Chapter 242: Houjin Passes Through Jizhou

Fan Wencheng saved Huang Taiji. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

His "helpless strategy" was to use 10,000 soldiers and 1,000 main forces to pretend to bypass the trail, so as to transfer Yuan Chonghuan's army ten miles away.

In fact, after Yuan Chonghuan arrived there, if he saw a flaw, he would immediately turn around and go back, and it would be too late. But because it was dark and snowing heavily, 10,000 Jiannu soldiers could make the effect of tens of thousands of people, so it was not surprising that Yuan Chonghuan thought that it was the main force of Jiannu.

But this alone could not ensure that Yuan Chonghuan would stay where he was, so Fan Wencheng used an extremely vicious trick, that is, to use human life to drag Yuan Chonghuan. The more than 4,000 Jiannu soldiers who came down the mountain were all wearing the main armor, which was actually composed of 3,000 soldiers and 1,000 main forces, and their task was to act as bait and deal with Yuan Chonghuan, or simply let Yuan Chonghuan slaughter.

His strategy proved to be successful. Houjin lost more than 2,000 troops, in exchange for the time for the army to come out of the trailhead.

November 27 of the second year of Chongzhen, Yinshi.

Jiannu's 8,000 horsemen came out of the trailhead, and then immediately ran to the northeast!

The 8,000 horsemen were divided into four shares, each with 2,000 each, led by Yue Tuo, Zierharang, Dolgon, and Yangguli, and they were ready to find Yuan Chonghuan and return the lost dignity of the Eight Banners!

On Yuan Chonghuan's side, in order to prevent the "main force of Jiannu" from going down the mountain again, he set up camp in the same place, and took the camp as the center, with a post within 60 miles before and after, to monitor the movements of the Houjin army.

At the end of the day, Yue Tuo led 2,000 cavalry to arrive at the first outpost set up by Yuan Chonghuan, and the Ming army's fifty horse sentry immediately turned around and ran towards Yuan Chonghuan's camp. Yue Tuo led people to chase after them.

Soon the second and third outposts were reached, and more and more Ming cavalry joined the ranks that ran back. It's not that they don't have fighting spirit, but in the face of the two thousand post-Jin Tieqi, they can't fight at all. Frightened and frightened, their first thought was to run to the camp.

The Jiannu cavalry drove the Ming army horse sentry after whistle to the camp like a duck. Until the end, nearly 500 Ming army horses and horses galloped wildly and rushed into the camp.

Yuan Chonghuan was in the camp, reading the battle report submitted by his generals. At this time, I heard a loud "boom" not far away, and the ground under my feet trembled violently.

Yuan Chonghuan and the generals all changed their faces greatly, and then stood up in unison. The years of fighting horses told them that this was a sign that the cavalry was coming! and, judging by the momentum, there were at least thousands of these cavalry!

Outside the tent, an extremely panicked voice came.

"Governor, Governor, it's not good, the Jiannu horse soldiers have been killed, it looks like at least six or seven thousand!"

Yuan Chonghuan was shocked, and then realized that he had fallen into the plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and the whole person suddenly seemed to have fallen into an ice cave.

The cavalry of the Guanning army was no match for the Houjin cavalry, which is a fact verified by countless battles. Now the cavalry in his hands, the 1,000 men who served as horse sentries, were only in the early 5,000s. Not to mention that Jiannu came with six or seven thousand horsemen, even if he came with three thousand, he might not be able to deal with it!

Now there are only 4,000 defenders in Jizhou City, if these cavalry in his hands are all wiped out, then Jiannu can swagger over from Jizhou City!

At this point, the only way is to break through in the dark.

Yuan Chonghuan immediately made a decision and asked the deputy general Chen Qian to bring a thousand cavalry to stop Jiannu, while he himself prepared to take the rest of his men and horses to Jizhou City to withdraw.

Chen Qian knew that the superintendent was going to abandon the car to protect the handsome, and his thousand people were like a piece of fat meat, which was given to the group of vicious dogs of Jiannu to gnaw. But Chen Qian didn't say a word, and immediately took the order and left.

Chen Qian immediately gathered a thousand cavalry under his command, divided into five arrays, each with 200 people, and blocked the southeast direction of the camp, which was the only way for the Jiannu camp.

He had just prepared when he saw a troop of horsemen rumbling in front of him. So he immediately rushed up with his men and prepared to meet the enemy.

I didn't want to get close to it, only to find out that the horsemen were all my own people. Those were all horse whistles that had been driven by Jiannu from various outposts, and there were four or five hundred people.

When the two groups of people met, although they made it clear in time that they were their own people, and there was no cannibalism, the formation of the two groups was chaotic after they staggered.

Yue Tuo's 2,000 cavalry rushed in first, piercing Chen Qian's formation like a sharp knife. A tragic and spectacular horse battle immediately ensued between the two sides. The horsemen of Guanning Tieqi are not weak, but the horsemen of Houjin are stronger in comparison, otherwise Yuan Chonghuan would not have avoided a decisive battle with Houjin in the field. In addition, Chen Qian's formation was already a little chaotic at the beginning, so he quickly lost the formation.

It didn't take long for Zilharang's 2,000 cavalry to arrive. Zilharang did not go to help Yue Tuo, but directly led the horsemen into the camp.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan had just gathered the rest of the cavalry and was preparing to retreat. The impact of Zilharang caught him off guard!

Yuan Chonghuan could only respond in a hurry. He first sent 500 cavalry to deal with Jilharang, and he immediately ran to Jizhou City with more than 3,000 cavalry.

Not long after he ran out, he found another group of cavalry coming from the left front, and he couldn't help but be shocked! But at this moment there was no way to retreat, and the brave wins when the narrow road meets, so he drew his sword and commanded the whole army to rush over.

It was Yanguli's 2,000 cavalry who came to intercept Yuan Chonghuan!

After the two armies were entangled in the snow for a while, Yuan Chonghuan finally rushed out, but at this time there were only more than 2,500 cavalry around him!

Because the Jiannu cavalry came from a long distance of ten miles, the horses were at a disadvantage in terms of physical strength. In addition, it was night, and it was not easy to pursue, so Yuan Chonghuan finally returned to Jizhou City safely with more than 2,500 horsemen.

But most of the more than 4,000 cavalry he left behind along the way, except for a few hundred cavalry who broke through at night, were annihilated by Houjin!

In this battle, Yuan Chonghuan annihilated nearly 1,000 Houjin's main infantry, 500 cavalry, and more than 1,000 soldiers, but the 7,000 iron cavalry he brought out was a loss of more than half!

What he expected to be a great victory turned into a great defeat in an instant! Both in terms of results and strategy, he was a great defeat.

What's more serious is that after Huang Taiji saw Yuan Chonghuan's defeat, he immediately led people to Jizhou and surrounded Jizhou City.

After dawn the next day, the emperor ordered the army to swagger past under the city of Jizhou. At this time, Yuan Chonghuan, who only had six or seven thousand troops in his hands, could only watch the Jiannu army pass under his nose!

After the Houjin army bypassed Jizhou, there would be an endless plain area ahead. If they go full speed, they will be able to reach Tongzhou in two or three days!

Asano was shocked!

The trajectory of the wheel of history has changed slightly, but the direction is still the same.

The Houjin did not succeed in sneaking past Jizhou as they did in history, but they still bypassed Jizhou. It's just that this time they walked directly from Jizhou City in a big way.