Just when Yang Hongzhang was thinking about whether to give Curb Pilon a night attack, the scout was surprised to find that the Qing army camp more than ten miles north of the city was gone, and Curb Pilon retreated! Thinking that Sun Fei and the others encountered the attack before and after the retreat, or that Sun Fei and the others were not very lucky, the curb may have just happened to run into them, and then vented!

The news of Compilon's inexplicable retreat surprised Yang Hongzhang, and he also realized that Dolgon might be gathering his forces to prepare for a decisive battle with Lu Xiangsheng. It was only in the afternoon of the same day that the more shocking news came, Yang Sichang and Liu Zeqing were defeated in Linqing and abandoned Linqing City, and less than 5,000 remnants of more than 20,000 people from Shandong Town fled back to Jinan. It took less than three days for Duoduo to lead the Red Banner and defeat an entire town's soldiers and horses! Yang Sichang and Liu Zeqing are guarding the city, or the same sentence, more than 20,000 pigs stand there and let people cut it for several days. Yang Hongzhang really doesn't understand how the Ming army failed!

Xiang Siwen and Gao Keng, who received the news, came to Yang Hongzhang's Zhongjun tent as soon as possible, and Xia Dongwei and Yang Sheng, who had always been active, also kept a straight face and said nothing. Everyone looked at Yang Hongzhang, because everyone's hopes were empty, and they originally hoped that Yang Sichang could successfully contain Duoduo and the right side of the Qing army for more than ten days or even longer.

Everyone also understood that the Right Route Army had solved the soldiers and horses in Shandong Town, and the next target would definitely be Hejian, and it seemed that it would not be able to resist the brave Right Route Army with conventional methods.

"Gao Gong, Ben will lead his troops out of the city to ambush Duoduo, and ask Gao Gong to sit in the river, if Ben General is defeated, Gao Gong will go and stay for himself." Yang Hongzhang saw everyone coming, and immediately said his thoughts.

"No, the general doesn't often say that the Jiannu cavalry is suitable for fighting on the plains, and our army should be based on foot soldiers and should be defended by the city!" didn't wait for Gao Keng to speak, Xiang Siwen was anxious. Now Yang Hongzhang is the backbone of everyone, if Yang Hong leads the troops away, he is not confident that relying on the thousands of temporarily recruited people in the river can resist tens of thousands of Qing cavalry. He is not as conceited as Wang Lenian, thinking that Yang Hongzhang is not needed to defend the city, of course, he is even more worried that this general, who has no intention of defending it, will take this opportunity to escape from the river, and only he and Gao Keng are left staring at each other.

Hearing this, Gao Keng didn't speak, just looked at Yang Hongzhang helplessly, obviously what he wanted to say Xiang Siwen had already helped him say. In fact, as a prison soldier, he would rather follow Yang Hongzhang to ambush. Obviously, Yang Hongzhang was planning to use all the cavalry to attack Duoduo. In Gao Keng's view, cavalry means combat effectiveness, but also means the possibility of escape. In today's situation, it is obviously much more dangerous to hold on to the river than to go out of the city for guerrilla warfare. This is also because he and Yang Hongzhang are not familiar enough, otherwise the two would have discussed whether to give up Hejian and find another way.

Yang Hongzhang naturally knew the thoughts of the two, and said with a smile: "Gao Gong, Lord Xiang, I would have let Yang Sheng and the artillery stay in the city to maintain a deterrent to Jiannu, as long as Haoge and Yue Tuo are there, they will not dare to storm if they want to come." I will take people to the field to find terrain that can be ambushed, and inflict some damage on the Jiannu army to keep them away from the river, so that the river can be safe! ”

"Young Master!" As soon as Yang Sheng heard that he wanted to stay in the city, he immediately became anxious, in his world, the safety of the third young master is greater than the sky, the Yang family is all he has, and he doesn't care about the high eunuch and the prefect.

Yang Hongzhang glanced at Yang Sheng, who was standing, waved his hand to signal him to be quiet, and then turned to Xia Dongwei and Zhang Hu: "The two of you and I will lead all the cavalry and five hundred people to set off tonight with shovels." In addition, find a few local guides to see where there are mountains and rivers suitable for ambushes on the road from Linqing to Baoding nearby. Lord Xiang, you still have a relatively difficult task, that is, to lead some of the people to dig such a gully in the four gates of Hejian City, especially in the direction of the south gate, where there is a small hillside, the more the better! Yang Hongzhang said while briefly depicting it on the desk.

Thirty miles southeast of Hejian Fucheng Funiu Mountain, Duoduo sat on his horse, looking at the cart of goods and goods that stretched for miles along the way, and then looked at the two red flag elites who had only been in charge for a few days after the Linqing War. More than 25,000 people besieged Linqing City for three days, the city was broken, and the wealth and goods obtained were far greater than the looting of scattered soldiers in various places a few days ago, and the only regret was that they were not able to capture the governor of the Ming Dynasty and the general soldiers of Shandong Town.

Duoduo thought in his heart that if it wasn't for the urgency of the fourteenth brother, he would definitely chase him to Jinan, and even to the Huai River It was not impossible, so that Yang Sichang had nowhere to escape. There are still too few people in the Qing Dynasty, if you give yourself another 10,000 people, you will definitely give Shandong all the end.

Boom, boom! Duoduo was thinking about it on horseback, when suddenly there was a roar in front of the army, and Duoduo's first thought was that he had encountered a large number of Ming troops, and these people were still carrying this artillery. But if you listen closely, it doesn't seem to be artillery, and the sound is not as thick as artillery. Then, before he could figure out what was going on, there was a thumping sound in the distance, it was the sound of a musket, and there was quite a bit of it! The Ming Army, where did the Ming Army come from? It's still far from Baoding, so the only possibility is the river!

Thinking of Hejian, Duoduo remembered the instructions of the fourteenth brother, this Yang Hongzhang is a good hand at guarding the city, and he must be careful when he encounters it. When he was about to go back to Baoding, he hit the rabbit with grass and solved him, and the monkey actually jumped out, so he didn't have to go on a special trip. The corners of Dord's mouth smiled and patted his horse forward.

It's just that when Duoduo came to the front, he found that the situation was not optimistic. First of all, he could see at a glance that this was indeed a good place for ambushes. On the back of this mountain, a river flows to the east, the river is 100 zhang wide and more than 2 zhang deep, and a large force of cavalry cannot pass directly. This mountain stretches on the south bank of the river for more than ten miles in southern Shonan, although it is not high, it is still not suitable for the rapid passage of large groups of cavalry. Then, it is very ingenious that this mountain and the river next to it have a valley or riverbed that is not more than a dozen zhang wide but more than a hundred zhang long.

If it is a confrontation between two armies or a first-time march, a general with a little experience will definitely send someone to inquire about the surrounding situation first. But this team has passed by here many times first, and it has just experienced the great victory of Linqing and is a little carried away. And what underestimated the enemy is the price of life. Yang Hongzhang took more than 1,000 improvised cavalry and 500 Hejian Minzhuang to prepare here for two days and one night, and finally waited for the Qing army! Those people and most of the soldiers couldn't understand what their generals were going to do. The beaches of the river were hollowed out and filled with mines. Then a man-high and half-man-wide ravine was dug into the hillside, one after the other, all the way to the top of the mountain. Then follow the summit all the way south......

When all the musketeers jumped into the ravine, and there was almost no one in sight, the spectators finally understood what the Commander was calling the fortifications. Because these musketeers have helmets on their heads that have been made in the past few days, and then half-body iron armor. The whole person lay down in the ditch, and the cavalry of the Qing army who came out in the distance couldn't do anything at all.

Duoduo stood by the river with a black face and commanded the Qing army to charge, and he already overestimated Yang Hongzhang. But the entire river beach was covered with mines by him. The Qing army almost used war horses to sweep mines. It's just that the last area is inaccessible, since already in the range of the muskets. So the brave children of the Eight Banners launched a charge against the Ming army. But what awaits them is trenches one after another! Those mean, slippery men hid in the trenches and fired muskets.

The cavalry managed to rush through the first trench, only to find that the next was still the trench. War horses could not precisely cross one trench after another. They often fall into a trench if they are not careful.

When they tried to mount and shoot, they found that they could not find their target at all, and some of the clever Qing soldiers dismounted and marched along the trench, only the bullets of the muskets and the palm of the palm that awaited them.

Duoduo was delayed here for a full hour, and paid the lives of at least five hundred elite children of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but he still couldn't open this narrow passage.

"Tell the order to go down, disperse the team, stretch the battle line to the south, and occupy the top of the mountain as soon as possible!" Duoduo also gradually understood how Yang Hongzhang relied on less than a thousand people to block his 20,000 army for an hour. If you can't give full play to your own cavalry advantage, then you can't waste your numerical advantage. But the further south you go, the more dense the trees become, and the more spicy and difficult it becomes to open the road through the mountains. The key is to face the muskets of the Ming people, although there are few of them, and they can't stand the psychological shock.

Another hour passed, and the Qing army again paid nearly four or five hundred men, and still a large force could not approach the trench. The superiority of the cavalry is lost here. Dismounted and fought on foot, only to find that the range of the mounted bow was not as good as the opponent's musket. Scouts who had gone south to reconnoiter came back and reported that the hill was getting higher and higher the south, and that there were people on it, as if there were Ming ambushes. Some people even saw war horses dragging supplies on the top of the mountain.

Duoduo didn't understand how Yang Hongzhang's team had suddenly grown stronger. According to the information gathered by the scouts, this guy may have more shady tricks waiting for him in the south. Do you collect boats to cross the river, or continue south to bypass the mountain? It was clear that the collection boats were too slow to cross the river, and they could face constant harassment from the Ming army. But continuing to go around the south, Duoduo was not sure how many mines and trenches Yang Hongzhang had prepared in the south. Coupled with Dorgon's repeated urgings, Dorgon was reluctant to waste time on a road that was unsure of whether it was safe and didn't yet know how far to detour. So he decided to go on the offensive.

The Qing army launched a ruthless attack, especially tens of thousands of people, it was still effective, but it was only effective, that is, the Ming army had basically withdrawn from the three trenches in front, but it was desperately blocking the passage to the west of the river beach. In addition to the countless mines and several successive trenches of more than one zhang, it was very difficult for the war horses to leap over, let alone march in large troops. Attacking the hillside, where there was nothing but smoking muskets there were only shrubs from the trunks that blocked the view.

Two hours passed, three hours passed, and as time went on, the corpses of the soldiers on the river beach and on the hillside grew more and more. Dodor had become restless, for he felt like he was digging his feet in the mud with all his strength! It's not a question of how much damage you can inflict on the enemy with one foot, but how deep you will sink in!