Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 555
The half moon is in the sky, the stars are dotted, the night wind blows, the leaves rustle, and the shadows of the trees under the moonlight move with the wind, looking like ghosts in the night.

In the eyes of Wu Bing, the mountains and forests in the distance became terrifying existences, and tens of thousands of people walked away in fear.

They couldn't help but not be afraid, and slipped away from the more than [-] Ming troops. If a group of troops suddenly appeared in the dark, they would be unable to resist at all, and they would definitely be thrown into the wilderness.

Guan Ningjun is like a lamb surrounded by wolves in a sheepfold. There was still a sheepfold to resist, but now he has left the sheepfold to move, but he may be discovered by the wolves at any time. Naturally, he has no sense of security in his heart. .

At this time, several scouts hurried over, and they all clasped their fists and reported: "My lord, there is nothing unusual ahead."

"My lord, the Ming army hasn't come after me for the time being."

After hearing this, Wu Sangui and all the generals breathed a sigh of relief. Hu Guozhu thought that Xia Guoxiang, who was trapped in the Ming camp, would surely end up in a tragic death if he was left like this. The military revealed our actions."

Judging from the current situation, the Ming army did not move at all. Wu Sangui also felt that maybe Xia Guoxiang was still thinking hard about how to get out of the predicament, waiting for him to find a way to get him out of Wang Yan, but who would have thought that he would not care about it at all, and instead came out. He acted in advance because of precautions, and directly abandoned him.

This is indeed a little unkind. Wu Sangui looked at the generals, worried that they would think he was too cold, so he pretended to be sad and said to the generals: "The Prime Minister of the country is my king's brother. He sacrificed a lot for Guan Ning. From now on, all of you Be kind to his family."

The most important thing right now is to be able to escape. The generals expressed their grief in cooperation, and the more than [-] Guan Ning troops continued to march forward in the night.

Although the scouts found no abnormalities, Wu Sangui was still cautious when marching. After all, in the dark night, the scope of scouts' detection is limited, and loopholes are very easy to appear. In order to ensure safety, he can only increase the number of scouts and use them to make up for possible mistakes. , To ensure that the Guan Ning army can withdraw smoothly.

In the dark night, tens of thousands of horses could lead to chaos. Although Wu Sangui wanted to move forward as soon as possible, he couldn't go fast at night. The army didn't dare to raise fire, and the roads were difficult to walk, so he didn't even dare to ride horses. If the army is forced to march, I don't know how many people will be left behind in the dark, and once they meet the Ming army, the army can only fall into chaos.

In order to keep the army organized at night, although Wu Sangui was anxious and hoped that he could sneak into the mountains before dawn, so that the Ming army could not catch up, but he didn't dare to march in a hurry and make the team chaotic, so the army went out of the city for an hour , less than seven miles away.

Wu Sangui reined in the reins, and looked at the Guan Ning army who was marching with their heads buried in the road. In the darkness, he didn't know where the forward had gone, and he couldn't see how long the team behind him was.

He was a little worried in his heart, and ordered: "Let the scouts go to the back to look again, and report immediately if there is any situation."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a large area of ​​torches suddenly appearing in the darkness behind him. The light of the flames fluctuated up and down, tens of thousands of them, like an ocean of stars. Wu Sangui's scalp was about to explode. Here we come.

At this time, he absolutely didn't want to be entangled by the Ming army, and suddenly shouted anxiously, "Light the torch, let's go!"

After speaking, he held the horse's belly and advanced quickly, and Guan Ningjun was also very frightened by the torch behind him. Some people hurriedly praised the horse, but the horse didn't run, either hit a tree or fell into a ditch.

All of a sudden, the horses neighed and the people screamed. The Guan Ning army walking behind immediately panicked, and there was a mess on the road. Some Qing soldiers also lit torches after hearing the order to illuminate the road, and pushed forward desperately.

On the side of the Ming army, 3 people went out to chase after them. They rushed all the way, and half of them fell behind. There were torches all over the mountains and plains. Then you can find the direction and gather towards the main force.

The formation of each battalion of the Ming army basically ran away, but it didn't matter, you could see a few people around at night, Wu Shangui had 5000 people, stretched several miles, and he couldn't organize tens of thousands of people to fight at night with fire.

The Ming army shouted to kill and raised fire to chase them down. From time to time, the Guan Ning army who had fallen behind was caught up and killed directly. Although the Qing army also had torches, their number was less. They originally planned to slip away. They didn't think about lighting the fire, they couldn't see the road clearly, and the natural speed was not fast, so the distance was gradually shortened.

In the darkness, the shouts were overwhelming, and Wu Sangui couldn't tell if the Guan Ning army behind him was engaged in battle with the Ming army who was chasing after him. He only said that if the Ming army kept chasing him like this, his men and horses would be killed by the Ming army one by one. eat up.

"Wu Guozheng, stay here to stop the enemy!" At this moment, Wu Sangui knew that the other generals might not be reliable, so he could only let his adopted son die for him.

"Father, don't worry." Wu Guozheng saluted immediately, led more than a dozen soldiers, and then walked back. He greeted the troops while walking, and disappeared into the night after a while.

Wu Sangui felt a burst of emotion in his heart. At critical moments, the traditional relationship between father and son, teacher and student is more secure.

At this time, the tail of Guan Ning's army had already been bitten by the Ming army. There is no doubt that he will die in the back, and only by running faster can he escape from Ascension.

Wang Shixiu led 1 horses out of the camp. At this time, the troops he could command were the forty or fifty cavalry around him. The knights held a spear in one hand and a torch in the other. The speed was not fast. , did not love to fight, but continued to rush forward, trying to disrupt the Qing soldiers.

"Shoot the arrow!" In the darkness, a voice suddenly yelled from the side of the road.

Nearly a hundred sharp arrows soared into the sky and shot at the cavalry like a cloud of migratory locusts. The Ming army was unprepared, and several cavalrymen were shot off their horses in an instant. Throw it in the direction the arrow came from.

The torch fell to the ground, revealing the silhouettes of forty or fifty Qing soldiers. Before them, more than a dozen corpses fell on the ground. It was obvious that several Ming troops had ambushed before.

The unorganized Ming army rushed forward, and there were also problems. Once they encountered the established Qing soldiers, they had no way of attacking them. However, this pair of Qing soldiers met Wang Shixiu and his personal soldiers by accident.

As soon as the torch was lost, the Qing soldiers had no choice but to shoot blindly. At this time, they saw a long spear flying out of the darkness, and directly inserted it into the bowed Qing soldiers, pinning a Qing soldier to death on the ground. The burning torches on the ground rushed to the Qing army, and Changlong assassinated them.

On the road, the Qing army and the Ming army were in disarray as well. This organized Qing army was led by Wu Sangui's subordinate Guo Yunlong, and immediately fought with Wang Shixiu, and it was hard to tell the winner.

At this time, another torch came from behind. Seeing this, Guo Yunlong knew that he was not an opponent, so he hurriedly left. There were only a dozen of the 50 people left, and they ran away desperately. There were a hundred arrows shooting at random, Guo Yunlong and his party were completely unprepared, and they were all brought down immediately.

Immediately, a few Qing soldiers rushed out of the woods, holding knives and torches, and took a photo of them, as if they were dead mothers, they turned around and shouted: "General, mother's shot was wrong, it's my own."

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