On the twenty-seventh day of the first month of the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, outside the city of Liaoyang.

The wind and snow had ceased for a while, and the sun had risen over the eastern horizon with a very face, and the sun shone on the thick snow, reflecting a faint blinding red light. The eyes of the people who took the photos were a little stinging.

On the city, Chen Ban held the battlement with his big hand, looking at the factory that was smoking in the distance outside the city.

From the day he withdrew the soldiers and horses guarding the workshop into the city, more than a dozen smelting grounds, gun yards, and craftsman workshops that he had devoted a lot of effort to Wu Sangui had become Wu Sangui's trophies. Those fine iron that was too late to be transported into the city, completed most of the guns, completed the swords, guns and armor, and piled up pig iron and carbon materials, all of which belonged to the Ming army.

"It's okay!" Facing the white eyes of everyone in the city, Chen Ban Daqiang supported himself, "This official withdrew the craftsmen into Liaoyang City in the first wave, as long as these craftsmen are there, we can build the workshop again!" But if these craftsmen are gone, how can we build firecrackers and cast cannons? ”

This kind of self-exculpation is naturally unacceptable to everyone. For a while, Chen Banda suddenly turned from a fragrant dumpling to a stinky shit in the city. The generals and officials of the Eight Banners, who usually ran over to greet and greet from afar, now collided their noses with Chen Ban, and they also pretended not to see it.

"Look, my lord!" A factory guard with a sharp eye, at a glance, saw several workshops in the distance that served as temporary Ming army camps people shouting horses and grinding flags, as if there were signs of a large group of people and horses.

"Those bright dogs are going to attack the city!"

The Liaodong rebels in the city began to get nervous. There are not many people in the city, and there are no rescuers coming to Shengjing for help, and the success of defending the city is not very sure. But if it was to give up Liaoyang, everyone would never dare.

Not to mention giving up a gateway town like Liaoyang, what kind of military punishment will the second den of Liao thieves bring to themselves. That is all something that can only be faced after escaping to Shengjing. Right now, can everyone escape Shengjing?

The heavy snow for several days has already covered the road, and the snow everywhere is no longer to the point of surplus, and if the three-foot boy is not careful, he can almost be submerged in the snow. A slightly dilapidated house in the city. Some of them have already collapsed under the snow on the roof.

Outside the city, Wu Sangui glanced at Shi Lang, who was wrapped in fur with his head, face and hands, and those soldiers of the Nanyue Army, and couldn't help but feel a burst of pride in his heart. Although these Nanyue troops fought bravely and had strict military discipline, they fought in the land of Liaodong, but only he and his Ningyuan Town were the last kings!

Since the landing operation, the naval division and land battalion, which was originally the core of this 6,000-strong army, have not adapted to the harsh environment due to weather conditions. The contingent of two thousand people was frostbitten and frostbitten four or five hundred people. In desperation, Shi Lang had no choice but to leave these frostbitten soldiers in various fortresses along the way as a garrison, while protecting the safety of his back and flanks, so that these brothers could be treated.

"Wu Shuai, can you start?"

Looking at the thousands of military horses swarming out of dozens of barracks temporarily filled by the original workshops, Shi Lang signaled to Wu Sangui.

Several crow soldiers under Wu Sangui escorted a tied Liao thief officer who was similar to a meat dumpling out of the barracks. This is a workshop that uses blue-striped stone as the foundation, builds it five feet high, and then uses large bricks to build it. Originally, it was because of the pursuit of durability, but now it has become the best cold camp and prison place for the Ming army. But. These captives, even if you let them escape, they may not dare to flee at this time.

The wind and snow in the wasteland, the hungry beasts in the mountains and forests, with no clothes and no food in their stomachs, even if they were lucky to escape. It is also difficult to protect himself from becoming food for wild beasts.

One after another, one hundred and ten Liao thief captives were escorted out of this temporary cell by Wu Sangui's soldiers.

"Nudahai, Ben Shuai will ask you one last sentence. To drop or not to fall? Wu Sangui's eyes looked over the heads of the group of captives, and he asked casually.

Nanu Dahai was a Liao thief officer guarding the Great Stone Bridge, after being captured by Wu Sangui. Our prince of Pingxi, out of cherishing the warriors and also for the need to recruit thugs, plans to accept this person and recruit a group of local cannon fodder in Liaodong to fight.

"Phew! You Nikan! Let Lao Tzu surrender, unless you step on my corpse! ”

"Alright! Ben Shuai will fulfill you! ”

Several of Wu Sangui's family members lifted Nudahai, who was struggling left and right, walked along the muddy road for more than ten steps, and left him in a low-lying place. Make his face face upwards so that he can see clearly.

There was a rumbling behind him, and several artillery carriages were dragged out of the barracks of the artillery battalion.

The heavy gun carriage was reduced to a huge iron wheel frame due to the wear and tear of the rubber tires.

There were a few muffled pops, and heavy artillery passed over the pavement with Nudahai as paving stones, and the wheels were stained with flesh and blood.

"Seek kindness and be benevolent. Ben Shuai has also fulfilled you. ”

Seeing several artillery trucks running over Nudahai, Wu Sangui snorted coldly, "Go, Wu Qinsi, ask those people, are they willing to act as paving stones like Nudahai?" Ben Shuai's cannon is going to be transported to Liaoyang City, and there are a lot of paving stones! ”……

Nearly 4,000 men and horses opened a formation below Liaoyang City, and the five phalanxes brought great pressure to the defenders of the city. In front of these five phalanxes, dozens of artillery pieces and rocket launchers were lined up, and the muzzles of the black holes pointed directly at the Liaoyang city wall.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Break the city today! We'll feast in the city! In the coming day, Shenyang will be attacked, and Ben Shuai will get drunk with you again! ”

In front of their respective teams, Shi Lang and Wu Sangui made a brief but powerful mobilization to their subordinates.

"Ignition!"

"Fire!"

The rockets that were carefully transported all the way to Liaoyang were placed on the launch stand by the rocketeers in great luxury, and the fuses were ignited with torches in their hands.

A long rocket screeched through the air and flew over the walls, making a perfect arc before a muffled explosion was heard inside the city.

Before the explosion landed, more than a dozen rockets flew over the city, either lighting fires in the city, or making bursts of explosions.

Compared with the cries and panic of the old and weak women and children in the city in the face of this disaster that fell from the sky, the pressure on the defenders of the city was even greater.

Those twelve-pounder guns, eight-pounder guns, big franc machines. Just pour artillery fire on one point.

The use of artillery fire to open the way for the siege of the city, whether it is the Nanyue army or the Ningyuan army, has already had experience in the small-scale siege of Liaodong several times.

Attack with artillery first, and lure the artillery fire on the city to appear and counterattack. After that, use more artillery to defeat the garrison artillery. After removing the right of the enemy artillery to speak, it was time to open the passage for the besieging troops.

The city wall of the Ming Dynasty. Most of them are bricks on rammed earth walls. When a solid cannonball passes, the masonry flies around, and when the second cannonball passes, the rammed city wall of loess is a gap.

Wu Sangui's Tuntian soldiers carried ladders from the rear of the team and waited in line behind the artillery team's position. With the help of this short time, these fierce soldiers from Jiaodong, Dongying and other places checked each other's equipment to see if there was anything that had not been tied.

Slightly back. Wu Sangui was watching without blinking as his artillery team and the gunners of the naval division and land battalion poured gunpowder and shells into the city.

For the siege of Liaoyang City, the two generals were well versed in the tricks of attacking the city as well as deceiving the city. That is what the common people say is better than scare. Wouldn't it be better to let those soldiers and civilians in the city collapse psychologically in the face of the huge pressure of the Ming army and abandon the city and flee? To this end, Wu Sangui and Shi Lang concentrated all their artillery at the south gate of Liaoyang. As for the east gate and the north gate, only a few troops were left to watch, and as for the west gate, there were no people who even put them on guard. In order to let the soldiers and civilians in the city escape in the direction of Shenyang with confidence.

Such a tactic is to encircle three and lack one. Leave a hidden pocket. On the hunting grounds, hunters will use this trick. It's called a hit. It is to disturb the beasts and hunt them one by one in motion.

Holding a large copper bowl in his hand, which was full of steaming broth, while drinking the broth with the soldiers to ward off the cold, Wu Sangui watched the maneuvering of his artillery in the hands of those gunners for a long time.

Under the training of Li Huamei, who spared no expense, the gunners of Ning Yuanjun were also fully trained. The technical level of the gunners is already not far from that of the naval division and the land battalion. But. The part of the gap happens to be in the most critical aspects such as ranging and command.

Taking the big Buddha Lang machine as an example, most of the gunners of the original Ning Yuan Army, who were loaded with the same ten-pound projectile, could only shoot one shot a minute, and it was difficult to say the accuracy. But now it's twenty seconds to fire. And the gunners of the naval division and land battalion did not even want twenty seconds. They opened fire, reloaded the guns, and fired again, accurately and ruthlessly. The skillful artillery operation action has already amazed Wu Sangui's subordinates, and it turns out that the artillery can still fight like this.

They taught the gunners in Ningyuan Town a good lesson, and perfectly explained what is the rain of bullets, what is the perfect combination of speed and accuracy, and what is the classic shelling.

The stormy shells poured on the city wall of the south gate of Liaoyang, within the best range of the artillery, the accuracy of the gunners was amazing, and several gunners of the Ning Yuan Army even aimed the eight-pounder cannon directly, and smashed the shells within two feet of the point where the shells landed, and suddenly roared excitedly.

The cannonballs that flew up to the city roared, smashed the city with smoke, and the severed limbs, bones, flesh and blood flew sideways, and the Liao thief, who was lucky not to be hit by the cannonballs, held a shield in his hand and carefully covered his body, looking at the attitude of the masters at all levels.

The artillery fire under the city began to adjust the firing angle, and no longer aimed at the city wall, which had already been smashed by more than a hundred shells, and collapsed in half, revealing a huge gap, like an old woman's toothless mouth.

The city began to clear the passage for the infantry preparing to enter the city, and smashed cannonballs on both sides of the gap, and the Jiannu soldiers hiding behind the battlements of the city wall were the main targets.

As a result, those Jiannu soldiers who were holding their swords and guns tightly and were ready to fight hand-to-hand with the Ming army in Dengcheng fell into bad luck. Relentless cannonballs fell on their heads, waves of heavy cannons smashed on the city walls, and the Jiannu soldiers who were ready to give them some color when the Ming army charged, either their bodies were broken in two by the shells, and the crimson flesh was flying, or a huge blood hole appeared in their bodies, and the inner intestines that were dissolved in the middle of the body were broken. Or the whole thigh, the whole arm is broken, the blood gushes out like a fountain, the severed limbs are fleshy, the blood mist is filled, and it looks even more cold in this cold weather.

Blood and various human fragments froze on the city wall in the blink of an eye.

The flesh and blood of the city were filled with bricks, and the fire inside the city was blazing.

Those rockets, which gave full play to their shooting performance on the house. And the ice and fire that were originally incompatible with fire and water. This time, it was a collusion and collusion. The cold ice, melted by the enthusiasm of the rocket, turned into cold water and flowed around, and those oil arrows made of fish oil and fierce fire oil spread everywhere with the help of the water flow, spreading the fire!

In the blink of an eye. Half of Liaoyang City was shrouded in smoke and flames.

"Handsome! Lord Shi! The thieves in the city have been completely chaotic! Are we ready to take the city? ”

Wu Qinsi, who replaced Wu Jingsi to lead the expedition this time, rushed to the two adults to ask for battle.

"Panic what! It's not like this in a hurry to make meritorious contributions! Wu Sangui lightly punched Wu Qinsi's chest and handed him the big copper bowl in his hand, "Go, add another bowl of soup to Lao Tzu!" Let's see if Master Shi is coming again. ”

Wu Qinsi was very helpless to go to the cooking car to scoop soup and meat for the two adults, but he couldn't understand why he didn't order the siege of the city at this time, did he really plan to go after the Liaoyang city wall was destroyed with artillery fire?

Although his guess was wrong, it was not far from the end of the puzzle.

Two big traitors and big lackeys in history. But they are all people who grew up on the battlefield. Now that he is the commander of an army, he naturally can't just consider the matter of one city and one place in Liaoyang.

Now, because of the need to protect the grain routes, and because of frostbite, there are no more than 4,3400 men and horses who can be put into battle. How can this capital not let the two adults have to think about it? If you can solve the problem with gunpowder, try not to consume troops.

Even if the infantry is now ordered to attack the city, along the wall destroyed by artillery fire, it is also possible to take this second most important town of Jiannu in one go. Open the gateway to Shenyang.

But Wu Sangui and Shi Lang deliberately did not do this, just to let Jiannu keep taking people to fill the artillery. In order to reduce the casualties of their own troops as much as possible. But Wu Sangui is okay to say, but Shi Lang's heart is full of bursts of hideous laughter. Although his own reasons are also very sufficient, he also has great selfishness under the appearance of the tall coat.

"Dare to touch Lao Tzu's future wife, see how Lao Tzu makes you turn into meat puree!!"

After the Battle of Tashan, the little ambiguity between Shi Lang and Li Huamei has gradually become public. As the county lord, Li Huamei has accepted Shi Lang. And Li Peiting is the woman's uncle. Naturally, he is the woman's indispensable matchmaker, and at the same time, he was entrusted by Shouhan to write a letter to Zheng Zhilong, explaining the marriage between Li Huamei and Shi Lang, and asking him to be the matchmaker on Shi Lang's side.

Shi Lang and Shi Daxuan father and son. From then on, he will step into the high-level ranks of the Nanyue Army, and from then on, at least like the Zheng Zhilong family and those families who first followed Shouhan, they will become the core and foundation of Li Shouhan's group. Shi Lang himself is a proper county horse certified by the imperial court! How can these things be kept secret? Shi Lang's battle on the Liaodong Peninsula this time was also to avoid the endless people who curry favor with him, and at the same time, it was also to add another stroke to his credit book.

In addition to these, it is also to give Li Huamei a bad breath of defeating Tashan. In this way, the Liao thieves on the Liaodong Peninsula are full of blood mold!

After a rough calculation, there were tens of thousands of Liao thieves who were escorted to Ningyuan by sea ship to serve as cannon fodder for Wu Sangui's subordinates and were about to be escorted to Nanzhong to send lifelong coolies to various mines and forest farms. Not to mention those military merit leaders who were killed by the Nanyue Army and Ningyuan Town along the way? There are also those who fled to the deep mountains and old forests to escape the war, and the wolf totems and black blind people written by some people have become food to survive the cold winter.

Shi Lang's anger burned the lives of at least 100,000 people on the Liaodong Peninsula, turning hundreds of villages and more than a dozen towns along the way into ruins. Shi Lang also used the same bloody facts to educate the Liaodong anti-thieves that the war will definitely always be a simple unilateral killing, and if he raised the knife, he must also be prepared to be stabbed. Wherever the Ming army passed, the idyllic houses became like deserts, and the Liaodong rebels not only could not use the population and production of the Liaodong Peninsula as war potential for a few years, but on the contrary, they had to invest a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to recover. Because, if you want to destroy, it is very simple, just a fire and a barrel of gunpowder are enough, if you want to build, then you don't know how many people's hard work and sweat will be consumed.

Mo said that the thieves in Liaodong did not have so much manpower and material resources, and even if they did, they had to devote themselves to the war against the Ming Kingdom first. Because only by constantly launching an offensive can it be possible to solve one's own crisis.

In the face of such a behemoth in the Ming Dynasty, which was several times or even dozens of times stronger than the Manchu Qing Dynasty in all aspects, Huang Taiji and his courtiers and minions were very clear. Only by constantly launching campaign-level offensives and strategically taking defense can it be possible to survive, if you are like Yang Yinglong in Banzhou and the Mongols in Ningxia, you can't see the shape clearly, and attack blindly or defend to the death. It is bound to be consumed by the Ming army.

(Speaking of which, the stupid and stupid author is thinking about the arrival of the South China Sea plane, which has been hyped by countless big Vs in the past few days.) Countless people vigorously accused the sailor, saying that he was afraid of the enemy and cowardly, why didn't he shoot down the plane of the United States, and so on. Not to mention whether these people really have the courage to face the war as they say, when the Beiyang Naval Division was fighting, the Qingliu people in the DPRK and China also blamed Deng Shichang and Ding Ruchang. In short, the mouthballs always put themselves in the presiding judge's seat, and they don't see if they have that qualification. Second. I don't know why the US imperialists have been hyping up the South China Sea recently. If it is true, as they claim, that nature's miracles have changed the feng shui of the South China Sea, we should laugh secretly! The more we are blamed by the enemy, the more we are right. Our sailors are not as good as you, but we can play with you to conquer the sea by land. ）

Amid the sound of cannons and fire, the cries and screams in the city grew louder and louder.

Gradually, some people began to sneak away from the city to the city. Find a way through the city and get out of it.

"It's over! Liaoyang City, it's over! ”

Chen Ban looked at the sky. Towards the northwest Xin, two lines of tears flowed across his face, "Your Majesty, the minions have done their best!" ”

The strong north wind blowing from the northwest quickly dried the tears from his face.

In the midst of the increasingly fierce north wind, someone took the lead in opening the west gate. escaped from Liaoyang with his family and fled in the direction of Shengjing along the vaguely recognizable official road.

More and more people followed behind and poured out of Liaoyang City.

South Gate. Wu Sangui commanded the soldiers and horses to rush to the head of the city, opened the city gate and let the brigade enter.

The soldiers and civilians in the city who did not have time to escape all became prisoners of the Ming army.

"Master Shi, according to the old rules. Let's first screen these people. The craftsmen who have the craft belong to you. Looking at the black pressed head, Wu Sangui's face was full of bloodthirsty smiles.

"Dashuai, even if we want to recover Shenyang, we have to make a plan in advance. At the moment, the wind and snow are blowing, and the supply is difficult. It seems that we can reduce the number of Ding appropriately. The old and weak will stay for a few days to fill the pit, and the women will pick the good-looking ones to take away, and the strong men must know how to do some craftsmanship or be willing to fight with us, otherwise they will all be on the road. Wu Qinsi was even more murderous.

"I'll leave it to you. When Ben Shuai was on Phi Dao, he heard a few Jurchens say that the Buddha Kulun they believed in was boundless, so good, I nailed them one by one to the road and let the horses step on them to see which god could save them. If you want to live, you must be obedient and obedient for the rest of your life under the rule of Ben Shuai. ”

At the celebration banquet, Wu Sangui held a wine bowl and pointed to the Liao thieves who were carrying supplies, grain and grass for the Ming army in the city, and captured the people, and pointed at Shi Lang quite proudly. "Early tomorrow morning, I will send a thousand cavalry out of the city, form a mountain search team, and pull out the Jiannu like a rat on the ground, one by one, and let them bleed. Those old and weak women and children, they can't go far in this weather, they don't have any food obligations, and they can't survive for long. Ben Shuai took their flesh and blood to sacrifice their Buddha Kulun! ”

Facts have proved that King Pingxi's words, I don't know whether there is really a goddess of Buddha Kulun, or Wu Sangui's ferocious arrogance angered a certain true god in the sky, and the result is just like a CCTV weather forecaster in 07, casually saying that this year's warm winter is a foregone conclusion, so that the cold current in Siberia is violently killed.

That night, heavy snowfall fell in Liaoyang, with more than five feet of snow, and the northwest wind howled all night, like the roar of hellish ghosts. It's just that under the anger of the goddess Fokulun, the first batch of unlucky people were the Fokulun people who fled outside the city, and the Jiannu civilians who had no clothes, food, and no bonfire, wine and meat, froze to death in the wilderness in batches. It turns out that even for residents of the cold zone, it is dangerous to stay in the wild in winter. Not to mention humans, even those touted god-like Steppenwolves have also froze to death.

There was a continuous heavy snowfall, and the flat ground was covered with five feet of snow.

Although it froze to death countless fleeing Liao thieves, it also made it difficult for the Ming army preparing to attack Shenyang. Blizzard stunned Shi Lang and Wu Sangui, because, under such a blizzard, hitting Shenyang in one fell swoop can only seem like a dream.

"Phocullen bless! Ancestors and fathers bless! Amma's spirit in heaven bless! In the face of the heavy snow falling from the sky, Huang Taiji, who did not know how to deal with the current dilemma outside Guangning City, learned that Liaoyang was lost, but after Chen Banda led most of his craftsmen to escape, he learned that the Ming army that had been killed in the direction of Liaodong had to temporarily stop the attack because of the heavy snow, and he couldn't help but kneel outside the big tent, let the heavy snow fall on his body, and he couldn't stop praising the ancestral gods in his mouth.

Li Shouhan in Ningyuan City, looking at the grain ship frozen on the sea by the heavy snow, was stunned, not knowing whether to cry or curse God?

"In any case, we must also break the ice and go to sea, and tell the sea ships coming to Ningyuan on the sea surface not to come to Ningyuan. Find a random island and unload the grain and rice for the time being. Go to Liaodong and bring Shi Lang and Wu Sangui back! ”

Looking at the sea that was frozen and like a huge mirror, Shouhan had no choice but to do so.

"Even if you use your hand planing, you have to smash the ice open! Let the sea boat out! (To be continued......)

PS: If you have friends who think this snowstorm is too fake, you can go and see the snow disaster that occurred in the Northeast in March 07. CCTV's weather forecast just finished saying that it seemed to be a warm winter or something, and it snowed heavily that night.