The Dorgon brothers led the two yellow flags and continued eastward.
Dodo is the happiest person.
Because he saw Hauge injured.
"Hauge, this good-for-nothing, was injured even when he was dealing with a bunch of useless dogs. When he goes back, Huang Taiji will lose his face."
Dorgon was not happy.
"You think this Ming army is very simple?"
Dodo pouted.
"The left and right are just a bunch of bright dogs. After so many years, haven't we fought too many?"
Dorgon shook his head and looked at the vast mountains in front of him, feeling quite worried.
"You can say that Hauge has no brains, but you must not look down on Hauge's ability to fight. Among these generals, there are not many who are better than Hauge. What he brings are still elite soldiers. It seems that this group of Ming troops
Quite unusual.”
Dodo also calmed down.
"If we chase him all the way, can we catch him?"
Dorgon looked at the long cavalry on his side and couldn't help but shake his head.
"This group of Ming soldiers is very weird. They are hiding in the mountains. We are all cavalry and cannot go in. The chance of finding them is too slim."
Dorgon guessed correctly.
The rear camp was not in the east at this time.
After retreating to Xiaoxitian and resting for a long time, Zuo Mengeng immediately decided to move the entire army westward.
In guerrilla warfare, how to escape from the enemy's encirclement is a technical task.
Zuo Mengeng decided to give Houjin a try while there were not many people in Houjin.
The troops went all the way north, and then turned westward in the dark at Qingshan Pass. They passed through Xifengkou the next night and returned to the north of Zunhua again.
The whole operation went very smoothly without disturbing anyone. Hauge and Dorgon searched the mountains to the east for three days and had no choice but to retreat and join Huang Taiji.
In the following time, the war had nothing to do with the rear camp. Zuo Menggeng was arranging the army while watching the show.
After Hauge's night attack, the last trace of underestimation of the enemy in the rear camp was gone.
Sometimes it's like this. No matter how much the superiors say, it's hard for people to listen. It's like teachers and parents earnestly persuading students to study hard.
Only a real beating can make people wake up.
This night attack caused little damage to the rear camp, but the shock it caused was considerable.
This also made the whole camp understand.
Their opponent is not a piece of wood, let alone a fool, but a beast that tries every possible means to kill them.
If you don’t want to die, then cheer up and hone your tactical skills better.
With this idea in mind, everyone's enthusiasm for training was extremely high, which saved Zuo Mengeng a lot of thought.
boom……
Watching the target a hundred steps away fall down, Wang Siyi cheered.
"I hit it, Zuo Mengeng. If you see it, I will fire it too."
After witnessing the power of the flash cap gun, Wang Siyi suddenly discovered that her two hammers did not seem to be so fragrant. After the troops stopped to rest, she pestered Zuo Mengeng to learn the shooting skills of the musket.
I have to say that people with fighting talent are different.
Many soldiers had been practicing for more than half a year and could not hit three out of ten shots on the 100-meter target. She was actually able to hit seven out of ten in just five days.
"Zuo Mengeng, your fire guns are so powerful, why don't you go fight the Jianzhou people?"
Zuo Mengeng found a random reason.
"There are few of us."
When Wang Siyi heard this, he couldn't help but show contempt.
"Haha, you are just like those guys from Liaodong, you know how to preserve your strength."
Zuo Menggeng smiled and gave no explanation.
He didn't want to sacrifice his life for Lao Zhu's family, so why should he send his own soldiers?
On the other side, Huang Taiji was also inquiring about the situation in the rear camp from Hauge.
"How many people are there in this Ming army? Who are the generals?"
Hauge shook his head depressedly and answered half of the question.
"It's all in the dark. A child can't see clearly. But there are definitely not many people, two or three thousand at most. As for the generals, I still don't know."
Huang Taiji was angry.
"You bastards, you are all fighting in close combat, and you still don't know who the general is? Don't you know how to read flags?"
Hauge turned pale and said: "Father, I don't know something. This Ming army is very strange and has no banner at all."
"No flag?"
Huang Taiji didn't think Hauge would deceive him, so he became even more confused.
An army without a banner...
How to fight?
Seeing that he was no longer so angry, Hauge quickly said something.
"The weirdness of this group of Ming soldiers doesn't end there. Father Khan, please see, these are the fragments of military uniforms we captured."
Hauge presented a large piece of broken Ming army uniform to Huang Taiji.
That's Wang Xiangdong's military uniform.
He detonated the grenade and died with the enemy. The uniform was not completely destroyed, and many fragments remained at the scene, so it fell into Haug's hands.
"This group of Ming soldiers don't have iron pieces in their cotton armor. They don't seem to be a strong army."
For people in this era, the most intuitive way to judge the level of an army is to see if it has any armor.
Those who wear armor are elite soldiers, and those who do not wear armor are cannon fodder.
Because on the battlefield of this era, the protective effect of armor is really good.
For example, the Ming army's firecrackers were unable to penetrate the Eight Banners soldiers wearing three layers of armor.
Since death is inevitable, one can only imagine the courage of the Eight Banners soldiers.
Seeing that there were no iron pieces in the "cotton armor" of this group of Ming soldiers, Huang Taiji couldn't help but put down his attention and began to care about Hauge's injury.
"I heard that you were injured by the Ming army's firecrackers?"
Speaking of this, Hauge couldn't help but grit his teeth.
"The child is also unlucky. He was injured two hundred steps away. When I look back, I must teach those lazy craftsmen a lesson."
Well, Haug thought he was injured because the craftsmen cut corners on the armor provided to him.
Why didn't he expect that the Ming army's guns were unusual?
Because the minie bullet taken out of his shoulder had long been deformed and turned into a soft ball. If you didn't look closely, it looked almost the same as the round lead bullet after deformation.
Hauge did not realize at all that the projectiles used by this group of Ming soldiers were fundamentally different.
This oversight allowed the rear camp to live a stable life for a while. Otherwise, once Huang Taiji realized that a new weapon appeared on the battlefield and was so powerful, he would have to abandon other places and use all his strength to deal with the rear camp.
During this period, the wars between the Ming and Jin Dynasties were mainly concentrated in Shanhaiguan, Luanzhou, Yongping, and Qian'an.
Overall, it has become a tug of war.
Zu Dashou's defense was good and he kept Shanhaiguan intact. Hou Jin attacked several times, but all were frustrated and retreated.
The imperial court on the Western Front was unable to make progress and could only watch the fighting on the Eastern Front rage.
Sun Chengzong was still organizing his army in Tongzhou.
This old man's views on war have never changed, and he will never send troops until the army he has is strengthened.
Chongzhen urged him several times, but Sun Chengzong remained unmoved.
It was obvious that he regarded Zu Dashou as the second Mao Wenlong.
I hope Zu Dashou will fight tooth and nail there to hold off Hou Jin and buy him time.
During this period, the Qinwang armies from all walks of life arrived one after another. Sun Chengzong had more and more troops on hand, and the day of counterattack was getting closer.
Chongzhen was very angry, thinking that Sun Chengzong was timid and avoided fighting.
Only Huang Taiji felt the pressure and crisis and had already begun to plan to withdraw.
At the same time, there were new changes in the court.
After the old fox Han Xu saw Qian Longxi's predicament, he realized that it was not appropriate to stay for a long time and immediately wrote a letter to Chongzhen to resign.
Seeing that he was so good at doing things, Chongzhen immediately agreed and rewarded him with something.
Han Xu was afraid of causing more trouble, so he didn't ask for any rewards, so he went back to Puzhou, Shanxi Province in a simple carriage.
At the same time, there was also a person who left the capital and prepared to return to his hometown.
When I arrived in Tongzhou, I met Sun Chengzong and Hou Xun. They were really old friends, and they burst into tears.
This person was Li Banghua, the original governor of Tianjin, and one of the Liaodong Iron Triangle at that time.
"The current imperial court has done too much and made many mistakes. If it has not done well, it has no place to put it into practice. So I went, and the elder Ge took care of the difficulties alone. I hope you will cherish them."
Sun Chengzong was stunned.
"I know Meng An's talent well. How can your Majesty abandon a talented person to the wild?"
Li Banghua shook his head and decided to leave.
He was extremely disappointed with this court.
Let’s talk about the defense battle of the capital that just passed.
When Hou Jin came over, Li Banghua made many preparations. He knew very well that if he wanted to defend the capital, he couldn't just hide in the city.
So they sent thousands of reinforcements to Tongzhou and Jizhou successively.
If he hadn't sent 2,000 men from Cao Minglei's command, Yuan Chonghuan wouldn't have been able to defend Jizhou. And Hou Xun relied on the 3,000 troops he gave him to evacuate Zhangjiawan in one day.
Li Banghua not only took the initiative to send troops, but also personally led troops out of the city, preparing to form a rivalry with the capital and provide mutual aid.
As a result, the imperial court issued an order asking him to return to the city...
Now it's better, the army is all huddled in the city, no sentries can be sent out, and the inside and outside are completely cut off.
Chongzhen even listened to the slander of Xiangcheng Bo Li Shouqi and deprived Li Banghua of his power.
When Man Gui was fighting at Deshengmen, his family was wounded by cannons from the city. As a result, someone blamed Li Banghua for this incident.
Li Banghua was dismissed from his post as a result and was charged with an undue crime.
Thinking again about what happened to Yuan Chonghuan, Li Banghua was really disheartened and was extremely determined to leave.
As for Li Banghua's talents, Hou Xun knew very well.
He thought for a while and suggested to Li Banghua: "Li Shangshu is now free from the shackles and traveling in the mountains and forests. He might as well go to Linqing first to have a look. Maybe he will gain something different."