Liu Yunwei led more than 300,000 Ming soldiers from Salhu City all the way to the north, a day later led the army to cross the Suzi River, rushed to the Jiefan Village, which was originally a walled city of the Manchurians, used to guard the Suzi River crossing, and now with the complete rout of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it has been completely abandoned, leaving only the empty walled city, without a little life.

Liu Yunwei set up the temporary camp here, more than 300,000 Ming army soldiers relied on the Jiefan Village to set up a large camp, after resting for a day, they turned to the southeast direction, all the way through Gule Village, Mardun Village, this way down, these walled cities along the way have all been abandoned, each of the walled cities within a radius of dozens of miles, can not see the slightest human population.

Liu Yunwei secretly said in his heart: "It seems that Azig has gathered all the Manchus and people who can be mobilized to Hetuala, so it will save the governor a big trouble and save the time of searching for the remnants of the Manchurians everywhere!" ”

In this way, Liu Yunwei led more than 300,000 Ming soldiers to rush to the lower reaches of the Suzi River in four days, and the army set up a large camp on the north bank of the Suzi River.

On this day, after Liu Yunwei waited for the army to settle down, he immediately sent out the night to find the location of the Changshui Battalion's iron cavalry army. At the same time, Liu Yunwei also called Li Dingguo to join him, and rode his horse to the north bank of the Suzi River, ready to observe the situation in Hetuala, and went with him, as well as 300 Longxiang Iron Cavalry soldiers led by Guo Yi.

When he came to the shore, Liu Yunwei sat on the war horse and looked out, and saw in the wildness of the south bank from afar, a city that was not too big could be faintly seen, that is, Hetuala, the old nest of the Manchurians.

The city of Hetuara was originally a large walled city with a civil structure, and both the city defense facilities and the buildings in the city were very rudimentary, and it was impossible to stop the onslaught of the elite army.

However, since the rise of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, and Dolgon have renovated and expanded the city of Hetuara several times, and all the original civil structure city walls have been treated with bricks, and the original foundation has been heightened and widened, and many city defense equipment have been added to the city head, such as ramming rods, wolf tooth slaps, large iron pots, hanging households, and so on.

During the reign of Huang Taiji, he also deliberately built three horse faces on each of the walls around Hetuara to strengthen the defensive strength of the city. At the same time, Huang Taiji also replaced all the four gates of Hetuara with paulownia gates, and carried out iron-clad treatment.

Finally, when Dolgon led his army back to Shenyang, he urgently sent people to dig a moat in Hetuala. It's just that because Dolgon was defeated too quickly, the originally planned moat was only dug into a rudiment, and before even the river could be introduced, Dolgon and hundreds of thousands of troops were wiped out in Shenyang.

Immediately afterwards, when Azig fled back to Hetuala, he also planned to complete the construction of the moat, but the 40,000 soldiers of the Changshui Battalion led by Wen Poyu followed closely and suddenly killed the city, and Azig did not have time to improve Hetuala's city defenses.

At this time, Liu Yunwei and Li Dingguo rode their horses together on the north bank of the Suzi River for a while, and using the clairvoyant mirror mobilized from the military department, the two of them looked at the general situation of Hetuala's city defense.

After the two rode their horses to a high ground, Liu Yunwei smiled and said to Li Dingguo: "General Li, what do you think of this Hetuara City? ”

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Supervisor, this Hetuara City is not so much a city, but rather a taller and more walled city, it is more appropriate, and it can't stop the onslaught of my hundreds of thousands of troops at all!" Not to mention, the Qing army in the city is now a group of lost dogs, how can they defend the city in fear? In less than two days, our army will be able to capture the city of Hetuala! ”

Liu Yunwei nodded, it seems that there is no suspense in this battle. Now, the only thing Liu Yunwei is worried about is that Azig knows that he is invincible, and he will suddenly lead his army to abandon the city and flee.

"For today's plan, I can only order the soldiers of the Changshui Battalion to tightly seal the city of Hetuala, and at the same time, the soldiers of my main army will cross the Suzi River as soon as possible and come to the city of Hetuala! The battle of Liaodong, it's time to end it completely! ”

Liu Yunwei secretly said in his heart, and after that, he rode back to the camp with Li Dingguo.

On the same day, Liu Yunwei ordered the whole army to immediately build ships from local materials, and strive to cross the Suzi River within five days.

Early the next morning, more than 300,000 soldiers of the Ming Army began to cut wood and materials, and began to build ships in a hurry. It was also on this day that Ye Bushu returned to the camp with the heralds of the Changshui battalion.

Liu Yunwei took the letter sent by Wen Poyu and learned that the Changshui camp was set up in the south of the Suzi River, five miles away from Hetuala. And Wen Poyu is also closely monitoring the movements of Azig's department, Hetuara City is already full of Changshui Camp Iron Cavalry within a radius of twenty miles, and the Qing army in Hetuara City is already unable to fly.

After Liu Yunwei received these news, he was very happy, and the worry in his heart was instantly reduced by more than half. After that, Liu Yunwei carefully inquired about the exact situation of some soldiers of the Changshui battalion, and then said to the herald of the Changshui battalion: "You go back and tell General Wen that you must closely monitor the remnants of the Azig army, and my main army can cross the Suzi River in a few days, and then the armies of the two sides will merge to besiege Hetuala!" ”

"Order!"

After the Changshui battalion herald left, Liu Yunwei waited for the soldiers to build the ship with peace of mind.

Four days later, after more than 300,000 soldiers, a total of more than 1,000 ships of various types were built. Of course, these thousands of improvised ships are not very good ships, at best they can transport soldiers across the river safely. A considerable number of ships are not called ships, but are just large rafts.

Even so, it can fully meet the needs of the soldiers of the Ming army. After Liu Yunwei checked it, he saw that most of the boats were very reliable, and the Suzi River at this time was not abundant, and the soldiers of the army could cross the river smoothly.

Therefore, Liu Yunwei immediately ordered the officers and men of the whole army to cross the river in turn according to the battalion, the soldiers of each battalion of the Hanwei Army crossed the river first, and the soldiers of the Dangkou battalion crossed the river later.

For a time, more than 300,000 Ming soldiers crossed the Suzi River by thousands of large and small boats, and it took only two days for more than 300,000 Ming soldiers to cross the river, and there were no accidents during the period.

After crossing the river, Liu Yunwei did not make any stops, and immediately led more than 300,000 Ming soldiers to march towards the city of Hetuala, and it only took an hour to approach the city. As early as when the army crossed the river, Liu Yunwei had already sent people to cross the river in advance, brought a military order to Wen Poyu, and ordered the soldiers of the Changshui battalion to rush to the city of Hetuara in advance, so as to prevent Azig from going out of the city in a desperate attempt after learning the news.

By the time Liu Yunwei led the army to the city of Hetuala, Wen Poyu had already led the soldiers of the Changshui Battalion to arrive. At this time, more than 40,000 iron cavalry soldiers of the Changshui Battalion lined up under the city and divided into four huge 10,000-strong cavalry formations, firmly blocking the four gates of Hetuala.

The Qing soldiers and the young people at the head of the city have all boarded the city to defend it, but everyone's faces are extremely terrifying, in the face of the overwhelming Ming army formation, no one will believe that Hetuara City can be defended!

Even Azig was like this, when he saw Liu Yunwei's general banner, as well as the main army of the Hanwei army and the army of the Dangkou camp arrived one after another, surrounded by the city of Hetuala, and was arranging troops to prepare for the attack of the four gates, Azig's heart was full of despair, and he regretted very much that he did not lead thousands of Manchu troops with red flag iron cavalry, and the 10,000 young men who were temporarily pulled up in Hetuara City to go out of the city, burrow into the deep mountains and old forests in the north, and wait until the main force of the Ming army withdrew to the pass, and then came back again.

Azig remorsefully pounded the city wall with his fist, regretting that he had not made up his mind, so that now the only remaining 20,000 troops in the Qing Dynasty and the whole clan, young and old, are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of Ming legions, and they will be served by the Ming army in a few days!

Just when Azig was annoyed, he suddenly heard the Qing soldiers around him screaming, Azig hurriedly looked around, and after just looking at this one, Azig was frightened.

I saw that in the large array of the Han Wei army outside the city, hundreds of artillery pieces of all kinds were pushed out by the soldiers, and an artillery array was formed one mile away from the city wall. At the same time, Azig also received an urgent report from the southern, eastern, and northern walls, and hundreds of artillery pieces were forming artillery arrays outside each wall!

"It seems that Liu Yunwei can't wait, is he going to attack the city with all his strength as soon as he comes up?"

Azig originally thought that he would be able to hold out for a few days no matter what, but judging from the current situation, it is estimated that he and his 20,000 soldiers and horses will not be able to hold out for even a day!

Suddenly, Azig stood on the western city wall and laughed wildly, and the Qing soldiers and young men around him looked sideways, as if they were looking at a madman who had been frightened by the enemy, and his face was full of incredulity.

After laughing madly for a while, Azig stared viciously at the Ming artillery array outside the city, as well as the boundless Ming army battle array, and pointed at the Ming army array outside the city and shouted loudly: "Since you don't let this king live, then let's break the net!" ”

After saying that, Azig rushed down the city wall like crazy, and then ordered tens of thousands of Manchurians, old and weak, women and children in the city to go to the city with sharp swords in their hands to meet them, and replace thousands of Manchu soldiers and horses with red flags and more than 10,000 Manchu young men on the city.

Azig saw that the artillery arrays of the Ming army were almost ready, and knew that it was useless to defend the city, and if he insisted on defending the city, he would not be able to hold on for even a day, so he simply concentrated the strength of the whole city, preparing to fight to the death with the Ming army, even if his whole army was destroyed, he would have to pull the corresponding Ming army soldiers and horses to accompany the burial!

It didn't take long for thousands of Manchu troops and more than 10,000 Manchu men in Hetuara to assemble and prepare to open the door and kill under the leadership of Azig, who had become crazy. However, unlike Azig, the thousands of Manchurian iron horsemen with red flags and more than 10,000 Manchu young men did not have the courage to go out of the city to face the battle.