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At the end of March and the beginning of April in the Northeast, the spring is cold, and there is no feeling of spring blossoming and everything thriving.

The snow has begun to melt, but the snow seeps into the mud, turning the otherwise frozen road into mud.

Tens of thousands of banner holders and new account holders who have just been promoted from the lowest level of Aha are struggling northward on this muddy land, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Since cattle and horses were requisitioned to transport all kinds of supplies, everyone had to walk. People often fall, but after being helped up, they have to continue to support themselves.

Although each family prepared more or less bread and jerky, and wore thick clothes, it was almost impossible to find shelter from the cold and wind when camping at night, so they had to sleep hastily by the fire to get some warmth. As a result, within a few days, those with thin bottoms couldn't hold on, and either fell to the ground while walking, or walked more and more slowly, pulled at the back of the line, and finally disappeared??????

For the deceased, there were family members to bury them at first, but the more people died, the more numb the people around them became. Gone were the burials of the corpses, replaced by the seizure of the clothes from the corpses and the remaining contents of their bosoms, so that they could survive the long journey that almost accompanied death??????

Yun Yu stood on a high place and watched his troops move south, but his heart was cold.

The Qing court's large-scale evacuation of the people of Liaodong began at the beginning of February of the second year of Tongzhi, but due to poor organization, lack of sufficient means of transportation and transportation of cattle and horses, the degree of northward migration was unusually slow, almost two months passed, and the early ones arrived south of Alejin, and the brigade did not even cross the Songhua River.

At the end of March of that year, the Xia army had once again marched against Liaoshen, and in this case, in order to prevent the more than 400,000 Liaodong bannermen who were vital to the survival of the Qing court from falling into the hands of the Xia army, Yunyu had to block the Xia army in the wicker side, which also meant that he had to fight with the Xia army when his strength was insufficient.

However, what worries Yun Yu is not only the problem of insufficient troops, but also the problem of horses that makes him a headache - speaking of which, although Yun Yu's troops have won a lot of money in the attack on the Horqin Four Banners that rebelled from the Qing court, they killed 3,000 enemies and injured 800 themselves, and the casualties of nearly 1,000 soldiers and nearly 3,000 military horses made the capture of only 8,000 horses and 25,000 sheep depreciate to a certain extent, not to mention the loss of 2,000 horses and 5,000 sheep on the return journey due to the lack of forage- Now the horses that have been weak and can not be driven were taken by the auxiliary army to the periphery of Ningguta to graze, without the help of horses, Yun Yu carefully planned to use horses to break through the Xia army's blocking fire network, and then use hand-to-hand combat to defeat the Xia army's tactics of no way to wield, and then the Qing army can only use flesh and blood to resist the Xia army's sharp artillery fire??????

Of course, Yun Yu didn't know that his opponent, Xi Daping, who was the new subordinate of the Northeast Camp Capital, was also worried at the moment.

The reason for Xi Daping's distress was almost the same as Yun Yu's, that is, the Xia army also lacked a sufficient number of transports and horses.

Xia Jun's lack of horses is naturally not because the horses lose weight in a winter and can't be used, you must know that Xia Jun's horse material is made of dried alfalfa, oats, coarse bran, black beans, fish bone meal, sea salt, and the nutritional content is far higher than that of the Qing Army's horse material with only ordinary dry grass, so Xia Jun's horses lose fat in winter is not obvious, but the key is that most of the horses used by Xia Jun are non-castrated stallions, and spring is the season of horse love, and stallions are irritable and cannot be used at all.

The artillery and other materials that had to be towed by the Xia army were numerous, and they could not be transported by a small number of geldings alone, and a large number of former people who had been recruited before were disbanded and returned to their hometowns by Zheng Kezang after the end of the Battle of Anyang because of saving military spending, reducing the pressure on food supply in North China, and ensuring agricultural time.

Fortunately, after the Liao River and Hunhe River thawed, the flat-bottomed transport ships of the Xia Army's naval division could enter along the estuary, which helped Xi Daping a lot, otherwise he was afraid that the food needed by the troops would not be able to be supplied in time.

On the first day of April in the fifteenth year of Wucheng in Huaxia, Huang Tao, the general army of Liaodong, led the second division of the Gongsheng Army and the third division of the former Guangwei Army, which had just been reorganized into the seventh division of the Longxiang Army under the Yangtze River Water Division, to recover Liaoyang City and Tokyo City, which had been empty.

The next day, Xi Daping led his troops to Fengtian City, and also accepted this empty city without blood.

"My lord, something is wrong." Xi Daping's staff officers reported. "The divisions were sent out to investigate the surrounding (Chinese) Xiali, and like Shenyang, the people were all relocated by the Tartars." The staff officers confirmed. "This is no longer a simple fortified wall, but a large-scale migration of people, just like the Xiongnu moved westward."

Xi Daping shook his head, he had been a monk halfway through to get intelligence work for a period of time, so he was unwilling to rush to judge the movements of the Qing court without sufficient information: "It is to learn from the Xiongnu to move westward, or to take advantage of the vast territory of the Northeast to deal with me, and now the area to be done is to push the battle line to the edge of the Songhua River." ”

There is a reason for Xi Daping's words, Zheng Kezhang has ordered to exchange one mu for 15 mu and compensate for the price of 10 stone of rice per person to move 300,000 households in northern and southern Hebei to Liaodong for resettlement. Therefore, Xi Daping had to ensure that the area south of the Songhua River was a safe zone, so that the plans of the Chinese court would not be sabotaged by the Qing army.

It was for this reason that Xi Daping gave Huang Tao an order: "The second division of the Gongsheng Army will garrison the rear of our army such as Haicheng, Liaoyang, Tokyo, Shenyang, and Fushun, and the seventh division of the Longxiang Army will immediately go east, and march to the ??????Yalu River and Changbai Mountain after controlling the Phoenix Gate, Aiyang Gate, and Soda Factory Gate."

Subsequently, Xi Daping left two siege artillery regiments and a heavy artillery regiment directly under the Privy Council to wait for the arrival of Huang Tao's department, and the rest of the main force continued to move north, heading towards Kaiyuan.

On the sixth day of the fourth month, the Xia army entered Tieling; On the ninth day of the fourth month, the Xia army entered Kaiyuan City again.

Just as the Xia army was advancing all the way, the second division of the Gongsheng Army of the Xia Army, which had recently controlled Fushun, received a shocking news - the outpost that was going to reconnoiter in the direction of Xingjing was now more than 10,000 Qing troops rushing towards Fushun.

What's going on? Could it be that the Qing army is preparing to encircle Wei to save Zhao? Huang Tao, who was not allowed to stay in the town, reacted that Fushun was surrounded by the Qing army. The city of Fushun was small, and the garrisoned Xia army only had a regiment of infantry and a regiment of white soldiers, with a total strength of less than 1,500 people, and it was doubtful whether it could hold out until reinforcements arrived under the attack of several times the Qing army. But what is even more terrifying is that the Xia army only has two regiments of infantry in Shenyang and the three artillery corps left by Xi Daping, in case the Qing army captures Fushun and takes Shenyang directly, and the 4,000 people are not even able to fill the Shenyang city wall, how can they last a long time.

It is not advisable to urgently draw troops from the front line of Liaoyang, Haicheng or even Gaizhou and Phoenix, not to mention that it is not too late to come up in time, in case the Qing army lets Shenyang go with a false shot and turns to attack Liaoyang City, which has fewer troops, the problem is just as serious.

Then transfer the 7th Division of the Longxiang Army to help? It's too late in time.

Huang Tao had no choice but to see death on the one hand, let Fushun fend for himself, and on the other hand, he strictly ordered all places to be strictly guarded, and at the same time he also told Xi Daping urgently, asking Xi Daping to transfer back at least two divisions of soldiers and horses.

When he received a letter of help from Huang Tao's fast horse, Xi Daping was standing on the gate tower of Weiyuanbao, an important gateway on the edge of the wicker.

The so-called wicker side is divided into the old side and the new side, the old side is built in the era of Huang Taiji, about 230 (Hua) Xiali, except for part of the section is built by using the border wall of Liaodong, the rest is an earthen embankment whose height and width are three work steps, every five work steps on the earth embankment will set up a willow pile, the middle is tied to a rope to block, the willow tree is born for a long time and forms a green barrier. The new side was built in the Kangxi era, and extended from Weiyuan Fort in the north of Kaiyuan to Jilin Wula.

Laobian was used to prevent the Han and Mongols from crossing the border for reclamation and grazing, but the Manchus still had to pass, so twenty-one city gates were opened along the entire wicker side, and Weiyuan Fort Gate was one of them. However, because the wicker sides were built by Han Ming exiles, the labor was limited, so the passes were narrow and simple and compact, and the gate tower was the office of the customs officials, and there were two rows of ear rooms under the city, which were the barracks of the garrison and the cells for those who crossed the border.

"This broken place actually blocked countless people." Having said that, Xi Daping knew that people might be able to sneak over the wicker side, but in terms of the height of the earthen embankment and the trench in front of the embankment, the chariots and horses would definitely not be able to pass the pass, and without the chariots and horses, it would not be easy to travel in the sparsely populated northeast land. "But it's delusional to want to stop the army of this dynasty." Xi Daping said with a pun. "Demolished, dismantled all the wicker edges."

Zou Ming, the first-class captain and military Sima on the side, asked, "Marshal, is the south saved or not?" ”

Xi Daping asked: "You sue me, how many cannons can the Qing army use to attack the city?" ”

Zou Ming suddenly said: "Although the outer city of Shenyang is only made of rammed earth, even if there are a hundred Wucheng Yonggu cannons, it may not be able to collapse immediately, not to mention that this Qing army cannot have so many cannons." ”

Zou Ming sighed for a while, and then confirmed: "In this way, the Qing army just wants to delay our entry this time. ”

"That's how it should be." Xi Daping sneered. "And Huang Guowei is in a daze, the official only has five divisions, and he has transferred back two divisions, how can the rest move forward, just transfer them all back to relieve the siege."

Shouque Du Wei and Jun Sima were engaged in the construction of the Fengchun camp: "Is that to let the seventh division of the Longxiang Army come back to help?" ”

Xi Daping thought for a while: "Since it is reported that the Qing captives are coming from Hetuala, the 7th Division of the Longxiang Army can attack Xingjing with great fanfare after seizing the gate of the alkali factory??????