Ebendui, who was stationed in Jinshan, did not take it seriously when the Ming army brought back by his captured subordinates said that the conditions for surrender were met, but in view of the failure of the two counterattacks against the Ming army at Qiaotou, the people in the Jinshan camp were a little panicked, and he also needed some time to appease these subordinates.

Although there were more than 1,400 troops stationed in the Jinshan camp, they belonged to the Ulut Mongol Banner Niulu, that is, there were only 700 people who had undergone military training in the Later Jin, and the rest were the men and horses of the Naiman, Ao Han and Horqin tribes.

With the Mongolian flag Niu Lu as the backbone, the people of these Mongolian vassal tribes are naturally honest and obedient. However, the failure of the two counterattacks against the Ming army not only caused the Ulut Mongol Banner to lose nearly 200 people, but also the men and horses of these vassal tribes to nearly 100 people.

The Uunag army was very strict and the Obenthe was brave and good at fighting, so although it suffered defeat, the Ulut Mongol Banner was still able to obey the command of the Ubentui. However, the men and horses of the Mongolian tribes such as Naiman, Ao Han, and Horqin were still accustomed to the way of fighting on the steppe, and when they encountered an unfavorable form of warfare, they temporarily retreated, and waited until the other side was tired and tired before making plans.

Seeing that the Ming army crossed the Luanhe River with more and more troops, not only set up an offensive formation in front of them, but also sent troops to cut off the connection between Jinshan and the large camp in the east, and Ebendui not only did not have any intention of retreating, but was ready to fight a defensive battle with the Ming army with superior numbers on the opposite side.

The men and horses of these Mongolian vassal tribes naturally had some commotion, and the cavalry could not fight in the field and could escape from the battlefield with the help of horses, once the Ming army confined them to the hillside, then they had to fight to the death with the Ming army in addition to dropping their horses and fleeing north on foot, hoping that this war could be won in order to survive.

Hundreds of miles deep into the Great Wall, having lost their horses, it is unlikely that they will return to the grassland alive. And if you want to win this war, you have to defeat the seemingly endless Ming army brigades that cross the river. If the main force of the Jurchen Eight Banners led by the Great Khan of the Later Jin Dynasty was still here, these Mongols would probably be able to hold on for a while and wait and see.

But now, the leaders of several Mongol vassal tribes began to make noise among their men, demanding that they withdraw and join forces with Aubabel to the west.

While he was anxious to persuade the men and horses of these vassal tribes, the Ming army gave him two quarters of an hour of respite, which was a relief for him, and he sent his cronies to the Ming army to delay time, while trying to appease the soldiers who asked to withdraw to obey the orders sent by Wu Nag and cooperate with the main force in the east to launch a counterattack.

Ebendui also counted the examples of these soldiers and soldiers, and the Houjin army defeated the Ming army of Liaodong with fewer victories many times, and patted his chest to assure them that these Ming troops seemed to be large in number, but the number of cavalry was only comparable to them, and the Ming army did not have an advantage in the field.

As for the infantry formation of the Ming army, according to past experience, as long as it can break through a position of the Ming army on the opposite side, the entire defense line of the Ming army will collapse. Now there is the main force of Wunagegu Mountain Ezhen in the east, and the support of Obabel in the west, under the attack from three sides, although the Ming army has a large number of people, it is impossible to give full play to its advantages, and they still have a great chance of victory.

If they can defeat the main force of the Ming Army's Eastern Route Army here, then they will no longer encounter resistance from the Ming army's large forces in front of them, and they can go deep into the Ming country to obtain more loot.

The Mongols, who were being instigated by Obendui, suddenly received the bad news that Obabel, who was stationed at the western pass, had retreated north with his troops under the pressure of the Ming army. The Mongols stationed in Jinshan did not need any equipment to clearly see the retreat of the Horqin tribe in the west. Even if Ebendui wanted to hide the news, there was nothing he could do.

Obabale's actions were clearly a hundred times more powerful than Obendi's words, and the Mongols at Jinshan Camp immediately lost faith that the war could still be won.

The counterattack order demanded by Wunag was obviously impossible to execute. Even the soldiers of the Urut Mongol banner, who had been obeying the order of the Obendui until now, now objected to this order.

By this time, the weakness of Ebendui's shallow foundation in the Houjin country was revealed. The ancestor of Ebendui is the Mongol who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and he also inherited the official position of the garrison, and in the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven, Nurhachi captured Liaoyang, and Ebendui surrendered with 35 soldiers and 60 horses.

A Mongol like him is better than the surrendered Ming in Nurhachi's eyes, and his status in the Later Jin State is not only far lower than that of a Jurchen Mongol like Wunag, but also incomparable with the Mongols from the Horqin tribe, even the Mongols from the small steppe tribes such as Naiman and Ao Han are easier to gain Nurhachi's trust.

After Huang Taiji ascended the throne in the first year of Tiancong, Ebendui began to emerge, and he was a Mongolian general who was promoted by Huang Taiji to divide the power of the Ulut Mongol Banner. However, Ebendu, who is about the same age as Wu Nag, is now only a second-class staff general, not even a deputy general.

When the war was going well, with the continuous improvement of the military order system of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, Ebendui could naturally easily command these Mongol soldiers, but when he encountered the current situation of possible annihilation, it was difficult for Ebendui, who lacked the support of his descendants, to make these Mongol tribes with different minds completely obey his orders.

In front of the Ulut bannermen, he replied to the envoy sent by Wunag that his army could not assist the main force in the east to launch an attack on the Ming army, and in the situation of Obabel's withdrawal in the west, Jinshan could no longer continue to defend, so he asked Wunag to allow them to retreat.

Immediately afterwards, Ebendui suppressed the soldiers of the Ulut Banner with the military order of Wunag, declaring that anyone who dared to publicly propose a retreat before Wunag issued an order to retreat would be punished for the crime of disturbing the morale of the army.

Ebendui's combination of soft and hard finally made the Wulut banner soldiers in the Jinshan camp succumb. After subduing the hearts of the Ulut Banner soldiers, Ebendui immediately disposed of several of the most troublesome vassal clan soldiers, and sent his own cronies to take over these horses.

As for the Korqin tribe who were clamoring to chase after their own leader, Ebendui didn't have the courage to deal with them. The number of marriages between the Horqin tribe and the Jurchen relatives and nobles far exceeded that of the other Mongolian tribes. God knows who among the centaurs under his command is related to which Jurchen nobles or banner owners are related by marriage, even Wu Nag does not dare to easily deal with the people of the Horqin Tribe, let alone him who has no foundation.

In the end, Ebendui could only imprison a few of the most troublesome Horqin small chiefs, and said that the men and horses of the Horqin tribe only guarded the camp and could leave first when Wunag's retreat order was issued, which finally pacified them.

However, things have developed to this extent, and Ebendui also knows that Jinshan will definitely not be able to hold it, so he can only hope that Yu Wunag can understand his situation, give up the order to counterattack the Ming army, and retreat to Wuchong'an to defend first.

No matter how much the envoy sent by Ebendui to the Ming army tried to delay time, when the Ming army was ready to attack Jinshan, the envoy was sent back to Jinshan by the Ming army.

He Kegang, who personally led a battalion of men and horses to send away Oba, the leader of the Horqin tribe in the west, was recalled by the emperor to the Chinese army, and he will next preside over the battle against the camp of Houjinjinshan.

Before the start of the operational deployment meeting, Zhu Youzhen said to the generals who participated in the operation: "It is better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers." The invading Tartar army was far from the rear base, and their men and horses could be said to be one less than one dead, and there was no way to replenish them on the spot.

Although the task of opening the passage to Zunhua City and rescuing Zunhua City is important, it is also important to destroy the enemy's living forces in battle.

If we repel these Tartars, they will be able to regroup again and continue to resist our army if they flee to the rear. But if we destroy this small force on the Golden Mountain today, then there will always be no such force in the Tartar army, and we will face fewer enemies next.

If we can destroy hundreds to a thousand Tartars in every battle, how much strength will the enemy we have to face when we reach Zunhua City?

Therefore, in the next battle, I ask you to give full play to the numerical superiority of your forces, and you must resolutely and cleanly destroy this Tartar force on the Golden Mountain.

If anyone cowers in this battle, or even retreats without receiving a military order, resulting in the release of this group of Tartars on the Golden Mountain, I will definitely punish him severely, and I will never forgive the loan. ”

Chongzhen once again reaffirmed military discipline to the generals attending the meeting, and asked Lian Shanxiang to form a gendarmerie to enforce battlefield discipline to show that he was not talking in vain.

Chongzhen's move finally gave the Liaodong generals a sense of crisis, but most of them finally looked at Wu Xiang and Song Wei. These two were the two highest-ranking generals among the few generals who retreated from the defeat of Santun Camp, and they were now leading the army that had retreated from the Battle of Santun Camp.

Even the most arrogant generals felt that although the emperor's words were warning everyone, they were mainly aimed at these two defeated generals.

Moreover, in the next operational deployment arranged by He Kegang, the troops led by Wu Xiang and Song Wei served as the vanguard, and the 1st and 2nd Guards Divisions and a battalion led by Zu Dashou sat in the rear to support.

During the meeting, although Wu Xiang looked at Zu Dashou several times, hoping that he could say a few good words for himself, Zu Dashou, who was sitting first on the left side of the emperor, was like an old monk sitting in meditation, and never looked at him half a look. Except for the emperor who asked him if there was any problem with the combat deployment, he nodded and said yes, basically he didn't say much.

After the meeting, Wu Xiang and Song Wei, who had nothing to do, walked towards their troops in despair, and by this time they also knew that it would be impossible not to fight a battle.