In the night, several fire dragons were still winding on the mountain and forest paths in eastern Liaodong, rolling eastward.

The topography of the Liaodong Peninsula is as described above, very complex, with mountains, forests, and flat land interspersed, the southernmost part is a peninsula guarded by an isthmus, and some to the north are the eastern mountains in the west, and the mountains in the eastern part of the central part are stacked in the north, and the western part is flat near the Bohai Sea. However, the mountains of Liaodong are not lofty mountains, and there are rugged roads in the mountains. However, in order for the army to pass through guò, there is a prerequisite - it must be under control of this mountain forest!

Before Chen Dexing fooled the wild Jurchen Tartars of Liaodong into the Eight Banners, he would rather go and storm the camp of Tachaer than pass through this strange mountain forest. This is as many as 20,000 foot cavalry, and it is Chen Dexing's entire force on the land of Liaodong! In order to draw such troops, Chen Dexing even let the sailors of the Beiyang Fleet go ashore and take over the defense of the Ming Capital.

If this army is ambushed in the mountains and forests of Liaodong, it will really lose all the money that it has saved up so hard!

But now, there are tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers who are familiar with the terrain to protect them, and this mountain forest can be said to be Chen Dexing's backyard. An army of 20,000 can safely and boldly pass through it, not only without worrying about being ambushed by the Mongols, but even without being detected by the Mongols!

At this time, even Chen Dexing himself admired his foresight, why did he act as a magic stick so wisely? Not to mention, this trick of pretending to be a ghost is really good when fooling the barbarians! It's a pity that the people of Han are mostly controlled by Confucian scholars who worship ghosts and gods and stay away, so they are not so easily fooled......

However, Rao has the cooperation of the wild Jurchen leading the way, and Rao is Chen Dexing's 20,000 army are all brainwashed soldiers trained by the devil who trains two exercises a day. It's been a bit hard along the way.

After all, Liaodong has not had a decent government governing it for more than 30 years, and all the infrastructure is slowly decaying. It also includes forest trails that I don't know if they were built in the Tang Dynasty, Khitan or Jurchen eras. These roads are almost swallowed up by sprawling forests! Chen Dexing, who came from his soul more than 700 years later, really couldn't imagine that the forest could be so dense and expand to the territory where human beings once thrived!

Along the way, you can see things that can be called ruins. Uninhabited villages, ruined temples, collapsed bridges, all covered in plants or fallen leaves, are silently displayed on both sides of what was probably a busy road more than 30 years ago.

Fortunately, the forests of the northeast are different from the rainforests of the south, and they are still dominated by tall trees, and the spacing between the tall trees is large enough for people and horses to pass through them. The only things that are difficult to get through are bronze cannons and baggage vehicles. Along the way, the sappers were busy clearing the way ahead, but there were still some places that were impassable. I had to carry people on my shoulders. And the officers' horses were also contributed at this time to carry heavy ammunition.

Chen Dexing was also walking at this time, he was carrying a spear, and he also wore leggings like the Republic of China army in later movies and television, and walked step by step on the mountain and forest paths. Surrounded by the generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Land Rover, Monk Liu, Wang Wei, Wang Hu, Wang Lufei, Zhang Kai, Xiao Da, Zhang Xizai, etc., as well as Yang Akang, the deputy staff leader of the Zhenghuang Banner.

It turned out that a military meeting was held during the march.

"Tachar's camp did not move. It doesn't seem to be aware that we are outflanking! ”

"I can't hide it for too long, as long as the Eight Banners Horse Team withdraws, their horse exploration rangers can infiltrate the old forest again."

"The Eight Banners Horse Team has been withdrawn at noon today, and they will find out tomorrow morning that we have abandoned Fuzhou City and Hongshui City."

"Tachar won't get the news until the afternoon. However, he still has no way to figure out where we are going: it is possible to retract back to Mingdu, go to Goryeo by Oceanwide, enter Liaoyang from the north or even go to Yanjing by Oceanwide, and he may not expect us to block his back road! As long as he hesitated, we could go around to the east of him and set up defenses. When the time comes, he will not fight. I can't go back to Goryeo......"

Chen Dexing did not speak, but quietly listened to the analysis of his subordinates. He and Tachar have been entangled for more than half a year. Judging from the experience of the past six months, Tachar is very cautious in his use of troops. Otherwise, he would have made a major attack on the southern part of the Goryeo Peninsula - and his back road would be empty. Maybe there will be a landfall on the Yalu River......

But this old guy just shrank in North Goryeo, and he also stationed heavy troops on the bank of the Yalu River, and he didn't show any flaws. Even if he was attacked by himself in Liaodong, his reaction was quite stable, and he did not storm the Great Black Mountain Fortress, nor did he break through to the front line of the abandoned city of Fuzhou to fight with himself. Instead, he shrank in the open area along the Shahe River and used a fake Guo Fuer to blackmail himself.

Level-headed is so obviously a character who is not easy to the other party. I hope that this time, I can finish off this Tachaer in Liaodong!

……

A few fast horses, splashing mud spots, galloped to the ground. From afar, I saw several henchmen of the Tachar Khan at the gate of the camp, waiting anxiously.

Seeing that it was his own horse exploration ranger, a Mongolian thousand-household official roared first: "Can you find the Eight Banners of the Chen thief?" ”

In less than ten days of field warfare, no one in Tachar's army knew that Chen Dexing had a Jurchen cavalry named "Eight Banners". They are all barbarians who hunt fierce beasts in the deep mountains and old forests when they are young! It's not good to fight a dignified battle, but it's a good thing to fight in the mountains and forests!

Even if the Mongol warriors met them in the woods, they would only be beaten! Therefore, three days ago, King Tachar Khan had ordered that the probe horse rangers should not enter the forest to send them to death, but should set up a sentry outside the forest to reconnoitre.

But since the previous evening, the rangers patrolling the edge of the old woods have not reported any more encounters with the enemy. By this morning, a few of the more courageous Mongol warriors had gone around the woods to the west, but they didn't even see the ghost of the Eight Banners.

When the news reached King Tachar Khan, the atmosphere in the camp immediately became tense - the two armies that were fighting suddenly disengaged. Anyone who is well versed in military affairs knows this is unusual!

This probably means that the main forces of the enemy in front of you have been transferred!

"Back to Qianhu, I didn't find the Eight Banners of the thief, and even the horse manure found in the forest was dry and hard, at least it was pulled out a day ago!"

A day ago!

This shows that the Eight Banners who served as scouts have been withdrawn for a day! This is not a joke, the scout cavalry is used to cover the battlefield and cover the movement of the main force. There is only one possibility of total withdrawal, the main forces they cover have long been transferred, and now there is no need to cover up.

Hearing the news, the thousand-household official also rushed towards the yellow tent of Tachar Khan.

"A day ago...... Tachar Khan stood up suddenly, "Chen Dexing is gone?" This thief went and left, he went to ......"

"It's going to Goryeo!" Tachar's concubine, Huotu, led the official position of a thousand households, and this time he also led troops to follow Tachar back from Goryeo. "Chen Dexing's target for this thief was originally Goryeo! Goryeo is rich, a hundred times better than Liaodong, how could Chen Dexing abandon Goryeo and go to Liaodong? This thief entered Liaodong to lure us to the hook! ”

The opinion of this prince actually represents the opinion of most of the important generals of the Chijin Division. Because the Mongols killed too much when they occupied Liaodong, the originally rich Liaodong became a wasteland that was much inferior to even Goryeo, and there were only some wild Jurchen Tartars who lived by fishing and hunting. How can it be compared to Goryeo?

Moreover, the Mongols have always valued land over population and wealth—they have too much land, too much land, and too much slaughter in the process of conquest. So much so that the land is desolate, sparsely populated, and the cities are in ruins. This is also the reason why the Mongols have been staring at the Southern Song Dynasty for decades, because the Southern Song Dynasty has the population and wealth they need!

Ta Cha'er did not make a judgment for a while, but asked Liu Xiaoyuan's opinion with his eyes.

"Maybe it's Yanjing!" Liu Xiaoyuan's brows tightened, "Li Pu raised troops in early August, first killed all the Daru Huachi in Yidu, and also sent troops to attack Jinan and Dengzhou. Zhang Rong of Jinan had surrendered to Li Pu, and the Great Mongolian garrison in Dengzhou had also been wiped out...... Maybe Chen Dexing and Li Pu will attack Yanyun! ”

Tachar shook his head: "It's too late to save Yanyun anyway...... The Great Black Mountain will definitely not be able to defeat it, and the land of Jinzhou will not be able to be obtained, so don't think about encircling Wei to save Zhao. ”

Liu Xiaoyuan thought for a while and said: "King Khan, Chen Dexing may also go to Liaoyang to meet the army of Prince Naiyan, if Prince Naiyan is broken, then Liaoyang and Shenyang will change hands." ”

Tachar shook his head: "Where is Naiyan so easy to defeat?" He went down Liaoyang-Gaizhou-Fuzhou, all along the way are open terrain, and the horse rangers can spread dozens of miles, if Chen Dexing's army goes north, how can it escape? Moreover, there was not much food along the way to Liaoyang and Shenyang in the north, and Chen Dexing's tens of thousands of soldiers could not last. ”

After some discussion, Chen Dexing's several possible directions for sending troops were ruled out one by one, and in the end, only Goryeo was left!

"It must be Goryeo!" Ta Cha'er said coldly, "Wu'er Huotu is not bad, Chen Dexing's dispatch of troops to Liaodong is to lure the tiger out of the mountain, and he can take advantage of the void to take Goryeo!" ”

Tachar did not pull all his men out of Goryeo, but also left about 20,000 sailors and troops in Xijing, Kaejing, and Yongju on the banks of the Yalu River in Goryeo. But it's a dream to rely on these people to block Chen Dexing's main force!

"Without further ado!" Tachar's decision was very quick, "Immediately go out and return to Goryeo!"

Send someone to Xijing by sea, and let Brother Tou Yuan wave his army north, and he will attack Chen Dexing! (To be continued......)