East Factory Governor

Chapter 160 The Horsemen Are Recruited
Outside a forest ten miles west of Zunhua City, Zhao Liaojiao and another middle-aged general about forty years old stood side by side, looking quietly into the distance.

The middle-aged general is Zhu Guoyan, the commander-in-chief of the Santun Battalion.Of the [-] cavalry this time, [-] of them were brought from Santunying.

When Qin Shuhuai left, he discussed with Zhao Lijiao a strategy of using cavalry raids to delay Houjin's siege process, and at the same time let all the cavalry hang Yuan's army's battle flag in an attempt to mislead Houjin into thinking that Yuan Chonghuan's army had arrived.Once Hou Jin believed that Yuan Chonghuan's army had arrived, the cautious Huang Taiji would inevitably adopt the strategy of "surrounding the spot to fight for aid".In this way, it is very likely that Hou Jin will not attack Zunhua City, and will lay an ambush near Zunhua. As long as Yuan Chonghuan does not make the mistake of advancing rashly, the two sides are likely to confront each other for a period of time.To win this period of time, whether it is the defense of Tongzhou and Jizhou or the arrival of Qin Wangjun from all over the country is very critical.

Qin Shuhuai believed that Yuan Chonghuan would not advance rashly.The reason is very simple. In history, Yuan Chonghuan didn't dare to chase Huang Taiji when he sneaked across Jizhou, which shows that he was extremely afraid of Houjin's field combat ability, so how could he rush into Zunhua?With his temper, if he didn't station near Zunhua for a while, he would not be willing to lead the army straight into Zunhua City even if Zunhua City was in danger.Therefore, if Hou Jin wants to gather around to fight for aid, it is probably useless.

But to make Hou Jin think that Yuan Chonghuan's army has arrived, it is not enough to rely on two thousand cavalry under Zhao Lengjiao (some of the horses were captured), so Qin Shuhuai suggested that Zhao Lvjiao go to Wang Yuanya to get some cavalry.Unexpectedly, Wang Yuanya would rather let these cavalry be used as infantry in the city than lend them to Zhao Ledjiao on the grounds that the defenders in the city were tense.Zhao Ledjiao had no choice but to send someone to the Santun camp to find Zhu Guoyan's important soldiers. Unexpectedly, after hearing the cavalry raid plan, Zhu Guoyan immediately came with two thousand cavalry without saying a word.

In history, Zhu Guoyan was still very loyal to Daming. After the Santun camp was broken, he ordered people to post the list of escaped generals all over the city, and then committed suicide to die for the country.However, this person does not seem to be very friendly to the Guan Ning army. In history, when Zhao led the army to rescue Zunhua, he asked to enter the Santun camp for repairs, but he refused.It was precisely because of this that Qin Shuhuai did not ask Zhao Lediao to seek help from Zhu Guoyan.

In fact, Zhu Guoyan came to help this time because of the consideration of cold lips and teeth.Because of the loss of Zunhua, his three camps will not be guaranteed.

The two teams of cavalry joined together last night and stayed in ambush in the forest until the Jin army began to attack the city. They did not come out of the forest, one went around to the north of the city, and the other went around to the south of the city to start a surprise attack.

In the distance, there was the roar of horseshoes.The soldiers of the front team immediately stepped forward and quickly cleared a road from the rejected horses on the ground for the returning cavalry to pass quickly.

There were more than 4000 cavalry, and nearly [-] came back in the end. This result has already made Zhao Lediao overjoyed.

Wang Ning, who led the Guanning cavalry, rushed to the front of Zhao Lijiao, and said with a happy face, "General, I, Guan Ning cavalry, have fulfilled my mission and killed more than a thousand enemies in the south of Zunhua City. It is useless to destroy the siege equipment." ! The southern offensive of Jiannu City has been suspended."

Then, the leader of another group of cavalry also ran up to Zhu Guoyan and said, "My lord, I have three camps of cavalry in the north of Zunhua City and killed more than a thousand enemies. It is useless to destroy the siege equipment! The offensive in the north of Jiannu City has been suspended." .”

Zhao Lijiao chuckled, but Zhu Guoyan's face was still ashen.

Zhao Ledjiao rushed to Zhu Guoyan and said, "Thank you, Mr. Zhu. If Mr. Zhu did not take action, this surprise attack would never have been so smooth."

Zhu Guoyan was perfunctory and polite, "General Zhao is serious. Santunying and Zunhua rely on each other, so the general should have come to rescue him."

After a pause, he asked the cavalry leader under his command, "Did the Jiannu cavalry come after them?"

The man said with a smile, "Seeing the loess flying in front of him, Jiannu stopped his pursuit."

In order to prevent Jiannu from chasing him, Qin Shuhuai also discussed with Zhao Liaojiao and made two preparations.On the one hand, he worked tirelessly to pull seventy or eighty horse rejecting horses from Shimenzhai to form a horse rejecting formation, so that if Jiannu cavalry came after them, it would be easy to stop them.However, this does not guarantee that the Jiannu cavalry will be thrown away, so Qin Shuhuai thought of another trick, which is to imitate Zhang Fei's method in Changbanpo during the Three Kingdoms period, and use three hundred soldiers to sweep the soil on the ground with tree branches. In winter, the wind is strong in the north. , The loess is swept away, and it looks like yellow dust billowing from a distance, like a large cavalry attacking.This move was just a try, and Zhao Ledjiao was also ready to meet the Golden Cavalry, but the Ming army was very lucky, and one of the cavalry who came to chase was led by Yang Guli, who is famously conservative Pai, seeing this, really stopped the pursuit.

So far, everything is proceeding according to the script carefully designed by Qin Shuhuai, but the wheel of history does not seem to be so easy to change the track.

Huang Taiji tent.

After the Ming cavalry raid, Houjin lost more than 800 elite soldiers and more than 200 soldiers. This loss of troops is not enough to hurt the bones, but the key point is that a large number of siege equipment was destroyed, which forced them to have to The offensive was suspended.

Inside the tent, the post-gold Baylors and commander-in-chief gathered together.

Azig, who was in charge of intelligence and internal response work, was besieged by many Baylors.Zhao led the teaching before and did not fall into an ambush according to the information provided by the insider. Instead, it caused a series of wrong judgments by the army, and everyone had already complained about Azig.Now I suddenly heard that Yuan Chonghuan's army had arrived, and Azig had said before that Yuan Chonghuan would take one to two days to travel to Zunhua. The continuous mistakes made many people point the finger at him.

Azig had great confidence in his intelligence network, and argued loudly, thinking that his intelligence would never be wrong, and those cavalrymen were nothing more than the Ming army's deceit.

Huang Taiji was already used to such quarrels, and he didn't bother to scold these ministers anymore, but meditated by himself.

Originally, his plan was to capture Zunhua City first before Yuan Chonghuan's army arrived, so that Dajin could gain a firm foothold in the Great Wall, and then formulate the next step based on Yuan Chonghuan's actions.

But now that this happened, his plan was completely disrupted.

According to the news from Neiying, Yuan Chonghuan brought at least [-] cavalry, plus the troops from Shimenzhai and Santunying, no matter how they could mobilize [-] troops to rescue Zunhua.If they were near Zunhua at this moment, it would be very dangerous to attack Zunhua by themselves.

In this way, the safest way is to feign attack Zunhua, force Yuan Chonghuan's army to show up, and then fight them in the wild.If it is a field battle, even if the Ming army comes to another [-], the Dajin army is sure to win.

But what if Yuan Chonghuan stands still?When will I be surrounded by Zunhua?Should we just sit and wait for all the troops of the Ming army to gather in Zunhua?
The more I thought about it, the more I frowned, and finally I couldn't help but let out a long sigh.Since entering the fortress, it seems that there is always a force holding him back.That power seems to always be able to understand his own mind, leading him by the nose and following him...

At this moment, someone outside the tent came to report.

"Report to the Great Khan, those Ming cavalry soldiers who were captured have finally been recruited!"

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