"Gao Jie ran away??"

There was a sad face in the big tent, Wang Tingchen, Cao Bianjiao, Liu Zhaoji and Liu Liangzuo were all at a loss and helpless. They knew in their hearts that it was safest to retreat at this time, but no one wanted to say it first.

However, as soon as Gao Jie ran like this, everything was active.

Wang Tingchen knew very well the significance of Baoding, that resisting the further south of the Qing army, lest the army be defeated like a mountain, and the time to win rectification for the rear was the first, and the response to Huang Degong's army was the second.

In the current Ming army, the latter's 30,000 imperial battalions are already the most important force. If the Ming army outside Baoding City could join it, it would immediately increase its strength.

When the time comes, tens of thousands of Ming troops will shrink into a lump, and they will have a bottom in their hearts. Even if the Tartars brought all their soldiers and horses over, it was impossible to eat them in one bite.

This is a consensus of everyone at the top of the Ming army - the Tartars are good at field warfare, not good at attacking cities.

The basis is the original siege of Jinzhou and Songshan, which is the siege of Datong and Taiyuan before.

Although there is information that the artillery in the hands of the Tartars has also increased dramatically recently.

But Cao Bianjiao's perception that the Tartars were not good at attacking the city was still firm and unshaken.

However, Huang Degong is now in Bazhou, and it can be said with certainty that the Tartar brigade and the horse army will rush to Baoding one step ahead of Huang Degong.

This is a huge threat to the Ming army outside Baoding.

Twenty or thirty thousand horse troops, invincible in the field. With the Qing army in Baoding City, it is not something that Wang Tingchen and his 'remnants of the defeated generals' can withstand.

At present, the Ming army in Baoding, which is less than 20,000, is a mixed bag, even if the royal courtiers are still intact, how strong can their army be?

While Azig has not yet arrived, there is still a chance to exit the Baoding battle circle smoothly, and retreating is the best policy at this time. Once the Qing army's large number of horses arrived, it would be difficult for Wang Tingchen to retreat.

The Qing army could even rely on its own speed to completely separate the Zuoguang Xian Department and the Ming army under Baoding City from the south, as well as the Huang Degong Department from the north, so that they could not converge at all.

In that case, the 50,000 or 60,000 Ming army will no longer be 50,000 or 60,000 Ming troops, but 10,000, less than 20,000 and 30,000 people, and the three-way Ming army. Just like when Azig beat Cao Changjiao. At that time, I won't say that when the main force of this Tartar's infantry army comes over again, everyone will be finished. And just talking about one food problem, with the horse army of Tartars blocking the way, what should I do with this food?

The impact of Liu Liangzuo's defeat is so huge. Originally, Wang Tingchen and his joint efforts could still connect Huang Degong in the north and Zuo Guangxian in the south, even if the large cavalry of the Tartars really arrived, the 30,000 Ming army was not muddy.

But now ......, don't say anything.

It was no longer wise for the army to continue to fight against the Qing army in Baoding.

They themselves don't think that they can break through the blockade of the Tartars now, go to Zuo Guangxian and Huang Degong, or go to meet the grain and grass.

But when they were asked to leave, no one dared to be the first to bring it up.

Their retreat now is tantamount to selling Huang Degong. The latter is a person valued by Emperor Chongzhen, so he is not hated by the emperor.

Therefore, when the big tent was in a dilemma, a sudden 'good news' came!

Gao Jie ran away, isn't it great news? As soon as he left, it was equivalent to loosening the ties of all four people in the tent.

Wang Tingchen, a kind-hearted man, was a little ashamed, and Cao Bianjiao immediately persuaded: "Huang Degong has 30,000 soldiers under him, and if he can't come to Baoding, he can also retreat to Hejian, and no matter how bad he is, he can also surrender to Jinmen." "It's more important for them to take care of themselves now.

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In Zhending City, Hong Chengchou had not yet made up his mind whether to fight or leave, and the news of Baoding's defeat reached him first.

He really wanted to cry.

If Baoding is defeated again, the Northern Expedition will be completely finished.

Thanks to the fact that he also sent an order to Huang Degong before, hoping that this Huang Chuangzi could work together with Zuo Guangxian, Wang Tingchen and others to go to the national disaster together.

Now Baoding will be in charge for a while, and when he has put the soldiers, horses, grain and grass in the rear in order, he will withdraw from southern Hebei step by step. It is an extravagant hope to recover Yanjing, but when it is planned, there may not be no hope of keeping the area south of the Yellow River.

Hong Chengchou didn't believe that the horse army led by Azig had rushed back to Yanjing, and the Manchu infantry brigade would still be entangled with Li Zicheng. I'm afraid that I will only leave Wu Sangui and the Green Flag soldiers in Shanxi.

And Li Zicheng is not a fool, he will definitely not bite the Manchu Qing Dynasty and fight hard for the Ming Dynasty! But he would never sit idly by and watch the Manchus beat the Ming army and remain indifferent......

Therefore, he already had a faint decision in his heart, to fight first and then retreat-

This is not that Yinxi's words played a role, but that Hong Chengchou was not carried away by the word 'meritorious service'. Hong Chengchou, who is still clear-minded, is a very cautious person, which can be seen from the "serious" policy he set during the Battle of Songjin.

Compared with the current Ming army and the Qing army, the first morale has been greatly reduced, the second psychological preparation is seriously insufficient, and the third place is not right, Baoding is too far away from Jianghuai. Therefore, he already had the idea of leaving after a wave, and he was not ready to have a decisive battle with the Manchus in Baoding.

but just wanted to call the Ming army to 'return with the whole division', and wanted to preserve the victorious results of the Northern Expedition as much as possible.

The defeat of the former army is already miserable enough, if Wang Tingchen, Huang Degong, and Liu Liangzuo are also defeated, he will be guilty.

At that time, it will not be a matter of whether they can keep the south of the Yellow River, but whether the Manchu Qing will go south and drink the Yangtze River after seeing the defeat of the main force of the imperial court.

At that time, the Jinling court did not know what price to pay to make the Manchus retreat.

Hong Chengchou wanted the remaining Ming army in Beizhili to return with all his divisions, and at the same time sent people south to deliver a message to Ma Shiying of the Daimyo's Mansion, who had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in his hands and was also a very powerful force at the moment.

What is more important is that the troops scattered in the prefectures and counties of eastern Henan, northern Henan, eastern Ludong, and southern Hebei must be gathered immediately.

The Ming army's northern expedition, along the way to recover hundreds of counties and counties, many states and counties have left soldiers and horses, even if it is only three or five hundred, that can suppress the local situation in a short period of time, with the officials sent by the Ming court to restore the prestige of the Ming Dynasty in the local area, this is the end.

Qilu's garrison wanted to deter the Yuyuan army.

The garrisons in eastern and northern Henan had to guard against Duoduo taking advantage of the freezing of the Yellow River and the army waving Huaiqing to copy the back road of the Northern Expedition.

In this way, in the Central Plains, Qilu and southern Hebei regions, there are not even 50,000 soldiers and horses scattered to the state capitals and counties. It's a huge force when you put it away! At the moment, these troops are even more 'life-saving medicine'.

Integrate these soldiers and horses, and the Ming army will immediately be strong again.

But if they are allowed to be stationed in different places, these 40,000 or 50,000 troops will seem to be quite a lot, but they will be scattered, and it will really be difficult to play a big role.