Jianyu is not good at defending the city, and Ma Zhan has less combat experience, which Yue Tuo knows in his heart.

In this southern expedition, his father Daishan handed over Ma Zhan to him, and he was originally asked to take care of him. If something goes wrong, it's hard for him to go back!

"Gotta be saved!" This is the result of no choice at all.

But it is extremely dangerous to go by night, and it is definitely not the best policy, and Du Du will definitely not agree, unless Yue Tuo turns his face with him, he can't move the whole army at all, and can only go over with the headquarters of the Red Banner.

For Yue Tuo, it was a difficult night, which made him have a very bad premonition: the last time he was under the southern city of Ji', it was also such a difficult night, which made him toss and turn, and finally got the news that the main owner of the Mongolian army was killed in battle.

But fortunately, messengers kept coming from Jiaozhou, and by the early hours of the morning, the messenger brought the news that the Ming army had only tried to sneak attack the city once, and when they saw that the city was very well guarded, they had already retreated.

The scout cavalry sent by Yue Tuo also brought news, and it was indeed the new Xianghu Guard of Nanhai Bo of the Ming Kingdom and a team of Ming defeated soldiers with Ma Zhan, the total number of which was about seven or eight thousand, which was not too much. At this time, Ma Zhan sent a messenger again, but this time it was not as urgent as the previous two times, but the army attacked the city again, but still left some corpses and retreated.

"It seems that the Ming army is really limited in strength, in my opinion, there can't be too much of a money-burning army like Xinxiang Huwei!"

Hearing this, Du Du breathed a sigh of relief.

They captured the Tiger Guard B musket, and also asked the craftsmen who accompanied the army with this weapon, which was obviously more advanced than the muskets of any of the Jianlu and Ming troops. The craftsmen who accompanied the army said that it was not impossible to make the same musket, but the labor and materials added up to at least ten taels of silver each. And the captured armor is even more liked by generals like Yue Tuo and Du Du, and the craftsman said that a pair of such armor would cost three or four hundred taels of silver.

The muskets and armor they captured were not only from the Denglai soldiers, but mainly from the Jingying army under Gao Qiqian's jurisdiction. Yu Guozhen signed a secret agreement with the imperial court during the battle of Gyeonggi in the ninth year of Chongzhen, which included the content of supplying a large number of ordnance to the Ming court every year. At the same time, the general soldiers and generals of each town also hoped that their personal guards could be equipped with armor from Xinxiang, and there were also those who secretly contacted Yu Guozhen to seek purchases.

These equipment, with the rout of Gao Qidive, fell into the hands of Jianyu. Based on this, Jianyu also speculated that Yu Guozhen would cost about four hundred taels of silver to equip a soldier, and he had five thousand tiger guards in his hand, and the cost of equipment would reach a terrible two million taels.

Naturally, they didn't know that with Xinxiang's production capacity, as long as it was about one-tenth of the price, they would be able to equip this number of tiger guards.

"Four thousand tiger guards, three thousand Ming troops, Du Du, this is an opportunity!" Yue Tuo said suddenly.

"Huh?"

Judging from the news from the scouts and Ma Zhan, Yu Guozhen should be among this group of Ming troops, and he was too greedy to even think about eating Ma Zhan, so although the siege was a small setback, he still did not retreat. I think he is either building siege equipment, or waiting for artillery and other equipment to be transported from the rear......" Yue Tuo is also a famous general in the construction of the captives, he analyzed them one by one, Du Du nodded again and again, speaking of this, Yue Tuo sneered: "You and I, plus the Mongolian army and the Han army, the number is about 40,000, he wants to eat Ma Zhan, we still want to eat him!" ”

"In your opinion, how to eat?" Du Du's eyes narrowed slightly.

"If he enters the fortified city and defends, we can't help him, but the field battle is under the city of Jiaozhou, that is looking for death!"

Du Du was still a little hesitant, Yue Tuo sighed and said: "This is not to relieve the siege of Ma Zhan, if it is just to relieve the siege of Ma Zhan, our whole army will advance and advance slowly, Yu Guozhen will definitely retreat, and the siege will be relieved." This is really for me to purge the troubles of my henchmen after that -- the humiliation of Ji'nan City, the revenge of Yanguli, can't you see that this Yu Guozhen is really my great enemy of the Qing Dynasty? ”

"You're talking about it!" Du Du was shocked.

Since the Jurchens of Jianzhou raised their troops, they did not dare to say that they were invincible, but at least they destroyed most of the strong enemies who dared to resist. Up to now, among the generals of the Ming army, those who dared to fight them head-on were almost dead, and only Yu Guozhen not only fought them head-on, but also won repeatedly! Even Yu Guozhen's more than 2,000 people dared to break through the siege in the encirclement of their 100,000 troops to rescue Ji'nan!

"I personally led the cavalry to the rescue, and you took the Chinese army to watch the baggage." Yue Tuo Road.

"This ...... Wait, General, be careful! Du Du was about to nod, but suddenly thought of something: "When we came, His Majesty the Emperor said that this Ming Kingdom's Nanhai Bojun is the most weird, in case he is besieging the city to send reinforcements?" ”

Yue Tuo also felt his cold hair stand up suddenly.

They were captured in Liaodong, so they were used to besieging the city and sending reinforcements, and now that they think about it carefully, Yu Guozhen really seems to be besieging the city for reinforcements!

Yu Guozhen has nearly 10,000 soldiers, of which at least five or six thousand are his elite tiger guards, and the Ma Zhan army is slightly not his strength, only 2,000 cavalry, how can he hold Jiaozhou City under the siege of Yu Guozhen's tiger guards?

As soon as they thought of this, Yue Tuo and Du Du looked at each other, and they both changed color: "It's really insidious and cunning!" ”

"Could it be that he has more than 10,000 troops, otherwise how dare he do this trick of besieging the city and sending reinforcements?" Yue Tuo asked.

"In short, be careful, you still have to bring more soldiers and horses, no matter what Yu Guozhen's plans are, it's always good to bring more soldiers and horses!"

Yue Tuo ordered someone to bring a map, from Gaomi to Jiaozhou, it is almost a flat river, if you besiege the city and send reinforcements, where will the other party put the ambush site? He searched and searched, but he couldn't judge, so the only way was to bring more soldiers and horses, as Du Du said.

"I expect that there is a time in Yu Guozhen's heart, and if our reinforcements have not moved by this time, he will inevitably attack Mazhan in a big way. Therefore, reinforcements must be sent as soon as possible, and the number of reinforcements should not be too much, if there are too many, it will force him to abandon the siege plan and directly defeat Mazhan. Now it seems that I will take 5,000 horsemen first, and this number is about the number of troops that can be eaten in Yu Guozhen's judgment. But within half an hour of my departure, you will send your army up with all your might. If Yu Guozhen really ambushes me halfway, I will hold on first and wait for your reinforcements-what do you think? ”

Yue Tuo was quite polite when he said this, after all, Du Du's reminder allowed him to avoid making a possible big mistake, and maybe even save his surname.

"That's it!"

The two agreed, Yue Tuo ordered his own guards, 5,000 men and horses out of Gaomi, directly to Jiaozhou, and in less than half an hour after he left, Du Du ordered the whole army to set off, Zheng Red Flag and inlaid red flag plus the servant army, a total of more than 40,000 people, Yue Tuo took away 5,000, Du Du sent 30,000 reinforcements, mighty, and rushed towards Jiaozhou City.

Du Du himself, on the other hand, sat in the rear army, and they plundered all the way, robbing countless people and goods, and now they are all banned in Gaomi City. After the reinforcements had left, three hours later, Du Du reported that a group of Red Banner soldiers with hundreds of men and women had come from the east, but the reinforcements had swept through several towns on the way.

"Confirm it's a positive red flag?" Du Du was not surprised, their number one purpose was to loot, and it was the right thing to save Ma Zhan and not rob by mistake.

"Yes, the person who came to report is right outside the door."

"Call him in!"

After a while, Du Du saw a Eight Banners Banner Ding coming cautiously, and then saluted cleanly: "The slave Sitri has seen the master. ”

"You're ...... What's going on with these people? ”

The other party's fluent Manchu language made Du Du completely lose his vigilance, and he asked.

Sitku's response was as he expected, he was sent to the prisoner on the order of Niu Lu Zhangjing of the headquarters, and the rest of the affairs were unknown. Du Du asked their Niu Lu Zhangjing the name, and he was indeed the most greedy person, so he smiled and said: "He is bold, since this is the case, he will open the city and let these people in." ”

He sent out the order, and Sitku naturally went out to direct the entry into the city, and when he arrived outside the city gate, he looked at one of the captured Han people, nodded, and a trace of joy flew over the Han man's face.

"These Han people are well-behaved and suffer a lot."

"If you are not well-behaved, you have to use a whip, and if you are well-behaved, you have to use a whip, the Han people are slaves, if you don't fight, you want to calculate the master, only if you are afraid of them, you can only beat them......"

The Jianlu at the head of the city watched this group of captives enter the city in turn with the whole vehicle of goods, one by one in the city, one by one, they made a big fuss at the city, and saw that everyone was in the city, and the bannermen who escorted the Han people began to take out wine bottles and drink bitterly, and the people on the city head suddenly saw that their eyes were hot, and they all came up and said: "You have a great benefit, everyone is a brother, why not share the profits......"

"If you want to drink, it's easy to say, it's easy to say!"

The escorted flagmen were not stingy, and took out the wine bottles they were carrying one by one, and suddenly you fought for me and became a mess. A flagman with a red flag grabbed the bottle of wine, and was about to pour it down, but he saw the Han people who had brought it in approaching the cart containing the goods, and he was about to reprimand him, when he saw one of the Han people smile at him, and the rope that tied his hand fell to the ground.

Immediately afterwards, the Han man reached into the cart and pulled something out of a pile of cotton and silk.

"Kill!" The Han man shouted.

"Bang! Bang! ”

Suddenly, the sound of muskets and white blades rang out one after another. I don't know why the Han people, who were still honest and honest, took off the shackles of the rope in a blink of an eye, and pulled out a musket from the cart like a trick, and did not see them light the torch, the musket went off with a bang, and then one by one the flagmen fell down with a scream!

Not only that, but the escort bannermen who gave them wine and drank fluent Manchu were also extremely excited at this time, screaming and stabbing knives into their bodies, as if they were enemies of life and death!

In Sitku's view, the flag-steady-inlaid flag with him is indeed a mortal enemy.

The hundreds of Manchus who subdued with Xiteku, Yu Guozhen didn't just leave them in Tamna, for the work of these Manchus, he has always personally interrogated, and Jiang'an personally presided over it. Their ideological education is stricter than that of Huwei, and they have to cry every day about how Jianyu Aixinjue Luo destroyed the relationship between the Jurchens and the Ming Dynasty, how they killed the rest of the Jurchen tribes, and how they bullied ordinary Jurchens.

When it comes to hatred between each other, the Jurchen tribes are not inferior to the Jianlu and the Han people, especially the rise of the old slave family, which is almost the history of blood and tears of the rest of the Jurchens. After two years of persistent education and indoctrination, in the hearts of these Jurchen herdsmen, Yu Guozhen has been elevated to the god who rescued them from the foolishness and oppression of the Aixinjue Luo clan.

In just a few minutes, the city gate changed owners!

(To be continued)