At the beginning of July, Dolgon, Duoduo Department from the Dragon Gate into the border, on the attack on Longmen Weike, turn to attack Baoanzhou, the middle of the Huang Taiji into the customs directly to Xuanfu, siege for three days, eager can not go down the counter was killed by the cannon many horses, Huang Taiji turned around to Yingzhou, two days later Yingzhou City broken, Huang Taiji long drive straight into, West Road Daishan and Sakhalian, Shuotuo into the border after the fierce attack on Huairen County, and then attack Jingping (Shanxi Pinglu), did not capture, Huang Taiji ordered them to turn to attack Shuozhou near the Mayi, East Road Haoge into the border after falling into Chang'an Ling Fort, attack Chicheng can not be, Merge with Dolgon and others, besiege Baoan Prefecture, smoke rises on the border of the Ming Dynasty, and urgent documents fly to the imperial court like snowflakes.

Emperor Chongzhen's will was strict, and the new governor Yan Kunzhi also frequently refuted the commanders of various places: "...... Ren (Houjin) rangers plundered, unable to set up ambushes and annihilate, the so-called trainers are safe? If there is nothing to do, if there is a lack of salary, there are police and there are no soldiers in their own places, the training is unheard, and only the appeal is made, and the so-called elite are safe? ”

Although Yan Kunzhi was heartbroken, the original plan to defend the enemy outside the country was torn apart by the Tarsan guerrilla tactics, and the magistrates who defended the land and the generals who led the troops were afraid to fight against the Houjin, they did not dare to fight, either abandoned the city and fled, or closed the city gate, and when they saw the Houjin soldiers coming, they only dared to fire cannons from a distance.

On July 8th, the Emperor Taiji soldiers plundered Datong, captured the Victory Fort, the Beijing Division was earthquake again, Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to order, the edict did not have time to go to Shanhaiguan to take office in chief Chen Hongfan to guard Juyong Pass, Governor Ding Kuichu and others to guard Bauhinia, Yanmen, and the supervisor Zong Yuanfang guarded Changping......

Deshengbao is an important pass of Datong Town, and has been the main passage connecting northern Shanxi and Inner Mongolia since ancient times. Location matters. Originally built, Fort Victory was not an isolated military facility. It is a strict defense system composed of five castles, including Victory Fort, Victory Mouth Fort, Zhenqiang Fort, Four Castles and River Patrol Fort, and the fort wall is set up with 18 enemy platforms, each with a thousand catties of copper cannons, called "two generals"; A thousand catties of copper cannon are placed on the urn city wall, called "the general"; On the fort wall, the female wall stomped on each place, and a 200-pound "thousand-legged" iron cannon was placed. The four corners of the wall build a corner tower, and the east wall is in the middle to build a bell tower, and the county seat is in the same area. Because it is located at the border, it is heavily guarded, and the city is tall. Moreover, it is mostly equipped with Hongyi cannons, which are generally impossible to be breached, especially when Huang Taiji has the intention of grabbing one and leaving before setting off, and does not carry much siege equipment. But when the beacon fire of the fire pier was suddenly ignited, many officers had not yet reflected. Fort Victory held out for eight days, and the general Li Quan committed suicide.

The Fall of Fort Victory......

All kinds of corruption within the Ming Dynasty, to name a few, after the Jin soldiers such as into a no-man's land, in the Ming Dynasty capital Taibao shuttled back and forth, Chongzhen saw that the Xuan soldiers were not useful, and urgently ordered Ningyuan general soldier Wu Xiang. You Shiwei, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, led an army of 20,000 to rush to Datong, at the same time. Beijing declared martial law, the market, people everywhere panicked, and many people in Tianjin received the news, and they helped the old and the young to go south, their destination is, Lushun!

On July 10, the Houjin army attacked Lingqiu, and Jiang Bingcai, the county governor of Lingqiu, recruited troops to hold on, garrisoned Shiqi, and put the chief Chen Yanwu and Ma Ruzhi, Zhang Biao of the classic history, and taught Lu Dengfu, and died in battle. After the city was broken, Jiang Bingcai, the magistrate of the county, hanged himself, and his family was martyred. Shocked from near and far......

The prestige of Houjin spread far and wide in Mongolia, and all the tribes led their armies to the meeting, including the remnants of Chahar, who had been unable to conquer in this southern raid, and returned to Houjin in an endless stream.

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On July 6, Zhao Long of the Dragon Cavalry Battalion of the Iron Fist Brigade led his troops out of the Jinzhou Isthmus, and after the Jinzhou Isthmus, the terrain became vain, and the southern Liaoning in July should have been a vibrant season, but Zhao Long looked left and right, the official road was full of barren grass on both sides, and the tuntian fields in Fuzhou near Jinzhou had long been burned by them, and now you can still see the traces of scorched black in the fields, and the Tatar slaves did not dare to send Baoyi to cultivate again, allowing these lands to be wasted.

At the end of June, after the adults designated the plan to attack Fuzhou, the dragoon battalion and the two cavalry companies under the rescue battalion began to frequently attack the tunpu in the Fuzhou area, and the Fuzhou sentry cavalry repeatedly tug-of-war, the Tatar sentry cavalry was few, and was forced to Fuzhou City several times by the dragoon battalion, and the dragoon battalion did not besiege the city, but boldly interspersed behind the enemy, and wantonly destroyed the tunpu fields in the covered area, thousands of acres of wheat that was about to mature were burned, and the dragoon battalion also broke several tunbao, plundered and clothed, and the Fuzhou Tatar soldiers were few. We can only watch as most of this year's food and property losses are made.

At the beginning of July, the reinforcements of cavalry in the area of Gaizhou arrived in Fuzhou, and the dragoon battalion fought several times, both sides had their own victories and defeats, the dragoon battalion was equipped with short guns and straight flintlock muskets to attack fiercely, but the continuous shooting ability was insufficient, and the bows and crossbows were not the opponents of the Tarnus, and they lost a lot of people, so they retreated to Jinzhou to replenish the men and horses on one side, and waited for the order to attack again on the other side.

After the discussion between the military department and Yan Kunzhi, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to order the southern Liaoning guerrilla battalion to take the initiative to attack and contain the soldiers and horses in the south of the Eight Banners of Tatars......

On July 4, the third battalion of the Panshi Brigade of the left side division, the mixed battalion, and the mountain infantry battalion totaled more than 4,000 people gathered at the Lushun wharf, the sea was hazy with warships, the sails were in the sky, and all the ships with more than 100 materials were collected, and the left army landed at Nanxinkou to attack Yangguanbao to the north, and then continued to advance, they were responsible for attracting and dragging the Fuzhou defenders and the Tartar slaves north of Fuzhou to assemble, and the right Iron Fist Brigade took the official road, and arrived at the city of Fuzhou two days later, encircling and annihilating the main force of the Tartars. A large number of craftsmen and laborers of the logistics department will have to wait for a few days to set off one after another, and the water operation will have to transport a large number of supplies to Yangguan Fort after sending the soldiers.

On 6 July, the Iron Fist Brigade began to leave the Jinzhou Isthmus one after another with the dragoon battalion as the arrow, Li Dali led the first flintlock battalion as the rear army, Yang Bo led the logistics battalion himself, the artillery battalion and the heavy protection battalion as the central army, He Jiu led the second flintlock battalion, and the rescue battalion directly under him as the front army.

Yang Bo had to continue to recruit in person, there were a few brave generals under his command, but there was a lack of talent to take charge of himself, Tie Niu acted in a decent manner, He Jiu was less strategic, as for Li Dali, Hu Mazi, these people are more than enough to bring a battalion, and it is not enough to bring a brigade. Thinking about it, in fact, Xiucai, who is far away in Henan Mansion, actually has this ability, but it's a pity......

This time the army was all on the march. As a precaution, Yang Bo left the calf to lead the local garrison department to guard Lushun, with the always steady chief instructor Cui Yong as the assistant, the little lady Chen Bilian guarded the sea road, Yun Niang was four months pregnant, and her belly was obviously bulging, although she was reluctant. But Yun Niang understands the righteousness and has no complaints.

Liu Bingwen of the Intelligence Department said to Yang Bo: "According to the intelligence collected and summarized in the past few days, the total number of troops in Fuzhou is about 3,000. Among them, there are about 1,800 Zhenyi, 500 Beiyu, and the rest are all coated, and their strength is not enough to resist the siege of our army. But cover a line of fifty miles. Yulin Fort and other places are stationed in white, blue, yellow, and a small number of Han army flag men and horses, it is estimated that this part totals about 2,000 or ......"

Yang Bo asked, "What is the number of garrisons in Gaizhou?" ”

Liu Bingwen said: "There are about two cattle records in the Yellow Flag of Gaizhou Abatai, and it seems that there are still Han Banner troops active, but our scouts can't get close to Gaizhou, and we can't find out the specific number." In addition, there are about several hundred people from the newly surrendered Chahar Division, plus the clothed auxiliaries. The garrison of Gaizhou also had about 3,000 people, and Jierharang, who was recently sitting in Shenyang, received an urgent report and transferred about a Niulu force from Shenyang. ”

Yang Bo touched his chin and asked, "Has there been any information about the nail recently?" ”

Liu Wenbing shook his head: "The war between the two sides is imminent, the trade route is blocked, which makes it inconvenient to transmit information, and Su Kesa follows Huang Taiji to the south, we haven't received the intelligence of the nail for a long time." ”

Yang Bo asked with some confusion: "The news that came back from the nail last time said that where did the Wuzhen Hachao that Huang Taiji newly established imitate our guerrilla battalion go?" Is it stationed in Haizhou or Gaizhou? ”

Liu Bingwen was a little embarrassed and touched his head: "The villain hasn't gotten the news yet, but according to the villain's inference, Huang Taiji took away Kong Youde and other Han military flags in the south this time, so this Wuzhen Hachao must have also swept south." The second judgment is to be stationed in the Haizhou area, because Haizhou has always been the garrison of the Han military flag. ”

Yang Bo shook his head: "It's strange, there is no mention of this ironclad army in the Tang newspapers everywhere in the imperial court, it must be stationed in Haizhou, if it weren't for the fact that there was no plan to attack Haizhou this time, otherwise I really want to pick up the full-body ironclad that they captured from the sin barracks." ”

Yang Bo's words made Liu Bingwen laugh, and Yang Bo explained to Liu Bingwen: "Let the sentry cavalry try to reconnoiter to the area of Gaizhou and find out the accurate strength of the Tarnus, although the Iron Fist Brigade is not afraid of the Tarnu ambush, but it is also troublesome to delay the time of the Tatar slaves, after all, the firepower of the Rock Brigade is not enough to block too many cavalry." ”

On the second day, the Iron Fist Brigade of more than 80 miles approached the Fuzhou River, the sentry cavalry sent by the Tarnus began to increase, the cavalry battalion and the Tarnus exchanged fire, and on both sides of the road where the Chinese army marched, there were many horses and bloody corpses, which showed the intensity of the battle at that time, and the soldiers saw that there were no casualties among them, and their morale was high, of course, they did not know that the lost personnel of the cavalry battalion were all received by the logistics and ambulance personnel.

At noon, the Chinese army arrived at the Fuzhou River, the dragoon battalion was distributed around the bridge to stand guard, and the nearby mountains of five miles were occupied by the cavalry company sent out, and the special forces company was condescending, setting up a straight flintlock pistol and aiming.

The engineers of the logistics department are directing the carriages carrying supplies to cross the river, because the official road from Jinzhou to Fuzhou is in disrepair, and the Chinese army with a large number of vehicles is extremely difficult, and the speed of the Iron Fist Traveling Army is not fast, and the plan to arrive at the city of Fuzhou today is afraid that it will be postponed.

At this moment, Wang Xiaoyu ran over and said: "I just received the news from the sentry cavalry, the left Panshi Brigade successfully broke through Yangguan Fort this morning, killed more than 300 Tartar slaves, and captured more than 200 coats, and is currently preparing to build a defensive line more than 30 miles outside Fuzhou City, preparing for a counterattack by Tartars, but according to the news that has come back so far, the Fuzhou garrison has no signs of leaving the city. ”

Yang Bo thought for a while: "The pressure on the Left Route Army is very high, we have to speed up our pace." ”

Before Yang Bo's words were finished, the axle of a trailer full of iron armor broke when crossing the bridge, and the entire trailer overturned into the river, and several trailers in front and rear were tilted in half.

Yang Bo retracted his gaze and said to Wang Xiaoyu: "This time we are here to release Huang Taiji's blood, Huang Taiji robbed a large number of people back, but found that the food problem still could not be solved, his situation must be very embarrassing at that time, right?" (To be continued......)