This is a decisive battle with great stakes, whether it is for the Ming or the Qing Dynasty.

In this battle, the Ming Dynasty dispatched a total of 85,000 horses, and this army is also the most powerful field force in the Ming Dynasty except for the 50,000 new troops that Beijing and Lu Xiangsheng have just trained, so the Ming cannot afford to lose.

In addition to the 60,000 Manchu Eight Banners, the Qing Dynasty also gathered 30,000 Meng's Eight Banners and 20,000 Han Army Banners, which is already all the forces that Huang Taiji can gather.

If it loses, the Qing Dynasty can also declare its demise.

After a day of marching, the army saw the long and curved Liao River, and Yang Daniu, as the vanguard of the team, came to a place where the water flow was narrow and slow, and first sent a sentry to reconnoiter around, and then let the troops start to cross the river.

The process of crossing the river was very smooth, and there was no harassment of the Qing soldiers, and the generals of the Qing army also knew that the strength of the Ming army that came this time was extraordinary, and the general sniper methods were useless to them, and the Liao River was too long, and there were too many places to cross the river, so they simply let the Ming army cross the river.

But even so, crossing the river was not an easy task, and it took the 80,000 troops two days to cross the Liao River.

After crossing the Liao River, the army was only less than four hundred miles away from Shengjing, and the figure of the Qing army detectives began to appear in front.

Not to be outdone, the Ming army began to roar out at night and began to expel these outposts.

Although the scale of the battle between the outposts was small, usually only a few dozen horsemen or even a few cavalry dueling, the intensity was no less than that of regular combat, and the level of bloodiness was even more than that.

The Qing army had the advantage of being familiar with the geographical advantage, and the Ming army also made full use of the advantages in numbers and weapons, and every time it encountered a Qing army outpost, it would send several times the number of people to either expel or encircle and annihilate.

In just half a day, no less than ten collisions were carried out, for which the Qing army lost nearly 100 outposts, and it was not until the afternoon that the Qing army stopped exploring the Ming army.

After marching along the wide official road for a long time, the army came to a small hill with a road pier on it.

The road pier mentioned here is not the kind of road pier that exists as an obstacle in later generations, this kind of road pier is a kind of small stronghold with an outpost and defensive nature that is about eight zhang high and about dozens of zhang in circumference.

This kind of pier can garrison twenty to thirty people, which is considered a kind of super-small outpost nature, of course, this pier has long been deserted, and the defenders inside have long since disappeared.

On the right side of the pier is the winding official road, which is more than a zhang wide, and the road surface is covered with rut marks that have been old for a long time.

Due to its proximity to the Liao River, both sides of the official road are full of dense wheat fields, but most of these wheat fields have long been turned into wilderness, and the ditches on both sides have also been abandoned because of disrepair.

Sun Chengzong rode his horse and walked slowly on the official road, looking at the deserted wheat fields on both sides of the official road, he let out a long sigh, and his eyes showed distress, "Alas...... These wheat fields were originally reclaimed by the people of my Ming Dynasty, but I never thought that in just over 20 years, the efforts I spent hundreds of years in the Ming Dynasty were wiped out in an instant! ”

Looking at Sun Chengzong's face full of distress, Yang Feng didn't know how to comfort the old man.

At this time, the two of them saw a stone tablet standing in front of them that was about to topple, the inscription was already blurred, and only the words "Ming Chenghua Year Li" were faintly visible.

Sun Chengzong got off the horse, walked to the stele, stretched out his sleeves and wiped it on the stele, after a while, the handwriting was slowly revealed, and Sun Chengzong slowly read: "Big ...... Wild Goose Village! ”

He stood still, looking at the large village around him that had long since been in ruins, and there was a mixture of distress, hatred, and self-reproach in his eyes.

Yang Feng can understand his feelings, after more than two hundred years of development, Liaodong has gathered more than two million Han people, but after more than ten years of slaughter by Nurhachi, now the Han people in Liaodong have long been gone, and there is nothing more distressing for Sun Chengzong.

As the saying goes, it is easier to destroy than to build, and if you want to restore Liaodong to its former appearance, you don't know how much time and energy it will take.

Seeing this, Yang Feng was afraid that Sun Chengzong would be too sad and not good for his health, so he comforted: "The governors don't have to be sad, the good days of the Manchu Tartars won't last long, and when we destroy them, we will let them pay off the blood debt they owe, and no one can escape!" ”

"Okay, then I'll borrow your good words."

Sun Chengzong also quickly adjusted his mood, and when he was about to talk to Yang Feng, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves in front of him, and soon a knight came to them and dismounted and said loudly.

"Qiyu Governor, Marquis of Jiangning, the first battalion of cavalry saved our team in the front, and intercepted thousands of Mongolian Tatars, and now the two sides are fighting fiercely."

"Oh...... Met an enemy? ”

Yang Feng and Sun Chengzong glanced at each other and said to the cavalryman: "Where is the rescued team of Ye Bu, bring them to see us!" ”

Soon, more than a dozen people who were covered in blood brought them to them, and gave a military salute to Yang Feng for the first night, and said loudly in a hoarse voice: "Zhao Laohei, the general manager of the third squadron of the Night Bushu Brigade, has seen the Hou Ye and the governor!" ”

Yang Feng looked at these more than ten people who didn't collect the night, the iron armor made of stainless steel on these people was full of traces and blood stains left by weapons, just looking at these traces, he knew how fierce the battle they had experienced was.

He took a deep breath and said in a deep voice, "You will go through a detailed account of what you have encountered. ”

"Yes!"

Zhao Laohei licked his chapped lips and said, "The inferior people were ordered to investigate the enemy situation near Shengjing seven days ago, and a few days ago they rested at a place called Heitunzi less than a hundred miles away from Shengjing. Unexpectedly, he encountered the yellow flag of the Mengba Banner who rushed to reinforce Shengjing.

Seeing this, the lowly ones immediately slipped away, and on the way to retreat, the lowly ones also killed one of the Tartars' commanders with a fiery gun, but this did completely anger the Tartars.

After killing the commander, the Tartars pursued them like crazy, and the lowly ones could only retreat as they fought, and they kept retreating in this direction, and on the way the lowly people found the main force of the Tartars in a place called Black Sand Ridge. ”

"Wait......"

Sun Chengzong, who was on the side, interrupted Zhao Laohei's words.

"You said you found the main force of the Tartars? How many of them are there? ”

Zhao Laohei swallowed his saliva before he replied with difficulty, "Because the lowly post had to flee for his life at that time, he was just running in a hurry, but according to the lowly estimate, the Tartars have at least deployed no less than 30,000 troops in Heishaling, and judging from the banner, at least half of them are people from the Eight Banners." ”

At this time, many generals began to surround them, and as soon as Zhao Laohei's words came out, the faces of these generals immediately changed a little.