The eastern slope of the ravine makes it difficult to observe the people and horses entering the valley from the east, and there are bird calls and occasional birds rising and falling on the tops of the trees.

The larch on the western slope is low but dense, and it is not as steep as the eastern slope, and there is no sound in that area, but Zhou Yijie closed his eyes and listened carefully, there was a low communication sound in the distance, and several veterans found uncleaned footprints from the high place on the western slope.

A few people didn't speak, only used gestures to communicate, pretending that they hadn't noticed anything.

Walking out of the ditch, Zhao Hannian felt a gust of wind blowing from the west of Yuli, which turned out to be a northwest wind.

A few people remained silent, pretending to be disappointed and led 200 people to Yuxi, they knew that the Jiannu on the hillside had already seen them, knew that they were a pathfinder team, and they were afraid that they would not dare to come out if they found an ambush, and only hoped that they would go west as soon as possible.

The mountain stream has made a bend and is already half a mile away. Zhao Hannian led 200 people into the pine forest on the southern slope, climbed halfway up the mountain to the east, and then turned south.

After stopping, I found that the northwest wind here is not small, and compared with the bottom of the south ditch I had just visited, I felt that those Jiannu soldiers were hiding more than 100 steps down to the southeast, 60 to 80 steps away from the bottom of the ditch in the gentle slope.

Zhao Hannian asked everyone to collect dry pine branches, fallen pine bark, and dead grass. Keep your voice down, find astringent grass and twist the rope, tie these things up, be careful to carry them on your back, don't make a sound from the branches, and be careful about the dead branches and leaves under your feet, don't make any sound.

200 people cautiously move down one small step at a time, stop and go, close their eyes and listen carefully. It didn't stop until the sound of Jiannu breathing and peeing could be heard on the ground.

Zhao Hannian measured the wind direction again, first signaled everyone to move in unison, took out the bottle of oil and poured the oil on the dry firewood, poured oil on the woodland and pine trees, and then ignited the fire and retreated.

After a while, the fire ignited, because there was oil to help ignite, the fire spread quickly, and the surrounding dead branches and leaves quickly burned with the wind, and the dry wood and hay burned little by little, and the flames climbed to the top of the tree.

The fire burns the oxygen in the air and the density of the surrounding air decreases, causing the air to flow rapidly and replenish from the upwind head. This is the principle that fire borrows from the wind, and the wind fuels the fire.

The pine trees boiled, and the fire burned to the hiding place of Jiannu in a while, and they naturally did not wait for death, and they ran and shouted, although they were good at climbing mountains, they tripped over branches in a panic, slipped on the turf, stepped on the air, accidentally hit the tree, or their hair and clothes caught fire, and they were full of ugliness.

There are many people who are injured, cut, broken feet, and burned, but very few are actually burned to death. When I ran down to the bottom of the ditch, I found that not only was the ditch on fire, but the fire had spread to the eastern slope.

Hurry up and run to the valley, because of the direction of the wind, there is no fire there. ran to the valley to catch his breath, and then remembered the weapons and war horses.

Suddenly, the ravine remembered the sound of "boom~", and more than a dozen war horses with their manes and tails partially burned rushed out of the fire, among which was the big white horse of Mang Gurtai, the big white horse was the least injured, and there were only a few blood marks on his body.

Of the 3,000 horses, only a dozen ran out.

Before he could take care of the sadness, Wang Hongyu came with more than 2,700 Ming troops.

"Run! ～～”

Isn't Mang Gurtai stupid, don't you run and wait for death without weapons and horses?

Turned around and rushed to the thorny jungle on the north slope, and the others also went into the jungle with a honeycomb, and even the dozen or so sick horses followed the master into it, and when the Ming army rushed over, one was not caught, to say that the Ming army was really not a climber and drill the jungle, and those Jiannu ran faster than rabbits.

The ambush with the blue flag was directly burned by a fire.

That scene is like a wildebeest migrating from the African savannah~

The Ming army did not stop, and went to Yuxi in a puff of smoke.

The fire in the forest was very large, and it was not until the evening that the fire was slightly smaller. Huang Taiji asked Mang Gurtai, who missed the opportunity, to lead people to extinguish the fire, but Mang Gurtai thought that he was his brother and didn't want to suffer from the guilt, so he didn't do his best to extinguish the fire.

Huang Taiji sighed, and had to personally bring the white flag to extinguish the fire with the Kormi Mongols, and the fire was not extinguished until the night of the same day.

The Ming army took advantage of this time to go 30 miles away, seized a favorable terrain, and set up camp and built improvised fortifications after being prepared.

At this time, 100 wounded cattle and horses were killed, and they gathered on the spot to roast meat, poured spring water from the bottom of the ditch, and began to eat and drink. After eating the test horse meat, each person packed and took away a lot.

Tonight, it was arranged that there would be no reconnaissance and vigilance at night, and another 100 sentries were arranged, and the other soldiers should rest quickly after they were full.

Because Wang Hongyu judged that the enemy would not dare to make any small moves tonight, and there would be a big battle early tomorrow morning.

After Huang Taiji and the others put out the fire, they also sent scouts to probably know Wang Hongyu's location.

Do you want a night raid?

Of course not!

The two scouts were easily eliminated last night, and people like Zhou Dunji and Wang Hongyu were very ......

Attacking them at night is like an axe.

This time, Mang Gurtai's winding ambush was a very powerful killing move, and it was even cracked by them, which really made people feel chills.

Jiannu still doesn't know that Zhou Dunji has died.

At most, I thought that in the Zhenghuang Banner camp, Zhou Dunji was seriously injured. The main reason is that at that time, Nurhachi was halfway through the siege, and he became angry just after being injured, and turned back to fight Zhang Shenwu.

Mang Gurtai then fought with Zhou Dunji, but he couldn't take advantage of it at all, so he didn't know that he had died of serious injuries. vertex

Huang Taiji thought that the Ming army was strong, and this ambush around the front was unsuccessful, and he didn't blame Mongol Ertai much in his heart.

But Mang Gurtai is jealous of Huang Taiji!

Okay, your emperor Taiji is too insidious and vicious, let me go around the front of Gurtai and Zhenglanqi, my father Khan praised your wisdom better than Zhuge Liang, can Zhuge Liang not know that the hidden army in the mountains and forests is easy to be attacked by fire?

You're trying to grab the inheritance!

The seeds of hatred had taken root in Manggultai's underdeveloped mind.

Early the next morning, Huang Taiji planned to fight in a dignified manner.

I wanted Mang Gurtai to be in the center, and the Kormi Mongol soldiers were in the west, and he was in the east, directly besieging this Ming army.

As soon as Mang Gurtai heard this, he felt that he wanted to consume in the middle, and categorically rejected Huang Taiji's proposal, refusing on the grounds that he was tired from running around with the blue flag and was burned by smoke and fire, and could not be used as the main attack.

Huang Taiji had no choice but to put his white flag in the center, facing the Ming army head-on, and letting Kormi and Zhenglan Banner attack left and right.

This night, Wang Hongyu actually didn't sleep.

He has prepared materials in the past few days, and built a coffin for his eldest brother Zhou Dunji with Zhou Yijie, Li Tiezhu and others.

Tidy up Zhou Dunji's remains and put on armor. Now there is not enough lime, and when we get to the Liaohe crossing, we must use lime to dispose of the body of the eldest brother, so that he can return to his hometown completely.

The eldest brother has in his heart the millions of people in Liaodong, the safety of the entire southwest region, and the life and death of the entire nation.

The eldest brother is the military soul of the Ming army!

After placing the offerings and kowtowing to the incense, he said solemnly: "Tomorrow's battle, please witness the eldest brother!" ”