"This is a good place, very suitable for killing Tatars."
Lin Zhidong finally chose the terrain, which was the intersection of the small river and its tributaries.
If more than four thousand Tatars want to rush out, they must cross a tributary of a small river. This small river is narrow and shallow, with the narrowest point only about ten meters. The dragoons swam across it holding their horses.
Hundreds of dragoons, after crossing the river, were all waiting on the bank.
"Hold the livestock and swim as far as you can!" Fuller Hui ordered.
The bannermen and Tatar civilians had no choice but to cross the river bravely, and those who were afraid of the water froze where they were at a loss.
Lin Zhidong slowly raised his gun and fired at the Tatars in the river...
The gunfire rang out, and the Tatars were in chaos. Those who had not yet entered the river were also in chaos. Those in the river swam up and down one after another, trying to bypass the Datong army on the bank.
Is General Fullerhui crazy?
This is simply asking the Tatars to die!
Of course he's not crazy.
"Let's go!"
Fulehui picked up his little daughter, asked his wife and son to ride on horseback, and fled along the river bank with his followers.
The other two Tatar generals also reacted immediately and fled frantically with their families and followers.
Those Eight Banners soldiers, bannermen and civilians who obeyed the order and went down to the river were all cannon fodder sent to death. The livestock in the river and on the river banks were also left for the Datong army to plunder, and the general Fulehui took advantage of the chaos to escape.
Fulehun was born in the Shumulu family. He was a Tatar nobleman. He did not want to die with the Tatar commoners!
Lin Zhidong on the other side of the river was dumbfounded and took a breath of cold air: "This Tatar general is really capable. He divided half of his army to chase the enemy!"
The Datong army pursued them across the river for about three miles, and then they could no longer pursue them.
Because the south bank is relatively wide, you can run on horseback. But the north bank quickly encounters mountains, and there are only narrow slopes along the river, so you have to lead the horse to walk.
Fulehun galloped all the way, running along the river for twenty miles, and dismounted to cross a small river in the middle.
Then, he abandoned his horse and headed into the mountains.
Fulehui's escape route was not a serious mountain trail at all. It was so steep that it was difficult to lead a horse. Even if a person was climbing, he would be exhausted and had to climb many mountains to get out.
Lin Zhidong led his army across the river to pursue them, but only saw more than thirty horses at the end of the river valley. All these Tatar nobles and their followers had escaped.
After being captured, A Lin, the guard general of Lianshan Pass, finally regained his freedom, but was deceived into death by Fulehun.
He was lying next to a farm cow, holding the Datong Army's bullets against him, when he suddenly heard movement behind him, turned around and saw Fulehui running away with his family.
"Akina (beast)!"
A Lin cursed loudly and shouted to the Datong army on the other side: "I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender!"
Some Tatar soldiers were extremely lucky to swim ashore. They were so tired that they knelt on the ground and asked to surrender.
However, what greeted them was the dragoon's blade.
There were only a few hundred dragoons here, and half of them went after Fullerhun. They did not dare to accept too many prisoners. After all, they were all ferocious Tatar soldiers, so it was safer and easier to kill them.
Seeing that they were killed after surrendering, the Tatars in the river swam back one after another. Those who had not entered the water left their livestock and food behind and ran into the mountains like headless flies.
They killed all the Tatars crossing the river, and the dragoons also crossed the river with their horses. After landing, they chased them on horseback. Only when they encountered old, weak, women and children did they stop wielding their swords. The young and strong Tatars would be hacked to death.
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When Lin Zhidong returned with the captured war horses, there were corpses on both sides of the bank, and there were many floating in the river.
After sending someone to contact Caohe Fort, Lu Xiangsheng was quite surprised: "Tongyuan Fort was also captured? Lin Zhidong is a general!"
Lu Xiangsheng bombarded Caohe Fort for several days, but there were only a few hundred defenders here. When news of the fall of Tongyuan Fort and Lianshanguan came, the morale of the Tatar defenders was low. The defender and his soldiers abandoned the fort in the middle of the night and fled into the mountains.
I don’t know when it will be transferred out.
After the mountain fortress was cleared, Lu Xiangsheng rested for a day and continued to lead his troops northward, aiming directly at Weining Camp (near Benxi).
It is said that Fan Lihua was named "Weining Marquis" and had a fiefdom of a hundred miles, hence the name Weining Camp. This statement is difficult to verify, but Weining Camp did become a place name in the Ming Dynasty, instead of being called Weining.
Fort, Weining City.
The army was still twenty miles away from Weining Camp, when Lu Xiangsheng encountered a group of Han people.
A group of Han Chinese with shaved heads.
"Li Laixiang (Ma Zude, Qiao Henian), pay homage to the general of the Celestial Dynasty!" Three Han people took the lead and brought other Han people to pay homage.
Lu Xiangsheng sneered: "You're going to cut your braids now?"
Li Laixiang was the first to show his indignation: "The general does not know that the Tatars are really hateful. In recent years, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have continued, and corvee labor has never stopped. We and the Han people in Liaodong are waiting day and night for the arrival of the heavenly soldiers, so that we no longer have to endure the brutal and despotic power of the Tatars.
I, the Li family of Weining Camp, are willing to donate half of my property and cooperate with the imperial court in distributing the land to the farmers!"
"I, Mr. Ma, are also willing to donate half of my property!" Mazude said quickly.
The three people expressed their loyalty one after another. Although Lu Xiangsheng was scornful, he still did not get angry and asked: "How many Tatar defenders are there in Weining Camp?"
Qiao Henian rushed to answer: "It turns out there were only a few hundred. I heard that the general was attacking the city in the mountains, and all the nearby bannermen entered the city. There were at least five or six thousand defenders in the city, and all the Tatars aged 13 or 14 were guarding the city.
city."
Weiningying is the territory of Daishan.
As for Qiao Ma Li, they are the three major traitor families. They either led troops to defect to Nurhachi, or helped Nurhachi collect goods and sell stolen goods, and were allowed to enclose the land in Weining Camp. Not to mention occupying the land in the enclosure, they will also
The Han people on the land became their own tenants (more like serfs).
These traitors found it very easy to defect to the Tatars, and now they are rushing to submit to the Datong court.
And they worked very hard. When Lu Xiangsheng led troops to besiege the city, the three traitor families began to mobilize. The men formed a regiment to help fight the war, and the women helped to transport supplies. Even the tenant farmers were organized to be peasant husbands. Those who didn't know it thought they were working with the Tatars.
The son has a deep hatred.
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Yaozhou.
Daishan was quarreling with Dorgon: "Return the troops, return the troops, there is no use in confronting the army here, go back quickly to save Liaoyang and Shengjing!"
Dorgon said: "Weining Camp is just a partial division of the Nanmanzi, and it will definitely not fall again. Yaozhou cannot be evacuated. There are tens of thousands of Nanmanzi here. Once the troops withdraw, Yaozhou will be lost. By then,
Liaodong and Liaoxi will be cut in half by the Southern Barbarians. It will not be easy for Hauge's army to come back."
"Then I will take my Niulu back and destroy the Nanmanzi's partial army!" Dai Shan was extremely anxious.
Weiningying (Benxi) and its surroundings were all Daishan's territory, and he could no longer sit still.
The leaders of the Eight Banners have their own territories.
For example, Yaozhou, Haizhou, and Ximu City are all territories with white flags; Xiuyan City, Fenghuang City, and Tangzhanbao are territories with Zhenglan Banner.
In order to prevent each banner's forces from becoming warlords, city defenders often adopt a mixed model, with soldiers from at least two banners in a city.
In recent years, the Datong Army has expanded in Liaodong, and the two white flags and the two blue flags have suffered the heaviest losses. The Datong Army has occupied the territory of these four banners. For this reason, Dorgon had to re-divide the territory and obtain the territory from the other four banners.
Divide interests. This has triggered new conflicts. The nobles of the two red flags and the two yellow flags are all holding back their anger now.
There was no civil strife, so Dorgon was considered to be very capable.
If it were Hauge who was in charge of the overall situation, there would be no need for the Datong Army to send troops, and the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty would start fighting within themselves.
Dorgon said: "Wait until the outcome of the battle in Yaozhou is decided, then come back..."
"I want to withdraw my troops and return to support Weining Camp!" Daishan interrupted with an angry roar.
After saying that, Daishan turned around and left without giving Dorgon any face.
Dai Shanzhen left and forcibly took away eight thousand troops.
Daishan did not completely ignore the overall situation, but he felt that there was no way to fight in Yaozhou. Tens of thousands of Datong troops were piled there, the forts were built extremely strong, and food was constantly transported. They besieged but did not attack. They just faced off against the Eight Banners soldiers and continued.
If we drag it on, the Eight Banners Army's rations will be exhausted.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty deployed too many troops and settled in Tianjin and faced off in Yaozhou. As a result, Lu Xiangsheng's partial division fought consecutive battles in the mountains of southern Liaoning.
If he didn't return to the army for rescue, Daishan felt that Lu Xiangsheng could fight to Shenyang.
"The Tatars have divided their forces and gone back!"
There are hot air balloons floating in the sky, and the movement from miles away can be clearly seen.
Li Zheng smiled and said: "The time has come for the decisive battle."
Xiao Zongxian said: "There is no need to continue to besiege Yaozhou, and go to the Tatar camp outside the city."
Hu Dinggui said: "Don't rush to capture the enemy camp, surround it and wait for time for the remaining Tatars to show their weaknesses."
"The Tatars divided their forces and left. Should we send cavalry to pursue them?" Wang Tingchen asked.
Li Zheng shook his head: "No need. The top priority is to eat the main force of the Tatars in front of you. Don't think about becoming fat in one bite."
The day after Daishan led his army to leave, the Datong army began to move their camps and actively moved closer to Dorgon's camp.
Dorgon's place was already in turmoil.
Gaizhou and Fuzhou, which were first occupied by the Datong Army, were both territories belonging to Dorgon's Zhengbai Banner. After the Tatars abandoned Beijing and returned to Liaodong, Dorgon had to redistribute the bannermen. In order to avoid conflicts, he could only pay tribute to the dead Dorgon.
Duo, a subordinate of Azig, started.
Then the divisions were drawn together, and it took several years to adjust.
It is also interesting this time. The cities captured by Yang Zhenqing and Lu Xiangsheng were all belonging to Hauge.
Hauge and Dorgon were the most panicked. The other banner owners did not suffer much loss. Even if Yaozhou was defeated, it was still Dorgon's territory. What the hell did the other banner owners have to do?
The nobles of the two red flags and the two yellow flags were clamoring to abandon Yaozhou.
Some Manchu nobles even said: "It is difficult to defend western Liaoning, since it was the territory of the former Ming Dynasty anyway. Let's go back and defend the front line of Haizhou, Anshan, Liaoyang and Weining Camp."
In fact, they just don’t want to fight because they don’t have the confidence to win.
Although I know that abandoning the city is a slow death, it is still better than a quick death.
Just like a large international company, both senior executives and low-level employees know that the company is about to die. However, there are only a few people who change jobs, and most people stay and hang around until one day they die together with the company.
If you can hang out for a day, maybe it won't be so difficult and you can hang out for a longer time.
This situation is suitable for the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Everyone thinks so.
