Du Wenhuan threw down the Jiannu soldiers who were blocking the attack, personally led more than 1,000 cavalry, and chased after Yue Tuo's ass.

The soldiers on both sides did not have time to eat or drink, they did not even have time to pee and, and the horses were galloping all the way without a moment of rest.

Now the two sides are comparing the will.

Yue Tuo and Jiannu were fleeing for their lives, so naturally they would not leave any spare strength, but their horses had been fighting fiercely with Yuan Chonghuan's army for a long time, and their bodies were already overwhelmed, and Jiannu's soldiers continued to fall behind and fall in front of the Ming army.

Du Wenhuan didn't look at these soldiers, they were directly swallowed by the torrent of Ming cavalry.

However, the stragglers also slightly hindered the speed of the Ming cavalry, and the other part of the cavalry that had just solved the Jiannu blockade soldiers gradually caught up.

The sun couldn't bear to watch the blood of the world, and finally disappeared from it.

The Ming army had been chasing for most of the day, and hunger, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and stuffiness plagued every soldier.

"Junza, it's getting dark, are you still chasing?" The pro-soldier reminded Du Wenhuan.

"Chasing, Yue Tuo is more tired than us." Du Wenhuan did not hesitate.

"Junzao, after dark, you won't be able to see Jiannu." The horses of the pro-soldiers did not slow down in the slightest.

Du Wenhuan thought for a moment: "It's okay, Jiannu is not far in front of us, we can follow the sound of horses' hooves." ”

"What if I encounter an ambush by Jiannu?" The pro-soldiers are not at ease.

"Yue Tuo is such a soldier, can he still arrange an ambush? Besides, we have our main force behind us, and they will soon come to meet us. Du Wenhuan grabbed the horse's belly and rushed over quickly.

The soldier stopped talking, his eyes looked ahead, and Jiannu's figure was disappearing in the darkness.

But Jiannu was less than two thousand paces ahead, and the sound of horses' hooves still broke through the shackles of darkness, pointing out the direction to Du Wenhuan's cavalry from afar.

After chasing for more than an hour, Jiannu was still in front, and the distance was not significantly reduced, and even Du Wenhuan had to give up.

"Throne, why is there so much noise ahead?" The soldiers listened intently on their horses.

Du Wenhuan raised his head, and seemed to see the outline of a castle in the hazy moonlight, and there was a faint fire in the castle, and the noise came from the lights of the castle.

Du Wenhuan slowed down: Could it be that Jiannu has ambush soldiers? No, if it was Jiannu's ambush soldiers, they should hide and not make any noise.

"Is there a castle ahead?"

"Junzao, it won't be chasing Guangning, right?"

"Quang Ninh?" Du Wenhuan's blood boiled all of a sudden, and a stream of air rushed from the soles of his feet to his head, "It should be Guangning City in front, everyone be careful, in case there are Jiannu in the city to answer Yue Tuo." ”

Du Wenhuan added a whip to the war horse under the seat, and after a while, Guangning City appeared in the field of vision, blurry under the moonlight, but there were a few torches on the head of the city, and it was still certain that it was a castle.

Yue Tuo had already fled to the city of Quang Ninh, but by chance, the defenders at the head of the city were several Han soldiers, who could not understand the Jurchen language at all.

Yue Tuo's personal soldiers scolded at the head of the city, but the Han soldiers also couldn't understand it, and they could only feel that the other party was insulting them according to Jiannu's feelings.

The Han soldiers slowly lit the torches, they wanted to see where Jiannu came, and then they could report to the right Meile Ezhen Hulu who was staying in the city, this is the torch that Du Wenhuan saw.

The Jiannu under the city also lit torches so that the Han soldiers at the head of the city could see clearly.

When the Han soldiers saw Yue Tuo, they were all stupid, and they didn't know whether to open the city immediately or report to Hulu first.

While they were still struggling, Du Wenhuan arrived.

The sound of horses' hooves in the darkness was more rapid and denser, and it was clear that the cavalry was more numerous.

The Han soldiers at the head of the city thought it was Yue Tuo's rear army and were about to open the city gate.

Yue Tuo sighed, the good time is in the hands of these Han soldiers, if the soldiers at the head of the city open the city gate early and let him in, relying on the advantage of the city wall and the remaining men and horses in the city, he can completely block the cavalry of the Ming army.

Now that the Ming army has caught up, if Yue Tuo forcibly enters the city, then the Ming army will definitely enter the city, and he has lost the opportunity to enter the city.

Yue Tuo turned his horse's head and fled to the northwest.

Although Quang Ninh City is a square city, the direction is slanted, and the south gate where Yue Tuo is located is not facing the south, but facing the southwest.

Du Wenhuan had already pressed over from the south, and his route to escape east back to Shengjing (present-day Shenyang) had been cut off, and if he forcibly fled eastward, he would not be able to break through the siege, and his soldiers would suffer greater losses once they could, so Yue Tuo could only flee northwest along the city wall.

Du Wenhuan didn't see the reinforcements in the city, so he became bold and chased after Yue Tuo.

Yue Tuo was no longer able to escape around the city, so he had to continue to flee to the northwest.

Du Wenhuan chased for a while, but still didn't catch up.

"Junzuo, if this is Quang Ninh City, then the northwest is the territory of the Mongols, if Yue Tuo gets reinforcements from the Mongols, and there are soldiers from Jiannu in the city, then our army will definitely fall into encirclement." A pro-soldier who was new to geography reminded Du Wenhuan.

Du Wenhuan thought about it, now that the Mongols have basically taken refuge in Jiannu, seeing Yue Tuo's defeat, it is not impossible for the Mongols to fund some of his cavalry.

He reined in his horse and stopped the pursuit, "It's cheap, hey! If the infantry behind me had followed, I would have chased after them. ”

Two thousand cavalry stopped northwest of Quang Ninh city.

Du Wenhuan didn't know the situation of the defenders in the city, he didn't dare to be careless: "Everyone can't get off their horses, half of the cavalry on the left should drink water and eat dry food first, don't eat too much, there may be a battle later, and then change the soldiers on the right to drink water and eat dry food." ”

The soldiers ate very quickly, and they were extremely hungry, so they solved the belly problem like a storm.

Du Wenhuan scattered rangers in all directions, especially in the direction of the city gate, and sent several cavalry to the rear to contact Shen Shiqiang's main force.

A personal soldier rode over to Du Wenhuan: "Military seat, are we camping here?" ”

The soldiers were already drenched in sweat, and if they didn't take off their clothes and rest, they could easily get sick.

Du Wenhuan looked at Guangning City, he wanted to surround Guangning City, but his cavalry was too small, and there was no artillery, and the number of Jiannu in the city was even more unknown.

"Let's set up camp first, pay attention to vigilance, and wait for Shiqiang to come." In fact, Du Wenhuan also knew that it was already dark, and the outside terrain and the situation of Jiannu were unknown, even if Shen Shiqiang came, he would not be able to surround Guangning tonight.

"Commander, we picked up a flag." The rangers have returned, and the soldiers are exhausted, and the rangers must be constantly changed so that the soldiers take turns resting.

"Flags? What is the flag for? Under the hazy moonlight, Du Wenhuan couldn't see what the flag was at all.

"Military seat, this may be Yue Tuo's banner." The Rangers had seen this flag during the daytime pursuit.

"Yueto's banner?" Du Wenhuan took it and looked at it carefully in the moonlight, the flag was trampled by the war horse with many traces, and there were two small holes on it, "Yes, it is Yue Tuo's inlaid red flag, you see, this flag is pentagonal, red in the middle, and inlaid with white edges around it." ”

"Junzuo, is it really Yue Tuo's banner?" The ranger was happy for a while, although he didn't catch Yue Tuo and couldn't get a thousand taels of silver, but picking up Yue Tuo's banner was more or less a credit.

"It's Yue Tuo's banner." Du Wenhuan nodded slowly, but his gaze turned to the northwest, Yue Tuo even lost the flag, indicating that he escaped very wolfly, if he chased them again, he might be able to catch Yue Tuo, "It's all damn Mongolia." Du Wenhuan cursed in a low voice.

Du Wenhuan suddenly thought that there were still soldiers of Jiannu in Guangning City, and after Yue Tuo fled to the city, he was still so wolf, so there must not be many Jiannu in the city, otherwise, Yue Tuo would definitely have a big battle with him.

Could it be that Yue Tuo was frightened? Or is Yue Tuo so tired that he can't hold a knife or gun?

Du Wenhuan shook his head and denied his idea, that is, there were not many soldiers and horses in the city.

Maybe Guangning is the same as Ningyuan and Jinzhou, after Yue Tuo took the soldiers and horses away, there was an empty city left.

Yue Tuo's chagrin at escaping was quickly forgotten, and Du Wenhuan was already thinking about attacking Quang Ninh City tomorrow, although he did not have any siege equipment.

About half an hour later, Shen Shiqiang arrived with the main infantry, and under the guidance of the soldiers who received them, they found Du Wenhuan.

"Junzao, did Yue Tuo escape? How is Quang Ninh City? ”

"Shiqiang, you let the soldiers eat and rest first, and we will go to the big tent to talk." Du Wenhuan advanced his big tent.

After dawn, the Ming soldiers were awakened by the loud brass trumpets.

"Wake up, come out for breakfast."

There was no hot soup for breakfast, and the soldiers had to eat dry food on hot water. After a night's rest, the soldiers were exhausted, but they didn't catch Yue Tuo, and they worked in vain, and most of the soldiers couldn't hide a trace of loss in their eyes.

But the soldiers soon ran out of time to lose.

As soon as he had breakfast, Shen Shiqiang conveyed Du Wenhuan's military order: "Eight thousand infantry, surround the four city gates, and two thousand cavalry, as a maneuver, patrol on all sides, ready to reinforce at any time." ”

The infantry were all riding horses, scattered around the four city gates, Du Wenhuan and Shen Shiqiang each led more than a thousand cavalry, wandering slowly between the four city gates, by the way, observing the city wall, to see if there were any loopholes in the defense of the city, whether they could directly attack the city.

However, they were all disappointed, the thickness of the Guangning city wall, even more than Ningyuan and Jinzhou, this is the place where the Ming Dynasty, Dajin and the Mongolian Horqin Department met, and the previous Liaodong army repeatedly increased the height and thickness of the city wall.

The importance of Guangning's location, not only the Liaodong Army knows, is the Emperor of the Apocalypse who hid in the deep palace as a carpenter, but also knows that Guangning is an important channel between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia.

Facing the high walls of Quang Ninh, Du Wenhuan did not have any siege equipment, he could only sigh.

"Junzao, do you want to make a siege ladder immediately?" Seeing that Du Wenhuan's gaze had barely left the city wall, the soldiers repeatedly pointed at the city wall, thinking that he was going to attack the city.

Du Wenhuan waved his hand, "The situation in the city is unknown now, let's wait and talk about it first!" ”

Suddenly there was the sound of horses' hooves in front, and several healthy horses, raising dust, galloped towards Du Wenhuan.

"Junzao, we have captured a Han soldier who fought for Jiannu." Holding the horse's back with one hand, the visitor jumped off the galloping horse, showing good riding skills, and he reported to Du Wenhuan while saluting.