Because there were vanguard soldiers and horses chasing the enemy ahead, Chang Yu was not in a hurry but rested every twenty miles. With the baggage at the back and the soldiers in front, he traveled ten miles to explore the horse and leisurely entertained the little road boy in the car.
Why take a child with you when you go to war?
Chang Yu really can't control this. The little Taoist boy is Li Muxian's disciple. Li Muxian is a wandering Taoist. Maybe he thinks this way of training with the army is better. As for whether it is too dangerous, maybe in his eyes, being around the little eunuch If it is all dangerous, then there really is no safe place in Ming Dynasty.
After breaking out of camp for less than ten miles, the horsemen from the front came to report. The vanguard was resting fifty miles away, and the Qing army was a hundred miles away.
A hundred miles away is Cangzhou, which has entered Hebei Province.
Chang Yu couldn't help but wonder why the Qing army didn't slow down at all after passing Tianjin. They ran hundreds of miles in a day and a night. Even the cavalry worked too hard. How could the people behind them who were dragging the baggage bear it? It's just impossible to control this. They treat them as human beings and as horses and cattle, no matter whether they live or die.
So they went to Li Yan's carriage and found Li Muxian, and the three of them began to wonder what the Qing army was up to.
"Since the Tatars moved south from the capital, they have gained nothing except Tongzhou and Wuqing. Now they have entered Hebei, and Cangzhou is within reach. However, during the rebellion some time ago, Cangzhou was preserved due to its location on the outer edge. At this time, the Tatars will not miss". Li Muchian was silent for a moment and spoke first.
"Tianjin is in the southwest, but the scouts reported that the Tatar army passed Tianjin and went directly south without any deviation. Therefore, they simply took Cangzhou into their eyes and had no intention of going there." Chang Yu reminded.
"Maybe he felt that Hebei was barren, and if he took a detour and was afraid of being overtaken by officers and soldiers, he would go straight to Shandong," Li Yan said with a frown.
Chang Yu rubbed his chin with a puzzled look on his face: "Ant legs are also meat, and you still have to pick and choose. Nowadays, everything is pretty much the same. How can Shandong be any better? After passing Cangzhou and heading south, you will reach Dezhou. Dezhou is also southwest of Cangzhou. Could it be that you go straight to Jinan? But Jinan The capital has been deeply plowed by the Tatars twice, so what's the point of making a profit? Moreover, with his light armor and fast horses, he can't attack Jinan City. He's not just plundering villages and towns in the surrounding areas, so why should he choose to go far away? He's really afraid that we will chase him. close?"
"Perhaps, it's not as simple as we thought." Li Yan stood up with difficulty and leaned half against the car window, and glanced outside the car: "Since ant legs don't like it, they are eyeing fat meat."
Fat? Chang Yu and Li Muxian were startled.
A troop of 3,000 Ming army cavalry was stationed on the bank of an unknown river fifty miles away from Weinan, Tianjin. It was Chang Yu who sent the vanguard troops to pursue the Qing army.
These three thousand cavalry are led by three generals: Tu Yuan, Ji Jike, and Hao Yaoqi. They can be said to be the strongest combination of generals under their command.
Chang Yu's order to Tu Yuan and the others was simple: gain a sense of presence.
In short, it is to let the Qing army know that the Ming army will pursue them later, and just follow them wherever they go.
Chasing is the main thing, fighting is the supplement, and if you can do it, don’t fight.
To put it bluntly, Chang Yu could not catch up for a while because his troops were exhausted, but he also wanted to put psychological pressure on the Qing army.
Tu Yuan and his three men were ordered to cross the river all night and go south to pursue the enemy. They were not in a hurry all the way, blowing in the night wind and fighting with the Qing army's scouting horses. At dawn, they chased for fifty miles. Finally, they were tired and found a riverside to rest. But we also found that the main force behind the Tatars was more than fifty miles away.
"Killing some Tatars and exploring the horses is really not enough. If not, we will rush up and have a good time with his main force." Hao Yaoqi lay shirtless in the shade of a tree by the river, holding a piece of grass in his mouth. muttered.
"No" Ji Jike was the most prudent: "Firstly, you cannot disobey the order, and secondly, it is difficult for us to defeat the main force."
Tu Yuan even rolled his eyes: "You think the Tatars are all vulnerable to you thieves. Not to mention that we can't catch up with their main force. We are afraid that our three thousand soldiers and horses won't even be able to penetrate their outer perimeter. Twenty If we get closer than twenty miles at most, the Tatars will send troops to stop us!"
"Who the hell are you saying is a traitor to the army?" Hao Yaoqi jumped up, pointed at Tu Yuan and cursed: "I've long disliked you, come here and fight if you dare!"
After Hao Yaoqi surrendered, he was most afraid of people mentioning his past, but Tu Yuan, a guy with a good reputation, just looked down on him and always made fun of him. In addition, the two had fought in Taiyuan before, and they despised each other. There was a lot of fighting, and it would have started long ago if Ji Jike hadn't intervened.
At this time, when Tu Yuan heard Tu Yuan say "You are a thief" to his left and "You are a thief" to his right, he could no longer hold back his old and new grudges, so he immediately broke into a fight.
"I'm afraid you won't succeed!" Tu Yuan yelled, taking off his shirt to reveal his muscles: "You little thieves, I don't take him seriously!"
What the hell, when Hao Yaoqi heard that he called him a thief again, he couldn't bear it and rushed over. Ji Jike was horrified and shouted to stop, but saw that the two of them were already fighting together. No matter how much he tried to persuade them, it would be useless. Everyone is a man of divine power, but he couldn't pull him away, and he could only shout anxiously for the surrounding soldiers to come to help.
While the two tough generals here were fighting, in the Qing army camp more than fifty miles to the south, Dorgon and the Qing generals were very uneasy.
According to the original plan, after the Qing army passed Tianjin, they could grab and move leisurely without having to worry about the Ming army catching up behind them. All of their cavalry were running weak, so the Ming army was really invincible.
Therefore, after crossing the Haihe River in Tianjin Wei, the Qing army expanded the scope of looting on the march, and the speed slowed down for a time. The soldiers were slightly less tired, and the morale of the Qing army was much higher because of the large-scale robbery.
But when a piece of information was sent, Dorgon and others were immediately confused.
The Ming Army infantry that was chasing closely behind disappeared, and was replaced by a group of thousands of Ming Army cavalry, following quite closely, just forty or fifty miles away.
Forehead……
The Ming army cavalry who didn't know where they were going suddenly appeared again. Although there were only a few thousand, what about the rest? I wipe it, it won't suddenly appear from around me.
Once Dorgon was bitten by a snake, he became suspicious. Feeling uneasy, he quickly ordered to recall the surrounding plundering troops and gather them in one place. He even gave up the idea of dividing his troops to go to Cangzhou to rob.
"Don't lose big because of small things. Just to be on the safe side, don't eat the fat first. Take the Qingzhou Mansion with light troops and fast horses. After plundering the palace, you can plunder other places in Shandong. If the Ming army arrives at that time, At least we have what we have obtained from the Qingzhou Prince's Palace. At worst, we will go back and pick up more along the way. By the time we get out of the customs, it will be almost done."
Geng Zhongming proposed, and others agreed that it should be so. Dorgon agreed and ordered the army to rest for half an hour before heading directly to Qingzhou Mansion.
Even if the little eunuch thought hard, he would not expect that the Qing army in Shecangzhou would still run all the way. He was not afraid of being overtaken by him, but was instead being chased and stopped by the Ming army, sometimes by infantry and sometimes by cavalry, which made him feel uneasy. , I scared myself.
But what Chang Yu didn't expect was that he and Li Yan and others guessed Dorgon's intention in advance!
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