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Two days later, Duopolo arrived late.

They were already exhausted, and their whole bodies were shivering with cold. At this time, I no longer wanted to chase the enemy, I just wanted to get into the house as soon as possible to warm myself by the fire. If I continued like this, I would freeze to death.

"The deputy capital of Mongolia's Xianghuang Banner is here. The guard will come out quickly and reply!" A personal guard was sent to shout.

Yang Zhenqing has been resting for the past two days.

Not to mention how much the Han people suffered from the cold, the soldiers of the Independence Battalion suffered more than 30 injuries, and four of them had their toes amputated in an emergency.

Regarding frostbite, the local methods of the people in Liaodong were proved by Datong military doctors to be undesirable and can only be used under unconditional conditions.

If you have the conditions, you must not rub. Rubbing with cold water or rubbing with snow will increase the scope and symptoms of frostbite. You need to apply a hot compress with a wet towel in a warm room. After the hot compress, soak your feet in warm water - the water temperature should not be too hot.

During this period, all soldiers and civilians who could speak Manchu put on Qing soldier uniforms.

"Don't panic, don't show cowardice, the more casual the better," Yang Zhenqing warned, "Remember, you are the Eight Banners Army, you are not the Datong Army!"

The soldier nodded in agreement, dragged himself to the city wall, and said impatiently: "Are you going to let people pass by in the twelfth month of winter?"

The guards immediately yelled: "The deputy capital of Mongolia's Huangqi Banner is here, and the guard of Daling Pass will show up soon!"

The soldier from the Independence Battalion pretended to be surprised and said quickly: "I...I'll report it right away."

After a long time, Dopolo became impatient with waiting. The previous independent battalion soldier appeared with another independent battalion soldier.

Both of them were wrapped up tightly, with only their mouth, nose and eyes exposed, so they were not afraid of being recognized.

The soldier who arrived later said: "The general is drunk and cannot be woken up. What military orders are there?"

Drinking in winter is normal.

Dopoluo didn't think much about it. He was shivering with cold and shouted in person: "Hurry up, open the door, prepare more hot water, and some jars of wine. The stronger the wine, the better!"

"yes!"

The door was opened, and Duopolo walked through the snow. The war horse was led by his bodyguard. The snow was too thick to ride on.

Hundreds of Eight Banners troops filed in, unaware of the danger.

I had been dragging my feet before, not only striving to be realistic in my acting, but also buying time for setting up the battlefield for the independent battalion. At this moment, everyone has arrived at the shooting position.

It's a pity that Guancheng is too small and there is no urn city designed, otherwise it would be like catching a turtle in an urn.

The soldier imitated the Manchu military salute, nodded and bowed to greet him: "Commander, please come in and drink some wine to warm yourself up. It will take some time for the hot water to be boiled."

Doppolo and several personal guards were taken to the house where the ambush was hidden.

The rest of the Qing troops were also divided into several groups and taken away.

Yang Zhenqing stood on the city wall and watched, with a ferocious smile on his face. His whole family was killed by Duduo, and he only wanted revenge for the rest of his life. Not only did he kill Duduo, he also wanted to kill Dorgon himself.

Seeing that it was almost done, Yang Zhenqing picked up the copper whistle and blew the whistle suddenly.

Various sections of nearby city walls also blew bronze whistles.

"Uu! Uu! Uu!"

"Bang bang bang bang!"

After the brass whistle sounded, gunshots also followed one after another.

The doors and windows of the houses on both sides of the street were suddenly opened, and then a blunderbuss was fired at the Qing troops walking through the street.

"Why are there so many gunshots?" Dopolo just entered the room and sat down, and then he stood up in shock.

The independent battalion soldier who brought them in quickly escaped from the room.

Dopolo's personal guards chased him out, and were met with a volley of gunfire. The survivors were so frightened that they quickly hid in the house.

Dopolo was so frightened that he pushed open the window and tried to escape. What greeted him were two spears, and he was stabbed on the spot and fell to the snow.

The capture of the city on a snowy night two days ago and the current hunt for dogs behind closed doors were both so smooth that it was unbelievable.

Moreover, no enemy can escape, and the city gates are all closed.

Two consecutive victories, Shimen Pass in the west and Xiuyan City in the east, none of the Eight Banners soldiers knew anything about it.

Then keep cheating!

When the wind and snow subsided, Yang Zhenqing led his troops to set off. They all put on the equipment of the Eight Banners Army and fled to Xiuyan City in a bloody "embarrassment".

Arriving in the evening, they rushed to the outside of the North City. A soldier shouted in Manchu panic: "Quickly open the city, we have been ambushed by the Southern Barbarians! All commanders, all commanders are injured!"

These guys, covered in blood, limped away in the snow, really looking like they were returning from defeat.

Yang Zhenqing was still being held up by two soldiers and seemed to be seriously injured.

The Qing troops guarding the city did not doubt his presence and opened the city gate in a panic. Some officers ran to check Yang Zhenqing's "injury."

"kill!"

The soldiers of the Independence Battalion rose up and quickly occupied the city gate, then rushed into the city and killed everyone they saw.

There are only a hundred defenders left in Xiuyan City. How can they resist?

After thirty or forty people died, all the remaining defenders fled, and the Manchus in the city also fled. Most of those Manchus were old, weak, women and children. Because the young and strong men were bannermen, they had been temporarily recruited by Dopoluo and taken to large ridges to die.

Seeing hundreds of people escaping from the city, Yang Zhenqing smiled with satisfaction: "There's no need to chase them. It's the coldest month of winter and they don't have any food. If they can escape from the mountains alive, it means they are really desperate."

This time, they made a lot of money by cheating the city. The Manchus around Xiuyan City were attacked and killed several times by Yang Zhenqing, and their livestock and grain were moved into the city.

So much food, so much livestock!

After another half month, the weather was completely clear. Yang Zhenqing left dozens of people to guard the city, and then led his troops back to Dalingguan to let the Han people there migrate to Xiuyan City.

I haven’t given up on this product yet. It’s delicious and delicious in a large area of ​​​​lingguan. I’ll wait until the snowy weather to set off again.

Now that we have more supplies, we don’t have to worry about frostbite on our feet.

They repeated their old plan and captured Shimen Pass on a snowy night.

Those Qing troops at Shimen Pass, even if the defenders were vigilant, would only focus on the west direction. Who would have thought that there were enemies coming from behind? He was snatched away by Yang Zhenqing in a daze.

When the snow cleared, Yang Zhenqing sent someone to Gaizhou to report the news.

Hu Dinggui, who was stationed in Gaizhou City, received the news and thought he had heard it wrong: "You said that Battalion Commander Yang led hundreds of people to capture Xiuyan City, Dadaling Pass, and Shimen Pass?"

"Yes!"

The soldier who reported the news held his head high and his tone was extremely proud.

Hu Dinggui was speechless for a while, and he held back two words for a long time: "Okay, okay!"

Yang Zhenqing's operation was equivalent to completely opening up the mountains of southern Liaoning. If we go north to capture Ximu City, we can directly send troops from the mountains to attack Haizhou.

Even if Ximu City cannot be captured, with this victory, there will be no fear of the Qing army coming from the mountains in the future, and the rear areas of Jinzhou, Fuzhou, and Gaizhou will be completely stable. Even Jinzhou and Fuzhou no longer need to garrison troops, and all three divisions can be sent to the Gaizhou front line.

Seizing one city and two passes in the mountains has little economic and people's livelihood value, but it has huge strategic significance.

It is precisely because of the importance of Xiuyan City that Dorgon sent a deputy commander to garrison it, and this deputy commander was Fei Yingdong's grandson.

Doppolo is indeed timid in fighting, but after all, he is battle-hardened.

It's better to be cowardly, so as not to be lured out of the city, you only need to be cowardly and stick to the city.

Who would have thought that Yang Zhenqing and Duopuluo, one operating like a god and the other operating like a ghost, could fight like this.

If it weren't for the fact that Ximu City was too far away and the weather was even colder, Yang Zhenqing would have even wanted to capture Ximu City. In that case, his troops would be less than fifty miles away from Haizhou and could go out to greet the Tatars at any time.

Let's put it this way, although the territory acquired by Yang Zhenqing is all mountainous, its area alone is the total area occupied by the Datong Army in Liaodong in recent years.

Nowadays, half of the Datong Army's territory in Liaodong was controlled by Yang Zhenqing.

Several division commanders stationed in Liaodong were dumbfounded when they received the news, and the merit report documents were sent to Nanjing after the beginning of spring.

The officials of the Ministry of War were dumbfounded when they saw the map. They had never been to the mountains of southern Liaoning and did not know that they were so poor that they had no idea how poor they were. They were just very intuitive and discovered that the Datong Army's territory in Liaodong suddenly doubled. And this huge victory was actually created by just one battalion commander and five hundred soldiers.

Pang Chunlai was overjoyed. He took the battle report to Zhao Han and said with a smile: "Yang Zhenqing, it's a good name."

"The teacher values ​​this person, so give him a good promotion!"

Zhao Han joked: "The independent battalion was expanded into an independent regiment, and it was a reinforced regiment of 3,000 people. Its strength was not included in the divisions. It was responsible for garrisoning Xiuyan City, Dadaling Pass and Shimen Pass. The soldiers asked him to replenish them on the spot and recruit local people. How well a Han citizen can be trained as a soldier depends only on how capable he is."

In the mountains of southern Liaoning, it is not easy to transport military supplies, and they are too lazy to deploy reserve troops to expand.

Except for the initial 500 people in this so-called 3,000-man reinforced regiment, the rest are all peasant soldiers who work part-time in farming and part-fighting. They are all from serfs in the mountains of southern Liaoning. They plowed the land and fought at the same time. Usually they only had to send people to guard the mountain passes. When encountering Tatars, they immediately entered the city and entered the pass to defend.

Yang Zhenqing also created a legend. In less than three years as a soldier, he was quickly promoted from a soldier to a regiment leader, and his promotion speed was faster than that of Hu Dinggui.

The story about Yang Zhenqing was also quickly released. His whole family was killed by the Manchus, his parents, wife and children died tragically. He was determined to take revenge, and finally achieved great military exploits in Liaodong.

After the opera was performed, the novel followed.

It was adapted by a folk novelist, adding a lot of love between children, and also changed Yang Zhenqing's origin.

Why Yang Zhenqing is a descendant of the generals of the Yang family, and his direct ancestor is Yang Zaixing, a famous anti-Jin general in the Southern Song Dynasty and a subordinate of Yue Fei. After the fall of the Song Dynasty, Yang Zaixing's descendants became anonymous, and their military skills and martial arts were passed down from generation to generation.

Now, His Majesty the Emperor of Datong is a descendant of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, and Yang Zhenqing, a descendant of Yang Zaixing, was also born in response to Wu Quxing. God has destined him to assist the bloodline of his old master.

After making up random things, Yang Zhenqing became outstanding in martial arts. He has big arms and round waist, eight feet in length, eats five kilograms of rice at a meal, and can kill enemy generals among thousands of troops.

When they captured a large area of ​​ridges on a snowy night, it was Yang Zhenqing who used Qinggong to guard the Guan Qing army and kill them all.

When Zhao Han read this novel, he was so amused that he burst out laughing. Readers are still too idle.

However, the prosperity of the novel market proves that the social economy is developing. Nowadays, more and more people can afford novels and can read novels.