Jiannu did not dare to have a decisive battle with the Ming army, which disappointed Emperor Chongzhen. He also understood the advantages of both sides. If Jiannu was willing to fight with the Ming army in Zhuolu area, it would have an advantage for them.

To put it bluntly, the Ming army is not afraid of attrition, but the enemy is afraid. If they can fight with them here, it will be very beneficial to the Ming army. That is why he gave Shangfang sword to Hong Chengchou and asked him to take charge of Lu Xiangsheng and others.

We will have to fight Jiannu in Zhuolu, Hebei. If we fight here, we will have the advantage of the home court. Once the main force of the enemy defeated, we will have a great chance to annihilate all the Jiannu who invaded Senei and destroy them. It is estimated that the Later Jin Kingdom will be over.

However, Jiannu was very smart and cunning. He avoided decisive battles with the Ming army, but instead engaged in mobile and field battles. This was what the Ming army feared the most, because in high-speed and fast combat, their artillery could not be pushed up, and their heavy army group could not be suppressed, so they had no advantage against Jiannu.

If it is to deal with bandits, the Ming army has his own way to deal with bandits' field battles, that is, to dispatch elite cavalry to quickly chase the opponent, defeat mediocre with elites and attack the opponent's weak links. To put it bluntly, it is like Jiannu and Ming army coming over.

However, when facing the Ming army that was facing Jiannu, he did not dare to do this. The Ming army's cavalry team had a great advantage over the bandits and could suppress the opponent to fight, but he was very frightened by the Jiannu's cavalry.

Zu Kuan has accumulated merits from an ordinary servant to a general. He is brave and fearless in battle. He always leads a team to charge in battle. However, even such a fierce and fearless person is cautious when facing the Jiannu cavalry, he dares not look down on him. He does not dare to lead the team in person because he is afraid that he will not come back if he faces the enemy.

Since the Ming army was afraid of Jiannu, it meant that they could not use the pursuit tactics they were good at, so there was no good way to deal with Jiannu.

Originally, they did not believe in evil, so Lu Xiangsheng ordered his subordinate general Gao Feng to lead an elite 500 cavalry to chase Jiannu from the flanks. As a result, both sides encountered each other ten miles away from Zhuolu, and then the two sides launched a fierce battle. Although both sides had hundreds of cavalry, and the total number was less than a thousand, they started a cruel battle.

After this cruel cavalry battle, Gao Feng had only fifty cavalry returned, which lost 90% of the people. They said that Jiannu also suffered a lot of losses, but it would not exceed 100 people. This battle ended with Jiannu's victory, because the Ming army was repelled and even a single head was not taken back. However, after Jiannu defeated them, he could still cut off all the heads they captured and took them to receive merit.

When Lu Xiangsheng saw that the most elite cavalry under his command were beaten so badly, he was speechless. He also realized that he had to use conservative strategies to deal with Jiannu, rather than using surprise attack methods.

Therefore, after Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng suffered, they did not dare to send troops to pursue them with all their might. They could only command their army, slowly advance, and rush straight to the capital, and plan to drive them away first.

When Jiannu entered the frontier, Huang Taiji made precise arrangements and ordered his generals to follow his plan, that is, to avoid a decisive battle with the Ming army, but to attack their weak links with all their might, mainly robbing them. If they voluntarily surrender wherever they go, they will not hurt them, but only rob property. If they dare to resist, the day they break the city will be left without leaving any chickens and dogs.

Jiannu implemented such a strategy, which brought disastrous damage to Beizhili and also made the locals' determination to resist Jiannu decline. You must know that if you fight Jiannu, once the army is defeated, it will be the end of the family being destroyed. If you surrender, as long as you hand over a batch of property, Jiannu will retreat on his own and save his life.

No one wants to be so backless and so humble, but there is no way. Whoever calls Mingjun is useless and can't protect them?

After careful deployment, Emperor Chongzhen believed that he could fight Jiannu in the area near Zhuolu, and he could defeat the modeling spirit of victory or defeat. However, Jiannu was very cunning and cunning, avoiding the decisive battle with them, but instead fighting with them and continuing to play the game of cat catching mice. In addition, this mouse was very cruel and cruel. If the cat was not careful, it would bite it back and even bite it to death.

However, with the issuance of the Ming army's order to support the king, Ming troops from all over the country arrived one after another, and they were gradually squeezing the living space of Jiannu.

The first ones appeared were the heavy army group of Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng. They were the main forces of the Ming army, followed by Gao Qiqian and Zu Dashou. They led the Guanning Iron Cavalry and all entered the pass in a mighty way, preparing to cut off the Jiannu's retreat. Then there were Baoding, Tianjin, Shanxi and other places, and more troops were formed to enter Beijing one after another.

The gathering of so many troops compressed the living space of Jiannu. After the Ming army gathered in various units, they were also considering how to have a decisive battle with Jiannu.

Huang Taiji believed that it was not the time to fight the Ming army. Even if they defeated the main force of the Ming army now, the Ming army could soon form a powerful army, so he stopped when he saw the opportunity. He personally led the elite troops to cut off the rear, and the other troops retreated one after another. They withdrew from the pass with spoils.

The Ming army now treated Jiannu and reached the point of fearing the enemy. As long as Jiannu did not take the initiative to attack them, they could only watch Jiannu burn, kill and rob them here.

As for the initiative to rush out of the city and chase the retreating Jiannu, this is impossible, because they all saw Jiannu, but they used their most elite cavalry troops to block the rear, to cover their baggage troops and the large amount of people and property they kidnapped, and slowly retreat northward. If they were not careful, they would bite them.

With the retreat of the Jiannu army, Ajige also led the most elite legion to cut off the rear and ordered other troops to retreat.

The defenders of the capital have been surrounded by Jiannu these days and are trembling under the enemy's blade. They only ask the other party not to attack the capital or attack the city, so how dare they take the initiative to provoke and chase the other party?

When Ajige saw that the Ming army on the city was so unsuccessful, he did not dare to chase and kill them. He commanded the army to leave proudly, leaving a sign with the words: "All troops will be free to send you away, come again next year."

When Jiannu's army disappeared on the horizon, the Ming army on the city cheered and thundered. After their desperate resistance, they finally scared the enemy away.

The news reached the capital, and the whole city was filled with joy. You must know that Jiannu surrounded them and could break into the city at any time. Many people were so scared that they were worried that Jiannu would break into the city and they would become slaves to the country.

But the proud and arrogant Jiannu finally retreated under the threat of the imperial army, which made the people feel at ease, not only the people feel at ease, but even Emperor Chongzhen in the Forbidden City relaxed his heart. His heart has been tens of thousands of enemies surrounded the capital and broke into the door at any time. Who can laugh out loud?

It can be said that since Jiannu sieges the city, the people in the entire capital have been very nervous, and they are afraid that Jiannu will destroy the city at any time.

These ordinary people know how cheating and unreliable the Ming army was. Meeting Jiannu was like meeting grandpa.

The people in the capital live in the imperial city and live at the foot of the emperor. They are often superior and look down on people from other places. Now they do not have this sense of superiority.

You should know that it is because they are the capital that they have become the primary target of Jiannu. Every time they attack them, it seems that this time has been the second time, and who knows if there is another third time?

Now Jiannu is just temporarily withdrawing. Everyone can see that it was Jiannu who took the initiative to withdraw. This time he took a lot of benefits and advantages. If they were beaten up by the Ming army, he would probably not have come. But this time it was different. They had robbed enough and could not take it and then retreated. Therefore, the people in the capital were worried, but they were afraid that Jiannu would come again next year.

However, after Jiannu retreated, he defeated Jiannu in various ways and repelled the enemy and asked for rewards to fly to the court like snowflakes. All the officials and soldiers claimed that they had defeated the enemy, defeated Jiannu, and requested the court to appease and rewards.

Seeing this, Emperor Chongzhen shook his head. These people were too shameless. When Jiannu came, they were afraid of death and hid in the city, rather than coming out. After Jiannu left, they dared to claim that they were defeated by Jiannu and asked the court for rewards.

Emperor Chongzhen was just saying: "Since you said that you have to kill some Jiannu to defeat the enemy, where is the head?"

In the past few decades, falsely reporting military merits and killing good people have been the most common thing. Therefore, the current court does not believe in the memorials written by military generals. You say how many wars you have fought and how many enemies you have cut down, then you can take the enemy's heads first.

If it were in the past, there would be a phenomenon of killing good people and taking advantage of merit in the army, especially in the process of chasing bandits, which is particularly common.

The official army often dared not fight the main force of the bandits, and then chose to kill a group of ordinary people, cut off the heads, saying that they were borrowing the heads of the bandits, and then they went to receive the rewards.

So much so that the official army that pursued the bandits made a lot of contributions and cut off a lot of heads, but the bandits killed more and more and more, and the more they suppressed them.

After a long time, even if the officials are foolish, they will know what is going on.
Chapter completed!