Outside the Big Stone Bridge Fort, thousands of military horses were concentrating in formation.

The solar term is in the first lunar month of the Ming Dynasty, and the midwinter in Liaodong is nine, and the north wind is howling, freezing and biting. As soon as the person walked outside, he shivered with cold. All the generals were dressed thickly, and the ears of their fur hats were lowered, and their heads and faces were tightly protected. The exposed skin on the face is coated with thick oil to prevent frostbite from being blown by the wind. The hands that hold the weapon tightly are protected by a pair of thick fur gloves to prevent them from freezing in the cold wind.

Wu Sangui, who stood in front of the queue and rode his horse, did not wrap himself as bloated as a bear in the mountains and forests like the generals of the battalions, he was still wearing three layers of armor, covered with a red satin-faced mink cloak, standing in the cold wind and letting it blow, his mouth just kept spitting out thick white smoke, constantly urging the soldiers of each battalion to move faster.

From time to time, there was a cold wind blowing in the sky, and occasionally there were a few snowflakes mixed in the cold wind. New Year's Day is the coldest season of the year. Especially in this Liaodong Peninsula, the sea is surrounded on three sides, and the weather is much colder. But compared with other places, the winter in western Liaoning is dry and cold, but the cold here is damp mixed with cold, and that kind of cold will invade people's bones!

Wu Sangui's eyes only stared at the flag of the Ming army that was blown by the wind, and the wind was cold, not only blowing the flag into a completely stretched plane, but also freezing the roads everywhere to be solid and hard. It's okay to walk this way, the road is better.

In the wind, the 6,000 Ming army was lined up, and the camp was neat, just waiting quietly. Of the 6,000 Ming troops, 2,000 were from the naval division led by Shi Lang, 2,000 were Wu Sangui's family members, and 2,000 were Shandong Tuntian soldiers who were supplemented to Ningyuan Town in the formation system. All of them were armoured, not only of them, but of all of them were double armoured. Outside the cuirass of the South Middle, or iron armor. Or inlaid with iron leaf cotton armor, with a red wool coat on the outside, and iron mesh boots on his feet, all of them are extremely energetic.

Around these 6,000 military horses, there are Liaodong Han people who are more disorganized.

On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Shi Lang, who had just returned to Ningyuan from Tamluo Island with Li Huamei. Immediately, together with Wu Sangui, who had been waiting for a long time, he led dozens of sea ships and carried 6,000 men and horses across Liaodong Bay and landed at Yingkou.

At this time, the thieves in Liaodong, where do they have the consciousness of resisting landing? Since the Great Governor Yuan implemented the military law of the civilian officials very righteously, and killed Mao Wenlong, who would give the chrysanthemum of the Qing army a massage that touched the body and soul at any time, it has been many years that the Qing army only needs to face the Ming army in the front, and does not have to worry about the safety of the flanks and rear. In their opinion. The vast sea is their best trench.

However, they have forgotten that the moat, as long as they make good use of it, it will also change the way!

When the military flags of Wu Sangui and Shi Lang appeared outside the city wall of the original Gaizhou Wei, they immediately stunned the nomadic Balhu people stationed in the area, and the Ming army was overwhelming outside the city. Did it fall from the sky, or did it come out of the sea?

Don't wait for them to think about it. A cannon sounded, and the Ming army began to attack the city.

With thousands of elite Ming troops against more than 1,000 Balhu people, if such a battle cannot be won, then the titles of King Pingxi and Marquis of Jinghai of Wu Sangui and Shi Lang will also be too much.

The entire Gaizhou Guard. One drum!

After a short rest in Gaizhouwei, the team went straight to Yaozhou!

From the first year of the Apocalypse (1621), after the wild boar skin occupied the Yingkou area at that time, Yaozhou (Dashiqiao Beiyuezhou Village) was used as the military and political center of the entire Yingkou area for garrison defense.

However, the Liaodong Peninsula region at this time. It was already empty, and almost all the young and strong Manchurians, even the half-grown sons of the twelfth and thirteenth and the old men of their fifties, were also requisitioned and transferred to the western Liaoning region. The thousands of elites of Wu Sangui and Shi Lang can be said to be invincible.

After marching for dozens of miles, they arrived at Dashiqiao Fort on the outskirts of Yaozhou. This outer fortress, under the attack of the Ming army, was breached without much effort.

If it weren't for Wu Sangui's concern that after the soldiers landed on the shore, they would continue to march and attack the city, and the body would be too much to stop Shi Lang's determination to attack the city overnight, I was afraid that Shi Lang would have set a record in the history of the Ming Dynasty for three cities in one day!

Rao is so, but such a record is also amazed by both the Ming and Qing dynasties, the difference is that the Ming army is excited, and the Qing army is boundless fear.

The original purpose of Wu Sangui and Shi Lang was to use the strength of these Liaodong Han people to increase their military might. However, from the looks on their faces in the face of the Ming soldiers and banners, the two knew that they were wrong!

Since the rebellion of the old slaves, dozens of killings have been carried out against the Han people in Liaodong in the past few decades. Those who dared to take up arms to resist had long been killed by the old slave father and son. Those who did not dare to take up arms, but were unwilling to bow down, went to Dongjiang Town, Phi Island, far away. However, thanks to the Duke of Loyalty, the loyal soul is still given by the Yuan Governor who still guards Liaodong, and these Han people who dare to flee will eventually have nowhere to go.

Those who remained in Liaodong were only those who did not dare to resist and only knew the muddy life. Probably because of the Stockholm syndrome, when Huang Tai ascended the throne, he began to loosen and ease his policies towards the Han Chinese, and these people cheered to serve the Liao thieves.

The sky was getting brighter, but the sun was still nowhere to be seen. The thick dark clouds on the horizon were as low as lead, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be silent, except for the bright red flags that swept and fluttered like living creatures, making a loud sound from time to time.

Corresponding to the dark clouds in the sky are the faces of those Liaodong Han people who were driven by the Ming army with knives and guns. All of them were gloomy and wooden, and their expressions were sluggish. It's just that from time to time, I peeked at the swords and guns in the hands of the nearby Ming soldiers, and the cannon wrapped in thick artillery jackets in front of the array.

A sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, nearly 100 horsemen rushed out of the big stone bridge fort, dozens of big flags hunting and flying, among which a fiery red Shi Zi banner was particularly eye-catching, it was Shi Lang who came from the castle with more than 100 people! The eyes of everyone present fell on his team, and the one who was dragged by the rope was the Liaodong thief who had no time to escape in the fort, both men, women and children.

Shi Lang ran until he was in front of Wu Sangui's horse before he reined in the horse's reins. "Let Wu Shuai wait for a long time!"

"Words there! Shi Daren is hard! ”

The two stood side by side, slowly inspecting the sergeants of each battalion. The 6,000 Ming troops under the two of them, in addition to the 400 firearms who stayed in Dashiqiao Fort. The rest have all arrived. The leaders of Wu Sangui's family, the battalion officers of the naval division and the land battalion, and the battalion officers of the Tuntian soldiers all dismounted and stood in front of their respective teams with military flags in their hands. Those gunners stood straight behind their gun emplacements according to their respective battle positions.

Behind the columns of each battalion and each unit. It is a more powerful baggage team. A wide variety of vehicles, large and small, are listed here. Hundreds of wagons, dense artillery wagons, and many mules, donkeys and horses stolen from all over the way were concentrated here. Horse-drawn carriages, wheelbarrows, most of them are empty. Only some of the carriages were loaded with gunpowder and shells, and some of the troops were carrying heavy loads. Behind the wagons, the drivers of the artillery corps disciplined hundreds of horses and mules, which had been carefully selected. Ready to be used to replace the horses that tow the artillery.

This time, Wu Shi and the two crossed the sea to the east, carrying a total of nearly 100 artillery pieces of more than six pounder guns, and more than 1,000 rockets. These artillery pieces and rockets will provide fire support to the whole army, and they will not hesitate to give the most powerful blow, whether it is facing a city or the enemy's military formation!

Looking at the team he commanded in front of him with great satisfaction, a smile appeared on Wu Sangui's face. This time the Liaodong War, regardless of whether the imperial court defeated the Liao thieves in the end. He, Wu Sangui. It's all a big gain!

When he set off, Ning Yuanbo had already made it clear that he would attack the Liao thieves behind the sea this time, and all the seizures would be owned by the soldiers in accordance with the military laws of the Ming Dynasty. And all kinds of beheadings are also rewarded according to the military laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Shi Lang whispered a few words to him in his ear, and he couldn't help but smile even more on his face: "Lord Shi." Thank you very much for this! ”

"You and I are a family in ourselves, so why should we divide each other? Shi sent these thousands of people to Wu Shuai! ”

At the sound of an order, the more than 100 captured Jiannu in the city were dragged horizontally and vertically in front of the Han people in Liaodong who served as coolies and baggage.

The surrounding sailors and land battalions are also on their own alert.

"One simple thing! Kill these thieves to prove that you are a citizen of the Ming Dynasty! Otherwise. It is secretly selfish with the thief! ”

The choice of life and death was handed over to these Liaodong Han people.

With sticks, shovels, pickaxes, and even stones, these 100 Jiannu were executed, and they gained the status of coolies and people in the Ming army, and they could enjoy the corresponding food treatment. But if you don't take action, or even if you are a little slow, you will be recorded by someone who cares. However, the execution of these Jiannu, especially the beating of these people to death in front of everyone's eyes, will cut off the retreat of these Liaodong Han people, and they don't want to return to the Liao thieves and continue to be obedient!

Don't think about it, the most important thing is the life at the moment!

The sticks and stones rained down together, and in the blink of an eye, the hundred and ten Jiannu were beaten into a mess of flesh.

This kind of behavior of accepting names also played an unexpected role, and those Liaodong Han people immediately became almost insane. The desire to fight is even stronger than that of Wu Sangui's descendants!

"Wu Shuai, after this battle, these people are your best candidates!"

"Sincerely!"

The two wolf bèi traitors looked at each other and smiled, and gave the order to set off to Yaozhou!

Wu Jingsi, who commanded the family, had already released many elite sentinels for twenty or thirty miles on the front and back of the marching army, and he could come back at any time to report the situation if there was any movement around.

The iron-toothed wheels crushed the solid road and rattled. The Han people of Liaodong who had just cut off the tail of the money rat who were pushing the vehicle forward were stimulated by the brutal killing just now, and their eyes were red, like beasts that wanted to choose people to eat.

Shi Lang's trick is actually nothing new. It's just a combination of the name and self-abandonment. You don't see, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, a large number of Ming troops were originally crushed at the touch of a button, fleeing from the wind, and their combat effectiveness exploded immediately after shaving their hair, which was also a means for those ordinary soldiers to cut themselves off from now on. (It is said that in many low-level fireworks places back then, when they met a woman who refused to accept customers, they found a few big men and took turns to rape, completely shattering the woman's dignity and various concepts, and since then she has been willing to degenerate.) ）

A few hours later, in the midst of the skyrocketing fire, the head of Yaozhou City was planted with the flag of the Ming army.

In the next few days, Xiongyue, Gaiping, Niuzhuang, Haicheng and other places were in flames. Wherever Wu Shi and his soldiers went, the Han people all became the help of the Ming army after accepting the name of the petition, and the Eight Banners Jiannu suffered heavy casualties and lost the city. And Wu Sangui adopted Shi Lang's immoral idea. All the Liaodong Han people along the way were included in their cannon fodder ranks, and the strength suddenly swelled to about 10,000 people, and the morale of the Ming army became higher and higher, and the soldiers pointed directly at Liaoyang!

At this time, although Liaoyang is no longer the nest of Liaodong thieves, it is after all the Liaodong military and political center that the old slave personally led the army to conquer. And the old slave after conquering Liaoyang. In that year, he moved the capital from Hetuala to Liaoyang, and then built a new city on the east bank of the Taizi River in the east of Liaoyang City-Tokyo City. Until the fourth year of the Apocalypse (1625), the capital was moved to Shenyang.

Therefore, Liaoyang's position within the anti-thieves in Liaodong can be described as a hundred-legged insect that is dead but not stiff.

What's even worse is that this is now the location of many craftsman workshops and smelting workshops of the Liao thieves!

Liaoyang began to carry out mineral mining, smelting and processing in the middle of the Warring States period. Yan used to mine copper and iron ore here, smelt iron, and make agricultural tools, weapons, currency, etc. In the Han Dynasty, large-scale iron ore mining and iron smelting were carried out in the southeast of Liaoyang. The exploitation of mineral resources in the Liaoyang area from Liaojin to Ming Dynasty reached its heyday.

Now, Huang Taiji has ordered Chen Banda to organize manpower to mine coal, iron, limestone and other mineral resources in the Huazi area, Gongchangling area, Baojing Mountain and Xiaotun area, and organize smelting and processing on the spot.

Dozens of earthen blast furnaces have been set up outside Liaoyang City. It is used for the processing and smelting of pig iron. The smelted pig iron is further processed into a variety of weapons, guns, armor and other materials. These earthen blast furnaces and these workshops can smelt hundreds of thousands of catties of pig iron every year, providing countless swords and armor for the army of the thieves.

What's even worse is that in the gun workshop outside Liaoyang City, six eight-pounder cannons have been successfully cast. In addition to artillery, nearly 1,000 finely tested guns were ready to be packed and sent to the Quang Ninh front.

In the face of its menacing Ming army offensive, such an important place, once lost. How to explain to Huang Taiji?

So, Chen Banda and others jointly played. The snowflake-like emergency document was sent from Liaoyang, and it was sent straight to Huang Taiji in front of the Guangning Army!

"The old capital of Tokyo is the gateway to Shengjing, and now it is the important place for my Qing Dynasty weapons smelting and casting, so there must be no mistakes!" Outside Guangning City, Huang Taiji faced the documents of several minions in Liaoyang City, which were in a hurry. set the tone for the matter.

However, in Liaoyang City, there are only a few hundred soldiers who can fight, and it is too late to defend the battlements. On weekdays, he helped Chen Banda maintain order in various mines and workshops, and intimidated those slaves who were not very obedient. Count the guards in the mines and workshops. The guards of Chen Banda and the others together are only more than 1,000 people, and they have to manage nearly 10,000 Han slaves in various mines, how can this force be able to hold Liaoyang?

"Give an order to the fourteenth and fifteenth brothers! Ordered them to dispatch troops and horses to Liaoyang as soon as possible! ”

Huang Taiji was already unable to draw troops and horses, and Hong Chengchou and others, who were besieged in Guangning City, learned that Li Shouhan's army had arrived in Ningyuan, and they even fought hard to pounce on the long trenches in various places.

The general soldier of Shanhai Town, Ma Ke, took the lead and swooped down. He actually beat the blue flag of Haoge's headquarters several times, and if it wasn't for the timely arrival of the two yellow flag reinforcements, I was afraid that the long trench would be broken.

"Lao Tzu is the woman who slept with your emperor! Our Lao Tzu is here! If you're not convinced, just do it! Through the long trench, Ma Ke kept leading the cavalry back and forth and shouting.

He knew very well that if he lost this battle, he would have only one way to die, and it would definitely be a bone-breaker! Therefore, he supervised his subordinates, changed his slippery habits in the past, and fought desperately.

With the leadership of Ma Ke and the continuous encouragement of Inspector Hong, Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Wang Tingchen and others of the Ming army who were besieged in Guangning City also aroused their desire to survive and fought hard.

In the face of such a situation, Huang Taiji's troops are stretched, how can he send people back to the division to rescue Liaoyang and Shenyang? I'm afraid that just after sending people to Shenyang, these tens of thousands of Pixiu hungry tigers in Guangning City will break out of the encirclement!

But Liaoyang and Shenyang can't do anything. Once something happens, even if Shengjing City is surrounded by the Ming army, the morale of the Liaodong rebels in western Liaoxi will be huge! You must know that their families and belongings are all in Shengjing City!

Huang Taiji ordered Pegasus to rush back to Shengjing, and ordered Brother Li's Prince Daishan, who stayed in Shengjing, to dig three feet into the ground to loot troops, and also to reinforce Liaoyang, while ordering Fan Wencheng to get up again and go to Songshan, please garrison in Songshan, Dolgon, who was preparing to launch an offensive against Jinzhou, temporarily stopped the attack on Jinzhou, and dispatched a force to Liaoyang to rescue, so as not to make Liaoyang lose!

However, when Fan Wencheng rushed to Songshan day and night, he was shocked to find that it turned out that the life of Prince Rui Dolgon and Prince Yu Duoduo was not easy! Behind Jinzhou City, Wu Biao's model brigade constantly organized small-scale attacks, causing Dolgon to be frightened three times a day, lest the brigade rush out once.

In the direction of Tashan on the front, the Nanyue Army made a comeback and recaptured Dayu Mountain and Hongluo Mountain. Heavy artillery began to bombard the Tower Hill line again.

Fighting against the two white flags again is their old opponent, an old friend, the Guards Brigade of the Southern Guangdong Army!

"Lose that mother! If this battle is not fought well, the face of our Guards Brigade will be thrown from Ningyuan to Gibraltar! ”

Mo Yu, who commanded the Guards Brigade and the Fifth and Sixth Garrison Brigades, waved the command flag and almost scolded his subordinates! (To be continued......)