Sometimes, you can't expect anyone to exalt what is right, or even give up their own interests because of it.

If it weren't for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Li Zicheng would still be sitting on the dragon chair in Beijing. Because of this, he was extremely disgusted with the Manchus, but he had to compromise with reality, if he did not contact the Manchus to send troops together, he would rely on his Dashun army to fight in the south?

When Dolgon received Li Zicheng's letter, he was immediately ecstatic, and the two sides agreed to send troops next spring.

The two sides fought their own battles, and they did not join forces.

Li Zicheng's army went out of Shanxi and attacked Hongnong, Huaiqing, Zhangde, and Guangping. The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs and killed Tianjin all the way.

What to do with the Datong Army?

The soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, and the two will fight together!

The terrain of Shanxi is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, Li Zicheng dared to come out, but he was afraid that he would keep shrinking. Liaodong was too far away, and it was extremely inconvenient to transport troops and grain, and if the Manchus dared to come to Tianjin, the supply line would be long enough to drag them to death. Once Liaodong is empty, the Datong armies of Liaonan and Korea can take the opportunity to attack its hinterland.

In the autumn of this year, Zhao Han expanded the army again and formed the new 16th and 17th divisions of the Datong Army. He was temporarily stationed in Nanjing for training, and immediately transferred to the north after the spring snow melted.

In the Liaodong direction, there were no large-scale battles, and small-scale frictions continued.

The Datong Army is learning from the Ming Border Army and is constantly building fortresses. Basically, a town built a fort, some of which were poured with cement, and many of which were made of rammed earth. In each fortress, there is a beacon tower, and when you see a Tartar, you immediately light a beacon fire.

In the mountains of southern Liaoning, Han people continued to escape and ran to the Datong army to divide the households.

Within the jurisdiction of Fuzhou, Jinzhou, and Gaizhou, including civil officials and military families, there are already more than 230,000 people (not counting the number of troops, not counting children under the age of 12). Although the military rations are not yet self-sufficient, they are indeed much more abundant than in previous years.

Baoju on the North Korean border, where it's even funnier.

After a division of the Daedong Army was relocated, the peasants in northern Korea, unable to bear the exploitation of the government, defected with their families one after another. In Baozhou, excluding the military families who emigrated to the past, there were more than 80,000 Korean people under his rule.

Although these Korean people could not speak Chinese, they were extremely supportive of the Daedong Army.

There are two reasons: one is that the grain is not heavy, and the other is that the family name is given.

The Korean people have a surname, they can settle down and divide their fields, and they can barely eat enough food to grow food, which is simply from hell to heaven.

The king of Joseon, Yi Hao, finally came to his senses after purging his old ministers. He forbade the Korean people to move to Baozhou, and even sent an army to drive away civilians close to Baozhou, killing entire families at every turn if they did not obey orders.

With the Datong Army in the north blocking the Manchu Qing and the opposition forces in the interior, Li Hao thought he could enjoy it.

Seoul has been shelled many times, and the city walls can be repaired.

The palace has not been repaired for decades, and some of the main halls are leaking, so they can be completely renovated. By the way, if two more halls are built, the king can't live too crowded.

The Korean people really endured, and even though they starved to death countless times, there was still no uprising.

It's just that the people of northern North Korea will do everything they can to secretly flee to Baozhou, and they will be able to survive there.

……

Mountainous area of southern Liaoning.

A strange group of sergeants was climbing and advancing in the mountains.

The person who led the troops was called Yang Zhenqing.

His former name was Yang Fu, and he was a hunter in Yimeng Mountain, and his whole family was killed by Duoduo. He took the hunting bow and chased all the way, finally shooting Duoduo into a hedgehog.

Now, he has 500 people under his command and has a special number - the new independent battalion in southern Liaoning.

The composition of this army is diverse.

There are good shooters in the Datong army, hunters in the mountainous areas of various provinces, and Han people in the mountains of southern Liaoning. Even, there are Jurchens in the mountains of southern Liaoning!

In the mountainous areas of southern Liaoning, there have always been Han people-inhabited.

During the Hongwu period, there was Xiuyan Fort, which belonged to Gaizhou Wei. During the Jiajing period, Xiuyan Fumin General Judgment Office was set up. During the Wanli period, Xiuyan was set up to manage the grain and take charge of the granaries of Jinzhou, Haizhou and Gaizhou.

Mao Wenlong once sent personnel to instigate the Xiuyan Han uprising, which was suppressed by Nurhachi, capturing more than 6,700 Han people and plundering more than 4,000 livestock.

Subsequently, Jierharang built Xiuyan City and garrisoned it to prevent Mao Wenlong's sneak attack.

The current mountains of southern Liaoning are sparsely populated, and there are very few Han people and Jurchens. The Han people were taken captive to become serfs, the Jurchen tribes were migrated, and the few who remained were oppressed and exploited by the Manchus.

Therefore, after the Datong Army gained a firm foothold, some Jurchens in the mountains were willing to take the initiative to take refuge!

"Yingzheng, in front is the garrison of the Tartar officer."

"Touch it at night and kill them all!"

The so-called Tartar officials were actually sent by the Manchus to receive the goods. The Han people and Jurchens in the mountains collected ginseng, animal skins and other things, and they had to pay a lot of tribute every year, and if they couldn't make up the amount, they would be punished.

Towards evening, a Jurchen common man came running and said in Manchu: "The Tartar officials are drinking, and the company officers are leading the troops, and they have as many hands and two feet." ”

The Jurchen soldiers in the independent battalion immediately translated to Yang Zhenqing.

Yang Zhenqing said happily: "Don't wait for it to get dark, touch it now!" ”

The 500 soldiers of the independent battalion, 200 of them, used the spears of the white pole soldiers, and could join together to climb the mountains. The remaining three hundred men were all armed with bows and arrows and swords.

As for the armor, it is all leather armor.

In addition, all 500 men were equipped with new flintlock muskets, but they were only used when encountering a large Eight Banners Army.

It was nearly dark, and five hundred warriors quietly approached. The three Manchu sentinels who were sitting in a daze, their positions had long been pointed out by the Jurchen people, and they didn't know that they were about to become live targets.

Yang Zhenqing squatted in the grass, like a hunter facing a wild beast, took off his bow and arrows and slowly pulled it away.

"Whew!"

An arrow was fired, and the enemy sentry was killed, right in the throat.

A few other archers also shot the remaining sentries to death.

Seventeen tartars were drinking wine and eating meat from the houses of the people. When they were full of wine and meat, the door was suddenly slammed open, and before they could react, they saw a spear piercing.

Searching for loot, there were many piles of ginseng and furs, as well as some hamstrings of wild beasts, all scavenged from nearby mountain people.

Yang Zhenqing said to a Jurchen warrior: "You go to the surrounding area and tell the people in the mountains to let them come over tomorrow and take away their things." ”

"Good!" The Jurchen warrior grinned.

At the beginning, Yang Zhenqing was in the mountains of southern Liaoning, and when he saw the Jurchens, he immediately attacked and killed. It wasn't until one day that he saw the Manchu officers and soldiers beating up the Jurchen people who couldn't make good friends, and Yang Zhenqing understood that the Tartars would also bully the Tartars.

So he reported the situation, and Lu Xiangsheng pushed aside public opinion, and let him try to contact the Jurchen people, and he really established a friendly relationship.

Following.

Some Jurchen mountain people came with meat.

Yang Zhenqing took out the silver and bought the meat. And the Jurchen mountain people can take the silver and go down the mountain to buy grain and salt.

Through this kind of transaction, Yang Zhenqing's independent battalion did not have to worry about logistics when operating in the mountains.

On the territory of the Jurchens, it is nonsense to say that they can actually gain the support of the Jurchen people and supply food on the spot.

Yang Zhenqing said to the Jurchen mountain people again: "When the Tartars come again, you will come to report the news and promise to snatch the things back." In the future, there will be Han people to collect your mountain goods, and you will guarantee that you will give enough silver, and you will never take anything in vain. ”

The Jurchen mountain people were all happy and sang hunter songs around Yang Zhen.

This was the first time that the independent battalion attacked the Manchu Qing mountain goods collection team. About a month later, the Manchu officials in Xiuyan City finally realized that something was wrong and sent more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers to check.

Xiuyan Castle was built in the mountains, controlling the main roads in the mountains.

But it is difficult to march in the mountains, even if you really pass through here, go over the mountains and mountains and go straight to Jinzhou, at most a few thousand strange soldiers can come to raid. Moreover, the grain production in the mountains is not enough, which is not suitable for the garrison of the army, and after the Manchu Qing Dynasty built Xiuyan City, there have been only 202 Eight Banner soldiers stationed.

As the Datong army gained a firm foothold in southern Liaoning, Dolgon also attached importance to Xiuyan City, and the garrison in the city increased to 800 Eight Banner soldiers.

But there were too few mountain people, and the Han people who farmed near Xiuyan City had already been taken away by the Manchus. 800 Eight Banners soldiers are stationed here, which is already the limit of logistics, and no matter how much they have, they have to transport grain from outside the mountain.

The 200 Eight Banners soldiers who went out of the city this time were all riding inferior horses. They are not cavalry, only mounted infantry.

The Eight Banners had only marched more than ten miles in the mountains, and some of the Jurchen mountain people rushed to inform the independent battalion. The independent battalion was stationed in the mountains all year round, and immediately dispatched when it received the news.

"What about the harvesters?"

"I went to the south and never came back."

"Where's the south? A few people lead the way! ”

Two hundred Manchu Eight Banner soldiers were led by the Jurchen mountain people all the way to the ambush point of the independent battalion.

"Phew!"

The copper whistle sounded, and the Jurchen mountain people heard the whistle and immediately lay on the ground as agreed.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Go back!"

Gunshots rang out on both sides of the valley, and the Eight Banners were ambushed, turned around and fled in panic. But the valley is too narrow to accommodate two or three horses in parallel, and the Eight Banners Army, with two hundred horses, is still dragged into a long snake formation.

A Jurchen mountain man who led the way, after lying on the ground, was not hit by a bullet, but unfortunately was trampled to death by a horse's hooves.

"Bang bang bang!"

There was another row of gunshots, and the Eight Banners who couldn't speed up, and more than 30 people fell off their horses again.

The remnants of the Eight Banners finally ran out of half a mile, and gunshots rang out again on the hillside in front of them.

After an ambush, only more than 40 of the 208 banner soldiers fled back.

This was a heavy blow, and the entire Xiuyan City, the Manchu Qing Dynasty only had 800 defenders.

Yang Zhenqing pointed to the corpses of the two horses and said, "The Jurchen people who sacrificed, these two dead horses belong to their family." Take the rest of the dead horses back to your stockade and divide them. The armor and weapons of the Tartar soldiers are also temporarily stored in your stockade. The whole army rested and recuperated, and tomorrow they went to the north to set up an ambush, and the Tartar soldiers got the news, and it is estimated that there will be a lot more. If they don't come, let's go to the vicinity of Xiuyan City and pick up the Han people there!" ”

Yang Zhenqing was very bold, and he asked him to go into the mountains to fight guerrillas, but he wanted to defeat Xiuyan City.