1395 Qing army came to help
The situation on Xiaoling River is now very different! The three pontoon bridges have been distinguished. The pontoon bridge on the left is exclusively for infantry passage, the pontoon bridge on the right is exclusively for cavalry passage, and the pontoon bridge in the middle is exclusively for supplies and artillery. Moreover, the fourth and fifth pontoon bridges are being built. It won’t take long before eight pontoon bridges on the river are available for the army to use.
Moreover, even the sailors on the gunboats put down their boats and crossed the river back and forth to assist in transporting soldiers. Although the entire river stall was filled with people shouting and neighing, they were in order.
The first batch of rangers crossing the river have already spread out. They have to quickly grasp the situation within a radius of more than ten miles. Then the cavalry will guide the army directly to the north to attack Yizhou! Anyway, Daling River Fort is already in the encirclement, so it is normal to deal with them later.
Soon, the rangers fed back the information, saying that a temporary cavalry camp of the Qing army was found along the coast. There were a large number of cavalry retreating.
Liu Pei understood that this camp was the cavalry camp where the Qing army placed by the river and patrolled the river bank. He immediately said: "Immediately send a large group of cavalry to search along the river, and there will be at least two such camps."
When the rangers led the brigade of cavalry to arrive, the Qing army had all retreated. So they continued to search along the river and soon found a second camp! Similarly, the Qing army had already packed up and evacuated.
After getting the reward, Liu Pei stroked his finger on the map and said, "Calling the area that the cavalry searched repeatedly, and driving all the Qing troops back to Yizhou and Dalinghe Fort!"
Qi Qitao said: "It will take some time for the brigade of infantry to assemble, but the vanguard should be close to Yizhou. I just don't know how long our news will be blocked?"
Liu Pei said: "It won't be blocked for long, at most one day! So our movements need to be accelerated."
Qi Qitao said: "But Daling River should have been blocked by our gunboats at this time, so it should be difficult for them to spread the news?"
Liu Pei said: "They can smuggle at night! If there is really no boat, you can find a few good water quality to swim."
Qi Qitao smacked his lips and said, "I forgot about this! I can't swim, but I forgot that someone will have water!
Now, I will urge the construction of the floating bridge.”
In fact, the Qing army had more than one way to report the news! When they found that the Daling River was cut off by the Ming army, they immediately arranged several teams of cavalry to set out upstream along the Daling River, trying to bypass the Daling River and send the news to the north bank. At the same time, a group of people with good water quality were recruited to prepare for the smuggling of the Great Union at night.
These people were well prepared! Although there were no boats, they built rafts as tools for crossing the river. They also had good water properties and tied a few wooden boards on their bodies and planned to swim over.
In fact, the smuggling that night was indeed successful! After all, a river as long as the Daling River cannot be completely blocked by dozens of inland gunboats. Small groups of people cannot stop them at all!
These people took advantage of the patrol gunboats' departure and quickly smuggled across the river and prepared to report to Guangning. Because Dorgon's camp was in Guangning.
However, the dozen people who smuggled across the river had no horses, so they could only walk to Youtun. After getting the horses in Youtun, they rushed to Guangning.
By the time they arrived in Guangning, it was already noon the next day. Dorgon was enjoying lunch. When he was putting a deer tendon in his mouth and chewing it, a series of rapid footsteps suddenly came outside.
Dorgon knew that there must be an emergency military situation. As soon as he put down his chopsticks, he heard the personal soldiers outside the door shouting: "Prince, people are coming from Dalinghe Fort! They said that the army's navy blocked the Dalinghe River! We have now lost contact with the opposite side of the river!"
When Dorgon heard "Teng", he stood up and walked over and opened the curtain and said, "Where is the person who reported the news?"
The personal soldiers said: "They were placed in the main hall."
Dorgon didn't care about talking to his personal soldiers and walked quickly towards the main hall. When he walked into the main hall, there were indeed more than a dozen people in the main hall. These dozen people were all wearing single clothes, covered in mud, and were so dirty that they didn't look good! Fortunately, they were smart, and knew that they would have to hurry up after they got ashore, and they also knew that they would carry boots. Otherwise, their appearance would be even more miserable.
These more than a dozen people immediately bowed to the ground when they saw Dorgon coming out. Before they could speak, Dorgon shouted sternly: "What's going on? Are there any letters?"
The one in the lead
The man immediately took off the small bag on his chest and took out a letter that he had sealed with oil paper from it. The personal soldiers took it and picked it up and handed it over to Dorgon.
Before Dorgon could finish reading the letter, his cold sweat had already flowed out! He had already understood Liu Pei's idea! That was to use natural rivers to divide his army, and then gather and annihilate it! But when did Liu Pei have such a powerful naval army?
At this time, Dorgon suddenly remembered that the Ming soldiers who were rampant in Liaodong some time ago should have been sent by this navy. Fortunately, he felt that the other party was from North Korea at first.
However, at this time Dorgon no longer cares about recalling the past. He shouted these dozen people, questioned them repeatedly before letting them go down. Then he rectified the army and headed straight to the direction of Dalinghe Fort.
He also sent enough craftsmen and supplies to the vanguard army, hoping that they could find a way to repel the Ming army's navy and build a floating bridge again.
But bad news kept coming when he was marching in the central army. First of all, their vanguards could not drive away the gunboats on the river. Instead, because they were too close to the river, they were taught a lesson by these gunboats with cannons!
Then they organized the rockets to be fired, and there were still heavy casualties! They organized people to log wood across the river, but the raft was directly knocked over by the gunboat and drowned countless times! They even used the stupid way of throwing wood from the upstream to hit the gunboat, but they still couldn't do anything to the gunboat in the middle of the river!
After all, it is the end of summer and the river is at its peak. These gunboats patrol back and forth in the river, and they are simply invincible existences!
When Dorgon arrived at Daling River, it was already evening. In the night sky, he could see the Daling River Fort across the river at a glance. But more of the ones that fell in Dorgon were the Ming Navy patrolling back and forth in the center of the river!
The scene in front of him made Dorgon die, but he didn't dare to approach the river bank. Because the cannons on the river were not vegetarians!
Chapter completed!