Haoge took the Haizhou soldiers and civilians to "hurry" day and night, and at midnight, he stopped to rest at Yaozhou Post and several empty forts around it, a hundred miles north of Gaizhou City.

The soldiers who fled south were okay, but the ordinary coats were all panicked and didn't know what was going on. This kind of abandonment of the city and fleeing is too rare!

Don't want real estate in Haizhou? Don't want the farmland either?

Hauge did not notice the fluctuation of people's hearts for the time being, found a few people, and ordered:

"Send someone to Gaizhou first, and say that I will enter the city at noon tomorrow, so that Shang Kexi can prepare to take over!"

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Just as Haoge fled all the way south, the cities of Kaiyuan and Tieling were surrounded by the Ming army.

Although the defenders in the city were terrified, they resolutely did not believe the news of the destruction of Shengjing City, and still resisted stubbornly.

The Ming army had the technique of bombing the city, so naturally it did not force the prisoners in the city to surrender, and after hastily persuading them to surrender, they began to prepare for the siege of the city.

Guo Yunlong and Hu Guozhu each led an army and fought a city each, although they were divided into two places, they had the same mind.

Both of them are generals under Wu Sangui, this time the emperor personally ordered the troops, the opportunity is self-evident, as long as they perform well, not to mention that they can be on an equal footing with Wu Sangui, at least they can become the general soldiers of a city.

You must know that before the destruction of Jingshi City, Wu Sangui was just the general soldier of Ningyuan. This time to recover the homeland, once it is successful, there will be a corresponding reward.

Therefore, Guo and Hu were high-spirited, and they were even afraid that the prisoners in the city would surrender, and they would lose the great merit of annihilating the enemy army.

In addition, the two also have the meaning of competing with each other, and they both want to conquer the city earlier, get the favor of the emperor, and be promoted first.

After Guo Yunlong led his troops to Kaiyuan, he adopted the strategy of besieging the city on all sides and attacking on all sides at the same time.

Because he knew that the troops in the city were scarce, and attacking from all sides at the same time would better disperse the enemy's forces. So that the enemy has no time to attack the bombing team that is burying its head in the city.

Hu Guozhu mainly attacked Tieling, although he also adopted the strategy of encircling on all sides, but chose the method of attacking on one side.

He set up mortars to bombard the city, and the defenders did not dare to rise. The team rushed to the bottom of the city with thick planks, dug holes in the ground, and prepared to blow up the city.

Since the Kaiyuan city wall is not very high, after noon, the bombing team dug a hole in the ground, buried the explosive bag, and pulled the lead to prepare for ignition.

When the four city walls were ready, Guo Yunlong ordered the fire.

Four fires flew to the bottom of the city, only to hear four loud bangs, and four gaps appeared in the plains.

The Ming army charged with the trumpet, the war drums beat, and the four sides charged at the same time, and soon rushed into the city to start a street battle with Jianyu.

On the Tieling side, after Hu Guozhu ordered the gong to be sounded, four or five thunderous sounds spread throughout the city and beyond.

The southern wall of Tieling collapsed.

The Ming army poured into the city like a tidal wave.

The captives in the city either resisted stubbornly, fought with the Ming army in the streets, or rushed out from several other city gates, preparing for a field battle with the Ming army.

But under the powerful firearms of the Ming army, the captives did not splash at all.

Whether it was Kaiyuan or Tieling, they did not last until nightfall, and were easily taken by the Ming army.

After the Ming army slaughtered the soldiers who resisted in the city, they opened the treasury of the Jianyu Mansion, took out the grain, cooked on the fire in the city, and had a full meal.

Those who surrendered were killed in batches, and the Han people who surrendered were gathered together, shackled, and went to the broken city wall to repair the city wall amid the sound of scolding and whipping from the Ming army.

On the second day, the well-rested Ming army marched out of the city, divided into several squads and drove to the surrounding forts and post stations, cleared the remnants of the Jianjiao on a large scale, collected the clothed slaves, and used them to repair the city and cultivate the fields.

At the same time, in Kaiyuan City, some well-equipped sled soldiers advanced further north. Tieling City also sent elite soldiers to the northwest to kill.

Song Xiance, who was stationed in Fushun, also received a military order from Chongzhen, ordered men and horses, and swept eastward.

Since then, all the three cities in northern Liaobei have been recovered by the Ming army, and the surrounding forts, post stations and villages have also been gradually controlled.

The shame of the "Battle of Salhu" in the Ming Dynasty regained control of Liaodong.

Shenyang.

Chongzhen sent people to prepare to build a "monument to the Battle of Pingliao" in front of the puppet palace that was built. ”

On the west side of the monument, there will be a detailed record of the crimes from the 11th year of Wanli when the Ming Dynasty enshrined Nurhachi as the commander of the Jianzhou capital, to his gradual conquest of the Jurchen tribes, the occupation of the entire Liaodong, and the crime of entering the customs and looting.

On the east side of the monument, it is ready to explain and record the course of the Battle of Pingliao.

On the back side of the monument, the names of the fallen soldiers in the Battle of Pingliao should be carved up for the world to admire.

In addition, at the base of the monument, there will also be carved reliefs such as Sun Chengzong's schematic diagram of the Guan Jinning defense line, the battle of southern Liaoning, and the siege of Shenyang.

This project is very huge, it is estimated that it will be difficult to complete within half a year, but Chongzhen feels that it is very worthwhile, and even personally inscribes: "Pingliao Heroes Monument".

The soldiers of the Northern Expedition originally thought that this monument was built to praise the heroic talents and great achievements of Emperor Chongzhen.

After various details came out, the soldiers learned that this monument was actually built to commemorate the fallen soldiers and commend the meritorious soldiers.

The admiration for Chongzhen can be described as like a surging river, endless.

Immediately afterwards, the news that Chongzhen ordered the processing of the "Pingliao Hero Medal" and "Ming Zhongxing Medal" came out, and the list of nearly 10,000 rewards was also being compiled, causing another wave of sensation.

Although Chongzhen attached great importance to these matters, he arranged for the military Chinese to discuss and draft, and his thinking had spread to a wider area.

War is only a primary means, and the work of immigration, land reclamation, governance, and development after the war will be extremely complicated, although all these things can be assigned to the cabinet to handle, but Chongzhen must come up with a general direction, so that the ministers below can formulate specific plans.

Chongzhen is more concerned about the vast land north of the Xing'an Mountains and the Heilongjiang River.

In this era, with the national strength of the Ming Dynasty, there is almost no ability to develop.

Tsarist Russia spent decades exploring Siberia, and even reached Alaska, but it was only a stronghold, and it was difficult to truly achieve large-scale settlement and control.

Daming was influenced by Confucianism, and he didn't have much motivation to go north to expand the land, coupled with the weather during the Xiaoice River period and the unprofitable imperial court, he would not consider going north.

However, Chongzhen was well aware of the importance of it in later generations, and although it was difficult to expand northward due to the lack of national strength, he was still unwilling to sit idly by and let Tsarist Russia easily steal the vast territory.

Chongzhen thought about it for a long time, summoned Tian Shouxin, dictated it himself, and gave the prince an order.

"To the north of Kaiyuan City, there are 6,000 miles of land, where there are fertile arable land and vast forests, and there are countless mineral deposits, the Ming Dynasty lacks coal, copper and iron, and logs, gold and silver, it is necessary to go north to open up the territory, but because of the limited financial resources of the national treasury, the imperial court can not send people to the north.

Therefore, I believe that we should advocate that the people of the Ming Dynasty should form a team to go.

I have heard that in the far north, there are white bears, white foxes, white gulls and other auspicious things, which can be captured by the people, and once they have collected three kinds of auspicious things, they can be knighted, and at the same time set aside 10,000 acres of land in the far north to reward their people for their generations to live in. ”