Tianjin Battlefield.

With Hauge moving the camp to the southwest of the city, the grain route of Tianjin City was cut off, and the Grand Canal was choked by the Eight Banners Army.

However, the army of Fei Ruhe in the west of the city is still unblocked.

Haug can't break it unless he can take the triangle. The military rations in the direction of Baoding are transported from the Huitong River, and then transported by small boats to the Triangle Lake, and the shore is Fei Ruhe's camp.

Hauge made an appointment with Li Zicheng to attack, but he had to occupy the right terrain first.

The Eighth Banner Army crossed the Grand Canal to the west, and that area was the only place where there was no need to cross the river to fight. But the terrain is very narrow, and there are victory lakes and fire lakes in the west, which protect Fei Ruhe's camp.

"Kill!"

The Eight Banners had just crossed the Grand Canal and set up camp, when they were attacked by night that night.

Fei Ruhe sent a whole number of troops, and the number was not large, only 2,000 people. During the day, it enters the Huitong River from the Triangle Lake, quietly touches the victory lake and lurks, and then kills from the dense reeds at night.

"Barbarians are abominable!"

Although Hauge did not lose much, he was in a bad mood, and he felt like he would be stabbed at any moment.

Man Dahai said: "The regent has been urging him to return to the division, and the southern barbarians have already defeated the Weining camp. I, Amma, can't sit still, and have already led my troops to Liaoyang to help, and the situation of the regent in Yaozhou is very dangerous. We should go back, the decisive battle across the river is too dangerous. ”

"You can't withdraw, this time you retreat, don't think about re-entering the customs in the future," Haoge said, "Without Li Zicheng's cooperation, how can we fight the Southern Barbarians?" ”

Man Dahai sighed and said, "I went to see it myself this morning, and the narrowest part of the triangle and the Grand Canal is only two miles away. Those two miles of land were cut off by several trenches dug by the southern barbarians. The earth dug out of each trench was built into a low wall of earth. Our cavalry can't pass, the chariots can't pass, and the artillery is useless, so we have to use foot soldiers to attack them one by one. ”

Li Zicheng's direction is facing the same problem.

Of course, Li Zicheng's combat area was slightly wider, because the narrowest point was three miles away. The same trenches and earthen walls had to be captured by the same infantry.

Fei Ruhe is disgusting people, north of the triangle lake, south of the Grand Canal, digging trenches on the east and west.

In the direction of Tianjin, Fei Ruhe didn't care at all, and didn't even bother to send troops to reconnoitre.

But the direction of Bazhou and Baoding is completely controlled by Fei Ruhe, because there are lakes and rivers everywhere.

This kind of defensive battle, Li Zicheng and Haoge, crossing the Grand Canal to attack, is the easiest way - even along the Grand Canal, Fei Ruhe has built a lot of forts and built many temporary fortifications.

Man Dahai said: "The Nanban camp must not be attacked, even if it can be broken, more than half of the Eight Banners warriors will have to die." The only way is to go to Yuanjiakou, Li Zicheng said that the military rations of Nanban are there. Contact Li Zicheng, he bypassed from the north, and we inserted it through the gap between the triangle lake and the victory lake. We and Li Zicheng, one south and one north, attacked Yuanjiakou and led Fei Ruhe from the west of Tianjin! The grain field was surrounded, and Fei Ruhe definitely didn't dare to stay in the turtle shell anymore. ”

"Just fight like this!" Hauge agreed.

Li Zicheng also agreed, attacking the enemy must be saved, and the clever trick of luring the snake out of the hole.

As soon as the enemy moved, Fei Ruhe immediately knew.

In other words, Haoge and Li Zicheng did not think of concealing their combat intentions. This belongs to Yang Mou, if you hide in the turtle shell, we will definitely not be able to attack it. Then I will go to the place where you will store grain, and I will ask you if you can still go out to fight. If you don't come out, I'll burn your grain and grass!

Whether it was Li Zicheng or Haoge, after determining the battle plan, he took the whole army to move together. They didn't dare to divide their troops to burn grain, because Fei Ruhe and Zhang Tieniu's army was guarding there in a horn-wrenching posture, and whoever dared to divide their troops would be attacked by them.

Dashun and the Manchu Qing Dynasty left the camp, and the city of Tianjin was suddenly alive.

Zhang Tieniu came out with the army, leaving only a few thousand peasant soldiers to defend the city, and the main force went to join forces with Fei Ruhe a few miles west of the city.

The battlefield shifted from Tianjin to Yuanjiakou at once. There have been countless wars in that broken place, just because the geographical location is too critical.

Li Zicheng and Haoge's offensive line was to bypass the Datong Army in the north and south and attack Yuanjiakou in a pincer offensive. The pliers are the strongest when they are clamped, and the weakest when the pliers are separated, and on the day Zhang Tieniu led his troops out of the city, Fei Ruhe seized the opportunity to chase Li Zicheng.

Because of the triangular lake, Li Zicheng went farther around, and this plier had more opportunities to pull out.

Vanceton's 16th Division, infantry and artillery remained, continuing to defend the Turtle Shell position. Fei Ruhe, Zhang Tieniu, Huang Shun, and Li Dingguo, with four divisions, plus the cavalry of the 16th Division, pursued Li Zicheng's troops at full speed.

Thousands of them still crossed the triangle in small boats and took a shortcut to intercept Li Zicheng.

Looking at the thousands of fellow soldiers on the other side of the Feng River, Li Zicheng suddenly frowned. He went to attack Yuanjiakou with the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and had to cross two big rivers, the Feng River and the Hunhe River, as well as a few small rivers.

Now, the best crossing point of the Feng River is blocked, although Li Zicheng can go around, but the more he goes around, the easier it is to be caught up by the Datong army.

At that time, it was the Dashun army and the Datong army that fought a tough battle, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty took Yuanjiakou cheaply. After obtaining the food of the Datong army, you can also take advantage of the situation to kill the north and raid the defeated Datong army.

All the benefits have been taken by the Tartars!

Li You hurried over, looked at the enemy on the other side of the river, and said to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, the battle cannot be fought like this. The intention of the puppet army is obvious, to destroy us first and then kill the Tartars. Regardless of whether you win or lose, it is the Tartar who benefits, how can there be such a thing in the world? Tens of thousands of enemy elites, we can't eat a bite. Even if we win, we won't be able to share the benefits with the Tartars. When the time comes, we will not be able to expand the territory, but the Tartars will conquer the city all the way. ”

Dang Shousu also rode a horse: "Your Majesty, it is better to retreat to Tongzhou, the puppet army does not dare to chase so far." When the time comes, the puppet army will fight with the Tartars first, and then we will find an opportunity to go south to clean up the mess. ”

"Your Majesty," Zhang Nai also ran over, "Guanzhong is unstable, Hedong is being ravaged by puppets, and there are several Henan generals who have defected to the enemy." We can't be defeated here, otherwise the mountains will be lost, and we really have to let the Tartars fight hard first! ”

"Your Majesty......"

"Your Majesty......"

The generals of various ministries asked one after another, and Li Zicheng was also moved, he really didn't want to fight for life and death, and then let the Tartars come out to pick up the bargain.

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Zicheng finally ordered: "Retreat to Tongzhou!" ”

The coalition forces have not been able to win since ancient times, because they are not of the same heart at all. A good battle plan, but Li Zicheng slipped away halfway, wanting to come out finally to pick the fruits of victory.

And the Tartars, too, did not act according to plan.

The Manchu cavalry, which had been patrolling the south bank of the canal, noticed that the main force of the Datong Army was chasing Li Zicheng, and immediately rushed to Hauge to report.

Man Dahai was overjoyed: "Yuanjiakou is hoarding military rations, and the southern barbarians must be well defended, so don't think about fighting it for a day or two." The Southern Barbarian went to chase Li Zicheng, his turtle shell camp was empty, and it was the limit to be able to leave a few thousand people to defend. Let's take the opportunity to kill back and take the camp of the Southern Barbarians! It's best to attack at night and kill those barbarians by surprise! ”

"Good idea, this is called the thirty-six strategies of the Han people." Hauge actually knows thirty-six tricks.

So, at the same time that Li Zicheng sold Haoge, Haoge also sold Li Zicheng, and the two sides had their own ghost ideas.

……

"Smack!"

In the reeds, Zhang Tai slapped a mosquito to death, and his palms were already stained with his own blood.

It's summer, shallow lakes, aquatic weeds are everywhere, and there are so many mosquitoes that they can carry people away, making people wonder if they will be bitten by mosquitoes and die of excessive blood loss.

Zhang Tai is a soldier of the Datong Navy, and has been fishing in the Yangtze River since he was a child.

Now he is squatting in the reeds to sentry, and sentries like him have set up more than a dozen places on the south bank of the triangle.

Hauge was afraid of revealing his whereabouts, so he chose to march in a hurry at night, leaving the people and baggage behind.

But they wanted to attack Fei Ruhe's tortoise shell, which was too narrow. To the west of the trench, there were still a few miles of narrow strips, and as long as the sentinels in the reeds were not blind, they would surely be able to spot the Tartars' whereabouts in advance.

"It's a change of guard, you lie down and rest." Ding Chengsi said.

Jang Tai stretched and yawned and was about to lie down, his open mouth suddenly remaining in shape. Then he woke up, looked carefully into the distance, and whispered, "The Tartars have come back for a night attack!" ”

"Go back and report the news!" Ding Chengsi didn't dare to slack off.

There are small islands in the triangle, and beacon fires can be lit in times of emergency, but the current situation is not necessary. Because they were rowing small boats, they must have rushed back before the enemy.

The boat was speeding through the reeds, a labyrinth of reeds, but Zhang Tai and Ding Chengsi came and went freely.

Arriving at the next outpost, Zhang Tai said to his comrades: "The Tartars are coming to attack at night. ”

The sentry immediately rowed back, but Zhang Tai and Ding Chengsi stayed behind and waited to continue to observe the situation of the enemy army.

When Wan Sitong, who stayed in the camp, received the news, the Manchu Qing night attack troops were still more than two miles away from the outer trenches of the camp.

"Don't light a fire, wake up the whole army, half go to the trench to ambush, half defend the other side of the canal." Vance was very cautious, fearing that the Tartars would sneak around to the south to cross the river.

The decision was correct, and the sentries in the canal to the south soon rowed back as well, saying that Tartars had also been found there.

Hauge personally led his troops and crossed the river from the south to attack. Mandahai led his troops and slaughtered them from the trenches in the west.

Many of the Tartars rode on war horses, with their feet bound and tried not to make a sound. Getting closer, afraid of revealing their whereabouts, the whole army dismounted and touched it.

In the two-mile-wide trench position, Mandahai divided 1,200 warriors and tried to occupy the first trench in the dark. Once successful, it proves that the enemy army is defenseless, then the follow-up troops will immediately kill.

Man Dahai led the main force to wait, and soon he was overjoyed that they had succeeded in their sneak attack.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

The Datong army in the first trench ran to the camp in panic, and then the second trench also shouted and shook the sky.

Some Eight Banners warriors lit torches and wanted to rush through several trenches to set fire to the innermost tent and cause even more chaos for the Datong army.

"All the troops are attacking!"

Man Dahai knew that it was done when he saw the torch, and he had the leisure to stop and light the torch, proving that the Datong army defending the trench was collapsing.

Hauge, on the south side of the canal, is still two miles away from the river bank, and when he heard the shouts of killing, he also excitedly said: "Speed up the march, cross the river and kill it!" ”

Raid at night, attack from both sides, and inevitably knock off this turtle shell!

(Thank you for the league leader of the purple boss, I'm ashamed, there are not many updates.) ）

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