The Tartar soldiers who appeared at this time were naturally the 20,000 troops brought by Haoge and Azig from Zunhua.

They had arrived last night and had been lying in ambush at the foot of Jingzhong Mountain. Unable to lay in ambush at the foot of the mountain, they lay in ambush in a few woods farther away.

This is Fan Wencheng's plan of "striking the east and attacking the west".

Zunhua City could not be attacked for a long time, and there was also a crisis in the grain and grass of the Houjin army, so on the one hand, Huang Taiji sent 20,000 people to Qian'an and other places to search for grain and grass, and on the other hand, he coveted the Santun camp - because according to intelligence, the Santun camp has several large granaries, and half of the Ming army's military grain in Jizhen is in the Santun camp.

However, Santun Camp is a strong city, and there is a general Zu Dashou to hold on, if the cost of a hard attack is bound to be heavy, and it may not even be able to be attacked. Huang Taiji has already exhausted everything in this southern expedition, and every time he dies, he will have a pain in his flesh, so he doesn't dare to move if he is not completely sure.

Just when he was anxious and undecided, Mr. Fan Wencheng gave him another plan. This Han man, who is unswervingly loyal to Huang Taiji, once again can't wait to show his eloquence.

The 20,000 elite soldiers who quietly arrived from Zunhua at night played a decisive role in the battle of Santun Camp!

The quality of Ma Shilong's soldiers is actually quite good, which depends on Ma Shilong's usual training. After being ambushed, they did not scatter or surrender like ordinary guards, but put up stubborn, organized resistance.

There were not many ambushes in the grass at the foot of the mountain and on the side of the road (because there were few places to ambush, and the city of Santun Camp was relatively flat), only about 5,000 people. Therefore, at the beginning, Ma Shilong also tried to command the army to counter-encircle them.

But he soon saw that something was wrong. For in the woods two or three miles away, a large number of Tartar soldiers were rushing in a steady stream. Moreover, they are not linear and direct, but arc-shaped.

At the same time, nearly 4,000 cavalry galloped towards them! This is a cavalry wing composed of 2,000 Mongol cavalry and 1,000 Tatar cavalry!

Among the Ming army, even the Guanning army was not the opponent of the Houjin army under field conditions. Although Ma Shilong's soldiers are not bad, they are obviously not as good as the Guan Ning army, let alone the opponent of the Houjin army.

He could only immediately lead his troops to break through. But the Tartars are everywhere, and how difficult it is to break through!

Inside the Santun camp.

Zu Dashou was taken aback when he received the news that Ma Shilong's troops had been ambushed! At this moment, the Santun camp was surrounded on all sides, and he did not dare to open the city gate to save it. Moreover, the reality is that even if he sends troops to rescue, he can only go and never return.

Zu Dashou decided not to save it. And his focus now is not on whether Ma Shilong can break through, but on whether the Santun camp can be held.

The remaining 10,000 Ma Shilong troops on Jingzhong Mountain were divided into two factions after seeing the general army being ambushed.

One faction believes that there are too many Tartar soldiers, and it will be a death for everyone to save them, so it is better to defend the mountain and wait and see what happens! While the other faction believes that if General Ma is in trouble, how can everyone sit idly by and ignore it? Regardless of whether or not General Ma can be rescued, as his subordinates, he must not stand idly by at this time!

The generals quarreled fiercely in the room for half an hour, and no one could convince anyone.

As a result, of course, none of them needed to convince anyone.

Because after this half an hour has passed, the Ming army has been completely defeated!

Of the 15,000 men and horses, more than 5,000 were killed in battle, more than 7,000 surrendered, and many fled or disappeared.

The general soldier Ma Shilong was captured, and the deputy general Wang Shou'an broke through by luck, but there were only seventy or eighty people left around him, and they did not dare to go to the Santun camp or return to Jingzhong Mountain, so they had to run east.

After that, the Jin army suffered only more than 3,000 casualties.

Hauge scored a big win. This is another big victory he has won in Santun Camp since the last time he chased and killed Zhu Guoyan, the former commander of the Santun Battalion.

He said to Azig in high spirits, "Azig Belle, do you think you can go down to the three camps before it gets dark today?"

Azig smiled and said, "Zu Dashou is a strong general of the Guanning Army, I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with." However, no matter how strong the fox is, it can't fight the eagle, and I believe that with young talents like you and Dolgon, the Santun camp will definitely be able to win it soon. ”

Although Azig is only twenty-five years old, he speaks in an old-fashioned manner.

Hauge snorted coldly, "Dolgon, huh! Without him, I would still take the three camps!"

The ambush was over, and Hauge ordered 4,000 cavalry to stay and cruise to deter the remaining Ming troops on Jingzhong Mountain. And he took the remaining army of about 13,000 and rushed to the Santun camp.

After Zu Dashou received the news that Ma Shilong's army had been defeated, he did not say a word for a long time, and his face was cloudy.

Zu Dashou in history is a person with a very complex personality.

During the Ningyuan War in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, he was willing to abandon his old nest Juehua Island and run to the most dangerous Ningyuan to defend the city, and in the next year or two, he made great efforts to repel the attacks of Nurhachi and Huang Taiji, including him risking his life to lead 4,000 elite soldiers to detour behind enemy lines to carry out field battles. He also led his troops to fight fiercely with Houjin outside the Guangqu Gate in the Jisi Change, you need to know that in that kind of fierce battle, the general camp is not protected, so the probability of death is very high, but he did not flinch, which is enough to prove that he should not be a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death.

But on the other hand, in the battle of the Great Ling River in Chongzhen's four years, he showed a disdainful side. When Dalinghe City was besieged for three months and ran out of ammunition and food, he killed He Kegang, the general of Guanning who refused to surrender, and then surrendered Kaicheng. What's even more puzzling is that after surrendering and being treated with the highest courtesy by Huang Taiji, he lied to Huang Taiji that he could take his troops to Jinzhou City as an internal response, so he came to Jinzhou.

After arriving in Jinzhou, this guy immediately turned his face, and immediately organized the Jinzhou military and civilian defense to resist the Qing army. And at this time, his son Zu Kefa and others were still mortgaged in the hands of Huang Taiji, and he didn't care about it!

During this period, he repeatedly rejected Huang Taiji's persuasion to surrender, and his determination to resist was very firm.

However, in the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, when Zu Dashou was trapped in Jinzhou and ran out of ammunition, he finally opened the city gate again and surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Moreover, after that, he also wrote to Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan and asked him to surrender, but Wu Sangui refused.

On the whole, Zu Dashou may not be a hardcore traitor, but at least he is a utilitarian. When he is not in a desperate situation, he will never surrender and deserves the title of "General". But when he is in a desperate situation, he will judge the situation and will never do anything like "martyrdom with death".

And now, more than 40,000 Tartar elite soldiers stormed the city, the Santun camp was in danger, Ma Shilong's reinforcements were defeated, and Yuan Chonghuan's army was far from quenching its thirst. And because the Santun camp had fallen into the hands of Jiannu, Jiannu knew very well where the secret passage in the city led, so the escape path of the secret passage had also been blocked.

He seems to have fallen into a desperate situation.