In the evening, he convened a meeting of generals above the director of the bureau and said: "It is impossible for Haizhou Jiannu to allow it to be lost, and he will want to take it no matter what." So now I have two ideas, one is to let all the troops of Gaizhou come to Haizhou, relying on this city, to consume the strength of Jiannu, and the second is to let the army of Gaizhou come to a part to cover our slow retreat, and use Gaizhou as a base to deal with Jiannu. Both ideas have their own advantages and disadvantages, and I can't make up my mind, so let's take a closer look. “

Du Guangting said anxiously: "Haizhou has enough food, and Jiannu is not good at attacking cities, so turn this city into a flesh and blood mill, and let Jiannu shed blood here." “

Sun Fumin, the commander of the artillery battalion, looked at the map and said: "Haizhou is farther away from Gaizhou than Liaoyang, not to mention Anshan, the point is that we are not enough in numbers, we have a brigade, two cavalry battalions, and an artillery battalion, barely less than 6,000, if Jiannu dispatches more than 15,000, then Haizhou must not be able to defend, especially our artillery battalion has not enough shells, I didn't think of defending Haizhou." “

Dai Chunfeng also attended the meeting as a representative of the General Staff, and he said: "Due to the small number of Jiannu, they did not use the ladder, and they are still carrying out a tentative attack, and when the reinforcements come, Haizhou lacks shells, and I am afraid that it will not be easy to deal with." ”

The other officers all expressed their opinions, and most of them felt that it was impossible to defend to the death, and they knew that the advantage of the Guards was that they could defend against one and a half times the enemy army by relying on simple fortifications, and it was okay to deal with twice as many enemy troops if they relied on fortified cities, but if the number of people was too disparity, it would still not work.

Lu Xiangsheng finally concluded: "Then we have to retreat, we retreat step by step, first to Tashanpu, then to Yaozhouyi, then to Li Luoguo, and finally back to Gaizhou." Now the question is what to do with things? We can't take all the supplies with us. ”

In the end, everyone decided to select good wheat, urgently make military rations, each person brought five days of reserves, and fed the war horses with good material before retreating, and burned what could be burned when leaving, leaving only an empty city for Jiannu.

Lu Xiangsheng decided to start retreating three days later, and sent people to break through from the not tight enemy encirclement at night, and let the whole army of the 1st Brigade go out to meet at Tashanpu.

At the same time, Liaoyang, Nurhachi was angry, Haizhou was occupied by the Ming army was nothing, because the Ming army could attack Haizhou from many directions, he first thought that the Ming army came from Liaoxi, but it was soon reported, Yaozhou and Gaizhou have also been lost, although there is no news from Jinzhou and Fuzhou, but you can know from the map that these two places are only afraid of more than lucky.

He ordered Yue Tuo to attack Haizhou, but there was no news of victory for so many days, and at this time he received news from Jinzhou and Fuzhou: Liu Aita had surrendered to the enemy, including Li Yongfang's eldest son Li Yangeng.

Liu Aita Wanli defected to Nurhachi in the thirty-third year of Wanli, Nurhachi always trusted him, treated him like a son-in-law, and made him the chief military officer who managed the Southern Fourth Guard, but he actually defected to the enemy?

And Li Yongfang surrendered to Nurhachi in the forty-sixth year of Wanli, Nurhachi took the daughter of Bel Abatai as his wife, and in the process of capturing Qinghe, Tieling, Liaoyang, and Shenyang, he was awarded the chief military officer for meritorious service, and now his eldest son has also surrendered to the enemy?

The anger in the old slave's heart was indescribable, and he used the excuse to kill three Baoyi, and only calmed down a little, he quickly sent someone to summon Li Yongfang, and he wanted to ask him why his eldest son wanted to join the enemy.

Li Yongfang has actually received the news that his eldest son surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, Nurhachi asked people to call him, he knew that it was not good, but he was helpless, as the first general to surrender to Jin, even if he turned back to the past now, the Ming court would not forgive him, not to mention that unlike Liu Xingzuo, his wife and children were all in Liaoyang, and there was no way to escape alone.

As soon as he saw Nurhachi, Li Yongfang immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "The slave has no way to teach his son, please punish the Great Khan." Originally, the generals of the Han army were not called slaves, but Li Yongfang wanted to move Nurhachi's heart with emotion, thinking about his own benefits, and let him be punished a little lighter.

Nurha asked with a calm face, "Why did Yan Geng defect to the enemy?" ”

Li Yongfang pondered for a moment and said: "Great Khan, it must be Liu Aita who coerced my son, my son has always been loyal to the Great Khan, and he will not defect to the enemy on his own." ”

He only knew that his son had defected to the enemy, but he didn't know the specific situation, but then the golden spy reported the detailed situation to Nurhachi, who was furious and said: "Come on, tie up this traitor for me." ”

Immediately, two white armors ripped off Li Yongfang's hat and tied it with rope. Nurhachi held a whip, and with one whip, it was whipped on Li Yongfang's face, and it was immediately a bloody trace.

He scolded while smoking: "He himself carried a thorn stick, inserted a straw mark, knelt and begged for mercy, and said that Liu Aita coerced him." Your father and son themselves want to return to the Ming Court, so he will join the enemy. ”

Li Yongfang gritted his teeth, for fear of angering Nurhachi, and said nothing, but Nurhachi was even more angry, pumped him harder, and continued to scold: "I know that you Han people look down on me and think I am a barbarian, if you didn't see Fushun that day, you wouldn't have surrendered to me, you were just a small guerrilla back then, I let you marry the daughter of the clan, I made you a general soldier, you are still an unfamiliar dog, as long as the original owner summons you a little, you will immediately abandon me, I will kill you dog thief." ”

He whipped and cried, he treated you Han people so well, Liu Aita has been here for almost twenty years and ran back, and you, as a forehead, even ran back to your eldest son, is Huayi's argument so powerful, will you always be a barbarian?

He cried and continued to fight, and at the end there was only one sentence left: "I know you look down on me." Li Yongfang neither dared to argue nor dodge, and was about to be beaten to death.

At this time, Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai, who got the news, ran in, and the two did not dare to stop Nurhachi, but shouted beside them: "Father Khan, Li Efu is about to die." ”

Nurhachi whipped a few more times before he stopped. At this time, Li Yongfang had already fainted just right.

Nurhachi vented, and his mood was a little better, and he said to Huang Taiji and Mang Gurtai: "Zhengbai Zhenglan has fifteen Niu Lu each, we must take Haizhou, annihilate the Ming army, and capture Liu Aita and Li Tinggeng for me, I will execute them Ling Chi." ”

All kinds of requests, thank you for your support! There is a historical record of Nurhachi's whipping of Li Yongfang, but I advanced the time. Under the light of my big man, it was normal for barbarians everywhere to feel inferior at that time.