On the side of the avenue outside Matou Pass, all the dragoon soldiers dismounted, resting and eating, these hard-working soldiers could not raise the fire, picked up the snow on the side of the road and stuffed it into their mouths, and then took two bites of hard bread, which was their temporary supplement, if they were in battle, then they had no chance to eat all day, but they still did not complain of being tired. After coming out of Linxian County and crossing Zhending Mansion, only 20 people were left behind due to illness and 30 horses were lost, reflecting the strong mobility of the dragoons.

Brother Guan stopped on the side of the road, his coconut scoop was wrapped in a backpack with a cotton coat, and there was ready-made water in it, but he didn't want to take it, so he went directly to the roadside to catch the snow balls. Brother Guan glanced at it, bypassed the corpses and went to a distant place to grab some snow.

A few sentry horses brought seven or eight people who looked like people from the front, Zhong Laosi came from behind, and those people saw the generals of the Ming Dynasty, knelt on the ground and cried loudly, asking the army to save their relatives and friends.

These people pointed out the direction of the Houjin army leaving, Brother Guan also understood a little, many of the accents were locals, when the Houjin army passed, they were more clever, and kept running up the mountain, those Houjin soldiers did not chase far, but ran along the road, basically did not run away.

Several staff officers followed Zhong Laosi's side, and they were checking with the people with the confession they had just interrogated.

Brother Guan took a few bites of bread, looked back at the corpses covered in ice cubes, closed his eyes and whispered, "Hour take us to save them." ”……

"The whole army stopped advancing." Zhong Lao pointed to the map scribbled on the snow, "Get out of the way of the intersection where Guangchang came, let half of the yellow flags behind cross the Tang River, and then we rushed out from Matouguan, and the infantry formation crushed them to death, the intersection was only so narrow, they couldn't run away." ”

A group of company commanders nodded one after another, Zhong Laosi held two fists and waved them on his head, he reminded loudly: "We don't know if our luck is good or bad, now between the two Tartars, the blue flag is about twenty miles in front, and the yellow and white flags are in the back, and Lao Tzu doesn't know how far away, and the sentry horse is easy to expose, so Lao Tzu doesn't send it, Lao Tzu estimates that it will not be too far apart." Zhenglan Qi is busy looting forward, and should not turn around and walk in vain, the threat of the rear team is greater than that of the front team. But our goal is Mang Gurtai, he did not go north back to Lingqiu, but detoured to the direction of Cigou, this road is hundreds of miles, there are villages along the way, he is going to rob the population, the dog is very arrogant, and he dares to do this in Taihang Mountain. There are still three passes on the road of Cigou, Lao Tzu doesn't know if there is a friendly town stationed, but it is worth betting, there are always a few people with handles in the friendly town, as long as there is a pass to hold for a period of time, Mang Gurtai is the eighth king in the jar, he is one of the four major Baylors, and now there are only three big Baylors in total, and killing him is the biggest military achievement since our Dengzhou Town against Jiannu......"

Zhou Shao'er scratched his head, he participated in the analysis meeting in the Military Command Department last year, and heard that this Mang Gurtai seemed to be at odds with Huang Taiji, and the request at the meeting was that under the same conditions, priority should be given to attacking the two yellows, red, and blue, and according to the current situation, it was time to attack the yellow flag behind with all his might.

Just as he was about to remind, Zhong Laosi pointed to the intersection leading to the horse post again, "The place of battle with the yellow flag is in the river valley south of Matou Pass, and the third company stays on the mountain road leading to the horse post in the south, and it is well hidden, and it can only come out after the horse head pass is opened, and bring more flags, so that Jiannu does not dare to escape from that side." Matouguan is our main force, remember the main points, the yellow flag is the rear team, the rear team does not have jǐng ti, the sentinel will inevitably be lax, and it is exactly where we can take advantage of it. We must all hide behind the two mountain passes, send people to observe on the top of the mountain, we must be quick and decisive when we go out of battle, each company detachment stands first, covers the main force to deploy, the battle soldiers are arranged in three rows, open the front fire, push along the river valley, the third company comes out from the southern intersection, quickly advances to the Guangchang Pass, the stage is inlaid with yellow flags to retreat, and block the reinforcements behind. The location here is better than the Fuzhou River, Lao Tzu does not believe that the Tartar cavalry can still fly to the top of the mountain, it is difficult for the Tartars to come out of the mountain pass and line up, more than 700 flintlock guns, as long as the two rounds of Tartars will be defeated, after breaking up its forward, the third company left a platoon to pursue the mountain road in the direction of Guangchang, causing the enemy team to retreat after defeat, immediately chasing the brigade, our goal is Mang Gurtai, what is that Abatai? ”

Liu Yue hurriedly added: "Dorobelle." ”

"It's this Dorobele, the so-called Doro, it's too much, let's Dengzhou Town killed Abatai's son-in-law, we have to spare people and spare people, this old man let it go first, don't kill it all. Therefore, his head is useless, Lao Tzu just wants to kill the big Baylor, defeat Abatai, and we will chase after Gurtai. ”

A group of division commanders, company commanders, and deputy company commanders laughed, and they all shouted their orders, hearing that they were going to kill Mang Gurtai, the atmosphere here was very warm, and Zhou Shao'er felt a little bad about pouring cold water.

Just hesitated, Zhong Laosi had already completed the distribution of orders, and the commanders of each company shouted "Tiger" and rushed back to their respective companies, Zhou Shao'er came to Zhong Laosi, "Zhongtou, this ......"

"What's this, don't be verbose, give Lao Tzu to hurry up, whoever is fucking late, Lao Tzu will personally shoot off his head with a gun." Zhong Laosi took out his handcuff and waved it a few times, and after scolding, he went to greet the two artillery commanders of the Qian Headquarters and pointed out to them the route of travel when arranging the formation.

Zhou Shao'er was scolded at the head of the camp, and rushed back to his company in a gloomy manner, and saw the instructor of the thousand headquarters on the way, and originally wanted the instructor to say, but remembering that the trainer was not talking to Zhong Laosi at all now, he had to shake his head, anyway, they were all Tartars, and they would beat anyone, Zhou Shao'er comforted himself and walked to his company......

On the road from Guangchang (now Laiyuan) to Matouguan, a team of cavalry, people, carts, oxen and carriages stretched for several miles, like a gray and black river flowing in the Taihang Mountains, during which you can see a lot of bull flags with yellow backgrounds and red edges.

A group of silver-armored bayala walked ahead, and occasionally there were one or two wriggling people on the side of the road, and a bayala rode through until the man did not move again.

Abatai led Goshha behind the white armor, and next to him was Gushan Ezhen Darha, who was inlaid with yellow flags. Both of them had a bad face, according to Huang Taiji's plan, the Eastern Route Army wanted to coerce Zijin Pass and Reverse Horse Pass, at least pretending to come out.

The commander of the Eastern Route Army was Sanbeile Mang Gurtai, and after going south from Yanqing Prefecture, Mang Gurtai threw Huang Taiji's order aside, and grabbed two more days where he wanted, and there was no news of going to Yingzhou to meet at all.

After Abatai found them, Mang Gurtai still came in the direction of Lingqiu, they closed the intersection of Lingqiu into the mountain in the morning, and brushed the rich areas around Lingqiu, capturing a population of nearly 30,000 and countless materials.

Mang Gurtai was short-tempered, and most of the others were reluctant to follow him all the way, so Azig went to Wangjiazhuang alone after breaking the Lingqiu, and plundered alone in the vicinity. Mang Gurtai left the Derge class to continue to loot the Lingqiu, and went east to Guangchang County, in order to prevent others from competing with Zhenglan Banner for a richer Lingqiu, he led Abatai and Darha to Guangchang together. The blue flag is strong everywhere, and the two middle-level cadres with the yellow flag have no way to take the reckless Gurtai.

After all, Guangchang County is farther away, many people have entered the mountain in advance, and more people have gone to Zijing Pass along the official road in the Juma River Valley, and the county is well defended, and the Houjin soldiers who came on light horses are unwilling to attack the city, and only rob outside the city.

Abatai still remembered that Huang Taiji asked the Eastern Route Army to feint to attack the three passes, so he discussed with Mang Gurtai to coerce the Bauhinia Pass or reverse the Ma Pass, and Mang Gurtai immediately asked Abatai to fight the Bauhinia Pass, and let Darha go to the horse post to capture the Ma Pass, and he himself continued to rob in Guangchang County.

Abatai and Darha were both angry, but they had a plan, but the next day they got together, and Mang Gurtai had no shadow, and the two sent a sentry horse to inquire, only to know that they had gone to Matouguan, and finally sent a Bayala to inform the two, saying that they had plundered, and finally met at Lingqiu. Seeing this situation, Zhena Mountain, who was in the white flag, said that he only grabbed the surrounding areas of Guangchang, and then went back to Lingqiu by the same road.

In this way, there are only less than ten Niu Lu with yellow flags, of which six Niu Lu of Abatai look like there are ** hundred people, but in fact there are only two hundred armor soldiers, and the two middle-level cadres with yellow flags are weak-hearted, and without the response of Mang Gurtai, the two of them do not dare to go to the vast mountains to feint on Bauhinia Pass and Reverse Horse Pass.

So with a depressed mood, the two decided to follow the direction of Mang Gurtai and go back to Lingqiu directly through Matouguan. Zhong Laosi captured the Jiān fine is the Datong bandit bought by the eight families, specially for the Houjin soldiers as a guide, divided in the Abatai group, he was ordered by Abatai, and the two armor soldiers went to contact the Zhenglan Banner to come back, just as the head of the battalion bumped into the Dengzhou dragoon.

Darha looked unruly, he took off his hat, revealing the top of his head with some hair piles, and after touching it, he said: "It's time to shave your head again, I've shaved three times when I entered the customs, and it's almost time to go back." ”

Abatai glanced at Darha, this person is Huang Taiji's henchman, he is okay to fight, and he also has three self-managed Niu Lu under his command. The year before last, when he attacked Chahar, Darha's subordinates ran away with two Mongolian households, and as a result, they went to report to Lin Dan Khan, causing tens of thousands of troops to wander around in the desert for several months, and they didn't even touch the shadow of Lin Dan Khan. Just poked such a big basket, Darha still sat firmly on the yellow flag and fixed the mountain.

Abatai turned his head and said lightly: "Let's go directly to Lingqiu Road from Matouguan, I heard that Sanbeile is going south, so we won't follow." ”

"Of course not." Darha put his hat on and said with an angry face: "He robbed the people and property all the way, and there is only one way, let's follow him and eat his fart." ”

Abatai's face twitched slightly, and he squeezed out an expression similar to a smile, anyway, Mang Gurtai has always been lawless, and now after the Battle of Lushun, Huang Taiji's prestige has fallen to the bottom, and many people really listen to Mang Gurtai. At least the Derge class now dares to say that Huang Taiji is not the one who dares to say it in person at the political conference, and the Gushan Ezhen Tobo Hui of the Zhenglan Banner is gradually standing on the side of Mang Gurtai.

Now the political situation of Houjin is indeed too chaotic compared with the time of Nuer Hachi, the prestige of Huang Taiji is insufficient, and the joint training of each banner is gone, and it is all up to the supervision of each banner owner, if it is not for the Ming army is too bad, it is difficult for this large primitive tribe of military and civilian integration to survive. Fortunately, they have not yet encountered a fatal blow, and although the strength of Dengzhou Town has grown rapidly, it is not yet able to compete with Houjin Tangtang, especially in terms of cavalry.

Despite this, Abatai is still reluctant to fight with Dengzhou, the other party's seemingly stereotypical combat methods are actually difficult to deal with, especially the spear formation, Abatai can't think of what weapons can be used to deal with it except for using bows and arrows.

Abatai said casually: "Sanbeile is still better than Amin, and Amin was ready to be king in Korea back then." ”

While the two were talking, Bayala in front of him turned north, Abatai's eyes opened, his vision became broad, and a riverbed with ice and snow had not disappeared appeared in front of him, and a Han guide next to him said: "Qibeile, this is the Tang River, the riverside is Lingqiu Road, and the front is Matouguan." ”

Abatai glanced at it, the Tang River was flowing south, and there was a junction downstream, and the upstream was in the direction of Lingqiu.

As soon as the road in front of him was similar, Abatai stood by the river and watched as the soldiers walked into the Lingqiu Road in batches, leading to a wooden bridge over the Guò Tang River.

There was silence all around, Abatai's gaze wandering around, he always felt that something was wrong, and after a few more moments, his eyes stayed on the ground not far away, the horses' hoof prints on the snow, the middle of the road had been trampled into mud, and some scattered hoof prints could be seen beside it.

Abatai looked along the hoof prints, coming from the direction of the horse post in the south, and felt that something seemed wrong, and Mang Gurtai should not mobilize so many cavalry to feint to attack the horse post.

At this time, the white-armored soldiers were already crossing the wooden bridge over the Tang River, and Abatai turned to Goshha beside him and said, "Go to the front of Sue Sù, send a few sentry horses to Matouguan to have a look, and the other horses will stop." (To be continued.) )