After a night of intense running, by the time it was almost dawn, Dordor was finally free from his pursuers. But he still didn't dare to stay, and ran away with the people for a while, until the horses couldn't hold on anymore, and some of the horses began to fall to the ground and die, he had the courage to stop and rest.

In summer, the sun is already rising when the sun dawns early. At this time, Duoduo counted the people around him, and when he fled at noon yesterday, there were still three or four thousand men, and now there are not even five hundred people with him. All of them looked tired and frightened; All the horses were also extremely tired.

Dodor knew that his horse was far from resting, but he didn't dare to rest here any longer. If it is already dawn today, the enemy may be speeding up. Sometimes a gust of wind blew through the woods, and the leaves of the birch trees swayed and made Duoduo jump in fright. Two years ago, Duoduo listened to Dolgon's stories about the wars fought in ancient times, including the Battle of Huangshui between the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Former Qin. When talking about the defeat of the Former Qin army and the fact that on the way to escape, he regarded all the rumors as the arrival of the chasing soldiers, Duoduo also laughed at the timidity of those former Qin troops. Today, in a similar situation, Dordor realizes that he is not better than others.

In the end, Dordor decided that he could not rest here for the time being, and that he had to continue his escape north. As long as you enter Liaoyang City, you can feel at ease for a while-because it is impossible for the enemy's pursuers to carry cannons. At least he had time to catch his breath and think about what lay ahead before the enemy artillery arrived.

"Everybody led the horses." Dodor.

Leading the horse slowly can also be regarded as allowing the horse to rest a little, and in case the enemy is approaching, you can also run for a while. At the same time, it can be regarded as being close to Liaoyang.

The situation later went smoothly to Dord's imagination, and the enemy's pursuers never appeared! Duoduo relaxed a little, and he speculated that most of the pursuers who had attacked them last night were not that many, and that they might just be some small elite troops of the enemy. The enemy's large forces did not actually keep up. Because they march at night, they will also encounter a lot of trouble.

"The enemy who pursued us last night may have been a hundred horsemen at most. It's a pity that our army is already a frightened bird, and when it was attacked in the dark, it immediately blew up the battalion. However, in that case, it is inevitable that it will ......" thought to Dordor with some regret.

This speculation would explain why no enemy forces have been catching up with them now. This was due to the fact that the number of enemies who could catch up with them was small, and it was difficult to attack a team of their size during the day; And the main forces of the enemy army rested last night and could not catch up for a while.

"How far is it from Liaoyang?" Duoduo asked a nearby man named Baya Lajia Lazhangjing.

"If you go back to your master, it's not far away, and in another hour and a half, it's almost time to arrive." He Luo replied with a bowed hand.

Duoduo nodded, and was about to say something like "You've worked hard this time, you've returned to Liaoyang, everyone will be rewarded" to boost morale, when he heard an exclamation from the back of the team.

"What's going on? The enemy is catching up? Dodor was taken aback, and almost wanted to get on his horse and run away without hesitation.

"Master, dozens of enemy scouts followed us and hung behind us." Meljangjing Bahana came up from the back row and replied.

Duoduo stepped on the stirrups and looked back, and sure enough, he saw that twenty or thirty light cavalry of the model army were also leading the horses, following from a distance.

"Master, do you want me to take a few people to drive them away?" Bahana asked again.

Duoduo shook his head: "It's useless, our horsepower is not as good as theirs, to chase them is just a waste of horsepower." Keep going, and ignore them as long as they don't catch up. ”

Bahana listened, snorted, and retreated to the back team. Everyone is still leading the horse forward. Those exemplary soldiers were few and did not carry a horse gun, so they could only lead their horses from a distance.

After walking like this, Duoduo suddenly heard a scream from behind, and when he looked back, he saw that it was the model army light cavalry behind him who shot a rocket into the sky. The rocket flew into the air with a screech, and then exploded with a "bang" - apparently a means of communicating with other troops.

This rocket once again made the Qing army nervous. Does the fact that the enemy forces are in contact in this way mean that the enemy's large forces are already chasing very closely? Suddenly there was another commotion in the army.

"Calm down!" "It's just a bluff on the part of the enemy. The sound of this thing couldn't travel far. If they knew where their brigade was chasing, wouldn't it be better if one or two people rode to report the news, and then the brigade caught up? Why put this thing? It's just a deliberate bluff by them to confuse our army! We can't be fooled, everyone ignore it and move on! ”

The soldiers who were still with Duoduo now were also veterans of a hundred battles, and most of them were white-armored soldiers, so they soon calmed down again and continued to lead their horses towards Liaoyang. After walking like this for about half an hour, the model army light cavalry still followed far behind, and there were no large troops around.

"Sure enough, it's a bluff." Everyone thought so, and many people also felt that although Duoduo was not very old, he was calm at a critical time, and he really deserved to be the favorite son of Destiny Khan.

At this moment, the model army behind shot another rocket into the sky. However, this rocket did not have much effect. The Qing army continued to retreat silently towards Liaoyang, unaffected by this rocket.

……

At this time, Zheng Sen was already waiting outside Liaoyang City with more than a thousand light cavalry. They had already arrived not far from Liaoyang a few hours ago. At that time, it was still dark, Zheng Sen first asked the soldiers to hurry up and make up for sleep, but only sent scouts to control the surrounding area and monitor the official road. After dawn, the soldiers had breakfast again, fed the horses, and then the whole team set off to the south gate of Liaoyang City. Some of the scouts were sent to several other gates to monitor the movements of the defenders in the city.

Jierharang, who stayed in Liaoyang City, heard a report that the Ming army suddenly appeared outside Liaoyang City, and couldn't help but be surprised. Yesterday's news from the front line had not yet reached him. He climbed up the tower and looked out, and saw that there were indeed more than 1,000 cavalry blocking the road under the city.

There are more than 10,000 troops in Liaoyang City, but these more than 10,000 troops are actually old, weak, sick and disabled. The slightly more elite units were transferred to the front. The more than 10,000 people here are either old men who have been half-buried in the loess, or children who have not even grown their hair. Relying on such 10,000 people, guarding the city and throwing stones or something, it can barely be used, and he has to go out of the city to fight with other people's cavalry, even if there are many people on his side, Zilharang still feels that this is simply wiping his own neck. And the front line is tense, and suddenly such a cavalry comes out here, and if you want to say that there is no conspiracy here, Zilharang will not believe it. It's just that what this conspiracy is, Zilharan can't figure it out. But in any case, you can't go wrong with holding the city. These cavalry were not too numerous, and they had no siege equipment. Zilharang felt that as long as he was not hot-headed and did not go out of the city, no matter how they made trouble, with just their little people, could they really take down the city?

"Keep an eye on them, give the order, no one is allowed to leave the city!" Zilharang ordered.

After giving this order, Zilharan continued to monitor the more than 1,000 cavalry below from the tower of the south gate. But I saw that the more than 1,000 cavalry began to form a formation outside the range of the cannons at the head of the city, and when I looked at it from a distance, I could see that the cavalry was lined up in a neat line, and the long spears looked like a forest.

"What are they doing? Could they still be able to charge the walls? Zilharan felt very strange, and he asked him to take out the binoculars and take a closer look, but found a strange detail, that is, the buttocks of the enemy horses were facing his side, and the soldiers leading the horses were also facing away from him. They lined up, as if not to charge their side, but to be able to escape in order.

"What are they doing?" Zilharang couldn't figure it out. But the more he couldn't figure it out, the more he concluded that there must be a conspiracy here; And he became more and more convinced that he would never let anyone out of the city.

At this time, the other party made strange movements again, and their soldiers all sat on the ground with their backs to the city, and the spears in their hands were all down. Others pulled up a net about the height of the horses in front of them.

"It's not strange, it's self-defeating. As long as I insist on not leaving the city, I don't believe you can still play with any flowers! Zilharan couldn't understand what the enemy was doing, so he could only console himself with such thoughts.

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Duoduo hadn't eaten a bite since the previous night, and was sleepy and hungry by this time. And the more than 20 Ming troops still followed them not far away, and they still shot one of those rockets into the sky every once in a while. Dodor had been worried that the main force of the enemy army would suddenly appear behind them in the next moment. Fortunately, this situation has not happened, but Liaoyang City is getting closer and closer. Its towering towers can now be faintly seen. Duoduo restrained his desire to immediately gallop towards Liaoyang City in desperation, he knew that if he did this, he would only bring the entire team into chaos, and maybe he would give those cavalry a chance to follow. And doing so will also damage your own image, and in the future, you may be looked down upon by those who have fought old battles. Therefore, the closer you get to Liaoyang, the more you need to restrain yourself.