East Factory Governor

Chapter 237 Scholar Fan Wencheng
Therefore, Yuan Chonghuan chose to lead his troops to set off immediately after receiving Meng Wei's information.In order to speed up, he brought all Guan Ning cavalry, a full 7000 troops, plus the 4000 troops he asked He Kegang to take to Yutian to intercept Houjin, it can be said that he has dispatched all the main forces in the city.

Yuan Chonghuan hopes for a decisive battle, even longs for a decisive battle!As the governor of Ji Liao, he must not allow Jian Nu to cross Jizhou and go straight to the capital.If Jiannu arrived in the capital, no matter whether he could be repelled in the end, he would never be able to escape the charge of ineffective overseer.In this way, it will be almost impossible for him to gain the trust of Chongzhen again in the future, and to display his ambitions, and he may even be imprisoned because of this, which he knows very well.

But as long as he can block Houjin on the trail, he can fight Houjin in Hengling.Houjin can't use cavalry on the mountain, and their advantage will no longer exist. With Yuan Chonghuan's ability, it is completely possible to bring 7000 people to Hengling and Houjinmo for a few days. At that time, the Ming army near Jizhou will only need to After all assembled in Hengling, not to mention the complete annihilation of Houjin, at least they can severely damage their main force and force them to flee back to the outside of the Great Wall. It only takes a day or two.

When Yuan Chonghuan led his troops to the entrance of the trail, it was already dark.Although Yuan Chonghuan knew that Houjin was still in Hengling, he was afraid of being ambushed because of the darkness, so he didn't dare to enter the mountain rashly.

He made two decisions.One is to ask Meng Wei to bring a few spies into the mountain to see if Qin Shuhuai is still entangled with the main force of Jianshou in the mountain.If he is still there, then he can rush in without hesitation, and block off the Jiannu army with Qin Shuhuai at both ends, which can completely inflict heavy damage on the Jiannu army.

Another decision is that the cavalry should be divided into four groups to ambush at the exit of the trail, and once the slave army is found to come out, they will immediately carry out a cross attack.Jiannu's formation is long, and it is inevitable that they will not be able to concentrate too many troops to counterattack for a while, so the Guanning Army can also take advantage of it.

Yuan Chonghuan believes that it is impossible to cross mountains and mountains with so many horses in the Houjin Dynasty.The only way to figure out the steep horizontal ridge is to take this trail.Either they continued on, taking the trail to Yutian, or they withdrew from the trail.But he believed that with Qin Shuhuai's scheming, this path must be sealed off. It would take at least a day or two for Jianu to clear the obstacles. After defeating the [-] troops in Qin Shuhuai's hands, they will definitely retreat along the same route.

It should be said that his arrangement was correct.

But sometimes, even the best plans have holes.Or to put it simply, Hou Jin's life is not exhausted.

At the beginning, Huang Taiji did order the army to immediately go back the same way and withdraw from the path.But after walking back for more than half an hour, the people from Beibei came.

They rushed to see Huang Taiji with the news from Guan Ning's army, and told Huang Taiji that Yuan Chonghuan had set up an ambush outside, and they were waiting for him to sneak into his pocket.

The Queen Mother was shocked.Although I still have nearly 5 horses in my hands, the main force is only [-].Moreover, going out from the narrow path, the army could not immediately gather to form a combat force when they were lined up. If they were ambushed by Yuan Chonghuan, the outcome could be imagined.

Huang Taiji immediately ordered the army to stop advancing, and then threw the luggage and horses on the trail. The soldiers were divided into two groups and camped on the mountains on both sides of the road to prevent the Ming army from attacking.

After making these preparations, Huang Taiji called the main generals to hold an emergency meeting.

Now in front of him are three multiple choice questions.One is to clear the roadblocks and continue to Yutian.But it will take at least a day to clear the bodies and boulders from the two-kilometer trail.This day was enough time for the Ming army to set up several more ambushes on the next section of the trail.The second is to take advantage of the dark night to go back and rush out.But it is estimated that at least half of the soldiers will be lost by doing so, and their trip to the Central Plains can be completely over, and if they are unlucky, it may be difficult to even go home.The third is for everyone to go over the mountains and ridges, bypass this trail, and leave the mountain from other places, but in this way, all the horses and luggage must be left behind, because it is impossible to cross the virgin forest with these.The problem is that without horses and supplies, they could neither defeat the Ming army cavalry, nor could they continue to fight, and they would die if they went out.

Three roads, each of which is a dead end!

Everyone discussed for a long time, but they didn't come up with any good solution. Huang Taiji felt melancholy, and when he came outside the camp, he sighed deeply against the flying snow that was flying all over the sky.

Qin Shuhuai!What kind of monstrous character is this!With thousands of people, my [-] army is trapped here!

The Ming Dynasty expropriated and abused our family. Our family could not bear the humiliation and revolted in order to survive. Isn’t it the will of God?The shamans in the army all said that the power of the country was exhausted, but why did such a monster appear again?
While Qin Shuhuai was hiding in the warm cave drinking and eating meat, Huang Taiji ushered in the lowest ebb and most helpless moment in his life in the ice and snow.

At this time, someone suddenly came to report.

"Reporting to the Great Khan, Fan Wencheng, the military study officer, asked to see him. He said he had a good strategy to defeat the enemy."

Huang Taiji was taken aback for a moment, he couldn't remember who this Fan Wencheng was.The so-called study official is just a clerk in the literary library set up by Huang Taiji, not even an official position.For this expedition, in order to write the surrender letter, etc., Huang Taiji also brought some Han talents, and this Fan Wencheng was one of the talents who accompanied the army.

Huang Taiji naturally could not have imagined at this moment that this Han scholar who suddenly appeared would be the number one adviser he would regard as his humerus in the future.

In history, Fan Wencheng played an extremely important role in the process of the Later Jin entering the Central Plains.He was born in Shenyang, Liaoning. He emerged during the period of Huang Taiji and was deeply relied on by Huang Taiji. He needed advice on everything from the strategy of crusade against the Ming Dynasty, the rebellion against Ming Dynasty officials, the attack on North Korea, the pacification of Mongolia, the construction of the national system, etc. to him.He was the elder of the four dynasties of Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, Shunzhi, and Kangxi, and he was known as the head of civil officials in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties.It was he who recruited Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and other Ming Dynasty generals.At the same time, it was also he who saw the right time. In the first year of Shunzhi, he wrote to the regent Dorgon, requesting to send troops into the pass, and personally formulated the strategy, policy, and phalanx to attack Ming. BJ's determination finally helped Hou Jin seize the world of Han people.

At this time, Fan Wencheng was just a scholar in the literary school, so Huang Taiji had never heard of it.

Although he didn't really believe that a talented person could really solve the army's difficulties, Huang Taiji was desperate at the moment, so he had no choice but to summon Fan Wencheng in the camp with the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

A handsome Han man in his early thirties walked in, with a bookish look on his face.The post-gold generals in the account all looked disdainful when they saw him.They have always looked down on the Han people, and even more so on the scholars among the Han people, thinking that they are all only boasting, and that the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by these scholars.

(End of this chapter)