Haizhou.

Dolgon and Daizen looked at the empty city, and they felt like they were going to suffocate their internal injuries. They sharpened their knives along the way, thought of dozens of ways to capture Haizhou, and even discussed how to treat the captured Chu army after taking Haizhou many times.

But what they never expected was that the Chu army did not defend Haizhou at all.

Haizhou City between Liaoyang and Gaizhou is a completely empty city. It is a real empty city, there is nothing, there is no one in the city, and there is no one in the city, there are no other houses and shops, the Chu army does not guard Haizhou, and does not want to return Haizhou to the Qing Dynasty completely.

"Liu Jiye has a kind, ruthless enough!" Dai Shan sighed. He couldn't understand why Liu Jun gave up Haizhou? does not guard Haizhou, but guards Liaoyang and surrounds Shenyang, is Liu Jiye arrogant or stupid? Is this to cut off the way back, or to learn from the overlord of Chu to break the kettle and fight against the water?

Liu Jun really regarded himself as Xiang Yu and the overlord of Chu?

Where did he get the self-confidence, where did he get the courage, dare to break the kettle and fight against the water like this?

Dolgon's face was also very gloomy, and the Chu army abandoned Haizhou, which he couldn't imagine at all. Originally, he thought that the Chu army would desperately defend Haizhou in order to keep the Chu army's retreat. Now this result of completely mispredicting the other party and figuring out the other party's intentions makes him very unhappy.

What made Dolgon even more unhappy was that Haizhou was already an empty city, a ruined city, and one of the walls had been stripped away. Grass, ruthless enough. To defend it, the city has to be rebuilt, but there is no longer a single figure in the vicinity. Even Haizhou has become a ghost town. Naturally, the Chu army did not let go of the surrounding villages and towns, and they had long been relocated by the Chu army.

"Forget it, let's go directly to Liaoyang." Dolgon said.

"That's right, Liu Jiye abandoned Haizhou, that is a self-cutting retreat, and he is afraid that his life will be long. Good news for us. Dai Shan also said.

On the same day, Dolgon and Daishan rested for a day in the ruined city of Haizhou, and then dragged hundreds of cannons brought back from Liaoxi all the way to Liaoyang.

It was freezing, the roads were covered with snow, and hundreds of cannons were dragging them, and the Qing army marched slowly. But Dolgon was reluctant to use these cannons, and it was with these cannons taken from Wu Sangui that day that he easily blasted Jinzhou City.

Dorgon believed. With these cannons in hand, I have them in the world.

What if the Chu army occupied Liaoyang, what about the strong city of Liaoyang, there are so many cannons, what kind of strong city can't be opened.

Fu Shan, who was in charge of guarding Liaoyang, led 10,000 Chu troops to guard Liaoyang City.

It's time to prepare. Two associations and 10,000 Chu troops guarded Liaoyang, and he had promised Liu Jun that he had patted his chest before coming. People are in the city, as long as he is not dead, the Tartars don't want to capture Liaoyang.

When he heard that Dorgon had arrived from Liaoxi with hundreds of cannons, he was even less worried. These cannons that Dolgon regarded as treasures were all obsolete goods of the Chu army, in fact. Originally, the most advanced of Wu Sangui's cannons were all bought from the Chu army.

When the Chu army dared to sell it, he naturally thought about what if one day these cannons fell into the hands of the Tartars, and even the Tartars turned against the Chu army.

A bunch of, what are you afraid of.

There are two defenders in Liaoyang City. Fu Shan was not short of artillery at all.

Each association of the Chu army had a field artillery battalion, each division also had a heavy artillery battalion, and a town also had a heavy artillery mark.

Although there were only two associations in Liaoyang City, in addition to the two field artillery battalions under the two associations, Liu Jun also left two heavy artillery battalions in Liaoyang City.

A field artillery battalion had six artillery batteries of twenty guns each, one battalion had one hundred and twenty guns, and two field artillery battalions had two hundred and forty guns. Not to mention that there were two heavy artillery battalions, each with fifteen guns, one heavy artillery battalion with ninety guns, and two heavy artillery battalions with one hundred and eighty guns.

In total, the four artillery battalions have more than 400 artillery pieces of various sizes, not counting the mountain howitzers and light guns owned by the two associations, and there are no less than two or three hundred light mountain grenades under the two associations.

Dolgon snatched a few broken copper and iron from Wu Sangui, and he really thought he was a local tyrant, and he really thought that he had an invincible cannon?

Fu Shan just smiled at this.

Competing with the Chu army, it was really an old birthday star who had hanged himself for a long time. Before the Liao River froze, the sailors had already transported enough ammunition into Liaoyang City.

With Liaoyang Jiancheng, four artillery battalions, plus sufficient ammunition and grain and grass, Fu Shan had full confidence that he could use 10,000 Chu troops to block the attack of 50,000 Qing troops.

No matter how they attacked, Fu Shan was confident that he could hold on. As long as the Chu army stays in the city and doesn't go out, not to mention much, there will be no problem in guarding it until next summer.

Fu Shan's current worry is not that Dolgon will attack Liaoyang, but that Liaoyang's defensive firepower will be too strong and scare Dolgon back. If Dolgon left Liaoyang alone and went directly to Shenyang, then he would be really worried.

"Don't worry, since the commander dares to surround Shenyang and not withdraw, it means that the commander is confident. Even if there are 100,000 Qing troops, as long as the commander guards the three cities of Shaling Fort and fights each other, the Tartars will not be able to break the city at all. Others don't know the ability of our Chu army to defend the city, don't you know? A group of officers in Liaoyang City said reassuringly.

"That being said, we still have to find a way to drag Dolgon's army to Liaoyang City for as long as possible." Fu Shan understood Liu Jun's plan.

Liu Jun made it clear to him that he would not attack Shenyang again, but he would not retreat either. Nailed to the city of Shenyang, the Tartars can no longer move against Liaoxi. Moreover, at this time, it was too late for the Chu army to retreat, and without the sailor to respond, Liu Jun did not dare to leave the garrisoned city easily. With the city guarded, the Tartars had no way to take the Chu army, so they didn't want to break through. But if the city is abandoned and retreated, then the land march of hundreds of miles will be quite dangerous.

In this case, anyway, the Chu army has enough food and ammunition, so it is better to survive this winter with the Tartars. Anyway, Liu Jun is not afraid of the Tartars going to fight Lushun or Zhenjiang, the city defenses of the two places are stronger, so there is no need to worry about it.

Thinking about it this way, Fu Shan felt that the Chu army was completely invincible.

Run to the capital of other people's countries, occupy their cities, and then let them surround them. As a result, they still take what you can't do, who is more sad and who is more painful? Only his own handsome man can fight like this, Fu Shan wants to laugh when he thinks about it.

It is estimated that when the Tartars find out about this fact, they will go crazy.

This is a robber scoundrel. If you don't invite yourself, and then you don't leave, you can't do anything about him, please don't move, you can't drive away. occupies your house, eats and drinks your family's grain, wine and meat, is there anything more devastating in the world?

Dolgon and Daishan were still slowly dragging the cannon on the road, and they could never imagine that there was something waiting for them in Liaoyang City in front of them. On the contrary, Dolgon and Daishan were relaxed.

"Liu Jiye had won many victories in Liaodong before. The one who relied on it was just taking advantage of the fact that the elite of the Qing Dynasty was all in Liaoxi, and Liaodong was empty, so he took advantage of the void to enter. Second, Liu Junye relied on the benefits of the giant ship cannon he obtained from Hongyi. With those sailing giants, they control the Liaohai Sea, and deceive our Jurchens to be good at riding and shooting, neglecting the sea boat division, relying on the advantage of waterways. You can land on the coast of Liaodong at will, come and go at will. It's hard to prevent. Another is to rely on the sharpness of guns and artillery, especially with the advantage of artillery, the cities of Liaodong have no city to block their advantage. ”

In the makeshift camp by the Liao River, Dolgon and the Daishan brothers sat in a leather tent drinking warm wine. Dolgon carefully analyzed the reasons why Liu Jun had been invincible since he entered Liao.

"People who don't know really think that he Liu Jiye is the reincarnation of the God of War, but to put it bluntly. In fact, it's nothing, but with the advantage of the warships at sea and the fierceness of the artillery, it is just a matter of avoiding the real and making it virtual. Now that Liaodong is frozen, its sailors are useless. This abolished Liu Jiye's left arm. And now Liu Jiye stupidly went deep into the city of Shenyang, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his department, and put them all over the left and right all the way, Zhenjiang and Lushun have more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and now Liaoyang and Shenyang are each stationed in an army, such a method of using troops, hehe! ”

After Dolgon broke the pine brocade, he is now full of self-confidence, and he doesn't take Liu Jun in his eyes at all.

"Liu Junye now only has the advantage of a gun, although I have no sharp flintlock guns in the Qing Dynasty, but there are also arquebuses. Especially now that he has taken these cannons from Wu Sangui's hands, what else can he Liu Jiye rely on to fight against my Qing Dynasty? Dorgon said in a high-spirited manner.

Dorgon was not afraid of firecrackers, which were just cowardly southerners, so he wanted to take advantage of them. However, the firearm also has many weaknesses, such as time-consuming launch, affected by wind and rain, poor accuracy, and so on. The real duel between the two armies, which one of the firearms is better than the female real cavalry charge?

The only thing he feared was the cannons, and under the fierce fire, no city could withstand them. And what the Ming people were best at in the past was to hide in the fortified city, and no matter how brave the warriors of the Eight Banners were, they couldn't break the city and were helpless.

But now, they have these cannons, and Liu Jiye wants to hide in the city as a shrinking turtle, no way.

"If Liaoyang is breached, we can no longer slaughter the Chu army as we did in Jinzhou." Dai Shan put forward his own suggestion, "These Chu troops are very good at guns and boats, if these people can be used by the Qing Dynasty, then any pass city in the Southern Dynasty will not be able to stop our artillery attacks." If we have the huge ships and strong ships of the Chu army, we don't even need to fight for Guanning step by step with the Southern Dynasties, we can directly sail across the sea, attack Shandong, attack Tianjin, and even land directly in the southeast hinterland of the Southern Dynasties, bypassing those heavily guarded pass cities, how can the Southern Dynasties still resist our Manchurian Eight Banners warriors! ”

Dolgon nodded, "That's true, the captured Chu army should be treated preferentially, and you can carry the flag for them." If those Chu army officers are willing to surrender, we can keep their original positions for them. Well, if Liu Jiye is willing to surrender, I think, he can be crowned a prince, and the title will be Prince Heshuo Chu, and he will be rewarded with a hundred bulls, what do you think? ”

"Prince Heshuo Chu, this is a great grace, well, I believe that Liu Jiye will definitely be moved by this and surrender to my Daqing when the time comes!" Dai Shan felt that this reward was not ungenerous, but if Liu Jiye was sincerely willing to surrender, this reward would still be worth it.

"Then it's decided, no one in the Chu army can be killed indiscriminately, all officers can be retained in their original positions, and Liu Jiye will be named the Prince of Heshuo Chu!" Dorgon finally clapped his head. (To be continued.) )

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