Jieshi Mountain, one hundred miles to Shanhaiguan in the west and twenty miles to the Bohai Sea in the south.

On the southern foot of the mountain stands the famous city in the pass, Changli.

Jieshi Mountain is about forty miles long north and south, and is located at a commanding height in the south of the mountain. The Ming Dynasty built a viewing building. Standing here, the county town with a radius of six miles, the vast sea in the distance is clear at a glance. The only official road leading to the Liaodong area is to pass through the city from Changli County.

At present, the spring of the 17th year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty and the fourth year of Dongxia (to facilitate narrative, the Dongxia era will be in the future, the first year of Dongxia is 1641, and so on) has officially arrived.

Although the wind and sand are still there, the weather gradually improves.

Today, it happened to be a rare good weather without wind and sand. Looking at the Jieshi Mountain, a group of people were pointing at the sea.

The distance of twenty miles is hazy if you look at it with your naked eyes, but these people have new monoculars in their hands when they were still relatively in the Ming Dynasty. In this way, it is natural to "surround Jieshi in the east and observe the vast ocean".

The fine objects are still a little hazy, but under the telescope with ten times the effect, the pure blue sky, the scattered white clouds, and the blue sea are vividly visible.

Of course, the history of Emperor Wu of Wei, Cao Cao, was definitely not watching the sea here, but Lianfeng Mountain by the sea.

After entering Changli County, there is Yanghe River to the north and Yinma River to the south. In addition, Jieshi Mountain to the west, the sea to the east, the only official road, and a certain military place.

Strangely, there was a faint smell of blood in the air here.

Fortunately, the wind and sand have not stopped in recent days, otherwise the smell of blood would be even stronger.

"Huhuhu", the man who was about thirty years old, tall and tall, with short beards and big hat sniffed his nose, and frowned after smelling the bloody smell.

"Your Majesty, it's okay. Now the strong wind blows from the southeast. Unless they don't follow this path, they will always be able to smell it."

The person who spoke was Mu Ren, a general of the Great Xia Kingdom who had just been transferred back to the east from the other side of the sea. Then this frowning man was needless to say, Nikan.

Why did this guy come here?

After hearing Mu Ren's words, Nikan nodded slightly.

After Mu Ren returned to Dongtu, he replaced Wu Liji as the Prime Minister of the Lifan Academy. Now, together with Prime Minister Sun Xiulin and Privy Councilor Sun Chuanyu, the three people with the highest official positions in the Daxia Kingdom.

Behind Nikan, except for Badu, who is exactly 20 years old this year, Ye Liannak's two personal guard generals, and the de facto commander of the Bogra team, Etengyi, are on the line.

Etengyi was five years older than Nikan. He was the tribe he had traded by the Mongols when he was trading in Urhet. In the end, Nikan took out the items he had exchanged and gave them and barely survived. The leader of the small tribe on the mountain on the west side of Ireneka later moved to a place close to Ireneka. When Nikan included all the tribes directly under his jurisdiction in the Pogra division, Etengyi became the de facto deputy commander of the Pogra division.

In addition to Etengyi, the leader of the Dorot tribe, one of the former Chahar headquarters, was left as a general to guard Chahar after Lin Danhan went west, and the forty-year-old Choktu was also there.

In addition to these two people, there is another one, who is in his thirties, but he is a Han man. He is a typical figure of a man from the northwest. He is the leader of the Han people who are located in Wuyuan Ranch in Fengzhou Prefecture, Shannan Province, and a retired general named Li Xingzu.

Li Xingzu was one of the first people to join the Hanhai Army cavalry in Wuyuan Han Ranch, but now he is a veteran who retired as the deputy commander of the regiment. After he was discharged from the army, Nikan asked him to return to Wuyuan County to serve as the county magistrate and clerk of Wuyuan County. In fact, he managed nearly 20,000 Han herders from Wuyuan County who moved from northern Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia.

"County and Regiment Level", Nikan also has a ridiculous corresponding solution for retired generals.

Li Xingzu, who claimed to be a descendant of the Western Xia royal family, but who knows that there is no family tree and it is entirely written by word of mouth, and the authenticity is quite suspicious.

In addition, Sun Chuanyu, the chief envoy of the Privy Council, and Sun Xiujie, the left censor of the Censorate, were also listed.

Just after Xiao Alin and Zhuketu advanced one west and one east, tightly clamping Shanhaiguan in the middle, Nikan was not willing to fall behind, and he led an army of 30,000 to go south.

These 30,000 troops are not regular troops, but are the sources of the three major cavalry from Nikan: the Bogra tribes, the Chahar Mongol tribes, and the Wuyuan Han tribes. These tribes defected to the Daxia kingdom earlier, and militia training was effective. Now Nikan has pulled out all the elites in it.

Twenty thousand Han herders drew 10,000 elite troops, 30,000 Bogra tribes drew 10,000 elite troops, 30,000 Tumote, Ordos, Dorote tribes, and Mongolian tribes such as Sunit, Onniut, Naiman, and Bahrain drew 10,000 to form 30,000 elite troops.

Of course, since it is the Daxia Kingdom that pays attention to the rules, Nikan does not allow them to wear strange clothes and go south in various ways. In that case, the Han people in the Central Plains will definitely have a great psychological resistance.

During the three months of militia training in previous years, Dashun Kingdom distributed clothing and weapons to the militias that participated in the training - of course, they were all cold weapons, and there were only two types of things: riding knives and rifles, war horses, bows and arrows, short axes, etc., to prepare them themselves.

Even so, the "Fortress Cavalry" with 30,000 uniforms is still spectacular. Not only that, after long-term militia training, they basically mastered some of the Hanhai Army's teachings, but they were not as proficient as regular soldiers.

At present, the ten thousand Han cavalry were led by Li Xingzu, and the ten thousand Mongolian cavalry was commanded by Chuoketu. Since Chuoketu's tribe happened to be near Shangdu, Nikan asked him to command these ten thousand Mongolian cavalry to be regarded as a win-win - Chuoketu, not a member of the Golden Family.

And it is also appropriate to be led by Etengyi to Nikan's headquarters.

In addition to Nikan's personal guards, which increased to 3,300 people, this is the largest force in the Great Xia Kingdom in addition to guarding the national border.

Of course, in addition to this, the Korchin tribes and the Khalkha tribes can also be mobilized, but Nikan did not mobilize this time, but only mobilized the three divisions that he believed had the highest recognition and training time for the Daxia Kingdom.

If these 30,000 people were placed in any dynasty in history, they would be 30,000 "Essential Cavalry", but this was the first time that they had entered the battlefield in the Daxia Kingdom.

Just a few days ago, Nikan's army ambushed the person who received the order from Li Zicheng to go north to meet them. He was ordered to guard Tianjin and Cangzhou. The general Liu Xiyao, who was originally ordered to guard ten thousand cavalry.

In the end, Hanhai army won a great victory, and Liu Xiyao's army was almost wiped out. Liu Xiyao himself fled back to Tianjin only by his personal guards to fight to the death. The rest were either killed or captured.

Therefore, the smell of blood that Nikan is worried about refers to this.

After this battle, the combat power of the Daxia National militia, which had been "trained for a long time" but had no actual combat, took a step forward, which also made Nikan breathe a sigh of relief.

In fact, he thought too much. Putting aside the Han cavalry, the Bogra tribes, and the Mongolian tribes were born with military supplies, and ordinary tribes also drew swords to each other. After being trained by the Hanhai Army for three months every year, it goes without saying anything else, it is completely stronger than the elite cavalry of the three Khalkha tribes.

Of course, he frowned and it was not just this one.

Not long ago, Liu Fangliang, the general of the Zuofu Camp guarding Daming Prefecture and Baoding Prefecture, finally learned about the fall of Beijing. After he learned about it, he all started his army north to regain Beijing. In the battle of Fangshan, Alin and Ah Nine Thousand Cavalry were defeated, and Liu Fangliang retreated to Baoding. However, once Liu Fangliang was defeated, Gao Yigong Forward Camp in Yulin, Liu Zhong in Lu'an Prefecture, and Tian Jianxiu in Xi'an would definitely know sooner or later.

If you don't defeat Li Zicheng completely as soon as possible, it would be better to reach some kind of agreement with him, your occupation of Beijing would not be as stable as you imagined.

Therefore, after defeating Liu Xiyao, he was waiting.

Li Zicheng's remnants were waiting for his retreat to retreat south.

Of course, after Li Zicheng retreated from Shanhaiguan, in addition to passing through the southern foot of Jieshi Mountain to Tianjin, he could also return to Tianjin from Yongping and Xianghe to the north.

However, according to Nikan's thinking, Li Zicheng must have known about the fall of Beijing now. If he walks from the north, he has to consider the Hanhai Army that can move south from outside the wall at any time. Therefore, he concluded that Li Zicheng would definitely go to the southern line after retreating.

Just as he was thinking, a person came quickly at the foot of the mountain, Nikan felt aroused.

"Is there any news about Li Zicheng's remnant?"

The visitor was the leader of the scout who was placed in Changli County by Nikan.

"Your Majesty, there is news about Li Zicheng's ministry!"

"oh?"

"They are forcing the Yanghe River!"

Nikan thought nervously, should he hit him halfway, or put it in an encirclement composed of Yanghe, Jieshi Mountain, Yinma River and the sea?

After a while, he said, "Play as planned!"

The so-called original plan was to put the remnants of the Dashun Army into the encirclement. Except for the Yanghe itself, there were 10,000 troops on the remaining three sides. To the east of the Yanghe River, according to the level of Zhuketu, people would not be sent to pursue him.

...

Nikan was right. Because of the pursuit soldiers behind, Li Zicheng's personal military camp and Xin Sixiao's right camp, about 25,000 people were divided into several routes, and quickly crossed the river from the shallow water of the Yanghe River. After that, Xin Sixiao attacked the vanguard and led 5,000 troops along the official road to open the way. He Jinlong led 5,000 cavalry to break the back, while Li Shuangxi led 10,000 troops to one left and one right, while Ma Chenglong and the most elite five,000 cavalry were closely guarding Li Zicheng in the middle. The army was like a thick character "中" and rolling towards Changli County.

Near Shanhaiguan, the battle was over at this time. Hanhai army won a great victory and defeated Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Gu Kecheng, Liu Tichun and others, Yuan Zongdi, Gu Kecheng and Liu Tichun, but Li Guo, Li Laiheng and his son escaped by chance under the escort of a few elite soldiers.

In the end, there were less than three thousand cavalry following Li Guo and his son. They didn't know where Li Zicheng went, but in this situation, they were still panicked. In the end, they were following the road of Yongping, Fengrun and Lutai as mentioned earlier.

It’s okay, it seems that the sky will not perish. The father and son arrived in Tianjin one step earlier than Li Zicheng along this road.

After completely defeating the Dashun Army, Zhuketu asked Kakduli to continue pursuing westward with a legion, and he, Xiao Alin and Chukdan, the three legions of the army, were continuing to stay in Shanhaiguan, preparing to reorganize the prisoners according to the method arranged by Nikkan.

The so-called reorganization does not mean that the surrendered generals are immediately used, but that all the surrendered generals are sent to Jinzhou Military and Political School to study. The surrendered soldiers will be based on three legions and pick up their strong ones to be included in the three major legions. Since the cavalry captured at Shanhaiguan this time have more than 50,000 infantry troops, and each legion can be turned into two legions. Therefore, it is the main thing to quickly reorganize them into an army.

After the reorganization is completed, those who are not suitable to continue to join the army will be put back according to their wishes, either farming or entering the two major companies in the Daxia Kingdom Siberia and the Americas. Some will be forced to be incorporated into the Hanhai Navy, and some will enter the Daxia Kingdom's mining workshops. Nikan does not want to let go of such a complex and powerful human resources.

According to Nikan's estimate, under the surveillance of three huge legions and the surrendered generals left, the reorganization will be finally completed in ten days, and then a legion will be freed up.
Chapter completed!