Four hundred miles of Liaoxi returned to the hands of the Han people. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info But this time, it was no longer the Guanning army that was attached to civilian officials that occupied Liaoxi, but Li Zhi's tiger army.

Zu Dashou stood behind Li Zhi, leaning on the battlement wall of Jinzhou City, his body trembling slightly.

Jinzhou is the northernmost point of the 400-mile Liaoxi Corridor. The reoccupation of Jinzhou City is a big thing for Zu Dashou, and he can't afford not to be excited.

Jinzhou City is the lair of Zu Dashou. He was stationed in Jinzhou from the first year of Chongzhen's promotion to the general army, until Chongzhen was transferred to Li Zhi by a paper order from the Donglin Party in the summer of the seventeenth year, and he was entrenched in Jinzhou for sixteen years, and he has regarded this place as his home. There are more than a dozen ancestral houses in the city, which used to be the place where the ancestors and his family rested.

Many of the sons and nephews of the ancestral family were born and raised in Jinzhou.

After entering the customs, Zu Dashou thought that it would take five or ten years to recover Ningjin in the long run. Although they had defeated the Tartars in the Battle of Jinzhou, the Manchus were always a formidable enemy in the eyes of Zu Dashou. Even if Zu Dashou believed that Li Zhi would recapture Liaoxi, he did not dare to hope that he would be able to return to Jinzhou in a year.

However, in front of Li Zhi's tiger army, the iron horse of the Tartars was as fragile as paper. The Ningjin defensive line, which was abandoned by the Donglin Party, was easily recaptured by Li Zhi.

Behind Zu Dashou, Zu Dashou's cavalry cried. One by one, they caressed the walls of Jinzhou and wept.

The main body of the Guanning army was the Liao people who fled to western Liao, and when they fled south under the butcher's knife of the Tartars, it was Jinzhou who took them in. For these cavalrymen, who are known as the iron cavalry of Guanning, Jinzhou is their base camp and their home. How is it not exciting to recapture your homeland?

Li Zhi looked at Zu Dashou and said with a smile: "Ancestor Chief, I will return these ancestral mansions in the city!" More than 600,000 Liao people in western Liaoning are in Tianjin and Shandong. The houses in the city, whose original property belonged to them, and whose houses belong now, I will send clerks to carefully register and investigate, so that these houses can be returned to their original owners. ”

When Zu Dashou heard Li Zhi's words, he was overjoyed, and knelt on the ground with a plop: "Grandpa Guo, a hero of the world, for us and the Han family to recover the land of four hundred miles in western Liaoxi!" Zu Dashou and Wufu have no long things, and they are only willing to break their bones for the great cause of the grandfather of the country. ”

The cavalry behind Zu Dashou all knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "I am willing to break my bones for the grandfather of the country!" ”

"I am willing to break my bones for the grandfather of the country!"

Recovering the homeland of mountains and rivers has always been an exciting thing, let alone for the authorities? At this time, for these Guanning cavalry, it was Li Zhi who asked them to charge into battle and die, and they might not hesitate.

Li Zhi smiled and helped the emotional Zu Dashou.

Hong Chengchou walked up and gave Li Zhi a deep bow before he arched his hand and said, "Grandpa Guo, this Jinzhou is Ning Jin's throat." After we occupy it, we must deploy troops to defend in order to ensure the smooth flow of supplies. ”

Li Zhi looked at Jinzhou City and did not speak.

Hong Chengchou said: "The Liaodong Great Plain north of Jinzhou is 2,000 miles away, and it is all the territory of the Jurchens. Even if we were able to capture Shenyang, the slave chief Dolgon would be able to flee north. This time we attack the Dongnu Plough Court and sweep the cave, we will inevitably pursue Dorgon. The further north this goes, the more important the supply lines become. ”

"We have a strong naval division that can transport supplies directly from Tianjin to the south bank of Jinzhou by warship. But only by controlling Jinzhou can we ensure that supplies can be smoothly landed. Otherwise, if the Jinzhou area is controlled by the slave cavalry, our supplies will not be able to go ashore. ”

Li Zhi asked, "What does Staff Officer Hong mean?" ”

Hong Chengchou said: "More than 600,000 Liao people in western Liaoning are cultivating wasteland in the three wasteland sites of Tianjin and Shandong, and the personnel are concentrated. We can select 10,000 young and strong men to give them weapons and let them defend Jinzhou City. With this 10,000 strong defense, tens of thousands of slaves and horsemen surround Jinzhou, and Jinzhou can also hold on for a month, and we can calmly return to help. ”

Li Zhi felt that Hong Chengchou was quite reasonable, but he didn't want to exaggerate Hong Chengchou's status as an outsider. The officers of the Tiger Ben Army were all promoted by seniority and military merits, and it was not a good thing for the "old men" who had been following Li Zhi to let Hong Chengchou, who had just arrived, control major affairs.

Li Zhi turned his head to look at Li Laosi and asked, "Li Laosi, what do you think?" ”

Li Laosi said: "Grandpa Guo, I also think that the people can be requisitioned. The supply lines were very long. And we only have 44,000 soldiers, and it is a good idea to recruit militia to guard the supply lines. We can draw some officers to command these militias. Liaoxi is the home of these Liao people, and they will definitely fight to defend the city. There is no problem with the militia holding the big city. ”

Li Zhi nodded at this time and said, "Okay, according to the praise of Division Commander Li and Staff Officer Hong, the people will be recruited." But then we have to fight Shenyang, all the way north, 10,000 people are not enough. We selected 50,000 strong men from the people of Liaoxi, gave them weapons and armor, and were responsible for guarding the cities we conquered next. ”

"Let Zheng Kaicheng do this matter, let Zheng Chenggong organize a fleet, and transport the selected Liao people within half a month."

Zheng Kaicheng arched his hand and said: "Don't worry, Guogong, I will take a boat back to Tianjin, and go to the wasteland camp as soon as possible to draw strong men." ”

Li Zhi was arranging the guards of the supply line there, but he saw ten scouts galloping towards him in the distance. The scout passed through the heavy confinement, walked all the way to Li Zhi, knelt down on one knee and said: "Grandpa Guo, we went two hundred miles to the east to spy on the enemy's situation, and found that Taqing had abandoned Yizhou and Quang Ninh, and fled all the way north with his family. As soon as our people and the Tarqing scouts fought, the Tarqing scouts fled in a panic, seemingly without any desire to fight. ”

Xue Sanku, the acting commander of the Selective Division, was stunned and asked, "Guangning has also recovered?" Dongnu is going to flee without a fight? ”

Li Laosi took a breath and said, "Grandpa Guo, I think the Tartars are using a plan to clear the wilderness this time. ”

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Dolgon turned around and took one last look at the Shengjing Imperial Palace, and let out a long sigh.

"I didn't expect that the palace built by my father would be given up by me."

Hearing Dolgon's emotion, Dolgon's brother Azig's eyes were full of blood, and he shouted loudly: "Your Majesty, we have more than 100,000 warriors who can fight, even if we go out of the city and fight against Li Zhi's 40,000 people, we may not be invincible." This Shengjing is the foundation laid by his father's blood, how can he give it up easily? ”

"As long as the emperor gives an order, I, Azig, will lead more than 100,000 warriors to fight Li Zhi'er to the death."

Dolgon heard Azig's words and closed his eyes.

After a long time, he said: "At the beginning, the first emperor rushed to Li Zhi's more than 10,000 people with 50,000 elites, and finally collapsed. Now that Li Zhi has more than 40,000 people, how can we be defeated by more than 100,000 people? ”

"Prince Ying, at this time is the time of life and death of our clan, and the slightest mistake will be the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species. At this point, you have to be calm and don't say something impulsive. ”

Azig glanced at the palace's Chongzheng Hall, and tears flowed uncontrollably. But he didn't dare to say anything dejected, just threw himself on his knees.

"This war is a matter of life and death for our clan, how to fight, how to defend all listen to the emperor's words. It's just that the emperor, the emperor, you have to be careful, you have to be careful! Otherwise, hundreds of thousands of people in my clan will die without a place to bury! ”

After Azig said this, all the Manchu nobles around him knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Dolgon. Many people couldn't hold back their tears and began to cry.

Abandoning Shenyang, the capital occupied by Nurhachi, was really an unbearable burden for the Manchu aristocracy.

Dolgon looked southwest, looked in Li Zhi's direction, and sighed.