In the dead forest, a hand pushed aside the branches of the shrubs, and a face peered through the gap at the scene ahead. This man had a fur hat on his head, wore a fur coat, was holding a hunting bow, and had a scimitar at his waist.

, dressed like a hunter in the mountains.

"Brother Leizi, what's the situation ahead? Can you see anything?" Another person asked impatiently next to him.

Han Lei glared at his companion and whispered: "Shut up, I told you not to follow me. You are not a scout. With your rough temper, we will be discovered sooner or later."

As soon as I finished speaking, I heard a "whoosh" sound piercing the air!

An arrow penetrated the bushes and nailed into the tree trunk not far behind the two of them with a thud. Its tail feathers kept trembling!

Both of them broke out in a cold sweat. If the arrow had been more accurate, one of them would have died.

Han Lei touched his head, which felt a little cold, and realized that the fur hat on his head had long since disappeared. No wonder the hat on the arrow looked familiar.

When the two of them were still in shock, there was a sound of footsteps, and several Ming soldiers in red-soled iron armor were surrounding them.

"Your Majesty is right, there are indeed mice hiding here! You guys, please be honest and let me go and see my Mr. Zhang!"

Han Lei and his companions were escorted to the battlefield ahead by a group of Ming soldiers. After observing it, they found that the dead people on the ground were all Jurchen soldiers of the Later Jin Dynasty. The corpses of these Jurchen soldiers died in different ways, but there was an obvious difference.

The characteristic is that there are traces of fire on the body and face.

"My lord, we caught two spies."

Zhang Jin was discussing the shortcomings of the previous battle with several hundred households. At this time, he stopped talking and turned to look at the two people.

"Looking at you, you must be Han Chinese who surrendered to Hou Jin, right?"

Since Huang Taiji inherited the throne of Nurhachi, he restored the original treatment of some Han people, and at the same time opened up schools to learn Confucianism, which significantly improved the status of the Han people. More and more of the Han people who were abducted and their descendants began to work for the Hou Jin Dynasty.

work.

Han Lei quickly explained: "Sir, the two of us are not from the Later Jin Dynasty. We are actually scouts of the Yingzhou Guard. A few days ago, there was news that the Jurchens had signs of mobilizing large groups of troops. Mr. Qianhu was worried that the Jurchens intended to do this this time.

The baggage was transported from the pass, so a large number of scouts were sent to investigate the news. This is our waist card. If you still don't believe it, we can take you to Yingzhou Guard to confirm it for yourself."

Zhang Jin threw the other party's waist card to a man next to him. The man checked it carefully before nodding and saying: "Sir, this is really my Ming Dynasty's waist card."

Zhang Jin returned the waist cards to the two of them, and asked them to drink a few sips of wine to warm themselves up, and then asked about the situation of the baggage and the Jurchens.

The two of them naturally told everything they knew, since they had nothing to hide from their own people anyway.

After telling the news about the situation on his side, Han Lei was also a little curious and said: "Sir, since you are not here to escort the baggage team, why did you people leave the customs?"

"We are here to die." Zhang Jin said with a smile.

Hundreds of households around burst into laughter.

Leaving seclusion to die? Are you still so happy? Han Lei was a little confused. Are these people all lunatics?!

"Don't worry about us. Just do your job and protect the baggage. As for us, just pretend we've never met." Zhang Jin patted him on the shoulder, and then said to others, "Send them away.

At the same time, I sent an order to clean up the battlefield and set off immediately!"

"Yes, sir!"

After the battle just now, all the hundreds of households admired and trusted Zhang Jin even more.

As long as there are no bad deeds in life, a general who takes the lead and has superior martial arts skills will definitely be more likely to win the admiration and popular support of his soldiers than those who only sit back and command the soldiers. This is in line with the principle of alienating close relatives.

Ignoring the baggage transport troops who were targeted by the Jurchens, Zhang Jin led his troops to avoid the routes passed by the baggage troops to avoid encountering the Jurchen army, and directly attacked the empty towns in the rear.

Under normal circumstances, anyone who dares to attack a city with 3,000 troops is either a fool or a lunatic.

But Zhang Jin is not an ordinary person. To him, the ancient city wall defenses are like air, existing but invisible.

Led by veteran guides who were familiar with the local conditions in Liaodong, Zhang Jin and his three thousand troops quickly passed through the deserted Liaoxi Corridor and arrived at a place only fifty miles away from Shengjing.

"Sir, ahead is the gateway barrier of Shengjing. The locals call it Hada Fort, which is the garrison of the Jurchen Hada tribe." The veteran guide pointed to the walled city on the plain ahead, "There are about 1,500 people in the walled fort.

There are 3 Jurchen soldiers and two to three hundred slaves. These slaves have no fighting ability and are used to serve the Jurchen soldiers and do farming."

"Sir, there is a vast plain around the fortress. Once you get out of the woods, you can't hide. It's okay to have 1,500 Jurchen soldiers fighting in the field. But if they defend the city, there's nothing we can do." said one of the hundred households.

"Perhaps we can use the strategy of luring the enemy to attack and eat away at the 1,500 Jurchen soldiers bit by bit. When there are fewer of them, we can attack the city. The casualties among our brothers will be much less." Another one hundred households suggested.

road.

Zhang Jin waved his hand and said: "This place is very close to Shengjing, the capital of the Later Jin Dynasty. We must fight quickly. If we delay for too long, the Jurchens will pass on the news, and our advantage of surprise attack will be gone. We will attack the city tonight by surprise, and before tomorrow

We will leave here and rush to Shengjing without giving the Jurchens any chance to react!"

Since the Jurchens wanted to pay attention to the Yingzhou Guard's baggage, they naturally had to mobilize a large number of troops. And naturally they would not mobilize people from all the way in the winter. The soldiers used would most likely be troops stationed near Shengjing. Shengjing

The defense is definitely weaker than usual.

Zhang Jin didn't expect to catch such a good opportunity before he left the country, so he certainly wouldn't let it go.

Since he was going to cause trouble, he might as well make it big! What if he invaded Shengjing? He planned to take this opportunity to turn Shengjing upside down. It would be best to burn down Huang Taiji's palace or even kill the opponent!

"Sir, even if we succeed in the sneak attack in the middle of the night, I'm afraid these brothers will suffer heavy casualties!"

Zhang Jin glanced at the Baihu who spoke: "Are you afraid?"

"It's not that I'm afraid, it's just that it's not worth dying like this. It's better to fight all the way into the hinterland of Houjin, and the brothers can still kill enough!"

"I have made up my mind, stop talking nonsense and go back to deliver the order." Zhang Jin looked around at everyone, "Don't worry, I won't let my brothers die in vain. I will also take everyone to Shengjing City to die.

What a shame in such a small place!”

"Yes, sir!" Thirty hundred households said in unison.

The general has an order, and the subordinates can only obey it, even if they have to fight through mountains of swords and seas of fire!

Three thousand men and horses were hiding in the forest until nightfall. Then, under the leadership of hundreds of households, they divided into three groups according to the prepared plan and sneaked towards Hada Fort under the cover of darkness.

There is no light in the winter night sky, and the light of the torch on the wall of the fortress cannot shine beyond a few steps. The scenery outside the city is almost invisible, only a black blur.

Zhang Jin led the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were the first to arrive outside the scope of the fire. He was half-hidden by the undulating mounds of soil in the field, and looked up at the fortress to observe carefully. Although he had been observing for a long time during the day, no one could

There is no guarantee that the night guard will not change.

It took him a while to figure out the garrison situation at the top of the fort at night. As long as the patrols were missed, the remaining fixed sentries could be easily lifted.

"Get the bow." Zhang Jin stretched out his hand, and soon, his iron bow was handed into his hand.

He aimed his bow and arrow at a sentry guard on the wall. With the help of [Precision], he heard a buzzing sound, and the arrow shot across the night sky and directly nailed the opponent's head!

After shooting the first arrow, Zhang Jin immediately aimed at another sentry guard. Two seconds later, the second arrow shot out.

The two guards were shot and killed by arrows one after another, within a second of each other.

"Come on first and follow me!" Zhang Jin climbed up from the ground with an arrow on his back and rushed out at the lead.

The hundred soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who arrived first followed closely with swords behind their backs.

A group of people ran quickly under the firelight and clung to the wall built of earth, stone and wooden piles.

"Wait, I'll go up first." After Zhang Jin said to the soldiers on the left and right, he climbed up the wall of the village with his bare hands.

The wall of the village is not very high, only about seven or eight meters. With the help of [Sky Star Bracelet], he easily reached the top of the wall.

Zhang Jin first hid his body and observed the surrounding situation. After making sure it was safe, he tied the rope and threw it down. He only brought three ropes with him this time. He could only put down more ropes after the people behind him came up one after another.

Climb.

"The two patrols of the fort are over there and over there. I will lead people to ambush the patrol that is about to come, and you will lead people to seize the gate of the fort." Zhang Jin ordered the hundreds of households who arrived first.

"Yes, sir." Baihu nodded.

After waiting for a while, thirty or forty people came to the top of the city. Zhang Jin took 20 soldiers with bows and arrows to ambush first, and left the rest to hundreds of households to capture the gate of the fort.

The terrain at the top of the fort wall is rough and there is almost no place where you can hide your body.

Zhang Jin had no choice but to let the twenty soldiers following him lie down and hide, while he climbed outside the village wall and walked around behind the patrol. With the help of the [Sky Star Bracelet], he was silent and did not disturb this section at all.

The sentry guard on the wall.

Zhang Jin climbed outside the village wall and listened carefully to the movement above. After the patrol team passed by, he suddenly climbed up the wall from the outside.

"Who!?" The nearest sentry guard noticed a figure out of the corner of his eye and subconsciously turned his head and asked.

Before he could finish his words, a cold front cut his throat directly.

Zhang Jin used his horse to kill the sentry guard who found him. At the same time, he took out the arrow from his bag and threw it backhand, killing another sentry guard in the distance who heard the noise with a headshot!

However, the sound of the two men falling still attracted the attention of the patrol that had not gone far. The ten-man patrol immediately stopped and turned to look behind them.

"There is an enemy! Kill him!"

Seeing that Zhang Jin was alone, ten Jurchen soldiers immediately rushed over to kill him.

Behind them, the Ming soldiers who were lying on the wall on the ground took the opportunity to stand up, drew their bows and set arrows, and the twenty arrows were divided into two rounds. After a wave of arrows, six or seven of the Jurchen soldiers on the patrol were knocked down, and each one carried an arrow on his back.

There were two or three feather arrows stuck on them.

While the Jurchen soldiers were stunned by the attack from behind, Zhang Jin appeared in front of the enemy in the blink of an eye while waving his horse. With a sharp blade like a dagger, he cut the opponent with one blow like a melon or a vegetable.

The heads were chopped off! Then he stepped forward and thrust out, easily piercing the bodies of the two Jurchen soldiers!

Zhang Jin exerted force with both arms, and Ma Shan swept aside with his pole and his body. The other Jurchen soldiers who could not dodge were hit by this force, as if they were hit by a boulder. Blood spurted from their mouths, and they fell over the wall upside down.

Go down!
To be continued...