Gou was a member of the imperial family in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 928 The war situation is unfavorable
Winter always comes earlier in the north than in the south. It was already the end of summer when Hauge sent his troops. According to the time it took for the temperature to drop in the north in the past, Hauge had less than two months to eliminate the Solon tribe. If it took longer, the battle would be difficult to fight after the heavy snow fell in the north.

However, Hauge was very confident about this. His army was stronger than the Solon tribe in terms of both quantity and strength, and Hauge himself was extremely good at fighting. He had considered this before sending out his troops. Although the arrival of winter was not conducive to combat, it was also not conducive to the Solon tribe.

The Solon tribe, which was forced to Nurgan by the Qing Dynasty, has no place to retreat. If they continue to retreat northward, they will have a hard time surviving the winter. Now is the best opportunity. They can use the weather to force the Solon tribe to fight a decisive battle. As long as they defeat the Solon tribe on the battlefield, the hidden danger in the north will no longer exist.

Hauge advanced at a very fast speed. After arriving at the Feinhewei, he continued to move north and soon arrived near the Greenwei. The army crossed the Green River. This place was not far from the area where the Solon tribe was located. It would take only a few days to reach Nurgan directly.

Bomubogor had also sent out his troops at this time. It was impossible for him to wait in Nurgan for Hauge to attack him. Since he knew that the other party had already started the war and led a large army, waiting for the enemy to attack him and passively defending was the dumbest way. The Solon tribe was not the Ming Dynasty, and Nurgan was not the interior of the country. It did not have the strong strength of the Ming Dynasty, nor did it have the solid city support of the Ming Dynasty.

If Hauge was allowed to attack Nurgan directly, even if the battle was won, the Solon tribe would suffer heavy losses. Once the camp at Nurgan was destroyed, how could the Solon tribe survive the winter? Therefore, the Solon tribe had to take the initiative to attack and extend the battlefield southward.

When Hauge's army arrived at Gelinwei, Bomubogor also led his troops to Yimuhewei. The distance between the two sides was only about a hundred miles. Hauge was overjoyed when he heard the news. He was not afraid that the Solon tribe would take the initiative to attack. In fact, he hoped that Bomubogor would do so. Since the other party came by themselves, it saved him the inconvenience of finding the trace of the Solon tribe. Hauge immediately ordered the army to rest temporarily and prepare for war. At the same time, he sent out a large number of scouts to ensure that the main force of the Solon tribe was captured.

The war was about to break out. Both sides were very cautious at the beginning and tested each other. The war started with the scouts of both sides. Soon, the scouts of both sides came into contact. The small-scale war was extremely fierce. Although the scouts of the Solon people were more skilled and brave than the elite Eight Banners, and had corresponding advantages in the terrain, and had the upper hand in the contact between the two sides, the problem was that the number of Solon people was insufficient, and Hauge had more troops. Even if the Qing Dynasty suffered some losses in the scout battle, these losses Hauge could fully afford, but the Solon people were different. The entire Solon tribe had no more than 10,000 people, and Bomubogor could only pull out a few thousand troops to fight. With so many people dying, one less person would die. Even if Hauge ignored the casualties and exchanged two for one, Bomubogor could not afford it.

After a few days, Bomubogor couldn't stand this kind of fighting style. He knew he would definitely not be able to win if he continued to outnumber the Solon tribe. He decisively adjusted his tactics, gathered most of the scattered scouts, and concentrated his forces to strangle the scouts and cavalry of the Eight Banners. As his tactics changed, Hauge also adjusted his tactics, dividing the troops into three parts: the left and right wings and the central army. He led the central army to continue northward, while the left and right wings, with the cooperation of the scouts, pressed forward to defeat the Solon people, using their powerful military force to prevent the Solon people from taking advantage of the situation.

Hauge was a general who had fought for many years with Nurhaci and Huang Taiji, and he was quite skilled in military affairs. He knew very well that his opponent had the support of the Ming Dynasty. Although he was carrying firearms, Bomubogor was not bad either. If he was careless in this situation, the previous defeat would be likely to repeat itself. For the sake of safety, Hauge adopted a steady and cautious strategy, directly suppressing the enemy with force. Although this method was a bit stupid and caused a lot of losses to the Eight Banners, Bomubogor gradually couldn't stand it under Hauge's use of this tactic.

In order to change the situation, Bomubogor had to adjust his tactics again. He sent a troop as bait to pretend to be the main force of Sauron, luring Hauge's army to attack him. But his real main force was hiding in the dark, ready to give Hauge a hard blow at the critical moment. With the implementation of his tactics, the opponent was fooled. Hauge's deputy general Mandahai, who wanted to catch Bomubogor, was greedy for merit and rushed into the opponent's circle.

Bomubogor seized the opportunity and launched a fierce attack on Mandahai with his entire army, intending to defeat Mandahai's left wing troops first. This tactic was almost the same as Bomubogor's previous attack to defeat the Qing Dynasty, that is, it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten fingers. As long as Mandahai's left wing army was defeated, the morale of Hauge's army would inevitably be low. At that time, they would continue to deal with the opponent and find ways to give the opponent a heavy blow, and then the battle would be won.

But when Bomubogor attacked Mandahai's left wing troops fiercely, he suddenly found that the enemy did not collapse as quickly as he expected. Although Mandahai suffered some losses at the beginning, he quickly stabilized his position. What was surprising was that there was a Han army flag unit armed with firearms in Mandahai's left wing army. These Han army flags used the firearms in their hands to block the repeated attacks of the Sauron people.

Judging from the battle situation, Bomubogor had the upper hand in the fight between him and Mandahai, and the latter suffered more losses on both sides. If it was only Mandahai's army, Bomubogor still had absolute confidence in defeating the opponent, but the problem was that Mandahai's army was only Hauge's left wing, and his real opponent was Hauge, not Mandahai.

While Mandahai was struggling to hold on, Hauge also reacted. He quickly mobilized his troops to rush towards the battlefield from two directions, and showed an attitude of intending to encircle and annihilate the Sauron tribe.

At this time, Bomubogor failed to defeat Mandahai despite repeated attacks. Even though Mandahai suffered heavy casualties, he still resisted stubbornly. His troops showed great resilience and fought hard regardless of casualties. By the early morning of the next day, Bomubogor had given up the idea of ​​defeating Mandahai. Even though his Solon army was very capable, the opponent was not a pushover. It was not easy for the brave and combative Eight Banners elite to win. More importantly, Bomubogor was running out of time.

The scouts sent out reported that Hauge's main force was not far from the battlefield and would arrive in two hours at most. During this time, Bomubogor had no confidence in completely defeating Mandahai. Once Hauge's main force arrived, the Solon tribe would surely be defeated. Bomubogor could not take such a risk and had no choice but to retreat. However, Mandahai continued to pester Bomubogor like an indestructible cockroach, and fought back at all costs, trying to hold Bomubogor back.

Helplessly, Bomubogor had to make drastic measures and left hundreds of people behind to cover the main force's retreat. In the end, only nearly half of the people came back alive, while the other half were killed in the attempt to stop Mandahai's counterattack and the attack after Hauge's main force arrived.

Bomubogor did not lose in this battle, judging by the casualties. Hauge's losses were much greater than those of the Solons. However, the problem was that Hauge could afford such losses, but Bomubogor could not. Bomubogor lost nearly a thousand men in this battle. Although Mandahai's losses were several times that of Bomubogor, and his left wing army was almost half-crippled, it bought time for Hauge.

After cleaning up the battlefield and reorganizing the remnants of Mandahai, Haoge still had the upper hand in the comparison of strength between the two sides. Moreover, the failure to defeat Mandahai in this battle made Bomubogor's plan fail, which was a serious blow to the morale of the Solon tribe.

After this battle, Bomubogor had no chance to continue to fight Hauge. Given the comparison of their military strength, if they fought again, the Solon tribe would surely lose. Bomubogor had no choice but to adjust his tactics again, splitting his army into smaller units and using the terrain to fight Hauge's army. However, Hauge was not moved at all. He also adjusted his army, dividing it from the original three routes of left, right and center into two routes, the front and back. The rear army continued to fight with Bomubogor's Solon soldiers, while he himself led the main force of the front route to continue to advance northward, showing a posture of going straight to Nurgan.

"We can't keep fighting like this. If we continue like this, once Hauge reaches Nurgan, everything will be over!" As the war situation worsened, the Solon tribe raised objections to Bomubogor's tactics. Some said they must return to Nurgan as soon as possible to ensure the safety of Nurgan's lair.

"Go back? Can we stop Hauge if we go back?" Another leader objected: "We can't win here, and we can't win if we go back to Nurgan. And going back is equivalent to giving the enemy a chance. In my opinion, we should lead our people to retreat northwards, avoid Hauge's main force and give up Nurgan."

"Give up Nurgan? If we give up that, where can we go?" As soon as the voice fell, another person could not help but ask back: "Don't you know what is north of Nurgan? The place further north is a land of ice and snow. It is winter for three quarters of the year. Even in summer, the thousand-year-old ice and snow cannot melt."

"Over the years, we were forced to migrate northward from the south, and finally settled in Nurgan. Although life in Nurgan is not easy, and even more difficult than in the south, we can still survive. If we continue to migrate north, will we all die? How will our tribe survive in the further north? How will we live?"

"Or...how about surrender?" a man said hesitantly. As soon as he said this, he looked at Bomubogor cautiously. The Solon tribe had suffered too much over the years. The Qing Dynasty did not give them any way to survive. As long as they did not agree to merge with the Qing Dynasty and became a knife in the hand of Huang Taiji, the Qing Dynasty would not let them go.

But in the current situation, they cannot continue fighting, and retreating to the north is also a dead end. They no longer have many choices, and it seems that the only way out is surrender.

"Surrender? What's the benefit of surrendering to the Qing? Don't we all know why the Qing wants to force us? Once we surrender, our tribe will be annexed by the Qing. Will we, the Solon people, still exist?" Before Bomubogor could speak, someone strongly objected and glared at the compatriot who proposed to surrender.

(End of this chapter)