In fact, from Zhao Changshou's mouth, Yang Zhen had already received a lot of news, and knew that the situation in the Manchu Tatar country had undergone major changes.

However, Zhao Changshou's status was low and he was just one of Li Shutai's long followers. He did not know much about the situation of the top management in the Qing Dynasty and could only tell some superficial things.

Moreover, this Zhao Changshou was useful to the soldiers under the Zhenglan Banner who led the captives. Yang Zhen did not want to hand him over to the Military Department of Shanhaiguan or send him to the capital.

In this way, Yang Zhen needs a significant figure to play such a role.

First of all, he must have a good understanding of the internal situation of the Manchu Tatar high-level officials and be able to tell some internal secrets.

Secondly, sending him to the Shanhaiguan Military Department, or to the Capital Military Department, or to the Dongchang, requires a certain degree of persuasion.

Furthermore, he must be willing to cooperate, or be willing to speak to Yang Zhen, the Military Department of Shanhaiguan, or the Military Department of the Capital or Dongchang.

And Li Sutai just meets this requirement.

Compared with Zhao Changshou, he is Li Yongfang's son. Now that Li Yongfang is dead, he has basically inherited Li Yongfang's status. He is a Jia La Zhang Jing, at least his status is much higher than that of Zhao Changshou.

Of course, compared to Yue Le, Li Shutai's status was much inferior, but people like Yue Le would not speak easily.

Sending it to the Shanhaiguan Military Department, or to the Capital Military Department or Dongchang would not play the role that Yang Zhen hoped for him to play.

After such a comparison, Yang Zhen chose to keep Li Shutai alive temporarily, preparing to send him to the Shanhaiguan Military Department across the sea after the war facing Jinhae Town was over.

On the one hand, he reported the situation in the Manchu Tatars to the Military Department of Shanhaiguan, and then forwarded it to Emperor Chongzhen.

On the other hand, Li Shutai was asked to serve as a witness to prove the truth of his news.

With the latest internal situation of the Manchu Tatars and witnesses like Li Shutai, Yang Zhen could continue to gain the support of Emperor Chongzhen.

As for Li Shutai himself, although Yang Zhen would not kill him with his own hands, his fate would definitely not be better than Duduo, who was sent to the capital earlier.

Emperor Chongzhen will never show mercy to such a person. It can be said that if he is sent to the hands of Emperor Chongzhen, he will be beheaded. It is very likely that he will be executed by Lingchi like the previous important prisoners.

Let us say that that night, after the ambush was successful, Yang Zhen led his army back to the nearby Xipingshan Camp. That night, he took three musket posts from the musket battalion, a grenadier post from Zhang Tianbao, and

The newly formed service post composed of the captured servants Aha was entrusted to the leadership of Zhao Changshou and was stationed in the camp on Xiping Mountain.

Everything in this camp is ready-made, including tents, food, horses, mules, fodder, firewood, and drinking water.

Even a large number of artillery, ammunition, bows, armor and other military supplies are ready-made.

Such a good thing is a situation that Yang Zhen rarely encounters after fighting so many battles.

That night, he withdrew his troops and returned to the main camp on Xiping Mountain. Yang Zhen ordered the killing of more than a dozen injured horses and mules, ordered people to cook meat, and gave the hungry, thirsty, and exhausted soldiers a delicious feast.

Had a meal.

While Yang Zhen and his soldiers were celebrating the victory in the camp at Xiping Mountain, Dorgon, who had stationed a large army outside Fuzhou City, sent a team to rush over overnight.

The Manchu Tatars' heavy artillery bombardment of Fuzhou City did not stop until nightfall. Amidst the roar of artillery, no sound of gunfire was heard from the Xiping Mountain area.

Correspondingly, in the evening of that day, Yang Zhen's attack on the Xipingshan camp was outmaneuvering rather than attacking by force. The battle after entering the camp was not very fierce. The camp was full of Tatars' own guns and firearms.

It didn't even have any effect.

Under such circumstances, the Manchu Tatar army in the direction of Fuzhou City, twenty miles away, did not even realize that their Xipingshan camp had changed hands.

But at night, the bombardment outside Fuzhou City had completely stopped, but Pan Xi and others' ambush on Li Shutai and the dense explosions of the flying generals still spread far away with the sea breeze, and they were far enough to be blown away by Fuzhou.

The Manchu Tatar sentries outside the city could hear it.

So, that night, Dorgon sent a large cavalry force toward Xiping Mountain to investigate the situation.

However, when they arrived at the battlefield, the battle between Yang Zhen, Pan Xi and others to encircle and annihilate Li Shutai had already ended, and they had missed a point.

Not only the musketry battalion led by Yang Zhen had withdrawn from the battlefield, but the two-post grenadiers led by Pan Xi and Wang Yuyou had also turned around and killed dozens of Li Shutai who were left behind in the Mantazi camp at the foot of Camel Mountain.

's subordinates.

Pan Xi and Wang Yuyou's men took away everything they could from the Tatar camp, in addition to war horses, ordnance, food and ammunition, including the best wool felt for building felt tents.

Even the dozen or so large general cannons that could not be reached up the mountain were dragged to the woods at the foot of the mountain and temporarily covered up.

Before they left, they burned everything else in the camp that could not be taken away.

By the time the troops sent by Dorgon galloped towards the light of the fire and arrived at the Zhenglan Banner Han Army camp at the foot of Camel Mountain, Pan Xi and the others had already hid in the mountains to the west.

However, the cavalry sent by Dorgon was not in vain. In the place where Li led Tai's troops to fight fiercely with Pan Xi's troops and Yang Zhen's troops, they found a number of corpses of Zhenglan Banner Han troops.

, and also found a few Tatars who were not completely dead.

Just like Li Shutai, some wounded Tatars from the Zhenglan Banner Han Army took advantage of the darkness of night to hide in the thorny bushes and escaped the fate of being beheaded.

As soon as Dorgon's troops arrived, the wounded and hidden Tatars of the Zhenglan Banner Han Army called for help and reported what had happened before to the troops sent by Dorgon.

That night, around Hai hour, these situations were brought to Dorgon.

At midnight, on the bank of the Pearl River in the north of Fuzhou City, inside Dorgon's tent in the middle of the Manchu Tatar camp, several Manchu Tatar princes frowned and sullenly listened to Dorgon's retelling of the story from the northwest with serious expressions.

News from the Xiping Mountain area twenty miles away.

"Prince Rui, Li Shutai's outpost camp was destroyed, and his life and death are unknown. He brought the blame on himself, and it is not a pity to die. I think at the beginning, I ordered them to just stick to the Xiping Mountain Camp. I never asked them

Go forward to the foot of Luotuo Mountain. Even if he is fine, I will punish him severely in the future!"

After hearing the news relayed by Dorgon, Prince Duoluo Raoyu was so shocked and angry that he almost jumped up and cursed, and immediately put the blame on Li Shutai, his cheap grandson.

However, thinking about the topography of Xiping Mountain and the safety of his fourth son Yue Le, whom he regarded as his heir, he then said:

"Prince Rui, the terrain of Xiping Mountain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and with Gushan Beizi Yuele in charge, it will not be easily taken away by the Southern Dynasty. After daybreak, I am willing to lead the army to completely wipe out the Southern Army.

, to protect the safety of our army's flanks. All I need, Prince Rui, is to mobilize a group of heavy artillery and listen to my command!"

In the past two days, Dorgon gathered all the heavy artillery carried by the soldiers and horses going south and handed them over to Kong Youde's command to attack Zhenhaimen, the north gate of Fuzhou City.

It is said to be the main attack, but in fact it is just relatively loud and the effect is not obvious.

Although the Wengcheng in Haimen, Fuzhou Town, was battered and crumbling, it still stood tall and showed no signs of imminent collapse.

Of course, this is also related to Dorgon's strategic intention. His intention is to encircle the point first and mobilize reinforcements. If the encirclement and reinforcements fail, then launch a real strong attack at the end.

Kong Youde naturally wanted to act according to Dorgon's intention, so when he used heavy artillery to bombard Fuzhou City, he basically hit and paused, and did not go all out.

Therefore, although the Manchu Tatar army's siege of Fuzhou City was very loud and sounded terrifying from a distance, the actual effect was quite limited.

Two days passed, and there was not a single close-quarters battle between the attacking and defending sides.

Correspondingly, Abatai, the king of Raoyu County, was ordered to lead the main force of the Zhenglan Banner. He had been setting up an ambush between the Ying'en Gate at the south gate of Fuzhou City and the Fuzhou River to wait for the enemy, basically doing nothing.

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The army had almost nothing to do here, which made Abatai very dissatisfied with Dorgon's arrangements.

This time he heard that the Ming army in the Luotuo Mountain area came out to fight and destroyed Li Shutai's outpost camp at the foot of Luotuo Mountain, leaving the entire camp of wounded soldiers he left behind on Xiping Mountain unknown. He immediately took the opportunity to vent his grievances.

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But in his mind, he did not realize the seriousness of the problem and that Xiping Mountain had changed hands.

I think back then, he led more than 6,000 people to storm Xiping Mountain, but failed to capture it. In the end, he relied on the enemy to retreat on their own because they were worried about being surrounded, and finally managed to capture Xiping Mountain.

Now, how could it be taken back by the enemy quietly?

"Impossible! Xipingshan Camp must still be in Yue Le's hands!"

Although he had an ominous premonition when he learned that Li Shutai actually led his troops down Xiping Mountain and set up camp at the foot of Camel Mountain, in the heart of Prince Duoluo Raoyu, he always held such an idea.

belief.

But the words he said only received a cold snort from Prince Rui Dorgon.

Dorgon didn't even bother to say a word to him, directly ignored his excuses to shirk responsibility and his request for a heavy artillery team, and turned his gaze to Jilharang's face.

Seeing this, Jierhalang frowned and said: "The Southern Army stationed in the Luotuoshan area was originally a stronghold of the army stationed outside Fuzhou City. There were not many people in the city. But this time they dare to attack. In my opinion, I am afraid that

Things have changed.”

Having said this, Jilharang looked at Dorgon, Abatai and Kong Youde who were also present, paused, and seeing everyone looking at him, he continued:

"If what I have predicted is correct, the news that our army is besieging Fuzhou City has spread to the south, and it is very likely that Yang Zhen has sent reinforcements to Fuzhou City! However, Yang Zhen sent to rescue Fuzhou City.

The reinforcements from Zhoucheng only took the sea route!"

"oh?!"

When Dorgon heard what Jierharang said, he frowned, touched his clean-shaven chin with his hand, pondered for a moment, and suddenly said:

"This must be the truth! But if this is the case, not only Li Shutai's troops will be in danger, but even the camp on Xiping Mountain will probably be in danger as well! In this case-"

Having said this, Dorgon paused briefly, his eyes quickly swept across Abatai's face, and then fell on Jilharang's face:
Chapter completed!