According to the report of the observation post on the top of the mountain, the number of cavalry heading east of Manchukuo was more than 5,000. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The staff officers estimated that this group of cavalry should be light cavalry, mainly from the Mongol units assisting in the war, plus one part of the Mongols on the left and right flanks of Manchukuo, as well as Azig and his escorts.

According to the information obtained by the General Staff, among the Mongols who came to help in the war this time, the Korqin family sent the largest number of troops, about 3,000 horsemen. It was followed by the Karaqin family, with less than a thousand horsemen. Then there are the tribes of Taiji, large and small, you bring dozens of people, and I bring a hundred and ten people.

These Mongols can be said to be an allied character, and nominally did not belong to Manchukuo. The Mongols were used to being scattered, and Huang Taiji's military discipline could not directly restrain them; The Mongols were still very poor, and the theft of saddles, stirrups, bridles, and horseshoes in the camp was endless.

After a month of expedition, they must be the first to disperse. According to the captive's confession, a few days ago, Mongolian Taiji had already resigned and led the crowd home. Huang Taiji arranged for them to rob Xuanhua, but he didn't have the idea of sending these foreign Mongols away. The General Staff estimated that these Mongols would go home directly with the spoils of war after robbing Xuanhua as usual.

The Mongols were stronger than the Mongols in the outer domains, and the Mongols on the left and right wings were subordinate to Manchukuo, one of which came from the Horqin and Ulut tribes belonging to Chahar who defected to Manchukuo, and the other wing came from the Khalkha tribe that defected to Manchukuo. Like the Han army, the Mongol wings were never eligible to participate in the Eight Banners Banner Lords' Conference, which decided the major affairs of Manchukuo. If the Eight Banners are the powerful imperial army, the two wings of Mongolia and the Han army are the periphery of the imperial army.

The two wings of Mongolia also have a cattle record system. This time, Huang Taiji's expedition to the grassland drew forty armor per cow, and the calculation was about 1,000 cavalry per wing.

It is impossible for Huang Taiji to send all the Mongol soldiers on both wings, and the reasonable approach should be to send one wing and leave one wing. And it is likely that the one left behind is from the right-wing Mongols who Chahar had a conflict with the Horqin family who helped in the war.

Azig, who commanded this group of cavalry, had fifteen oxen under his command. This expedition drew forty armor per oxen, a total of six hundred, but none of these men were cavalry. The real cavalry is the protector of the Eight Banners, and there are more than a dozen people per Niulu, all of whom are old Manchurians, and they can be said to be the SS soldiers in the imperial army. The fifteen Niu Lu guards plus Azig's personal guards will not exceed three hundred horsemen.

In this way, the total strength of Azig was 300 imperial troops, more than 1,000 imperial allied troops, and more than 4,000 allied troops who were beaten by Chahar and hidden.

Such a hungry army rushed to Xuanhua, and it was natural to choose the route with the least resistance and the shortest schedule, that is, to go south around the eastern side of Yinshan Mountain through the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain, which is vast and sparsely populated.

In contrast, in the Jiuyuan area near the Shimen Waterway, the narrow plain between Yinshan and the Yellow River is cut across several sections by rivers flowing from the ravines of Yinshan, and even if Azig crosses Yinshan, it will take a long time to cross these rivers one after another.

But what if Azig's goal wasn't Xuanhua?

Dahai didn't look like he was deliberately trying to deceive the coalition forces. However, since ancient times, soldiers have not tired of deceit, and there are too many examples of Ming Xiu plank road secretly crossing Chen Cang. Dahai was a literati, and it was too easy for Huang Taiji to hide his true military intentions from him.

And as Sun Dingliao said, even if Azig's vanguard cavalry did not take the Shimen Waterway, the subsequent Huang Taiji Eight Banners were likely to take this route.

So the coalition forces had to defend.

According to the satellite map of Sun Yi's later generations, there are three ravines in the Jiuyuan area that can cross the Yin Mountain, and the names of later generations are Hadamen Ditch, Kundulun Ditch, and Wudang Ditch. These three ditches are all over the monuments of the Qin, Han, Wei and Tang dynasties in later generations, and Sun Yi has been there. According to the local elders, when they were young, there were two or three meters high ancient side walls in the dangerous place at the mouth of the ditch, which were later demolished for building houses and building roads.

The north of Hadamen ditch is difficult to walk, the south of Wudang ditch is narrow, and the two ditches only allow people and horses to pass, and do not pass through the big car, it is the camel road of ancient times. Forts were built within these two ditches, and artillery was erected to delay the enemy's advance to the greatest extent with a small number of troops.

But these two ditches are not the focus of defense.

The Kundulun ditch in the middle is relatively flat and wide, which is suitable for the passage of large groups of men and horses, which is the center of gravity of defense.

Experts and scholars of later generations have verified that the ancient Shimen water refers to the Kundulun River in the Kundulun ditch, and the Kundulun reservoir in the ditch was built in the position called Shimen in ancient times, so it is also called the Shimen Reservoir. (Another different scholarly opinion is that the stone gate of the Han Dynasty refers to the later Wudanggou.) ）

It is said that when there is no reservoir, flash floods occur during the rainy season in July and August. The song of "Guangxu Thirty Years of Water Scraping West Baotou" is still being sung by later generations, and the old Baotou people remember the catastrophic flood in 1958.

Today is the 19th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the 6th day of the seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, and tomorrow's small summer is the dry period of the last period before the Yinshan area will enter the rainy season.

If the river rises in the next rain, Kundulungou will be a dead end for the team in an instant. Therefore, as long as the coalition forces hold out until the rainy season comes, this blocking battle will be considered a victory.

In Shimen Reservoir, Sun Yi played rafting. In later generations, the Shimen Reservoir was only five kilometers away from the ditch, and the dam was sandwiched between two mountains, with the width of the dam crest being less than 500 meters and the width of the dam foundation being only 200 meters.

The two-hundred-meter-wide river valley between these two mountains is estimated to be Shimen. Shimen Water of course has the highest right of way in Shimen, and the two-hundred-meter-wide river valley minus the width of the river surface is very small for the allied forces to defend.

With the current strength of the coalition army, it is not possible to fight a decisive battle with the Manchurian army in the wilderness. However, it is absolutely certain to take advantage of this kind of natural danger that cannot be deployed by troops, with their backs to the rear, and use their firepower superiority to fiercely scare the Manchurian army for a period of time.

After discussing some more details with the staff officers, Sun Yi turned back to the new negotiation venue.

The new location was chosen in a wooded area, and a tent was set up in the woods.

A set of batteries was piled up outside the tent, and the tram whirred around and drove a wooden fan car through a belt, with the air outlet of the fan car facing the corner of the tent.

As soon as he walked into the tent, Sun Yi felt a cool breeze, and the temperature was at least five or six degrees lower than outside.

The interior of the tent was surrounded by familiar clay pots. It turned out that the craftsmen requisitioned the "air conditioner" that Sun Yi made for himself.

These crockpots are full of miscanthus salt, the scientific name of which is sodium sulfate.

Yang Ritian carried back the soil salt near the lake salt to produce gypsum stone. Gypsum stone is calcium sulfate, so soil salt contains sodium sulfate. In the process of soil salt purification, sodium sulfate is constantly obtained, and it has been saved for no great use until the weather has become hot recently.

The melting point of sodium sulfate is 32 degrees Celsius.

The miscanthus in the clay pot is like an ice cube, which begins to melt when the temperature reaches 32 degrees Celsius, absorbing a large amount of heat and achieving the purpose of cooling.

Yu Shengzhi invited the negotiators of Manchukuo, and I was amazed as soon as I entered this cool tent.

Sun Yi bowed his hand to several representatives of the other party, "In order to prepare this room, the delay is a little long, you Haihan." ”

Perhaps the cool environment dissipated the anger of both sides, and the ensuing negotiations went quite smoothly.

On the premise that Manchukuo agreed to release all the prisoners, the coalition forces agreed to the "Oath of Mutual Integrity and Non-Insulting of Captured Officers". For the definition of generals, on the Manchukuo side, it is above the protector army, and on the coalition side, it is above the warrior level.

The two sides agreed that for every ordinary prisoner released by Manchukuo, the coalition forces would release one Zhushen soldier in equal measure. Manchukuo releases a coalition soldier, which can be exchanged for a protector. If the amount of prisoners on both sides is not equal, a ransom can be paid after the armistice.

The ransom for Duo Erhong was finally agreed to be nine hundred and ninety-nine.

Nine livestock, regardless of breed size and coat color, is a nine; Nine hundred and ninety-nine is eight thousand nine hundred and ninety-one animals.

But these nine hundred and ninety-nine can't be called a ransom. Manchukuo was named because of Duo Erhong's "hunting" on the west coast, and Manchukuo paid a "reward" for this. The coalition forces agreed.

Because Manchukuo could not come up with nine hundred and ninety-nine for a while. The coalition unexpectedly expressed that out of trust in Manchukuo, the Duoer red people could be released first, and nine hundred and ninety-nine could be owed, but they would have to collect lamb interest. It was agreed that the lamb's interest should be doubled for each year, as is customary.

The ransom for the Guardian or Coalition fighters was agreed upon as ninety-nine nines.

The ransom for the armor of Zhushen or the ordinary soldiers of the coalition army was agreed to be nine nines.

The Ahan slave soldiers of Manchukuo had a ransom of nine. There is no such thing on the part of the coalition forces.

The Coalition does not accept arrears of ransoms for Protectors, Armored Soldiers, and Slave Soldiers.

Manchukuo will retreat five miles back and use it as a "demilitarized zone" for both sides to complete the exchange of prisoners and other matters.

Dahai was very happy, and with a stroke of the pen, he wrote the content of the negotiation in two copies of the Chinese and Manchu oaths, and added that if there was a violation, he would lose his life and be abandoned by God.

The two sides agreed to ask their respective leaders to look at it, and then swear to the heavens tomorrow when they choose auspiciousness, and the Chinese and Manchu oaths will each burn a copy to the heavens, and both sides will keep a copy for their own records.

After the negotiation was completed, it was still early, it was too hot outside, and neither of the negotiators on either side wanted to go out at this time, so Jia Junshi organized everyone to sing, and chatted after singing, and the atmosphere was very harmonious for a while.

Sun Yi intentionally or unintentionally introduced the topic to the Eight Banners co-governance system set by Nurhachi during his lifetime. Sun Yi praised Nurhachi for his wisdom and wisdom, and the core of the Eight Banners co-governance is called a hypocritical monarch and a republic.

The opponent praised the first emperor, and the Manchukuo representatives were naturally overjoyed.

Fan Wencheng proudly introduced the advanced system of Manchukuo to the allied forces, while Jia Junshi pretended to be puzzled and raised various questions about the hypocritical republic, but Staff Officer Sun stood on the side of Manchukuo and answered questions for Jia's military division.

In the end, the talks between the two sides ended in an extremely friendly atmosphere.

On the occasion of parting, the coalition forces said that tomorrow is the summer solar term, which is the holiday of the coalition forces, and Geng Xiucai's newly written excerpts will be auditioned tomorrow night, and a few people are sincerely invited to watch the play tomorrow night.

Dahai didn't even want to readily agree.