"Sigh the law ......"

"Drive! Drive-"

In spring, as time passes, the snow and ice in the north melt and everything begins to recover.

Nature begins to adjust itself regularly, and what is not regular is everything in the world.

Things are never set in stone, and many people tend to ignore this issue, resulting in a rush when faced with a bunch of tricky things.

Historically, Chongzhen wanted to deal with the Houjin, but he faced not only the Houjin, but also the Mongols in the north, the hungry people in Guannei, Chongzhen's seventeen years of uninterrupted natural and man-made disasters, and European invaders who tried to establish colonies in the Ming Dynasty.

Although the times are different and the planes are different, as long as there is a relationship of interests, the Ming will always face more than one enemy......

On March 16, the 11th year of the Apocalypse, when Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew in Beishan were preparing to intercept Jianyu, when Huang Taiji mustered up the courage to lead the team north, and when Zhu Youzhen and Nurhachi forbeared each other inside and outside Shangjing, the Mobei grassland in spring was not so calm.

Thanks to the difference in latitude, as well as the withdrawal of the upper straight cavalry.

Last year, the Ming army, which was originally responsible for burning the famine, did not send troops to burn the famine, which allowed the Mongols in Mobei to breathe and survive a slightly more stable autumn and winter.

Lin Dan Khan boldly led his troops to approach Kaiping Mansion and began to herd horses a hundred miles away from the Ming army's stone fort.

Under the warm sun, the land near the Haravan Mountains was moistened by the river water after the snow melted, and the land in the eastern part of Mobei was dressed in new green clothes.

Under the sky is a clear scenery, and the endless eastern grassland of Mobei is like a big green carpet that has been spreading to the sky.

Turquoise shimmering weeds swayed in the breeze, interspersed with clusters of small wildflowers.

From a distance, it looks like a flower embroidered on a green carpet.

In this picture, in addition to green tea wildflowers, there are also cows, sheep and shepherds walking around.

A huge number of sheep went up the hill and down again, and everywhere they walked it was like embroidering a large white flower on the boundless green carpet.

The lines of those hills are so soft, like a Chinese painting rendered only in green and not outlined in ink, flowing everywhere and gently flowing into the clouds.

The dream-like scene, even the horses and the big cows sometimes stand still, as if reminiscing about the infinite fun of the grassland.

It's a pity that although nature is beautiful, the people above are not.

"Drive!"

The sound of riding horses continued to echo, and several Mongolian nobles dressed in silk and satin whipped their horses, and the sky was like flying.

From a distance, in the direction of their gallop was a hill, and after crossing the hill, everyone saw a dense yurt.

The yurts are a striking sight to behold across the green grasslands, but even more striking than them are the tens of thousands of Mongolian rangers around the yurts.

They were now dressed in armor and sharpened their knives by the river with some stones, while the horses beside them were already saddled as if they were going south to the grassy valley.

"Appeal ......"

On the hill, the five nobles who rode their horses stopped their advance, and stood here looking at the yurts, glancing with satisfaction at the tens of thousands of rangers.

The black-pressed rangers almost filled the entire grassland, and in the face of this situation, the nobles led by him raised their whips:

"Zhu Youzhen has led his troops to conquer Zhu Lizhen (Jurchen), and we can just take advantage of this time to go south to fight Grass Valley!"

When the familiar voice sounded, it was the thirty-eight-year-old Lin Dan Batur, who was promoted by Mobei as Hutu Ketu Khan.

Beside him were the equally young Zasaktu chieftain Subati, the Chechen chieftain Shuo Lei, and the Tushetu Tubu Gunbu.

The three of them were the three great Khans of Mobei at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the one standing next to them was not the uncle who betrayed Zhu Youzhen, but his son Subudi.

After several cold winters in Mobei, he finally died before last winter, and Subu became the Great Khan of Karaqin.

Among them, the oldest is Lin Dan Khan, which shows that the current five Khans of Mobei are all strong people in middle age.

If the beast is young, it will think of fighting bravely, and if the man is young, he will dare to do something that the old man does not dare to do.

Just like now, Lin Dan Khan's words fully reflect his arrogance and recklessness.

"The Ming army still has a large number of Shangzhi soldiers and horses stationed in Kaiping Mansion, and the villages outside the pass are all stone forts, I'm afraid it is not so easy to fight."

Su Budi knew the strength of the Ming army very well, and also knew that as long as the soldiers and horses were put in front of the word "Shangzhi", the combat power was basically the elite of the five armies.

At present, more than 90,000 people are stationed in Kaiping Mansion, and Subu Di does not think that this is a good time to fight grass valley.

It's just that although his words are very correct, Lin Dan Khan and the others have a reason why they have to go south to fight the grass valley.

"Zhu Youzhen is going to deal with Zhu Lizhen this time, once Zhu Lizhen is destroyed, then his next step must be to deal with us."

"Now if we don't take advantage of the time when he is besieging Zhu Lizhen to go south to fight the grass valley, then when he destroys Zhu Lizhen, we will be destroyed by then."

Lin Dan Khan, as Nurhachi said, was a restless man, and at the same time a coarse and delicate man.

Lin Dan Khan still understands the truth of cold lips and teeth, he knows that he has to cause some interference to the Ming army and loot some supplies by the way.

Otherwise, if Zhu Youzhen really went on a northern expedition at that time, they would not even have the capital to move westward.

"Grab some craftsmen and Hanmin to come to Mobei to farm, no matter how powerful that Qi King Zhu Youzhen is, it is impossible to hit Mobei within three years!"

I don't know Zhu Youzhen's self-righteous analysis, but Subudi frowned and dismissed:

"Others may not be able to, but Zhu Youzhen will definitely dare."

"This year, we dare to go south to fight the grass valley, and next year he will dare to take the iron horse, drink the horse, and fight the difficult river, and garrison the Buerhan Mountain (Wolf Juxu Mountain)!"

"The current Daming is different from the previous Daming, you can't look at the current Daming with the previous eyes."

Su Budi knows Zhu Youzhen too well, after all, Zhu Youzhen dared to take 5,000 people to face the tens of thousands of iron riders in Karaqin at the age of eleven, Su Budi still remembers the scene when Zhu Youzhen and his father were talking and laughing, and their aura stabilized their heads.

To tell the truth, he didn't think that his father was right to choose to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, but he thought that his father had done something wrong.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty seemed to have swept away the decline, and it was obviously wrong to choose to rebel and backstab at that time.

It's just that now his father is dead, and the matter of Karaqin's backstabbing of Daming is not clean, and he has only one way to go to the dark.

But you can go the black road, but you shouldn't go the stupid road.

Attacking Kaiping Mansion, where the Shangzhigong Guard Battalion was stationed, was a foolish thing in Subudi's eyes.

It's a pity that as soon as he finished speaking, Lin Danhan laughed complacently.

The heroic laughter spread in all directions, surprising the four of Subudi.

"I got news from the southerners, Zhu Youzhen's elder brother Zhu Youxiao is now in Karaqin City (Yanshan County) in your Karaqin Department."

"Although the Shangzhi Gongwei Battalion is elite, there are only 30 battalions and more than 90,000 people stationed outside the pass."

"Among the more than 90,000 people, there are only more than 10,000 cavalry."

"With only more than 10,000 cavalry, how can you stop the tens of thousands of iron cavalry of the Great Mongolia?"

Lin Dan Khan said, and waved the whip in his hand at the tens of thousands of Mongolian rangers who were fierce and strong.

It's just that his news is too terrifying, that is, the arrogant Subati, Shuolei, and Gunbu can't help but clench the reins of their horses, and ask nervously: "Zhu Youzhen's brother, is it ......?"

"Hmm...... The emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao! Lin Dan Khan said proudly, but Subudi didn't believe it:

"Where did you get the information? In case it is a fraud by the southerners, we will be wiped out in Yanshan with these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. ”

"You have to know, Yanshan ......"

Su Budi was afraid that Lin Dan Khan and others would not understand the location of Karaqin City, so he specially explained it to them.

In general, most of the roads in the Yanshan Mountains are long and narrow.

In a situation like theirs, where 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses are out together, there are only a few roads to go, and it is not an exaggeration to be annihilated once they are deceived and besieged in the mountains.

"Rest assured, my message is accurate and reliable......"

Lin Dan Khan didn't explain his news, but he looked confident, which made Subadi and the others swallow their saliva.

If they can capture Zhu Youxiao alive, then according to Zhu Youzhen's feelings for Zhu Youxiao, it is estimated that Zhu Youzhen will give them whatever they want.

But the question now is, what is the situation of the soldiers and horses around the Ming Emperor.

"How many people are there around Zhu Youxiao?"

Shuo Lei asked excitedly, and Lin Dan Khan also raised his hand to compare a number: "Eight thousand!" ”

"Among them, there are only 7,000 soldiers, namely Feixiong Wei and General Dahan, and the remaining 1,000 people are palace maids and eunuchs and Jinyi Guard."

"Seven thousand?" Hearing this number, Su Budi, who had often dealt with the Ming army, immediately frowned and said:

"If these 7,000 men defend to the death, we may not be able to attack Karaqin City in a short time."

"There is no need to attack Karaqin City, the Ming Emperor is in his palace right now, and the palace is more than ten miles away from Karaqin City, and the palace is no more than a foot high." Lin Dan Khan's eyes are like torches:

"We rode lightly, and it only took seven or eight days to rush in front of Zhu Youxiao without realizing it."

"Even if you don't attack the palace and simply besiege the palace, that Ming Emperor will be scared and promise us all the conditions!"

Lin Dan Khan didn't believe that there were two people like Zhu Youzhen, and the Zhu Youxiao he knew in the southern population was just a playful lord of the mean.

He was able to establish such a feat, relying on Zhu Youzhen, and now that Zhu Youzhen was not by his side, the upright Mengzhi general also followed Zhu Youzhen to Nuergan to encircle Zhu Lizhen, which can be said to be a God-given opportunity for the Mongols.

As soon as he thought of this, Lin Dan Khan couldn't stop being excited, and couldn't help but grasp the reins in his hand, as if he had seen the scene of Emperor Zhu Ming standing at the head of the city, cowardly begging for peace.

It's just that his self-confidence did not win Su Budi's support, because Su Budi did not believe that someone would betray the position of Emperor Ming, nor did he believe that Zhu Youxiao was so cowardly.

"Although Emperor Zhu Ming is playful, he is not incompetent, and if he wants to rely on besieging him to reach peace talks, I am afraid it will be difficult to achieve his wish."

About Zhu Youxiao, Subu has heard more stories than Lin Dan Khan, in his opinion, Zhu Youxiao still has some ability and means, otherwise Zhu Youzhen would not be able to take charge of Tengxiang Siwei so easily in the first year of the Apocalypse.

Zhu Youxiao is not as good as Zhu Youjian, Su Bu can be sure of this, but if Zhu Youxiao is nothing because of this, then Su Budi can only scold Lin Dan Khan.

"It doesn't matter if he succeeds or not, anyway, this year he has to go south to fight the grass valley, so why not give it a try?"

Lin Dan Khan couldn't convince Subudi, so he could only use the grass valley to cover up his purpose.

Su Budi looked at Lin Dan Khan's virtue, and knew that he would not listen to his own words, and it was estimated that when he hit the grass valley, Lin Dan Khan would still lead people to raid Yanshan.

"Just let this reckless man touch his nose." Su Budi laughed at Lin Dan Khan in his heart, but he still nodded on the surface.

At the same time as he nodded, Lin Danhan, who was very useful, looked at the sixty or seventy thousand rangers who were very powerful, and his heart suddenly became proud:

"In that case, let's set off south tomorrow...... Hit the grass valley! ”

"Peng Peng Peng—"

At the same time that Lin Dan Khan was making a big noise, the sound of artillery outside the capital continued to sound.

Shangjing, which had already suffered five days of shelling, was also continuously devastated as the sound of artillery rang out again.

Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng divided the 2,000 guns of the Eight Guards into 20 groups, each group of 100 guns, and bombarded the capital continuously for 12 hours.

The stone bullets that flew at any time devastated the Jin army defending the city, although the capital city was very well repaired, which can be called an iron wall.

But the sound of the stone projectiles hitting the city walls, and the roar of the cannons, devastated the spirit of the defenders.

The soldiers of the Ming army could sleep with cotton in their ears, but the Jin army couldn't, and they had to be on guard against the Ming army who might attack the city at any time, so they could only force themselves to sleep, and then go numb to the sound of cannons.

"! The old slave's turtle shell is really thick, it is estimated that it was built with stones, and there was no rammed earth, otherwise it would have been seen a long time ago! ”

A round of artillery sounded over, and before a new round of artillery sounded, Sun Shoufa, who was holding a clairvoyant mirror, couldn't help but curse.

Standing next to him, Cao Meng also looked at Shangjing City very helplessly, but when he turned his head to look at the uncultivated fields, his face was filled with a smile again.

"Surrounding is also surrounding, how about simply releasing two guards and horses and those 30,000 people to cultivate?"

Cao Meng moved the mind of self-sufficiency, after all, the surrounding area of Shangjing is familiar land, and 40,000 people plus tens of thousands of horses and horses in the army want to cultivate seven or eight hundred thousand acres of land outside Shangjing, which can be said to be very easy.

Shangjing City has warmed up, and the time left to thaw is just enough to make farm tools.

"This ...... Not quite right? ”

Sun Shoufa felt that something was not good, but Cao Meng patted him on the back:

"You! We are self-sufficient, Your Highness will probably praise us when he hears it, not to mention that you are afraid that Huang Taiji will kill us? ”

"Don't say that he doesn't dare to kill back, but if he really kills back, what are the two thousand artillery pieces next to you for?"

"Directly ignite the cannon, bomb the damn is!"

"That's ......" Sun Shoufa was a little moved, after all, at the moment, the eight guards and horses were beside him, and it was nothing to cultivate with two guards, and if he was attacked, the time for the Tang cavalry thirty miles away to pass the news back was enough for the soldiers and horses to wear armor and stomachs.

It is very common to march and fight, and this kind of thing is very common, but since entering the Apocalypse Dynasty, due to the abundance of money and food, the Ming army has not returned to its old business.

Being idle at the moment is also idle, so I just do all kinds of things to pass the time.

Thinking so, Sun Shoufa also turned his head and shouted: "Let the people in the craftsman battalion build some farm tools, the brothers in the army who are idle and panicked will help, and the people will burn the wasteland." ”

"Let the people from Taining Mansion send some grain over again, and let's just go to the field, so that the old slave will be greedy!"

"Order!" Hearing Sun Shoufa's words, several commanders in the rear grinned one after another.

Zhu Youzhen did not allow the army to attack, which made the people in the army idle.

At the moment, there are some things to do, and there can be some output, so as to reduce the logistical pressure on the rear, why not?

With this thought, the commanders of the Eight Guards gave orders one after another, and what they did was also known to Zhu Youzhen, who was walking in the courtyard ten miles away.

Faced with Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng's behavior, Zhu Youzhen just smiled and did not interfere.

Fighting a simple war is indeed too much logistical pressure on the rear, and too many armies have done this kind of thing throughout the ages, especially the army besieging the city, which can be said to be planting the enemy's fields while attacking the enemy's city.

As long as the defenders had no reinforcements, the defenders almost saw how they were being dragged down by the enemy forces outside the city.

Although Zhu Youzhen is confident in his own logistics, it is better to reduce some pressure if he can relieve some pressure.

Saving more than 100,000 rice and wheat can save tens of thousands of hungry people in the subsequent catastrophe.

With this thought, Zhu Youzhen continued to ride his horse and wander around the Horqin grassland.

While he was wandering around, the war was progressing steadily on all sides.

Xiong Tingbi, who was deeply involved in the way of cultivation and warfare, broke through the Jin army's Yimihe City and advanced into Xingjing City, the first thing he did was to gather 120,000 people in the army, with more than 30,000 mules and horses, to take over the cultivated land around Xingjing City after the beginning of spring.

Millions of acres of cultivated land were burned by hundreds of thousands of people, and the billowing smoke drifted into the air, and the Jianyu in Xingjing City naturally knew the intentions of the Ming army, but in the face of the behavior of the Ming army, they were helpless.

This kind of thing is not only happening in Shangjing City and Xingjing City, but even Huifa City.

The only thing that didn't happen was You Shigong's department, and the reason why this didn't happen to his department was because they were rushing towards Pu'er River City, and they didn't have land to cultivate for the people behind them.

In short, the Ming army burned the wasteland, and the Jianyu at the head of the city looked at it and gritted its teeth.

The billowing smoke drifted into the air, blown further south by the spring breeze.

It's just that the spring breeze blowing from north to south, but I don't know why, gives people a chill, just like the south bank of the Duoerbi River at the moment......

"Woo-woo-"

At noon on March 17, when the Ming army in the south was happily burning the famine, the Ming army in the north finally met with the former army of Jianyu.

The place where the two sides met was inside and outside a stone fort thirty miles away from the Duoerbi River.

When the spring breeze was already being welcomed in the south, the Ming soldiers of the Eagle Yang Guarding the first and hundreds of households were facing the golden army that could not be seen at a glance against the icy cold wind.

The sound of trumpets sounded at the top of the stone castle, and with it was the sound of non-stop arrows.

The people who are responsible for stationing here are the students of the third Yanshan Military Academy...... Zheng Jun.

This is an unknown man in history, perhaps in history he died of rebellion, starvation, or the many plagues of the late Ming Dynasty......

It's just that right now, it has been more than four years since he graduated from the Yanshan Military Academy, and he has gone from a small flag official to a hundred household officials.

At the same time, he also missed the best opportunity to make a contribution, because when he graduated, it was already the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and it was more than half a year before the end of the Second Northern Expedition.

From the seventh year of the Apocalypse to the eleventh year of the Apocalypse, he was silent for four and a half years, except for the occasional burning of Mobei in the middle, most of the rest of the time he was training troops, reading military books, and studying how to attack and defend.

He thought he would be silent for a long time, but the sudden outbreak of the Third Northern Expedition gave him the opportunity to make a contribution.

At this moment, he was standing on the stone castle, holding the female wall with both hands, facing the army of Jianyu who covered the sky and the sun.

Compared to such an army, the stone castle under his feet was as small as a lighthouse in a storm, and it seemed that it would be swallowed up by this overwhelming "wave" at any moment.

Fortunately, standing with him are the one hundred and two brothers of the hundred households, and what they will face together is the suffocating army of Jianyu.

"Great Khan, do you want to attack the city?"

In the midst of the Jianyu army, Zilharang looked at the "small" stone fort in the distance, not wanting the stone fort to interrupt their breakthrough steps, but Huang Taiji shook his head:

"A simple breakthrough can't go far, our team is too long, if we don't eat this stone fort, then they will come out of the city at any time to harass women and children."

Huang Taiji is reluctant to take women and children to break through, but as a superior, he still has to pretend when he should pretend.

"How about leaving a battalion of soldiers and horses on guard, and the army continues to break through?"

Dai Shan looked at the stone castle and made a tentative suggestion.

This was not the suggestion that Huang Taiji wanted, but because of Mang Gultai's gaffe that day, the nobles of the Jin Kingdom knew the seriousness of "abandoning women and children", so no one dared to say it again.

Helpless, Huang Taiji could only accept Dai Shan's suggestion, and at this time, Huang Taiji also looked at the four generals of the fourth battalion of the Han Dynasty.

Li Yongfang, Liu Aita, Fan Wencheng, and Fan Wenhuan are the four major generals of the Jin Army.

If it was before, Huang Taiji would not hesitate to choose Li Yongfang to lead the troops to stay, because he was very experienced in dealing with the Ming army.

It's just that with the continuous deterioration of the situation in recent years, even Huang Taiji can't help but feel that there may be a Jinyi guard of the Ming court in the Jin army.

Originally, there were Ala Mountain City and Yaksa City in the northwest of Beishan, and Huang Taiji, the garrison of Hara Mountain City and other cities, was not surprised, because the Sauron Department of Beishan Jurchen had lived in this area before, leaving a large number of mountain cities.

But there are so many stone forts in this place, and the stone forts are still newly built for a few years, which has to make Huang Taiji suspicious.

The first object of his suspicion was Li Yongfang, because when Li Yongfang attacked Fushun by the Jin army, he led his troops to defend it at first, and then saw that the city could not be defended, so he chose to surrender.

Compared with Liu Aita who joined when the Jin State was still a small force, and the two brothers Fan Wencheng, who constantly made suggestions and bought Han businessmen, Li Yongfang is the most likely traitor.

Huang Taiji didn't want to disturb people's hearts, so he was only in the stage of suspicion and had not yet attacked Li Yongfang.

But once this suspicion arises, it is impossible for him to let Li Yongfang stay.

If you can't use Li Yongfang, you can only use Liu Aita and Fan Wencheng and Fan Wenyu.

Fan Wencheng needless to say, Huang Taiji still needs him to be by his side, so it is impossible to let him stay.

As for Fan Wenyu's ability to lead troops, coupled with the courage of the Ming army, if he stays behind, he has to stay behind enough soldiers and horses.

Therefore, there is actually only one person Huang Taiji can choose......

"Liu Aita, you take your headquarters to garrison and guard against the Ming army attacking and harassing women and children along the breakthrough road."

"Dorgon, Dordor, and Nikan, the three of you each carry six oxen with white flags."

"Yes!"

Huang Taiji gave the order, and chose Liu Aita, Dolgon, Duoduo, and Nikan.

The four people who received the order received the order, but it can be seen that Huang Taiji does not trust the fourth battalion of Han who is on Zhu Youzhen's "must-kill" list at the moment.

Liu Aita's headquarters was only 3,000 people, while Dolgon's three people were six Niu Lu, a full 1,800 people.

This nearly two-thirds of the force cannot be a response, but should be surveillance.

In this regard, Liu Aita did not make any expression, just numbly received the order, and then ordered his troops and horses, and began to deploy along the road of the army's retreat to the north, alerting the Ming army in the stone fort.

The Jin army began to move, with the pressure of making everyone in the hundred households sweat coldly, they slowly drove north, and the Eight Banners horse infantry and the soldiers and horses of the Fourth Han Battalion cruising outside the stone fort were always reminding Zheng Jun, who was defending the city, that the danger had not passed......