"Fixed-shot loading, three o'clock in the afternoon, the height remains the same, twelve rounds of pre-firing, ready to ...... Put! ”

"Bang bang bang-"

On the tenth day of the third month of the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, this is a day worthy of going down in history.

On this day, Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng's Shangzhi South Route Army shelled Jianguo's Shangjing City, Xiong Tingbi shelled Jianyu's Xingjing City, the gateway to Xingjing, Yidonghe City, Sun Yingyuan shelled Huifa City, and You Shigong shelled Mowenhe City.

Generally speaking, except for Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao, who rushed to support Ala Mountain City, the rest of the armies have officially fought with Jianyu.

More than 3,000 artillery pieces of the Ming army arrived at the front line, and bloomed in Shangjing, Yidonghe City, Huifa City, and Mowen River City.

Similarly, Guo Sangdai received a flying pigeon from Shenyang, and in a hurry, he hurriedly ran from Nuergancheng to Demuhe City with four battalions of soldiers and horses.

Because the snow had not yet melted, Guo Sandai planned to send a battalion of soldiers and horses to Tomuhe City on a sleigh while arriving at Fushan City, and he followed closely behind.

The situation on all sides is changing, and heavy artillery fire is blaring in the border city of Jianqiang.

"Bang bang bang-"

Under the capital, the ten-pound stone bullet made of granite was fired by the artillery, and with the terrible sound under the nine shadows, it bombarded the head of the capital city.

In the city, all the Jin troops hid in the corner tower and the arrow tower, and in the dim corner tower, only a little candle flame provided light.

At a glance, there was a group of Eight Banner soldiers with white beards, the youngest of whom looked to be nearly fifty years old.

There was only a candle flame in their eyes, but the candle flame was a little dim.

The shaking of the stone projectiles on the city wall caused the entire arrow tower to fall into ashes, but no one cared about this at the moment.

A quarter of an hour later, the Ming artillery fire stopped, and everyone enjoyed a rare silence.

At this time, an old Baqi who had lost most of his teeth looked up at the door, and then spoke: "At this time, it's almost the lower reaches of the Heishui River......

"It's time to ......" the others nodded, not feeling good.

If they can live, who wants to stay?

It's just that for the sake of their heirs and families, they can only stay, and this stay, only to defend is to die.

"There are no barracks, no traps, no horn walls, no trenches outside the moat......"

"The old slave is going to defend to the death, and buy time for Huang Taiji and them to break through."

Three miles outside the west city of Shangjing, when Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng held a clairvoyant mirror and analyzed the defense of Shangjing, they were enemies, and they couldn't help but sigh for Nurhachi's stubborn attitude of staying alone.

They don't know about Nurhachi, and if they did, they wouldn't think so.

"Shangjing is the same as in the intelligence, three zhang high and three zhang wide, and there are nearly 20,000 old and weak defenders."

"Do you want me to take someone to rush in a wave?"

Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng discussed, but Cao Meng grabbed his beard and said entangledly:

"Your Highness said, the two of us are already the governors of the upright now, and we want to sit in the Chinese army, don't be reckless."

"If you don't go, you won't go, why move out of His Highness to scare me?" Hearing Cao Meng's words, Sun Shoufa glared at him.

"You ......" Cao Meng looked at Sun Shoufa, whose eyes were as wide as copper bells, and could only secretly scold this guy in his heart for not knowing what to do.

But as soon as they turned their heads, both of them didn't bother to reveal each other's shortcomings, but both looked at the city with clairvoyant mirrors.

When they looked at the city, Zhu Youzhen was reviewing the music in the camp thirty miles behind, and the leisurely appearance made Liu Xiaozu and the others a little uncomfortable.

It's Li Dingguo, he is as leisurely as Zhu Youzhen, because he knows that what His Royal Highness wants to kill most is Huang Taiji.

Liu Xiaozu and the others were just worried that Huang Taiji would succeed in breaking through.

But in other words, if Huang Taiji could really break through successfully, his Royal Highness would probably have ordered the four cavalry guards and killed them towards Beishan.

His Royal Highness is so calm now, which shows that he is sure to leave Huang Taiji.

"You all go back to the camp to rest, if you don't go, I'm afraid you will be disturbed to death by your eyes."

Zhu Youzhen didn't raise his head and spoke to Liu Xiaozu and the others, and although Liu Xiaozu was Zhu Youzhen's uncle, as soon as he heard him speak, he hurriedly saluted, and Wei Lian and Liu Bingwen withdrew from the camp.

It was Li Dingguo, who was sitting aside, holding some military and government affairs books written by Zhu Youzhen in his hand and watching.

Looking at it, he asked curiously: "When His Highness used to sit in the Chinese army, was he also so leisurely?" ”

Li Dingguo thought that sitting in the Chinese army also needed to run back and forth on the battlefield, but Zhu Youzhen's behavior broke his conjecture.

Because Zhu Youzhen not only does not go to the battlefield, but also hunts nearby, and only three hours a day will be used to deal with the music.

If you look at Zhu Youzhen's behavior, those who don't know still think that he is the one who sits in the Dading Palace in Yanshan County to escape the summer, not Zhu Youxiao.

"The situation is controllable, there is no need to rush."

Zhu Youzhen responded without raising his head while dealing with the music, and continued:

"In such a battle situation, it is useless to run, as long as you grasp the overall situation."

"Look at the sand table, what do you think is the overall situation at the moment?"

Zhu Youzhen asked Li Dingguo rhetorically, and Li Dingguo, who heard this, also got up and coiled around the sand in the tent, and then measured and said:

"The general army of Cao Bianjiao should have arrived at Ala Mountain City with the two guards of Leopard Tao and Yingyang, and the tens of thousands of cavalry of Yulinwei and Tiancewei are estimated to be less than 200 miles away from Cao Bianjiao's general army."

"As for Cao Wenzhao's general army, it is estimated that there will be five days to reach Ala Mountain City, and Xiong Jingluo in the south estimates that he will be able to break through Yimihe City in a few days, and then attack Xingjing City."

"Southside ......"

Li Dingguo clasped his face with his index finger, as if he was guessing.

After a while, he continued: "To the south, I estimate that it will take ten days for Sun Dudu to break through Huifa City, but You Shigong's general army should be able to break through Mowen River City in three days and attack towards Pu'er River City. ”

Li Dingguo's general analysis is basically no problem, it is not particularly good, nor is it particularly bad.

However, his estimate of Sun Yingyuan's part is very good, because Huifa City is the most difficult city to fight except for Shangjing and Xingjing, and the local area is located in a mountain pass, and the army cannot be spread, so it will be difficult to storm it.

"What about Huang Taiji and the old slaves......"

Zhu Youzhen continued to take the school without raising his head, and Li Dingguo measured the distance with Zhu Youzhen's pear blossom stick, and then said:

"They set out on the first day of the third month, but there were many women, children, cattle and sheep among the troops, and the march, no matter how fast they were, was only fifty or sixty miles."

"Today is the tenth day of the third month, and they should have walked a distance of about 500 to 600 miles."

"Coupled with the fact that they set off from Yimala City in the north of Shangjing City, now calculate the distance, they should have just walked out of the first mountain range in the north and arrived at Jiahe City in the south of the Heishui River, it is estimated that they will cross the river tonight, and then rest on the north bank for a day."

Li Dingguo said that one of the basic marching problems was that because the Jin army belonged to a state of breaking through against time, and the Jurchens and Mongols were nomadic, fishing and hunting peoples, and adapted to the topography and climate of the white mountains and black waters, their marching speed could not be too slow.

In addition, Huang Taiji and Horqin defeated the barbarians, annexed the soldiers and horses of Horqin Oba, and collected the Mongolian herdsmen of Horqin, so there was no shortage of horses.

Jin Jun's horses, Liu Aita gave Jin Yiwei a detailed number.

In September of the 10th year of the Apocalypse, the Jin army had more than 43,000 cattle, more than 96,000 military horses, 124,000 horses, 65,000 horses, and more than 6,000 mules and donkeys.

Counting down, excluding military horses, the number of cattle, horses, mules and donkeys in the Jin army is about 230,000.

This is not much, after Zhu Youzhen defeated Oba in the second Northern Expedition, he only recruited less than half of the Horqin tribe, and obtained more than 300,000 cattle and horses.

The remaining half was absorbed by Lin Dan Khan, Bo Xuan, and Huang Taiji respectively.

In addition to the cattle and horses of the barbarian department, if it were not for the inability to raise, the number of military horses that might be built would reach 150,000, and the number of horses and horses would be even higher.

With more than 300,000 people and more than 200,000 animal power, even if Huang Taiji fled north at a speed of 70 or 80 miles every day, Zhu Youzhen would not find it strange.

Therefore, after Li Dingguo finished speaking, he immediately put down the pen and walked to the sand table, picked up the flag of the Huangtaiji Department planted by Li Dingguo, and checked the flag directly to the north bank of the Heishui River.

"You've misjudged their speed, they're probably already on the north bank of the Blackwater River yesterday, and they're probably preparing to head north along the valley plain on the edge of the North Mountain."

"How so?" Li Dingguo couldn't believe it: "The book of soldiers says that the foot soldiers march only fifty miles a day. ”

"There is nothing impossible, most of the people who only read books to fight are mediocre." Zhu Youzhen knew in his heart that this thing was very likely.

Historically, Li Zicheng with the old battalion and a group of surrendered Ming troops were able to march at a speed of seventy miles a day, and this was still within the territory of the enemy army.

Later, Shanhaiguan was defeated, and Li Zicheng simply led the army to retreat at a speed of 150 miles a day.

Of course, the Jin army can't have as many mules and horses as Li Zicheng, but this also means that the speed of the Jin army can't be too slow.

Fifty miles a day in Li Dingguo's mouth, that is an army of ordinary quality, coping with the speed of marching in the case of enemy territory.

But at present, nearly 50,000 people of the Eight Banners of the Northern Hunt under the command of Huang Taiji are all horse infantry, and there are 30,000 Mongolian cavalry serving as rangers for them.

Before discovering the stone fort of the Ming army, they would only speed up their retreat, and it was impossible to stay for a day to rest.

Seventy miles a day, this speed may be able to come out.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen measured the speed of Cao Bianjiao and Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew with a cloth ruler, and then put away the cloth ruler.

"Huang Taiji estimates that there will be six days to meet with our army's stone forts, if he can break through all the stone forts of a mountain road in a row, then he will be able to break through successfully."

Zhu Youzhen said lightly, and then continued:

"It's just that six days is enough time for Cao Bianjiao to take the four guards of Leopard Tao, Yingyang, Yulin, and Tiance to surround it."

"Even if Huangtaiji succeeds in breaking through, it will not hinder, the two guards and horses led by Cao Wenzhao and the four battalions of soldiers and horses led by Guo Sangdai can stop him at the edge of the North Mountain."

"Also...... The stone castle garrisoned by the Divine Guard is not easy to break through......"

Speaking of Shen Cewei, Zhu Youzhen's eyes narrowed, with a hint of a smile.

Li Dingguo observed this scene, and also knew that this was the expression that His Royal Highness would only show when he was happy.

He didn't know why, so he hurriedly asked: "Your Highness, the kid was very curious before, why did the Shence Guard have 5,600 people, but only divided 1,006 troops to garrison 16 stone forts, instead of 3,002 or 4,008?" ”

"Isn't it good to have several times as many people stationed?" Li Dingguo's heart was full of doubts, but Zhu Youzhen didn't answer directly, just walked over and patted him on the back:

"Sometimes, a hundred people are better than a thousand, and ten thousand people work."

With that, he walked back to his place, sat down, and went on to deal with the recital.

"A hundred is better than a thousand...... 10,000 still work? Li Dingguo frowned puzzled, unable to figure out what the truth was.

One enemy and one hundred is basically an elite battle against a rabble, but at the moment, Huang Taiji and the army of the North Hunt are all elites......

Li Dingguo couldn't figure it out, but he looked at His Royal Highness's confident appearance, and he didn't continue to think about it anymore.

In his opinion, as long as His Highness is not in a hurry, he is not in a hurry.

With this thought, Li Dingguo also sat down again, but instead of reading the so-called military books, he looked through some books on civil engineering and politics......

Just as Zhu Youzhen and Li Dingguo were chatting, a long queue was dragging in a river valley on the north bank of the Heishui River.

This is the team of the Jin Army's Northern Hunt, compared to a few days ago, the number of people in the team has become even smaller after arriving on the north bank of the Heishui River, and the people in the team are even more numb.

Everyone hurried away with their heads down, and suddenly a woman and child knelt on the ground, clutching their chest cotton clothes like crazy.

"Hot... Hot... It's so hot! Why is it so hot! ”

The woman and child grabbed their clothes frantically, yelled anxiously in their hearts, and then took off their clothes in the north mountain, which was more than ten degrees below zero.

But before she could finish undressing, an arrow suddenly shot at her, piercing her back and chest, and causing her to fall headlong in the thick snow.

After she fell, her body twitched uncontrollably a few times, and then she remained motionless.

After a few moments, by the time people around her went up to check, her body was already cold.

"This kind of strange disease has only ...... death"

A Jurchen woman who came up to pick up her clothes shook her head and explained to the scared child next to her that with their knowledge, they could not explain this phenomenon, so everyone called this strange disease "the curse of Beishan".

Unfastening her clothes, the woman draped them over her child, even though the child kept shaking his head in disobedience.

After finally getting dressed and feeling the warmth, the child felt a little disgusted, but he still didn't take off his clothes.

I don't know how many times such a scene has happened, and no one in the passing team stopped, only walked forward numbly.

In the middle of the team, a group of nobles of the Jin Kingdom also looked tired, and only Huang Taiji was still relatively determined.

"Great Khan, tonight we should be able to reach the southern foot of Tuluting Mountain, where there are several cols where the army can rest."

Amin, who was familiar with Beishan, came on horseback, saluted Huang Taiji and reported the road ahead.

Hearing that they could rest immediately, all the nobles of the Jin Kingdom breathed a sigh of relief, but they were always vigilant around.

Under the high pressure brought by Zhu Youzhen, the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom basically have no time to enjoy, and naturally there is no corruption problem.

Most of them started with Nurhachi, and they have suffered everything.

Right now, they feel tired, and they just think about their situation like a lost dog.

Once upon a time, they also completely annihilated the existence of the Ming Dynasty field army, but now, they didn't even have the courage to fight the Ming army, and they only knew how to escape like the northern captives.

They used to look down on Lin Dan Khan, but now they have become Lin Dan Khan.

With this disparity, the people walked twenty miles and set up camp at the hour of Shen (15 o'clock).

Also when they were camping, Dai Shan rode to Huang Taiji's side, and there was only calm in his eyes, and there was no longer the jealousy of the year.

"The farther north we go, the colder it gets, today we set off at the right time, and we rested at the right time, and we only walked for three hours, less than sixty miles."

"If you go further north, I'm afraid you can only walk fifty miles a day."

"At this speed, you will definitely not be able to escape the encirclement of the Ming army within thirty days."

Dai Shan stated his predicament, but in such a situation, Huang Taiji had no choice, he could only bite the bullet and say:

"Let's go on, it'll be warm by the end of the month, and we can go farther."

Huang Taiji was helpless, after all, after crossing the Heishui River, the temperature in Hebei was much colder than in Henan.

If they had not set up camp at the time of Shen and had completed the gathering of men and horses at the time of the unitary, many would have frozen to death after dark.

The Jin army did not have so much cotton, so they could only wear fur, and the warmth of the fur was limited, and they could only freeze to death if they were forced to hurry.

Compared with them, Guo Sangdai and Ming Jun did not have this concern.

"That's all there is to it......" Daizen nodded, and then left the place.

Shortly after he left, Zilharang and Amin also rode to Huang Taiji's side.

"Great Khan, more than 500 people froze to death today......"

Zilharang was the first to speak, and it was not good news, which made Huang Taiji can't help but tighten the reins in his hand.

"After all, more than 4,000 women and children have died in the past ten days, and the complaints of the people below are getting bigger and bigger." Amin said as he looked at Huang Taiji's face:

"If you continue like this, it is estimated that tens of thousands of people will die before you get out of Beishan."

Faced with Amin's estimate, Huang Taiji said with a calm face:

"Tell them that the Ming army launched a plough to sweep the caves, and the Jurchens did not leave any of them!"

"If anyone wants to stay and be cut off by the Ming army as a military merit, I won't stop it."

The calmer Huang Taiji was, the more relieved Jilharang and Amin became, and seeing him like this, Amin nodded in response, and then turned his horse's head and left.

It was Zilharang, and after watching Amin walk away, he spoke:

"That guy is a little restless, and he wants to break through directly from the west with two blue flags."

When a power rises, everyone will be harmonious, but once the power starts to decline, intrigue and people will appear.

Mang Gurtai didn't have the brains of Dai Shan, he only felt that Huang Taiji had robbed him of his sweat position, and at the moment, Huang Taiji's retreat route was not his mind.

In Mang Gurtai's view, they should go directly to the west, and take advantage of the Ming army to besiege Shangjing and Xingjing, and attack and kill Taining Mansion.

As long as he can rush to the mountain road where Zhu Youzhen attacked Horqin back then, Na Dajin can directly cross the Haravan Mountains and reach the Mobei grassland.

It's a pity that Mang Gurtai doesn't know the situation of the mountain road in Taining Mansion, and Huang Taiji is the only high-level Jin Guo who has seen that mountain road.

He knew very well that it was impossible for a person like Zhu Youzhen to ignore the mountain pass.

The topography of the mountain pass, only need to build a pass in the open space of the mountain pass, which is enough to block all the soldiers and horses who want to take this mountain road.

It is impossible for Huang Taiji to choose this path, once he chooses, it will be Zhu Youzhen's turn to be happy.

Instead of taking the tens of thousands of horse infantry and rangers in Beishan and Huang Taiji to chase and intercept them, Zhu Youzhen hoped that Huang Taiji would go to the plains.

Artillery, cavalry, horse infantry, these arms, the Ming army is several times that of the Jin army.

If Huang Taiji dares to break through to the west, then Zhu Youzhen can prepare to set off firecrackers.

"Watch him well, if he wants to break through with his minions himself, don't pay attention to him."

"If he wants to break through with the soldiers and horses of the two blue flags, tie him up for me immediately."

Huang Taiji ordered Zilharang with a calm face, at this critical moment, he would not allow anyone to drag him back.

"Yes!" Zilharang responded, then turned his horse's head and left the hill.

Huang Taiji watched the construction of the camp in the col on the hill, and then led people down the hill and settled in the camp.

More than 100,000 tents have been erected, and at this time, only one fire is needed to burn the company camp, but the fact is that Huang Taiji released the pond horse for a hundred miles, which also means that the surrounding one hundred miles are safe areas.

He returned to his tent and saw a familiar figure.

"Hai Lanzhu, you don't have to do these things, just leave them to the minions below to do."

Entering the big tent, Huang Taiji saw his concubine Bumu Butai (Xiaozhuang)'s sister Hai Lanzhu, at this moment she was facing away from Huang Taiji, and was sorting out some things on the desk for Huang Taiji.

Hearing Huang Taiji's voice, Hai Lanzhu turned around, she was not very outstanding, at least compared to the sixth concubine of King Qi, she was very ordinary.

However, there is a kind of heroism and freedom in her, which makes people feel a desire to conquer at the first sight of her.

Seeing Huang Taiji, Hai Lanzhu saluted:

"Kulegantius (brother-in-law) took us in, and I just did what I could."

Hai Lanzhu's words also explain why she is here.

Although Zhu Youzhen destroyed Horqin during the Second Northern Expedition, Hai Lanzhu followed his father and brother to the Jin Kingdom, so he was taken in.

In the face of a woman like Hai Lanzhu, Huang Taiji always has a desire to conquer her, but because there are too many state affairs, and his prestige is not enough to control Hai Lanzhu and Bumu Butai at the same time, he has never started.

Now that he thinks about it, if he can't break through, then he may never have the opportunity to taste the taste of Hailanzhu in his life.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji stepped forward and grabbed Hai Lanzhu's shoulders, but Hai Lanzhu didn't feel strange, she had her own thoughts.

Since their sister has not had children since she married Huang Taiji, the whole clan is very anxious.

Naturally, they would not suspect that it was Huang Taiji's problem, because Huang Taiji had many children, and although he only survived one son and one daughter, it also proved that he had no problem.

Therefore, they all suspected that it was Bumu Butai's problem, so for the sake of the whole clan, Hai Lanzhu had no choice but to sacrifice herself.

But she didn't expect Huang Taiji to be so tolerant, and she actually endured it for four whole years.

Although the current Jin country is slim, Hai Lanzhu has no choice.

If she doesn't give it to Huang Taiji, who can she give it to? To the Ming Army?

Don't think about it, the Ming army has already ordered the plough court to sweep the caves, and their family is related to Huang Taiji by marriage, so naturally they can't survive.

So apart from giving Huang Taiji, she has no second person to give.

Hai Lanzhu looked up at Huang Taiji, and Huang Taiji simply picked her up and walked to the bed.

He doesn't know if he can break through successfully, if he can, he will treat Hai Lanzhu well, if not, then he also got Hai Lanzhu without regrets......

Time ticked by, the wind and snow outside were blowing harder and heavier, but the inside of the camp was quiet.

It seemed that everyone had fallen asleep, even the soldiers in front of them, who were unwilling to rest, were lying down at this time.

It's so tired, it's really too tired.

Inside the camp, the soldiers of the Eight Banners fell asleep together, with a little smile on their faces.

In the dream, Dajin is still so strong, the Ming dogs in the south are constantly begging for mercy under their butcher's knives, and they, the warriors of the Eight Banners, have captured Liaodong, captured Shanhaiguan, invaded the Central Plains, and conquered the world......

The march map and the situation map are placed in the Easter Egg Chapter, and if the Easter Egg Chapter is killed, then put it in the comment area

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