Thirty miles south of Shenyang City, the Ming army camp.

The flags fluttered in the cold wind, and teams of soldiers patrolled the camps. From time to time, cavalry rushed from the snowy field and rushed into the camp.

In the central army tent, Lu Xiangsheng sat upright, listening to a small cavalry flag official's return. Ningyuan General Cao Wenzhao walked around the tent like an ant in a hot pan.

"I, together with his subordinates, met Jiannu cavalry fifteen miles westward. At the beginning, there were only a few cavalry in Jiannu cavalry. Beizhi led his subordinates to surround and kill Jiannu cavalry, but he never thought that Not a moment of chasing, nearly a hundred cavalry of Jiannu cavalry rushed over. The lowly ranks fought hard before they escaped the pursuit of Jiannu cavalry, but a total of ten brothers failed to come back." The small flag officer cried.

"Waste, you more than ten people can't even surround a few of them, and you are still lured into a trap by others. What is it that you are not a waste?" Cao Wenzhao finally stopped and pointed at the small flag officer and cursed.

The little flag official was dejected and did not dare to say a word.

"From the day before yesterday to today, what wave of whistle cavalry have been surrounded and killed by Jiannu cavalry?" Lu Xiangsheng asked coldly.

"Sixth, seventh," Cao Wenzhao calculated with his fingers.

"It's already the ninth wave!" Lu Xiangsheng said in a deep voice.

"The day before yesterday, the whistle chaser could detect outside the city of Chenyang. Yesterday, he could only rush out twenty miles, but today, he could not even detect the distance of fifteen miles. Maybe in a few days, my whistle chaser would be able to detect. Even the camp gate could not go out." Lu Xiangsheng's tone was not very heavy, but Cao Wenzhao's ears were as heavy as a roar of yellow bells, which made him feel particularly ashamed.

Exploring the situation of Jiannu is a cavalry task. After Cao Wenzhao led his cavalry to join Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng handed over this task to him, but the sentry cavalry sent out has been intercepted and killed by Jiannu one after another. Any information from slaves can be said to be dereliction of duty!

Now the main force of Jiannu has returned, but where is Huang Taiji? Did he go to Chenyang City or lead a large army somewhere? It took two days to figure it out, even Cao Wenzhao himself could not accept it.

If you can't find out the enemy's traces, you don't know how to deal with it. How can you fight this battle?

"After all, we will send out more whistle cavalry, and we must find out the traces of the main force of Jiannu!" Cao Wenzhao said gritted his teeth. For more than two days, in the pursuit of Jiannu whistle cavalry, his light cavalry soldiers were under his command. More than 200 people have been lost, and more will probably be lost in the future.

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head: "Don't send out the mail cavalry hastily. If you send it, you will fall into the Jiannu trap and lose more."

"Can we become deaf and blind people? I'm not willing to give up!" Cao Wenzhao said.

Lu Xiangsheng said coldly: "There must be Jiannu around our camp. Jiannu's scepter is staring at us from a distance. Sending a sergeant will inevitably not avoid them. It is meaningless."

At the beginning, relying on the powerful force of the military force, the Jiannu left behind the army did not dare to leave the two cities of Liaoyang and Shenyang, and the vast Liaohe Plain was allowed to gallop by the Ming army.

Since the return of the main force of Jiannu, the situation suddenly reversed. The main force of Jiannu has powerful cavalry, and its combat effectiveness is far beyond the level of Ming cavalry. If they were fighting in a formation, Cao Wenzhao's light cavalry and heavy cavalry were not afraid of the Jiannu cavalry. However, the few whistle cavalry encounters more emphasis on the personal combat power of the cavalry, so the cavalry in western Liaoning cannot be compared with Jiannu.

The weapons of the cavalry in western Liaoning are mostly muskets, and there are not many who can ride and shoot, while the Jiannu scepter cavalry is all good at riding and shooting, and his combat skills are not inferior to those of the Mongols. Therefore, the scepter cavalry of both sides encountered a battle, and the Ming scepter cavalry It is not the opponent of Jiannu's whistle cavalry at all. The failure of the whistle cavalry in the battle was that the battlefield was completely blocked by Jiannu's whistle cavalry. The Ming army could not detect the trends of Jiannu's main force, and could not figure out what the Jiannu's main force would do next .

"Oh!" Cao Wenzhao sighed, feeling that the battle was really heartbreaking, but he was helpless.

"But there is no need to worry too much. Jiannu's intentions are easy to guess," Lu Xiangsheng smiled coldly. "If Jiannu wants to really fight directly with our army, he will kill directly, and attack the defenders of Shenyang City inside and outside.

If we are stronger than us, there is no need to send a large number of cavalry to intercept and kill our whistle cavalry for two consecutive days. The purpose of covering the battlefield is to hide the main force!”

"You mean that the main force of Jiannu is not here?" Cao Wenzhao also recalled and asked in surprise.

Lu Xiangsheng nodded: "It's probably true. Jiannu blocked the battlefield, so we couldn't find out where his main force was, so we didn't dare to move around. The main force could do what they wanted to do!"

"What exactly is what Jiannu wants to do?" Cao Wenzhao murmured.

"Yes, it's Liaoyang City!" Cao Wenzhao finally understood, "Now Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji are attacking Liaoyang, so Huang Taiji must lead the main force to Liaoyang to attack Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji and others!"

"Almost everyone in Jiannu's main force has war horses, and the power is stronger than us, and what they are best at is defeating them one by one. This was the case in the Battle of Sarhu. Now we must be defeating Cao Bianjiao Zhou Yuji first, and then go back to get rid of it.

Our idea!" Cao Wenzhao said in surprise.

Lu Xiangsheng nodded calmly, approving Cao Wenzhao's guess.

At this moment, his face seemed calm, but his heart was full of turmoil. He was careless, but he was still careless! At this moment, Lu Xiangsheng was a little regretful, regretting that he was a little arrogant.

It should have been the moment when I learned that Jiannu had left the wall, I gathered all the troops sent and returned to Liaoyang and Cao Bianjiao Zhou and Ji to join forces. But I thought about destroying the potential of Jiannu's hinterland as much as possible, and I thought I could drag it down.

One more minute of Jiannu can be destroyed in one day. In seven or eight days, the Liaoxi soldiers, the Dongjiang army and the Guiyi army were all dispatched, and hundreds of Jiannutun villages were burned and plundered, killing and plundering bannermen, women, children, elderly, and weak 50,000 to 60,000

, and tens of thousands of Hannu Baoyi were saved, but the result was that he lost the opportunity to retreat safely.

Although the sentry detectives could not break through the Jiannu cavalry and intercepted them and found enough information, Lu Xiangsheng could imagine that Liu Xingzuo's Dongjiang Army and Li Yangeng and other Guiyi Camp were probably being chased by the Jiannu main force at this moment. I wonder how many people could

Retreat safely through Liaoyang.

What Lu Xiangsheng regrets even more is his mistake in judgment. In his opinion, with his leading 20,000 main force outside Shenyang City, Huang Taiji should not have time to pay attention to Liu Xingzuo and the others. However, now he found that Huang Taiji did not even consider these 20,000 people.

In the eyes, just relying on cavalry to block the battlefield will make one lose power.

In fact, Lu Xiangsheng was still too young at this moment. Without much experience, he was suddenly pulled by Zhu Youjian to the position of Liaodong Administration. Compared with Huang Taiji, who has been experienced for a long time, Lu Xiangsheng is still too young!

At the beginning, according to the strategic plan agreed in advance, using the strategy of three virtual and one real to directly attack Huanglong, Lu Xiangsheng played smoothly, but that did not mean how strong he is now, it was just a good plan.

That's it. Now when Huang Taiji leads the main force back and truly fights against a generation of heroes like Huang Taiji, the gap suddenly becomes apparent.

Of course, although he regrets, Lu Xiangsheng is now in his youth and energy, so he will not admit this gap. The setbacks he encountered have aroused his competitive spirit!

"Now is not the time of the Battle of Sarhu, and the Jiannu Eight Banners soldiers are not as powerful as Sarhu." Lu Xiangsheng snorted coldly, "When Huang Taiji wants to defeat each one, it is not that easy!"

To be honest, the current situation is indeed different from the Battle of Sarhu. During the Battle of Sarhu, the Eight Banners soldiers should be the strongest. The number of the Eight Banners that can be used is nearly 100,000, and their troops are

It is no less than the Ming army at that time.

Since the Battle of Sarhu, the Eight Banners soldiers seemed to have won every battle, occupying the entire Liaodong, conquering Korea, and suppressing Mongolia, but only because of their powerful power, the number of their bannermen has indeed decreased year by year.

The Eight Banners soldiers fought against the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia, and North Korea, and won consecutive victories in a row, but their flag soldiers were depleted in each battle. From about 100,000 flag soldiers before the Battle of Sarhu, only seven were left before this battle.

Ten thousand flag genies, but now, after a series of battles, especially Lu Xiangsheng led the Imperial Guards into the hinterland of Liaodong, the number of flag genies has been severely damaged, and the total number is only more than 40,000.

In other words, after this war, the number of Jiannu 70,000 bannermen was left with 40,000, and the population of the bannermen had lost more than 60%.

The main force of Jiannu is still alive, and the remaining are the most elite Eight Banners soldiers, but after all, one is less than one dead, and no loss can be withstand it.

Although Lu Xiangsheng didn't know so much, he knew that Jiannu could not withstand great losses now, so he was not afraid of Jiannu's tricks at all.

"Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji still have 30,000 troops. If the Guiyi Army who went south one after another, they would be able to use more troops. In addition, Sun Chuanting and Sun Commander were rushing to Liaoyang. As long as they were not careless, they were attacked by Huang Taiji, at least they could defend themselves.

There is no problem with the arrival of the commander Sun. Huang Taiji can use various means of defeat. As long as he can withstand the losses, so what if he can defeat him? If the lives of the five thousand Eight Banners soldiers can be exchanged, Cao Bianjiao and Zhou Yuji can be wiped out!"

Lu Xiangsheng sneered.

Cao Wenzhao opened his mouth and closed his mouth again. Cao Bianjiao was his nephew, so he didn't want Cao Bianjiao to die.

However, Cao Wenzhao understood what Lu Xiangsheng meant, that the current Ming army could withstand the losses, but Jiannu could not.

"What should we do? Should we go to rescue Liaoyang or just wait here? Will Huang Taiji not go to Liaoyang, just wait for us to set off the camp and then sneak attack us halfway?" Cao Wenzhao guessed again.

"Is the Jiannu cavalry blocking the battlefield to plot against us?" Lu Xiangsheng was stunned for a moment, "It's not impossible, but it's unlikely."

"Huang Taiji can use cavalry to block the battlefield, but it is impossible for him to rush to our army and not be discovered. It is impossible for them to attack us. After experiencing the war inside the pass, Huang Taiji must have known our strength now. He should know that he will not pay any money.

It is impossible for Qianqiding to defeat our 20,000 troops. The question is, can Huang Taiji afford the casualties?"

"Now Liaoyang City is being attacked by Cao Bianjiao Zhou Yuji. There are many secret spies from Jinyiwei in the city. Our army is likely to attack Liaoyang City. Although Liaoyang is not the capital of Jiannu, it has a population of more than 100,000. Once Liaoyang City is captured by our army,

The attack on Jiannu will be devastating. It means that Jiannu has completely lost most of his population and lost the important town of Liaoyang. From then on, the heart of the Liaohe Plain will face direct attacks from now on, and Jiannu will never stand in this Liaohe Plain.

foot!"

"So now, for Huang Taiji, the most important thing is to rescue Liaoyang, rather than attack our army!" Lu Xiangsheng said firmly.

"Since that's the case, we should rush to Liaoyang City immediately!" Cao Wenzhao said anxiously.

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly sighed: "There is another problem now, that is, Chen Yongfu is leading his troops to retreat from Tieling. If we leave, Chen Yongfu will inevitably be besieged by Jiannu and may not be able to return safely."

Chen Yongfu had a battalion of three thousand imperial guards, but he brought four or five thousand rescued Hannu Baoyi. According to the report he received the day before yesterday, he was almost at Fushun, and it was less than a hundred miles away from here.

The strategy that was formulated before seemed perfect at the time, but now it seems that there are loopholes everywhere. The strategy of plundering and weakening the Jiannu power has now become a drag on the army. But how could the three thousand imperial guards give up easily?

Is the entire army returning to Liaoyang or waiting for Chen Yongfu to lead his army to meet? To be honest, Lu Xiangsheng was also a little hesitant.

"Huang Taiji has the idea of ​​defeating each one. If Chen Yongfu retreated to Liaoyang through Chenyang, he would definitely not be able to escape the attack of Jiannu. In the eyes of his subordinates, he should send someone to notify Chen Yongfu and ask Chen Yongfu to turn east immediately and go south through Jianzhou through Jianzhou. Go to Kuandian and retreat on the east road." Cao Wenzhao thought.

"From Jianzhou to Kuandian?" Lu Xiangsheng was stunned for a moment. This was a good idea. He could avoid the Jiannu Bingfeng's retreat safely. But the problem is that the mountain road from Jianzhou to Kuandian is not easy to walk.

However, no matter how difficult it is to leave, it is better than being surrounded and annihilated by Jiannu, and I don’t have time to wait here all the time now.

"Okay, just do what General Cao said!" Lu Xiangsheng said decisively, "To get to pick up Chen Yongfu, I still have to trouble you, General Cao."

"Me?" Cao Wenzhao was stunned, "You mean to ask me to pick up Chen Yongfu?"

How happy Cao Wenzhao is to pick up a deputy general, let alone pick up Chen Yongfu, which means missing the battle in Liaoyang, and he doesn't want to return to the country from Kuandian all the way.

"I have a bad premonition," Lu Xiangsheng sighed, "Maybe Huang Taiji has sent troops to deal with Chen Yongfu. If he does not send troops to respond, Chen Yongfu may not be able to return to the Ming Dynasty. And the imperial guards in my camp are all infantry, although The metropolis rides a horse, but cannot run for a long distance. I can only trouble your Liaoxi Iron Cavalry."

"Huang Taiji has only more than 20,000 people in his hands. He is going to Liaoyang to deal with Cao Bianjiao and the others, and he is also wary of our army. Can he still distribute troops?" Cao Wenzhao said suspiciously.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Huang Taiji's troops are insufficient, but he can transfer troops from Chenyang. The flag magistrate in the city of Chenyang can have a scale of 10,000 people."
Chapter completed!