Zhao Ji led Zhang Ding, Ma Jinzhong's cavalry Zuo Xie, and the Chahar Right Battalion of the martyr's salute all the way to the Xilamulun River, and then slowed down the pace of eastward advance, trying to replenish supplies in this densely populated area, but the tribes here still remember the tyranny of Chahar Khan, and the nobles were more inclined to the Qing court, unwilling to accept Fengzhou, which inherited the mantle of Chahar Khan, and it was very difficult to raise supplies.

Zhao Ji did not have a good temper, and ordered to play the wolf head flag commonly used by grassland horse thieves, and ordered all horse thieves to join the gang. Zhao Ji told his former colleagues that they should also be fair as thieves, and immediately go to investigate the bad deeds of those nobles, and we will deal with their crimes, punish their property, and share the benefits equally among everyone.

The nobles are the emperor of the soil, everyone has done evil things, it is easy to find some bad deeds, the horse thieves are clear about the local situation, relying on the support of Fengzhou iron horses, scurrying around like picking up money for nothing, and sweeping away the surrounding nobles. Zhao Ji pretended to open a court, claiming that their president was the righteous son of the Qing Emperor and the king of Dorojin County, and he had the right to investigate and punish illegal activities in the Qing Dynasty. The knife was on the neck, the nobles had to break the fortune and eliminate the disaster, and there were stubborn guys, Zhao Ji unceremoniously raided their homes, and also allocated a part of the cattle, sheep, and property to the people - he understood the truth of striking a small piece and winning over a large area.

Zhao Ji tossed in the Xilamulun River for more than half a month, but did not attract the Qing army, so he waved his army to the Laoha River to continue to run rampant - the Zalut, Ao Han, Naiman and other tribes grazing here are the iron core of the Qing court, and the Qing army will never ignore their ravaging howls, and sure enough, Lao Daishan appeared.

Dai Shan was ordered to guard Duerbi City, and only 5,000 Xianding and Aha of the banners were brought out of Shengjing, among which there were many old people and children, and the Duerbi garrison and Ashan's border patrol flag soldiers were less than 2,000 people, and this kind of miscellaneous soldiers obviously could not fight. However, Dai Shan knew in his heart that the Elu family was still too weak, and he might not dare to enter Liaodong if he opened the door to him, and most of the attacks on foreign domains were to deal with the Ming court, and the Qing soldiers in the Jinzhou War would undoubtedly win, and he would naturally run away at that time. Dai Shan is old, there is no competitive mind, stay in Durbi all day long, just look forward to finishing the war as soon as possible, but the grass flying this guy is too much, stirring up the local chickens and dogs, arousing the public indignation of the Mongolian tribes, Horqin, Hulunbuir, Zalut, Ao Han, Naiman and other departments gathered in Duerbi, asking Prince Li to take them to crusade against the hateful Fengzhou people, especially Wu Keshan of Horqin, Manzhu Xili, one is a prince and one is the king of the county, relying on the emperor's grace, every day around Dai Shan.

After these Mongols came, they not only made a fuss about sending troops, but also constantly wanted to eat and drink, how could there be so many mouths in the city, and if this continued, Du Erbi would not be defeated by Erlu, but also had to be eaten by these people. Dai Shan was forced to be anxious, and clearly told the Mongolian leaders: The Great Qing State is going all out to fight Jinzhou, and there is no surplus grain and grass, if you send troops, you must solve the problem of eating and drinking by yourself. The Mongols hated Zhao Ji so much that they immediately agreed, so more than 10,000 Mongolian allied troops drove cattle and sheep and slaughtered westward in a chaotic manner.

The Qing army finally came out, Zhao Ji asked Li Yu for help, while fighting guerrilla attacks east of the Laoha River, the elite of the Mongolian tribes went to Jinzhou, and there were many old and weak women and children among the people who were pulled, and the rabble had limited combat power, and was bullied by Fengzhou Iron Cavalry East and a hammer and a stick in the west to cry without tears, and wanted to fight back but could not find a chance. The two sides held each other until early August, when the Fengzhou Iron Cavalry suddenly robbed the camp and robbed thousands of livestock, and then escaped across the Laoha River.

Lao Daishan couldn't stop the excited Mongols, they insisted that the other party was less than 5,000 people, and they could trample these cattle thieves to death if they caught up and stepped on them - since the death of Yue Tuo and Sakhalian, Lao Daishan's power has been greatly reduced, and the weight of his words has become lighter and lighter, since the Mongols are stubborn, he is too lazy to care, but quietly retreats the Eight Banners to the east for thirty miles.

More than forty miles upstream along the Laoha River, there is a hill overgrown with sand willows, which looks quiet from a distance, but behind the mound is hiding a dead army, and the soldiers are combing their horses and stuffing dry food into their mouths, and the ranks of tens of thousands of people are almost silent.

Li Yu looked at the Qing army officer in front of him with a smile, then stretched out two fingers and said, "Ah Shan, this is the second time, why haven't you grown up after so many years of fighting?" ”

"Who said that I didn't grow, it's obvious that your people did the sneak attack, and besides, we took the initiative to disarm." Ah Shan nibbled on the dough and replied without blushing, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the Qing Dynasty's "Smoking Ban" can't control the eastern border of Liaodong, these border patrol banner soldiers have already been engaged in cigarette dealers, and they didn't forget to sell cigarettes to the tribes along the way when they came out to investigate the military situation, and they fell into the ambush of the Fengzhou army in a daze, but Ah Shan didn't care, he was not the first time to be a prisoner, wiped his mouth and asked, "Brother Erlu, when do you plan to release us?" We were arrested for selling Toyoshu cigarettes. ”

"I'll release it right away, and I'll return the weapons and horses to you, but you'll have to do something for me."

"Let me make it clear first, it's none of my business for you to fight with the Qing Dynasty, but it's not okay for me to help kill Lao Zhushen, I can't do that kind of lack of morality."

"I never do anything lacking in virtue, you immediately run back and tell Uncle Daishan, just say that I am going to kill him, at most give him half a day, let him withdraw to Duerbi immediately, the sooner the better!"

Ah Shan was stunned for a while, then gave a thumbs up and praised: "Erlu, you are really righteous, if it weren't for the drag at home, I would have wanted to do it with you." ”

Ah Shan happily took his gang away, the marching staff officer Xue Zongzhou was very dissatisfied, among the soldiers who entered the Wuxuan Academy, he was in the best health, and he was lucky to be selected to go east with the army, and he suffered all the way but did not fight a serious battle, and finally looked forward to the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, Li Yu let the Eight Banners Army go with a word.

"President, the Qing army is just some old and weak miscellaneous soldiers, our army will be able to wipe them out in one battle, this is a great achievement that the Ming Dynasty has never had, why let them run?" Xue Zongzhou grumbled angrily.

"Be a man and leave a line, and see each other in the future, since we can't afford to enter Liaodong, it's better to be a favor." Li Yu glanced at Xue Zongzhou and walked away with his hands behind his back.

"Xue Wenbo, what do you know, outsiders have a strong temperament, and the old and weak women and children will work hard when they are in a hurry, we may not be able to gnaw this bone, talk less and get busy with serious things!" Mao Yuanyi scolded the military affairs of the praise painting.

Li Yao picked up Xue Zongzhou and left, while quietly explaining: "Uncle Wen, you don't know about the Qing Kingdom, we fight for goodness, Huang Taiji may still be secretly happy, keep this old guy will be useful to us in the future." ”

Xue Zongzhou's mind was a little confused, and he nodded as if he didn't understand.

Ah Shan ran back to the camp in a hurry, and reported to Lao Daishan: Erlu came from the south, covering tens of thousands of elite horsemen, they are fortunate to run fast, otherwise they will not be able to come back, retreat quickly, Erlu will arrive in half a day at most. As soon as Dai Shan heard it, he knew that there was a ghost in Ah Shan's words, so he kicked this guy out of the big tent, and then ordered the whole army to immediately withdraw from the camp and retreat to Duerbi.

Dai Shan was not bad, and he didn't forget to inform the Mongols in Hexi before leaving, but the Mongol tribes didn't have time to withdraw, and when the big and small leaders led their troops to pack up their tents and cattle rushed to the west bank, the opposite bank was already full of black eagle flags, and the muzzles of the black holes were pointing at them.

"There are so many people, including women and children, forget it, order the cavalry front association and the cavalry right association to cross the river to force them to surrender." Li Yu observed with clairvoyance for a while, shook his head and said softly, and then pointed to Kong Guoer and Chagui in the guard post and ordered, "You take Chagan Sulu ingots to cross the river together, order them to surrender, and I promise not to kill any of them." ”

"My name is Ding Mazi, and I will also shoot a salvo to scare and scare them." Mao Yuanyi agreed to go down and give the order.

Dozens of artillery guns and mortars of the artillery battalion opened fire at the same time, and the cannons roared away and smashed heavily into the open space on the opposite bank, and several flowering shells made a deafening explosion, and the people on the other side immediately shouted and neighed into a mess. Kubai and Meng Ke led their troops to cross the river from the shallows, and rendezvous with Zhao Ji, Zhang Ding, and Shen Lili, who were in pursuit, completely surrounded the Mongol coalition army in a blink of an eye, and constantly compressed the space of the other side. There were more than 15,000 men, women, and children in all Mongolian tribes, and the number was overwhelming, but the Mongolian ponies could not outrun the tall horses of the Western Regions, and the bone arrows could not wear thick plate armor, and they were not opponents in the immediate fighting, and they were forced to retreat under the intimidation of the rain of arrows and firearms, and were soon crushed into a ball - the herdsmen who could ride and shoot could not afford to provoke the armored cavalry armed to the teeth, and a desperate cry sounded among the Mongols.

"Chagan Sulu ingot, the banner of the ancestor Genghis Khan, our Hutuktu Batulu was ordered to have the steppe in Tengger, he ordered you to surrender immediately, and guarantee that none of them will be killed!" Kong Guoer and Cha Gui waved the flag spears of their ancestors and shouted around the Mongols, and Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu each led a small group of flying tiger horsemen to guard the left and right.

Chagan Sulu ingots represent authority and peace, according to Mongolian tradition, the spear is not allowed to be killed indiscriminately, the nobles are still hesitating, but the common people see the hope of life, where the spear passes, a piece of people throw away their bows and arrows and dismount and surrender. By dusk, only five or six thousand men followed their leader and refused to surrender, but these were also frightened birds, and when they saw their fellow people outside the camp munching on bread and persuaded them to surrender, they immediately abandoned their masters and slipped out to surrender.

The nobles held out for three days and all surrendered, and then they were unlucky, Li Yu announced that the common people could go as they pleased, but they had to be investigated one by one, and they could only leave if they had not done anything bad before - almost all of the nobles were not clean, and it was too easy to find some sins, Zalut, Ao Han, Naiman and other departments only left a few honest guys, and the Hulunbuir department was the luckiest, and all the nobles were released home, and they also had a meal with Li Yu.

Zuonomu of the Ao Han Department is most afraid of going to Fengzhou, where there are many Lao Zheng Lanqi people, and he must remember his old account of betraying the Mang Gurtai brothers and sisters, and insist that Li Yu is the king of the Qing Dynasty's Dorojin County, and must obey the laws of the Qing Dynasty, and there is nothing wrong with him being loyal to the emperor, and he should also be sent home. Li Yu agreed to try them according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, but insisted that Zonom's accusation against Mang Guji showed that the relationship between the husband and wife was not harmonious, which was also a sin, and that he had to go to Fengzhou to be ordained by the lama, and Zonom was simply mad.

"Erlu, there are dozens of tribes in Horqin, the merchants of Fengzhou did not die in my territory, they must have nothing to do with me, you are the emperor's righteous son, I am the emperor's brother-in-law, we are relatives, you just let me go back." Wu Keshan pestered Li Yu and begged.

"Yes, our family is also married to the emperor, we are all relatives, and the family has to take care of each other." The full bead ritual also comes to set closely.

"But my people can't die in vain, if you can't find out who did it, you Horqin people will bear the guilt together." Li Yule replied, to be honest, he didn't plan to let go of the people who were close to the Qing court.

Li Yu will not forget the old Daishan, and sent Zhao Ji to lead the cavalry front association and the cavalry right association to Duerbi City to show off his might, and by the way sent a letter - Uncle Daishan, I know that Sibeile has been looking for your stubble, you can rest assured, I will not trouble your old man, not only will I not hit Duerbi, but the captives should also be released, you can take care of your body with peace of mind, the longer you live, the better, I have always remembered the affairs of the two brothers Yue Tuo and Sakhalian.

The Qing foreign feudal domain was basically flattened, how did Jinzhou fight? Lord Hong has no experience in commanding an army of 100,000 in battle, and it is fortunate that the whole division retreats - Li Yu gradually shifted his attention to the Jinzhou battlefield, it is strange, it is already the end of August, and the Ming court has not yet transmitted a battle report to him.

Hong Chengchou rushed to Songshan on July 28, dug trenches and set up camp on the three northwestern sides of Songshan Mountain, and sent troops to climb the commanding heights of the west corner of Rufeng Mountain to oppress the Qing army on the eastern side of Rufeng Mountain.

The Ming army has an old problem, the main and guest armies must be infighting together, Wu Sangui is the head snake of Liaoxi, strong and wealthy, and Wang Tingchen and Li Fuming and other old subordinates of Zu Dashou formed a group to reject the guest army, Wang Pu and Ma Ke, two Yulin people were not to be outdone, and also pulled Tang Tong, Cao Bianjiao and Bai Guangen to confront it. The battle between the host and guest armies, mixed with the grudges of several generations of the Northwest Jiangmen and the Liaodong Jiangmen, Yang Guozhu is the most uncomfortable in the middle, he is also Zu Dashou's old subordinate, and it stands to reason that he should sit on the same bench with Wu Sangui, but his Xuanfu Army is a standard guest army, and it is also rejected by the main army. Hong Chengchou pressed the grievances of the host and guest armies, and simply played tricks, pinching this guy who was not good at both ends as a soft persimmon, and the hard work of taking the lead belonged to him, but the first merit was Wu Sangui, Yang Guozhu was angry and didn't dare to say - Wu Sangui was the second real power figure in Liaoxi after Zu Dashou, and he did something casually, so he asked Hong Chengchou to send Li Fuming to the Xuanfu army, this person can't afford to provoke him, maybe he has long wanted to take himself down.

Fight, fight to the death and pull down - Yang Guozhu vented his anger on the Qing army and personally went into battle to attack Shiximen, but this time it was not as lucky as attacking Rufeng Mountain, the Qing army was well prepared, blocking the Ming army in front of the trenches, firing fiercely with artillery and lifting guns, and even using expensive flowering shells, the Ming army's chariots were beaten to pieces. The Ming army lost the protective barrier casualties increased greatly, involuntarily retreated, Yang Guozhu was furious, led the family Ding, personal soldiers across the trench, pounced on the Qing army camp fence, dense sharp arrows, guns immediately shot, Yang Guozhu's armor was too conspicuous, unfortunately died under the arrows, his death was cheap Li Fuming, this subordinate only dozens of Shanxi soldiers immediately changed to Xuanfu General Army.

The main force of the Qing army has not yet arrived, there are only more than 30,000 people under the city of Jinzhou, this is the best opportunity to attack, Hong Chengchou ordered the whole line to attack, the eight general soldiers went all out, each formed a car formation, and advanced step by step with guns and cannons - the huge car array surrounded the Ming army together, although it lost its mobility, but no one wanted to be a deserter, it could only grit its teeth and fight to the end, the Qing army had never seen the Ming army so fierce, and was pressed back step by step by the car formation, Zu Dashou saw that there was an opportunity, and ordered the cannon on the city to help fight, and he also led the elite out of the inner city.

The Qing army was in a critical situation by the enemy, the trench helped a lot, the Ming army's chariots were blocked, and the Hongyi cannon that turned the muzzle of the cannon was torn apart, and Dolgon and Haoge under the city went out, personally holding a bow and going into battle, while desperately blocking the Zu Dashou behind him, while storming the Ming army vehicle array, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi led the Han army around the flank of the Ming army to bombard the formation with guns, and Azig and Duoduo took advantage of the situation to attack the gap. The Ming army was surrounded in the car formation and had nowhere to escape, so they mustered up the courage to fight hand-to-hand with the Qing army, and did not retreat from the car formation, while hitting the opponent fiercely with guns. The two sides fought a tug-of-war, the Qing army was insufficient, and it was never able to overcome the car formation, and the Ming army was difficult to advance half a step in front of the trench, this situation was obviously more favorable to the strong Ming army.

After several days of fierce fighting, the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, and only the Manchurian Eight Banners died hundreds of people, including the Manchurian warrior Laosa, and Dolgon was also almost hit by artillery, and the Qing army gradually fell out of strength and was almost on the verge of collapse. The Ming army fought more uncomfortable, Zu Dashou suffered too many casualties to go out of the city to help the battle, and Hong Chengchou also needed to readjust the military strength - the Ming army did not have the ability to fight continuously to give Dolgon a chance to breathe, and with the arrival of a large number of Qing troops, the Ming army missed the last chance to win.

Sheng Jing, the war ahead is tight, the Qing Emperor had to go on the expedition, stroking the sleeping Concubine Hai Lanzhu, two lines of tears welled up in his eyes - his life is not good, he lost his mother at the age of twelve, and his father Khan empathized with the eldest concubine Abahai, struggling in loneliness to this day, during which he has experienced many human feelings and intrigues, only this woman brings him the warmth of home, but God is unfair, first took away their little prince, and now Hai Lanzhu is going again, who can accompany him for the rest of his life?

Ai Concubine, hold on a little longer, and when Shu defeats the Ming army, he will come back to accompany you - the emperor wiped away his tears, said goodbye to Hai Lanzhu, who had been with him these days, tiptoed out of the Guanju Palace, and rushed to Jinzhou with three thousand elite iron horses of LinkedIn Ordai with a big wave.