On the twenty-third day of October, the two Xia armies met at Shaling Fort on the west bank of the Da Liao River.

On the day of the meeting, the military flags on the west bank of the Daliao River were unfurled, and the officers and men of the two armies were all robes who had fought in Shanxi, and after meeting, they all looked for their friends who knew each other, and pulled each other to express their concerns.

The soldiers below are like this, Su Ci and Su Dingyuan, the two cousins, can not avoid it, the two of them did not have the opportunity to meet after the Su family army entered Zhejiang to fight, until now three or four years have passed, after many years, they can finally meet again.

As soon as they met, Su Ci gave Su Dingyuan a warm hug, and after the two let go, he held Su Dingyuan's arms, shushed the cold and asked for warmth, and told about his worries about his cousin who had been fighting abroad in the past few years.

After some shouting, the two began to get down to business, entered the Sand Ridge Fort, and convened a military meeting of the generals to discuss the next battle plan.

Before the meeting began, Su Dingyuan first introduced Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao, two newcomers, and Ma Xin was familiar with others when he was in Nanjing, so there was no need to introduce them.

Subsequently, at the behest of Su Dingyuan, Zhao Liangdong stood up and explained to everyone the information they had about the Qing army and the movements of the Han rebels in Shengjing.

"On October 17, the Tatar chieftains issued a conscription order, requiring each banner man to send one strong man from each household to join the war, and the various Jurchen tribes in the north would also provide soldiers, and a group of 3,000 soldiers from the Far North called the Sauron tribe had arrived in Kaiyuan and slaughtered a rebel army operating in the vicinity of Kaiyuan.

In addition, the so-called three banners have been assembled in Shenyang, the inlaid cypress flag was annihilated by the Huaiguo Gong in western Liaoning, and there are only a few remnants left in the inlaid rainbow banner, and the remaining three banners have not been assembled in Shenyang, all of which have been deployed in Liaoyang, to prevent our army from going north, and the Han army flags have all gathered in Shenyang Mansion, and they can go out on the same day.

Fearing that our army is more than guarding against the rebels, after the Han army banner, which was originally ordered to suppress the rebels, gathered in Shenyang, the rebels from all walks of life were able to breathe, but they basically hid in the deep mountains and old forests, and they had no impact on the battle situation."

After Zhao Liangdong finished speaking, Su Dingyuan motioned for him to sit down, and then stood up himself, and said: "The first town and the third town have been equipped with new Type II rifles, and our army has fierce firepower, even if it is fighting the enemy on the plain, it is not afraid at all, but our army lacks cavalry, and if it fights with the Qing army with many cavalry in the Liaohe Plain, it will be very disadvantageous for our army."

"What the Liaodong Governor said is good." Su Ci said that because he was talking about official affairs, he directly called Su Dingyuan's official position.

"Our army has fierce firepower and many artillery." Su Ci continued, "The best option is to besiege the enemy in the city and fight a war of annihilation."

Su Dingyuan nodded, and then said to the generals, "You can speak freely if you have any suggestions."

When his voice fell, Zhao Liangdong took the first step to clench his fists and said, "The two overseers, the last general has a humble opinion."

"Speak." Su Dingyuan said.

"The last general agrees with the idea just put forward by Huai Guogong, and the last general thinks that a more daring plan can be formulated on this basis." Zhao Liangdong said: "The main force is still assembling in Shenyang, and it will not be able to go south in the short term, so our army can go north from now on, besiege Liaoyang one step ahead, and make a siege posture, so that the main force has to go south to rescue." After the main force moves south, our army will be able to fight the enemy outside Liaoyang City.

As long as Liaoyang is besieged for one day, *** must insist on coming to the rescue, otherwise, with the prestige of the Tatar chieftain in the country now, if he bears the reputation of not being able to save him again, it is very likely that the various Jurchen tribes will refuse to obey the order and fall apart."

Su Dingyuan and Su Ci glanced at each other, nodded, and agreed, but they did not respond immediately, but signaled that the other departments would continue to express, Wang Jinbao saw that Zhao Liangdong was in the limelight as soon as he came up, and he also stood up and said: "The two supervisors, the last general thinks that there are many cavalry, even if our army meets the enemy outside Liaoyang City, it may be difficult to block the charge of the cavalry with firearms alone. The second is to block the attack of the *** cavalry, killing two birds with one stone."

Seeing that Wang Jinbao was still thinking about his car camp, Su Dingyuan couldn't cry or laugh, but he had to admit that what Wang Jinbao said was indeed reasonable, if there was the cover of the chariot, the casualties of the Xia army officers and soldiers in the future battle could indeed be reduced.

With Zhao Liangdong and Wang Jinbao's words, the rest of the people also followed freely, and after everyone said their opinions, Su Dingyuan and Su Ci exchanged opinions, and decided to adopt Zhao Liangdong's suggestion, directly go north to attack Liaoyang, and encircle the point to send reinforcements.

There are also well-built chariots in Haicheng, which will also be brought with them.

After deciding on the next plan, the Xia army did not continue to stay at Shaling Fort, but marched east to Haicheng, and arrived at Haicheng the next day, after arriving at Haicheng, the army took the chariots and artillery stored in the city, and drove to Liaoyang.

Although the Qing court did not know the intentions of the Xia army, but when they saw the other party going north, they did not dare to slack off, and Emperor Shunzhi hurriedly summoned the king of Anjun and ordered Yue Le to count the army gathered outside the city as soon as possible and prepare to start.

On the twenty-sixth day of October, the Qing Emperor officially issued an edict announcing that the young Shunzhi Emperor did not put on the armor left by his father, Emperor Taizongwen, but wore the fine armor tailored for him, and slowly left Shengjing under the escort of the Shangsan Banner and the banners of the Han army.

From Shengjing to Liaoyang, the fastest march speed of the army is more than three days, and the Qing army only set off two days after the Xia army started, and when the Qing army set out, the Xia army was only one day's journey from Liaoyang.

Seeing that the Xia army rushed towards Liaoyang, the defenders of Liaoyang did not dare to slack off, as if facing a great enemy, while urgently cutting down trees outside the city to build city defense equipment, while mobilizing the banner people in the city to help defend the city, the tragic situation of the Manchus on the Liaoxi and Liaodong Peninsula deeply stimulated all the Manchus, they did not want to be slaughtered like pigs and dogs under the blade of the Han people, so they actively responded to the imperial court and walked to the city.

On the twenty-seventh day of October, the Xia army approached the city of Liaoyang and immediately surrounded the city.

Liaoyang has always been the economic, political and military center of the Ming Dynasty outside the Shanhai Pass, and after the Jin Dynasty captured this city, it was the capital for a short time, so the scale of Liaoyang City is very large, and it is a brick city wall, and there is an intact Tokyo city on the other side of the Taizi River, so the Xia army had to divide part of the troops and horses, and crossed the Taizi River to besiege the Tokyo City, so as to prevent the Qing army between the two cities from echoing each other.