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Chapter 320 Dorgon Crossing the River (1)

Li Guodong's idea was still a little too beautiful. The Ming Dynasty, who was deeply troubled by the civil strife of the bandits, was ultimately unable to send troops to Liaodong, but instead was attacked into the capital by the bandits.

The combat plan of the Jianbi Qingye was firmly implemented by the Mongols. The Mongols on the New Qinzhong grassland ran so much that they disappeared. Neither the Chahars nor the Aimak (Ordos) people ran away. Dorgon's 30,000 Jurchen cavalry could not even find a single wool on the Mongolian grassland.

"What's wrong with Yue Tuo? He ordered him to supervise the transportation of grain and grass. Our army was almost out of food. Why hasn't the food and grass been delivered yet?" The army was short of food. Before he saw the arrival of the food transport team behind him, Dorgon began to worry.

There was no food and grass transport, and no spies came to report the news, Dorgon vaguely felt something was wrong.

From naturalization to the New Qinzhong grassland, I needed to cross the Yellow River, and the ferry had been controlled long ago. The few cavalrymen who escaped from Yuetuo's army could not cross the river to report the news, so I could only stare at the turbulent Yellow River and stare at it.

The spies sent by Dorgon were also separated by the Yellow River, and it was impossible to figure out what happened to naturalization. What's more serious is that the Ming army did not take them on the grassland at night and waited for them, and all three groups of spies sent by Dorgon went and did not return.

"It seems that the Mongolian dog attacked Yuetuo camp! Omubu is not reliable at all! Our army is about to lose food, and this is not a long-term place, so the army must be withdrawn." Dorgon said with a gloomy face.

"Master Beile, but our army returned in vain after expedition to Chahar this time. If the Khan blames him, what should we do?" Jialaerjintopo asked.

"If the troops are not withdrawn, even the food will be gone. How can the men fight when they are hungry?"

"But here is more than a hundred miles south, which is within the Ming Dynasty. Our army can take the opportunity to enter the Ming Dynasty and rob. Then there will be food?"

"In the Ming Dynasty? When people go to Shaanxi, they eat people. I'm afraid they don't even have to eat human flesh! The Ming Dynasty Nikans there ran away. Going south, they will inevitably be involved in the war between the Ming army and the bandits! If we encounter bandits, will our army fight or not? If we fight bandits, wouldn't we help the Ming Dynasty? Give Chongzhen a chance to breathe; if we don't fight, what should we do to attack our army?" Dorgon sneered. After all, he was a heroic figure among the generals of the Jin Dynasty whose wisdom was second only to Huang Taiji and Yue Tuo, and he knew the situation of the Ming Dynasty very well.

"Then our army withdrew its troops on the same route?" Topo asked.

Dorgon asked someone to take the map and gestured with his fingers on it: "The water at Junzijin Ferry is smooth, and it is one of the best ferries on the Yellow River, but what we can think of is the Mongols! What's more, I suspect that there must be Minggou who interferes from it this time! There is a ruins of Mingguo Acropolis near Junzijin called Dongshengwei. If Minggou repairs the acropolis and stations here, how can our army cross the river? Once it cannot cross the river, the 30,000 troops cut off food and grass, and no one needs to fight, we will be in chaos! Everyone, look, there is a smooth river in the upper reaches of Junzijin, a hundred miles northwest, where our army can cross the river. As long as we cross the Yellow River, even if the Mongols have a million troops, they will not be able to stop the footsteps of my Great Jin Iron Cavalry!"

Thirty thousand Jurchen troops set up camp and left the New Qinzhong grassland. Dorgon still had food that could be eaten for seven days, and if he saved some, he could eat for half a month. While there was still surplus grain, the Jurchens had to retreat quickly.

The Jurchen cavalry had one man and two horses, and about two miles from the Xinqinzhong grassland to the Junzijin Ferry. It took only one day for 30,000 Jurchen cavalry to set off in the morning and arrived in the evening.

Dorgon stood by the Yellow River and saw a boat and a raft on the river surface disappeared, and the grasslands on the other side were densely filled with Mongolian cavalry.

"As expected, the Mongols in the north of Mobei came, and the Tumotes at both ends of the rat were enemies of our Dajin again! It must have been Omubu who colluded with the Mongolian in the north of Mobei to attack the Naihua camp, and Yue Tobele must have been defeated!" Dorgon's face was gloomy and ugly. The 30,000 most elite Dajin cavalry under his command were invincible on the grassland, but a Yellow River blocked the Jurchens' way.

The Later Jin Jurchen warriors were good at fighting, but they were not good at crossing rivers. There were very few people among the Jurchens who could swim. Most of the Jurchens could swim. The Jurchens summoned the Jurchens from the forest by Huang Taiji not long ago. Most of the cavalry of the Alihachaoha camp under Dorgon came from the four divisions of Haixi. The Jurchens in Haixi produced elite cavalry, but they were not good at water battles. Although the Mongols were not good at water battles, the Mongolian soldiers did not need to go into the water. They just stood on the shore and shot arrows. The Jurchens wanted to cross the river. To be on the safe side, it was impossible to cross the river with thick armor, otherwise they would fall into the water and the weight of their armor would bring people to the bottom of the water.

"If the Mongolians rode along the river and ran along the river, they would intercept wherever we crossed the river and shoot arrows to block our army from crossing the river, then the Yellow River would really not be able to pass!" Gushan Ezhen Kak Duli said.

"We left some of the people here to attack, and most of the troops crossed the river from the west!" Dorgon gave the order.

"Master Bell, but there are not even ships here. How can our army cross the river?" asked Toppo.

"Tie all the wooden fences into rafts!" said Dorgon.

When the Jurchens withdrew their troops, they pulled out all the wooden fences and took them away. Now they happened to be useful. There were more than 2,000 Baoyi Aha in Dorgon's army, and they came in handy. The Ahas and the others dismantled the wooden fences, and they tied them into rafts.

On the other side of the Yellow River, the central tent of the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces, Chechen Khan Shuolei said: "The Jurchens set up rafts on the other side, and they probably are ready to cross the river."

Li Guodong walked out of the tent, stood on a high ground, holding a thousand-mile mirror and looking at the other side. After a while, he put down the thousand-mile mirror and said, "Everyone, the Jurchens are actually just a feint attack in Junzijin! Their main force will probably cross the river upstream or downstream! You let the scouts and cavalry keep an eye on it! Once you find that there are Jurchens upstream or downstream, immediately dispatch cavalry to intercept them!"

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Mongolian scout cavalry ran along the bank of the Yellow River, dozens of scouts ran upstream, and dozens of scouts ran downstream.

The sky gradually became darker. According to Li Guodong's suggestion, the Mongolians lit a bunch of bonfires on the river bank, illuminating the banks of the Yellow River through the day. As long as the Jurchens crossed the river, they could see it at a glance. The bright moon in the sky was in the sky, and the visibility was very high. Li Guodong estimated that the Jin army would definitely not dare to cross the river at night.

The next morning when the sun rose, the Jurchens at the Junzijin Ferry began to cross the river. The Ahas carried the rafts that had been busy all night and ran to the river. Groups of Jurchen cavalry dismounted and walked to the riverside, waiting to cross the river. The Mongolians on the other side were not willing to be outdone, and the black Mongolian cavalry hooves rumbled to the edge of the ferry.

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