Chapter 16: The Battle of Niuzhuang II

No one thought that the armies of the two sides sat still in Niuzhuang, staring at each other, but in Yingkou, the Xia army, which had established cities in various places, encountered a surprise attack by the Qing army.

After all, the army here in Niuzhuang is in charge, and the Qing army does not dare to act rashly. But it's different elsewhere.

The Qing army came suddenly and attacked the people who were building the city.

These people are all from North Korea, and it is right to say that they are people, compared to the severely trained Xia army, the combat power of these Koreans is only at the level of people. But these Koreans were the Korean rebels who had been incorporated before.

After all, North Korea was ravaged by the Qing army, and it has long been out of shape.

There are many North Koreans displaced by the war, not to mention, in such a situation, North Korea has to supply food and grass for the Xia army, which is even worse. If it weren't for the fear of the Qing army, the Li family still had some hope in Korea, and there were people who rebelled.

Even so, King Han had to recruit troops on a large scale.

After all, it's better to include these insecurity factors in the army than to leave them outside.

Of course, there may not be a little bit of King Han's meaning. Show Xia Jun his strength.

Therefore, a lot of Korean soldiers were sent to enlist.

However, Zheng Chenggong only used them as people's husbands. At this moment, it was sent to build the city, but it came in handy.

As a result, Tuhai won a battle, and he led his army to raid the Yingkou Castle under construction at night, and drove thousands of Korean people off the sea in one go. If it weren't for the immediate support of the Xia Army's sailors nearby, these Koreans would probably be covered with corpses all over the sea.

Battles like Tuhai's were repeated in just a few days.

Zheng Chenggong sits in Niuzhuang City. Countless messages were gathered in his hands.

At this moment, Niuzhuang City already has a prototype.

Niuzhuang City is not too big, but the circumference is only more than a thousand steps, just in the middle of the Xia army camp, close to the Liao River, so that the boat can only dock directly, and all kinds of materials can be directly transported to the city, so the construction speed is very fast.

Zheng Chenggong's big tent of the Chinese army is not far from the city, and after the construction of Niuzhuang City, Zheng Chenggong is ready to move into Niuzhuang City. Almost as soon as Zheng Chenggong came out of the big tent, he could see Niuzhuang City.

It's just that at this moment, Zheng Chenggong feels that something is wrong.

The Qing army's suppression of the cavalry of the Xia army has never been broken, and Ma Sanbao is certainly a good cavalryman, but personal bravery is of no use in the face of absolute strength. Zheng Chenggong also gave up letting Ma Sanbao's troops fight a scout battle with the Qing army.

In this way, it means that Xia Jun has become deaf and blind outside the line of the Liaohe River.

This feeling of being controlled by others makes Zheng Chenggong feel a little

Disturbed.

However, although Zheng Chenggong went deep into Liaodong, he did not cut off contact with the rear, and news from all parties was sent from the waterway.

The first thing he noticed was that Liang Huafeng stormed Lianshan Pass.

The Qing army has repeatedly increased its troops, Liang Huafeng was once forced to retreat, and the back road was cut off, but fortunately, Liang Huafeng was prepared. Reopen. And recruited a lot of Korean people to transport grain and grass, and turned a series of military stations behind him into a fortress, which is a city of thirty miles, and wanted to build all the way from the Yalu River to the city of Liaoyang.

Liang Huafeng's troops were under the Lianshan Pass, and they had been continuing.

This is also one of the reasons why Zheng Chenggong wants to open up the shipping route from Jiangnan to Liaodong, because most of the grain in North Korea is consumed on Liang Huafeng's side.

But Zheng Chenggong seems to have only looked at the information in his hands. Now it was he who had the upper hand, why was Azig so quiet.

Zheng Chenggong was ready to build a series of permanent castles along the eastern shore of Liaodong. Even after autumn, Zheng Chenggong's army withdrew from the Liaohe River, and waited for the beginning of spring next year to come here again. For Zheng Chenggong, it is enough.

After all, there is Niuzhuang City here, and the connection between the Qing army inside and outside the pass will have to be detoured.

In general, the materials in Liaodong are still quite poor.

If the war continues, the materials in Liaodong will definitely not be enough for the Qing army in Liaodong. Zheng Chenggong felt that he had captured the seven inches of the Qing army, and in his mind, the Qing army would definitely storm Niuzhuang desperately, pull out this place, and even build a fort at Yingkou to block the Xia army's sailors and drive him out of the sea.

It's just that Azig is too calm.

The calm makes people a little worried.

"Report." A pro-soldier knelt on the ground and said, "A letter from Master Fu Shan Fu from Beijing. ”

Zheng Chenggong's heart moved, and he had an ominous premonition.

The name Fu Shan is unknown to many people.

Because Fu Shan wants to keep a low profile, but for the generals with the rank of Privy Council, he knows it, after all, all the generals who are qualified to hold the rank of Privy Council are the core of Great Xia, and the information that Fu Shan got from the north must be given to them after sorting, including the cabinet.

After Zheng Chenggong presided over the Korean War, he also asked Fu Shan to investigate some information about the sailors, although he had not seen it, but he had dealt with it.

However, Fu Shan knew his special status, so under normal circumstances, he was unwilling to directly hand over to the commander of the army, and it was all forwarded by people from Nanjing, after all, it is difficult to say how time-sensitive the intelligence of this era is. Especially when there is a war.

It must be very important information to allow Fu Shan to directly send a letter to him from Beijing of the Qing court, regardless of the danger of exposure.

Zheng Chenggong opened it and looked at it, and his face suddenly stiffened.

There is only one sentence on it, and that is that Dolgon is not in the north

Capital city.

Zheng Chenggong didn't know how many intelligence officers Fu Shan sacrificed in the entire city of Beijing for this sentence.

In fact, it is not too difficult to find out this news, after all, people in this era do not have a strong sense of secrecy, and in general, Manchu people are in Beijing, and they can be regarded as outsiders. A lot of things need to be done below, and there are many others, the eunuchs of Prince Rui's Mansion are not full of people after all.

But sending this letter to the army took Fu Shan I don't know how much thought.

From Beijing, to Tianjin, to the sea, change to a fishing boat to Jinzhouwei. Along the way, the plan is not as simple as words. It can be said that before this, Fu Shan had been in charge of intelligence work in Beijing, after all, Beijing was the foundation of the Qing army, and it was also the most well-informed place.

But after this time, Fu Shan had to go to Jinan.

In the vicinity of Beijing, there are no fewer than hundreds of people who have died in just seven words, and it is still expanding.

Although Zheng Chenggong didn't know the bloodstains after these seven words, he could see the monstrous sea of blood brought by these seven words.

The name of the man, the shadow of the tree, Dolgon was nominally the regent, but in fact he was the emperor of the Qing court. All the military and political orders of the Qing court were decided from the hands of the regent, and after the Qing army entered the customs, it was like a bamboo, and the prestige of Dolgon was even more maintained.

Zheng Chenggong didn't dare to ignore Dolgon no matter what.

For whom did Dorgon leave Beijing? Zheng Chenggong's first thought was for him Zheng Chenggong.

I think Fu Shan also meant this, otherwise, Fu Shan would not have desperately sent the news to Zheng Chenggongjun.

Zheng Chenggong was a little flustered for a while, he immediately took a few deep breaths, calmed down his mind, and then thought about one thing carefully, if Dolgon came to Liaodong, would Dolgon do it himself?

Zheng Chenggong stood in front of the map, his eyes swept over the lower reaches of the Liao River for more than a hundred miles.

"It must be cut off." Zheng Chenggong thought that although Zheng Chenggong didn't know too much where Dolgon would start, one thing was clear, Dolgon must have a perfect plan.

To be on the safe side, Zheng Chenggong immediately decided to retreat.

At this moment, Zheng Chenggong felt as if in the middle of the night, he was confronting people with a knife alone, but he knew that there was another person in the dark. Naturally, it is not too late to retreat to a safe place under a wall.

It's just that the Xia army is tens of thousands of troops, and it is not easy to retreat. Zheng Chenggong was worried that there would be signs of retreat on his side. Over there, Azig is attacking desperately, and Zheng Chenggong knows that Dolgon has also come to Liaodong, so Azig's task is very clear.

It's to contain him.

What to do? Countless thoughts flashed in Zheng Chenggong's heart, but he couldn't make up his mind for a while.