"Report!"
While Dorgon was still hesitating, a scout came running up to him and said, "Your Majesty, we have spotted several thousand Ming cavalrymen fifteen miles to the west."
"It's bad!" Dorgon's face changed suddenly.
He realized that Tu Lai, Tan Tai and others not only failed to delay time, but instead attracted the Ming army.
In fact, he misunderstood Tulai, Tan Tai and others.
The reason why the Ming army was able to catch up was because of the information revealed by the Korean people.
"Get on board, Your Majesty," Hong Chengchou advised, "It will be too late if you don't get on board now. If you don't want to get on board, divide your forces as soon as possible, the Ming army is already here to attack."
Dorgon clenched his fists, struggled for a moment, and then said weakly: "Divide the troops!"
Suksaha asked hurriedly, "How does the emperor divide the troops?"
"I'm very confused, just listen to Mr. Hong!"
Everyone looked at Hong Chengchou.
Hong Chengchou was very excited. After calming himself down, he said, "Boerhui, you lead more than a hundred soldiers to the north immediately to attract the attention of the Ming army."
Without waiting for Bolhui to accept the order, Hong Chengchou immediately said: "Sony, take all your family members on board."
Sony reminded him, "There's not enough room for so many people!"
"Women and children get on board, and the rest stay on shore."
"After boarding the ship, what should we do? Where should we go? We can't just go to Dongfan, right?"
"Go to Jeju Island first and wait to meet up with the Emperor."
Sony glanced at Dorgon, and after he nodded, he clasped his hands together and said, "Yes."
"Suksaha!"
"I will be here in the end."
"Gather all your troops, form a battle formation and prepare for battle."
Suksaha thought he had misheard and asked in surprise: "Fight...Fight?"
"That's right."
"But the Ming army has several thousand men, and our army only has more than a thousand men at most. I'm afraid we are no match for the Ming army."
Hong Chengchou glared at him fiercely: "Are you scared?"
Dorgon also looked at Suksaha with some dissatisfaction.
Suksaha responded with a stiff upper lip: "I will obey your orders."
Under Hong Chengchou's arrangement, the seaside became busy again.
The women and children in the family boarded the ship as quickly as possible and headed for Jeju Island.
The rest took up their weapons and joined Suksaha's army as infantry.
Bolhui, with more than a hundred cavalrymen, carried Dorgon's central army flag and planned to escape to the north.
Before leaving, Dorgon came to Bolhui and told him: "Whether you are chased by the Ming army or not, don't come back."
"Where is the slave going?"
"If you can return to Liaodong, hide in the mountains and survive. If you can't return to Liaodong, either surrender to the Ming army or cut off your braids and pretend to be a Korean citizen. No matter which choice you make, I won't blame you, as long as you can survive."
Bo Erhui burst into tears: "Your Majesty!"
Dorgon patted Bolhui on the shoulder and said, "Don't say anything, let's go!"
Bo Erhui wiped his tears, dismounted and kowtowed to Dorgon: "I obey your order."
After Bolhui left, Dorgon rode up to Hong Chengchou and said, "Mr. Hong, you don't really want to fight to the death with the Ming army, do you?"
Hong Chengchou pretended to be embarrassed: "Your Majesty is wise and saw through my plan at a glance."
"Tell me, what do you think?"
"My plan is to have the Emperor take advantage of the chaos to leave here and retreat towards Jeonra Island. There are a lot of ships there, and we can either buy them or rob them. As for whether we can retreat there, it depends on the luck of the Emperor and the Qing Dynasty."
Dorgon understood and said, "I understand."
During the conversation, Li Dingguo led the Ming army to attack.
"Report!" The scout came to Li Dingguo and said, "A cavalry of about a hundred people is fleeing northward with the central army flag."
Li Dingguo blinked his eyes and said, "Send out 500 cavalrymen to chase and kill them! Remember, bring back all their heads for identification."
"yes!"
The herald ordered the troops to be divided.
Li Dingguo continued to lead his troops forward.
The two armies soon encountered each other.
After briefly checking the terrain and the enemy's formation, Li Dingguo drew his sword and pointed it forward: "Ming Jun is mighty, kill!"
Thousands of cavalry rushed to the battlefield together.
The iron hooves stepped on the ground like drumsticks hitting a drum.
The rumbling sound continued.
At that moment the earth began to tremble and the sky began to change color.
The infantry formation at the front, which consisted of some family members, began to become agitated.
Before the fear could spread, the first wave of arrows from the Ming army arrived.
The arrows shot from the cavalry's soft bows drew a perfect parabola in the air and fell into the Jiannu infantry formation.
"Ah!" When the first scream rang out, the infantry formation collapsed.
They only had weapons but no armor.
Being hit by an arrow will either result in death or injury.
Driven by the desire to survive, they screamed and ran away.
Behind them was Suksaha's cavalry formation.
Although there are not many people, they are fully equipped with armor and still have the strength to fight.
In order to prevent the formation from being broken up by the chaotic army, Suksaha had to reluctantly order the arrows to be shot.
The infantry, which was already few in number, were soon killed or wounded.
The Ming cavalry and the Jiannu cavalry encountered each other head-on.
The two sides first fired several rounds of arrows at each other, and then drew their swords to fight.
The sword hit the arm armor, sparks flying.
The blade cut through the armor and blood flowed.
No one retreated and no one surrendered.
Both sides fought for their lives.
When the battle was in full swing, Hong Chengchou came to Dorgon and pointed to the southeast of the battlefield: "Your Majesty, there is a gap there."
Dorgon nodded and rode to Suksaha: "Suksaha, I leave this place to you."
"Ah?" Suksaha was stunned.
After a moment, he understood Dorgon's intention and said, "Don't worry, Your Majesty. I will only die on the battlefield and will never surrender."
Dorgon choked up and said, "Try to stay alive."
Without waiting for Suksaha to answer, Dorgon turned and left.
His central army flag was also left with Suksaha.
In order not to attract the attention of the Ming army, Dorgon first led 300 personal soldiers to retreat from the battlefield.
Then he rushed to the gap in the battlefield in the southeast direction.
Seeing this, the Ming cavalry there quickly formed a formation and tried to stop them.
But these people were all death warriors trained by Dorgon with huge sums of money.
In addition, they did not linger in the battle, but charged directly into the battle.
A hole was instantly torn open in the Ming army's southeastern formation.
Dorgon and his men filed out.
"Report!" The scout came to Li Dingguo immediately: "A group of several hundred Jiannu cavalry broke through our army and fled to the southeast."
Li Dingguo took a look at the battlefield and found that Dorgon's central army flag was still there.
But this little trick could not fool him at all, so he ordered those around him: "It's Dorgon! Don't move the central army flag, the cavalry of the central camp, follow me and chase!"
With the command flag waving, Li Dingguo rode his horse to chase after him.
The remaining Ming cavalry launched a general attack on Suksaha.
"The Sun and Moon Mountains will last forever, and the Ming Dynasty will last forever!"
"The Ming army is mighty!"
"Loyalty and bravery!"
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