Chen Xin turned his head and looked in the direction of the east, on the horizon where the sea and the sky meet, there was a trace of fish belly white, the morning sun was about to rise, and a new day was finally about to begin.

In the thin morning light, the soldiers of the Houjin Army in the distance in the north walked out of the camp in a steady stream, and one after another the flow of people gradually merged into the sea of people outside the camp.

Almost countless shield carts, driven by the coats, pushed vigorously towards the front line, looking down from the top of the mountain, it looked like countless toys moving on the sand table.

Later, the Jin army changed its previous style, and a group of shield carts moved along the foot of the northern mountain towards the direction of the Golden Mountain, and the subsequent echelon of shield carts lined up directly in the south of Xiaogushan Village.

Under the command of various banners, the soldiers of the Houjin Army spread out along the Lushun defense line all the way, starting from Jiguan Mountain in the west to Jinshan Mountain in the east, and discharged a long formation.

In this formation, the dense shield carts were like a moving wooden wall, and each army also sent a follow-up echelon to make preparations, which could be seen very clearly from the Cockscomb Mountain.

Any officer with a modicum of military knowledge will know that the enemy is preparing to launch a series of attacks and fight a big battle.

"Your Majesty, it seems that the Tartars are indeed preparing to launch an attack on all fronts." After Fu Yan looked at the situation on the other side with a telescope, he said quietly to Chen Xin.

Chen Xin breathed a sigh of relief, although he had already made relevant preparations, but when he really faced so many soldiers of the Houjin Army, he still felt very shocked.

You must know that for this operation, plus logistics personnel such as Baoyi and Ahha, the Houjin Army mobilized nearly 200,000 horses.

The fact that the Houjin Army was able to organize such a huge offensive was enough to show the effectiveness of their conquest system, even if this organization was very primitive, but in this era, it was already very powerful.

"Dolgon's caution is still a little more, you look at the two yellow flags he grabbed and the white flags he has been personally wearing sitting there." Chen Xin casually pointed in the opposite direction.

Fu Yan raised his binoculars and looked over, the yellow flag was under the Cockscomb Mountain, they were coming to the foot of the mountain, the yellow flag was scattered in the direction of the Golden Mountain, and a small number of shield carts were also placed in front of them, but it was obviously not a posture to launch a strong attack.

The white flag is hiding at the back of the frontal attacking team, which is the role of the overseer team at all!

After such a long attack in front of him, and a large-scale night attack that night, the fool also knew that with the strength of one banner, it would be impossible to knock down the cockscomb mountain.

They can't even beat the Cockscomb Mountain inland, let alone the Golden Mountain fortress group, they are only pinning down the defenders of the two mountains, and they will not break out fierce attack and defense, and the most tragic battle will only be in the middle.

Fu Yan was reminded by Chen Xin, and carefully observed the deployment of the Houjin flags, the two wings were two yellow flags, and then, from west to east, there were two white flags, black flags (Han army flags), Mongolian left and right wings, two red flags, and two blue flags.

Most of the Jurchen soldiers and horses are in the rear, and those who take the lead in the front are generally those Mongolian and Baoyi who are dressed in different clothes, but the most strange thing is that in the part where the black flag is located in the middle, there is also a group of people and horses with yellow flags.

"Your Majesty, there is a banner with a yellow flag in the middle, could it be that Dolgon himself went up to suppress the formation?"

Chen Xin looked at it for a while and shook his head, the flags on the opposite side were all hand-sewn, and the appearance was very similar, where could he see it, so Chen Xin turned his head and said to the adjutant behind him: "Find a higher-level defector." ”

A Jurchen Tartar, who was supposed to have injured his leg in an earlier battle, was quickly carried over under the watchful eye of several Guards Banner Corps fighters. Not Moncta, that guy military intelligence has other uses.

And the guy who is coming now, Chen Xin has already met him once when he was in Lushun, and it seems that his name is Su Kemeng.

Because the Military Intelligence Bureau has already brought in his family, it is quite reliable, and within the scope of what can be used, it is even more respectful to see Chen Xin now.

The adjutant beside Chen Xin handed Su Kemeng a pair of binoculars, pointed to the yellow flag in the middle and asked, "Who will be the yellow flag in the middle?" Could it be that Dorgon himself went over to the battle? ”

Su Kemeng cautiously took the binoculars, and was suddenly startled at a glance, and it took him a while to get used to this thing.

After a moment of looking in the direction pointed by the adjutant, he said: "There are about five or six Niulu, and it is by no means Dolgon, because there is no camp of Bayala that should normally be directly under the Great Khan, so it must be the team led by Abatai." ”

Su Kemeng briefed Chen Xin on Abatai's situation.

Abatai was first inlaid with white flags, and there were about six self-managed Niu Lu under his command, and after Huang Taiji ascended the throne, he greatly adjusted the eight flags, and he became a person with yellow flags as soon as he changed the color of the flag.

At that time, the owner of the yellow flag was still Haoge (who was later killed by Chen Xin by blowing up the ice by the Yalu River), and then, after Huang Taiji's death, the two yellow flags were taken over by Dolgon.

This time, in order to show that the two yellow flags did not evade their own combat responsibilities, Dolgon followed Dord's words and pushed Abatai to the middle position.

Abatai is also bitter and can't say it, Houjin has three kinds of cattle recording system, namely self-managed cattle records, male cattle records and coated cattle records.

Among them, the self-managed Niu Lu is under the jurisdiction of each nobleman himself, such as Azig, Sakhalian, Dege, Dudu and others who are not the banner owners, they all have their own Niu Lu, and the same is true for each Qigu Mountain, even the Houjin Khan cannot be deprived at will, even if there is a mistake that needs to be confiscated, it is also adjusted between their own traditional relatives and friends.

Mang Gurtai was fined two Niu Lu in Daling River, that is, handed over to his younger brother of the banner, Dege, and would not be directly punished to the two yellow flags of Huang Taiji, which is the consistent rule of the Houjin and one of the foundations of the Eight Banners system.

Under the system of partial privatization, the Great Khan could not be completely selfless, and the struggle was fierce, just like in the earlier days, when Azig and Dolgon were under the white flag.

Although Dolgon is the banner master, he usually can't control Azig's self-managed Niu Lu, and the strength of the two is actually comparable.

Even a rough bastard-like character like Mang Gurtai usually has nothing to do with some Niu Lu of the Zhenglan Flag, and when Mang Gurtai was still the owner of the flag, the Derge class and Gushan Ezhen in his banner, they all have a few self-managed Niu Lu.