"Bell...... Clang...... Bell ......"

In the early morning of March 18, the 11th year of the Apocalypse, when the war in the north was in full swing, the bell also rang at the Jinshan Wharf in Songjiang Prefecture in the south.

The cool sea breeze blows slowly, bringing not only the sound of the waves, but also the sound of copper drums on the sea in the distance.

The drums of "Dongdong Dongdong" continued to sound, and on the Jinshan Wharf, which was not too lively, there were only more than 100 laborers waiting for the unloading work.

When they heard the sound of the snare drums, they all stood up.

In their line of sight, a moving "continent" appeared on the sea.

"So many ships? Looks like it's busy. ”

Looking at the large fleet, the leader of the Leaf rubbed his hands excitedly, but before he could beckon the others to go to the rear to call his brothers, he saw an official ship on the sea heading towards the huge fleet.

"Official ship?"

"Yes, this is a ...... of this calculation."

Seeing the appearance of the official ship, many Lifu shook their heads, sat down again, and continued to wait for the new ship to dock and unload.

"Beep-"

As they sat down, the fleet at sea stopped moving forward and waited quietly for the official ships of Matsue Prefecture to arrive.

Compared with the tall warships, the official ships that sailed into the fleet were very small.

Standing at the bow of the ship, a young official dressed in a seven-rank official robe looked up at the tall warships, and the warships also avoided it, allowing them to reach a warship of 9,000 yuan.

"I am Huang Fei, the commander of Longjiangwei, who is coming? Why intercept the expeditionary fleet of the Naval Governor's Palace?! ”

When the ship sailed into the fleet, a young general on the deck of the warship shouted loudly, and he was Huang Fei who returned to Daming with Huang Long.

At the same time as he shouted, the officials on the official ship also waved at the yellow fly on the high place:

"Governor Xiao Huangdu, Zhang Fan, the magistrate of Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture, was asked by the prefect of Han Song to ask the army to move to Tianjin!"

"Move to Tianjin?" Huang Fei frowned, but did not suspect anything, but asked:

"We were ordered by His Royal Highness to move to Songjiang Mansion, and then walk north to the capital to report on work, if Zhang Zhixian does not have a letter from His Royal Highness, I will not be able to obey my orders!"

"Songjiang Mansion encountered floods, the port was blocked, and it was impossible to dock, so please move to Tianjin." Zhang Fan responded loudly, his voice a little hoarse.

Helplessly, the waves are too loud, if you don't shout like this, Huang Fei can't hear it at all.

Just when he shouted, Huang Fei's face was a little hesitant.

They were ordered to move to Songjiang Prefecture and then go north to the capital to report on their duties.

At present, the port of Songjiang Prefecture is blocked, and they ......

"This is a cabinet letter, please read it by the Governor of Xiaohuangdu!"

Zhang Fan further took out the cabinet's handwritten letter, and when Huang Fei heard this, he could only ask someone to bring the hanging basket, take Zhang Fan's handwritten letter, and then open it and look at it.

The handwritten document does have the seal of the cabinet and the approval of red, which means that the port of Songjiang Prefecture is indeed blocked.

"Zhang Zhixian wait a minute, wait for me to ask my general!"

Huang Fei returned the salute, and then walked towards Huang Long's cabin with a handbook.

Since he was going to return to Daming today, Huang Long and many soldiers drank celebration wine and triumphant wine on the boat last night.

Originally, after arriving at the dock today, everyone would have some reunion dinner in the evening, and then the army would have a year's holiday.

As a result, it seems that now that I am afraid that the reunion dinner will not be eaten.

Thinking so, Huang Fei trotted all the way into the cabin of the boat, and then saw Huang Long washing his face.

There was a smell of alcohol on him, and he was obviously not sober.

"Uncle, the dock in Songjiang Mansion is blocked, please move our army to Tianjin, this is the cabinet's handwritten letter to confirm the dock blockage."

Huang Fei entered the house, watched Huang Long wipe it clean, and then handed over the paperwork.

Who would have thought that Huang Long just glanced at it, and then scolded:

"These literati, Songjiang silt didn't say it early, but waited until Lao Tzu arrived in Songjiang Mansion."

"Uncle, what now? His Highness asked us to move to Songjiang Mansion, if we didn't follow the military order......"

"That's it!"

Huang Fei wanted to continue, but was interrupted by Huang Long: "Songjiang Mansion is blocked, what can we do?" ”

"Moving to Tianjin is."

Huang Long waved his hand, and with a hint of wine, he signaled the fleet to move north to Tianjin.

But after waving his hand, he said:

"The brothers who live in Nanzhili at home, organize them to get off the ship and take a vacation, and don't forget to go to Tianjin Port on the first day of April next year."

"Yes!" Huang Fei responded, and he didn't feel strange in his heart.

Since returning to the old port, the ships of the Admiralty have been constantly dropping down some of their soldiers, because their homes are separated from the north and south, and Huanglong is also trying to deliver them to his doorstep.

This made the fleet, which only had to travel 13,000 miles by sea, take an additional 6,000 miles by sea.

However, letting the soldiers go home for reunion as soon as possible is also the idea of Huang Fei and others, so no one questioned it.

Of the 120,000 expeditionary forces, more than 70,000 people followed Huanglong home, and more than 40,000 people have disembarked at present, and only 29,000 people are on board.

There were less than 5,000 soldiers in his hometown of Nanzhili, so it was very easy to arrange for them to return home.

Under the circumstance that Zhang Fan of Huating County did not know why, some ships began to approach, and then one by one, the soldiers carrying bulging packages were full of smiles, and cautiously walked across the board to a large ship of 9,000 materials.

"Zhixian, what are they doing?"

On the official boat, the county lord of Huating was a little uneasy, but Zhang Fan waved his hand: "You don't care what they do, just see if they can leave." ”

"Zhang Zhixian!"

At the moment when Zhang Fan finished speaking, Huang Fei appeared on the side of the ship, and he said:

"We will go to Tianjin later, but before that, we need to send more than 4,700 brothers who live in Nanzhili to Songjiang Mansion."

"Later, ask Zhang Zhixian to issue road guides for them so that they can return home safely."

"The lower officials must do so, and no brother will suffer!" When Zhang Fan heard this, he returned the salute, and his speech and style, Huang Fei knew that he was an official from Yanshan.

"Thank you very much!" There was no time to mutter, so Huang Fei returned the favor and sent back a handwritten letter from the cabinet, and placed a heavy piece of gold in the bamboo basket.

Zhang Fan did not fake it, but accepted this piece of gold in order to prevent Huang Fei from being reassured.

It's just that when the gold passed his hands, he was still a little surprised.

"I'm afraid it's a pound of weight......"

A catty is sixteen taels, and sixteen taels of gold is one hundred and sixty taels of silver.

It must be known that although Zhang Fan is the county commander of Zhengqipin, his annual salary is only two hundred taels.

Huang Fei's move made Zhang Fan earn more than half a year, and it is not difficult to see that Huang Fei still attaches great importance to his brothers.

Therefore, after accepting the gold, Zhang Fan bowed down and saluted back, and when Huang Fei saw Zhang Fan accept the gold, he also turned to the general next to him and ordered: "Let's set off towards Tianjin." ”

"Yes!" The generals responded, and then began to arrange for the fleet to go north.

However, when he left, Huang Fei turned to look at Zhang Fan's official ship.

On the deck of the official ship, Zhang Fan was nowhere to be seen, and Huang Fei frowned as the official ship left the fleet, and after a while he walked to Huang Long's cabin.

When he returned to the boat room, Huang Long was already drinking a bowl of decanting soup, and when he saw Huang Fei coming back, his first reaction was to ask: "Have the brothers made arrangements?" ”

"It's arranged, and the gifts have been accepted, I don't think it will embarrass the brothers." Huang Fei responded honestly.

"I don't dare to forgive them." Huang Long snorted coldly, and could see that he was a little unhappy with the news of his relocation.

"Uncle ......" Huang Fei wanted to talk about Zhang Fan and Yanshan, but he didn't know why, when he thought that the fleet would dock in Tianjin, not in Songjiang, he couldn't say what he said.

"What's wrong?"

Huang Long looked up at his nephew suspiciously, but Huang Fei shook his head: "No, I just want to say that there are more than 2,000 brothers in Huaibei who are going to get off the ship, and the rest are brothers from Shandong, Beizhili and Liaodong." ”

"You look at these things and arrange them, I guess it will be difficult for me to go out to fight again when I go back to the capital this time." Huang Long noticed the attitude of the local officials of the Ming Dynasty towards him, so he sighed a little:

"This time I will return to Beijing, and when His Highness returns after the battle, I recommend you to meet with His Highness, and you can ask Your Highness about the affairs of the navy."

"If I can't go to sea, then I will recommend you to Your Highness as the next Admiral of the Navy."

"Nephew commands!" Huang Fei smiled when he heard this, and in response, he also raised his head and joked to Huang Long:

"My uncle has been away from home for so long, and I don't know if my aunt and two cousins still remember my uncle."

"Go, go, go! Busy with your go, don't make people feel annoyed here! Hearing that Huang Fei actually dared to make fun of himself, Huang Long was so angry that he blew his beard and glared at him.

"Yes...... The nephew will retire, hahahaha......" Huang Fei shook his head, returned the salute and walked out of the cabin with a smile.

But when he walked out of the cabin and closed the door, the smile on his face froze, and his features turned a little worried.

He looked in the direction of the official ship's departure, but in the end he didn't tell Huang Long what happened, and left the door to do his own business.

The fleet began to move north, and such a change was naturally discovered by the Jinyi Guard of Songjiang Prefecture and sent to the capital.

However, at the moment, the focus of the Ming Dynasty is not on the navy, but on ......

"Put!"

"Peng Peng Peng—"

Almost as soon as the naval fleet headed north, the Mongolian rangers on the north bank of the Beishan Duoerbi River were subjected to fierce shelling.

For a while, stone projectiles flew off, and the heavy sound of cannons and stone projectiles that often broke the thick and thin trees of human legs caused the Mongol rangers trying to break through to flee in a hurry.

The sound of artillery on the north bank woke Huang Taiji for the first time, and he walked out of the camp tent while sleeping in armor, and his first gaze did not look at the north bank, but at the Ming army iron cavalry stationed a mile away.

Sure enough, as he expected, the iron cavalry of the Ming army almost took turns to monitor the movements of the Jin army last night, and even now, there are still more than a thousand cavalry on the low hill to look at the battlefield, which makes Huang Taiji feel the pressure invisibly.

"The supplies and baggage of the Ming army here are very abundant, and it seems that Zhu Youzhen has calculated a long time ago that we will break through to Beishan."

Huang Taiji's face was ugly, and he analyzed the situation at Jierharang, who was in a hurry.

Zilharang followed his words and looked in the direction of the Ming cavalry, and saw the Ming cavalry wearing cotton clothes and cotton armor, with a somewhat bloated body, and the pile of bonfires still burning on the low hill.

This cavalry came lightly, but even so, they did not receive some response from the Ming army on the north bank last night, which means that they are very well stocked.

Not only them, but also the Ming army stone forts along the way, basically there are no baggage convoys to transport supplies for them.

All these show that the preparation of the Ming army in Beishan was not a day's work, but an accumulation of many years.

The stone fort can be repaired, but the materials cannot.

The reason why Huang Taiji mentioned the baggage was to say that they couldn't fight the Ming army in Beishan in the fight for consumption.

It is a fact that the Ming army that swept the cave in the plough court was not well prepared because of the hasty northern expedition.

But Taining Mansion has been preparing for this battle for four years, and in terms of materials, perhaps Sun Shoufa's army will be short of supplies, but the Beishan Ming army in the north will never be short of materials, especially gunpowder and coal.

It was precisely because he had abundant supplies behind him that Cao Bianjiao thought about using waiting to consume the Jin army.

20,000 people to deal with 60,000 or 70,000 Jin troops, and he also had to clean up more than 200,000 women and children, which was far beyond his ability, so what he needed to do was to wait for his uncle and Guo Sandai to bring troops to come.

Cao Bianjiao's thoughts, Huang Taiji and others can also think of them, so they are not prepared to fight with the well-supplied Ming army.

Judging from the situation of the Ming cavalry attacking them with high mobility last night, they fought with Cao Bianjiao......

I'm afraid that more than 300,000 Jurchens, Mongols, and traitors will all starve to death, and Cao Bianjiao and them can still eat rice comfortably and drink hot broth.

Huang Taiji and Ji Erharang sincerely felt that this battle was not easy to fight, and as for Cao Bianjiao, he knew that he was a fledgling and lacked the ability to command the 10,000-strong cavalry, so he had been avoiding the conflict between the two armies.

He chose to separate the cavalry but attacked the Jin army's baggage carts, cattle and sheep, and this effect was also very effective.

The sound of footsteps sounded in the snow, and Huang Taiji and Zierharang looked sideways, and the person who came was Dai Shan, who was in charge of the rear army.

At this moment, his face was gloomy, his eyes were bloodshot, and it was obvious that he hadn't been able to rest well last night.

"The rear army and the front army and the middle army are closer, but last night's attack by the Ming army made us suffer a lot of losses."

"More than 3,000 stones, rice, and wheat and more than 1,000 cattle, horses, and sheep were robbed, more than 2,300 women and children were killed, more than 1,600 froze to death, and more than 600 soldiers were killed."

"What about the losses of the Ming army?" Huang Taiji frowned and asked.

"One hundred and thirty-seven were killed and four hundred and twenty-five wounded."

When Huang Taiji asked Dai Shan, the commander of Yu Linwei also reported the results of last night to Cao Bianjiao, who had just woken up and rode a horse to the low hill.

The data obtained by both sides are similar, and in terms of data, the casualties of the Ming army are not large, but the Jin army has suffered heavy casualties.

"Uncle, where are they? After the camp was robbed, how did the rear army react? Was the stone fort on the North Shore attacked this morning? ”

Cao Bianjiao picked up the clairvoyant mirror, looked at the Jin army camp a mile away, and asked the commander of Yu Linwei in his mouth.

He watched as the Jin army began to collect tents and put them on the wagons, and a large number of prisoners walked back and forth in the camp barracks.

Next to him, the commander of Yu Linwei also calmly replied: "General Cao led the horse infantry of the four guards to attack, which is less than forty miles away from here, and it is estimated that it can reach the battlefield on the north bank in the afternoon." ”

"As for the camp robbery last night, the prisoners could only camp with a baggage truck and light a bonfire to keep warm."

"The soldiers and horses below are back, and many women and children behind are short of clothes, and it is estimated that many people will freeze to death at the temperature last night."

"As for the north bank, this morning, the northern captives under the command of Jianyu tried to patrol and break out, but they were cross-shelled by the nearest stone fort with artillery, and retreated back to the camp."

The words of the commander of Yu Linwei gave Cao Bianjiao a general grasp of the battle situation.

When Sun Shoufa and Cao Meng built these stone forts, they basically placed heavy Yanshan ten-jin cannons and Yanshan five-jin cannons, and each stone fort had ten guns.

Compared with the stone forts on the south bank, which are a little far apart, the distance between the stone forts on the north bank is quite dense, the distance between the two stone forts is only six miles, and the trees are cut down.

Therefore, if you want to pass between the stone forts, you basically have to withstand the cross-shelling of the stone forts.

Twenty guns to fight the cross is indeed insufficient firepower, but if there are soldiers and horses to respond, it is different.

Now the four-guard horse infantry led by Cao Wenzhao is coming, although it is said that there are only 2,500 horse infantry after excluding the gunners in each guard, and Cao Wenzhao's own 800 Duo Gan guards are only 10,800 people.

But if these 1,800 men formed a line of guns and crossed with the stone fort artillery, they would still be able to stop the captives.

At that time, only Cao Bianjiao only needs to cruise the battlefield with the cavalry, waiting for Jianyu to reveal his flaws, and then he will be able to settle the battle in one battle.

Although Cao Bianjiao didn't know what his uncle thought, if the battlefield was placed north of the Duo'er Bihe River, the location would be in the hands of the Ming army.

However, if Guo Sangdai can reach the battlefield quickly in this situation, then the advantage of the Ming army will be greater.

Thinking of this, Cao Bianjiao asked, "When will Commander Guo arrive at the battlefield?" ”

"This ......" Commander Yu Linwei hesitated for a moment, and then said embarrassedly:

"The soldiers and horses under the command of Guo Sandai are facing a worse environment than ours, and according to the news of the carrier pigeons received from Hara Mountain City this morning, they should be about three hundred miles away from here."

"I can't count on them." Cao Bianjiao frowned slightly, but he didn't blame Guo Sangdai.

From the time Guo Sangdai received the news and led troops to support them, they have forcibly marched an average of 70 miles a day.

You must know that they are not horse infantry, and they don't have enough mules and horses, and they are not as good as the Jin Army in terms of logistics, at least the Jin Army still has more than 100,000 cattle and sheep, and Guo Sangdai They only have two legs.

In such a short time, being able to rush from Nuergan, thousands of miles away, to the southwest of Beishan is already a very good marching intensity.

"It's hard for Guo to command them."

Commander Yu Linwei couldn't help but sigh, and Cao Bianjiao also bowed slightly.

While they were talking, Huang Taiji of the Jin army also knew about the death of the Ming army after the attack, and his face couldn't help but be a little ugly.

"Count it down, the women and children in the army, there are nearly 20,000 people who have gone all the way, and if it goes on like this, I'm afraid the army's heart will ......."

Dai Shan looked at Huang Taiji without saying anything, and then his eyes dodged, and Huang Taiji also understood what he wanted to say.

Either let a large number of women and children die and lead a large army to break through, or immediately break through.

Dragging on like the current situation, with thousands of women and children dying every day, is the most demoralizing situation.

Why doesn't Huang Taiji know? But Cao Bianjiao was not fooled, and he had no choice.

"I ......" Huang Taiji was about to speak, but he didn't want the sound of horses' hooves to sound, Azig rode his horse and reined in before he approached Huang Taiji and the three of them.

"Phew—"

Reined in the war horse, Azig turned over and dismounted, and after saluting, he reported the military situation on the north bank with a not very good-looking face:

"The Ming army on the north bank cut down trees and arranged a large number of stone forts, and the stone forts had artillery, and no matter which direction they went, they would be pinched by the artillery of the two stone forts."

"Our sentry cavalry has been killed by artillery, and I am afraid that there are artillery stationed on the low hills and hillsides from the north bank to the northwest for more than 100 miles."

Bad news appeared one after another, constantly testing Huang Taiji.

He tried to calm himself down, in order to better analyze the situation, so he pondered for a moment before he asked, "Are there any pursuers in the rear?" ”

"No, there are no pursuers for 200 miles from the rear sentinels, and it is estimated that Khan Ama and they are still holding on."

Azig mentioned Nurhachi and them, which caused the atmosphere to fall to a freezing point for a while.

As if realizing that he had said the wrong thing, Azig did not continue to speak, but quietly waited for Huang Taiji to give the order.

"How many miles has the barracks stretched?"

"The length of a soldier's horse is no more than five miles, but the length of a woman or child is twenty miles."

Huang Taiji had only one way to go, and that was to break through, so he asked about the length of the camp of Daishan's entire army.

After learning that his own people were twenty-five miles long and were very vulnerable to attack, Huang Taiji could only calmly order in order to reassure his soldiers and horses:

"The whole army was ordered to cross the river in the afternoon, and the women and children went first with the two blue flags and the four Han battalions, the two yellow flags, the two white flags and the Mengba Banner formed the Chinese army, and the two red flags formed the rear army."

"Yes!"

Huang Taiji was still not at ease at the critical moment to put the Han Fourth Battalion in the rear army, so he put them in the position of the front army.

Although Liu Aita was very responsible in yesterday's cover, the current Huang Taiji has instinctively distrusted the Han people.

As his military order was issued, the first to act were the women and children in the rear.

They needed to walk twenty miles to the south bank of the Duoerbi River, and then cross the river, waiting for the Chinese and rear troops to cross the river before they could break through to the northwest.

This process took two hours, so when Huang Taiji and others buried the pot to make rice, the women and children in the rear had already begun to hurry.

They got up from the humble camp last night and left, and the horses were long, and this behavior was also returned by the Ming army.

"Chief soldier, do you want to continue to harass them?"

The commander of the Tiance Guard, who had slept for a while, came to the low hill, looked at the women and children of the Jin Army who began to exercise, and couldn't help but excitedly put his hand on the hilt of the knife on his waist.

"Ignore them for the time being, look at this posture, they are preparing to let the old and weak cross the river as a front army, and give the soldiers and horses enough morale to break through."

Cao Bianjiao looked at the battlefield very calmly, but his eyes always stayed on the Jin army camp, because what he cared about was not women and children, but the living forces and generals of Jianyu.

After the wedding of King Qi last year, the generals of the two governors of Shangzhi and the Eastern Army discussed how to pacify the capture in the palace of King Qi.

When the generals of all the ministries said that they would kill the old slaves, Huang Taiji and other main figures, and beheaded all the men above the wheel, His Royal Highness King Qi was even more demanding.

"Plough the court and sweep the holes, leaving no one behind......" This is Zhu Youzhen's original words to the generals.

Cao Bianjiao knew very well that the King of Qi never spoke, so "ploughing the court and sweeping the holes, leaving no one behind" was the strategic goal of the Ming army.

To accomplish this task, the first thing he had to do was to cut off the limbs of the enemy, and then he could kill him.

Soldiers and horses are limbs, and to cut them off, all Cao Bianjiao has to do is wait.

When the Jianlu people are sleepy and tired, when his uncle arrives at the battlefield with his own army, it is time for him to draw his sword.

Thinking of this, Cao Bianjiao subconsciously put his hand on the hilt of the knife on his waist, and at the same time, the soldiers and horses led by Cao Wenzhao were also galloping towards this place.

The battle is in these two days, and whether the Ming army can plough the court and sweep the holes depends on whether their uncle and nephew can cooperate.

Their speed is faster, because His Royal Highness King Qi in the south is still waiting for them to escort the old slave's heirs to the south and perform a "big show" for the old slave......