Ten miles south of Jining City, Ji Feng led more than 80,000 troops including more than 10,000 wounded and disabled people to retreat here, and the soldiers trampled on the rain on the ground and continued to retreat south on the rainy night.

Because it was an orderly retreat, although the entire army was defeated from Jining City, it was not chaotic.

More than 10,000 disabled soldiers were carried on stretchers, and more than a dozen military doctors took care of them all the way.

As it was still raining in the sky, some of the wounds of the disabled were drenched in the rain and let out low moans.

"General! The wounded soldiers marching in the rain will aggravate the injury, and this is not the way to go! A military doctor came to Ji Feng and said.

"It's not a way to stop, we must take advantage of the dark cover of the rainy night to go south, otherwise once we are caught up by the Qing army, we will all die!" Ji Feng wiped the rain from his face and spat fiercely.

Ji Feng was helpless, most of the more than 10,000 wounded soldiers were injured during the day, he didn't expect to be defeated in Jining City so quickly, the wounded soldiers didn't have time to transfer first, so they could only retreat with the army, and there was no way to do it.

"Da Da Da" A scout rode a war horse to report to Ji Feng.

"Qi Qi military seat, the rear has not found the Qing army chasing soldiers for the time being."

"Oh?" Ji Feng didn't frown, Dolgon didn't even send iron cavalry to chase after him?

The dark and rainy night may have some restrictions, but Ji Feng didn't think that with Dolgon's strategy, he would let them retreat to Xuzhou, but he hadn't figured out Dolgon's plan for the time being.

"The herald army is speeding up, and it must arrive at Xue City before dawn." In any case, the army can not stop, before figuring out Dolgon's plan, he can only order the army to speed up the march, as long as the army arrives in Xuecheng, it is only half a day's journey away from Xuzhou, and even if the Qing army catches up, there is Xuecheng as a support, and Xuzhou as a dependent, there is no need to be afraid of the Qing army.

Looking at a wounded soldier lying on a stretcher not far away, with a gray face, Ji Feng sighed slightly in his heart, although he had not found the pursuers of the Qing army at this time, he had a faint premonition that the road to Xuzhou might not be smooth, and he didn't know how many of these wounded soldiers would survive safely after returning to Xuzhou.

In Pei County, a fast horse was galloping in the direction of Xuzhou, and he wanted to spread the news that a 50,000 Qing army of iron horsemen was going south by a detour to Xuzhou.

Looking at the mud trampled out by countless war horses on the road, the knight on horseback secretly said that it was not good.

Judging from this situation, the 50,000 Qing army iron cavalry actually walked in front of him, and he didn't know what their purpose was, and he had to spread the news to Xuzhou as soon as possible.

"Drive!" The knight jerked his horse's thighs and sped away.

At the same time, Xue Cheng!

There are also several fast horses that have just passed through Xuecheng from the direction of Jining City, and are galloping in the direction of Xuzhou, and the knight on horseback is the herald of the Ying Long Army who conveyed the order to Ji Feng, and he wants to transmit the news of the destruction of Jining City back to Xuzhou.

"Whew!"

"Ahh Suddenly, an arrow came from nowhere, and one of the heralds of the Ying Long Army was shot and dismounted.

"Woohoo!" Several more arrows were fired.

"Not good! There is an ambush! One of the heralds of the Ying Long Army shouted to see if he had dodged the arrow that was fired at him, but the other two were not so lucky, and they were all killed by the sudden arrow!

The war horses neighed, and sure enough, more than ten Qing army iron horsemen rushed out from one place, just in the way of the front.

The remaining Ying Long soldiers turned pale, gritted their teeth, pulled out the saber at their waist with a bang, and rushed over on horseback.

More than a dozen iron knights of the Qing army sneered, and also pulled out the steel knives on the side of the war horse and greeted them.

Lanling County, where the Fourth Army of the Yinglong Army was stationed, Yan Yingyuan always felt uneasy.

A soldier of the Ying Long Army walked in.

"Is there any movement of the Qing army outside the city?" Yan Yingyuan asked.

"Back to the military seat, everything is as usual, no movement!" The soldier of the Ying Long Army replied.

Yan Yingyuan frowned, it was too strange, it was because the Qing army did not make any moves that he felt strange, it stands to reason that Duoduo led hundreds of thousands of Qing troops, most of them were still iron cavalry, even if he didn't attack Lanling County, he shouldn't have camped two miles away without any movement for nearly two days.

"Big brother, I always feel that the Qing army seems to be too quiet and unsettling." Chen Mingyu also felt something.

Feng Houdun didn't feel anything, but seeing the two brothers frowning, he couldn't help but frown and think.

"Bring me a map of the area around Lanling County." Yan Yingyuan commanded.

In a moment, a roll of maps was taken out and spread out on the table, this is a map of Lanling County with a radius of 200 miles, covering a small half of southern Shandong, very detailed, and it was specially made by Zhu Cihong.

Yan Yingyuan stepped forward with an oil lamp in his hand and looked carefully on the map, outside the house, the rain was falling from the tiles, but it was quiet inside, and no one would disturb Yan Yingyuan at this time.

Suddenly, Yan Yingyuan's hand was designated in a place more than a hundred miles north of Lanling County.

"Not good! There may be an accident, the Qing army camp outside the city is very likely to be an empty camp, if the Qing army iron cavalry detours from here, and can sneak attack Xuecheng for 300 miles, once Xuecheng is lost, the army withdrawn from Jining City will be completely surrounded, and the result of being surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Qing troops will inevitably be the annihilation of the whole army! Thinking of this possibility, Yan Yingyuan took a sharp breath, his face extremely ugly.

The army withdrawn from Jining City not only has tens of thousands of ordinary Ming troops, but also includes all the soldiers of the first army of Yinglong Army, if the whole army is annihilated, not only the loss of 100,000 troops, but also the morale of all the armies, which is very bad.

"Big brother, it's possible that we're too worried." Chen Mingyu's heart was also tight, but he comforted him.

Yan Yingyuan frowned, he also hoped that he was too worried. After all, the Qing army camp outside the city is indeed brightly lit, and there is light in every military tent, and it is possible that all the Qing troops are sheltering from the rain in the big tent.

"Oh, two elder brothers, it's not easy to know the situation, wait for the younger brother to personally lead someone to investigate, and ensure that all the truths and truths of the Qing army will be revealed." Feng Houdun said.

"I'll go with you!" Yan Yingyuan said that he had to see it with his own eyes to be sure.

"Big brother, I'll go too!" Chen Mingyu said.

"No, you stay, and my third brother and I can go." The three of them were all high-ranking members of the Fourth Army of the Ying Long Army, and they couldn't leave any of them.

"Okay, big brother and third brother be careful!" Chen Mingyu nodded and said.

Immediately, Yan Yingyuan and Feng Houdun led more than a dozen agile scouts to quietly go out of the city to the Qing army camp two miles away to check.

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