The Qing army retreated in such a hurry that when they could not determine the Hongtang army's offensive against them, they could only hope that they would take away the huge population and supplies in Liaoyang City as soon as possible.

The people in the city are the most miserable, whether they are the Jurchen nobles and commoners, or the Han people and slaves who are vassals of them, everyone is in a hurry, and they are forced by the Qing soldiers to give up their property in the city, and even the excess goods are looted by the Qing army.

Prince Dolgon and they are also cold-blooded, they know very well that they gave up most of their baggage in the battle of Gongchangling, which means that after they return to Shengjing, these 40,000 soldiers plus nearly 100,000 people in Liaoyang City, as well as the unpredictable number of tribal refugees who have been poisoned by Yehe, all need huge food supplies to replenish.

Otherwise, even if they defeat Yehebe and force him back to the cold land of Siberia, I am afraid that they will face the heavy pressure and risk of the huge flow of refugees in the country.

After consuming the strength and heritage of the kingdom again and again, even if Dolgon is full of discrimination against the Han people, and wants to revive the rivers and mountains and restore their strength in the future, they need these populations to make up for the losses of their many tribes and breed tribesmen.

Therefore, when the people and nobles of the entire Liaoyang City were in their own hands, in order to deal with the inevitable troubles in the future, Dolgon made a move to sacrifice a small number of people to benefit the majority of the people, and forcibly pocketed all the accumulated materials and grain in Liaoyang City, and distributed them uniformly.

The entire Liaoyang City retreated extremely fast, after all, this Liaoyang City first fell into the hands of Hongtang from the hands of the Qing Dynasty, and then transferred back to the Qing Dynasty by the hands of Hongtang.

It only took seven days in total, and the Qing people emptied the entire Liaoyang City, leaving nothing for Hongtang. In the face of the Qing army team in a defensive posture outside Liaoyang City, the more than 20,000 soldiers who gathered together in Bai Yushan did not dare to act rashly, and sat back and watched the other party's withdrawal.

In the previous raid battle, the Qing army was already tired, and they had just returned from Shang Kexi's defensive line, and they had not had time to reorganize their morale and recover their physical strength, so even if the opponent's troops were actually more than Bai Yushan, but with mental calculations or unintentional, coupled with physical strength and other advantages, Bai Yushan They dared to storm the Gongchangling Walled City.

And now that the two sides are chasing each other, the physical strength of the Hongtang army, which originally had a slight advantage, has gradually narrowed the gap in this chase battle, and the gap between it and the Qing soldiers is no longer the same as at the beginning.

Especially at this moment, when almost a number of Qing soldiers were making a defensive posture in the field, it was really difficult for Bai Yushan and them to defeat them.

The reason why the other party did not enter the city to defend, but fought against the Hongtang army outside the city, was because Dolgon knew that the advantage of their Qing army's combat effectiveness lay in field warfare and in the cavalry that was relatively complete, so they abandoned Liaoyang City, which was easier to defend, and instead confronted the Hongtang army in the south of the city.

This made Bai Yushan and them maintain a very cautious attitude towards attacking the Qing army's position, after all, this is an army with strong strength, and Hongtang is now not dominating the strength of the army and the troops, trying to maintain the strength of the headquarters and reduce the damage of the soldiers is the last word.

Moreover, seeing the movements and actions of the Qing army, they were going to be ready to completely abandon Liaoyang City, so for Bai Yushan, their own plan ended with occupying Liaoyang City, and it was so reasonable to restrict the other party, then they would be happy not to wait for the rear baggage to send artillery to attack the city.

"Let's go, the soldiers and people in the city have been taken away by us, and we are left behind the palace, and if we delay it any longer, I don't know how much damage the Yehe Department has done in the rear."

Hauge persuaded the fourteenth emperor brother beside him, Dorgon has been much older and haggard these days, and even looks a little older than his brother Hauge, who is more than a decade older than him.

The reason for this is that the situation is really difficult for them now, and the Han army of the Ming Dynasty has ravaged the south, and now it is completely established in the huge area south of Liaoyang; There was also a rebellion of the Yehe tribe who were unwilling to be ruled by the Aixinjue Luo clan, poisoning the soldiers of the Eight Banners, causing heavy losses in the country.

Under all these burdens, Dolgon, as an auxiliary prince, needs to put in more effort and thought, to try his best to overcome many difficulties, consolidate his position, and at the same time help the dynasty out of the predicament.

Even the current Prince Hauge is somewhat glad in his heart that he couldn't fight for his younger brother at the beginning, otherwise it would not be Dolgon who is facing many difficulties now, but he Hauge.

"I want to burn Liaoyang City, the two imperial brothers have no opinion, right?"

Dolgon's sudden question, which made Hauge and Zilharang stunned for a moment, and then understood Dolgon's reason, and nodded in agreement.

As the smoke rose from Liaoyang City behind the Qing army's position, and then quickly spread to the entire city, the bright red fireworks in the sky smoked the air, distorting the distant vision, and the Qing army front at this time gradually began to move, bypassing Liaoyang City, which had become a sea of fire, and slowly retreated.

"All soldiers on standby!!"

The door of Liaoyang City was wide open, and it was already in the bag of Hongtang's army, but because of the Qing army's departure, Hongtang finally needed to spend more money to rebuild Liaoyang City, which was completely a matter of harm to others and not to himself.

Bai Yushan and Ma Yao looked at the sea of fire in Liaoyang City with regretful eyes, even if they were more than a mile away from the city, they could feel the heat wave brought by the raging fire in the city, which made them feel the warmth they had not felt for a long time in this winter.

It's just that the price of this warmth is not small, and the furnace that uses a city as fuel is rare in this era.

Bai Yushan didn't bother to send people into the city to put out the fire, and when the Qing army retreated, he deliberately waited for the fire in our city to burn, so that even if Bai Yushan and they had the heart to fight the fire, it would become extremely difficult, and it might even make the firefighting soldiers take great risks.

"Let's go!!"

Seven or eight miles outside the city, where the rear of the Qing army was, Dolgon and Haoge walked at the end, and when they left, Dolgon did not forget to look back at Liaoyang City again, as if to deeply reflect this scene in his mind.

Burning the fire was a last resort, because Dolgon knew that it would be impossible for them to set foot in Liaoyang City again in a short period of time.

"I'll be back sooner or later!!"

Dolgon swore in his heart, and at the same time glanced back at Liaoyang City one last time, and finally turned his head and led the team towards the quilt.