Since the official start of the war in late September, the battle in the direction of Xuanfu Town is like a bamboo, after confirming that the Warat people withdrew to Tumubao, the army pressed on the whole line, the soldiers were divided into three roads, one route Wang Bin personally led the troops north to Longmen City, where there were 20,000 Tatar cavalry and 10,000 Duoyan three guards stationed, the Ming army with many defeats, defeated the alliance of the two tribes in one fell swoop, beheaded nearly 20,000, except for a small part escaped, the rest were all captured, and tens of thousands of cattle and sheep were captured.

Xie Qiong and Zhang Qiang joined forces with a group to go to Baoan Prefecture through Harrier Ridge, all the way to recover the outpost fort occupied by the Warat people, and recovered Baoan Prefecture on October 30, and two days later with the two armies of Zhang Xiaoguang, Marquis of Changning, and Wang Bin, Bo Wang Bin of Xiangyang, who broke through Mayukou, and more than 80,000 horse infantry troops went straight to Tumu Fort.

And Jia Jue personally led the Ruishi battalion to the north to attack the Tatars stationed in Zhangjiakou Fort, this pass must be taken, otherwise once the Tatars or Warats outside the pass attacked, the rear wing of the army will be attacked, although the Tatars are not good at defending the city, but the Ruishi battalion still stormed for two days to take Zhangjiakou Fort, and the Great Wall Pass was then easily taken.

When the expedition, more than 10,000 people, after the war there were less than 8,000 left, leaving 2,000 people to defend the Great Wall Pass, Jia Jue led the rest of the men and horses to Harrier Ridge, this is the plan that was set before, Jia Jue will command the Ruishi battalion and 5,000 Xuanfu infantry to defend here, in order to prevent the Warat people from rushing into Xuanfu Town.

According to the plan, the army will besiege the Tumu Fort, forcing the Tatars and Duoyan Sanwei who are besieging Huailai City to retreat, and then the main army of the Niu Ji Sect will pursue the retreating two ethnic coalition forces under the cover of cavalry, and the two sides will have a decisive battle around the Tumu Fort.

However, the development of the war did not go as everyone expected, first the main force of the Ming army of Niu Jizong crossed the river under the cover of Huailai City artillery and fought a big battle with the Tatars, both sides had their own victories and defeats, and finally because of the large casualties, the two sides withdrew their troops to rest.

Immediately afterwards, a news that shocked Jia Jue even more came, and Ah Shili learned the news in advance, and led the main cavalry of Wara to evade the Ming army sentinels, and attacked the newly recovered Baoan Prefecture, and all the 3,000 Ming troops who stayed in the city were killed.

Fortunately, the sentinel sent by Zhang Xiaoguang, the Marquis of Changning, found out the specific location of the Wara Biao Division hiding in the northwest of Tumubao in the western foot of Wolf Mountain, and at the second watch of the day before yesterday, the Marquis of Changning personally led the main force of the Ming army to attack the Wara Biao Division, and completely annihilated the 20,000 Vara cavalry hiding there, and seized the water source, otherwise it would repeat the mistake of the past.

Jia Jue, who was stationed in Harrier Ridge, had received official news, in order to revitalize the whole battle situation, the leader of Wara, Ah Frude, divided his troops into two ways, he personally led 60,000 main cavalry to attack the main force of the Ming army led by Zhang Xiaoguang, Marquis of Changning, Xiangyang Bo Wang Bin and Xie Qiong, and the leader of 30,000 households on the right wing, Tu Huahai, led 20,000 Wara cavalry to attack Harrier Ridge, intending to capture Zhangjiakou Fort again and open up the way to retreat.

Under the city of Huailai, a battle had just ended, and both sides retreated, and in the distance was the large camp of the Tatars and Duoyan Sanwei, and the Ming army fought against the city, once again thwarting Bayan Khan's plan to use superior cavalry to defeat the main force of the Ming army of Niu Jizong.

The remnant sun is like blood, there are thousands of corpses lying on the field outside the city, there are pools of dazzling blood everywhere, the corpses of the dead Ming soldiers have been carried away, hundreds of young men who were captured by the Ming army are struggling to carry the corpses of the Tatars, and groups of Ming soldiers are collecting weapons, especially arrows.

The Tatar camp was encamped on a higher mound, and in order to prevent the Ming cavalry from raiding, a simple wall was built with wood and stone, and a high platform was built with gravel to observe the surrounding movements, and thousands of archers were arranged near the high platform, waiting for the battle.

Under the city of Huailai, in the camp of the Ming army, Niu Jizong stood on the arrow tower and stared expressionlessly at the Tatar and Duoyan Sanwei's camp in the distance, the two sides are currently in a state of stalemate, but Niu Jizong is confident that he will win this battle, at the beginning, he also planned to continue to wait according to the plan of Changning Hou and others, as a result, he received a letter from the Duke of Qi, which said that the current situation in Shenjing is short of food.

Although Liu Wenbin bought 200,000 stone grain from Xungui at a low price, who would have thought that Nanzhili reported another flood, several counties were flooded, and nearly 100,000 people were affected, but fortunately, the Jia family still had 200,000 stone grain in Jinling, which solved the urgent need, and the imperial court had sent people to Huguang and other places to transfer grain and buy grain, but Qi Guogong was worried that there would be no food in the official warehouse and the market at all.

In other words, it is very likely that there is no grain from the south to transport into the capital, and the army is all supported by the grain stored in the Gyeonggi area, and they will not be able to hold out for long with this little grain.

Niu Jizong is an experienced veteran, he knows very well, the more this time, the more calm and cautious, he knows that there must be the calculations of the civilian officials, in order to force themselves to fight, so as to create fighters for the Tatars, in order to prevent falling into their schemes, Niu Jizong originally planned to wait for the good news from the direction of Changning Hou to implement a step-by-step strategy, step by step forward, never be greedy for merit, to prevent being cut off by the Tatar cavalry.

However, a piece of news disrupted his deployment, the Warats attacked Baoanzhou, which made Niu Jizong realize that Changning Hou and others had been deceived, since there was an accident in the direction of Tumubao, Niu Jizong could not wait, this would only be a waste of time, and after discussing with Cheng Yuan, the general soldier of Jizhou, Weiyuan Hou and others, he decided to start a big war with the Tatars, wanting to use the advantage of the city's artillery to consume the Tatars' vital strength.

Unlike the Niu Ji Sect on the Eastern Front, the fighting near the Civil Fort on the Northern Front was extremely fierce, and Ah Faux clearly realized that the 80,000 Ming troops led by the Marquis of Changning and others were nailed to their soft underbelly like nails, if they could not be eliminated, at least they must be defeated, otherwise, they would face the danger of being copied at any time, so the battle for the Civil Fort and the western foot of Wolf Mountain was also to the extent of life and death.

Ah Flap also wanted to attack at night to seize the water source, but unfortunately he was repelled by Xie Qiong, and he was almost wrapped in dumplings by Wang Bin's reinforcements, and in two days of fighting, the Warat people lost more than 10,000, more than double the Ming army.

Harrier Ridge is located on the north side of the Yanghe River, here has always been the throat of Xuanfu to Juyongguan, the early Ming Dynasty set up a post station here, and then slowly formed a village, at this time, the whole village has long been empty, the villagers here do not know whether to flee, or died tragically under the butcher's knife of the grassland people.

Jia Jue rushed up a hill and looked into the distance, the weather was clear, and the vision was exceptionally clear, at this time, a team of people and horses in the distance drove like the wind, and Jia Jue's face finally showed a smile, "It's finally here." ”

Jia Jue immediately urged the horse to meet him, and Jia Gui immediately turned over and dismounted, "Third Master, all of them were guessed by you, the Warat people did not go straight to Harrier Ridge, but escorted the people who plundered from Baoan Prefecture to come over." ”

Thanks to the collection of intelligence, when Jia Jue learned that the sea of flowers was searching for the people of the Ming Dynasty everywhere in Baoanzhou, he guessed his intentions, and it was also that the Wara people ambushed the Ming Dynasty's army in Harrier Ridge, how could they not be guarded, the Harrier Ridge Mountain is not high and the forest is not dense, as long as the sea of flowers drives the people to rush to the mountain, the Ming army can only passively retreat, in this way, the Warat people drive the people to the ambush to the mountain, and the other part of the cavalry can take the opportunity to rush through the mountain to attack the rear wing of the army.

Jia Jue's worries were not superfluous, judging from the various information he had, this Dehuahai was a cautious person, otherwise he would not have led the army back to Tumu Fort immediately after getting the news.

After a series of strategic deployments, in addition to leaving a thousand cavalry to hide in the mountain road three miles away, the entire Harrier Ridge did not deploy any soldiers and horses, the army was all stationed in Xiangshuipu, in order to resist the raid of the Warat cavalry, Jia Jue not only dug several trenches in the village to slow down the impact speed of the cavalry, but also ordered people to dig tens of thousands of soil holes thicker than the horse's hooves within a radius of one mile outside the trench, if you are lucky, a wave can take away thousands of Varat cavalry, Jia Jue ordered someone to transport nearly 30 Franc machine guns from Xuanfu.

"Third master, go back, in half an hour at most, the vanguard of the Warat people will arrive."

Jia Gui reminded in a low voice.

Jia Jue nodded, "Let's go back." ”

At the same time, the black-pressed Warat cavalry marched quickly on the main road, and along the way, they passed several Ming army outposts, but now they were all empty, and after turning over the hilly area in front, it was the destination of this trip, Harrier Ridge.

Less than a mile behind this group of Varat cavalry was the main force led by the Dehua Haiqin, who were escorting a group of captured Ming Dynasty civilians, they were dejected, many of them were wounded, and there were large groups of women and children, stumbling, crying to the sky, their eyes were confused, they did not know their future, they did not know whether they would suffer the fate of slaughter.

Sitting on a horse, looking ahead from a distance, there is a stick of incense to reach the Harrier Ridge, where the ancestor had ambushed the Ming army twice in a row, how could he not be on guard, so he would rob the Ming Dynasty people in Baoanzhou, in order to drive out the Ming army ambush hidden in the mountains and forests.

At this moment, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and a Warat cavalry galloped over, and he ran to the sea of flowers and reported loudly: "Report to Lord Wanhu, the Ming army is not ambushed on the Harrier Ridge Mountain, but stationed in the village on the bank of the Yanghe River. ”

"Oh?"

Taken aback, he realized that he had met an opponent who did not play according to the routine, and when he thought of this, he shouted: "Let these people go, and the whole army will march towards Xiangshuipu." ”

The Warat army marched towards Xiangshuipu, ten miles away.