Hauge didn't know if he heard what Obai said, but he just murmured: "It's too quiet, it's so quiet..."
Quiet? Where is the silence?
Obai was stunned again and again. Can an army of 20,000 people or nearly 40,000 horses gather together and be quiet? People are shouting and neighing, it’s so noisy!
"Your Majesty, aren't you very quiet?" Obai looked at his most beloved prince with a little worry. The prince had lost weight recently and his face was not looking good. He must have worked too hard. Could it be that he was also deaf?
"Your Majesty," Oboi said again, "it's very noisy in the camp... Is there something wrong with your ears? Why don't you find a doctor to check it out?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Hauge turned around and glared at Obai, "I have not reached the age where I am blind and deaf. Dorgon is not deaf, so will I be deaf?"
But Dorgon is younger than you! Obai said in his heart: Although he is your uncle, he is not very old... He is only thirty-four years old. Your nephew is already thirty-seven. What if you can't survive Dorgon?
"I mean that the Ming Army is too quiet!" Hauge said angrily, "Obai, what have you and I been doing standing here all afternoon?"
What to do? Let me fan you, the prince... Obai held a fan in his hand. He had been fanning him all afternoon, and his arms were a little sore.
As soon as Hauge reminded him, Obai quickly turned his attention to the Ming army camp. He looked at it for a while, listened for a while, and finally realized that something was wrong.
It was indeed too quiet!
Although the military camp is a place of solemn killing, making noise is strictly prohibited. But how could a place where tens of thousands of troops gathered be so quiet? They still had to train and prepare for war, so how could they be so quiet? Are tens of thousands of troops sleeping?
It's daytime now, I'm sleeping during the day... What do you want to do?
Oboi frowned and said, "Your Majesty, could it be that... that is the empty camp?"
Hauge frowned slightly: "Maybe it's an empty camp plan. The main force of the Southern Army has already gone to Fengyang to aid Fengyang... Maybe the army is still resting in the camp!"
"Rest? Sleep in broad daylight?" Obai suddenly became nervous, "The Nan bandits are going to attack at night?"
Hauge frowned: "Sleeping during the day is naturally for action at night..."
"Your Majesty," Obai asked hurriedly, "What should we do?"
Hauge frowned more and more, "Let's also prepare for a night battle! Send the best Bagala guards to reconnaissance. We must find out the movements of the Nankou...especially find out whether they will divide their troops. ?”
"They will definitely divide their troops!" Obai said, "There are so many of them, they can't even spread out in this Daqian Ridge... They will divide into at least two groups, and possibly three groups!"
Haug took a breath: "If we really divide our troops, our chance of victory will come!"
"Your Majesty is wise!" Oboi said with admiration, "We don't care which way he comes, we just go together!"
"Let's just go east!" Hauge paused and then said, "The terrain on the west and south is rugged, which is not conducive to the deployment of our cavalry. Although the north is open, there may not be enemies... and there are three shortages. Zhu Cixi would not be ignorant of the principle of one.
Moreover, we have also seen the lineup of these Confederate troops. They are by no means a ragtag group. Even if we concentrate our efforts to attack them all the way, we are not sure of victory, so we have to make two preparations... In case of defeat, the entire army will immediately go north to Chishui. If we attack to the west and south, it will not be easy to retreat.
Therefore, I will bet on the east of Daqunling this time! Once we discover that the Nan bandit army is out at night, we will use a small number of troops to hold the camp for a while, and then use the main force to leave Daqiang Ridge from the east and form a formation to the west of Qingliu River to wait. "
"My lord, who should I ask to stay behind?" Oboi asked.
"Bahana, let him take Abatai's three Niulu to stay behind and add some Han troops and Baoyi to stay behind!"
The person named by Haug as cannon fodder is named Aixinjueluo Bahana. He is the grandnephew of Nurhaci. He was born in Xiangbai Banner and was a member of the Dorgon brothers. He was sent to Zhenglan Banner to serve as Gushan Ezhen. With Hauge.
The three Niulu belonging to Abatai, King of Raoyu County, are also sand in the Zhenglan Banner. The division of the Eight Banners' troops is not based on flags, but on Niulu. In today's Qing Dynasty, only the prince Baylor who owns the real Manchurian cattle record is the real prince and true Baylor! Abatai has never been taken seriously among Nurhachi's sons, but he also has the strength of three Niulu. These three Niulu were not originally from Zhenglan Banner, but they were inserted into Huang Taiji when he reorganized Zhenglan Banner. , it became a small hilltop in Zhenglan Banner.
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It was dusk on June 24, the 18th year of Chongzhen reign in the Ming Dynasty.
The Qingliuguan camp, which had been quiet all day, suddenly became active, with people shouting and horses neighing, and countless smoke rising at the same time - according to the plan, the battle and subsequent pursuit operations were likely to last three days. So before going out tonight, the cooks of each battalion need to prepare a good pre-war meal and three days of dry food for the troops going out!
In addition, in order to confuse the Qing army on the opposite side, many soldiers were sent, fully armed with axes and saws, to cut down trees around the Ming army camp, giving the illusion that Qingliuguan City was being expanded.
As for whether this illusion can deceive Hauge and Obai on the opposite mountain, only God knows.
Now Zhu Cihong's new army to overcome difficulties is no worse than the Eight Banners soldiers in terms of military management, and it is better in many settings. But when it came to the decisive battle, the 56,000-strong army was still in a state of confusion and overexcitement, and the preparations for the battle made a lot of noise.
"Master Chitose, this is the newspaper from the Dingyuan Garrison...it has emergency notes..."
In the lobby of the garrison office in Qingliu Pass, Li Yan quickly walked in holding a copy of the newspaper he had just received.
In the lobby, many people had gathered at this time, and they were reporting to Prince Zhu on the preparations of various ministries.
"All the regiments of the former military division have been gathered together, and they can go out into battle after dinner!"
"Two cavalry battalions from the Central Military Division have been sent out, and news has been sent back that they had a collision with the Tatar cavalry!"
"Your Highness, the two cavalry battalions of the First Division are also setting off immediately...
"Master Chitose, the brothers in the future have already had dinner and are just waiting for the military order to set off!"
After finally waiting for the commanders of the four divisions to finish their reports one by one, and Zhu Cixiang also finished his words of encouragement, Li Yan handed over the Tang newspaper he had just received.
The news in the newspaper is not good! Ye Bushou, dispatched by the Dingyuan garrison, discovered that about 20,000 Qing troops were heading south from the direction of Fengyang Mansion!
In order not to affect the high spirits of the four division commanders Hao Yaoqi, Wang Qi, Wang Yan, and Chen Yidao, Li Yan waited until they left before handing over the Tang newspaper.
"Twenty thousand?" Zhu Cixiang frowned, "They actually ignored the Fengyang Forbidden Wall and went south to die..."
This incident was indeed beyond Zhu Cixiang's expectation. He originally thought that the traitors besieging Fengyang would not work so hard to go south to die.
"Your Highness, there are about 20,000 Tartars on Daqianling. If we add the 20,000 from the south, it will be 40,000..."
Wu Sanfu also followed Zhu Cixiang. As soon as he heard that the Qing army had reinforcements, he immediately became nervous.
"Forty thousand is forty thousand," Zhu Cixiang was sure, "we have fifty-six thousand people!"
Isn’t fifty-six thousand greater than forty thousand? So from a mathematical perspective, it’s still a sure win!
Li Yan said: "If the Tartar reinforcements dare not walk at night, they will not arrive until tomorrow afternoon."
"Then don't be afraid!" Zhu Cixiang smiled, "Maybe after defeating the real Tatars, we can get some more Han troops to fight with the green camp soldiers... If we can defeat the 40,000 Donglu army in this battle , the situation in the southeast is stable!"
He paused, "It's almost time, let's set out while it's getting dark or not!"
The 50,000-strong army divided into two groups and left the Qingliuguan camp in a mighty manner. Of course, they couldn't hide it from the white-armored soldiers sent by Hauge - if they couldn't find it, they wouldn't be the Eight Banners men smoking big cigarettes with caged birds. about there? The current white-armored soldiers are the ancestors of their uncles, so they are very powerful!
However, Zhu Cixiang, Shi Ruien, Li Yan and Wu Sanfu didn't care about being discovered by the Qing soldiers' sentry rangers.
Because a stationed army cannot be assembled just by massing. Moreover, Li Yan and Shi Ruien will soon command the front and rear military divisions to attack the Qing army on Daqianling.
At this time, if the Qing army hurriedly adjusts its deployment to deal with the two divisions led by Zhu Cihong and Wu Sanfu who are outflanking the east bank of Qingliu River, they are likely to be directly defeated by the front and rear divisions of the new army!
The combat effectiveness of these two divisions, especially the former military division, is very powerful. According to Shi Ruien, with the combat effectiveness of this division, it can basically be dragged to the German battlefield to compete with Gustav II's Swedish army. It may not be able to win, but the exchange ratio will not be too ugly!
