At dusk, the first Ming army Chen Shenggui finally arrived at the original Qing army camp in Liuhe Palace, although the Qing army gave up this camp, but did not dismantle the wall fortifications around the camp, so the defense facilities of the camp are quite sound, in addition to the garbage all over the ground, you only need to go in and set up a camp tent to spend the night.

Considering that it was getting late and there was still a long way to go from here to Pingyang County, Chen Shenggui did not continue the march, but ordered his subordinates to camp here for the night, set up the camp tents of the army together, and at the same time sent messengers to go in the direction they came from to contact Su Dingyuan.

Because Su Dingyuan came out of the customs late, it was not until late at night that they marched out of the valley road with torches overnight, joined the forwards, and let the soldiers stay in the camp tents that had been set up.

"The Qing army is going to Pingyang, it is very likely that they already know that there are only more than 2,000 soldiers and horses around the superintendent, and the Shenji battalion around the superintendent is equipped with flintlock smoothbore guns and a large number of artillery, and the Qing army will definitely not be able to break through the county seat for a while, but we must also cross the Ao River as soon as possible and rush to the aid of the superintendent." Su Dingyuan said to Chen Shenggui.

"Humble duty understands." Chen Shenggui replied that now his military position is only a thousand households, one level lower than Su Dingyuan, who is a garrison, and there is no problem in claiming to be a humble position.

"Hmm." Su Dingyuan nodded, he looked at the long night in the north, and said: "Tomorrow, you will continue to lead the vanguard to cross the Ao River, you don't have to rush to meet the enemy with the Qing army, now set up camp in Jiangbei, cover the army across the river, and then engage the Qing army in two days."

The Qing army had been unable to attack the Fenshui Pass for a long time before, and suffered many losses, but there were not many losses among the elite soldiers of the Manchurian Eight Banners in its army, and the Manchurian Eight Banners were good at field warfare, and they were the great enemy of our army, so they must not be taken lightly."

Chen Shenggui was a member of the Qing army before he descended to the Ming Dynasty, he followed Ma Degong's army to fight in the south and north, and naturally saw the majesty of the Manchurian Eight Banners, after listening to Su Dingyuan's words, he couldn't help but recall the picture when he had seen the Manchurian Eight Banners, nodded with deep sympathy, and said: "Although the Manchurian Eight Banners are good at archery and foot combat, but the riding skills are equally exquisite, especially the archery, the Manchus are good at clearing the bow, and after approaching, they shoot it with iron arrows, break the armor and kill the enemy, and the power is terrifying."

"In this way, if you want to deal with the Manchurian Eight Banners, you can only use flintlock pikemen to refuse." Su Dingyuan said, but he had also heard that the Eight Banners of Manchuria would wear multiple pieces of armor, although he had some doubts about this, a person could really wear multiple pieces of heavy armor and still walk like a fly to kill the enemy, but if this was true, it would be a bit terrifying, and even the flintlock muskezeers would feel difficult.

At this moment, Su Dingyuan's guards came over, holding a bowl of hot rice porridge in his hand, and said to Su Dingyuan, "General, you haven't eaten a drop of water all night, please finish this bowl of rice porridge."

Su Dingyuan nodded, took the rice porridge and was about to pick up the soup spoon and scoop it into his mouth, Chen Shenggui saw this, and took the initiative to say: "General, it's late at night, as the main general, you should rest early, and retire first."

"Okay, you go back and rest, since you are the commander of the vanguard, you will have to work hard tomorrow." Su Dingyuan said.

"Retire from your duties."

In the early morning of the next day, after the Ming army had breakfast, they left the Liuhe Palace camp under the leadership of Chen Shenggui and drove towards the Ao River, from the Six Harmony Palace to the Ao River River in a straight line distance of 24 miles, after passing through a water network on the boundary of Cangnan County in the later generations, it was flat all the way.

Chen Shenggui did not relax his vigilance, and also took turns to send scouts to the front road to investigate the situation, close to the unitary hour in the afternoon, a group of scouts rode horses to the Ao River, the river here is in the shape of "several", the river goes deep to the north for several miles and then winds out, the river is wider, a stone bridge across the river, and it is also the only connection point that can go to the north of the river within a radius of several miles.

If there was no stone bridge, the Ming army could only be stopped on the south bank, looking at the ocean and sighing.

The scouts stood on the stone bridge, looking at the lush Dongjiang Mountains on the other side, and one of them said, "The trees on that mountain cover the sky, I'm afraid there is an ambush by the Qing army."

"Let's go over and investigate, if there is no Qing army ambush on the mountain, then you can notify the vanguard to cross the river."

When the captain's voice fell, he took the lead in riding his horse across the stone bridge and heading in the direction of Dongjiang Mountain, and in less than a quarter of an hour, several bowstrings sounded in the forest, and he never moved again

Quietly, only a horse with a little blood stain was left to run out of the woods, and it ran happily without restraint, and soon disappeared without a trace.

In the woods, a few eyes watched the horse run south, and whispered a few words to wipe the blood from the ground.

Half an hour later, Chen Shenggui, who had lost contact with a group of scouts, led the army to the south bank of the Ao River, he looked at the scenery of Jiangbei with a somewhat solemn expression, at this time, a hundred households came up and said: "Lord Qianhu, the scout is missing in this area, and the horses that escaped back have blood stains on them, I am afraid that something has happened to him, so we better be careful."

"Of course I understand." Chen Shenggui said, and then with a wave of his hand, he sent a group of scouts to cross the river to investigate, and those scouts crossed the river and went straight into the forest at the foot of Dongjiang Mountain, but they disappeared after they entered.

After waiting for a few minutes, I only heard a few shouts from Jiangbei, a scout with an arrow on his back galloped out of the forest, and after a while, several Qing army flags were raised from the forest, it turned out that the Qing army saw Chen Shenggui so cautious, and the ambush was discovered by the scouts, so they swaggered out of the forest and showed themselves in front of the Ming army.

Looking at the more and more Qing troops coming out of the forest, Chen Shenggui couldn't help but gasp, if he wasn't cautious and sent scouts to investigate, otherwise he would directly lead the army across the river, and he would have been directly ambushed by the Qing army, but I was afraid that most of them would have collapsed here.

"Damn clear dog, it's cunning."

After reacting, he couldn't help but curse, then drew his saber and shouted, "Array to meet the enemy!" Get ready to fight!"

Chen Shenggui's voice fell, and the Ming army behind him quickly moved, the sword and shield man holding the shield quickly ran to the front, standing the square shield in front of him, and the bird gun and archer stood behind the sword and shield hand in the front row.

Jiangbei, Mel Zhangjing Zhu Mala looked at the Ming army lined up on the other side, and a touch of disdain flashed in his eyes, but he still remembered the military order issued by Li Shutai, and did not fight with the Ming army here, and directly ordered to retreat back for several miles, give up the field to the Ming army, and stare at this Ming army from a distance, restraining their attention.

Looking at the Qing army's initiative to evacuate, Chen Shenggui suddenly had a strong doubt in his heart, he was worried that this was the Qing army's female trick, so he sent scouts to cross the river to investigate, and after making sure that there was no ambush in Dongjiangshan, he led the army to slowly cross the river.