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  Chapter 402 400 [Three Cities in a row] (Add more updates for the penguin boss)

  Wu Huapu tucked one sleeve in his belt. He bent over to dig through the snow. Under the dry grass was the soil of Liaodong, the solid land on which he grew up.

  Suddenly, Wu Huapu got on his horse and shouted, "Go to the city!"

  During this reorganization of the Datong Army, although the five military governors' mansions (five major military academies) were retained, the jurisdictions of each governor's mansion have changed a lot, and the unit designations have all been changed to numbers.

  Eleventh Division, division commander Hu Dinggui, chief mission officer Wang Yaochen.

  As for the one-armed Wu Huapu, he is responsible for commanding the cavalry of the Eleventh Division. He also went to northern Anhui to pick out a few men who could ride horses. They were all Liaodong men who fled south together, and they came back to take Manqing's lair.

  The Han people had killed the officials and stood on both sides of the street to welcome the Datong army into the city.

  Hu Dinggui shouted loudly: "Has anyone read a book?"

  A thin man rushed over, knelt down and said, "General, I have been studying for a few days."

   "Don't move!"

  Hu Dinggui stepped forward, took off the opponent's hat, grabbed the tail of the money rat, and swung a knife to cut it off.

  After cutting off the braid, Hu Dinggui held the hat in both hands, put it on the man seriously, and asked, "What's your name?"

  The thin man looked at the tail of the money rat, and something seemed to have broken his heart. He replied with a smile, "General Qi, my name is You Jinlei."

  Wu Dinggui asked: "What do you do for a living in Jinzhou?"

You Jinlei replied: "Golden state officials collect fish maw from fishermen, and I will boil the fish maw. After it is cooked, there will be bannermen... Tartars came from Gaizhou to take away the boiled fish maw and keep it Some food is counted as rations. When they come, they will take away other military supplies besides isinglass.”

  Hu Dinggui finally understood that the Han people who stayed in Jinzhou City provided military supplies for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

  For example, fish maw glue is a must for making compound bows.

  Hu Dinggui asked: "Is there a weapons factory in Gaizhou City?"

You Jinlei nodded: "Yes, they specialize in making bows and arrows and cotton armor. However, after the Tartars moved away, they probably took away many artisans, and Gaizhou collected less isingas than before. The rations given were also less and less. After spring, people will definitely starve to death."

  Hu Dinggui looked at these people, and there were only two or three thousand people left in the city, and all of them were sallow and emaciated.

  Hu Dinggui had some calculations in his mind, and asked Meng Huai'en, a civil servant accompanying the army, to organize the people in the city to go to the seaside to carry food.

   Once there was a shortage of manpower, the local people happened to be the folks who moved the food.

  Second, I will use work as a substitute for relief and distribute some food to the people.

  San came to register and make a book, and while moving the grain and grass, compiled the household registration of the people in the city.

   Hearing that being a civilian husband would give you rations, the people of Jinzhou became excited and followed Meng Huaien to the beach one after another.

  Hu Dinggui left You Jinlei behind and asked, "How much population is left in the Jinzhou territory?"

  You Jinlei shook his head: "I don't know."

  Hu Dinggui asked again: "Where is the nearest Eight Banners Army stationed?"

  You Jinlei said: "Gaizhou."

  Hu Dinggui asked again: "How many Eight Banners troops are there in Gaizhou?"

  You Jinlei shook his head again: "I don't know."

  This guy doesn't know what to ask, but it's normal. They can't even afford to eat, how can they have the time to pay attention to other things?

  Hu Dinggui occupied Jinzhou, settled the soldiers, and sent cavalry to scout around.

   A few days later, sentry cavalry came back with news one after another.

   Except for the official road leading to Gaizhou, the rest of the roads are mostly submerged in weeds.

  The wilderness is full of destroyed villages, houses and land that belonged to the Bannermen. With an order from Dorgon, the bannermen not only took away the serfs, but also burned down the houses.

   Sometimes I rode for a whole day without seeing any people.

  Here quickly turned into a pristine state, commercial and agricultural activities almost disappeared!

  The sentry cavalry who came back from Jinzhou Zhongzuo Station (Lushun) reported that there were only a few hundred fishermen left there. There are ten families of Han soldiers living in the fort, who are responsible for collecting fish maw, and they themselves have to cultivate land and fish for a living.

   Immediately afterwards, the sentry cavalry who went to Fuzhou to inquire also came back.

  All the forts and checkpoints along the way were abandoned, and no one could be found, only occasionally encountering a few farmers in the wild.

  Hearing the news, Wu Huapu approached Hu Dinggui: "I want to take a day off and buy some wine from the army."

   "Why do you suddenly want to drink?" Hu Dinggui asked.

Wu Huapu said sadly: "I can't hold it anymore, I want to drink some wine and sleep. I am from Liaodong, and I know what it is like here. Jinzhou and Fuzhou are both large counties in Liaodong, especially Jinzhou, which used to be full of business travelers. In the past There are more merchants living in Jinzhou than in the whole city now! There is also Fuzhou, where there are farmlands everywhere, and there is no need to worry about food at all, but now it is deserted. What the **** has all this become?"

  Dinggui Hu patted Wu Huapu on the shoulder: "Make an exception tonight, I'll drink with you!"

   While they were drinking, six Datong sentry riders came outside Fuzhou City to inquire about news.

  The six went straight to the city, wanting to observe the situation of the city defense.

  Suddenly the gate of the city was opened wide, and a Han civil servant, leading officials and military officers, walked out of the city to greet them with nodding and bowing their heads.

   "This is, you treat us as Tartar soldiers?"

   "Perhaps... yes."

   "Never mind him, let's kill him!"

   "..."

  Six cavalry rushed towards the city gate.

  Fuzhou officials didn't take it seriously, because the Tartar cavalry were all elite, and they were used to showing off their might in normal times, so they often rode their horses like this in the city.

  The six cavalry in front of me, although dressed a little strangely, are not like the various cavalry of the Qing Dynasty. But in the land of Liaodong, who else could there be besides the master of the Eight Banners? Maybe it's time for a change.

  Datong cavalry charged closer and closer, and Fuzhou officials greeted them with smiles, and finally bent down and lowered their heads.

   "Clang clang clang!"

  Six waist knives were drawn out, and they were aimed at the officials and hacked randomly.

   "Spare me!"

  The surviving officials fled in all directions, four of the six Datong cavalry rushed into the city, and the remaining two chased and killed them outside the city.

  The people in the city couldn't figure out what was going on, and they all hid in fright.

   Just like that, six cavalry who came to inquire about the news directly occupied Fuzhou City.

  After some interrogation, I got important news: In Gaizhou City further north, 50 people from the Eight Banners of Manchuria were stationed, and 100 people from the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and there were only 150 defenders in total.

   Don't think it's too little, it's already too much!

  There are only 15 cities left in the Northeast with troops left behind. Even in Shengjing (Shenyang), the home of the Tartars, there are only 800 people stationed there. Xingjing (Xinbin County), as the land of Longxing in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, had only 50 troops in the garrison.

  Gaizhou is a strategically important place and must be taken seriously, so there are 150 soldiers left.

   "There are really only more than a hundred soldiers?" Hu Dinggui couldn't believe it.

  Wang Yaochen said with a smile: "Soldiers are precious and fast, let's fight by boat."

  Due to the terrain, once Gaizhou is captured, it is tantamount to controlling the Liaodong Peninsula, and a fool will miss this good opportunity!

  And until now, the Manchu Qing defenders in Gaizhou did not know that Jinzhou and Fuzhou had been taken away by the Datong Army. After all, the snow has not yet melted, and the wilderness is deserted, who the **** wants to run around?

  Hu Dinggui built hundreds of simple wooden ladders in Jinzhou, and immediately the whole army sailed to Gaizhou.

  After landing by the sea, they pushed the cannon and carried the simple ladder, and went straight to Gaizhou City.

  Because of taking the boat all the way and stepping on the snow to find out the news, Wu Huapu only had more than 2,300 war horses left, and dozens of them were sick and thrown in Jinzhou. He took these cavalry and immediately circled to the north to cut off the escape route of the enemy in the city.

  Thousands of Datong soldiers, with artillery, attacked the city garrisoned by 150 people.

   What suspense can there be?

  The people in the city were so frightened that they all hid, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners did not dare to force the people to defend the city, fearing that they would all defect.

  The defenders didn't even prepare supplies for the defense of the city, and they all relied on bows and arrows to shoot.

  After only a moment of attacking the city, the Datong army climbed up the city wall and formed an formation to fight with the Eight Banners soldiers on the city.

   Moreover, the 50 Manchu Eight Banners were fighting hard, but the 100 Han Army Eight Banners ran away.

  The real elites have been taken away by Dorgon long ago, how many of the remaining ones can fight?

   "Not one left!"

  Seeing that the Eight Banners of the Han army fled from the city, Wu Huapu rushed over with his cavalry. He hated Tartars and traitors, and it would be best to kill them all.

   More than 2,300 cavalry, chasing and killing 100 Han Army Eight Banners infantry.

   "Forgive me, I am Han Chinese!"

  An officer knelt down directly, Wu Huapu put his legs between the horse's belly, stopped pulling the reins with his only arm, and drew a knife to slash at the Han Army Eight Banners officer.

   Blood spatter.

  Wu Huapu laughed loudly: "Come on, come on, this life is worth it!"

  Hu Dinggui, who had already boarded the city, shouted: "Don't kill them all, save a few alive for interrogation!"

   There are more than a dozen Manchurian Eight Banners left. Seeing that there is no way to escape, they simply assembled and launched a charge.

   "Array!"

   "Bang bang bang bang!"

  The gunfire soldiers took advantage of the melee soldiers attacking the city. They had already lit the matchlock, loaded the ammunition, and climbed up the city wall.

  Seeing the enemy charging, Hu Dinggui didn't bother to fight recklessly, and let the firecrackers shoot directly.

   This battle was fought outrageously. The original plan was to rebuild Dongjiang Town on Phi Island.

   After learning about the situation in the Northeast, they changed to occupy Jinzhou as a military base. Unexpectedly, six cavalry captured Fuzhou, and now they took down Gaizhou, an important military town.

   Except for the mountainous areas, the entire Liaodong Peninsula is controlled by the Datong Army.

  But in this vast area, the three cities plus the wild villages have a total population of less than 100,000.

  After some interrogation, I soon learned about the military situation.

  Haizhou and Liaoyang both have defenders, the number of which is about the same as Gaizhou.

  The population around Shenyang is the largest. Many Manchus have not migrated, and there are still a large number of domestic slaves and serfs.

   "Do you still want to fight?" Wang Yaochen asked.

   Hu Dinggui gritted his teeth: "Go straight to Shenyang and overthrow the Tartars' lair!"

   "How to transport the food and grass?" Wang Yaochen asked.

  The previous three cities were all on the seashore, but the next one will go deep into the hinterland.

  Hu Dinggui said: "The snow has almost melted, and the people of the three cities are recruited to transport grain. Soldiers are expensive, don't bring artillery, first take Haizhou, then take Liaoyang, and finally take Shenyang."

Hu Dinggui then ordered Wu Huapu: "The cavalry go ahead and bypass Haizhou. According to the confessions of the captives, after passing Haizhou, there will be more farmers outside the city. If there is no food, they will go all the way. The cavalry will kill the Tartars when they see them. Shenyang, Liaoyang The remaining population of the land was specially used to provide soldiers for the Eight Banners of Manchuria. The more people killed in those places, the less the source of soldiers for the Manchu Qing outside the customs.”

   "Okay, this military order is exactly what I want!" Wu Huapu was overjoyed.

   (Ask for a monthly pass.)

  (end of this chapter)