Before the messenger could relay the orders to Xihan and Gong'adai, a scout galloped up to Dorgon. "Reporting to Your Highness, a force of Ming cavalry is charging toward us from the southwest. Their numbers are unclear, but they are approaching with great aggression."
"From the southwest?" Dorgon felt a shock run through him.
The southwest was the direction of Wu Sangui’s retreat. Before the battle, he and Wu Sangui had reached an agreement. Regardless of how the fighting at Sarhu unfolded, Wu Sangui was not to send troops to aid the Ming army. To help Wu Sangui maintain his ruse, Dorgon had even dispatched a force of about a thousand cavalry to harass the Guanning Army.
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