"It's a good place, it's good for killing Tartars."

Lin Zhidong finally chose the terrain, which is the confluence of the fine river and its tributaries.

More than 4,000 Tartars had to cross the tributaries of the river if they wanted to rush out. A small river, narrow and shallow, only about ten meters at its narrowest point, and the dragoons swam through it with their horses.

Hundreds of dragoons, after crossing the river, all waited on the bank.

"Swim over with your livestock, how much can you run!" Fullerhun ordered.

The flagmen and the Tartar civilians could only cross the river hard, afraid that all the water would be stunned and at a loss.

Lin Zhidong slowly raised the fire gun and shot at the tartar in the river.

Gunshots rang out, and the Tartars were in chaos, and those who had not yet gone down the river were in chaos. And in the river, they swam upstream and downstream, trying to bypass the Datong army on the shore.

Is the main general Fuller Hun crazy?

It's all about sending the Tartars to their deaths!

Of course he's not crazy.

"Let's go!"

Fuller Hun picked up his little daughter, asked his wife and son to ride on horseback, and fled along the riverbank with his relatives.

The other two Tartar generals also reacted immediately and fled frantically with their families and relatives.

Those Eight Banner soldiers, bannermen and civilians who obeyed the order to go down the river were all cannon fodder sent to death. There are also livestock in the river and on the riverbank, which are also left for the Datong army to rob, and the main general Fu Lehui just took advantage of the chaos to slip away.

Fu Lehui was born in the Shumulu clan, he is a Tartar nobleman, so he does not want to die with the Tartar commoners!

Lin Zhidong on the other side of the river looked stupid, and gasped: "This Tartar commander has really done it, half of it is divided into chasing the enemy!" ”

The Datong army chased for about three miles across the river, and they could not continue to pursue.

Because the south bank is relatively wide, it is possible to run on horseback. The north bank was soon met with mountains, and there was only a narrow slope along the river, and horses had to be led to walk.

Fullerhun galloped all the way, running along the river for twenty miles, and dismounted to cross a small river on the way.

Then, abandon the horse and go into the mountain.

Fullerhun's escape route is not a serious mountain road at all. It is so steep that it is difficult to lead the horse, and even if you are climbing, you will be tired enough, and you must climb over many mountains to get out.

Lin Zhidong led the army across the river to chase after him, only to see more than 30 horses at the end of the valley, and these Tartar nobles and relatives slipped away.

After being captured, Alin was finally freed, and was sent to death by Fu Lehui.

He was lying next to a ploughing ox, under the bullets of the Datong army, when he suddenly heard movement behind him, and turned his head to see Fu Lehui running away with his family.

"Achina (brute)!"

Alin scolded, and shouted at the Datong army on the other side: "I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender!" ”

Some of the Tartar soldiers, who were extremely lucky enough to swim ashore, were so tired that they were out of breath and knelt directly on the ground to ask for surrender.

However, they were greeted by the blades of the dragoons.

There were only a few hundred dragoons here, and half of them went to chase Fulhun. They didn't dare to take too many prisoners, after all, they were all murderous Tartar soldiers, and it was safest and easier to kill.

Seeing that the surrender was also killed, the Tartars in the river swam back one after another. Those who did not go into the water left behind their livestock and grain and ran like headless flies into the mountains.

The Tartars who crossed the river were slaughtered, and the dragoons also crossed the river with their horses. After going ashore, they chased and killed on horseback, and only when they met the old and weak women and children, did they not continue to wield their war swords, and the young and strong Tartars were hacked to death when they encountered them.

When Lin Zhidong came back with the captured war horse, the banks were already full of corpses, and there were a lot of them floating in the river.

Sending someone to Caohe Fort to contact, Lu Xiangsheng was quite surprised: "Tongyuan Fort has also been taken?" Lin Zhidong is a general! ”

Lu Xiangsheng shelled Caohe Fort for several days, and the defenders here were only a few hundred. When the news of the fall of Tongyuan Fort and Lianshan Pass came, the morale of the Tartar defenders was low, and the guards abandoned the fort with their soldiers in the middle of the night and fled, burrowing into the mountains and not knowing when they could turn out.

The checkpoint of the fortress in the mountains was opened, and Lu Xiangsheng rested for a day, and continued to lead the troops north, and the soldiers pointed directly at the Weining camp (near Benxi).

According to legend, Fan Lihua was named "Weining Hou", and a radius of 100 miles was its fiefdom, so it was called Weining Camp. This statement is difficult to verify, but Weining Camp did become a place name in the Ming Dynasty, instead of being called Weining Fort and Weining City.

The army was still twenty miles away from the Weining camp, and Lu Xiangsheng encountered a group of Han Chinese.

A group of Han Chinese with shaved heads.

"Li Laixiang (Ma Zude, Qiao Henian), meet the general of the Celestial Empire!" The three Han people took the lead and brought the other Han people to meet them.

Lu Xiangsheng sneered: "This is cutting the braids?" ”

Li Laixiang took the lead in making a look of righteous indignation: "The general doesn't know, the Tartars are really hateful, in the past few years, the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes have continued, and the conscription has never stopped. We wait for the Han people of Liaodong to wait day and night for the arrival of the heavenly soldiers, and we will no longer have to endure the cruelty and obscenity of the Tartars. I, Weining Camp Li, am willing to donate half of the property, and the land will also be distributed to the peasants in cooperation with the imperial court! ”

"I, Ma, am also willing to donate half of my property!" Mazud said hurriedly.

The three of them expressed their loyalty one after another, and although Lu Xiangsheng was disdainful, he still did not have a seizure, and asked, "How many Tartar defenders are there in the Weining battalion?" ”

Qiao Henian hurriedly replied: "It turned out that there were only hundreds, and I heard that the general was attacking the city in the mountains, and all the nearby bannermen entered the city." The defenders of the city, at least five or six thousand, thirteen or fourteen-year-old Tartars were defending the city. ”

Weining Camp is the territory of Daishan.

As for Qiao Ma Li, they are the three major traitor families. They either led their troops to Nurhachi, or helped Nurhachi collect and sell stolen goods, and were allowed to stake land in the Weining camp. Not only did they occupy the land in the circle, but they also turned the Han people in the land into their tenants (more like serfs).

These traitors are very neat in taking refuge in the Tartars, and now they are rushing to submit to the Datong court.

And very hard, when Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to besiege the city, the three traitor families began to mobilize. The men formed regiments to train to help fight the war, the women helped to transport supplies, and even the tenants were organized to be people's husbands, and those who didn't know thought they had a deep hatred with the Tartars.

……

Yaozhou.

Dai Shan was arguing with Dolgon: "Return to the army, return to the army, it's useless for the army to confront here, hurry up and go back to save Liaoyang and Shengjing!" ”

Dolgon said: "The Weining camp is only a partial division of the Southern Barbarians, and it will definitely not fall again. Yaozhou can't be withdrawn, and there are tens of thousands of southern barbarians here. Once the troops are withdrawn, Yaozhou will be lost. At that time, Liaodong and Liaoxi will be cut in half by the southern barbarians. Hauge's army is not easy to come back. ”

"Then I'll take my own cattle back and destroy the Southern Barbarian's partial division!" Dai Shan was so anxious that he couldn't do it.

Weining Camp (Benxi) and its surroundings are all Daishan's territory, and he can't sit still.

The owners of the Eight Banners have their own territories.

For example, Yaozhou, Haizhou, and Ximu City are all territories inlaid with white flags; Xiuyan City, Phoenix City, and Tangzhan Fort are the territory of the Blue Flag.

In order to prevent the warlordization of the various banner forces, the defenders of the city often adopted a mixed mode, with at least two banners in a city.

In recent years, the expansion of the Datong Army in Liaodong, the two white flags and the two blue flags suffered the heaviest losses, and the Datong Army occupied all the territory of these four banners. To this end, Dorgon had to redivide his territory and divide his interests from the other four banners. As a result, a new contradiction was triggered, and the nobles of the two red flags and the two yellow flags are now all holding back the fire in their bellies.

There was no civil strife, and Dolgon was considered to be capable.

Replaced by Haoge to preside over the overall situation, there is no need for the Datong Army to send troops at all, and the Manchu Eight Banners will fight themselves.

Dolgon said: "Wait for the battle in Yaozhou to be decided, and then return to ......"

"I want to withdraw my troops back to the Weining battalion!" Dai Shan interrupted with a roar.

After saying that, Daishan turned around and left, not giving Dolgon face at all.

Dai Shanzhen left, forcibly taking away the 8,000 army.

Dai Shan didn't completely ignore the overall situation, but he felt that Yaozhou couldn't fight here. Tens of thousands of Datong troops were piled up there, the camp was built very strong, and food was continuously transported. Besiege but not attack, just confront the Eight Banners, and continue to drag on, which can exhaust the Eight Banners Army's military rations.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty transferred too many troops and confronted each other in Tianjin and Yaozhou, which led to Lu Xiangsheng's partial division and successive victories in the mountains of southern Liaoning.

If he didn't return to the army to rescue, Dai Shan felt that Lu Xiangsheng would be able to fight in Shenyang.

"The Tartars have gone back!"

There are hot air balloons floating in the sky, and you can see the movement from miles away.

Li Zheng said with a smile: "The time for a decisive battle has come. ”

Xiao Zongxian said: "There is no need to continue to besiege Yaozhou, go to the Tartar camp outside the siege. ”

Hu Dinggui said: "Don't rush to capture the enemy camp, surround and drag on for time, and wait for the remaining Tartars to show their flaws." ”

"The Tartars are dividing their troops and leaving, or do you want to send cavalry to chase them?" Wang Tingchen asked.

Li Zheng shook his head: "No need. The top priority is to eat the main force of the Tartar in front of you, and don't think about becoming fat in one bite. ”

The day after Dai Shan led the army to leave, the Datong army began to move the camp and took the initiative to move closer to Dolgon's camp.

There's already a lot of trouble going on in Dolgon.

Gaizhou and Fuzhou, which were first occupied by the Datong Army, were all Dolgon's Zhengbai Banner territories. After the Tartars abandoned Beijing and returned to Liaodong, Dolgon had to redistribute and resettle the bannermen, and in order to avoid conflicts, he could only surrender to the dead Duoduo and Azig's subordinates.

Then it took a few years to adjust.

This time is also interesting, the cities captured by Yang Zhenqing and Lu Xiangsheng are all Haoge's territories.

Haug and Dorgon were the most panicked, and the other bannermen didn't have much to lose. Even if Yaozhou is defeated, it will also be Dolgon's territory, and it will be a matter of other banner owners?

The nobles of the two red flags and the two yellow flags are clamoring to give up Yaozhou.

There were even Manchurian nobles who said: "Liaoxi is not easy to defend, anyway, it is the territory of the former Ming Dynasty." Let's go back and defend the front line of Haizhou, Anshan, Liaoyang, and Weining. ”

In fact, they just don't want to fight, because they don't have the confidence to win.

Although it is known that abandoning the city is a slow death, it is better than a quick death.

Just like a large international company, whether it is an executive or a low-level employee, they all know that this company is about to finish. However, there are only a few people who change jobs, and most of them stay in the mess until one day they are finished with the company.

It may be less of a toss, and it can be mixed for a longer time.

This situation is suitable for the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, everyone thinks so.