When Ebendui and his subordinates took the initiative to drive the attacking Ming army back, Wu Xiang, who was at the rear of the team, did not immediately start fleeing. Compared with another deputy general, Song Wei, Wu Xiang's political sense is undoubtedly much keen.

Song Wei and the others only saw Chongzhen's condolences and concern for the wounded soldiers and ordinary soldiers after arriving in Malanzhuang, and the generous rewards for the officers and men of the East Route Army, thinking that the young emperor was a gentle and easy-to-talk person.

However, Wu Xiang heard Chongzhen's words of strict military discipline at the military affairs meeting, and he had such an intuition that when the emperor showed his benevolence and generosity to the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Route Army, he had to pick out a few typical examples to show the whole army his majesty and power as the emperor.

Therefore, although the subordinates attacking in front were crushed by the Tartars, and everyone was struggling to flee towards the main formation, Wu Xiang did not run in the front, but lagged behind the fugitive army, and watched from a distance the fate of Song Wei and other colleagues who fled at the front of the team.

The bombardment of the fleeing army by the artillery of this array also frightened Wu Xiang and others. Seeing Song Wei return to his own camp with a few subordinates, Wu Xiang felt that his prospects did not seem to be very optimistic, and sure enough, in addition to the few subordinates he brought back, it was his own head.

However, to Wu Xiang's surprise, his son, who deliberately stayed in the camp, actually came up with 300 family members. He couldn't help but scold with tears: "Why did you come up, leaving you behind for your father, just to leave a seed for the Wu family." If our father and son were to fold here today, wouldn't my house be ruined? ”

Wu Sangui rolled off the horse and said unconvinced to his father: "The Tartar is already in a desperate situation, and now he is just dying. If the father could not capture this camp within the time limit set by His Majesty, not only would the father be severely punished by His Majesty, but the son would be indifferent to his father's predicament, would he still be a son of man? ”

Wu Xiang sighed, pointed to the surrounding soldiers sitting on the ground in groups of three or five and said, "Even if the Tartars have become a lone army now, do you think that with them, we can beat the camp above?" ”

Wu Sangui gritted his teeth and said, "The matter has come to this point, and there is only one way to fight." Father, don't forget, Your Majesty is watching here at the moment, if you can't give Your Majesty an explanation, even if our father and son survive by luck, the future will be ruined.

Before I came, my uncle gave me 200 jiading, plus our own family to make up 300. After a while, Zi personally led the army to charge, and hoped that his father would answer behind, so he must not easily waver and retreat, and disturb the morale of our army. ”

Wu Sangui cheered for his father, and at the same time gave his father a precaution, even if the two were father and son, Wu Sangui was also a little worried at this moment, his father left the possibility of running away again at a critical moment.

This is not the city of Santun camp, and now the Eastern Route Army is no longer his uncle, if it is another failure because of his father's escape, Wu Sangui feels that if the emperor does not cut off the heads of their father and son, it will be a real miracle.

Hearing Wu Sangui say this, Wu Xiang couldn't help but blush, he coughed and said: "It's really going to be hard, you can rest assured, as long as you fight hard in front, your father will never drag you back." But you also have to be careful, don't rush too forward, the Tartars are very insidious, and they are used to concentrating archers to shoot at the soldiers who charge ahead of our army, so you must not fall for the trick..."

Before the camp in the east of the Houjin army, Obabel retreated without authorization from the returning envoys, resulting in the Jinshan camp being surrounded by the Ming army on three sides, whether it was Wunag, Dudu, Chahara and other Later Jin generals, they all fell into a state of silence.

Although these Houjin generals hated Obabel's actions, they knew that they had no choice but to be the leader of the Korqin tribe.

Previously, Obabel was unwilling to respond to Huang Taiji's order and went to crusade against the Chahar Ministry, although Oba finally rushed to Shenyang in person to admit his mistake to Huang Taiji, but in view of the relationship between the Jianzhou Jurchen and the Horqin Ministry, Huang Taiji also had to forgive his mistakes in public.

Now that O'Babel is in front of the battle, even if there is some fault, it will not be too big. It is not said that in order to save Oba's face and maintain the friendship between the two tribes, the Great Khan still has the sin of arranging a mistake in their arrangement.

The army led by Oba was separated from them by a mountain of gold, and even if Wunag wanted to send someone to stop him, he would have to make a big circle until he intercepted Obabale, and perhaps the battle on the mountain would have been over.

The original plan to counterattack the Ming army naturally could not be implemented, and now the most important thing is to rescue the Ebendui troops stationed in Jinshan.

Since the formation of the Ulut Mongol Banner, there has been no precedent for such an organized army to be annihilated. Others may not be very clear, but Wu Nag still has some understanding of the purpose of Huang Taiji's entry into the customs.

In addition to Huang Taiji's desire to take advantage of this detour to invade the Ming Kingdom and increase his authority in the Eight Banners Army, he also tried to test the reality of the Ming army's other defense lines, and lured the grassland tribes to follow the Later Jin army to invade the Ming Kingdom, thus forcing the Mongolian tribes to break with the Ming State and become a help for the Later Jin detour to invade the Ming Kingdom.

Now that a battle will result in the loss of a Mongol vassal army, who will follow the orders of the Great Khan and follow the Houjin army to invade the Guannai in the future? In order to stabilize the morale of the army, they did not even dare the soldiers to say that Obabel in the west had retreated with his men.

Therefore, the three Houjin generals only discussed behind closed doors for a while, and then decided to free the Ebendui tribe, and then abandoned this place and retreated to the Wuchongan area.

Du Du believed that if he wanted to rescue the Ebendui Division, it was not easy to attack the Ming army's defense line with a large army, but should first attract the attention of the Ming army with a large force in the front, and then use a capable small force to penetrate the northern end of the Ming army's defense line and open up the passage between Jinshan and the large camp in the east, so as to receive the Ebendui Division, and not let the main force fall into entanglement with the Ming army and unable to get out.

It was Du Du's suggestion that Wu Nag continue to lead 3,000 cavalry to attack the front of the Ming army's defense line in the west, and he took 3 Niu Lu Jurchen cavalry and the elite of the selected Ulut banner to form a cavalry team of 500 people, break through the north of the Ming army's defense line, and go to meet the Ebendui Division.

For Du Du's plan, Wu Nag and Chahara both felt that they could give it a try, but for Du Du volunteering to lead his troops to attack the Ming army front, the two refused in unison.

Wu Nag felt that the risk of this operation was too high, and he did not want Nurhachi's eldest grandson to risk falling into the hands of the Ming army. Compared to Ebendui and those under him, it was obvious that Du Du and the 3 Niu Lu Jurchen warriors were more valuable.

On the one hand, Chahara had Huang Taiji's instructions to keep this Dudu Belle under his protection at all times, and not to give him a chance to act alone.

On the other hand, it was based on his distrust of Du Du's ability to lead the troops, after all, this Du Du Belle with nearly two Jurchen warriors of Niu Lu was surrounded and annihilated by the Ming army. Not only was he himself captured by the Ming army, but even the only remaining guards around him were given to the Ming army by him once.

The current Du Du is equivalent to a loner in this army. In Chahara's opinion, Du Du, who lost all his guards and subordinates, and returned alive from the Ming army alone, was no different from the behavior of a loser.

Du Du, who had such a defeat experience, was embarrassed to propose that he wanted to lead the troops, but Chahara naturally refused.

Although Du Du's identity was much more valuable than the two in front of him, he could not make them obey his orders, and without the consent of the two of them, he could not even move a single soldier.

Therefore, when the two rejected his request in unison and began to discuss the next plan to send troops on their own, Du Du could only find an excuse and hide to the side to sulk.

After Dudu left, Wunag and Chahara felt relieved, and they decided in a few words about the plan to rescue Obendui.

Chahara took over the command of the army and led the army to divert the attention of the Ming defense line head-on, while Wunag led a partial division to attack the northern end of the Ming line.

However, Wu Nag was not willing to take Jurchen Niulu on an adventure, and he decided to use the Mongol soldiers of the Ulut Banner as the main force, plus the elites of some vassal tribes as auxiliaries. In the end, it was decided that the number of men and horses of this partial division was 800, and half of the soldiers of the Ulut banner and the vassal tribes were.

When the thousands of Houjin cavalry in the east of the Ming army began to attack again, on the gentle slope in front of the Houjin Jinshan camp, Wu Sangui was also engaged in a fierce battle with the Mongol cavalry led by Ebendui.

After seeing the head of the adjutant general Song Wei who was sent back, and the merciless shelling of the defeated soldiers by this formation, this soldier in the forward unit of the Ming army finally understood his current situation.

Even the slick ruffians in the barracks on weekdays know at this moment that if they can't capture the Tartar camp in front of them, I'm afraid they won't have any good fruit to eat. As for the method of not holding the public accountable to these sergeants in the past, it seems that today it has lost its effect, and it seems that there are people in the rear who want to blame the public.

These soldiers of the Ming army did not dare to resent others, but vented their resentment on He Kegang, they thought that it must be this bastard who slandered in front of the emperor to make the emperor act so hotly.

However, when they were in their hometown in Liaodong, they could still collude with other battalions to cause a mutiny. Now the rear is supervising the battle, there are two guards divisions who have no friendship, if they want to do something, it is estimated that these people will not show mercy.

The other Liaodong battalions here have been appeased by the emperor one by one in the past two days, and it is estimated that no one will respond to their defeated soldiers who have left their comrades and fled back.

As for where they are now, to the north is the Tartar camp, and on the other three sides are their own armies. If they refuse to attack north, there will be nowhere to flee.

Therefore, although many Ming troops were full of grievances, they still accepted the rectification and organization of Wu Xiang's father and son very practically. After half an hour, the defeated army finally regained some of its appearance.

Wu Sangui divided the team into left and right wings, he himself attacked the right flank, while the two generals under Song Wei were in charge of the left flank, and Wu Xiang took a third of the men and horses to meet in the rear.