After landing near Gaizhou, the progress of the battle was even smoother than Xu Shiyang had predicted.

Xu Shiyang personally led the main force of the two brigades to besiege the city of Gaizhou without attacking it, and the other troops scattered into hundreds of troops, bringing one or two magic cannons, to attack and loot all the villages and towns near Gaizhou on a large scale.

Due to the absence of the main Jurchen force and the complete lack of preparation for Xu Shiyang's landing operation, these tunpu did not even know that a powerful enemy army had come to them before they were attacked.

Most of the population of these tunpu could not escape into Gaizhou, and the hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled men in each village could not resist the attackers with artillery, so the new army was like a clam shell, easily smashing all the villages and towns within the attack area, and swallowing the fat meat inside.

From the second day of landing, when the new army began to divide its troops to attack, a large amount of booty began to be continuously transported to the landing ground of the Qi army, and then transferred to Lianyun Island.

In just three days, Xu Shiyang liberated a total of more than 10,000 Han slaves in Liaodong, although there were very few men, but women and children Xu Shiyang did not dislike, after all, women can still have children, and children can grow up.

In addition, including the Jurchens, Xu Shiyang obtained a population of as many as 30,000 people of other nationalities, and there were also few men, and even there were very few elderly people in this group, because they were not Han Chinese, and it was impossible for them to receive special care from the attackers, and if their physique was a little weaker, it was basically impossible to reach the destination of the Qinghe estuary alive.

However, as long as they came over, they could get at least one bowl of gruel a day, and these strong women and children were sent to Qi Province, which was also very useful for Xu Shiyang.

In addition to the population, Xu Shiyang also received a lot of cattle, sheep, livestock and grain.

In fact, most of the meat and livestock and grain had already been taken away by the Jurchen army, so even though the autumn harvest had not been long ago, Xu Shiyang's harvest in this regard was not much.

However, the soldiers were still able to find large quantities of Jurchen lambs, suckling pigs, and grain seeds for the coming year.

In addition, there are a large number of ploughing cattle, ploughing horses and other animals that the Jurchens are reluctant to eat.

In addition to these, Xu Shiyang also seized a large amount of wealth, especially in the homes of nobles above the rank of Zhennu Zhenmou, and a lot of gold, silver, jewelry, silk and satin can be found.

Xu Shiyang knew that this was because the Tartars had accumulated a lot of wealth after more than ten years of looting, but because of the lack of productivity, the funds were not circulating, and they could only quickly concentrate on the nobles at all levels.

If nothing else, when Gaizhou is conquered, the nobles in the city will definitely have more treasures stored.

But Xu Shiyang did not have the idea of attacking Gaizhou now, although the defenders in Gaizhou City only had a thousand old and weak plus some desperate women and children, if they attacked, it was estimated that two brigades would be able to solve the battle in one day.

But Xu Shiyang was still waiting very patiently, he was waiting for Fuzhou's reaction to Gaizhou's side.

Regardless of whether there is an ambush over there, there are only Jurchens in Fuzhou who are now the only high-ranking officials of the Bo Jilie level who are left behind, and for the Jurchens who are generals, the completion of the silver technique means that the Tartars are left behind by the mobile troops.

It is impossible for him to watch the nest behind him being looted by Xu Shiyang at will, as long as he stays in Gaizhou and does not fight, Yinshu will definitely lead the army to the rescue, in that case, it means that the Tartars must go through hundreds of miles of roads to expedition near Gaizhou, and such a long supply line from Fuzhou to Gaizhou is almost completely exposed to the attack range of the Qi navy.

After fighting with Yan Yinshu in Gaizhou, the strategic advantage for Xu Shiyang is very huge, how could he not try to encircle the point and send reinforcements?

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After five days of plundering near Gaizhou, the Qi army reached the city of Yaozhou as far north as possible, forcing the local sparse defenders to hold the city, and the Qi army burned most of the villages south of Yaozhou, taking away all the local reserves of salt and destroying all the tools for boiling salt that could not be taken away.

To the east, the Qi army attacked along the Qing River, advancing all the way to the vicinity of the large Lingguan near the source of the Qing River, sweeping away all the tun villages on both sides of the Qing River.

Due to the river irrigation, these villages are the most fertile land in the vicinity, and they are important grain producing areas for the Tartars, and after Xu Shiyang looted and burned these villages, it will be very difficult for the Tartars to resume local production, and their agriculture will also be severely damaged next year.

To the south, the Qi army only attacked Yulinpu, but in order to prevent the enemy from being raided by Fuzhou, Xu Shiyang specially sprinkled most of the regular cavalry in his hands, forming a huge reconnaissance curtain, waiting for Tartar reinforcements that might appear at any time.

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On the ninth day of the ninth month of September, Xu Shiyang's team of raiders began to reinforce, according to his plan, within three days, if the Tartar reinforcements in Fuzhou did not appear, then the possibility of Gaizhou Tartars having reinforcements was very low, and at that time he would directly conquer Gaizhou and leave.

However, early the next morning, the scout cavalry distributed in the south reported that Tartar reinforcements had appeared.

There were thousands of Tartar cavalry that appeared first, and the powerful cavalry skirmishers instantly killed Xu Shiyang's cavalry reconnaissance curtain.

This unusual power made Xu Shiyang quickly understand that there was indeed an ambush on the Fuzhou side, otherwise with Wanyan Yinshu, a non-clan would be extremely strong, and it would be impossible to spill thousands of cavalry stragglers.

He didn't even know how many enemy troops were attacking and who the commander was.

No matter who came from the other side, the timing of the opponent's grasp was quite good, at this time Xu Shiyang's main force was at the beginning of the recovery but not recycled, he only had two brigades of Dingzhen used to surround Gaizhou, as well as half of the guards, the trap camp and the cavalry company of the other two infantry brigades, about 4,000 soldiers and more than 2,000 auxiliaries.

If Xu Shiyang stayed where he was to fight, he would have to face a field battle with a superior enemy army, and if he retreated now, all the troops that had not yet been recovered would be dead.

It seems that the enemy generals seem to have calculated that Xu Shiyang must be in a dilemma with the least number of troops at this time.

However, Xu Shiyang does have other preparations.

After learning that the enemy's main force had arrived, Xu Shiyang transferred another newly built unit defending the landing field to the vicinity of Gaizhou.

This is a newly established independent artillery unit, with only one battalion with two companies under the total structure, but each company is equipped with six new 8-kilogram guns and two 10-kilogram guns.

This battalion had 16 heavy guns, and because of its poor mobility, it was directly assigned to the navy as naval guns under normal conditions, so it did not participate in the previous war.

However, like all Qi artillery, this artillery battalion is equipped with a special land artillery mount, which can be used ashore when you play it.

Because of the strong firepower, the artillery battalion came to block the Qing River, and if the Tartars wanted to cross the river, they could only avoid the blockade range of the artillery battalion as much as possible and choose to cross the river from elsewhere.

This will slow down the Tartars' attack, and time is on Xu Shiyang's side, if the Qi army can recover all the troops that have been scattered, then whether this battle is fought or not will depend entirely on Xu Shiyang's thoughts.

But if the Tartars directly seize the time to force the crossing of the river, they must taste the power of the independent heavy artillery battalion.

This is also what Xu Shiyang wants to see.

"Come on, Tartar."

Xu Shiyang stood on the north bank of the Qing River, gritting his teeth and smiling.

"Lao Tzu is waiting for you here!"

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