Zhao Dezhi took the lead in with his subordinates, and after entering, he found that there were two family members at the door. The previous nine-headed bird was extremely bad at night, and it didn't make the slightest sound and put down the two gatekeepers.

"Acton sleeps in the East Wing, you come with me!" Li Yifeng said in a low voice, taking the lead in leading the way.

Batu and the others lamented that these nine-headed birds were so familiar with Acton's house, and hurriedly followed.

Li Yifeng and the others had already figured out the layout of Acton's house and the situation of the usual guards, so the action went smoothly, and they easily solved a few families who had known for a long time along the way, and directly touched the outside of the east wing.

The lights were still on in the room, and from time to time the voices of a man and a woman could be heard.

Li Yifeng glanced at Zhao Dezhi, "It's him, Acton's voice." ”

"That's good." Li Yifeng made a few gestures, asking everyone to quickly surround the east wing, and when everything was ready, Batu took the lead in kicking the door, and the Mongolian strong man directly kicked the door bolt and rushed in with his subordinates.

In the room, Niu Luzhang Jing Actun, who was stationed in Lushun, was having fun with his beloved North Korean concubine, but he didn't expect to suddenly rush in a large group of people, and the loud noise scared him out of bed and became impotent.

As soon as he reached for the knife beside the bed, Batu's scimitar was already directly against his stomach, less than half an inch from his chrysanthemum.

"If you move, I'll stab you!" Batu snorted coldly.

Acton was naked and stretched out for his knife on the bed, slowly turning his head. saw familiar people, Batu, Zhao Dezhi and several Mongolian and Han officers.

"What are you doing here?"

Zhao Dezhi stepped forward and glanced at him coldly, "If you want to live, just be obedient." ”

Seeing Zhao Dezhi's fierce eyes, Acton finally showed a frightened look in his eyes.

"What do you ask me to do. I'm obedient. ”

"Borrow your Seal Signal Flag."

"It's in the study." Acton hurriedly said. Li Yifeng hurriedly sent someone to fetch it, and sure enough, he found it. After getting the Seal Signal Flag, this Acton will be useless, Zhao Dezhi glanced at Li Yifeng, and Li Yifeng nodded.

Zhao Dezhi took two steps forward and covered Acton's mouth. Then he broke his neck. "Don't want to stain my knife!"

With the Seal Flag, the next thing went more smoothly, they first used the Command Flag to open the barracks gate of the 200 Korean soldiers, and then captured the Korean soldiers in the barracks. Then he used the seal letter to take over the city gates and forts, and finally 600 Menghan soldiers and horses entered the barracks of the Manchurians.

Many of the Manchurian soldiers did not understand what was happening by this time, and under the surprise attack of three times the number of Mongol and Han soldiers and horses, they did not have time to put on their armor and form a group.

What's more, these full soldiers are fierce though. But among those Han and Mongolian raiders, there were at least hundreds of people dressed in blue, all of whom were equipped with two short handguns, and one gun was far away.

Within a few moments of their rush in, at least forty or fifty valiant Qing soldiers were knocked to the ground. Under the suppression of these musketeers, the other Han and Mongolian soldiers swarmed up, and within half an hour, all 200 full soldiers were hacked to death.

After killing all these Jurchen soldiers in Lushun. Batu and Zhao Dezhi began to search and hunt down the rest of the Jurchens in Lushun. Whether it is a soldier, a family member or a businessman, whether it is old and weak, women and children. None of them were spared.

Even the 200 Korean soldiers were all killed by these Han and Mongolian soldiers who were killed.

When the Beiyang Naval Division fleet arrived at the mouth of Arthur at night, Lushun had already been taken. Liu Jun did not immediately let the fleet enter the port, but stayed more than ten miles outside the port, and first sent a small force to quietly sail into the port in a small boat.

Soon. They sent back messages.

Lushun has been taken, and the city and port of Lushun are all under control.

On the sixth day of the fifth month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, only six days have passed since the nine-headed bird left Huangzhou. Liu Jun sailed into Port Arthur in Liaodong with 30,000 troops on a warship.

Before the arrival of the Hydra army, the Intelligence Service had already captured Lushun through the rebellious Mongol and Han officers.

I heard that Batu and Zhao Dezhi put 200 Jurchen soldiers and 200 Korean soldiers. There are also about a thousand Jurchens and Korean merchant families in Lushun City who have been killed, Liu Jun frowned, but in the end he didn't say anything. Kill and kill, and there is nothing to be particularly sympathetic to.

When the Qing army conquered Phi Island the year before last, Azi Bridge slaughtered the island because the Ming army on the island did not surrender. More than 10,000 Ming troops on the island were killed, and the people on the island were killed as much as 40,000 or 50,000, and in the end, only more than 300 sailors and more than 3,000 women and children remained.

The two generals understood the righteousness, abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, and resolutely went anyway, Ben Hou was very happy. That is, he was appointed as a guerrilla general, and he still commanded his headquarters, and each of them was rewarded with 500 taels of silver, and each of his officers was rewarded with 100 taels of silver, and the soldiers were each rewarded with 100 taels of silver. ”

Batu and Zhao Dezhi had already seen the Beiyang Fleet of Zhennanhou with their own eyes, and they were shocked when they saw the rows of huge cannons on the big ship. They clearly knew that even if they didn't have their internal response, with the strength of Zhennanhou, it would be easy to conquer this small city of only a thousand people.

Unexpectedly, Hou Ye was so generous, promoted him to a guerrilla general, and rewarded him with so much silver.

"Thank you for the reward of the Hou Ye, and I will go to the soup in the future and never give up." The two knelt on the ground and thanked the reward.

Liu Jun waved his hand to get them up, and it was not too much to give them these rewards. He also wants to convey a message to everyone, and in the future, he will not be treated badly anyway.

It was not yet dawn, but the nine-headed bird had completely controlled Lushun.

But Liu Jun was not satisfied.

According to the information he had before, the defense of the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula was not strong, especially Huang Taiji also transferred a group of troops from here to Jinzhou. Before the Qing army reacted, Liu Jun was ready to seize the opportunity.

He carefully inquired about Batu and Zhao Dezhi for a while, and learned that the information he had was indeed correct.

Looking at the map in front of him, Liu Jun's fingers focused on the location of Jinzhou City in the north, which was originally the garrison of the Jinzhou Wei of the imperial court, and Lushun was the station of the Jinzhou Zhongzuo, from Lushun to Jinzhou City there are one hundred and thirty miles, and there are several small cities in the middle of the Kiba Station and Qingniwa.

Qingniwa was later Dalian.

This time to attack Liao. Liu Jun's plan was to attack and rob along the coast, but he was not satisfied with just a commotion. The rest had been collecting all kinds of intelligence, geographical information, and the number of garrisons on the Liaodong Peninsula, especially in Lushun, long before he sent troops. port conditions, etc.

From Jinzhou City to Lushun, more than 130 miles, protruding from a sharp tip in the Bohai Bay, especially in the south of Jinzhou City, between Jinzhou Bay and Dalian Bay, the Jinzhou Isthmus is quite narrow, only ten miles wide.

At the time of the Ming Dynasty's apocalypse, Liaodong was lost and the situation deteriorated. The imperial court once came up with a plan. It is planned to dig a ditch for the 10-mile-wide Jinzhou Isthmus and turn the 100-mile-wide southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula into a large island. The Ming army relied on this artificial canal to hold Lushun, and sent people to garrison Lushun to defend Lushun, thinking that it was a barrier on the Shandong Peninsula.

The feasibility of this plan was actually good, but because the imperial court had no money and food at that time, it was not implemented in the end. Later, Lushun was lost. Mao Wenlong built Dongjiang Town on Phi Island, and also counterattacked to recapture Lushun and Jinzhou. But at that time, his focus was on the Phi Dao side, so in the end Lushun gave up.

Liu Jun values Lushun very much, because there are two of the best ports here: Lushunkou and Qingniwa.

The deep-water harbor is very suitable for mooring the big warships of the Beiyang Fleet, and the warships with a draft of eight meters can not be moored anywhere. What's more, these two ports are still ice-free ports. Even during the Xiaoice period, the two ports froze for a very short time.

Occupying the Jinzhou Lushun area, the Beiyang Fleet has a good home port, and the nine-headed bird conquest of Liaodong also has an excellent forward base and supply base. In particular, Lushun is only 200 miles away from Dengzhou Penglai.

But don't stay here for long. This is a matter to be considered later, and Liu Jun's top priority now is to seize these places.

Qingniwa Port is also a port as good as Arthur Port, and the Qingniwa City of the port is the predecessor of Dalian in the future, and it is still only a small town at this time. Because of the occupation of the Tartars, the merchant ships in the port were greatly reduced, and the small city was inevitably weakened.

Before sending out the army, the battle plan made by the nine-headed bird was to capture Lushun first, and then march all the way north, and capture as many cities as possible before the Tartars reacted and sent troops south. But only attack, not defend, every time a city is breached, the population and money in the city will be robbed, and the city will be destroyed, and the surrounding crops will also be destroyed, and the Tartars will take the initiative to clear the wilderness.

The specific way to go north this time depends on the specific situation, maybe it will hit Fuzhou, maybe not. If the attack goes well, you can even fight directly to Gaizhou, anyway, the nine-headed bird has a powerful warship, so you don't have to trek on land, you can directly take the battleship from the sea close to Gaizhou to land and attack.

But now Liu Jun has a new idea, he plans to occupy Lushun.

Therefore, he no longer divided his troops to attack, but left a part of the troops and horses, built additional forts in Port Arthur, and repaired the city walls, he specifically requested that it be built according to the style of the Europeans' fortresses, and finally chose the Crown Fort, which has many edges and corners, and each edge and corner is also a fort, and there is no dead end in firepower.

At the same time, the city was backed by the port, and the warships of the port provided artillery support.

Liu Jun transferred the reconnaissance battalion and cavalry ashore, and assigned them an artillery company, and asked them to set off from Lushun and go north, sweeping up those loyal to the Tartars along the way.

Liu Jun personally led the fleet north by sea.

Before leaving, Liu Jun sent a notice to Lushun and the surrounding people. The reconquest of Lushun was announced, and the property of the merchants and the common people was protected, and the lands occupied by the ownerless, the Tartars and those judged to be traitors were all taken over by the imperial court.

These fields were changed into military cantonments, and landless people could apply to the garrison of Lushun, and each ding could be granted 50 acres of land, and the nine-headed bird also rented from them ploughing oxen seeds and farm tools, etc., and after harvesting, half of the harvest was rented for cantonment.

Because Lushun fell into the hands of the Tartars for many years, during which it was repeated several times, the population was greatly reduced, and many field owners either fled or were killed, and now most of the fields belong to the Tartar overlords and the tuntian of the Qing army. Now, Liu Jun has collected these full measurements and cleaned them up as a nine-headed bird's military tun.

The people were very happy with this kind of notice, and they went to sign up for Tuntian, and the shop wharf in Lushun immediately became popular. The arrival of a large number of Ming troops not only means that there will be an increase in business, but also that there will definitely be merchant ships from the Ming Dynasty in the future.

"Aren't we able to take more cities by dividing our forces?"

"Don't be in a hurry to divide the troops first, and when the Tartars come, we will divide the troops to harass us." (To be continued......)