"Commander, there are more than 1,000 people, they only ...... to meet us across the river" Du Wenhuan's eyes instantly lost their brilliance, and his head drooped.

Yuan Chonghuan nodded, he chased all the way over, and already knew the information that this cavalry regiment was annihilated by Dolgon, "Wen Huan, you are the commander of the Second Army, the battlefield is dangerous, how can you be rash?" ”

"Commander, I know that I am too aggressive, and the commander can punish me however he wants, but in any case, if I want to take Liaoyang City down, I will personally avenge the brothers of the Marine Corps."

"Nonsense!" Yuan Chonghuan reprimanded, "After crossing the Sancha River, we have broken through three hundred miles, and this is already the ruling core of Jiannu, besides, along the Yalu River, there is also the blue flag of Jiannu, and we are now surrounded by Jiannu." ”

"Commander, the task of clearing the blue flag will be handed over to the Third Army, I only need Liaoyang."

"No," Yuan Chonghuan shook his head slowly, "I am going to hand over the task of clearing the blue flag to the Marine Corps." ”

"Commander, the Marines crossed the river for us and suffered such heavy casualties, do they still have combat effectiveness?"

"Wen Huan, you don't know, the casualties of the Marine Corps are only the First Division, and if you clear the Blue Flag, you will hand it over to the Second and Third Divisions of the Marine Corps, and only the ten Niu Lu stationed on the bank of the Yalu River will be left with the Blue Flag, and if necessary, we will let the Third Army assist them."

"Then we can concentrate our forces and attack Liaoyang City?" Du Wenhuan's eyes flashed with excitement again, "Commander, did you bring the artillery?" ”

"Artillery? The Third Army will be brought over soon," Yuan Chonghuan smiled lightly, "Wen Huan, I mean, we won't attack Liaoyang for the time being, or we will make a small fight, boil frogs in warm water, and slowly consume Dolgon. ”

"What? Boiled frogs in warm water? I can't wait for a moment," Du Wenhuan almost threw the hat off his head, "Commander, what do you mean?" The Jiannu in Liaoyang City is already a frightened bird, and the number is not large, as long as there is artillery, I promise to break through Liaoyang City in three days. ”

"Haha, our decisive battle with Jiannu may end in this Liaoyang City!" Yuan Chonghuan aimed at Du Wenhuan's ear and whispered a few words.

Du Wenhuan suddenly seemed to be hit by the acupoint, and he couldn't move: "Commander......"

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Huang Taiji, who was far away in Shengjing, knew that something was wrong when he first received a message from Dolgon from Liaoyang, and he had even guessed that the purpose of Zhu Youzhen's peace talks was to paralyze him.

The Ming army attacked Xiping Fort in a battle, which made Huang Taiji nervous, and he faintly felt that the Ming army was going to fight hard, maybe the two sides were going to decide the final winner this time.

Originally, Huang Taiji was not worried about the Ming army, the Ming army had been weak in Liaodong for many years, and the Dajin Kingdom could fight if it wanted to, and retreat if it wanted to, and the Ming army had no ability to attack at all.

However, in the battle of Mingjin in the second half of last year, Yue Tuo's red flag and Mang Gurtai's blue flag were wiped out one after another, which made Huang Taiji have a considerable fear of the Ming army.

Therefore, after receiving the message sent back by Dolgon from Liaoyang, he immediately ordered that Yue Tuo, who was once again in charge of the Red Banner, and Azig, who had just taken charge of the Zhenglan Banner, must form a combat unit of twenty Niu Lu within a month.

However, March is the season for the germination of plants and trees, and all the herdsmen are preparing for their cattle and sheep, looking for the most abundant water and grass, and it is very difficult to recruit soldiers.

Only half a month later, Dolgon's two letters arrived, this time, Dolgon came with a letter asking for help, the Ming army had occupied the Sancha River Fort, Dolgon's white flag, the strength appeared insufficient.

Huang Taiji issued a conscription and mobilization order in the country, from the original one ding per household, to two ding per household, Huang Taiji's own positive yellow flag, Brother Hao's inlaid yellow flag, Dai Shan's positive red flag, have been expanded to 50 Niu Lu, Duoduo's positive white flag, expanded to 40 Niu Lu, Yue Tuo's inlaid red flag, Azige's positive blue flag, because last year lost a large number of strong men, for a while to replenish, still compiled 20 Niu Lu.

At the same time, Huang Taiji also sent an envoy to the allies of the Dajin Kingdom, the Mongolian Horqin Division, hoping that the Horqin Department could prepare 20,000 cavalry for the Dajin Kingdom to deploy at any time.

These soldiers don't have time to train at all, but fortunately, the Dajin Kingdom has always been a soldier for all the people, and if you go out, you will be a soldier, and if you enter, you will be a citizen, and you don't need training, as for the coordination between soldiers, it is not a problem, the Jurchen soldiers don't need to cooperate, each of them is an independent warrior.

Although enough troops have been requisitioned, Huang Taiji is still worried that the strong men of various tribes will basically be withdrawn, and even if they can win the war, today's cattle, horses and sheep will be greatly reduced.

"It seems that after the war, we must let the Han people compensate us for our losses!"

Huang Taiji was busy until midnight before he fell asleep, and he didn't even have his favorite Hai Lanzhu.

"Great Khan, urgent report from the front!"

It was just dawn, and before Huang Taiji got up, the eunuch came in to report to him.

"What's wrong?" Huang Taiji leaned crookedly on the head of the bed, and was woken up in the early morning, looking quite displeased, but it was the military report from the front line, and he had nowhere to start if he had a fire.

"Great Khan ......"

"Say." Huang Taiji had already felt that something was wrong, otherwise, the eunuch would not have swallowed it.

"The Great Khan, Dolgonbele, defeated at the Sancha River......" the eunuch stiffened his head and finally told the result.

"What? Dolgon defeated again? Under Huang Taiji's buttocks, as if a cobra was hidden, he jumped up from the head of the bed, grabbed the military newspaper in the eunuch's hand, and looked at it carefully.

Huang Taiji checked it almost word by word, for fear of missing important information.

The eunuch was right, and Dorgon was defeated.

Not only was he defeated, but he was also defeated, and now there are less than ten of his twenty-eight Niu Lu, and even Dolgon himself is trapped in Liaoyang City.

"Poof!" Huang Taiji took a mouthful of blood and sprayed it on the eunuch's face.

The old eunuch was blown staggering, and almost fell on Huang Taiji's chair, he wiped a handful of hot bloodstains, "sweating ......"

"Roll ......"

Huang Taiji dragged his tired body, and immediately convened the "Eight Kings Conference" in the Dazheng Palace, the current Eight Kings Conference is purely a meeting of the eight banner masters, but Dolgon and Zilharang are not in Shengjing, and there are only six people who attend the meeting, including Huang Taiji.

Except for Huang Taiji himself, the other five people are basically Huang Taiji's cronies.

Dolgon must be saved, and Liaoyang City must be saved.

The "Council of the Eight Kings" quickly reached a consensus: Dolgon's half-brothers Azig and Duoduo would go to Liaoyang to relieve Dolgon and lift the siege of Liaoyang by the Ming army.

Azig's blue banner has only twenty bulls, while Duoduo's white flag has forty bulls, which is twice the number of the blue flag, but Duoduo is only sixteen years old and is not yet a full adult, so Azig temporarily rules over the two banners.

The soldiers, Azig and Duoduo, immediately prepared supplies for the south.

The military supplies of the nomads are very simple, and the food for people is a large bag of beef jerky and mutton jerky, plus a water bag, and the food for the horses is forage, as long as they are trapped and put on the horse's back.

For each soldier, two war horses should be prepared, one carrying people, one pack animal, a white flag and a blue flag, a total of sixty oxen, 18,000 soldiers, and 36,000 war horses.

Azig and Dordor had to prepare for a day before they had all the supplies ready and wrapped up.

At noon, while the sun was shining, the two brothers left Shengjing and crossed the Hunhe River from the south.

Shengjing to Liaoyang, less than 300 miles, but the war horses on the back of the material too much, inconvenient to run, the army on the road for two days, in the afternoon to reach the north of Liaoyang Taizi River.

The Taizi River originates in the Changbai Mountain, basically runs east-west, crosses Liaoyang from the north to the west, joins the Hunhe River, and then turns to the south, passing through the Sancha River through the Bohai Sea.

Azig and Duoduo stood on the north bank of the Taizi River, and the city of Liaoyang was already looming.

"Brother Twelve, you say, does Brother Fourteen know that we waved our troops to save him?" Duoduo raised his whip and pointed at Liaoyang City, he couldn't wait to fly across the Taizi River immediately to meet his fourteenth brother.

Azig shook his head: "Your twelfth brother is trapped in Liaoyang, and there is no communication between inside and outside, I'm afraid he won't know that the army is coming." ”

"Then can we send a message to Brother Fourteen, the inside and the outside should be combined, and the Ming army besieging Brother Fourteen will be killed."

"Then we have to cross the Taizi River first, only by crossing the Taizi River, can we join your fourteenth brother, with your fourteenth brother's talent, we have so many cavalry, defeating the Ming army, it shouldn't be a problem, the key is where we want to advance the battle line."

Duoduo looked at the water surface of the Prince River, "Brother Twelve, the Prince River is a hundred steps wide, right?" How do we cross the river? Do you want to take a pontoon bridge? ”

"Duoduo, both sides of this bank are high ground, and the war horses can't go up and down the river embankment at all, I have sent soldiers to find a flat place to cross the river, and see the depth of the water."

"Brother Twelve, the water of this river is so clear, it doesn't look very deep."

Azig didn't speak, he picked up a small rock and threw it at the heart of the river.

"Goo-dong!"

Azig stretched his eyebrows: "Duoduo, the river is not deep." ”

"Twelve Brothers......

"Duoduo, if it is a deep pool, the river will eliminate the sound of some stones falling into the water, and when the stones fall into the water, it will make a 'boom' sound, and just now the stones fell into the water, making a 'boom' sound, indicating that the river is not deep."

"Brother Twelve, you are really good!" Dordor gave Azig a thumbs up.

"You see the stones that come out of the water, they are full of moss, they were flooded when they were full of water, and it is not yet the season of rain, the stones are out of the water, and the river is naturally not deep, and I suppose the horses can pass through the water."

"Then we don't need to build a pontoon bridge, save a lot of time, and we can see Brother Fourteen as soon as possible."

At this moment, the soldier looking for the place to cross the river reported: "Two Belles, we have found a place to cross the river, at the eastern bend. ”

"Let's go, let's see." Azig got on his horse and followed the soldier east, followed by Dord.

At the bottom of this crescent, the embankment has accumulated a large amount of sediment brought by the river, starting from the embankment, forming a very vast tidal flat, extending to the center of the river, not to mention the war horse, even a seven or eight-year-old child can walk smoothly.

Azig was overjoyed: "Okay, this is really a good place to cross the river." ”

"Brother Twelve, then let's cross the river quickly, as long as we cross the river, the three of us brothers can be reunited." Dordor was eager to get on his horse and cross the river to meet his fourteenth brother.

Azig was much more steady: "Duoduo, don't worry, send two soldiers down to see how deep the river is." ”