Zunhua, the same snowflakes in the sky, the two armies are fighting fiercely.

Most of the soldiers in an army were wearing mandarin duck battle jackets, there were not many war horses, and they were all infantry, which was Liu Cebu, the governor of Jizhou.

The other army was all cavalry, each wearing sheepskin robes, felt hats, horses under the crotch, and bows on their backs, which were the Mongol Tushetu tribes who plundered along the side wall.

Liu Ce is the twenty-ninth year of Wanli Jinshi, as the prime minister of Jizhou Baoding military affairs in the right capital of the imperial history, in this Jiannu invasion, although Liu Ce held the city of Jizhou, but Zunhua Santun camp fell, the Jiannu army broke the border wall from his jurisdiction and entered, privatelying Jinggi, Liu Ce really has the great crime of losing land!

Because of the need to deal with the Jiannu army, the imperial court did not deal with Liu Ce for the time being, but Liu Ce knew that once the Jiannu army retreated, the imperial court would inevitably take a knife against itself!

Therefore, after hearing that Jiannu left Jingshi and attacked Yongping Mansion all the way, Liu Ce immediately sent troops to attack Jibei, thinking of recovering the Santun camp in Zunhua, reorganizing the defense line of Jibei, and making the contribution of recovering the land, so as to reduce his own guilt.

Liu Ce and Zhang Shixian, the chief soldier of Baoding, commanded 15,000 men and horses from Jizhou City, all the way north, but they did not expect to meet the Mongols as soon as they arrived in Zunhua.

At the beginning, he only encountered hundreds of Mongolian rangers, and Liu Ce, who had an absolute advantage in numbers, naturally didn't care, and immediately ordered an attack on the Mongols, and soon beat these hundreds of Mongols and fled.

However, before Liu Ce could be proud, more Mongols came over, overwhelming the field, and the field was full of Mongolian cavalry.

Liu Ce was so frightened that he immediately ordered his subordinates to retreat to defend, and more than 10,000 troops shrank on a hill and set up a position to defend.

The hill is not high, the mountain is gentle, if it is changed to usual, the Mongolian cavalry can directly ride the horse and run up the hill, but because of the snow, some roads are slippery, the war horse can not run too fast, the Mongols rushed to the mountain several times, after shooting a few rounds of feather arrows, they retreated to the bottom of the mountain, leaving more than 100 casualties to the Ming army.

Taking advantage of the retreat of the Mongols, Liu Ce hurriedly ordered the wounded to be treated and moved stones to organize defense.

Braving heavy snow and enduring the cold, the Ming soldiers laid out the defensive line, and they knew that if the Mongols rushed up the mountain, everyone would lose their lives. The Mongols were all cavalry, and in this kind of heavy snow, they couldn't escape even if they wanted to.

Looking at the Mongols under the mountain, Liu Ce's heart was full of despair, because he knew that the army would not be able to support it for a few days.

Now that the Mongols have cut off the retreat, the grain in the rear cannot be transported at all, and the grain and grass carried by the army can be supported for five or six days at most. Moreover, in this kind of snowy weather, the army lacks charcoal and firewood, and there is no way to make a fire to keep out the cold, so it can only rely on thin cotton clothes, which will be very cold at night, and I don't know how many soldiers were frozen to death.

Originally, he wanted to recover the city abandoned by Jiannu, but he encountered a large-scale Mongolian cavalry, and Liu Ce was really desperate.

Liu Ce didn't know that he was just unlucky, if he arrived in Zunhua a day later, he wouldn't have met the Mongols at all.

Huang Taiji sent Belle Yuetuo to Jibei to give orders to the Mongolian cavalry, and ordered Tu Xie Tu and Shan Subdi to go to Yongping Mansion immediately.

Tushetu Khan and Shan Subdi Khan did not dare to disobey Huang Taiji's order, and immediately gathered the cavalry that had plundered the forts in various places after receiving the order, and prepared to go to Yongping Province. Of course, another reason why the Mongols are so active is that there is really nothing to grab near the north wall of thistle.

It had been looted by the Eight Banners before, and the remaining Ming Dynasty border army households were either hiding in the mountains or hiding in the fortress to defend it, and the Mongolian cavalry had to search the mountains or attack the fortress on the side wall in order to grab some property. After robbing for a long time, there is really not much to gain.

After receiving Huang Taiji's order, Tushetu Khan and Shan Subdi Khan were overjoyed, if they could follow the Eight Banners to Yongping Mansion to grab a handful, the gains would be far greater than looting in Jibei.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived in Zunhua, he met the Ming army led by Liu Ce, and Tushetu Khan and Shan Subdi Khan immediately gathered cavalry to kill and surrounded the hill where Liu Ce was.

In the Mongol camp, there was a dispute over whether to attack the Ming army.

"The Great Khan has an order, let you rush to Yongping Mansion as soon as possible, this Ming army is too numerous to take, the two khans should not delay here." Yue Tuo said in a deep voice.

Yue Tuo's task was to bring the Mongol cavalry to Yongping Mansion and participate in the encirclement and suppression of the main force of the Ming army, not wanting the Mongols to waste time here.

This Ming army was quite numerous, and it was guarded on the mountain, and it would take at least two or three days to conquer it, so it could not afford to delay.

However, Tushetu Khan and Shan Subdi Khan did not think so. Since the Ming army in front of him was weak in combat, he just took the opportunity to take it.

Anyway, there are more than 10,000 Ming troops, who robbed them of their armor and military uniforms, firearms and weapons, grain and iron pots, and also plundered some soldiers back to the tribe as herding slaves!

The Ming army in front of him is a lot of wealth, as long as he can win, he will gain more than he has gained from the looting these days!

Since it's all looting, why bother to go far, why brave the heavy snow to go to Yongping Mansion, which is a hundred miles away?

Of course, there were more than 10,000 people in this Ming army, but in the eyes of Tushetu Khan and Shan Subdi Khan, it was not difficult to take it. The general of the Ming army is too stupid, in order to increase the defense of the army on the hill, you must know how cold the wind is at night on this mountain, as long as it is a night, even the stones can be frozen!

You only need to trap the Ming army here for a day or two, you don't need to fight, and the freezing alone can freeze the Ming army to death and frostbite!

"Two khans, the order of the Great Khan is for you to rush to Yongping Mansion as soon as possible!" Yue Tuo said with a calm face.

Tushetu Khan said with a smile: "Of course we will listen to the orders of the Great Golden Khan, but since we have encountered the Ming army, we naturally want to annihilate them, otherwise what if they attack the rear of our army?" I believe that even if Daikin Khan is here, he will make the same choice as us. ”

Yue Tuo was a little speechless, this Ming army looked cowardly at first glance, how could he dare to attack the back road? But what Tushetu Khan said also makes sense, since it is an invasion of the Ming Kingdom, how can there be a reason not to fight when encountering the Ming army? People are not avoiding the war, but taking the initiative to meet the Ming army, what's wrong?

Tushetu and Shan Subdi Mongols were nominally subordinate to the Dajin Kingdom, but after all, they were still independent tribes, and once they made up their minds, although Yue Tuo was the Belle of the Dajin Kingdom, he didn't have much to do but urge them as soon as possible.

The two Mongols pitched their tents at the foot of the hill and surrounded it. Although they were in the same wilderness, the wind under the mountain was much lighter than that on the mountain, and the Mongols lived outside the fortress and were more hardy than the Ming army.

At night, Liu Ce had organized his subordinates to attack the Mongolian camp, but before they could get close, they were discovered by the Mongols, and after a flurry of arrows, the attacking Ming army left dozens of corpses and fled back to the mountains.

Early the next morning, there was a cough on the hills, and in the course of one night, many Ming soldiers were frozen out of the disease.

There were many rocks on the mountain, there were not many trees at all, and it was very difficult to even make a fire, so the soldiers could only gnaw hard dry food on the snow.

At the foot of the mountain, the Mongols finally couldn't resist Yue Tuo's urging and prepared to attack the Ming army.

A group of Mongol soldiers gave up their horses and chose to approach the mountain on foot, and when they were dozens of steps away from the Ming camp, they shot arrows at the Ming camp from a distance.

Round after round of feathered arrows were fired into the Ming camp, inflicting some casualties on the Ming army, and the Ming army also tried to launch a counterattack. But the weather was so cold that the gunners were trembling and it was difficult to even reload the gunpowder.

After several rounds of feathered arrows, the Mongols finally attacked, and the Mongols carried scimitars one by one, moved the antlers in front of the Ming army to resist the horses, and fought with the Ming soldiers. For a while, the sound of fighting on the hill became one.

Although Liu Ce's department is the border army of Jizhou, its combat effectiveness is very average, and it cannot be compared with the Xuanfu soldiers and the Liaoxi soldiers at all.

Fortunately, they were surrounded on the mountain, and they all knew that there was no way to escape, and once they were breached the defense line, there was only one way to die. With no way out, these Jizhou soldiers fought hard and fought with the Mongols.

Looking at the defeated subordinates who were killed, Liu Ce's heart was full of despair, he knew that it might not be long before his army would collapse, unless a miracle appeared!

As if hearing Liu Ce's call, the Mongolian array under the mountain became a little commotion, and the attacking Mongolian soldiers looked back from time to time, and the offensive slowed down a lot.

Liu Ce stood on a stone and looked down the mountain in the distance, and saw a team rapidly approaching on the snowy fields in the south.

Reinforcements are coming!

......

Zhang Shize rode on a war horse and led the army forward, and the sentry reported that the Mongols were attacking a Ming army.

"Spread out the battle formation, attack!" Zhang Shize ordered fiercely.

Trekking all the way from northern Shaanxi, I finally arrived in Beijing, but I was arranged to garrison Xishan to prevent the invasion of Jiannu to the west!

For the sake of King Qin this time, the Praetorian Guard army in Yansui Town can be said to have poured out, with a full of 13,000 people, which is already the last force that can be mobilized, and now the entire Yansui Town is empty.

Zhang Shize was full of thoughts that he could fight a good battle, and also show the world that the sons and daughters of the nobles would also fight, so as to fight for the British government. Who knew that after being stationed in Xishan for a period of time, he didn't even meet a single Jiannu.

Then Jiannu retreated, and Sun Chuanting ordered the Yansui Praetorian Guards to rush to Jibei to block Jiannu's retreat.

Among the various Qinwang armies, it is the Yansui army with the most, and it is the Praetorian Guard created by the emperor, so it is natural to entrust it to reuse. In the eyes of Sun Chuanting at that time, there was a chance that Jiannu would choose to withdraw from the old road to Guanwai.

He led the Liaoxi soldiers to drag the pace of Jiannu, so that the Yansui Praetorian Guard quickly rushed to Jibei and occupied Zunhua and other cities, maybe they could block Jiannu within the side wall.

However, he didn't expect that Jiannu did not choose to go to Jibei, but went to the direction of Yongping Mansion.

Sun Chuanting wanted to recall Yan Suibing, but he was afraid that Jiannu would make a false shot, so he did not change the order to Zhang Shize.

So Zhang Shize led his subordinates to Jibei, and unexpectedly encountered the Mongols attacking Liu Ce's department.

Then what else is there to say, of course it is going to attack!