Fang Yuan's Xuanjia Iron Cavalry rode north, reached the border wall checkpoint, and joined Chigutai.

This time, the Beishang Division went deep into the hinterland of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was definitely a series of fierce battles, and it was necessary to reasonably distribute physical strength and energy, and blindly rush and fight, which was never cost-effective.

In order to recuperate, Fang Yuan ordered the 6,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry who had been rushing overnight to rest at the border wall checkpoint, and the 2,000 iron cavalry from Chigutai, who had been resting for three days, went north directly to attack Gaizhouwei.

This time, the strategy was not to conquer the city, but to learn from Huang Taiji's approach and strike at the war potential of the Manchus. Therefore, Fang Yuan's order to Chigutai was not to attack the city, and if the Gaizhou defenders dared to go out of the city to fight, they would all be annihilated; If the Gaizhou guards do not go out of the city, they will slaughter the Han people and Manchus around the city, and the chickens and dogs will not be left.

Gaizhou Wei is the residence of the Han Eight Banners and the Red Flag, and the solid mountain of the Han Eight Banners and the Red Flag is really Wang Shixuan. Huang Taiji went to Ningyuan City, Wang Shixuan also participated in the war with the army, and the Han Zheng Red Banner left less than ten Niu Lu in Gaizhou Wei, two or three thousand people.

When Chigutai's 2,000 Xuanjia Iron Cavalry arrived at Gaizhou Wei, Wang Ning, the commander of the Red Banner and the son of Wang Shixuan, did not understand the combat power of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry at all, and thought that the opportunity to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions had arrived, so he gathered a cavalry of 1,000 people in Gaizhou Wei and went out of the city to meet the battle.

This cavalry of the Red Banner only lasted for less than an hour when it encountered the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, and then announced that it would not support it, and began to rout towards Gaizhouwei, and Chigutai directly killed Gaizhouwei.

Wang Ning was beaten out of the psychological barrier by the First World War, where did he dare to go out of the city, he could only close the city gate, stick to the non-fight, and sent an alarm to Shengjing and Liaoyang.

Chigutai got Fang Yuan's order, and did not attack the wall of Gaizhouwei, but learned the laws of war in the Manchu invasion of Guannei in retaliation, and turned to slaughter the Manchus and Han people in the territory of Gaizhouwei. In just two days, the Han and Manchu people who died under the swords of this Xuanjia army together exceeded 10,000.

Wang Ning of Gaizhou Weili watched the people in the area under his jurisdiction being massacred by Chigutai, but he still did not dare to go out of the city, and fully experienced the frustration and humiliation of the Ming army in the face of the Manchu iron cavalry raging, but only dared to defend the city without fighting.

When Chigutai was massacring the Gaizhou Wei, Fang Yuan's six thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry rested for two days and had already gone north along the official road.

Fang Yuan was not in a hurry, while always listening to the movements in the western direction of Liao, on the other hand, he thoroughly implemented the slaughter strategy of leaving no chickens and dogs, and killed the Manchus who had not been slaughtered in Chigutai along the way because they were in a hurry to march, and the bannermen of the Han inlaid blue flag and the Han Zheng red flag who had taken refuge in being traitors.

Fang Yuan did not deliberately count the number of people slaughtered, according to conservative estimates, at least 30,000 or 40,000 people were also slaughtered.

After Fang Yuan rushed to Gaizhou Weixia to join Chigutai, he also served the Zhuang courtyard outside the city that was selected by King Ezhen of Zhenghongqi Gushan. The people of the Wang clan were thrown directly under the Acropolis of Gaizhou and killed and fed the wild dogs; The ancestral grave of the Wang family was also dug up, and the corpses were all dragged out to shed ashes.

After doing this, Fang Yuan saw that Wang Ning could still endure not leaving the city, so he didn't bother to pay attention to this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle anymore, and immediately waved his army north, and went straight to the next target, Haizhou Wei.

At this point, the Gaizhou Massacre came to an end.

Fang Yuan looked back at Gaizhou Wei, who had been killed and there was only one lonely city left, and smiled coldly, "This scene is reported to Yangzhou for ten days!" ”

A day later, Fang Yuan's iron cavalry directly entered the territory of Haizhou Wei.

Haizhou Wei is the territory of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty with blue flags, and Gushan is really the Bayan born to the daughter of Li Yongfang and Abatai. Because of the blue flag, 3,000 people were sent to Ningyuan City to help in the battle, and 2,000 people were assigned to Shang Kexi to garrison in Lushunkou, and the Han blue flag left in Haizhou Wei only had 1,000 remnants.

Where did a mere 1,000 people dare to garrison in Haizhouwei, when Fang Yuan's army was still fifty miles away from the city, he immediately evacuated to the north and fled to Liaoyang, an important military town in the north.

When Fang Yuan led the army to arrive, Haizhou Wei was already an empty city without soldiers, and the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry entered Haizhou Wei bloodlessly.

In Haizhouwei, Fang Yuan had a lot to do.

He first divided the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry into eight teams, each with a thousand people, and attacked in seven directions.

Within a hundred miles, whether it is full of people or those who have entered the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, they will all be slaughtered.

The remaining 1,000 people stayed directly in the Haizhou Acropolis and killed all the 10,000 Manchu Han banner people in the city, regardless of men, women, old and young.

Haizhou Wei is Shang Kexi's old nest, how could Fang Yuan let go of the opportunity to exterminate this big traitor. Shang Kexi's old mother who stayed in Haizhou Weili, four wives, eight underage sons, and nine minor daughters, including Shang Zhixin, and the newborn Shang Zhilong, all died of car splitting. The bodies of all the family members were thrown in the Shang Mansion for the big traitor Shang Kexi to "pay respects" when he fled back to Haizhou.

Kill all Shang Kexi's entire family, lest hundreds of years later, there will be the descendants of the Shang family who shamelessly pay tribute to Shang Kexi, a dog traitor, in Haizhou Wei.

Fang Yuan rested in Haizhou Wei for two days, and the spies who pretended to be the light cavalry of the Hanzheng Red Banner went to Liaoxi to reconnoitre. Huang Taiji under Ningyuan City had received the battle report of the Ming army's surprise attack on Liaodong, and began to calm down, preparing to pull out the camp and return to the division.

The seven teams of Xuanjia Iron Cavalry sent by Fang Yuan also returned to Haizhou Wei and reported the results to Fang Yuan, slaughtering 20,000 Manchurians and 30,000 Han Banner people.

The results of the Haizhou Massacre were a total of 60,000 Manchu and Han Banner people, which was double the Gaizhou Massacre.

Fang Yuan secretly recited, "This scene is to report the three massacres of Jiading!" ”

After Haizhouwei, further north, is the military town - Liaoyang.

Before the fall of Liaodong, Liaoyang was where the capital of Liaodong was located; After the fall of Liaodong, Liaoyang was the first capital of Nurhachiding, and it was also the barrier of Shengjing, the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The defensive strength of Liaoyang, an important military town, is by no means comparable to that of Gaizhou Wei and Haizhou Wei.

Huang Taiji has arranged eight banners and one flag in Liaoyang all the year round, and eight banners and one flag of the Han Dynasty, which is responsible for the defense of Liaoyang. At present, the guard of the important town of Liaoyang is the red flag of Daishan who stayed in Liaodong, the son of the commander Daishan, Mandahai, with a force of 5,000; There is also the white flag of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the commander is the white flag of Gushan Ezhen, Shi Tingzhu, and the strength is 6,000.

Liaoyang, from any point of view, is a hard nut to crack.

When Fang Yuan led his army to Liaozhongwei, which was a hundred miles away from Liaoyang City, he found that a large number of troops had been stationed in Liaozhongwei, and the banner was the Zhengbai flag of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. It seems that it is the Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingzhu who is with a white flag and leads the army to defend it, sniping at Fang Yuan's advance.

Shi Tingzhu, like Wang Shixuan and Li Yongfang, was a traitor who defected to the Manchus in his early years, and his loyalty to the Manchus was undoubted, so he was compiled into the banner man of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

This Shi Tingzhu was originally born in the Tieling Guard, followed the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the southern and northern wars, the Korean War, the Daling River Battle, and the Songjin Battle.

The Xuanjia Iron Cavalry camped under the Liaozhong Acropolis to rest, while Fang Yuan and Chigutai studied the next battle plan overnight.

Since the surprise attack on Liaodong, the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry led by Fang Yuan has won a great victory in Lushunkou, and has also played two massacres in Gaizhou Wei and Haizhou Wei, killing Manchu people, and the Han Banner people have approached 100,000, which is a heavy blow to Liaodong, which has a total population of less than 2 million.

The next thing that needs to be studied is whether to continue to attack Liaoyang and expand the results of the war, or to turn east, capture and attack Dongningwei (now Benxi City, Liaoning), and then go south to Dandongkou and leave Liaodong on the corresponding warship.

Chigutai was in turmoil, and said neatly, "Fang Junmen, what to withdraw?" In my opinion, lead the army to cross Liaoyang, go straight to Shengjing, and take the capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to play, haha! ”

Fang Yuan also dreamed of taking Shengjing, and was ashamed of the Snow Han people being enslaved by the Manchus for three hundred years, but this idea can only be a fool's dream at present.

Shengjing at least represented the red flags of the good, the four banners of the Han Eight Banners, and the three banners of the Mengba Banner, with a total strength of at least more than 40,000. With the combat power of the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, the field battle is very tight, not to mention the siege!

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Shengjing is too far away, and Liaoyang is very close, so let's talk about the important town of Liaoyang, to fight or not to fight?" ”

Chigutai thought for a while and said, "It's still the old way, if the defenders dare to go out of the city, we will fight the defenders; If the defenders dare not go out of the city, we will slaughter the Manchurians outside the city, hahaha! ”

Fang Yuan agreed with his strategy, with 8,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry, to attack Liaoyang, which had more than 10,000 defenders, it was really worth the loss, so it was better to kill people first, continue to consume the national strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and then wait for the opportunity to annihilate the enemy!

The two were discussing when the sergeant outside the barracks came to report, "Yufang Military Gate, Red Commander, Liaozhong Acropolis Gate is open, and a large number of sergeants are out of the city, ready to attack our military camp!" ”

Fang Yuan was slightly stunned, Shi Tingzhu, a senior traitor, finally couldn't bear it anymore and sent troops out of the city!

He was overjoyed and immediately shouted, "Chigutai, immediately gather the strength of the whole army and give Hanzheng the white flag a head-on attack!" ”