When the generals of the Ming army observed the Houjin sentinels on the other side of the Lin River on the wall of Mashenqiao Town, some of the Houjin sentries in this group also sat on horseback and watched the Ming generals on the wall of Mashenqiao.

These Mongolian cavalrymen did not have monoculars in their hands, and in their eyes, the Ming troops more than a mile away were just some vague figures.

Looking at the Ming soldiers on the other side of the river who were cowering in the simple wooden village like a great enemy, a Mongolian rider Wen Erdu said to the side of the Dividor Kubatu Zayan: "Brother Batu Zayan, these southern barbarians are almost frightened, why don't we bypass here from the upstream and go behind them?"

To the east of the river, there is not a single living person in sight, and it is difficult for the brothers to have some fun here. Just these southern barbarians, do they dare to come out and intercept us? Maybe we can get around the town, find a few families who haven't run away, and we can get a hot meal. ”

Several Mongols around Batu Zayan also echoed, "Wen Erdu is right, these southern barbarians will only cower in the fortress, and they will not dare to go out of the fortress to intercept us."

Seeing us go around behind them, maybe they won't even dare to defend the stockade. If they just run west back to Jizhou City, we can still pick up a credit for taking the city for nothing. The Southern Barbarians have poor ability to fight, but it is a stake to rectify the industry, and there must be a lot of good things in such a big town. We didn't make a trip in vain. ”

"yes, yes. If you break this town, if you have any good clothes and beautiful little girls, let the adults choose first..."

Several Mongol riders unabashedly showed their greed for the town in front of them, but the little leader who led them out to scout, Batu Zayan, a bearded and scumbag Mongol in his early 30s, said lazily: "Okay, don't dream any more."

Even if those southern barbarians really left the town and ran away, what was inside would still be our turn? Don't forget, it is the leader of the Bayott tribe who is leading us now, not the Ming'an leader of our Urut tribe.

Along the way, the hardest work of the sentinels and forwards did not fall on us Urut people. When we divided the spoils, we didn't wait for others to pick the leftovers before we let us pick them.

The people of Bayott are now comfortably hiding in Shimen Village to drink wine and eat meat, but we still have to risk reaching in front of these Ming troops, monitoring their every move, and seeing if these Ming people have any intention of marching eastward.

When we stepped forward and worked hard, when it was time to reward our deeds, not all of them belonged to Bayott's department. Why do we have to work hard for Engdel, if the brothers are lost here, how can Lao Tzu explain to your mother Lao Tzu when he goes back? Then will Engdel still help the leader of Ming'an to compensate us? ”

After listening to Batu Zayan's words, the Mongolian knights around him, who were originally eager to try, all felt a little depressed. Wen Erdu also said with some annoyance: "Why didn't the leader of Ming'an go on the expedition this time? At the beginning of the year, when the crusade against Chahar was made, wasn't the leader good? Why did you get sick when you went out to conquer the Ming Kingdom? That Engdel has always only slapped the sycophants of the Jurchen nobles, when did he lead troops into battle.

I knew earlier, we might as well find a relationship and divide it into the right camp. Master Wuneg is fair, brave in battle, and no better to follow him than to follow Engdel..."

The subordinates around him were discussing whether it was better for them to stay in the left camp of Mongolia or the right camp of Mongolia, but Batu Zayan was a little distracted. The leader of his own family, Ming Antuo, was sick and did not go on the expedition, so naturally he was not really sick, but his heart was sick.

As the leader of the Ulut tribe, Ming An, after leading 3,000 households to defect to Houjin in the seventh year of the Mandate of Heaven, was awarded the third-class general military officer by the Mandate of Heaven, and set up a banner of Ulut Mongolia in addition to the Eight Banners.

Although it is the Ulut Mongol banner, in essence, except for those Mongol Niulu who were directly transferred to the Jurchen Eight Banners, other left-wing Mongolian tribes of the post-surrender Jin were included in this banner.

After Lin Dan Khan moved westward, the remaining tribes of the Chahar were either defeated by the Later Jin or submitted to the Later Jin, and eventually the majority of the population merged into the Mongol banner.

So outside the Jurchen Eight Banners, a Mongolian banner dominated by the Chahar tribe suddenly appeared. The Ulut Mongol Banner, led by the Ulut and Khalkha Ministries, to which Chahartumen belonged, was no weaker than any of the Jurchen Eight Banners in terms of strength.

And these small tribes originally belonged to the same origin of the Chahar tribe, and it was easy for this Ulut Mongol banner to unite and form a relatively independent small group.

Nurhachi's preferential treatment of these Chahar fleeing tribes was only to weaken Lin Dan Khan's control over the Chahar tribes, not to raise tigers. Now that Lin Dan Khan has moved west with the Chahar headquarters, and the Chahar Mongol Department has lost its threat to the Houjin, Huang Taiji is naturally unwilling to watch the Ulut Mongol Banner continue to grow.

Dividing the Ulut Mongol banner into two Mongolian battalions on the left and right, and elevating the status of the Mongol leaders and generals of the non-Ulut tribes, such as Eju Engeder leading the Mongolian left battalion and Wunage leading the Mongolian right battalion, in order to distinguish the right of An, is exactly what Huang Taiji has done in the past year.

Ming An, the leader of the Ulut tribe, who was highly appreciated under Nurhachi, was naturally a smart man. As the leader of the Chahar Mongol tribe who took the lead in taking refuge in Houjin, he had no choice but to rely on Houjin tightly. Lin Dan Khan gritted his teeth with hatred, and the other Mongol tribes would not treat him as a traitor either.

Therefore, he obeyed Huang Taiji's order very wisely, not only accepted Huang Taiji's differentiation and sand mixing with the Ulut Mongol Banner, but also took the initiative to cooperate with the illness, so that these Mongol leaders selected by Huang Taiji could digest and master part of the power of the Ulut Mongol Banner through this battle of Faming.

Although Batu Zayan is only a small share of the Shku, he is quite smart, and he can faintly understand the reason why his leader can't get sick.

Seeing that his own leader was loyal to Houjin and still fell into this fate, he, a small leader from the Ulut tribe, had some attitude towards this war. What's more, in this war, the Mongols from other tribes can make meritorious contributions, but only those from the Ulut tribe, wanting to make meritorious contributions is tantamount to increasing the Great Khan's suspicion of the leader of Ming'an.

In that case, why would he waste his men in a senseless war? It's better to save some vitality for the Ulut Ministry.

Batu Zayan sighed, looked up at the sky, then turned back to his subordinates and said, "It's not too early, let's retreat and go to the small village in the north that we passed yesterday to spend the night."

Take them south and take them back, and if there's any game or livestock, bring them back. Don't go too far, you'll have to come back before sunset, or I'll whip you. ”

Wen Erdu finally lifted his spirits, turned the horse's head with a slight clamp between his legs, and nodded to the two knights who knew each other, before turning back to Batu Zayan and replying: "Big brother go back and boil hot water, we will definitely get some fresh game back..."

After the eight or nine Mongolian Tartars galloping on the east bank of the Lin River divided into two groups and left, the Ming soldiers who bent down on the wooden wall at the head of the bridge on the west bank of the Lin River breathed a sigh of relief and put down the bows and arrows in their hands.

"Today is finally over again, these Mongolian Tatars have been running in front of us for two days in a row, what do they want to do? Could it be that Zunhua has really been occupied by the Tartars? Are they going to run to attack Jizhou City? After a young Ming soldier came down from the platform behind the wall, he couldn't help but whisper to his companions.

"It won't be so fast, will it? I've been to Zunhua City, the city wall over there is more than 3 zhang high, and those Tartars are riding horses and fighting in the field, but the siege should not work, right? Otherwise, they wouldn't have hit the Shanhaiguan long ago. ”

"It's hard to say, no matter how high the walls of Zunhua City are, is the terrain of the Great Wall so dangerous? The passes of the Great Wall were not held for half a day, and I saw that Zunhua City was also hanging. We still have to think of a way, but we can't wait to die here. ”

"Be quiet, will the general Wang stand there staring at us? If he listened, a military stick was indispensable. ”

"I'm afraid he's a bird, if he hadn't run fast, he would still be standing here staring at us? I don't think the eldest brother will talk about the second brother, once the slave soldiers really come, this Wang Counselor will not have to run away early. I think we might as well keep an eye on him. His eldest brother ran first, we ran second, and the officials took the lead in running away, and the court can't settle accounts with us poor soldiers..."

These soldiers did not speak in a suppressed voice, and Wang Shiqiang, a general of the Malan battalion, who was more than 10 steps away from these soldiers, still heard some voices. But he made no sound with a gloomy face, and after standing there for a while, he turned and went back to his tent.

In this wooden village with a radius of 4 or 50 steps, except for a ring of wooden walls on the periphery, using local wood and door panels as materials, there are only some tents inside the village, and there are no wooden houses.

After all, the Houjin army came too quickly, and the Mashen Bridge and the Lin River could be established, and the three zigzag wooden villages as the first line of defense still depended on the results of the arrival of the new army in Gyeonggi.

Although the Ming soldiers who retreated from the east did not dare to flee directly to Jizhou City, they were also not interested in leaving the earthen wall protection of the Mashen Bridge and building fortifications between the east gate and the Lin River.

If it weren't for Jin Shenghuan's direct use of force to force these defeated troops to go out to build a defensive line, I'm afraid that Houjin's sentinels would not have been watching from the other side of the Lin River, but would have gone directly to the earthen wall of Mashen Bridge to observe.

Wang Shiqiang was also hesitant in his heart, he had already fled once, although in the new regulations issued by the General Staff, after holding on for a certain period of time and protecting the people from retreating, he could retreat to the specified place after burning the military supplies.

As an official of Jizhou Town, he should retreat to Zunhua to protect the city, instead of running directly through the stone gate and fleeing to Jizhou City, which has nothing to do with retreat. If he is investigated, even if he saves his life, he will not be able to keep his official position.

Therefore, he is also very hesitant in his heart now, on the one hand, he wants to obey Jin Shenghuan's arrangement, stay here to repel the attack of the slave soldiers, and make a general atonement.

On the other hand, they were worried that the slave soldiers would not be satisfied with capturing a Zunhua city this time. If the slave army continues to march westward, won't he stay here and wait for death? That's the hard thing to choose.