In the early morning of the next day, the soldiers of the Ming army brigade without defensive tasks lined up in the camp to do morning exercises, which was the morning exercise project stipulated by Yuan Chonghuan, first doing a quarter of an hour of five bird opera sports, and then singing the military song "Man Jianghong" under the leadership of the officer, and the daily activities began after the chorus ended, and as for the morning food in the two meals a day, it was at least until the sun turned to the southeast, about nine o'clock.

Liu Ziguang is innovative, stipulating that the death camp should eat four meals a day, this group of slave-born guys is really hungry, run five kilometers collectively early in the morning, and then eat breakfast, a bowl of mare's milk or goat's milk per person, an egg, the egg-laying hens near Yanzhou have long been robbed by the Qing army and the Ming army, so they can't be provided for the time being, but the big cakes and small pickles are still enough. The melody of the military song "Man Jianghong" is exciting, and I listen to it a lot every day, and the soldiers in the death camp can't sing it and hum a few words.

Suddenly, the sound of killing in the distance shook the sky, not good! Didn't the Qing army say that it would retreat within three days? Why didn't you retreat but advanced!

Yuan Chonghuan was right, the Qing army had already begun to retreat, and it was the elite cavalry of the Zhenglan Banner who remained as the rearguard, they roared in front of the camp of the Ming army, and quickly retreated after releasing a burst of arrows, and so on several times, the Ming army did not dare to attack for fear of an ambush, but just fired arrows to counterattack.

After the last attack of the Qing army, it finally disappeared into the sky, and the eastern camp received the fireworks order from Yanzhou at this time, and the light cavalry attacked, and the army then pulled out the camp and set up the village, and the whole line went north.

The ancestors had many cavalry, the fastest pursuit, and soon came to the place where the Qing army camp was stationed yesterday, hundreds of thousands of troops had already gone to the camp empty, and the barracks built of wood had no time to be demolished, a messy scene, the scouts probed it, the stoves were cold, and it seemed that the evacuation had begun last night.

"Chase!" Zu Dashou gave an order, and the cavalry of the brigade followed the rut marks of the Qing army and began to pursue, Wu Sangui led a thousand cavalry to open the road in front, and Liu Ziguang led the headquarters of 3,500 men and horses to act together with the brigade, and the battalion horses were more than one and a half horses, and now each person has achieved one and a half war horses.

The mighty troops chased for a long time, and the morning food was also eaten on the horse, and the people did not take off their armor and the horses did not unsaddle during a break, and finally stumbled upon the traces left by the Qing army a few hours ago when they were resting, and the experienced officers came to a conclusion after counting: The original 150,000 horses of the Qing army, after the killing and routing of the past few days, are now only about 50,000 or 60,000 people in the queue, which also includes a considerable number of people who have no combat effectiveness. The Ming army's pursuit force is enough to have 15,000 elite soldiers, and if the horse catches up quickly, the odds of victory are still quite large.

Zu Dashou immediately started to think, the Ming army pursued in many ways, the headquarters relied on the horse fast is the front, Mangui He Kegang They are all rushing forward in the back, Tai'an Prefecture may have fallen into the hands of Zhao Shujiao, this great credit is simply God gave it to himself, God treats my ancestor well!

"Order the battalions to start a forced march immediately, and be sure to catch up before the Tartars reach Tai'an!" After speaking, Zu Dashou threw away the cake that he had eaten half of and turned over on his horse.

As the flag officer waved the flag and blew the horn, the Ming cavalry neatly mounted their horses and threw themselves into the pursuit again.

The Ming army has different types of horses, some brisk Sanhe horses run in front, Mongolian horses, Central Plains horses can only follow behind, mules carrying things fall at the end, and gradually 15,000 cavalry pulled into a long strip, and after two hours of pursuit, the Ming army vanguard running in the front has captured more than a dozen Qing soldiers who have fallen behind, and the interrogation learned that the Qing army brigade is not far ahead, and after a long time of hurrying, the Qing army has been tired, as weak as a lamb to be slaughtered.

Wu Sangui quickly whipped his horse, and did not hesitate to lead the forward cavalry of his headquarters to gallop for a distance, turned a hill, and finally saw the rear team of the Qing army, the banner was dragged upside down, and the soldiers staggered forward with the carriage weakly, one by one they were disgraced by the smoke and dust behind the army, and they were very embarrassed.

Wu Sangui was overjoyed, raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, kill the Tartars!" The Ming soldiers also forgot the hard work of the journey, and the spirits were uplifted, and they rushed over like a group of tigers descending from the mountain, completely ignoring the faint murderous aura emanating from the hills on both sides.

The Qing army found that the Ming army was chasing, and immediately frightened, and fled, the Ming army was even more proud, whipped the horsewhip, and wanted to fly over to slaughter the enemy, at this moment, after a whistle, the dense forest on both sides flew out of the black pressure and pressed a rain of arrows, and suddenly shot the Ming army with people and horses to the ground, Wu Sangui was shocked: "Not good, there is an ambush!" ”

Now it is too late to find out, the wait has been a long time, the Qing army who are waiting for work to shout on both sides to kill, one by one eyes red, blood vessels swelling, the humiliation suffered in the past few days can finally be washed away, they gave full play to the excellent skills of riding and archery, and when they were running wildly on the horse, they fired several arrows in a row, and the arrows hit, and the Ming army vanguard killed lost more than half in an instant.

Wu Sangui danced the big gun and fought to the death, this is the last madness of the Tartars, as long as they withstand this wave of attacks, the follow-up troops will come up, and the Qing army will be finished.

But he seriously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, the rear guard unit is the essence of the Qing army, it is very easy to eat his thousand cavalry, seeing that the soldiers around him are fighting less and less, Wu Sangui panicked, the ash pole spear with the thickness of an egg swept like a giant python, four or five Qing soldiers besieged him and could not bargain alone, suddenly an arrow flew, hitting Wu Sangui's left arm, the triangular steel cluster passed through the armor after the strength did not decrease, he screamed in pain, and the spear was out of his hand. Raising his eyes and looking at the past, the Qing soldiers saw the opportunity to swing their knives together, seeing that the good young man Wu Sangui was about to die under the knife, saying that it was too late and that was fast, three carved arrows broke through the air, and the huge power penetrated the helmet of the Qing army, shooting the three Qing soldiers down the horse at the same time, and the other two were splashed with blood and **, and they were killed by the whistling arrows before they had time to dodge.

The follow-up troops finally arrived, the cavalry of the Ming army and the Qing army collided together, a hard-fought cavalry hand-to-hand combat unfolded in this hilly area, both sides are elite soldiers, one side is the momentum, the other side is the mourning soldiers will win, a good bloody battle is directly killed in the dark, the head and stumps are flying all over the sky, the ownerless war horses are fleeing in all directions, the number of Qing troops after the break is quite a lot, there are tens of thousands of people, where is the broken man and horse, it is the main battle force at all.

This is a powerful ambush force specially arranged by Dolgon, using a powerful cavalry force to annihilate the Ming army in the movement war, if this battle is successful, there is even the possibility of turning the book, even if it is not successful, it can hurt the Ming army and ensure a safe and smooth withdrawal, so he arranged for nearly 30 cavalry of Niu Lu of the strong white flag and the blue flag to ambush here, and strive to fight a turnaround battle.

The Ming army arrived one after another, this way of gradually adding troops could not match the group charge of the Qing army, the Ming cavalry with a disadvantage in numbers was surrounded and annihilated by groups of three or five, and when Zu Dashou arrived, he had lost thousands of men and horses, looking at the corpses all over the ground and the wounded nephew, Zu Dashou was furious, but there was nowhere to vent his anger, because the Qing army had disappeared in the dense forest.

The Ming army advanced again, and the Qing army continued to attack and harass, adopting the tactics of the Mongols, releasing arrows in front while retreating, which made Zu Dashou anxious, and the pursuit fell into a semi-halted state for a while. This is no wonder to him, because the broken troops of the Qing army are the troops of the authentic Manchurian Eight Banners, and their combat effectiveness is stronger than that of the Ming army, and there are many of them.

Just when Zu Dashou was at a loss, Liu Ziguang had quietly led the men and horses of the headquarters to break away from the brigade, marching on the road far from the official road, the team consisted of 2,500 people and 3,000 mules and horses, a carriage did not have a single auxiliary, all of them were capable string controllers, steam cannons and ballistae were dismantled into pieces and carried by mules and horses, spare weapons, arrows, grain and fodder were carried by the extra horses, they passed through the farmland, crossed the rivers and hills, passed through the woods and deserted villages, and advanced all the way to Jinan.

Li Yan's strategy is to raid Jinan with light cavalry, loot the treasury silver of Jinan Mansion, the Qing army's capital under the southern expedition is very large, Shandong's strong men have been requisitioned, and the soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners have almost been dispatched, except for the men and horses who defend the capital and Tianjin, there is not much strength to defend the rear city, Beijing and Tianjin rely on this point of people and horses to gnaw and move, but there is still some certainty in Jinan, the capture of Jinan can not only get a vote, but also cut off Dolgon's retreat, and lay the foundation for the Ming army to seize the whole territory of Shandong, Jinan is broken, Qingzhou and Denglai are also in the bag of the Ming Dynasty. Li Yan had long wanted to implement this strategy, but because of his limited strength, he would give it to Yuan Chonghuan, even if it was adopted, it would not be his turn to go out, let alone rob the treasury, it was better for Liu Ziguang, the boss who was also ambitious and greedy.

Yanzhou is three hundred miles away from Jinan, two hundred miles away from Tai'an, Zhao led the 10,000 horses to attack Tai'an, two hundred miles of road for two days, when he came to Tai'an City, he had already leaked the rumors, Tai'an Zhizhou sent six hundred miles of expedited fast horses to Jinan for help, the guards of Jinan Mansion themselves are not much, but Tai'an is the barrier of Jinan, but also the rear supply base of the Southern Expeditionary Army, if there is a loss, the position of the governor of Shandong is not guaranteed, so the governor of the governor from the only three thousand green battalions transferred two thousand people to reinforcements, In addition, the Qingzhou Mansion was ordered to send 5,000 soldiers to reinforce, and for a time Tai'an fell into a difficult bone.

Liu Ziguang's team traveled all the way, a distance of hundreds of miles is nothing for the cavalry, and it is a piece of cake for the grassland warriors, they are accustomed to marching continuously on the desert without supplies, the Shandong Plain in spring is full of wild flowers and green grass, the rivers are murmuring, food and drinking water are not a problem, they go all the way over the mountains and mountains, bypass the fierce battle of Tai'an, from Feicheng, Changqing line straight into Jinan.

The death battalion wore the armor of the white flag, and opened the road in front under the banner of the Qing army to confuse passers-by, and the troops behind also put away the banner and hurried away without alarming the local government. The road was also very calm, even if someone found a flaw, it was too late to report to the government and send a letter to Jinan, and the sneak attack army was a color of cavalry, and the speed was very fast.

After a day and a night of marching, Liu Ziguang finally set foot on the Thousand Buddha Mountain in the south of Jinan Mansion in the middle of the night, looking at the dark city below, he and his generals began to make combat arrangements. Hu Xianjue has already returned to Liguo, and now the people who can talk in front of Liu Ziguang are the several company commanders of his death camp and Li Yan and Wang Dahai, two thousand households, Wang Dahai has been bewitched by Li Yan, and has really devoted himself to Liu Ziguang's command, and now a group of adventurers are pointing at the sleeping city.