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One party was too tired to escape, the other party was too tired to chase. There were people everywhere in the muddy water in the rain.

Dorgon had already taken off his armor and boots, although it was dangerous to stop to remove his armor. But as long as he took off the armor, he could definitely make up for the time to escape. The cotton armor was too heavy after being exposed to the rain, and it was too difficult to pull out when his boots were stuck in the mud.

"Your Highness, leave quickly. I will lead the troops to stop the enemy!" Seeing that the pursuers were getting closer, Wu Bai drew his sword and summoned his guards to fight back.

Dorgon was inexplicably moved and said, "I will treat your people well!"

Wu Bai was one of Huang Taiji's sixteen most important ministers, and his father, Wu Likan, was promoted to the vanguard commander. Wu Bai joined the army at the age of sixteen and fought with Nurhaci and Huang Taiji. After Dorgon came to power, he made him a first-class viscount. He is one of the ancestors of the Guarjia family.

Wu Bai stayed behind to collect the defeated troops. When the Datong army came after him, hundreds of people gathered.

The Eight Banners soldiers fled and the Datong Army also chased them.

More than a dozen Datong soldiers faced more than a hundred Eight Banners soldiers. The leading officer immediately blew the bronze whistle.

Hundreds of Datong troops nearby gathered one after another and lined up to surround these enemies who were not afraid of death. Both sides were so tired that they had no strength left. They relied entirely on willpower to support themselves. After a long time of stabbing each other, not many people died, but many Eight Banners soldiers were injured.

Wu Yong, who had followed Zhao Han in Luling County, was finally transferred to Liaodong as a brigade commander.

His whole body was weak at this moment, his legs were shaking from exhaustion, and he stabbed Wu Bai's cotton armor with several consecutive shots. Cotton armor swollen by rain is even more difficult to break through!

Fortunately, with more people fighting less, a soldier stabbed Wu Bai until his body shook, and Wu Yong took the opportunity to stab him with a quick and accurate shot.

Right in the throat.

The 16th minister under Huang Taiji's command slowly fell down, clutching his neck. Blood gushed out from the wound and was indistinguishable from the muddy water on the ground.

"Caught a Tatar official!"

There were Datong troops shouting nearby, and it was unknown which Manchu noble was captured.

Wang Tingchen held up a head, walked up to Wu Sangui and asked, "Which one is this?"

Wu Sangui took a closer look and replied: "Sixteen ministers, Abdai, Fucha clan."

"Haha, you killed a big fish." Wang Tingchen laughed.

Wu Sangui quickly became busy, and someone caught another general and came over and asked, "Who is this?"

Wu Sangui said: "Suohun, Niu Gulu's family, is the son of Eyidu, the five founding ministers of the Qing Dynasty."

"Kill if you want, don't talk nonsense!" Suohun was pushed into the mud, but he was still struggling and shouting. This guy seemed very unwilling. He was the general of Dorgon's central army, and his troops collapsed before he could fight.

Soon another prisoner came and asked Wu Sangui: "Who is this?"

Wu Sangui looked at it for a long time, shook his head and said, "I don't know him."

The prisoner roared: "My grandfather's name is Zhang Ku, Manchu Baturu who was gifted by Emperor Taizong (Huang Taiji)!"

"Even after being caught, you are violent!" The Datong officer who captured him immediately kicked him.

Zhang Ku fell into the muddy water and stiffened his neck and said, "I don't accept it. You are using magic. If you are a warrior, let's fight again with real swords and guns!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The Datong soldiers burst into laughter.

To be honest, even within the Datong Army, they didn't take the gun's leather cover seriously. After all, it can only be shot once on a rainy day. It is completely useless at ordinary times. Who knows that it will work wonders at a critical moment.

The Manchus and the Qing Dynasty didn't know that they thought the Datong Army's muskets could keep shooting in the rain.

Therefore, after the collapse of the former army, other Qing troops were frightened and did not dare to fight head-on with the Datong army. Coupled with the collapse of both wings one after another, the morale of the Eight Banners soldiers in the Chinese army dropped, and they began to run away as soon as they were rushed by the defeated soldiers.

The pursuit was still going on, and many Eight Banners soldiers collapsed from exhaustion, lying in the mud and waiting to be caught.

The Datong army often caught an enemy until they collapsed, tied him up in place, and then sat on the prisoner to rest.

After the war, statistics showed that more than 6,000 enemy troops were killed and more than 8,000 enemy troops were captured. The remaining Tatars all ran away.

Of course, they did not run away in organized form. Some ran northwest, some ran northeast, and many fled into the mountains in the northeast.

Dorgon rushed all the way to Haizhou and waited for four days before returning to some defeated troops one after another. He repeatedly counted the number of people and found that out of the tens of thousands of troops, there were only more than 5,000 left. After waiting for another two days, more than a thousand people escaped again.

At this time, the heavy rain has ended, and there are a few light rains every now and then.

After the heavy rain, Li Zheng led his army straight to Haizhou. It was rainy weather, so I didn’t bring much luggage, and all the artillery was left in Yaozhou.

"Abandon Haizhou!"

Dorgon continued to flee with his army, and the Haizhou garrison and bannermen also fled. They were still in shock all the way to Anshan.

In Anshan, Dorgon temporarily reorganized and incorporated many bannermen into the army. His troops once again numbered nearly 10,000, but they were severely lacking in military equipment. Most of the defeated soldiers threw away their armor halfway when they fled, and some Eight Banners soldiers even threw away their weapons.

How can this kind of army, which lacks weapons and armor, fight against the Datong Army?

Li Zheng occupied Haizhou and led his army towards Anshan.

Dorgon ran away again, this time a little more calmly, and the local Tatars in Anshan were able to take away their belongings with them.

Li Zheng occupied Anshan and finally stopped pursuing him. Because they advanced lightly to capture the two cities, the Datong Army did not have enough food to eat and had to stay in Anshan to wait for the delivery of military rations.

Daishan was in Liaoyang, staring at Dorgon.

"Are there just a few Eight Banners soldiers left?" Daishan looked in disbelief.

Dorgon told the situation in detail, almost crying but without tears, he said: "The fire blunderbuss of the Nanmanzi is so powerful that it can be fired in the rain. In the heavy rain, it is difficult for the Eight Banners warriors to shoot arrows, but the Nanmanzi can fire the guns freely. How can this battle be done?" Can you win the fight?"

Dai Shan said: "We have also seized a few of the Southern Barbarian fire guns, and even made hundreds of them. It is impossible to fire such fire guns in the rain."

"But the gun went off in the rain!"

Dorgon said: "I asked the former soldiers who escaped back. When the gunshots were fired, the nearest one was only five or six steps (eight or nine meters) away, and the farthest one was only about ten steps. It is difficult to go fast on the mud in the rain. To charge, the Eight Banners warriors could only form a formation and approach slowly, but the Nanmanzi relied on this to actually take a few steps closer before firing their guns!"

Daishan finally understood and could even imagine that scene.

With heavy rain and mud, the Eight Banners Army was as slow as a turtle crawling, forming formations and approaching little by little. Some are eight or nine meters away, some are ten or twenty meters away, and then... bang bang bang!

No matter who leads this kind of battle, the outcome will be the same.

The former Tatar army did not collapse until the third row of guns. It was not that they were brave, but that they were blinded on the spot and did not react at once.

Dorgon looked haggard and a little discouraged.

His two white flags suffered heavy losses, and Shunzhi's two yellow flags also suffered heavy losses. As for the two red flags of Daishan and his son, half were transferred by Daishan in advance, and the other half were still fighting in Tianjin. It can be said that there was basically no loss.

Now, Daishan is so powerful that he can crush Dorgon.

Dorgon said: "Second brother, you decide what to do next."

Daishan didn't want to worry about this mess. If he could take the lead, Huang Taiji would not be the one who succeeded him.

After thinking about it, Dai Shan said: "It is the rainy season now. Shengjing and Liaoyang City are high and deep, so the Southern Barbarians will definitely not dare to attack. The most terrible thing is that Haizhou is gone, and the armies of Hauge and Mandahai , we can no longer take the official route, and can only come back from further north. Send a message to Hauge quickly, asking him to abandon the defense of western Liaoning and lead the entire army back to Shengjing!"

The occupation of Haizhou by the Datong Army was equivalent to dividing Liaodong and Western Liaoning, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty had to spit out all the Western Liaoning Corridor.

Jinzhou, Ningyuan and Shanhaiguan are useless. Without food supply, no matter how many troops are left to garrison, they will starve to death in the city.

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Shenyang.

"Queen Mother, it's bad, Yaozhou is defeated!" A Han eunuch rushed to report the news.

Bumbutai asked in surprise: "Where did the bandit army kill them?"

The eunuch replied: "The bandit army has occupied Anshan, and the regent is guarding Liaoyang."

In Liaoyang, right under Shenyang's nose, Bumubutai was frightened and was at a loss.

At this moment, the Han people in Shenyang City were already running to tell each other privately. There are those who are excited, those who are frightened, and those who are eager to try.

There were a large number of free Han people in core Manchu-ruled areas such as Shenyang and Liaoyang. They were all moved outside the customs by Dorgon before, and then all moved back. Now there are a large number of Han merchants and craftsmen in the city, and there are also a large number of Han farmers and tenants outside the city.

Nurhachi was so violent that he provoked the Han people to resist again and again.

After Huang Taiji came to power, he immediately carried out reforms. The first was to treat the Han people leniently. He stipulated that the Manchu nobles and bannermen could only have as many serfs as they wanted, and all the remaining Han people were released and allocated land for Han people to cultivate.

To be honest, in Liaodong under Huang Taiji's rule, as long as they were not captured as coatmen and serfs, the lives of Han farmers were even better than in the Ming Dynasty.

This reform measure is also the key to Huang Taiji's ability to quickly stabilize the crisis!

Huang Taiji is also allocating land to the people!

In the past few years since Dorgon withdrew to Liaodong, the policy has gradually reversed course. Land annexation became more and more serious. The further away from Liaoyang and Shenyang, the more chaotic the Eight Banners were, turning all Han farmers into serfs. The big Han landowners also used usury to plunder farmers' land and turn them into tenants.

This year is even more stormy. In order to fight Dorgon's war, Han farmers were exploited so severely that even the villages around Liaoyang were already brewing peasant uprisings.

The traitors who defected to the Qing Dynasty were still trying to undermine each other. They were divided into three factions.

One group is the old traitors represented by Fan Wencheng and Ning Wanwo, most of whom took refuge during the Nurhaci period. Can be called a generation of traitors.

One group consists of traitors like Kong Youde and Shang Kexi who surrendered during the Huang Taiji period. Can be called a second-generation traitor.

One group is the traitors who took refuge with the Manchus in the Pass during the Dorgon period. He can be called a traitor of three generations.

The first-generation traitor and the second-generation traitor have deep conflicts.

Because after the second-generation traitor surrendered, Huang Taiji rewarded him with a large amount of livestock and grain, which was obtained from the first-generation traitor. At that time, the old traitors called themselves "old people", called Kong Youde and others "new people", and complained that Huang Taiji had new people and forgot about the old people.

As for the third-generation traitors, they were suppressed by both the first- and second-generation traitors.

At this moment, the three generations of traitors in Shenyang City are the busiest. They have been in the Qing Dynasty for the shortest time and have committed the least evil. Their official positions and titles are low, and their family property is not very rich. They are trying to rebel and submit to the Datong court.

Hou Fangyu's father, Hou Xun, is still alive at this moment. He is actually forced to become the leader of three generations of traitors. They all hope that Hou Xun will take charge of the overall situation and start an uprising in Shenyang.