Azig has been on the battlefield for a long time and has become a master. He is an expert in setting up battle formations and marching and setting up camps. When Dewen reported the news of the discovery of the Ming army in Xianghe County, he was really surprised and suspicious. He quickly sent people to report to Dorgon and also joined forces. Sent a detective horse to investigate.
Although he couldn't figure out where this Ming army came from, Ergon, who numbered hundreds, really looked down upon him. Seeing that it was getting dark, he ordered his men to camp on the spot in an unknown village ten miles north of Xianghe City.
Marching camps have their own particularities. They usually look for high ground and close to water, which are easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, there is no danger to defend the surrounding plains, so they camp in a small village next to the Grand Canal. With the village as the center, the camp area is one mile in radius, and the outer perimeter is five miles. It is full of light and dark outposts, which is the most common regular marching camp.
They must be stragglers! Azig walked around the village and couldn't figure out where this Ming army came from. He could only guess that a certain group of officers and soldiers happened to be here.
The intelligence from the detective horses also confirmed his conclusion. Azig sent out multiple waves of detective horses to track and capture the officers and soldiers, but they returned in vain. The Ming army was more like experienced bandits and was very cunning. .
The water system around Xianghe County is complex, with dense weeds and woods, people can hide everywhere, and it is dark at this time. The detective horse cannot track it at all, and it does not dare to track it too deeply, because in the blink of an eye, you may not know where you died in a certain river. In the ditch.
"Damn it, Ming soldiers, thieves... they all have such a bad character, being sneaky like a thief is shameful!" Azig laughed and scolded, and many of his subordinates started to make noises. They were no longer as nervous as when they first heard about the whereabouts of the Ming army. At this time, they were already It was concluded that it was just some defeated Ming troops and there were only a few hundred of them, so it was not a threat to them, it was just a false alarm.
In the past, after Azig understood the situation, he would have disdained the Ming army who still sent troops to break the city according to the original plan. However, I don’t know which muscle was wrong, or whether he was too excited and worked hard when he vented his animal desires, which led to him now. He was a little tired, or maybe he had learned to be cautious, so he did not order the city to be breached again, but instead ordered the soldiers to take strict precautions and take a good rest. At dawn tomorrow, he would go to Xianghe County to eat and drink.
Azig, who was drunk too much, was a little tired. He went to bed early and slept very soundly. Wasn't he afraid of the Ming army attacking the camp?
Don't be afraid!
It was just a group of more than a hundred guerrillas. The previous attack on the stone was just that I saw a few Qing soldiers at the right time. It is possible that I didn't even know the identity of the Ming army and thought they were thieves before making a sneak attack. If I knew There are three thousand Qing troops here. I'm afraid they were so scared that their legs were weak and they asked grandpa to spare his life.
Besides, even if any of them dare to attack the camp, hundreds of people will definitely come here to seek death!
It’s late at night and the wind is blowing!
The dark clouds that came from nowhere in the sky silently blocked the starlight, and the Qing army camp in the nameless village gradually became quiet. The outposts outside were chatting listlessly while looking at the dark night sky in the distance. With.
"Hey, look there's fire over there..."
I don’t know who discovered it at first. There was a looming fire in the distance due east. First there were one cluster, two clusters, three or four clusters, and gradually turned into a pile. Oh, not a few pieces. Each piece seemed not far apart, but judging from the distance, It should be about half a mile.
The Qing military police sentry was suspicious but not alarmed, because the village was adjacent to the Grand Canal to the east, and the fire was at least several miles away from the east bank of the canal. Even the enemy had nothing to fear, after all, there was a big river across it.
"Zhou Cao, it can't really be the Ming army. Look at this scale, there must be hundreds of people..." The police sentries were talking about it, and they saw the flames jumping around, sometimes far away and sometimes approaching.
Soon an Azig family general who was on duty received the news. He rode to the river and looked at it with doubts on his face: Could it be the Ming army from before? Why did they cross the river to get there? Maybe they were scared that there was a large group of Qing troops here, so they fled far away.
Just when I was feeling good about myself, several spies on horseback rushed over to report that a group of people had just been spotted sneaking across the river east a few miles south of Xianghe City. The two groups clashed and the other side escaped...
The general burst out laughing. He could barely see the lights of Xianghe City in the distance. He said coldly: "If you want to escape, just run away. Tomorrow, where the army will reach, there won't be any grass..."
"Sir, are they going to be the Ming army just now in the east? What are they doing there with a torch on, so arrogant..." A Qing army asked the general.
The general laughed and said, "It's almost impossible to leave Ten. They must have discovered that our army is here. If you don't run away quickly, why don't you wait for death? As for what they are doing there, we also have our men in the east. They will be there soon." Come report..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard the rapid sound of horse hooves from the south. He frowned and looked at several torches coming towards him. The spy looked anxious: "Report, sir, Ming army scouts suddenly appeared a few miles south of Xianghe City and fought with our spies. Look, they are." We want to drive our manpower away from the vicinity of Xianghe City..."
Um? What are you doing? General Qing looked confused. After thinking about it, he felt that something was fishy, so he decided to inform Azige to the village manager.
"Sir, I have a small guess that there may be someone else in the east, and the Ming army who is acting evil in the south at this time is the Ming army just now. If I guess it is true, they want to go into the city to escape!" A Qing army beside him whispered.
General Qing rolled his eyes at him: "Don't act smart if you don't have a brain. If the Ming army wants to enter the city, why wait until now if they have already entered the city? And what's the point of them entering the city? This tiny city can't stop me at all. The Qing Iron Cavalry can be defeated in an instant. When they enter the city, not only can they not avoid disaster, but they can't escape death..."
While he was talking, he suddenly heard a noise in the distance, and for a moment he couldn't tell what was happening in which direction.
"Sir, west!" The faces of the Qing soldiers around them suddenly changed, because they heard a faint rumble. It was not thunder, but the sound of horse hooves. It is absolutely impossible for hundreds of people to have such a formation and movement! !
Not only was there the faint sound of horse hooves, but the western edge suddenly lit up and became brighter and brighter... The Qing general ran towards the village with a look of shock on his face, shouting loudly: "Your Majesty, the enemy is attacking!"
Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy attack!
The entire military camp was warning almost at the same time, but many Qing troops who were carefully sleeping did not realize where the enemy was attacking and where it was coming from.
The one in the east woke up and saw fire flashing due east, and the one in the west saw fire clouds rolling in the distance, and soon there was also due south... "We are surrounded..."
I don’t know who shouted!
How could he be surrounded? The awakened Azig hurriedly left the house, got on his horse, rushed out of the village with a knife, and circled half a circle. He was shocked and frightened. How could there be so many Ming troops? Why did they suddenly become unknown? I rushed forward unconsciously, but those damn police whistles didn't warn me in time...
But at this time, Azig had no time to guess where the Ming army appeared from, let alone get angry and accuse the outlying police posts, because the Ming army in the west was already in front of him, rolling towards the village like a huge wave...
There were more than hundreds or thousands of people. Azig quickly ordered a counterattack. In this plain area, there was almost no offensive and defensive terms for the Qing cavalry. They just charged! Backlash! Scatter and kill the Ming troops who came to attack the camp and let them know how powerful the Qing cavalry is!
