Going back to the Ming army in the Songshan camp, it has become a pot of porridge at this time.

Soon after Wang Pu led his army to leave the camp, Tang Tong, the general soldier of Miyun, was indeed as Wu Sangui expected, and first led the army to retreat in the direction of Ningyuan.

Wu Sangui, Ma Ke and Wang Tingchen, who were aware of the news, were moved when they heard the news, and they all withdrew their camps and retreated, and Li Fuming, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, and Zhao Wuzhu, the deputy chief soldier of Datong, were not far behind and followed the retreat. The general army of the six towns retreated at the same time, and it was a sudden retreat, and the soldiers of the Ming army did not have enough ideological preparation for this, and hastily caused a large-scale turmoil.

By the time the news reached Hong Chengchou's governor, it was already too late.

The Qing army had already prepared for this, and received the news that the Ming army had withdrawn overnight, and the slave chieftain Taiji immediately ordered Dolgon to lead the army to chase and kill, and personally led the Eight Banners army to surround Songshan City, so that Hong Chengchou could not get out of Songshan City, and he could not stop the retreat of the general army of the six towns, and he lost the last chance to reverse the situation.

The retreating Ming army was defeated like a mountain under the pursuit of Dolgon's army, trampling on each other and killing countless people, and on the way to escape, they encountered layers of interception of Manchu ambush soldiers, and finally were killed more than 50,000 people, and countless people were drowned in the sea, Wu Sangui and Tang Tong were only spared, while the Qing army only suffered a few hundred casualties.

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Swale.

Xiao Qi leaned over to Wang Pu's side and asked excitedly: "General, the Jiannu camp is almost empty, do you want to kick the camp now?" ”

Xiao Qi didn't know Wang Pu's intentions to use troops, and thought that he was going to take advantage of the situation to attack the Qing army camp.

"Kicking the camp?" Wang Pu shook his head and said in a deep voice, "No, our purpose is not to kick the camp. ”

Xiao Qi was stunned and said, "What is that for?" ”

Wang Pu did not answer, and shouted in a deep voice: "Order the whole army to lead the horses on foot and go around the side of the Jiannu camp, so that the brothers must not make too much noise and do not go away!" ”

"General, don't worry."

Xiao Qi took the order and left.

In less than a moment, the Jiading lurking in the low-lying ground walked out with a column leading the war horses, and the soldiers behind tightly held the horsetails of the soldiers in front to avoid getting separated, and under the dark night sky, this Jiading army of more than 1,000 horsemen was like a group of ghosts from hell, silently bypassing from the side of the Qing army camp.

At this time, the Qing army had already poured out, and all the troops that could be sent out had been sent to the front line, leaving only a few old, weak, sick and disabled people to guard the camp, plus the main force of more than 100,000 Ming troops had been defeated on all fronts, so the Qing army did not send reconnaissance cavalry guards around the camp at all, and they never imagined that there would be a small group of Ming troops bypassing them.

In fact, only Wang Pu, a traverser, would make this crazy decision: to go to the rear of the Qing army to attack Shengjing.

It wasn't until he walked out of more than ten miles that the Qing army camp had been left far behind, that Wang Pu ordered Xiao Qi to light a torch to lead the way, and then ordered his family to get on his horse and swept towards the east like a whirlwind.

When the sky was light, Wang Pu led the army to the bank of the Daling River and ordered to rest on the spot, and asked Xiao Qi to find the beard and Scarface, the beard and Scarface were both bandits, strong martial arts, and the surname was fierce, two years ago Wang Pu led the troops to suppress their bandit nest, and the two became Wang Pu's cronies.

Although Wang Pu is greedy for life and afraid of death, he also knows how to win people's hearts, and the bearded and scar-faced old mother and wife are brought to Datong to be raised, and the bearded and scar-faced know the kindness of the newspaper, and in the past two years, he has made some contributions to Wang Pu's birth and death, which can be regarded as loyal, and the two have also accumulated merit and promoted thousands of generals, and are responsible for commanding more than 1,000 of Wang Pu's families.

"General."

"General."

The bearded man and the scarface soon followed Xiao Qi to Wang Pu and hugged his fists in salute.

"Hmm." Wang Pu nodded and said in a deep voice, "I asked Xiao Qi to bring you here, I just want to tell you one thing, this time we are going to attack Shengjing." ”

"Huh? Attack Shengjing!? Xiao Qida was taken aback and said, "That's Jiannu's lair!" ”

"Jiannu's lair must be heavily garrisoned." The bearded man was also surprised, "How can we do with more than a thousand of us?" ”

The three of them looked at each other, all with expressions of disbelief on their faces, thinking that either the general was crazy or their ears had misheard.

"You heard me right." Wang Pu said coldly, "We are going to attack Shengjing and stab Jiannu's heart with one sword!" ”

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Of course, Wang Pu is not hot-blooded, but a decision made after careful consideration!

The surprise attack on Shengjing seems crazy, but in fact, it is still possible to succeed, of course, if he has a choice, Wang Pu doesn't want to take this risk, but the cruel reality forces him to take risks and survive in death.

According to Wang Pu's understanding of the history of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu slave chieftain Taiji at this time had conquered Mongolia, Korea and the indigenous people of the Heilongjiang Valley, and the Manchu Dynasty's apparent ruling territory had stretched for thousands of miles, with a population of more than one million, and it seemed that it had enough strength to destroy the Ming Empire, but in fact, it was not, this was just an illusion on the surface.

An unconcealable fact is that the Manchu family background is too thin!

During the reign of Nuer Hachi, all the Jurchens in Liaodong were only a few hundred thousand people, and during the reign of Huang Taiji, a large number of Han Chinese, Mongols and Koreans were integrated into the Jurchens, collectively known as Manchurians, which made the population of Manchuria reach 300,000! It needs to be noted here that there were originally more than 2 million Han people in Liaodong, but during the decades of Nurhachi's rule in Liaodong, more than 2 million Han people were slaughtered, and finally only tens of thousands of Han people were incorporated into the Eight Banners by Huang Taiji and became Manchurians, in fact, they were still Jurchen banner slaves.

[In fact, Nurhachi only wants to guard Changbai Mountain as a tribal leader, while Huang Taiji only wants to guard Liaodong as a small monarch, and the two have never thought of entering the Central Plains, nor have they ever treated the Han people well.

To take the most typical example, the Han Dynasty Fan Wencheng (this guy claimed to be a descendant of Fan Zhongyan) who strongly instigated Dolgon to lead the Qing troops into the customs was almost arrested and beheaded during the reign of Nurhachi, and Huang Taiji was only an insignificant petty official during the reign of Huang Taiji, until Dolgon came to power and became the regent, this guy was really reused. It was precisely because of the strong instigation of the Han anniversaries led by Fan Wencheng that Dolgon made up his mind to lead the Qing troops into the pass, taking a big step that Nurhachi and Huang Taiji father and son did not dare to think of. 】

To get back to the point, due to the continuous foreign wars of the Manchurians and the consumption of a large number of men, the maximum number of men in the 300,000 population is about 100,000, and the 100,000 men minus the underage children and the elderly, the maximum number of adult strong men who can really go to the battlefield is 60,000! If it weren't for Nu'er Hachi's creation of the Eight Banners system, which brought the Jurchens' war potential to the limit, with such a thin population base, it would have been impossible for the Jurchens to unify Liaodong, let alone enter the Central Plains.

Until Dolgon led the Qing army into the customs, the total population of the Manchu Qing did not exceed 300,000 [excluding the hundreds of thousands of Han slaves captured by the Qing soldiers who entered the customs six times, and the status of these Han slaves was lower than the tens of thousands of Han people left in the Nurhachi period, and they were not even qualified to become banner slaves], and the total strength of the Eight Banners Army has remained around 60,000, even if the Eight Banners of the Han Army (mainly the Ming Army brought over by Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Kong Youde) and the Mongolian Eight Banners, the total strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is about 100,000, and it will not exceed 120,000 at most.

It is not difficult to understand that the Jurchens were extremely wary of the Han and Mongols, and it was absolutely impossible for the total number of troops of the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of the Mongols to exceed the Eight Banners of the Jurchens.

Due to the limitations of population and military strength, several decisive battles between the Jurchens and the Ming Empire, such as the Battle of Sarhu, the two battles of Ningyuan and the later Battle of Songshan, were all moved, especially the Battle of Songshan, the initial battle of the Qing army was unfavorable, and Huang Taiji recruited all the men over thirteen years old and under sixty years old in the "Manchukuo".

Of course, the old man and the child do not go to the battlefield, and their task is only to be stationed in the rear in place of the adult male.

In other words, Shengjing, the rear nest of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, is now just a group of old people and children stationed in it, and the number is only three or five thousand at most, this is indeed an opportunity, at least worth trying. Of course, Wang Pu can also not sneak attack Shengjing, directly flee to North Korea and then return to Dengzhou by sea, but after Wang Pu returns to Dengzhou, he will be arrested and imprisoned, and then escorted to Beijing to be executed like Wang Pu in history.

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