On November 28 of the second year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led a large army to capture Sanhe and nearby villages and towns. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Rather than attacking, it is better to explain that the army is "sending", because these places have long been unguarded. Not only that, when Hou Shilu withdrew from Sanhe, he spread rumors that Jiannu was about to slaughter the city, and on the other hand, he also assisted the people in the city to retreat westward, and almost all the money and food in the city were taken away, so that Huang Taiji almost didn't get any decent supplements when he arrived in Sanhe, let alone grab any good things.

At this moment, Huang Taiji is depressed, and can even be said to be a little depressed.

He had only been on the throne for a few years. Before ascending the throne, he was the same as the Great Belle Daishan, the Second Belle Amin, and the Third Belle Mang Gurtai as the four major beylers, "discussing national affairs together, each with an official subordinate", and his status was equal. And after his accession to the throne, this situation did not fundamentally change. When he was in court, the three great Baylors sat side by side and were worshiped by their vassals, which is the best example.

So he has always had a deep sense of anxiety, that is, his position is not stable. He urgently needed a series of major military operations to alleviate the economic and food crisis in the country, so as to establish his authority and change all this. So he launched a series of campaigns against Mongolia, Ningjin, and Korea, as well as this southward expedition to Ming.

The first few times he had basically achieved his goal, but this time it didn't go as smoothly as he expected. From the beginning of entering the wall, there has been a lot of resistance, losing troops and losing generals, and when it arrived in Hengling, it suffered a big defeat that Daikin had not encountered in nearly ten years!

If you go back like this, it is conceivable that the criticism of the DPRK and China will sooner or later exceed the weight of the three major Baylors, and their own khans will be threatened like never before.

So he absolutely can't go back! The frustration in front of him did not frighten him, and this majestic man had already set his sights further behind him at this moment.

In fact, the situation facing Houjin today is very different from that in history. Historically, Huang Taiji was ambitious and intended to attack the Forbidden City in order to intimidate Chongzhen. And now, he has no intention of attacking the Forbidden City.

So what did he do when he crossed Jizhou and continued westward?

Huang Taiji's gaze was firmly locked on a certain point on the map.

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Qin Shuhuai stayed in Weifeng Ridge for a day, and the next day when the heavy snow stopped and the weather cleared, he immediately took people out of the mountain.

In fact, Weifeng Ridge was only a dozen miles away from that trail, which means that they had only walked a dozen miles in the middle of the night in Hengling before.

They have lived here for a long time and are very familiar with this place. They told Qin Shuhuai that there were only two ways to get out of Hengling, or go back from that trail, so that they could keep the few horses that Qin Shuhuai had brought. If you go around that trail, you will have to leave your horses behind and go over the mountains.

Qin Shuhuai wasn't sure if Huang Taiji was still near the trail, considering that he hadn't brought many horses out in the first place, and he didn't have a baggage, so he decisively chose to go over the mountains and mountains and bypass the trail.

Chang Da chose the nearest mountain road, and nearly 1,500 people finally got out of Hengling after a day's trek. After they came out, they found that they had arrived at the southern end of Hengling.

If you continue to the west, it is Hexiwu. Hexi is an important place at the northern end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, where a lot of grain is hoarded. However, Qin Shuhuai believes that with Yuan Chonghuan's prudence, he must have sent heavy troops in Hexi at this moment, and he has only more than 1,000 people on his hands, and most of them are still injured, so it is useless to help defend it. Moreover, now Huang Taiji has lost a lot of soldiers and little grain, and there is no shortage of food at all, so he should not go to Hexi. Moreover, in history, Huang Taiji saw that Yuan Chonghuan had deployed heavy troops in Hexi, and he did not go to grab grain, but went straight to Gyeonggi to rob large households.

Therefore, it is better for him to hurry back to Tongzhou's lair, reorganize his troops and focus on Tongzhou, and prepare to assist the army in a decisive battle with Jiannu there.

Qin Shuhuai's idea was that Huang Taiji's trip to the fortress would lose his troops and lose his generals, and he would definitely make a fortune in the rich land near Gyeonggi before he was willing to leave. Therefore, Tongju, which is the gateway to Gyeonggi, must be defended although the terrain is unfavorable. Not only must it be defended, but it is best to have a decisive battle with Huang Taiji here. In short, no matter from the perspective of economy, politics, and people's will, we must not let the imperial city take root under the imperial Taiji.

Qin Shuhuai led his troops to continue to move forward, and more than 20 miles away from Hexiwu, he was ready to enter another official road and go directly to Tongzhou.

But at this time, the spies came to report that a large number of corpses were found not far ahead, as if they had just gone through a big battle.

Qin Shuhuai was taken aback, and immediately took someone to check it out.

Sure enough, in an open field a mile away, there were war horses and soldiers' corpses everywhere, and the number was roughly estimated to be three or four thousand, and they fell to the ground densely, making people's scalps tingle!

If you look closely, these horsemen who died in battle were mainly Guanning cavalry, accounting for about three-quarters. The remaining quarter were the cavalry of the Tartars.

Obviously, a fierce encounter or ambush battle broke out here, and the Guanning cavalry was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.

Everyone was silent, and under the leadership of Qin Shuhuai, they bowed three times to these sacrificed officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army.

"Helper, these Guanning horsemen should be going to reinforce Hexi. Zhang Xiao said.

Qin Shuhuai nodded, "That's right, and it should be He Kegang's department that was originally guarding Yutian." ”

"So, Jiannu has already arrived in Hexi?" Zhang Xiao thought for a while and continued, "Jiannu has suffered huge losses in this battle, but there is not much loss of grain and grass, so it stands to reason that they should not be short of food, why did they come to Hexi?"

Qin Shuhuai pondered for a while, and suddenly said, "It's not good, Jiannu didn't go to Jinggi to bypass Jizhou at all, they just came to grab grain!"

Lai San'er said puzzledly, "Since they are not short of food, what are they doing to grab food?"

Zhang Xiao reacted first and said, "My subordinates understand! Jiannu wants to rob the grain of Hexi Affairs, and then directly kill back to Zunhua! With this grain, they can borrow Zunhua, Santun Camp and other fortified cities to entrench themselves in Jibei, and wait until the spring thaws next year, they can increase their troops from Liaodong, and then raise troops in the Central Plains!"

After hearing this, Lai San'er suddenly realized and scolded, "His grandmother's, these Tartars are really insidious!"

Qin Shuhuai's face was cloudy and extremely solemn. If Huang Taiji really robbed Hexi's grain, and then let him return to Zunhua, there would be endless troubles.

Even if Hexi has been robbed, Huang Taiji must not be allowed to return to Zunhua!

The decisive battle, no matter what, must be fought in Hexiwu!

Thinking of this, Qin Shuhuai immediately said to Zhang Xiao, "Zhang Xiao, you immediately take a few brothers back to Tongzhou and transfer all the brothers in the gang!"

"Yes, helper!"

Qin Shuhuai said to Li Jingting again, "Jingting, you go back to Tongzhou immediately and transfer all the Jinyi guards over!"

"Yes, sir!"

The two immediately took the order and left.

Qin Shuhuai said to everyone behind him, "The whole army has changed its route, avoided the official road, and went to Xihe from the small road." ”