The Tower Hill front was quiet for the time being.

However, this kind of silence made Dolgon and the Duoduo brothers, as well as the officers and generals of the Qing army at all levels, tremble, and they didn't know when the madmen on the opposite side would suddenly pounce on them.

In order to avoid being swooped by the Ming army and strangled to death in the bed, the Qing army from Dolgon down, almost all officers and generals at all levels, not to mention sleeping, have one eye open, but also when eating and, they all stared at the direction of Dayu Mountain and Hongluo Mountain. I am afraid that when the Ming army launched a surprise attack, I could not see it, and I missed the fighter.

Taking advantage of the brief gap in the battle, Dorgon also urged his subordinates to hurry up and repair the fortifications, repairing the destroyed trenches, deer barriths, breastwork traps and other facilities. The Minor Wound was once again disrupted in Fort Tower, and there were no longer two white flags or other flags. As long as there is enough for a person who is Niu Lu, and there are all the officers such as Niu Lu Zhang Jing, Allocation of Paishku, and Strength in the wounded number, a reserve Niu Lu has appeared.

"When the battle reaches this point, as long as you can afford to carry a knife, you will prepare it for this king!"

Cao Zhenyan, who followed Dolgon every step of the way, is no longer a mere official position, with a large number of officers killed and wounded, and countless vacancies that need to be filled. As Prince Rui's trusted servant, he is a capable general, so he is naturally close to the water. At present, Lord Cao is already a figure leading two Jiala, and his identity, status, and strength are no less than those Baylor and Beizi.

Although the real force in his hand is less than one Jiala, Cao Zhenyan is full of ambition. When did you dare to think that you would be able to lead two Jiala to fight? Those are the messengers of the Baylors! Now that he is a slave, he can also have this glory and power, all of which are given by the master of Prince Bairui!

has the same idea as Cao Zhenyan. There were also a large number of officers of all ranks who were continuously promoted during the Battle of Tower Hill. They inadvertently formed a new faction or new mountain head across the flags of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, the Tashan system! These people were all promoted by Dolgon in the Battle of Tower Hill, which caused Huang Taiji and the banner owners a headache in the future. Knowing that these people already belong to Dolgon in their hearts, but they can't be eradicated, they can only find a way to let them be idle and gradually empty, but the old system of the Eight Banners is that officers at all levels have their own minions, forming an intertwined network with huge strength, and for a time the Eight Banners secretly fought very much, which is not a matter of later words.

But. The battle was fought at this time. Everyone can only grit their teeth and fight desperately.

"Our Eight Banners are not like the Nanyue Army on the other side, and they can't compare to those Ming generals, they have money, food, taxes, gunpowder, weapons, food, rice, meat, armor, knives and guns can be transported by boat. Let's want to live. You have to fight. We have to win the battle! ”

Dolgon took the lead in nibbling on the sorghum rice dumplings with ice ballast, and then he didn't know what kind of meat and grass boiled in a pot of broth, and the broth was very greasy. And there is a lack of oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, spices and other things, which is not the same as the food carefully cooked by his cook. But this is the kind of meal, and only soldiers and wounded can guarantee three meals a day.

"Master, we don't have enough salt and food." The officer in charge of the military rations was very embarrassed, holding the account and standing in front of him with four pen notes.

"How? Did the emperor allocate enough grain, rice, oil, and salt for three months from time to time when we went on the expedition? We've only been fighting for a few days, and we're in a hurry? Don't take the Ming army's methods to this king and use them! ”

"Master, the minions are brave enough to wrap their bodies, and they don't dare to embezzle military rations at this juncture! It's really difficult! The food allocated to us by the emperor has never been for our two white flag families! Master, you have brought the two white flag families to the former enemy, and these people also want to eat and drink. The minions can only send rations, otherwise the morale of the army will be in chaos. And the minions never thought that this battle was fought so fiercely, and there were many wounds, and these wounds also consumed grain and rice, especially salt. They had to wash and wipe their wounds with salt water. Therefore, the consumption is huge. ”

"Brother, do you want to send someone to Guangning and Jinzhou to urge the grain and grass? We are here to fight one Buddha ascending to heaven and two Buddhas to nirvana, but I have never heard of the direction of Guangning! ”

Dolgon waved his hand irritably and motioned for the minions to retreat first, and his face was very greasy, and Duoduo looked at him drunkenly.

With no one around, Duoduo used a knife to cut off a piece of roasted brown and crispy fat on the leg of lamb, dipped it in some fine salt, peppers, and spices mixed in one place to prepare the condiment, turned the handle of the knife upside down and handed it to the second brother.

"Let's work for that black fat man here to block Ning Yuanbo's army, if he doesn't even send grain and grass there, I will simply let the second brother of the Li family draw a line, our brothers get out of the way, let Ning Yuanbo's army pass, as long as Ning Yuanbo can guarantee that you will be the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the Ming court will canonize you, and Ning Yuanbo will open a border city with us!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Dolgon chewed on the fat piece of mutton, and looked warily out of the door, and through the crack in the door and the window lattice, his Baya soldiers stood under the pillars with their weapons in their hands in the cold wind howling outside the door.

"Look at this!"

Dorgon threw a copy of the document to Dord.

"Second brother, it's not that you don't know, whether it's our Manchurian characters or the Chinese characters of the Nikans, I don't know them! It's all written by the guys, so just tell me what's going on! ”

"The battle report sent by our emperor Starling, a few days ago, one of Hong Chengchou's generals, Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu Town, was defeated and died!"

Five days ago, Yang Guozhu, the commander-in-chief of Xuanfu Town, was ordered to go out of Guangning City and attack the outer trench guarded by Huang Taiji's army, trying to tear a hole and open up a connection with the direction of Jinzhou. However, unexpectedly, when the Xuanfu Town Brigade was struggling to advance, Huang Taiji led the army and horses to arrive, and ordered the defenders to continue to retreat to the south, inducing Yang Guozhu to continue to go deeper. After Yang Guozhu's cavalry and infantry detachment were separated, they suddenly swung their divisions from both flanks to press, and at the same time ordered Ge Bush's soldiers to cut off Yang Guozhu's connection with Guangning City, and more than 10,000 horses and horses in Xuanfu Town were surrounded by the Qing army.

Facing the Qing army shouting and persuading him to surrender on all sides, Yang Guozhu sighed and said: "This brother was martyred in the past. I am the only general! "Struggled to lead the army to kill, but unfortunately died with several arrows.

"At the moment, the Guangning Ming army can't hold out, but the Songshan Ming army is gradually breathing, if we open a mouth here, Ning Yuanbo's army rushes to Jinzhou and Songshan like a tide, think about it, what will be the outcome of that?"

"Then you have to take the life of the black fat man?!"

Duoduo excitedly took the bowl and drank it down, his eyes full of fanatical joy.

"If that's the case, my Eight Banners will be finished. Ning Yuanbo defeated Huang Taiji and Ji'er Harang, if you are Ning Yuanbo. Think you'll leave a stump? The Han people have a saying. Eradicate the evil, cut the grass and eradicate the roots. Don't say that he wants to use our heads in exchange for military merits and titles, even if he is a civilian official in the court, he will also force him to kill us all. ”

"You just talked about peace and canonization. Do you think our Emperor Starling didn't think about it? But. Defeated the battle and sued for peace. That's the alliance under the city, forever trampled underfoot! If you want to experience the canonization of the Ming court, you have to beat him to lose his armor. People turn on their backs, and they are afraid when they think of their dreams! At this time, he came to us to ask for peace! ”

"Then hit! Fight it resolutely! The frenzy in Dodor's eyes faded and was replaced by a resolute sense of war.

"However, second brother, there is a huge loss of troops everywhere at the moment, can you draw out one of the four Jiala soldiers and horses guarding the direction of Hongluo Mountain, no more, just give me ten Niu Lu! Let these people go up temporarily, and I will withdraw the soldiers and horses stationed in the direction of Baitai Mountain and rest for a day or two! ”

"No, you can't!" Dolgon blurted out without thinking.

The elite selected from the four Jiala's two white flag Manchurian soldiers and the clothed firecracker soldiers were the last capital that Dolgon used to monitor and prevent Li Huamei's heavy army from attacking in the direction of Hongluo Mountain.

According to the topography of Tashan, Hongluo Mountain, Baitai Mountain, Tayu Mountain and other places, both sides invariably adopted-for-tat offensive and defensive measures.

At the beginning of Li Huamei's arrivals in Tashan, Wu Sangui, and Mo Yu, under the help of Wu Sangui, who was familiar with the terrain of eastern Liaodong, they took the two positions of Dayu Mountain and Hongluo Mountain with lightning speed, forming a local advantage over Dolgon's headquarters.

"Now that the emperor has taken down Yang Guozhu, the general under Hong Chengchou and the backbone of the Xuanda army, the general soldier of Xuanfu Town, it can be said that his morale has been greatly boosted, and he is stepping up to break the city, and we can't make any mistakes here, otherwise, once Ning Yuanbo is coveted by him, not only will this pre-war effort be wasted, but I am afraid that this bit of wealth accumulated by my father Khan's decades of hard work will also turn into flowing water!"

Faced with the cannons erected on Hongluo Mountain and the rockets that could turn the fortifications into a sea of fire at any time, Dolgon had to keep some mobile forces in his hands as much as possible as the last capital in a pinch.

"If I were Li Huamei, how would I fight this battle?"

Duoduo's muttering reminded Dorgon, and he grabbed the fifteenth brother, "Duoduo, you say, if we are in a different position with the Nanyue army, how can you fight this battle?" ”

After looking carefully at the map for a while, his eyes stared back and forth between the various small flags representing the Ming and Qing armies, and it took a long time before Duoduo replied to his brother in a dry and hoarse voice: "The battle is like this, and I don't know what to do." It seems that everyone can only consume hard to see who can consume whom! ”

After making this conclusion, Duoduo pointed to various points on the map with a knife to cut meat, Tashan and Tashan Fort, and Baitai Mountain were in their own hands, but in the past few days, the Ming army has been storming Tashan and Baitai Mountain, especially Baitai Mountain, I am afraid that it will not be able to hold it for a few days, and Tayu Mountain and Hongluo Mountain fell into the hands of the Ming army at the beginning of the war. It became a camp and supply base for the Ming army. Especially in Dayu Mountain, a large amount of grain and grass of the Ming army were gathered here, and countless wounded soldiers were also treated here, and after a simple disposal, they were transferred by ships.

These days, the two sides have almost used all kinds of tactics, targeting each other's vital points, what surprise attacks, strong attacks, sneak attacks, night attacks, tired enemies, harassing the enemy, etc., and there has even been a thrilling scene of the Ming army's sneak attack and the Qing army's night attack of the white armor soldiers colliding in a trench, if it is not discovered by a clothed minion, I am afraid that the Ming army, which is also tied with a white cloth strip on the left shoulder as a identification mark of friend and foe, will be mistaken for a sneak attack and returned to the army swaggering into Tashan Fort!

"If I capture Hongluo Mountain, the best strategy is to encircle the point and send reinforcements, and isolate the connection between Baitai Mountain and Tashan with superior forces and artillery fire, and if I do this, the main force of my two white flags will become a cow that has been held by the nose! As long as Li Huamei made the move of attacking Baitai Mountain from Hongluo Mountain. Even if it's fake, my two white flag iron cavalry will have to come out to deal with these Ming infantry! In order to achieve the defeat of Li Huamei's department, he can open up the connection with Baitai Mountain! But in this way, my elite cavalry with two white flags, knowing that the opposite side may have set a trap for me, there are countless artillery guns and rockets waiting there with their mouths open, and they have to risk their lives to go! ”

Faced with the prospect described by Duoduo that might cause the elite of the two white flags to be lost, Dolgonrao has experienced countless battles, and he can't help but break out in a cold sweat on his forehead. It's too vicious and vicious! Let people know that it is death. You have to jump into the fire pit with your eyes closed!

"I don't know if my father Khan has a spirit in the sky, or if Li Huamei is a big conspirator, obviously, these days. The tactics she used were clearly not what we had just said. It's the middle of my mind! ”

"The middle strategy is after the capture of Hongluo Mountain. Continue to storm Tashan and Baitai Mountain to attract the attention of our two White Flag armies. After the knowledge of the Yue army in the south of us, and several tentative attacks. They must have found that our army's defense was based on Tashan and Baitai Mountain, with Hongluo Mountain as the key point leading to Shengjing, and we formed a triangle with the above three points, and we could quickly move our troops back and forth in this area, and we could quickly put them in any two directions. Tashan is the main line of defense, and Baitai Mountain is an important stronghold to support the Tashan defense line, and it is necessary to flank the attacking Ming army and support the main defense line of Tashan! On the surface, and Hongluo Mountain does not seem so important on the surface, but the bottom line of this triangle is a line of life and death, if Baitai Mountain misses, although the defense line is tight, but it will not collapse for a while and a half, but once the Nanyue Army wants to attack from the direction of Hongluo Mountain, then we must divide our troops to defend, because the back is the direction of Shengjing, once there is a loss of one of my two white flags A retreat is not guaranteed, of course, second brother, we have another way to retreat, that is, to retreat to Jinzhou. But once we retreat to Jinzhou, second brother, we will have to rely on people! The old dog of Jierharang, although he was beaten by Wu Biao with only one breath left, but he was not dead, our brother returned to Jinzhou, and the old dog showed us the face! ”

"The reason why Li Huamei did not launch a fierce attack from the direction of Hongluo Mountain, I guess it is nothing more than two possibilities, one is that Hongluo Mountain has not been found to be the dead hole of our army, and the other is that the plotter is big, and he intends to gather and annihilate the main forces of my two white flags on the seaside of this Tashan Mountain!"

After saying this, Duoduo picked up the large copper bowl on the table, and poured a gulp of milk tea to moisten his dry throat.

"Duoduo, tell you the truth, I'm gambling too! Bet that Li Huamei can't see the importance of Hongluo Mountain, bet that the Southern Central Army will rely on its strong and reckless attack, bet that the Southern Central Army will not dare to disobey Li Huamei, and bet that the Guan Ning Army is timid and self-preservation, and don't mention this matter! ”

"However, gambling also requires capital, so the elite of the four Jiala, you don't have to make up your mind anymore!"

If it is really as Duoduo worries, Li Huamei relies on his strong troops, strong firepower, and strong combat effectiveness, and plans to first gather the main forces of the two white flags in the Tashan area, and then open up the road to Songshan and Jinzhou, so as to make a good start for the major event of aiding Liao, then the difficulties of the two white flags are still to come!

"I hope that Li Huamei's eldest lady has a temper attack and will not find our weak spots!"

Dolgon folded his hands and prayed to the heavenly spirit of his father Khan Nurhachi.

But is that really the case?

In the camp of the Ming army in Hongluo Mountain, the wind and snow will be standing guard at night The soldiers are shivering, although they are wearing thick cotton clothes, and there are wool coats outside the armor, but they are beaten by the cold wind blowing from the sea with snowflakes, and it is useless to let you wear thick clothes.

In the depths of the barracks, there were many tents lit up, and the craftsmen who accompanied the army were still tinkling to renovate the shield carts of various departments. The iron sheets, springs, rubber tires, and quilts were assembled one by one according to the drawings and prototypes.

In such weather, the two layers of quilts, which act as a defensive measure in the outermost layer, are filled with sediment, which is wet with seawater and then blown by the cold wind, and in the blink of an eye, it is as hard as steel.

With the sound of footsteps, more than a dozen large lanterns illuminated the road, and the soldiers standing guard reminded each other, "Be careful! Grandma is here to check the sentry and patrol the camp! ”

Li Huamei, who was surrounded by 100 pro-soldiers, entered the camp at the gate of the camp and began to inspect the camp by more than a dozen godsons holding the moon.

Of course, it is necessary to give a few words of encouragement and praise.

Seeing Li Huamei's distant figure and the gradually dimming lights, the commander of this battalion couldn't help but feel relieved and wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Where did Lao Tzu find a godmother! This is clearly an added mother-in-law! ”

The general of the Shanhaiguan system muttered a word, but he didn't dare to make a loud noise.

"Master Ma, what are you talking about?"

Not far behind him, a somewhat yin and yang greeting sounded from the background, and the general was so frightened that he almost collapsed on the ground. If this is heard by someone and reaches the ears of the county lord's godmother, I am afraid that tomorrow he will be asked to lead the team to the Tashan position of the Tartars!

Turning his head and seeing the appearance of the person who came, he couldn't help but put a heart in his stomach when General Ma Shen Deng.

"It's you a dog! I almost scared you to death kissing me! ”

"Huh! If you are open-minded, how can you be frightened by our old Qin? ”

Qin Shouren, a staff officer who was also from the Mountain Navy, walked in front of General Ma with a smile on his face. (To be continued......)