In the current situation, the western Liaoning corridor has become a land under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with the city of Beijing where the Eight Banners Army is entrenched, and there is also a Shanhai Pass apart, no one would have thought that there would be a Ming army here, let alone a large army across the sea.

Therefore, when a huge army suddenly appeared on the coast, it brought great shock to the people here.

It is the early spring season, the permafrost has been civilized, and it is the time for spring ploughing. Outside the city of Ningyuan, there are countless cultivated fields, from the foot of the mountain range in the north to the seaside in the south.

More than ten years of war have become a thing of the past, the rare peace has arrived, and the people of Ningyuan are full of hope in their hearts and are working hard in the fields. As for whether this land belongs to the Ming or the Qing, what does it have to do with ordinary people?

After two years of peace, God is quite flattering, and the harvest is very good. For these families of the Guanning army, who once relied on the food and salary allocated by the imperial court, they can now support themselves by farming on their own, not to mention the salaries of the soldiers who followed the king of Pingxi and the wealth sent back by looting.

Therefore, the life of the people in the Ningyuan area is far better than in the Ming Dynasty, which also makes them have no memory of the Ming Dynasty.

So, when they saw a huge fleet of ships on the surface of the sea miles away, these people were shocked and terrified.

The Ming army is coming, is the good life coming to an end?

The people in the fields not far from the sea looked at the boats in the sea and screamed, threw down their farm tools and ran home, they wanted to flee home, they wanted to pack up their things and flee to Ningyuan City with their families, to avoid the Ming army.

On the sailboat, when he saw this situation through the clairvoyant mirror, the muscles on Wu Ping's face couldn't help twitching. The imaginary Qi Shi pot pulp to welcome the imperial army did not appear, and these former Ming people saw the imperial army as if they saw the devil, which made Wu Ping very unhappy.

is obviously a citizen of the Ming Dynasty, but when he saw the imperial army coming, he was like seeing a ghost, all fucking white-eyed wolves, all fucking traitors!

Wu Ping really wanted to pass on the military order, and he didn't have to be polite to these people who no longer regarded him as a Ming person, but thinking about the task he was shouldering, he couldn't help but sigh. These people are the families of Guan Ningjun, and many of them are the families of Wu Sangui's subordinates in the Qing army who are confronting the prince in Liaocheng. Only by capturing them could Wu Sangui's army, which accounted for nearly one-eighth of the total strength of the Qing army, be forced to surrender.

The purpose of sending troops to Liaoxi was to make the rear of the Qing army unstable, to confuse the Qing army on the front line, and to cut off the connection between the Qing army in Guannai and their old nest, and then to capture the family members of Wu Sangui and Han Junqi and shake their military morale. This is the task that Wu Ping undertakes.

Because of the reason for accepting military rations from Huadao, a wharf was built on the seashore in the south of Ningyuan, and ships carrying military rations could dock at the wharf and then transfer them to Ningyuan City by land.

Although Juehua Island is abandoned, the wharf on the sea outside Ningyuan City is still there, and there are more than a dozen fishing boats moored on the wharf, but they are used by the people of Ningyuan to catch fish.

Unlike the rugged southern Liaoning coast, the western Liaoning corridor is a narrow flat land, with no cliffs, no reefs, and flat beaches along the coastline.

The large troop-carrying ships docked straight to the pier jutting into the sea, and the dhows and brigs with a small displacement sailed straight to the beach, and the iron anchors were thrown down, and the ships ran aground on the beach. These ships were lightweight, and could easily float at high tide, and even if they couldn't, a hundred and ten soldiers could easily push them into the sea.

Countless soldiers sped down from the ship and went ashore and lined up on the shore. The time of landing is the time when the defense is at its weakest, and if the enemy forces attack at this time, it will cause serious consequences.

However, it was not until tens of thousands of soldiers came ashore to form a queue that the imaginary enemy did not appear.

Thinking about it, the Ming army came so suddenly, and it came from the sea, the Qing army in Ningyuan couldn't imagine it at all. Moreover, Ningyuan City is eight or nine miles away from the sea, and it will take at least one or two hours for the Qing army in the city to get the news reported by the people on the seaside, sort out the queue, and send troops to come.

Under the command of generals at all levels, the soldiers loaded on the ship were basically ashore, and a total of 20,000 troops were densely lined up on the coast. The ship's weapons and baggage were also unloaded through the dock, and more than 30 red-coated cannons loaded on the gun carriage were hoisted to the dock.

Next, Ningyuan City will be attacked, and the red-clothed cannon is the backbone of the city.

Twenty thousand troops went ashore, a large number of baggage were unloaded from the ship, and there were very heavy red-coated cannons, and even if there were mobile gun carriages, it was very troublesome to unload them from the ship to the shore. It is almost impossible to attack Ningyuan City today.

Therefore, under Wu Ping's order, half of the soldiers lined up to stand guard, and the other half set up camp in a small village not far from the shore.

Seeing the huge fleet of the Ming army coming to the sea, the people in the village had long been frightened and fled, and the empty village was just used for camping. It is more comfortable to pitch a tent next to the village than to fall asleep on a boat.

Although he knew that there could not be too many troops in Ningyuan City, after all, Ningyuan was a fortified city in western Liaoning, and he had blocked countless attacks by the Eight Banners. Even if there were only a thousand or a few hundred troops in the city, it would not be easy to defeat Ning Yuan.

Wu Ping did not send troops to attack Ningyuan in a hurry, but decided to spend the night in the village near this coast. Of course, it was not just resting, dozens of small troops of 100 people were sent out to search all over the vicinity. Their mission was to occupy as many villages as possible, capture the local people, collect grain, and find out the news in Ningyuan and even the Jinzhou area of Shanhaiguan.

The west side of the Liaoxi Corridor is the undulating and steep mountains and hills, the east side is the wide and calm Liaodong Bay sea, and between the mountains and rivers is a flat land that is only twenty or thirty miles wide, and Ningyuan City is in the middle of this flat land, holding the throat road leading from outside the pass to the inside of the pass.

And with the sudden arrival of the Ming army, Ningyuan City suddenly became turbulent within a radius of 100 miles, countless flames were lit everywhere outside the city, it was the Ming army burning and looting, and many people howled and fled to Ningyuan City, trying to avoid the Ming army's soldiers.

The soldiers of the brigade rushed into the villages, killed the men who dared to resist, tied up all the men who had surrendered, wrapped them in women, children and the elderly, and marched towards the sea, where they would board ships and be transported to Kyaw Hoa Island.

The rest of the soldiers searched the village for wealth, grain, money, cloth, cattle and sheep, and did not spare it, and after looting the village, they set fire to it.

These people are the families of the Guan Ning Army under Wu Sangui, and from the moment they surrendered to the Manchus, they were no longer Ming people, and they no longer regarded themselves as Ming people.

Therefore, Wu Ping and all the Ming troops no longer treated them as Ming people, and they were now just hostages used to persecute Wu Sangui's army. You can't just kill them, and you will never be polite to them. (https:)

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