About seven or eight days later, a large group of cavalrymen were approaching Dezhou City invisible. The horse's hooves brought a lot of dust, covering the sky and the sun! Until they turned a corner and their speed dropped slightly, it could be seen from the cotton armor they wore that this team was the cavalry of the Qing army!

The reason why the Qing army slowed down was because the scouts in front were approaching. When the scouts approached the front part of the team, he quickly found the highest commander of the army, Dorgon, under the banner!

The scout dismounted and saluted. Before he could completely lower his body, Dorgon said, "Okay, there is no need to salute on the battlefield! Tell me, what is going on in Dezhou City ahead?"

The scout bowed and said, "When you go back to your master, the city of Dezhou ahead is completely alert! And it looks very alert, because the people on the top of the city stand in large quantities. And the defenders are very good! The slave took a risk and tried, and the other party could resist and not fight back. In addition, the people and animals in the surrounding villages were gone! But strangely, there is always a small shed in the center of these villages, with a certain amount of rice and grain piled up. The most interesting thing is that I also found this."

After the scout said that, he immediately took out a wooden sign and handed it to Dorgon. Dorgon took it and saw that it was a very smooth polished wooden board with a few words engraved on it: I'm waiting for you in Jinan. The signature is Liu Pei.

But if he saw it, he laughed. Several people around him also looked at what was written on the sign. After they saw it, they all sneered at the wooden sign in contempt. Duoduo reached out to take the wooden sign and looked at it, threw it on the ground, and said, "It seems that this Liu Pei is very arrogant! This means that he must have never fought with us before!"

Duoduo's words caused a burst of laughter from the officers around him. In their opinion, Liu Pei was just an ignorant Ming army officer! After he fought with him, he probably couldn't say such rampant words.

But Dorgon didn't laugh. He tapped his right leg gently with a horse whip, and thought for a moment and said, "Did you only see one wooden sign?"

The scout said: "No other direction was found, only one was found on the official road on the west side.

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Dorgon narrowed his eyes and said, "It seems that this Liu Pei is not simple!"

Duoduo sneered and said nothing. But Yue Tuo had a delicate mind. He immediately asked, "Prince, why do you say that Liu Pei is not simple?"

Dorgon pointed at the official road ahead with a horse whip and said, "Look, we are coming from Hebei and heading towards Dezhou. But he left a wooden sign on the road we were walking, which means he had guessed our way."

Yue Tuo frowned when he heard this. He was a very smart person, and of course he understood the significance of the Qing army every time he entered the pass.

On the one hand, it was to plunder people, property, and destroy the economy of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, it was to kill all the useful military generals of the Ming Dynasty! Therefore, he never had a good impression of smart people like Liu Pei. In his eyes, only the dead general of the Ming Dynasty was a good general.

But unexpectedly, Dorgon continued, "I said he is powerful and has another reason. That is, after he strengthened the walls and cleared the fields, he left a lot of food in the village for us. This is what he wanted to tell us, hoping that we would not burn the village. It seems that this is a very confident person!"

After hearing this, Yue Tuo suddenly realized it and said: "No wonder Liu Pei has to leave food for them even if he is willing to keep his body in peace! He has a lot of thoughts!"

At this time, Duoduo said viciously: "If he says he doesn't burn it, then he won't burn it? I insist on burning it!"

When Duoduo was about to call someone, Dorgon waved his hand and said, "Do not fight for a moment with him. When I defeat him, I still need these villages to rest when I come back, so why waste it?"

Duoduo snorted and said nothing more. So Dorgon ordered the army to bypass Dezhou and go straight to Jinan.

When the army passed by Dezhou, Dorgon deliberately approached the city and observed Dezhou. As the scouts said, Dezhou was under high alert, and it can be said that one step at three steps and one whistle every five steps!

Moreover, many soldiers were added on the top of the city because Dorgon and his group had to get close. Dorgon's actor observed that the newly added people were not panicked, and they ran at a constant speed. The weapons quickly stood in their positions. Like their companions on the top of the city, there was basically nothing extra.

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This made Dorgon, who had the heart to try it out to see if he could successfully take down Texas, directly gave up his thoughts. Yue Tuo next to him also found the same problem. He frowned and said, "It seems that this general of the Ming Dynasty is indeed a good soldier training! Even soldiers who are not directly controlled by him are relatively elite! If he hides in Jinan City, it will take some effort to deal with him!"

After hearing this, Dorgon laughed and said, "It's not a problem at all! If he just hides behind the city wall, we will sweep the surrounding area of ​​Jinan! The emperor of Ming Dynasty will punish him at that time!"

After saying that, Dorgon pulled the reins and turned around and left. Seeing that the Qing army was far away from Dezhou, the officers on the city wall couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his head! It seemed that the empty city plan that Liu Pei taught him had already worked!

Before the officers set out, Liu Pei told the commanders of every city that before the Qing army attacked the city, they must place the strongest soldiers on the city wall, and at the same time, they must train the civilians to stand firmly and never move around, so as to show the temperament of elite soldiers.

Liu Pei felt that in this case, the Qing army would feel that it would be more than worth the effort to conquer the city after paying a significant loss, and perhaps it might not be an attack. Now it seems that this strategy has indeed played its due role.

The officer immediately shouted as he watched the Qing army go away, "Order all the young and strong people to go down to the city to practice!"

He firmly believed that Liu Pei could defeat the Qing army! But he didn't know if the Qing army would come back? If the Qing army came back, the empty city strategy might not be effective! So if you practice more, you can have more confidence in defending the city!

Dorgon led the Qing army to continue moving towards Jinan. The cities passing by were all closed, and the city walls were full of soldiers, looking like they were facing a great enemy. What made Dorgon feel heavy was that although the soldiers on the wall did not know what the combat quality was, at least everyone could stand up as erect as a javelin!
Chapter completed!