Li Qi closed his eyes and waited for death, but after waiting for a while, he didn't feel his head leave his neck, only felt that Lu Xiangsheng's cold big knife blade was against his neck, and it was never cut off, so Li Qi opened his eyes, but saw Lu Xiangsheng put the big knife back in a dejected manner, and waved his hand and said: "Although this is the case, but I, Lu Xiangsheng, have received the grace of the Holy Grace, how can I do such a thing?" I Lu can't control others, but at least it's enough for me to be loyal to death, you can go! For the sake of your service to me for so many years, I won't kill you today, but I can't allow you to stay with me anymore! I still have some silver here, you can take it wherever you want! Walk! ”

Li Qi's eyes moistened, and he knelt down with a plop, crying: "The little one doesn't go!" The master's kindness to the little one is like a mountain, how can the little one abandon the old man at this time! If the old man drives the little one away, it might as well kill the little one now! ”

Lu Xiangsheng's eyes were also a little red at this time, he turned his back to hold back his tears and didn't let Li Qi see his eyes, waved his hand and said: "No, you can't leave you, you better go quickly before I change my mind!" ”

Gu Xian, who was next to him, also knelt down at this time and said to Lu Xiangsheng: "Master, if Li Qi doesn't leave, don't drive him away again!" Now that the master is employing people, if he drives Li Qi away and lets the soldiers know, it will shake the morale of the army! Ask the lord to be merciful! ”

After Lu Xiangsheng heard this, he thought about it, and now he asked his servants to leave, which seemed indeed a little inappropriate, so that others didn't know what to think, so he shook his head helplessly and said: "In that case, Li Qi, you can stay!" But remember, don't say what you say today to anyone, or I'll kill you!" After that, Lu Xiangsheng turned over and jumped on his beloved horse, Wu Mingji, and as soon as he raised his horsewhip, he led the army in the direction of the giant deer.

Li Qi and Gu Xian looked at each other, and both of them showed a determined look on their faces, and they all turned over and got on their horses, chasing Lu Xiangsheng over.

At this time, not far from them in a Qing army camp, Dolgon was in a good mood, and his generals talked and laughed, talking about the harvest of their southward this time, but they do have proud capital, this time after the Qing army led by Dolgon entered the customs, along the way to conquer the Ming city, forcing the Ming army to avoid the city and dare not fight, and a large number of Ming troops surrounded the Beijing Division, watching them go south to kill until Zhendingfu, Along the way, they robbed hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and slaves, and millions of gold and silver goods.

In addition to Lu Xiangsheng, the Ming army will also find them some trouble from time to time, basically this time they enter the customs as easy as an armed parade, even the teacher of the current Ming Emperor Sun Chengzong was also captured by them, although Sun Chengzong finally preferred to die rather than surrender, so that they are somewhat regretful, but the blow to the current Ming Emperor is very small, and they have long seen now that the Ming Dynasty is no longer a master, this time they entered the customs, and they must have won a lot of victory and returned to the division.

"The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are so unbearable to fight, if it goes on like this, sooner or later, our Qing Dynasty will move south to destroy this Ming Dynasty, and then we Jurchens will be able to dominate the world!" Dolgon poured a glass of wine into his mouth, and said with a smile to Baylor, who were sitting next to him, such as Yueto, Dudu, and Hauge, that he had a great pride of despising the world.

And Yue Tuo and Du Du this time led the right wing army to cooperate with Dolgon's left wing army into the pass, after the two soldiers and horses entered the pass, the troops went to Tongzhou and joined forces in one place, and then waved their division south together, attacking towards Zhending, so now their troops are very strong, and they no longer take the Ming army in their eyes at all.

After listening to Dolgon's words, everyone immediately laughed, Yue Tuo said: "That's true, over the years, we have fought with the Ming army, almost no defeat, the more the Ming army fights, the more it is not the same, this time the Ming Emperor said that Lu Xiangsheng was the main soldier, but he let his eunuch Gao Qiqian divide most of Lu Xiangsheng's troops, and this Gao Qiqian did not dare to fight against us at all, pulling tens of thousands of Ming troops to run with us, but he didn't dare to fight with us!" And the Ming Emperor and his ministers want to negotiate peace with us, and they don't dare to give us a go, otherwise these tens of thousands of Ming troops under Gao Qiqian will give us a lot of trouble!

But this Lu Xiangsheng is a big trouble, this time has not been a little wrong for us, this time when he is here, he must not let him run away again! ”

After Dolgon ate a piece of meat, he sneered and said: "The Ming Dynasty has already rotted to the roots, their monarchs and ministers have their own ideas, and the generals dare not let go of the soldiers, of course they can't stop our soldiers!" As for Lu Xiangsheng, he is a character, but unfortunately he was born in the wrong place, but he wants to work for the Ming Emperor, he is bent on the main battle, and Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian and even the current Ming Emperor want to negotiate peace, how can he stop us with his own strength?

By the way, it's time for the Ranger to send back the news? Where is Lu Xiangsheng's Xuanda soldiers and horses now? And where are the 30,000 Ming troops who are high and diving? As long as we clean up these two groups of Ming troops here this time, then the Ming Dynasty will no longer be able to mobilize enough troops to deal with us in a short period of time! ”

At this time, a Qing army sentry rushed in from outside the tent, pounced under the tent and knelt down and reported loudly: "General Qiqi, it has been ascertained that Lu Xiangsheng led a Ming army of more than 5,000 people is marching in the direction of Julu, and another Ming army with a strength of about 30,000 people has advanced to the area of Jize to set up defenses, and the Ming army is only a few dozen miles apart!" ”

Dolgon and Yueto both nodded, and Dolgon was even more happy, slamming the wine glass in his hand to the ground and laughing, "Good coming! After Lu Xiang ascended here, he didn't want to go back alive! I will immediately raise troops and rush to Julu, so as to defeat Lu Xiangsheng's Ming army in a battle first, and then go to find the trouble of Gao Qiqian! ”

The generals of the Qing army in the tent also immediately nodded yes, and they all got up and went down to prepare, but the sentry who came back to report the news continued: "General Qiqi, the slave still has military information to report!" ”

When Dolgon heard this, he frowned and said, "What else is the matter?" Come on! ”

After hesitating for a moment, the sentry said to Dolgon: "When the minions went out to investigate the enemy's situation this time, they also found an unknown soldier and horse in the direction of Nanhe County, their banner is very strange, there is a headless person drawn on it, and their sentry is quite fierce, and our sentry has clashed many times, the two sides have won and lost each other, but it seems that they are not like the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty!" It's a pity that the minions didn't catch them alive and couldn't figure out where they came from! Please forgive the general! ”

After hearing this, Dolgon, Yue Tuo and the others were stunned, but Dolgon immediately thought of something, nodded slightly, and said: "According to this, this group of people and horses who have arrived in Nanhe County should not be the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty, but the Xingtian Army that is currently operating in the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty!" Strange! What are they doing here? ”

In fact, after Dolgon and Yue Tuo led the two armies into the customs this time, they went all the way south along the way and captured a large number of Han people, including many Ming troops who defected and surrendered to them, and there were some officials of the Ming Dynasty who were greedy for life and afraid of death, and Dolgon has always attached great importance to collecting information about the enemy, and when interrogating these surrendered or captured Ming people, he learned some things about the Xingtian Army, and knew that there is now a Ming rebellion in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty called the Xingtian Army, and the banner they played painted with a headless Xingtian, So he knew that the soldiers and horses that the sentinels saw this time should be this Xingtian Army active in the Central Plains.

After everyone listened, some people were confused, and some people nodded to show that they understood, but for this Xingtian army, the vast majority of people didn't understand, at most they had heard their names, and they couldn't figure out how the current army of the people who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty sent people to Hebei, and now the area around Zhendingfu is already a place where the Qing army and the Ming army fought, and what do they want to do when they go to Nanhe County of Shunde Prefecture?

Dolgon and the others were all confused, but a Han official who served under Dolgon's tent suddenly thought of something, and said to Dolgon: "General Qiyu, the slave has heard some captured Han people mention one thing during this time, saying that the Xingtian Army issued a letter in various parts of the Ming Dynasty some time ago, saying that it would suspend the war with the Ming army and jointly resist our army going south!" Could it be that the men and horses of the Xingtian Army discovered by the Sentinel Cavalry were here to help the Ming Army? ”

Abatai, who was sitting below to participate in the discussion, immediately shook his head and said, "This is impossible! In the eyes of Daming, this Xingtian Army is just a traitor all the way! It's a good thing for them to enter the customs this time, how can they turn around and help the Ming officials and soldiers at this time? No way! There must be a mistake! ”

Dolgon shook his head in disbelief, and asked the sentry, "How many men are you waiting to find?" ”

The sentry immediately replied: "General Qiqi, the number of men and horses found by the minions is roughly about three hundred, and all of them are cavalry!" ”

Hearing this, Dolgon was relieved and said with a smile: "It turns out that they only have such a small number of people!" Don't pay attention to them, it is expected that there will not be many people from this Xingtian Army here, it is estimated that they are taking advantage of the chaos here in Hebei, and they also want to take the opportunity to come here to make a profit! What's more, as far as I know, this Xingtian army is still in Henan, even if they want to come to Hebei, there are still Zhangde Mansion, Shunde Mansion and other places in the middle, this Xingtian Army and the current Ming Dynasty are mortal enemies, how can the Ming army in these places sit back and watch them go north and ignore it? At present, our first priority is to solve the two Ming armies of Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qiqian as soon as possible, sweep away the surrounding Ming army, and leave this torture army alone! ”

After hearing this, the generals also breathed a long sigh of relief, so they didn't care about this matter anymore, after all, more than 300 people, no matter how powerful they were, for their current tens of thousands of Qing troops, it didn't pose any threat at all, not to mention that the Qing army went all the way south, basically did not encounter much strong resistance, and the Ming official army was still so poor, not to mention a rebellious people's army? So even Dolgon, who has always been called wise, didn't pay enough attention this time, but the Han strategist under Dolgon's tent wanted to speak and stopped, but in the end he didn't speak, and slowly retreated.

But how would Dolgon know that the news that the sentinel he sent to bring him back this time was incomplete news, and the cavalry they encountered was not the main force of the Xingtian Army at all, but a vanguard of the cavalry battalion under Situ Liang and a scout team under Lin Luo, their task was to go out to the front of the army, conduct reconnaissance for the army, and also cut off the battlefield for the army behind, so as to prevent the main force from being detected by the Qing army's sentinel cavalry.

After arriving in Zhending, they did not conduct reconnaissance in the area south of Zhending, and the Xingtian army was very cautious, and sent a large number of scouts and cavalry teams in advance to intercept the Qing army sentry horses that might be encountered before the army, although the two armies had contact, but it was limited to the fight between the scouts, and several small groups of Qing army sentry horses were basically intercepted by the scout team of the Xingtian army. Although the Qing army's sentry cavalry was a little cheap, they did not continue to go deep into the perimeter of the main force of the Xingtian Army to investigate, so that the news they brought back was only the discovery of a small group of men and horses of the Xingtian Army, which misled Dolgon and other Qing army generals.

In addition, the generals of the Qing army did not know much about the situation in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, and even if they heard some things about the Xingtian Army, they were mostly fragmented fragments, and they could not make a clear judgment at all, so that they lost the opportunity to detect the northward movement of the Xingtian Army in advance.