The beginning of August in the third year of Chongzhen (the third year of Tiancong in the Manchu Dynasty).

According to Liu Yunwei's plan before the expedition, after the 400,000 Ming soldiers went north, the soldiers were divided into two routes.

Li Dingguo, Li Laiheng, and Ai Nengqi led 150,000 soldiers of the Dangkou Battalion as the right army, and after starting from the Haizhou Acropolis, they went northeast along the Tang River north, turned west in the area of Anping Mountain, and went straight to Shenyang City!

Liu Yunwei led 250,000 soldiers of the Hanwei Army as the left army, and after setting off for the Acropolis of Haizhou, he marched due north, took Anshan City, and used Anshan City as a springboard to attack Liaoyang City!

Before the battle in the north, Liu Yunwei had already sent a wide range of people to listen to the movements of the Qing army under Dolgon's headquarters at night, and learned that Dolgon had divided the 80,000 Qing troops under his headquarters into two parts. Dolgon ordered Azig, who had fled back to Shenyang City, to lead the remnants of his army to garrison Liaoyang City, and at the same time transferred the more than 20,000 Korean defeated troops to Azig.

Dolgon expected that Liu Yunwei would definitely lead a large army to the north, attacking Liaoyang City and Shenyang City at the same time. In order to attract part of the Ming army and relieve the pressure on the city of Shenyang, Dolgon directly regarded the remnants of Azig's troops and those Korean sticks as outcasts.

At the same time, Dolgon also reorganized hundreds of thousands of Manchus in Shenyang, and in just a few days, he raised an army of 100,000 people, almost all the young and strong Manchus, and even many old people in their fifties, teenage children, and some stout strong women.

It is no wonder that how the Manchus treated the Han people in Liaodong before, these Tatars all saw it in their eyes and knew it. Now 400,000 Ming troops are moving north, this is not a simple conflict between the two countries, but a revenge war of the Han people, which is to destroy the Manchu Qing and a country, so the Manchu men, women and children are all agitated by Dolgon in the face of the threat of death, and in a short period of time, the already impregnable Shenyang City has been built into a more solid fortress.

Dolgon led a large group of soldiers to patrol back and forth in Shenyang almost every day, constantly commanding the army to strengthen the city defense, and at the same time constantly boosting the morale of the army and the people, preparing for a bloody battle with Liu Yunwei's army.

On this day, Dolgon, who was inspecting the defense on the city wall of Shenyang, received an urgent report from the scouts and learned that the 400,000 Ming troops had divided into two routes and were heading for Shenyang City and Liaoyang City respectively. The Ming army's right army will be under the city in three days at most.

However, the defense in Shenyang City has not yet been completely completed, and three days is certainly not enough. Therefore, Dolgon recruited a thousand iron cavalry from the newly recruited army, and went south out of the city to meet the Ming army's right army, preparing to sacrifice this thousand iron cavalry to delay the advance of the Ming army on the right.

At the same time, Azig, who was stationed in Liaoyang City, did not frantically build city defenses to prepare for war like Dolgon, but wantonly collected grain and grass in Liaoyang City, and was actually preparing to abandon the city and flee!

It's no wonder that Dolgon still has the Manchu army with the white flag as a killer weapon, and at the same time Geng Zhongming's army, as well as the 100,000 troops requisitioned from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, if you rely on Shenyang Jiancheng, you may still have the strength to fight in the face of the onslaught of the Ming army.

And what does Azig have under his command?

Thousands of remnants of the Manchu army with red flags who had been frightened by the Ming army, and more than 20,000 Korean soldiers who were like beggars.

But Azig is facing the main army of 250,000 Han Wei led by Liu Yunwei, and there are already hundreds of thousands of Han people in the city who hate the Manchurians to the core!

Such a siege cannot be fought, this is a hopeless suicide!

Therefore, after Azig led the army to Liaoyang City, he did not hesitate at all, and directly raised money and food in the city, preparing to lead the remnants of the army to abandon the city and flee, and directly retreat to Hetuara to defend it.

Within a few days, Azig looted a large amount of money and grain in Liaoyang City, as well as a large number of chariots and horses. However, the frantic actions of the Qing soldiers also aroused the resistance of the people in the city, and more than a dozen riots broke out in Liaoyang City within a few days.

In the face of the resistance of the people in Liaoyang City, Azig did not hesitate at all, and immediately commanded the Qing army to suppress it, and slaughtered the Han people in Liaoyang City for several days, and the entire Liaoyang City became a huge slaughterhouse. Even those innocent people who did not participate in the resistance were indiscriminately slaughtered by the Qing soldiers who had already killed the red eyes.

A middle-aged man whose whole family was killed was seriously injured, and fled to the street with a sad and angry face, looking at the whole street full of screams and wails, and watching countless Qing soldiers killing people and destroying doors, the middle-aged man couldn't help but roar angrily: "You dogs and tartars must not die well!" The army of the imperial court is coming, and you all have to die! Kill all you brutes! ”

After saying that, the middle-aged man rushed to Azig not far away like crazy, and then was stopped by a Qing soldier and directly hacked to death.

Azig looked at the scene in front of him expressionlessly, but there were rolling waves in his heart: "Maybe it won't be long before this king will be hacked to death like him." ”

The massacre lasted for two days, and Azig was worried that the 250,000 Hanwei troops led by Liu Yunwei would be killed, so he stopped the bloody massacre in Liaoyang City, loaded all the money, grain, and baggage looted, and led 30,000 Qing troops to flee out of the city overnight, and rushed towards Hetuara City.

Just one day later, Liu Yunwei led 250,000 Hanwei soldiers to Liaoyang City, which was like hell on earth.

Seeing the corpses all over the city, Liu Yunwei's eyes were red, and he was so angry that he almost drew a knife to kill someone. The 250,000 soldiers of the Hanwei Army were also excited, and even directly shouted the camp, demanding that troops be sent immediately to chase and kill the fleeing Qing army.

At this time, the surviving Liaoyang people in the city saw the arrival of the imperial army, and they all ran over crying and grabbing the ground, surrounded the soldiers who entered the city, and cried and begged the soldiers to avenge their dead family and friends.

Liu Yunwei looked at the angry soldiers, looked at the miserable people, and looked at the already dilapidated hometown, and finally broke out completely.

"Deliver the Governor's orders! Immediately send out the night to investigate the movements of the Qing army! ”

At the same time, Liu Yunwei deployed the soldiers of the Hanwei Army in Liaoyang City, and ordered the iron cavalry soldiers of the Changshui Battalion to stand by at any time, and when the news came back, they immediately set off in pursuit.

Half a day later, the news came back from Yebu: the slave chief Azig led an army of 30,000 to flee north, towards the city of Hetuala!

After Liu Yunwei learned about it, he immediately ordered Wen Poyu to lead the soldiers of the Changshui Battalion to set off north.

"Broken! No matter where you chase you, you have to kill Azig, the dog monggrel for Bentu, even if you chase Hetuala, you will never give up, kill me! ”

Under the expectation of the people of the city and the soldiers of the whole army, Wen Poyu led 40,000 soldiers of the Changshui Battalion to rush out of the north gate of Liaoyang and chased after the traces of the Qing army under Azig.

At the same time, the 150,000 soldiers of the Dangkou Battalion led by Li Dingguo, Li Laiheng, and Ai Nengqi also arrived in the area of Anping Mountain, and after a short rest, they waved their troops to the west and went straight to Shenyang City.

However, after two days of marching, they encountered a thousand iron horsemen sent by Dorgon to slow the march of the Ming army on a nameless wasteland.

Seeing this, Li Dingguo, Li Laiheng, and Ai Nengqi did not panic, and immediately commanded 150,000 soldiers of the Dangkou battalion to form a formation on the spot and prepare to meet the battle.

The soldiers of the Dangkou battalion are mainly infantry soldiers, and although there are also iron cavalry soldiers, their number is not large, far less than the proportion of the Hanwei army.

However, in the face of the 1,000 Qing army iron cavalry in the distance, the soldiers of the Dangkou battalion were still able to deal with it easily.

Under Li Dingguo's order, the soldiers of each battalion of the Dangkou battalion began to form a rapid formation, Li Laiheng and Ai Nengqi also led their soldiers to line up at the front, and the two led 50,000 soldiers on the left and one on the right, respectively, forming a phalanx of 50,000 people, and the phalanx composed of 50,000 Chinese soldiers led by Li Dingguo formed a "product" shaped formation, preparing to meet the 1,000 Qing army iron cavalry in front.

At the same time, Li Dingguo also drew 3,000 iron cavalry soldiers from the army and lined up in front of the main army, preparing to use it as a force to attack and fight a decisive battle with the 1,000 Qing army iron cavalry that came to attack. And Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng and Ai Nengqi will lead the main soldiers of the Dangkou Battalion who have been lined up to advance slowly, constantly pressing the activity space of the Qing army's iron cavalry, and preparing to do their best to eat this Qing army's iron cavalry on the spot!

Li Dingguo looked at the army of the Dangkou Battalion, which had completed the whole army, and was full of pride in his heart, waved the war knife in his hand, and shouted loudly: "Beat the drum!" Fight! ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! Wansheng! ”

The 150,000 soldiers of the Dangkou battalion roared forward like a huge lion, roaring towards the 1,000 Qing army iron cavalry in front of them. At the same time, the 3,000 iron cavalry soldiers of the Dangkou battalion assembled in front of the large army also started slowly, and under the leadership of a guerrilla general, they rushed towards the 1,000 Qing army iron cavalry in the distance. As soon as the iron cavalry army started, it was sprinting with all its might, and it was actually preparing to fight with the thousand Qing army iron cavalry in front of him to decide the victory!

In the face of the all-out attack of 150,000 soldiers of the Dangkou battalion, the 1,000 Qing army iron cavalry could no longer hold their positions, and no matter how the commander of the army really pressed it, it was useless, and they did not dare to step forward to meet the battle.

It is also said that this thousand Qing army iron cavalry is no longer the elite iron cavalry army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in its heyday, and the 150,000 soldiers of the Dangkou battalion in front of him are not the ordinary Ming army that was vulnerable in the past. In the past, the scene where hundreds or thousands of Qing troops dared to attack thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of Ming troops will never be staged again!

The war horses are galloping, and the two armies are two miles apart in an instant!

The guerrilla general led 3,000 iron cavalry soldiers of the Dangkou battalion to rush straight into the Qing army's main array, and as a last resort, the Qing army's Jia Laezhen hastily issued an order to charge, and led 1,000 Qing army iron cavalry to meet it.

However, if you launch a charge at this time, the Qing army's iron cavalry has completely lost the opportunity!