The Qing army camp at the east gate of Gaoyang City, since the attack on Gaoyang was frustrated, the Qing Dynasty's Rao Yu Belle Abatai was depressed.

After Salhu, Abatai had never suffered such a nest in the Ming army, of course, the robber who nested on Phi Island, Mao Wenlong, who had been sneaking up on the Qing Dynasty all year round, was not counted.

Thinking of Mao Wenlong, Rao Yu Beile just had palpitations, but fortunately, Mao Wenlong was killed in Shuangdao by Yuan Dudu Jiao Zhao of the Ming Kingdom, otherwise the Qing Dynasty would not know what to be harmed by him.

Now in Gaoyang, the battle-hardened Abba Tai has that feeling again, those Ming people who are crazy to go to the city to help the war, almost like those Liao people in Dongjiang, they don't take their lives seriously at all.

It is necessary to slaughter this Gaoyang City that dared to resist, cut Huang Wenchang who stepped on his reputation to take the throne with a thousand knives, and set a model for the people of the Ming Kingdom, tell those lowly Han people, and let them know the fate of resisting the Qing Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Abatai couldn't help but clench his fists.

"General, Prince Rui of Baoding sent urgently, and our army immediately evacuated Gaoyang, returned to the Baoding camp, and jointly attacked Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Ming Guoxuan."

Just as he was thinking about it, Zhenglan Qijia Lazhang Jing Yang Guli took the urgent delivery he had just received, and said as he walked.

"Back to Baoding? We've died so many people and just retreated? What did Dorgon say? ”

Abatai was stunned, if the Qing army could not defeat Gaoyang, and it would be withdrawn like this, would these people of the Ming Kingdom still take the Qing army in their eyes in the future? It's impossible for Dolgon not to understand this!

Yang Guli slapped a thousand and said: "General, Prince Rui said that Lu Xiangsheng is the first, Gaoyang City is the end, and now since Lu Xiangsheng led the army west into Baoding, it is our God-given opportunity, as long as Lu Xiangsheng is annihilated, our losses in Gaoyang, the emperor should forgive." ”

"Lu Xiangsheng sent troops to Baoding, it will take at least ten days, how can it be too late to break Gaoyang City, and once our army evacuates Gaoyang, if Huang Wenchang escapes, wouldn't he let the tiger return to the mountain, and the general wants to attack Gaoyang again, Yang Guli, you go and let the generals enter the account, we are discussing and discussing."

"Wow!"

Hearing that Abatai wanted to attack Gaoyang again, Yang Gu was a little surprised, but he still took the order and left.

Suddenly.

Li Shutai, Shi Tingzhu and other Manchu generals walked into the big tent one after another.

After the generals finished saluting, Abatai just opened his mouth and said: "Ben Jiang just received an urgent delivery from Prince Rui, let our troops return to Baoding immediately, and jointly attack Lu Xiangsheng, but we lost troops in Gaoyang, so go back like this, Ben Jiang is afraid that it will not be easy to explain to the emperor, so Ben will want to fight Gaoyang again, what do you think?" ”

"Still fighting?"

Li Shutai and the others were stunned, you don't know about the situation in Gaoyang, just rely on our 4,000 military horses, all of them are thrown in, and it is estimated that they may not be able to gnaw it down.

"General, our army only has 4,000 horses left, and the defenders in the city are practicing the Mandarin Duck Formation, how can we defeat Gaoyang City?"

Gang Atai really didn't want to fight Gao Yang anymore, and those crazy people a few days ago scared him.

With Gang Atai taking the lead, Li Shutai and other Manchu generals all nodded one after another, and said that since Prince Rui Dolgon has an order, we should still be ordered to return to the division.

Shi Tingzhu got up and said: "General, before Sun Degong's entire army was wiped out in Gaoyang, if our army retreated, wouldn't it be shameful, according to the view of the minions, it is better to make a sound plan to attack the west, tomorrow the general will supervise the army to drive the people to attack Dongcheng, and the minions will choose elite soldiers to attack from the west gate, or they can take Gaoyang." ”

Abatai said yes, and said to the generals left and right: "What do you think of the plan offered by Shi Dutong?" ”

Li Shutai and others knew that Shi Tingzhu wanted to avenge Shi Tianzhu's revenge, but since he didn't want to wait for others to sneak attack, but drove the people to attack the city, there was no need for him to object, he had laid the best, and if he couldn't beat it, it would not be too late to return to Baoding.

Like the Abatai camp, after five or six days of excavation, the tunnel of the Jingbei Army has been excavated under the Qing army camp, but in order to prevent the Qing army from discovering the abnormality, this tunnel was dug from the southeast corner of Gaoyang City to the rear camp of the Qing army.

As for how to know the specific location of this tunnel, it is also very simple, when digging the tunnel, Yang Biao will send someone to dig a hole to the ground every night, and then calculate his specific location.

The Qing army in the rear camp hoarded grain, raised horses, and held the people, the so-called people were mixed, there were the cries of the people, the neighing of war horses, and the underground operations of the Jingbei army, they could not find it at all.

Therefore, Yang Biao discussed with Li Xingzhi and set up five blasting points in the rear village of the Qing army.

As for the front camp, there is some trouble, this is the area where the Qing army brigade is stationed, if it is rashly excavated, it will inevitably be discovered by the Qing army in the camp.

In view of this situation, Li Xingzhi decided to dig at the edge of the Qing army camp, after all, the power of gunpowder in this era is limited, and this blasting operation is mainly to cause chaos in the Qing army camp, and in the end it is still necessary for the Jingbei army to go out of the city to break the enemy.

At the same time as digging underground, Li Xingzhi ordered Yang Biao to test the power of underground blasting in the city first, how to test, in fact, it is very simple, directly find two families with cellars, and then bury one or two coffins filled with gunpowder in the cellar, and then connect the lead, just test.

Detonating about 300 catties of gunpowder about three feet from the ground, after testing, just 300 catties of gunpowder exploding in the cellar is enough to overturn most of the house, and if 600 catties of gunpowder explodes, the power is almost doubled.

Obviously, the explosion in the south city alarmed Lu Liangzhi and Liu Zhongwu, who were guarding the second city in the southwest, and the two of them hurried down the city to see what was going on.

Only a limited number of people, including Yang Biao, Song Guangkun, and Li Youcai, knew about Li Xingzhi's intention to attack the Qing army's camp, and in order to prevent the news from leaking, most of the generals of the Jingbei Army did not know, and Lu Liangzhi and Liu Zhongwu, two outsiders, naturally did not know.

The result was obvious, as soon as the two of them left the city, they were blocked by the Jingbei army guarding nearby, and for today's test, Li Xingzhi specially arranged a guard post.

Soon!

Lu Liangzhi and Liu Zhongwu were escorted to Li Xingzhi.

Li Xingzhi looked at the two of them with a smile and said, "Lu Zhixian and Liu Shoubei are not stationed in the city, I don't know what is going on in the city?" ”

Liu Zhongwu was honest, and said at the moment: "Lu Zhixian and I heard the explosion in the city, and deliberately went down to the city to check, you are blasting in the city, how can you not say hello to us in advance, do you know that the explosion of Shicai has caused panic among the defenders in the city." ”

Li Xingzhi said: "Liu Shoubei has repeatedly fought with the Tartars, are you still afraid of this noise, Li is just testing the power of gunpowder." ”

Lu Liangzhi was puzzled: "The power of this gunpowder is well known, according to the observation of the explosion of the right people in this county, at least hundreds of catties of medicine will be consumed. ”

Li Xingzhi said with a smile: "Lu Zhixian, I don't know, today is about to break Abatai, and the test of blasting power here is just to have a preparation in advance." ”

"Breaking Abatai today? Li Xingzhi, aren't you crazy? ”

Lu Liangzhi and Liu Zhongwu were stunned, they didn't know where Li Xingzhi got the confidence to say this.