At this time, the weather in the northeast outside the Guanwai was the coldest time, and the vast corridor of western Liaoning was covered with ice and snow, and even the nearby sea surface was frozen as hard as iron, and people could walk on it.

At this time of year, it is also the most reassuring time for the banner people stationed in the corridor of western Liaoning, without worrying that the increasingly murderous Ming army will suddenly land somewhere along the long coastline of western Liaoning, and even do not have to beware of the Ming Dynasty's secret agents driving small boats to sneak ashore activities.

The frozen sea is an insurmountable natural danger.

In the past two months, the Liaoxi Corridor, which is obviously leaning on the sea, is an icy land that is completely closed to the Ming Empire.

Therefore, when the Qing Emperor's uncle Duoduo led his army and marched mightily through the corridor of western Liaoning, there was no need to worry about being detected by the Ming Dynasty - even if there were secret agents of the Ming Dynasty lurking in western Liaoxi, there was no way to transmit the news they heard.

In order to achieve the suddenness of sending troops, Duoduo stayed in his Shengjing palace until the military seal on the western coast of Liaoxi, looking like he was preparing for cat winter. And he also frequently released news, saying that he was ready to ascend the throne after the martyrdom of Emperor Shunzhi.

He's the emperor's uncle!

If Shunzhi was martyred in the Coal Mountain Castle, wouldn't he be the emperor of the Qing Dynasty?

Therefore, it is normal for him to support his troops outside the customs and see Emperor Shunzhi unlucky.

After releasing the news that he was ready to sit and watch the death of Emperor Shunzhi, Duoduo also used the Ming and Qing dynasties as an excuse to blockade Xiaoshan Pass and Liangfangkou Port in southern Liaoning under the pretext of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and also sent troops into Yizhou of the Korean Kingdom to set up defenses, and also controlled the passage between Liaodong and Korea. By blocking the road, the efficiency of the Jinyi Wei agents with the green flag to deliver information has also been greatly reduced.

Subsequently, Duoduo issued an order to gather troops at Jiugu Mountain, a government outside the Guan, Siangbang, and Jiugu Mountain!

Now, just after the New Year's Pass, on the frozen official road of the Liaoxi Corridor, an army of 55,000 people composed of the strong men of the Nine Banners outside the Guan, took advantage of the fine weather to roll on, and under the command of Duoduo, they went towards the Shanhai Xiongguan.

Different from the formation of the Eastern Army during the Battle of Jieshi Mountain more than a year ago, there are now more cavalry and horse teams in the army gathered under Duoduo, because Duoduo pulled a large number of old Eight Banners from Guannei after the Battle of Jieshi Mountain.

And Duoduo also further realized the value of the musket cavalry in the battle of Jieshi Mountain, and after pulling a large number of old eight banners out of the customs, he focused on expanding the number of cavalry in the forward battalion, and by the end of the tenth year of Shunzhi, the number of cavalry in the forward battalion under Duoduo had expanded from the original 6,000 to 12,000, doubling. There is also the same number of Xiao cavalry, that is, the traditional Eight Banners vest.

Duoduo also selected for himself 2,000 "Bayala soldiers" from the children of the Nine Banners outside the Guan, and these Bayala soldiers were "year-round cavalry", equipped not only with spears, bows and arrows, round shields, but also equipped with arquebuses imported from Žesbania.

In addition, Duoduo also took out the artillery originally attached to the firearms battalion and formed a separate Wuzhen Chaoha army yamen."

Wuzhen Chaoha Yamen also divided the fort Wuzhen Chaoha and the field Wuzhen Chaoha. Among them, the field Wuzhen Chaoha compiled 10 Niu Lu, each Niu Lu has 12 3-pounder Hongyi cannons, a total of 120 3-pounder guns. The total number of field Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers in the field is as high as more than 2,500 people, and the number of horses owned by them is more than 3,000. The number of the fort Wuzhen Chaoha is about 1,800 people, divided into 6 Niulu, stationed in six forts, including Shanhaiguan, Vladivostok, Nuergan, Hailanpao, Xiaoshan and Liangfangkou.

After the artillery was removed, the firearms battalions were expanded by Duoduo into a musket cow record of fourteen infantry military camps - according to Duoduo's arrangement, the first mansion, Si Angbang, and Jiugu Mountain outside the gate have evolved into a local yamen that integrates the military and the people, and each yamen has the establishment of a foot military camp and a cavalry barracks, of which the infantry military camp is equipped with a musket and a cavalry barracks, and the cavalry camp is also equipped with a vest and a cow, and the two cattle are 300 people. As for the other standing troops, including 12,000 forward battalion cavalry, 2,000 Bayala soldiers, 2,500 field Wuzhen Chaoha, 1,800 artillery Wuzhen Chaoha, and 1,000 sailors Jianrui battalion, as well as the "Europa Banner people" mainly naval army (between three or four thousand in number) are all standing armies, directly subordinate to Duoduo's imperial uncle Fujun Yamen.

The 12,000-strong cavalry army and the spears, swords, bows and arrows of the 14 yamen (Yifu, Siangbang, and Jiugushan) are all squads of soldiers and peasants.

In other words, the current army under the emperor's uncle Duoduo is composed of a standing army of about 31,000 people and a squad army of up to 70,000 people.

The military strength has surpassed that of the Great Qing Kingdom before entering the customs!

However, the financial pressure is not small, and the standing army of more than 31,000 people spends nearly 2 million yuan of money and grain every year, accounting for almost seventy percent of the income of the imperial uncle's Fujun yamen.

Under the weight of such huge rigid expenditures, the military strength of Duoduo is most afraid of a protracted war that is far away.

So he can only fight his opponent as quickly as possible!

And in order to end the war in the spring of the eleventh year of Shunzhi before the arrival of the sowing season outside the Guan, Duoduo secretly mobilized more than 24,000 people from ten local yamen this time, plus 8,000 cavalry of the forward battalion, 8,000 cavalry cavalry of the Xiao cavalry battalion, all the Bayala soldiers and eight field Wuzhen Chaoha Niulu, and the soldiers alone mobilized as many as 44,000!

In addition, Jierharang of Datong and Chang Adai of Taiyuan have also received orders from Duoduo to send 3,000 elites each to join Duoduo.

In this way, the three coalition armies would have 50,000 men (the number of soldiers), which was not too much, but in the eyes of Duoduo, it was enough.

Because his goal was not to repel the Ming army that invaded Henan and Shandong at all, he knew that this could not be done! Even if he could win a few battles, he would have to retreat from Shandong and Henan because of the high casualties and high costs.

Duoduo's goal was very practical, that is, to defend Tianjin Wei on the eastern front (canal line), and at the same time to fight around the north and south camps of the Yellow River on the western front, if the battle was unfavorable, the Yellow River dam would be dug up, flooded Henan, and created a large area of the Yellow River, and then retreated to the Baozhen and Baoding lines. In order to protect the security of Beijing and Tianjin.

In his opinion, Beijing and Tianjin are the home of the future tug-of-war between the Ming and Qing dynasties!

The mountains and seas are already in sight, showing a dazzling gold in the sunshine at dusk, which looks majestic and majestic.

Dordor, who was marching on horseback, was a little emotional, and couldn't help but think of the high spirits when he followed Dolgon into Shanhaiguan almost 10 years ago.

Who would have thought that the loss of Beijing would become the starting point of the Ming Dynasty......

At this moment, more than ten fast horses galloped from the direction of Shanhaiguan, found Duoduo's Daqi, and soon ran to Duoduo's side.

Duoduo found that the first ride was Shanhaiguan Ang Bang Zhangjing He Luohui.

He Luo Hui arrived in front of the Duoduo horse and was about to dismount and salute, but was stopped by the Duoduo wave.

"Say anything you want!"

He Luohui arched his hand on horseback, "Uncle Huangtai, the emperor gathered more than 60,000 Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han soldiers and horses out of Beijing, went south to attack Shi Kefa, and is now stationed in Tianjin. ”

"What?" Duoduo was stunned for a moment, "Did he take the imperial conquest?" ”

"yes!" He Luo said, "And this time the combat strength of the Southern Army is extraordinary, their horse team is also similar to our forward battalion, equipped with muskets, it seems to be sharper, all of them are flintlock pistols that do not use arquebuses, so they can fight in wind and snow and at night, and the rate of fire is much faster!" Fan Wencheng's Zhenglu Banner was not an opponent at all, and was surrounded by regiments in Dezhou, Liaocheng, and Anping, and even the southern part of Zhili was harassed by the cavalry of the Southern Army, and many cities were broken. So ......"

"Needless to say!" Duoduo waved his hand and said loudly to the left and right, "Order the three armies, march quickly...... Within three days, you must arrive in Tianjin! ”