Fang Yuan defeated the 4,000 men of the Hanzheng White Banner under the city of Liaoyang, as well as the 2,000 cavalry with red banners sent by Mandahai to rescue.

Shi Tingzhu, who had exhausted the main force, was so frightened that he didn't even dare to enter Liaozhongwei, and fled back to Liaoyang City directly. Man Dahai lost 7 Niu Lu's red flag elites, and he did not dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy again, so he only defended with Shi Tingzhu. Let Fang Yuan plunder outside Liaoyang City, he also pretended to be deaf and dumb, and he would never fight.

Since Man Dahai and Shi Tingzhu had been beaten to the point of being frightened, Fang Yuan rested in Liao Zhongwei for a day, robbed all the 100,000 taels of silver in Liao Zhongwei, and deposited them in Yu Bao. The fine iron sabers and armor were all burned, and only the gunpowder and lead bullets carried by the Red Banner Firearms Battalion were taken away.

Fang Yuan's army swaggered past under Liaoyang City, plundering all the way. In Liaoyang, Fang Yuan abandoned his previous massacres in Lushunkou, Gaizhou, and Haizhou.

He is not a person who loves to kill, and the massacres in Lushun, Gaizhou, and Haizhou have killed nearly 130,000 Manchu and Han banner people, which is enough to deter the Manchus, and if he continues to kill, it will be counterproductive.

Fang Yuan's army passed Liaoyang, and the spies reported that the army of Huang Taiji's reinforcements was still stationed in Yaozhou, and it was not too pressing.

Xuanjia Tie rode to the military fort ten miles outside Shengjing City and settled down, taking a short rest.

This military fort was originally one of the eighteen military forts in the outer defense of Shengjing, and Dai Shan, who guarded Shengjing, was cautious by nature and never took risks, worried that Fang Yuan's soldiers were too fierce, lest once they were negligent, Shengjing would lose, so they withdrew the sergeants of half of the outer forts outside Shengjing into Shengjing, and made every effort to consolidate the safety of Shengjing, waiting for the reinforcements of Huang Taiji's return.

As soon as Fang Yuan arrived at the military fort and stationed there, he received a letter from the envoy of Huang Taiji to persuade him to surrender.

He opened the letter and saw that the conditions for Huang Taiji's surrender were very generous, not only to reward the princess, but also to make the governor, and even the prince. In Fang Yuan's historical memory, at least Fan Wencheng, King Sanshun, and even all the Gushan Ezhen of the Han Eight Banners did not have such generous treatment, which shows that Huang Taiji's love is heartfelt.

Fang Yuan handed over the letter of persuasion to Chigutai, walked out of the military fort, and overlooked Shengjing City, ten miles away. Directly smashing the Yellow Dragon, that is Yue Wumu's lifelong wish; It is also the lost territory that the Ming Dynasty monarchs and ministers dreamed of recovering for 30 years since the Battle of Sarhu.

This magnificent capital city is really in front of Fang Yuan's eyes, although it is still thousands of miles away from recovery, but Fang Yuan's thousands of Xuanjia iron horsemen can look at Shengjing City at close range, which is already a fantasy that the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Dynasty are out of reach.

Is it a historical accident or inevitability that the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with a population of less than one million, was able to enter the Central Plains and control the Central Plains with a population of hundreds of millions for more than 200 years?

Fang Yuan fell into deep contemplation.

Historically, since the Xiongnu in the Warring States Period, the nomads north of the Great Wall and the Central Plains south of the Great Wall have fought a war for 2,000 years, during which it can be said that they attacked and defended each other, won and lost.

The Central Plains regime not only had the glory of the Han and Tang expeditions to the grasslands and deserts, but also the shame of the Wuhu Chaohua, the shame of Jingkang, and the shame of the destruction of the Yashan country. However, it is an indisputable fact that any nomadic and fishing and hunting regime that unified the north of the Great Wall really had the strength to invade the Central Plains and posed a major threat to the Central Plains Dynasty.

The previous Liao, Jin, and Mongolia, and the Manchu Qing in front of them were all like this.

If the Central Plains dynasties of all dynasties wanted to ensure military superiority north of the Great Wall, what they had to do was to divide and disintegrate, so that the north of the Great Wall could not be unified.

However, since the Salhu Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty has been implementing a rather erroneous national defense policy, that is, building castles and stacking cannons. In particular, the warlord group headed by the bureaucrats Yuan Chonghuan and Guan Ningjun, for their own selfish interests, built a bullshit Ningjin defense line, only cared about building castles by themselves, completely ignored the Manchu Qing conquest of Korea and Mongolia, and sat back and watched the Manchus unify the north of the Great Wall.

At present, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is a huge empire with the Northeast, the Mongolian steppe, and even Korea, which is far stronger than the previous Liao and Jin states, and is not far behind the Mongol Empire before it invaded the Central Plains.

The Ming Dynasty is not said to be in the period of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, that is, in the era of the most powerful Chengzu Zhu Di, to eliminate such a powerful empire that unified the north of the Great Wall, it is also unknown whether the victory or defeat is unknown, at least Emperor Yang of Sui, the most powerful period of Tang Taizong, the conquest of Goguryeo ended in failure.

However, the current Central Plains Dynasty is repeatedly infighting, rogue is raging, and warlords from all over the country support their own troops and fight each other. Such a little family background can prevent the Manchu Qing from entering the Central Plains, which is a fool's dream.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty experienced two small emperors of Shunzhi and Kangxi in succession, and they were still able to live in the Central Plains, which was where the national fortune was, and the general trend was inevitable. It has nothing to do with whether Emperor Chongzhen is rigid and self-serving, diligent or not; It has nothing to do with whether Yuan Chonghuan is a general or not; It has nothing to do with whether a warlord Wu Sangui surrendered to Li Zicheng or the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

The struggle for the fortunes of the regimes north and south of the Great Wall was decided by a warlord group of 30,000 to 40,000 people, which was itself a big joke. Based on the performance of Wu Sangui's Guanning Group in the face of Li Zicheng's attack, Shanhaiguan was almost lost in one day after it was attacked, and it was even inferior to Zhou Yuji's Ningwu Defense Battle.

How many days can a warlord group with this level of combat power survive in the face of the Manchu attack? Wu Sangui just didn't surrender to the Manchus, but cooperated with Li Zicheng, so that he could prevent the Manchus from entering the Central Plains? The Manchu Qing Dynasty continued to detour through Jimen to enter the customs, and Li Zicheng dared to fight a decisive battle with the Manchu Iron Cavalry in Beijing City? Wu Sangui dared to walk out of Shanhaiguan and fight with the Manchu Iron Cavalry?

Deliberately elevating the historical status of Wu Sangui is actually a masterpiece of Kangxi when he pacified the three feudatories. Only by completely putting Wu Sangui on the frame of shame as the culprit of the fall of the Ming Dynasty can Wu Sangui's anti-Qing banner be cut off, which is actually a rhetoric to fool and brainwash the common people.

Fang Yuan was in a tide of thoughts, and the deep voice of Chigutai behind him sounded, "Fang Junmen, how did Huang Taiji's surrender letter reply?" ”

"Huang Taiji, what a generation of heroes!"

Fang Yuan couldn't help but sigh to himself, Chongzhen was able to reuse himself exceptionally, it was because he was at a disadvantage, and to put it mildly, it was a dead horse as a live horse doctor. And Huang Taiji is obviously in an advantage, and he is still willing to spend such a large price to solicit, which is not only a cherishing talent, but the magnanimity and elegance of the emperor. At least that generation of Tianjiao Genghis Khan would never have this kind of open-mindedness.

Aside from the general interests of the nation, Huang Taiji is really an admirable opponent.

He took the surrender letter handed over by Chigutai, pondered for a long time, and finally tore it to pieces and threw it into the distance, "Chigutai, tomorrow morning, the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry will immediately set off to the east. ”

Chigutai was stunned and asked, "Fang Junmen, the main force of Huang Taiji is still at least four days away from us, so we don't want to rest for one more day." ”

Fang Yuan squinted at him and said, "Huang Taiji is standing still in Yaozhou, that is paralyzing us. I guess he's playing a trick on us, and he's brewing a bigger roundup. ”

Chigutai said, "Then, why don't we go south to Dongningwei, then to Dandongkou, and then to the east?" ”

Fang Yuan stared at Shengjing City in front of him, his eyes flashed, "Before evacuating, there is still a place I must go!" ”

Chigutai was stunned and asked, "Where?" ”

Fang Yuan said word by word, "Hetuala! I will plant the battle flag of the Ming army on the city of Hetuala! ”

Hetuara is the old capital of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it is also the dragon vein of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, where the ancestral mausoleum Dongling is located, where Nurhachi is buried, and the tombs of the five generations of ancestors on it.

If you can capture Hetuara and plant the battle flag of the Ming army on the wall of Hetuala, it will be the heaviest blow to the morale and morale of the Manchu army!

In the early morning of the next day, after the Xuanjia Iron Cavalry lit a fire and made food, he left the camp and went to Hetuala, a hundred miles away from Shengjing.

Fang Yuan Lema stood in front of Shengjing City, stared at it for a while, and said in a deep voice, "Shengjing, one day, I will come back again!" ”