When there was no sound in the valley except for the terrible howls of the dying Khitan soldiers, and when a Khitan soldier who had escaped by luck also disappeared from view, on the cliff on the south side near the exit of the valley, Qian Yuanshan slowly stood up from his hiding place and looked into the valley. In the valley of nearly ten miles, except for the place near the entrance, which is relatively clean, the rest of the valley is full of corpses of Khitan soldiers who were killed by bullets, or killed by shells, trampled to death by war horses, or hacked to death or stabbed to death by their own robes, as well as the wounded Khitan soldiers who were seriously injured and could not escape, the total number is estimated to be between 20,000 and 30,000 people. The unknown river that flowed through the valley was already dyed red by the blood of the Khitan soldiers.

After watching for a while, Qian Yuanshan stood up straight, and said to the herald beside him with a flat face: "Order, except for the local people of Yongle City who accompanied him to leave to deal with the corpses in the valley, the rest of the troops immediately went down the mountain according to the original plan, set off on horseback to the meeting place, and rushed to the small barren mountain blocking position on the northern line to support Lao 35 as soon as possible. In addition, he immediately sent a letter to the twelve brothers in Yongle City in Jinzhou, asking him to immediately organize another group of young people in the city to go to Laohugou to assist in disposing of the corpses. It's hot weather, and the corpse will soon deteriorate. If not handled properly, it can easily cause plague epidemics in surrounding villages and towns. In particular, this small river in the valley will eventually merge into the Xiaoling River, and the Xiaoling River passes through the city from Yongle City. ”

Several heralds standing behind Qian Yuanshan did not dare to slack off after receiving the order, and immediately took the order.

Although the Xiaobarren Mountain blocking position was on a hill that was not too high, and the geographical conditions were far less favorable than those on the Laohugou side, the difference between the 5,000 and 80,000 on the Yuanshan side was much smaller due to the fact that the 3,000 to 20,000 troops on his side were much smaller, so the Xiaohuangshan blocking battle commanded by Muttel did not last much longer than that of Laohugou. By the time the blocking force from Laohugou arrived at Xiaohuangshan, the battle had been over for a while, and Minzhuang, also from Jinzhou, was cleaning up the battlefield and disposing of corpses.

Due to the face-to-face blocking operation on the side of Xiaobarren Mountain, the 20,000 Khitan elite cavalry who rushed to reinforce Jinzhou failed to attack several times, tried to flank and were met by the "rangers" battalion, and after losing 3 or 4,000 soldiers and horses in half a day, they chose to retreat very wisely. Moreover, in order to delay and delay the pursuit of Muttel's troops, his commanders sent a team of more than 2,000 people to launch a fierce attack on the blocking position of the Beiping Army while the brigade retreated. Therefore, after Mutel's troops solved the Khitan soldiers who attacked to the death, when they wanted to pursue the main reinforcements of the retreating Khitan northern front, they found that the other party had already fled far away and could not catch up at all. In the end, he had no choice but to let go of the other party, and with some regrets, he returned to Yongle City in Jinzhou with the results of destroying 5,000 enemies.

Although they regretted a little about the number of enemies annihilated, Qian Yuanshan, Huang Hai, and Mutel were still quite satisfied with the record of destroying more than 32,000 enemies, killing Yelu Tzulie and more than a dozen other high-ranking Khitan generals, and only 100 casualties on their own side, which were basically from the Xiaohuangshan blocking position. Therefore, after the three brothers got together again in Jinzhou Yongle City, they were also in a comfortable mood and very happy.

At the celebration banquet held that night, Qian Yuanshan and the others naturally happily discussed the battle process of these two beautiful resistance battles. And the former Jinzhou Linhai Navy Festival Envoy and his officials and generals who were sitting next to him were secretly happy while being frightened. Fortunately, he knew the practice and chose to surrender immediately when the Beiping army collapsed the city wall, thus avoiding the needless casualties of the soldiers and civilians in the city and saving his own life - the battle of Youyun made the military generals of the Khitan Wenchen, especially the officials and guards of the prefectures and counties close to the Beiping army, see the strength of the Beiping army clearly. Unless they had to, they would not fight to the death with the Beiping army knowing that they would definitely fail.

Of course, it is precisely because of the knowledge and practice of the Khitan guards that Qian Yuanshan and others were able to successfully capture Jinzhou Yongle City in just over two hours on the second day after receiving the telegram from Yelu Tart Lie leading the army to the west, and successfully blocked the news, created a series of false impressions, and even sent several people pretending to be messengers to hand over the rescue letter written by the very "cooperative" Linhai Jiedu envoy to Yelu Tart, so that he always thought that Jinzhou was still in fierce competition between the two sides, and he had time to come to the rescue. Favorable conditions were created for the victory of the Laohugou ambush.

However, the reunion was always short-lived, and after only two days of rest after the celebration banquet, on the 22nd day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, after receiving the telegram sent by the committee, Qian Yuanshan and others divided into three ways and continued to move one step further.

Among them, Huang Hai led the first and second battalions of the first battalion of the Marine Corps, the third battalion of the independent cavalry regiment of the "Feilong Army," the independent cavalry regiment of the "Security Army," and an infantry regiment of the "Security Army," which had just arrived from Shanhaiguan, to temporarily stay in Jinzhou, and together with the two infantry regiments of the "Security Army" that had been deployed in Xizhou and Runzhou, they were responsible for the defense of the newly formed Jinzhou Prefecture in the five prefectures and two counties that had been occupied by the committee. After the committee appoints the corresponding civil governor and garrison generals, they will return to the Guannai. During the period when the Yellow Sea was stationed in Jinzhou Prefecture, the logistics and supplies of the various units stationed in the local area of the Beiping Army would be mainly transported by the naval fleet from the sea, and the third battalion of the first regiment of the Marine Corps would be responsible for providing the safety of the land transportation section -- the third battalion of the independent cavalry regiment of the "Flying Dragon Army" would provide necessary assistance for the supplies to Jinzhou.

And among the three brothers, the hardest is Mutel. Because after a short rest in the first two days, he had to lead the main force of the "Rangers" battalion, the "Wolf Tooth" battalion, the "Flying Dragon Army" independent cavalry regiment, and some light artillery units, totaling about 5,000 people, to the west, along the line of Andezhou and Jianzhou, and directly attacked the Khitan Zhongjing Dading Mansion, causing Jiashi to coerce the Dading Mansion and sweep the entire Zhongjing Road, on the one hand, forcing the Khitan army that had retreated from Laohugou to continue to retreat and shrink to Dadingfu, away from the five states and two counties that had just been captured; On the other hand, it was also to continue to put pressure on the Khitan court with this action, so that it did not dare to mobilize troops from other places to recover Jinzhou and other prefectures and counties, nor did it dare to go south to threaten the border of the Beiping Army, so that it could calmly arrange and implement the "Jianye No. 1 Operation Jihua" without worrying about the future.

In fact, the arrangement to contain the Khitan court so that it could not go south to harass is a little redundant. Because after learning that the two groups of people who came to aid Jinzhou were stubbornly resisted and suffered heavy losses, Yelu Tzulie, who was the commander of the reinforcements and the king of the Southern Courtyard, and a number of senior generals were martyred, and Jinzhou Yongle City had already fallen into the hands of the Beiping Army, Yelujing and a group of civil and military generals in the DPRK were more afraid of the Beiping Army. In the face of the huge disparity in the combat strength of the two sides and the casualty ratio of 300 to 1, Yelujing and the ministers of the court really did not have the courage to send men and horses to recapture the occupied prefectures and counties, but ordered the prefectures and counties around Jinzhou, especially the Dading Mansion in Zhongjing and the Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo, to strictly defend the city, and demanded that the defeated army retreating from Laohugou immediately regroup, and under the command of the newly appointed commander of the imperial court, disperse into a number of small forces, constantly harass the Beiping army trying to attack Zhongjing Province, attack the opponent's logistics supply line, and delay the opponent's advance. At the same time, he sent some elite palace tent troops to reinforce Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo, in order to keep this area that could be regarded as the richest of his side as much as possible. In addition to military deployments, Yelujing also ordered the prefectures and counties near Jinzhou in Zhongjing Province and Tokyo Province to clear the fields, and all crops that could be harvested should be harvested immediately, and those that could not be harvested should be burned down, and all the herdsmen near the theater of operations should move north to the territory of Shangjing Province at once, and never leave a grain of grain, cattle and sheep for the troops of the Beiping Army, so as to ask the other side to take the initiative to withdraw due to poor logistics.

It can be said that these arrangements of the Khitan court were reasonable, and if the Beiping Army really planned to capture the entire Zhongjing Province, in the face of this tactic, it would inevitably fall into the troubles that the Central Plains Dynasty would encounter when fighting with the northern nomads in the past - the enemy's main force avoided fighting, the logistics supply lines were constantly harassed and damaged, and the logistics supply was difficult. In the past, when encountering this situation, the Central Plains Dynasty either sent a large army to protect the transportation safety of grain, grass and military materials, so that the consumption was huge. After a long time, the national strength could not bear it, and it had to withdraw its troops; Either because of the deep penetration of the lone army, the logistics were cut off and the reinforcements were hopeless, and they were finally eaten by the main army of the assembled and outnumbered northern nomads.

But the problem is that the main purpose of the Beiping Army's "Overlord Operation" is not to capture the entire Zhongjing Road, but to try its best to contain the attention of the Khitans on the premise of opening up the passage into the northeast and eliminating the enemy's certain vitality, so that they will not have time to look south when the Beiping Army implements the "Jianye No. 1 Operation Jihua". Therefore, this arrangement of the Khitan court did not cause too much trouble to Muter, who was putting on a show and going through the motions, at most he had to lead his troops to travel between various military stations along the Great Wall and the states and counties of the Khitan Zhongjing Road, and ran more roads. However, it is precisely because of a series of actions to clear the wilderness that their farmers and herdsmen suffered a lot of losses, seriously affected the grain harvest and animal husbandry in Zhongjing Province that year, and laid the foundation for the large-scale famine in the coming year - from this point of view, this "Overlord Operation" not only completed the set task, but also achieved unexpected results, which can be called a very successful operation.

As for Qian Yuanshan, he was ordered to lead the first regiment of the First Composite Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army" and part of the heavy artillery units to return to Shanhaiguan to prepare for the next step of continuing to carry out the "Jianye No. 1 Operation Jihua". Because on the second day of the Northern Expeditionary Army, on the second day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar in the eighth year of Xiande, the Later Zhou Emperor Chai Rong stubbornly survived the May predicted by Zheng Zhiwei, and finally ran out of oil.