As soon as Shen Youlong heard this, some suspicion flashed in his eyes, and he asked: "Ping Xibo, rescue the Son of Heaven and temporarily avoid the mountains and seas, what happens next?" ”

Wu Sangui lowered his voice and said: "It depends on the development of the current situation, if you can break the thief, you will naturally support the Son of Heaven to return to Beijing, but if you can't be the enemy, you can only move the capital to Nanjing, in order to reorganize the rivers and mountains in the future." ”

"Absolutely not!" Shen Yulong said loudly.

Although this is his plan, but now the Yue army and the vassal army are not there, Tang Tong has surrendered the thieves, and the only force that can be relied on is Wu Sangui, this guy has no brave loyalty, Shen Youlong is worried that he will coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes and control the court.

Wu Sangui immediately lowered his head, but he sneered in his heart, Li Zhaoji guessed that it was right, Shen Youlong moved the capital to save the driver, but he didn't want to let himself know, let alone let himself dominate.

Use yourself but defend yourself, worthy of being a literati doctor, not good-looking, and thinking about it is quite beautiful.

"Lord Shen, now it is your governor who is the king of Qin, and Ben Bo listens to you." Wu Sangui pretended to be very humble.

Shen Youlong nodded slightly, thinking that everything was under control, he said: "Ping Xibo, Ling Zun and his family are in the capital." ”

"Yes, a family of thirty-five is in the capital." Wu Sangui said.

Shen Youlong smiled: "The Son of Heaven is in the capital, and your family is also there, so he marched with the official, but he was both loyal and filial." Let's go to Beijing first, and when we arrive in the capital, we will meet the Son of Heaven and then talk about the strategy. ”

"Yes, Lord Shen." Wu Sangui said.

This cavalry set out from Shanhaiguan, marched all the way to the west, left Shanhaiguan and Bohai far behind, marched for two days, the scouts sent a police post, far away, saw two earth dragons from the north and south sides of the attack, Shen Youlong saw and said: "Ping Xibo, but the enemy cavalry is approaching." ”

Wu Sangui said: "Don't panic, my lord, our cavalry is elite, and it is difficult to have opponents in the world, so we will send troops to fight back, and we will break it with one blow." ”

Saying that, he sent Wu Guogui to meet the attack, but he thought in his heart that this guy Xia Guoxiang was pretending to be a big deal, and his hand was not small, and it was quite like that.

This is Wu Sangui's plan, he arranged for Xia Guoxiang to be in charge of acting, sent cavalry to attack the headquarters, and then made the appearance of being invincible, and then returned to Shanhaiguan.

Just when Wu Sangui thought that the plan was being implemented, Xia Guoxiang chased after him from behind on horseback and asked in a low voice, "Uncle, are you the cavalry you arranged?" ”

"Not your arrangement?" Wu Sangui's face changed greatly!

"The humble post was arranged in the afternoon, and there was no such formation." Xia Guoxiang said.

"Oh my God, enemy attack, enemy attack!" Wu Sangui immediately understood that this was the attack of the Shun army.

Wu Sangui also fought an old battle, and immediately sent someone to recall Wu Guogui, and then arranged to occupy the high ground to line up, and the Shun army approached, that is, he saw that the Chinese army had a big banner with Liu characters, which was the first person under Li Zicheng's general, Ruhou Liu Zongmin.

The cavalry of the Shun army quickly launched a charge, but it was not too close, but it was just galloping from a distance, and after a few back and forth, Wu Sangui's troops were unmoved, and only returned fire with birds, bows and arrows, killing and wounding dozens of cavalry of the Shun army, so that the Shun army understood that this Ming army was not a touch of a collapse.

Therefore, the Shun army retreated and lined up, erected a fence in front of the formation, rejected horses, prevented conflicts, and hid the cavalry behind the formation.

In the afternoon, before evening, a north wind blew, causing the blades of grass to fly, and the north wind blowing from the Mongolian steppes swept through the gravel and loess.

Wu Sangui immediately felt that this was a good opportunity, he lived in the north, and the thieves were in the south, and the enemy who was blown by the dust and dust couldn't open his eyes, so he immediately said: "Guogui, you take a thousand horsemen, take advantage of the bad weather, the enemy's foothold is not stable, and there will be a conflict."

Prime minister, you take 500 cavalry, go down the high ground, go around to the south, if the thief comes out of the cavalry to attack the nobles, you rush behind the big array. ”

Under Shen Youlong's nose, Liaozhen soldiers and horses quickly completed the arrangement, Wu Guogui led the cavalry to kill, taking advantage of the tailwind from the west of the army to the east, the army put the Ming army close before returning fire with bows and arrows, but because of the strong wind, the bird guns are difficult to ignite, and because of the headwind, the arrows shot are also blown away by the wind.

Wu Guogui's subordinates are all elite soldiers raised by Wu Sangui for many years, Hu cavalry is a lot, good at galloping, seeing that the enemy is fighting back a lot, but killing and injuring several people, immediately return fire with bows and arrows, ten steps away, riding and shooting, many intruding infantry were shot in the eye sockets and throat without protection, causing a moment of chaos.

There were also Hu cavalry who grabbed the fence with hooks and ropes, and refused to drag the horses to the side, but the armored soldiers in the army immediately stepped forward to stop them, and the two sides fought fiercely, and Wu Guogui's command retreated.

But Wu Sangui's advance arrangement played a role, the temporary formation of the army, not stable, in the face of the cavalry raid, should have fought back with cavalry, but the cavalry of the army was only more than 1,000, and Xia Guoxiang with hundreds of horsemen on the side and behind the tiger, once the cavalry left the formation, it was a raid on the rear, so the army was in a situation of passive beating for a while.

"Look, Pingxibo, there's another army of soldiers and horses over there." Shen Youlong pointed to the west, and in the dim weather, there was a fire dragon approaching.

"It seems to be mostly cavalry." Someone said.

Wu Sangui nodded slightly: "If the enemy has another thousand horses, we will immediately fall behind." ”

"Is it feasible to retreat?" Shen Youlong asked.

Wu Sangui said: "What the adults said is, but even if you retreat, this part in front of you will fall back and chase and kill, disturbing my march, this place is a hundred miles away from Shanhaiguan, and after several disturbances, you will be caught up by the enemy's rear team if you don't reach Shanhaiguan." ”

Shen Youlong didn't know what to do for a while, and at this time, Wu Sangui's eyes looked at the place where Wu Guogui's department had rushed to kill just now, and he said, "Lord Shen, borrow your clairvoyant mirror." ”

"Why don't I send you." Shen Youlong handed the telescope over.

Wu Sangui took a look and found that Wu Guogui had retreated, but just now he had a fierce battle and lost thirty or forty horsemen, and many horses were entangled in fences and corpses, and some soldiers in the camp came out to count and capture, but they fought.

"Looks like the habits of the rogue haven't changed." Wu Sangui saw this scene and said: "Order Wu Guogui to lead the main force to retreat, and I will personally lead the thousands of cavalry to the rear of the palace." ”

Taking advantage of the fact that the sky was not completely dark, Wu Sangui arranged for the army to retreat, the speed was very fast, only the cavalry of the army followed, Wu Sangui personally led a thousand horsemen to rush and kill, broke the cavalry formation of the army, and then retreated, but left a lot of horses, wealth, and the army that turned back and grabbed a group, Wu Sangui led the army to rush and kill, broke the army, killed more than 200 soldiers, and captured 140 horses.

"Ping Xibo, good means, he is really a famous general." Shen Youlong couldn't help but praise.

Wu Sangui said with a smile: "I have a lot of horsemen under my command, and when I fought with them in the past, they were like this, competing for wealth and horses, and I used this to break the enemy. I can't imagine that the habits of thieves have not changed. ”

"Oh, is that the same with Toyo?" Shen Youlong asked.

Wu Sangui shook his head: "No, I'm talking about the Mongolian Tatars, not the Eastern Prisoners, who are strict in discipline and difficult to deal with." ”

The cavalry retreated along the official road at night, retreating all the way for more than forty miles, and then chose a high ground to camp, Wu Sangui found Shen Youlong and said: "My lord, you have also seen the situation in the pass, the strength of the thieves is not bad, and there are many soldiers and horses, only my three thousand cavalry will not be able to get close to the capital."

It is better to return to Shanhaiguan, assemble the main force of horse steps, supplemented by guns, and then march to discuss. ”

Although Shen Youlong was worried about the capital, he had to agree, because he had sent Chen Ping to inquire about the captive, according to what the captive said, after the conflict with the Tang Tong Department that day, the Shun army sent two large armies southward, known as 100,000, to ambush the reinforcements in the direction of Shanhaiguan, today encountered only one of the forwards, fortunately the retreat was fast, the contact was early, if it was another day, I am afraid that it will fall into a heavy encirclement.

Although the 100,000 troops who broke into the army must not be a real number, even if it is only 20,000 or 30,000, it will be a disaster for this team with only cavalry.

Therefore, Shen Youlong could only agree.

When night fell, the camp began, and Xia Guoxiang had just arranged to camp and came to Wu Sangui's tent.

"How did the dozen or so people sent by Li Zhaoji behave today?" Wu Sangui asked.

Xia Guoxiang said with a smile: "It's the same as what Li Zhaoji said, that is, to observe the military, and not to command with a beak, they always hold a wooden board, write and draw on it, all of them are foreign code numbers, and they can't understand any of them." ”

"Can't you read and still don't understand?"

Xia Guoxiang saw that Wu Sangui was angry, and immediately explained: "What they say is official, and they understand it, but they can't understand the content, but what should they be calculating, someone is crackling with an abacus." By the way, these people are very good at drawing, and they took a pattern from their humble position, and the uncle has seen it. ”

Wu Sangui took the drawings handed by Xia Guoxiang, and looked at them by the light of the fire, showing the terrain of the battle during the day with various lines and symbols, and the circles one by one depicted the high ground where the headquarters was located very vividly.

"It's a good idea." Wu Sangui took the picture in his arms. He said, "Did Shen Yulong ask you for a prisoner?" ”

"Yes, I asked for four, and after asking, I returned them all. Li Zhaoji's subordinates also asked for a few inquiries, but they have not yet returned. Xia Guoxiang said honestly.

Wu Sangui nodded: "You go and ask in person, pick out twenty of the captives, and the injured ones should also be carefully treated and treated well." ”

"What is this?"

Wu Sangui said: "Remember, the twenty selected cannot be questioned by others. After picking, tomorrow you will wait here with 200 cavalry, and hand over the prisoners to the intruding army that is chasing after you. Take the opportunity to establish contact with the enemy boss. ”

Xia Guo was puzzled, and Wu Sangui said: "Tang Tong has surrendered, and there are no more incapable soldiers around the capital. No one knows what this battle will look like. Most of the capital can't hold it, and we can't grab the Son of Heaven if we want to. ”

"Then if you return the captives, won't it be possible to redeem the Son of Heaven?" Xia Guo asked.

Wu Sangui slapped him on the head: "Stupid, what is the identity of the Son of Heaven, how many captives can be ransomed?" My family of thirty-five is in the capital, and I have to think about them.

Besides, the thieves have become a trend, if they capture the capital and stand on their own, who can say who belongs to the world? Our Liaozhen is self-contained, and the future cannot be bet on one side! ”

Xia Guoxiang's eyes widened, and he said, "I understand the humble position, so let's arrange it." ”

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