In the past two years, Wang Chengen's intelligence agency has worked very effectively and has entered the upper echelons of the Qing army. Therefore, as soon as the plan in the court of the Qing Dynasty was decided, it was sent to Nanjing by the Ming Dynasty spies flying pigeon.

Gao Yiming received the news that the Qing army was going to attack the mission in two directions, and immediately ordered the mission still in the territory of Daming to slow down, and on the other side, fly pigeons to the border and report the situation to Geerdan.

Upon hearing the news, Geldan immediately sent a letter back to Gao Yiming, preparing to use the mission as a bait to set up an ambush to attack the Qing army, and ask the Ming army to attack the rear of the Qing army and prevent its reinforcements.

Gao Yiming immediately agreed, ordered Huang Degong to pay close attention to the movements of Haoge's army, and was ready to dispatch at any time to respond to Geerdan, and at the same time ordered Gao Jie and Li Dingguo to wait until the Qing army reinforcements departed, and immediately sent troops into the territory of the Qing Dynasty to make a feint, and when it returned, the Ming army immediately withdrew.

After Geldan personally led an army of 300,000 and arrived at the place of Arai, he contacted Zaisang and asked him to lead the delegation towards Arai.

Why did you choose Arai? Because at this time, Arai was the boundary point of the three kingdoms of Geerdan, Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, which was actually controlled by the Qing army, and from here out of the border of the Ming Dynasty, you can reach Geerdan's territory in less than half a day, and it is easier to walk all the way, and it is the only place for the northbound mission.

Hauge led an army of 150,000 men to this place.

When Geerdan's army moved, the Qing court also got information, but Geerdan's methods were more clever, he sent out 300,000 troops separately or thousands, or 10,000, and they all went out during the day and came back at night, and no one could see how much they came back at night, anyway, for ten days, every day.

The army on the grassland is basically fathers and sons, and it is difficult for people you don't know to inquire about anything, so the spies of the Qing army can't figure out the situation.

In order to confuse the Qing army, Geldan also let people release the news that the western part of Jungar was being invaded by foreign enemies, so his army was going west, traveled to inaccessible places, and hurried south while it was dark.

At this time, a major event on the western border of Geldan also helped him a lot, that is, two of Geldan's neighbors, the Yarkand Han State and the Kazakh Khanate, the two countries were turning the marital country into enemies due to territorial disputes, and gathered a large army on the border, as if they were preparing to join forces to attack Dzungar. This situation was known to the spies of the Qing army and reported it to Shunzhi, thus supporting the fact that Geerdan's army was advancing westward.

Since Hauge led all the cavalry, after a long march of ten days, he successfully arrived at Arai, in order to prevent the mission from going other ways, he did not lead the army into the city, but took advantage of the night to send people to Arai to arrange, and the army stayed outside.

He thought that his march was secretive, but in fact, it was all under the supervision of his old rival Dorgon, and the more than 100 killers sent by Dolgon were the ones who followed Hauge's army far away to the Arai and entered the border town of Arai one step later.

Arai is a small town with a population of more than 1,000, and if you have two or three hundred more people pouring in at once, it will be difficult not to be discovered.

The Ming Dynasty mission, which had a clear grasp of the situation in the city, prepared to enter the barai tomorrow after consulting with Zaisang.

In the Haoge camp, the spies were reporting: "Lord Wang, the Ming Dynasty mission is less than a day's journey from Arai, and it should be possible to arrive at Arai at noon tomorrow." ”

"It's good to be here, what's unusual in Arai Castle?"

"It's fine at the moment, but-"

"But what?"

"In addition to our people, there are a hundred and ten other good men in the city, I don't know what kind of force they are in, but the steward of the Regent's palace also came to Arai this evening, and I don't know what business he wants."

"Humph! Dorgon has sent all his henchmen, and needless to say, those good hands are Dolgon's men. ”

"My subordinates think so too, but I don't understand their intentions yet."

"You don't understand, I understand, I'm afraid that I'm here to carry out the assassination mission assigned by his master, what's going on over there in Geldan?"

"The army of Geldan in the planning city has been moving frequently in the last few days, but they are all going to the west, and the closest to us is the Rupu tribe fifty miles away, with 20,000 horses, and I have not found any change in them."

"That's fine, continue to investigate the whereabouts of the Ming Dynasty mission."

After the spies left, Hauge said to the outside of the tent: "Bow down! ”

Hearing Haoge call himself, Ao Bai walked quickly into the big tent: "Lord Wang! ”

"Just now the Malay report, the Ming Dynasty mission will arrive at Arai at noon tomorrow, you will set off with 10,000 horses tonight, tomorrow dawn, lure 20,000 horses under the command of Geldan to come here, at that time the army will come out, in Arai to hunt the Rupu Department, and then take advantage of the chaos to wipe out the Ming Dynasty mission."

"Wow!"

"Go ahead, time must be right."

"Please rest assured."

After Ao Bai left, Hauge called another guard and instructed: "Send someone to keep an eye on the people of Dorgon, if they don't do bad things, don't take care of them, and if they dare to do bad things for us, solve them first." ”

"Wow!"

At the same time, in Rupp's tent, Gerdan sat at the top, and five or six generals sat below.

"Rupu, tomorrow the Qing army is estimated to lure your men and horses to the baria, when the time comes, you will take 20,000 horses under your command to kill the past, Ben Khan will lead the army to fall behind you and march towards the baria, after arriving at the baria, you and Zaisang converge, be sure to protect the people of the Ming Dynasty mission, now we need the help of the Ming Dynasty, do you understand?"

"Subordinates understand, please rest assured."

Geldan nodded: "The others will go to war with me, this battle must destroy the army of Hauge in one fell swoop, once this battle is won, we can continue to march eastward, and include the entire grassland in our pockets, so that we have enough pastures and people, whether it is to go south to conquer the Ming Dynasty in the future, or continue to go east to destroy the Qing Dynasty, the initiative will be in our hands." ”

"Yes! Sweat! ”

Huang Degong, who was in the Wanquan Division, was also a strong soldier that night, and 60,000 cavalrymen were still single and double-horse, ready to go out at any time.

Gao Jie also personally sat in Gubeikou, concentrated 100,000 troops to prepare to leave the fortress, and Li Dingguo also came to Guangningwei with 150,000 troops, preparing to feint Shengjing by land and water.

As soon as the sun showed its face on the second day, Ao Bai immediately commanded the army to start shelling the Rupu camp, and Rupu, who had already been prepared, immediately led the army, abandoned the camp, and pursued Aobai, who evacuated to the barai while walking.

As soon as the men and horses of the two-headed battle left, the army of Geldan, who could not see the end at a glance, appeared behind the camp of Rupp, and without pausing, they marched slowly towards the barai in three ways, and under a closer look, each horse's hooves were tied with thick fur, in order to reduce the sound of the horses' hooves stomping on the ground.

Zaisang led a large group of men and horses to appear outside the town of Arai at noon that day, and the group walked on the street, and saw many suspicious people, and the guards who accompanied them were all holding knives and knives, ready to attack at any time.