A few days later, Liu Xingzuo sent someone to ask Chen Jisheng for an order, saying that he would take his troops to inspect and wait for an opportunity to launch an attack on Jiannu.

Chen Jisheng hurriedly went to Liu Xingzuo's camp to inquire about his battle plan, but Liu Xingzuo only said that he had heard that a merchant traveled from North Korea to Shenyang to intercept and kill to get some money.

Now the Korean state has been subdued by Jiannu, and the Houjin state of Jiannu is about a brotherly country, and in fact has turned its back on the Ming Dynasty. However, the Korean government and the opposition regarded Jiannu as a barbarian, and in their hearts they still looked towards the Great Ming Dynasty and did not obey Jiannu's orders to kill the Phidao army. Of course, with the weak forces of the DPRK, it could not be defeated, and it did not dare to make a move against Phi Dao.

Over the years, the Dongjiang Army has often oppressed the Korean royal family and plundered Korean merchants, and the habit has become natural. Chen Jisheng couldn't say anything about Liu Xingzuo's actions.

Moreover, although Chen Jisheng is nominally in charge of Phi Dao, he is not the general of the Dongjiang River after all, Liu Xingzuo is the deputy general of the rear association, commanding the troops and horses all the way, so he naturally has the power to do a lot of things, and Chen Jisheng cannot interfere.

"Vice President, did Brother Liu Xingzuo really go to intercept and kill the North Korean business travelers?" Looking at the sail shadow of the fleet in the distance, Zhang Tao doubted.

Chen Jisheng glanced at Zhang Tao: "What else, could it be that Liu Xingzuo dared to attack Jiannu's Zhenjiang Fort?" ”

The closest Jiannu city to Phi Island is Zhenjiang Fort on the west bank of the Yalu River, which is stuck on the main road between Liaodong and North Korea. At the beginning, Mao Wenlong's battle of fame was to conquer Zhenjiang Fort.

Now, although Jiannu's troops in Zhenjiang Fort are not much, there are city walls to defend, which is not something that Liu Xingzuo can conquer with these more than 1,000 soldiers, in fact, in recent years, the Dongjiang Army has sent troops several times, but there is no way to take Zhenjiang Fort again.

"Maybe, maybe Liu Xingzuo is going to surrender Jiannu." Zhang Tao said.

Chen Jisheng smiled: "That feeling is good." ”

If Liu Xingzuo really surrendered to Jiannu, then no one would be able to compete with him for the position of the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang River, and Chen Jisheng was still happy to see it. However, I can only think about it, the Liu Xingzuo brothers wasted a lot of effort to return to the Ming Dynasty, and now they are deputy generals, how can they surrender to Jiannu again, what are they trying to do?

......

Liu Xingzuo only took 2,000 soldiers, divided into more than 20 sea ships, and sailed straight to the mouth of the Yalu River.

Phi Island is less than 10 miles away from the Korean Iron Mountain and 70 miles away from the mouth of the Yalu River. Liu Xingzuo led his army to set off by boat in the morning, and arrived at the mouth of the Yalu River in the afternoon.

Early the next morning, Liu Xingzuo again led his troops to set off by boat, and landed on the shore an hour later.

Three miles north of the landing coast, there is a Jiannu village, called Donggoutun, where 30 or 40 Jiannu households, with a total population of 1 or 200, are stationed, and a walled wall is built for the purpose of monitoring Zhangzi Island on the sea.

When the Ming army ship docked, it was immediately noticed by Jiannu. After discovering that there were as many as 2,000 Ming troops who had landed, Jiannu did not stop the Ming army from landing, but everyone retreated into Tun Village, resisting the Ming army's attack with bows and arrows on the wall, and at the same time sent people to Zhenjiang Fort to send a letter to ask for reinforcements. There are only forty or fifty people in Donggou Tun Jiannu Banner, and they are not arrogant enough to defeat two thousand Ming troops.

Liu Xingzuo did not directly attack Donggou Tun, but lined up a stone's throw outside the Tunzhai wall, surrounded the Tunzi, assigned people to build ladder siege equipment, and at the same time assigned people to destroy the crops in the farmland around the village and Tun, and searched for everything around the Tunzhai.

Around the tunzhai, there are one or two hundred acres of fields. At the beginning of July, the sorghum in the field had grown waist-high, and hundreds of Ming soldiers took sickles, cut the sorghum, tied them into bundles and transported them back to the ship, and used them as fodder for the war horses. Phi Island is barren. They lack everything, and they are simply unable to support hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians. There was nothing around this tunzhai and there was no way, so Liu Xingzuo ordered these sorghums to be cut back and fed to the war horses and livestock.

Seeing that the sorghum in the field outside was cut by the Ming army, the people of the Jiannu Banner in the village turned red with anger.

The sorghum in the fields outside the village is their winter ration, and if it is completely damaged by the Ming army, this winter will be very difficult. At present, Houjin is very short of materials, and it is not self-sufficient in food, and a considerable part of the rations have to be robbed. The Jiannu of Donggoutun were tasked with monitoring the Ming army in Dongjiang, and the Later Jin court would allocate some money and grain to them, but it was not enough at all, and they had to farm, fish and hunt by themselves to barely have enough to eat.

"Zuo Ling, let's fight with them." A flag man shouted with a flushed face.

Niu Lu Erdai looked at the hundreds of Ming troops lined up outside the village to be vigilant in the village, and slowly shook his head. Although the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was weak, its number was 20 times that of the Tunli bannermen, and if it attacked rashly, it was likely that the whole army would be annihilated.

"We have already sent someone to Zhenjiang to ask for help, we just need to hold Tunzi, wait until Zhenjiang Ahe leads the troops over, and then cooperate with the outside to annihilate Minggou!" Eldai said angrily.

"Shall we chop some sorghum stalks and go back? Big brother, give me 500 people, and I will definitely be able to conquer this tunzhai. Looking at the tunzhai not far away, Liu Xingzhi was eager to try.

Unlike the generals of Phi Dao who were afraid of fighting Jiannu, the Liu brothers had just returned from Jiannu and were very familiar with Jiannu and did not have much fear. What's more, Liu Xingzuo attacked this time and brought a full 500 Jurchen soldiers, except for the equipment, the fierceness of these Jurchen soldiers is not weaker than that of Jiannu.

Liu Xingzuo sneered: "There are more than ten bannermen in this tun, how much credit can be given to the defeat, let's wait for the arrival of the Jiannu reinforcements from Zhenjiang Fort and then fight together." ”

Zhenjiang Fort was difficult to fight, and Liu Xingzuo was not sure about capturing Zhenjiang, so he decided to adopt the strategy of encircling the point to send reinforcements and transfer out the Jiannu banner of Zhenjiang Fort.

However, a tentative attack is still needed, otherwise Jiannu may not be fooled.

After the sorghum fields were completely destroyed, it was already noon, and Liu Xingzuo finally ordered a tentative feint attack on Donggoutun. Six or seven hundred Ming troops held wooden shields and slowly pressed towards Donggoutun.

All the Jiannu in the tun went into battle, and even the Jiannu women also went up to the wall, firing bows and arrows at the approaching Ming army outside.

A feather arrow shot into the Ming army array, most of them were blocked by the wooden shield, but the Jiannu Qiding archery was very accurate, from time to time there were feather arrows through the wooden shield, shot at the Ming army behind, and shot the Ming soldiers to the ground.

The Jurchen soldiers in the Ming army returned fire with bows and arrows, and the feathered arrows of the two sides fired back and forth.

However, the Jiannu banner is on the wall more than one zhang high, taking advantage of the geographical advantage, if the tun village is breached, the whole tun more than 100 people can not survive, so the morale is high. However, the soldiers of the Dongjiang Army were different, whether they were ordinary soldiers or Jurchen soldiers, they were not prepared to fight to the death. When more than a dozen people were shot dead and wounded, they retreated one after another without waiting for Liu Xingzuo's order.

Liu Xingzuo frowned, he didn't expect the morale of his troops to be so poor.

With such a powerful army, it is no wonder that in the face of Jiannu, it has been defeated repeatedly.

But......

Zhenjiang Fort, the leader of the town guarding Zhenjiang Fort is named Ahe, and he is a blue flag. There are more than 400 people under his banner.

The population of Jiannu was originally small, and most of the people of Qiding lived in the Liaoshen area, while a small number stayed in the hometown of Jianzhou Wei, and there were only a few garrisons in other places.

Although Zhenjiang Fort was stuck on the main road to Liaodong in Korea, the Koreans were not afraid and did not dare to be the enemy of Jiannu at all, and the defenders of Zhenjiang Fort were mainly prepared for the attack from Phi Dao. The Dongjiang Army's combat effectiveness is weak, and four hundred banners are enough to hold Zhenjiang Fort, if it really can't be done, the troops of Kuandian and other castles will also come to help.

When he heard Donggoutun's request for help, Ah He was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that the Ming army on Phidao would not come to attack Zhenjiang Fort, but would go to Donggoutun.

Donggoutun has one or two hundred people, dozens of bannermen, and the Ming army has two thousand troops to go on the expedition, which will cost a lot of money and food, even if Donggoutun can be defeated, the casualties must not be small, and Donggoutun is remote, there is no value to capture, why did the Ming army fight there? To the very puzzlement of Aher.

"Your Excellency, the Ming army is attacking urgently, please come to your rescue." The flag man who asked for help pleaded.

"Don't worry, maybe it's the Ming army's plan to attack the east and the west, it's fake to attack Donggoutun, and it's true to hit Zhenjiang Fort, maybe it's waiting for me to send troops?" Ah He touched his chin and analyzed, "Come on, go everywhere to find out the movements of the Ming army, especially if there are any Ming troops landing from the territory of North Korea!" ”

Ah He has also heard of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", knows some art of war, and still knows how to attack the east and the west, so he has to find another Ming army ambush.

The people sent reported one after another, saying that there was no sign of the Ming army's landing, and no trace of the Ming army was found on the west side of the Yalu River or in Korea east of the Yalu River.

"Your Excellency, maybe the Ming army really wants to fight Donggoutun, in order to get the first rank." Some subordinates analyzed.

Ah He suddenly understood, maybe this is the truth of the matter. I may have thought too much, and the Ming army may really want to capture some heads, rather than trying to do something to the Zhenjiang Fort that they are guarding.

Dispatching 2,000 troops, spending a lot of money and food, and paying a lot of casualties, just for the sake of dozens of flags in Donggoutun, no one in a normal person would choose such a way of fighting that outweighs the losses, but if it is the Dongjiang Army, it is understandable to do so. The Ming army was based on the first level of merit, and rarely won in the face of the Eight Banners, and naturally rarely won it. Being able to win dozens of first ranks is already a great victory.

"Send troops, immediately send troops to rescue Donggou!" Akh immediately gave the order.

Because it took some time to send people to investigate whether the Dongjiang Army was attacking the east and west, Ah He was afraid that it would be too late to rescue Donggoutun.

He left 100 banners to guard the city, and personally led 300 banners out of Zhenjiang Fort and went to Donggoutun to kill. The three hundred banners were all on horseback, and it would take less than a day to reach Donggou.

"Your Excellency, the Ming army is attacking Donggoutun." Set out in the afternoon, and at noon on the second day, Ahe led his troops to approach Donggou, and the sentinel sent a quick report to Malay.

Akhzema came to the front, looked into the distance, and sure enough, he saw that the Ming army was attacking the village, and when he saw the Qiding cavalry that appeared, the Ming army array was in a panic.

"Rush over for me and break through the Ming army formation!" Ah He immediately found a way to break the enemy, which was to attack the Ming army at the speed of cavalry.

If the Ming army lined up the array, Ahe would definitely not do this, and if the cavalry attacked the infantry formation, the losses would be very large, not to mention anything else, just the war horses that rushed into the formation would die a large number. Therefore, although most of the Eight Banners had horses, they never mainly attacked with cavalry, and the main method of battle was foot combat, using heavy infantry to break the formation to destroy the enemy's defenses, and then using cavalry to cover and expand the results.

However, now, the Ming army is attacking Donggoutun, and there is no defense against the rear at all, and it is completely caught off guard. As long as the attack was fast enough, the Ming army would not have time to line up. Therefore, the best way to quickly defeat the Ming army was to attack with cavalry.

Ah He made up his mind, and immediately hurried his horse and led his cavalry to rush towards the scattered array of the Ming army.

The sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, and the cavalry of the three hundred and eight banners was like thunder, rushing towards the Ming army. Looking at the Eight Banners cavalry that was killing at high speed, many Ming soldiers changed color in shock.

The two sides were getting closer and closer, looking at the panicked faces of the Ming soldiers not far away, Ah He sneered, he knew that with just this rush, the Ming army on the opposite side would collapse.

With the reins in one hand and the saber in the other, Ah He's eyes were on a Ming officer in front of him, and it only took a moment to rush to the officer's side and cut off his head with a single sword.

Just when Ah He was smiling and thinking about the upcoming killing, suddenly the war horse's hooves under his crotch were soft, and he pounced forward, and under the action of inertia, Ah He flew away from the war horse at once, and fell headlong towards the front, and at the moment when he fell heavily to the ground, Ah He turned his head with all his might, and saw that one of the front hooves of the war horse stepped into a small hole, and the leg of the horse was broken at high speed.

What bad luck! Ah He fell heavily to the ground and fainted all at once.

In fact, Ah He was not the only one who was unlucky, when he rushed to the front of the Ming army dozens of steps, three hundred Jiannu cavalry lost their front hooves one after another and fell to the ground. When the flag-bearer, who had not fallen to his death for a while, struggled to get up on the ground, he suddenly found that there were thousands of small holes all over the ground, and the entrance of the hole was covered with branches and floating soil, and the hole was not large enough to accommodate the horse's hooves, but it was very deep, as long as the horse's hooves stepped in, it would be the end of breaking the horse's legs.

Damn Mingren, he actually laid such an insidious trap!

"Kill Jiannu!" Liu Xingzuo shouted, waved his knife and took the lead in killing, and countless Ming soldiers followed closely behind him.

Since the Jiannu cavalry fell into the trap, it was time to beat the water dogs.

The Eight Banners cavalry running behind suddenly grabbed the war horse, and of the three hundred cavalry, more than 100 people finally did not fall into the ambush. Seeing the half-dead accomplices drowned in the Ming army, these cavalrymen who were lucky enough to fall into the trap knew that something was wrong, and they pulled the reins and turned their horses' heads and ran.

At this moment, the sound of "boom" and "boom" sounded, and countless stones rolled down the hillside behind them, cutting off their retreat.

After a battle, most of the 300 Jiannu cavalry were killed, and only a few dozen abandoned their horses and climbed the hillside to escape.

Seeing that the reinforcements were all wiped out, the Jiannu of Donggoutun did not dare to resist anymore, and fled from the back wall one after another, abandoning Tuncun and fleeing into the mountains.

Liu Xingzuo sent troops to chase and kill, and killed 70 or 80 Jiannu women and children and clothed slaves, but thirty or forty bannermen fled.