The cold land of western Liaoning, the vast northeastern mountains, the rolling cavalry units, and the overwhelming defeated soldiers in the rear... all of this together constitute the end of the war that took place at the end of 1631.

Li Jichun took the lead and ran in front of the array.

Lord Li was so frightened, not because he was afraid of death, but because he had to run to contact his subordinates in time to seize the initiative in the next battle.

Thanks to the previous continuous telegrams and the sand table deductions made with the staff team, Li Jichun is now very clear about the situation on the battlefield.

If someone had reservations about the previous homework before the war started, Li Jichun now had no doubts: everything that happened today was expected by those telegrams about the deduction of the battle situation!

So Lord Li was the first to turn in. He wanted to contact the ambush in the rear as quickly as possible according to the plan. In this way, Chunlei Camp may have a plan to drag the knife and get a big lottery home in this drama of escape.

So where are the ambush?

When he was reporting, Li Jichun claimed that he had 500 elite cavalry. However, when he entered the gate, there were 900 subordinates... The remaining 400 people ran away on the road? Joke, those people were left behind the battlefield and went to find the preset position!

In this way, at the first moment of the great defeat, Li Jichun's army, located at the southernmost end of the battlefield, began a journey of escape with full capacity and a strict formation. Since the entire army was one man and two horses, the army was 500 and turned into a fast speed, and within a moment, it ran to the foot of the western mountain.

Xishan, located in the eastern part of Jinzhou, is a mountainous terrain composed of white grass, four-top, and other hills. It is located in the middle of the Little and Small Linghe River.

In other words, the location where the Ming and Jin sides fought was actually not far from Xishan, just between Xishan and Daling River Fort. When we marched before, the army also passed by Xishan. So when Li Jichun's troops ran from east to west, they soon arrived at the foot of Xishan.

"Well...the whole army stopped!"

As the shouts of killing behind him became farther and farther away, the main force of the Chunlei Camp passing through a field was facing a large pine and birch forest at the foot of the West Mountain. He probably received the four-character mantra "Don't enter the forest" hint, Li Jichun immediately stopped his horse and raised his hand to order his troops to stop.

In fact, "Don't enter the forest" is just one of the reasons. The real reason why Chunlei Camp stopped is that this place was the first contact point that Li Jichun and the follow-up troops agreed.

"Contact, contact us now!"

The panting General Li shouted loudly without waiting for the horse under his crotch to stop, "It's just here to get close. Contact me quickly!"

Feng Shiming was one of the earliest military officers of the Guards. Because he was older, he was sent to Hebei by the base camp last year and became a member of Li Jichun's staff team and served as an adjutant of the Chunlei Camp. This time, the division of troops was led by Feng Shiming, who was good at reconnaissance and surveying, and led the remaining 400 soldiers in the rear.

Located at the core of Li Jichun's side, a communications soldier carrying a military telegraph machine on his back, he immediately turned on the machine and tried to contact Feng Shiming's troops.

After hearing the iron box "beep" sound, Li Jichun, who was anxious, subconsciously shook the horse whip and kept looking at the surrounding terrain.

It is not a big mistake for General Chan, who is full of anxiety. Although he still does not understand the principle of electromagnetics, he knows that walking phones are prone to communication in mountainous conditions - this is exactly what Li Jichun is most afraid of.

After the Chunlei Camp arrived in Jinzhou, based on the pre-deduction and combined with the terrain information of the field investigation, all staff officers, including Li Jichun, finally unanimously determined that if the Ming army was defeated and Huang Taiji set up an ambush in advance, the ambush would definitely be in Xishan.

The location of Xishan is very important. The mountainous community with a radius of more than 20 kilometers happened to be with Daling River Fort, which sandwiched most of the Ming army in the middle. At this moment, if the defeated Ming army wants to escape back to its nearest stronghold, Jinzhou, then they must pass Xishan.

By that time, the defeated army, who had already rushed to the west for 10 or 20 miles in a panic, suddenly saw the Later Jin cavalry coming out in front of him when they were trapped and lost their armor... The picture was so beautiful that I dare not imagine it.

Li Jichun thought to himself that if he wanted to throw the ambush in his family, he would be in the West Mountain.

This inference is exactly the source of his anxious mentality at this moment: According to the prior plan, after Li Jichun's army set out to participate in the war, Feng Shiming's army would lurk in the Xishan area and do his best to detect the possible ambush positions of the Later Jin Dynasty.

So Li Jichun, who ran to the foot of the West Mountain, now urgently needed to contact Feng Shiming's troops in order to obtain specific information about the enemy ambush that is likely to exist.

This is also the reason why he was not in the forest: What do you know is in the forest? The advantage of Chunlei Camp is the musket. Li Jichun will rashly ask the troops to drill into the forest unless his head is kicked by a donkey.

However, things didn't go as expected. Although the generals were extremely anxious, the communication soldiers still did not contact Feng Shiming's troops after 5 minutes of booting up.

Due to the distance, the sound of killing on the battlefield that had been heard in Li Jichun's ears had turned into a faint roar. But after 5 minutes, Li Jichun felt the roar coming into his ears becoming clearer. He knew that the large vanguard of the Ming army who was thrown away had approached the Xishan Mountain.

This ominous judgment made Li Jichun seem to smell the burnt smell of the corpse, so he shuddered and immediately ordered: "Don't wait, go around the forest!"

At this moment, hunters and prey are changing their identities at any time. The only 500 people in the Chunlei Camp want to get millet from the fire. Without the information advantage, they now become prey, and their situation is extremely dangerous.

General Li Shen knew very well that as the battlefield behind approached, it would be too late to leave. He was worried that he had entered the attack range of the enemy ambush. If he rushed out of the enemy cavalry from the road next moment, Li Jichun would not be surprised at all.

The reason why the ambush did not rush out now is perhaps because it was indeed far from the attack range. More likely, because most of the Ming army had not arrived, the ambush was held back and did not take action.

The hunter and prey blurred their identities, which forced someone to order the troops to give up their first contact point and continue to move towards Jinzhou.

In fact, this order is also within the plan.

Li Jichun received a strategic request from the General Staff in advance: give priority to preserving himself, and secondly considering the enemy's training of the troops. In other words, it is better not to gain any benefits today, and Li Jichun should bring the troops back intact. So when he saw that the momentum was wrong, the main force of Chunlei Camp went to Jinzhou as soon as possible.

Things in the world are unpredictable and changeable.

Just as the 500 cavalry of Chunlei Camp passed by the pine birch forest and even the ridge behind the woods, the communication soldiers shouted in surprise: "Contact!"

General Li Shen was also inexplicably surprised. After tying the reins of the horse, he took his hand directly, and shouted in Ming slogan regardless of the communication rules: "Feng Shiming, Feng Shiming, report the location!"

Feng Shiming's voice soon came out through the walkie-talkie.

If you can communicate with voice, it proves that the straight-line distance between the two sides is not far. This is true. After the contact is restored, Li Jichun realized that Feng Shiming's troops were on a small hill about 5 miles away after two ridges in front.

As for a certain team that both sides are concerned about... Feng Shiming clearly told Li Jichun: The Later Jin ambush not only exists, but also is located in the middle of two ridges.

This is also the reason why Feng Shiming's tribe chose to stay at the current location: he can monitor the Later Jin tribe and launch an attack at any time.

The hunter and prey changed their identities again. The veteran driver Li was covered in chicken blood at this moment... Adrenaline was boiling, and he knew that his highlight moment was coming.

After asking about the enemy's terrain, scale and equipment in detail again, the next moment, General Li Gan ordered the entire army to advance at a constant speed and prepare for combat!

When Guarja Wotu heard the report that the enemy vanguard was about to pass the mountain pass, he smiled contemptuously. Wotu, who was sitting on a stone, was not moved by the military: "Where has the Minggou Brigade been?"

"I'm still 10 miles away."

"What should I do with this group of people? Let it go!"

"Yeah!"

Guarja Wotu is a member of the Zhenghuang Banner. As a direct member of the Guarja clan of the Jurchen clan, the 30-year-old Wotu is already one of the few Jiala Ezhens under the Zhenghuang Banner, and he is highly powerful.

This time, when he came out to fight Minggou, the Great Khan Huang Taiji, who had always been close to him, assigned him an important task: ambush.

The wotou understood that this was the grace of the Khan to him. Ambushing and escaping the enemy is not dangerous, and it is easy to capture important enemy figures and wealth. It is really the best job.

So Wotu was very attentive and decided to do the errands that Dahan had assigned: he took the five Niulu under his jurisdiction and the 500 elite soldiers that Dahan squeezed out to him before the war, and went in from the north of Xishan before the war.

Today, the entire 2,000 elite cavalry of the Wotu team have been ambushed in this stone ditch at the foot of the West Mountain for a whole day and a half.

Now, the harvest time is up.

So, when Wotu received a cavalry resting in the woods five miles away in the morning, he was unmoved at all: the news of the Ming army's collapse had been reported here by the wolf smoke released from the battlefield. So when the high-level lookout post came to report, Wotu knew that these cavalry of hundreds of people must have been Guanning cowards who ran away early.

For such cavalry, Netu has no idea at all. These cowards cannot fight and run away for a while, and they will escape after a break. It is not worth his attack.

As expected, the group of cavalry rested their horses not long after, they restarted, bypassed the woods, and retreated towards Jinzhou along the foot of the mountain.

After about a quarter of an hour, the group of fleeing cavalry began to pass by the valley where Wotu's unit was located, and the sound of horse hooves rumbled into Wotu's ears.

"wrong!"

The picture of the nest, which has been through many battles, all its hairs stood up at this moment: the sound of horse hooves coming from outside the stone valley were neat and soothing, and it was slowly slowing down and retracting - the Jurchen warriors also controlled their horses like this before every autumn hunting journey.

"Get on the horse, get on the horse, draw the knife!"

Just as Wotu suddenly stood up and roared, a series of sharp bone whistles came from the high-level lookout whistle.

However, the Later Jin cavalry in the valley no longer needed to call the police, because the sudden rapid sound of horse hooves revealed the purpose of the visitor - the cavalry raid!
Chapter completed!