the steppe, even if it did not react, there would be a lot of commotion and chaos, but this kind of silence was not common.

In desperation, the envoy had no choice but to shout again at the top of his voice:

"This is already the territory of the Great Qing Kingdom, in the great Bogdacher

Under the protection, your rash attack is to offend the Bogda Cherchen #7 warriors who can resist the Qing Dynasty? ”

The shouts were all shouted in Mongolian, and Zhang Kun, who was wearing a leather robe in the first row, understood part of the other party's words, and asked a Mongolian Qianhu next to him with some confusion:

"What kind of Khan is this Bogda Chechen Khan, from that tribe?"

The Qianhu of the Tumut Department smiled bitterly in his heart, but he still bowed down and replied:

"Back to my lord's words, Bogda Chechen Khan is eight years ago, the 49th Khan of the Sixteen Tribes of Mongol in Southern Mongolia gave the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji in Shenyang, saying that the ancestor of Nurhachi was the fierce brother Timur who commanded the left guard of the Ming Dynasty Jianzhou back then, and he was also a descendant of the nobles, so he got this number."

These thousands of Han dialects are good, otherwise they can't be arranged by Zhang Kun's side, but the introduction is clear, but this relationship makes Zhang Kun confused, and he doesn't understand at all, the Mongolian tribes on the grassland have the most important blood, if they are born as nobles, then their children and grandchildren are nobles, and this emperor Taiji is also a descendant of nobles, so he has the right to be the Great Khan of Mongolians.

What Zhang Kun understood was that the Qing Emperor Huang Taiji pondered for a while, then he spat on the ground and scolded:

"Isn't it the emperor of the Tartars, don't you understand if you say that the emperor Taiji, it's useless to do so much."

He didn't pay attention to it, this Tatar's statement also scolded the Mongolian thousand households around him, Zhang Kun immediately turned his head and said to a personal soldier:

"Don't let this guy be irritable, knock him down!"

As soon as he gave the order, three musketeers in the back row jumped off their horses with muskets, loaded their ammunition, and fired directly from the back of the first platoon.

The envoy stood cautiously out of range of his bow and arrows, despite his preparations, but what he didn't expect was that the Tumut would have a fiery gun that could hit farther.

The confrontation between the two armies on the steppe was tense, but it was very quiet, and they were all listening to the Mongolian cavalry shouting, but suddenly the fire gun fired, and I saw the envoy struggling a few times on the horse, and fell down directly.

The envoy's landing seemed to be a signal, and then a whining horn sounded, and the cavalry of the Tumut tribe on the opposite side began to move.

It seems that it will not work if you don't fight, and the Jurchens on this side of the Chahar Department are all ashen, but they still force their composure and order around:

"It's just a mess of scattered sand, the soldiers of the Eight Banners are all gathered together, let's go straight to the Chinese army, if we can kill the ten thousand households that lead the team, these herdsmen who are grazing and raising horses will definitely be scattered."

Tens of thousands of horsemen marched forward together, the momentum was really amazing, not to mention that the two sides were so close, in the middle of it, the ground was really trembling, at the beginning the horses were definitely not capable of running, the cavalry in the front rows had already taken off their bows and arrows, and the weapons were also slightly checked.

The first to move was the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry of the Chahar Division, and the soldiers and horses of the Jurchen Eight Banners naturally gathered into a team and rushed forward in the center, while the two wings were the Mongolian Eight Banners of the Chahar Division, and the rest were the herdsmen's stragglers, and it seemed that the momentum was not weak.

It's just that when they ran more than a hundred paces here, those Chahar scattered horsemen who followed them all ran towards the two flanks of the battlefield, not to attack the enemy's flanks, but to face such a calm and pressing army, they felt frightened and hurriedly retreated to both sides.

In the past, the steppe cavalry fought, the cavalry hedged, and they had to let go of the horses and gallop wildly after a few hundred paces, but this Tumut department has obviously improved, and has always controlled the horse to advance.

The cavalry of the brigade pressed down and marched forward in small steps, not only saving horsepower and being more disciplined, but also making the enemy opposite them feel more pressure. If you move forward so slowly, even if you draw a bow and shoot an arrow on a horse, you will be correspondingly accurate.

At a distance of one hundred and dozens of paces, the degree on Chahar's side had already reached the fastest, and it was too late to turn around, when a few sharp whistles sounded, and the first and second rows of the cavalry of the Tumut division suddenly separated from the middle, revealing the ironclad cavalry behind.

The two rows of light cavalry in leather robes in front turned into two teams, and quickly whipped these cavalry of Chahar from both wings, and the woman really ran in the front, and could see the Chinese army of the other party, those cavalry in iron armor, the armor was smeared with mud, so that the armor would not shine in the sun.

The ironclad cavalry was running very slowly, the queue was very neat, and many of these cavalrymen were holding firearms in their hands, and they were preparing to shoot immediately.

No wonder they want to run so slowly, the Jurchen all immediately understood, but the one in front of them didn't dare to let the horse slow down, otherwise they would be trampled to death by the horses behind, and the one behind looked at the movement in front of them that was still high, and they also continued to run, the only hope was to rush closer, the enemy was not accurate, and the enemy's fire gun was the kind of bird gun of the Ming Dynasty, and the armor worn on the body could resist it.

There were not so many luck in this world, and when the guns rang out, the men who rushed to the front were planted from their horses, and then the ironclad horsemen quickly got down from their horses, picked up the spears that hung on their horses, and stuck the ends diagonally in the grass, with the tips of the spears forward.

And behind this group of ironclad cavalry, more cavalry rushed out from the flanks of the large formation, and from both sides held this desperate Chahar cavalry......

Ten miles east of the Golden Horde of the Chahar Department, is the passage from Liaozhong to the grassland, from Liaozhen set up a series of passes and beacon towers on this side, since the Manchus beat down this area, these passes were also received by the Manchus, but the policy of the Manchus and Mongolia has always been to pull and fight, close to the Manchu areas, basically complete submission or loyal allies.

The Manchus never placed too many garrisons on this side, because their front was almost in the hinterland of the steppe or in the Ming Dynasty.

The soldiers and generals stationed at these passes, except for a few important places, were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and were entirely areas where the population was settled.

There is also some meaning of reward, these soldiers who have fought all their lives and have no background are arranged at these passes, and some filial piety of traders and pedestrians who enter and exit is also collected, not so much the border soldiers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the gatekeeper of the border pass.

The enemies of the Manchu Qing were the Ming and the Western Mongol tribes, and no matter who these two forces were, it was impossible for them to fight on this side, and these old soldiers also enjoyed their comfortable life.

However, the incident of being born in June, at Dakang Fort, a pass to the east of the Chahar Department, stunned the soldiers defending the city, first at noon

The herdsmen of Cuo, with their families and livestock, flocked over.

Everyone is saying that there are cavalry from the Tumut Department coming over, an army of tens of thousands of people, overwhelming cavalry, and it looks like they are about to reach Liaozhong.

Behind Dakang Fort there is an important town where Manchu soldiers are stationed, and the Guangning Houtun Guard is also the so-called Yizhou Guard, there are 2,000 banners of the Red Banner and 2,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners of Meng, plus 4,000 Han Army Banners in Guangningwei, a total of 8,000 soldiers and horses, and it is only half a day's journey to this Dakang Fort.

But the Chahar Department is less than an hour away from this Great Kangbao fast horse, and there is a big fight on that side, which does not mean that the enemy army is coming soon.

The leader of the city defense of Dakangbao, who had been the deputy leader of the year, was lame when he entered Shanxi, and was placed in Dakangbao to guard the pass, but he was a little decisive, so he continued to graze the herdsmen into the pass, and when the enemy army of the brigade came, I am afraid that the door could not even be closed here.

Hurriedly gathered all the soldiers guarding the pass, went down to drive the crowd, prepared to close the gate, and sent people to the nearest Yizhou Wei to report the news.

When the door of the pass was closed, the chaos was abnormal, the women and children of the herdsmen cried, and some arrogant herdsmen directly took out their knives and prepared to rush inside, fortunately, although these defenders of Dakang Fort were old and weak, but after all, they had experienced real battles, killed a few fierce people, and calmly scared away the herdsmen, so they closed the door.

After the herdsmen cried under the city for a while, they saw the smoke and dust rising in the distance, and knew that the so-called "Tumut cavalry" was coming.

In the past, it was the Manchu soldiers and horses who approached other people's land so closely, but this time they themselves were threatened by this, and these old soldiers began to hold weapons and bows and arrows, ready to resist.

But when the army approached, heard the sound of horses' hooves rumbling like thunder, and saw the fierce cavalry showing off their might, with their bows and swords, they were all terrified, and did not dare to move behind the battlements.

How can the small fort that can be climbed up by climbing up by climbing up be able to resist so many Mongolian cavalry, the leader of the guard is already completely panicked, what to do, what to do, why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet, and suddenly saw a high platform on the side, and the lame staff leader thought of a way, as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw and shouted in a low voice:

"Light the beacon, light the beacon !!"

When Dakang Fort was the fortress of the Ming army that day, the city was a beacon tower, but this beacon tower emitted smoke to warn, and the dung of cattle and horses was needed, and now the effect of this warning has not been used for many years, and the dung of cows and horses has long been taken to the fertile fields or swept away.

The counselor was really anxious, and quickly figured out a way to speak:

"Take off our robes, dip them in water and stuff them in, there must be a lot of smoke, hurry up, otherwise our masters will not be slaughtered by this cavalry, or they will be marched behind!!"

More than a dozen people took out the cotton robe and even the bedding on the kang with all hands and feet, and the platform of the beacon tower has become a pit for piling up garbage and debris.

Poured some grease, beat the flint and lit it, then poured some water on it, and after some clumsy and unusual manipulation, finally tossed out the smoke.

After tossing out the smoke, these Jurchen old and weak did not know what to do, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not have this set of emergency response mechanism at all, even if there was smoke here, it would be considered a fire or something else, it was nothing more than a rush to the doctor.

Chen Yongfu sat in the headquarters in Xingzhong, Zhang Kun and Wei Li looked at the terrain in front of the pass, this pass is really not dangerous, if you want to break through the pass and enter Liaozhong, even if you don't attack this pass, bypass the obstacles on the side to break through, there is no difficulty.

"There is such a fort there, it is always troublesome, and when the time comes, the foot soldiers under the command of Mr. Ou will come over, and use artillery to level it first, and then enter, it will be much more convenient."

Wei Li looked at Da Kangbao and said in a deep voice, but suddenly his eyes widened and he exclaimed:

"This big Kangbao has lit a beacon fire......"

But after shouting out, he felt that it was wrong, Zhang Kun on the side was already laughing, this is really a big joke, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has no rules for beacon alarms, but at this time they lit a beacon warning, so panicked, they must have been frightened and messed up, it is indeed ridiculous.

However, to the good fortune of these Manchu soldiers in Dakang Fort, the cavalry outside the city stopped for a moment and left in the direction they came.

The army of Quang Ninh Houtun Wei and Quang Ninh Wei arrived in the vicinity of Dakang Fort the next day, and after the commander of the Zhenghong Banner led the army, he began to arrange defenses, sending Tanma and scattered herdsmen on the grassland of the tribe to collect news about the "Tumut Division" brigade.

The main force of the "Tumut Department" in the Xingzhong area did not hide its meaning at all, and the spies and herdsmen easily obtained the corresponding information.

A tribe of more than 100,000 people, almost mobilized more than 40,000 cavalry, and within two days of the Quang Ninh Houtun Guard, there were 40,000 ill-intentioned cavalry!!

With more than 8,000 Manchurian, Mongolian and Han soldiers and horses, the leaders of the Red Banner have no certainty of victory, all they can do is to stick to Liaozhong, and at the same time send fast horses to Shengjing to send a letter to ask for reinforcements, Liaozhong itself is also responsible for the task of attacking the Ming army in western Liaoning, but now, even the defensive force is not enough.

The urgent letter for help soon arrived in Shengjing, the grassland enemy attacked, tens of thousands of cavalry eyed the tiger, and the princes and nobles of the Eight Banners who got the news were shocked, and Shengjing was shaken.

There were police in the grasslands, North Korea used troops, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was overstretched in the territory under its jurisdiction, and the Han people in southern Liaoning were already a little overwhelmed.

After the frenzied attack of cannon fodder on the first day, on the morning of June 21 of the 17th year of Chongzhen, the Korean garrison in Seoul got up early and prepared for a bitter battle.

However, after they entered the city, the Manchu camp on the outskirts was deserted, and the Tartar soldiers and horses had withdrawn at night......

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