"Leave 200 people to guard the supplies, and the rest will continue to attack with Ben Hou!" Wu Sangui ordered.

Subsequently, the Ming army galloped continuously around Shenyang, broke through another fort, and after cleaning the battlefield, Wu Sangui ordered to rest.

The Ming army found a sheltered place to dismount, took the fodder from the horse's back, and threw it on the ground for the horses to eat for themselves.

They themselves took out a small box, took out a hot water bag from their chests, and poured the water into the box.

After a while, the box was steaming hot and full of aroma.

It turns out that there is something special inside this lunch box, it is divided into two layers, the upper layer is food, which has long been frozen.

The lower layer is lime, which, when poured into the water, generates heat and warms the food.

This is another invention of Chongzhen, which is specially supplied to field cavalry and Ming army scouts, which not only solves their food problems in the field, but also protects the stomach and intestines of the soldiers and ensures the health of the soldiers.

In the icy and snowy wilderness, you can still eat steaming food, which was something that the Ming cavalry could not think of before.

Now it's so easy.

Wu Sangui devoured the steaming rice in his hand, leaving all the chewing and slow swallowing that Chongzhen instructed behind, he poured a mouthful of hot water into his mouth, stood up, and shouted:

"Eat quickly and get ready to attack!"

"Yes!"

After a while, the 2800 Ming army stepped on their horses and galloped towards the next target.

……

At the end of the day, Wu Sangui plundered four forts and found a lot of money, and they returned the same way before sunset, driving back more than 200 cattle and sheep and more than 30 horses they had stolen.

These spoils of war will be handed over to Chongzhen for unified distribution, although it is not in line with the habits of the Ming army - whoever robs it will be counted as whom, but no one objected this time.

One is because of the high prestige that Chongzhen has established, and the other is because they only need to hand over food, not money.

For them, money is the most tangible thing.

Half an hour after Wu Sangui returned, Bau of Xiong Wei's department also returned with troops, and they actually looted five forts and brought back more livestock, more than 300 cattle and sheep, and 50 horses.

Chongzhen praised Xiong Wei's strategy and Bau's exploits, and rewarded him with a jar of imperial wine.

At the same time, the cooking squad used a butcher's knife and slaughtered all the cattle and sheep.

Because the Ming army did not have enough grass to feed them, and now it is extremely cold, the whole field is a natural refrigerator, not afraid of spoilage.

Due to the large number, the various cooking squads slaughtered them all night, and the blood stained the nearby snow red.

At this time, the sheep and cattle are not fat, counting the internal organs, a sheep can only produce 50 catties of meat, and a cow can produce more than 400 catties of meat.

But these cattle and sheep are big and small, in fact, there are not so many, overnight, the Ming army cooking squad with the help of many soldiers, tired and tired, also poured out 20,000 catties of meat.

Compared to the 50,000 army, it is quite insufficient.

Those are all strong men, if you eat them with your belly open, you can eat two or three catties of meat.

Now it seems that one person can only get four taels of meat, and he will satisfy his hunger.

But early the next morning, the Ming soldiers were very excited when they saw the beef and mutton, and they had meat for breakfast, and they were energetic all day!

In this era, if you can eat beef and mutton, what kind of family does it have to be, you can eat four taels at a time, and the landlords are not so atmospheric!

After breakfast, the two teams of cavalry came out of the camp again and slaughtered towards the fort that had been built.

The Ming army, which remained in the city of Shenyang, went to the surrounding forest in batches to cut down trees.

The follow-up troops arrived immediately, and they needed more firewood to keep out the cold, and they needed a lot of timber to build the camp.

The siege of Shengjing was a long-term task, and Chongzhen had already decided to build a sturdy and warm fixed barracks, and after leaving enough soldiers to protect themselves, more and more soldiers were sent out to cut down trees.

At the head of the city, Hauge watched one group after another of the Ming army leave, and he had the intention of rushing out to attack the camp.

But thinking of the cunning Chongzhen, he temporarily gave up this idea, "Such a large-scale departure from the camp, Chongzhen must have something, there are only 20,000 soldiers in the city, once the door is opened to fight but the victory is not achieved, it may cause extremely bad consequences."

With a fortified city to protect it, Hauge is not willing to take any chances.

He understood why the Ming army liked to be a turtle with a shrunken head so much to stick to the city, defending the city, it was so fragrant!

……

The day passed quickly, and a lot of wood was piled up in the Ming military camp, and the cavalry team of Wu Sangui and others also drove back with new cattle and sheep.

It's just that today's harvest is not as abundant as yesterday's.

Overnight, the fort outside Shenyang got the news, or migrated and fled, or strengthened the defensive force, and it was too difficult to attack and plunder without increasing losses.

Wu Sangui used grenades to break through the three forts.

It was the same situation with Bau, who only took three forts, and most of the people from the other forts ran away.

Although there was a lot of wood in the army, and under the command of the carpenter, many military camps were also built, but these wooden military camps were very vulnerable to fire, and Chongzhen did not allow large-scale construction.

What he was waiting for was hundreds of truckloads of masonry. With masonry and wood, it is possible to build a military camp with a wooden and stone structure, although it is also afraid of fire, but it is difficult to cause large losses.

If the kang is built again, the army will definitely be able to survive for two months, and in that way, the strategic goal of this time will be achieved.

The next day, 70,000 heavy troops finally arrived in Shenyang, which stretched for more than ten miles, which was very spectacular.

Hauge looked at the city from afar, his face was dissatisfied and surprised, the scale of the Ming army's expedition was so large.

Dai Shan was also shocked, "So many Ming troops went deep into the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty, and they didn't encounter any attacks, and they arrived at their destination so peacefully?" ”

"It's weird."

Haoge gritted his teeth and said viciously: "This is not all thanks to Dolgon, if he hadn't transferred the men and horses from all over Liaodong back to Shengjing, how could the Ming army run to the city so calmly!"

If it weren't for the king's quick decision to let the Beigui soldiers enter the city nearby and stay behind, the last 60,000 main troops of the Qing Dynasty would be blocked by the Ming army in Shengjing! ”

Dai Shan's face was gloomy, "Even so, are the soldiers and horses in Liaoyang and other places blind?" ”

"The Ming army must have come along the Liao River, which is hundreds of miles away from Liaoyang, and most of the forts along the way are empty, even if someone stays behind, they can't stop the iron cavalry of the Ming army."

Haoge's face twitched, in the past three days, he has almost become a commentator of the Ming army's actions, he can only comment, but he can't act, it's really embarrassing.

"Prince Li, taking advantage of the fact that the Ming army has not gained a firm foothold, let's go out of the city and kill him by surprise! If the more than 100,000 people of the Ming army are stationed, the Qing Dynasty will die! ”

Da Da Da ......

When Hauge was about to send troops, a Jianyu cavalry galloped from the east of the city, and the Ming army did not stop and shoot them.

"Report ...... Liaoyang's 8,000 people will arrive in Shengjing tomorrow! ”