"! This place is really cold, and it's freezing when you pee. ”

"Is that group of Jianyu really going to break through from this direction? I'm afraid I didn't freeze to death in the middle of the road. ”

On March 15, the 11th year of the Apocalypse, when the Ming army in charge of ploughing in the south blindly shelled and did not attack the city, in the dense forest south of the Duoerbi River in the north, the official words of the Ming Dynasty suddenly sounded.

A Ming soldier in cloth armor walked out scolding while wearing a belt.

When he walked out of the forest, he was laughed and scolded by the small flag officer who led the team:

"You kid has a lot of and urine, and he talks a lot of."

"Hehe, I'm not afraid that I won't be able to get the first level." The soldier smiled and turned over on his horse, and the laughter and scolding of the two of them probably brightened up the surrounding environment.

I saw a total of twelve of them standing on the narrow beast path, surrounded by cedar trees still covered with snow, and I was afraid that I would be able to shake off a lot of snow by kicking the trunks of the trees.

The snow on the road was still three or four inches thick, and their horses were covered with leggings with outer skin and inner fleece to prevent frostbite.

The breath of the horses and men brought a hot white mist, and the cedar trees were still cedar trees except for the snow.

The tall cedar trees make it easy to lose one's bearings, so even the upright pond riders dare not move separately.

Of course, they also gathered together because according to the time calculation, Huang Taiji's Northern Hunting team was about to meet them.

Because of this, the little flag officer will use laughter and scolding to ease the tension in the team.

It's just that in such a cold weather, laughter and scolding can't warm people up, so after a brief laughing and scolding, the group continued to follow the original route and started the inspection.

When walking on the snowy beast path, everyone looked around vigilantly, but this concentration usually only lasted for three hours, because the plain of the Demu River was only suitable for walking from the beginning of the hour to the time of Shen, and it was easy to die if it was too late.

The Tang cavalry squad patrolled around the camp for thirty miles, and the little flag officer looked at the pocket watch in his hand, and when he looked at the direction of the engraving and minute hands, and realized that there were still two quarters of an hour to reach Shenshi, he also relaxed a little:

"Today, it is estimated that Jianyu will not be able to reach this place."

"I guess it's not on our side." The soldier who was releasing water in the field in front of him also chimed in.

In the team, some people also relaxed after hearing this, and one of them couldn't help but look at the beast path under his feet and sighed:

"This beast road should have been a road before, when I was in Yaksa City before, I heard the local Beishan Jurchens say that before the Zhengde year, there were grain trades in various departments of Beishan, and many roads were walked out at that time."

"Later, there were fewer people walking, and the old slaves slaughtered many Beishan Jurchens, which caused no one to walk, and the road became narrower and narrower."

"It's good to have a road." The little flag officer looked around: "This road should be two zhang wide if you clear the bushes." ”

"You should walk through the road in the south, if this road is repaired and expanded, it is estimated that you can also make a four-zhang road road."

"This place is too cold, will Your Highness build towns and roads in this place?" Some of the soldiers were curious.

"That group of Beishan Jurchens are all obedient to my Daming, they like hunting and primitive, Your Highness is so benevolent, it is estimated that they will not be moved."

The little flag officer picked up a pot of wine, took a sip, and warmed up his body.

"I heard that the railway in the south has been repaired to Duoyan County, I don't know where it can be repaired after we finish this battle, and whether we can sit on it."

"Is the railroad really an iron bull pulling?"

"Who knows? Maybe there really is a cow made of iron. ”

"It won't be expensive to ride the Iron Ox, right?"

"If you kill a few more Jianyu Tartars, won't you have silver?"

The group had a patrol post talking and laughing, and the little flag officer also looked down at the pocket watch in his hand from time to time.

Seeing that the pocket watch in his hand was about to be time, the little flag officer also put it away, and turned his head with a smile:

"Let's go, go back to ......"

"Hiss !!"

"Li Tou!"

As soon as the little flag officer turned around, an arrow shot out of the dense forest, and the war horse was hit by an arrow, neighing and falling, and even knocked the little flag officer to the ground.

"Alert!"

Before he could get up, the little flag officer yelled and straightened his helmet, pulled out the upside-down riding gun on his waist, and subconsciously struck into the woods.

"Bang-"

The sound of the bell shook the whole forest, and some hibernating birds were frightened and cried, and for a time the surroundings were filled with the sound of chirping, which made people sweat.

"Li Tou!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

One person turned over and dismounted, helped Li Xiaoqiguan to stand up, and the five Tang horsemen deduced the direction of the attacker from the position of the arrows on their horses, and crossed into the forest.

Among the few people left, the two immediately raised their crossbows and shot arrows into the air.

Two "bangs" rang out, and arrows rang out in the sky several miles behind them.

The sound of arrows rang one by one, and finally reached the camp, but the far water could not save the near fire, looking at the military horse that died in the arrow, Li Xiaoqiguan was extremely distressed.

He pulled out the arrow, the heavy arrow looked like the arrow of Jianyu, Li Xiaoqiguan looked at the blood-stained arrow, and immediately skimmed the shaft of the arrow:

"! Find out the dog's captives to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will chop him alive! ”

"Bang Bang Bang-"

He opened his mouth to curse, but at the same time there was a dense sound of guns in the dense forest.

"The three of them will go back and report the news, and the rest will follow me!"

Li Xiaoqiguan commanded while loading his horseman, and then pulled out the Yanling knife at his waist and rushed into the forest with the two of them.

He chose to lead people forward on foot, following the traces in the snow, and carefully leading people to pursue.

Soon, they saw the five Tang riders who set off first, but there was no trace of Jianyu around them.

Seeing that Li Xiaoqi was coming, the leading veteran immediately rode over and said:

"It's Jianyu's sentinel, he was shot and ran away on horseback, there is only one person, it is estimated that Jianyu's headquarters is still some distance from us, otherwise Jianyu's sentinel should be a team of three."

The dispersion of the sentinels means that the terrain explored is too wide, the sentinels are too far away, and the sentinels are insufficient.

According to the information told to Li Xiaoqi above, it is estimated that there are 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses, and such a scale of soldiers and horses will not be enough to form a team if the sentry cavalry is at least 100 miles away.

"Go back first!"

Hearing this, Officer Li Xiaoqi looked around, and then decided to return to the camp first.

They buried the carcasses of the horses in the snow in the same place, and then Li Xiaoqiguan rode a horse with the people, and then withdrew to the rear.

Thirty miles was not a long journey for them, but in four quarters of an hour they saw the camp on the south bank of the Dolbi River.

The camp was built on a small knoll, with the frozen and unmelted Dolbi River in the background, and in front of it was an open area that had been cleared, with only a few tree stumps to use as shelter.

The stumps could not be cleared because the soil in the northern mountains was too hard in winter and it was too difficult to clean.

Similarly, because the Duoerbi River has not thawed so far, the Jin army has the possibility of directly breaking through.

After Cao Wenzhao discussed with Cao Bianjiao's uncle and nephew, he asked people to set up a camp south of the Duoerbi River to prevent the Jin army from breaking through.

However, in this way, the forces of the Ming army were dispersed.

Cao Wenzhao, who had no choice but to mobilize the cavalry of all departments except for the Tang cavalry, gathered 20,000 iron cavalry and handed them over to Cao Bianjiao, who was responsible for coordinating the various departments.

"Is Jianyu here?!"

"It's coming!"

When the Tang cavalry and his party retreated into the camp, the Baihu official who was in charge of guarding this place hurriedly asked Li Xiaoqi, he also nodded, and then took out the arrow that had been broken before:

"In this realm, only Jianyu can use this kind of iron armor-piercing arrow."

"Fortunately, the war horse turned its head sideways, otherwise it would have been me who was shot."

Speaking of this, Li Xiaoqiguan had palpitations, and the Baihu official also patted him on the shoulder: "Good job, remember the whole team of Xiaoqi Officer Li Bi!" ”

The first sentence he said was to Li Bi, and the latter sentence was to the military meritorious officers in the army.

When the military merit officer heard this, he immediately took out the document book and used a red pen to record a merit for Li Bi and his whole team.

Immediately afterwards, the Baihu official spread the news to the rear, a city that was once left by the Beishan Jurchens, Hara Mountain City.

Tang Qi rushed at a speed of 800 miles, taking advantage of the fact that it was not dark, and transmitted the information to the Hara Mountain City 80 miles behind, and it was Cao Bianjiao who sat here.

By the time the news reached Hara Mountain City, it was already completely dark.

The thermometer that Cao Bianjiao carried with the army let the people here know the cruelty of Beishan.

Even though it was already March 15, the white night of Beishan still reached minus seven or eight degrees.

This is naturally much warmer than ten days ago, but for Shangzhi, who lives in Beizhili all year round, this climate is still too torturous.

The scale of Hara Mountain City is not large, it is a stone fortress left by the Jurchen Sauron Department of Beishan, the circumference is only one mile, and it can only accommodate thousands of people.

It was built on the top of a hill with an altitude of about 100 meters, and the walls were only one zhang high and eight feet wide, which was very narrow.

Due to the inability to accommodate the army and military horses, Cao Bianjiao led people to build a peripheral camp at the foot of the mountain early.

The sappers of the baggage battalion also dug a fire path with great force, set up all the tents on the fire path, and then covered them with wooden planks and covered them with frozen soil, so that each tent could be slightly warmed by three or four degrees.

Three or four degrees may not seem like much, but for the soldiers and horses in the army, it is very crucial.

In the dark night, Cao Bianjiao, who had just finished dinner, learned the news that Jianyu had been found in the south of the Duoerbi River, and it was not the first time he had led troops to hear this, so he immediately instructed the staff around him:

"After dawn, send the news to the camps along the river, and then send the news to the north to my uncle and Guo Sangdai!"

"Yes!"

The staff hurriedly responded, but Cao Bianjiao did not plan to send troops.

He is a very important mountain city, and he can't act lightly, and they can't be sure where Huang Taiji's headquarters is.

Judging from the Tang cavalry survey in front, Huang Taiji's sentry horse was far away.

For now, it will take at least a day or two before they may reach the south bank of the Duoerbi River and make contact with the Ming army's camps along the way.

They weren't sure whether Huang Taiji would take the Tuluting Mountain Road to the north or the plains of the Duoerbi River and Wudi River Valley.

However, no matter which route they took, the Ming army was fully prepared.

Thinking of this, Cao Bianjiao was also a lot nervous.

Although it was not his first battle, it was the first time he commanded a large-scale cavalry operation.

Previously, he was just a guard commander under Zhu Youzhen, commanding the Xiao Cavalry Guard, but now the number of commanders has quadrupled, and even he can't help but have some doubts about his ability.

While he was worried, Jianyu's sentry also found a corpse lying in the snow.

The body was frozen, the wound in his arms had frozen, and he had written information on a piece of bark with his own blood.

Not surprisingly, this corpse was the Jin Army sentry who was shot by Li Bi and others.

It's a pity that Beishan was too cold, and he couldn't make it back to his headquarters, so he died on the way.

His war horse has disappeared, and he is probably looking for a place to escape the cold.

With the bark he had written, the rest of the Jin army sentry quickly brought the news back to the camp of the Jin army headquarters, and at this moment they had arrived at the southern foot of Tuluting Mountain.

When Huang Taiji got this bark, there were two paths in front of him.

one, rushing through the Doerbi River.

One, take the southern foot of Tuluting Mountain, pass through the North Mountain, and arrive in Eastern Siberia.

Huang Taiji ordered to go to the Duoerbi River without thinking about it, because he didn't know whether there was a mountain city stone fort north of Beishan Jurchen.

If there is, then the Ming cavalry can still catch up with them.

Moreover, the mountain road of Tuluting Mountain is too narrow, and if the more than 300,000 people of them take this road, they are afraid that the team will be stretched to sixty or seventy miles.

At that time, if the team is attacked, it will be a situation where the whole army will be annihilated.

Walking the Duoerbi River, although the plain has to fight with the Ming army, and the Ming army in front may have arranged stone forts to hinder them, they only need to bury their heads in the breakthrough, even if more than half of the casualties are killed, it is worth it to break through successfully.

The two paths in front of him were not easy to walk, but he could only choose one that was slightly easier to walk from the two roads that were not easy to walk.

He didn't believe that the Ming army would be able to build many stone forts in such a short period of time after learning about his northern hunting.

He also didn't believe that these stone forts alone could hold off the sixty or seventy thousand troops under his command.

What he has to do now is to lead the army to cross the Duoerbi River before the Doerbi River thaws, otherwise once the Doerbi River thaws, then the more than 300,000 people will die south of the Duoerbi River.

Thinking of this, Huang Taiji raised his head and looked at the generals of the Jin Army who had lost a lot of weight in the tent:

"I'm determined to break through the Doerbi River!"

"I'm against it!"

As soon as Huang Taiji's words were finished, someone stood up and sang the opposite, and this person was Mang Gurtai, who had always been dissatisfied.

As soon as he stood up, the two blue flags of Gushan Ezhen and Jiala Ezhen expressed their opposition one after another.

"Now we shouldn't go to the Duoerbi River, nor can we go to Tuluting Mountain."

Mang Gurtai glanced at the generals in the tent, and then said loudly:

"Since the Ming army also has soldiers in the land of Beishan, and there are also soldiers in the land of Shangjing, it means that the soldiers and horses of Taining Mansion have been transferred away."

"Now we should not go north, nor should we go northwest, but we should cross the Heishui River and break through to the west!"

"That's right!"

"That's right!"

"It's the wrong route to go north and northwest!"

"We support Mang Gul Taibel!"

"Go west and break through!"

At the critical moment of breaking through, Mang Gurtai's insistence on breaking through to the west made everyone feel a little moved.

Even Huang Taiji is actually very excited at the moment, but the premise is that there are really no soldiers and horses in Taining Mansion.

Thinking of this, he looked at Fan Wencheng among the Han generals, and when Fan Wencheng saw this, he immediately got up and said:

"If you want to break through to the west, you have to cross the Haravin Mountain Range, but there is only one road in the Haravin Mountain Range for so many of us to walk, and that is the Haravin Mountain Road that Zhu Youzhen cleaned up at the beginning."

"The terrain there, the Great Khan should have seen it, you only need to arrange a stone fort in the mountain pass, you can do it in one man, even if our army has sixty or seventy thousand soldiers and horses, it will not be able to take it in a short time."

"Let's not mention whether there are soldiers and horses in Taining Mansion, even if there are none, but the Ming cavalry of Shangjing and Ala Mountain will rush to outflank our army."

"These days, the speed of our march is only 70 miles at most, and the speed of the Ming army, especially the speed of cavalry running, judging from Zhu Youzhen's attack on Hetao and Horqin, can run at least 150 miles a day."

"In other words, we have a 10-day journey, and they can complete it in less than five days."

"The total number of cavalry in Shangzhi, although there is no specific information on the minions, it will probably not be less than 30,000 cavalry."

"If we are entangled by 30,000 cavalry, then the soldiers and horses of Kaiping Mansion on the west side of Harawen Mountain will be able to reinforce the Haravan Mountain Road in time."

"There is no cold winter, no bunkers, how long can we stalemate with the Ming army in the Horqin grassland in spring?"

Fan Wencheng's words actually illustrate one thing, that is, the Jin army with the old and weak women and children cannot go fast.

He was digging a hole, and the man quickly jumped in.

"Since this is the case, then abandon the old and weak, women and children, and the army will attack lightly, as long as the men are there, Dajin is there!"

Sure enough, the simple-minded Mang Gurtai followed Fan Wencheng's words and said what Huang Taiji wanted to hear the most.

Huang Taiji had always wanted to abandon the old and weak women and children, but he was not sure if the nobles would accept it after he did such a thing.

If they were unwilling, there was a good chance that the army would collapse before it could engage the Ming army.

If they wanted to, it would be much easier.

However, it is impossible for Huang Taiji to say such a thing, because he is a great sweat, and Fan Wencheng and others do not have enough weight to say such words.

At this time, Mang Gurtai, the number three person under Dajin's eyes, said what Huang Taiji wanted to hear the most, and Huang Taiji also took this opportunity to observe the expressions of the nobles in the tent.

It's just a pity that the scene appeared, and almost all the nobles' faces were not very good-looking at the moment, and it was obvious that they were very disgusted by the abandonment of women and children that Mang Gurtai said.

Of course, they naturally will not be reluctant to give up the old and weak women and children, but the problem is that the people below them are reluctant.

Abandoned the old and weak, women and children, how many people are willing to break through with them?

If no one wants to break through with them, then what can they do after they break out?

Without craftsmen and not enough soldiers and horses, even if the breakthrough is successful, it will be eaten by the jackals on the grassland.

"We can't abandon women and children."

Looking at the expressions of the nobles, Huang Taiji was very helpless, but in order to appease people's hearts, he could only refute Mang Gurtai's proposal.

As soon as he said this, the faces of many nobles looked a little better, and Mang Gurtai also realized that he had just played a role for Huang Taiji, and his face was very unsightly.

It's just that right now, no matter what he says, he can't get back what he just said.

In particular, the silence of the two blue flag generals behind him fully expressed their dissatisfaction with him.

What Mang Gurtai can think of, Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, and Dai Shan can all think of.

However, the Jurchens are not Mongols, and the Mongols can't do anything to abandon their families, otherwise they wouldn't have been wiped out by Lan Yu in the fishing sea back then.

"Tomorrow, march north."

In the end, Huang Taiji still failed to choose the path he wanted to take the most, which was also the helplessness of the superiors.

At this moment, he only hoped that the Ming army would not have many camps and horses.

Otherwise, their idea of breaking through will be completely shattered, and the history of the Jin Kingdom will end in March of the eleventh year of the Apocalypse......

"Stand down."

Huang Taiji issued an order to expel the guests, and the nobles and generals of the Jin Kingdom in the tent left one after another, and no one of them discussed breaking away from the large army.

Anyone can see that the Ming army's encirclement this time can be called an iron wall, and even Beishan, a bitter cold place where birds don't, has been arranged with soldiers and horses.

The army broke through, and if nothing could be done at that time, they could still lead the guards to throw off the large army and break through while the two sides were fighting chaotically.

If a small group of soldiers and horses broke through, I am afraid that they would not even see the Horqin grassland, and they would be chased to death by the iron cavalry of the Ming army.

For a while, everyone's mood was very low.

They were set up by Zhu Youjian as a must-kill list, except for breaking through, there was no chance or possibility of survival.

Among their group of people, the most feared are actually Fan Wencheng, Fan Wenyu, and Li Yongfang, a group of Han generals.

They know very well what will happen to the traitor and the country, so when they are in the tent, their faces are very ugly.

With that ugly face, they returned to their barracks.

Returning to the camp of the fourth camp of the Han Dynasty with them, there was also Liu Aita who also had an "ugly face".

His face was pale, as if he had been wounded and bleeding profusely.

However, when he walked into his camp tent and saw the two lieutenants sitting in the camp tent, dressed in the armor of the Fourth Han Battalion, he rubbed his face unhurriedly, and after recovering his blood, he listened vigilantly to the voices outside the tent.

After making sure that there was no one, he dipped his pen in water and wrote a line on the table.

[I will find a way to lead the troops to become the rear army]

A line was written, and the two lieutenants nodded one after another.

Needless to say, if the Jin army really fought with the Ming army, then the turmoil of the rear army at a critical moment would completely crush an army.

When Gao Xianzhi of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty went on an expedition to Shiguo and fought with the Arab Empire in Talas, it was because the Qarluqs of the rear army rebelled at a critical moment and attacked the Tang army's central army formation from the rear army, which led to the defeat of the Tang army.

The 20,000 Tang troops did not kill many people in the frontal battlefield, but after the Chinese army wavered, the whole army was in chaos, and was cut down and captured thousands of people during the retreat, which was the first fiasco of the Anxi Protectorate in the Tianbao period.

The most elite Anxi army in the ten towns of Tianbao can't withstand the result of the rear army's counterattack, let alone the Jin army, which is like a lost dog at the moment?

Thinking of this, the three of them had smiles on their faces......

I'm busy at work, so I'm late for the update, sorry, sorry.

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