East Factory Governor

Chapter 757
But the generals of the Ming army believed that this possibility existed completely—they didn’t open the full map perspective!
This is the territory of the Tartars, who dares to say that they know all about how the Tartars deployed their troops?

Or, who can guarantee that Qin Shuhuai's intelligence network can fully detect every move of the Tartar army, let alone at night?
Qin Shuhuai was not calm anymore.

In case He Kegang's conjecture is correct, the consequences of rushing to save him will be disastrous.

But just watching Meng Wei do nothing?
At this moment, all the generals present had actually made a misjudgment.

Under a misjudgment, Qin Shuhuai did not dare to send troops to Tai'an.

This is a war, not a fight in the rivers and lakes. If there is a fight, he will dare to fight no matter how many opponents there are. At worst, he will just run away with light work, but this is not how wars are fought.

An accidental annihilation of the entire army, and the preparation for the Northern Expedition for more than a year was completely ruined!

After pondering for a while, he said, "Immediately send someone to notify Meng Wei that the army is retreating to Shaling Fort. Be sure to pack lightly, or it will be too late!"

Zhao Lijiao nodded and said, "This plan is also a safe method. If you keep the green hills, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood!"

Although the generals are sorry to lose Tai'an City again, this is the only way to be safe at the moment.

It's just a pity that a large amount of food and supplies, as well as the fifteen red cannons-these things must be destroyed, and it is impossible to fall into the hands of the Tartars.

"Since this is the case, then it's time!" Zu Dashou added, "We need to send a few good men there, otherwise I'm afraid the Tatar masters will intercept along the way, and they will suffer if they don't get notified!"

The few Tartar masters who appeared on the way here still make everyone feel lingering fear.

Qin Shuhuai nodded and said, "Let's send a few more groups to inform them in several routes. I don't believe that the Tartars have so many experts, and every route can be blocked."

At this moment, the member of the White Lotus Sect immediately said, "Master, my subordinates are from this place, and I know that besides the official road, there are two other roads leading to Tai'an City!"

Qin Shuhuai said, "Excellent, just point it out."

After the Bailian believer pointed out the way, Qin Shuhuai immediately sent Zhikong, Zhiren, and Shenxi each with a few experts to Tai'an City in three routes to inform Meng Wei.

Without saying a word, the three picked a fast horse and galloped away immediately.

It's a race against time.

If Meng Wei wanted to withdraw safely, he had to leave the city at least half an hour before the Tartars arrived—at least that's what the Ming army thought.

Of course they were wrong, because Mangurtai didn't want to attack Tai'an City.

But in many things, your judgment is obviously wrong, but the result may not be wrong!

Let's say that the three of them led a few masters to run in three directions, and the other two routes did not encounter any obstacles, only the route chosen by Shen Xi, and they met several groups of masters along the way!

They fought several times, although more than 20 Tartar masters were killed, but the seven or eight Ming army masters led by Shen Xi were all killed!
Continue to run forward, and there are three more people in front of you.

As soon as they fought, Shen Xi discovered that one of them was not only not lower than himself, but even slightly higher than himself!
The figure of that person seemed a little familiar, like one of those who came to snatch Oboi that night.

Knowing that he was invincible, Shen Xi blew the jade flute. After delaying the opponent for a while, he immediately turned around and ran away, quickly disappearing into the darkness.

The other party chased after them relentlessly, obviously intending to kill everyone who had seen them.

But Shen Xi is a master of one-on-one after all, he still has the ability to escape in the dark, after some pursuit, he still escaped.

Shen Xi felt strange, the Tartars took so much effort to intercept and kill the Ming army's horse sentry, did that mean that there was their ambush ahead, and they did this because they were afraid that the ambush would be exposed?
If there is already an ambush on this road, does that mean that the Tatars are faster than we think, and their main force has already arrived in Tai'an City?

If this is the case, wouldn't Meng Wei rushing out of the city would mean sending him to his death?

He didn't think about it any more, and immediately returned to the camp to inform Qin Shuhuai of the matter.

After Qin Shuhuai got the news, he was still puzzled.

All three ways are going together, only Shen Xi is full of masters?
This clearly shows that the other party wants to make a fuss on this road!

Shen Xi thought that the Tartars set up an ambush on that road, and wanted to ambush the Ming army who was going to rescue Tai'an City.

This is of course a wrong judgment.

But the old ranks of the Guan Ning Army who have been marching for many years ruled out this possibility at once - wouldn't it be better to set up an ambush on the official road?Because the official route is the fastest, the Ming army's reinforcement route is obviously more likely to choose this route.

Why did the Tartars block that road?
Now if Zhao Shujiao and others can't figure it out, they won't be worthy of the title of "Three Heroes of Guan Ning Army".

The Tartars attacked Tai'an as a falsehood, and aided Heishanbao Weishi. They wanted to divert the tiger away from the mountain, and first tricked Qin Shuhuai's army into Tai'an City!
Being able to discover this has to show that the army's crooked attacks are on the right track.

If He Kegang thought that there was an ambush in Tai'an City, Qin Shuhuai would not have sent someone to inform Meng Wei to abandon the city, and if Qin Shuhuai hadn't been surprised by the strength of the Tartar masters, he would not have sent Shen Xi to split into three groups. To deliver the letter, if he didn't do any of these things, even if he was killed, he wouldn't be able to find out what the Tartars were up to.

That being the case, everyone immediately thought of a plan to use their tactics.

First of all, Qin Shuhuai immediately led an army of [-], and each of them lit two torches, pretending to reinforce Tai'an from the official road.

At the same time, the rest of the ministries secretly laid an ambush near the exit of the road Shen Xi was walking on.

Let's say that Qin Shuhuai's team had just walked out of the five miles, and was immediately spotted by the secret sentry of the Tartars.

Anshao didn't dare to neglect, and ran quickly to inform Dorgon.

This army is led by Dorgon, and Hauge is the deputy commander. As for Azige, he has only received about [-] soldiers and horses to assist him.

In addition, Fan Wencheng is also on this expedition—this guy took the initiative to ask for a fight, and he wants to make a good contribution!

Originally, Fan Wencheng was a little apprehensive, because Qin Shuhuai did not send troops immediately as he expected.

But when the team traveled 30 miles away from Tai'an City, he finally received a report from the horse post!
Qin Shuhuai raised his troops!And go straight to Tai'an City!
Dorgon's complexion also improved a lot. Originally, he thought that Qin Shuhuai would not be fooled by this Hannu's trick.Now it seems that Qin Shuhuai was indeed fooled!
So the army speeded up the march, and when they arrived [-] miles outside Tai'an City, they immediately extinguished the torches and turned to the west, heading straight for Daheishan Fort!

Let's say that after Qin Shuhuai led an army of [-] people for six or seven routes, he suddenly extinguished the torch.

It was very dark in winter, and it was snowing lightly. From a distance, it was impossible to see the figures of the Ming army clearly.

Tartar's dark whistle immediately darkened his eyes.

Qin Shuhuai ordered the whole army to suspend, and then sent at least [-] factory guards and experts in the formation to search the vicinity carefully, making a gesture of worrying about an ambush—in fact, he was searching for the enemy's secret sentry.

As a result, it is impossible for the Tartar secret sentries to conduct close-range investigations—not to mention ordinary secret sentries, so what if it is a master?Thousands of people pull the net to search, and a dozen top masters can't pay off the enemies within a dozen meters around the army, so the entire martial arts forest and factory guards don't have to play.

Besides, the top Tartar masters have already been sent to the road that Shenxi went before.

The secret whistle of the tartars never expected that Qin Shuhuai's army would stop suddenly and make such a move. Several of them were killed on the spot, and the others ran away quickly.

After clearing the secret sentries, Qin Shuhuai ordered that the 5000 horse-drawn horse-drawn team at the front continue to march towards Tai'an City in a leisurely manner, and asked to make a certain amount of noise to create the illusion that the army continued to move forward.

The rest of the men and horses all entered the nearby grass and hid quietly.

This is not for ambush, but for the sake of safety - if the remaining 5000 troops rush back to Daheishan Fort now, then night after night, it is still possible to be discovered.After all, [-] people, not fifteen people.

(End of this chapter)