Huang Taiji's face was quite ugly, he pursed his lips, his face was pale, the attendant brought his war horse, he jumped up, the fat body jumped up without the slightest delay, the surrounding attachés and guards hurriedly got on their horses to keep up, the war can not be said to be completely over, when the personnel got on the horse, there were quite a lot of elite guards and vests and white armor on guard, and after the cavalry put out the formation again, these people got on their horses again, and then took turns to retreat alternately, several miles away, when it came to a real safe distance, the retreat before the formation was completed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

If everyone gets on the horse and leaves, it is a defeat, too ugly, and dangerous.

After everyone got on the horse, alternately withdrew to begin, Huang Taiji took a last look at the river, the Ming army's military formation was still not moving, stinging and burning Huang Taiji's eyes, here is not far south of Liaozhong, the right side is Lianshan Pass to the Phoenix City, the middle is all endless mountains, in later generations is Anshan, Jiguan Mountain, Motianling, Xiuyan and other places, the low mountains on the ground account for nearly eighty percent, there are a large number of lofty mountains and mountains, Motianling is a rather steep place, that way as long as the town of Phoenix and Xiuyan, Lianshan Pass and other key points are equivalent to locking the line from Kuandian to the Dongjiang River, and the Dongjiang River can only continue to harass and attack from two points, one point is from Kuandian all the way, behind which are important bases such as Tieshan Yizhou Phi Dao, from Kuandian through Dong Ebu's hometown to Niumaozhai, all the way to Hetuala, and deep into the old heart of the Jurchen.

The advantage of this road is that it can go straight into the back of the Jurchens, within the side wall, and use the way of others to return their bodies. The difficulty is that the area from Kuandian Liubao to Yiju Tieshan is full of deep mountains and old forests, and it is difficult to Tuntian, and the support that logistics can provide is quite limited. In fact, after Dongjiang Town established the town, it also made up 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers, but it was impossible to put all these soldiers into the battlefield in the dense forest at one time, so they could only send a small number of soldiers to pull up the civilians who were picking dried fruits and planting and hunting in the forest.

The robbers who specialized in robbing people were robbed, and the Jurchens were also very angry, but they had no choice, before the division of Dongjiang Town, it was impossible for Phi Dao to be taken down by force, the nest was stable, and Kuandian was not suitable for launching an army, Dongjiang Town was active here, and the Jurchens had no way to completely eliminate the enemies behind them.

The other road is Lushun Road, Jinzhou is a swing zone, and Fuzhou is firmly controlled by the two red flags and a small number of Mongols.

Originally, there was no need to worry too much about the Dongjiang River, the logistics capacity was very poor, and the Ming military town, which was poorer than the Jurchens, had poor equipment, poor mobility, and poor training.

Now Huang Taiji felt the real threat, a strong threat.

The Ming army can carry out large-scale activities between the Suzi River and the Taizi River, and it also has strong combat power...... Houjin's infiltration into the Kuandian area is very strong, and they can also get a lot of information about the Dongjiang River, but they can't get the information of the 12th Regiment at all, so even Huang Taiji doesn't know that a lot of arable land and barracks have been opened up between the various forts in Kuandian, and the logistics problem no longer bothers the 12th Regiment, and even if Dongjiang Town uses troops on a large scale, they have already negotiated with Wen Zhongfa and them before this, and they can borrow the road of the 12th Regiment and hope to get the logistics support of the 12th Regiment.

"Starling, where did these Ming troops come from?" Dorgon finally showed up, still with a look of apprehension on his face.

"It should be a raft from a tributary of the Suzi River." Huang Taiji said: "His ambition is not small, I don't know what the purpose is." ”

"It's good that this battle didn't start today." Dolgon said with a happy face: "The Ming army began to lure me with a small number, and then continued to send reinforcements. Starlings are not fooled by them, they command well, and the younger brother did not come in vain today, and he learned a good time with the starlings. ”

Huang Taiji smiled slightly, and didn't care about this little brother's sycophancy.

It's just that he hasn't moved, but he is reluctant to leave immediately, the Jurchen array has withdrawn alternately, and it has reached a safe distance, and the sentinels who let go around have also sent a definite message, and there is no trace of the Ming cavalry around, it seems that this is really just an accident, not a deliberate ambush.

The bannermen went first, and the horses of the cattle were gradually withdrawn under the guidance of the Zhuangda and Bashiku, and from the old road or the old ditch not far from the river, the cavalry could gain good speed, and in about three days at most, they could withdraw to the mouth of the pine tree and completely leave the danger.

At this time, the faces of these Niu Lu Ezhen who were stationed in the Songshukou and along the Taizi River or near the Kuandian Liubao area were quite brilliant.

In the last year, the Guanzhuang everywhere was garrisoned by the surrendered Han army, and later almost all the garrisons were retreated, because Nuerhachi felt that he could not rest assured, and the Han garrison had no will to fight when it encountered the Dongjiang soldiers, and either fled or surrendered, and by the fifth year of the Apocalypse, it had been basically deployed along the Dongjiang line for the Jurchen and Mongol Niulu.

These Niu Lu are responsible for the defense of this large area, usually farming and garrisoning, in case of war, then fighting, if the Dongjiang River is as weak as previously imagined, of course these Niu Lu does not matter, but if the Ming army advances by leaps and bounds to this extent today, the danger of these Niu Lu is of course multiplied, it is really difficult to sleep!

After another quarter of an hour, a large number of rafts finally went downstream, and the later more than 300 Ming troops did not go ashore, but only put the rafts close to the shore to guard, but the entire fleet formed by the rafts continued to float down, and there were only a few people on each raft, and the number of rafts was extremely large, drifting down one after another.

"What does that mean?" Huang Taiji was really puzzled, floating one empty raft after another, this matter was very incomprehensible.

At this time, a guard came over and said: "Master, a Niu Lu of the Zhenglan Banner really said that he knew what the Ming army was doing. ”

"Bring it here."

To report is Tabai, Niu Lu Ezhen is also known as the arrow master, originally the Jurchen went to the mountains and forests to hunt even long, and later changed to Niu Lu after changing to lead two or three hundred people, is the most basic cornerstone of the rule of the Eight Banners, a Niu Lu led the official Zhuang more than 20, less than 10 more, responsible for the defense of the lot is also at least ten miles or more, Huang Taiji to Tabai up, is also quite attached to it, after the Tabai salute said: "Don't kneel, get up and answer." ”

"The minion thanked the four bailes."

"Do you know what happened to the Ming army?"

"Yes, the slave knows." Tabai was a little nervous, but only slightly nervous. His position is quite stable, it is not the appointed Niu Lu Ezhen, but the hereditary management of Niu Lu, the Tabai family is a small tribe of Dong Ebu, and He Heli joined the service, this Niu Lu is hereditary of his family, even Niu Lu also uses his grandfather's name, even if Tabai commits a crime, Niu Lu still belongs to his family, even the Great Khan can not be deprived, this is the law of the country under the tribal system, not that it cannot be violated by force, but the cost of doing so is too great, it is not worth it.

Tabai continued: "This Ming army, with good armor and good equipment, but since February, has not attacked the villages along the river once, the attack is all poorly equipped with armor Dongjiang soldiers, this well-equipped, is has been around the mountains along the river, collected a large amount of wood and then transported to the river, formed a raft and floated downstream, it is estimated that there are people in the area of Dadianbao. ”

"How did you know for sure?"

"Slave Niu Lu has an account holder who was ordered to fish along the river, he wrote down the time and what the Ming army had done, and drew the route along the river, but he was not ordered to be a sentry horseman, and he did not dare to go too far from the river."

Tabai presented a booklet, and one of the guards took it.

Huang Taiji looked at it, immediately interested, the brush on it is very poor, but the writing is quite detailed, recording the Ming army's action time and trajectory near the river, sure enough, from February to the present, although the months of frequent exchanges, but a few months have not attacked any Guanzhuang, but in the mountains and forests and Jurchen sentry encountered several times, but also beat away the Jurchen sentry cavalry, there is no desire and plan to pursue and expand the war.

What is rare is that Li Mingli drew a very simple map, marking several nearby mountains and Ya'erkuizhai and Suzi River Basin, as well as the traces of activities in the area from the Taizi River Valley to Songshukou, the picture is quite simple, indicating that the mapper does not have any drawing background, but these places are well marked, indicating that they are quite familiar with the geographical environment.

In this way, the report is quite credible.

Huang Taiji said to Tabai: "You are a Han person? ”

"Yes," Tabai replied, "it was the Han army who raised the flag to open an account." ”

"Reward him with five taels of silver." Huang Taiji said: "Exempt him from fishing and labor, but ask him to continue to patrol and monitor all over the river, and report to you if there is an abnormal situation, you send someone to Liaoyang to report to me." ”

"Please rest assured, the minions will definitely take this matter as a top priority."

"Hmm."

Huang Taiji nodded casually and motioned for Tabai to retreat.

His gaze turned back to the river.

At this time, people noticed that the rafts on the river were really tied with giant trees, each giant tree was as big as a few people hugging, each wood was quite huge, like a giant boat down the river in the river, several people stood on such a huge raft like ants, you can imagine how huge those woods are.

"It's actually logging ......"

Huang Taiji felt a little crying and laughing in his heart!

In the past six months, the activities of the Dongjiang soldiers are quite frequent, and there are reports of sentry cavalry encountering Dongjiang town soldiers everywhere, and they all show that the army is quite elite, strong, and sneaky.

As a result, the other party was actually chopping wood in the mountains, instead of planning to attack on a large scale, which was really an unexpected but real discovery.