Anshan.

The rainy season was not over, and the Datong army did not attack Liaoyang, but only instigated a peasant uprising in the countryside...

At the military meeting, Li Zheng said with a smile: "We can't forget our old business, Liaoyang, Shenyang, Fushun, Tieling, Kaiyuan, there are many Han peasants in these places. Since the Tartars could not defend the city, they mobilized the peasants, killed the landlords and bannermen, and occupied all the fields under the city. As long as the Tartars dare to go out of the city, we will find an opportunity to annihilate. If the Tartars don't go out of the city, they will starve to death in the city, and they are not allowed to sell in the city anyway! ”

"It's a great trick." Lu Xiangsheng nodded.

"Haha," Xiao Zongxian suddenly smiled, "General Lu doesn't know that Your Majesty raised troops in Jiangxi to use this set to deal with the Ming Mansion. At that time, the city belonged to the government, and the countryside belonged to our Datong army. ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "Then leave 20,000 people behind to suppress the peasant uprising." The rest of the troops went to occupy western Liaoning. Open up from Haizhou to Shanhaiguan, if the Haoge army is not destroyed, maybe it can be blocked. You can send another cavalry to the grasslands of northwest Liaoning to deter and induce those Mongolian tribes to rebel. ”

"That's a good idea." Li Zheng nodded in agreement.

"I'll take people to the grassland!" The royal courtiers immediately asked for battle.

Taking advantage of the rare sunny weather, the Datong army began to divide its troops.

10,000 people stayed in Anshan and 10,000 in Weiningying, looking at Liaoyang from the east and west, and instigating the peasants to occupy the villages and towns of Liaoyang.

Elsewhere, there may be good landowners.

But in Liaodong, where the Tartars ruled, the landlords would not be wronged if they were all killed, and they would let go of their hands and feet to make the peasants dry.

Xiao Zongxian and Hu Dinggui led their troops to Liaoxi, Xining Fort, Xiping Fort, Zhenning Fort, and Pingyangqiao Fort...... All the way to Uiju, these cities and fortresses were all empty. The Tartars abandoned the Han people and serfs, crossed the Great Wall with their goods, and migrated to Shenyang.

Hu Dinggui went straight to the Xiaoling River, and the two castles were also unoccupied, leaving only a group of Han people who had been robbed of their property.

The two met outside Jinzhou, and Xiao Zongxian said: "Inside the Great Wall, all the Tartars have run away. I asked the Han people along the way that the Tatars should have traveled from the northern grasslands to Shenyang when they crossed the Great Wall. ”

"I'm pretty much the same here, I can't see the Tartars at all." Hu Dinggui said.

The Liaoxi Corridor was abandoned by the Tartars!

The loss of Haizhou is equivalent to the cutting off of Liaoxi, and it is impossible for the Tatars to occupy there for a long time, so they choose to withdraw as soon as possible. They just took away the clothes, and they didn't even bother to take the Han people captive, because the grain could not feed so many serfs.

Jinzhou City, which has been repeatedly contested for decades, is now open to the Datong Army Cave.

Hu Dinggui rode in, as if he had come to a ghost town. The streets were in shambles, and there were no people in sight. There were only a few Han people, hiding in the house and secretly observing, they were robbed by the Tartars, afraid that they would be looted by the Datong army again.

Xiao Zongxian led his troops to Ning Yuan, and the situation was the same, all the Tartars in the city ran away.

Just when the two of them were depressed, the royal courtiers who took the cavalry to the grassland were like winning the lottery jackpot.

The Tartars of the Western Liaoning Corridor, after crossing the Great Wall, followed the edge of the steppe to Shenyang. And the cavalry division of Wang Tingchen also patrolled the edge of the steppe, and groups of Tartars could be seen almost every day.

"General, there's a Tartar ahead!"

"Kill it!"

The cavalry division was divided into two and wandered on the edge of the steppe, and at this moment there were more than 4,000 people rushing out.

And the Tartars in front of him came from Yiju. There were only fifty regular Eight Banner soldiers, plus the Thousand Banners troops, and the rest were all Tartar civilians.

"Run, the barbarians are coming!"

The Tartars panicked and did not run to the north, because the north was full of steppes and it was impossible to outrun the cavalry. They left their possessions and fled south into the mountains, where they might have a way out.

"Spare your life, spare your life!"

The Han people did not escape, and knelt on the ground one by one and begged for mercy.

The Datong cavalry dragged their knives and galloped, reaping their lives along the way, until no Tartars escaped.

"Division commander, there are more than 1,800 prisoners, and hundreds of them are coated." The sheriff ran over and said.

Wang Tingchen said: "Pick a hundred Tartar prisoners, let Bao Yi go and stab them twice, and then let Bao Yi carry the captured baggage across the Great Wall to Yiju City." ”

Wang Tingchen's cavalry division came to the grassland to wander, and there was no logistical supply, and the Tartars who moved from Liaoxi became his supply team.

There are still a lot of such supply teams along the way, waiting for Wang Tingchen to receive them.

……

After crossing the Great Wall, Hauge and Mandahai confiscated the leather armor and weapons of small tribes along the way, and even directly killed and looted food and livestock.

The news of the defeat of the Manchus came, and sooner or later these small tribes rebelled, and the Tartars might as well strike first.

In the ravine of the remnants of Yanshan, the main force of the Tatars plundered all the way, and soon reached the territory of the left wing of the Karaqin Mongols.

They also wanted to loot this place, but they pounced. Guruskib, who killed his uncle, had emptied his uncle's tribe and migrated all of them to the pastures further north, raiding several small tribes by the way.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Horqin Mongol chieftain was conquering the tribe of Badali, Gulusiqibu led his troops to invade the Horqin steppe and captured a large number of people and livestock.

The Horqin chieftains were furious and returned to fight against Gulusqibu, but they were ambushed in Yuanbao Mountain.

Under the heavy losses, the Horqin Mongols and the Karaqin Mongols began to be evenly matched. In the next few years, it will definitely be a mutual conquest, which is nothing more than the end of one side subduing the other.

What's even funnier is that these two Mongolian tribes have sent envoys to Emperor Zhao in Nanjing.

The Karaqin Mongols, originally a branch of the Yongshebu Division, moved eastward to occupy the territory of Duoyan Sanwei.

And the Yongshebu Division, in the late Ming Dynasty, had been at war with Chahar. Lin Dan Khan of Chahar allied with the Ming Dynasty and wiped out the Yongshebu tribe. Karaqin, as a branch of the Yongshebu Division, quickly fell to Houjin and became a help for Nurhachi to defeat Chahar.

Gulusqib's ambition was to rebuild the Yongshebu Division, first befriend the Chahar Division, annex the Horqin Steppe, and then unify the left-wing Mongolia as the Great Khan.

Haoge, who did not catch the Karaqin Mongols, continued to the east and arrived at Xingzhong (Chaoyang City) to reorganize the troops.

There are only a few dozen garrisons here, but there are many Qiding and Han people, who are taken by Haoge to continue eastward, and not a single population is allowed to stay for the Datong army. He even deliberately rode his horse and trampled on the crops that could be harvested in a month after the rainy season!

The next route of the Tatars was to walk along the periphery of the Great Wall of Liaodong, wanting to return to Shenyang directly from the edge of the Horqin grassland.

It just so happened that the cavalry division of the royal courtiers was there.

Before they even entered the grassland, just in the hilly area, the two sides collided headlong.

……

West of Ulanmutu Mountain.

A group of Datong cavalry, who had explored the traces of the Tartars, rode up the hill, intending to climb high and look into the distance.

A group of Manchu cavalry, who were exploring the way, also rushed up this small hill.

Before the two sides could meet, they heard each other's horses' hooves, and immediately accelerated towards the top of the slope.

After a struggle, there were mutual casualties, and each went back to report the enemy's situation.

"What? There are Southern Barbarians ahead! Hauge was shocked, he already had a psychological shadow.

Man Dahai said: "This is outside the Great Wall, the Southern Barbarians are busy conquering Liaoxi, and there are definitely not many who have crossed the Great Wall, and it is estimated that they are here to chase the people of Manchuria." ”

The Tatar civilians who moved away from western Liao, Haoge also encountered a lot along the way.

Combined with the Mongols and Han Chinese who were taken along the way, Hauge's team once again reached 24,000 people. About half of them had war horses and weapons, but only more than 1,000 of them were actually armoured.

"Then eat it!" Hauge also felt that there were not many Datong troops chasing after the Great Wall.

The horseless Tartar walked slowly behind, and Hauge pursued with more than 10,000 people on horseback.

The Datong army in this vicinity is indeed not very numerous.

The main reason is that the royal courtiers killed easily, and divided the cavalry division of 10,000 people into five teams and scattered out to find the migrating Tartars.

And these five teams of cavalry, after they dispersed, continued to divide their troops.

In the face of Haoge's pursuit, the Datong cavalry could only choose to flee, and at the same time sounded trumpets along the way to warn.

After chasing for more than ten miles, the Datong cavalry gathered more and more, and there were already three or four thousand. Halfway through, Hauge also rescued a group of Tartar civilians, more than 800 people.

"Sure enough, they came to arrest our Manchurians," Man Dahai called a captured Eight Banners soldier and asked, "How many Southern Barbarians are there?" ”

The Eight Banners soldier said, "At least two or three thousand." ”

Hauge asked, "Do you want to chase it?" ”

Man Dahai said: "If we don't eat this southern barbarian, on our way back to Shengjing, they will definitely keep harassing." ”

"Then chase!"

Hauge made the decision and led the cavalry to continue the pursuit to the east.

Finally, the main cavalry forces of the two sides met. Hauge had more than 11,000 cavalry, while the royal courtiers had gathered more than 8,000 troops.

"So many Southern Barbarians?" Mandahai was amazed.

Hauge said: "If you don't fight, you can't do it, they stop in front, let's not think about going back to Shengjing." ”

Man Dahai said: "Our whole army has no armor, and we are not afraid of their firearms. Once the war starts, the whole army will charge regardless of it, and as long as it is close, it will not be afraid of the fire of the southern barbarians. ”

Haoge picked up the clairvoyant mirror and wondered: "Why are these Southern Barbarian cavalry a little different?" ”

Man Dahai also raised the clairvoyant mirror, observed it for a while, and said, "This is the cavalry of the Southern Barbarians, not the dragoons." Some wore cotton armor, others had iron armor only on their chests. It was very strange, so he sent 3,000 horsemen to test it first, and then he found out the enemy's fighting style. ”

Gradually, the cavalry of both sides spread out, and this is a hilly area.

There are many mountains, but they are not high, and many of them can be ridden on horseback. The respective cavalry was divided into teams of two or three thousand people, and the cavalry formation was spread out as much as possible.

Three thousand Tartar cavalry stepped forward, and the rest were scattered out, occupying the nearby hillside, intending to charge and kill at any time from a high position.

The Datong cavalry went to engage in the battle, and there were only 3,000 people. All of them were draped in cuirasses, cloth clothes from the waist down, and the horses were not very strong.

The Tartar cavalry also wanted to experiment with archery, forming a loose formation of traditional cavalry.

The Datong cavalry gathered more and more, the cavalry next to the cavalry, and the war horse next to the war horse.

Man Dahai said with a smile: "These southern barbarians, except for riding horses, I'm afraid they can't even ride and fight." The formation is so tight that once someone falls off the horse, it will immediately fall into chaos. ”

The cavalry sent by the two sides to engage in the battle was gradually approaching, and the scene made Hauge feel very strange.

The spear is raised, the war horse accelerates, the Datong cavalry, the wall charges!

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