The earth seemed to be shaking all the time, looking at the wave of Qing soldiers surrounding him like a sea, and the generals of Xuanda were all shocked: "This Tartar soldier has come too much, right?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng, Wang Dou and others also looked solemn, and the slaves and thieves were powerful, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

The flag-bearer on the lookout car kept sending flags, and the Qing army camp tent was mostly on the side of the Huanshui River ten miles away to the east, and there were also many upstream and downstream of the Haoshui River close to the Xuanda camp, and only the camp on the other side of the Haoshui River in the west seemed to be less.

Sergeant Xuanda quietly watched the Qing soldiers camp, seeing that they were neighing, and the auxiliary soldiers of the brigade were facing the cold wind, going out to fetch water and make food, and the accents of foreign races were noisy. Slowly night fell, and in the camp of the Qing army, the lights were lit up with dots, and finally converged into a bright sea of lights. In addition, the Xuanda camp is also brightly lit, and when you look down from the sky, it is like several huge cities that never sleep.

That night, Lu Xiangsheng summoned all the generals to discuss the matter, and Lu Xiangsheng tried his best to cheer him up. After the discussion, Lu Xiangsheng called Wang Dou again and asked Wang Dou to accompany him around. Lu Xiangsheng was followed by his personal general Chen An, and Wang Dou was only followed by Xie Yike and a few other personal guards, and the group was silent, just patrolling around the camp.

The entire Xuanda battalion was heavily guarded, and the soldiers patrolling the battalions were constantly ringing out, and the shouts and shouts of the passwords were constantly sounding. Other than that, there was silence around the tents, except for the dim light of the lanterns and torches in front of the tents.

In the outer defense line of the Xuanda camp, a large number of night watchmen were also arranged for each battalion here, which were placed on rows of wooden poles on the ground, and layers of lanterns were hung, which shook from time to time in the cold wind, and also illuminated the surrounding boundaries. In order to prevent the Qing soldiers from stealing the camp, in addition to these night watchmen and lanterns and torches. The ground on three sides of the Xuanda camp was also sprinkled with layers of thistles, and the key areas were also covered with rejecting horses.

In this era, it is not easy to steal camps, not to mention the night blindness, and the drum banner of the cold weapon era has lost its effect. It's okay for a small group of people to sneak attack, but a large group of troops to sneak attack is purely adding to the chaos. Therefore, it is extremely difficult for the Qing soldiers to steal the camp of the Xuanda army, and in the same way, it is not so easy for the Xuanda army to sneak attack the camp of the Qing army.

Wang Dou and Lu Xiangsheng came to the outer defense line of the camp, looking at the dense sea of lights in the Qing army camp opposite, Wang Dou's mind was a little trance, and he seemed to have the feeling of returning to the afterlife and facing the sea of lights in the city.

The group turned around the periphery of the camp, and finally came to the Artemisia River, opposite the Qing army camp faintly lit of the sea of lights, connected to the stars in the sky, it seemed that it was impossible to distinguish which was the sky and which was the earth. My generation has read the books of the sages, and I am not as much as yours. ”

Then he said: "When the war slave and thief retreat, the governor will ask the emperor to go home again." Jia Yan died, and his children could not pretend to be filial piety by their side, which was really a big unfilial piety. Wang Dou comforted: "It is difficult to achieve both loyalty and filial piety, and the governors don't have to blame themselves too much." ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded silently, and then tightened the big puff on his body: "It's still too cold in the north, I really miss the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River." ”

He turned his head and smiled at Wang Dou: "In the future, when the governor returns to Changzhou, if Guoqin you come to Yixing, this I$L will definitely be greeted by you." Wang Dou Xiaoyi: "So it's decided, if you have the chance, you will definitely come to the door to eat." Everyone around laughed, and Lu Xiangsheng couldn't help but shake his head.

That night, when Wang Dou slept until the third watch, he suddenly heard a faint sound of slapping around him, which came from the Qing camp, just like embattled, perhaps the Qing soldiers used it to break the fighting spirit of the Xuan army. The sound of apple steaming is mysterious, reverberating in the night sky.

Wang Dou listened for a while, and simply sat up, his heart was surging, tomorrow's war must be extremely difficult, and he worked hard to change the fate of the giant deer?

Scenes of the past appeared in front of him, from the Shunxiang Fort Fire Road Pier to the present, he couldn't turn back, Wang Dou sighed: "Tomorrow, let's fight to the death!" He thought quietly, and after thinking about it for a long time, Wang Dou fell into a deep sleep again. On the ninth day of December in the eleventh year of Chongzhen.

Early in the morning, the horn of the Qing camp sounded non-stop, and from morning to night, it seemed that a large number of Qing troops had arrived, converging on the army that came yesterday. They camped closely around the perimeter, around the vicinity of the Xuanda camp, surrounded by three layers inside and three outside.

There was still no fighting that day, but it was clear that the Qing soldiers had already made up their minds to wipe out most of the Xuan army in one drum. The intelligence has been obvious, the east, north, and south of the Xuanda camp have a large number of Qing troops gathered, only the west of the river will be less.

This is not because Dolgon was negligent, but because of the more sinister intentions, using the tactics of encircling three queyi, it seems that leaving a way for the Xuanda army to escape westward, so that the whole army will have the heart to survive, thus weakening the will to fight to the death (). Lu Xiangsheng, Wang Dou and others can be sure that there must be a large ambush in the western direction. Even if there is no ambush, as long as the Xuan army retreats and flees, the whole army has no fighting spirit, and the Qing soldiers are surrounded and chased by three routes, and most of the Xuan people who can escape will definitely not survive.

One day on this day, Wang Dou, Lu Xiangsheng and others all looked at the Qing camp and estimated the Qing soldiers and horses that continued to arrive. Wang Dou estimated that the Qing army besieged this time was at least twice as many as in history, and Wang Dou sneered: "Either you despise it incomparably, or you don't pay too much attention to it, Dolgon and others are sick!" "On the 10th day of the first month of December.

It was a sunny day and the weather was good, but the wind was obviously stronger than yesterday, and the cold wind whistled from time to time, blowing the flag and the clothes to hunt.

At about the beginning of E1, the trumpet of the Qing camp sounded again, and I saw the dense men and horses of each camp coming out, and finally formed a dense and unventilated piece, on the distant horizon, from three directions, black pressure poured towards the Xuanda camp.

The Qing soldiers were finally about to start the war, and all the people exhaled, Lu Xiangsheng came to the middle of the outer defense city, faced the camp several times, bowed to all the soldiers, and encouraged loudly. He said loudly: "I and the soldiers, we will receive the favor of the court, and we will not die, and we will not live!" ”

Everyone shouted with joy, and Wang Dou shouted: "Brothers, kill those dwarf tartars and leave no armor behind!" Everyone laughed, and Lu Xiangsheng laughed too.

The dense gun forest was erected, and in the Baoan Prefecture Army, I don't know who took the lead in singing the military song "Man Jianghong" of the Shunxiang Army: "Angry at the crown and leaning on the railing, Xiaoxiao rain rest." Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, strong and fierce. Thirty meritorious dust and dL, eight thousand miles of clouds and moon ......"

Wang Dou's impassioned interface: "...... Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing. When will it be extinguished? Driving a long car, stepping through Helan Mountain, there is a lack of ......" Lu Xiangsheng also said loudly: "Ambition is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Hun blood......

More and more people sang it, and slowly the military songs converged into a majestic piece. From Lu Xiangsheng to Wang Dou to Yang Guozhu, to Guo Yingxian, to Hu Dawei, to Zhang Yan, all the soldiers were singing loudly. At this moment, the crowd was not afraid, no longer afraid.