However, it was said that after capturing the key point of Lushun Pass, Yang Zhen's troops finally had a natural harbor with no sea ice in the cold winter months. From then on, they could anchor the entire fleet belonging to the advance battalion of the Eastern March.

With this ice-free port, he no longer has to worry that when the sea surface of Liaodong Bay freezes in December and January, the Manchu Tatars will destroy his naval fleet.

At the same time, after Shen Zhixiang's reminder, Yang Zhen also felt that it was necessary to rush back to Songshan as soon as possible, and then take the opportunity to go to the capital to organize a Meridian Gate prisoner sacrifice, to combine Lushunkou and Jin, the recovery of the two cities and the recovery of these places

The issue of military jurisdiction after the recovery has been clarified.

Not only can the areas he led his troops recover not fall into the hands of others, but they can also not restore the previous affiliations, and have the tight spell of Governor Denglai over his head.

When Yang Zhen was in Songshan City, Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, did not exert much restraint or restriction on him, but there was a reason why Fang Yizao was like this.

On the one hand, Yang Zhen was brought to Liaodong personally by Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong. The relationship between the two was quite good, and Fang Yizao did not regard him as an outsider.

On the other hand, and the most fundamental reason, Fang Yizao could not command Zu Dashou at all. Yang Zhen and Fang Yizao had a common opponent on the ground in western Liaoning, namely Zu Dashou and the Liaodong Army.

Otherwise, Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, could suppress Yang Zhen so hard that he would be unable to do anything or accomplish anything.

However, this relatively harmonious relationship will soon be broken.

In the original history, after Jin Guofeng died in battle on the northern hill outside Ningyuan City, Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, had finished his work and was removed from his post and transferred back to the capital not long after.

Correspondingly, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Jiliao who had been stationed in Shanhaiguan, left the customs and moved to Ningyuan City.

If this situation cannot be changed in this life, then if Yang Zhenruo continues to be stationed in Songshan City, he will directly face Hong Chengchou, who is much more powerful than Fang Yizao.

This is a situation that Yang Zhen does not want to see.

Because Hong Chengchou was not just a fan.

Facing Hong Chengchou's lofty prestige, facing Hong Chengchou's scheming and domineering style, Yang Zhen didn't have much room to maneuver in Songshan City.

Thinking about it again like before, going west to the outer border and crossing the Liaohai Sea to the east, it is not that easy.

So will the situation where Fang Yizao was dismissed and Hong Chengchou moved to Ningyuan City continue to happen as it did in history?

If Jin Guofeng had not died and the discord in Shanhaiguan and Fuzhen had not been exposed, then coupled with Yang Zhen's series of victories, Fang Yizao might have remained in office.

However, Jin Guofeng died.

Jin Guofeng's death will lead to two results. First, Emperor Chongzhen needs someone to take responsibility for Jin Guofeng's death.

The one who is really responsible is the Ningyuan Liaodong Army.

However, the imperial court had been wary of Zu Dashou and his Liaodong Army for many years, and would not punish the generals of the Liaodong Army just because of Jin Guofeng's death.

Therefore, the one who bears this responsibility and takes the blame must be Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong.

Secondly, the death of Jin Guofeng also revealed a well-known fact, that is, Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, could not control or control Zu Dashou and the Liaodong Army under his command.

In this way, no matter from which aspect, the current governor of Liaodong, Fang Yizao, could not avoid being dismissed by Emperor Chongzhen.

This is also an important reason why Yang Zhen luckily won the victory in the Songshan Defense Battle and Huang Taiji's Manchu Tatar army suddenly retreated, but still had to lead thousands of exhausted troops across the Liaohai Sea to seize the southern Liaoning Peninsula.

Now, they took advantage of the extremely empty Tatar forces in the rear of the Liaonan Peninsula and successfully captured Fuzhou, Jinzhou and Lushunkou. It was certainly a gratifying and major victory.

However, if after they capture this place, they have to be restrained by Governor Denglai and interfered by the general soldiers of Denglai, then the current victory will be greatly inferior.

This ending is also a situation that Yang Zhen does not want to see.

On the morning of October 26, the twelfth year of Chongzhen, five days after Yang Zhen led his army to capture Lushunkou, he carefully arranged the defense of the three cities in the Liaonan Peninsula, and then followed Yuan Jin's fleet and set off back to Songshan.

When they crossed the sea, they brought more than 3,000 troops with them. After arriving at Changxing Island, the number of troops increased to more than 4,000.

By the time they captured Fuzhou and Jinzhou, the total number of troops under Yang Zhen's command had exceeded 7,000.

However, when it was time to set out to return, among these people, the only one who finally returned to Songshan with Yang Zhen, apart from Yuan Jin's fleet, was only a sentry musketeer led by Zhang Guogan.

Zhang Chen led the remaining 600 musketeers, who were left behind and were ordered to garrison Jinzhou City and Jinzhou Bay with Xu Tianchong, Hu Changhai, Yu Liangtai, and the third-class troops of Yan Province.

In the defensive situation of the Liaonan Peninsula, Lushunkou's strategic position is the most important, but if you want to defend Lushunkou, you must defend Jinzhou City.

Therefore, before leaving, Yang Zhen had to leave Zhang Chen, a general who made him very reassured, and lead his troops to garrison here.

Correspondingly, Li Lu and his grenadiers from three posts were also retained, and they were left in the most dangerous city of Fuzhou.

According to Yang Zhen's order, Li Lu, Gao Chengyou, Hu Dabao and other troops were stationed in Fuzhou City, ready to deal with the Manchu Tatar army withdrawing from western Liaoning and coming to raise troops to seize the city.

To Yang Zhen, Fuzhou City was useless, a city on the Liaonan Peninsula that could be abandoned.

However, now that Yang Zhen has won it, he cannot give up easily.

Even if they have to give up, they must let the Manchu Tatars suffer heavy losses of troops and generals under Fuzhou City before they can give up.

In this regard, the grenadiers with three sentries led by Li Lu will be the best choice to carry out city defense operations or field defense operations, and inflict greater damage to the Manchu Tatars.

In addition to the deliberate arrangements of Jinzhou City and Fuzhou City, Yang Zhen ordered Yang Shen to lead his artillery team to transport all the twenty-two heavy red cannons and thirty sky cannons transported across the sea ashore and arrange them on the

Xiguan Mountain, Huangjin Mountain, Laotieshan Mountain and Lushun City.

At the same time, Qiu Zhenhai's naval camp and Shen Zhixiang's men were left behind, allowing them to garrison with Yang Shen in the Lushun City and Lushunkou areas.

Yang Zhen was of course not very reassured about Shen Zhixiang, Xu Tianchong and their new subordinates, but he had no other choice.

It is impossible for him to take away all Shen Zhixiang or Xu Tianchong's troops from Liaonan at this time.

Shen Zhixiang and Xu Tianchong were originally one group. Under the banner of Zhengbai, the Manchu Tatar, they were collectively called Xushun Gongbing. They compiled a total of ten dissatisfied Niu Lu.

Their total strength, including soldiers, old, weak, women and children, totaled more than 3,000 people.

Among them, Xu Tianchong's subordinates accounted for about four Niulu, about 1,200 people.

Shen Zhixiang's subordinates accounted for about six Niulu, about 1,800 people.

This time, the Manchu Tatars mobilized heavy troops to conquer western Liaoning, and transferred the only two so-called heavy troops Niulu under his command, namely Wuzhenchao Ha Niulu, who used guns and firearms, to the front line with the army.

Therefore, there were only more than 1,200 people under his command. When he set out from Jinzhou City to deceive Lushun City that day, he selected suitable servants, old and weak men, and gained hundreds more, barely

I collected about two thousand.

Although the attack on Lushunkou went very smoothly, after all, there were still three Tatars in the city with blue flags, cavalry and infantry. After a fight, the ones who suffered the most losses were the old and weak who were brought into the city by Shen Zhixiang.

, almost dead and injured.

The number of men and horses under Shen Zhixiang's command has once again dropped to more than a thousand.

It wasn't until Yang Zhen dispersed the Xianglan Banner Han troops under Tong Tu Lai's command and the shackles in Manta's private residence in Lushun City and assigned them to Shen Zhixiang's troops that he gathered five more men.

The sentry number reached more than 1,500 people.

The loyalty of these troops is certainly not comparable to that of the troops Yang Zhen brought from Songshan City.

However, he had to use it at the current price, because apart from these troops, he could not gather the troops to garrison Fuzhou, Jinzhou and Lushunkou in a short period of time.

Of course, just in case, although Yang Zhen did not take away Shen Zhixiang, Xu Tianchong and their troops, he took away several people around them.

One is Xu Tianchong's eldest son, Xu Tingxuan, who Yang Zhen asked to join his team of attendants.

The Attendant Team is the former Guard Team. So far, there are only two people, Guo Xiaowu and Ma Keqing. After Xu Tingxuan was selected, it became three people.

Another person who was taken away was Shen Zhixiang's heir Shen Yongzhong, and Yang Zhen asked Shen Yongzhong to serve as his aide-de-camp.

Yang Zhen's arrangement was at least nominally to promote Xu Tingxuan and Shen Yongzhong. Xu Tianchong and Shen Zhixiang could not object to this.

As for what Yang Zhen did, they both knew what was going on.

Xu Tianchong and Shen Zhixiang have both been in the Dongjiang Army for many years. They are no longer surprised by Yang Zhen's arrangement.

In fact, when Yang Zhen did this, it showed that Yang Zhen valued them. In this way, it made each other feel more at ease.

In this way, on October 26, the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Yang Zhen arranged the defense of the Liaonan Peninsula. With extreme uneasiness, he took Yuan Jin's naval fleet with his newly recruited attendants, and at the same time

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A group of newly captured prisoners from Lushunkou, namely the Manchu Tatar clan member Jueluofu Guogong Tunqi, the Manchu Tatar Xianglan Banner Han army Mele Zhangjing Tongtulai and some Manchu Tatar horse armor and infantry, all the way to the west, crossed the sea
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