Listening to Fang Zhongji's words, Li Xiao fell into deep thought.

Speaking of which, he is still skeptical about these dragon veins and feng shui and the like. From the past life to the present, it is a kind of attitude of respectful and cold.

After all, in real history, the most fundamental reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was because of its own reasons, and it was still biased to blindly shift the responsibility to the dragon vein and feng shui.

It's just that Li Xiao is also a pragmatist, and he believes that since these things can be passed down through the ages and have strong vitality among the people and the government, maybe there is some truth to it. Even so, you might as well give it a try.

It's just that Li Xiao also heard it clearly, this Fang Zhongji said that if he broke the dragon vein, it would cause serious backlash to the practitioner himself, but he didn't know that Fang Zhongji had considered this point.

"Daoist Fang, didn't you say that this matter of cutting the dragon vein will cause serious backlash to the practitioners? You're not afraid ......" Li Xiao said this, pausing deliberately.

Fang Zhongji laughed miserably, and his face showed a resolute look: "Tang Guogong, if you want to cut off the dragon vein, you are going against the sky, and you have already put life and death out of the way, how can you care about this cruel life!" Thinking that the Tartar has entered the customs several times, killing my Chinese people is like killing pigs and slaughtering dogs, and even the next almost died under its butcher's knife, such a sea of blood and hatred, if I don't revenge, I swear not to be a man! ”

Seeing Fang Zhongji's expression like this, a smile flashed on Li Xiao's face, and he said in a deep voice: "Okay, then ask Daoist Fang to go back and prepare, and early tomorrow morning, let's act with our army." ”

Fang Zhongji promised loudly: "Okay! Then go back first, and set off with your army tomorrow. ”

After dawn the next day, the Tang army was all assembled and reorganized, and immediately crossed the Yalu River westward, and the front of the troops was directed towards Hetuala.

And the Xiangshi Fang Zhongji took his little servant, both of whom were riding horses, and followed the Tang army.

After crossing the Yalu River, the route Li Xiao chose was completely different from the route chosen by the Korean troops during the Battle of Sarhu.

During the Battle of Sarhu, the Korean troops marched north along the Dongjia River (now Hunjiang in Jilin) via Kuandian, and eventually joined up with the Ming army's Liu Wei Division, attacking from east to west. And now Li Xiao, the route he chose is to start from the town of Yanshi, go straight west, cross the Yalu River, and then pass through the Dagu River, Huanrenzhai, and then go west along the Fuer, and finally arrive at the southern part of Hetuara City, where the original Liu Ling's army was destroyed.

The route chosen by the Tang army was more rugged and inaccessible, but Li Xiao's choice of this route was in the hope that in such a densely populated and almost no-man's land, his military operations would be more secretive and more surprising.

The officers and men of the whole army walked through this almost primitive miscellaneous trees and mountain cliffs, and their speed was naturally greatly limited, and from time to time, some Tang soldiers fell into the mountain stream and fell to their deaths.

Regarding the death of these soldiers, Li Xiao was expressionless, and he didn't blink his eyes.

Since ancient times, the soldiers have been fierce and dangerous, not to mention the sneak attack of thousands of miles over the mountains and mountains, and the death of the soldiers under his command is really a normal thing. You must know that during the Three Kingdoms period, Deng Ai attacked Yinping, and after crossing the mountains, more than half of the soldiers of the whole army died. Rao is like this, and he has persevered, and finally became famous through the ages. Now Li Xiao's Tang Army has only killed dozens of soldiers, but it is not worth mentioning at all.

What's more, Ci is not in charge of the troops, for Li Xiao, who is now as cold as iron and murderous, these Tang Army soldiers are just bargaining chips for themselves to win, and they can't be treated as normal people at all. What's more, there are generous death benefits to let them die in mourning, and even if these soldiers die, they will face it very calmly. Therefore, for such sporadic casualties, Li Xiao didn't care at all.

During the last battle of Sarhu, there were more than 20,000 people after Liu Xiao's troops and North Korean troops converged, and now, the Tang army under Li Xiao has only more than 20,000 people.

The Tang army that went to Hetuara this time included a total of 30 shields, 60 spearmen, 2,000 Xuanhu heavy cavalry, 2,000 flying harrier light cavalry, 2,000 rampant sentinels, 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, 9,000 Lumi gunners, and 100 heavy dragon guns. The total strength of the army reached more than 25,000 people. It can be described as a strong soldier and a strong horse, and the combat power is so strong that the original Liu Wei department cannot be compared at all.

And after Li Xiao arrived in Shishi Town, he also received information about Hetuala's troop deployment from the personnel of the Liaodong Security Division.

That is, now in the city of Hetuala, only Babuhai, the general of the clan town, is the main general, and the Yellow Banner Gushan Ezhen Murgen is the deputy general, leading 3,000 Manchurian soldiers and horses, stationed in it.

Because considering that this is the birthplace of the Manchurian nation, in order to prevent outsiders from tarnishing the dragon vein, only the Manchurian army is stationed here, and there are no Mongol soldiers and Han troops.

For a mainland city without any enemies, nearly 3,000 people were arranged, which was more than enough. The reason why so many troops were arranged was because Huang Taiji believed that Hetuala, the Xingjing capital of the Qing Dynasty, was the fundamental place of Manchuria, and there was no room for failure, so he deliberately sent heavy troops to defend it.

Of course, his intentions were good, but in the absence of any fighting for decades, even the most vigilant troops would become lax.

Like now, from the beginning of the Fuerjiang area, it has been the territory of Hetuala, the capital of Xingjing, and it is supposed to send sentinels to patrol around, but in the absence of any fighting in the past few decades, the sentinels below have also begun to lazily and advance to a distance of several miles from the Fuerjiang River, and then they have withdrawn.

Therefore, in ten days, the Tang army marched westward and finally reached the west bank of the Fur River, but did not encounter any exploration or obstruction by the Qing army. So far, the most difficult section of the road has all been successfully passed.

Of course, along the way, the Tang army also lost nearly 200 Tang soldiers, most of whom fell to their deaths. Compared with the successful arrival of more than 20,000 Tang troops, this loss can be described as minimal.

Compared with the previous Ming general Liu Ling, Li Xiao can be described as extremely benevolent.

In history, when Liu Wei led his army all the way to attack the city of Hetuala, he captured the Jurchen cottage along the road and killed all the lame and blind people in his own army who could not move, so as to prevent them from dragging the back of the troops before continuing to march forward.

Immediately, Li Xiao immediately ordered the whole army to march quickly to Abu Dali Gang, in order to occupy this place as soon as possible, where Liu Wei's Eastern Route Army had been defeated.

In the process of marching to Abu Dali Gang, the officers and men of the whole army can still see from time to time that there are scattered white bones and very rusty and damaged weapons and armor beside the rugged path, which should be the Ming army or Korean soldiers who died in the last battle of Sarhu.

Seeing these relics, Li Xiao's face was tense, but he was secretly ruthless in his heart.

When the Tang army was about to arrive at Abu Dali Gang, their actions were finally discovered by the patrolling Qing army.

The sharp and piercing sound of the conch horn immediately sounded continuously, all the way back to the city of Hetuala.

Seeing that his troops and horses were discovered by the Qing army, Li Xiao immediately ordered that while the Qing army was defenseless, the two cavalry of Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry and Flying Harrier immediately rushed forward, and they must first take down the dangerous Abu Dali Gang.

The two Tang cavalry, like two protruding winds, roared and chased after the 100 or so Qing soldiers and horses stationed at the post.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Tang army was huge and sudden, the soldiers of the Qing army were frightened and had no desire to fight, and they had no time to urgently set up the formation, so they howled and abandoned their positions, turned around and fled north, only hoping that they could escape for their lives as soon as possible before the Tang army's swords and guns were cut down.

In the end, the cavalry of the Tang army pursued and killed all the more than 60 infantry on the road, and killed more than 20 Qing cavalry, leaving only more than 20 Manchurian cavalry, and fled north in a hurry and escaped into the city of Hetuala.

Subsequently, when dusk came, the Don army successfully captured Abu Dali Gang.

Seeing the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army, cheering warmly in this steep and steep Abu Dali Gang, Li Xiao was also very happy in his heart.

He knew that in history, this Abu Dali Gang could be said to be soaked in the blood and tears of the Ming army.

In the Battle of Salhu that year, the Eastern Route Army led by Liu Wei of the Ming Dynasty failed to advance to Hetuara on schedule due to the rugged mountain roads and difficult movements. The Ming army was scattered and communication was inconvenient, and Liu Wei, who led the Eastern Route Army to advance, did not know that at this time, Juniper's Western Route Army and Marin's Northern Route Army had been defeated, so he still marched towards Hetuara City according to the original plan.

At this time, after defeating Ma Lin's Northern Route Army, the old slave immediately moved his troops to meet Liu Wei's army.

On the third day of March in 1619 (the forty-seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty and the fourth year of the Later Jin Heavenly Mandate), in order to completely annihilate Liu Ling's troops, Nurhachi adopted the method of luring him to advance quickly and setting up an ambush to gather and annihilate. He arranged an ambush in Abu Dali Gang with a small number of Han soldiers pretending to be the Ming army, wearing Ming army armor, waving the banner of the Ming army, holding Juniper arrows, falsely claiming that the Juniper army was approaching Hetuara and asked Liu Wei to advance quickly.

Liu Wei saw that the juniper department had already succeeded, and his heart was overjoyed.

Having been carried away by the excitement and not scrutinizing the sentinels who had reported the news, he immediately ordered the whole army to intensify its march and rush to Hetuara with all its might.

Abu Darigang's mountains and mountains are stacked, and the pass road is dangerous, which is an extremely dangerous place of death, and Liu Wei, who is eager to make meritorious contributions, still orders his soldiers and horses to advance in a single column without reconnaissance, but he does not know that his own military operations are already in the eyes of the Qing army.

It turned out that on the 5th day of the first month of March of that year, the Sibeile Emperor Taiji Standing Army was on the top of the mountain, and he could see the movements of Liu Ling's troops clearly, and when Liu Wei led all the Eastern Route Army into the Abu Dali Gang, he immediately led his troops to fight from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, while the Great Bel Daishan led the army to attack the flank, and the Second Belle Amin attacked from the front.

Seeing the sudden change in the situation, Liu Wei was shocked and hurriedly ordered to meet the enemy, because the Ming army carried a large number of firearms, and the Eight Banners Army failed to attack several times. Liu Wei led the Ming army in his headquarters, paid the price of huge casualties, and when he retreated into the Varkhash wilderness, he was ambushed by Houjin. The ambush soldiers of the Eight Banners, who had already been ambushed here, shouted everywhere, and fired a volley of ten thousand arrows.

In fact, Liu Wei was a famous general of the Ming Dynasty, and when he was 15 years old, he joined the army with his hair. In the battle against the Nine Silk Barbarians, he charged ahead and took the lead in capturing the barbarian leader Ah Da, and became famous in a battle. Later, he fought Burma and only led 2,000 Ming troops to win against 50,000 Burmese troops. In the battle of Banzhou to defeat the rebellious Tusi, Liu Wei bravely crowned the three armies, and he made the first contribution. In the war of aiding Korea, he defeated the army of Konishi Yuki, which was the first merit of the war of aiding Korea. Liu Wei has experienced hundreds of battles of all sizes, without a single defeat, and his prestige has shaken the sea.

At this point, the entire Eastern Route Army has become a live target of the Houjin Army, and the Houjin Army took a bow and fired a salvo together, flying arrows like locusts, and it was very difficult for the Ming Army to even raise its head.

In the end, Liu Ling's two sons, Liu Zuo and Liu Jie, died one after another, and Liu Ling himself was also shot in the left arm by an arrow. He gritted his teeth and continued to fight, but he was shot in the right arm again, and he still resisted. A Tartar rushed forward and slashed half of Liu Ling's face with a knife, but the brave Liu Wei still did not fall, but clashed left and right, and finally after dozens of people were stabbed, the blood flowed out, and his strength was weakened, so he fell to the ground and struggled to die.

After his death, his righteous son Liu Zhaosun, "carrying the corpse and holding the blade", tried his best to fight with the Eight Banners Tartars, and finally died of exhaustion, and was cut apart by several fierce tiger knives.

It's a pity that a generation of famous generals Liu Ling, before Salhu, has never lost a battle in his life, and most of the soldiers and generals in his department are also long-term warriors, fierce and fierce, and can be regarded as the top elite division of the Ming Dynasty, but they were completely wiped out in Salhu, which is really regrettable.

Subsequently, the old slave took advantage of the victory to chase and kill, completely defeated the entire Eastern Route Army, and the corpses of the Ming army who fled and were killed were almost piled up in the entire Varkhash wilderness.

In 5 days, the Houjin army defeated the Ming army and won a major victory in the Battle of Sarhu. In addition to Li Rubai's Ming army fled back, the Ming army lost 45,800 people, 310 generals and officers were killed in the battle, 28,000 mules and horses, and more than 20,000 artillery birds, and the Jin army was very slight.

Later, the Academy of Military Sciences of modern China specially established a Lanchester model to study this war.

They concluded that such a casualty ratio is not uncommon if calculated using the Lanchester model.

To take the simplest example, if two armies of equal strength come together, both sides will eventually be destroyed. But if Army A goes to battle an army B that is twice as numerous as it is but each soldier is only half as strong as him, and Army B loses only half of its strength to annihilate the opponent, in this case Army A must have four times the combat strength of Army B if it wants to win.

Therefore, according to general estimates, the Eight Banners Army was 8 times the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, and in the Battle of Sarhu, the Houjin Army maintained a numerical advantage of about 2 times in the local battlefield, and the final result was that the Houjin Army completely defeated the Ming Army with very few losses and achieved this great victory.

After the Battle of Salhu, the most elite troops of the Ming Dynasty were completely wiped out in a battle, and in order to save the defeat, the Ming Dynasty began to increase troops and salaries, counting acres and increasing distribution, resulting in peasant riots, the Korean party fighting for power, God did not bless the Ming, plus the Xiaoice River period descended on China, and since then the world has been rotten and uncontrollable.

According to Qing history, Emperor Qianlong returned to Liaodong one day and revisited the ancient battlefield of Salhu, and he commented on the battle of Salhu in a joyful and sighing tone.

"Woohoo, since it is a war, and the country of Ming is getting stronger, my martial arts are being promoted, the parade is Liaodong, Wang Jikai, the emperor is determined, is it easy? Yun because my ancestor seeks revenge in the sky? The ancestors and brothers and nephews led the ministers of the humerus and heart, risked the stone arrows, gave the strategy, and the holy heirs and virtuous ministers expressed their efforts and served for a while, and used them to become Hongyou. I have been in the Qing Dynasty for hundreds of millions of years, and this is really the case. ”

Of course, the billion-year-old foundation that Qianlong thought of was just a water moon mirror.

Under his rule, the Qing Dynasty began to decline from prosperity to decline, and various social problems broke out in a concentrated manner, and the White Lotus Sect, which was determined to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, spread in full swing among the poor people, and finally in less than 100 years, the Qing Dynasty was declared completely destroyed.

Thinking about the past and present lives, staring at the slowly falling sunset, Tang Guogong Li Xiao felt endless emotion in his heart.

"Passing on the order of the public army, it is now too late and it is difficult to move, so the whole army is temporarily resting at Abu Dali Gang. When it is dawn tomorrow, the city of Hetuara will be surrounded and the city must be conquered in one fell swoop. If this city falls, it will be slaughtered regardless of whether it is a soldier or a civilian, a man or a woman! ”

Li Xiao, who came back to his senses from his thoughts, immediately ordered in a deep voice, his face was full of hideous colors.

"Obey orders!"