Plata's words calmed Mazamu. Thinking that if he leaves now, then the great achievement of destroying the Northern Ming Army here is likely to really have nothing to do with him. What's more, even if he goes back now, it will be nothing more than bringing back 4,000 cavalry, and in the face of a powerful mercenary, it won't play a big role, so it's better to stay, and wait until he sees Lord Ku'er, and then ask for reinforcements, so this is the way to solve the problem.

"Okay, General Plata, I'll leave everything to you, but you have to be careful." Mazamu heeded this advice. But he didn't know that this parting was his eternal bond with Platah. "Please rest assured, when I return to the mountain, I will defend to the death, and then wait for the general to bring reinforcements." Without further ado, after Plato had said a few words, he ordered two thousand cavalry to return quickly.

Saihan Mountain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, which is due to the geographical advantage. This also made Ma Zamu and Pla, who were guarding the mountain, confident, and all this has been confirmed since the Northern Ming army could not attack for a long time. But the mercenary army is not the Northern Ming Army, and such a mountain attack is also a common subject during training in peacetime. In addition, with the intention of unintentional calculation, the act was a sneak attack, plus Shebei transferred two battalions of 800 musketeers as auxiliaries, and when the attack was launched on the first day of the new year, the Tatar army guarding the mountain was stunned.

In the dark, the vision is limited. It was not known where the mercenaries would rush up the hill from, and if they wanted to see the enemy, they had to raise their torches. But if someone does this, it will be tantamount to revealing his position, and the mercenary musketeers will teach him how to be a man in minutes. Often the torches are lit one, and one is quickly extinguished, and after hundreds of Tatar soldiers with torches in a row are shot, all of them have learned well, without the slightest intention of revealing their positions.

Without light, this creates an opportunity for the mercenaries who rush to the mountain. At present, there are constantly soldiers who attack the Xuanshi Slope with excellent mountaineering skills, and then go straight to the top of Saihan Mountain.

The smoke of the warning peak on the mountain has been ignited, and the picture is to tell Ma Zamu and others at the bottom of the mountain that the situation on the mountain is already very critical, and if there are no reinforcements, I am afraid that they will really not be able to hold it.

On the Xuanshi slope halfway up the mountainside, the deputy commander in charge of commanding this battle, Shebei, was watching the soldiers launch waves of small attacks, with a lazy face, and did not seem to regard this battle as a real battle, but as if watching a drill and a competition.

This scene fell in the eyes of Lu Zhuo, the commander of the recruit division on the side, which made him very puzzled, "Deputy commander, why only launch a small-scale charge, our recruit division is fully capable of launching a full-scale attack and taking Saihan Mountain in one fell swoop." ”

"No hurry, no hurry, some people are in a hurry." The slow-tuned silk was not in a hurry at all, just smiling, riding on his horse and watching the recruits launch small attacks in platoons or companies again and again. "By the way, Senior Commander Lu, this is a good opportunity for actual combat training, don't miss it."

I don't know what kind of idea I have in my heart, but Lu Zhuo will never let go of such an opportunity to train troops in actual combat, so he nodded solemnly at the moment, called a few regiment commanders, and ordered them to take this opportunity to organize training. Once a soldier is found to be injured, he immediately retreats and replaces, anyway, the battle is not very fierce, and there is every opportunity to do these things.

Nothing else is in a hurry, naturally waiting for the fish to take the bait. As he expected, Plata led two thousand cavalry straight in the direction of Mount Saihan. In order to reach the goal of reaching the destination as quickly as possible, this time he couldn't even wait for news from the scouts, and just sent the scouts out as he flew forward.

The road leading from the city of Alu to the Saihan Mountain has a place called the valley to pass the land. In the summer rainy season, the water becomes a stream, but it is usually just a ditch, and it is not very big, just more than a meter deep and about three meters wide.

Here at this time, four musket battalions of the separate division of the New First Army were in ambush. Sixteen hundred gunshots lay on their stomachs in the ravine, guns aim.

Not far away, the sound of horses stomping on the earth was getting closer and closer, and the two scouts and cavalry came quickly, and when they came close to the thirty-meter point, each made a gesture, and then disappeared to both sides. From that gesture, it was clear that the enemy was five miles away.

The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, and it was less than two miles away from the valley, and by the faint moonlight in the sky, the figures that were constantly moving in the distance could already be faintly seen. All the musketeers began to slow their breathing involuntarily, and their bodies began to relax.

"Bang!"

A flare like day suddenly flickered in the air, instantly illuminating the land as if it were day. The reinforcements of the two thousand Tatar troops were also in everyone's sight at this moment. Immediately a "shot" roar was heard, and under the sound of gunfire, the ground that had recovered the darkness was a streamer, accompanied by one after another Tatar cavalry figures falling from their horses, and there would be bursts of screams.

"Kill!"

Just as the shots rang out, numerous cavalry suddenly appeared on both sides of the valley, and their torches were lit one by one, rushing straight towards the location of the two thousand Tatar reinforcements that had been attacked head-on.

After two rounds of shooting, the Tatar reinforcements dropped at least five hundred corpses, and when the gunfire stopped, the torches around them reflected their faces, and then a burst of bows and arrows burst through the air, falling in the middle of the army, and attracting hundreds of people to fall from their horses.

A total of 3,700 cavalrymen from the nine battalions and divisional companies in the vicinity of the ambush, under the leadership of the division commander Xin Honghai, there were fierce tigers from the mountains that were surrounded by the Tatar cavalry who had been stunned, with bullets in the distance, bows and arrows in the near distance, and sharp sabers in the close quarters.

Under the protection of several personal soldiers, Pla's face turned pale, at this moment he knew that he had been tricked, and looking at this, the mercenaries should have been prepared, and the troops sent would not be too small.

I felt the speed of the mercenaries' reactions, and at the same time, I cursed the uselessness of my scouts in my heart. The enemy is all under his nose, why hasn't he received any news? The lack of timely intelligence eventually led to the emergence of this defeat.

Two thousand reinforcements resisted for only half an hour, including General Plata, and finally only more than 500 soldiers were wounded.

"Quickly clean up the battlefield, send these wounded back to Chiji City with a battalion of men and horses, and at the same time send someone to inform the deputy commander of the mountain that there is a big victory here, and they can take Saihan Mountain." The division commander Xin Honghai rode on a war horse and kept giving orders. It was only half an hour later that the general assault on Saihan Mountain began, and in less than one hour, all the enemies were completely annihilated, and Saihan Mountain became one of the areas where the city expanded southward.

It was also dark night, and Shi Wanshan, the commander of Wanquan Dusi, and Tongzhi Guhe, the commander of the capital, were under the protection of four hundred elite cavalry, and they were rapidly moving towards the direction of Talu City.

They had been running for a night, and seeing that the horizon had been dimly lit, their whereabouts were finally discovered by the Tartar scouts, and then they were chased and intercepted all the way.

At this moment, it can be described as time is life, in order to break out of the encirclement and escape before the main force of the Tatar army appears, the two generals have gone through several charges, and the soldiers under them are getting fewer and fewer. By the time of the fifth siege, the number of cavalry around him was less than fifty.

Even so, the two generals did not give up resisting, and were still fighting hard, just to be able to return to Taru City alive.

"They're there, surround them, don't let them escape." Not far away, a team of 200 Tatar patrols came, and when they saw the Northern Ming army being besieged, they immediately rushed over with all kinds of strange screams.

There are still more than a hundred enemies around him, and there are two hundred enemy horsemen, Shi Wanshan suddenly felt the pressure increase, waved his saber and continued to chop, and after cutting a Tatar cavalryman under the horse, he wiped the blood on his face, and squeezed out a smile towards Guheqiang, who was not far away. "Brother Gu, it seems that we can't escape."

"If you can't get out, it's better to die in battle, killing one is enough, killing two to earn one, it's a big deal to be a good man after eighteen years." Furukawa also reluctantly smiled, then tightened his left arm, pressed the bleeding point hard, and once again rushed towards the Tatar cavalry five meters away with his left hand.

At this moment, it is impossible to distinguish between generals and soldiers. God is very fair, and only one life is given to everyone. At this moment, either killing the enemy or being killed by the enemy, all conspiracies and schemes are useless.

The saber and the bent horse clashed in mid-air, attracting bursts of sparks. A quarter of an hour later, the Beiming cavalry paid another forty cavalry, and now there were only ten people standing there, including the two generals.

Fortunately, after some hard work, a bloody mouth finally broke out. Without further ado, the two generals rushed out of the encirclement with several wounded soldiers and then headed in the direction of the city of Taru. At this moment, whenever there is a slight opportunity, they have to fight for it, even if they die, they don't want to die on the grassland.

"Chase." The remaining more than 200 Tatar cavalry, seeing that the fat in their hands wanted to fly away, where they were willing to follow, one by one, galloped wildly, and chased after Shi Wanshan and others. Once the distance is close to 100 meters, there is a flurry of bows and arrows, and they are often accompanied by one or two Beiming cavalry falling and dying.