In the food production of the 'revolutionary army', there were very few sources of vegetable oils and fats. Peanuts, rapeseeds, sesame, soybeans and nothing are grown on a large scale. The only fat that can be eaten in the army is from animals such as pigs, cattle and sheep. And animal oil ......, fragrant!

In the cold wind, Gao Hongzhong already regretted what night attack plan he had made, and he felt that he was too high on these brainwashed officers and soldiers under him. Although they are more obedient and patient than in the past, when it comes time to play with their lives, these people are actually much more sober again, and they have become like headless flies.

The encirclement of more than 20,000 people seems to be menacing, but only a few can really kill the first brigade of the 'revolutionary army'. If these few people refuse to come forward, no matter how many people are behind, they will not be able to give full play to any advantages.

Gao Hongzhong was anxious about this, but suddenly smelled the smell of food wafting from the cold wind. The smell is so good that it makes the tongue and tongue stir and the belly like a drum. Even he himself was stunned for a moment, as if he wanted to trace the source of this fragrance.

It didn't take long for a few generals of the 'Heavenly Blessing' army to rush in front of them. They hurriedly shouted at Gao Hongzhong, "My lord, quickly withdraw." We just can't take it. ”

"If you haven't started fighting, what can't you bear?" Gao Hongzhong only wants to be lazy when he is a subordinate, and his heart is full of fire. There was no sound of guns and cannons on the whole battlefield, and there was no sound of fighting, and there was no.

But the guerrilla generals who ran over were more anxious than they imagined, and they shouted in a big voice: "My lord, I really can't bear it." Hundreds of people ran away in front of us, and some of them ran out of all their subordinates, and they were all crying. The people below were not able to hold enough ammunition at all, and some of their own soldiers ran away, and there was no shadow in the blink of an eye. ”

"Run? How can you run? Gao Hongzhong suddenly jumped up, "Could it be that someone really ran over to eat?" ”

As soon as Gao Hongzhong said this, his nose couldn't stop inhaling. The aroma is clearly wafting from the opposite side, and you can smell it from afar.

The aggrieved generals shouted even more sadly: "My lord, you don't know! The Zhou thief on the opposite side set down dozens of cauldrons and made a fire to boil hot soup. The fragrance wafted over and was unbeatable, and it was more powerful than a knife or gun. The soldiers were very hungry, and they couldn't help but pass by smelling the smell. Those shamanic priests are not easy to do, and now no prayer mass can compete with a bowl of hot soup. ”

Is there such a thing?

Gao Hong screamed in shock, and strode towards the front line with his official robe. He didn't care about any danger at this time, and when he got to the front line, he saw that there were really a lot of shadowy officers and soldiers running towards the opposite side in the dark night.

Not only were people fleeing to the other side, but there were also people who drank hot soup and slipped back to pull people. As soon as he waved his hand, he shouted at the top of his voice: "Brothers, don't work with these officials. In the winter, we don't even have to stutter, and we have to fight with all our lives, and there is no reason for this in the world! Come on. As long as the guns are surrendered, the 'revolutionary army' will have food and drink, and there is no need to fight hard. ”

Hearing such shouts one after another, Gao Hongzhong was dumbfounded. He hurriedly shouted to his subordinate generals, "What are you waiting for? Send someone to stop it, if you can't stop it, you will kill it! ”

"I can't stop it, I really can't stop it!" The generals complained one after another, "It's useless to kill, these soldiers all regard the 'revolutionary army' on the opposite side as their backers, and they are no longer afraid of us." We sent our own soldiers to suppress them, and they killed many of them. My lord, get back away. If we don't withdraw, our people will become members of the 'revolutionary army.'" ”

"This is truly hateful!" Gao Hong's angry jumping feet, all his prestige was lost. But it was useless for him to order a retreat, and the few thousand-man teams in front of the encirclement were crushed by such bursts of aroma. At first, only sporadic soldiers fled, and later hordes abandoned their weapons and defected to the enemy. Even the head of the team at the bottom ran away, and the team couldn't pull back at all.

Gao Hongzhong led the team to evacuate in a hurry, and after tossing and turning all night, he found that 20,000 people went out and only 15,000 came back, and the remaining 5,000 were all cheapened by the 'revolutionary army'. When he returned to the camp, there was still bad news waiting for him, the 'revolutionary army' also gradually advanced in the camp, constantly compressing the space of the 'Tianyou' army, the west of the camp had been completely lost, and several thousand-strong teams were beaten and collapsed.

Faced with such a dilemma, Gao Hongzhong could only order to work hard. He took out all the gunpowder stored in the battalion and used it as an explosives pack, and took the initiative to blast it when it was attacked by the 'revolutionary army'. This is tantamount to self-harm, but it is the only way to stop the opponent from eating away quickly.

After a night of booming bombing, the morale of the 'Tianyou' army dropped to freezing. No matter how fanatical the Han cannon fodder is, there will be no way to hold on. As soon as Gao Hongzhong counted in the morning, he found that his men had begun to flee automatically, and there was even a large-scale begging. There were only about 20,000 people left in the camp, and the rest either disappeared or defected to the 'revolutionary army'.

And waiting for dawn, Gao Hongzhong was already in vain. By this time, the 11th Brigade of the National Defence Army, which had arrived by ship from the north, had landed. In addition to the artillery that did not come ashore, the other three infantry battalions, a cavalry battalion and an engineer battalion were already ready for battle. Thousands of people appeared in the back of the 'Tianyou' army, and the situation of a flanking attack from the north and south was a foregone conclusion.

"First to the north, then to the west." When he found that his situation was critical, Gao Hongzhong, who had a strong desire to survive, was a rare decision, "Draw out our own descendants, and all those miscellaneous cards will be thrown to Zhou Thief." Since they like to contain poor ghosts so much, let them be. ”

Most of Gao Hongzhong's descendants were the children of the gentry in Liaodong and Gyeonggi. There are also four or five thousand of them, the best trained and the best equipped, forming the backbone of the 'Tianyou' army. They didn't suffer much losses last night, and they don't need to be brainwashed to be mortal enemies of the 'revolutionary army'. Gao Hongzhong relied on these descendants to raise a 50,000-strong 'Tianyou' army, and it was fundamental to keep these people.

Gao Hongzhong, who had been tired all night, had red eyes, but he was very fast in saving himself. Taking advantage of the fact that the 11th Brigade had not yet pressed up, he immediately led people to rush out of the camp and detour westward.

The western Liaoning corridor is very narrow, and the Yanshan Mountains in the west can be said to be close at hand, only two or three kilometers away. Gao Hongzhong's move was very unexpected by Zhou Qingfeng, he had already planned to let another wave of rockets come from the sea, and then the north and south launched a general attack to completely kill Gao Hongzhong.

"Boy Zhou, Mang Gurtai in Ningyuan has been dispatched."

Just when Zhou Qingfeng pondered whether to pursue Gao Hongzhong, 'Flat Hair' flew back. It has been acting as an aerial scout for the past few days, flying north before dawn and is responsible for monitoring the movement north of Shanhaiguan. It returned to Zhou Qingfeng's shoulder at this moment and said, "Those Jurchens seem to use a kind of flying crane that still has a ride to communicate, and when I came back, I pecked one to death. ”

"Tell me what's wrong with Mang Gurtai?" Zhou Qingfeng put down the binoculars in his hand and watched as Gao Hongzhong's gathered men and horses quickly bypassed the defense line of the First Brigade and headed west. Last night's prisoners and the abandoned soldiers of the 'Tianyou' army were tens of thousands of people who needed to be suppressed, and he really didn't have the extra manpower to pursue Gao Hongzhong. Now I heard the news of Mang Gurtai again......

'Flat hair' said: "Mang Gurtai seems to know that Gao Hongzhong is going to be finished, and he probably regrets not going south earlier. This morning he led the way with thousands of cavalry. All of its 30,000 horses had already left Ningyuan and were killed at Shanhaiguan. I see that his cavalry is all one-man, two-horse or even three-horse, and the speed of the southward rush is very fast. ”

If Mang Gurtai and Gao Hongzhong join forces together, Zhou Qingfeng will definitely stick to Shanhaiguan and will not come out to fight in the field. But now Mang Gurtai is one step slower, not ......, half a step slower. If he had gone south decisively last night, a large number of cavalry would have been replaced by horses, and he would have been able to reach the Shanhaiguan early this morning. Zhou Qingfeng, who is entangled with Gao Hongzhong, is really difficult to deal with.

"There are two hundred miles from Ningyuan to Shanhaiguan, and if the cavalry has several horses, they can run over in half a day. In this way, although the horses are tired, they can still fight. It's just that we're going to wrap up now...... Mang Gurtai shouldn't know yet. He probably still wants to save Gao Hongzhong, or he thinks that we and Gao Hongzhong will definitely lose both, and he wants to pick up the cheap. ”

Zhou Qingfeng can judge his opponent's thoughts, but he is now facing a problem. Gao Hong was embarrassed by the defeat, and threw tens of thousands of prisoners to him with a shake of his hand. It's a hassle to contain these people, and it's even more troublesome not to contain them. He did not dare to risk sending all these captives into Shanhaiguan, because there were only 5,000 militiamen in Shanhaiguan, but there were still tens of thousands of Juniper's men waiting to be dismissed.

"The troops are insufficient, and this time it is really overwhelmed." Zhou Qingfeng controlled the number of troops and saved a lot of military expenses and ensured the development of his own power. But now he is suffering again, and there are too few troops. "Order the 11th Brigade to attack Gao Hongzhong, and you can't let the traitor troops evacuate quickly. The 1st Brigade was ordered to immediately take in the prisoners and send them to the south of Shanhaiguan. ”

Fighting all night, the 1st Brigade was also quite tired. Zhou Qingfeng pondered for a while and decided to retract the punch that was punched out first. Before Mang Gurtai arrived, it was best to solve Gao Hongzhong, and if he couldn't solve it, forget it. He has two brigades guarding the Shanhaiguan Pass, and he is not afraid of reckless Gurtai.

At this moment, Mang Gurtai, who was heading south, was really as Zhou Qingfeng thought, and decided to quickly go south to pick up the bargain. Gao Hongzhong asked him for help last night, saying that he had been fighting fiercely with the 'revolutionary army', and Shanhaiguan only had 10,000 horses and horses of the 'revolutionary army', and the troops were empty.

Hearing that there were only 10,000 horses in Shanhaiguan, Mang Gurtai couldn't believe it. He waited all night for the news, and immediately decided to quickly go south to join the battlefield, saying that he would take the opportunity to eat Zhou Qingfeng's main force. In his opinion, no matter how fast the 'revolutionary army' was by sea, the speed of the cavalry was not slow. Don't let go of the opportunity if you seize the opportunity, it will be too late for Zhou Qingfeng to mobilize his troops.

This information also flew all the way to Shenyang.

Nurhachi had a headache all night last night, and it was only at dawn that he felt better. He also agreed with Mang Gurtai's opinion, and immediately demanded that the other three routes of Mongolia, Haizhou, and Dandong also be launched at the same time. It is necessary to contain the strength of the 'revolutionary army' and prevent Zhou Qingfeng from transferring troops towards Shanhaiguan.

"It is said that the 'revolutionary army' does not even have 100,000 soldiers, and it is scattered and defended everywhere, how can it deal with the multi-way attack of our Dajin army of hundreds of thousands? Right now, Zhou Qingfeng's reality has been decided, and it is the time for my Dajin to go south. I launched in four directions, attacked in four directions, and the Han people were bound to be in chaos. As long as the Shanhaiguan Pass can be broken, the entire Central Plains will be the land of my Jurchen horses. ”

Nurhachi's judgment was based on various newspapers published by the 'Revolutionary Army', and it was indeed written in black and white that the main force of the 'Revolutionary Army' was less than 100,000 - Uncle Zhou never said how many militias he still had? In his opinion, it was not a regular army. He wouldn't even say how much he could mobilize in wartime? This is a number that is simply unimaginable for barbarians.

Seeing that the great war was about to begin, Nurhachi did not forget to give an order to his subordinates, "Let those Dutch from Tessie bring more gunpowder, guns and cannons." Tell them that Ben Khan is willing to pay double the price as long as they can bring the goods in. When the Han people were laid down, there was a lot of gold and silver. ”