At the end of the year, Liaodong drips into ice, and the land is vast.

Rufeng Mountain is the center, east to Jinzhou City, south to Songshan Fort, west to the Daughter River area, north to Da and Xiao Linghe Fort, the camp of the Ming army and the Qing army is one south and one north, with Rufeng Mountain and Loess Ridge as the boundary, spreading for hundreds of miles.

Forty miles north of Rufeng Mountain, the camp of the Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner stood in the cold wind, and a very gorgeous and huge camp tent was in the center of the camp, surrounded by the elite of the Zhenghuang Banner Bayala, separating the rest of the generals.

At this time, in the tent, the emperor sat in the center, the owner of the yellow flag, Ashan, the owner of the yellow flag, the owner of the yellow flag, Bai Yintu, the owner of the white flag, Dorgon, the owner of the white flag, the lord of the white flag, the king of Wuyingjun, the lord of the red flag, Dai Shan, the lord of the red flag, Du Du, the lord of the blue flag, the lord of the blue flag, the Rao Yu Bel Abatai, and the lord of the blue flag, Zierharang, were all present.

In addition, the Eight Banners of Mongolia are all in the mountains, such as the Yellow Banner Gushan Ezhen Adai, the Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Dalai, the Zhenghong Flag Gushan Ezhen Engetu, the Red Flag Gushan Ezhen Buyan Dai, the White Flag Gushan Ezhen Yibai and other people, all of whom are sitting in the big tent, and everyone looks solemn and looks at Huang Taiji.

As for the Eight Banners Han Army, there are Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen Geng Zhongming, Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Ma Guangyuan, Zhenghong Flag Gushan Ezhen Kong Youde, Blue Flag Gushan Ezhen Shang Kexi, Zhengbai Flag Gushan Ezhen Shi Tingzhu, Red Flag Gushan Ezhen Liu Zhiyuan, Zhenglan Flag Gushan Ezhen Zu Zerun, Inlaid White Flag Gushan Ezhen Wu Shoujin and other traitors, at this time they were even more cringe, most of them lowered their heads and did not dare to make a sound.

The solid mountain of the right banner of Tumut is really the solid mountain of the Omu Buchuhuer, and the solid mountain of the left banner of Tumut

Zhenshanba, as well as the inner and outer Karaqin, Chahar, Horqin left and right wing central banners, Ao Han, Alu banners, Wang Ye Beile were also present.

It can be said that at this time, almost most of the high-level officials of the Manchu Qing Dynasty gathered in this tent, except for the high-ranking officials such as the Manchu Qing Dynasty's Chinese official Li Zheng, as well as those doglegs of the Korean army, everyone present was an existence that could influence the direction of the Manchu Qing dynasty.

Huang Taiji looked at everyone and said: "The battle of Jinzhou has become a stalemate, and the warriors of each banner have twice attacked the Ming army's Hongluo Mountain defense line, but they have been repelled by a battalion of soldiers and horses left by Liu Yan. ”

A hint of joy flashed in Dolgon's eyes, this battle is like this, the responsibility is Huang Taiji's, and in the country, Huang Taiji's prestige will be greatly hit.

"The Ming army is very tenacious in this battle, and there is Hong Chengchou under the command, and they have repeatedly attacked each other over the past few days, and they have fought to the death and have not retreated, and I am very surprised in my heart. Moreover, the disasters in various parts of Liaodong continue, the people in various places have run out of food one after another, and even civil uprisings have broken out in many places, this battle can not be delayed any longer, I have decided to withdraw the army tomorrow! ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts, and if they continued to fight, under this ice and snow, the armor soldiers of all banners would suffer heavy losses. Now withdraw to suppress those rioters, and each banner just captures more Aha to make up for the lack of manpower in the banner.

At this time, Dolgon waited for the opportunity and said, "Your Majesty, our army has withdrawn suddenly, what if Hong Chengchou leads his troops to pursue?" ”

"I will arrange for the king of Wuying County to lead the white flag after the soldiers and horses are broken."

Huang Taiji stared at Dolgon coldly, although he was angry in his heart, he still suppressed his anger and said:

"This war is not easy for the Ming Kingdom, but the Ming Kingdom has a great cause, and it can resist more than my Qing Dynasty. Hong Chengchou, like me, also wants to stop fighting, so even if the Ming army pursues, it will be a show, and there will be no big war. ”

Dorgon saluted and said, "Your Majesty is wise, I hope so." ”

Huang Taiji's eyes flashed with a trace of killing intent, but after the exhaustion of the Jinzhou War, his body deteriorated, and the war ended in a tragic draw, so Huang Taiji was very anxious to return to Shengjing at this time to stabilize the internal situation and pave the way for Haoge's ascension in the future.

As for the Dolgon and Duoduo brothers, Huang Taiji can only endure it for the time being, and wait until the situation is stabilized, and then pay attention to it.

At dawn the next day, the Qing army was full of Mongolian and Han banners, as well as more than 200,000 troops from the Mongolian tribes of the outer domains, under the cover of the darkness before dawn, and returned to the north.

The scouts of the various units of the Ming army did not discover that the various units of the Qing army had withdrawn until dawn, and then Pegasus sent the information back to the Ming army camp.

"What!"

In the big tent of the Ming army, Hong Chengchou and the supervising army Ma Shaoyu and Zhang Ruoqi were all stunned on the spot, and then Zhang Ruoqi screamed and shouted: "Pursuit, the governor immediately ordered to pursue the enemy, this battle should be a great victory!" ”

Ma Shaoyu also raised his forehead with his hands excitedly, and shouted: "God bless Daming, the slave thief finally couldn't hold it anymore and withdrew!" ”

Hong Chengchou's face flushed at this time, as if he was drunk, and said with a smile: "Hehe, the pursuit is certain, but the Qing army must not rush forward, so as not to spoil the current good situation." ”

"Yes, yes, the governor is reasonable, and it is worthy of the words of the old man to seek the country!"

"The governor is old and steady, and he should be the number one hero in this battle!"

Zhang Ruoqi

and Ma Shaoyu kept patting Hong Chengchou's ass, and then Hong Chengchou convened the general soldiers of each town in joy.

When Yang Guozhu, Wang Pu, Wu Sangui and other general officers learned that the Qing army had retreated, they first cheered for a while, and then everyone became worried: Are the thieves leading our army north to pursue, and then set up an ambush halfway?

This is a common trick used by slaves, and it must be guarded against. How many times in the past the Ming army has defeated the slave thieves and soldiers and horses, and they have won a lot. But because of the light enemy's rash advance, and then the thieves fought back and ambushed, making it a victory first and then a defeat, so that the soldiers were defeated, and even the city was lost!

So Hong Chengchou ordered Yang Guozhu to lead his troops to garrison Rufeng Mountain, Zu Dashou led his troops to garrison Jinzhou City, and mobilized the two departments of Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen on the back road, and together with the rest of the town army, at the same time to the north to pursue, the town army was huddled together, even if there was an ambush, the army of slaves and thieves could not eat it in one bite, and the Ming army could still fight and retreat, and continue to rely on Jinzhou and Rufeng Mountain to defend the first line.

Hong Chengchou led Wu Sangui, Tang Tong, Ma Ke, Wang Pu, Li Fuming, Zuo Guangxian, and Liu Zhaoji in front, and Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen's troops needed time to come because they were in the south, so they followed all the way to the north.

The Ming army was hugged into a group, and along the way continued to follow the Qing army to the north, in the face of the resistance of Azig's department, Hong Chengchou commanded the towns to rush up, Azig knew that he was invincible, but he only continued to make an uproar with cavalry, and did not dare to face the battle head-on.

This greatly increased the confidence of the towns of the Ming army, and they successively recovered thirteen cities such as Da and Xiao Linghe Fort, Da Mao Fort, and Liushui Fort

Fort, the morale of the towns of the Ming army was greatly boosted, and Zhang Ruoqi and Ma Shaoyu were even more excited to write poems to remember.

Three days later, Huang Taiji led the main force of the Qing army to retreat to the east and north of the Daling River. Hong Chengchou led the main force of the Ming army to the south bank of the Daling River, and then the whole army stopped and no longer pursued.

"Why don't the governors chase after them, the slaves and thieves obviously have no intention of fighting, it is better to take this opportunity to recover some more castles, if you can rush to Shenyang, Liaoyang and other big cities, it will be a shocking achievement!"

In the face of Zhang Ruoqi's agitation, Hong Chengchou was unmoved and said: "The slaves and thieves took the initiative to withdraw their troops, most of which were forced to withdraw because their national strength could not support them. At present, the main force of the slave thieves' banners is not damaged, and if our army advances too much, it is easy to be repelled by the slaves and thieves, and then a victory will become a defeat of victory and then defeat. ”

"In addition, the national strength of the slaves and thieves cannot be supplied, and my Daming's money and food are about to bottom out, so in the opinion of this governor, it is better to accept this battle when it is good!"

Although Ma Shaoyu and Zhang Ruoqi were a little unwilling, they still nodded yes.

On the same day, the main force of the Ming army was stationed on the south bank of the Daling River to prevent the Qing army from turning back to the south again, and at the same time sending a large number of people to cross the Daling River at night and explore to the north and east.

Two days later, Hong Chengchou was convinced that the main force of the Qing army had really withdrawn, so he cried with joy, and the battle of Jinzhou was finally won.

So Hong Chengchou wrote the good news by himself on the same day, and sent a large team to the south to report the victory.

When the news reached the Hongluo Mountain defense line, Chen Xun, Wei Han, Guo Mingxu, and Shen Donglai also cheered loudly, and more than 10,000 soldiers in the front camp were thunderous with joy, and now they could finally go home in triumph.

At this time, the Hongluo Mountain defense line has changed

The army of slaves and thieves attacked twice, so that the first line of defense was completely destroyed, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the front battalion were killed and hundreds were injured.

However, Chen Xun fought with the soldiers to the end, and after two defensive battles, he captured more than 3,400 flags of slaves and thieves, which was also a great achievement.

According to the military law of the slave thieves to recover the corpses of their companions, and the fact that many of the heads were shattered by bird guns and earth-shattering thunder, the actual casualties of the slave army were even higher, at least more than 5,000, and even more than twice the capture of the previous battalion.

Chen Xun stood on the top of Hongluo Mountain, looking south, the bloody battle during this period of time made Chen Xun grow a lot, and his face was full of vicissitudes.

"I don't know how the town is doing now, have you defeated the army of thieves?"

At this time, on the battlefield of Liaodong, the situation in the rear can rarely be transmitted, so although the battle of Kaifeng has ended, Liu Yandu has already led his troops back to Qinglai Town and "fought" with Chen Xinjia in the air, but Chen Xun has not heard any news here.

"General, do you think we'll be able to go back soon?"

Wei Han walked over with a smile and asked.

"It should be, when the defense of Jinzhou and other places is deployed, Governor Hong will lead the army south, and I estimate that I will be able to go back soon."

"Then what reward can the court give us?"

Chen Xun looked at Wei Han's expectant eyes and said, "It's hard to say, but with the more than 3,400 thief heads in our hands, how can a few of you be mixed up as generals." ”

The three commanders of Wei and Han were all officers under the Wei system, and according to the current practice in the late Ming Dynasty, the three of them were expected to be directly promoted to guerrilla generals this time, and Wei Han was immediately happy

bloomed, I didn't think that I would be a general one day, it was two levels of continuous sound.

"I don't know how the town is playing."

Chen Xun glanced at Wei Han and said, "Don't worry, there are tens of thousands of elites in the town, which is enough to run rampant in the world!" There are no thieves to fear. ”

Wei Han nodded in agreement and said, "When the general town defeats the army of thieves, do you still want to be promoted, how can you also be promoted to a feudal official this time?" ”

Chen Xun pretended to be deep and said: "That's certain!" ”