Dorgon was worried, not that he would be defeated by this Ming army of more than 10,000 people, but that the materials he had finally plundered would not be sent away safely.
The current plan is to resist this brave guard camp for a while, so that Jinan City can complete the looting as soon as possible and withdraw as soon as possible to rest.
He is still a little worried. He wonders if the Ming Dynasty is so big, will another army as capable as Yongweiying emerge from other places?
In the original history, this time the Manchu and Qing troops entered the Pass and went the furthest south among the previous four. However, they also encountered the Yongwei Camp and looted enough supplies, so they did not go further south. , but it tested the reality of the Ming Dynasty, so that when the Manchus entered the pass for the fifth time, they were even more unscrupulous, divided their forces, regarded the Ming army as nothing, went south and west, acted casually, and even swaggered inside the pass After resting for a month, I reluctantly left.
At this time, just as Dorgon was worried, although he blocked the Yongwei camp's offensive, the two sides were temporarily facing off only more than ten miles away from Jinan City. This gave the local prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty an opportunity to see hope, and they became bolder and sent troops to help in the battle.
Regardless of whether they can fight or not, the neighboring guard stations, whether you have a few hundred or I have a thousand, all heard the news and came to the Yongwei camp.
Every time Dorgon saw a small group of Ming troops entering the Yongwei camp opposite, he became more worried. At this time, he finally realized the disadvantage of playing away from home, and regretted that there was no one around him who was familiar with the situation in various parts of the Ming Dynasty to ask.
He made up his mind that after plundering Jinan City as soon as possible, he would stop plundering elsewhere and join Yue Tuo and Du Du's troops to leave.
However, what Dorgon didn't expect was that the situation might be worse than he imagined.
"Reporting to my master, Ming troops have been spotted near Dezhou in the north. Judging from the flags, they are Lu Xiangsheng's men."
"What?" When Dorgon heard this, he stood up in surprise and confirmed with an unusually stern face: "Did you see it clearly? It is indeed Lu Xiangsheng who is here?"
To say that the person he fears the most is Lu Xiangsheng. But he never thought that Lu Xiangsheng would catch up so quickly!
"Going back to the master, I didn't see Lu Xiangsheng's own flag, just the flags of his generals. There are about a thousand riders."
When Dorgon heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief. It's just that he didn't find Lu Xiangsheng. He didn't have enough troops, so it was okay.
But when he came to his senses, he suddenly became worried again.
To the south of Jinan City is the Yongwei Battalion of more than 10,000 people, which can be fought, holding back the only resting army of the Qing Dynasty. More importantly, the Ming army is gathering more and more troops; at the same time, the Ming Dynasty appears in the north Cavalry, this is also a very bad signal. And he was also worried that there would be more and more Ming troops in the north.
At this time, Dorgon suddenly felt like a lonely boat floating on the sea, a bit like this.
He was a little scared. If he stayed here in Jinan City, he still didn't know how the situation would develop. The most important thing is that after the looting of Jinan City, it is estimated that everyone involved in the looting has robbed a lot of property, and the will to fight will be consumed a lot. There is still no problem against ordinary Ming troops, but if they encounter a strong enemy, they have to fight to the death. If so, that would be a bit inappropriate.
With this in mind, Dorgon did not hesitate anymore and immediately sent an order to withdraw his troops regardless of whether the plunder of Jinan City was completed or not. As for what was left in Jinan City, it was just a matter of setting fire to it. It was impossible to leave a complete city to the Ming Dynasty.
It is a bit regrettable that the number of people who can defeat the Yongwei camp is indeed too small, just over 10,000, and they are not all cavalry. Facing five or six times the Manchu army, if you want to defeat them But it's impossible. We could only watch helplessly as they burned the city of Jinan and then returned north with the looted population and materials.
Liu Yuanbin and Lu Jiude, who were following them, gathered together and sent people to bypass the route of the Manchu and Qing troops and report the news to the capital.
At the end of January in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, when Dorgon led his army back to Hebei, a Ming army finally appeared on the outskirts of the capital.
"Your Majesty, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, has led his troops to the outskirts of Beijing."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but feel happy, finally there was someone who could fight.
Before that, he had received an urgent report from Shanhaiguan, saying that Jianlu Huang Taiji and Hongyi artillery were attacking the Ningjin front line and were unable to send troops back to the pass to aid.
Everyone knows the importance of Shanhaiguan. If Shanhaiguan fell into the hands of the Manchus, the Manchus would not invade the pass once a year or every few years, but they could invade the pass all the time. Therefore, if Guan Ning's army did not return reinforcements, there was nothing he could do about it, including the current Emperor Chongzhen, who did not go into details. After all, it is impossible to lie about such a big thing.
But in this case, a strong army is missing. Although the Qin soldiers had some problems, and they had broken up halfway when they were transferred to Liaodong before, their performance in suppressing the bandits in the pass in recent years was pretty good, especially those of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting.
At this time, the only ones with relatively strong military strength are these two armies.
Of course, there is another branch, belonging to Zuo Liangyu. However, Emperor Chongzhen heard about Zuo Liangyu's reputation in later generations, which was not good. At this time, from the original memory of Emperor Chongzhen, we also knew that a local governor impeached Zuo Liangyu for being arrogant, disobeying orders, and acting without authorization.
This happened in the tenth year of Chongzhen. Zhang Guowei, the governor of Yingtian, issued three orders to Zuo Liangyu to go into the mountains to search for the defeated bandits. Zuo Liangyu did not respond, but sent troops to rob women in the local area. Even the Henan Supervisory Army urged him to do so, but they remained unmoved. Even after the fall of Xichuan, the bandits went east to attack Liuhe, captured Tianchang, divided their troops to occupy Guazhou and Yizhen, captured Xuyi, etc., Zuo Liangyu did not go to the rescue and supported his own troops.
Emperor Chongzhen at the time was helpless about this. He was in a state of distress every day and was unable to punish Zuo Liangyu. He was even forced to reinstate his official position so that he could contribute to the court and continue to conquer the bandits.
At this time, Zuo Liangyu was still suppressing the bandits in Shaanzhou and did not return to the capital to aid. Perhaps there is retribution for doing too many evil deeds. The court could not do anything to Zuo Liangyu, but his men took advantage of Zuo Liangyu to lead his trusted troops to leave his hometown of Xuzhou. Not long ago, they launched a mutiny and wiped out his entire family.
Emperor Chongzhen was thinking about these things and did not place any hope that Zuo Liangyu could return to help deal with the Manchu army. He even made up his mind that after he took control of the military and straightened out the matters at hand, he would not respect the self-respect of the troops and bring harm to the local area. Those warlord leaders must be killed as a warning to others.
Zu Kuan is one, and Zuo Liangyu can't escape!
But at this time, Emperor Chongzhen's thoughts had turned to Hong Chengchou outside the city, and he was thinking, where is Sun Chuanting again?
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