The Jin army was unusual, did not attack, Lu Hongniang and Lin Qing couldn't guess what Huang Taiji's intentions were for a while, so they had to order strict vigilance in case the Jin army attacked the camp, she didn't want to send scouts to reconnoiter the enemy, but it was too dangerous, she didn't want to joke with the lives of her subordinates.

For three days in a row, the Jin army was only lined up outside the city, but there was no attack, Lu Hongniang couldn't help it, and led the first regiment out of the camp again, advanced along the river, and went to dig the embankment to pass the stream, and the two Jin army cavalry followed far away from one side and behind, still did not attack, as if to protect the first regiment.

Lu Hongniang and Lin Qing both wondered, from the departure to the destination, the first regiment dug the embankment and then turned back to the camp, the two Jin armies still did not attack, what kind of ghost is Huang Taiji doing?

"It doesn't matter what tricks he plays, Ben Shuai will lead the army out of the camp tomorrow morning to start the war." Lu Hongniang snorted angrily, thinking that her head hurt and she didn't guess what tricks Huang Taiji played, she simply didn't think about it, she would fight a battle tomorrow, but she couldn't be taken by Huang Taiji, and the initiative must be in her own hands.

Early the next morning, hordes of tribal cavalry poured out of the city and lined up on the flat ground, still without attacking as they had done for the previous days.

Lu Hongniang gave an order, and the soldiers of the first and fourth regiments poured out of the barracks, lined up the defensive formation on the flat ground, and then slowly pressed towards the Jin army on the opposite side, with a posture of taking the initiative to attack.

The leader of the army was a tribal patriarch named Arile, who was stunned for a while when he saw that the Phoenix Legion took the initiative to challenge, but fortunately, Huang Taiji had explained before, he hurriedly ordered the two wings to attack and outflank, and he led the army to attack from the front.

The tribal knight urged to step off his mount, brandished his weapon, roared and charged, and for a moment, the sound of hooves rumbled, and the roar of killing shook the sky.

The officers and men of the 1st and 4th regiments were ordered to stop, reload their ammunition, take aim with their guns, and prepare for battle.

The dense tribal cavalry roared and rushed in a sea of mountains, but when they approached the range of the musket, they suddenly turned to the side, went around to the side, and the soldiers of the two regiments roared and galloped, and from time to time shot arrows, however, because of the range, most of the arrows fell on the grass, and only one or two arrows hit the target, both of which were shot by the Jebel-level archers, who not only had a hundred arrows and a hundred shots, but also had great arm strength, and used a strong bow with a longer range.

Two arrows hit the target, one of which hit a soldier in the chest but was blocked by an iron plate in his chest, and the other hit a soldier's shoulder socket, and the wounded soldier was immediately carried down by the paramedics.

"Fire!" Seeing that the Jin army was just running outside the range of the musket, Lu Hongniang frowned and ordered the artillery to open fire. This sortie, because of the proximity to the main camp, she brought ten Franc cannons, which now came in handy.

Boom –

The artillery quickly set up the cannon, and after visually adjusting the elevation angle, the first shell was test-fired, and the artillery observer estimated the coordinates according to the impact point, and asked the artillery to readjust the elevation angle of the cannon, and then test firing and adjusting it again until it was ready to hit the target.

Boom Boom Boom –

After two test firing adjustments, the ten Franc cannons opened fire at the same time, and clouds of fire and billowing smoke exploded in the roaring tribal cavalry, blowing up many tribal warriors.

"Retreat." Patriarch Aril was startled, and hurriedly ordered a retreat, just now a cannonball exploded near him, and the two guards gathered around him were shot by shrapnel in all directions, and fell from their horses with a miserable scream.

Anyway, Huang Taiji is no longer there, and the commander in charge of staying in Chagantehao City is the patriarch of Bhabutto, and he has played with him since he was a child, and the iron buddies who have drunk blood wine, preserving strength is the king, and in the past few days of fighting, the warriors of his tribe have lost two-fifths, which is already a broken muscle and bone, which makes him feel painful.

“……”

Looking at the retreating Jin army like a tide, Lu Hongniang was speechless, she only fired a shot, and retreated after twenty or thirty people died, it seems that Huang Taiji is really playing some tricks.

She held a monocular and observed Chagantehao City for a while, and saw that there were still many golden soldiers walking around the city, and her heart was entangled for a while, and finally dispelled the idea of bombarding the city, or wait for Hong Chengchou's main army to arrive before demolishing the city, and leave some cannonballs to guard against Huang Taiji's tricks.

At night, when it was dark between heaven and earth, in order to find out Huang Taiji's intentions and the movements of the Jin army, Lu Hongniang finally sent six reconnaissance teams to let them venture to the left and right flanks of Chagantehao City to spy on the military situation.

The terrain of the prairie is flat, there is no complex terrain such as mountains and forests to hide and cover, once these six reconnaissance teams are discovered by the Jin army in the course of performing the task, they will either die in battle or be captured, it can be said that it is a task of nine deaths, when the commander of the reconnaissance company, Qiu Datong, received the order, he adopted a fair method of drawing lots, no one complained, and the soldiers who carried out the task handed over their personal belongings to the political work officers for safekeeping before leaving, which can almost be said to be an explanation of the aftermath.

More than an hour later, a few gunshots rang out in the distance, followed by a series of earth-shattering explosions, and then calmed down, making Lu Hongniang and the others look extremely ugly, no need to guess that there was a reconnaissance team that was discovered by the Jin army and engaged in battle, but I don't know if they can get out of danger safely?

After more than an hour, three reconnaissance teams returned safely, two of them found nothing, and one group found that many tribesmen had driven cattle, sheep, and other poultry out of the city and into the deeper parts of the grassland.

Lu Hongniang and the others instantly understood Huang Taiji's intentions and evacuated the residents living in the city, which was to abandon Chagantehao City, but knowing this, the Phoenix Legion was unable to pursue and intercept, the troops were too small, and there was really nothing to do about the infantry.

The other two reconnaissance teams have not returned for a long time, and it is estimated that they are already very lucky, but everyone still has a trace of hope in their hearts, and it was not until it was almost dawn that two drenched scouts came back and explained the situation to Lu Hongniang and others.

When the two reconnaissance teams they were in were scouting near the north city gate, they encountered the Jin scouts who had just come out of the city, and a fierce battle ensued, and the Jin troops in the city poured out and surrounded the two reconnaissance teams.

The two were the youngest in the team, and the captain Shi Dakui ordered the two to hide in the moat and run back to report, while Shi Dakui and others fought fiercely in the encirclement of the Jin army, and finally detonated the thunder and died honorably.

Lu Hongniang couldn't help the grief in her heart, nodded, waved her hand and signaled the two to retreat, while Lin Qing instructed several political work officers to publicize the heroic deeds of Shi Dakui and others in the whole army, and called on all the soldiers and soldiers to learn from the heroes.

When Zhu Jian, who was far away in Beijing, learned of this incident, he also ordered Song Xiance and others to report and publicize the incident, set a hero, set an example, posthumously awarded Shi Dakui and other heroes first-class heroic medals, and gave their families a plaque and a generous amount of money to the families of the martyrs, and enjoyed various treatments.

The Shi family and other martyrs' special treatment made the neighbors envious, and also made the young and strong young man hot, in the past, a good man was not a soldier, a good woman did not marry Qiu Ba, but now it is the other way around, the young men have run to run to be soldiers, the first choice of the eldest girl's husband is to be a soldier, the officer's is better, for a while, in the Phoenix Legion, the wolf battalion, the Shenji battalion, the Royal Guards Independent Regiment, the Liaodong Border Army and other troops as officers have become fragrant buns, and there are so many matchmakers who come to the door to propose relatives that they have stepped on the threshold.

There is a trend of soldiers and relatives in the pass, and it is very lively, but under the city of Chagantehao in the Horqin steppe, there is a quiet river crab, and the Phoenix Legion and the Jin Army in the city all choose to sleep, no one harasses anyone, and coexists peacefully.

During this period, Amin led his troops to attack the logistics transport team of the Ming army, but was beaten by the independent division of the Royal Guards under the command of Gao Jie, leaving more than 3,000 human corpses and horse corpses, and running away in ashes.

The tranquility that lasted for ten days in Chagantehao City was finally broken after the arrival of the main army led by Hong Chengchou.