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The captain was so frightened that he hurriedly kowtowed, "This slave deserves to die. Please give me a chance, Mr. Bei, so that I can make meritorious service for my crime!"

Bolo's anger softened slightly and he said: "Forget it, you can take ten cavalry and go around Sangyuan Town to explore the south. If nothing unexpected happens, there must be those enemy detective brigade soldiers and horses in the south. Find out the origins of these people before you come back. .

If they are pursued by enemy cavalry, as long as the number is within a thousand, we will lead them towards the town, and we will respond in the town. "

"Thank you, Mr. Beizi! I understand!"

The team leader thanked him, got up, called a few people, gathered ten riders, and ran towards the south.

Bolo led the rest of the people and rushed towards Mulberry Town.

The Eight Banner Mongolian Niulu Zhangjingji Buha who was following him said: "Master Bei, since we know that there are enemies ambushing Sangyuan Town, why do we rush there?"

After hearing this, Bolo wanted to scold Jibuha for being brainless, but he thought better of it.

Aren't these Mongolians just being manipulated by them because they have no brains?

So he smiled and said, "You'll know when you get there."

Although Bolo suddenly determined that there must not be many enemies ambush in Sangyuan Town, when he arrived at the town, he still cautiously sent twenty or thirty Eight Banner Mongolian cavalry in first.

After a while, these Eight Banners Mongolian soldiers came back.

"Master Beizi, there are no enemies in this town."

"Then let's go in." Bolo waved his whip and gave the order. "The enemy will definitely come to investigate the town. Let's go to the south of the town to ambush. We may get a good harvest."

"Master Beizi is brilliant!"

Although Jibuha didn't seem to be smart, he was quite good at flattering him. He immediately praised him and followed Bolo to the south end of the town with the other riders.

They first let the horses put wooden coins in their mouths and hid them in several large yards. Then they each found a location at the south end of the town that was conducive to archery and hid them. They even covered up some conspicuous traces of the activity, and then waited patiently.

What Bolo and others didn't know was that most of what they did was seen by the secret sentry left by the Yi army's reconnaissance team in the town.

Therefore, after Bolo and others hid, the secret whistle quietly came out from the middle of the town...

About half an hour later, dozens of Yijun reconnaissance cavalry pursued the Seventy-Eighth Cavalry and Eighth Banners reconnaissance horses to the south of Sangyuan Town.

Seeing the Eight Banners Scout Horse running into the town, the sentry commander leading the dozens of scout horses cautiously reined in the horse and stopped outside the town.

One of the scouts asked: "Commander, why don't we pursue him?"

The sentry commander said: "Don't forget, before we introduced the Qinglu cavalry into the town to capture one person, how did we know they wouldn't use the same method to ambush?

In addition, the few Qinglu cavalry who had previously taken a detour to this town clearly meant that there might be an ambush. "

"Then what should we do?"

"withdraw."

Bolo, who was hiding in a position with a better view in the south of the town, saw the enemy cavalry stop outside and was about to withdraw, so he sent someone to call the captain of the horse exploration team for questioning.

"Have you found out the details of these people?"

"Back to Mr. Beizi, it should be Wei Jun."

"Ei Army? Didn't it say that Ei Army is south of the Yellow River? How come it appears here?"

Boluo was slightly confused, then gave up thinking about the problem, and then asked: "Do you know how many people there are?"

The squad leader said with shame: "The slaves and others were not able to see their main force, but based on the number of scouts encountered, there are at least five thousand troops coming towards Sangyuan Town."

Generally speaking, the number of scouts in a team (the scouts, scouts, and spies all mean something similar to scouts) will be determined based on the number of people in the army, because the scouts need to explore around during the march, and it is difficult to guarantee physical strength and condition. .

If the entire army has too many soldiers serving as reconnaissance cavalry and spies, it will not be able to guarantee its combat effectiveness when encountering the enemy.

Seeing that the scout cavalry of the Wei army had withdrawn, Bolo thought for a moment and said: "We will withdraw too." Afterwards, Bolo led more than 300 people under his command to withdraw from Sangyuan Town, and sent a small group of cavalry to act as trusted cavalry to attack Aba. Tai reported the news that they encountered the Yi army's reconnaissance cavalry.

When the Qing army entered the pass this time, Huang Taiji did not lead it in person due to physical reasons, but was stationed in Shenyang.

The commander-in-chief of the Qing army that entered Guan this time was Dorgon, and there were four deputy commanders, namely Jierhalang, Abatai, Azig, and Hauge.

There were more than 50,000 Eight Banners troops (including Eight Banners Mongolian and Eight Banners Han troops) who entered the pass.

However, these more than 50,000 people refer to official bannermen.

If we include the bannermen's Baoyi and Aha (mainly referring to the slaves of the bannermen's family, but under the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Han Chinese with free civilian status generally used this as their starting point to join the army, and they were actually the lowest cannon fodder). This time The total number of Qing troops entering the Pass may be more than 100,000.

After Dorgon captured the capital without a single blow, he sent Hauge and Wu Sangui to the northwest to pursue the main force of the Shun army led by Li Zicheng.

Azig was also sent to lead a group of troops to sweep around the capital, mainly in the areas of Baoding Prefecture and Zhending Prefecture in the west that were still occupied by Ming or Shun troops.

At the same time, Abatai was sent to lead more than 10,000 troops southward. While capturing the main cities along the way, he was also tasked with collecting grain, gold, silver, and livestock.

As for Dorgonze and Jierhalang, they are in charge of Beijing and are in charge of all logistics matters within the customs.

As a descendant of later generations, Liu Sheng was unable to see through the fog of history and judge the Qing army's combat effectiveness before actual contact. Naturally, Bolo did not dare to easily judge the fighting power of the Yi army.

Before entering the customs, he heard news from above that the Yi army was probably stronger than the Shun army, and he needed to be cautious when encountering them.

Therefore, seeing that the ambush failed, he was not prepared to take risks, but patiently waited for the arrival of the southward army led by Abatai...

On the other side, after Zhang Xin learned about the series of encounters of the reconnaissance cavalry, he became more cautious and led the fifth brigade to approach Sangyuan Town unhurriedly. At the same time, he sent Xinqi to convey the news of the encounter with the Qing captives to Peng Youyi.

On the afternoon of November 29, the Second Brigade of the Dalai Standing Army unexpectedly encountered more than 10,000 Qing troops led by Abatai and Tugel near Sangyuan Town.

Without understanding each other's true combat capabilities, the generals of both sides would not issue an order for the entire army to swarm forward. Instead, they would set up their own camps and at the same time order the scouts and cavalry to test and engage each other.

Although the Yi army was well-equipped, it still lacked war horses and excellent riders. Therefore, the Yi army's reconnaissance horses were significantly weaker than the Qing Dynasty detective horses in terms of riding and archery skills.

Nowadays, the reconnaissance and cavalry officers of the standing army are also equipped with single-shot short muskets, and grenades are equipped by the entire army. Coupled with the excellent armor, the combat effectiveness is actually quite high.

However, after Zhang Xin learned that he had encountered the Qing captives, he gave the scout cavalry an order quite ruthlessly: before the main force fought the Qing captives, the scout cavalry was not allowed to use short muskets and grenades!

Unable to use these two methods, the Yijun reconnaissance cavalry inevitably fell behind in the tentative confrontations.

In front of the Qing army's formation, Abatai saw that the Yi army's reconnaissance cavalry was almost unable to fight back under the attack of his own exploration horse, and its range of activities was repeatedly compressed. He couldn't help laughing and said: "It's not that this Yi army is stronger than the Shun army. Really? But I think their Tan Ma is not as good as Shunjun."

Although Abate had great military exploits for most of his life, he was actually known for his bravery and daring to fight, but lacked wisdom and strategy.

Dorgon appointed Tugel as his deputy general to assist him and prevent him from making a big mistake and losing his troops and generals.

Tugel is forty-eight years old, several years younger than Abatay, but he has more combat experience than Abatay.

He was the eighth son of the five ministers at the founding of Nurhaci. He fought in Nurhachi when he was young.

On the battlefield in front of him, Fang Tanma had a considerable advantage. He naturally saw it, but he was not careless. He thought for a while and said: "I heard that the southerners are good at boats but not good at chariots and horses. This Yi army comes from the south, and Tanma is not as strong as him." Our Qing Dynasty is quite normal, Lord Baylor, please don’t underestimate them because of this.”

Abatai said unconcernedly: "We are not as good as scouting horses, how can we defeat us in foot combat? This time we brought an elite Manchurian Eight Banners with a Jiala, and were assisted by a thousand bird guns and soldiers, and a thousand Wu Zhen Chaoha (heavy troops, that is, artillery), how did the Yi army win over us?"

He said this, but Abatai thought about it and cautiously let the Liangjia Laba Banner Mongolian cavalry accompanying the army take advantage of the decline of the Yi army's probing horses to attack both wings of the Yi army's formation to further test the strength of the Yi army.

If the Yi army cannot even parry these three thousand Mongolian cavalry, he will order the main force to attack and defeat the Yi army in front of him just like he defeated the Ming army many times in the past.

After receiving the order, the three thousand Mongolian elite cavalry immediately divided into two parts and rushed towards the two wings of the Yi army at a rather tricky angle. (End of chapter)