After receiving the order from Lu Xiangsheng to rush back to Harrier Ridge, the First and Fourth Armies of the Praetorian Guards immediately abandoned their march towards Hetuara and turned around and ran in the direction of Quang Ninh City. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It was not easy to reach Harrier Ridge northeast of Guangning City from the Jurchen Department of Jianzhou in eastern Liaodong, that is, north of Shenyang, and this distance had already reached more than 400 miles, but because of the delay that would take some time in the process of transmitting the news on the road, Lu Xiangsheng demanded that the two armies must arrive at Harrier Ridge within three days after receiving the news.

This rapid march may not be difficult for the cavalry, and it can even be reached in advance if the horses gallop wildly, but the 1st and 4th armies of the Praetorian Guard are mainly infantry, so if you want to march quickly to Harrier Ridge in three days, you must march quickly for more than four hours a day.

In later generations, there was a record of the Red Fourth Army marching 120 kilometers in one day and night, and it was carried out under the condition of heavy rain and mud, which also shows that people have this potential, but Lu Xiangsheng did not know that there was such an example, he still dared to let the First Army and the Fourth Army of the Praetorian Guard rush to Harrier Ridge within three days, but it can also be seen that his confidence in the First Army and the Fourth Army of the Praetorian Guard is still relatively strong.

In fact, in the Royal Military Academy and the training of Janissaries recruits, long-distance cross-country has always been the most important training course, and fast long-distance cross-country training is carried out almost every day, so this kind of rapid march of hundreds of miles will not be too much of a challenge to the First and Fourth Armies of the Praetorian Guard.

It's just that the current Praetorian Guard has been expanded, with 30,000 or 40,000 men in one army, and about 90,000 in the First and Fourth Armies of the Praetorian Guard combined.

Although they knew that there was a difficulty in this, Chang Yanling and Lu Xiangyu still led their troops to rush towards Harrier Ridge as fast as possible.

Fortunately, at this time, Liaodong was arid and rainless, and most of it was plains, even if there were still many jungles, it was not a problem for the Fourth Army, which was used to shuttling in the tropical rainforest.

And the First Army of the Praetorian Guard is the trump card with the most rigorous training in all aspects, and it has not shown its cowardice.

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Huang Taiji and Dorgon, who were divided and surrounded by the second and third armies of the Praetorian Guard, were still fighting fiercely with the Praetorian Guard.

Huang Taiji was very cunning, and he no longer charged, but used the firearms battalion outside, the Eight Banners cavalry inside, and used the war horses and terrain as cover to shoot at the infantry battalion of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard, which relied on chariots as cover, while at the same time, he sent a part of the firearms battalion to the slopes on both sides of the hill to rush forward, trying to cross the Harrier Ridge and then get out of the current predicament of being divided and surrounded.

On this side, Dorgon sent dead men to entangle the second cavalry of the Praetorian Guard, while he himself divided his main force into several routes to break through from all directions.

In this way, it increased the difficulty of the Second Army of the Praetorian Guards Cavalry to encircle and suppress the Dolgon Division, and it was difficult not to escape from a single Eight Banner Tartar.

However, the Second Cavalry Corps of the Praetorian Guards was still trying to kill and wound the enemy as much as possible, not only the Second Cavalry Corps, but also the flying battalions and artillery, all of whom were trying to hold off most of Dolgon's main force as much as possible, so that they could not completely succeed in breaking out.

The war lasted until nightfall, and except for a few Eight Banner Tartars breaking out, the Dolgon division still could not get rid of the entanglement of the Second Cavalry Army of the Praetorian Guard.

The current Second Army of the Janissary Cavalry is like a herdsman herding sheep, one riding is a shepherd, the musket in his hand is the whip, and the wilderness in front of him relying on Harrier Ridge is their pasture, and these Eight Banner Tartars who are trying to break out are their flock.

As long as these Eight Banners Tartars obediently stay in the area under their control, the herdsmen of the Second Army of the Praetorian Cavalry will not do anything with them, but as long as these sheep have the idea of breaking through, they will immediately intercept you and give you a head-on blow. This not only saves physical strength, but also can hold back most of the main forces of Dolgon's division before the arrival of the Janissary Cavalry First and Fourth Armies.

Both sides are already tired, and it is worth taking advantage of the darkness of night to make a temporary truce.

However, in order to prevent Dolgon's troops from breaking through at night, the Second Cavalry Corps of the Praetorian Guards did not dare to take it lightly at night, and still sent people to take turns to guard, and the flight battalion would also take turns to have a group of hot air balloons continue to soar in the night sky to observe the ground dynamics.

Dolgon did want to break through at night, but the Ming army flying soldiers burning in the air and the high-frequency cavalry patrols on the ground made him understand that it was difficult to break through at night, not to mention that the vision was blurred at night, and even if he broke through, he couldn't find the direction, this was the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and there were Zhao Shujiao and Mangui and other Liaodong border troops around.

If it is in the daytime, with the bravery of the Eight Banners, it may be able to fight, but at night it is difficult to say two.

What's more, at this time, his army was also very tired, and no one was an iron body, so he simply took advantage of this to rest and recuperate.

Dolgon even guessed that the Praetorian Guards didn't want to eat him immediately, and he expected them to wait for more troops to come, so he simply ordered everyone except those who took turns to be on guard to dismount and sleep, and wait until the next day to try to break through.

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Huang Taiji's side was still trapped in the narrow valley bottom in the middle of Harrier Ridge, and although he had a firearms battalion in his hand, he still couldn't break through the several lines of defense formed by the chariot battalion.

And he wanted to break out from both sides over the hillside, but found that there were also Praetorian Guards ambushed on both sides, if it weren't for the low terrain of the valley of Harrier Ridge, and Huang Taiji himself also had a firearms battalion, and the number of Praetorian Guards in ambush was not enough, the current main force of Huang Taiji was only afraid that it had been completely wiped out.

But Huang Taiji also knew that the longer his side dragged on, the greater the danger, so he, like Dorgon, had to continue to prepare for a breakthrough with all his might.

Huang Taiji was very thirsty and tired at this time, he didn't expect that he would fall into such a predicament, he thought that his chance to raid Mo Nan would be difficult to be recognized by the Ming army, but he didn't expect that the Ming army had already set up a pocket in the area of Harrier Ridge and trapped him here.

Although he had to order the whole army to rest temporarily after nightfall, he still sent a secret cavalry to quietly leave here at night, and some of his troops left in Shenyang and Hetuara were transferred to support and break the current stalemate. For this reason, he also specially ordered the firearms battalion to continue to violently attack the defensive line area formed by the Ming army's chariot battalion in front of him, so as to achieve the purpose of cover.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng also arrived at a small post station not far from Harrier Ridge, this post station is one of the first batch of post stations built by Mo Nan after becoming the political envoy of the Ming Dynasty, and its main function is to use it for the transit of the army, so when Lu Xiangsheng arrives here, he can also have a place to stay, and the first and fourth armies of the Praetorian Guard also arrived here at this time, Chang Yanling and Lu Xiangyu saw Lu Xiangsheng almost at the same time, and were ready to attack at any time.