Chapter 69: The Coastline

A piece of stone became the main battlefield of the decisive battle of the Ming and Qing dynasties, in fact, this is also the place where the battle with Li Zicheng when Dolgon went south to enter the pass, but things are not people, but now it has become a battlefield for the Ming army to encircle and suppress the Qing army.

People in the distance shouted horses neighing and killing sounds, but no one noticed that the gate of Dongluo City was quietly opened, and a group of Qing troops in civilian clothes wrapped their heads with cloth, everyone rode fast horses, and galloped towards the east like arrows in several carriages.

By the dawn of the morning, the group avoided a stone where the large group of men and horses were fighting, bypassed the Phoenix Slope, and went straight to the Qingfeng Gang not far away, where the vegetation was luxuriant, enough to avoid the sentinels of the Ming army and the militia group, and then to the east more than ten miles away, you can reach the seaside, where there are more than ten sea ships prepared by Dolgon.

The Shandong Naval Division marched southward, and Li Dingguo's Liaodong Naval Division had not yet fully controlled this sea area, so it was easy to march north at this time.

The journey was relatively peaceful, as Dolgon had envisioned, the Ming army's entire attention was focused on the decisive battle, and in a hurry, they did not have the strength to fully control every move in all the areas around Shanhaiguan. The opportunity created by tens of thousands of Eight Banners for Duoduo, Shuotuo and others is equivalent to more than half of the success.

The horse's mouth was chewing, the horse's hooves were wrapped in thick straw felt, and the group quietly crossed the mountain beams, and came to Qingfenggang after more than an hour. After entering the woods, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, found a place with abundant water and grass, and took a breath.

Duoduo had already woken up at this time, but because of his violent temper and constant scolding, Shuoto, Adali and others did not dare to let him go easily, but said with a smiling face, and let him beat and scold him after getting on the boat. He was served with some water, but Dodor refused to give up. Fearing that his shouts would attract his pursuers, they gagged him with rags and kept him in the carriage.

The 500 soldiers accompanying them were the only remaining elites of the two white flags and the rest of the flags, and the stakes were so high that they did not dare to slack off. The early ones had already scattered around, inquiring about the movement. However, the more than 300 children of the Eight Banners are not very old, and their parents and relatives either stayed in Jingshi or stayed in Shanhaiguan, so their emotions are not very stable, and many people are crying. In this regard, Shuoto and Adali also had no choice but to comfort them with gentle words.

Nagu found a gap and came to Ning Wan's side. As soon as the eyes of the two of them touched, they couldn't help but smile bitterly. Dolgon attaches great importance to this migration, so not many people know about it, even Huo Wu, Nagu and Ning Wan have just learned about it. There was no way, Huo Wu could only pin his hopes on Nagu and Ning Wan and me.

Nagu and Ning Wan are helpless, since Huo Wu secretly drugged the two of them, everything is up to them, think about the pain of life and death when they have an attack. Both of them shuddered, and in order to survive, they could only use dead horses as live horse doctors. It's just that now the attention of the Ming army is on Shanhaiguan and Dolgon. Now that I can't even see the shadow of the Ming army around here, how can I ventilate the news?

was hesitating, Ning Wan and I inadvertently raised my head, but I was stunned. On a tall ancient pine tree behind him, a pair of sparkling eyes suddenly appeared, looking carefully. The man's whole body was hidden in the green trunk branches and leaves, and because it was too close, that is, when I looked up, I found the man's eyes, otherwise, it would have been really difficult to detect.

Ning Wan, I was a spirit, and I subconsciously wanted to shout. But then he put a small crossbow in the man's hand, and the man's eyes looked at Ning Wan and me, and he suddenly felt that he had been exposed, and he wanted to strike first.

Ning Wan had a flash of lightning in my mind, and I looked at the man's eyes in a daze, but my fingers quickly made a silent gesture.

At this moment, even the man on the tree was stunned. I never thought that this Manchurian with a money rattail would let him stop moving, but he didn't intend to call someone to arrest him.

Suddenly, Ning Wan's heart was bright, in this area, who else can lurk here to find out the news except the Ming army, it is really providential, Dolgon has calculated everything, and I didn't expect that the Ming army actually has a sentry here. At this time, what choice did he and Nagu have left, but to go all the way to the dark.

Ning Wan nervously peeked at the situation around me, but fortunately, the rest of the people were busy with their own work, but no one noticed here. He quietly patted Nagu on the shoulder and pointed his finger upward, and Nagu peeked at it and almost screamed in fright. Ning Wan and I hurriedly held him down, and the two of them were frightened, pretending to be calm, leaning their bodies against the big tree, pretending to look up at the sky naturally, but they made a few gestures to the person on the tree unmistakably. "Let's go! The Qing army wants to escape! ”

The man on the tree was stunned for a long time, although he never figured out why Nagu and Ning Wan and I wanted to help him, but at least these two people obviously did not have malicious intent, after understanding their gestures and mouth shapes, the man nodded, quietly hid in the depths of the canopy, and disappeared in a moment.

Ning Wan and Nagu breathed a sigh of relief, and the two of them sat on the ground as if they had collapsed, gasping for breath, looking at each other, each other's faces were pale.

After resting for a while, the soldiers who went out to investigate the movement turned around, and there were no soldiers and horses of the Ming army in front of them, so Shuotuo and Adali beckoned the team to continue to get up and go on the road. The main force of the Qing army did not have a lot of time to buy them, and they had to go to the beach to board the ship before the Qing army was defeated, so that they could be safe for the time being.

Walking out of the woods of Qingfenggang, when you reach the seaside, you will be a flat river, with occasional mountains but not too high. The area had a wide view, and the morning sun was already rising high at this time, so Shuoto and Adali immediately ordered to speed up their march and make sure to reach their predetermined rendezvous by the sea within half an hour.

Everyone's nerves were tensed again, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry once galloped across the land, now it has changed owners, once it meets the Ming army, it is the end of being surrounded and strangled, this point, even those pampered noble children are also clear, so the team of more than 1,000 people rarely maintained a unified silence, everyone is struggling to urge the war horse under the crotch, and try their best to run forward.

Gradually, the outline of the coastline has slowly unfolded in front of everyone's eyes, and the smell of the sea in the nose is getting stronger and stronger, and the faint blue color can be seen in the distance, and the destination is finally about to arrive.

In a short time, everyone could clearly see the shadow of the ship floating on the sea, and dozens of small sampans were moored in a mess of rocks and sandy beaches by the sea.

Shuoto and Adali, who had been carrying a heart, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and were about to beckon everyone to catch up, but when they turned around, they were instantly frightened.

On the mountain beam behind him, countless black dots suddenly appeared at some point, and those black dots were only three or four miles behind him, moving quickly in the direction of his own side along the mountain beam, the speed was much faster than his side, and he could vaguely see the red flag fluttering in it.

Before Shuoto and Adali could exclaim, the subordinates next to him shouted first, "Oh no, the left flank has found the enemy!" ”

Immediately afterwards, the right side also shouted, "There are also enemy troops on the right flank!" ”

The Qing army immediately panicked, it was obvious that the Ming army had been surrounded on three sides, and the worst thing was that this group of cavalry looked to be at least a few thousand people, and they had no idea when they were following behind them. Now, the only way to get closer to the shore is to walk as many people as you can.

"Don't panic, everyone, divide two hundred people, delay the pursuers behind, and the rest of the people follow me to the sea with all my might!" Shuoto shouted.

Without any deliberate orders, the two hundred soldiers had already turned around and killed the pursuers behind them, and the rest of the men urged the horses with all their might, galloping forward desperately.

Dord's head poked out of the window of the carriage, and when he saw what was happening behind him, he couldn't help but roar at Shoto, but his mouth was gagged with rags, and he could only whine.

Shuoto jumped from the war horse to the carriage, helped Duoduo take out the rags in his mouth, and untied the ropes, "Uncle Fifteen! We are being targeted by the cavalry of the southerners, you should quickly take everyone to board the ship, and your nephew will come to break the queen! ”

"Fart!" Duoduo scolded, and slapped Shuotuo's face, "Do a good job of the errand given to you by the fourteenth brother, and I will come after the break!" With that, he pushed Shuoto away and jumped onto Shuoto's warhorse.

"The son of the two white flags!" Duoduo took off the iron long knife from Shuo Tuo on the saddle and raised it high with one hand, "You fifteenth master is here, how about following me to fight for a while?" ”

The flag-bearers of the two white flags immediately raised their voices and shouted, and turned their horses' heads with Duoduo. At this time, the two hundred cavalry who were broken behind had already drowned in the rolling Ming cavalry ranks. The Ming troops on the left and right flanks have also come closer, and the firearms, bows and arrows, and crossbows in the hands of the cavalry are constantly firing. The Qing soldiers had no ability to resist, and people kept falling off their horses.

Duoduo roared angrily and pounced on his horse towards the Ming army brigade chasing from behind. Behind him were more than 200 bannermen from all branches of the Eight Banners.

"Uncle Fifteen!" Shuoto stared blankly at the backs of Duoduo and the others who were gradually moving away, and could not help crying out loudly, then turned around, ran to the front of the carriage, snatched the reins from the groom's hand, and slammed them on the horse's body. "Hurry up! You give Lao Tzu a hurry! ”

The coastline is close at hand, but just above the beach, the Ming army has been outflanked from the north and south flanks, and the distance is only more than a thousand steps.

Shuoto glared at a pair of blood-red eyes, "Adali! ”

Adali rode his horse to catch up, "Second uncle! ”

"You show me the first carriage, even if everyone dies here, you have to ensure that all the things in that carriage are on the ship, that is the last entrustment of the fourteenth uncle, you and I must complete it even if we fight for our lives! Do you understand! ”

"Nephew understands!" Adali replied categorically. (To be continued......)