Mang Gurtai set up a big tent fifteen miles east of Quang Ninh, but he did not set up protective facilities such as horse rejection piles, this was in the field, and the Ming army did not dare to come to steal the camp anyway.

As a precaution, Mang Gurtai still instructed his soldiers to strengthen patrols and guards at night.

Entering the big tent of the Chinese army, Mang Gurtai casually twisted open a bag of mare's milk wine, and poured it up, but now he is at the forefront of the military, and there may be a fierce battle at any time, so he doesn't dare to drink more.

A bag of mare's milk wine bottomed out, and Mang Gurtai smashed his mouth, stretched out his tongue to lick the residual wine on his lips, and wiped his thick beard with his cuffs.

He took out another bag of mare's milk wine, stroked it for a moment, and finally put it down, "Sleep." ”

The soldiers came to untie his leather armor for him, and Mang Gurtai and his clothes got into the leather quilt, and fell asleep.

As Mang Gurtai had predicted, the Ming army did not come to harass him that night, and the rangers on both sides had skirmishes and fierce battles, and they retreated separately without panic.

In Quang Ninh City, the Ming army was on high alert.

Du Wenhuan's Fourth and Fifth Divisions had already arrived in Quang Ninh, and after the Third Army took over Ningyuan, Yuan Chonghuan also sent the First Division originally stationed in Ningyuan, and he personally followed the First Division to Quang Ninh.

Yuan Chonghuan finally looked forward to the letter of "Hai Dongqing", and in order to prevent leakage, the letter was written in the form of a secret letter.

When "Hai Dongqing" writes, he does not use the brush that the Han people are accustomed to, but takes a hard branch as a hard pen, and then takes two pieces of white paper and folds them together. When writing, write the contents of the secret letter on a white piece of paper with a hard branch, and there will be traces on the white paper below.

Soak the white paper below in clean water and dry it, and the traces of the words will be gone. If it falls into someone else's hands, it's just an ordinary blank sheet of paper, and nothing can be seen.

Yuan Chonghuan took out this blank piece of paper and found that there was nothing on it, he smiled slightly: This Hai Dongqing is quite careful.

"Fetch a basin of water."

The soldiers quickly brought a basin of water, and then took the door and went out.

Yuan Chonghuan put this white paper in the water, carefully soaked it, and the handwriting of "Hai Dongqing" immediately appeared on the paper: Yue Tuo had returned to Shengjing (now Shenyang), with 300 soldiers by his side, and General Mang Gurtai led 30 Niu Lu of the Blue Banner to Guangning.

Soon after Yuan Chonghuan received the secret letter, Mang Gurtai came to Quang Ninh. Because he put aside Sheng Jing's fifteen Niu Lu and baggage, he rushed all the way to collect the soldiers in the Liaoyang area, and the secret letter of "Hai Dongqing" was sent later than Mang Gurtai, so the secret letter only arrived in Guangning one day earlier than Mang Gurtai.

The winter in Liaodong comes earlier than in Jiangnan, obviously it is September, in Jiangnan, that is, in the late autumn season, some places are still harvesting rice, and Liaodong has entered early winter.

Mang Gurtai had slept very deeply last night, and the exhaustion of the long march for several days was swept away by the night.

He sat up from under the quilt and yawned, and a thin mist of water rushed out of the end of the bed, and he stretched again, and then lazily got out of bed.

The cavalryman handed over a bag of warm mare's milk wine, and Manggultai twisted the lid open, sticking the mouth of the bag into the thick beard.

"Knock, knock." With a bag of wine in his stomach, Mang Gurtai felt much warmer, he threw away the wine bag, took a large piece of freshly warmed cooked beef from his own soldiers, and took a hard bite.

After being full of wine and food, Mang Gurtai turned his head and asked the soldiers beside him, "How many Jiala's Ezhen?" Did they get up? ”

"They're all up, Lord Belle, do you want them to come over? Is it going to attack the city? The pro-soldier stood in front of Mang Gurtai with great anticipation.

Mang Gurtai shook his head: "Our warriors haven't all arrived yet, just wait, you let Brewer come over first!" ”

"Yes, Lord Belle." The pro-soldiers trotted out.

Brewer was one of the three Gela Ezhen under Manggultai's tent, with five full Niulu and 1,500 soldiers.

Brewer did not wear leather armor or a helmet, his long hair naturally hung down from the shoulders, his head was fat, his forehead was broad, and his upper limbs were thick, which made him look powerful.

He opened Mang Gurtai's Chinese army tent and leaned in, "Lord Belle, are you looking for me?" Are we attacking the city today? ”

Mang Gurtai pointed in the direction of Quang Ninh City, "You first take the soldiers to explore the way under the city to see which direction is suitable for attacking the city." ”

"Yes, Lord Belle." Brewer was overjoyed, although it was not a siege, but he just went to inspect the surroundings of Quang Ninh City, but as long as he left the big tent, there was a possibility of contact with the Ming army, and he wanted to let the people with the red flag take a good look at how the people with the blue flag were getting back for them.

Brewer immediately returned to the camp, ordered all the soldiers, and they formed two teams and marched all the way to Quang Ninh.

Yuan Chonghuan and Du Wenhuan were both standing at the head of the city, they were observing the cavalry of Jiannu in the east of the city, and the Sun and Moon military flag of the Ming Dynasty was floating near their shoulders.

"Wen Huan, how many cavalry are there in Jiannu?"

Du Wenhuan put his eyelid on his eyelid and looked at it carefully for a while: "Commander, look at the dust raised in the air, there should be no less than a thousand." ”

Yuan Chonghuan touched his chin: "Only a thousand people? Didn't Mang Gurtai have nearly 10,000 cavalry? ”

Du Wenhuan smiled contemptuously: "Hehe, this may be the vanguard of Jiannu, Mang Gurtai will not be stupid enough to sacrifice all the main forces as soon as he comes up, right?" ”

Yuan Chonghuan put his left hand into his trouser pocket, and pointed his right hand to the dust in front of him: "Mang Gurtai has too many cavalry, we can't fight with him for the time being, we have to consume his strength little by little, Wen Huan, think of a way to lure them to the city, and destroy this cavalry first." ”

Du Wenhuan also stared at the dust in mid-air, "Commander, when Jiannu enters our line of sight, I will let the soldiers put a few arrows to provoke them?" ”

Yuan Chonghuan didn't have any good way, "Okay, let's try!" I hope Jiannu can take the bait. ”

In the blink of an eye, Jiannu's cavalry came into their sight, and about a thousand paces below the city, Brewer stopped.

Yuan Chonghuan smiled bitterly: "Wen Huan, Jiannu's courage is getting smaller and smaller, and they don't dare to come if they are still a thousand steps away, it seems that your plan is going to fail." ”

Du Wenhuan turned around and instructed the soldiers behind him: "Shoot all the arrows you collected to the city, and then take out the gongs and drums, basins, and iron pots, and knock them a few times." ”

"Knock knock, knock knock, knock knock......"

"Ding, Ding, Ding......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The noise of gongs and drums, the sound of pots and pots, and the display of military flags attracted all the attention of Jiannu to the city.

Just when Jiannu felt inexplicable, countless arrows shot out from the head of the city, and these arrows fell to the ground only forty paces away from the city, still far away from Jiannu's cavalry.

"Ezhen, the Ming army is really soft, we are still so far away from the city, they are gongs and drums, and arrows, as if they are welcoming us."

Brewer was also happy: "These arrows, there are still 108,000 miles away from us, go, go to the city and put a few arrows, so that they can see the arrows of our Dajin Kingdom." ”

Brewer rode his horse, and Jiannu's cavalry followed him.

The arrows of the Ming army were denser, but the range of their bows and arrows was only forty paces, and they were still far from Brewer.

Brewer is only a hundred steps away from the city, and the cavalry behind him has begun to prepare bows and arrows, once they enter the range of bows and arrows, they will not hesitate to release arrows at the city, and now the Ming army at the head of the city is too dense, as long as the arrows are thrown at the city, they can shoot a few Ming soldiers with their eyes closed.

Eighty paces, the Jurchen cavalry had already begun to wind their bows and arrows.

"Shoot!"

Du Wenhuan finally gave the order.

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

……

Hundreds of flintlock muskets began to fire almost simultaneously, the bullets were faster than the arrows off the string, and the Jurchen soldiers felt countless moths flying in front of them, but these moths flew much faster than the moths on the grassland, and flew towards their bodies in an instant.

"Poof! Poof! ”

The Jurchen cavalry who saw the "moth" fell from their horses one after another, and even many of the horses fell to the ground.

They didn't have time to scream until the "moths" were completely gone.

The cries of the wounded soldiers were soon drowned out by the sound of horses' hooves behind, and only the neighing of horses occasionally penetrated through the dense sound of horses' hooves.

The Jurchen cavalry slowed down a moment, but they quickly resumed their attacking formation.

The flintlock guns did not stop, and the second row of gunners met the Jurchen cavalry who had just entered the firing range, and a large number of "moths" flew in to ask for their lives, and then the third row of gunners.

The two Niu Lu who rushed to the front had just entered the range of the flintlock pistol, and now they were almost completely lost, and even their Niu Lu was really down in the pile of dead people.

Brewer frowned, seeing that he was about to enter the range of the Jurchen cavalry's bows and arrows, but they had not fired a single arrow so far, indicating that they had not entered the range.

He didn't plan to attack the city, nor was he mentally prepared for a big battle with the Ming army, Mang Gurtai just ordered him to patrol the city outside the city, seeing these soft eggs Ming army, it was a small episode, he just wanted to teach them a lesson and give them a dismount.

But the Ming army's flintlock guns were too fast, and they didn't give him time to think at all, and in three waves of shooting, his soldiers had already suffered nearly a thousand casualties.

Brewer is like a gambler now.

He wasn't going to gamble, he was just passing by the casino.

But he was tempted by the chips that were ubiquitous and readily available in the casino, and before he knew it, he had lost more than half of his capital.

He couldn't stop.

Brewer now has only two ways to go: either stop in time and he has a small amount of capital left; Or take out this small half of the capital and gamble again.

The guns were still firing, but the bows and arrows had not yet been fired.

The cavalry sorties were too fast, and the flintlock pistols fired faster, leaving Brewer with too little time to think.

The Ming army's flintlock pistol was like a huge meat grinder, and every time Brewer hesitated, a part of the Jurchen cavalry would be ground into meat foam by this meat grinder.

There were too many corpses on the ground, human corpses, horse corpses.

The corpse had affected Brewer's vision and his judgment.

The corpses had filled the road, and the two columns of Jurchen cavalry could no longer move in a straight line.

Fortunately, the Jurchen cavalry was well-trained, and they did not stop the pace of attack, and began to go around from both sides, and the original two columns became advancing to the left front and the right front.

As soon as the queue tilted, Brewer spotted the problem.

"Why is the queue so short? What about my cavalry? Brewer broke out in a cold sweat, "Stop the attack, let them withdraw quickly." ”