After hearing Fang Zhongji's words, Li Xiao fell into deep thought.

Speaking of which, he is still half-believing and half-doubted about these dragon veins and feng shui. From his previous life to the present, he has always been a cold and cold attitude towards facing them.

After all, in real history, the most fundamental reason for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was because of its own reasons. It was still biased to blindly push the blame to the dragon vein and Feng Shui.

However, Li Xiao is also a pragmatist. He believes that since these things can be passed down through the ages and have strong vitality among the people and the officials, it may be true that there is a certain reason. Since this is the case, it is better to give it a try.

However, Li Xiao also heard clearly that Fang Zhongji had said that if he cut the dragon vein, it would cause serious backlash to the practitioner himself, but he didn't know that Fang Zhongji had considered this.

"Master Fang, didn't you say that the matter of breaking the dragon vein will cause serious backlash to the practitioner? You are not afraid..." Li Xiao said this and deliberately paused.

Fang Zhongji smiled bitterly, and his face showed a firm look: "Duke Tang, if you want to cut off the dragon vein, you are going against the will of heaven. You have already put life and death out of your way. How can you care about this life and death? I think that the Tartars entered the pass several times, killing my Chinese people is like killing pigs and dogs. Even the subordinates almost died under his butcher's knife. If I don't avenge such a deep blood hatred, I will not be a human being!"

Seeing Fang Zhongji expressing his feelings in slightestness, a smile flashed across Li Xiao's face, and he said in a deep voice: "Okay, then I'll ask Taoist priest Fang to go back and prepare. Tomorrow morning, let's follow our army to act together."

Fang Zhongji replied loudly: "Okay! Then I'll go back first and set off with your army tomorrow."

After dawn the next day, all the Tang army gathered together and immediately crossed the Yalu River to the west, and the soldiers pointed directly at Hetuala.

The minister Fang Zhongji took his servant, both of them riding horses and following the Tang army.

After crossing the Yalu River, Li Xiao chose a route of travel that was completely different from that chosen by the North Korean troops during the Battle of Sarhu.

During the Battle of Sarhu, the Korean troops went north through Kuandian along the Dongjia River (now Hunjiang River in Jilin) ​​and finally joined the Ming army Liu Ju troops, attacking from east to west. Now Li Xiao chose the route to start from Yushi Town, go straight west across the Yalu River, then pass the Dagu River, Huanren Village, and then along the Fuer River, and finally arrive in the southern part of Hetuara City. The original Liu Ju troops were destroyed.

The route chosen by the Tang army is more rugged and difficult to travel, and it is more rarely visited. However, the route chosen by Li Xiao is hopeful that in such a vast and almost unmanned environment, his military operations will be more concealed and surprisingly effective.

The soldiers of the entire army walked through these almost primitive trees and cliffs, and their speed was naturally greatly limited. From time to time, Tang soldiers fell into the mountain stream and fell to death.

Li Xiao had no expression on his face and did not blink for the death of these soldiers.

Since ancient times, soldiers have been in danger of fighting, not to mention the sneak attacks and attacks that have crossed mountains and ridges thousands of miles and the deaths of their soldiers are really normal. You must know that during the Three Kingdoms period, Deng Ai sneaked into Yinping. After crossing the mountains and ridges, most of the soldiers in the army died. Even so, they persisted and eventually became famous throughout the ages. Now, Li Xiao's Tang army has only fallen and killed dozens of soldiers, but it is not worth mentioning at all.

What's more, merciful people do not control the soldiers. For Li Xiao, who is now cold and murderous, these Tang soldiers are just bargaining chips used to win, and cannot be treated as normal people at all. What's more, they have generous pensions for death to make them die to mourn behind their backs. Even if these soldiers die, they will face them very calmly. Therefore, Li Xiao does not care about such sporadic casualties at all.

During the last Battle of Sarhu, Liu's troops had more than 20,000 people after the convergence of the Korean troops. Now, there are only more than 20,000 Tang troops under Li Xiao. However, the elite level and firepower of the Tang army were compared with the Liu's troops at that time.

The Tang army that went to Hetuara this time, including 30 shield soldiers, 60 spearmen, 2,000 heavy cavalry of Xuanhu, 2,000 flying harrier light cavalry, 2,000 rampant squads, 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, 9,000 Lumi gun soldiers, and 100 heavy dragon guns. The total force reached more than 25,000. It can be said that the troops are strong and the combat power is so strong that the Liu Zhen troops cannot be compared at all.

After Li Xiao arrived in Yushi Town, he also received information about the troop allocation of Hetuala from the Liaodong Security Department.

That is, in the city of Hetular, there is only the royal general Babuhai, the general of the royal family, and the Huangqi Gushan Ezhen Melgen, as the deputy general, and led 3,000 troops from Manzhou to guard it.

Because considering that this is the birthplace of the Manzhou people, in order to prevent outsiders from defiling the dragon vein, only Manzhou soldiers were stationed here, but there were no Mongolian soldiers or Han soldiers.

For a mainland city without any enemy troubles, nearly 3,000 people were arranged to garrison. The reason why so many troops were arranged was because Huang Taiji believed that Hetuara City, the Xingjing City of the Qing Dynasty, was the fundamental place of Manzhou and must not be misleading, so he deliberately sent heavy troops to guard it.

Of course, his intention was good, but even the vigilant troops would become slack when there was no war for decades.

Now, since the beginning of the Fuer River area, it was already a territory of Hetuala, Xingjing City, and sent sentry cavalry to patrol the crowd. However, in the past few decades, the sentry cavalry below began to be lazy, and at most advanced several miles away from the Fuer River, they retreated one after another.

Therefore, within ten days, the Tang army advanced westward and finally arrived smoothly on the west bank of the Fur River, but did not encounter any exploration or obstruction by the Qing army. At this point, all the most difficult sections of the road have been successfully approached.

Of course, along the way, the Tang army also lost nearly 200 Tang soldiers, most of which fell to death. Compared with the successful arrival of more than 20,000 Tang soldiers, this loss is minimal.

Compared with the previous Ming general Liu Ying, Li Xiao is extremely kind.

According to historical records, when Liu Jing's troops led their troops to attack Hetuara City, they captured the Jurchen village along the way and killed all those who could not move in their army, such as the lame men and blind men, in case they dragged the troops back, and then continued to march forward.

Immediately, Li Xiao immediately ordered the entire army to march quickly towards Abudaligang, in order to occupy this place where Liu Jing's Eastern Army was defeated as soon as possible.

During the march towards Abudaligang, the soldiers of the entire army could occasionally see scattered bones and severely rusted and damaged weapons and armor next to the rugged path. They should be the Ming or Korean soldiers who died in the last Battle of Sarhu.

Seeing these relics, Li Xiao's face was tense, but his heart was secretly ruthless.

When the Tang army was about to arrive at Abudaligang, their actions were finally discovered by the patrolling Qing army.

The sharp and harsh conch horn sounded immediately and returned to the city of Hetuara.

Seeing that his troops were discovered by the Qing army, Li Xiao immediately ordered that while the Qing army was unprepared, the two cavalrymen of Xuanhu Heavy Cavalry and Feiyazi immediately advanced rapidly, and they must first seize the dangerous Abu Daligang.

The two Tang cavalrymen, like two sudden gusts of wind, roared towards the hundreds of Qing soldiers stationed on the hills, chasing them.

Seeing that the Tang army's cavalry was so powerful and suddenly, the Qing army was frightened and had no desire to fight. They were too late to set up urgently, and they howled and abandoned their positions and turned around and fled north, hoping that they could escape as soon as possible before the Tang army's swords and guns were cut down.

In the end, the Tang cavalry chased and killed all the more than 60 infantrymen on the road, killing more than 20 Qing cavalrymen, leaving only more than 20 Manzhou cavalrymen, fled north in a hurry and fled into the city of Hetuara.

Subsequently, when dusk approached, the Tang army successfully captured Abudaligang.

Seeing the Tang army soldiers cheering warmly in this steep and steep Abudali hill, Li Xiao was also very happy.

He knew that in history, this Abudaligang was soaked with the blood and tears of the Ming army.

During the Battle of Sarhu that year, the Eastern Army led by Liu Jing of the Ming Dynasty failed to advance to Hetuara on schedule due to the rugged mountain roads and difficulty in moving. However, the Ming army's troops were scattered and the communication was inconvenient. Liu Jing, who led the Eastern Army to advance, had no idea that Du Song's Western Army and Malin's Northern Army had both failed at this time, so he still advanced to Hetuara City as planned.

At this time, after defeating Malin's Northern Army, Lao Nu immediately moved his troops to fight against Liu Zhen's army.

On the third day of March in 1619 (the 47th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the fourth year of Tianming in the Later Jin Dynasty), in order to completely annihilate Liu's troops, Nurhaci adopted the method of tempting him to advance quickly and set up an ambush to gather annihilate. He later set up ambush at Abudaligang, and used a few Han soldiers to pretend to be Ming army, wear Ming army armor, wear Ming army armor, hold the Ming army's banner, and hold Dusong's command arrows, pretending that Dusong's army had approached Hetuara and asked Liu to advance quickly.

When Liu Jing saw that Du Songbu had already succeeded, he was overjoyed.

He was determined to pass quickly and not allow Du Song to obtain all his military achievements. He was already overwhelmed by the excitement and did not review the whistle cavalry that reported the news. He immediately ordered the entire army to step up its march and rush to Hetuala with all his strength.

The Abudaligang had mountains and mountains, and the roads were barren, which was an extremely dangerous place to die. Liu Jing, who was eager to make contributions, still ordered his subordinates to advance alone without investigation, but did not know that his military operations were already in the eyes of the Qing army.

It turned out that on March 5 that year, the four Beile Huang Taiji stood on the top of the mountain and could see clearly the movements of Liu Jing's troops. When Liu Jing led all the Eastern Route Army into Abudaligang, he immediately led his troops to attack the mountain from the top, while the big Beile Daishan led his army to attack the flanks, while the two Beile Amin attacked from the front.

According to Qing history, Emperor Qianlong returned to Liaodong one day and revisited the ancient battlefield of Sarhu in his old place. He evaluated the Battle of Sarhu with a happy tone.

"Ah, as a result, the Ming Dynasty's country's power has been reduced, and my Wu Lie has become more and more powerful. The march of Liaodong was defeated. The king of kings was established. Is it easy? Is it easy for me to ask for revenge from heaven because of my Taizu? The ancestors and brothers and nephews led the ministers who were loyal and loyal to each other, personally took stone arrows and taught strategies. For a time, the sages and wise ministers expressed their hard work and achieved great plans. This is what our Qing Dynasty has been like for billions of years."

Of course, the billions of years of foundation that Qianlong imagined was just a mirror of water and moon.

Under his rule, the Qing Dynasty began to decline from prosperity, and various social problems broke out in a concentrated manner. The White Lotus Sect, which was determined to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, spread in full swing among the poor people. In the end, the Qing Dynasty declared complete destruction less than a hundred years later.

Thinking about the past and present life, staring at the slowly falling sunset, Li Xiao, Duke of Tang, felt endless emotion in his heart.

"I am passing on the military order. It is too late now and it is inconvenient to move. The entire army is temporarily resting in Abudaligang. After dawn tomorrow, immediately surround the city of Hetuara and must break through this city in one fell swoop. If this city is down, no matter whether it is military, civilian, men and women, they will be killed!"

Li Xiao, who came back to his senses from his memory, immediately ordered in a deep voice, and his face was full of ferocious expression.

"I'm following the order!"
Chapter completed!