At the third watch of the next day, the city gate on the east side of the pavilion was quietly opened, and Duoduo, Yue Le, Tong Tulai and others led the army out of the city secretly, walking to the east of the city, looking at the long procession, several black shadows hiding in the dark kept calculating, and then a black shadow jumped on the war horse and ran towards the big tent of the volunteers.

When they heard that the Tartars had fled out of the city to the east, the people were overjoyed, and they congratulated one after another.

Out of the Three Gorges and through the Yiling Pavilion, it will be tens of thousands of square kilometers of Jianghan Plain, the famous land of fish and rice.

The main purpose of this crusade was to enter the Jianghan Plain before the autumn ploughing, so as to prevent the Tartars from plundering the people after the autumn harvest.

Now the Tartars have withdrawn from the Pavilion, and the Volunteers have entered the Jianghan Plain, and now the two sides are fighting fiercely, so if the Tartars want to plunder the people's food again, it may provoke a greater popular uprising.

Yuan Zongdi, who had just been promoted to deputy chief of the General Staff Office, did not see it that way, pointed to the map in front of him and said: "Lord Wang, the Tartars fled to the front line of Jingzhou and Wuchang, which frustrated our army's ambush plan.

Lord Wang, the Tartar lost his troops in the Yaoting Pavilion, and he was already like a turtle in an urn, and now he is withdrawing, which is a desperate situation.

In the long run, the withdrawal of the Tartars from the Pavilion will cause many changes in our army's attack on Wuchang."

Wu Yanghu, the commander of the army, didn't think so, pointed to the map, and said: "Lord Wang, although Wuchang is important, it is only a place of four battles.

To defend Wuchang, we must ensure the safety of these portals, Xiangfan, Wusheng Pass is the northern gateway of Wuchang, Jiujiang is the eastern gateway of Wuchang, Yueyang is the southern gateway of Wuchang, and Yiling is the western portal.

Li Zicheng was defeated and killed, except for the will of heaven, he did not listen to the advice of others to defend Xiangfan, so from this point of view, it is not terrible for the Tartars to retreat to Wuchang, so he is afraid that the Tartars will retreat to Xiangfan.

If the Tartars occupy Xiangfan, even if we occupy Wuchang, there seems to be a sharp sword hanging on our heads, and the Tartars can come to attack it at any time. ”

Yang Xuan pondered for a long time, and it was difficult to decide for a moment.

Immediately sent a scout to order Guo Chonglie and others to pay close attention to the movements of the Tartars, so as to prevent the Tartars from turning back halfway and retreating to Xiangfan.

Lying on the chair in a daze, he suddenly came to report that the Tartars had turned back to the north as Yang Xuan had expected, and now more than 7,000 Tartar cavalry were retreating in the direction of Dangyang.

Yang Xuan nodded, ordered the fourth watch to cook, the fourth watch to get up, and set off after the fifth watch, and immediately pursued the Tartars after eating, and ordered the Operations Division to send an operational staff officer to Guo Chonglie Town quickly to inform everyone to prepare for battle.

Slightly different from the various departments of this era, the volunteers already had a division of labor, except for camping, burying pots to make rice, fetching water and chopping firewood, and other people and horses needed to assist, just like cooking in the morning, these tasks were basically completed by the soldiers.

A brigade has 10 men and soldiers, which are supervised by the chief of the department, and are usually led by the team leader, and everyone divides the labor to cook and cook, which is also very convenient.

When they arrived at the camp in the evening, one squadron was often responsible for setting up tents, one squadron was responsible for erecting fortifications on the perimeter, and another squadron assisted the cooking squad in carrying water and cutting firewood, or burying pots for cooking.

In the morning, the cooking team is generally responsible for cooking, because it takes a long time to march, not only for breakfast and lunch, but also for preparing food for the march, so it takes a long time.

The cooking team got up on the third watch, led by the secretary and the team leader, and everyone worked together to prepare breakfast.

Someone specially boiled water, the prince said, the disease comes from the mouth, if you want not to get sick, every soldier is equipped with a coconut scoop, you need to fill it, drink boiled water, instead of drinking it indiscriminately and harming others and yourself.

Some people specialize in boiling gruel, but now the weather is hot and sweating profusely, and they can't eat dry rice like in winter, and everyone needs to drink three bowls of gruel before they can go on the road.

During the march, of course, two meals of gruel in the morning and evening can not last long, and you need to bring two cooking cakes before setting off every morning, so that you are hungry at noon.

In the morning, two side dishes were fried, and after a long march, one by one the young men were tortured to the point of weakness, what should I do? As long as the conditions permit, two side dishes have been fried, or some meat has been purchased, and everyone will have a tooth sacrifice.

A brigade has five or six cauldrons, and the cooking team needs to be busy for half an hour before it can be properly prepared.

Now it is necessary to march far to pursue the enemy, and to prepare more things, such as cooking cakes, fried noodles, and rice balls, so that it takes an hour to be busy before you can prepare two or three days of marching rations.

In the previous life, some people ridiculed the Chinese army as a pot helmet army, and the infantry-based army can only be like this.

Of course, compared with other departments that don't have three meals and can't get meat for half a month, the soldiers of the Volunteer Army are simply heaven.

This is one of the reasons why the Volunteers have won consecutive battles since their establishment.

The Tartars escaped from the city of Yaoting, and fled all the way north, until the next day, when the scorching sun was empty, and Duoduo ordered everyone to make a fire to cook and let everyone rest.

The rice had just been placed in the jar and the fire had just been lit

Duoduo sat in the carriage, his chest rose and fell, coughing, this humid climate in the south of the Yangtze River was really fatal.

Duoduo is not in good health, especially in the past few years, and after yesterday's battle, the whole body can't stand it, and he can't ride a horse like other generals, but can only sit in the carriage.

I don't know if it's because it's too hot or what's going on, Duoduo feels a little bumpy on his face, and he has a little fever on his face, probably because the weather is too hot and there is some kind of measles.

Just as Dodor was about to summon the doctor, Gushan Ezhen Ilde came over on horseback and said with a sad face: "Uncle Regent, I have an army of thousands of men ten miles ahead, and they are building fortifications to stop our army. ”

Duoduo was shocked and said with a panicked expression: "This, how is this possible?

Could it be that Yang Xuan did not serve the prophet, but we went out of the east gate and turned back to the west, how could Yang Xuan not serve the prophet and send soldiers and horses to stop it? ”

Ilde shook his head and said: "Yang Xuan's use of troops is different from ordinary people, every time he often expects the enemy to come first, in this way, Yang Xuan may have noticed the traces of our army's escape in advance, so he buried such an ambush." ”

Commander Gulha said angrily: "Uncle Regent, although the volunteers have a small number of cavalry, they are still mainly infantry, after a night of pursuit, it is impossible to be much stronger than us, we have seven thousand cavalry, and the terrain in Dangyang is quite flat, I don't believe that these more than 10,000 volunteers can stop our army?" ”

Yild shook his head and said: "The name of this place is Yaheling, it is only 50 miles away from Yaoting, since Yang Xuan sent ambush soldiers, so he must have already mastered the whereabouts of our army, we can't fall in love with the war, and it is true that we fled to Xiangfan to join Bei Zishuoto." ”

Duoduo pondered for a moment, and immediately asked Wang Yuele of Anjun to come to discuss the matter.

There is no need for Duoduo's orders, Yue Le was also quite surprised when he heard the ambush in front of him, and now he had already arrived, and cried to Duoduo's sedan chair: "Fifteen uncles, Yang Xuan is leading in one move, leading everywhere, for today's plan, how can we get rid of the pursuit of the volunteers and escape back to Xiangfan is the truth."

When Duoduo heard this, he opened the curtain, and with trembling hands, he took a bowl of ginseng soup from a Mei Ji and wanted to take a sip to stabilize his inner turmoil, but Mei Ji next to him was shocked, shouting and running out of the carriage with a roll, that look, quite panicked.

Duoduo was shocked and was about to scold this beautiful concubine, but to Duoduo's surprise, Yue Le Yild and the others were also quite nervous, and watched Duoduo take a few steps back in a panic.

Duoduo was shocked, looked at Yue Le and said, "King Anjun, what are you waiting for, seeing this king so cowardly."

At Yue Le's signal, Mei Ji took a bronze mirror in fear, and Duoduo looked at it, and the entire bronze mirror also fell to the ground.

I saw that Duoduo's face was like ashes, panicked, and the whole person seemed to be much older, and suddenly stood on the carriage, looked up to the sky and sighed: "Heaven is absolutely absolute and I am also heavenly, I can't imagine that I Duoduo I hero, in this chaos of war, actually have acne, don't you have a relationship with me Duoduo?" ”

The more he talked, the more excited he became, and in the end, Duoduo actually drew his sword and prepared to kill himself in public.

Don't underestimate this pox, this pox is smallpox, in history, Duoduo and Shunzhi all died of this pox. And Kangxi, who was most admired by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was able to become the emperor, mainly because among the sons of Shunzhi, Xuan Ye had only had smallpox.

Duoduo had a terminal disease like smallpox, and the sadness in his heart was conceivable, and seeing the acne on his face, Duoduo had the heart to commit suicide, not to mention others.

Although Yue Le was brave but also afraid of contagion, he persuaded him: "Uncle Fifteen, you are my Qing Dynasty Optimus Prime, if you have any three strengths and two weaknesses, how can I explain to Uncle Fourteen (Dolgon)?"

Fifteenth uncle, don't worry, the child has his own opinions, the uncle sits on this carriage, and the child sends someone to protect the uncle to return to Anlu Mansion and return to Xiangfan, and then go north, which may help the uncle's condition.

If the fifteenth uncle is relieved, then please hand over the command to his nephew, who will definitely live up to his uncle's high expectations."

With the terminal illness of smallpox, Duoduo had no choice but to hand over the command of the army to Yue Le.

And Yue Le left a leader to lead the bannermen who had had smallpox to protect Duoduo and escape.

Manqing lives in an extremely cold place, everyone came to the Central Plains after the climate is extremely unadaptable, many people to the south is simply like mourning, is afraid of smallpox, this strange disease, so quickly gathered more than 200 people who have had smallpox Eight Banners of the Barbarian Qing Dynasty.

Yue Le personally led a cavalry of 2,000 people to entangle the cavalry of the Volunteers, while Han Dai and Yild led the main force of 4,000 to escape, so as to avoid the phenomenon that the Volunteers did not take care of one or the other.