East Factory Governor

Chapter 590 Misjudgment
In the early morning of the next day, on July 27th in the third year of Chongzhen, Qin Shuhuai led a 5 coalition army to arrive [-] miles outside Yongping City.

The army was being repaired, and He Kegang was setting up the camp. Suddenly, the horse whistle brought two haggard men dressed as merchants, saying that the two claimed to have retired from the Santun camp and wanted to find Lord Qin.

When He Kegang heard that he had "retired" from Santun camp, his heart tightened immediately, and he hurriedly took them to find Qin Shuhuai.

Of these two people, one of them was Ma Shilong's deputy Wang Shou'an, who was desperate to break out of the encirclement.

When Wang Shouan saw Qin Shuhuai, he immediately fell to his knees with a thud, and said in tears, "Your Majesty! The humble officer is Wang Shouan, the deputy general under Ma Shilong, the commander-in-chief of the Santun Battalion. Yesterday morning, the Tartars suddenly stormed the Santun Battalion. The subordinates went to the rescue from Jingzhong Mountain, and did not want to encounter an ambush by the Tartar army. Ma Zongbing led his brothers to fight bravely, but there were too many Tartars, and our army was outnumbered, resulting in a disastrous defeat! I was lucky enough to break through. Hearing that Lord Hou had brought an army to Qian'an, the humble staff turned into merchants and traveled day and night to inform Lord Hou, begging Lord Hou to send troops to rescue Santun camp quickly! Santun camp is in danger!"

When Wang Shouan broke through the encirclement, the three camps were still fighting fiercely. He thought that with Zu Dashou's ability, the three camps should be able to defend for a few days, so he said this.

Qin Shuhuai frowned, Santunying was attacked?

So the biggest question now is, is Santunying still there?If he is there, he must send troops to help, because the Santunying has a large amount of military supplies, which are very important to both sides.But if it has already fallen, then not only is it useless to go by yourself, but you may even be ambushed.

After thinking for a while, he asked, "How many Tazi soldiers ambushed you? You have to tell the truth, otherwise you will miss the army, and you won't dare to chop off ten heads!"

The reason why he said this first was because he was afraid that Wang Shou'an would deliberately exaggerate the number of enemy troops in order to reduce his responsibility after a defeat in accordance with the practice of a famous general. In this way, his judgment on Qin Shuhuai would be seriously misleading.

Wang Shouan really wanted to say more at first, but he gave up this idea after seeing Qin Shuhuai's sharp eyes.This Marquis Qin is not an ordinary person. If he is found out talking nonsense, he will definitely kill me.

So he said truthfully, "There are about [-] Tartars who ambushed us, and about [-] who attacked the Santun camp. However, General Zu commanded well, and the brothers also fought bravely. Now they have at least [-] casualties." Now, the general dares to guarantee this point with his head!"

Qin Shuhuai pondered for a while, thinking, that means Huang Taiji secretly dispatched [-] soldiers from Zunhua to attack the Santun Camp.There are [-] soldiers in the three camps, but only [-] elites. I'm afraid it's not going well now.

He knew Zu Dashou very well and knew that he could fight, but he also worried that his will to resist was not so firm.The city of Santunying is small, if the city wall is broken through and street fighting starts, it will really take courage to go all the way.

Moreover, Huang Taiji wanted to get the Santun camp so much, would he pull Qian'an's soldiers back to attack the Santun camp together?In this case, Santunying is more likely to fall.

The more he thought about it, the more it seemed possible.Because the Bailian Sect from Yongping came to report that there were only [-] defenders in Yongping City, so it can be calculated that there are [-] Tartar soldiers near Qian'an.The surrounding area of ​​Qian'an is now occupied by Tartars. Why did he send so many soldiers?Huang Taiji will definitely transfer some of them to fight the Santun camp.

Thinking of this, a bold idea suddenly appeared in Qin Shuhuai's mind, that is to bypass Yongping and attack Qian'an directly.If the Tartars have captured the Santun camp, then my [-] army can separate the Santun camp from Yongping, and the [-] Tartar soldiers in Yongping will be alone. Let's see if Huang Taiji can save him?And if the Tartars hadn't captured the Santun Camp yet, the army could still go to rescue the Santun Camp after they arrived in Qian'an.

The best of both worlds.

So he said to He Kegang, "General He, the Marquis thinks that there may not be many troops in Qian'an now, why don't we send troops to attack Qian'an immediately?"

Qin Shuhuai didn't know, he had misjudged it now.Because Huang Taiji didn't let the soldiers from Qian'an go to attack Santun camp at all.

Why did Huang Taiji put [-] heavy troops in Qian'an and not move?What he was afraid of was that the soldiers and horses of the Ming court to the east of Qian'an and west of Shanhaiguan would go to rescue the Santun camp, so he deployed [-] elites at the traffic hub of Qian'an.

But Qin Shuhuai took it for granted.He knew that this area would not be able to send decent troops to save the Santun camp, so he thought it was unnecessary for Huang Taiji to send so many soldiers in Qian'an.But he never thought that it was impossible for Huang Taiji to know the deployment of all the soldiers and horses of the Ming court. Of course, he had to act cautiously, just in case.

He Kegang listened to Qin Shuhuai's suggestion, pondered for a while, and said, "There are 140 Tartar elite soldiers in Qian'an, and there is only [-] miles from Qian'an to Santunying. Aid, I'm afraid it's not good."

Qian'an is one of the most important cities in Jizhen. To the north is the Great Wall used to block the Duoyan tribe, to the northwest are Santunying and Xifengkou, and to the east is Shanhaiguan, the first pass in the world. The location of the city is very important because It's solidly built.If 6 Tartar elite soldiers guarded, even if [-] people went to attack, they might not be able to take it in one day.

At this time, Meng Wei said, "General Zu has experienced many battles, and the Santun camp may not be captured so quickly. If the Tartars are still attacking the Santun camp, they must not send many troops to assist Qian'an." And, even if they give up the three camps to rescue Qian'an, then our army has achieved the goal of besieging Wei and saving Zhao. As long as the three camps are not lost, our trip is not in vain."

Zhang Xiao also nodded, and said, "Lao Meng is right. Going to attack Qian'an is a good strategy. Qian'an is only fifty miles away from here. Let's march quickly and arrive in two hours!"

Meng Wei and Zhang Xiao had always believed in Qin Shuhuai's judgment after traveling with Qin Shuhuai for a long time.Moreover, in this matter, they really think that it is very feasible to kill multiple birds with one stone.

He Kegang saw that everyone said that, so he stopped objecting and said, "Well, let's set off as soon as possible and go straight to Qian'an!"

The military order is like a mountain!

With Qin Shuhuai's order, the army immediately stopped camping, but gathered quickly and set off again.

The spies sent by Yongping City watched from a distance that Qin Shuhuai's army left Yongping and headed towards Qian'an, and immediately returned to the city to report.But the report belongs to the report, with Qin Shuhuai's means, it is impossible for them to inform the Qian'an defenders.Unless they take a detour, but a detour will definitely not be able to keep up with the speed of the martial arts coalition forces.

In order to speed up, Qin Shuhuai asked [-] cavalry and [-] infantry to walk slowly behind with their luggage, while the light infantry marched faster and rushed straight to Qian'an!
In less than two hours, at noon, Qin Shuhuai led an army of fifty thousand to Qian'an.

Apart from anything else, the army directly surrounded Qian'an, and then arranged for soldiers to repair on the spot, and at the same time cut down trees to make ladders, ready to attack!

(End of this chapter)