Chapter 194: Two Winds Piercing Ears

At the same time, according to the established plan, Diao Zheng sent people to Seoul to order the Joseon king Li Liang to send troops and allocate grain and grass to supply the next move of the Dazhong army.

As for the surprise attack on Phi Dao by the Dazhong army, in fact, the Dazhong envoys who stayed in Seoul already knew about it, but they did not inform the Korean king in advance, but only after the scheduled time for action was up, the Dazhong envoys who stayed in Seoul informed the Korean king Li Liang of the news.

At the same time, under the instruction of the envoys of the Dazhong Dynasty, he purged a number of ministers who insisted on loyalty to Jiannu in the country, making his control over the Korean State even stronger.

Knowing that the Great Chinese and Korean Empires sent troops to cross the sea and raid Phi Dao, this incident was undoubtedly like a stimulant shot for the Korean State, and the Korean monarchs and ministers realized that the good days of the Manchurian Tartars had come to an end, and as long as the Great Chinese and Korean Empire had a foothold on Phi Dao, then Jiannu would definitely fall into the situation of being attacked on the back of the enemy as Mao Wenlong had done during the Dongjiang Army period.

This was also the best time for North Korea to break away from the control of Jiannu, so after Li Liang learned the news, he immediately mobilized troops and grain in Korea and transported them to Tieshan.

As for the North Korean soldiers, Diao Zheng didn't expect them to play much of a role at all, and the most important reason why the North Korean State sent troops was that the Dazhong Army would rely on the North Korean State to share part of the burden of logistical support for them for a period of time in the future, so as to reduce the pressure on the logistics delivery of Shandong, as for those North Korean soldiers, it would definitely not be possible to fight, but they could be used as auxiliaries to help the Dazhong Army deliver grain and materials, build roads and build fortifications, and there was still not much problem in doing such miscellaneous work.

With the ignition of the war on the eastern front of Liaodong, the Jiannu side was completely confused, although Huang Taiji and Dolgon were not in harmony, but at this time, they still realized that if they continued to make trouble, then their Jiannu was likely to be finished, so Huang Taiji and Dolgon temporarily put aside their grievances and focused on the war in the Ningjin area.

As soon as Luo Li's side made a move in Jinzhou, Huang Taiji sent Zierharang to lead 20,000 Tartar soldiers to Dalinghe Fort, and behind his back he planned to deal with Dolgon stationed in Jinzhou, in order to block the Dazhong army on the line of Dalinghe and keep the entire Liaodong, so that even if Jinzhou was lost, they could use Yizhou and Dalinghe Fort as support, and they could also greatly weaken Dolgon's strength.

However, Huang Taiji did not expect that the Dazhong Dynasty would suddenly send a large number of Dazhong troops to the Phidao, Tieshan, and Xuanzhou areas, and a nail was wedged into their hearts.

Originally, Huang Taiji did not fail to consider that the Dazhong Army might follow the example of Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town and cross the sea and land on the Liaodong Peninsula, forcing them to suffer from the enemy on their backs.

However, the generals of Huang Taiji and Jiannu all paid attention to the area of Jinzhou, especially the area of Lushunkou, and they believed that even if the Great Middle Dynasty sent troops to cross the sea and land in Liaodong, they would first choose this area to seize the bridgehead, and then attack the belly of Liaodong in the north.

Therefore, for more than a year, Huang Taiji has attached great importance to strengthening the strength in the Jinzhou area, in addition to arranging nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses in Jinzhou, he also set up batteries in the Lushunkou area, trying to block the landing of the Dazhong Army in this area, and then taking advantage of the mobility of their Jiannu army.

However, they did not expect that the Dazhong Army would actually choose to land on Phi Island and then capture Tieshan, Xuanzhou and other places, so that their arrangement in Jinzhou would be in vain.

When the news of the sudden attack on Phi Dao by the Dazhong Army and the rapid capture of Tieshan and Xuanzhou reached Shengjing, the entire Shengjing of Jiannu was in an uproar.

After Huang Taiji heard the news, he almost vomited blood on the spot, but even so, he immediately fainted.

Huang Taiji is by no means a stupid person, otherwise it would be impossible to take over the power of his father's wild boar skin, and he has been in power for so long, he knows very well what the loss of Phi Dao and Xuanzhou, as well as Tieshan, means to them Jiannu.

All his previous arrangements, because of the fall of Phi Dao and Tieshan, fell into the open space, and the entire troops deployed in the Jinzhou area of the Liaodong Peninsula not only did not prevent the Dazhong Army from stabbing them in the waist behind the flank, but also became a lone division hanging alone on the Liaodong Peninsula.

What made him even more frightened was that North Korea was not very obedient in the first place, and now that the Dazhong Army appeared on Phi Dao again, North Korea would definitely immediately fall to Dazhong and North Korea and help the Dazhong Army to deal with them.

As long as this large Chinese army captures Zhenjiangbao and Yizhou, then the Qing army in Jinzhou will be blocked on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the situation of their Qing Dynasty will be precarious in the next step.

So Huang Taiji, who was rescued by the Tai Doctor after some first aid, immediately issued an order with a sick body, ordering the Jinzhou Jiannu garrison to immediately return to Zhenjiang Fort to block the Dazhong Army in Yizhou to continue the attack towards the hinterland of Liaodong.

As for Jinzhou, at this time, Huang Taiji can no longer estimate, now their Qing army strength has declined greatly, without the Mongols and Han army banners of these subordinate army, the entire Manchurian banner is now only less than 100,000 people, and all the usable followers are only 150,000 people, and they can't hold such a large Liaodong Peninsula at this time, so now they can only take a defensive position, shrink up first, and then seek a counterattack.

As a result, throughout the summer, Jiannu had to use troops on both the east and west roads at the same time to resist the offensive of the Great Chinese Army on Liaodong.

After the start of the Liaodong Expedition, a large number of large Chinese troops began to enter the land of Liaodong from the east and west, first Luo Li's left army conquered Jinzhou like a broken bamboo, and then in mid-May, after receiving reinforcements from the follow-up troops, Luo Li began to lead the army to launch an offensive against the Jiannu army in the area of Dalinghe Fort.

Jiannu tried to rely on the terrain around the Daling River Fort to block the Dazhong army from crossing the Daling River, but at this time the Mongols also began to act, but this time they did not come to help Jiannu deal with the Dazhong army, but turned around and began to help the Dazhong army deal with their old masters.

Nearly 10,000 Mongolian cavalry of several tribes gathered in the area of the Khalkha Department, roaring into the control area of Jiannu, taking advantage of the fact that Jiannu placed the main forces in the area of Daling River and Yizhou, they slaughtered into the control area of Jiannu as if they had entered a no-man's land, as long as they saw Jiannu's village, they slaughtered it, and the Manchurian banner people who were directly killed were corpses all over the place and blood flowed like rivers.

The Mongol betrayal made the situation even worse, and the newly defeated Dolgon had to lead his troops to deal with the Mongols, leaving Zilharang to continue to confront the Dazhong army in the area of Dalinghe Fort.

However, in terms of strength and firepower, Zilharang's troops did not have an advantage at all, and after several battles, Zilharang was defeated in successive battles, and was finally compressed into the Dalinghe Fort.

Luo Li led more than 30,000 large Chinese troops, surrounded Dalinghe Fort at once, and then transferred nearly 100 heavy artillery pieces from the direction of Jinzhou, erected them outside Dalinghe Fort, and launched a continuous artillery bombardment of Dalinghe Fort that lasted for seven days.

In the past seven days, the heavy artillery of the Dazhong Army bombarded the Dalinghe Fort almost day and night, this time Luo Li in line with the price of casualties as little as possible, give full play to the advantages of the firepower of the Dazhong Army, and kill and injure the Jiannu Army as much as possible.

In the past seven days, the anxious Zilharang sent troops out of the city many times to try to counterattack the artillery of the Dazhong Army, but without exception were beaten back by the musketeers of the Dazhong Army with a platoon of gun tactics.

Lying on the collapsed city wall, the Jiannu soldiers looked in horror at the wooden poles set up like a forest outside the city, each wooden pole carried the head of a Jiannu soldier, and this morale had already fallen into the crotch of his pants by the seventh day.

The incessant shelling made there was no safe place in the Dalinghe Fort, and all the people in the fort were worried that the cannonballs would fall on their heads at any time, and they did not dare to sleep all night long.

By the eighth day, the Dalinghe Fort, which was not a solid city wall, had become a pants that asked for rice at this time, and it was riddled with holes by the cannons, and many places had begun to collapse, and it had long been unable to play its due defensive role.

Although during these seven days, Zilharang sent people to repair the damaged city wall every day, but their repair speed was far from catching up with the speed of the artillery bombardment of the Dazhong army, and the Dazhong army carried out artillery bombardment every time when the Jiannu army tried to repair the city wall, and a large number of Jiannu troops were killed and wounded, which caused heavy casualties to the Jiannu army.

Early in the morning of the eighth day, Luo Li ordered the last time to launch a rapid shot on Dalinghe Fort, and after about half an hour of shelling, several troops that had already been prepared began to attack Dalinghe Fort at the same time, and the Jiannu Army, which had already been boiled down, could no longer stop the attack of the Dazhong Army, and in just half a day, Dalinghe Fort was attacked by the Dazhong Army from three directions almost simultaneously.

Nearly 10,000 soldiers will be like a flood of beasts poured into the Dalinghe Fort, after entering the city, they will kill people along the way, even if some Jiannu soldiers abandon their weapons and surrender, they don't care at all, and the red-eyed Dazhong soldiers will roar by, leaving only a corpse in a place.

When the war ended, the nearly 10,000 banner soldiers and residents of the entire Dalinghe Fort were captured alive and killed, and all the rest were slaughtered, even if the prisoners were less than 1,000 people, after the end of the war, they were immediately pulled out of the city by Luo Li's order, leaving only one hundred and ten Han people, and the rest were all slaughtered outside the city.

The slave chieftain Zilharang persevered until the end, but he also died in the rebellion, and his body was only cleaned up after the battle, but by the time his body was found, Zilharang's body had already been shattered, leaving only a thigh and half an arm.

However, on the other hand, the Dazhong Army, in the battle of Dalinghe Fort, only paid the price of less than 700 casualties, of which less than 200 were killed, and most of the rest could return to the army to continue to serve after receiving medical treatment.

The battle of Dalinghe Fort can be described as a great victory, which almost destroyed all the resistance forces of Jiannu in the eastern and western parts of Liao, and made the war on the eastern and western fronts of Liaodong completely fall to the side of the Dazhong Army.