On June 25, the third year of Dingwu, the main force of the Taiping Army's Northern Expedition set off from Laizhou Port and sailed to Dongjiang Town. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Dongjiang River was originally the place where Mao Wenlong resisted Jin, and had jurisdiction over the islands of the Bohai Sea, Lushun, Kuandian and other Ming army forts, as well as Tieshan, Changcheng and other strongholds in North Korea.

After Mao Wenlong's death, the Dongjiang Ming army soon collapsed and collapsed, one died in the resistance to Jin, and the other was led by Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi to descend to Jin, becoming the main force of the Han army banner and one of the main forces of the later conquest of the Southern Ming.

In the year of Jiashen, after the Qing army entered the customs in a big way, there was no Qing army stationed in the Dongjiang River, and the Ming army camp on the original island was either deserted or occupied by fishermen and pirates.

The Taiping army arrived at the two islands of Lushun in four days, occupied Huangcheng Island, Guanglu Island, and the Great and Small Changshan Islands without a single soldier, and quickly established the command headquarters for the northward operation with the Great and Small Changshan Islands as the center.

Because some of the Manchu soldiers escaped in the first battle of Weixian, these Manchu soldiers saw through the identity of the sailors and marines disguised as the Seventh Righteous Army, and Belle Tuntai had already rushed to the Qing court for 800 miles to urgently report to the Qing court that the Taiping army was advancing northward.

The huge fleet of the Taiping Navy sailors sailed in the northern seas, and they could not hide their tracks. On the way north, the sailors' clippers spotted many fishing boats watching the fleet, and there were all kinds of indications that the Qing court probably knew that the main force of the Taiping army was heading for Liaodong.

For this reason, after occupying the Liaodong Islands, Zhou Shixiang immediately ordered the new Second Army to land in southern Liaoning under the leadership of the army commander Suna and the general town Shao Chengguo, occupy the Qing army along the way, attack Liaoyang, go straight to Shengjing, and end the Manchu nest in one fell swoop.

A large number of ronins, pirates, and young men who followed the army north followed the attack path of the New Second Army, sweeping all the Manchurian villages in the area to ensure that no one was caught.

Zhou Shixiang personally led the main force of the naval division, the New Third Army and the pro-soldier town to land at Incheon, North Korea, and launched a Korean offensive.

After receiving the military order, Suna didn't care that the whole army had just gone through a long-distance sea trip and was exhausted, so he personally led the entire three towns to land from Nanguan in Jinzhou, and the goal was to attack Liaoyang.

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Liaoyang City, where the former Ming Dynasty Liaodong Capital is located, has been the military and political center outside the country since the beginning of the dynasty. In the first year of the Apocalypse, the Jin army conquered Liaoyang, and Zhang Quan, the imperial envoy of Liaodong, was trapped in the city and was escorted to see the slaves.

The slave escorted Zhang Quan back to the official office, and the Han people in the city shed tears and asked to protect Zhang Envoy. After hearing this, Zhang Quan said to everyone: "You are all good people. "After that, he straightened his clothes and hats, worshiped Jingshi, and then swung his sword to kill himself, only 46 years old. In the same year, Nurhachi moved the capital to Liaoyang, and then conquered Guangning and Shenyang successively, and moved the capital to Shenyang four years later, changing its name to Shengjing.

With Guangning and Yizhou firmly in the hands of the Jin army, Liaoyang's strategic position declined, and it was no longer the largest city outside the Guan, but more of a link between southern Liaoning and Shenyang. In the second year of Tiancong, Hong Taiming handed over the defense of Liaoyang City to the inlaid blue flag, and the owner of the inlaid blue flag, Jierharang, sent 800 troops to be stationed in Liaoyang City.

In the year of Jiashen, the Qing army outside the customs entered the customs in a big way, and most of the Manchurian Eight Banners left outside the customs were old and weak under the five banners. In the seventeenth year of Shunzhi, after the Shengjing general Dunbai led the army into the customs, the Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers who stayed outside the pass were even more scarce, and the Liaoyang defenders were only more than 200 people.

Since Ma Chatai became the city guard of Liaoyang, what he has done the most is to collect taxes. Liaoyang is located in the north-south transportation area, although due to the Qing Dynasty into the customs, Liaoyang lost the status of an important military town outside the pass, but it developed on the trade route.

The land outside the customs is the special product of fur, ginseng and Dongzhu, and all ethnic groups have trade, even the northeast of North Korea also has merchants to trade, which naturally makes the commercial tax extremely developed, and the tax revenue of Liaoyang alone is enough to feed half of Shengjing City, so this Liaoyang guard will be a big fat difference.

Don't take your head to sell your life, only count the silver and drink every day, this kind of good day makes Ma Chatai unhappy, but more than ten days ago, I don't know what happened, the caravan that used to hit Lushun, Yongning, Jin, and Gaishuzhou in the south disappeared at once, and there was no news even from Shanguan, as if overnight except for Liaoyang City, there was no city and big living people in this world.

In the first few days, Ma Chatai didn't care, although it was summer, but it wouldn't be long before the temperature outside the pass would drop, at that time, the merchants of all ethnic groups also packed up for the winter, and this business had to wait until the spring of the next year to do it, maybe the merchants received it in advance this year.

But what is unexpected is that from the tenth day, the banner people outside Liaoyang City successively found that there were banner men who had fled from the south, and some ragged flag men, and they brought back an astonishing news - tens of thousands of Ming troops were killed from the sea in the south.

The Ming army killed from the sea to the south?!

Hearing this, Machatai's eyes widened: How is this possible!

Ma Chatai did not believe that the Ming army came with tens of thousands of people, this was simply impossible. He estimated that most of them were robbers from the sea, which had not happened before. So, Macha Taiyan rushed to Gaizhou with one of his Duoniulu banner soldiers, intending to drive the robbers back to the sea with the defenders there. When he walked to Haizhou, Ma Chatai met Gutai, the leader of the Red Banner who had fled all the way from Yaozhou.

Seeing Ma Chatai, Gu Tai cried as if he saw his own father, and he looked as sad as his dead father. After crying for a while, he didn't say any useful information, so angry that Ma Chatai raised his hand and whipped it, which stopped Gu Tai's crying, but what he said later about the strength of the Ming army made Ma Chatai shocked and worried.

I don't know if it's true or not, Gutai insisted that there were tens of thousands of Ming troops who came to attack, and they also carried hundreds of cannons, and there were no less than 10,000 guns with eagle beaks and big hand poles.

They kill people when they see them, and there are no chickens and dogs left wherever they go, and they can fight better than the Eight Banners warriors. The Ming army also sent many robbers to burn, kill, and plunder, killing people when they saw them, robbing things when they saw them, and burning houses when they saw them. Some of the escaped bannermen also said that some of the Ming soldiers couldn't grab food, so they killed their bannermen to eat as cattle and sheep, and they ate fiercely one by one, and the red light on their faces looked terrifying.

This time, not only Ma Chatai was frightened, but the Eight Banners soldiers who came with him were also panicked, together with the people brought back by Gutai, they only had more than 200 people, how could this manpower fight with tens of thousands of Ming troops?

The soldiers of the Eight Banners were all timid, and looked at Ma Chatai with a sad face, at this time, it was much stronger to rely on the fortified city than to fight with the Ming army single-handedly.

Macha Taiyan was also in a dilemma. If what Gutai said is true, then this Ming army suddenly appeared in Liaodong, and it was about to dig the foundation of Manchuria. Unless the Qing Dynasty pours the power of the whole country, Liaodong will definitely fall into the hands of the Ming army.

Regardless of whether what Gu Tai said was completely true, judging from the fact that all the cities south of Liaoyang had fallen, this attacking Ming army was by no means something that Ma Chatai could contend with. After thinking about it for just a moment, Ma Cha Taiyan did not hesitate to order to return to Liaoyang, and immediately requisitioned bannermen to defend the city, and sent people to report to Shengjing quickly.

This made the people of Liaoyang City panic, and those Manchurians who stayed outside the gate never dreamed that one day the Ming army would appear in Liaodong again, under their noses, and it would come so fiercely.

What the hell is going on in Kannai?!

All the people outside the Guanwai Banner are panicking, most of them are under the Five Banners, and many things in the upper three banners of the Guanye do not tell these people who are staying outside the Guanwai, even if the Shengjing General Dunbai took away the eighty percent of the Manchurian armored soldiers outside the Guanxi into the Guan, he did not tell the remaining bannermen what happened in the Guannei.

Now, Liaoyang City can only wait for Shengjing's rescue, and beyond that, they can't do anything. Machatai had sent scouts to the south, but were hunted down by the Ming cavalry, who outnumbered them. Just yesterday, a group of Ming army pioneers appeared under Liaoyang City, and it is certain that with the advance of the Ming army, Liaoyang City will be attacked by the Ming army in a short time.

There are all kinds of rumors, and in the past few days, hundreds of banner men who have fled to Liaoyang from all over southern Liaoning have brought a lot of terrifying news. According to them, the Ming army brought many robbers, who specialized in hunting the old and weak women and children of Manchuria, for the pleasure of cutting off their heads. These people are extremely brutal and completely inhumane, and some of them even kill people and eat them. A banner woman claimed that her brother's family in Gaizhou had been disemboweled, washed, and cooked by Ming robbers; Another flag man said that his cousin's family in Jinzhou Fort was fried in an oil pot by the Ming army, and it was called "fried fat sheep".

More and more horrific rumors of the atrocities of the Ming army spread in Liaoyang City, and the Manchurians in the city were already terrified to the extreme. They finally felt the horror of the Ming Dynasty again, and this feeling disappeared for forty years.

Ma Chatai had no way to stop these terrible rumors from spreading in the city, and he could only hope that Shengjing would send reinforcements to Liaoyang as soon as possible, otherwise once Liaoyang was lost, Shengjing's communication with Beijing would be cut off. If the Ming Dynasty army used Liaoyang as a foothold and went straight to Shanhaiguan, then Beijing would be finished.

During the few days of waiting for reinforcements, Ma Chatai couldn't eat well, couldn't sleep well, and lost his temper inexplicably, and his wife persuaded him several times to no avail. Xu knew that the Ming army was coming, and he also knew the rumors about the Ming army in the city, and knew that once the Ming army broke the city, the whole city would be burned, so this Manchurian woman, who had always been proud of being able to control her husband, did not dare to get angry, and the former tigress became extremely docile.

Ma Chatai did not feel the change in his wife at all, he only felt the invisible pressure, which rose to the extreme after the discovery of a small group of cavalry of the Ming army outside the city. When the nerves of the military and civilians in the city were stretched to the extreme, the Ming army's brigade finally appeared.

With the appearance of the Red Red Army flags, groups of cavalry surrounded Liaoyang City from all directions.

Ma Chatai estimated that the Ming army outside the city was no less than 10,000 people, and he was almost desperate, because he could not hold Liaoyang City at all.

Machatai was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, but outside the city, a familiar voice came to the city.

"Machate, I'm Suna!"