At first, the Jurchen cavalry with white flags found the empty guards, and habitually burned and destroyed them, but when Dorgon arrived, they stopped this behavior. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Dolgon found that the Dun Guards of the Yong'an Army were not like the Dun Guards of the Ming Dynasty, although they were also two layers up and down, but the most suitable could only be garrisoned by two or three people.

Moreover, there is nothing in this dun guard, it is obviously only used for reconnaissance, and the laborious destruction of this dun guard will not help Houjin, but will delay the time of the teacher, and Xiao can easily rebuild it.

In this case, it is better to meet with Huang Taiji as soon as possible.

Therefore, the cavalry of more than 10,000 people with white flags led by Dolgon went straight to the town, dozens of miles away, and there was no drag of baggage, the Jurchen cavalry galloped, and at most the second morning could reach the periphery of Datong town.

The current town of Datong has begun martial law in the whole territory nearly half a month ago, and when Dolgon led the Jurchen cavalry to arrive, he found that this is a town, and the defense is more strict than the Ming Dynasty Jingshi they went to in the second year of Chongzhen.

The moat and dense trenches, traps, horse rejections, abduction pits, etc., surrounded Datong Town by three layers and three layers outside, which is only on the surface, and how many traps they can't see clearly in it are still unknown.

Seeing the crowds in the town and the appearance of countless banners with the word "Xiao" waving in the wind, even Dolgon frowned.

In fact, Dolgon still underestimated the intelligence ability of Datong Town under Xiao Yi's rule, as early as after Dolgon led the army across the river, far from the territory of the town, a flying horse detected the movement of the Houjin army.

Therefore, when Dolgon thought that he had rushed to the town as fast as possible, when he thought of fighting Xiao Yi by surprise, the town had been under martial law for a long time, and the corresponding preparations had been carried out for almost half a month.

There is a moon city outside the main city of Datong Town, and a small city is built outside the moon city, which is the main body of the original Datong town city.

After Xiao Yi led the Yongan army to settle in Datong Town, he kept repairing the city every day, and built an urn city outside the original small city, and it was rammed earth and bluestone bricks, and the hardness was not inferior to the main city.

At this moment, Dong Yinghua, the pacification officer, was leading the generals of the Zhenwei battalion of Datong Town to patrol the city wall, and since the moment he received the Jurchens attacking the town, Dong Yinghua did not dare to slack off.

In addition to the more than 10,000 defenders of the Zhenwei battalion, the trusted governor Zhang Tinggong also attached great importance to it, and took the initiative to issue a document to recruit thousands of people to help defend the city.

Different from the past, these people are really just assisting, there are soldiers from the Zhenwei battalion in front of them, and these people are mostly transporting projectiles, stones, and wood.

Dong Yinghua clearly remembered what Xiao Yi said, if it was time for the people to come forward with knives and guns to chop, it must be after the Zhenwei battalion had all been killed!

Suddenly, a Zhenwei battalion general beside Dong Yinghua pointed outside and exclaimed, "My lord, the Tartars are here!" ”

Hearing this, Dong Yinghua and the generals of the Zhenwei battalion in the city looked over and saw a black line rising from the horizon in the distance, getting closer and closer, and they couldn't see the end at a glance.

What came in front of him was no longer the Mongols and Han army in messy clothes and armor, these more than 10,000 people were actually Jurchens in bright white iron armor, Dong Yinghua frowned at the moment, and said.

"Pass on this officer's military order, from now on, all Zhenwei battalion generals are not allowed to leave the city one step, otherwise they will be punished for violating Yong'an military regulations!"

"Obey!"

Just when the Zhenwei camp in the city began to move nervously, the Jurchens under the city were also watching from the horse, all of them were talking, and the look of surprise in their eyes continued.

In Liaodong and the Ming Dynasty have been plundered for many years, it is the first time they have seen such a well-guarded city, but the city wall on the south side is already densely packed with more than 1,000 battlements, and each battlement is the cannon port of the black hole in addition to the expressionless bird's hand.

Dolgon's side Baya Lazhen looked at this Datong town, frowned, and said, "Dorobelle, if you attack and fear that our banner people will suffer heavy losses, why don't you wait for the rest of the troops to return to the army and then attack the city?" ”

Dolgon originally wanted to take Datong Town with the Hongyi cannon, but now it seems that he has lost the opportunity, and there is no Hongyi cannon.

In this case, although Dorgon was convinced that he could take the town without the Yong'an army, he could not bear the cost of casualties.

However, in this way, he completely lost the opportunity to go to the town first, if Xiao Yi arrived before the rest of the way, it would be a waste of all his efforts, but it was difficult to choose.

While Dorgon was pondering, two Jurchen Baya cavalrymen wearing red and yellow armor arrived and brought the news that Dorgon least wanted to hear.

Haoge was a red flag, encountered walls everywhere in Ulzhou and suffered heavy casualties, and finally got out of Ulzhou, but encountered the stubborn resistance of the local Ming army at the Lin Pass.

Haoge can be said to have bitterness can not be said, from Ulzhou north to Datong town is not as flat as Hunyuan Prefecture to the town, all the way to the mountains, fortresses gathered, and have to go through three roads after all.

Each of these three places Xiao Yi set up a heavy defense, called Lin Pass, Chaoling Pass and Xujiazhuang Fort, just a forest pass, Haoge stormed for two days before it could be breached.

More than 1,000 people of the local general Zhenwei battalion were killed, and the Houjin army paid a price several times heavier.

After breaking through the city, Haoge was annoyed and angry, so he immediately ordered the slaughter of the city, and the Jin army "did not seal the knife for three days", and attacked the fort and pulled out the village in the territory of Lin Pass, plundered and slaughtered, and all kinds of misery were shocking.

The tragic situation at the Lin Pass naturally spread to the Chaoling Pass, and the local commander Zhenwei Battalion led the supervising team to fight to the death, and the people spontaneously helped the Zhenwei Battalion to defend the city, and even some of the nearby Haoqiang Zhuangzi came out to assist.

The attack and defense of Chaoling Pass lasted for five days and nights, and the Houjin army and the Zhenwei battalion were strewn with corpses, but no one in the Zhenwei battalion retreated, they were all soldiers recruited by Xiao Yi in the local area, and they naturally did their best to defend their homeland.

The morale of the Later Jin army was worse day by day, and the Mongol army even broke out in a revolt under heavy casualties, but this rebellion was quickly suppressed by the Jurchens.

Haug's temper was as good as that of Azig, and he actually ordered all the Mongols who resisted and were captured to sacrifice their flags, and then personally led the Jurchens to dismount and attack the city on foot.

Although the Zhenwei battalion fought to the death under the courageous leadership of the generals, the number was still too small, and the Ranling Pass fell within a few days.

Feng Chen, the ethics of Xujiazhuang Fort, was one of the few local court generals who could still control the military power after Xiao Yi's reform, and when he heard that the Ranling Pass was lost, he couldn't sit still anymore.

The Jurchens burned and looted all the way without humanity, if they were allowed to capture Xujiazhuang Fort, not to mention that the town would be directly threatened, even the nearby soldiers and civilians would be slaughtered!

As a result, Feng Chen, the supervisor of Xujiazhuang Fort, immediately convened a meeting of the generals of the Zhenwei battalion and set several strategies.

Shrink the troops, collect all the soldiers of the Zhenwei battalion in several nearby villages and forts, and recruit people to help defend the city, and lay traps and big pits when the Houjin people have not yet come to the city.

A few days later, Hauge led the Jurchen soldiers to Xujiazhuang Fort, the Jurchens were not like the Han army and the Mongols, even if there were large casualties, under the leadership of Hauge himself, they were not afraid of death.

The two armies fought fiercely for three days and nights, and the blood flowed like a river, but Feng Chen personally led the family Ding team to the city, and he also fought with the Jurchens.

In the end, the Jurchens retreated, and Haoge Zhenghongqi was no longer sustainable due to too many casualties, so he had to lead Zhenghongqi to withdraw from Datong Town first.