The Ming army made quite smooth progress. The Mongolian Eight Banners, which were suddenly attacked, were dazzled from the beginning. The Ming army not only had a huge advantage in familiarizing the terrain, but also had a three-to-one military advantage, especially in various key locations, the attacking party's advantage over the defenders was more than ten to one.

"What lessons can we learn from this battle?" After the battle began, victories were heard frequently on all fronts. After learning that the Ming army had controlled the periphery of the camp and Shunzhi had not yet begun to break through, Deng Ming joked to Ren Tang beside him: "No matter how busy we are in the future, our army will have to build its own camp."

The Eight Thousand Ming Army had already formed an encirclement on the outside of the camp, and subsequent auxiliary soldiers were also coming, but the auxiliary soldiers would not be of great help to the combat troops in the dark. Ren Tang suggested to Deng Ming: "Let the troops move into defense. We don't need to attack the Tatar Chief immediately. If we attack again after dawn, the casualties will be much smaller. If our army's casualties are too great, the governors and governors in Jiangnan might have other thoughts, and they might take the initiative to attack our army to invite favor from the captive court."

"Major Ren said it well." In Deng Ming's original plan, the Ming army would launch continuous attacks until Shunzhi was killed. However, the premise of implementing this plan was that Shunzhi tried to break through, so that the Ming army would attack the emperor's imperial guards and the central army camp, restrain the forces of the breakout Qing army, and at the same time subdue and resist as soon as possible, so that the situation would be simple and clear to prevent Shunzhi from escaping.

Since the Qing army now adopted a relatively conservative tactic, Deng Ming also tended to take steady steps in order to reduce the damage to the Ming army. Several governors and governors in Jiangnan were just working with the Ming army, and were enemies rather than allies. The only thing that could prevent them from attacking the Ming army was the gap in strength, and Deng Ming was very clear about this.

When the Ming army entered the defense, Shunzhi felt that the pressure was reduced, and the rebels did not continue to attack the imperial camp, giving the imperial guards time to deploy calmly.

"Just hold on until dawn." Many officers from the imperial camp loudly boosted their morale and cheered the imperial guards who had been in battle for the first time: "Once dawn comes, a large number of reinforcements will come to protect the enemy!"

Until now, Shunzhi's personal guards still believed that this was a rebellion of the Green Camp. Although they didn't know who incited the rebellion, they all believed that the rebels could not completely control the army. Some officers also believed that some rebels might be deceived at this time and did not know that they were attacking the imperial camp. As long as they wait until dawn, they erected the imperial flag of Shunzhi high, and announced that they would not blame the past and reward the officers and soldiers who turned against each other for their merits, they could shake the morale and fighting will of the rebels.

After the three thousand Mongolian Eight Banners on the periphery were defeated, some people moved closer to the imperial camp. The imperial guards who had already climbed the camp wall and began to defend the defense shot at them without hesitation, preventing anyone from approaching the imperial camp wall.

"Don't get close, otherwise it will be considered a rebellion." The officer of the Imperial Guard shouted at the defeated soldiers on the wall: "If you are the emperor's officers and soldiers, turn around and look out to defend the camp for the emperor to prove your identity."

Under the ruthless attack of the Imperial Guards, the dispersed Eight Banners had to stop and turn to the periphery, becoming the first line of defense outside the wall of the imperial camp. Fortunately, the Ming army did not follow and pursue, and these people were not subject to continuous attacks. The chaos was controlled to a certain extent and no longer shouted and continued to rush towards the imperial camp.

"Emperor," an imperial officer came over to report the good news to Shunzhi: "The imperial officer is very cautious and the rebels cannot take advantage of the situation."

"Okay." Shunzhi's mood also relaxed a little at this time, and the shouts of killing around him were much smaller than before. In his opinion, this was a sign that the situation continued to improve.

Even the Eight Banners officers with combat experience were mostly happy because the situation became calm. In their opinion, the enemy did not mingle with the chaos army and attacked the imperial camp together. This was a huge mistake made by the chaos party. But it was no wonder, after all, in the darkness, the chaos party could not detect the position of the imperial camp in a short time; in the moment of chaos, even the capable commander could not control the entire army and launched a coordinated offensive.

Only a very few people were a little uneasy. Under normal circumstances, the rebels would definitely launch an attack on the imperial camp as soon as possible, because the emperor's accumulated power had a great impact on the soldiers. If the imperial camp could not be annihilated as soon as possible, the situation would easily reverse.

"Are the rebels sure that there will be no royal army around?" One person couldn't help but think of this, but he did not dare to say it out loud.

Another officer was also unsure. It was normal for the rebels to not organize well enough, but the best way for the rebel leader to solve this problem is to attack the imperial camp to create a fait accompli, rather than stopping to rectify the troops in the dark. Of course, this may also be a major mistake made by the unidentified rebel commander. But based on the principle of leniently predicting the enemy, the officer of the imperial camp was even more worried that the rebel commander would have other plans - a conspiracy he could not imagine yet.

"Emperor," several former imperial officers with such concerns made suggestions to Shunzhi one after another, proposing to send envoys for help, asking Gaoyou and Yangzhou to send troops to serve the king. These envoys sent out could also gather every Qing army they encountered on the road and let them come to defend the emperor. An former imperial officer recalled the geography around the camp and said to Shunzhi: "I dared to ask the emperor to ask the slave to break through the camp. There were gaps between the camps outside. The rebels came in taking advantage of the darkness and were busy attacking several camps around. Now there should be gaps everywhere. The slave breaks through now, and can bring the Gaoyou king army back after dawn."

"Go." Shunzhi thought about it and agreed to the request of these officers.

"Zhe." The officers of the Imperial Guards who were ordered in the face of danger left without hesitation, and each ordered a few subordinates with excellent riding skills. After carefully explaining the task, these envoys who went to find reinforcements came to the gate of the camp. Under the nervous gaze of countless Imperial Guards, the gate of the camp was opened, allowing these people to leave the camp at full speed. When the gate of the camp was closed again behind, the officers of the Imperial Guards had already rushed away separately, shouting and dispersing the surrounding Mongolian Eight Banners, and running towards the night.

The leader who went to Gaoyou rode his horse and carefully recalled the geography around the imperial camp. He had developed many habits for more than 20 years of military service. When he set up camp this evening, many colleagues were busy going to have dinner, but the officer meticulously stepped on the entire imperial camp. He had a general idea of ​​the arrangement of various camps, trenches and deer antlers.

At this moment, Zuo tied his men and his men circled in two circles to avoid places with fire and voices. The camp gates and central tents of the outer camps are definitely the places that attract the most attention of the rebels, but the gap between the camp is easily overlooked.

In the dark night in the deep winter, people can hardly see anything ten feet away. Zuo Ling took the lead and led the way. The guards would not fall behind only after following him. However, such night was also a good cover for the breakers. More than a dozen cavalrymen would not make a big noise and would not attract the attention of the rebels.

"It's here." Zuoling murmured in his heart. He roughly remembered that there was an empty flat ground ahead, with no trenches and antlers. It was also far from the camps on both sides, and it was not close to important targets such as camp gates. As long as you rush over, you can set foot on the avenue to Gaoyou County.

The horse speed has been raised to the highest level. Even if there are rebel soldiers nearby, they have no time to stop them, let alone call on the rebels around to intercept them. By the time they arrived, the dozen or so cavalry had already rushed through the danger. At this time, Zuoling couldn't help but begin to be grateful for his military life for many years. It was precisely because of these rich experiences that he still seriously stepped on the terrain during his seemingly touristy march today, which helped him a lot at the critical moment.

Suddenly, the mount under his crotch seemed to have lost balance. With the long neighing sound of the war horse, Zuo Ling couldn't help but fly forward and pounced on the dark earth ahead.

He hit the hard and cold ground, and Zuo Ling collapsed on the ground and could not move, and the bones all over his body seemed to have been loosened. There were continuous screams and horse neighing from behind, and more than a dozen cavalrymen following him were already overturned.

"Does the triple horse?" Zuling shook his swollen head, and was shocked: "The rebels actually noticed this gap and still have the energy to deploy the triple horse!"

There were clanging sounds of armor rubbing and rapid footsteps coming from all around. Zuo Ling raised Yu Yong, jumped up from the ground, pulled out his waist and rushed forward. He knew that he would definitely not be able to delay this time, and he could not care about his subordinates. He only hoped that the enemy's troops would be limited and that his subordinates could also gain some time to give him the opportunity to run out to complete the task.

A fire suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, and Zuoling knew that it was the enemy who was igniting the fire.

"Run quickly, a torch will light up soon, and there may be some more." Zuoling ran forward despite the pain in his body.

But beyond Zuoling's expectations, a large ball of fire suddenly appeared, illuminating the surroundings all at once.

"This is..." Zuoleng looked at the bright light and found that there was a big push of straw there, which might have oil poured on it, burning wildly.

Before Zuo Ling reacted, several bonfires were lit around, illuminating more than a dozen Qing troops without a place to hide. In the fire, Zuo Ling saw that there were densely packed enemy soldiers in front of him, and the number was too large to count...

"I knew someone would come." After killing all the dozen Qing soldiers, Wu Yuewang first made sure that no one was missing, and then commanded the subordinates to re-arrange the tripping horses, and led the captured war horses to the rear, and slaughtered the injured war horses on the spot. A large number of Ming soldiers wiped the blood on their weapons and retreated back to their defense line of horse resistance. If Zuo Ling saw this defense line, he would be even more desperate, because even if the one who came just now was not a dozen Qing soldiers but more people, he could not rush over the Ming army's fortifications.
Chapter completed!