Lu Hekang, a gang general who was observing the enemy's attack on the Crow Rock Mountain, saw that the attacking scattered soldiers of the Han army in the Blue Flags gradually moved backwards, and he realized that the failure of the Han army's flag soldiers was approaching. While mobilizing more than 300 servants and ordinary archers, he threw arrows at the female real Red Flag archers. He did not expect the Ming army's archers to do much, as long as they scare away the Jurchen archers. But they were at the upper vent, and the arrows they shot were far and effort-saving. Although the Jurchen archers were wearing armor, they flexibly took off their iron armor and only wore thin cotton armor in order to shoot archery skills.

Although the arrows shot by the Ming army were not as invasive as the Jurchen wolf-toothed arrows, it was still possible to shoot through the cotton armor of the Jurchen archers. What's more, the Jurchen archers were too arrogant and even arranged in a row twenty feet in front of the Crow Rock. Even if the Ming army archers were not as good as them, they could easily shoot arrows into the enemy formation. The female real red flag archers were suddenly attacked by the Ming army archers on the mountain and were immediately disorganized. They were inserted into the shaking arrow shaft like reeds in a short while.

Although the female real Red Flag archers were extremely angry, they had already shot more than ten arrows each, and their physical strength was seriously overdrawn. Even if they wanted to counterattack, the archers were still willing to do so. The Ming army arrows poured down from the top of the mountain into the dense military formation of the Zhenghong Flag archers, which first caused chaos in the Jurchen archers. The arrows of both sides were hesitating against each other in the air, and some arrows even collided with each other in the air. As a result, the attacking Han flag soldiers were the most injured. As the Ming army archers on the mountain became more and more confident, it became inevitable that the Jurchen archers who had suffered excessive casualties would retreat. Bele Azig, who was commanding in front of the formation, was also shot into the left shoulder by arrows on the mountain. Fortunately, he was wearing triple armor and only suffered some skin injuries.

Ajige could consume his Han flag soldiers, but he did not dare to consume the female real Red Flag archers at will. When the arrows on the mountain became more and more dense, Ajige had to order the Red Flag archers to retreat. Without the Ming army defenders threatened by Jurchen archers, he could at this time be relieved to boldly pick up the attacking Han flag traitors. At this time, the Ming army defenders on the mountain no longer regarded these Ming traitors who spoke Chinese language and had no sympathy. They very much recognized Ponuhou's title of this group of Ming traitors who did not recognize their ancestors.

Although there were a few lucky Han flag soldiers approaching the guard wall, they were so tired that they were not even able to lift the sword. The Ming army behind the guard wall became more and more beneficial to them as the battle was more and more beneficial to them. As several Ming soldiers shot through the tattered battle jackets could take out their spears and stab these ignorant fools from several directions. The Ming army, who had seen blood, was no longer afraid of facing the terrifying blood. When the entire battlefield calmed down, a red guard barrier was piled up at the foot of the mountain.

The morale of the Han army in the Inlaid Blue Flag, which was defeated by the Ming army in Baoding, was so great that they wanted to drag their injured brothers back, but the defenders forced them back with dense arrows. The Han army flag wounded in the stones and corpses, as time went by, the painful sounds became lower and lower. As dusk approached, the wounded soldiers in the Han army in the Later Han army no longer made any sound. After defeating the attack of the Han army in the Inlaid Blue Flag, the general Lu Hekang was also taking stock of his casualties. He found that he had been killed in his battle on his side, and more than 270 people were injured, and more than 100 of them were seriously injured. Perhaps he could not survive tonight.

Regarding the casualties of his own troops, Lu Hekang valued the bodies of the seven Jurchen Niuluezhen officers at the foot of the mountain. He ordered six servants to tie long ropes to their waists and use the night sky to cut the heads of Niuluezhen corpses, and asked these servants to strip the armor of Jurchen Niulue. That night, a memorial to protect the king and reinforcements of the Jurchen Jiannu were freshly released. In order to confirm the authenticity of the memorial, he also sent servants to send Jurchen Niuluezhen heads as evidence, with Jurchen armor and ten sides of the Han army battle flag inlaid with blue flags.

Of course, in the memorial, Lu Hekang also increased his war losses, highlighting the bravery of the troops fighting against the enemy. After this war report was spread to the capital, it caused a sensation in the court and the people. Before the reinforcements led by the Ji Liao commander Yuan Chonghuan arrived at the battlefield in Jizhou, Baoding reinforcements not only blocked the way of Jiannu, but also won a great victory to annihilate thousands of enemies. Emperor Chongzhen, who received the memorial of Lu Hekang, immediately issued an edict to commend the Baoding official army and took out 3,000 taels of silver from the inside to reward the Baoding officers and soldiers. This little bit of fly meat was finally deducted by the Baoding officers and soldiers.

Even if Emperor Chongzhen did not understand military affairs very well, he discovered a very serious problem. Yuan Chonghuan, the general of Ji Liao, gave him a memorial saying that the reinforcements were not trained for a long time and were exhausted and were overwhelmed. The reinforcements of the King of Baoding rushed from the capital for 170 miles, blocking the main road from the Jurchen coalition to the capital. The Iron Cavalry of Guanning, Liaozhen, said that they had traveled a hundred miles a day and passed Shanhaiguan three days ago. Now the Baoding official army has fought with the enemy, and the Liaozhen reinforcements have not been seen outside Jizhou City.

Emperor Chongzhen thought that since the Jurchen Jiannu was blocked in Jizhou and could not move forward, he wanted to drive the troops of the Pou Nu Army to support the king and let the grassland fox wolf Zhang Ping'an's troops go down and cool down. However, the eunuch Cao Huachun, who had always been cautious in doing things, did not obey the order, saying that the current war was not clear and the Pou Nu Army did not need the court to pay the money. If the war in Jizhou has not changed within a month, it would not be too late to ask the Pou Nu Army to leave. Emperor Chongzhen's military machine praised Sun Chengzong's opinion was surprisingly consistent with Cao Huachun, and forced Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian to bear this anger for the time being. Faced with such a great situation, Yuan Chonghuan, the Ji Liao commander, led 9,000 Guanning Guanning Iron Cavalry and 17,000 infantry to Jizhou, the situation of the war changed drastically.

After the Qing Khan Huang Taiji led the 300,000 Jurgen's main force to the front line of Jizhou, he had no choice but to face the Baoding Ming army on Crow Rock Mountain. Although the Jurchens set up artillery under the Crow Rock Mountain to bombard the Ming army on the hillside, the terrain of Crow Rock was too dangerous, and the Jurchen dead soldiers attacked once without any results. Huang Taiji also found that if he fought to the death, he might be able to defeat Crow Rock, but this resulted in tens of thousands of casualties.

Huang Taiji was furious with a headache by the Raven Rock defenders, and he was so anxious that he was bleeding from his nose. Especially after Yuan Chonghuan led reinforcements to Jizhou, he almost blocked the official road to the east, which made hundreds of thousands of Jurchens trapped in a small area of ​​Jizhou without any help. After the reports of war were reported to the capital, the officials of the Ming court were also full of confidence in the future war. At this time, the general of Xuanfu Hou Shilu led his troops to the capital. Datong General Man Gui led a large army to garrison at Deshengmen for some time. Since these two main Ming troops arrived, the chief assistant of the cabinet, Qian Longxi, and the Minister of War, negotiated and decided to transfer the two main forces to the front line of Jizhou.

When the chief minister Qian Longxi and the Minister of War Wang Qia jointly submitted their negotiation results to Emperor Chongzhen, but they did not get the approval of Emperor Zhu Youjian. Emperor Chongzhen first summoned Sun Chengzong on the platform and handed the memorial to Sun Chengzong to pay close attention to the congress. After reading the memorial, everyone praised the memorial and praised it. After reading the memorial, Sun Chengzong was also very optimistic that as long as these two reinforcements were sent to Jizhou, it was no problem to block the Jiannu army. As a well-known military affairs, Sun Chengzong saw the weakness of the Jiannu army, that was, there was insufficient food and grass. As long as the Ming army blocked the Jiannu army in Jizhou, just comparing food and grass, the enemy could retreat.

Sun Chengzong's optimistic mood also infected Emperor Chongzhen. He issued an edict to approve the memorials of the chief minister Qian Longxi and the Minister of War Wang Qia, and ordered the Datong General Man Gui and the Xuanfu General Hou Shilu to send troops to Jizhou. Emperor Chongzhen, who was confident, also issued a memorial to denounce the Ming Dynasty Ponuhou as a foreign vassal, and he deliberately issued a dangerous statement to disturb the court and wanted to threaten the court. Emperor Chongzhen's memorial was immediately in chaos. The officials of Ponuhou and his group were in danger, and those officials who wanted to climb up the Naponuhou officials made memorials and beat the dogs in the water.

Faced with such a complex situation, the scheming court elders, the six ministers and important officials did not speak out. In their opinion, the young and energetic Emperor Chongzhen made a fool of himself. The foreign enemies of Jiannu did not retreat. Ponuhou was not a good thing. It would be good if he had such a strong strength to not rebel. Emperor Chongzhen seemed to think that the Ming Dynasty was too troublesome and wanted to find another mortal enemy for himself. When Emperor Tianqi was in power, he had to take charge of the Ponuhou Zhang Ping'an, which made Ponuhou's mind focus on making money.

Once the Ming Dynasty rebelled, Ponuhou led his subordinates to help the Ming Dynasty quell the rebellion. Emperor Chongzhen, who lacked political experience, actually wanted to force Ponuhou to rebel when the enemy was in the face of a great enemy. But what made them most afraid of was that after this order passed through the Ponuhou's mansion, the Ponu army, who came to serve the king, did not cause trouble, but just silently prepared to retreat outside the pass. Ponuhou's mansion and Ponucheng Xuanwei envoys' yamen did not submit a defense on behalf of Ponuhou's mansion or gathered troops to cause trouble. Ponu's army used silence to deal with the accusations from the emperor and the court.

Just after Emperor Chongzhen felt relieved of his anger, he was preparing to issue a Ming imperial edict to ask the King to defeat the slave army to leave the pass and return to Killanggou, a bad news came from Jizhou. Yuan Chonghuan, the general of Ji Liao, dismissed the Ming army stationed in Raven Yan Baoding, and also dispersed all the Ming troops guarding the dangerous passes west of Jizhou. Yuan Chonghuan submitted a memorial saying that these Ming troops had not been trained for a long time and did not dare to fight. Without these battles, he defeated the Ming army, and his Liao Town official army was more sure to defeat the enemy.

Yuan Chonghuan also sent two memorials to this end, saying that he had disbanded these chaotic Ming troops who made money every day, and mainly concentrated limited food and salary on the Liaozhen official army. He also assured the emperor in the memorial that as long as he had the troops in Liaodong was enough to make Jiannu not go one step beyond Jizhou. As Yuan Chonghuan's memorial was sent to the capital, the Ming Dynasty court, which had already celebrated each other, was suddenly in panic. As Zhang Ping'an, the Marquis of Ponu, said, the Ming Dynasty court was just a leak and could not hide any news.

A few days ago, in the official document written by Mr. Ponu, he predicted that Yuan Chonghuan would dismiss the Ming army in Jizhou and that Yuan Chonghuan would deliberately let Jiannu arrive at the capital. It seemed to be confirming the prophecy of Mr. Ponu, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Ji Liao, vowed to intercept the Jiannu army in Jizhou without going beyond the line. However, the main force of Jiannu crossed the mountain road to the west of Jizhou and rushed to Sanhe 70 miles east of the capital. This news reached the capital, causing a shock to the Ming Dynasty capital. (To be continued)
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