Night is approaching, thirty miles east of Linqing, a village ruins, nearly 3,000 Ming cavalry stationed here.

The village here was slaughtered by the Eight Banners a few days ago, and the villagers have long since died, leaving only broken walls.

Dorgon fled the battlefield with his troops and galloped east. After Yu Feng joined Wu Sangui's cavalry, the 3,000 cavalry launched a tailgating pursuit of the fleeing Mantars.

As a last resort, Dolgon left Yue Le with 3,000 soldiers to break the queen and come to survive with a broken tail. Yu Feng and Wu Sangui had 3,000 troops, and it was impossible to leave all the more than 10,000 Eight Banner soldiers behind, and some were happy to eat the 3,000 abandoned Eight Banner soldiers first.

Subsequently, the two of them took their cavalry to attack Yue Lebu in turn, these Eight Banners soldiers knew that they had been abandoned at the moment they were left, although their morale was low, but they all reported their mortal hearts, and they fought to the death one by one, so that the Ming cavalry could not gnaw down.

Helpless, the two could only take the cavalry to monitor on the side, waiting for the Eight Banners to retreat and march before the time to attack, but Yue Le had already reported his mortal heart, he knew that only by covering the regent's more than 10,000 people to flee back, the Qing Dynasty could be saved, and the hundreds of thousands of family members in Beijing could be saved, so he gritted his teeth and nailed to the main road to the east, without the slightest intention of escaping.

After a while, Xiao Bing and other generals arrived with the infantry, surrounded the 3,000 Eight Banner Corps, and the Ming artillery fired a volley, and then the infantry launched a strong attack.

Seeing that the Eight Banners soldiers could no longer escape, Yu Feng and Wu Sangui set off again with the cavalry and continued to chase the fleeing Eight Banners infantry.

However, night still came, and it was naturally impossible to march in the night, so we had to find this small village to camp.

The village well still has a good water source, but food has become a problem. Wu Sangui's cavalry didn't bring any food when they came out, so they could only watch Yu Feng's cavalry eat fried noodles and swallow saliva one by one.

Yu Feng's cavalry each carried dry food, each carrying more than ten catties of fried noodles, packed in a slender cloth bag, which was not heavy to hold by the war horse, and these rations were enough for the cavalry to fight in the field for five or six days.

But seeing that Wu Sangui's subordinates didn't have any dry food, Yu Feng could only order some to be given to the Guanning cavalry, which made Wu Sangui very grateful and personally came to Yu Feng to thank him.

When Wu Sangui was the chief soldier of tens of thousands of troops in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, Yu Feng was still a nobody, and at that time, Chen Yue was just a small soldier with two or three thousand troops in his hands. But feng shui takes turns, and now Chen Yuegui is the prince of the Ming Dynasty and has become the governor in charge of the world's soldiers and horses, and Yu Feng also has a nobody who became the chief soldier and was named an earl.

If you talk about the officials, Yu Feng and Wu Sangui are now equal, if you talk about the status in the imperial court in the heart of Chen Yue, the king of Qi, Wu Sangui will not be able to compare with Yu Feng at all, so even if he is uncomfortable in his heart, Wu Sangui still puts down the shelf and intersects with Yu Feng.

"Ping Xibo doesn't need to be polite, since you have returned to the court with your troops, we are friendly troops, and we should share weal and bene." Yu Feng waved his hand.

"General Yu is really benevolent and righteous, Sangui is inexplicably grateful, but please don't call Ping Xibo again, Sangui is a criminal general, how can the previous title still be counted!" Wu Sangui sighed.

"Then I'll call you General Wu," Yu Feng is as good as a stream, "General Wu, you don't have to worry, the performance of your army in this battle is very good, the prince sees it in his eyes, with this battle, you surrendered to the Manchus in the past and aided the abuse, the court will no longer pursue it, and now Beijing is still in the hands of the Manchus, the Ming Dynasty is full of wars, and there are opportunities for meritorious service, as long as you are as brave as today, restore the title and other idle matters." “

"General Xie Yu encourages, Sangui must work hard!" Wu Sangui said gratefully.

"Rest well, tomorrow we will continue to hunt down, try to catch up with Dolgon's bastard, and leave them all behind!"

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Just more than 20 miles away from the Ming cavalry, there was an even smaller village, and the village was full of Qing soldiers. In a small village with a population of only a few hundred, the houses are certainly not enough to accommodate tens of thousands of Eight Banners soldiers to stay overnight, and most of the Eight Banners soldiers can only choose to lie in the courtyard and lie on the street.

The largest room is the ancestral hall in the village, the three ancestral halls are densely packed with people, all of them are officers above the Eight Banners Soldier Niu Lu, and several oil lamps are lit on the offering table in front of the ancestral hall, and the dim light shines on Dolgon's face, so dark and unknown.

At this moment, Dolgon's heart was full of frustration, and his face was full of haggardness. However, he still held on and arranged the next move.

"What? Scattered breakouts? Isn't this at the mercy of the Ming army! When Dorgon revealed his plan and his plan, there was an immediate uproar.

It turned out that Dolgon wanted all the Qing soldiers to break through the siege according to Niu Lu and flee back to Beijing on their own.

This plan is really incredible, it is no different from fleeing in the wilderness, but now we still have more than 10,000 troops, the Eight Banners are invincible, and there are 10,000 troops here, although they can't defeat the Ming army, it's not easy to safely withdraw to Beijing?

As a result, the officers of the Eight Banners in the ancestral hall were in an uproar, full of doubts about Dolgon, and Dolgon sadly found that after a defeat, his authority plummeted, and now ordinary officers like Niu Lu were not afraid of him.

But there is no way, the army originally worships the strong, and it is the general who can lead everyone to victory. This defeat was so miserable that Dorgon, the commander-in-chief, was largely responsible!

"Ahem," Dolgon coughed a few times, seeing that he still couldn't be quiet, he couldn't help but be angry, and stretched out his hand and slapped it heavily on the table, and the loud sound startled everyone, and everyone quieted down.

"Why should I disperse the retreat? Move your pig brains, when we are defeated, the food and baggage are all lost, if you gather together and march without the Ming army chasing and killing, it will be starved to death in a few days.

The Ming army has cavalry, which can easily catch up and stick to us, and wait for its infantry to come up and besiege us. That would be another big defeat.

If we disperse and break through, we will take Niu Lu as a unit, two or three hundred people as a unit, and the whole army will be divided into dozens of shares, and the Ming army will have nothing to pursue, and it will catch up with several at most, and most of the army will be able to escape to the north safely.

With fewer people, the march is much faster and food is easier to find, so that more people can escape. “

"But what if the Ming army also scatters to chase after them? There are many more of them than we are. An officer asked.

"Scattered? If the Ming army is really divided into small groups of 1,000 people to chase after us, not to mention whether they can catch up, that is, to catch up, are we afraid of them? Dorgon sneered, "And it's easy to disperse and gather, it will take a long time for them to regather their troops, so that we will have enough time to withdraw from Beijing with hundreds of thousands of family members." “