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  Chapter 566 563【Undercurrent Surge】

  One party was too tired to escape, and the other party was too tired to chase, and the muddy water in the rain was full of people.

  Dorgon has already taken off his armor and boots, although it is dangerous to stop to remove his armor. But as long as you take off the armor, you can definitely make up for your escape time. The cotton armor is too heavy after being soaked in the rain, and it is too difficult to pull out the boots when they step into the mud.

   "Your Highness, let's go, I will lead the troops to stop the enemy!" Seeing that the pursuers were getting closer, Wu Bai drew his sword and summoned the guards to fight back.

  Dorgon was inexplicably moved, and said: "I will treat your people kindly!"

  Wu Bai was the 16th Minister Huang Taiji reused. His father, Wu Likan, was in charge of Qianfeng. Wu Bai himself joined the army at the age of sixteen and fought with Nurhachi and Huang Taiji. After Dorgon took power, he was named a first-class viscount. He is one of the ancestors of the Guarjia family.

  Wu Bai stayed behind to collect the rout, and when the Datong army came after him, he gathered hundreds of people.

  The Eight Banners soldiers fled and dispersed, and the Datong Army also dispersed.

   More than a dozen Datong soldiers faced more than a hundred Eight Banners soldiers, and the leading officer immediately blew the copper whistle.

  Hundreds of Datong troops nearby gathered one after another, and lined up to surround these fearless enemies. Both sides were so exhausted that they had no energy left. They relied entirely on willpower to support each other. They stabbed each other for a long time and didn't kill a few, but many Eight Banners soldiers were injured.

  Wu Yong, who followed Zhao Han in Luling County, was finally transferred to Liaodong as brigade commander.

  At this moment, he was weak all over, his legs were trembling with exhaustion, and he stabbed Wu Bai's cotton armor several times in a row. Cotton armor swollen by rain is even more difficult to break through!

  Fortunately, one soldier stabbed Wu Bai so that his body shook, and Wu Yong took the opportunity to shoot accurately and mercilessly.

   hit the throat.

  The sixteen ministers under Huang Taiji's command fell slowly while clutching his neck. Blood gushed out from the wound and mixed into the muddy water on the ground, making it difficult to distinguish.

   "Caught a high-ranking Tartar official!"

   There was another Datong army shouting nearby, and it was unknown which Manchu nobleman had been captured.

  Wang Tingchen raised his head, walked up to Wu Sangui and asked, "Which one is this?"

  Wu Sangui took a closer look and replied: "The Sixteenth Minister, Abudai, Fucha family."

   "Haha, kill a big fish." Wang Tingchen laughed.

  Wu Sangui quickly became busy, and someone caught another general and asked, "Who is this?"

  Wu Sangui said: "Suohun, Niu Gulu, son of Eyidu, the five founding ministers of the Puppet Qing Dynasty."

   "If you want to kill, kill it, don't talk nonsense!" Suo Hun was pressed into the mud, and he was still struggling and shouting. This guy seems very unwilling. He is the general of Dorgon's Chinese army, and the army collapsed before he had time to fight.

   Soon another prisoner came and asked Wu Sangui, "Who is this?"

  Wu Sangui looked at it for a long time, then shook his head and said, "I don't know."

  The prisoner roared: "Grandpa is called Zhang Ku, Baturu of Manchuria bestowed by Emperor Taizong (Huang Taiji)!"

   "If you are caught, you will be fierce!" The Datong officer who captured him kicked him immediately.

   Zhang Ku fell into the muddy water, stiffened his neck and said: "I don't accept it, you use demon methods, if you are a warrior, you can fight again with real swords and guns!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

   Datong soldiers laughed.

   To be honest, even the Datong Army didn’t take the leather case of the firecracker seriously. After all, it can only be shot once on a rainy day, and it is completely useless at ordinary times. Who knows that it will play a miraculous effect at a critical moment.

  The Manchus didn’t know that. They thought that the firecrackers of the Datong Army could keep shooting in the rain.

  So after the collapse of the former army, the other Qing troops were frightened and frightened, and they did not dare to fight the Datong army head-on. In addition, the two wings also collapsed one after another, and the morale of the Eight Banners soldiers of the Chinese army dropped, and they began to run away as soon as they were rushed by the defeated soldiers.

  The pursuit battle was still going on, and many Eight Banners soldiers collapsed from exhaustion, lying in the mud resigned to their fate, waiting to be caught.

  When the Datong army collapsed after chasing, they often caught an enemy, tied him up in place, and then sat on the captive to rest.

   According to post-war statistics, more than 6,000 enemy troops were beheaded, more than 8,000 enemy troops were captured, and the remaining Tartars all ran away.

  Of course they didn’t run away from the establishment. Some ran northwest, some ran northeast, and many fled into the mountains in the northeast.

  Dorgon ran all the way to Haizhou, waited for four days, and fled back to some defeated soldiers one after another. He repeatedly counted the number of people, and there were only more than 5,000 people left in the tens of thousands of troops. After waiting for another two days, more than a thousand people fled back again.

   At this time, the rainstorm has ended, and there are a few light rains every now and then.

   After the heavy rain, Li Zheng led his army straight to Haizhou. It was cloudy and rainy, so I didn't bring much luggage, and all the artillery was left in Yaozhou.

   "Abandon Haizhou!"

  Dorgon continued to run away with the army, and the garrison and bannermen in Haizhou also fled, and they were still in shock all the way to Anshan.

  In Anshan, Dorgon temporarily reorganized and incorporated many bannermen into the army. His strength was nearly ten thousand again, but there was a severe lack of military equipment. Most of the routs threw away their armors while fleeing, and some Eight Banners soldiers even threw away their weapons.

  How can such an army lacking in weapons and armor fight against the Datong army?

  Li Zheng occupied Haizhou and led his army to Anshan.

  Dorgon ran away again, this time a little more calmly, and the local Tartars in Anshan were able to take away the goods with them.

   Li Zheng occupied Anshan, and finally stopped pursuing. Because they marched lightly to seize the two cities, the Datong army did not have enough food to eat, so they had to stay in Anshan and wait for the army food to be delivered.

  Daishan was in Liaoyang, staring at Dorgon.

   "Is this the only Eight Banners soldiers left?" Dai Shan couldn't believe it.

Dorgon told the situation in detail, wanting to cry but without tears, said: "The firecrackers of the Nanmanzi are so powerful that they can be fired in the rain. In the heavy rain, it is difficult for the warriors of the Eight Banners to shoot arrows, but the Nanmanzi can fire the blunderbuss freely. What will happen in this battle? win?"

  Daishan said: "We have also seized a few firecrackers from the Nanban, and even made hundreds of imitations. This kind of firecracker cannot be fired in the rain."

   "But the firecrackers rang in the rain!"

Dorgon said: "I asked the former soldiers who fled back. When the gun rang, the closest one was only five or six steps (eight or nine meters) away, and the farthest was only ten steps. It is difficult to move quickly in the rain and mud. Charge, the warriors of the Eight Banners can only line up and approach slowly, and the Nanmanzi relies on this, and he fires his gun after approaching a few steps!"

  Daishan finally understood, and could even imagine that scene.

  Heavy rain and muddy, the Eight Banners Army crawled slowly like a turtle, approaching little by little. Some were eight or nine meters away, some were ten or twenty meters away, and then... bang bang bang!

  Whoever takes command of this kind of battle will end in the same way.

  The front army of the Tartars did not collapse until the third row of guns. It was not because of their bravery, but because they were beaten up on the spot, and they didn't react immediately.

  Dorgon looked haggard and a little disheartened.

  His two white flags suffered heavy losses, and Shunzhi's two yellow flags also suffered great losses. As for the two red flags of Daishan and his son, half were transferred by Daishan in advance, and half were still fighting in Tianjin. It can be said that there was basically no loss.

  Now, Daishan's strength is super strong, completely crushing Dorgon.

  Dorgon said: "What to do next, second brother, you can decide."

  Daishan didn't want to take care of this mess. If he could take the lead, Huang Taiji would not be the one who succeeded him.

After thinking about it, Daishan said: "It's the rainy season now, Shengjing and Liaoyang are high and deep, and the southern barbarians will not dare to attack. The most terrible thing is that Haizhou is gone. The army of Haoge and Mandahai , can no longer take the official route, and can only come back from the north. Send a message to Hauge quickly, asking him to abandon Liaoxi and return to Shengjing with the whole army!"

  The occupation of Haizhou by the Datong Army is tantamount to splitting Liaodong and Liaoxi. The Manchu Qing must spit out the Liaoxi Corridor.

  What Jinzhou, what Ningyuan, what Shanhaiguan, it's useless. Without food supplies, no matter how many troops were left to garrison, they would have to starve to death in the city.

  …

Shenyang.

   "Queen Mother, it's not good, Yaozhou has been defeated!" A Han **** rushed to report the news.

  Bumbutai asked in surprise, "Where did the bandits go?"

  The **** replied: "The rebel army has occupied Anshan, and the regent is guarding Liaoyang."

  Liaoyang, right under the eyes of Shenyang, Bumbutai was frightened and at a loss.

  At this moment, the Han people in Shenyang City have already been telling each other in private. There are those who are excited, those who are anxious, and those who are eager to try.

  In Shenyang and Liaoyang, the core areas ruled by the Qing Dynasty, there are a large number of free Han people. They were relocated outside the customs by Dorgon before, and later they all moved back. Now there are a large number of Han merchants and craftsmen in the city, and there are also a large number of Han farmers and tenants outside the city.

  Nurhachi was extremely tyrannical, which aroused the Han people to resist again and again.

  After Huang Taiji came to power, he immediately carried out reforms, first of all being lenient to the Han people. He stipulated that the Manchu nobles and bannermen could only have as many serfs as possible, and the rest of the Han people would be released and allocated land for Han people to cultivate.

  To be honest, in Liaodong under the rule of Huang Taiji, as long as they are not caught as coats and serfs, the life of Han peasants is even better than that in Daming.

  This reform measure is also the key for Huang Taiji to quickly stabilize the crisis!

  Huang Taiji is also distributing fields to the common people!

   In the past few years since Dorgon withdrew from Liaodong, the policy has gradually reversed. The annexation of land became more and more serious, and the farther away from Liaoyang and Shenyang, the more reckless the Eight Banners disciples became, turning all Han peasants into serfs. The big landlords of the Han people also plundered the land of the peasants through usury and turned the peasants into their own tenants.

  This year is even more stormy. For Dorgon to fight the war, the Han peasants have been exploited too severely. Even the villages around Liaoyang are already brewing peasant uprisings.

  The traitors who took refuge in the Qing Dynasty are still dismantling each other, and they are divided into three factions.

   One faction is the old traitors represented by Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo, most of whom took refuge in Nurhachi. It can be called a generation of traitors.

  One faction is the traitors such as Kong Youde and Shang Kexi who surrendered during the Huang Taiji period. It can be called the second generation of traitors.

  One faction is the traitors who defected to the Qing Dynasty in the pass during the Dorgon period. It can be called three generations of traitors.

  The contradiction between the first generation of traitors and the second generation of traitors is extremely deep.

  Because after the second generation of traitors surrendered, Huang Taiji rewarded a large amount of livestock and grain, which were obtained from the first generation of traitors. At that time, the old traitors called themselves "old people", called Kong Youde and others "new people", and complained that Huang Taiji had forgotten the old people when he had new people.

  As for the third generation of traitors, they were jointly suppressed by the first and second generations of traitors.

  At this moment, in Shenyang City, the three generations of traitors are the busiest. They had the shortest time to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and their crimes were the shallowest. They had low official positions and titles, and their family property was not very rich. They were trying to rebel and make contributions to the Datong court.

  Hou Fangyu's father, Hou Xun, is still alive at this moment, and he was forced to become the leader of three generations of traitors. They all count on Hou Xun to preside over the overall situation and start an uprising in Shenyang.

  (end of this chapter)