In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, in the early morning of December 12.

Lu Xiangsheng was dressed in fish scale armor and wore a scarf on his head, sitting in the tent of the Chinese army, holding a brush to write the last letter he was about to present.

Every word above the recital is all about border defense, methods of raising salaries, and affairs in Tuntian, and nothing else is mentioned in half of the sentence.

The tiredness on Lu Xiangsheng's face was even heavier than a few days ago.

"Wait until ...... Wait for me to clear the army...... It's here, you'...... You guys...... These lowly Nikan...... All to die! All have to ...... Die!! ”

The cursing outside the tent was intermittent, but Lu Xiangsheng's expression did not change in the slightest.

The person who scolded was a Jiannu captured in the battle of Artemisia Bridge during the day, and it seemed that he was still a small officer who could speak some Chinese, and was tied up outside the tent by him.

At this time, if you don't wear clothes outside the tent, even the iron-beaten men won't be able to stand for long......

"Presumptuous!"

The soldier in charge of interrogation outside the tent snorted coldly, shook the horsewhip in his hand, and instantly left a bloody mark on the face of the Jiannu who was tied to the pillar.

The Jiannu screamed miserably, but before he could shout, a hand had already grabbed the tail of the money rat at the back of his head and directly knocked him to the ground.

The cheeks that had just been whipped by the horsewhip touched the ground for a moment, and the captives of the painful Najianu howled for a while.

The surrounding armor soldiers all watched the interrogation process with cold eyes, and everyone's expressions were extremely indifferent, and none of them had unbearable in their eyes.

Compared to what Jiannu did in Beizhili, all this is nothing at all.

Outside the gate, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and all the armor soldiers guarding outside the tent of the Chinese army raised their heads to follow the reputation.

The sound of horses' hooves was far and near, and a team of cavalry galloped into the camp from outside the gate, accompanied by a low neighing of war horses, and when the war horses in front were still galloping, Du Wenhuan, who was wearing armor, had already dismounted first.

"Has the Overseer ever gone to bed?"

Du Wenhuan's eyes were sharp and he asked bluntly.

"Never."

After the guards guarding outside the tent of the Chinese army saw that it was Du Wenhuan, they did not dare to slack off, and replied immediately.

"The governor has an order, if General Du is looking for it, it can be directly entered into the account, and there is no need to pass it on."

Du Wenhuan bowed slightly, clenched his fists lightly with both hands, and walked towards the Chinese military tent without procrastination.

"The last general, Du Wenhuan, knock on the superintendent."

Du Wenhuan strode into the tent and bowed to Lu Xiangsheng, who was sitting on the top.

Lu Xiangsheng had already received the news of Du Wenhuan's arrival one step ahead, and when the soldiers outside the tent saw Du Wenhuan's arrival, someone had already entered the tent first.

"Did Gao Qiqian reply?"

Lu Xiangsheng pressed his hands on the desk, leaned forward slightly, his hands tightly grasped the desk, because of the force, even the knuckles were already white.

The main force of Jiannu has been determined to be in Shunde Province, and the southwest is the Zhenglan Banner led by Dolgon, and the northeast is surrounded by Yue Tuo, who is leading the Zhenghong Banner.

In Julu, he gathered some returning soldiers, and now there are nearly 10,000 people under his command, and in a few days, he found out the news and raised his troops to be stationed in Jize.

The day before yesterday, Gao Qi's sneaking troops had arrived in Wei County, and they were only fifty miles away.

It's just that he sent three requests in a row to ask Gao Qiqian to join him in attacking Jiannu, but all of them were lost in the sea without exception.

The look of hope on Lu Xiangsheng's face finally slowly dissipated with Du Wenhuan's shaking of his head.

"Gao Qi led his subordinates and fled in the direction of Linqing......"

Lu Xiangsheng's expression slowly became cold, and the last trace of hope in his heart was extinguished, and there was no longer the slightest illusion.

Du Wenhuan looked at Lu Xiangsheng, who seemed to have lost all his spirit and spirit for a moment, and finally took a step forward, and finally persuaded him.

"Inspector, there is still a gap in the Jiannu encirclement network, and it is not too late to move the camp at this time."

Du Wenhuan looked at Lu Xiangsheng, he joined the army when he was young, and progressed to become a general, deputy commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief, and even a provincial military commander.

For decades, he served as a selector under countless governors, but none of them were like Lu Xiangsheng.

Governing the army is responsible for itself, not disturbing the people, not being corrupt, being honest and self-disciplined, adhering to principles, and never compromising.

Originally, when he received an order from the military department to warn Datong, he was ready to leave.

But I don't know why, but in the end, it was the ghost who left behind.

He had never served anyone in his life, not even his own uncle Juniper in the past, but this time he did.

Such a person should not die like this......

"Where will this place of death be moved?"

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head slowly, rejecting Du Wenhuan's last proposal, he had no choice.

"Woo——————"

Du Wenhuan wanted to say more, but the sudden sound of a horn outside the tent interrupted the conversation between him and Lu Xiangsheng, and also broke the silence inside and outside the camp.

Mixed with the sound of the trumpet, there are bursts of weeping and complaining.

The sound of the basket was low and whimpering, and the sound of the trumpet came one after another, continuously, from all directions.

Du Wenhuan raised his head indifferently and looked out of the tent, the sound of horns and pipes came from all directions, and he knew that it was the sound of the Jiannu army coming from all sides to echo each other.

The army of Jiannu has arrived......

Lu Xiangsheng and Du Wenhuan walked out of the camp tent, and a group of armored soldiers outside the tent of the Chinese army were still dutifully guarding in the wind and snow.

Lu Xiangsheng was in the queue of a group of armor soldiers and saw a person, Yao Dongzhao, who took a huge risk to deliver grain and grass to them at night.

Lu Xiangsheng frowned, and looked at Hu Dawei standing beside Yao Dongzhao, the Jiannu army had not completely completed the encirclement, and there was still a chance to break out of the encirclement network at this time, he arranged for Hu Dawei to send elite cavalry escorts, but now Yao Dongzhao was still in the army.

"Mr. Yao wants to see the superintendent one last time."

Hu Dawei, who was wearing armor and a red cotton cloak, stepped forward and said in a low voice.

He had already arranged a fine cavalry to escort Yao Dongzhao out of the camp, but Yao Dongzhao insisted on seeing Lu Xiangsheng, otherwise he would resolutely refuse to leave the camp, and he had no choice but to bring Yao Dongzhao to come.

When the horn sounded outside the camp, Hu Dawei knew that things were starting to go bad.

"Lu Gong, don't blame General Tiger, everything is the student's choice."

Yao Dongzhao looked at Lu Xiangsheng, took a step forward, knelt on the cold snow, and said.

Lu Xiangsheng was trapped in Jiazhuang alone, the army was dead, and the generals and colonels were all resolute, and what Lu Xiangsheng said yesterday had made him understand everything.

"Will the students see Lu Gong again in the future?"

Yao Dongzhao's voice was not loud, but it clearly reached the ears of everyone outside the Chinese army's tent.

Everyone's eyes were focused on Lu Xiangsheng.

Under the eyes of everyone, Lu Xiangsheng slowly stepped forward, helped Yao Dongzhao who was kneeling on the ground, and then bent down to dust the snow off Yao Dongzhao's knees.

Lu Xiangsheng did not answer Yao Dongzhao's question, but only untied the saber at his waist.

Lu Xiangsheng stroked the saber in his hand, his eyes were full of reluctance.

This knife was specially made for him by local craftsmen when he was serving as a daimyo soldier, and he held this knife all the way to the north and south, and fought thousands of miles.

Lu Xiangsheng sighed lightly and solemnly handed over the saber to Yao Dongzhao's hands.

"You want to see me later, but you look at this knife."

At this moment, Yao Dongzhao, as well as all the generals and soldiers, were all choked with tears.

……

At the time of the third watch, the brigade of the Qing army came from the west and began to set up camp in the west of the camp of the Xuan army in Jiazhuang.

To the west of Jiazhuang, the lights are bright, the torches are connected, and countless fireworks illuminate the plains as if it were daylight.

At the fourth watch, a group of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses swarmed from the south, and countless torches were scattered in the wilderness, like a fire burning the plains.

On the fifth watch, several teams of Qing troops came from the northeast, and the lights were all over the field, and they were connected with the Qing army that had arrived before.

At this point, the Xuanda army camp in Jiazhuang was already surrounded by the Qing army......

……

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The high-spirited drums sounded in the camp of the Xuanda army.

On the top of the drum tower, the strong wrestlers swung their drumsticks vigorously, and beat the war drums in front of them violently one after another.

The sound of the drums accompanied by the low sound of the horn spread in all directions.

Accompanied by the dense sound of drums and horns, the Xuan army in the camp quickly assembled.

On top of the outermost camp wall, there were already guards standing full.

A large number of Ming army sentries continued to gallop on the field, and one after another teams of Ming troops galloped back to the camp from afar, bringing the information of the Qing army from all directions back to the army.

More than a dozen units of hundreds of Ming cavalry and forced Jiannu rangers are galloping and fighting in the wilderness, and the Qing army's rangers are constantly increasing, oppressing the range of activities of the Ming cavalry on the periphery.

Lu Xiangsheng stood on the lookout and looked at the camp of the Qing army in the distance.

The wind and snow are much lighter than at night, and the snowflakes are flying, but they don't affect the vision too much.

Above the wilderness in the southwest.

The army of Jiannu was slowly moving forward, and a large number of rangers were whizzing past it.

Farther to the southwest, various colored banners were waving in the cold wind, and the Jiannu soldiers in various colors of armor were braving the wind and snow to march forward.

Team after team, one after another, as if endless, kept pouring out of the sky.

At the ends of the four horizons, flags like oceans were poked out almost at the same time.

Southeast.

A large number of banners were connected, and countless Jiannu cavalry were galloping from the southeast.

The black pressure is boundless, and the sky is full of darkness.

Hundreds of thousands of horses' hooves struck the ground, causing even the earth to resonate, and the sound of iron hooves lingered in everyone's ears, shaking everyone's hearts faintly.

The Qing army came from all directions, and the cavalry in the front had covered the entire front, but there were still soldiers in the rear, as if it were endless.

Under the dark sky, the various flags and armor in the Qing army's array were intertwined with the snow all over the ground, conveying a strong visual stimulation, and the air was filled with a solemn atmosphere.

The vast ocean of colorful flags almost flooded the entire outskirts of Jiazhuang, and the mountains and fields were full of Qing army flags.

The sound of hunting and hunting with strong winds blowing and rolling flags continued to echo in all directions, converging into bursts of sound like pine waves.

In the midst of the high-spirited war drums and the muffled sound of the basket, the originally pale snow was gradually swallowed up by the tide of the Qing army.

Lu Xiangsheng's heart slowly sank, the more the number of Qing troops, the smaller the chance of victory for them......

……

In the western suburbs of Jiazhuang, the Qing army is in a large array in the west, and a number of huge woven golden dragons are erected in the center of the large array.

Most of these gold-woven dragons are lined up together, but only one white dragon is at the front of the dragons.

This white woven gold dragon is naturally the banner owner of the white flag of the Qing Kingdom, and he was ordered to be the general and the prince of Rui, Dolgon.

At this time, Dorgon was wearing a bright silver armor and a helmet of the same color, and the pointed needles on the top of the helmet were decorated with red tassels, which were extremely eye-catching.

Behind Dolgon, there is Duoduo, the banner owner with a white flag, as well as Gushan Ezhen Yibai with a Mongolian white flag, and Gushan Ezhen Suna with a white flag.

For this battle, Dorgon can be said to have worked hard, gathering almost all the troops he could muster.

Hauge was attacking Shandong with the blue flag, and he directly disregarded his requisitioning order.

The blue flag can't be mobilized, but Yue Tuo came with two red flags, and the soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner led by Gushan Ezhen Tan Tai of the Zhenghuang Banner also came, and his own two white flags were also transferred.

A total of six banners were transferred from the eight banners of Mongolia, plus one banner of the Han army, a total of twelve banners of soldiers.

Although many banners and many soldiers have not been recalled, some military forces have been divided as partial divisions to contain the Ming army that may come to help.

But even so, there are now more than 40,000 soldiers gathered in Jiazhuang, which is more than enough to face the current situation.

"Gao Qi absconded?"

Dolgon snorted disdainfully, he just sent a cavalry force of a thousand people over, and scared Gao Qiqian all the way to Linqing.

"If you escape, you will escape, even if Gao Qiqian escapes, he can't set off any wind and waves, he doesn't dare to fight at this time, do you still expect him to dare to fight in the future?"

With a wave of his hand, Dorgon repelled the soldiers who had come to report the news.

"Then let Mukdenbu come back with his troops, and leave two Niu Lu to scout in Wei County."

Gao Qiqian's courage was far less than he imagined, and the partial division he arranged had not played a role at all, and Gao Qiqian had already escaped.

With a high and diving brain, I am afraid that I want not to show the enemy as weak and a way to shoot a false shot.

It is better to transfer back the partial division that originally contained the high diving to enrich the army.

Dolgon's gaze turned to the north, and he was more worried about the Shaanxi soldiers under Sun Chuanting's command than the Liao soldiers who were high and submerged.

Although the news from the northwest was still the same, and the Shaanxi army still remained in Zhending Mansion, Dolgon always felt a little uneasy.

And the Xuan army is also everywhere revealing that something is wrong, the Xuan army does not seem to be surprised by their arrival, when they arrived last night, there was not much panic in the camp of the Xuan army.

The camps of the Xuan army were stacked on top of each other, and they were built extremely strongly, but I am afraid that it took a lot of thought, and there were many watchtowers and forts.

Lu Xiangsheng knew that they were coming......

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"History of the Ming Dynasty, Volume 261, Biography 149, Biography of Lu Xiangsheng":

In the middle of the night, the sound of hoops abounded. On a day, ride tens of thousands of rings of three turns.

"Rong Che Diary":

The high superintendent is in the southeast, flying to invoke, and retreating for a hundred miles, what does it mean?

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