The Ming army starting from Zhangjiakou had two ways to choose, one was to get out of the pass, take a shortcut to directly block the back road of the Russian-Manchurian coalition army, and launch an attack on the Russian-Manchurian coalition army from the rear to contain the enemy's forces and make it impossible for it to attack Juyong Pass with all its might.

The second route is to start from the Guannei and directly arrive at Juyong Pass to assist the Juyong Pass defenders to defend the city.

Take the first route, although the speed of reinforcements will be greatly accelerated (marching at full speed, almost twenty hours to reach Juyong Pass), but the danger is self-evident, once the Russian-Manchurian coalition forces encircle the point to send reinforcements, halfway to intercept and kill, 100,000 against 15,000 (must leave 5,000 to guard Zhangjiakou), and it is also a field battle, Zhangjiakou's reinforcements may be wiped out.

Taking the second route is a steady and steady approach, but in addition to the official road in the Ming Dynasty, there is no shortcut, even if the reinforcements are fast, it will take nearly two days to reach Juyong Pass.

Judging from the previous battle, dealing with 40,000 people is already the limit that the Juyong Pass defenders can withstand, let alone waiting for one more day, even if it is an extra hour, Stilwell does not dare to imagine the consequences.

At this point, Stilwell had to make a choice, as long as he could pose a threat to the Russian-Manchurian coalition army, so that he would not dare to devote all his forces to Juyong Pass, even if he sacrificed the 15,000 men in Zhangjiakou, he would have to take the first route.

Compared with the two million people in the capital behind Juyong Pass, which is more important, Stilwell has already made a decision in his heart.

To put it bluntly, the national defense force in Zhangjiakou took the initiative to go out of the customs to send them to death and buy time, but even so, Stilwell kept sending people to urge them to come over and "die" quickly.........

"Good news, good news, good news, commander-in-chief!"

Just as Stilwell was discussing the next troop deployment with a group of staff officers, an intelligence officer broke into the conference hall in a rage and reported excitedly: "There is news from the capital that Qi Hongying's instructor has been sent to Juyong Pass for reinforcements, and it is expected that he will arrive at Juyong Pass in three hours!" ”

"Qi Hongying, instructor? How can they come over, this is the only full-fledged army in the capital, once there is an accident in Juyong Pass, won't the capital have the slightest ability to resist? No, I quickly replied, saying that the reinforcements from Zhangjiakou were about to arrive, and the instructor was temporarily staying in the capital to standby! After thinking for a while, Stilwell hurriedly replied.

His thoughts were exactly the same as Shi Kefa's, and he was the commander-in-chief of the Central China Theater, so he subconsciously gave this order.

The instructor was stationed in Gyeonggi, and Steawell didn't know it, so it can be said that if the instructor wasn't in the capital, he wouldn't have been able to transfer all the troops to the Juyongguan and Zhangjiakou lines with confidence.

If Qi Hongying led the army to reinforce, then there would be no troops to defend the capital, how could Stilwell be worthy of the heavy task given to him by Li Dingguo to defend Gyeonggi?

"Please also ask the commander-in-chief to think twice, Juyong Pass and the capital are dependent on each other, the terrain of Juyong Pass is dangerous, and he does not dare to guarantee to block the enemy for three days, let alone the capital? Once Juyong Pass is lost, even if the instructor stays in the capital, he will not be able to resist for long. The staff officer explained.

Blocking the enemy for three days is the main task of the defenders of Juyong Pass, but judging from the intensity of the battle in the morning, let alone three days, it is difficult to say whether they can hold out until tomorrow during the day.

As the casualties of the Ming army become larger and larger, the battle behind will become more and more difficult, and if the combat effectiveness is not increased in a short time, even if the reinforcements from Zhangjiakou arrive, it will only be a refueling tactic.

After listening to the staff officer's explanation, Stilwell also reacted that he had fallen into a misunderstanding for a while, and defending Juyong Pass was actually to defend the capital, transfer the instructor, and unite the troops, but instead divided the soldiers to guard and block the attack layer by layer, which was a little more feasible.

Thinking of this, Stilwell gritted his teeth and ordered again: "The instructor still has three hours to arrive at Juyong Pass, and during this time, the Russian-Manchurian coalition army will definitely not let us have a good rest, so just bite it hard!" Pass on my order, all officers and soldiers of the First Division of the First Army who can participate in the battle will be put into combat positions, and not a single reserve member will be left! ”

The army that can defend Gyeonggi is naturally the strongest army.

It is not difficult to see from its number that the First Division of the First Army of the Ming National Defense Army was the first unit that Li Hongfei started in Suzhou.

Its predecessor was Guo Sheng, the now highly successful commander-in-chief of the Air Force.

At the beginning, Li Hongfei transferred Guo Sheng to form the Air Force, and the only thing Guo Sheng couldn't give up in his heart was this army, especially the First Division, which was a force rich in soldiers, and now half of Yang Xiu's special forces are from the First Division.

In terms of weaponry and equipment, the First Division is basically not weaker than the instructors, and if the instructors belong to the experimental units and constantly open up new ideas for the future development of the whole army, then the First Division is the vane of the army's new ideas.

There are too many uncertain factors in experimental troops, and all tactics are explored on their own, whether they are effective or not, and whether they can be popularized throughout the army, there are too many uncertain factors, and to put it bluntly, everything that teaches the instructor is only for the reference of all armies, and the essence is extracted from the dross, so as to achieve the effect of continuously improving the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

The first division is a unit that has officially entered active service after taking its essence from its instructor, and such a unit can be said to be the trump card of trump cards, the elite of the elite, and the competition between armies of the same size, and the rest of the national defense forces are not the opponents of the first division in terms of weapons and equipment or tactical concepts.

But such a powerful army is now being forced by the Russian-Manchurian coalition forces to come here with a numerical advantage, not to mention Stilwell, the whole army has a nameless fire in their hearts.

Now that there are reinforcements in the rear, Stilwell decides to give it a go, and the shame of his previous shame is gone.

And according to his guess, it is possible that the Russian-Manchurian forces will increase their strength again in the afternoon after the morning battle.

Stilwell simply didn't bother to fight slowly with the other party, and directly threw all his troops in one go, striving to catch the opponent off guard.

Compared with the Russian-Manchurian coalition army, Stilwell at this time was more like a gambler who wanted to make a last-ditch fight...........

In the afternoon battle, on the five-kilometer-long city wall of Juyong Pass, Stilwell put in a total of more than 9,300 soldiers, including the guard battalion, and only some civilian personnel were left in the headquarters on the upper floor of Juyong Pass, and not even a single guard was seen.

The deployment of the Russian-Manchurian coalition forces also increased again as Stilwell expected, and 50,000 troops were invested at the beginning, which was more than half of the total strength.

It's a pity that the Russian-Manchurian coalition army did not know the layout of Stilwell, and they successfully resisted the onslaught of 40,000 troops with more than 5,000 troops, and now the Russian-Manchurian coalition army has increased by only 10,000 people, but Stilwell has increased by more than 4,000 people in one go.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, the Russian-Manchurian coalition suffered a dark loss, and in the first round of attack alone, they were driven back by raining bullets.

Due to the rapid defeat, the allied soldiers in many places had not yet charged within the range of the flintlock pistol, so apart from the loss of more than 500 soldiers themselves, the Ming army basically did not have any losses.

"Is Ming Jun crazy? At this scale, it should be almost their entire strength! The commander of the Qing army, Prince Zheng Jierharang, looked at the battlefield ahead with a grim face.

Just now he boasted about Haikou in front of the Russians, explaining that the army was limited in strength and only needed to add 10,000 troops to climb the Great Wall before dark.

As long as they gain a firm foothold on the Great Wall, it means that in less than half a day, the Russian-Manchurian coalition army will be able to completely break through the Juyong Pass.

However, the reality is such a slap in the face, not long after Prince Zheng Zierharang boasted that he went to the sea, the Russian-Manchurian coalition army launched the first round of charge, and encountered fierce resistance from the Ming army, and the vanguard did not even arrive at the foot of the Great Wall, so they retreated back in disgrace.

"Lord Wang, are you sure that the defenders of this Guancheng are only 10,000 people?" The Russian generals were also puzzled.

"It's true, although we evacuated from Beijing back then, we still arranged a lot of eyeliner in the surrounding areas of Beijing. Due to the Ming army's main force into the Mongolian steppe, Zhangjiakou, Juyongguan and other places were empty. As a last resort, Stilwell transferred the troops stationed in Beijing to these two places to take over the defense. Now in the city of Beijing, except for the five thousand defenders, there are not many troops, even if there are reinforcements coming, it can only be reinforcements from the direction of Zhangjiakou, and these reinforcements are not cavalry, and they will not arrive until tomorrow morning at the earliest. As I expected, the Ming army on this city wall should be all the troops in Juyong Pass. The deputy commander of the Qing army on the side, Aixin Jueluo Handai, hurriedly explained.

Aixin Jueluo Handai, originally with Azig and Duoduo, had a very close relationship, and it can even be said that they are the confidants of these two.

Now that Azig and Duoduo have both lost power, Han Dai, as a confidant, can only find another way.

However, if you want to be reused by Xiaozhuang, a shrewd woman, there is no bargaining chip in hand, and it is almost impossible to achieve.

Fortunately, when the regent Dolgon evacuated from the capital, in order to be able to counterattack the Ming Dynasty one day, in addition to leaving enough eyeliner in Beijing, he deliberately arranged a back hand outside Juyong Pass.

As the chief steward of the logistics department of the Qing army at that time, Han Dai was the main person in charge of these followers..........

When the Ming army launched a large-scale northern expedition, Dolgon knew that the general trend had gone, but his heart was full of unwillingness, so he transported the looted goods from all over the country to Shanhaiguan, in an attempt to transfer these goods out of the customs (which was finally intercepted by the Ming landing force).

In addition to the property, Dolgon also ordered Han Dai to transport nearly 600 artillery pieces of all kinds to Juyong Pass, find a hidden location, and bury them on the spot.

Because he was not familiar with the tactics of the Ming army, and the Ming army's Northern Expedition, the marines had been used many times to carry out thousands of miles of raids, so in order to avoid being bitten by the Ming army when retreating, the Qing army's withdrawal belonged to the light cavalry and simple subordination, and Dolgon also opened a secret passage that even most of the local Mongols did not know.

The Qing army was entrenched outside the pass all the year round, and the only thing that could stop them from entering the pass at that time was the Great Wall.

Therefore, the Qing army spies at that time explored almost all the roads that could be concealed to enter the customs.

The use of hidden passages to sneak attack the Ming border pass was the usual method used by the Manchu Eight Banners at the beginning, and the most famous of them was the "change of self-righteousness".

At the beginning, Huang Taiji was also forced by Yuan Chonghuan to have no choice, so he opened a secret passage and led hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers to detour to Mongolia to avoid the defense area of the fierce enemy Yuan Chonghuan, and finally succeeded in breaking through, leading to the chaos in Beijing, and even Yuan Chonghuan's death was inseparable from the "change of self-righteousness".

And this time, in order to gain the trust of Xiaozhuang, Aisin Jueluo Han Dai also wanted to repeat the old tricks, and he learned from the information from the spies in the capital that the defense of the Gyeonggi area was empty, and there were only 10,000 defenders at Juyong Pass, so he took it for granted that he hit the idea on Juyong Pass.

In Han Dai's view, even God is on his side this time, Juyong Pass not only has a hidden passage, which can avoid the main force of the Ming army in Mongolia today, but more importantly, the heavy artillery needed to attack the city is buried not far from Juyong Pass.

The army of 100,000 only needs to be lightly cavalry and keep enough concealment in the early stage, once it enters the hidden passage, this sneak attack plan can be regarded as more than half of the success.

And the final result also proved that Han Dai's plan was very successful, and it was not until the army came twenty miles outside Juyong Pass that the Ming army at Juyong Pass discovered the traces of the Russian-Manchurian coalition army.

Seeing that victory was only one step away, Han Dai certainly did not allow the Tsarist Russians, at this time, to question their intelligence capabilities.

"General Han Dai, you think too much, I don't suspect anything, but I heard that you have fought a lot of big battles with the Ming army before, and you must also understand that it is impossible for any strong army to invest all the troops on the first day of the war. Unless the Lord on the other side is a fool, or a madman. But judging from the information you gave, the other party is a general who is known for his defense, and it is obvious that he will not make such a low-level mistake. Moreover, it is not difficult to see from the battle in the morning that the general's command ability is still very strong. The Russian general said.

Although he didn't doubt the other party's intelligence ability, he scoffed at it in his heart.

If your intelligence capabilities are so powerful, why didn't you find out that the other side had unknowingly hoarded 200,000 troops in the northwest region until the Ming army officially declared war?

Since the intelligence capability is so strong, why didn't you find out until the Ming army officially declared war that the Ming army in the Gyeonggi stronghold, as early as half a year ago, there were less than 60,000 troops left (there were also 30,000 marines, some time ago, in the name of a joint exercise with the Nanyang Naval Division, they left Tianjin, and Han Dai also learned of this situation, so he made a plan to attack Beijing).

The Russian generals even began to wonder if the so-called joint exercise would be a pretense that the 30,000 troops had not left Tianjin at all, or that it was not far from Tianjin, and could be returned at any time.

And the defenders of Juyong Pass, it was only after learning that the marines had returned to help that they dared to invest all their troops with confidence and boldness.

I have to say that the deductive ability of the Tsarist Russian generals is superb, and just based on Stilwell's abnormal performance, he has deduced a lot of information, which even the Qing army intelligence department has not been able to detect.

There are indeed reinforcements behind Stilwell, but not the 30,000 marines, and the 30,000 marines did not go south to participate in the joint exercise..........

"General Yarumuf, what you say is not unreasonable, but it is only speculation. There is a famous saying in China: Fiction is real, and reality is virtual. If the other party's reinforcements really arrived at Juyong Pass, do you think that with the character of the Ming army, it will be exposed so easily? In my opinion, the other side is just stalling for time. Han Dai argued.