"Hurry up after eating and rest. I will come to find you at night." Dorgon reached out and picked up a piece of meat, put it in his mouth and started eating.
After hearing this, Duduo paused with his eating hand, hung it in mid-air, and said, "Is there anything you can do in the middle of the night? I'm not patrolling the camp, I have the servants below to do it."
"I'm not looking for you to patrol the camp." Dorgon swallowed the meat in his mouth and licked the grease on his fingers. "I always feel uneasy, feeling that something is going to happen."
Duduo lowered his hand and said in confusion: "What can happen? At most, the tiger thief's pursuers have caught up. Even if we can't win in the end, there is still no problem in escaping."
As the leader of a banner of the Qing Dynasty, he was surrounded by servants to protect him. As long as he wanted to escape, he did not believe that the pursuers of the Tiger Flag could catch him.
"You take the people back to Liaodong first in the evening." Dorgon said.
"Shall I leave by myself?" Duduo frowned and said immediately, "Brother Fourteen, are you thinking too much? No matter how powerful the tiger bandit's pursuers are, if we want to leave, are we still afraid that we won't be able to escape? Use Don’t bother leaving alone.”
Dorgon shook his head and said: "I also hope that I am overthinking, but what if the tiger thieves send a troop of troops from other places to go behind us? The tiger thieves are not as hard to beat by us as the Ming army. If you dare to go out of the city to fight, once the tiger thieves send a troop of troops from other places to surround the rear, so many of us will easily become dumplings in someone else's pot and be rounded up by the tiger thieves, so I let you go first."
"I still think Brother Fourteen, you are thinking too much and scaring yourself." Duduo thought Dorgon was a bit unfounded.
Dorgon's face was stern, and he said seriously: "From Shanhaiguan to Jizhen, and then to Zhangjiakou, there are so many border forts along the way. We can easily gather an army of nearly ten thousand people. We are here at Guanshan Guard When we encounter soldiers and horses sent by tiger thieves to intercept them, those border forts will also know that our Qing army has sent troops deep into the grassland. However, I have not received news of any changes in these border forts for so long. I always feel that it is not normal. This There's a good chance there's something going on inside."
The more he talked, the more he felt that his guess might come true.
"Does Ninth Brother know this?" Duduo asked.
Dorgon shook his head and said: "These are just my guesses. I haven't told Ninth Brother yet. Moreover, there are so many soldiers and horses. Even if I tell him, as the commander of Ninth Brother's army, it is difficult to leave the army behind." Leave privately.”
Once what he guessed came true, it would be impossible to evade the Qing army with so many soldiers and horses. Only a small group of soldiers and horses could avoid it.
"I don't want to leave." Duduo didn't want to leave just like that. In his opinion, this was no different from Zu Dashou leaving the infantry of Guan Ning Army.
Dorgon looked at him and said: "You have to go. I have already arranged the people. I have prepared a team of Baya La for you. There are forty or fifty people, one person and two riders. It will be safe as long as it reaches the Hanhetao area. .”
"There's no need to leave at night. I'll talk to Brother Jiu before leaving tomorrow." Duduo said.
Dorgon said: "Don't tell Brother Ninth about leaving yet. After you leave, I will tell Brother Ninth that it is better to leave sooner rather than later. We must leave tonight."
"Oh well!"
When Duduo saw Dorgon say this, he knew that he would not be able to leave, so he had no choice but to agree.
"Eat something. I'll come see you at night." Dorgon wiped his hands, stood up and left Dodo's tent.
Originally, Duduo was allowed to leave Dorgon just as a precaution, but now he felt more and more that what he was worried about might come true, so the sooner Duduo left, the safer it would be.
At this time, he didn't care about rest, and immediately went to ask people to prepare dry food and fine materials for the war horses.
In addition, he specially arranged for two Mongolians to serve as Duduo's guides.
The presence of the Mongols not only allowed Duduo to travel at night in a less convenient direction, but also with the Mongolians' familiarity with the grasslands, if they really encountered the army of the Tiger Flag, they might be able to avoid it in advance.
By the time everything was arranged, it was already the second watch.
Fortunately, there is a moon in the sky and there are no dark clouds. The surroundings are not so dark that you can't see anything. Even if you are driving at night, you won't run around because you can't see the road around you.
Dorgon originally thought about arranging for Dodo to leave after midnight, but now he felt that it was better to let Dodo leave earlier.
There were dozens of people riding single horses and two horses, but only hundreds of them rode.
Although it was not a large number, it was not a large number among the many soldiers and horses of the Qing army. However, when so many soldiers and horses suddenly left the camp when it was quiet, it was natural that they could not hide it from the Eight Banners camp, and even the Guanning Army camp not far away. Movement was also detected over there.
"Uncle, there is movement over there from the Qing army, and hundreds of riders have left." Wu Sangui approached Zu Dashou.
There were people patrolling the camp at night, and those patrolling the camp tonight were Wu Sangui's men, so he came to Zu Dashou as soon as he got the news.
"Did the Eight Banners soldiers escape?" Zu Dashou's expression suddenly changed.
Seeing that Zu Dashou had misunderstood, Wu Sangui explained: "The Eight Banners soldiers' camp is still there, but hundreds of them have escaped. The general is worried about something."
"I just escaped for a hundred years and scared my uncle." Zu Dashou's expression softened a little.
Wu Sangui saw that Zu Dashou did not take it seriously, so he said: "The general thought that there were still people leaving the Eight Banners camp at such a late hour. Maybe he knew something in advance. I might as well go to the Eight Banners camp and ask what happened. Well, if Prince Zheng knows something in advance, we can take precautions."
"I'm thinking too much. According to my uncle, some people were scared and ran away overnight. Don't think that the Eight Banners soldiers are not afraid of death. You are still young and don't know some things in the past. Those so-called Eight Banners soldiers used to be in front of Uncle Li. Not as good as anything else." Zu Dashou said.
Wu Sangui rolled his eyes secretly.
The Uncle Li the other party mentioned happened many years ago, and even the old slave had been dead for a few years.
"Okay, you can go back too. It's time to rest. We will continue our journey tomorrow morning." Zu Dashou gave the eviction order and lay back down again.
"I will retire at the end."
Wu Sangui bowed, turned around and retreated.
After coming out of Zu Dashou's place, he returned directly to his tent.
Because he lost too many supplies when he left, he and his father lived in his big tent.
"Father, father!" Wu Sangui walked to Wu Xiang's bedside and exchanged words with him.
After shouting several times in succession, Wu Xiang slowly opened his eyes.
"What's wrong, uncle?"
As soon as he opened his eyes, Wu Xiang saw Wu Sangui standing beside his bed, rubbed his eyes and asked, while slowly sitting up from the bed.
Wu Sangui stretched out his hand to help Wu Xiang sit up, and took another piece of clothing to put on Wu Xiang.
"Father, there were hundreds of riders escaping from the Eight Banners Camp tonight, and I feel something is wrong." Wu Sangui said.
