Aisin Jueluo Jidu tried to listen to the movement in the direction of Tokyo City, but no matter how he listened, he could only hear the trembling sound of crickets in the vast night.

There was no longer a faint shout of killing in the distant Tokyo City, Jidu sighed a little lost, his hand pressed on the cold wall, retracted his gaze to look at the city of Tokyo, and the basket flag on the side Gushan Zhenlanbai whispered:

"Flag Master, it's so late, Tokyo City is only afraid of ......."

Ji Du snorted from his nose, although in fact the fall of Tokyo City had a large part of the relationship with his inaction, but he still had a sense of emptiness, it was the capital of the Qing Dynasty before the establishment of the country, and the fall of Tokyo City into the hands of the Han people would be a heavy blow to the prestige of the emperor and the imperial court.

"Whether Tokyo will fall or not, we will know when it dawns tomorrow, no matter what, we still have to prevent the Xia army from storming the capital city, and hold out until the imperial reinforcements arrive."

He said.

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The next day, the Xia army brought the captured Manchurian battle flags in Tokyo and the head of the remaining Mel Zhangjing to Liaoyang City, under the order of Su Dingyuan, Wang Jinbao personally raised the head of Mel Zhangjing on the spear, and provoked the Qing army outside Liaoyang City loudly, the Qing army at the head of the city did not know what happened at first, but as more and more people saw the captured flags and the head of Mel Zhangjing, panic began to spread in the city.

Those few flags and the heads raised in the air are enough to say it all - the city of Tokyo is broken!

The news of the destruction of Tokyo City quickly spread in Liaoyang City, although many people in the army had been mentally prepared for this in advance, but after this incident was confirmed, they still could not hide the panic in their hearts.

To be precise, they all have a feeling of cold lips and teeth, even the former capital Tokyo City has been conquered, how long can they hold out when they are alone in Liaoyang?

When the morale of the defenders in the city began to have problems, Jidu Doni stood up in time to stabilize the morale of the army, and Jidu assured the whole army that the reinforcements from the imperial court would arrive soon, and when the imperial army arrived, the Han dogs from the south would be defeated without much effort.

The main general's right to speak is still very heavy, with Jidu's guarantee, the morale of the army was quickly stabilized, and the soldiers were all recuperated, waiting for the arrival of the imperial army to be able to cooperate with the outside and deal with the Xia army outside the city.

This is two days later.

Two days later, the main force of the Qing army arrived on the north bank of the Shahe River in the north of Liaoyang Prefecture, and the Xia army learned of this in advance and abandoned the city of Tokyo.

The city of Tokyo, which was built in the sixth year of the Later Jin Mandate, was finally engulfed in fire and destroyed after 34 years of wind and rain after the Han army returned from the counterattack.

The scale of the burning fire was extremely large, and the black smoke that rushed into the sky made it clear to the Qing army on the north bank of the Shahe River.

Emperor Shunzhi, who rode his horse to stand in the middle army, looked at the black smoke in the sky, his face was so gloomy that he could almost drop ink, how did he not know what this meant, the scouts sent by the army had reported to him, Tokyo had fallen, and the city was set on fire by the Xia army.

"The Han dog bullied me too much, destroying my old capital and burning my temple, which is unbearable!" He gritted his teeth, and in front of the military generals who accompanied him, his face turned red with anger, and his muscles flared up: "I vow to capture the main general of the Han dog alive, capture him to Shengjing to sacrifice the flag, and comfort the spirits of my ancestors and ancestors in the sky."

Although these Manchurian generals did not have the consciousness of humiliating their ministers to death, they were still infected by the emperor's anger, and the Xia army burned down Tokyo City not only to slap him in the face of the Xinjue Luo family, but also to press the faces of all their Manchurians to the ground and rub them!

Therefore, the Manchurian generals present all vowed to defeat the Xia army in the next decisive battle and kill all the Han people who dared to invade Liaodong in this beautiful black land.

The Qing army that accompanied the emperor to march in person this time was full of 23,000 Manchurian bannermen, of which there were more than 15,000 soldiers in the upper three banners, and 3,000 Sauron soldiers and soldiers provided by various Jurchen tribes and conscripted bannermen.

In addition, there are more than 30,000 armor and cloth slaves who fought with the banner people, more than 13,000 Han army banners, more than 4,000 hired Mongolian cavalry, a total of more than 70,000 people, known as 100,000 troops to the outside world.

This is all the large army that the Qing court can mobilize after retreating to Guanwai, except for the garrison in Korea, there are thousands of Manchurian soldiers with imperial flags and nearly 10,000 Han military flags and a steady stream of Korean servant troops in Korea, but the Qing court did not transfer them back.

In addition to the 100,000 troops who accompanied the Shunzhi Emperor's personal expedition, there were also two baskets of flags and Zhenghong flags in Liaoyang City, with a total of more than 13,000 Manchurian soldiers and 20,000 armor and clothing.

The Qing army poured the strength of the country, on the other hand, on the side of the Xia army, more than 25,000 people under Su Ci's command, more than 12,000 people in the third town under Su Dingyuan's command, and the two armies were combined into one with more than 37,000 soldiers, but only half of the Qing army.

However, although the Xia army had fewer troops, they were all elite soldiers, among which the first and third towns were fully equipped with the latest type II rifles, and there was the Suzaku Left Brigade, which could shake the elite infantry and fierce firepower of the Manchurian heavy infantry, Su Ci and Su Dingyuan were confident that they could defeat the Qing army several times their own outside Liaoyang City.

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On October 30, the Qing army crossed the Shahe River, set up a position in the north of Liaoyang, and slowly approached the Xia army camp outside Liaoyang.

The Qing army was pressing forward step by step, and the atmosphere in the camp of the Xia army was solemn, and all the officers and men of the army were wearing armor and standing at their respective combat posts with their weapons tightly in their hands.

Behind the wooden wall on the perimeter of the camp, soldiers armed with Type II rifles nervously and orderly reloaded their rifles, and the gunners lifted their armor to prepare for the battle.

From time to time, scouts rushed out of the camp to the north to scout the enemy, but few of them were able to return, and the musketeers behind the wooden walls often saw scouts with arrows being carried back to the camp on fast horses, and although no one discussed, they could see a deep concern in their eyes.

Before the war, even veterans of a hundred battles who had been through the battle formations couldn't help but get nervous habitually.

At the end of the afternoon of the 30th, the Qing army finally appeared in the sight of the Xia army's foot soldiers, and when an almost endless black line gradually appeared on the distant horizon, all the soldiers could not help but hold their breath.

The Qing army was menacing, they were huge, the military formation formed during the march stretched for several miles, and there was no end in sight, the military flags of the three banners and the totems of the Jurchen tribes fluttered in the wind, and the sound of thousands of people walking at the same time converged, almost making the earth tremble, and the sky was also tarnished.

A decisive battle related to the national fortunes of the Qing Dynasty was about to break out on the plain north of Liaoyang Prefecture.