The blazing mountain fire burned most of the sky red, and the thick smoke rolled up like monsters hovering in the sky. The scorched air brought by the burning of trees drifted to the Qing army camp dozens of miles away with the north wind. Whether it was Dorgon or Wu Bai, they all stared at the sudden big bonfire.

Manchus will not set fire to forests. This will not only anger the gods of heaven and earth, but also be incompatible with their own life-saving foundation.

Only the Ming army, who was ignorant of fear, would do such cruel things.

Of course, the Ming army was not a naughty boy who set fires when he was fine. From this point of view, Wulinbai's pursuit troops were probably in danger.

Jiang Jun himself was also shocked. He didn't expect the fire to rise so quickly that even the Ming army, who was responsible for resisting the fortifications, almost had no time to withdraw. As for those robes that set fire at the lower vents, there was no news for a long time. I don't know if I got lost in the forest, but I still encountered an unexpected accident.

"No more waiting."

Jiang Jun sighed, after counting the number of people, more than ten were fewer, all of whom were ordered to disperse the fire.

"Running to Liaoyang and set off!" Jiang Jun ordered.

...

Xiao Donglou sniffed and smelled the faint smell of coke in the air. The sky in the north had become gray, with red flames jumping in it.

A stream of air conditioning penetrated into Xiao Donglou's nose, like a knife cutting, causing Xiao Donglou to tremble all over. He quickly pulled up the cover of his fur and covered his nose together.

"Is it the madmen from the First Army?" Cao Ning walked over and held a notice in his hand: "The Tang newspaper they sent to us yesterday said they would set off this morning. Now let's see, I'm afraid the vanguard troops have arrived in Liaoyang."

"Those bastards." Xiao Donglou grinded his back teeth, reached out to grab the notice, and read: "Our division will set out on the ninth day of this month to capture Liaoyang, threaten the enemy troops on the east road side and cooperate with your troops to fight. The Pioneer Division will set out earlier and pass through your defense zone, please take care of them... When will their vanguard pass through our defense zone?"

Cao Ning's eyes were full of helplessness and said, "I went to check and didn't pass through our defense zone at all. The horse detective reported that a man headed north last night, and it should be this vanguard unit. But they happened to pass outside our defense zone. So we didn't alarm."

Xiao Donglou said: "The First Army is also engaged in a special investigation battalion? I don't know what special targets are in the forest, and there is such a big stir."

"A special investigation camp with a thousand people?" Cao Ning rolled his eyes: "It's the Tank Division, the only unit in the entire army to get a ban. He rushed to Liaoyang with two hundred miles. If he fought again, he would really have a big face."

"I won't say it before the fight starts. Let's follow it as soon as the fight starts. What kind of human nature is this!" Xiao Donglou seemed to spat and emphasize the situation, but he thought it was too cold and he didn't want to unbutton his cover. He had to swallow this.

"But this action is indeed beautiful." Cao Ning seemed to deliberately make Xiao Donglou mess up, pretending to be amazed: "He rushes to the headquarters of Qianzhong. No matter whether he attacks or not, it makes the Donglu frightened and has to divide his troops to intercept and protect his flanks. In this way, their troops will be dispersed and their frontal defense will be weak."

"Especially when this fire was released, they didn't even have a way out. They either moved westward to meet with Jirgalang, or they dug a fire trench to hold on. Judging from the fire, it may not be extinguished in a few days or nights." Cao Ning said almost intoxicatedly.

"Can you come up with such a good idea?" Xiao Donglou cursed in a low voice, and then said loudly: "What are you waiting for? Fight him! Let the cannons be set up and bomb, and the Type 19 military cannons, pull them up and loosen the soil! The whole army is ready, don't let Dorgon escape again!"

With Xiao Donglou's order, the two divisions of the Second Army began to attack the Qing army camp. In this era, the range of the muskets was far shorter than that of the cannons and had not yet become the protagonist of the war. The guns relied on my world's number one range and lethality, especially psychological lethality, and were the well-deserved king of war.

It can be said that whoever has more artillery will have more chances of winning.

After Manchu occupied Liaodong, he naturally took over the Ming Dynasty's iron factory in Liaodong. It can be said that there is no shortage of coal and iron. The problem is that they cannot improve their own smelting technology. For a long time, even cold weapons such as swords, guns, swords and halberds could not be self-sufficient, let alone build artillery. It was not until Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng defected that they brought the artillery casting technology.

Even so, the performance of Manchurian self-cast cannons was far behind that of the Ming Dynasty.

Before seeing the artillery array of the Ming army in the Donggong Palace, the Donglu used the artillery from the Jinzhou Artillery Factory - this was the artillery factory opened outside the pass during Zu Dashou, and also had the first-class technology of casting iron copper core cannons.

After being taught by the artillery of the Ming army in North China, the Qing court that returned to the outside of the pass began to cast artillery on a large scale. Because there was no iron mold cast artillery technology, the scrap rate of mud mold cast artillery was too high, so the number of artillery in the Donglu was not increased. The acceptance standards were even relaxed, and even dangerous goods that showed that they had honeycomb eyes were equipped in the army, hoping that they could make a sound when the enemy was in the hope.

Dorgon ordered these unreliable artillery arrays to fight back, but the morale of the Donglu dropped to freezing point.

These artillery that were made to charge the numbers themselves were not qualified, and they could not reach the Ming army's range because the artillery was not qualified. In addition, the artillery was afraid that these defective products would explode, so they did not dare to release the unqualified artillery drugs. Not only did the shells not fly to the Ming army's positions, but the sound was overwhelmed by the Ming army's artillery.

It's like a jackal stooping in front of a lion.

On the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month of the 21st year of Chongzhen, Xiao Donglou launched an order to charge the entire army in the northeast of Haizhou City, breaking through the Donglu camp, and Dorgon fled back to Shenyang in panic.

On the same day, the Han people in Liaoyang City revolted and fought back against the violence, occupied the Tianyou Gate in the south of the city, and welcomed the Tank Division who had just rushed to the city into the city.

Wang Yi led his troops to fight the Eastern Seizures in the city to fight to the death. One hour after entering the city, several Ming red flags were raised from the Octagonal Dragon Hall, the highest point in the city. The highest side was the double-winged flying tiger flag with a red bottom and golden line.

In this battle, the Tank Division killed more than 1,700 stubborn soldiers from the East Envoy, and blood flowed and corpses were everywhere in the city. More than 3,000 prisoners of the East Envoy were envoyed and were banned by the Amitabha Temple in the East and nearby houses, guarded by the Ming army. There were less than 5,000 elderly, weak, women and children in the city, and all were driven to the west of the city. The Han people who were insured were led by soldiers to guard the uprising, responsible for boiling water and cooking for the Ming army.

Wang Yi stepped on the blood frost on the ground and climbed the Liaoyang city wall.

The city wall is three feet high, and it is indeed a strong city in Liaodong. In order to show its style, Nuerhaci opened eight doors on this city wall with a circumference of only a thousand feet long, which looked quite inappropriate.

"This small county town has a population of only 10,000, and it is actually called 'Beijing'." Wang Yi sighed to Zhang Li who followed him.

"The county town in my hometown is bigger than here." Zhang Li also looked south, which was the direction they entered the city, and Tianyou Gate was under his feet.

It has to be admitted that it is somewhat difficult to conquer a three-meter-high city with the 500 people from the Tank Division. It is indeed a component of Tianyou to be able to echo the uprisings in the city.

"How about the damage to the war?" Wang Yi looked at it for a while and asked in a deep voice.

"Seventeen people were killed and thirty-four people were injured," Zhang Li said, "and fourteen non-combat reductions."

"Is it considered a death toll for non-combatants now?" Wang Yi asked: "What did the instructor say last time?"

"Due to logistics, the reduction in personnel caused by insufficient military capital is counted as the death of the formation. Violations of regulations and discipline are not counted as the result of them." Zhang Li said.

"Well, that's fine." Wang Yi patted the bricks on the city wall: "Snap time to count the grain stored in the city, wash what the soldiers should wash and sleep what they should sleep. We haven't finished yet."

"You won't want to fight Chenyang, do you?" Zhang Li shouted in dismay.

"Five hundred people hit Chenyang, are you going to be crazy?" Wang Yi glanced at him.

Zhang Li stroked his chest and said, "I thought you were crazy."

"I want to fight Dongningwei." Wang Yi said carelessly.

"You are indeed crazy..." Zhang Li felt his heartbeat stagnation for a moment, and it took him a long time to put up a reasonable sentence.

Dongningwei had a more famous name in the era of Zhu Cilang's previous life: Benxi.

Benxi is famous for its open-pit iron ore with low phosphorus, sulfur and low impurities. The iron produced is called "ginseng iron". This high-quality iron ore is rare in China, especially with high-quality coking coal mines, which is a treasure land for establishing coal-iron composite bases.

Wang Yi chose Dongningwei not for the resources here.

What he needs is a strategic position.

"The Dongning Guard is already at the southeastern gate of Shenyang. You can knock on Chenyang directly or go north to attack Fushun to form an encirclement of Chenyang." Wang Yi said: "If we don't take it down now, the Second Army will also occupy it. At that time, our division will be placed in Liaoyang and there is no tactical position to fight against Chenyang at all."

"Do you know how risky this is?" Zhang Li shouted: "If the Second Army does not follow up, we will be alone in Dongning. The Donglu concentrated their efforts to attack us. Will you save General She?"

"General She will definitely come to rescue us, and Xiao Donglou will not sit idly by and watch the Donglu attack us." Wang Yi was full of confidence.

"Don't forget, we just snatched his Liaoyang." Zhang Li said angrily.

"You are too scrupulous." Wang Yi waved his hand: "Xiao Donglou will definitely attack Chenyang while the Donglu attacks us, or simply use us as bait to encircle and annihilate the Donglu army."

Zhang Li's lips twitched: "We will not be able to fall well no matter what!"

"But we opened the situation and were the stepping stone to restore Chenyang." Wang Yi said: "If the army is calmly arranged after it arrives, the Donglu will definitely stabilize the city defense. At that time, this wave of offensive will be cut off. General Xiao has always said that fighting is like listening to music. There must be a mat, high and low, continuous, and the lingering sound is circling around the beams... So do you think you will fight?"

Zhang Li's face was gray and said, "I said I wouldn't fight. I won't say anything else. Now there are so many prisoners in the city, Jiang Jun doesn't know how long it will take to arrive. Can you rest assured?"

"No." Wang Yi pulled up and covered his mouth, and said in a gull: "Let the brothers question the news about Dongningwei, and then kill them all." (To be continued...)
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