"Have you contacted the people over there in Jiangning?"

Shuo Sai hurriedly said: "Back to the general, there is no news to return.?? Huoran? Wen???.? ｒａ?ｎ?ｅｎA`ｃｏｍ”

Duoduo's heart sank when he heard this. It was less than forty miles away from Nanjing, and he had already sent a fast horse to summon Zhu Mala and Shi Tingzhu to come back at noon, and it stands to reason that the messenger should have returned a long time ago.

Thinking that the five intersections that are connected with the outside world are all infested with southerners, all this shows that ninety percent of them have been encircled, and the people sent to Nanjing are probably intercepted and killed by the Ming army.

No matter how slow the people in the tent were to react, they all figured out what was going on at this time.

After a while, Gong Adai saw Duoduo bowing his head with a calm face and was silent, and couldn't help but take a few steps forward and said in a rough voice: "General, what can the barbarians do with all their efforts?" We have an army of 100,000 people, are we still afraid of him?! ”

Immediately someone chimed in, "Yes! The southerners still have to fight in Huguang, I don't believe how many soldiers and horses they can gather! ”

He Luohui also continued: "Besides, even if the southerners gather the main force to fight a decisive battle, it is a good thing for me to say." This shows that there were not many defenders in the city of Jiangning. By the time we break the enemy here, maybe Muzilun has taken the barbarian capital! ”

There was an arrogant laugh all around, "The barbarians are engaged in so many fancy methods, but they are not as strong as our soldiers, what is the use?" ”

"I'm still afraid that tens of thousands of Jianzhou warriors will not succeed these weak southerners?!"

"No matter how many places he comes, I'll just kill them all the way!"

"Just kill all the way......" Hearing this, Duoduo suddenly seemed to have caught something, pondered for a moment, and suddenly smiled, "That's right! The barbarian thinks he has a plan, but he also commits a taboo! ”

He turned around and walked to the map and nodded slightly, "The southern army is already small, but it still has to divide troops to surround it, so how many men and horses can there be in each direction?"

"From Huanglongbu to Mashan, it is twenty miles away. If we gather a large army and storm one point, we will have broken through the formation before the southerners can surround us from other directions.

"Then immediately with the victory, return to the whole army and fight a decisive battle with the enemy, and destroy it in one battle!"

The captives immediately burst into sycophants, "The general's clever plan!" ”

"The southerners dare to divide their troops, isn't this sending them to death?"

"Since the barbarians can't do their best, let them understand with blood!"

Duoduo raised his hand to signal the crowd to be quiet, and then asked Shuosai, "How many men have gathered in my camp right now?" ”

"General Hui, I have just counted more than 47,000 people. A team of elite monks and monks of Zhenghuang Banner are coming, only six or seven miles away, and they will arrive within an hour, and there will be eight more soldiers and horses. ”

"Fifty-five thousand," Dodor patted hard, "enough!"

"I expect that even if the barbarians are strong in Jiangnan, they will be able to gather forty or fifty thousand people at most, that is, there will be no more than 10,000 people in each direction."

He Luohui also offered advice: "General, among the five directions surrounded by the barbarians, the terrain around Ximing Mountain is the most flat and wide, which is conducive to the deployment of our army. ”

"Okay, here it is!" Duoduo nodded, turned around and took a big fuss, and said in high spirits, "Send an order, and the army will cook immediately." Just wait for the Zhenghuang Banner and other troops to arrive, and the soldiers will send Xi Mingshan overnight, and tomorrow morning the drums and cannons will sound in unison to attack the enemy formation! ”

“！”

He said to Shuo Sai again: "The southerners are very cunning, so beware of their light cavalry advancing quickly, and sneaking up from behind while our army is attacking the enemy. The herald ordered the men and horses who stayed in Huanglongbu, Darenshan, Mashan and other places to defend these four passes, and before noon tomorrow, if anyone let a southern army pass, the military law will deal with it! ”

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Duoduo had previously ordered the main force to gather rapidly towards his own camp, so the slow-moving men and horses of the various divisions were still far behind, and it was time to turn back to form a formation, so as to delay the speed of the Ming army's encirclement and buy time for himself to break through from Xi Ming Mountain.

He was confident that as long as he could avoid the situation of being attacked by the enemy on his back, the Ming army would never be his opponent in a head-on decisive battle.

At this time, more than 50,000 people gathered in his camp, that is to say, there were tens of thousands of Qing troops in each of the four directions of Huanglongbu and Darenshan.

Even if the Ming army can break through the defense line in these places, it will be at least half a day later, plus the time of marching on the road, they will be able to reach Xi Mingshan at least tomorrow. And at that time, he must have already broken through the encirclement, and the whole army was ready for battle, and he could even set up an ambush or something.

When the captives left the tent to rectify the headquarters of the soldiers and horses, Duoduo looked to the north in armor, not only sighed in his heart, but also sighed in his heart that tomorrow would be a battle that would affect the fortunes of the Qing Dynasty.

If he wins, there will be no large number of Southern Ming soldiers and horses in the south of the Yangtze River, and he will besiege Nanjing, perhaps Nanjing has been broken by Mu Jilun at that time.

If you lose......

He turned his head to look at the yellow flag in the light of the torch, "No! Even the two Yellow Flags are here, I can only win, not lose! ”

……

The nineteenth day of the first month of the first year of Hanxing.

The first morning light had just appeared in the sky.

Zhu Lin put away her pocket watch, looked at the vast Daming rivers and mountains in front of her, and said calmly to Shi Lin: "It's time." Send a signal and start the general attack! ”

"Yes!"

Soon, the first red signal flare was raised from the Ming army camp in the lower reaches of the Tangshui River.

In an instant, with this signal flare as the starting point, there were shining red light spots rising up one after another every two or three miles or so, from the Tangshui River to Ximing Mountain, and then to Daren Mountain, Mashan and other places.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the last signal flare was released from the direction of Huanglongbu, which was farthest away, and the order for a general attack had been transmitted to the entire encircled area of the Ming army. In the days when there was no telegraph, this was simply incredible communication speeds!

On the south side of Daren Mountain, Zhang Jiayu looked at the red light spots in the sky, turned around solemnly, and instructed Li Yingdao: "Pass the order, the artillery company will cover, and the front army will directly take the enemy position." He said to Zhao Shichao again, "The two wings of the cavalry battalion are waiting in formation. ”

Both saluted at the same time, "Yes!" ”

Zhang Jiayu continued: "This battle is very important, and the Holy Lord ordered us to break the enemy and go north within three hours, and complete the encirclement with the other four-way army." ”

He looked at the more than ten officers beside him, raised his hand and saluted, "The honor and disgrace of the Ming Dynasty are all entrusted to you!" ”

"Yes! Swear to serve the country! The generals immediately saluted and shouted.

Before dawn, the enemy situation had been discovered, and three miles away from the north side of Zhang Jiayu's team, there were more than 10,000 Qing troops who had been in battle since last night.

The main force of the enemy's Chinese army is more than 3,000 Jianguo Zhenghuang Banner Infantry Armor, and judging from the banner, the leader is the red man Sinebku under Dorgon. In addition, more than 2,000 Han troops under Zhang Jie's department with blue flags were on the left flank, and Pei Guozhen's 5,000 green battalion was on the right flank.

The captives built an earthen wall less than a man high overnight, and fixed some wooden planks on it to serve as a wall. More than a dozen cannons can be seen behind the "wall", the largest of which are three or four of which are more than nine pounds.

The captives were all cowering behind the wall, only poking their firearms out from behind the planks. The Zhenghuang Banner heavy infantry was armed with a single sword and a bow and arrow on their backs, ready to counterattack the approaching Ming army at any time. However, it seems that there are no cavalry, and they must have been transferred to their own camp by Duoduo.

The strategic deployment of the Ming army has been implemented before, and now is the time to close the net. The two armies are facing each other, and there is no trick to be had, and all that remains is a bloody battle with real swords and guns.

Soon, with the sound of drums in the Dragon Guard formation, the neat line formation of nearly 5,000 infantry was divided into two layers, front and rear, and pressed towards the Jianyu defense line with the beat of the drum.

The artillery company followed the infantry east flank with six six-pounder guns, three nine-pounder guns, and one twelve-pounder gun. More than 700 cavalry stood on both flanks.