Let’s talk about the Ming army in Songshan Camp, which was already in chaos at this time.

Shortly after Wang Pu led his army to leave the camp, General Tang Tong of Miyun did not do as Wu Sangui expected, and first led his army to retreat towards Ningyuan.

Wu Sangui, Ma Ke and Wang Tingchen, who were slept with the news, and they all pulled their camps to retreat. The General of Xuanfu, Li Fuming, and Deputy General of Datong, Zhao Wuzhu, were not willing to fall behind and retreated. The General of the Six Towns retreated at the same time, and suddenly retreated. The soldiers of the Ming army were not prepared enough for this, and in a hurry, a large-scale riot was triggered.

When the news reached Hong Chengchou's Governor's headquarters, everything was too late.

The Qing army was prepared for this. After receiving the news that the Ming army had retreated overnight, the slave chief Huang Taiji made a quick decision to order Dorgon to lead the army to chase and kill him. He personally led the Eight Banners army to surround Songshan City. In this way, Hong Chengchou could not leave Songshan City and could not stop the retreat of the generals of the six towns, and he lost the last chance to turn the situation around.

The retreating Ming army was defeated as if the army was chased by Dorgon, and trampled on each other and died countless people. On the way to escape, they encountered layers of obstruction by the Qing ambush soldiers. In the end, more than 50,000 people were killed, and countless people were rushed into the sea to drown. Wu Sangui and Tang Tong were only spared, while the Qing army only suffered a few hundred casualties.

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Low-lying land.

Xiaoqi approached Wang Pu and asked excitedly: "General, the Jiannu camp is almost empty. Should I kick the camp now?"

Xiaoqi didn't know Wang Pu's intention to use troops, and thought he was going to take advantage of the situation to attack the Qing army camp.

"Kick the camp?" Wang Pu shook his head and said in a deep voice, "No, our purpose is not to kick the camp."

Xiaoqi said in surprise: "What is that for?"

Wang Pu did not answer and shouted in a deep voice: "I ordered the entire army to lead the horse and walk around from the side of Jiannu camp, so that the brothers must not make too loud noises or get separated!"

"General, don't worry."

Xiaoqi took the order and left.

In less than a moment, the servants lurking in the low-lying land walked out in a column with war horses. The soldiers behind held the ponytails of the soldiers in front to avoid getting lost. Under the dark night sky, this army of servants with more than a thousand cavalry was like a group of ghosts from hell, quietly circling from the side of the Qing army camp.

At this time, the Qing army had already come out in full swing, and all the troops that could be sent out had been sent to the front line, leaving only a few elderly, weak, sick and disabled guarding the camp. In addition, more than 100,000 main forces of the Ming army had been defeated on the entire front, so the Qing army did not send detective police around the camp at all. They had never expected that a small group of Ming troops would go around them.

In fact, only Wang Pu, a time traveler, made this crazy decision: to go to the Qing army to sneak attack Shengjing.

Until he walked out for more than ten miles, the Qing army camp had been left far behind. Wang Pu ordered Xiaoqi to set up a torch to lead the way, and then ordered his servants to board the horse, sweeping towards the east like a wind storm.

At dawn, Wang Pu led his army to the banks of the Daling River to order a rest on the spot, and asked Xiaoqi to find the big bearded man and Scarface. Both the big bearded man and Scarface were from bandits, with high martial arts skills and a fierce nature. Two years ago, Wang Pu led his troops to suppress their bandit nest, and the two turned into Wang Pu's confidant family generals.

Although Wang Pu was greedy for life and fear of death, he also knew how to win people's hearts. He brought the old mother and wife of the big beard and scarfaced to Datong for kindness. The big beard and scarfaced were grateful for their kindness. In the past two years, he made some contributions with Wang Pu's background and died. It can be regarded as loyal. The two of them have been promoted to the top 1000 members of the general manager and are responsible for commanding Wang Pu.

"General."

"General."

The bearded man and Scarface soon followed Xiaoqi to Wang Pu and greeted him with fists.

"Yes." Wang Pu nodded and said in a deep voice, "I asked Xiaoqi to find you, I just want to tell you one thing. This time we are going to attack Shengjing."

"Ah? Attack Shengjing!?" Xiao Qida was surprised, "That is Jiannu's lair!"

"There must be heavy troops in Jiannu's nest." The bearded man was also surprised, "How can we do just over a thousand people?"

The three of them looked at each other, with incredible expressions on their faces, thinking that either the general was crazy or the ears were wrong.

"You heard it right." Wang Pu said coldly, "We are going to attack Shengjing and stab Jiannu in the heart with one knife!"

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Of course, Wang Pu did not make the brain hot, but made a decision after careful consideration!

The surprise attack on Shengjing seemed crazy, but it was still possible to succeed. Of course, if you could choose, Wang Pu didn't want to take this risk. It was just that the cruel reality forced him to take risks and survive in death.

Based on Wang Pu's understanding of Ming history, at this time, the Qing Dynasty slave chief Huang Taiji had conquered Mongolia, North Korea and the natives in the Heilongjiang River Basin. The Qing Dynasty's apparent ruling territory had stretched for thousands of miles, with a population of more than one million. It seemed that it had enough strength to destroy the Ming Empire, but in fact it was not. This was just an illusion on the surface.

An unconcealed fact is that the Qing Dynasty’s family’s foundation was too thin!

During the reign of Nurhaci, the Jurchens in the entire Liaodong were only a few hundred thousand. During the reign of Huang Taiji, a large number of Han people, Mongols and Koreans were integrated into the Jurchens, collectively known as Manchurians, which made the population of Manchurians reach 300,000! It should be noted here that there were more than 2 million Han people in the Liaodong area, but during the decades when Nurhaci ruled Liaodong, these more than 2 million Han people were slaughtered, and in the end, only tens of thousands of Han people were left were incorporated into the Eight Banners by Huang Taiji and became Manchurians. In fact, they were still the banner slaves of the Jurchens.

[In history books, Nurhaci, how great Huang Taiji and his son are, they have determined the national policy of equality between Manchu and Han from the beginning. This is simply nonsense. In fact, Nurhaci only wanted to guard Changbai Mountain as a tribal leader, while Huang Taiji only wanted to guard Liaodong as a monarch. The two never thought of entering the Central Plains, nor had they treated the Han people well.

To give the most typical example, Fan Wencheng, a traitor who strongly encouraged Dorgon to lead Qing troops into the pass (this guy claimed to be a descendant of Fan Zhongyan), was almost arrested and beheaded during the reign of Nurhaci. During the reign of Huang Taiji, he was only an insignificant minor official. It was not until Dorgon came to power and became the regent that this guy was truly valued. It was precisely because of the strong instigation of the traitors headed by Fan Wencheng that Dorgon decided to lead Qing troops into the pass and took a big step that Nurhaci, Huang Taiji and his son did not dare to imagine.]

Let’s get back to the point. Since the Manchus continued to fight against foreign countries and consumed a large number of males, the maximum number of males was about 100,000 in the population of 300,000. If these 100,000 males were subtracted from underage children and elderly people, the maximum number of adult and strong men who could actually go to the battlefield was only 60,000! If it weren’t for Nurhaci’s creation of the Eight Banners system and putting the potential of the Jurchens’ war to the limit, with such a thin population base, the Jurchens would not have been able to unify Liaodong, let alone enter the Central Plains.

Until Dorgon led the Qing army into the pass, the total population of the Qing Dynasty did not exceed 300,000 [excluding the hundreds of thousands of Han slaves captured by the Qing army six times, the status of these Han slaves was lower than the tens of thousands of Han people left in the Nurhaci period, and they did not even have the qualification to become flag slaves]. The total strength of the Eight Banners Army has always remained at around 60,000. Even if the Eight Banners of the Han Army (mainly Geng Zhongming, Shang Kexi, and Ming army led by Kong Youde) and the Eight Banners of the Mongolian Dynasty, the total strength of the Qing Dynasty was only about 100,000, and at most it would not exceed 120,000.

This is not difficult to understand. The Jurchens had a strong mentality of preventing the Han and Mongols, and it was impossible to make the total number of troops of the Han army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia exceed that of the Eight Banners of the Jurchens.

Due to the limitation of population and military strength, several decisive battles between the Jurchens and the Ming Empire, such as the Battle of Sarhu, the two Ningyuan battles and the later Songshan battles, were all in full swing, especially the Battle of Songshan. The Qing army was not good at the initial battle, and Huang Taiji even recruited all males over thirteen years old and under 60 years old in the "Manchukuo Kingdom".

Of course, the elderly and children will not go to the battlefield, and their mission is to replace the adult males to guard the rear.

In other words, Shengjing, the old nest in the rear of the Qing Dynasty, is now just a group of elderly people and children stationed, and the number is only three to five thousand people. This is indeed an opportunity, at least worth trying. Of course, Wang Pu can also not attack Shengjing, flee directly to North Korea and then return to Dengzhou by sea. However, after Wang Pu returns to Dengzhou, he will be arrested and imprisoned, and then taken to the capital like Wang Pu in history.
Chapter completed!