Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan chose to immediately lead his troops after receiving Meng Wei's information. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info In order to speed up, he brought all the Guanning iron horses, a full 7,000 men and horses, plus the 4,000 men and horses he asked He Kegang to take to Yutian to intercept Houjin, it can be said that he has exhausted the main force in the city.

Yuan Chonghuan hoped for a decisive battle, and even longed for a decisive battle! As the governor of Jiliao, he absolutely could not let Jiannu cross Jizhou and go straight to Beijing. If Jiannu arrives in Jingshi, then no matter whether he can be repelled in the end or not, he will definitely not be able to escape the charge of ineffective supervision. In this way, it is almost impossible for him to gain Chongzhen's trust again in the future, and he may even go to prison for this, which he knows very well.

But as long as he can block Houjin on the trail, he will be able to fight Houjin in Hengling. With Yuan Chonghuan's ability, it is completely possible to bring 7,000 people to Hengling and Houjin for a few days, and when the Ming army near Jizhou is all assembled in Hengling, not to mention the total annihilation of Houjin, at least they can inflict heavy damage on their main force and force them to flee back to Saiwai, which is completely possible - no matter how hard it is to say that it will only take a day or two for the troops from Sanhe, Yutian, Tongzhou and other places to be urgently transferred.

When Yuan Chonghuan led his troops to the entrance of the trail, it was already dark. Although Yuan Chonghuan knew that Houjin was still in Hengling, because it was dark and he was worried about being ambushed, he did not dare to venture into the mountain.

He made two decisions. The first is to let Meng Wei take a few spies into the mountains to see if Qin Shuhuai is still entangled with the main force of Jiannu in the mountains. If he is still there, then he can kill it without hesitation, and intercept the Jiannu army with Qin Shuhuai, and he can completely inflict heavy casualties on the Jiannu army.

Another decision was that the cavalry lay in ambush at the exit of the trail in four groups, and as soon as they found the Jiannu army coming out, they immediately carried out a cross-attack. Jiannu's formation is long, and it is bound to not be able to concentrate too many troops to counterattack for a while, so the Guanning army can also take advantage of it.

Yuan Chonghuan believes that with so many horses in Houjin, it is impossible to cross the mountains and mountains. The only way to get out of the steep terrain is to take this trail. Either they move on and go to Yutian from this trail, or they withdraw from this trail. But he believed that with Qin Shuhuai's scheming, this trail must have been sealed, and it would take at least a day or two for Jiannu to clear the obstacles, and they would definitely be worried that a new ambush would form after these two days, so after defeating the four thousand troops in Qin Shuhuai's hands, they would definitely retreat along the original road.

It should be said that his arrangement was correct.

But sometimes, even the most perfect plan has holes. Or to put it simply, Houjin's qi is not exhausted.

At first, Huang Taiji did order the army to immediately return the same way and withdraw from the trail. But after walking back for more than half an hour, the people of the northern beggars came.

They hurried to see Huang Taiji with the news that they had responded from the Guanning army, and told Huang Taiji that Yuan Chonghuan had set up an ambush outside, and was waiting for him to drill into his pocket.

Huang Taiji was shocked. Although he still has nearly 50,000 horses in his hands, the main force is only 14,000. And going out from the narrow path, the army could not immediately gather to form a combat force when it was lined up, and if it was ambushed by Yuan Chonghuan, the outcome could be imagined.

Huang Taiji immediately ordered the army to stop advancing, and then threw the baggage and horses on the trail, and the soldiers divided into two groups and camped on the hills on both sides of the road to prevent the Ming army from sneaking up.

After making these preparations, Huang Taiji convened an emergency meeting of the main generals.

Now in front of him were three multiple-choice questions. One is to clear the barricades and continue to Yutian. But it will take at least a day to clear the bodies and boulders from the two-kilometre-long trail. This day was enough time for the Ming army to set up several more ambushes on the next section of the trail. The second is to take advantage of the darkness to return and rush out. But it is expected that at least half of the troops will be lost in this way, and their trip to the Central Plains can be completely over, and if they are unlucky, they may even find it difficult to return home. The third is that everyone crosses the mountains and mountains, bypasses this trail, and goes out of the mountains from other places, but in this way, it is necessary to throw away all the war horses and baggage, because it is impossible to carry these over the primeval forest. The problem is that without war horses and baggage, they can neither defeat the cavalry of the Ming army, nor can they continue to fight, and they will die if they go out.

Three roads, each of which is a dead end!

Everyone discussed for a long time and didn't come up with any good solution, Huang Taiji was melancholy in his heart, and came to the outside of the tent, and sighed at the sky with flying snow fluttering in the sky.

Qin Shuhuai! What kind of demonic figure is this! With thousands of people, my 50,000-strong army is trapped here!

Isn't it the providence of the Ming Dynasty to raise troops in order to make a living? The shamans in the army all said that the national spirit was exhausted, but why did such a demon come out of his life?

When Qin Shuhuai was hiding in a warm cave drinking and eating meat, Huang Taiji ushered in the lowest ebb and most helpless moment of his life in the ice and snow.

At this time, someone suddenly came to report.

"Qi Qi Great Khan, Fan Wencheng, the military study officer, asked to see him, and he said that there was a good way to break the enemy. ”

Huang Taiji was stunned, and he couldn't remember who this Fan Wencheng was. The so-called study official is just a clerk in the library set up by Huang Taiji, and he is not even an official position. On this expedition, in order to write a letter of surrender, Huang Taiji also brought some Han talents, and this Fan Wencheng was one of the talents who accompanied the army.

Huang Taiji naturally couldn't imagine at this moment that this Han talent who suddenly appeared would be the first adviser he regarded as the humerus in the future.

Historically, Fan Wencheng played an extremely important role in the process of Houjin's entry into the Central Plains. He was born in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, and rose to prominence during the Huang Taiji period, and was deeply relied on by the Huang Taiji, who needed to consult him on everything in the strategy of crusading against the Ming Dynasty, plotting against the Ming Dynasty officials, attacking Korea, pacifying Mongolia, and building the national system. He was a veteran of the four dynasties of Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, Shunzhi and Kangxi, and was known as the head of the Manchu civil officials. It was he who recruited Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and other Ming Dynasty generals. At the same time, it was also he who saw the opportunity to write to the regent Dolgon in the first year of Shunzhi, asking for troops to enter the customs, and personally formulated the strategy, policy, and phalanx of attacking the Ming Dynasty, and made several suggestions on the way, strengthening Dolgon's determination to attack Beijing, and finally helping Houjin seize the Han world.

At this time, Fan Wencheng was just a talent in the literary hall, and Huang Taiji naturally had never heard of it.

Although he didn't believe that a showman could really solve the plight of the army, Huang Taiji was desperate at the moment, so he had to hold the mentality of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and summoned Fan Wencheng in the camp.

A dignified Han man in his early thirties walked in, his face a little bookish. When the Houjin generals in the account saw him, they all looked disdainful. They have always despised the Han people, and even more despised the Han scholars, thinking that they would only talk about it, and the Ming Kingdom was ruined by these scholars.