Lu Ming

Chapter 456 The parties (a)

After discovering that Santun Camp had become a trap, the messenger who was hiding behind the tree bowed silently, retreated in small steps, galloped downhill, ran to the tethered horse in a cold sweat, untied the reins, and got on the horse just go.

Although there are not many roads in Yanshan for large troops to march, and they are all guarded by passes, there are many small roads for sentry cavalry troops, so the messenger quickly disappeared into the vast mountains.

In fact, the messenger did not go around very far.Since there are only 200 soldiers in Santunying, there is no ability to deploy patrol posts around, so the messenger only needs to bypass the section of Santunying from the mountains in the north.

After a detour of less than ten miles, the messenger emerged from the mountain.

Santunying was only 40 miles away from Zunhua, and the courier with three horses didn't have to worry about horsepower at all. With the help of the starlight, they rushed to Zunhua City in the first half of the night.

The 20 post-Jin soldiers in Zunhua City were confronting the [-] Ming army in Jizhen at this time, and were on alert day and night, so the messenger soon saw the guard of Zunhua City, Aixinjueluo Shuotuo.

Shuo Tuo, who is 30 years old, is burly, shrewd and capable, and he is at the peak age of a general.

Shuotuo is the grandson of Nurhachi, whose father is the head of the Four Great Baylors, and the second son of Nurhachi, Daishan.

Shuo Tuo is undoubtedly the best among the third generation of Hou Jin.When this person was weak, he followed his elders to attack the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia, North Korea, and the Ningjin defense line.

This time Shou Zunhua, Shuo Tuo was Amin's deputy commander to lead the Zunhua army.One of the two sides is in the west and the other is in the east, and each is responsible for the two ends of the dumbbell.

When he heard the news that Santun camp had been captured and Amin was attacked by the enemy in the middle of the night, he couldn't help being taken aback, almost thinking that he had heard it wrong.

What surprised Shuotuo was not Amin, but the news about Santunying.

The Hou Jin army had already entered the customs for several months. Counting the time, there were already too many soldiers and horses of King Qin coming from all over the Ming Dynasty, so some soldiers and horses were not spent in Ji Town in the west, but from the North China Plain in the south. It is normal to go directly to Amin to launch an attack.

However, the loss of Santunying hit Shuo Tuo on the forehead like a bolt from the blue, making him dizzy.

With a sound of "bang", Shuotuo punched down, the candlesticks on the table jumped, the lights and shadows flickered on the walls, and the lights in the room flickered.

"Come here, send Dongmen Niulu to see me."

Shuotuo, who got up from the official hat chair, kept walking around the room with a solemn face—the first thing he should do now is to verify the authenticity of the news.

But he also knew that there was a high probability that the news was true: Santunying was 40 miles away, and he could find out by sending someone to check it out, and there was no way to fake it.

Not a moment later, seeing Niu Lu, who was guarding the east gate, came in, Shuotuo asked face to face, "Will the sentry horses sent to the east a few days ago be rewarded?"

Niu Lu looked puzzled: "I haven't seen anyone yesterday and today."

With a sound of "pa", Shuo Tuo slapped the horsewhip on his head, "Why didn't you come to report?"

Niu Lu was stunned by the beating, clutching his bleeding forehead and didn't know what to say.

Under normal circumstances, it is common for sentry cavalry returning from Amin's side to be delayed for a day and a half due to the journey.Although it took a little longer this time, it was not serious enough to disturb Shuo Tuo?
So Niu Lu was dumbfounded.

"Come on, pass on Muerte."

At this time, Shuo Tuo couldn't care about this fool Niu Lu, and after waving his hands to drive them out, he quickly sent his own soldier Niu Lu, who hurriedly gave him an opportunity and ordered him to take someone to Santun Camp to check.

After sending Muerte away, Shuo Tuo questioned the messenger carefully. After that, he started to walk back and forth in the room like a trapped animal.

Shuo Tuo would not pin his hopes on the messenger lying, so for him now, the situation is extremely dangerous.

Compared with the loss of the three camps, Amin's side is already insignificant-Amin can leave at any time, but his back road is cut off! ?

The reason why Santunying is an important throat is because the north of Santunying is Xifengkou. The army can go all the way north along the Luanhe River Valley, solve the problem of drinking horses along the way, and then go out of the customs wall, go east, and then drill out of western Liaoning. hallway home.

Now that people have unknowingly exploded, the situation in the Shuo Tuo Department is very dangerous: not to mention being in a state of being flanked by front and back, even if you want to leave, a series of checkpoints that were broken when you first entered the customs are all in Santun To the east of the camp, if you don't take it back to Santun camp, how can you go?
Or bite the bullet and enter the mountain directly from the north of Zunhua?
"Not right." Shuo Tuo shook his head wordlessly as he thought of this.

The passes of the Great Wall to the north of Zunhua are all in the hands of the Ming army. Although the defense of these passes is insufficient, don’t forget that the soldiers and horses in his hands are only 2000 people. They are no longer hungry and red when they entered the pass. The Eight Banners army is here.

It is enough for the opponent to block it a little.

Because once the soldiers and horses of Zunhua abandon the city, the Ming army of Jizhen, which has been tensely confronted for more than a month, will definitely chase after them. At that time, there will be a dangerous mountain pass in front, and there will be countless pursuers. His 2000 people are in the mountains of Yanshan. If you can't even set up a cavalry formation, the entire army is bound to be wiped out.

"We still have to go from Santunying!"

Shuo Tuo made up his mind at this moment.

The reason why he made up his mind is simple: there are few opponents.

According to the courier's confession, Santunying should have been attacked by a small group of troops. The number of opponents was insufficient, and there were not even sentries around the city.

Shuo Tuo himself also agrees with this judgment: it is impossible for a large group of people to sneak past the three cities of Zunhua and Amin without being discovered, so the Santun camp must have been attacked by a small group of elites, maybe it was under the city. There is a secret passage, which was taken advantage of by the Ming army who is familiar with the terrain.

In this way, the Shuotuo Department will have the opportunity to recapture the Santun camp and then leave.

In addition, since the number of opponents is insufficient, if it is really impossible, the large army can also forcefully rush in front of Santunying, go to the east of the corridor to join Amin's troops, and then escape through Lengkou Pass, Baiyangyu and other passes together.

After making up his mind, Shuo Tuo began to anxiously wait for the news from Sentinel.

When it was about to break dawn, Muerte, who was running back with blood on his face, brought the exact bad news: the Santun camp had been taken.

At that time, a group of cavalrymen holding torches rushed to the city of Santunying at night, and sent people to knock on the door. As a result, the top of the city couldn't hide it, so they shot down with a series of guns, killing several bannermen. Not to mention, Muerte's mount was also knocked down, leaving him covered in blood.

When Shuo Tuo heard this, he stood up without any hesitation, and immediately stood up and shouted: "Give me the general order, the whole army will take care of it for half an hour, and then leave one Niulu to guard Zunhua, and the rest will follow me to take down the three camps! "

Following Shuotuo's order, the two thousand soldiers and horses in Zunhua City began to prepare for the whole army to leave the city as if they were boiling.

At exactly 06:30 in the morning, Shuotuo led the whole army to open the east gate of Zunhua, and went straight to the Santun camp 40 miles away.

At the same time that Shuotuo opened the city, billows of black smoke suddenly rose from the mountains and forests on the north and south sides of Zunhua.

Zunhua City, which is the salient part, has been guarded by the Ming army in Jizhen in a semi-encircled situation since this period of time.

Not only the mountains in the north and south of Zunhua have lookout posts, but also the small plains in the west of Zunhua, where the Ming army and the Tatar cavalry interpenetrate on weekdays.

So when a large force of 2000 people and more than 4000 horses rolled out, the watchposts and spies around Zunhua sent out signals to inform Jizhen that there was a change in Zunhua.

Sun Chengzong's close comrade-in-arms, Wu Jinglue, who was awarded the Shangfang Sword, Prime Minister Zhu Luqin Wang Dajun, and Comrade Ma Shilong, the right governor, learned the news of Shuotuo's escape in the military city of Jixian county in later generations.

Ma Shilong is a hereditary military officer of Ningxia Wei, Hui nationality.Before the military examination, he served as a guerrilla in the Xuanfu, and the commander-in-chief of the Santunying.

At that time, Sun Chengzong, a scholar and Minister of the Ministry of War, went out of Liaodong, so he recommended Ma Shilong to accompany him as the commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan to assist in guarding Liaodong.

In 1625, when Ma Shilong was guarding Liaodong, he mistakenly believed the surrendered general Liu Bomin's words and sent Lu Zhijia and Li Chengxian to attack Yaozhou. As a result, they were killed and more than [-] people were lost.

This incident gave Wei Zhongxian Jiuqian, who was fighting fiercely with the Donglin Party, a big excuse, and then Sun Chengzong and Ma Shilong were both driven back to their hometown by Jiuqian to eat old rice.

Four years later, after the Jisi Change, when the Jin army invaded Gyeonggi, Chongzhen, in a state of panic, remembered the combination of Lao Suntou, who once supervised Ji Liao, and Ningxia Ma Huihui, who guarded Shanhaiguan.

So these two were used again.Sun Chengzong is a bachelor, the title of minister of the Ministry of war, and the prime minister Qin Wangjun.Ma Shilong took the place of Man Guiwu Jinglue who died in the battle, was awarded the Shangfang Sword, and served as the general manager of the capital's army.

This pair of combination has a tacit understanding.Now one is guarding the throat of Ji Town, and the other is guarding Shanhaiguan, commanding the entire King Qin army and the permanent garrison of Shanhaiguan.

In real history, Sun Chengzong, who was in Shanhaiguan, would communicate with Ma Shilong in Jizhen in early May, and then both sides sent troops at the same time to drive away all the post-gold soldiers in Zunhua and Yongping. Ma Shilong also took more than 5 heads.

And in this plane, Ma Shilong encountered an unexpected situation today due to the intervention of the time-traveling crowd: Shuo Tuo ran away?
Not long after the smoke rose, Ma Jinglue, who was surprised, received a series of calls: Shuo Tuo really ran away!
By this time, Ma Shilong, who had dealt with the Tartars for many years, was a little dubious.

Yes, just half-believing.At this moment, many famous generals by Ma Shilong's side, including the ogre ancestor Dashou, are all in a state of dubious belief-could it be that Shuo Tuo dug a hole for everyone?Back to the carbine?
There is no way, the Tartars have really scared me over the past few years, and everyone has to be careful.

Therefore, after full discussion and deliberation with his subordinates, Ma Jinglue made the following safe choice: first send 500 infantry to tentatively attack Zunhua City, and at the same time, send [-] cavalry to bypass Zunhua and hang them in Shuotuo. Check the wind direction behind you.

(End of this chapter)