More than 10,000 infantry and cavalry from Li Benshen went north from Liaoyang, and there were no people along the way. The original post camps and fortresses were all demolished, and they didn't even hear the roosters and dogs crowing along the way.

Li Yanzong thought it was the Qing army in Chenyang who was working hard to clear the world, but Guo Bapai, the general of the Seventh Town, said that these were all the contributions of the Seventh Town.

Li Benshen looked around and sighed: "The destruction of Liaodong is so great that it will be difficult to recover in the future." The implication is that even if Shenyang is captured, Dashun will be in a state of destruction in the short term or even in the twenty or thirty years.

Li Yanzong disagreed: "The great destruction and great establishment. My uncle said that if you want to treat guests, you must clean the house first. The same is true for Liaodong. If you don't completely remove the foundation of Manchu, there will always be Hufeng and Hu in the future. Furthermore, if the Seventh Town had not destroyed this pass outside the pass, how could we make rapid progress today? If things are gone, we can build again; if the land is deserted, we can farm again. As long as there are people, we will be able to handle it."

Li Ben knew this well and ordered the rear to speed up the march, and must arrive at Hunhe to camp today.

After the order to speed up the march was passed, the army's speed indeed accelerated, and in the evening, it finally arrived at the Hun River outside Chenyang City.

Previously, several groups of provocations sent by Chenyang have been checking the movements of the Shun army from afar, but no Qing army came to attack. Even if the Shun army camped in the Hun River, there was no movement in the city of Chenyang.

It seems that the Shenyang defenders don’t care at all, or they don’t care about the Shunjun coming from afar.

"Tartars, I'm afraid of me!"

Li Yanzong looked at the city wall of Chenyang in the distance, and his face was exposed. Then he set up an incense table with his generals on the Hun River to pay tribute to the former Ming Zhejiang Army and Sichuan Army soldiers who died here more than 20 years ago.

This was not the idea of ​​Li Yanzong or Li Benshen, but a handwritten edict issued by the governor of the camp before leaving the customs, stating that if the army arrives in Hunhe, it is necessary to worship the martyrs.

The imperial edict said: "All soldiers who fell from national wars are Chinese heroes, and Dashun has been worshipped for generations."

It was already dark and the temperature was extremely low, but there was no strong wind.

The Hunhe River has not yet frozen in the middle, but both sides have frozen, and the sound of freezing can be heard vaguely.

The incense table is simple to arrange, a jar of wine, a pig's head, a cow's head, a sheep's head, and a Tartar head.

After three incense sticks, Li Yanzong led all the generals to kneel down and bow three times.

In a trance, the young general seemed to be able to hear the sound of cannons and the sound of killing in his ears.

"Ship Chen, we can't save Chen Yang, what's going on here for three years?"

"Tong Shuai, the Beiying is over!"

"Everything is dead, all of them are dead, and we are the only ones left!"

"I'm going to be sad, Brother Yuan, Brother Zhao, Mr. Zhang, I'll take the lead!"

"What's the hurry you are, the short winter melon? You're going to die, die together!"

"There is nothing to say. If we don't die, who will die!"

"Long live, we have done our best!"

"Kill, you have to take a cushion before you die!"

“…”

In the rain of arrows, one hundred and twenty Ming army's last generals rushed forward to Yiwu Gu.

None of them survived, they all died, and died in this place called Hunhe.

Their names cannot be preserved in history, but they have a common name, Han Jun!

When the Liaoyang Shun Army arrived in Chenyang, the seventh town in the north had not arrived yet. It would be difficult for the more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry in Liaoyang to encircle Chenyang. Because they considered that there were many cannons at the city of Chenyang, Li Yanzong ordered the seventh town to be stationed in Erdaogangzi on the south bank of the Hunhe River to arrive, and the main force of Gaoshu, who was waiting for subsequent reinforcements.

Gao Jie led the main force to leave the pass three days later than Li Yanzong's army. In addition to the main force of the infantry, he carried a lot of artillery. In addition, a group of surrendered officials followed him out of the pass for the construction of Liaodong Province and the construction of local governments.

The next day, there was still no movement in Chenyang City, and even horse-snooping did not appear again.

Because there is no need, standing at the top of Shenyang City, you can clearly observe the movements of Shunjun on the south bank of Hunhe River by standing at the head of Shenyang City.

Li Benshen analyzed that the reason why the Chenyang defenders did not come out to attack them was because they were determined to stick to the city, and that their field strength was insufficient.

Li Yanzong was too lazy to pay attention to the Chenyang defenders' ability to come out. Whether they didn't come out or not, Chenyang City was an isolated city, with a radius of hundreds of miles, thousands of miles, and they had no reinforcements.

This city is a dead city.

Now it depends on whether the Manchus in the city want to turn Chenyang into Liaoyang.

In order to reduce casualties, Li Benshen still sent someone to the city to persuade the surrender again. The person who received the envoy of the Shun Army was He Luohui, the general manager of Shengjing. However, the other party's expression was indifferent or numb from beginning to end. If he did not surrender, he would give a clear answer.

Oh, it gets colder every day.

Li Yanzong finally guessed the intention of the Chenyang defenders. They were relying on the extreme cold weather to force the Shun army to retreat.

If heavy snow falls from the sky and causes the road to freeze, the Qing army in Chenyang will take the opportunity to deal with the Shun army severely.

The abacus is good, and there are opportunities.

The young general, who was so cold that he had both hands, had made up his mind to break Chenyang City, and then stripped the Tartars in the city and threw them into the wilderness to see that they could not stand it.

The main force led by Gao Shuai has arrived in Guangning and is now coming to Liaoyang. If everything goes well, you will be able to reach Chenyang in at most ten days.

During this period, in addition to contacting Gao Shuai in the rear and the Seventh Town in the North, Li Yanzong could do something, and ordered the soldiers to cut down trees everywhere for heating.

There is no shortage of cotton coats.

How to attack Chenyang has also become the most concerned thing for the Shun Army.

Chenyang City was built during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty and was supervised by Min Zhong, commander of the Liaodong Commander. During the years of war between Nurhaci and the Ming army, almost all the Shenyangming City Walls were destroyed except for the north gate.

Therefore, the Chenyang City that Shunjun saw now was built by Nurhaci and Prince Hong and his son. The structure of the entire city was very different from that of the Ming Dynasty. Four more cities were built in the city gate alone.

Anyway, Geng Yun, a Han Zhangjing of Jinzhou, lived in Shenyang for many years and knew the situation in the city well, so he became Li Yanzong's special adviser.

According to Geng Yunsheng, Chenyang has different internal and external cities. The inner city includes the Khan Palace built during the Nurhaci period, as well as various large and small Beile Mansions, and the six left-behind yamen.

The outer city is the people of Chenyang Banner and Meng. The Han people live in a very messy place, but the population is large. There were originally 200,000 to 300,000 at the peak, but now there are only 60,000 to 70,000, and most of them are Han people. Most of the rest have entered Beijing with the Eight Banners soldiers who entered the pass.

Although the Han people Aha were numerous, Li Yanzong and Li Benshen both believed that Abai and He Luo would recruit too many Han people to come to the city to help the war, because then they would have to worry about whether there would be Han people who would open the city in civil unrest like Jiannu attacked the Ming Dynasty city.

The trick of bribing Han spies to set fire in the city and snatching the city gate was very enjoyable, and it worked many times. Although the Han people and Ahado who could stay in Shenyang now were very slaves and tamed by Manchus, they all regarded themselves as real bannermen, but it was hard to guarantee that no one of them was still thinking about their homeland and knew that they were Han people, so they took the risk to respond to the city and the army outside.

After all, the Qing Dynasty was already dead.

If a large number of armed forces were really needed to organize Han people to defend the city, and the inner city would appear in the inner city. No matter how high or large the Chenyang City was, it would be useless.

As for how many defenders can be pieced together in Chenyang City, Geng Yunsheng may have tens of thousands of people, because He Luohui brought 4,500 Eight Banners soldiers in the pass before, and there should be three to four Niulu left in Chenyang City. These Eight Banners soldiers are really full, and I will have more than tens of thousands of people in the past.

This force is very different from what Li Yanzong thought before. He always thought that the Qing army in Chenyang City had gathered less than 5,000. He didn't expect that there might be 5,000 just because it was true. No wonder the main force of Li Huajing's seventh town was defeated by He Luo and ran to North Korea.

"Young Master must also know that after Manchuria established its capital in Chenyang, in order to prevent the Ming army from fighting back one day, not only will the Chenyang City be built particularly solidly, but the cannons seized from the Ming army over the years are also placed on the top of Shenyang City. I guess there will be no less than a hundred large and small cannons on Chenyang City."

Geng Yunsheng said that the reason why the Ming army and Jin army were defeated in the battle between Hunhe was because the Jin soldiers drove the surrendered Ming army gunners in the city to fire in the Hunhe River.

"No wonder they refused to surrender. It turned out that they had some capital."

Li Yanzong was a little glad that he had set up his camp on the second hill on the south bank. If he had been stuck on the north bank in a daze, he would not have been bombarded by the Qing army when he was sleeping in the middle of the night.

"But it's easy to get Shenyang,"

Geng Yunsheng said that although the defense of Chenyang City was strong and there were many artillery, in order to make Shengjing look grand, four city gates were built on the basis of the original Chenyang City under the guidance of a Feng Shui master, and eight streets were built in the city, the so-called "Eight Gates and Eight Streets".

This pattern naturally made Chenyang City become wide and neat, and could not accommodate 100,000 people at once. It is very suitable for a small country to first rise and settle down. But the problem is that these eight gates inadvertently shared the power of the Chenyang defenders.

"When Manchuria was rising, winning battles and attacking the Ming army, which made the Ming army outside the pass breathless. It burned incense and worshipped the Bodhisattva and begged the Qing army not to attack them. They didn't have the courage to attack the Qing army, let alone Chenyang City. Even if the Ming army had the courage to attack Chenyang, they had to cross the hurdles of Guangning and Liaoyang first. If they didn't take these two cities, the Ming army would never be able to move forward to Chenyang."

Geng Yunsheng said it was a pity that there was a Ming Dynasty. Not to mention Guangning and Liaoyang, even the Ming army of Linghe, which was only a few dozen miles away from Jinzhou, could not get through. He spent countless money, grain and manpower to play the game of I built you and demolished with the Qing army.

Therefore, although Hong Tai and other senior Manchu officials knew the disadvantages of guarding Chenyang City, they never took it seriously, because in their opinion, they were worried that the Ming army would attack Chenyang, so they would rather worry that many Han people would be frozen to death this year.

Now, something Hong Tai never dreamed of happening. He had only been dead for three years. Not only did his wife and children be asked to be taken away by the Han people, but Shengjing, which he had worked hard to build, also welcomed the Han people's butcher knife.

With eight city gates and more than ten thousand defenders, the weaknesses of Chenyang City Defense were immediately highlighted.

Li Yanzong got a good habit of his uncle Lu Si, which is that he must deduce before every battle and summarize after the war.

So a group of generals surrounded the stove in the big tent, and took the Chenyang City, which was made of wood on the table, began to deduce how to attack.

The troops of the Shenyang defenders could not be all gathered together, and the Shun Army could launch an attack at any city gate. This is the natural advantage of the Shun Army.

The final plan was to wait for the main force of Gao Shuai and the Seventh Town to arrive, and use a small number of troops to feint attack the other units, concentrate artillery to bombard the South Gate, and then use the main force to attack.

In this way, Chenyang City can be captured with thousands of casualties.

However, there is another better way, which is to siege but not attack. Just like the Qing army surrounded the Dalinghe City of the Ming Dynasty, it would cut off food in the city and starve them to death.

However, this method has a disadvantage, which is that it takes too long. If spring is in full bloom, Shunjun can surround it for half a year, but now the first snow outside the pass is probably going to fall at any time.

Therefore, the Shun Army must attack vigorously.
Chapter completed!