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  Chapter 560 557【Send you to death, let me escape】

   "This place is good, very suitable for killing Tartars."

  Lin Zhidong finally chose the terrain, which is the confluence of Xihe and its tributaries.

  The more than 4,000 Tartars had to cross a tributary of the Xi River if they wanted to rush out. A small river was narrow and shallow, the narrowest point was only about ten meters, and the dragoons swam across with their horses in their arms.

  Hundreds of dragoons, after crossing the river, all waited on the bank.

   "Swim over with the livestock, as much as you can run!" Fuller ordered.

   Banner Ding and Tartar civilians had no choice but to bite the bullet and cross the river. Those who were afraid of the water were all stunned and at a loss.

  Lin Zhidong slowly raised his fire blunderbuss and shot at the Tartars in the river.

   Gunshots sounded, and the Tartars were in chaos, even those who hadn't entered the river were also in chaos. Those in the river swam upstream and downstream one after another, trying to avoid the Datong army on the bank.

  Is the main general Fuller Hun crazy?

   This is simply letting the Tartars die!

   Of course he wasn't crazy.

   "Go!"

  Fulerhun picked up his little daughter, put his wife and son on horseback, and fled along the river bank with his entourage.

  The other two Tatar generals also reacted immediately, and fled frantically with their families and relatives.

   Those Eight Banners soldiers, bannermen and civilians who followed the order to go down the river are all cannon fodder sent to death. There are also livestock in the river and on the banks of the river, which are also left for the Datong army to rob, and the chief general Fu Lehun just took advantage of the chaos to escape.

  Fulerhun was born in the Shu Mulu family. He was a Tartar nobleman, so he didn't want to die with the Tartar commoners!

  Lin Zhidong on the other side of the river was dumbfounded, and took a breath: "This Tartar general, you can really do it, split half to chase the enemy!"

  The Datong army chased for about three miles across the river, and they couldn't continue to chase.

  Because the south bank is relatively wide, you can run on horseback. But the north bank soon encountered mountains, and there were only narrow slopes along the river, so you had to lead a horse to walk.

  Fullerhun galloped all the way, galloping along the river for twenty miles, dismounting halfway to cross a small river.

   Then, abandon the horse and enter the mountain.

  Fullerhun's escape route is not a serious mountain road at all. It is so steep that it is difficult to lead a horse. Even if a person is climbing, he will be exhausted and have to climb over many mountains to get out.

  Lin Zhidong led his army across the river in pursuit, only to see more than 30 horses at the end of the valley. These Tartar nobles and their followers all slipped away.

  Lianshan Gate Guard A Lin, after being captured, finally regained his freedom, and was sent to death by Fu Lehun.

  He was lying next to a farm ox, facing the bullets of the Datong Army, when he suddenly heard movement behind him, he turned his head and saw Fu Lehun leading his family away.

   "Achina (animal)!"

  Alin cursed and shouted at the Datong army on the other side: "I am willing to surrender, I am willing to surrender!"

  Some Tartar soldiers, very lucky to swim ashore, were so exhausted that they knelt on the ground and begged for surrender.

  However, what greeted them was the blade of the dragoons.

   There are only a few hundred dragoons here, and half of them went to chase Fulehun. They didn't dare to accept too many prisoners. After all, they were all ferocious Tartar soldiers, so killing them was the safest and least troublesome.

   Seeing that the surrender was also killed, the Tartars in the river swam back one after another. Those who didn't enter the water left their livestock and food and ran into the mountains like headless chickens.

   Killed all the Tartars who crossed the river, and the dragoons crossed the river with their horses. After going ashore, they chased and killed them on horseback. Only when they encountered old and weak women and children did they stop wielding their sabers, and when they encountered young and strong Tartars, they hacked to death.

  When Lin Zhidong came back with the captured war horses, the banks were already covered with corpses, and there were quite a few floating in the river.

  Sent someone to contact Caohe Fort, and Lu Xiangsheng was quite pleasantly surprised: "Tongyuan Fort has also been taken? Lin Zhidong is a general!"

  Lu Xiangsheng shelled Caohe Fort for several days, and there were only a few hundred defenders here. When the news of the fall of Tongyuan Fort and Lianshan Pass came, the morale of the Tartar defenders was low. The defenders led the soldiers to abandon the fort and fled in the middle of the night.

  After clearing the mountain fortress checkpoint, Lu Xiangsheng took a rest for a whole day and continued to lead his troops northward, pointing directly at Weining Camp (near Benxi).

   According to legend, Fan Lihua was granted the title of "Marquis of Weining", with a radius of hundreds of miles as his fiefdom, so it was called Weiningying. This statement is difficult to verify, but Weining Camp did become a place name in the Ming Dynasty, instead of being called Weining Fort or Weining City.

  The army was still twenty miles away from Weining Camp, when Lu Xiangsheng encountered a group of Han Chinese.

  A group of Han Chinese with shaved heads.

   "Li Laixiang (Ma Zude, Qiao Henian), meet the Great General of the Celestial Dynasty!" The three Han people took the lead and brought other Han people to meet.

  Lu Xiangsheng sneered: "Is the braid cut?"

Li Laixiang took the lead in showing righteous indignation: "The general doesn't know, the Tartars are really hateful. Over the past few years, there have been levies and miscellaneous taxes, and the corvee has never stopped. We wait for the Han people in Liaodong, day and night, looking forward to the arrival of the heavenly soldiers, so that we no longer have to endure the cruelty of the Tartars. I, the Li Family in Weiningying, would like to donate half of the property, and the land will be distributed to the peasants in conjunction with the imperial court!"

   "I, Mrs. Ma, would also like to donate half of my property!" Ma Zude said hastily.

  The three expressed their loyalty one after another. Although Lu Xiangsheng was contemptuous, he still didn't get angry and asked, "How many Tartar defenders are there in the Weining Camp?"

Qiao Henian hurriedly replied: "It turned out that there were only a few hundred. I heard that the general was attacking the city in the mountains, and all the bannermen in the vicinity entered the city. There are at least five or six thousand troops in the city, and all thirteen and fourteen-year-old Tartars are guarding the city." city."

  Weining Camp is the territory of Daishan.

  As for Qiao Mali, they are the three traitor families. They either led troops to join Nurhachi, or helped Nurhachi receive goods and sell stolen goods, and were allowed to staking land in Weining camp. Not only did they occupy the land in the circle, but they also turned the Han people on the land into their own tenants (more like serfs).

  These traitors were very quick to take refuge in the Tartars, and now they are scrambling to submit to the Datong court.

   And worked very hard. When Lu Xiangsheng led troops to besiege the city, the three traitor families began to mobilize. The men formed regiments to help fight the war, the women's family members helped to deliver supplies, and even the tenants were organized as civilian husbands. Those who didn't know it thought they had a deep hatred with the Tartars.

  …

  Yaozhou.

  Daishan is arguing with Dorgon: "Return to the soldiers, return to the soldiers, it is useless for the army to confront here, go back and save Liaoyang and Shengjing!"

Dorgon said: "The Weining camp is just a partial division of the Nanmanzi, and it will definitely not fall again. Yaozhou cannot retreat. There are tens of thousands of Nanmanzi here. Once the troops withdraw, Yaozhou will be lost. At that time, 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'll take my Niulu back and destroy the Nanmanzi's side teacher!" Daishan was in a hurry.

   Weining Camp (Benxi) and its surroundings are all Daishan’s territory, and he can’t sit still anymore.

  Eight banner banner owners have their own territories.

  For example, Yaozhou, Haizhou, and Ximu City are all under the Xiangbai Banner; Xiuyan City, Phoenix City, and Tangzhanbao are all under the Zhenglan Banner.

  In order to prevent the warlordization of the various banner forces, the city defenders often adopt a mixed model. There are at least two banner soldiers in a city.

  During the expansion of the Datong Army in Liaodong in the past few years, the two white banners and the two blue banners suffered the most losses, and the Datong Army occupied all the territory of these four banners. For this reason, Dorgon had to redefine the territory and divide the interests from the other four banners. As a result, new conflicts were triggered. The nobles with the two red flags and the two yellow flags are now full of anger.

   There is no outbreak of civil strife, and Dorgon is considered to be very capable.

  Switched to Hauge to preside over the overall situation, there is no need for the Datong Army to send troops, and the Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties will fight within themselves.

  Dorgon said: "Wait for the outcome of the battle in Yaozhou, and then come back..."

   "I want to withdraw the troops and return to the Weining Camp!" Dai Shan roared and interrupted.

   After finishing speaking, Daishan turned around and left, not giving Dorgon any face at all.

  Dai Shanzhen left, forcibly taking away eight thousand troops.

  Daishan didn't completely disregard the overall situation, but he felt that Yaozhou couldn't fight. Tens of thousands of Datong troops piled up there, the camp was built extremely solidly, and food was brought in continuously. Encircling instead of attacking, just confronting the Eight Banners soldiers, and continuing to drag on, can consume all the rations of the Eight Banners soldiers.

  The Manchu Qing mobilized too many troops, nestled in Tianjin and Yaozhou to confront each other, which led to Lu Xiangsheng's partial division, winning successive battles and victories in the mountains of southern Liaoning.

   If he didn’t return to the army for rescue, Daishan thought that Lu Xiangsheng could go to Shenyang.

   "The Tartars have divided up and returned!"

  There are hot air balloons floating in the sky, and the movements several miles away can be seen clearly.

  Li Zheng smiled and said, "The time for a decisive battle has come."

  Xiao Zongxian said: "There is no need to continue to besiege Yaozhou, and go to the Tartar camp outside the besieged city."

  Hu Dinggui said: "Don't be in a hurry to attack the enemy's camp, surround them for time, and wait for the remaining Tartars to show their weaknesses."

   "The Tartars split up and leave, why not send cavalry to chase them?" Wang Tingchen asked.

  Li Zheng shook his head: "No need. The most urgent thing is to eat the main force of the Tartars in front of you, don't think about eating into a fat man."

  On the second day after Daishan led the army to leave, the Datong Army began to move the camp and moved closer to Dorgon's camp.

  Dorgon's place is already in full swing.

  Gaizhou and Fuzhou, which were first occupied by the Datong Army, were both Dorgon's Zhengbai Banner territories. After the Tartars abandoned Beijing and returned to Liaodong, Dorgon had no choice but to redistribute and resettle Banners. In order to avoid conflicts, he could only attack the dead Duduo and Azig's subordinates.

   Then we pulled over the division and it took a few years to adjust.

  This time is also interesting, the cities captured by Yang Zhenqing and Lu Xiangsheng are all owned by Hauge.

   Haoge and Dorgon were the most panicked, and the other banner owners didn't have much loss. Even if Yaozhou is brought down, it will still be Dorgon's territory, so it's none of the business of other banner owners?

  The nobles with two red flags and two yellow flags are clamoring to give up Yaozhou.

   Some Manchu nobles even said: "Western Liaoning is not easy to defend. Anyway, it was the boundary of the former Ming Dynasty. Let's go back and defend the front lines 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 better than a quick death.

  Like a large international company, both executives and low-level employees know that the company is about to die. However, there are only a few job hoppers, and most of them just hang around until they die with the company one day.

   It is a day to be able to hang out, maybe it will not be so frustrating, and you can hang out longer.

  This kind of situation is suitable for both Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, everyone thinks so.

  (end of this chapter)