He couldn't sleep all night, and Dorgon, who had just fallen asleep, woke up instantly.

What's going on?

Did the Tang army attack the camp?

After a long battle, he immediately lifted up the quilt, quickly put on his clothes and walked out of the camp quickly.

"What's going on? But is the Tang army going to attack at night?" Dorgon shouted loudly at the guard.

The guard looked at him in fear and replied in a stuttering voice: "Report to the Regent, although the walls over there are bright lights, drums are loud and sounds of shouting and killing, there are no soldiers coming, which is very strange."

"Oh? That's the case?"

Dorgon frowned, he stroked the hilt of the sword with his right hand, lowered his head and thought for a while, and then sneered on his face, and then ordered: "Go, go and call Ajige and Abatai and come to discuss with me."

“Wait.”

Soon, Ajige and Abatai, who were fully armored and panicked, hurried to the central army tent.

"Regent, the Tang army beating drums and clamors like this, and they are very powerful, but they don't attack each other, but why?" Ajige looked strange and asked Dorgon urgently.

Dorgon smiled coldly. He did not reply. Abatai, who was standing beside him, interrupted with hesitation: "Regent, I'm thinking, but the Tang army guarding the pass is not coming to attack the camp at night, but just bluffing and deliberately preventing our army from resting?"

"That's true." Dorgon replied with a sneer: "You two have also read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. You should know that the Tang army must have learned the Three Kingdoms. Zhuge Liang's strategy to scare Cao Cao away in Hanzhong. They wanted to use this method to prevent our army from sleeping all night, which would cause our army to be tired and harm our army, and eventually we couldn't bear it, so we had to withdraw our army."

"What does the Regent mean?"

"Hmph, since the Tang army is just a false threat, how could our army be trapped? Our army has arranged so many whistle cavalry to explore the distance, and the Tang army's raid plan succeeded." Dorgon said in a deep voice: "After you two go down, let the entire army continue to rest. Given that the Tang army harasses tonight, our soldiers will not be able to rest well, let the soldiers sleep for two more hours tomorrow, get up and make meals, and then find an opportunity to attack the weak areas of the side wall, and strive to take down Dushikou in one fell swoop!"

"Get orders!" Azige and Abataiziqi bowed.

Before Dorgon expected, the Tang army clamored for a night, but never sent troops to fight, which made the Qing army unable to sleep well all night, and many timid soldiers simply lie in their arms to prevent accidents.

The next day, the side wall that had been clamoring for a whole night finally settled down.

Dorgon did not sleep well this night. Although he slept for two more hours than before, when he woke up in the morning, his eyes were swollen, his eyes were sleepy, and he looked in a state of distraction.

After Dorgon got up, he did not slacken at all. He immediately arranged a whistle to explore the side walls and saw where the guards were weak, which would allow his 120,000 troops to break through the walls smoothly.

After the whistle cavalry was sent out, Dorgon immediately ordered his troops to prepare the military force urgently and prepare to advance towards the side wall immediately after breakfast.

And when he started eating, his subordinates suddenly rushed to report the news.

"It's not good to report to the Regent! The Tang army has escaped from the wall overnight!"

Hearing this news, Dorgon, holding a pig's leg, couldn't help but be stunned.

No, the Tang army had been making trouble all night, but now they have withdrawn when they are about to attack the border wall?

This is really unreasonable.

At this time, the voice of the subordinate continued to come: "Reported to the Regent, the whistle cavalry had just gone to the whistle and explore the side wall. Inadvertently, they discovered that the Tang army had already withdrawn at any time. There were still flags on the wall and were heavily guarded. After plucking up the courage to get closer, they suddenly realized that the flags on the side wall were just bluffs, and the guards of the Tang army were just scarecrows."

When Dorgon, who had just been stunned, instantly understood everything.

He gritted his teeth and threw the pig's legs far away in a fury. The greasy pig's trotters drew a long arc in the air before a muffled sound and rolled into the corner of the camp.

Dorgon clenched his fists with regret on his face.

Damn, he fell into the trick of Tang Jun!

After destroying Wu Sangui's front troops, these guys had no intention of fighting with themselves, but were just thinking about how to withdraw from the battlefield as soon as possible.

Therefore, I thought last night that the Tang army used the so-called strategy of using Zhuge Liang's plan to retreat Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period to force the Qing army to retreat was a complete error of estimates.

The real purpose of the Tang army was to hide the truth and retreat as an advance. They deliberately bluffed their own momentum last night and made an attempt to attack their own camp. In fact, they were just to protect themselves from retreating smoothly, so as to cover up the sound and movements of retreat with continuous drums.

Originally, the Tang army was short of military strength and was not enough to confront the Qing army, which was six times more powerful. It was a pity that I took it for granted. I didn't expect that the Tang army had planned this way, but I missed a great opportunity to hunt them in vain.

What's even more a pity is that because he was worried that his subordinates would not have a good rest and could not launch a good attack, he actually gave the Tang army two more hours to retreat. In this way, the Tang army thought that he had already retreated far away, and it was too late to pursue him.

Dorgon could imagine that the Tang army would retreat directly to Jintang City when they took advantage of the victory, and then defended themselves with the city, waiting for their labor, waiting for their own troops to attack the city.

Thinking of this, Dorgon pounded his thigh again with regret.

However, in front of these guards, Dorgon had to show his calmness. He sighed and said, "Since the Tang army has retreated, our army will enter the border wall and wipe out the military forts on the north side of Xuanfu North Road one by one, and then the entire army will attack Jintang City directly."

After Dorgon's strategy was established, the Qing army then broke through the border wall and entered the pass, and attacked Dushikou Fort in a mighty way.

As Dorgon expected, the Tang army had indeed retreated at Dushikou Fort, leaving only an incomplete empty fort, waiting for them quietly here.

After walking along the way, he could see that the Tang army had withdrawn all the people along the way, and there was no one in the wilderness. All the immature sorghum in the fields were cut off, leaving only the bare bare bar, but a completely solid wall and cleared the fields.

Dorgon sighed in his heart that the Tang army's decisive retreat was beyond his expectations. It seemed that his original plan to plunder the people and food was completely failed.

Seeing that the Tang army was so strong that it was cleared out the country, Ajige and Abatai were also disappointed.

They knew that the Qing army came thousands of miles away and it was very difficult to supply grain and grass, and the poor Mongolian tribes along the way were impossible to expect them to provide grain and grass. So, when Xuanfu North Road could not get grain on the spot, once the food and grass they brought were used up, they could only rely on the bandits of Li Zicheng's troops, Zhou Ji.

This is a situation that Dorgon and others don’t want to see.

If the Qing government army cannot be independent and relies on the bandits, then its future will be controlled by the bandits. If everything goes well in attacking Jintang City, it would be fine. If there are any twists and turns, if there is a conflict with the bandits in the future, it will be completely controlled by others...

Such thoughts arose from his heart, which made Dorgon very unhappy.

Troubled by the food and grass issues, he immediately thought anxiously, if the Tang army had really cleared the entire north of Xuanfu North Road and the people had all moved to Jintang City, then can he drive straight in and attack Jintang City?

Dorgon was a cautious person. Although such an idea was very tempting, it was relatively too risky to do it.

After all, Xuanfu North Road is quite wide and there are many Guanfu Forts. If you are determined to advance lightly, if the Tang army did not retreat to Jintang City as they thought, and set up an ambush at a Guanfu fort and caught yourself off guard, it would be awful.

After losing Wu Sangui's troops, the strength of the Qing army was greatly damaged, so their actions need to be very cautious and they must not act at will.

Dorgon thought for a long time, but finally decided that in order to be safe, the entire army still had to gather and investigate the military forts in the north as they were withdrawn, so as not to be caught in the ambush forces of the Tang army.

Then, after completing the search mission north of Xuanfu North Road, the entire army finally headed south and came outside Jintang City, and joined forces with the Dashun Army to attack the city.

So, after leaving Dushikou, the Qing army began to clear out all the clean military forts on both sides of Dushishui, while carefully heading south.

Just as the Qing army began to sweep the forts, the Tang army, which had retreated from the side wall, had already moved all the way and returned to Jintang City smoothly.

Duan Shiqi, the mayor of the fourth town of the Tang Army, saw Liu Wenxiu and Zu Dashou, successfully surrendering to Wu Sangui's troops and brought all the troops back to Jintang City. He was immediately very happy and immediately gave the meritorious people in this battle to the usual pension and praise.

At the same time, he immediately sent a letter to Li Xiaofeige from Shandong, informing him of the news of Wu Sangui's surrender and the latest battle situation on Xuanfu North Road.

Li Xiao was also very happy to receive the letter.

It seems that the battle situation on Xuanfu North Road was really as expected. The Tang army killed Liu Fangliang in the formation, wiped out nearly 50,000 bandits, and then forced the submission of Wu Sangui's troops, greatly weakening the strength of the Qing army. This series of brilliant results made Li Xiao very happy.

He knew that the bandits and the Qing army suffered such setbacks, and would definitely be cautious in the future, and would not dare to divide the troops at will, but dare to gather the entire army to act together. In this way, the actions of the two enemy troops would be quite delayed, which would greatly slow down the speed of advance and provide more sufficient preparation time for the guards of Jintang City.

Li Xiao was happy, and then ordered that Duan Shishishi would surrender the troops of Wu Sangui's troops to be generous and not blame the past. He also granted the fourth town an expansion battalion to establish Ding camp, and appointed Wu Sangui as the battalion commander of Ding camp in the fourth town to show trust and favor, and his subordinates would be absorbed and resettled by the fourth town.

After receiving Li Xiao's letter, Duan Shiqi immediately began to implement the implementation. The specific approach was to eliminate Wu Sangui's subordinate generals and soldiers, the elderly, weak and injured, and elect more than 8,000 elite troops, and dismantled them and arranged them to the other three battalions.

At the same time, the former head of the B camp A was appointed Tuo Xingzhong, and was promoted to deputy battalion commander of the Ding camp. The troops of the Ding camp were transferred from the other three battalions to form their subordinate forces.

In this way, although Wu Sangui was named Battalion Commander Ding, his subordinates had all replaced them, and civil servants such as the Supervisor's Office were placed to be responsible for review and supervision, and spies from the Security Department were responsible for monitoring and supervision, which completely lost the opportunity to be repeated. From then on, he could only command and train subordinate generals and military soldiers like other Tang army generals, and had no other power.

Although Wu Sangui, who has now re-furbished his hair and clothes, was disappointed, he knew that now, in the Tang military camp, all rules and regulations, and all organizational regulations can only be carried out according to the Tang army's plan. It would be absolutely impossible for him to form an almost independent internal warlord like before.

For Wu Sangui now, his only way out is to sincerely fight for the Tang army on the battlefield, use military achievements and loyalty to pave a path to promotion for himself and win glory and power for himself again.

Next, nearly 40,000 Tang troops in Jintang City began to prepare for the war in full, strengthened the defense measures for the entire Jintang City, and strived to make the entire city fully prepared when the bandits and the Qing army arrived.

The Tang army made urgent preparations, and of course the Qing army was not idle either. They began to search and sweep carefully like the bandits in the south. Finally, after nearly twenty days of sweep, the forts on the north side of Xuanfu North Road were all swept away by the Qing army.

Afterwards, Dorgon commanded the entire army to move south and successfully arrived outside Jintang City.

Looking at the Tang army in front of me for more than ten years and now urgently reinforced and built a new city, Dorgon was secretly shocked.

When the Qing army entered the pass, Ajige and Abatai, who had fought against the Tang army outside Jintang City, sighed secretly.

They saw that the city was nearly ten miles in circumference and the city wall was more than six meters high. The entire city circle had dug a moat several meters wide, and the city was covered with defensive measures such as snails, arrow towers, turrets, women's walls, urns, and corner towers, all of which were available.

On the top of the city, there are many flags and many defenders. You can clearly see from the Thousand Mile Mile Mile Mile, all kinds of guarding cannons are placed every now and then, and the density has reached an amazing level.

The so-called road to the pass is as iron as iron, but that's it.

Looking at the heroic city in front of him, Dorgon knew almost intuitively that it was not easy or even impossible to quickly take down Jintang City.

Coincidentally, two days before they arrived in Jintang City, the bandits had arrived at Jintang City. They had immediately set up defenses on all sides and surrounded the entire Jintang City like an iron barrel.
Chapter completed!