The military flag outside the city of Yingzhou was like a forest, and Huang Taiji stood on the hill outside the south gate, watching the steady stream of Ming people sent into various camps under the escort of cavalry. Occasionally, those who were in the city wept loudly at the city, and the city was silent.

The looting was more effective than Huang Taiji had expected, and he risked breaking up his troops and expanding the front of the march. But it is also very dangerous, but the news they received seems that the Ming State Military Department has just mobilized the Dengzhou soldiers, and the Dengzhou is two thousand miles away, even if they are not prepared, it will take more than 20 days to travel 100 miles a day.

Therefore, Huang Taiji also intends to further expand the scope, at present, the north of Yingzhou has been robbed, and then to the south is the Inner Great Wall, where the heavy mountains see Huang Taiji is also a little frowned. Although they are also from the deep mountains and old forests, and there is a certain amount of intelligence support, but this is a strange place after all, and the Jin soldiers are called wild boar skins again, and the basic feelings of human beings are still there.

In addition, as in the past, the Houjin soldiers fought fiercely and viciously, the big guys were hungry for more than half a year, and the family was still waiting for food, so when they entered the customs, the whole army was like a tiger descending the mountain. After the harvest is quite rich now, the taste of being barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes is less, and Huang Taiji can clearly feel the decline in the fighting spirit of each banner.

And the ones who are still in high spirits are the white flags, the blue flags, and the yellow flags that have been beaten the worst by Dengzhou Town in the past two years. Abatai was originally a fiery character, and his ability to fight far exceeded those little Baylor, but over the years, because of his background, he suffered too much, and after Huang Taiji came to power, Abatai's status was not as good as that of Duoduo, these teenage dolls, so he used his temperament twice, under the pretext that he did not have fur clothes, did not participate in Huang Taiji's banquet, and then listened to his wife's words, and did not want to marry his daughter to Taiji in Mongolia. was grabbed by Huang Taiji's pigtails, mobilized the revolutionary masses to clean up twice, and finally became honest.

Abatai said to Huang Taiji: "Great Khan, we have been in the customs for more than ten days, since the elite of the border army of the Ming Kingdom have gone to the south, then we might as well grab some more time." ”

Yue Tuo said on the side: "The date has already been set by the Great Khan, and the difficulty is not in Xuanda, it is in southern Liaoning, and it must be released at the beginning of March." At the end of the month, we must go to Liaodong at the latest, otherwise Dengzhou Town and Dongjiang Town will turn Liaodong over. ”

After Yue Tuo finished speaking, he glanced at Abatai, this time when he entered the customs, Abatai, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, brought all the dingkou in the Niu Lu, and the six Niu Lu were coated with eight hundred people. There are about 200 Zhenyi Zhuangding, and many others are Zhenyi old and weak, the youngest is thirteen or fourteen years old, and the oldest is more than fifty years old.

In Lushun, he was stared at and beaten by Dengzhou Town, which greatly reduced Abatai's strength, and it was false to say that he had no opinion on Huang Taiji and Haoge in his heart, but he belonged to the yellow flag. According to Houjin's system, he can't collude with other banner owners, so he can only seek justice from Huang Taiji and Haoge everywhere, and deal with Huang Taiji's henchmen. This change was finally approved by Huang Taiji. This time, he brought a lot of more people, and when he allocated places, he also took care of them, and Abatai had already grabbed 200 Mongols and more than 1,000 Han Chinese, young and strong, and more than 2,000 old and weak women and children. Most of these people will starve to death on the way, and only the strong ones will be left in the end.

These dings will allow Abatai to at least restore its production capacity. The Zhenyi who fought was lost in Lushun, and it was not so easy to replenish, so he could only slowly catch fish skin tartars from the north.

Abatai has no respect for Yue Tuo, a junior, and he doesn't argue after listening to it, this is his current principle, which is to listen more and talk less.

Huang Taiji turned his head to Abatai and said: "Old Seven, your losses in Lushun are greater, and now the west and middle roads will be in Yingzhou, I mean, if you want to get more, then together with Azig and them on the east road, you lead your troops and horses to inform Azig and Sanbeile, so that they can change their plans, they don't have to come to Yingzhou directly, and go east to attack Hunyuan Prefecture, Lingqiu, Guangchang and other places." ”

When talking about Sanbeile, Huang Taiji paused for a short time, and now this reckless Gurtai is even more arrogant, singing and harmonizing with Dai Shan, often turning over the attack on Lushun and saying, sprinkling salt on the wound in Huang Taiji's heart, and doing it happily.

This time, Mang Gurtai led the Eastern Route Army, and there was no problem with the command along the way, and in terms of fighting alone, it was much stronger than Dolgon. And the one who attacked Datong on the west road was Dai Shan's family, including Dai Shan, Yue Tuo, Sakhalian, and Shuo Tuo, and Shuo Tuo was reactivated, which was also made after Yue Tuo personally came to intercede with Huang Taiji.

Yue Tuo looked at the Yingzhou City in front of him, which was full of social soldiers organized in the city, facing these cities in the Central Plains, as long as the defenders had a little fighting spirit, the Houjin army would have no way to enter the city in this way.

Sure enough, Huang Taiji instructed Yue Tuo again: "Yue Tuobeile, you lead Sakhalian and Shuotuo to attack Daizhou, but the mountains south of Daizhou are complicated, and it is not appropriate to continue to go deeper, only attack the Plains Castle near Daizhou." ”

Yue Tuo hurriedly received the order, and Huang Taiji finally looked at the two white flag owners, these two people fought in Lushun in a mess, especially Dolgon, not only affected the whole army during the battle of the earthen wall, but also greedy for life and fear of death in the subsequent retreat battle, compared with other brothers.

After returning to Shenyang, Dolgon was punished at the council, dismissing him from his official position as a minister, and fines three self-managed oxen, which were given to his brother Azig, and three carved saddle horses for all the nobles above Beizi.

Duoduo because he is in charge of a banner, its white flag is actually the most powerful in the entire eight banners, the Jurchens have the custom of loving the young son the most, and the slave Hachi is also vulgar, he is very doting on this teenage young son, and the last fifteen Niu Lu in his hand are also distributed to Duo Duo, and the number of Niu Lu has reached thirty very early, these Niu Lu are the strongest Niu Lu directly led by the old slave, not only Dingkou is more, but also the warriors are far beyond the ordinary Niu Lu, and the two yellow flags of Huang Taiji only add up to about 30 Niu Lu at the beginning.

For the purpose of dividing Dolgon's brothers, Huang Taiji did not punish Duoduo heavily, but only punished him with some horses to punish him for privately withdrawing the white-armored soldiers from the earthen wall, so that Duoduo did not have much resentment, and Azig even got three oxen from Dolgon, Huang Taiji beat one, stroked one, and pulled one, and the three brothers were in their own circumstances, and the roots could not be screwed together, which had a good effect.

Huang Taiji glanced at Dolgon a few times, this younger brother in his early twenties had a calm face, and he couldn't see any of the disgraced faces after the Battle of Lushun. Huang Taiji was a little skeptical of Dorgon's fighting skills, but he admired the scheming of this younger brother.

After a while, he spoke: "Haugbele, Morgan Daiqing (Dolgon), Erkechuhu (Duoduo), with Haugbel as the main general, lead the army to attack Shuozhou, the same as Yuetobel all the way. Don't go too far into the inner wall, and don't attack any of the fortified forts. ”

"Huh!" Several people took orders at the same time, and Haug agreed loudly, and he peeked at Dolgon, feeling a little smug in his heart. After Lushun, Dorgon was suppressed enough that he didn't speak much at the council.

Huang Taiji finally looked at Abatai, "Dorobel set off as much as possible, and informed the people of Mang Gurtai, Bel Azig, Dorobel Abatai, Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Beizi Darha, Zhengbai Banner Gushan Ezhen Beizi Ashan, and there is no need to come to Yingzhou to meet." The leading troops are in charge of Niu Lu and their respective departments, and go to the first line of Lingqiu, Guangchang, and Xinzhou, which can deter the Bauhinia Pass and the Reverse Horse Pass, so that the Ming State does not know the direction of our army, and leads its reinforcements to turn to the passes of the Inner Great Wall. People from all walks of life will leave tomorrow. Return to Yingzhou by February 23. ”……

The dragoons on the march gathered some horses along the way, and at this time they were already mixed with horses. They are also the main force of the Baili night attack on Zijin Liang, and they have just changed from infantry to dragoons, coupled with Zhong Laosi's terrifying training, everyone's body is very strong, although it is inconvenient to march in winter. You can walk 50 miles a day.

Zhong Laosi rode a horse, and when he saw the horses with their heads drooping, he scolded loudly, "What the are mixed horses, they walk slower than people." Next time, you might as well grab a mule. ”

The surrounding soldiers laughed, but these miscellaneous horses were indeed of poor quality, they were all stolen from the rogues, and the good horses had all been turned into regular cavalry. Most of these miscellaneous horses are horses that are stolen from the rich and noble, and their endurance and explosiveness cannot be compared with war horses. The cavalry threw what they didn't want to the dragoons.

According to Zhong Laosi's plan, the dragoons were all-rounders, not simple horseback and foot combat, and also wrote suggestions for improvement to the Dengzhou attendant room. But in the face of such a quality of horses, his regular cavalry training roots could not be carried out.

A staff officer came from the front, "Deputy battalion officer, the front is the Zhending Mansion City, do you still have to hurry today?" ”

Zhong Laosi looked at the sky and said, "The army is encamped on the spot, and the sentry horses are sent to continue to investigate the Jingjing Pass and Guguan to see if there are any Jiannu there." ”

After Zhong Laosi finished speaking, he called the quartermaster, "Contact the trading company in Zhending Mansion to see how much grain and grass they can provide, it is best to let them find some carriages, if the grain and grass are enough, I can transfer one more reserve soldier to Shanxi together." ”

The quartermaster shook his head and said: "My lord, if you want to continue to fight in Shanxi, we had better not bring reserves, today the sentry cavalry encountered the displaced people who escaped from Datong Mansion from the Backward Horse Pass, saying that the 100,000 people of Jiannu have gone south to Shuozhou, and they may have to attack Datong directly, and all parts of Shanxi will not open the city gates, and we will definitely not be able to buy food when we get to Shanxi, and it is difficult to contact the local trading company." ”

After thinking for a moment, Zhong Laosi recruited and summoned the combat staff officer, "What is the latest news about the sentry horse ahead?" ”

"There is a tide of displaced people in front of the Fallen Horse Pass, some say that Jiannu has broken the inner Great Wall, and some say that they have gone to Yanqing Prefecture and are going to attack Juyong Pass, in short, there are all kinds of news."

Zhong Laosi looked at the two spies of the Intelligence Bureau again, and the leading spies hurriedly said: "The roads at the various passes are impassable, and the entire Datong Mansion is full of Tartar cavalry, and the people from our Intelligence Bureau can't come over, and there has been no news of the general direction for three days." ”

Zhong Laosi scratched his head, he was leading the troops alone for the first time, the safety of more than 2,000 people was on him alone, he had to think about much more than how to fight, such a march was a greater test for him, this is still in Beizhili, which is supported by the trading company, if it is in the barren Henan, he feels that he really doesn't know what to do.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel that Zhu Daichun was not easy, but the thought was only a short flash, and he immediately regained his grin, and said to the staff officer: "What news is there in Dengzhou today?" ”

"Just transferred from the Zhending Mansion Trading Company today, the second batch of Tang Horses of the Military Command Division arrived in Zhending Mansion, and reported the itinerary of the people and horses of Dengzhou Town to rescue Xuanda, and only set off from Dengzhou Mansion three days ago, there are 3,000 headquarters of the Guards Battalion, one thousand headquarters of the first battalion, Geng Zhongming's barracks, the temporary formation of the Wuxue Cavalry Team, and two temporary baggage battalions, totaling 7,900 people."

Zhong Laosi grinned, "There are a lot of people, but far water can't quench the thirst of the near, if you are in Zhending Mansion now, let's have a good fight with the Tartars, now...... Did Lord Chen personally lead the troops? ”

"No, Wang Changfu, the commander of the Guards Battalion."

When Zhong Laosi heard this, it turned out to be this old superior, he smiled, and then said to the combat staff officer: "Wang Changfu can be trusted to fight, but he can't rely on it at the moment." If you can't verify it, let the sentry horse go out of the pass and explore Shanxi, and you must determine the exact news of Jiannu, don't let Lao Tzu rush into Datong Mansion with a black eye. ”