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"Mr. Peng, Division Commander Liu, the Qing army has about 500 people back to the Eight Banners outpost horse team, and they have already passed Hanjiagou and are peeking at our army's position!"

"Mr. Peng, Division Commander Liu, the Qing Army Brigade is setting up a village in Hanjiagou, with about 3,000 people and at least 2 cannons."

One by one, the cavalry rode in and hurriedly reported the military situation. Peng Yulin and Liu Lichuan sat side by side outside the military tent that had just been erected. There are large maps in front of him, all of which are large-scale maps of western Liaoning drawn by the General Staff of the Ming Army. The contour lines above made Peng Yulin dizzy for a while, he was not like Liu Lichuan, who was a general from the Yaleizhou Military Academy, but he was just familiar with traditional Chinese military books.

On the evening of June 25, just after the defensive line under Longbei Mountain had just been deployed, the cavalry army directly under the Fourth Division, which had opened a powerful search curtain west of Longbei Mountain, had already discovered the Hui Eight Banner Brigade from the direction of Ningyuan Old Town. However, these Hui Eight Banners didn't seem to intend to come to death casually, and the team refused to move forward when they arrived at Hanjiagou, and they began to harden the village. At the same time, he also sent horse teams to harass the front line of the Ming army, but there was no intention of forcing the Ming army's defense line.

Gunshots have been heard sporadically, all of them are the sound of Besemai's rifles. With the development of Foshan's metallurgical industry, the Zhu Ming Army has begun to eliminate smoothbore guns, such as the fourth division, such as the first line of elite riflemen, all equipped with Bessemai rifles, even the newly formed second-line division, are also equipped with smoothbore guns modified from rifles.

Peng Yulin looked into the distance, listened to the gunshots, and looked at the map. Shaking his head slightly: "It seems that the Tartars are still fighting the idea of fighting a dumb battle......"

He asked in a low voice, "Where is the king now?" ”

A staff officer under his command replied: "The report I received in the morning is that I have arrived in Suwon on the 23rd!" ”

Liu Lichuan took over the topic and said: "I went to Suwon on the 23rd, it's time to go to Seoul today, right?" I don't know if Lu Dao has a war with Prince Gong of the Qing Dynasty? If you start a battle, you will win......"

Peng Yulin nodded, then shook his head again.

The Eight Banners soldiers who stayed in Liaotu were not the elite of the Qing Tartars, and the elite were all taken by Prince Gong to Korea to spread wild. If now the Qing Tartar elite and the Ming army start a war in Seoul, then the situation will be too favorable. Because once the battle is engaged, it will be difficult for Prince Gong's brigade to retreat, and there is no reason to call a pause on the battlefield. And King Gong's army was stumped in Korea, how many troops could the Qing Tartars invest in Ningjin? Thirty thousand? Fifty thousand? That's the number at most. However, the army that Zhu Ming planned to put into Liaotu had two divisions of the Fourth Army with more than 20,000 people. If necessary, the entire Fourth Army could be transferred to Liaoxi. In this way, Ning Jin's victory is not in the bag? As soon as Ning Jin's side won, King Gong's main Qing Tartar force had to retreat in embarrassment, so that North Korea was also a great victory. Under the two fiascos, Prince Gong definitely did not dare to put his nest in Shengjing again. Either move to Jilin or move to Heilongjiang. And so it goes. The great cause of recovering Liao is considered a success.

But this wishful thinking is too good. Probably not possible. This Prince Gong invaded North Korea just to scrape a vote, and now that the goal has been achieved, what is he still doing in North Korea?

"Lichuan. It seems that the Fifth Division must also be transported, and the sappers must be asked to build a temporary wharf, otherwise it will be too late to transport food and equipment after a long time. Peng Yulin furrowed his eyebrows and said to Liu Lichuan, "Qing Tartar has already invested tens of thousands of people in Ningjin, and if nothing else, there will be more troops...... I wonder if King Gong's soldiers will also come from Korea, and then it will be an unprecedented battle! ”

……

The sound of gunfire echoed in front of the Ming army's position, and the bullets whistled by, accompanied by screams from time to time.

Ma Xinyi held a telescope, sat on his horse, and looked at the situation of the Ming army's position opposite.

The Ming army's position was built along Longbei Mountain, choking the official road leading to Ningyuan Qianzhai, but this position was very strangely constructed. There were a number of wooden stakes on the ground, which were not very dense, and they did not look like they could defend against cavalry. And there seems to be a silver wire connection between these wooden stakes, I don't know what kind of demon moth is the road? There was no low wall behind these stakes, only a trench in which Ming officers and soldiers were scattered.

Such a thin line of defense is simply not like words, and it seems that it can be broken through with just a charge. Ma Xinyi's generals were all sad when they set off from the old city of Ningyuan, as if they were going to die, but now they are eager to try and come to Ma Xinyi to fight. But all of them were rejected by Ma Xinyi, there must be demons when it is abnormal! The Ming army must be deceitful if they dare to arrange it like this, and before they find out the truth and truth, they can't send the more than 3,000 people they brought to the battlefield anyway!

"Master Ma, the officials are all invited." The Tang Ma sent by the official Wen found Ma Xinyi's general banner and said in a loud voice: "The Chinese army under the command of the official and the governor is in the Dizang Temple, please come over for a while." ”

Ma Xinyi's official position is the Liaoxi Soldiers' Preparation, and theoretically he can supervise the military affairs of the Liaoxi Army, but in practice, he can only manage the return to the camp in the old city of Ningyuan, and the official Eight Banners are not birds. Now the official document invited him over, which was polite, and it was actually giving him an order.

And Ma Xinyi didn't dare not obey the order, and hurriedly told his subordinates to hurry up and set up a village, and he rode a fast horse to the official Chinese army of Dizang Temple.

"Gu Shan, Ming Rebellion is making trouble with the demon moth again, what do you think, can you fight?" Seeing Ma Xinyi coming, the official text didn't bother to greet him, so he went straight to the topic.

Ma Xinyi shook his head: "I can't beat it, Xiushuai (official character Xiufeng), there are at least 10,000 people in the Ming Dynasty, and our combined army is only more than 9,000, plus the soldiers in Ningyuan Qianzhai are only 10,000, only in the middle of the world!" ”

What this means is that in the case of similar troops, if the Qing soldiers can win the current Ming army, the Qing Dynasty will not fall to the current situation.

"What then?" Guan Wen's brows furrowed, and he spread his hands, "The soldiers with the blue flag are almost all here, and there is also an infantry association and half an artillery association to defend Jinzhou, can't they all be transferred?" It's all transferred, and it shouldn't be beaten, but it can't be beaten! ”

"Can you report to Sheng Jing in an emergency?" Ma Xinyi asked again.

"Of course, it's urgent, Kuaima has been out for a day, and the fifth prince must have received the news." The official replied.

Ma Xinyi nodded: "Otherwise, just wait for the prince to decide, let's just stand in the village now." Xiushuai, what do you think? ”

The fifth prince is the prince of Yi, and the titular Shengjing stays behind. However, in fact, it was Yixin's teacher Zhuo Bingtian and Yixin's mother Jinghuang Guifei who were in charge. In fact, these two people didn't have an idea, and after receiving the urgent report from Liaoxi, they immediately flew 800 miles to Prince Gong Yixin, who was still in Pyongyang, North Korea.

"Lord Wang! I can't fight a decisive battle now, I'm not sure......"

In the former Pyongyang government office, now Prince Gong's Chinese army, Sai Shang'a, Qiying, Guiliang and others kowtowed and shouted, looking extremely frightened.

"This king doesn't want to fight a decisive battle, but Liaoxi ...... In short, the land of the ancestors is in danger, the foundation of Manchuria is in danger, and it is already necessary to fight! ”

Yi Xin sat on the throne like a mud bodhisattva and responded mechanically.

After receiving the 800-mile rush sent by Sheng Jing, and learning of the police report in western Liaoning, he knew that the catastrophe was coming. The Ming army really came across the sea and landed directly in Ningyuanzhou, Liaoxi. And tens of thousands of troops were invested at one time, which can be described as menacing!

It seems that Zhu Jishi's move is to dig the foundation of the Qing Dynasty! If King Gong does not dare to fight now, gives up Liaoxi, and gives Zhu Ming a foothold in Liaoxi, Zhu Ming's follow-up troops will definitely come across the sea in a steady stream, if there are 350,000, why not directly attack Shengjing? Besides, Zhu Ming didn't attack Liao all the way. Zhu Jishi personally conquered Korea, and now he is also the king of Korea, and it is estimated that he wants to use Korea as a base to attack Liaodong. In addition, Vladivostok, the jurisdiction of the Jilin General Yamen, was occupied by the Ming army, which was probably Zhu Ming's first soldier. If you wait for the troops of the three routes to attack Liao at the same time, will there be any Longxing land in the Qing Dynasty?

As for the possibility of abandoning the lands of eastern and western Liaodong and retreating to Jilin and Heilongjiang, Prince Gong did not fail to consider it. But the problem is that the two sites of Jilin and Heilongjiang are wasteland that has hardly been developed. Coupled with the population plundered from North Korea this time, what will the more than 2 million Qing people use to fill their bellies in the coming year?

So Yixin had no choice at all, so he could only fight against the Ming army with an unstable foothold in Liaoxi! (To be continued......)