To the left of Dolgon's army, the other group of troops was the men and horses of the Blue Banner. The leading general is none other than Huang Taiji's eldest son, Prince Haoge of Heshuosu.

Unlike Dolgon, who was sven in appearance, Hauge was strong and powerful. Among the Manchu elites, Hauge has always been known for his great strength and courage on the battlefield, and began to go on expeditions with his father at a young age, and at the age of seventeen he personally killed the Mongolian Zalut tribe of Bel Ezhaitu, and the battle was very successful. The recovery of southern Liaoning, in Haoge's view, is just a knife to kill chickens, and he easily goes through the motions, and he is very disapproving of Huang Ama's solemnity, and the title of coach is given to Dolgon, which makes him feel like a fish in his throat. After setting out from Shengjing, he deliberately distanced himself from the right-wing Dolgon's troops and went their own way.

"Such an expedition is enough for one of my people under the Blue Banner, and it will not take a month to level southern Liaoning." Haug said proudly to the left and right.

His subordinates were naturally flattering, and they all said that Prince Su could fight well, and a few post cities in southern Liaoning were naturally not a problem.

A few months ago, the Marines attacked various post cities in southern Liaoning, and indeed as Dolgon analyzed, they selectively captured Lushun, Jinzhou, Gaizhou, and other places, all of which were close to the seashore and conducive to the cover of naval artillery. After conquering these cities, according to Xia Nan's strategy, Murong Longcheng did not send troops to garrison these cities, but only contacted Su Rough Leg to send two companies of troops from Shandong to garrison Lushun, holding the southernmost stronghold on the Liaodong Peninsula as a forward position to contain the Qing army. Therefore, the Qing army marched south, and there was no resistance along the way, and it was easy to recapture Haizhou, Gaizhou and other post cities.

The success of the early stage made Hauge even more empty-eyed. In his opinion, the Ming army's attack on southern Liaoning was just to take advantage of the fact that the Qing Dynasty did not send heavy troops to guard these places, and it was just a surprise. In this state of mind, he led his men and horses to start a rapid march, leaving Dolgon behind, hoping to recapture the entire post city of the Liaodong Peninsula by himself, so that most of the credit for this armed march was in his name.

When Dolgon learned of the movement of the left-wing army, he only sneered and did not say anything. Haoge has always been a "Huang Ama is the biggest, Lao Tzu is the second", he doesn't take other flag owners or even uncles and uncles in his eyes, and it is normal to be greedy for merit, so let him go.

Ten days later, Hauge's army arrived in Golden State.

Southern Liaoning is dilapidated, Jinzhou is no exception, there are no people in a radius of several miles, Jinzhou has been broken and no one is stationed, it has shown signs of desolation, and weeds have grown in the city.

Although the Qing army was ridden on horseback and had great mobility, the continuous rapid march had made it impossible for the supply of grain and grass to keep up. So Hauge ordered the whole army to temporarily enter Jinzhou Yicheng, and sent people to find nearby villages to solve the problem of grain and grass.

At the same time, the Qiong Navy Task Force, which had been supplied with food and fresh water from Dengzhou, had reached the vicinity of Golden State. It's not that Murong Longcheng and others are unpredictable prophets, and they have calculated that Haoge's lone army went deep and stationed in Jinzhou, but that Jinzhou is the first important city to go north from Lushun, and it must pass through.

On the sea surface of Jinzhou Bay, on the huge Yongle-class battleship "Shandong", Murong Longcheng looked at the movement of Jinzhou with a telescope, and the blue flag fluttering at the head of the city just came into view.

"Huh? The original defenders of Jinzhou have been almost wiped out by us, what is going on with this blue flag, is it possible that the Tartar army is so fast, and all the main forces have reached Jinzhou? ”

Borhu stood behind him and replied, "According to the information of the Intelligence Department, it is Dolgon, Prince Rui of the Tartars, and Hauge, Prince of Su, who are heading south this time. Dolgon is the owner of the white flag, Hauge is the owner of the blue flag, since it is a blue flag, then the Golden State City must be Hauge. ”

Murong Longcheng put down the binoculars and thought about it, and said: "The intelligence says that Dolgon is the commander, but there is no white flag erected in the city, so nine times out of ten, Haoge is greedy and reckless, and he is ahead of Dolgon." ”

Bol's eyes suddenly lit up: "Childe, since Hauge is aggressive, taking advantage of the absence of the army from the other road, why don't you just do a good job in Golden State?" ”

"The intelligence said that the Tartar Khan attached great importance to this expedition, and did not hesitate to fight the rabbit with a lion, vowing to solve the hidden danger next to the couch, and an army of twenty or thirty thousand came, even if they divided their troops, the army of Guanghaoge was at least tens of thousands, and our marines were only about 2,000 people, and it was definitely not possible to fight hard, and it must be outwitted." Murong Longcheng analyzed, "Rest on the ship for the night today, and start tomorrow." ”

Bor suddenly asked: "Do you directly bombard the Golden State Post City?" ”

"If you want to fight, you can hurt them, and if you don't hurt or itch, you can't hit the city wall with a few shots, but it has no effect." Murong Longcheng said leisurely, "The Tartars have never brought grain and straw with them on their expeditions, and they all rely on looting on the spot, so let's start with their men and horses who collect grain, eat a few roads, provoke Haoge, and lure the snake out of the hole to lure him out of the city." ”

In the early morning of the second day, the gates of Jinzhou were opened, the hooves rumbled, and several groups of cavalry came out of the city and ran in all directions. The task of these cavalrymen was to go to the nearby villages and loot grain and grass to supply the consumption of the army.

In charge of this grain requisition mission was a Niu Lu Ezhen named Tak Tan. He divided his men into several routes, east, west, north and south, and himself led seventy or eighty men to the west.

One of his subordinates asked him: "Master, the west is the seaside, do you have to go south to try your luck if you want to find food?" ”

Tak Tan whipped the war horse and grinned: "You know a fart, the Han villages here were almost slaughtered by the Great Khan a few years ago, and most of the remaining young people moved to the territory of the Qing Dynasty. But the seaside is different, there are fishermen there, they may not have much food, but there are always fish and shrimp, this thing is fishy, it is better than nothing to eat. Get a few hundred catties of fish and shrimp back, and you can be counted as handing over today's errand. ”

Only then did his subordinates know that he had a tricky mind, and he could also be lazy, and praised one after another: "The master is wise!" ”

Tuckertan laughed, galloped with dozens of his men, and soon reached the seashore. But before the fishermen could see it, they saw a long series of large boats as tall as hills parked not far from the seashore, and hundreds of small sampans loaded with soldiers rowing towards the shore.

"What's going on?" Taktan and his men were stunned. They followed Prince Su to fight in the south and in the north, and they experienced a lot of large and small battles, but they were all inland field battles, and it was the first time they had seen such a large-scale landing. What the hell are these people coming from?