After about a year of blocking, the Ming army on Shanhaiguan did not accept it at night and finally started the action again.

However, unlike before, because there are enough cavalry troops, the number of people sent out for nights is huge. Maybe in the past, one night is not collected, but now, three teams often go out to find out the news.

In short, the advantage of the cavalry's strength is not in vain!

Starting from the Zhongqian District of Guangning and all the way to the Zhongtun District of Guangning, now neither the Ming army nor the Jianlu have sent troops to occupy it, and it has become an actual homeless land. Weeds are overgrown and all the fields are deserted.

Logically speaking, people with status like Li Dingguo must be in charge of the Acropolis. However, he still came out. The same is true. The guards around him were not taken away at night, and there were more than 150 cavalry in total.

He has visited Ningyuan City.

The words "Welcome to come again" have been scraped off by Jianlu.

The city gate was destroyed, or there was no city gate at all. When I entered the city, I found that the houses in the city had been burned by Jianlu and turned into ruins.

Obviously, Jianlu did not intend to occupy Ningyuan City again, nor did he want the Ming army to occupy it, so he burned it down.

Seeing Li Dingguo looking at the ruins on the top of the city, one of his personal guards reported to him: "Master, the same is true for Ningyuan Zhongzuo, and was burned by Jianlu."

Those who came out to inquire about the news were not the first or the only one. The previous situation would naturally be reported back.

Of course, Li Dingguo knew about this situation, so he nodded and said, "Jianlu was decisive and did not get deceived again!"

If Jianlu dares to send troops to occupy Ningyuan City, the court will never mind that it will launch another surprise attack to consume Jianlu's troops.

He just looked at it, and the Jianlu did not discover Ning Yuan's authentic tunnel.

After watching for a while, Li Dingguo left Ningyuan City and arrived at Ningyuan Zhongzuo Station. There was a night here and he hurriedly greeted him when he saw Li Dingguo coming.

The scout battle here is probably the Ming army used the Ningyuan Zhongzuo Sect as the base, while the Jianlu side used the Guangning Zhongtun Sect as the base, and the two sides fought between the two places.

Generally speaking, because Jianlu's horse probing force was obviously not as large as the Ming army, the Ming army generally did not collect any troops at night in the field.

But we can't be careless. Those Jianlu and horse probing are veterans. They often hide for the Ming army and run away without taking it at night, which makes the Ming army's losses not reduced due to the superiority of military strength.

Moreover, the Ming army also had to defend the embankment. Jianlu had no martial ethics, and suddenly a large-scale cavalry was dispatched to fight. Therefore, overall, the Ming army did not restrain the Jianlu and did not oversuppress Jianlu's horses.

However, occasionally, they would cross the Central Tun Station in Guangning and head to Jinzhou City to show off.

Li Dingguo came here this time just to see the situation on Jianlu's side with his own eyes and prepare for the possible attack of the court army.

Therefore, after arriving at the Ningyuan Zhongzuo Institute, he began to learn more about the situation about Jianlu.

In order to understand the terrain of Jinzhou, Li Dingguo also brought the man who had sent a letter back to the Ming Dynasty this time, Zu Ba, the one he saved.

Listening to the news, Zu Ba explained it to him, which made Li Dingguo quickly become familiar with the terrain of Jinzhou.

Based on the various news, Li Dingguo felt that Jianlu’s defense in Jinzhou was indeed tight, and there was basically no opportunity to take advantage of it, and there was no chance of a surprise attack like the last time.

Generally speaking, Jianlu is a defensive system arranged with Jinzhou City as the center, Guangning Zhongtun Station and Guangning Youtun Guard as the outer periphery of Jinzhou. If a single area is attacked, it can be rescued quickly.

In the future, if the imperial army wanted to attack Jinzhou, there was basically no chance of taking advantage of the situation, and could only rely on strength to face the front. From this point of view, the Heshuozhuang Prince Aisin Gioro Jirhalang, who was guarding Jinzhou, was still capable.

After understanding these, Li Dingguo ordered the next morning: "Let's go to Guangning Zhongtun Station and take a look!"

"Master, no!" As soon as he heard what he said, his personal guard immediately persuaded, "There are many Jianlu provoking horses there, which is too dangerous!"

After all, it is the front-line base for Jianlu horse exploration, and there are many horse exploration personnel who take turns and rest. Although the Ming army is not afraid of them, they are still worried about Li Dingguo going there himself.

What if there is a thing?

However, if Li Dingguo is worried and afraid, he is not Li Dingguo. This point must be said that he inherited from Zhang Xianzhong and had to check the situation in person, instead of just listening to what his subordinates said.

It’s just a pity that in the original history, Zhang Xianzhong’s habit eventually led to him hitting Jianlu and being beheaded by Jianlu, which led to the defeat of Sichuan, which could have stabilized the situation, and the success of Jianlu.

At this time, Li Dingguo was determined, and his personal guards could not stop him, so he had to act as a result.

Of course, in order to ensure the safety of Li Dingguo, another team, who was resting in Ningyuan Zhongzuo, also set off together. In this way, the two teams joined forces with each other, which was equivalent to a small-scale cavalry, with about 250 cavalry.

At this time, it was mid-spring of the 18th year of Chongzhen, and everything was slowly recovering. However, overall, the weather was still a little cold.

Li Dingguo and his group walked halfway, and soon there was the abandoned Xingshan Post in front of him. Ye Bushang, who was the outpost, immediately came back and reported: "Master General, more than 50 cavalry and Jianlu were surrounding Xingshan Post, as if they were catching someone. The situation was a bit abnormal. He didn't even send a post outside, but just surrounded Xingshan Post."

There are more than fifty cavalry and Jianlu explorers, which is a bit too many. Generally speaking, Jianlu conducts horse exploration, only twenty or thirty cavalry.

Hearing this, Li Dingguo did not care about the number of Jianlu's horses, so he immediately waved his hand and ordered: "Go and go and take a look."

In short, if Jianlu wants to do whatever he wants and doesn’t let them do it, that’s right!

The only thing to worry about is whether it will be a trap!

Soon, the group arrived quietly. Ye Bushang, who was already here, hurriedly pointed out to Li Dingguo to see the situation, and reported: "Jianlu seemed to want to catch the living, blocked the person in a pretty intact house inside, but he just tried to attack but failed. Now he is mainly calling!"

Li Dingguo nodded after hearing this, then took out his telescope and looked at it.

With the help of a telescope, I saw Jianlu on the other side surrounded a house with three floors inside and three floors outside, and then a leader was shouting inside.

After thinking for a while, Li Dingguo made a decision: make trouble!

Then he began to command and quietly approach Xingshan Post. Of course, he did not come forward. Even if he wanted to go, his personal guard would definitely stop him.

Therefore, Li Dingguo took the telescope and began to observe.

These Jianlu Mazing is worthy of being elite. Ye Busuo only sneaked about halfway through, and they discovered it.

When these Ming army rushing over Yebu was more than their imagination, they did not immediately escape, but instead divided the troops to try to resist the Ming army's Yebu attack. At the same time, the head Jianlu stopped shouting, but immediately launched an attack on the house.

This situation is very abnormal. Generally speaking, Jianlu must have retreated as soon as possible when he saw so many Ye Busuo rushed over. But they did not leave, which means that the people or whatever in the room were definitely Jianlu didn't want to fall into Ye Busuo's hands.

The more Jianlu didn't want to give it to him, the more Li Dingguo wanted it.

He immediately turned over and the horse. Before the personal guard wanted to stop him, he immediately rode his horse and rushed forward, and shouted loudly: "Get in!"

Seeing this situation, the 100 cavalry who accompanied Li Dingguo from behind immediately followed and shouted, "Get in!"

Ye Bushang, who rushed over first, originally wanted to fight with Jianlu who came out to explore the horse. As a result, he heard the shouts behind him, and ignored the Jianlu, and rushed straight into Xingshan Post.

This sudden change caught these Jianlu off guard.

They never expected that so many Ming cavalrymen appeared and rushed over!

Once entangled by several times the Ming army, these Jianlu provocations will be in danger!

In the end, the leader of Jianlu horse probing was not cared about, so he immediately got on the horse, issued an order, and called his men to retreat.

After talking for a long time, but in fact, the action was very fast, Xingshan Post was controlled by the Ming army.

"Who is inside, come out!" The Ming army at Ye Bubu arrived at the house surrounded by Jianlu's horses, looked at the blocked door, and shouted loudly: "We are the imperial army!"

There was no movement inside the house. After Ming Jun Yebiao reconciled, he responded again inside: "Don't lie to your grandfather, do you think this will work? Come on, come in and do it..."

Before he could finish his words, Zu Ba's face suddenly appeared with a very surprised expression on his face, and then he immediately interrupted the speech inside the room and shouted loudly with surprise: "Master, is it you?"

As soon as he spoke, the voice in the room immediately stopped, and then he shouted to the outside in an uncertain tone: "Zu Ba?"

"Ah, haha, master, it's really a master!" Zu Bayi immediately asked to dance happily when he heard this, and quickly told Li Dingguo who was rushing over, "Master, the one in the room is my master, my master, he escaped again..."

"Will you escape again?" Li Dingguo immediately captured this keyword sensitively, which was so conspicuous.

Thinking of this, he immediately remembered it and asked quickly: "Is the Jinzhou General Zu Dashou?"

The people inside could hear the conversation outside clearly and finally confirmed that it was not Jianlu who made the Han people pretend to be shouting.
Chapter completed!