After a sleepless night, Dolgon, who had just fallen asleep, woke up in an instant.

What's going on?

Could it be that the Tang army is attacking the camp?

After a long time on the battlefield, he immediately lifted the quilt, hurriedly put on his clothes and armor, and walked out of the camp quickly.

"What's going on? But is the Tang army going to attack at night? Dorgon yelled at the guards.

The guard looked at him fearfully, and replied, "Back to the Lord Regent, it is strange that although the lights on the wall over there are bright, and the drums are beating the sky, and there are bursts of shouts of slaughter, there have been no soldiers and horses. ”

"Oh? Is that so? ”

Dolgon frowned, his right hand rubbing the hilt of his sword, he lowered his head and thought for a while, a sneer appeared on his face, and then he ordered, "Go, go and summon Azig and Abatai quickly, and come to my account to discuss." ”

"Huh."

Soon, Azig and Abatai, who were fully armored and looked flustered, hurriedly came to the Chinese military tent.

"Regent, why is it that the Tang army beats drums and trumpets like this, and is very strong, but it doesn't come to attack?" With a strange look on his face, Azig hurriedly asked Dolgon.

Dolgon smiled coldly, he didn't reply, Abatai on the side, but hesitantly interjected, "Regent, I'm thinking about it, but the Tang army guarding the pass didn't want to attack the camp at night, but just bluffed, deliberately not letting our army rest in peace?" ”

"Exactly." Dolgon replied with a sneer, "You two have also read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and you should know that when the Tang army wanted to learn the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang scared Cao Cao away in Hanzhong, and they wanted to make our army unable to sleep all night, so as to exhaust our army, so that our army could not endure it in the end, so that we had to retreat." ”

"And what does the Lord Regent mean?"

"Hmph, since the Tang army is only hypocritically intimidating, how can our army fall for its tricks. Our army arranged so many sentinels and cavalry expeditions, and the Tang army's surprise attack strategy succeeded. Dolgon said in a deep voice, "After the two of you go down, and let the whole army continue to rest, in view of the harassment of the Tang army tonight, so that my soldiers will not have a good rest, let the soldiers sleep for two more hours tomorrow, and then get up to cook, and then, look for an opportunity to attack the weak point of its side wall, and strive to take the Dushikou in one fell swoop!" ”

"Order!" Azig and Abatei joined each other.

As Dolgon expected, the Tang army made noise all night, but never sent troops to fight, but it made the Qing army sleep unrestably all night, and many timid sergeants simply lay down in armor to prevent accidents.

At dawn the next day, the side wall, which had been noisy all night, finally settled down.

Dolgon did not sleep well this night, although he slept for two hours longer than usual, but when he got up in the morning, his eyes were still swollen, and he looked sleepy, and he looked tired.

After Dolgon got up, he did not slack off, and immediately arranged for the sentry to go to the side wall to probe to see where the side wall was weakly guarded, so that his 120,000 army could break through the wall smoothly.

Immediately after the Sentinels were dispatched, Dorgon ordered his men to urgently prepare their armaments and prepare to march towards the side wall as soon as they had breakfast.

And just as he was beginning to eat, suddenly one of his men rushed to report the news.

"Regent, it's not good! The Tang army has fled from the side wall overnight! ”

Hearing this news, Dolgon, who was holding a pig's leg, couldn't help but be stunned.

Isn't it, the Tang army made a fuss all night, how did it get to now, but when it was about to attack the border wall, it all withdrew?

This really doesn't make sense.

At this time, the voice of the subordinate continued to come: "Regent, I just went to the sentry to explore the side wall, and inadvertently found that the Tang army had all withdrawn at some point, and there were still flags all over the wall and were heavily guarded. After a group of sentinels plucked up the courage to get closer, they suddenly found that the flags on the side wall were just bluffs, and the Tang troops on guard were just scarecrows. ”

Hearing the news, Dolgon, who had just been stunned, instantly understood everything.

He gritted his teeth and threw the pig's leg out of his hand in a rage, and the greasy pig's trotter cut a long arc in the air before it slammed and tumbled into the corner of the tent.

Dolgon's fists clenched, his expression of regret.

Damn, I fell for the tricks of the Tang Army!

These guys, after they destroyed Wu Sangui's front troops and horses, they didn't have the heart to fight against themselves anymore, but only thought about how to withdraw from the battlefield as soon as possible.

Therefore, I thought last night that the Tang army's so-called strategy of using Zhuge Liang's strategy to retreat from Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period to force the Qing army to retreat was a complete miscalculation.

The real purpose of the Tang army was to conceal the sky and the sea, and to retreat as advance, and they deliberately bluffed last night and made a posture of attacking their own camp, but in fact, it was only to cover up their own smooth withdrawal overnight, so as to cover up the sound and movement of the retreat with continuous drumming.

Originally, the Tang army was insufficient, and it was not enough to confront the Qing army, which was six times its size, but it was a pity that I took it for granted, but I didn't expect the Tang army to plan like this, but it missed a great opportunity to hunt them in vain.

What's even more regrettable is that because he was worried that his subordinates would not be well rested and could not attack well, he actually gave the Tang army two more hours to retreat, so that the Tang army had already retreated far away, and it was too late for him to pursue.

Dolgon could think that the Tang army would retreat with victory this time, and it must have retreated straight to Jintang City, and then relied on the city to hold on, waiting for work at ease, and waited for his own army to attack the city.

Thinking of this, Dorgon slapped his thigh again with remorse.

However, in front of these guards, Dolgon had to show his composure and composure, and he sighed lightly, and said, "Since the Tang army has retreated, then our army will enter the border wall, sweep away the military forts on the north side of the Xuanfu North Road one by one, and then the whole army will attack Jintang City directly." ”

Dolgon's strategy was established, and the Qing army then broke through the border wall and entered the pass, all the way to attack the Dushikou Fort.

As Dolgon expected, the Tang army had already withdrawn from the Dushikou fort, leaving only a broken empty fort, waiting for them here.

And along the way, he could see that the Tang army had withdrawn all the people along the way, there was no half of a figure in the wilderness, and the immature sorghum in the field was all cut off, leaving only the bare poles, but there was a complete clear wall.

Dolgon sighed in his heart, the Tang army's resolute retreat was really beyond his expectations. It seems that his original plan to loot people and food can only be completely frustrated.

And seeing that the Tang army was so thorough in the wall, Azig and Abatai were also full of disappointment.

They knew that the Qing army had traveled thousands of miles away, and it was very difficult to supply grain and grass, and it was impossible to expect them to provide grain and grass from the poor Mongol tribes along the way. Then, in the case that Xuanfu North Road cannot get grain on the spot, once the grain and grass brought by him is used up, he can only count on Li Zicheng's subordinates to help him.

This is a situation that Dolgon and the others do not want to see.

If the lifeline of the Qing Dynasty's officials and troops is not autonomous, but depends on the Liukou, then their future will really be controlled by the Liukou. If everything goes well in the attack on Jintang Castle, it is better to say. If there are twists and turns, in case there is a conflict with the rogues in the future, it will be completely controlled by others......

Such thoughts sprung up in his mind, much to Dorgon's displeasure.

He was worried about the problem of grain and grass, and then thought anxiously, if the Tang army had really cleared the entire north wall of Xuanfu North Road, and the people had all been transferred to Jintang City, then would he be able to drive straight into Jintang City and attack Jintang City by himself?

Dolgon was a cautious man, and while the idea was tempting, it was relatively risky.

After all, the area of Xuanfu North Road is quite extensive, and there are many fortresses, if you blindly forge ahead, in case the Tang army does not retreat to Jintang City as you think, and quietly set up an ambush in which fortress, and you are caught off guard, it will be bad.

After the loss of Wu Sangui's troops and horses, the strength of the Qing army has been greatly damaged, so their own actions need to be very cautious, and they must no longer act at will.

Dolgon thought about it for a long time, and finally decided that, for the sake of safety, even though the Tang army had already withdrawn, the whole army should still gather and move together to explore the various military forts in the north, so as not to fall into the ambush of the Tang army.

Then, after completing the search mission on the north side of Xuanfu North Road, the whole army finally went all the way south and came to the outside of Jintang City, and re-attacked the city together with the Dashun army.

Therefore, after leaving the Dushikou, the Qing army began to clear the various military forts that had been withdrawn cleanly on both sides of the Dushi River, while cautiously moving all the way south.

Just as the Qing army began to sweep the fort by fort, the Tang army, which had withdrawn from the side wall, had already galloped all the way back to Jintang City.

Duan Shidi, the mayor of the fourth town of the Tang Army, saw that Liu Wenxiu and Zu Dashou had successfully forced the landing of Wu Sangui's troops and brought all the soldiers and horses back to Jintang City.

At the same time, he also immediately sent a letter to Li Xiaofeige in Shandong, informing him of the news of Wu Sangui's surrender and the latest battle situation on the Xuanfu North Road.

Li Xiao was also very happy to receive the letter.

It seems that the battle situation on Xuanfu North Road is really in my own expectations. The Tang army beheaded Liu Fangliang, eliminated nearly 50,000 rogues, and then forced the landing of Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses, which greatly weakened the strength of the Qing army.

He knew that Liukou and the Qing army had suffered such setbacks, and they would definitely be cautious in the future, and they would not dare to divide their troops at will, but only dare to assemble the whole army, so that the actions of the two enemy forces would be quite delayed, thus greatly slowing down the speed of the march and providing more time for the guards of Jintang City to prepare.

Li Xiao was overjoyed, and he immediately ordered Duan Shidi to surrender the soldiers and horses to Wu Sangui's troops, be lenient and not blame the past, and authorized the fourth town to expand the first battalion and set up the Ding battalion, and appointed Wu Sangui as the commander of the Ding battalion of the fourth town to show trust and favor, and his subordinates were recruited and resettled by the fourth town.

After Duan Shidi received Li Xiao's letter, he immediately began to implement it, and the specific method was that Wu Sangui and his subordinate generals and soldiers and horses, the old, the weak, the injured and the sick were eliminated on the spot, and a total of more than 8,000 elite troops were selected and arranged into the other three battalions.

At the same time, Tuo Xingzhong, the former commander of Battalion A of Battalion B, was appointed and promoted to deputy commander of Battalion D. The soldiers and horses of the Ding battalion were transferred from the other three battalions to form their subordinate forces.

In this way, although Wu Sangui is named the battalion commander of the Ding battalion, his subordinates have all been replaced, and civilian officials such as the Supervision and Restoration Department are responsible for auditing and supervision, and the secret agents of the Security Department are responsible for monitoring and supervising, so that Wu Sangui has completely lost the opportunity to repeat, and he can only be like other Tang army generals, and only has the right to command and train his subordinate generals and soldiers, and has no other power.

Regarding this arrangement, although Wu Sangui, who has now regained his hair and changed his clothes, has a lot of loss in his heart, he knows that now that he is in the Tang military camp, all the rules and regulations, and all the organizational rules and regulations can only be carried out according to the Tang army's plan. It is absolutely impossible for oneself to form a nearly independent internal warlord as before.

For the current Wu Sangui, his only way out is to sincerely serve the Tang Army on the battlefield, use his military exploits and loyalty, pave a new road for himself to be promoted, and regain glory and power for himself.

Next, nearly 40,000 Tang troops in Jintang City began to prepare for war in an all-round way, and strengthened the garrison measures for the entire Jintang City, striving to make the entire city completely prepared when the Liukou and Qing troops arrived.

The Tang army made urgent preparations here, and the Qing army was of course not idle, they began to search and sweep carefully with the Liukou army in the south, and finally, after nearly 20 days of sweeping, the military forts on the north side of Xuanfu North Road were swept away by the Qing army.

Subsequently, Dolgon commanded the whole army all the way south, and successfully came to the outside of Jintang City.

Looking at the majestic fortress in front of him that had been built by the Tang Army for more than ten years and was now urgently reinforced, Dolgon was secretly shocked in his heart.

Azig and Abatai, who had fought against the Tang army outside Jintang City when the Qing army entered the customs before, sighed even more in their hearts.

They saw that this city, the circumference is nearly ten miles, the city wall is as high as more than six zhang, the whole city ring has dug a moat several zhang wide, and the defensive measures such as pheasant moats, arrow towers, turrets, female walls, urn cities, and corner towers are all available on the city.

On the top of the city, there are many flags, and there are many guards, and it can be clearly seen from the clairvoyant mirror that all kinds of defensive artillery are placed in a staggered manner, and the density has reached an astonishing level.

The so-called Xiongguan Mandao is really like iron, but that's right.

Looking at the majestic city in front of him, Dorgon almost intuitively knew how difficult it would be for him to quickly take the Golden Soup City, if not at all.

Coincidentally, two days before they arrived in Jintang City, the Liukou army had already arrived at Jintang City, and they had immediately deployed defenses on all sides, surrounding the entire Jintang City like an iron bucket.

As a result, the commander of the Qing army, the regent Dorgon, and the commander of the Liukou army, the Dashun Emperor Li Zicheng, finally met outside Jintang City.

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