After Duoduo finished speaking, several generals who came with him nodded and did not object, but Duoduo obviously cared more about the opinions of Abatai's father and son, who had participated in the battle of Qinghe.

"Seventh brother, Bolo, what do you think?" Duoduo asked.

Abatai said: "This is a good idea, but we need to equip the red-coated cannon with more cattle and horses, so that it can be faster." Their phalanx can also move, but the speed is slower, and if the speed of the red-coated cannon can't keep up with the speed of the movement of the other people's phalanx, it will be difficult to do.

Therefore, it is also necessary to choose the battlefield carefully, it is best to choose near the official road and raise the movement speed of the redcoat cannon. ”

Duoduo nodded slightly, and asked Bolo again: "What about you, what else do you think?" ”

"Prince Yu, there are not many cavalry of the Eastern Thief, but the cavalry is good. I heard from the minions who fled back that in the first battle of the Five Coffin Mountain, Luck Dehun led the Eight Banners to hedge against them, and the two sides had the same number of people, but they were killed by them and suffered a heavy defeat, and they themselves died under the enemy's sabre.

Don't despise the Eastern cavalry, you have to contain it with twice the force. Bolo said.

But the faces of the generals showed a look of contempt, although it is nonsense for the Eight Banners to fight the world by riding and shooting, but there are many people in the Eight Banners of Manchuria who are good at cavalry warfare, and the Mongolian Eight Banners are even more powerful in cavalry shooting, so they will not think how powerful the cavalry of a group of pirates is, but Duoduo glared at these people and said: "I know, just do it." ”

Duoduo didn't pay much attention to it, but the problem was that Duoduo had a large number of cavalry, and according to Bolo's words, he used twice as many cavalry to contain the opponent's cavalry, and he also had sufficient troops. In this way, it is nothing to listen to Bolo's words, and you can't put the gentry of the Eight Banners in danger for the sake of that little vanity.

"Okay, then so be it, the various departments hide in the mountains, don't be exposed. Ordered the defenders of Jinzhou to go out of the city and put a little pressure on the Ming army. So that the thief can get out of the ....... faster. "When Dordor got up, he was about to give orders to the people.

But at this time, there was a person galloping outside, facing the obstruction of the white armor soldiers, the man pushed away, but he was still stopped outside, he shouted loudly, and when everyone in the hall listened, Abatai and Bolo both looked out, because the sound was Yue Le, the son of Abatai.

"Yue Le, why are you here?" Abatai's face changed drastically, and he scolded.

It was completely different from the last time he sent troops south from Shengjing, Abatai had already realized that the Eastern Brigade was not so easy to deal with, so he didn't bring Yue Le this time, just for fear of any accidents, he didn't expect Yue Le to come, he thought that Yue Le was eager to make a contribution, so he came privately.

Yue Le was allowed to come in by Duoduo, and only then did he get rid of the shackles of the white armor, he was covered in sweat and exhausted, and said, "Prince Yu, Amma, something is wrong. The eastern thieves went north, crossed the Taizi River, crossed Liaoyang, and went straight to Shengjing, which was still four days ago, maybe now the soldiers have come to Shengjing.

The Empress Dowager and Prince Zheng ordered me to report the news, so that you can rush to help, and help as soon as possible. ”

"How is that possible?" Duoduo was dumbfounded.

"Are you sure that Zilharang is the main force of Dongfan, is there any infantry, is there any artillery?" Abatai picked up his son and asked directly.

Yue Le nodded: "Yes, on the edge of the Hunhe River, Manda Hai led more than 1,000 cavalry, and wanted to fight a half-crossing attack, and the Dongfan thieves formed a phalanx, and Mandahai could only retreat, but he never thought that the cavalry of the Dongfan thieves had crossed the river, attacked on the flanks, and folded more than 200 soldiers and horses.

And people from Liaoyang said that there was another larger army and horses going north, with a lot of artillery. Among them, there is a cavalry battalion of the Shunzi banner, which is said to be the Shun army. On my way out of Beijing, I encountered two groups of enemy troops, searched for boats on the Liao River, and burned them when I found them, and the pontoon bridges were also burned. ”

"His grandmother's, didn't Wu Sangui, that bastard, say that the thieves in the east will save the Yue army, why did he burn the pontoon bridge, cut off the connection between Liaodong and Liaoxi, and went straight to Shengjing." Dordon was furious.

Abatai said: "Duoduo, it is useless to scold people at this time, without further ado, we must immediately march to rescue Shengjing." Although Shengjing still has 6,000 soldiers, they are either veterans over 60 years old or teenagers, except for the 1,000 or so people in Mandahai, they don't need to be beaten. ”

"Seventh brother, you take your three thousand soldiers and set off immediately........" Duoduo dotted on the map and said, "You cross the river from Niuzhuang, Bolo, I will give you two thousand cavalry, run farther, you go to Tieling to cross the river." I took the others and crossed the river at Ping'an Fort.

The intention of the Dongfan thief is very clear, that is, to use the Liao River as a barrier to block us, and he Li Zhaoji is good at fighting Shengjing.

But they have few cavalry, and the Liao River is more than 1,000 miles, and it is not something they can control.

Remember, no matter which way you succeed in crossing the river, don't fight the East Bandits. Bolo, if you successfully cross the river, immediately support Shengjing, it is best to enter the city to defend, if not, guerrilla outside the city to contain the enemy's soldiers and horses.

Seventh brother, if you cross the river successfully, depending on the situation, if the eastern thieves are already attacking Shengjing, you can go north to support, if not, you must lead the army to cut off the north and south, if the enemy's rear is empty, you can go down to Liaonan and cut off his rear road.

Listen well, don't force the results of the battle, this time just ask for the perfection of Shengjing. ”

For Zhuangtun in southern Liaoning, Duoduo may be able to give up, after all, it is the property of the slaves in the banner, but Shengjing must not be lost, and the families of the nobles of the banners are in Shengjing City.

Shengjing City.

In early October, a cold wind from the grassland was already blowing in Shengjing, and Li Zhaoji wrapped his cloak and entered a house.

There was a fire in the house, it was hot, Tang Mu was already ready to eat, a few eggs, a little brown sugar, and drank it hot, and his whole body was warm.

"Come to Heng, you can also drink a bowl." Li Zhaoji said.

But Li Laiheng lifted the curtain of the door, staring at the distance, Li Zhaoji pulled him to the front and said, "You don't think it's noisy." ”

Even under the heavy curtain cover, there was still a rumbling sound of cannon outside, which was the heavy artillery position that was shelling the southern city wall of Shengjing.

This time, Li Zhaoji brought six 18-pounder cannons in one go, as well as three red-coated cannons captured from Haicheng and Niuzhuang, about 10 pounds or more, and brought them together, and they bombarded the walls of Shengjing City fiercely.

The circumference of the wall of Shengjing City is more than 6,000 meters, it is really a big city, originally two zhang and five feet high, but Huang Taiji entered Shenyang, changed its name to Shengjing, and increased the height of the city wall by more than one zhang, so that the height of the city wall reached 12 meters high, this kind of city wall is the best target for heavy artillery, Li Zhaoji ordered the artillery to directly aim at the middle and lower part of the Shengjing city wall, and directly hollowed out the bottom, and the city wall above will naturally collapse.

"Unexpectedly, your redcoat cannon is bigger and more powerful." This is the first time Li Laiheng has seen an eighteen-pounder gun, and he is amazed to see it.

Li Zhaoji laughed: "Of course, the red-coat cannon is actually the naval cannon, that is, the artillery used on the battleship." The first batch of red-coated cannons of the Ming Dynasty were English cannons fished up by the Portuguese in Macao from the sunken ship, which was about a nine-pounder cannon, and later a twelve-pounder cannon joined the Ming army.

Later, the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty were able to cast their own cannons, and the caliber was about ten pounds, and my cannon was originally scheduled to be customized for the Lushun Fortress, eighteen pounds. I had a bigger one, twenty-four pounds, but alas, it was left in Lushun.

You don't have the chance to see it. ”

Li Laiheng nodded: "It turns out that there are still such doorways, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can take me to see it." ”

"Don't talk about knowledge, I'll rush you thousands of miles away, bring the cavalry to Shengjing, why not send you a few doors?" Li Zhaoji laughed and patted him on the shoulder. While handing Lee a bowl of hot soup, he unfolded the map and asked Lee Rae-hyung to introduce the situation in the south.

Li Laiheng drank up the hot soup in one gulp, pointed to the map and said: "The reaction of the Qing army is very fast, I came all the way, and the scouts captured a few Qing troops in the area of Haicheng, they are the headquarters of Abatai, they have already arrived in Yizhou, ready to ambush you, but as soon as you go north, you immediately go south and cross the river from Niuzhuang."

Because of their quick reactions, the infantry could not reach the battlefield on time.

General Guo Sheng was stranded in Haicheng, with 2,000 infantry and 400 cavalry under his command.

General Zhao received my warning and stopped in Gaizhou. His two infantry battalions escorted the follow-up ammunition supply, and the news he gave me was that he was in Gaizhou to prevent the Qing army from harassing him from moving south. Let Chen Ping assist in the defense of the two fortresses of Jinzhou and Lushun.

And I'm worried about the king outside Liaoyang City, Xingbu. ”

On the way north, Li Zhaoji asked Wang Xing to take his 2,000 men to guard the Han domain in Liaoyang, but now the back road has been cut off, and the situation is somewhat critical.

"I've already ordered him to go south to join Guo Sheng." Lee Siu Kee said.

"Yes, when my cavalry went north, I saw Wang Xing arranging his infantry in a large phalanx of four battalions and slowly moving south. But there were soldiers and horses of the Han clan harassing him, and I arranged for someone to assist him, but he refused. This person is really hateful, Lao Tzu helped him regardless of his previous suspicions, he also treated Lao Tzu as a thief, if he was destroyed by the Qing army, then he deserved it.

And I'm worried, even if this guy leads troops into Haicheng, what will happen? Will he and General Guo Sheng have a conflict, or will they be used by the Qing army because of their identity? Li Laiheng's fingers kept tapping at Haicheng, so much so that even the map was punctured, obviously he was really worried.

But Li Zhaoji was not worried at all, and comforted him and said: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, you can rest assured, Wang, Xing will definitely not cause trouble." ”

Harassing the king, the Qing army that retreated from Xingnan was a part of the Han Domain, and the number was small, and it was just a gesture, and Shang Kexi had already sent Ban Zhifu to inform Li Zhaoji.

And whether there will be problems after the joint venture between Wang, Xing and Guo Sheng, Li Zhaoji is not worried.

The reason is very simple, although Wang Xing is a Cantonese army and a Ming king's division, he was just a water thief in Guangdong half a year ago, and most of the battalions under his command were pirates and bandits from Guangdong, these people were just dressed in the skin of the Ming army, and they actually had no loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.

Guo Sheng is even more interesting, although he is a Shunjun, but half a year ago, he was still the deputy general of Liugou in the Ming Dynasty, a former Ming army, a current Ming army, a current thief and a former thief, together with the camp, there will only be endless words, endless life, where will there be any chaos.

What's more, if they have to huddle together to keep warm and wait for others to help, it is even more impossible to make trouble.

Li Zhaoji pointed to the map and said: "This is Tieling, there is a Qing army approaching there, preparing to cross the river, and in the area of Ping'an Fort, the main force led by Duoduo is also raising boats and preparing to cross the river. ”

"Duoduo and Abatai set off together, why is it so slow?" Li Laiheng said.

Lee said: "That's because Duoduo hasn't given up on destroying our minds. Abataina's army had crossed the river by ferry, and was looking for a shoal, while Dordor, who was building a pontoon bridge, wanted to bring over the heavy artillery of the Han army behind him, and then use the cannon to break through our phalanx. ”

"How do you know so well?" Lee Rae-hyung was puzzled.

"Do you know what is still good?" Li Zhaoji asked rhetorically.

"I've heard of King Shun, who surrendered to the Manchus." Li Laiheng said, he said: "A person who can surrender even if he kills his entire family's enemies can send you news, which is very logical. ”

"How's that, are you interested in him?" Li Zhaoji asked again.

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