In the fourth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, in order to strengthen the rule of Liaodong, the imperial court set up the Liaodong Weidu Command Envoy. In June of the following year, Zhigai Prefecture. In October of the ninth year of Hongwu, the state was abolished and guarded.

"Gaiping County Chronicles" contains: "In the ninth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Gaizhou and Fuzhou were re-established, and the current county is Gaizhou Weidi."

In June of the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, he set up the state and rebuilt the earth city into a brick city. In nine years, Gaizhou City was built, and the south gate was rebuilt into a bell and drum tower. There are three gates in the whole city, the east is called "Shunqing Gate", the south is called "Guangen Gate", and the west is called "Haining Gate". In the same year, the Liao Guard was changed to Gaizhou Guard, which coexisted with the state system, and the governance was still the same.

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Gaizhou Wei placed eight garrison castles and four passes. From the sixth year of Hongwu to the thirteenth year of Yongle, it disturbed the side for the imperial widows, and placed eight chimney piers and twenty-five piers. There are more than 2,400 officers and soldiers under the jurisdiction of Gaizhou Wei Castle, including 121 officers and soldiers in the city. ”

In the Jiajing period, the population of Gaizhouwei increased substantially, and the "Liaodong Chronicles" contained the prosperity of "urban and rural families give people enough, all the houses are full, the goods are bribed and envied, and the price is halved at the end of each year".

But now, Gaizhou Wei has long lost the previous grand occasion, not only the population has decreased sharply, all the chimneys, tunpu, and passes under the jurisdiction of Gaizhou Wei have all been abandoned, and the villagers in various places have long disappeared, and the people in the Gaizhou Acropolis are only a few hundred households left, which shows how far the people's livelihood in Liaodong has withered under the governance of the Manchu Qing Dynasty!

At noon on this day, Zheng Chenggong led the officers and men of the 15th Army of the National Defense Army to arrive at the Gaizhou Acropolis, and immediately surrounded the city, and all artillery units also began to deploy defense on the east, west and south sides of the city.

There was no north gate on the Gaizhou Acropolis, so Zheng Chenggong only deployed a small number of birdmen in the north to suppress the city head and contain the troops in the city.

The officers and men of the 15th Army of the Wehrmacht are nervously deploying their troops, but the Qing soldiers in the city have been frightened stupidly, and hundreds of thousands of troops are blocking the front guard of Quang Ninh, where did these Ming troops come from?

At this time, the Gaizhou Acropolis is the same as the Fuzhou Wei, there are only a few hundred villagers in the city, led by more than a dozen Manchu children, everyone gathers on the head of the city and trembles, and tens of thousands of elite Ming troops outside the city are not at all able to resist by everyone, especially the Ming army is still carrying hundreds of artillery, and this kind of combat power is not something that hundreds of people on their own side can resist.

Suddenly, a man with a meaty face pointed to the south and shouted, "Look over there!" ”

Everyone on the city wall looked one after another, only to see that countless banners of the Ming army appeared on the wilderness, and the mighty army was pressing towards the Gaizhou Acropolis, boundless, I don't know how many people and horses.

"The main forces of the Ming and Ming armies are all here??"

One of them gritted his teeth and said, "You guys stick here, I'll rush out immediately and report the situation to my master!" ”

This Paishku is the leader of the Gaizhou Guard, Manchu is inlaid with yellow flags, and the rest of the people look at the Ming army that is being deployed outside the city, knowing that if they rush out now, it will be nine deaths and one life, and they all cast admiring glances at Pashku.

After a while, Napashi Ku selected more than a dozen brave subordinates, basically all of whom were Manchurian children in the city, and only three or four people were still in the city to lead troops to defend the city.

Soon, Napai Shiku led people to rush out from the west gate, but they encountered a group of the 15th Army of the Wehrmacht at night, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers fled directly on horseback, and they did not dare to fight with the Ming army of the brigade at night.

"Kill them!"

Soon there was a roar of birds one after another from the west of the Gaizhou Acropolis, and in the frightened eyes of the Qing soldiers on the city wall, more than a dozen Qing soldiers who rushed out soon fell off their horses, and the group of Shiku was also concentrated by the birds, and fell directly off the horse.

More than a dozen Qing soldiers could not rush out at all, and nearly 50,000 soldiers of the 15th Army of the National Defense Army outside the city had carried out a strict blockade of the city, and now Gaizhouwei was already an isolated city.

An hour later, Zheng Zhilong also led the main force of the Sea Route Army to arrive at the city, and the Beiyang Fleet led by Shi Daxuan also docked on the sea more than ten miles to the west.

Zheng Zhilong summoned Zheng Chenggong and asked, "How long will it take to take Gaizhou Wei?" ”

Zheng Chenggong said bluntly: "Within an hour, we will definitely take Gaizhou Wei!" ”

"Let's get started."

"Yes!!"

Zheng Chenggong got on his horse and was about to return to the front army, but before he rode out of the Chinese army, he saw the gate of Gaizhou Wei slowly open, and then hundreds of Qing soldiers walked out of the south gate with their hands raised.

These Tartars surrendered!

At this time, Zheng Chenggong's face was complicated, as if he had been constipated for a long time, which made this pioneer officer of the Sea Route Army charge a punch, but he couldn't hit it in practice.

After a while, Zheng Chenggong rode back to the army, gritted his teeth and said to Zheng Zhihu, the deputy commander-in-chief: "Enter the city!" Take all those Tartar prisoners to the Chinese army. ”

"Yes."

Less than half an hour later, Zheng Zhilong led the Chinese army into Gaizhouwei, and at the same time sent people to the west more than ten miles away to get in touch with the Beiyang Fleet, so that Shi Daxuan, the chief military officer, immediately rushed to participate in the military meeting.

According to the strategy formulated by the Ministry of Defense before the war, after the Sea Route Army took Gaizhouwei, it would begin to divide the troops, so Zheng Zhilong had to implement the specific division of troops with the generals of various ministries.

At this time, the Qing soldiers and Manchus inside and outside Gaizhou Wei had all been wiped out, and the hundreds of Qing soldiers who had surrendered, as well as the families of the Manchurians in the city, had all been gathered in the south of the city, and all of them were beheaded in front of the hundreds of remaining people in the city.

The people in the city were very oppressed by the Manchus on weekdays, and at this time they cheered when they saw this, and even many people who had blood debts with the Manchus were even more excited, or they were revenged, and they cried loudly, or they kowtowed to the soldiers of the Wehrmacht, which made people feel sad when they saw it.

In the Central Plains of the city, he commanded the Yamen, which was once used as the residence of the Qing generals in the city after being occupied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and now it is used as a temporary place for the Central Army of the Sea Route Army.

At this time, Zheng Yi, the chief officer of the 10th Army of the National Defense Army, Zheng Chenggong, the chief officer of the 15th Army, Chen Hui, the chief officer of the 16th Army, and Shi Daxuan, the chief officer of the Beiyang Fleet, all arrived. ”

"At the same time, General Chen led the 16th Army to stay in Gaizhouwei, and with Gaizhouwei as the core, seize the time to build a defensive line."

"The Governor will lead the 10th Army and the 15th Army to the north to attack Haizhouwei, and after taking Haizhouwei, he will build a defensive line with Haizhouwei as the core."

Zheng Zhilong pointed to the map in front of everyone and drew a line between Haizhou Wei and Gaizhou Wei with his finger, and said: "This defense line composed of Haizhou Wei and Gaizhou Wei will completely cut off the retreat of hundreds of thousands of Manchu main forces and cut off the communication between Manchu Qing and Shenyang City. ”

"If the slave chief Dolgon wants to get news from the rear, he can only send people to detour to the grassland, and when Dolgon gets the news from the rear, the daylilies are cold!"

After listening to Zheng Zhilong's strategy, everyone received orders one after another, and immediately said goodbye to Zheng Zhilong and returned to the army to prepare.

Shi Daxuan had the farthest journey, so he immediately left the Gaizhou Acropolis with his guards and rode his horse to the seaside to the west.

In the evening of the same day, Shi Daxuan also ordered people to unload a large amount of money, rations, armaments, and various materials carried by the fleet, and handed over the officers and men of the 10th National Defense Army who came to transfer it in the early morning, and led the Beiyang Fleet to set sail early the next morning, heading straight to the sea of Quang Ninh's Qiantun Guard.

At the same time, Zheng Zhilong took Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Yi out of the city from the east gate and the west gate respectively, and then assembled in the north of the city to standby, and several people said goodbye to Chen Hui who came to see him off.

"Xiaguan congratulates the Governor on his victory and won Haizhou Wei in one fell swoop!"

Zheng Zhilong said with a smile: "Now that the rear of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is empty, it is not difficult for our army to attack the city all the way, and it is the key to cut off the retreat of the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the back." Gaizhouwei's side must complete the deployment of defenses everywhere as soon as possible. ”

"Subordinates obey!"

Just when Zheng Zhilong's side had completed the division of troops, Li Dingguo led the Western Route Army to also progress smoothly, and after taking the town of Hara, the four national defense armies of the Western Route Army and nearly 200,000 soldiers continued to advance eastward, arriving in the upper reaches of the Daling River.

At this time, Li Dingguo rode on the shore of the horse, watching the soldiers of various departments crossing the river through the pontoon bridge in an orderly manner, but a sense of vicissitudes surged in his heart.

Looking at the Da Ling River, Li Dingguo remembered the case he had studied at the Huangming Military Academy: the Battle of the Da Ling River.

Chongzhen's four-year war, so that the Ming elite outside the pass was defeated, it is said that after the defeat of the Ming army, the Manchu Tartars drove into the Daling River, the river was cut off, and the downstream is more than ten consecutive days to see the corpses of the Ming soldiers down the river!!

And now, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are once again approaching the Daling River, but this time it is not a rout, but a direct entry into Shenyang City through the upper reaches of the Daling River.

"Overseer, it's time for us to cross the river."

Tian Zhenbei, the chief military officer, rode over on horseback, Li Dingguo nodded, and then pointed to the river and said: "How many souls of the Ming army soldiers are in the Daling River, today they will all march east with the soldiers of the army, and they will go straight to the Yellow Dragon together, and they will be ashamed!" ”

Tian Zhenbei also thought of the battle of the Daling River that year, and said in a deep voice: "This blood feud will eventually be avenged!" ”

On that day, nearly 200,000 soldiers of the Western Route Army spent more than two hours crossing the Daling River, and then camped on the east bank of the Daling River.

Early the next morning, Li Dingguo led his troops to continue to march to the east, at this time the scouts of the Qing army had begun to appear around the army, and the various units of the Ming army rode their horses to fight at night and besieged the scouts of the Qing army.

Li Dingguo kept receiving news from various ministries, and his brows couldn't help frowning slightly, and the Qing army scouts around him had two yellow flags in Manchuria, and there were also other flags.

Obviously, both Dolgon and the Qing army commanders who stayed in Shenyang were guarding the direction of the grassland, but they were limited to the problem of troops, and did not deploy a large number of troops and horses to garrison.

"Order all the officers and soldiers to speed up, the date of attacking Shenyang City must be advanced!"

At this time, Li Dingguo did not know how many troops Dolgon had left in Shenyang City, if those Qing army scouts did not besiege and kill cleanly, or let the defenders of Shenyang speculate something and strengthen the defense of Shenyang City, then the soldiers of the Western Route Army were likely to be delayed under Shenyang City.

"If this is the case, Dolgon will definitely return to Shenyang City at any cost, although the sea route army will block it in the Liaohe River, but what if Dolgon crosses the mountains and returns to Shenyang City from the grassland?"

In this regard, Li Dingguo had to guard against it, you must know that at Longmen Pass, Dolgon led his troops to escape from Beizhili over the mountains and mountains!

Immediately, the officers and men of the Western Route Army accelerated their advance, and Li Dingguo also sent cavalry from all units to join the battle of encircling and suppressing the surrounding Qing army scouts, and the atmosphere in the west suddenly became tense.