Of course, not everyone is satisfied with these policies, some people proposed, women should be selected as camp prostitutes, but Li Zhaoji categorically refused, this attack on Liaodong, the fight is fast in and out, as long as the main force of the Qing army will withdraw as soon as it comes back to help, where is it possible to do such a thing?

Others offered to single out the women, bring them back to fresh water, or ration them to the soldiers in the battalion, but they were also refused. Lee refused to allow the soldiers to have leisure to think about men and women.

And the most ruthless idea is to kill all the remaining people, the people who put forward these ideas are mostly recruits recruited in Liaoxi, Denglai and Tianjin, the official army of the Ming people in the north, who have fought with the Qing army for a long time, were captured by it, and hated the Manchus one by one, and the enemies were very red when they saw each other, in the past, it was the Qing army who humiliated and tortured the Ming people in the Guan, and now it is finally reversed, how can you not take revenge?

But Li Zhaoji still refused, although he trained his soldiers and never wanted his soldiers to have too many thoughts, but he would never let his soldiers become killing machines.

Most of the soldiers of the Eastern Brigade were southerners, and had no grudges against the Qing army, and if they were to be slaughtered, they would become the main force, and the order of the massacre would only kill the hearts of these soldiers and respect for discipline. If an army can slaughter civilians at will, then disobedience to orders, concealment of property, and other violations of discipline are no problem.

Tang Mu's raid on the Mongolian Zhenglan Banner was undoubtedly successful, and he obtained more than 70 prisoners, 145 Mongolian herdsmen, at least 800 horses, and tens of thousands of cattle, sheep and livestock, and these people and cattle would go south to Gaizhou under the escort of cavalry.

Let's say that Luckduhun received the holy decree in Shengjing, and immediately got four hundred Horqin cavalry from Manzhu Xili, Bumu Butai attached great importance to this operation, and also selected more than thirty elites of two yellow banners from the escort army for him to send, these cavalry one person and three horses, quickly south.

According to Luckdehun's plan, the soldiers were very fast, and the whole army only planned to rest in Liaoyang, Haicheng, Niuzhuang, and Gaizhou in four places when it went south, and by the way, it was necessary to withdraw soldiers and horses from the Manchurian army defending the city, and go all the way south, according to Luckdehun's plan, there were 1,000 men under his command, which was enough to defeat the Ming army that landed in Fuzhou.

But after Lucketthun passed Liaoyang, he kept seeing the refugees fleeing to the north, all of whom were old and weak, women and children, and when he asked, he knew that there were also Ming troops landing in the Gaizhou area, and these people could not provide more useful information except that their belongings and slaves had been taken away.

Some people say that it was the cavalry that attacked them, some say that the infantry used the big bird guns, some say that it was the Ming army, but more people say that they were holding the banner of the green dragon, not necessarily the Ming army.

On the one hand, Lekdehun delivered news to Shengjing, and on the other hand, he continued to go south, getting more and more news, and becoming more and more prepared.

He found that most of the people who fled were released, not fleeing by themselves, many Zhuangtun were attacked at the same time, and the most recent was the Mongolian Zhenglan Banner that occurred on the bank of the Bali River was attacked, and Luckedhun counted the number of enemy troops seen in the Zhuangtun pasture that was attacked on the same day, and felt that the other side had at least 600 cavalry and 1,050 infantry, as well as artillery, but more people were landing, Gaizhou has not been lost, and has been besieged.

And after he collected troops and horses all the way from Liaoyang, Haicheng, and Niuzhuang, he already had more than 800 cavalry under his command, and many people persuaded Luck Dehun not to rush forward and wait for reinforcements from Shengjing, but Le Ke Dehun thought it was a good opportunity, because he sensed that the attackers deployed the cavalry north of Gaizhou, and the infantry scattered to sweep and plunder.

Under the city of Gaizhou.

Similar to Luck Dehun's guess, most of the Dongfang Brigade has completed the landing, among which the auxiliary troops and baggage have set up a large camp on Lianyun Island, and they have brought it with Gaizhou in small boats, and all the property and grain looted from all around have been transported to Lianyun Island for resettlement, but the livestock and the like are not easy to transport, so a large camp was set up south of the Qinghe River for resettlement.

According to the standard, Li Zhaoji distributed cattle, sheep, and even poultry to the surrendered Han Baoyi families and Mongolian herdsman families, and also distributed grain to them, ensuring that each family could be self-sufficient for a short time, and camels, war horses, and some vehicles were used by the army.

The rest of the cattle were slaughtered in the camp south of the Qing River, salted with the salt brought by the ships, and used as reserve grain.

The only thing that surprised Li Zhaoji was that the defenders of Gaizhou did not surrender, and through the captured prisoners, they knew that there were more than 300 defenders in Gaizhou City, all of whom were soldiers and horses with the white flag of Manchuria.

Li Zhaoji was forced to place six companies of a combat battalion and 150 cavalry soldiers outside the city of Gaizhou, which proved useful, and the Qing army launched a night attack for two consecutive nights, and the losses on both sides were not small.

And Li Zhaoji also drove the nearby relatives of Baoyi and Manchuria, who were not within the scope of acceptance, into the city and consumed their already small stock of grain.

When the heralds from the north went all the way south, they heard the rumbling sound of cannons, in fact, Li Zhaoji did not want to attack the city, because the troops were not enough, most of the soldiers needed to rest for at least two days after going ashore before they could enter the battle, and it was much more profitable to disperse into battle and sweep Zhuangtun than to fight a fortified city.

However, Li Zhaoji still chose to shell Gaizhou for two reasons, one is that a lot of gunpowder was collected in the nearby Zhuangtun and fortress, and these bulk gunpowder did not meet the standards of the Dongfang Brigade, and there was nothing that needed to be blasted, so it was better to use it.

In fact, the red-coated cannon was an artifact in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so when the four eighteen-pounder naval guns were unwound from the ship and bombarded the city of Gaizhou with captured gunpowder, Li Zhaoji was surprised to find that the robbers resisted less and were more likely to accept new orders.

"Commander!" Outside the tent, I remembered the voice of my family, in peacetime, the people of the trading company would call Li Zhaoji the chief treasurer, but in wartime, they would call the commander, whether it was the navy or the army.

"Come in." Li Zhaoji said softly, the entourage in the tent had already put out the map, and the herald handed a bamboo tube to Li Zhaoji, which was Tang Mu's report, but it was only a few dozen words, not detailed, Li Zhaoji asked the entourage in charge of communication to point out the location on the map.

He pointed to a position between Niuzhuang and Haicheng and said: "Here, General Tang's cavalry ambushed a Qing army's baggage team here, and it was the Qing army in the Niuzhuang area who was responsible for transporting grain to Shengjing, and captured twenty carts of grain and some livestock.

But on the night of two days ago, the team was attacked by a Qing army, and we lost fifteen men, and General Tang was also wounded. ”

"Is Tang Mu's injury serious, this bastard didn't even report this matter." Li Zhaoji was immediately furious.

"It's not serious, it's just burned."

But General Tang said that it was God who favored us, otherwise our losses would be very serious. ”

It was the Qing army led by Luck Dehun who attacked Tang Mu's department, and Tang Mu was escorting the grain transport team southward according to Li Zhaoji's order, and the raid to the north should not cross the line of Niuzhuang and Haicheng, that is, not to cross the Shahe River.

The attack took place on the north bank of the Bali River, Lekedehun divided the cavalry into two parts to cross the Shahe River, preparing to outflank Tang Mu, fortunately, Tang Mu was also gathering the various units, preparing to cross the river and retreat, Lekedehun personally led the Manchurian cavalry on the south bank of the Shahe River encountered Li Laiheng who had returned from the sweep, although he rescued some Manchurians, but also exposed the position.

Li Laiheng quickly returned to the team, wanting to bring back the news of the discovery of the Qing army, but when he arrived, he found that Tang Mu had led the cavalry to chase and kill the Horqin cavalry.

The Horqin cavalry was lucky for Bilkedhun, they crossed the river smoothly, and they were not found lurking around Tang Mu's department, in the absence of contacting friendly forces, the Horqin cavalry launched a surprise attack, but they were also unlucky, the rockets fired by this group of guys ignited an ox cart full of gunpowder, and the violent explosion and shock wave directly caused the strongest wave of shock of the Horqin people to collapse in fright.

Tang Mu was also injured in the arm by this explosion, but he still led the cavalry to counterattack and killed more than thirty Horqin cavalry.

The largest casualty of the cavalry of the Eastern Brigade was also caused by the explosion, at least ten cavalrymen died in the explosion.

"General Tang collected the bones of the dead, abandoned all the capture, crossed the Bali River, and smoothly joined the Zhongxiao Battalion and the Shun Army, without delay, all the way south, preparing to arrive in the area of Boluo Fort, and then retreat or return fire according to the situation." said with the report.

Li Zhaoji nodded with satisfaction, Tang Mu's choice was correct, Boluo Fort is the junction of the Liaohe Plain and the Liaodong hills, and he can retreat into the hills at any time to avoid the enemy's cavalry.

"You have traveled back and forth twice, is it easy to take the road from Gaizhou to Boroburg? Did the carriage go well? Li Zhaoji asked.

The retinue immediately nodded: "That's the official road, it's very easy to walk, most of the road can allow two carriages to pass side by side, and it's very convenient along the way." ”

Li Zhaoji immediately ordered: "Let Zhao Dahe come!" ”

Not long after, Zhao Dahe entered the tent, and after Li Zhaoji simply told Zhao Dahe about the situation, he said: "You take an infantry battalion and immediately go north to support Tang Mu, I will arrange a carriage for you, take the car forward, go now, you will definitely arrive before the evening."

Remember, when you arrive at Boluopu, you have to take over the command immediately, Tang Mu is too young and impulsive, I need the army in the north to do something safe.

In addition, you have to see him with your own eyes, Tang Mu was injured, but the relatives said that the injuries were very light, but you know, Tang Mu is very prestigious in my relatives, none of these guys dare to disobey him, if you are injured in the eyes, you have to send him back immediately.

Li Laiheng, Tang Mu, and Zheng Sen must all be subject to your control, and if anyone dares not to listen, you will remove their command and the right to participate in the battle, and I will write all the orders here. ”

Li Zhaoji said and handed a bamboo tube to Zhao Dahe.

Zhao Dahe nodded heavily and said, "Don't worry, commander, I will figure out the enemy's situation as soon as possible." ”

Li Zhaoji was very satisfied with Zhao Dahe's response, and told him a few more words to let him go, and then Li Zhaoji said to Yang Yandi and Ferreira: "Prepare to attack the city, I am fed up with the arrogance of the Qing army in Gaizhou, if the Qing army from the north is the main force, then before they arrive, we will capture Gaizhou City." ”

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