The Northern Expedition began, the Central Army advanced rapidly in Shandong, and the Western Army fought steadily in Henan. The Qing court inevitably led the new army out of the capital to face the 100,000 spears and muskets personally led by Chen Wen.

Compared with the scale of tens of thousands of people in the pass, the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had recovered the former Dongjiang Army's left alliance base, Lushun. Although it had fewer troops, it did not stop moving forward. It even left the Lushun mouth as soon as the army crossed the Huai River and swept through the southern four guards in Liaodong.

During the Ming Dynasty, the Liaodong Commander and Commander Division was established in the Shandong Chengxuan Government Office, which was across the sea, and included twenty-five guards and two states.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Liaodong was once a prefecture-county system. Later, considering the military role, it was changed to a garrison system, stationing troops and farming, and facing each other. From a geographical point of view, the Liaodong Commander Office was mainly divided into several areas. The Guangning Guards east of Shanhaiguan to the west of the Liaohe River are one, the Tieling, Chenyang, and Dingliao Guards east of the Liaohe River are one, and the Jin-fuhai Hai Guards in southern Liaohe River are another.

The four guards in southern Liaoning, the northernmost part of Haizhou, which is the Haicheng of later generations, have penetrated deep into the Liaohe Plain. The southward Gaizhou, Fuzhou and Jinzhou three guards are still in the area of ​​the Liaodong Peninsula. The Lushunkou, which was stationed by the Liaodong branch commanded by Zhao Qian, the Marquis of Qianshan, was located in the Ming Dynasty.

Since the Northern Expedition started, Zhao Qianbian, the general general of the Liaodong Military Affairs Officer in charge of Lushun, ordered Zheng Qi, the navy commander of his troops to lead the navy to cut off the waterway from Lushun to Dengzhou, and further squeezed the Qing court's material reserves. At the same time, the war barracks named Lushun Camp were also led by battalion officer Li Huanxiang, and began to carry out a mobilization against the four guards in the South.

Lushun belongs to the territory of Jinzhouwei. Geographically, the Jinzhou Isthmus where Jinzhou Acropolis is located is also a key to Lushun, and its shortest distance is only ten kilometers.

Starting from Mao Wenlong's expedition to Liaodong, he occupied Lushun. As long as he controls the isthmus of Jinzhou in the north, Lushun will become safer and even become a hinterland. Later Jin is also clear about this. Therefore, whenever the Dongjiang Writers Association enters Jinzhou Acropolis, the Later Jin army will launch a round of offensives as much as possible to prevent Dongjiang Town from gaining a foothold in the South Four Guards.

However, since occupying Lushun, the most important task of this Liaodong partial division was to cut off the waterway. In order to ensure stability, it did not launch too large-scale offensives against the southern Liao area. However, by this time, the Qing court had caused unnecessary losses to the garrison of the bannermen and had already given up the two guards and guards of Jinzhou and Fuzhou, leaving only two teams of mail cavalry to monitor the surrounding areas.

Li Huanxiang led his army out of Lushun, and divided his troops into two groups. One way to the north to capture Nanguan and Jinzhou, and the other way to pass through Changsheng Island, cross Fuzhou Bay, pass Yangguan Fort, and go straight to the city of Fuzhou.

The two routes advanced in unison. When the Qing army in Jinzhou saw the Ming army approaching, they abandoned the city without hesitation, which was easy. The way to enter Fuzhou was led by Li Huanxiang himself, and the result was exactly the same as that of Jinzhou.

Without fighting, the Lushun Camp was in the two guards, and the morale was high. However, Liaodong was sparsely populated, and even more so in southern Liaoning. Fuzhou was collected and a small number of troops were left as garrisons. Li Huanxiang led his troops to board the ship and headed north to capture Gaizhou.

In this case, because they arrived at Lianyun Island in the evening, the army disembarked here, waiting for dawn to cross the strait with a small boat, and then attacked Gaizhou. When Lushun Camp set up camp on Lianyun Island, it sent a cavalry to Gaizhou to investigate the situation, but the cavalry was discovered by the Gaizhou defenders. However, people were panicked, just like Zhang Pan, the deputy general of the left assistant of the Dongjiang Army, attacked Jinzhou, after discovering this cavalry, the defenders did not know the size of the enemy soldiers outside the city, and they were so scared that they abandoned the city and fled.

The next day, Li Huanxiang led his army to the Acropolis of Gaizhou. The city had been taken down by the cavalry. From the mouths of the fallen men who caught, they also knew the truth that this time was so smooth.

There were not many bannermen in the Qing Dynasty garrison in Liaodong, and a cabin was often just one or two Niulu. The Jiangnan region was lost, and tens of thousands of Eight Banners were killed. Among them, most of them were the Eight Banners of the Han army and the Eight Banners of the Mongolian army, for the Eight Banners of the Manchus, which had only 50,000 or 60,000 bannermen, nearly 20% of the males disappeared. Later, they relied on fishing skins to replenish three or four thousand flagmen, but they were far from recovering. When the new army expanded, they continued to draw Niulu from Liaodong.

Nowadays, there are many Eight Mongolian Banners in Liaodong, and the number is very small. Jinzhou and Fuzhou give up, and Gaizhou is just a Niulu, so how dare you compete with the Ming army in Lushun?

"How many Tartars are there in Haizhou?"

"Two, two Niulu."

The Eight Mongolian Banners officers in front of him knelt on the ground and watched the Ming army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang tremblingly enter the Gaizhou Acropolis with no less than 2,000 core troops. Once upon a time, the Qing court was also a great country with a core force of tens of thousands and a maximum of 600,000 troops.

But now, the Green Camp can completely ignore it, either surrendering to the reserve team or low combat effectiveness, and almost all of them are both. The strength of the Eight Banners Army, after the restoration of these years, has actually only breathed a little. Now the Qing court has invested all its manpower and material resources on the new army, and even the old land in Liaodong is not guarding, which is clearly a sign of desperate bets.

Li Huanxiang could understand this situation. The Qing court had no way out, so there was no surprise. Looking at the captive of the Mongolian Eight Banners, Li Huanxiang carefully calculated that the direction of escape in Gaizhou should be Haizhou. Even if there were three Niulu, the six hundred old-style Eight Banners Army that had not been trained by the new army was not on the same level than Lushunying.

"How many Tartars are there in Liaoyang?"

After this statement was made, the officers, staff and the Mongolian prisoners were shocked. Liaoyang was the location of the Liaodong Commander Command, Liaodong Town, Dingliao Central, Left, Front, Back and Dongning Guards, which was the core of the Ming court's rule in Liaodong. It was located in the hinterland of the Liaohe Plain and was once the old capital of the Qing court. It was always the place where heavy troops were stationed. Li Huanxiang suddenly asked about this place, which exceeded the plan to recapture the Southern Four Guards formulated by Zhao Qian, but Liaodong was so empty that except for the military judges and supervisors frowned, other officers and staff members were staring at the Mongolian prisoners, hoping to get information from him.

"This, slave, I really don't know."

It is not easy for a lower-level officer of the Eight Banners of Mongolia to know the situation of Haizhou Guards. Liaoyang is far away, so it is normal not to know it.

However, Liaoyang is full of temptation, and since it is so empty that it is now, I am afraid that there may not be a few Niulu.

All the officials even breathed a little heavier. After a while, Li Huanxiang, who was always thinking of returning to his hometown, calmed down first, and took the prisoners down, and then said to the generals: "Haizhou is empty. Since our troops aim to recover the four southern guards as their goal, we must not let it go. As for Liaoyang, we will take down Haizhou first. Of course, the emptiness of the Tartars in Liaodong must be returned to Zhao Shuai as soon as possible."
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