The slaughter in Zunhua City lasted all day, and more than 20,000 people in the city were almost slaughtered. After counting the looted grain, cattle and sheep, Huang Taiji breathed a sigh of relief, the looted income was enough to maintain the army for a while. Sure enough, in order to grab enough money, food and supplies, you have to attack the city.

A day later, Huang Taiji ordered the evacuation of Zunhua and continued the march. Huang Taiji took the four banners of the right wing all the way to the south and attacked Jizhou, and Mang Gurtai led the four banners of the left wing to attack the Santun camp. As for the Zunhua City that had been captured, it was directly abandoned, and even the defenders were not left, because the purpose of the Eight Banners was not to capture many cities, but to kill and injure a large number of Ming troops, loot the food wealth of the Ming Dynasty, and lose the strength of the Ming Dynasty as much as possible and enrich themselves.

Although the Santun camp is not large, it is the former Jizhou general army station, with thousands of soldiers and horses to defend. Taking the Santun camp, plus Zunhua City, most of the Ming army's border wall defense system in this area of Jibei will be destroyed.

Mang Gurtai led more than 20,000 Eight Banner soldiers to Santun Camp and immediately launched a strong attack. Looking at the overwhelming Jiannu, Zhu Guoyan, the guard of the Santun battalion, was very relaxed at first, thinking that with his troops, there should be no problem in blocking the attack of Jiannu. After all, Santunying is a military city, with a complete defense system, the city is not large, and there are three or four thousand men and horses in his hands.

However, when he saw the rain of arrows like flying locusts falling on the city head from the sky, and the defenders on the wall died tragically under the rain of arrows one by one, when he saw that the soldiers of the Eight Banners were not afraid of falling stones and forcibly climbing the city wall, Zhu Guoyan suddenly felt a little regretful, regretting that he did not let Zhao, who had fled in defeat, lead the sect into the city two days ago. If there were more than 1,000 soldiers and horses led by Zhao Rate, the defense would definitely be much easier.

Zhu Guoyan thinks very highly of himself, but his subordinates except for the more than 100 family members, the other soldiers are all military households who can't eat enough, how can such an army be a fierce opponent of the Eight Banners? What's more, there are still fine works sent by Jiannu in the city. With the same recipe and the same operation, when a fire suddenly ignited in the city, and when Jiannu made a loud noise, the morale of the Ming army on the city wall collapsed in an instant......

"Fortunately, I didn't enter the Santun camp!" On a hill in the distance, several Ming army officers hid among the trees and looked down, and when they saw the fire in the city and the Jiannu rushing into the city, one officer was very happy.

"Yes, we also have to thank Zhu Guoyan, without his arrogance, I am afraid that we will fall into the city again, and it may not be easy to escape again." Other officers also said.

Zhao Shujiao looked at the Santun camp in the distance silently, silent.

Zhao Shujiao did not gloat over Zhu Guoyan, because he knew that not only Zhu Guoyan, but also other Ming army generals were also of this kind of virtue, and they did not want the guest army to enter their own territory. The same was true when he was in Ningyuan, when the Liao generals jointly squeezed out the guest soldiers, so that the Huguang soldiers and Sichuan soldiers could not get food and salary for several months, forcing these guest soldiers to launch a mutiny, and only then did Sun Chuanting become the governor of Liaodong.

Zhao Shujiao did not feel lucky, from the moment he was ordered to lead the cavalry to come, Zhao Shujiao put life and death aside. Now Zhao Shujiao just felt very depressed, depressed that he had not completed the task and did not play a role in delaying the march of Jiannu.

Zhao Shujiao understood that the task given to him by Sun Chuanting was not to block Jiannu, but to delay the speed of Jiannu's march as much as possible, so that the imperial court would have enough time to arrange in the Gyeonggi area, so that the reinforcements from various provinces would have enough time to arrive in Beijing.

However, now, Jiannu has captured Zunhua and Santun Camp one after another, and most of his own troops have been lost, but there is no way to take Jiannu, which makes Zhao Shujiao feel very bored and does not know how to explain to the imperial court.

"Chief soldier, let's withdraw, Jiannu has defeated the Santun camp, maybe he will send troops to search the mountain, if they find out, I'm afraid they won't be able to leave." An officer suggested.

Zhao Shujiao nodded, pointed to the Santun camp under the mountain and said, "Mess with them first, and then withdraw." ”

"Huh?" Several of his officers were stunned. Jiannu is powerful, and it's too late to avoid it, so why do you have to send it to the door.

"Jiannu is in a hurry to enter the city and loot, and he doesn't care about anything else. Did you see it, that camp should be where Jiannu's food and baggage are located, let's take advantage of his unpreparedness, brutally mess with him, and burn his grain and grass, and when Jiannu comes back to his senses and chases him out of the Santun camp, we have already escaped. Zhao Shujiao pointed to the Jiannu camp road.

Several of his subordinates looked carefully and found that as Zhao Shujiao said, most of the Jiannu soldiers were in a hurry to enter the city and plunder, and the camp was empty, as if there were not many soldiers.

"If we lose our troops and generals, if we go back like this, we will inevitably be held accountable by the imperial court, and if we can do it and get some gains, maybe we will be rewarded by the imperial court." Zhao Shujiao encouraged.

Because he knew that the morale of his troops was already very low. From 4,000 soldiers to the present only 1,500 people remain, with a loss of more than 60 percent, it is all because of their past prestige that they have not collapsed.

And now the only way to boost morale is to win! Then you can continue the war. Fortunately, this army was trained by itself, and the officers were promoted by themselves from top to bottom, and their prestige was still there, and the brothers still trusted themselves! Zhao Shujiao secretly felt lucky.

Just do it, Zhao Shujiao immediately left the mountain with a few people, returned to the team, and immediately ordered his subordinate soldiers to assemble, and then drove out of the valley and galloped towards the Santun camp.

Fifteen hundred cavalry, galloping on the flat land between the mountains within a radius of several miles, rushed straight towards the camp of Jiannu.

At this moment, in the Jiannu camp, the main force of the Eight Banners entered the Santun camp to join the feast of slaughter and looting, and the rest of the camp were the guards of the camp, which were formed into an army by the clothed slaves of those bannermen. The Santun camp is not big, and there are not many people in the city, so it is naturally not the turn of these clothed soldiers to loot and vent, their task is to guard the camp and give the bannermen good food, horses, and property.

The clothed soldiers fed the war horses, and one by one they clasped their hands together and chatted, enjoying a rare leisure time. The flag man is not here, and they are all much more comfortable. Of course, small talk can't avoid comparisons, comparing how much property their masters have robbed, and some of them even blushing and having thick necks fighting for this matter.

The ground shook, the roaring hooves of horses sounded, and the clothed soldiers were surprised to see a cavalry galloping towards the camp from a distance, and they couldn't help but be a little stunned. The army has entered the city, and where did this cavalry come from? Zunhua City and Santun Camp have fallen, and there is no Ming Army City in the vicinity for hundreds of miles, and these Baoyi still thought that it was the Eight Banners Cavalry.

"It's the Ming Army!" It wasn't until this cavalry approached the camp that someone noticed the difference between the cavalry's clothing and the Eight Banners, and shouted in shock.

But it's too late!

It is undeniable that these clothed soldiers also have a certain combat effectiveness, and even their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of most Ming troops, after all, if they are afraid of war, they will definitely be disposed of or even killed by the owner of the banner. Moreover, there are more than 3,000 clothed soldiers in the camp, which is twice the number of Zhao Shujiao's subordinates.

But the problem is that prepared is not prepared, not to mention these clothed soldiers, many of them did not even have weapons, so they were rushed into the camp, and they were rushed into the camp in an instant.

"Kill!" Seeing that the camp was really empty, Zhao Shujiao's cavalry was excited, galloping in the camp on fast horses, and easily chopping these soldiers to death one by one with their sabers, and killing the camp in an instant, and the clothed soldiers cried and fled everywhere.

"Gather the horses!" When he saw a large number of horses in the camp, Zhao Shujiao was overjoyed and gave orders repeatedly.

Basically, everyone in the Eight Banners has horses, and those white-armored soldiers and red-armored soldiers even have two horses and three horses for one person, one is to replace the ride, and the other is to use the reserve horse to carry the armor materials. Now the soldiers of the Eight Banners have rushed into the Santun camp to kill, and these reserve horses are left in the camp and handed over to the guards of the clothed soldiers.

Now, these war horses are cheaper than Zhao Shujiao. However, there are so many of these war horses, there are tens of thousands of them, and it is impossible to take them all away with the troops under Zhao Command.

Zhao Shujiao immediately ordered that each subordinate should bring two horses, and the other horses would be killed with a knife. In an instant, the mournful roar of sparse war horses sounded in the camp.

"Hurry up, Zhao Quan, you go and set fire to all the food and materials in this camp, Ma Zhang, you take people to cut off people's heads, and they are all tied to the saddle." A series of orders came from Zhao Shujiao's mouth.

After the fight, I retreated, and I didn't know where to settle down at the next stop, so I had to carry some food. The head of the coated man killed cannot be wasted, which is a proof of military exploits. Then it is to burn the food and materials in this camp, and it must not be left for Jiannu.

The fire was lit everywhere, and the flames swept away the food and materials that Jiannu had finally snatched, and the soldiers of the Ming army were busy, one by one full of excitement, they followed Zhao Shujiao and Jiannu to fight for some years, when had they fought such a cool battle?

Of course, at this moment, Zhao Shujiao also felt extraordinarily cool!

"Chief soldier, there are Jiannu coming out of the Santun camp city!" Suddenly, the sentry soldier shouted.

The camp here is only three miles away from the Santun camp, and many of the clothed soldiers have escaped from the camp, which has alarmed the Jiannu who raided the city of Santun camp.

"Retreat, retreat immediately!" Zhao Shujiao hurriedly ordered.

There are still some war horses that have not been killed, and some materials that have not been burned, but Zhao Shujiao can't take care of them so much. There are 20,000 slaves in the Santun camp, and if they are entangled, their more than 1,000 subordinates will not be able to escape.

Fifteen hundred cavalrymen, each with two horses in their hands, roared out of the camp and galloped towards the south, leaving only a mess of the camp.

"What the hell is going on?" Ordering Azig and Duoduo to lead their cavalry to chase the Ming army, Mang Gurtai galloped into the camp, only to see the raging flames in the camp and the horses in the stables that fell in pools of blood.

"Back to Lord Belle, I don't know where the Ming army came from, and suddenly they entered the camp...... "A surviving clothed soldier knelt on the ground and trembled back.

"You waste, you don't even know where the Ming army came from, what's the use of keeping you?" Mang Gurtai scolded, raised his hand, and slashed the bag to the ground.

"Pass my order and cut down all the guards in the camp!" Mang Gultai shouted angrily.

"Fifth brother is angry!" Abatai on the side hurriedly persuaded, "Fifth brother, the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to kill these coats." Besides, if we kill them, who will carry us food and supplies, and who will feed us horses? The flagmen are tired enough from fighting, and they can't let them do these trivial things on their own. ”

In the Eight Banners Army, the clothed soldiers are equivalent to auxiliary soldiers, and the task is to serve the bannermen and do all the miscellaneous work. Moreover, each of these clothed soldiers has a master, which is equivalent to the private property of the bannermen, and now they are only temporarily formed into an army, and if they are killed, even their masters and those bannermen will not agree.

Mang Gurtai calmed down, knowing that Abatai was right, so he reluctantly withdrew the order.

"Chase, order Azig and Duoduo to chase me, I must catch up with this damn Ming army and kill them all!" Mang Gurtai could only take his anger out on the Ming cavalry attacking the camp, and shouted viciously.

In fact, needless to say, Azig and Dordor also spared no effort to catch up. This Ming army actually attacked and burned down the camp, killing and stealing so many war horses, which deeply irritated them.

This cavalry of the Ming army must be chased and killed, all killed, and the bones must be scattered, so as to relieve the hatred in the heart.

However, although the idea is good, it is not so easy to catch up.

Whether it was Azig or Duoduo, they all killed in the Santun camp city for a long time, and their subordinates were all sleepy and lacking, and their physical strength was not as good as Zhao Shujiao's subordinates. And most importantly, Zhao led his subordinates to grab a large number of war horses, so that they could rotate and ride.

After chasing for more than 30 miles, seeing that the distance from the Ming army was getting farther and farther, and gradually the back of the Ming cavalry could not be seen, Azig and Duoduo reluctantly led the team to stop, and returned the same way in despair.

"How? Caught up? Seeing the two of them coming back with their troops, Mang Gurtai asked eagerly.

"Fifth brother, the Ming army has robbed us of a lot of war horses, and we can't catch up at all." Azig said dejectedly.

"Damn it!" Mang Gurtai slammed his fist on the trunk of the tree beside him, and the dead leaves fell one after another.

For a long time, Mang Gurtai was not convinced that Huang Taiji became the Great Khan, thinking that he was no worse than Huang Taiji in terms of martial arts, and the only difference was that his mother was not as noble as Huang Taiji's mother.

Therefore, Mang Gurtai has been secretly competing with Huang Taiji, trying to suppress Huang Taiji in military exploits. Now he was attacked by the Ming army in the camp, which made Mang Gurtai have a strong sense of frustration.

The food and materials that were finally looted were burned to the ground, but the most painful thing was the loss of six or seven thousand war horses. Without these horses, the mobility of the army will be much lower, which will bring trouble to the subsequent attack.

In the march and battle in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the mobility of the army is very important. With enough mobility, the Ming army will not be afraid of the superiority, and it can be interspersed with attacks to break through the Ming army.