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"General, to the northeast is Yaozhou City (Yingkou Dashiqiao City) built by the Tartars!" said the local guide in Liaodong.

Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Then go to Yaozhou to have fun!"

Two thousand and five hundred brave riders went straight to Yaozhou, and encountered a manor on the way, which seemed to be quite densely populated.

Manors of this size were at least owned by the middle-class nobles of the Qing Dynasty.They appointed Baoyi to take care of it. If we use the farm of Daming as an analogy, Baoyi is equivalent to a house slave in charge, and a serf is equivalent to a low-level tenant.

"Anyone whose hair is no bigger than an inch will be killed!" Li Dingguo ordered.

Although the serfs also shaved their hair and kept braids, their hair has not been taken care of for a long time. Most of them grow a short layer of hair again, and even grow several inches before shaving it off.

You can't expect poor serfs to shave their hair every now and then. That thing will grow back in two or three days.

Even commoners in Manchuria often wear their cuts.

2500 cavalrymen rushed into the village, cutting down anyone with short or no hair.Li Dingguo said that "the hair does not exceed an inch" and all are killed, and the implementation is not so strict, it depends entirely on the mood of the cavalry.

There is grain replanted here by the Manchus, no matter what crops, the cavalry deliberately trampled on them.

If you step on a few more trees, you can make the enemy less harvested.

Seeing Qi Ding fleeing into the house, Datong Xiaoqi did not enter the house to search.They dismounted in advance, lit the torches they carried with them, and then forced the captured serfs to carry firewood to pile up.

It is much safer to set fire to the house if it is possible to be attacked by surprise when entering the house.

After a while, more than a dozen houses were set on fire, and more than [-] people, men, women, old and children, escaped from those houses.There were banners, coats, and serfs, all of whom hid when they saw the cavalry.

Well, there are also livestock, which break free from the ropes and come out in case of fire.

Some bannermen wanted to resist, charged with weapons, and were easily surrounded and killed by the cavalry.

Banner Ding is the source of troops for the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and the Manchu nobles recruited Ding Ding on a household basis to supplement or newly form the Eight Banners troops.

In about an hour, the manor was completely destroyed, and a total of more than 300 people were captured before and after.

Li Dingguo asked, "Who can speak Chinese?"

No one responded.

Li Dingguo asked again: "Have you forgotten what the ancestor said? Then kill them all!"

"Slave... the grassroots can speak Chinese, don't kill the general!"

"Grassmen pay respects to the general!"

"..."

In an instant, a group of people shouted, for fear that Li Dingguo would hold up the butcher knife.

A serf was the most courageous. He knelt and climbed in front of Li Dingguo's horse: "General Rong, the grassroots are originally good people in Gyeonggi. After the death of Lord Chongzhen, King Chuang also received the elders of the village. The uncle of the grasslanders talked to King Chuang. These dogs As soon as he came, he took over the land in the village, captured all the pretty women, and asked us to plant the land for him. I heard that we were defeated in a few months ago, and brought us from Gyeonggi to Liaodong. The general King Chuang's soldiers? You came at the right time..."

Li Dingguo scolded: "I am not a soldier of the intruder, I am a soldier of the Emperor of Datong!"

"Ah? Admit... I confessed my mistake, the general should not blame me." The serf kowtowed quickly.

Li Dingguo said: "Go and identify the Tartars, this general will take you out of Liaodong."

"Thank you General!"

The serf was overjoyed and quickly identified more than 20 Tartars, most of whom were women and children—a group of men had just been killed because of their resistance.

Li Dingguo said again: "Choose a few Han people who are trustworthy, and I will let you be in charge."

The serfs were even more happy, and immediately picked out the ones they had good relations with.

All the weapons seized from Qi Ding were thrown to the ground, and Li Dingguo said: "Being a thief also has to give a certificate of honor. Pick up your knives and go kill those Tartar men."

These Han people only hesitated for a few seconds before picking up their weapons and slashing at the banner like crazy.

Li Dingguo nodded in satisfaction: "The wrapped slaves, all tied up, sent back to work as coolies. The rest of the Han people, leave immediately with livestock and food!"

Due to the burning of houses, there was not much money and food left, and there were not many livestock looted.

The main reason is the more than 300 people, and even the Manchu women were taken away.Ten cavalrymen were dispatched to escort them back, and a few serfs were selected as leaders to escort them with weapons. The Tartar women and the slaves in coats were tied with ropes and set off on their way.

The rest, all killed!

Li Dingguo didn't bother to go to Yaozhou city, so he ran to the southwest of Yaozhou.

The closer you are to the city, the denser the population, and the more people you can plunder.

The Eight Banners were all taken to fight by Dorgon, and only a few were left to guard the cities.These few Manchurian Eight Banners and Mongolian Eight Banners, with more new Han Army Eight Banners guarding the city, did not dare to go out of the city to intercept Li Dingguo's cavalry.

Two days later, Li Dingguo grabbed more than 4000 people and happily returned to Liaohe Estuary to rest and replenish.

When they gathered together to inquire, Wang Tingchen also grabbed more than 3000 people.

Separate ships to transport these people back.The remaining ships continued westward with the cavalry, and they burned, killed and looted the coastal areas without going deep into the hinterland.

Go all the way, almost to Jinzhou!

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South of Gaizhou City.

Dorgon was silent when he received the report from the fast horse.

This kind of thing has been encountered before.Mao Wenlong's Dongjiang Town once took advantage of the Manchu Qing troops to burn, kill and loot the hinterland of the Manchu Qing from behind.

At that time, Huang Taiji was disgusted, but there was no way to deal with it.Those small sampans of the Manchu Qing would never even try to break into Phi Island, as they would not be able to carry them at sea.

Dorgon also wanted to send troops to plunder, but the farmers in Gaizhou had already withdrawn, leaving only the wheat that was too late to harvest.

Now, don't harvest the wheat, no one wants to harvest it.

Because of the stalemate for more than 40 days, the harvest season has long passed, and the mature wheat has germinated on the ground.

Do you want to go back and boil maltose?

Due to the actions of the Qing Dynasty, [-]% of the wheat in Gaizhou could not be harvested, and half a year's hard work of farmers was wasted.

Anyway, they hurt each other, the Datong army went to grab the population of the Manchus, and the Manchus made Gaizhou [-]% of the wheat grains without harvest.

Just when Dorgon was about to withdraw his troops...

"boom!"

With a loud noise, the city wall of Gaizhou collapsed.

Dorgon drew his sword and shouted: "Siege the city with all your strength!"

Hu Dinggui calmly ordered: "All the dragoons are turned into musketeers, rattan players and spearmen, and block the gap for me. Farmers, soldiers, common people, old and weak, women and children all go to battle!"

Chapter 449 [Zhao Bodhisattva's follower]

"Peasants go to battle!"

"Peasants go to battle!"

When Liu Dazhang heard the missionary officer's voice, he immediately stood up and picked up the iron-headed wooden gun he had made.

Suddenly, Liu Dazhang put away the wooden gun again, and rushed into a room with the rope.He tied up his pregnant wife, and said to the women and children in the house who could not join the war: "Help watch over me, don't be a spy for the Tartars!"

"Captain Liu, go ahead, we'll take care of you!" Another pregnant woman said.

Liu Dazhang's wife cried: "I'm going to give birth to you, you still can't trust me?"

"We'll talk about it after you give birth to the cub." Liu Dazhang put down his sentence and went out with his gun without looking back.

Liu Dazhang's wife was his former mistress, a Manchu woman who was taken away by the Datong army.

As for those in the house, most of them were snatched back.There are Manchu women, Han women, and even Mongolian women.They are all pregnant, and the Liaodong Peninsula is about to usher in a wave of births.

Too many people were evacuated from the city, and there were almost not enough houses to live in. These pregnant women were taken care of intensively.

"The peasant soldiers go out to fight, the peasant soldiers go out to fight!"

Liu Dazhang shouted along the way that he was still a serf last year, but this year he has become the captain of the Datong Army's peasant soldiers, and he is in charge of [-] Liaodong peasant soldiers.

Not far away, Jin Guozhen also brought the farmers over.

Jin Guozhen was in charge of the Korean peasants and soldiers, who were all Korean serfs captured by the Qing Dynasty. It was the Datong Army who liberated them and divided them into fields for farming.

There are also a large number of non-pregnant women who are also organized to carry supplies, and they can also go into battle with weapons at critical moments.These are the families of the No.11 Division soldiers. Parents and children stay in their hometown, and the wife moves to Liaodong to live with her husband——No.11 Division has been stationed in Liaodong for a long time, and the husband and wife must be reunited.

Outside the city of Gaizhou, the Manchus were ready to attack.

Jin Guozhen didn't need a mission officer to boost morale, but he said to the North Korean peasants and soldiers: "We were all taken away from North Korea by the Tartars. Ten of us left our hometown, and at most one or two are still alive. There is not enough food, and the Tartars Just let us starve to death; if it is too cold in winter, we will freeze to death. We usually farm the land for the Tartars, and we can’t get enough to eat. Do you still want to live like that?”

"I don't want to!" North Korean peasants and soldiers roared.

Jin Guozhen also said: "The heavenly soldiers and generals of the Datong Army rescued us from the Tartars. Many of you have no surnames. The Datong Army let you have your own surnames. What a kindness! I will give you surnames, but the Tartars will not give you surnames. Only the Datong Army will give you surnames. The Datong Army will also allocate fields for you, and assign women to marry and start families. If Gaizhou City is captured, your fields will be gone. , your homes are gone, your wives are gone, and your surnames are gone. Do you want to work hard with the Datong Army?"

"Fight! Fight!"

The Korean peasants and soldiers roared hysterically, as if they could jump out at any time and bite the enemy with their teeth.

Jin Guozhen pointed to a peasant soldier and asked, "What's your name?"

"Zhao Dinggui!" The farmer replied.

Jin Guozhen asked again: "Why is it called Zhao Dinggui!"

Zhao Dinggui roared and replied: "Zhao of Datong Emperor Zhao Bodhisattva, Dinggui of General Hu Dinggui!"

Jin Guozhen asked another person: "What's your name?"

The peasant soldier replied: "Hu kill the captives, Hu of General Hu, kill all the captives of the Tartars!"

Jin Guozhen said to the Korean peasants and soldiers: "You people, either follow the emperor's surname Zhao, or follow General Hu's surname Hu. Although you are all from North Korea, you will all be Chinese from now on, and you will be a well-known citizen of the Celestial Dynasty. We are the people of Bodhisattva Zhao at birth, and Bodhisattva Zhao's ghost at death, long live His Majesty the Emperor Zhao Bodhisattva!"

"Long live His Majesty Emperor Zhao Bodhisattva!"

These Korean peasants and soldiers were almost fanatical, and their eyes were red.

When the lord of North Korea surrendered, the Manchu Qing plundered 50 people from North Korea.Either die of illness, or exhaustion, or freeze to death, or starve to death, or even be used as cannon fodder during the siege. At this time, one out of ten has already survived.

They have suffered too much, even if they are honest serfs, they are very likely to die abnormally.As long as there is a glimmer of hope, I never want to live a life of darkness again.

Among the people in Liaodong, Zhao Han's nickname is not Zhao Tianwang or Mr. Zhao, but Zhao Bodhisattva who saves suffering.

There are no doctors in remote villages, and if you get sick, you will kneel and pray to Bodhisattva Zhao for protection.

"Boom boom boom!"

The shelling was still going on, the Qing artillery aimed at the Datong artillery on the city wall.The artillery of the Datong Army aimed at the chariots pushed over from the trenches and earth wall passages.

A large number of people boiled golden juice and boiling oil in the city, and then moved to the city after boiling, so as not to be accidentally knocked over by artillery.

The Manchu camp in the south of the city, from the pontoon bridge that had been built long ago, went around to the north bank of the Daqing River, and hit and attacked the east, west, and north sides of Gaizhou City-the south side was close to the river.

At this time, the reinforcements from Lu Xiangsheng and others could not attack halfway through.Because the place where the river was crossed in the Qing Dynasty, there were fortifications on both sides of the river, and it took almost two months to repair it like an iron barrel.

Similarly, although Dorgon had more than 7 Eight Banners soldiers, he would rather bombard Gaizhou City all the time than attack the reinforcement camp with more than [-] soldiers.Because the fortifications of the reinforcement camp were getting stronger and stronger, if they could not be broken down quickly, the defenders in the city would probably seize the opportunity and attack the Manchu and Qing troops north and south at the critical moment.

Seeing the smoke rising from Gaizhou City, Li Zheng ordered: "Take a boat and go around behind the Tartars!"

Some ships were sent to attack by cavalry.The remaining ships certainly cannot transport the army at one time, and can only be transported slowly in several batches.

Due to the fear of being attacked by the Manchu Qing, the landing site was chosen on the beach ten miles northwest of Gaizhou.

The first batch of landing troops quickly built simple fortifications with supplies, and stood there to meet the next batch of friendly troops.

"His Royal Highness, there is a Nanman army landing from the sea behind you!" Man Qing's sentry cavalry soon discovered the situation.

Dorgon said: "Leave him alone, beware of the big camp."

It is impossible to turn around and fight for reinforcements first, because the siege has already begun.

The early siege troops were all soldiers and civilian husbands to consume the supplies of the Datong Army for defending the city.

These peasants are the worst, carrying luggage when marching, building fortifications when stationed, serving as cannon fodder when attacking a city, and working part-time as army rations when there is a shortage of food.

Treating civilian husbands as military rations is a normal state of war.

The Liaodong Frontier Army of the Ming Dynasty was often besieged for several months, and Zu Dashou even defended it for a year or two.How can there be so much food?It's just eating people!

Since the trenches and earthen walls of the Qing Dynasty were already very close to the city wall, soldiers and civilian husbands could rush to the city in a few minutes.

They were defeated time and time again, and were forced to die time and time again by the Manchu army.

Between consumption back and forth, thousands of civilian husbands died quickly.

Sun An is a soldier, that is, he is dressed in the army.

During the period of Huang Taiji's rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the soldier soldier was abolished, and the Eight Banners Army became more regularized.But it was only abolished in the system. In real wars, the nobles of the Eight Banners still brought their soldiers to help the nobles rob and carry their goods.