Ten miles away from the west of Zunhua City, outside a forest, Zhao Shujiao and another middle-aged general about forty years old stood side by side, quietly looking into the distance. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The middle-aged general is Zhu Guoyan, the chief soldier of the Santun Battalion. Of the 4,000 cavalry this time, 2,000 of them were brought by him from the Santun camp.

When Qin Shuhuai left, he discussed with Zhao Shujiao a strategy of using cavalry raids to delay the siege of the Later Jin, and at the same time had all the cavalry hang the battle flag of the Yuan family's army, in an attempt to mislead the Later Jin into believing that Yuan Chonghuan's army had arrived. Once the Houjin believed that Yuan Chonghuan's army had arrived, the cautious Huang Taiji would inevitably adopt the strategy of "encircling the point to send reinforcements". In this way, it is likely that Houjin will besiege Zunhua City without attacking it, and ambush near Zunhua, as long as Yuan Chonghuan does not make the mistake of rashly advancing, the two sides are likely to confront each other for a while. And to win this time, whether it is the deployment of Tongzhou and Jizhou, or the arrival of the Qinwang army from all over the country, it is very crucial.

Qin Shuhuai believed that Yuan Chonghuan would not rush forward. The reason is very simple, in history, when Huang Taiji sneaked through Jizhou, Yuan Chonghuan did not dare to chase after him, which shows that he was extremely jealous of Houjin's field combat ability, so how could he boldly march into Zunhua? With his temper, he did not camp near Zunhua for a while, and carefully probed the movements of the Houjin army, even if Zunhua City was in danger, he might not be willing to lead the army straight in. So Houjin wants to surround the point to help, and eighty percent of it is useless.

However, in order to make Hou Jin think that Yuan Chonghuan's army had arrived, it was not enough to rely on Zhao Shujiao's 2,000 cavalry (some of the war horses were captured), so Qin Shuhuai suggested that Zhao Shujiao go to Wang Yuanya to order cavalry. Unexpectedly, Wang Yuanya would rather let these cavalry be used as infantry in the city than lend them to Zhao Shujiao on the grounds that the defenders in the city were nervous. Zhao Shujiao had no choice but to send people to Santun Camp to find Zhu Guoyan to ask for troops, but he didn't expect Zhu Guoyan to come over with 2,000 cavalry without saying a word.

In history, Zhu Guoyan was still very loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and after the Santun camp was broken, he ordered someone to post a list of fleeing generals all over the city, and then committed suicide and martyrdom. However, this person does not seem to be very friendly to the Guan Ning army, and in history, when Zhao led the rescue of Zunhua, he asked to enter the Santun camp for repair, but he refused. It was precisely because of this that Qin Shuhuai did not let Zhao Shujiao go to Zhu Guoyan for help.

In fact, Zhu Guoyan came to help this time out of the consideration of cold lips and teeth. Because of the loss of Zunhua, his Santun camp is also difficult to protect.

The two groups of cavalry converged last night and remained in ambush in the forest until the Houjin army began to attack the city, and they did not leave the forest, one to the north of the city, and the other to the south of the city to start a surprise attack.

In the distance, the roar of horses' hooves could be heard. The soldiers of the front team immediately stepped forward and quickly cleared a way from the scattered horses for the swift passage of the returning cavalry.

More than 4,000 cavalry, and finally came back nearly 3,005, this result has already made Zhao Shujiao overjoyed.

Wang Ning, who led the Guanning cavalry, took the lead, rushed to Zhao Shujiao, and said with a happy face, "General Qiyu, I, the Guanning Iron Cavalry, have not dishonored their mission, killed more than 1,000 enemies in the south of Zunhua City, and destroyed the siege equipment! The offensive in the south of Jiannu City has been suspended. ”

Then, the leader of another cavalry also ran to Zhu Guoyan and said, "Lord Commander, my Santun Battalion Iron Cavalry killed more than 1,000 enemies in the north of Zunhua City, and it is not counted to destroy the siege equipment! ”

Zhao Shujiao smiled, but Zhu Guoyan was still bruised.

Zhao led the sect to Zhu Guoyan and said, "Old man, thank you Lord Zhu." If it weren't for Lord Zhu's action, this raid would never have gone so smoothly. ”

Zhu Guoyan perfunctorily politely said, "General Zhao is serious, Santun Camp and Zunhua rely on each other, and the general should come to the rescue." ”

After a pause, he asked the cavalry leader under his command, "Can the Jiannu cavalry chase after you?"

The man smiled, "Jiannu saw the loess flying in front of him, so he really stopped the pursuit. ”

In order to prevent Jiannu from pursuing, Qin Shuhuai also discussed with Zhao Shujiao and made two preparations. With one hand, he worked tirelessly to pull seventy or eighty rejecting horses from Shimen Village to form a rejection array, in case the Jiannu cavalry chased after him, it was easy to block. However, this does not guarantee that the Jiannu cavalry will be able to get rid of it, so Qin Shuhuai thought of another trick, that is, to follow Zhang Fei's method in Changban Slope during the Three Kingdoms, and use three hundred soldiers to sweep the soil on the ground with tree branches. This trick was originally just a try, and Zhao Shujiao was also ready to meet the Houjin cavalry, but the Ming army was very lucky, and one of the cavalry that came to chase was led by Yang Guli, who was a well-known conservative, and really stopped the pursuit when he saw this.

So far, everything is going according to Qin Shuhuai's carefully designed script, but the wheel of history does not seem to change the track so easily.

Huang Tai Chi camp tent.

After the cavalry raid of the Ming army, Houjin lost more than 800 elites and more than 1,200 soldiers, which was not enough to break the bones, but the key was that a large number of siege equipment was destroyed, which forced them to suspend the offensive.

In the tent, all the Baylors and the chief military officers of Houjin gathered together.

Azig, who was in charge of intelligence and internal response, was besieged by a number of Baylors. Previously, Zhao Shujiao did not fall into an ambush according to the information provided by Nei Ying, but caused a series of wrong judgments of the army, and everyone already had a lot of complaints about Azig. Now I suddenly heard that Yuan Chonghuan's army had arrived, and Azig had said that Yuan Chonghuan would have to travel for one to two days to Zunhua, and the continuous mistakes made many people point the finger at him.

Azig was extremely confident in his intelligence network, and loudly argued, believing that his intelligence could never be wrong, and that those cavalry were just a trick of the Ming army.

Huang Taiji was used to such quarrels, and he didn't bother to scold these subordinates, but pondered by himself.

Originally, his plan was to take advantage of Yuan Chonghuan's army to capture Zunhua City first, let Dajin gain a firm foothold in Sene, and then formulate the next plan according to Yuan Chonghuan's actions.

But now, his plans have been completely disrupted.

According to Neiying's news, Yuan Chonghuan brought at least 9,000 iron cavalry, plus the troops of Shimenzhai and Santun Battalion, how could he transfer 15,000 troops to rescue Zunhua. If they were near Zunhua at the moment, it would be very dangerous for them to attack Zunhua again.

In this way, the safest way is to feint against Zunhua, force Yuan Chonghuan's army to appear, and then fight them in the field. If it is a field battle, it will be another 20,000 Ming troops, and the Dajin army will also be sure of victory.

But what if Yuan Chonghuan does not move? How long will he besiege Zunhua? Will he just sit back and wait for the Ming army to gather in Zunhua?

The more I thought about it, the tighter my brows wrinkled, and finally I couldn't help but sigh. Since entering the blockade, there always seems to be a force holding itself back. That power always seems to be able to penetrate his own mind and lead his nose to follow him......

At this moment, suddenly someone outside the account came to report.

"Report to the Great Khan, the captured Ming army horsemen have finally been recruited!"

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