Since the Northern Expedition, the Middle Route Army has been marching forward in Shandong, and the Western Route Army has been steadily fighting in Henan, and the Qing court has inevitably led the new army to leave the capital to meet the 100,000 spears and firearms led by Chen Wen.

Compared with the scale of tens of thousands of people in the Guan, the Ming Army of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Zhejiang had already recovered Lushun, the garrison of the Left Association of the former Dongjiang Army. Although the number of troops is small, it has not been held back because of this, and even as early as the army crossed the Huai River, it had already left the Lushun Pass, and swept the southern four guards of Liaodong in great strides.

In the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong commanded the envoy to belong to the Shandong Chengxuan political envoy across the sea, including 25 Wei plus two states.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong was established as a prefecture and county, and later considering the military role, the party was changed to the establishment of the guard, and the troops were stationed in Tuntian, and the fortresses faced each other. From a geographical point of view, the command of the Eastern Liaodong Command Department is mainly divided into several areas, the Guangning Zhuwei east of Shanhaiguan to the west of the Liaohe River is a piece, the Tieling, Shenyang, and Dingliao Zhuwei east of the Liaohe River are a piece, and the Jinfu Hai Siwei in the south of Liaoning is another piece.

The four guards in southern Liaoning, the northernmost is Haizhou, that is, the Haicheng of later generations, which has penetrated deep into the Liaohe Plain. The southward Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Jinzhou Sanwei are still in the area of the Liaodong Peninsula, and the Lushunkou where the Liaodong partial division led by Zhao Qian, the Marquis of Leadshan, was stationed in the middle of Jinzhou in the Ming Dynasty.

Since the launch of the Northern Expedition, Zhao Qian, the commander of the Liaodong Military Affairs in Lushun, ordered Zheng Qi, the commander of the naval division of his department, to lead the naval division to cut off the channel from Lushun to Dengzhou, and further squeeze the material reserves of the Qing court. At the same time, the combat battalion named Lushun Battalion was also led by the battalion officer Li Huixiang and began to carry out a sweep against the South Four Guards.

Lushun belongs to the Jinzhou Wei boundary, from a geographical point of view, the Jinzhou Isthmus where the Jinzhou Acropolis is located in Lushun is also the key to the trend, its shortest distance is only ten kilometers.

Starting from Mao Wenlong's expedition to Liaodong and occupying Lushun, as long as the Jinzhou Isthmus is controlled in the north, Lushun will become safer and even become a hinterland, and Houjin is also clear about this, so whenever the Dongjiang Zuoxi enters the Jinzhou Acropolis, the Houjin army will send a round of offensive as much as possible to prevent Dongjiang Town from gaining a foothold in the South Siwei.

However, since the occupation of Lushun, the most important task of this Liaodong division was to cut off the waterway, and in order to be safe, it did not launch a large-scale offensive against the southern Liaoning region. However, by this time, the Qing court had already abandoned the two guards of Jinzhou and Fuzhou, and only left two teams of sentry cavalry to monitor the surrounding area.

Li Huixiang led the army out of Lushun, and the troops were divided into two routes, one way to the north to seize the first line of Nanguan and Jinzhou, and the other way was to pass through Changsheng Island, cross Fuzhou Bay, cross Yangguan Fort, and reach the city of Fuzhou.

The two roads went hand in hand, and as soon as the Qing army in Jinzhou saw the Ming army approaching, they did not hesitate to abandon the city and leave, which was a breeze. The march into Fuzhou was led by Li Huixiang himself, and the result was the same as that of Jinzhou.

Without a fight, the morale of the Lushun battalion was high, but Liaodong was sparsely populated, and Liaonan was even more so, so he took Fuzhou and left a small number of troops as a garrison.

This time, because it was in the evening to Lianyun Island, the army disembarked here, waited for dawn and then crossed the strait in a small boat, and then attacked Gaizhou. When the Lushun battalion was camping on Lianyun Island, it sent a cavalry to Gaizhou to inquire about the situation, but this cavalry was discovered by the defenders of Gaizhou. However, the people were panicked, just like when Zhang Pan, the deputy general of the Dongjiang Army's Left Association, attacked Jinzhou, after the defenders found this cavalry, they didn't know the geometry of the enemy soldiers outside the city, and they were so frightened that they abandoned the city and fled.

The next day, Li returned to his hometown and led his army to arrive at the Acropolis of Gaizhou. The city had already been taken by the cavalry, and from the mouths of those who had straggled, they knew the truth that this time had been so smooth.

The Qing court did not have many bannermen stationed in Liaodong, and an acropolis was often just one or two cows. Jiangnan was lost, and tens of thousands of Eight Banners were killed, although most of them were the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia, but for the Eight Banners of Manchuria with no more than 50,000 or 60,000 banners, the loss of tens of thousands was nearly 20% of the men. Later, he relied on catching fish skin tartars to replenish three or four thousand banners, but it was far from slowing down, and when the new army expanded, it continued to draw cattle from Liaodong.

Nowadays, there is no shortage of Mongolian Eight Banners in Liaodong's Niulu, and the number is also very small, Jinzhou and Fuzhou give up, and Gaizhou is just a Niulu, how dare to compete with the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Ming armies in Lushun.

"How many Tartars are there in Haizhou?"

"Two, two cows."

The Mongolian Eight Banners officer in front of him knelt on the ground, trembling as the no less than two thousand Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Ming troops entered the Gaizhou Acropolis. Once upon a time, the Qing court was also a large country with a core army of more than 100,000 and no less than 600,000 troops.

But by now, the Green Battalion could completely ignore it, either surrendering the reserves, or having low combat effectiveness, or almost all of both. And the strength of the Eight Banners Army, after several years of recovery, in fact, is only a little relieved, and now the Qing court has invested all manpower and material resources in the new army, and even the old land in Liaodong is not guarded, which is clearly a desperate performance.

In such a situation, Li Huixiang can also understand that the Qing court has no way out, and it is not too surprising that this is the case. Looking at this Mongolian Eight Banners captive, Li Huanxiang carefully calculated, Gaizhou is a Niulu, and the direction of escape should also be Haizhou, then even if it is three Niulu, six hundred old-style Eight Banners Army that has not been trained by the new army is really not a level line than the trip to Shunying.

"How many Tartars are there in Liaoyang?"

As soon as these words came out, the officers and staff present were all shocked, as well as the Mongol prisoner. Liaoyang is the seat of the Liaodong Commander's Envoy, Liaodong Town, and the four guards of Dingliao Central, Left, Front, and Rear and Dongningwei, and is the core of the Ming court's rule in Liaodong. It is located in the hinterland of the Liaohe Plain, once the old capital of the Qing court, and has always been the place where heavy troops are stationed, Li Huixiang suddenly asked about this, it has exceeded Zhao Qian's plan to recover the southern four guards, but Liaodong is so empty, except for the military judge and the prison officer frowned, the other officers and staff officers are all staring at the Mongol prisoner, wanting to get real information from him.

"This, minion, minion really doesn't know."

It is not easy for a junior officer of the Mongolian Eight Banners to know the situation in Haizhouwei, and Liaoyang is far away from here, so it is normal not to know.

It's just that Liaoyang is full of temptation, and since the emptiness has reached this point, I'm afraid that there may not be a few Niu Lu.

All the officials even breathed a little heavier, and after a while, it was Li Huixiang, who was always thinking of killing and returning to his hometown, to calm down first, and then he took the prisoners down before he said to the generals: "Haizhou is empty, and since our department aims to recover the southern four guards, we must not let it go." As for Liaoyang, I am talking about taking Haizhou first. Of course, the emptiness of the Tartars in Liaodong must be reported to Zhao Shuai as soon as possible. ”

"The last general will obey."