"Okay, at first glance, he is a tiger general, is he Han?" Sun Chengzong asked.

"If you go back to the Governor, I'm Han, but my father is a Mongolian." Liu Dahe hugged his fists.

Sun Chengzong was not surprised, no wonder he looked so much like a Mongolian man.

There are also many generals of Mongol descent in the Jiliao army, which is nothing.

However, Sun Chengzong still admired Wei Bao's mind to govern the army, and it was reasonable to use the Mongols to train cavalry, and it was rare for Wei Bao to trust the Mongols.

"If you make meritorious contributions in this battle, the old man will personally promote you to the court as a deputy general!" Sun Chengzong promised Liu Dahe.

Liu Dahe looked at Wei Bao, Wei Bao smiled and nodded slightly: "I haven't thanked Master Inspector yet." ”

"Yes, thank you, Master." Liu Dahe hugged his fists.

Sun Chengzong was a little unhappy, secretly thinking that the old man's dignified Jiliao Supervisor, although he had already handed over the old man's return to his hometown to the imperial court, but now he is still the Jiliao Supervisor, what is the problem with the old man Baoju, do you have to see what Wei Bao does first?

However, Sun Chengzong also judged through Liu Dahe's attitude that Wei Bao's people were really completely loyal to Wei Bao, and where was this still the army of the Ming Dynasty, it was completely Wei Bao's private army.

This can't help but make the shadow in Sun Chengzong's heart bigger and bigger, but he feels powerless, he should hint to the court, he has already hinted to the court and the emperor through many channels, saying that if Wei Bao becomes bigger, I am afraid that no one will be able to deal with it in the future.

"Go ahead." Wei Bao vs. Liu Dahe Road.

"Yes, sir." Liu Dahe agreed, turned over on his horse, and bowed his hand to Sun Chengzong and several generals and officials of Sun Chengzong's Governor's Mansion, which was regarded as a salute.

Not only Sun Chengzong was envious of the equipment and war horses of the treasure army, but also the officials and generals of the Governor's Mansion were also very envious.

Such an elite two thousand iron cavalry, even if the border army of Jiliao and Liaodong are combined, it is less than a thousand horses, and the quality cannot be compared with the treasure army at all.

Not to mention that horses can't be compared, even soldiers can't be compared, when you look at the soldiers of the treasure army, they are all strictly trained, and they usually eat very well, everyone is full of red faces, people are tall and horses, and the instruments are lofty.

This is an expedition at Shanhaiguan, if it is in Weijiazhuang, or southern Liaoning, or those areas under the jurisdiction of the Heaven and Earth Society in North Korea, the Heaven and Earth Society will definitely prevent the people from waving the flag of the Heaven and Earth Society to see them off.

The people of Shanhaiguan are basically just watching the excitement.

"Xiaobao, you didn't arrange the response troops? Where are these cavalrymen going? Is it just cruising around Shanhaiguan? Sun Chengzong couldn't help but wonder when he saw that the cavalry team was all gone, and he didn't see the baggage troops.

"It's definitely not just around Shanhaiguan." Wei Bao said: "The specific battle plan, the master will know soon." ”

Sun Chengzong saw that Wei Bao refused to say, so he didn't ask, he knew that what Wei Bao refused to say would never be asked.

However, Sun Chengzong did not get angry, but secretly praised Wei Bao for being thoughtful.

Originally, Sun Chengzong should have been angry with Wei Bao to guard against him, but Sun Chengzong was handsome and understood the importance of secrecy, and these soldiers and horses were all Wei Bao's people, and he had not participated in the whole process, so it was up to Wei Bao to do it himself.

By the time Gao Di and several big eunuchs arrived, the Baojun cavalry regiment had already left Shanhaiguan.

"Lord Wei, why don't you call us for such a big thing as the army going on an expedition, so we can see off the army." Li Yongzhen said to Wei Bao.

Wei Bao smiled: "I understand the kindness of Gonggong Li, and I thank several fathers-in-law and Master Gao for the soldiers." With our relationship, there is no need to engage in those false courtesies, anyway, if we lose, it will be the defeat of my Wei Bao, and if we win, everyone will have a share. ”

Wei Bao's words were very imposing, Sun Chengzong nodded secretly when he listened, even he couldn't say Wei Bao's words, I don't know if Wei Bao was full of confidence or arrogance, anyway, Sun Chengzong admired Wei Bao's courage and courage very much.

Sun Chengzong didn't want to have more contact with these people and left.

Gao Di talked to Wei Bao with a few big eunuchs for a while, and was beckoned by Wei Bao to let them go drinking.

"Let Lin Wenbiao contact Wu Keshan of the Horqin Department and Zhuo Liktu of Inner Khalkha as soon as possible, no matter how much benefit Jiannu gives them, I will double it! Persuade them to know that they are lost, and not to be enemies of our treasure army! Wei Bao said to the chief of the military intelligence section.

"Yes, President." The chief of the military intelligence section agreed and reminded: "President, the Mongols were called by Jiannu, and the four groups of people are mixed together, and they are watching very closely, I estimate that even if the Mongols don't want to make their efforts to fight our army as enemies, there is nothing they can do if Jiannu is staring." ”

"No, as long as the words are brought, their minds will loosen." Wei Bao said: "Go and do it." ”

"Yes, President." The chief of military intelligence agreed to go down and go down to do business.

"It's not easy, it's very dangerous to avoid Jiannu's surveillance and contact with the Mongolian tribal leader." Wu Xuexia said to Wei Bao.

"There's no way around that, what's not dangerous? Thousands of cavalry out of the pass, these are all my treasures, and my risk is greater than theirs. Wei Bao said.

"Then if the Mongols promise not to contribute to Jiannu, will we still fight them?" Wu Xuexia asked.

"Fighting, delivering the olive branch to the olive branch, beating to the fighting, these are two different things." Wei Bao said: "As long as you step into Liaodong, you will be the enemy of Da Ming and my Wei Bao, and they themselves know this very well." ”

"The point is that it's a state of war now, and it would be easy to send people to their tribe to liaise in peacetime." Wu Xuexia said.

"Don't worry, the Statistics Office has their own methods, they can't do this, do they still expect them to spy on the military?" Wei Bao Road.

Indeed, delivering information is the easiest of all the work of the Statistical Office.

Lin Wenbiao did have a set of methods, after he received the president's order, he first sent people to contact the people of the Inner Khalkha and Horqin tribes, and then disguised himself as a Mongol to meet Wu Keshan and Zhuoliktu.

Zoriktu and his son Zhuotemur of Nekharkha, Zaisambu of the Korqin tribe and his son Wu Keshan.

The two fathers and sons received news from Wei Bao almost at the same time.

On the same day, Zai Sambu and then found an opportunity to tell Zhuo Riktu about it, and the two of them took the opportunity of the feast to get together.

"Have you received the news from the Heaven and Earth Society?" Zaisambu and asked Zoriktu.

"Got it, you got it too?" Zorictu said softly.

"Well, what now? Wei Bao said that he couldn't commit the Ming Dynasty, and no matter what the Jin people promised, they would double it, and even the Jin people couldn't beat Wei Bao's army. In the past, we were just caught between Lin Dan Khan and Nurhachi, but now there is another Wei Bao, and we are the most pitiful. Wu Keshan joined the conversation softly.

"You guys are a little better, I heard that Wei Bao promised to marry Nurhachi's daughter Cong Gulun Gege in order to negotiate peace with the Jin people, and also proposed to pass on Cong Gulunge to a Mongolian nobleman, Huang Taiji chose your sons and daughters, so to speak, you Horqin and Wei Bao are related, Wei Bao will not be ruthless to you, and it will be difficult for us to do it in Khalkha." Zottmur Road.

"This kind of thing can't be true, don't say that Cong Gulen Gege recognizes my father as his father-in-law, that is, our Horqin's own daughter marries Wei Bao, Wei Bao will still be a black hand when he should be a black hand, and he can become a hero, which one is not a black hand?" Wu Keshan said: "My sister-in-law and my aunt are both married to Huang Taiji, when did the Jin people ever be soft on us Horqin?" ”

Both Drorictu and Drotmur nodded their heads.

"It's not interesting to talk about this now, how to reply to Wei Bao in the key?" Zoriktu asked.

"It's easy to do, send it back with good words, what should we do, what should we do, didn't we deal with Jin Ren like this before." Wu Keshan said.

"But at the end of the day? Isn't it still restrained by the golden people? If we kill too many Han people now, especially Wei Bao's men and horses, Wei Bao will definitely make an enmity with us. Zorictu said.

"That's no way, everyone wants to please both sides, the problem is that it can't be done." Wu Keshan said: "Although the Jin people are newly defeated, for us, the Jin people are close, and they can raid our camp in a few hours." And the treasure army is far away, no matter which direction it comes, it will have to go to Shanhaiguan, and when the treasure army moves, we have already heard the wind. Moreover, the Han people have no cavalry, so they pose no threat to us. ”

"How do you know that there are no cavalry in the treasure army? They don't have cavalry, can they kill tens of thousands of gold soldiers and iron cavalry? "Drotmurdo.

"That's their firearms, from the Bao army to conquer Liaonan, to the Bao army to capture Korea, to the Bao army defeated the Jin army's iron cavalry on the Hunhe River a few days ago, I know every battle clearly, I have never heard of the cavalry of the Bao army against the cavalry of the Jin army." Wu Keshan said: "Even if the treasure army has cavalry, how can the cavalry of the treasure army be compared with the iron cavalry of the Jin army and the iron cavalry of our Mongols?" We all grew up on horseback, can we practice equestrianism if we want to? Before, it was the Great Khan of the Jin Kingdom who despised Wei Bao too much, so he accidentally stumbled, and if he was careful, with the strength and speed of the iron horse, it was impossible for the Bao Army to take advantage of the Jin State, otherwise Wei Bao would not have negotiated peace with the Great Khan of the Jin State. ”

Wu Keshan's analysis persuaded the father and son of Zhuo Li Ketu and Zhuo Temur, and the two nodded frequently.

"What are you talking about?" At this time, Nurhachi came over with Huang Taiji.

This trip Nurhachi personally went out to fight, and almost brought out all the Beizi and generals who could fight, although the number of Jin army iron cavalry brought was not much, only more than 10,000 people, but it was still very important.

Droriktu, Drotmur, Zaisambu, and Wu Keshan hurriedly stood up.

"Dear Great Khan, we are talking about today's roast mutton, it tastes very delicious, thank you Great Khan for your hospitality." Zaisangbu and the representatives of the people.

"Oh, hahaha, it's good if you like it, as long as we defeat the Han people, we have inexhaustible wealth, not to mention eating mutton, even if all the Jin and Mongols sleep on the gold mountain." Nurhachi smiled and said, "Everyone has a heavy reward, especially you good brothers who accompanied my army on the expedition. ”

"Thank you for the kindness of the Great Khan." Several people bowed down at the same time and replied.

After Driktu and Zai Sambu and the others left, Nurhachi said to Huang Taiji, "Has Wei Bao's army made any moves?" I heard that most of Ji Liao's soldiers and horses are already under Wei Bao's control, if this is really the case, Wei Bao will be more powerful than Li Chengliang before. ”

"Well, if the Ming army counterattacks against our Dajin Kingdom, it must be Wei Bao's command, but I don't know if Wei Bao will send his own men and horses, whether he will use firearms, he promised us not to help the Ming army." Huang Taiji said: "But Father Khan can rest assured this time, no matter whether Wei Bao will be true to his word or not, we just need to do not collide head-on with Wei Bao's army, my Dajin National Railway rides back and forth like the wind, and Wei Bao's army can't catch up at all." Also, this time to attack the Jiliao border army, completely let the Mongols fight, and our Eight Banners Iron Cavalry is only watching from the side. ”

Nurhaequ: "Even so, you should not take it lightly! Zaisambu and the group of Zoriktu are all grasses and cannot be fully trusted. ”

"What Father Khan said is that I will be careful, they have sent our people around them, and they know very well the power of my Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, unless they want to die, they will definitely not dare to be an enemy of my Dajin Kingdom." Huang Tai Chi Dao.

"Wei Bao's army has stolen a lot of good horses from us, and they have privately asked the Mongols to buy horses, Wei Bao has at least 10,000 horses on hand, right? It is not known how his cavalry was. Nurhachi asked.

"There should be a few hundred people, horses are still secondary, the key is people, my spies found out that Wei Bao recruited many descendants of Mongols and Han people last year and let them serve as cavalry." Huang Taiji said: "But there are not many people. I don't think Wei Bao dared to let the cavalry fight us, that would be tantamount to death. ”

"Don't be careless." Nurhachi admonished him and went back to sleep.

Karaqin on this night is not destined to be peaceful.

Just after the hour, the cavalry regiment of the Bao Army, which had made a long run from Shanhaiguan to the Baja River three days earlier, launched an attack.

In order to maintain speed and concealment, the Statistics Department of the Heaven and Earth Society and the Baojun Cavalry Regiment have taken a lot of effort, and the choice of the marching route is very complicated.

This is the effect of the assault.

I don't know if it was a coincidence or a deliberate arrangement by God, but when the treasure army attacked, snowflakes began to fall from the sky, and the weather was unusually cold.

Most of the soldiers of the Baojun Cavalry Regiment, who were of Mongolian descent, marched in the snowflakes of the dark night, against the wind and snow, "Drive, drive, drive!" ”

The warriors desperately urged the horses to march.

Karaqin was a small border city, and most of the soldiers and horses were camped outside the city.

There are more than 2,000 people in Nurhachi's guards and yellow banners, more than 1,000 people in Huang Taiji's yellow banners, and more than a dozen pro-army troops of the leaders of the Nekhalkha and Horqin tribes, with a total of more than 5,000 people, all of whom belong to the logistics soldiers and horses of the four-way invasion of the Ming army.

No one would have imagined that Wei Bao would send cavalry to attack, let alone that the Bao army would quietly train a cavalry arm that could fight.

A few days ago, on the edge of the Hunhe River, the cavalry of the Bao army did not have a chance to use their means, so although Nurhachi and Huang Taiji knew that Wei Bao might already have a small number of cavalry, they did not take it too seriously.

Boom Boom Boom!

The cavalry regiment of the treasure army carried not many grenades, and while charging, they continuously threw grenades at the tents.

The tents of the Jiannu and Mongols were immediately set on fire, and for a moment the flames burst into flames.

"Is it Wei Bao's army?" Nurhachi woke up from his sleep. If it weren't for Nurhachi's sleep in the city of Karaqin, he would have been awakened earlier.

"Father Khan, it's Wei Bao's army." Huang Taiji, who was in charge of the guard, was very conscientious, he didn't dare to sleep at night, and he didn't take off his clothes, so he came quickly.

Nurhachi didn't bother to get dressed, so he ran out of the tent to look.

Both the Jiannu and the Mongols were accustomed to living in tents, so they lived in tents even in the city of Karaqin.

Nurhachi saw a burst of fire reflected on the city wall, and knew that the camp was being attacked by the treasure army, and couldn't help but cry out in a hurry.

"It must be the Bao Army, except for Wei Bao, no one dares to bypass the four-way army to sneak attack our rear." Huang Taiji said loudly.

At this time, Zhuoliktu and Zaisangbuhe and others also rushed over, and a group of Mongol leaders panicked.

These people are all experienced in a hundred battles, from childhood to adulthood, almost rolled out of the sword in the fire, and it is absolutely impossible to say that they have not seen the world.

But people are like this, thinking that they are casual adults, and they stand like adults beating children, and suddenly a person as tall as themselves appears next to them, and hits them on the head with a stick.

That's how the gang feels right now.

"Don't mess up, Mingjin collects his troops and lets everyone retreat into the city!" Nurhachi said loudly.

At this moment, Nurhachi's Houjin generals and strategists were stunned.

The Mongol tribal leaders were also stunned.

I didn't expect that Nurhachi, who has always been domineering and extremely brave, would order Mingjin to withdraw his troops after being attacked by someone.

In their impression, the Jin army never retreated when it met the army of the Han Chinese.

Not to mention the Han army, even when encountering a Mongol army ten times larger than their own, or when Jiannu was not unified at the beginning, some powerful tribes like Yehnara, Nurhachi also fought to the death, and personally went to the battlefield, never surrendered.

Not to mention the Han army, since the Battle of Salhu, the Han armed forces represented by the Ming army have been declining, and in the eyes of the Jin and Mongols, they are simply like waste, wine bags and rice bags, and the Ming army can be defeated by sending a few people at will, and it is completely vulnerable.

"Father Khan, I'll take people to stabilize the formation and fight with them! Father Khan can stay in the city, there are Daishan and Mang Gurtai outside the city, I believe that Wei Bao's army will not take much advantage, and it is not clear how many people from the other side came, we have not received any news, it is estimated that there are not many people. Huang Taiji realized that Nurhachi's order would discourage the army, so he hurriedly dissuaded him.

Nurhachi was not frightened by the beating, but he really didn't dare to suffer any more.

Through the lessons learned last time on the banks of the Hunhe River, Nurhachi came to the conclusion that when encountering the treasure army, retreat first!