More than 30,000 infantry troops were gathered here in Shenyang to reinforce Liaoyang. When they arrived at Husie Post, Li Laiheng led the cavalry to retreat. He continued to go all the way, and only rested overnight at Anshan Post Fort.

Then he set fire to Anshan Post Fort, and then sabotaged as much as possible, and then continued to retreat to Haizhou City.

When it was on the way to Haizhou City, the cavalry of Li Laiheng caught up with the Han people who fled south.

These Han people were basically captured by Jian during the 11th year of Chongzhen, most of which were from the capital and from Shandong. After a few years, those who survived were all young and strong, but they were all skinny.

Liaoyang is an important town in Liaodong, and there are actually quite a few Han people here. But Liaoyang is big enough, so the Han people belong to the Baoyi family in the city, and they all live in the city, rather than like Haizhou City, where the original city was too small, so the looted Han people all set up sheds outside the city.

When Li Laiheng's troops arrived outside Liaoyang City, there were not many Han people working in the suburbs of the South Gate. When the war broke out, many fled.

Therefore, later, after the Ming cavalry arrived outside Liaoyang City and forced Jianlu to come out of the city, not many Han people escaped.

During the few days when Li Laiheng's troops continued to spend outside Liaoyang City, these Han people heard the greetings of the royal army of the court and quickly fled south first.

At this time, Li Laiheng looked at the people who were supporting each other along the way and fled south, and couldn't help but frown.

Before that, he was busy with war and did not pay attention to these people. At this time, he found that these people were all walking with difficulty like candles in the wind.

Escape from Liaoyang is actually only sixty or seventy miles away. If a normal person walks, it should be easy for two days. However, the people in front of him seem to have walked thousands of miles, very tired and very difficult.

Some people support each other and are rushing to the road; some people take two steps to take a step; some people are even climbing south.

All of them have one thing in common, that is, they have extremely longing for the south in their eyes.

Seeing this scene, Li Laiheng sighed and immediately ordered: "Ye Bulleted to visit the front and back, and then explored a little further. The other soldiers, one of them, take them for a ride!"

Hearing this, his personal guard was a little silenced and hurriedly reminded: "Sir, we are still in the hinterland of Liaodong, and it is not safe. What if we encounter Jianlu?"

"That's why I have to stop at night to reach a distance!" Li Laiheng explained, "Just like their walking method, they can only go back to the Liaohe River in the Year of the Monkey and Horses in the Month!"

Hearing this, the guard wanted to say something else. When Li Laiheng saw it, he added: "The more people they saved, the more important the court will pay, and the greater the contribution we will have. Do you understand?"

When he heard this, the people around him suddenly realized and went to do it immediately.

It is naturally a pleasure to do some good deeds and accumulate virtues while gaining greater contributions. Even if you may take some risks, it is worth it!

Li Laiheng actually measured this, not that he was kind and had no principles.

In addition to the reasons he just told the personal guards, he was already sure at this time that at least the Jianlu nearby did not have a cavalry, so he could not pose a threat to them.

As for their war horses, they would have more burdens. In fact, he was sure that after this raid on Liaodong, many war horses would definitely be destroyed.

Since that's the case, just make more use of it before it's ruined.

So, after Li Laiheng's military order was passed down, the Ming soldiers looked for their respective targets, arrived in front of them, and asked them to get on the horse and go together.

When they said this, the Han people were all stunned, or they could not believe what they heard.

When did the imperial army become so good and still have to take them on their way?

This simply subverted their impression of the imperial army!

In fact, they were very grateful to have escaped. Now that they saw the imperial cavalry still taking them back, they came to their senses and were excited and incoherent, kowtowed and cried.

Seeing this scene, the Ming army soldiers who were reluctant at the beginning felt a little ashamed, and they even actively pulled them up to the horse to rush on the road together.

In the afternoon, not far from Haizhou City, I saw a fast cavalry coming and reported to Li Laiheng: "Sir, the Jianlu of Gaizhou has had abnormal movements!"

When Li Laiheng heard this, he was a little stunned. He didn't expect that it was the Jianlu in Gaizhou that had a strange movement, so he hurriedly asked, "What's the situation?"

"I don't know for the time being, but I only know that the Jianlu of Gaizhou seems to be dispatching troops and generals, and Chen Guerrilla has already rushed over in person."

When Li Laiheng heard this, he frowned and immediately flashed his mind with Gaizhou's location.

Gaizhou is right by the sea, more than 120 miles away from Haizhou City, and Yaozhou Post is located in the middle.

After having this map in his mind, Li Laiheng's brain teasers were pissed. He was not afraid of the Jianlu in Gaizhou to reinforce Haizhou City. Because how much Jianlu reinforced him casually, he would have to give up anyway.

What he was afraid of was that if Jianlu did not reinforce Haizhou City, he would still block his retreat. There were about 60 miles from Gaizhou to the mouth of Liaohe River, but there was no official road. If the army marched, it would take more time than on the official road.

Thinking of this, Li Laiheng immediately made a decision and immediately sent an order to march as soon as possible. In the evening, he rushed to Niujiazhuang.

This place is not far from the Liaohe Ferry, and the navy's boats are all along the Liaohe River, where the cavalry's food and supplies are supplied.

Just so happened that Li Laiheng asked all the Han people brought back to take a boat and went out to sea along the Liao River overnight.

Then, he seized time to rest.

When it was dark, another cavalry came and reported to Li Laiheng: "Sir, about 10,000 infantry troops in the Gaizhou Jianlu left the city and headed towards the Liaohe River's estuary. Chen Guerrilla led people to harass them, delayed their march, and asked sir to evacuate as soon as possible!"

More than ten thousand infantry troops? Li Laiheng thought to himself and asked, "Who is the Lord Jianlu? He is so bold that more than ten thousand infantry troops dare to intercept us?"

At the same time, he was a little surprised. It took only five or six days, and Jianlu had already figured out the truth and reality of his side, and even knew that he had landed from the mouth of the Liaohe River.

It feels a bit unlikely!

However, when he was in Liaodong, there were enemies around him. Just like when he was a thief, there were officials everywhere around him. Therefore, Li Laiheng did not dare to be careless at all. He did not think about things that could not be understood and planned according to the worst result.

So he ordered the rest until midnight, and more than 3,000 cavalrymen set off overnight on torches and headed along the south of Henan.

After dawn, I took a little rest, mainly to let the war horses rest for a while, eat something to replenish their strength, and then immediately headed south again. And because dawn, the speed of the march also accelerated.

To be honest, this cavalry has not had a good rest since boarding the ship at Shanhaiguan.

Although I don’t have to march on the sea, I’m tired! After getting ashore, I didn’t take a break for a long time, so I started to rush on, attack, and then rush on. Although I had rest and recuperation on the way, it was very short.

At the beginning, at least when he first got ashore, the Guanning Cavalry was obviously better than the people brought by Li Laiheng. However, at this time, Li Laiheng's men obviously compared the Guanning Cavalry.

The soldiers of the Guanning Cavalry were obviously a little listless and looked a little exhausted. However, the thousands of direct subordinates brought by Li Laiheng still seemed similar to those when they went ashore, which made the soldiers of the Guanning Cavalry secretly admire them.

On the way south, Chen Mingyu sent people to keep in touch with Li Laiheng from time to time to inform him of the situation.

By noon, the latest news was clear that the chief general of the Jianlu infantry was Ying'erdai, the former chief general of Haizhou City.

Before Haizhou City was raided, Ying'erdai escaped and eventually fled to Gaizhou. Then he ordered Jianlu from Gaizhou to draw out more than 10,000 infantry troops to rush to the mouth of the Liaohe River.

Upon hearing this news, Li Laiheng couldn't help but admire Ying'erdai. It seemed that he was a little capable. He estimated that he had reached the situation in such a short time and guessed that he was logging in from the mouth of the Liaohe River.

In fact, from the perspective of hindsight, it is actually not difficult to guess.

The best thing for an army to march is to march along the river, so that the transportation of materials will be more convenient. Even if they are all cavalry like Li Laiheng's troops, they have to eat and chew horses, and they consume a lot of supplies every day.

If you cannot get supplements locally, you must bring enough supplies yourself. Obviously, shipping is the most convenient.

In this way, it is self-evident to guess where the Ming army landed and launched a raid on Haizhou City.

In addition, Chen Mingyu sent someone to say that under the strict supervision of Ying'erdai, the Jianli were desperately rushing to the estuary of the Liaohe River despite the casualties caused by Chen Mingyu's troops.

According to Chen Mingyu's original words, he probably thought that Ying'erdai had made up for his merits and had to stop him to make up for his crime of losing Haizhou City. Therefore, he was crazy.

Chen Mingyu has tried his best to slow down the Jianlu infantry. I hope Li Laiheng's speed will be faster. Don't be able to take the Liaohe estuary first by this Jianlu infantry. Otherwise, the infantry will have a headache if they form a formation and defend it.

In this regard, Li Laiheng also understood that his team was a light cavalry and could not attack the infantry that formed a formation. The advantage was that he had strong maneuverability.
Chapter completed!