At this moment.

The 7,000 people led by Yi Zijia were burning, killing, and looting all over the Jurchens in Liaodong.

They sent out small teams one by one.

Sweep around.

Break down the village, burn down the farmland, and take away the clothes, old and young, all taken away.

At this time, Erbeile Amin, who had received the news early, had already begun to organize.

From the more than 10,000 people left behind, he gathered 2,000 cavalry.

Then, with great speed, one person and two horses rushed over to stop the opponent, and ordered the infantry to come slowly.

After receiving the news of the opponent's large-scale cavalry dispatch, Wen Rensheng's adopted sons quickly began to shrink the soldiers back.

And began to gradually retreat.

The total time for actual burning, killing and kidnapping is the ten-day window period.

But when they retreat, they now have a huge advantage, that is, they have the Western artillery with them.

Now the Jurchens have cannons, but they can only be used to defend the city. They are the cannons used on the captured Ming army's cities. They are too heavy.

Now the Jurchens do not have such artillery accompanying the army.

After gathering, they began to retreat quickly.

They retreated all the way to the bridge over the river that had been blocked before.

Then they retreated to the south of the river and burned the bridge.

The disadvantaged 300 people didn't burn the bridge, but they did.

This phenomenon made the pursuing Amin understand that the opponent was a group of novices and had no confidence.

Amin immediately ordered the cavalry to collect ships upstream and downstream, look for shallow and narrow places, and try to cross the river from upstream and downstream to outflank and flank the opponent.

At the same time, he ordered the infantry behind him to speed up.

Since the opponent is a novice, there is no need to worry about the infantry moving too fast and being defeated by the opponent.

Yi Zijia found that there was indeed some trouble now.

He knew there was a place on the upper reaches of the river where he could cross.

If the opponent comes around from the north of the river, he can quickly catch up with his infantry.

His current location is a total of 300 miles away from the temporary seaport.

Continue to retreat towards the harbor, now we can retreat 60 miles a day.

This is already the upper limit of the speed for carrying a large number of artillery accompanying the army and the luggage of the population that has just been snatched.

We can only make temporary camps every day, the simplest version.

Even so, it will take 5 days before we can retreat to the vicinity of the temporary seaport and get safety assurance.

But Amin's cavalry had already crossed the river.

Then pursued at a speed of 150 a day.

Finally, we caught up with our opponent within 150 miles of the harbor.

At this time, the two sides started a battle 150 miles away from the harbor.

This battle was obviously not what Yi Zijia wanted to fight.

But he couldn't outrun the opponent and had to proceed.

Just like in Mount and Blade, if you don't want to cheat, then the most important thing in the early stage is to add guide skills. There is no one.

However, Amin made a huge mistake without realizing it.

Can't blame him either.

At this time, he did not know that Huang Taiji was returning thousands of miles away, preparing to capture the enemy.

He pursued the opponent all the way, but forced the opponent to near the harbor...

In order to prevent the news from leaking, Huang Taiji did not notify Amin when he set off.

Otherwise, Amin would have chosen not to retreat.

You should show weakness.

He even deliberately fought a losing battle...

Lure the enemy deeper.

However, none of this became reality.

It was very simple for Huang Taiji to inform Amin.

He can use the Ming Dynasty's post station to inform.

Just go directly from Shanhaiguan, then go to Jin* and spend money directly.

It only takes five days to notify Amin.

As for why Amin was so proactive and wanted to win this battle.

That is because he wanted to make military exploits, while others were plundering the pass to make military exploits.

But he was defending his hometown outside the customs.

At this time, Yi Zijia ordered the small team to start forming a large team.

A squad of 150 people can deal with a team of 300 people, but it will never be able to deal with a cavalry of 1,000 people.

Ten squads of 150 people gathered together to organize a large hollow square formation of 1,500 people.

Put a cannon in the middle.

The spearman is in the middle, the shield bearer is in the front, and the musketeers are distributed in the four corners.

He used it to set off muskets.

Used against cavalry.

The opponent's cavalry is actually mounted infantry.

They had to fight with heavy armor, infantry and bow formations.

Instead of riding on horseback, playing soft bow riding and shooting like the Mongolians do today.

The two parties met.

The distance is three miles.

Amin looked at the opponent's formation from a distance.

He saw the other party begin to put on armor.

His eyes are very good.

The opponent's shield bearer wore triple armor, the spearman wore double armor, and the arquebusier also wore double armor.

And his soldiers and horses also began to wear armor early.

The soldiers had all dismounted and began to lead the horses forward.

The coats and attendants help the white armor wear one layer of armor, and the red armor wears double armor. It is not necessarily the case. Rich red armor can also wear three layers of armor.

The three sets of cotton armor, chain armor, and iron armor weigh 30 to 50 kilograms. It is difficult for non-strong elites to carry them on their backs, let alone in combat.

Both sides have already put on armor and formed formations.

Amin saw that his side was a little faster than the other side.

But the opponents are also elites who have been trained for a long time. At least they all have armor, which is very scary.

All 7,000 people have armor.

How rich does it take to do this?

Naturally, he didn't understand how huge the profit from sea trade was, which far exceeded their robbery.

He quickly ordered a Gushan to lead 1,000 men to test the enemy's position.

As for his own 300 white-armored men and 1,700 men serving as reserves, he did not move.

The cavalry leads the horse forward.

They will not mount their mounts until they are within 2 miles.

But as the cavalry gradually approached, a cannon shot disrupted their rhythm.

I saw that on both sides of the hollow phalanx, artillery carts had been pushed up.

The horses were unhooked and the artillery fire had begun.

The sound of these cannons affected the rhythm of the cavalry.
To be continued...