Bumubutai was originally the daughter of a noble chief. In order to prevent the power from falling behind, he often participated in government affairs. He recognized Dorgon's words, especially Dorgon's statement, which made him even more happy. To put it bluntly, this woman cares more about her son's throne, rather than the gains and losses of the Qing Dynasty. Since the battle is a sure victory, Bumubutai has no other concerns.

Dorgon and Bumubutai were whispering, and suddenly saw Mandahai shaking his arm and adding a report to his hand. Dorgon knew that the boy had something to say to him, so he raised the wine glass in his hand and said to Mandahai: "Mandahai, the Batulu warrior of Manchuria. Have a drink with me."

Mandahai put the pond newspaper on the table in front of Dorgon, and he whispered: "Your Highness, something happened."

Dorgon did not open the Tang newspaper, but found a reason to leave Mandahai by his side and asked, "What happened."

Mandahai lowered his voice and said, "The Korean navy encountered a fleet of Oriental Islander on the west side of the mouth of the Yalu River. The two sides clashed, and the North Koreans repelled the Orientals."

Dorgon was quite surprised and happy: "This is a good thing." Suddenly he was stunned and said: "Where did you say it is, the mouth of the Yalu River?"

Mandahai said: "Yes, Your Highness is at the mouth of the Yalu River. Ye Keshu, the general manager of Shengjing, also heard news that they had captured several servants from the Dongfan people. The slaves admitted that the Dongfan people were preparing food and food, and gathering troops to set up troops to advance to the Phoenix City area. Their target may be Hetuala. Ye Keshu said that there have been rumors that the Dongfan people are going to burn our Aisin Gioro family in the ancestral tomb of Hetuala."

Dorgon's expression changed drastically: "It is false to burn the ancestral tombs, and it is true to block the support from North Korea." Mandahai nodded and said, "Yes, I consider this too."

Dorgon fell into deep thought. Although the Korean army was not good at fighting, support from North Korea was particularly important in this war. The Koreans not only provided 10,000 troops, but also provided 20,000 followers. Most of the supplies in the entire army were supplied by the Koreans. Therefore, it is particularly important to maintain the supply line from North Korea to Shengjing and Liaoyang. Perhaps the personal expedition does not require the 10,000 miscellaneous troops from North Korea, but it requires manpower and food from North Korea.

At this moment, a thief-headed Mongolian chief came up and asked, "What happened to His Highness the Regent?"

This person is the father of Meng Guqing, the father of the current dynasty, and Prince of Korqin Wu Keshan.

Dorgon laughed and said, "Wu Keshan, the slave of North Korea, heard that our emperor was going to get married, so he specially sent their prince to congratulate him. Unfortunately, the idiot was attacked by island barbarians in the area of ​​Phoenix City and was trapped in the city."

Wu Keshan laughed. In the Qing Dynasty system, the cowardice and timidity of the Koreans were notorious. Wu Keshan: "It turned out to be those Koreans, and their courage is not as brave as the lambs of our tribe."

Bumubutai had already understood that this was Dorgon's use of troops to aid North Korea. She said: "Brother, if there were no North Korean envoys to congratulate Meng Guqing, the most dazzling pearl would be missing on her phoenix crown."

Wu Keshan certainly understood this truth. Among the Qing Dynasty's vassal system, North Korea has the largest population, the most advanced civilization, and can be said to be the most valuable vassal state. Wu Keshan smiled and said, "No, I will send two thousand elite cavalry to bring the pearl." Looking at Bumubutai just laughing but not speaking, Wu Keshan understood and said, "Maybe that pearl is worth escorting three thousand elite cavalry."

In the end, Mandahai led 500 elite Manchu soldiers and 3,000 Korchin cavalry from the Mongolian grasslands, headed south along the Laoha River, and entered Liaodong. With the support of Ye Keshu, the general manager of Shengjing, they obtained some armor and supplies. In Shengjing, Mandahai received more accurate news that the Beiyang War Zone Marines had landed at the mouth of the Yalu River, with a number of between 1,500 and 2,000 people. In the Liaoyang area, the looted army cavalry and some infantry also gathered towards the Phoenix City area, with the number of this army of about 3,000.

After discussing with Ye Keshu, Mandahai believed that the Dongfan Islander was preparing to intercept and ambush the North Korean reinforcements. He felt deeply in his mind that the troops were insufficient. Now it seemed that there were only four or five thousand people. However, the Dongfan people quickly and secretly relied on boats to mobilize troops at sea. Who knew how many troops would be when they arrived at the battlefield? After Mandahai considered it, he temporarily recruited three thousand troops and a large amount of food, followers and livestock to Ye Keshu, the general of Shengjing, as the General of Pingdong, to form an army of 15,000 people, of which more than half of the soldiers were intensified to the area of ​​Phoenix City and the Yalu River Estuary.

But neither Mandahai nor Dorgon knew that all this was Wu Mu's plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain. His real goal was not a weak North Korean army, nor was it the food and grass support from North Korea.

The reason is very simple. Wu Mu did not intend to fight the Qing army in Liaodong and fight. If the Qing army obtains or cannot obtain food from North Korea, it is of little significance to the Beiyang War Zone. As Li Mingxun's former guard captain, Wu Mu has been with Li Mingxuan for many years. This rough man from the Jurchens of the East China Sea has experienced more political influence around Li Mingxun. He is very clear that the Liaodong battlefield will not achieve much success, whether it is money, food or population, then the Liaodong battlefield has only two meanings. One is to attract more troops from the Qing Dynasty and consume more resources, and the other is to cause more remarkable political impact.

Of course, this political influence was not to burn the ancestral tombs of the Aisin Jueluo family in Shengjing, Liaoyang and Hetuala. It was not that the soldiers of the Ebony and Beiyang War Zone did not want to do this, but that Li Mingxun explicitly prohibited this. The reason was very simple. He had always regarded himself as civilized people and regarded the Qing tribe from the Baishan and Black Water as barbarians. During the process of entering the pass, these barbarians did not destroy the imperial tombs of the two capitals of the former Ming Dynasty, but instead repaired them. Since what the barbarians could do was, civilized people should definitely do better.

Furthermore, if you want to achieve politically influential achievements in Liaodong, there is not just one way to burn the imperial tombs, but another way is to punish traitors.

There are many traitors identified by the United States, such as Hong Chengchou, Qian Qianyi, Sun Zhixie, and those who are listed on the traitor list, have had adverse effects and great damage to the interests of the Chinese nation and the cause of anti-Qing.

Wu Sangui, who opened Shanhaiguan to lead Qing troops into the pass, naturally ranked above the list. At this time, Wu Sangui's family and relatives were all in the western Liaoning Corridor, Ningyuan and Jinzhou.

Today, there are five major Han vassals under the command of the Qing Dynasty, with more than one hundred subordinates. Among them, Wu Sangui is the strongest of all Han vassals. He has 53 subordinates alone. Unlike other Han vassals whose families have already moved south, Wu Sangui has been hidden by the Qing court after pacifying Li Zicheng in Shaanxi. He was not as reused as Kong Luther, Shang Kexi and others. The reason why he mobilized elite troops to Shaanxi to suppress the rebellion was because the Qing Dynasty had no soldiers to adjust.

In theory, Wu Sangui's fifty-three subordinates could draw tens of thousands of armored soldiers, but Wu Sangui was named General Pingxi. When he went to Shaanxi, he had already transferred 7,000 people. It was the usual practice of the troops on both sides of the mainland battlefield at this time.

However, after the Liaodong battlefield was opened, the general manager of Shengjing Ye Keshu felt that there were not many elite soldiers under his command, so he also transferred all the remaining elite soldiers under Wu Sangui's troops in the western Liaoning Corridor. At this time, only 500 guards were left in Jinzhou, and there were only about 200 Ningyuan. The nearly 100,000 people under Wu Fan had become river clams that were unveiled, and the plump clam meat was exposed in front of the Marine Corps of the Beiyang War Zone.

In mid-June, the United States Navy and Marine Corps, a total of 110 warships appeared on the sea in the southern part of the Liaoxi Corridor. They first occupied Juehua Island, which had almost become a smuggling paradise, and then launched a large-scale landing operation. The battlefield was completely dominated by the Marine Corps. For this reason, the Navy dispatched two battalions of Marine Corps and organized about 3,000 armed sailors, while the Army only dispatched about 1,000 cavalry to join the battlefield.

The Liaoxi Corridor was once a battlefield that the Ming and Qing dynasties had fought for for decades. In these decades, the Ming army retreated from Liaodong and was no match for field battles. Therefore, it relied more and more on the city defense. Therefore, the Liaoxi Corridor was full of various cities, fortresses, troughs, and fortresses, among which Ningyuan and Jinzhou were the most sturdy.

Ningyuan was the place where Wu Sangui made his fortune, while Jinzhou was where Wu Sangui was guarding him. Nearly 100,000 relatives under Wu Fan were distributed around these two cities. In addition, there were several Manchu sects who monitored Wu Fan in the western Liaoning Corridor, and the number was not worth mentioning.

After the Marines landed, they first besieged Ningyuan City, and then gathered elite troops to attack in the direction of Jinzhou. Any villages and villages along the way were plundered and locked into strings and tied together with animals. Just like the Qing Dynasty in the Central Plains, the organized prisoners and wealth retreated to Ningyuan.

All the livestock and food of Dingkou under Wu Fan's name became the spoils of the Marine Corps. For a moment, the western Liaoning Corridor was in a panic, and most of the soldiers and slaves under Wu Fan fled to Ningyuan and Jinzhou. The Marine Corps was determined to win these two cities. They knew very well that most of Wu Fan's wealth was in these two cities.

At the end of June, the Marines began to attack Ningyuan City in large numbers. The Marines adopted the tactics of the Qing army. They used the captured slaves to cut down surrounding trees, make shields, shield chariots, and ladders, and then gathered the captured males to fill the trenches. In a short while, tens of thousands of people besieged Ningyuan. There were only 200 soldiers in Ningyuan City. After three days of siege, the city was broken. All the people in the city were captured. Like the people caught in front, the rest of the males were left to transport them to Juehua Island, and then reorganized them on the spot in Ningyuan, and finally organized nearly 20,000 troops to pounce on Jinzhou City.

The same tactics were staged again outside Jinzhou City. This time, the city defenders gathered more than 30,000 people from outside Jinzhou City. They felt that they could not defend. Before the siege organized by the Marines formed an encirclement, Wu Sangui's direct general Guo Yunlong took Wu Sangui's eldest son Wu Yingxiong and others to retreat in a hurry, and finally disappeared into the vast hills and forests north of the western Liaoning Corridor.

The emergency military information of Hezhong landing in the western Liaoning Corridor reached Shengjing, and then from Shengjing to Dorgon, who was still in Korchin. On the one hand, Dorgon ordered the general manager of Shengjing Ye Keshu to rescue him, but on the other hand, he blocked the news in the Mongolian direction.

The reason is very simple. When Ningyuan broke the city, the wedding of the little emperor Fulin and a Mongolian woman had not yet begun. Dorgon would not allow such bad news to affect the banquet of the Manchuria and Mongolian family. Dorgon did not even cheat his troops from Prince Korqin like he was helping Phoenix City, and he was worried that this would cause panic.

Dorgon was good at politics, but the one who suffered the damage was Wu Sangui's strength. Ye Keshu, the general manager of Shengjing, had no choice. He had not had much force in his hand, and he had mobilized most of them to follow Mandahai to the direction of Ningguta and Yalu River estuary. Now the troops are very difficult to defend Shengjing and Liaoyang. Ye Keshu not only did not send troops to assist the Liaoxi Corridor, but was worried that the Eastern Francis forces, which had a large number of men, would follow the route of the Qing Dynasty's western expedition, attack Shengjing and Liaoyang. After all, the combined forces of these two cities are only more than 3,000.

Ye Keshu's concerns were over-thinking. The Marine Corps had never thought about expanding the results. What they were worried about was the raid from the Dorgon cavalry troops from the Mongolian direction. Therefore, after attacking Jinzhou, they hurriedly reduced their troops and transported all the population and materials seized by various prisoners to Juehua Island. Then they evacuated the direction of the western Liaoning Corridor. Of course, before evacuation, they burned Ningyuan and Jinzhou City to white land.

The Marine Corps took about 40 days to land on the western Liaoning Corridor, and finally borrowed less than 1.5 million taels of silver and various goods worth less than one million. The biggest gain was the population. The number was about 55,000 people, most of which came from Wu Fan, and a small number came from Manchuria and Mongolian Zodiac. After careful inspection, I found that most of them were slaves under Wu Fan.

The important criminals in the Wu Sangui family were not caught. Wu Sangui himself and important generals quelled the rebellion in Shaanxi, and his beloved concubine Chen Yuanyuan and the four Manchu women given to him by Dorgon were also in the camp. His wife and son fled. In the end, Wu Sangui's brother Wu Sanfeng and younger brother Wu Sanfu became iconic figures in the liquidation of traitors.

Wu Mu regretted not to capture Wu Sangui's beloved concubine Chen Yuanyuan. When the Marine General asked him about the reason, Wu Mu did not explain it clearly. In fact, only he knew the reason. When he seemed to be the captain of Li Mingxun's personal guard, he had heard the name of this person and the woman from his mouth. Wu Mu firmly believed that since the character that the great Lord was talking about was definitely important, he did not find Chen Yuanyuan, which made Ebony feel regretful.

Wu Mu actually didn't know that Wu Sangui loved Chen Yuanyuan very much and always kept it with him whenever he made a bill.

In July and August, the hottest time in Liaodong, the army led by Manchu Emperor Fulin and Regent Dorgon came from the Mongolian grasslands in the scorching heat, but what they saw was devastation and war everywhere, and their enemies, the naval and army units of the Beiyang War Zone of the United States, had all evacuated.

The cities of Lushun Jinzhou and other cities were burned out, and no officers and soldiers of the United States could be seen on the land of Liaodong. The only one that had not yet been withdrawn were the prisoners on Juehua Island, but Dorgon was helpless across the ocean.

The original scene of the emperor who was planned by Dorgon in his own victory and returned to a great victory did not appear. After all, no matter what kind of victory was, he should at least fight with others. However, neither Fulin nor Dorgon nor even Mandahai saw a large-scale enemy.
Chapter completed!