With Li Yanzhi's order, the fleet and the people walking on the shore all stopped and began to prepare to set up camp. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info set up camp on an open flat land on the south side of the Salt River, and countless soldiers and civilians were busy working, cutting down the reeds next to the lake by the river and setting up simple barracks.

Following Li Yanzhi's retreat, there were 2,000 Daishan Army infantry, 1,000 water troops, and more than 30,000 people. After experiencing the recruitment of troops in Jiaodong, the Daishan Army was very experienced in organizing the relocation of the people, and it was completely based on the family unit, and a shogunate scribe was assigned as the leader for every fifty households. And these people were originally the families of the newly recruited township soldiers in Yangzhou, Li Yanzhi gathered these recruits, a total of more than 5,000 people, let them still march according to the army queue, and they were not allowed to walk and camp together with their families.

Although there are more than 1,000 ships in Yangzhou, but to move so many people, there are not enough boats, Li Yanzhi led less than 300 river boats, most of the ships have to carry all kinds of food, material baggage and goods carried by the people, and there are only 100 ships that are really used to carry people, and they can't load so many people at all, so most of the soldiers and people retreat on foot along the banks on both sides of the Yunyan River, which is also the reason for the slow marching speed.

The camp of more than 30,000 people is huge, covering an area of several miles. In order to increase the defensive strength, Li Yanzhi even sent soldiers to cut down trees and tie them into wooden camp walls.

"This Ming army is very disciplined, you see how strong their camp is!" In the grass more than a mile away, two Qing army sentinels watched from afar.

"It's so warm, and they're still camping, oh my God, these Ming soldiers really know how to enjoy it! If they had used the effort of camping on the march, they might have traveled more than ten miles. ”

Indeed, it is almost the end of May, and even at night it is not cold at all, you can just sleep on the floor, and there is no need to set up a camp at all.

"You know a fart, this shows that the generals of this Ming army are very good at leading troops, and they always guard against enemy sneak attacks, maybe they know that we are coming."

"How could they not know that we are so much in motion! But just this bit of defense also wants to block our Eight Banners warriors? ”

The two Qing Army Eight Banner Sentry Sentries exchanged in a low voice, watched for a long time, until the night covered the earth, then got up and left, walked more than a mile without waking up, took out a war horse in a forest, and beat the horse away.

Half an hour later, the two came to the gate of a small town with a high wall.

A soldier of the Eight Banners put his finger in his mouth and whistled, and the gate of the fortress slowly opened. The two jumped off their horses and walked into the town, and suddenly a thick bloody breath filled the air, and they took a deep breath, feeling that the smell was so good.

"How's it going?" In the largest house in the town, where Turai and Ahsan were stationed, heard the sentry returning, Turai pushed away the woman in his arms and asked eagerly. 、

"Back to my lord, the Ming army has set up a big camp by the river ten miles away!" The sentinel described what he had seen.

"I didn't expect this Ming army to be quite cautious, but so what? In the face of the assault of my Eight Banners warriors, no matter how brave the enemy army is, it will crumble! The order went down, and the whole battalion immediately camped and rested, and tomorrow at dawn sent troops to break through the Ming army camp! Thurai shouted fiercely.

With Toulay's orders, the bustling town soon fell silent.

At dawn, the sky was still very dark, and the Qing troops in the town, whether the Eight Banners or the Green Battalion, had already gotten up for breakfast, and the war horses wrapped their hooves in cotton cloth, and everyone quietly left the town and quietly touched the north.

3,000 Eight Banner soldiers, 20,000 Green Battalion soldiers, such a powerful combat power can easily win in a head-on battle, but in order to completely annihilate the enemy, Turai decided to take advantage of the dawn night to attack the Ming army camp, so that they can't escape even if they want to!

The Eight Banners were in front, the Green Battalion was behind, more than 20,000 people were divided into a dozen or so military formations and galloped to the north, and at a place three miles away from the Ming army camp, all the cavalry jumped off their horses and marched slowly with the reins.

One mile away from the Ming army's camp, the sky was already faint, and Turai looked at the huge camp of the Ming army in front of him and frowned slightly.

"What's wrong?" Ahsan asked quietly.

"You don't think there's anything wrong, this camp is too quiet." Thurai frowned.

"What's there? They had been on the road for a day, and they were like dead pigs who were tired early. Ahsan said disapprovingly.

Turai smiled, and felt that he was thinking too much, but instinctively cautious did not directly lead his Eight Banners to attack the camp, but sent someone to call Xu Dingguo and Chen Zhong, the commanders of the Green Battalion, and asked them to lead their troops to attack the Ming army camp.

Feeling the trust of the Manchurian master, Xu Dingguo and Chen Zhong trembled with excitement, and immediately patted their chests and promised that they would never live up to the trust of the master.

Each took his subordinate soldiers, and the two of them moved towards the Ming army camp in two directions. The camp of the Ming army was quiet, and it seemed that the Ming army was sleeping very dead.

Quietly digging up the soil, taking out the trunk of the tree used as the wall, pulling out a gap, the wooden stick next to it was easier to pull, and soon the gap became bigger and bigger, but the Ming army in the camp did not react at all.

God help me! Xu Dingguo was overjoyed in his heart, pulled out his steel knife and swung it forward, and his soldiers immediately roared and shouted into the camp, and Liu Zhongbu on the other side also entered the Ming army camp at the same time.

The whole camp was in chaos, and many of the tents were running out, crying and fleeing to the north.

"Kill, kill the Army of Light!" With the desire to kill and rob, 20,000 green battalion soldiers rampaged through the camp, rushed into the camp tents, and began their happy time of killing and robbing.

No, why is there no one in the tent? Many green battalion soldiers had such thoughts in their hearts, but their attention was quickly attracted by the wealth in the camp tent, gold, silver, copper coins, silk cloth, and almost every camp tent was scattered with a lot of material wealth.

Of course, Xu Dingguo and Chen Zhong couldn't look down on those ordinary tents, and their eyes looked at the huge camp tent in the middle of the camp, knocking over the firewood piles that were scattered and blocking the road, and kicking the haystacks that blocked the way, why are there so many thatched firewood in the Ming military camp!

Each took hundreds of personal soldiers to the huge camp tent to kill, but unexpectedly, no Ming army came out to stop it, Xu Dingguo finally felt that something was wrong, and subconsciously stopped.

Liu Zhong, who was born in the Shun army, didn't care so much, and took his own soldiers into the camp regardless of it.

"Bang!" With a loud bang, Xu Dingguo felt that the ground under his feet trembled, and in an instant, the camp in front of him was torn apart, and sparks flew in the sky...... (To be continued.) )