. A few pairs of black eyes undoubtedly belong to Gao Jie's scout team. Gao Jie led the team to walk nearly 200 miles with his legs overnight. If it were Jingtian, it would not be difficult for the army to travel 200 miles a day and a night, but if it were not for a strong-willed person, it would be impossible.

After marching two hundred miles, the army was ambushed beside a path that the Qing army must pass, while the scouts above were scattered to find traces of the Qing army's grain transport team. The scouts of this five-man team were only one of the twenty teams.

All the scouts of the Ming army have undergone various lurking training, so it is too easy to hide themselves. The Ming army has been huddling in the camp for the past two months, which makes the Qing army a little careless. They have never thought that the Ming army would really attack.

"How about it, is it really a grain transport team? How many troops do the Tartars have?"

"I don't know, but it doesn't seem to be much."

A few voices muttered, and the entire team leader was more than ten miles away. They were lying on the ground and could only see part of what was passing by in front of them. Naturally, they could not calculate how many troops the Qing army had arrived. However, judging from the density of the Qing army escorted, they felt that there were not many Qing army escorting them.

Ai Xing'a is cautious. For the sake of food security, he would rather not teach the Ming army a lesson than the Ming army seriously. He even suggested that Nikan, who was secretly protecting, would instead escort publicly. In this way, even if the Ming army really wanted to rob the grain, he would give up his mind when he saw that there were many people escorts. Unfortunately, Nikan rejected Ai Xing'a's suggestion on the grounds of the regent's order. Otherwise, the number of people who saw these Ming army scouts would be three times that of now.

However, so what if the three of them are, Gao Jie was idle for five years before he got the opportunity to lead the army. Not to mention that Dorgon only sent 15,000 people to escort, even if the number of people doubled, Gao Jie would not give up the opportunity. At most, he would be more cautious.

A middle-aged man with heavy lifting shook on the road several times, and suddenly fell to the ground. A basket of radish carried on his shoulder rolled and fell into the puddle. The nearby men were shocked. Several people quickly put down their loads. One person helped the middle-aged man who fell to the ground up. Several people carefully helped the basket of radish that was poured into the puddle. Although the basket was covered with oil paper, a lot of white rice leaked out.

Several Ming army scouts in the distance saw it clearly and nodded to each other. After confirming that the team was transporting real food, their mission had been completed. Just as the few were about to slowly retreat, one of them suddenly said in shock and anger: "Dog Tartars are simply inhumane."

It turned out that the middle-aged man on the ground had been dragged by two Qing soldiers to the ditch on the roadside. He directly wiped his neck and kicked his body into the ditch. The rest of the people watching the ground did not react much. It was obviously used to it. Only the middle-aged man fell to the ground just now, and several civilians were excited. However, several Qing soldiers waved the swords in their hands. The men retreated helplessly and took on the burden again. The entire team did not delay. A single life was gone. But nothing seemed to happen.

The civilians did not even have rain gear, and they could not get hot food. They could not sleep for a night. They could only let the rain be in the rain during the day and at night. Although it was summer, they were still sick. From the next day, some civilians fell down suddenly. In response, the Qing army escorted the place to put it in the gouku in the next place. The reason for the repair was that the Qing army was worried that the people deliberately pretended to be sick. The corpses of hundreds of civilians had fallen down along the way.

Although angry, the Ming army scouts were very clear-headed. What they had to do now was to return to report to Gao Jie as soon as possible. Several people crawled back and the last one was responsible for clearing the traces. It took almost an hour for several scouts to climb into a dense forest and stood up from the ground with confidence. Everyone looked at the soil all over their companions and couldn't help but smile.

"Let's go." After saying this, several people quickly disappeared into the forest.

There was a forest about twenty miles away from the Qing army's grain transport team. Five thousand Ming troops were scattered among them. Some of them were taking out the dry food they brought with them and ate them silently in the rain. There were two types of dry food. One was dried meat, and the other was fried with noodle cakes. It was basically the same as the instant noodles in later generations. Everyone brought with them enough dry food for seven days. If there was more, they couldn't bring them.

In other words, the Ming army left the logistics and had only seven days of combat time. This combat time was enough for sneak attacks. If the opportunity for sneak attacks could not be found in seven days, the Qing army's land, food and grass had been transported to the camp.

Five black shadows entered the mountains and were immediately stopped: "."

"Wild boar skin, return to order."

"The old slave is dead."

"Who is coming?"

"The 12th Team of the C-character character "

"Get in."

After saying that, the person who blocked the entrance just now gave way, and five black shadows passed by calmly. After a while, they were brought to Gao Jie's side. The 12th Squad of C characters moved forward to the hillside that was only hundreds of steps away from the grain transport team to observe the Qing army. The Chief of the Squad Gao Peng, a veteran who had been following Gao Jie for six years, at this moment, Gao Peng refused to be excited and said: "Report to the Grand Commander."

I have already checked~ Zidi grain transport team, they are just twenty miles away."

"Twenty miles." Gao Jie hurriedly took out a map to check it out. Gao Peng pointed to the map: "Master, here is here, there is a small village five miles away from here. I guess the Tartars' grain transport team could not pass through this village, so they must camp here tonight."

"Yes." Gao Jie nodded: "You can be sure that the Tartars are food and grass, not fake things."

"When I returned to the commander-in-chief, I saw the food and grass falling out with my own eyes. It was indeed a grain transport team of the Tartars. There were not many escorts from the Tartars, and I could only estimate that there were about five or six thousand people.

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"Very good, thank you for your hard work, go down and rest first."

"Yes, the Grand Marshal." Gao Peng saluted and took the four of them down. After seeing a few people down, Gao Jie couldn't help but praise: "The emperor is wise. I didn't expect that any of my fellow men under Gao Jie could do the scouts so carefully."

Li Yuanyin, Chen Jia and other deputy generals all laughed. When the emperor used to promote literacy education in the army, they did not understand. However, after they found that after the soldiers were able to learn to literate, they could achieve twice the result with half the effort. They sincerely admired the emperor's policies.

Shortly after Gao Peng's team returned, many scouts came back one after another, confirming that what Gao Peng said was nothing. Gao Jie took a heavy shot on the map: "Fight!"

The fight is certain, but the fighting style is different. One is to fight tomorrow during the day, and the other is to fight at night. The daytime has the benefits of fighting during the day. The official road ahead is the only way for the Qing army. As long as the Ming army guards here, they can wait for the Qing army to fall into the trap. However, the Ming army had to march fifteen miles in the dark. The distance of fifteen miles was completely fine for the Ming army. Even at night, one and a half hours were enough. The problem was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and us in the dark, and it was easy to be injured by accident.

"Master, will you fight tonight or tomorrow?"

"Tonight, our army prepares three sets of mouths and distinguishes the enemy and us at night with command."

"yes!"

There was lightning and thunder in the sky, and it was raining in a short while. The Qing army's grain transport team had already stopped moving forward. As expected, they camped in the small village not far from the official road. There were only more than fifty families in this village, and the villagers were all driven out of their homes by the Qing army. Except for the officers occupying half of the houses, the remaining half of the houses were squeezed into at least hundreds of people, but some Qing soldiers still had to live in tents.

Although there is a house and a bunch, because of the limited firewood, the Qing army dismantled all the owner's tables, chairs and other items as firewood, and could only guarantee one to one bowl of hot soup, and then took a few bites with the slices of meat that were collected in person, even if the dinner was settled.

As for the civilians, they didn't even have a tent, so they could only use oil paper to cushion under the carriage, and hike under the carriage to hide from the rain, and get warmed up next to each other. The bottom of the carriage was narrow and there were many people. Most people could only let their heads and upper bodies not be exposed to rain, and their entire thighs were placed outside, allowing the rain to hit their legs to cause pain.

Ai Xinga and himself Goshha moved into the largest house. He drank broth at night and drank a few sips of wine. The meat was fresh and fresh chicken. Ai Xinga was already very satisfied with being able to drink delicious chicken soup in such an environment. But for some reason, he always felt a terrified feeling tonight, as if something was about to happen.

If something happens, the most likely thing is that the Ming army robbed food. On such a rainy day, even if there are sentries, it is difficult to find the enemy approaching in the distance. He couldn't help but call his own Goshha to convey the order, strengthen the alert tonight, twice the amount of wandering sentry.

This order made many Qing soldiers complain. After all, it was very hard to do a wardrobe in such weather, but the order could not be changed. The Qing army, who received the order, had to come out of the tent reluctantly. After arranging twice the wardrobe, Aixinga finally put down a little, blew out the candles in the room, and started to rest.

The rustling sound was heard, making it difficult to tell whether it was the sound of wind or the sound of rain hitting the ground. On the official road, two Qing soldiers opened their eyes wide and stared at the front. However, there was no moon or bonfire at night. No matter how big the eyes were, they could not see anything ten steps away. Within ten steps, they could only see a blurred shadow.

"Bang." A sound of a broken skill came, and the Qing army was shocked. One person couldn't help but shout, "Who?"

His shout did not echo, and another wandering whistle couldn't help but say, "Forget it, it might be the wind."

When I heard my companion, I still felt a little suspicious about the whistle I had just passed by and took a look."

Another wandering siege saw his companion set off and had to follow him. But as soon as he arrived at the place where the dead branches broke and found the sound, the two felt a cold wind blowing at the same time. Before they could react, the two throats hurt, and two daggers hit their throats respectively.

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Chapter completed!