On the morning of August 5, the Ping Liao army began to retreat from the south bank of the Beisha River.
They retreated quickly.
They retreated to Liaoyang City in the evening.
According to the original plan, various troops either left Liao or stayed in place.
After everyone else left, Wu Sangui quickly summoned his confidants to discuss the matter.
"Everyone," Wu Sangui said to his confidants, "Dorgon cannot die!"
"What the general said is right!" Wu Sangui's trusted general Hu Xinshui nodded, "If he dies, the Jiannu will be doomed. By then, whether it is Shenyang or Hetuala, our army will be able to take it easily! After the Jiannu disappears, we will face the reckoning of the court."
Wu Sangui said: "So... we must tell Dorgon this news as quickly as possible!"
"Here is the key!" Wu Sangui's trusted general Xia Longshan frowned, "We don't know where Dorgon is! If he is still on the grassland, we can tell Dorgon the news through the Jiannu in Shenyang. If Dorgon has returned from the grassland to the south of the Great Wall, the battle may be over by the time the news is passed!"
"It's too late!"
"Does anyone have any good ideas?" Wu Sangui looked at his confidants.
These confidants are good at fighting wars, but not at offering advice and suggestions.
Although some solutions have been proposed, there are problems in their implementation.
In the end, Wu Sangui could only seek help from his adviser Fang Guangchen again.
Fang Guangchen said: "Please ask the general to send someone to deliver a message to the Jiannu in Shenyang first, and let them tell Dorgon to retreat immediately. At the same time, send a few people to Gao Di's camp, and let him find a suitable opportunity to deliver a message to Dorgon after he meets Dorgon."
"Gao Di...is not very reliable!" Wu Sangui was a little worried, "I'm afraid he will sell us out!"
"He doesn't dare!" Fang Guangchen sneered, "He did a lot of bad things when he was in Shanhaiguan. Including but not limited to occupying civilian land, withholding military pay, and reselling military rations. If he dares to sell us out, we will be doomed to fail, and he will not survive!"
"It seems that this is the only way!" Wu Sangui said helplessly.
Under his arrangement.
One message was sent to Shenyang, and another message was sent to Gao Di's army.
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Pingyang Bridge Fort.
Shi Tingzhu, leader of the Han army of the Plain White Banner of the Jiannu, was calculating how many days the stored food would last.
In recent days, he has sent a large number of scouts to find out the whereabouts of Li Dingguo.
As a result, they only found some Ming army scouts, but not Li Dingguo himself.
"There is not much food left. We have to continue fighting to support the war!" Shi Tingzhu put away the booklet and said with emotion to his confidants.
"Sir, where are we going next?" asked a confidant.
"Where else can we go?" Shi Tingzhu chuckled, "Of course it's Wujiafen! That's an important castle on the Ming army's food route, easy to defend but difficult to attack!"
Just as the confidant was about to speak, a scout ran up to Shi Tingzhu and said, "Your Excellency, we have discovered a large number of Ming troops. They are carrying the Ming national flag and the Li flag. It seems that Li Dingguo himself has arrived."
"Where is he? How many soldiers does he bring?" Shi Tingzhu was both excited and nervous.
He was excited because he had met Li Dingguo, and killing him would be a great achievement.
The reason for the tension was also because of meeting Li Dingguo.
Li Dingguo did not use his troops according to common sense.
If he is not careful, he will be defeated by Li Dingguo.
He was unsure.
"In the Dujiatun area, 25 miles southwest of Xipingbao, there are about 10,000 soldiers and horses, all cavalry!" the scout replied.
"The enemy is definitely Li Dingguo!" Shi Tingzhu said confidently: "Except for him, the Ming army cannot have so many cavalry on the west bank of the Liaohe River."
"Your Excellency is absolutely right."
"Send 70% of the scouts in the army to the Dujiatun area to monitor it day and night to prevent Li Dingguo from launching a surprise attack." Shi Tingzhu gave the order cautiously.
He suddenly realized two problems.
The first question is why Li Dingguo suddenly led all his cavalry south?
Don’t want the north anymore?
The second problem is that Li Dingguo’s move south would definitely make a lot of noise.
According to the agreement, Prince Rui Dorgon should inform him of the news in a timely manner.
But till now, he has not received any news.
This is very abnormal.
After hesitating for a long time, he met Lekedehun who came to support him.
"Why are you here?" Shi Tingzhu was very surprised when he saw Lekedehun.
"The prince sent me to support you."
"Support me? According to the plan, the prince should come in person. Where is the prince?" Shi Tingzhu asked in surprise.
"The grain route was attacked, and the prince went north to the grassland to clear the grain route..." Lekedehun told Shi Tingzhu all the news he knew.
"So that's how it is," Shi Tingzhu finally put his heart at ease, "If the prince personally takes action, it will definitely be successful!"
"The prince is not here, there is no need for you to flatter him!" Lekedehun said with some disdain.
"Ahem," Shi Tingzhu coughed lightly to cover up his embarrassment and asked, "Does the prince have any other instructions?"
"Yes!" Lekedehun put away all his expressions and said seriously: "The prince asked me to tell you that Li Dingguo is cunning and unpredictable in his use of troops! Before the prince's main force arrives, we must not rashly engage in a decisive battle with Li Dingguo."
"Of course!" Shi Tingzhu answered seriously, "I won't fight him unless it's absolutely necessary."
In the following period of time.
Shi Tingzhu and Lekedehun closely observed Li Dingguo's movements while waiting for good news from Dorgon.
Dorgon's progress was relatively smooth.
After entering the grassland, he did not choose to actively look for Gao Wengui.
The vast grassland, if Gao Wengui intends to hide.
He couldn't find Gao Wengui.
So his method was to have people pretend to be a grain transport team to lure Gao Wengui to show up.
In order to let Gao Wengui find him as soon as possible, he ordered everyone to find a way to produce a lot of black smoke when cooking.
Gao Wengui was indeed fooled.
He originally thought that the black smoke was created by the grain transport team while cooking, but he didn't expect that it was done intentionally by Dorgon.
When he led two thousand cavalrymen to attack, what he encountered was not a grain transport team.
But it was Dorgon's main force.
Gao Wengui did not dare to fight and retreated immediately.
Dorgon was filled with anger and chased after him relentlessly.
Fortunately, Gao Wengui's cavalry had three horses per man.
After suffering hundreds of casualties, they finally escaped Dorgon's pursuit.
After the grain route was opened, Dorgon continued to let Tan Tai protect the grain route.
He himself led his main force south, preparing to attack Li Dingguo from the south and the north with Shi Tingzhu.
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