After receiving the order from Lu Xiangsheng to return to Yaoziling, the First Army and the Fourth Army of the Imperial Guards immediately gave up their march towards Hetuala and turned around and ran towards Guangning City.

It is not easy to get from the Jurchen tribe in Jianzhou, Liaodong, north of Shenyang to Yaoziling northeast of Guangning City. This distance has reached more than 400 miles. However, considering that the process of sending messages on the road will delay some time, Lu Xiangsheng asked that the two armies must arrive at Yaoziling within three days after receiving the news.

This urgent marching may not be difficult for cavalry. If you run a horse, you can even reach it in advance. However, the First Army and the Fourth Army of the Imperial Guard are both infantry-based troops. If you want to march quickly within three days to reach Yaozi Ridge, you must march quickly for more than four hours a day.

Later generations saw the Red Fourth Army traveling 120 kilometers in one day and night, and it was carried out under heavy rain and mud, which also shows that people have this potential. However, Lu Xiangsheng did not know about this example. He still dared to let the First Army and the Fourth Army of the Imperial Guards quickly arrive at Yaoziling within three days. It can be seen that he had strong confidence in the First Army and the Fourth Army of the Imperial Guards.

In fact, in the Royal Military Academy and the Imperial Guard recruit training, long-distance cross-country has always been the most important training course, and fast long-distance cross-country training is carried out almost every day. Therefore, this rapid marching of hundreds of miles will not pose too much a challenge to the First and Fourth Army of the Imperial Guards.

However, the Imperial Guards have been expanded now, with an army of 30,000 to 40,000 people. The First Army and Fourth Army of the Imperial Guards have a total of about 90,000 people. A large marching of 90,000 people has increased the difficulty in terms of concealment and rapid response, but this is also a kind of training for the Imperial Guards.

Although they knew that there was difficulty here, Chang Yanling and Lu Xiangyu still led their troops to Yaoziling as fast as possible.

Fortunately, Liaodong was drought and rainy at this time, and it was mostly plains. Even though there were many jungles, it was not a problem for the Fourth Army, which was used to shuttle through the tropical rainforest.

The First Army of the Imperial Guards is the most stringent ace in all training, and it has not been shown to be afraid of it.

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Huang Taiji and Dorgon, who were divided and surrounded by the Second Army of the Imperial Guards, were still fighting fiercely with the Imperial Guards.

Huang Taiji was very cunning. He no longer charged, but used the firearm battalion outside and the Eight Banners cavalry inside, using war horses and terrain as bunkers to shoot against the infantry battalion of the Third Army of the Imperial Guards, which relied on chariots as bunkers. At the same time, he sent some firearm battalions to advance rapidly to the hillsides on both sides, trying to cross Yaozi Ridge and get rid of the current dilemma of being divided and surrounded.

On this side, Dorgon sent dead soldiers to entangle the Second Army of the Imperial Guard Cavalry, while he himself divided his main force into several routes to break through from all directions.

This increased the difficulty of the Second Imperial Guard Cavalry Army encircling and suppressing Dorgon's troops, and it was difficult to avoid escape from the Eight Banners Tartars.

However, the Second Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guards was still killing and injuring the enemy as much as possible, not only the Second Cavalry Army, but also the Flying Battalion and Artillery. They were all holding up most of Dorgon's main force as much as possible, so that they could not completely successfully break out.

The war continued until night fell. Except for the sporadic Eight Banners and Tartars who broke out, Dorgon's army still failed to get rid of the entanglement of the Second Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guards.

The current Second Army of the Imperial Guard Cavalry is like a herder who sheds sheep. One horse is a shepherd, the musket in his hand is a whip, the wilderness supported by Yaozi Ridge is their pasture, and the Eight Banners Tartars who were trying to break out are their flocks.

As long as these Eight Banners Tatars stay in their control areas obediently, the herdsmen of the Second Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guards will not do anything to them, but as long as these flocks have the idea of ​​breaking through, they will immediately intercept you and give you a headache. This will not only save physical strength, but also effectively block most of the main forces of the Dorgon's army before the arrival of the First and Fourth Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guards.

Both sides are already very tired and it is worth a temporary truce while the night falls.

However, in order to prevent Dorgon's troops from breaking through at night, the Second Cavalry Army of the Imperial Guards did not dare to take it lightly at night, and they still sent someone to take turns to guard them, and the flight camp would take turns to have a hot air balloon soaring in the night sky and observing the ground dynamics.

Dorgon did want to break through at night, but the Ming army flying soldiers burning with fire in the air and the high-frequency cavalry patrols on the ground made him realize that it was difficult to break through at night, not to mention that the vision was blurred at night, and even if he broke through, he could not find the direction. This was within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and there were also Liaodong border troops such as Zhao Rujiao and Man Gui around.

If you are in the daytime, you may be able to fight with the courage of the Eight Banners soldiers, but it is hard to say at night.

What's more, his army was also very tired at this time, and no one was stubborn, so he simply took this opportunity to rest and regain his energy.

Dorgon even guessed that the imperial guards had not wanted to eat him immediately. He expected that they were waiting for more troops to come, so he simply ordered that everyone would get off the horse and sleep, except for taking turns to guard, and then try their best to break through the next day.

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Huang Taiji was still trapped in the narrow valley in the middle of Yaozi Ridge. Although he had a firearm battalion in his hand, he still could not break through the several lines of defense composed of the chariot battalion.

He originally wanted to climb over the hillside from both sides and break out, but found that there were also imperial guards on both sides ambushing here. If the valley of Yaozi Ridge was not high and Huang Taiji himself also had a firearm battalion, and the number of imperial guards in ambushing was not enough, Huang Taiji's main force would have been completely wiped out.

But Huang Taiji also knew that the longer he dragged on, the greater the danger, so he, like Dorgon, had to continue to make plans to break through with all his strength.

Huang Taiji was very thirsty and tired at this time. He did not expect that he would fall into such a predicament. He thought that his chance to raid the south of the Mo was difficult to see through by the Ming army, but he did not expect that the Ming army had already tied his pockets in the Yaoziling area and trapped him here.

Although when night fell, he had to order the entire army to rest for a while, he still sent a secret cavalry to quietly leave here in the darkness and transfer some of his troops left in Shenyang and Hetuala to support and break the current deadlock. For this reason, he also specially ordered the Firearm Battalion to continue to attack the defense line area formed by the Ming army's chariot battalion in front to achieve the purpose of covering.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng also arrived at a small inn not far from Yaoziling. This inn was one of the first inns built after the Ming Dynasty announced the Political and Envoy Department. Its main function was to use it for the army to transit. Therefore, when Lu Xiangsheng arrived here, he could have a place to stay. Moreover, the First Army and Fourth Army of the Imperial Guards also arrived here at this time. Chang Yanling and Lu Xiangyu met Lu Xiangsheng almost at the same time and were ready for a general attack at any time.
Chapter completed!