"Pang Gang is here too?" Yue Tuo, the general of Yang Wu, who had been sitting next to Dolgon and had not spoken, finally spoke, "Prince Heshuo, are you really sure that the Ming army is Pang Gang's men?" ”

"Even if it is not the soldiers and horses led by Pang Gang himself, it is inseparable from Pang Gang!" Dolgon looked at Yue Tuo with a stern face and said: "Think about it, there are a lot of people and horses in the Ming army who use firearms, but there are not many soldiers and horses who are so good at using weapons, and he is also surnamed Pang, isn't this answer obvious enough?" ”

Hearing this, Yue Tuo was silent for a while before asking: "If this minion really met that Pang Gang, then it can be regarded as a defeat, Du Du, you still spare this minion's life." ”

Under the persuasion of Yue Tuo and Dolgon, Du Du, who was furious, gradually calmed down, and he impatiently said to the Jialazhangjing: "You useless minion, don't get out of here!" ”

"Yes, yes, minions, get out." Hearing that he had picked up a life, this Jia Lazhangjing crawled out with a roll.

As if he hadn't seen this Jia Lazhangjing, Yue Tuo stared at Dolgon and said, "Prince Rui, do you have any good ideas for dealing with the Ming army?" ”

Dolgon smiled slightly: "Yue Tobel, now that the Ming army has been divided, one part of the supervising army will be stationed in the area of Lugou Bridge, and the other will be led by Lu Xiangsheng to garrison Yongdingmen. Why don't we break them all! ”

After hearing this, Yue Tuo said thoughtfully: "Oh, please ask Prince Rui to tell me carefully. ”

"We can do this," Dorgon whispered, lowering his voice.

"Uh-huh," Yue Tuo nodded frequently after hearing this

Since the elimination of hundreds of Qing soldiers, Pang Gang has been guarding against the retaliation of the Qing soldiers, so he scattered the night like a net to the Tongzhou area, and he naturally knew the movements of the Qing soldiers clearly.

After two days, the night did not receive the report, and the Qing soldiers began to divide into two roads, one to Yongdingmen, and the other to Lugou Bridge.

In Lu Xiangsheng's big tent at Yongding Gate, Lu Xiangsheng summoned all the generals to come to the meeting.

"Everyone!" Lu Xiangsheng's blazing eyes glanced at everyone and said solemnly: "Presumably everyone has gotten the news, the Tartar soldiers marched to Yongdingmen and Lugou Bridge in two ways. On the way to us is more than 30,000 soldiers and horses led by the thief chief Dolgon, and to attack the Lugou Bridge garrisoned by Gao Gonggong is 50,000 soldiers and horses led by the thief chief Yue Tuo, what do you think about this? ”

After listening to Lu Xiangsheng's words, the generals were silent one by one, now the situation looks very bad, Dolgon is one of the most famous generals in the Qing army, known for his ruthlessness, stability, and speed, and his own defense line is very long, if the Qing army concentrates its forces to attack a little, I am afraid that it will be easily broken by the Qing army.

Lu Xiangsheng pondered for a while before saying: "The Tartars are powerful, if we divide the troops to guard again, I am afraid that it will be easy to be broken by the Tartars, so let's do it, from now on, we will immediately unite our troops and defend according to the camp, and we must not let the Tartars take advantage of it!" ”

"What about Grandpa Gao, do you want to inform them? Maybe Gonggong Gao can send some reinforcements over. Someone asked.

"Well, then send someone to inform them." Lu Xiangsheng nodded in agreement, and then said with a wry smile: "But let's not think about reinforcements, it's good if Gonggong Gao doesn't ask us for help." ”

After listening to Lu Xiangsheng's words, all the generals also nodded in agreement, the commander of the Qing army who marched towards Gao Qiqian was also known as Yue Tuo, who was known as the victorious general, and its strength was also comparable to Gao Qiqian, not to mention sending reinforcements to his own side, it would be good to keep Lugou Bridge and Wanping City from being lost.

With Lu Xiangsheng's order, the soldiers and horses of the towns scattered on the defense line gathered to the center of Yongdingmen, and the 40,000 troops scattered everywhere gathered together, and the Qingzhou army led by Pang Gang finally arrived. The reason was not because Pang Gang was too slow, but because they were harassed by the Qing army, when Pang Gang ordered the army to raise the camp, a Qing army of more than 1,000 people suddenly appeared from a distance, they hung far behind the army, and from time to time rushed to the army around the attack to disturb the surname.

Pang Gang also sent cavalry to counterattack-for-tat, the battle was very fierce, and the two sides also suffered losses from each other, but the Qing soldiers suffered from the loss of the range of bows and arrows was too short, so the losses were far greater than those of the Qingzhou army. But even so, this part of the Qing army was fierce and did not give up harassing the Qingzhou army, until the Qingzhou army came to the vicinity of Lu Xiangsheng's camp, they stopped the pursuit and retreated.

When Pang Gang led the army to retreat into the camp, Dolgon also came to a place dozens of miles away from Yongding Gate.

Dolgon rode on a black steed and tall horse, silently looked in the direction of Yongding Gate, did not make a sound for a long time, a black banner stood behind him, more than a dozen generals and hundreds of Goshha regiments surrounded him, no one dared to interrupt his thoughts, behind him was an army that could not be seen at a glance.

After a long time, a billowing cloud of smoke appeared in front of them, and they soon rode their horses to Dolgon, a group of elite cavalry of the Qing army in white armor, numbering about a thousand or so.

When they came to Dolgon, the Qing general who led them immediately dismounted and strode up to Dolgon and said, "The slave Chouhado has seen his master. ”

Dorgon looked at the dusty Chouhado and asked, "Chouhado, how is your errand?" ”

Chouhaduo lowered his head with some shame, "Master, the minions are incompetent, and they have not been able to drag the Qingzhou army and let them escape back to the Ming army camp." ”

"Well, this is also expected by this king, if they are dragged by you so easily, they will not become the emperor's henchmen." Dolgon said quietly: "You fought with that Ming army, how do you feel?" ”

Speaking of this, Chouhaduo's face suddenly sank, "The minions dare not deceive the master, the Ming army is very strong, and their cavalry is also extremely fierce, rushing up and fighting to the end with the minions, the minions fought to the death with them, and the loss of nearly five hundred warriors failed to rush into their marching army." ”

Dorgon asked, "How powerful are their firearms?" ”

Chouhado shook his head and said: "Their long-armed minions have not seen it, but the handcuffs equipped by their cavalry are very good and powerful, and many of our warriors have been injured by their handguns." Moreover, those Ming troops were well-equipped, all dressed in steel armor, and our warriors also suffered a lot in close combat with them. ”

Dolgon closed his eyes, and after weighing the pros and cons in his mind quickly, he said: "Immediately order the army to march to camp twenty miles outside the Yongding Gate, and no one shall act rashly without the order of this king." ”

"Scum!"

Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of the Xuanda Army in the big tent of the Yongdingmen camp, asked Lu Xiangsheng with some puzzlement: "Lu Dudu, the Tartar brigade has been entrenched twenty miles in front of us for two days, but there has been no action, will there be fraud?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng slowly shook his head and said: "This question is not known to the official, maybe the Tartars are preparing some tricks, but no matter what, as long as we can drag these tens of thousands of troops here, then it can be regarded as relieving some pressure on Gonggong Gao." ”

At this time, Pang Gang stood up and hugged his fist to Lu Xiangsheng and said: "Inspector Lu, why don't we send someone to the front of the Tartar formation to call the formation over, if the Tartar goes out to fight on our side, we can also find out the reality of the Tartar." ”

"That's fine." Lu Xiangsheng thought about it and nodded in agreement, he was originally a general who tended to be offensive in his bones, and Pang Gang said this to his appetite.

"Chaodong, you will lead your own troops and horses to the front of the Tartar formation, and Zhou Siyong, you will lead 3,000 cavalry to suppress the formation for General Pang." Once Lu Xiangsheng made up his mind, then he would execute it thoroughly, he not only agreed to Pang Gang's request, but also sent the 3,000 cavalry in the Tianxiong army led by himself to Pang Gang to suppress the formation.

Just as Pang Gang was ordered to leave the big tent, a personal soldier came running outside, and after coming in, he said to Lu Xiangsheng with a crying voice: "Lord Qiyu, Gonggong Gao was defeated at Lugou Bridge, Lugou Bridge and Wanping City were lost, and now Gonggong Gao is just leading the rout to retreat to my camp!" ”

"What, Gonggong Gao is defeated, how is this possible?" The generals were shocked, Gao Qiqian led the 50,000 troops to raise their hands to Lugou Bridge and Wanping City, even if they were defeated by the Qing army, but it was no problem to hold on for ten days and a half months, how could they be defeated in just one day?

Lu Xiangsheng's face suddenly changed, and he immediately said: "The situation has changed, the deployment of the right talents has stopped, now that Gonggong Gao has been newly defeated, he is rushing towards our army's camp, and the Tartars are bound to chase after him, and the generals will immediately go back now to order their respective soldiers and horses to wait next to the camp, and we must not let the Tartars take advantage of the situation to rush into our army's camp!" ”

"Yes!"

The generals knew that the situation was urgent, and after receiving the order, they all went down to reorganize their troops and horses to prepare for the next battle.

After the generals withdrew from the tent, a dull drum beat soon sounded in the camp, and a group of soldiers led by their respective officials went to the camp to string their bows and unsheath their swords, and lined up beside the camp and began to guard.

Because the combat strength of Pang Gang's Qingzhou army was obvious to all, Lu Xiangsheng entrusted them with important tasks and specially arranged them to the left near the official road.

After Pang Gang received the order, he immediately arranged 3,000 riflemen to the front, 1,000 pikemen to the rear, and finally Pang Gang and his more than 1,000 personal soldiers.

As soon as the formation was arranged, there was a puff of smoke and dust in front, and then a burst of killing and earth-shattering rose up, and a group of Ming troops were defeated from the front.

Some of them rode horses, some walked, and they rode a tall horse and ran at the front

(To be continued)