The Qing army returned to the camp, but Yang Hongzhang did not dare to slack off at all, but immediately asked people to retreat and choose a place to set up camp. Yang Hongzhang and these people in the Gaokeng belt marched and fought generally, but they were all good at building fortifications and digging trenches. When Yang Hongzhang and others arrived at the battlefield, it was already evening, and after an encounter, the Qing army basically returned to the camp.

However, more than 10,000 people, in addition to the artillery and musketeers, almost all the people mobilized, and took advantage of the night to quickly dig trenches around the camp to block the surprise attack of the Qing cavalry.

However, the local trenches facing the Qing army camp continued to extend forward and ......

At midnight, Duoduo excitedly walked out of the camp, and he finally moved Dolgon, allowing him to lead an elite night attack of 10,000 taels of red flags at night. During the day, Yang Hongzhang came violently, with many banners, and the Qing army was not able to accurately estimate the number of Ming troops, only knowing that Yang Hongzhang was in this Ming army, according to Dorgon's estimation, he should have geometry the soldiers and horses in Shandong Town. After the soldiers and horses of Shandong Town were scattered by Duoduo in Linqing, more than 5,000 people fled back to Jinan, plus it is estimated that there are seven or eight thousand people who fled back one after another, and then boldly guess that Yang Sichang gathered Shandong in the name of the governor of Shandong and Zhili, and the people of Gaoyang, Hejian and others should be about 15,000 people in total!

Therefore, according to the estimates of Dorgon and Duoduo, if 10,000 cavalry can pass through the formation, they can basically kill and wound half of them, and if Yang Hongzhang and his musket team can be found in the chaos, then the threat of the Qing army will be completely eliminated.

It's just that when Duoduo led the cavalry to appear around Yang Hongzhang's camp, he was immediately dumbfounded, or his hairs immediately stood up. Because he was walking on the front, there was at least half a mile away from the Ming camp, and the ground had been dug up countless trenches, and scattered dirt was piled up irregularly between the trenches and the open spaces of the trenches.

Duoduo immediately ordered the cavalry to stop advancing, for he had suffered such a loss at Funiu Mountain, and there was a high probability that mines were planted between the loose earth between these trenches! Inside the trenches lay ambushes of musketeers and archers.

Duoduo sent a small number of cavalry around Yang Hongzhang's camp, and the soldiers who came back to report were all soldiers who had experienced the battle in Funiu Mountain, and they told Duoduo in frustration that the Ming army's camp was blocked by trenches and could not allow a large number of cavalry to approach, let alone charge.

It must be Yang Hongzhang, no doubt! Duoduo suddenly regretted that he should not have given Yang Hongzhang enough time to set up camp in the evening.

Just when Duoduo lamented that the tiger had no way to eat iron, there was a movement of the Ming army in front, and by the light of the torches, he saw a bunch of Ming troops falling into the trench. Duoduo immediately put the team on alert, as he had seen in Funiu Mountain.

Despite his care, he was disgraced when more than forty cannons fired at them.

Fortunately, the distance from the camp was far enough, more than 10,000 cavalry, and only a few dozen people in the outermost part were hit by artillery. When Duoduo thought that it would be safe for his troops to retreat a hundred paces, he found that the Ming artillery had actually laid wooden planks on top of those trenches, and the artillery continued to fire after advancing a hundred paces after a hundred paces of trenches. Then Dodor was driven back by the other party.

On several occasions some of his men rushed forward despite orders, but before they could reach the artillery, before they could cross the trenches, the muskets hiding in the trenches began to fire volleys, and none of the cavalrymen who tried to get close survived!

In desperation, Duoduo asked the team to retreat four or five hundred steps in one breath, and the opponent's artillery finally stopped.

Duoduo didn't want to return to the camp in such a humiliating way, but it was obvious that the other party had been prepared, and the artillery movement on Yang Hongzhang's side was too great, almost the entire surrounding Ming army was alarmed, and even the Ming army on the city wall was in full array, so that Duoduo had no choice but to go to other camps to do something.

In Sun Chengzong's tent, Gao Keng excitedly described the scene of killing 2,000 Duoduo people in the battle of Funiu Mountain that day. And with the rumbling of artillery outside, Gao Keng finally said the purpose of his trip. He brought a message from Yang Hongzhang, hoping that Elder Sun Ge would be able to seconded at least 5,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry to him as the two wings of the guard artillery.

In Yang Hongzhang's plan, the frontal 3,000 people were all composed of muskets and artillery. In addition, the palm mines form a far, medium and near firepower network, which can ensure that the Qing cavalry cannot break through from the front and carry out effective killing. However, there are too few people in Yang Hongzhang's team who can fight. The flanks of these men were a soft underbelly, and without the protection of the cavalry, he would not dare to leave the camp.

Without waiting for Sun Chengzong to speak, Zu Dashou on the side spoke: "Who does he Yang Hongzhang think he is, doesn't he think that he is lucky enough to fight a few ambushes and run to the head of the general to make a fortune?" Each of the Guanning Iron Cavalry was the pillars of the imperial court, but he asked for 5,000 people to protect his 3,000 people. Don't come to the capital if you're afraid of death. ”

Gao Keng pursed his lips and said disdainfully: "General Zu is so unreasonable, you Guanning Iron Cavalry can't help Jiannu, and the musket team under General Yang has a way, and it has also defeated Jiannu countless times." Today's first encounter is obvious to all. For the sake of safety, we could have sat upright in the camp, but only to bring in reinforcements for the sake of greater damage to the enemy and to reduce our own losses. Don't you think that without you Guanning Iron Cavalry, we won't be able to build slaves? said that he was afraid of death, and he didn't know who was stranded in Gu'an with tens of thousands of people, and was attacked by someone......"

"You ......" Zu Dashou is used to being arrogant, how could he have thought of the high pit in front of him, he is a eunuch, and the emperor can give you a small report in front of the emperor, how can he be afraid of a general soldier.

Sun Chengzong watched the two of them bickering and didn't speak, pondered for a long time, and finally said to the generals of the Tianxiong Army and the Shanxi Army: "Pass the order, gather all the cavalry of Xuanda, Baoding and Shanxi to report to General Yang Shen tomorrow and obey his dispatch." I also asked Gao Gong to go back and inform General Yang that Guan Ning Tieqi had the task of containing Jiannu and should not be easily dispersed. The total number of cavalry from the other towns should be about three thousand. I hope he can make good use of it and strive to be as stupid as possible. ”

When everyone heard this, they agreed in unison. Sun Chengzong was actually helpless to do this, Guan Ning Tieqi has always been arrogant, that is, an old man like Sun Chengzong can suppress Zu Dashou and his men. Moreover, after the first battle of Gu'an, more than half of the Guanning iron cavalry was damaged, and the morale was low, and it may not be easy to use the elites of other towns under Yang Hongzhang.

It's just that everyone dispersed in the second half of the night, and just after falling asleep, the sound of artillery sounded again in the direction of Andingmen.

Dolgon, Duoduo, and Zhu Youzhen on the city wall were all awakened by the artillery. How did they know that Yang Hongzhang had advanced the trench by five hundred steps in the two or three hours after he had returned to the camp with Duoduo. Originally, the camps of the two armies were only four or five miles apart, and because Yang Hongzhang deliberately took the direction of the Qing army camp, the entire periphery of the camp was less than three miles away from the Qing army camp. Scouts on both sides are almost all within range of each other.

This is not over, after Duoduo's night attack was over, Yang Hongzhang launched a 10,000-strong operation, and the entire trench rushed in the direction of the Qing army. Now that the artillery has been pushed to the trenches and can shell the Qing army again, Yang Hongzhang certainly can't let the Dorgon brothers sleep peacefully.

Only by harassing these Qing troops and losing their minds can they rush out and fight with themselves. Because after contacting Sun Chengzong, Yang Hongzhang also had a general understanding of the current situation of the Ming and Qing armies. Although the Ming army is at a disadvantage in terms of absolute combat effectiveness, as long as it continues to be consumed, as King Qin's soldiers and horses continue to increase, it must be Dolgon who can't bear it in the end.

Of course, Yang Hongzhang didn't want to die, but he preferred to be the last straw that broke the camel's back. Moreover, he also had to find an opportunity to prove the power of muskets and artillery to the civil and military forces who wanted to be Manchu, and only enough results could make the court decide to develop firearms.

It is true that the shells have only just entered the camp of the Qing army. After the initial panic, the Qing army shrank the camp and then left Yang Hongzhang to perform unilaterally. It's just that Yang Hongzhang doesn't seem to have any intention of stopping. An hour later, the artillery of the Ming army again entered the camp after the Qing army had shrunk, causing dozens more casualties.

When the daylight was bright and the artillery of the Ming army finally stopped, when Duoduo led his troops to patrol the camp, he was surprised to find that the criss-crossing trenches had covered the open space in front of the Ming army's camp.

Extending from the Ming army camp, the ground for nearly a mile is full of criss-crossing trenches!

Duoduo broke out in a cold sweat on his back, Funiu Mountain, he wanted to eat Funiu Mountain again, and remembered those trenches around the river, this bastard Yang Hongzhang will always be this trick, but these trenches are much more threatening to the Qing cavalry than ordinary horse traps. The key is that the musketeers of the Ming army shuttled in concealment, that is, the place where the trench went was the battlefield, and it was the hiding place of the musketeers of the Ming army. If it goes down at this rate, in two more days, Yang Hongzhang will dig the trench into the Qing army camp.

Of course, that situation will not occur, but with the advancement of the trench, almost the entire Qing army camp will be within the range of the Ming army's artillery, which is the most terrifying! Now the embarrassment faced by the Qing army is that if it rushes into Yang Hongzhang's military camp with all its might, in addition to facing Yang Hongzhang's counterattack, it is also necessary to be careful to be surrounded between the trenches, if the other Ming troops go to make up for the news and move, then in the end, Yang Hongzhang's center blooms, even if the Qing army is strong, the loss will be very large in the case of the war horse can not sprint, and the Ming army will be all fought out, and there will be soldiers and horses from Henan and Shaanxi who will continue to come to Qinwang far away, but the Qing army has no reinforcements! So now, although tens of thousands of cavalry are eyeing each other, in the face of Yang Hongzhang's helpless style of play, it is almost like a tiger eating iron and has no way to put his mouth down.