Outside Liaoyang City, Peng Sihai, who was still a horse thief last year, is now a hundred households in the Ming Dynasty, has been staring at the Jiancheng in front of him for a long time, and the two general banners Dong Zhong and Chen Shou around him are also the horse thieves who followed his uncle and nephew that day, and now they have become low-level military attaches of the Jinzhou Army by virtue of their exploits in Dengzhou to quell the rebellion.

When Dengzhou expanded the army, the wolf cavalry army was divided into two battalions, and the heavy cavalry was led by Cao Bianjiao, who was commanded by the battalion, but this light battalion was handed over to Peng Dahammer by Dayong. After landing at Wanghaibao, the wolf cavalry marched all the way north as the vanguard, capturing a huge number of horses, and Dayong selected elites from the original Ming army and those surrendered Mongol soldiers to expand the light cavalry, so that the number of light cavalry expanded from 1,200 to 3,000.

The heavy cavalry could not be expanded immediately due to the lack of heavy armor, but Rao was so, Dayong also expanded the 500 auxiliaries dedicated to the heavy cavalry to 1600 people, and two auxiliaries took on one heavy armor soldier, this configuration made Cao Bianjiao smile from ear to ear, because this configuration allowed the heavy armor soldiers to march as quickly as light cavalry without worrying about damage to horsepower.

Dayong repeatedly emphasized to his subordinates the importance of speed in warfare, and Cao Bianjiao, who was born in a cavalry family, also experienced this. Two years ago, he personally experienced that his uncle Cao Wenzhao only led 700 cavalry to travel 400 miles, blocking the encirclement before the people's army, and then crushing more than 60,000 people's troops in one fell swoop. The battle that made Cao Wenzhao famous in the northwest actually has nothing to write about, it is completely fast. Whoever is fast enough will be able to get ahead of their opponents and win.

Due to the limitation of the number of heavily armored cavalry, Cao Bianjiao knew that most of the battles of the wolf cavalry in the future would not be heavy armor charging battles, but more battles like light cavalry, so being able to make heavy armored cavalry move as quickly as light cavalry was what he had always dreamed of. In the past, heavy armoured troops could not play a greater role due to the lack of horses, but now this is different, with enough auxiliaries, heavy armoured cavalry can move as quickly as light cavalry. This time the light cavalry sent Liaoyang, and Cao Bianjiao intended to personally supervise the formation, but because Dayong needed him to lead the heavy cavalry with the main force, in case there was an accident of being raided by the Jin army, otherwise he would have led the heavy cavalry to Liaoyang.

Now there are 1,000 light cavalry outside Liaoyang City, most of them are Jinzhou's own army, the commander is Peng Sihai, and the other 2,000 cavalry are led by Peng Dazhui to carry out the cleaning of the Qiren Fort from Anshan to Liaoyang and Haizhou to Lianshuiguan, and one is with the left battalion of the infantry army in Nanguan south of Jinzhou, closely monitoring the movements of the Lushun Jin Army, preparing to wait for the arrival of Huanglong on Phi Dao to attack Lushun in the north and south, and completely sweep away the last Jin army fortress in southern Liaoning. Dayong intends to build Lushun into a bridgehead of the Jinzhou Army in southern Liaoning to facilitate follow-up operations, but this depends on Hong Tai's strength in southern Liaoning.

Originally, after the Anshan massacre, Dayong was undecided whether to go north, but because of Wu Heyin's continuous persuasion, he still took certain actions, but instead of the main force going north, he ordered the light cavalry to approach Liaoyang City, firstly, in order to shock the Liaoyang defenders and not act rashly; secondly, to see if there is a chance to break the city (this mainly depends on whether there will be a riot in the city); The third is to obtain early warning buffer time for the army, if Shenyang has the Jin army to help, Dayong can also make the decision to meet or retreat as soon as possible, so as not to be caught off guard like the Jin army.

If conditions permit, Dayong does not mind seizing Liaoyang or even making a gesture of approaching Shenyang, after all, Shenyang, a big city renamed Shengjing by the Manchurians, is too important, if Dayong can take Shenyang, even if it is just one day, his reputation will be unprecedentedly huge, and his weight in Chongzhen's mind will be as heavy as a rock, at that time, whether it is what happened in Dengzhou or what happened to Zu Dashou, it will not be able to affect his influence in Liaodong. I'm afraid that day, his image in the eyes of the court's important ministers is taller than Sun Chengzong and Zu Dashou, just ask, a general who can enter the capital of the Jin people for the Ming Dynasty and make the Jin people gnash their teeth is the so-called ill-intentioned thief!

No, never!

Dayong believed that the young Son of Heaven would be shocked by the miracles he had created, and would be moved by his sincerity and loyalty, and that he would associate with the young Son of Heaven and protect the world that was about to collapse for the Ming Dynasty and the Han people

The relocation and reorganization of the Han people and the soldiers in southern Liaoning is proceeding in an orderly manner, and more than 40,000 Han people have been relocated to Jinzhou one after another, and the Han army banners and the Ming troops working in various forts and mines have also been rescued or captured or surrendered one after another. The Jinzhou army landed in southern Liaonan too much, with the Jin army continued to lose and retreat, the Ming army and the Han people who were slaves rekindled hope for the Ming army, the two infantry battalions have been incorporated nearly 10,000 Ming army soldiers, and the baggage battalion left in Jinzhou Wanghai Fort has contained thousands of Han people, first trained as auxiliaries and then used as soldiers after actual combat. The artillery battalion did not incorporate and surrender soldiers, which made the artillery skills too strong, and it was useless to have more people, but more than 100 Han Army Banner Ming Army soldiers who could make artillery were selected, and there was no change in others.

In this process, the former Jin Army Han Army Banner Wanghai Fort General, that is, the Zhou Wuchang who was played by Dayong as "a strong man learned to be An Lushan", made great contributions, and in five days, he really recruited more than 7,000 soldiers from the original Ming army for Dayong, including more than 3,000 people who participated in the Battle of Guangning, and more than 30 Sichuan soldiers who participated in the Battle of Hunhe that year. For this reason, Dayong also specially asked Zhou Wuchang to check whether there were still Qi soldiers who participated in the Battle of the Hunhe River in this southern Liaoning, but the return was nothing, which made Dayong sigh for a moment, and the soldiers of the Qi Army who wanted to participate in the Battle of the Hunhe River were really wiped out.

Although most of the Han and Ming soldiers in the Jinzhou Army occupied area chose to return to the arms of the Ming Dynasty, there were still a considerable number of Han people and the original Ming Army who still chose the Jin Army, most of these people were the families of the Han Army Banner and the Ming Army of the original Tong Yang and Li Yongfang's lineage, and many of their families had a place in the Jin Army, which could be described as hardcore traitors. For these people, Dayong naturally won't have any good intentions, and he can't control those who have fled to the territory of the Jin Army, but those who have not yet escaped on the road are killed.

For a time, the land of southern Liaoning was full of scenes of Ming cavalry chasing and killing people fleeing to the north, and more often than a few Ming army foot soldiers led dozens of vengeful Han people to hunt down those traitors. There are also a certain number of bannermen and Mongols who are also stubbornly resisting, but in front of absolute strength, their resistance is minimal, and they can't change anything, even if they can kill one or two teams of Ming troops, but as more Ming troops arrive, they will inevitably be killed.

The checkpoints in various places have fallen into the hands of the Jinzhou army, and the two battalions of the left and right infantry armies strictly implemented Dayong's orders, in addition to controlling the road checkpoints, but also with the assistance of those Han people who had been Aha and slaves, they guarded every path that might pass people, and even many Han people spontaneously hid in the woods of the mountains, and once they found the bannermen and traitors who had fled north, they rushed out to chase and kill them. On the way to escape, in order not to be discovered by the Ming army and the Han people, many banner people brutally killed their young children, so as not to hear their cries by the Ming army, thus causing death for adults. Some of them couldn't do it and directly abandoned the children on the road, and as a result, most of them were frozen and starved to death, and those who were lucky enough to be discovered by the Ming army were not treated and adopted, but continued to let him cry in the field of this empty mine. Late at night, someone will always hear the sound of a wolf howling.

The huge southern Liaoning, whether it is a plain or a mountain range, there are people killing people everywhere, corpses can be seen everywhere, fortunately it is winter, if it is summer, I am afraid that the Jinzhou army is not defeated in the hands of the Jin army but in the hands of the plague. The Jinzhou army could not spare their hands to dispose of the corpses for the time being, and what they had to do now was to move the Han people to Jinzhou, find out all the food they could find, burn all the houses that could be burned, blow up all the city walls that could be blown up, fill all the wells that could be filled, and transport all the materials that could be transported.

The scorched earth, the rich southern Liaoning was reduced to a ruin under Shi Dayong's bloodletting policy, even if Hong Tai relocated manpower to enrich Liaonan again, at least for ten years, he did not want to get food and materials in southern Liaoning that could support his Eight Banners army.

The slaughter of the banner people in various places is a little bloody, and the Han people who are qualified to be traitors are also liquidated badly, and the birth of the "Jiupin traitor system" makes the heads continue to fall to the ground, in this process, the officers are in line with the principle of purging rather killing mistakes and not letting go, and there are many people who have not actually done too many bad things for the Jin people, but because of their identity, their heads have landed.

More than 1,000 Han people were killed in the city of Fuzhou, and many of them were just Kha who were bannermen, and their deaths were not unjust. When Dayong received the report from Song Qing, his brows also frowned, but Song Qing was right, it was wartime, and our side had no officials in southern Liaoning, so it was impossible to screen them one by one. If you really do that, first, the time can't catch up, second, there are not so many literate officials, and third, it is easy to give the treacherous a chance to take advantage of, the so-called troubled times should be used to re-enact, since my Jinzhou army landed in southern Liaoning to let the blood of the Manchurians dry, there is no need to follow the rules, what is the kindness of a woman, kill all the people first, and completely control the situation. As long as the situation is controlled, our army will be able to successfully carry out the strategic purpose of this expedition, and there is no need to worry about the unforeseen road ahead, in short, whether it is unjust or not, those who have been killed will not be able to save people, what can be done now is to try to move the living Han people intact, not starving or freezing to Jinzhou, and then send them to Dengzhou. Dayong thought deeply about this, and asked Song Qing and them to let go of their hands and feet, and don't report these things to him in the future, what he cares about now is Liaoyang, Shenyang, and the army of Hong Tai, thousands of miles away.