October is about to begin, and the temperature in Liaodong begins to drop sharply. Zhu Cijiu had to decide to return to the court because it was going to snow soon. Then it was cold and the road was blocked with heavy snow. It would not be so easy to return to the capital. He was very likely to stay in Liaodong for the New Year.

He is the emperor, so naturally he cannot stay in Liaodong for the New Year. It is nothing if he leaves the capital for a month or two. If he doesn't go back for half a year, the court will be in trouble. After all, Zhu Youjian and Xu Guangqi cannot make decisions on many important things, so he must make the decision.

So he hurried back to the capital with 50,000 elite troops in the capital, and Sun Chuanting's Qin army was kept by him. After all, there were still 120,000 Later Jin troops in Haizhou, and if all the people retreated, Huang Taiji might be desperate and counterattacked wildly. By then, the Liaodong army, with less than 100,000 people, might not be able to withstand it.

After several major battles, the Liaodong Army lost nearly 50,000 troops. Apart from Mao Wenlong's 100,000 troops and the troops left behind in various places, the Liaodong Army in Shanchahebao and Gaizhou City was actually less than 90,000. Although the emperor has agreed to supplement the damage to the war and can continue to expand the enrollment of 100,000, it is not something that can be recruited in a short time. Even if it is recruited, it will take several months to practice before it can be used.

The weather turned cold and the wounded soldiers were everywhere. In addition, there was Huang Taiji's threat from Shanghai Zhouwei. Sun Chengzong had to postpone the operation to recover southeastern Liao. He decided to first make the front line of Shanchahe and Gaizhou as impregnable.

How to make a line of defense solid? It is naturally to build bunkers and build bunkers, so Sun Chengzong began to use his expertise to build bunkers again.

In Haizhou, Huang Taiji saw that Sun Chengzong had played the old routine of building bunkers again, and he was desperate inside. Damn, although the little emperor left, there was nearly 200,000 troops across the street. If they didn’t build the fortress, there was still a little hope. Now they started building the fortress again, and they would be a big fuck!

He really regretted it a little, regretting that he underestimated the power of muskets and cannons, and even more regretting that he miscalculated Sun Chengzong's determination to recover lost land. He always believed that Mangourtai could completely defend Gaizhou, but what was the result? He was captured by the Ming army in less than a day!

It’s not that Manguertai is incompetent. That old guy Sun Chengzong is like he is crazy, sieging the city regardless of casualties. With the cooperation of muskets and cannons, Manguertai is directly fucked by him with a random punch, and he doesn’t even have a chance to adjust his tactics!

Seeing that there was no hope of recovering the Caided Prefecture, Huang Taiji had to leave Da Beile Daishan to lead a 100,000 army to guard the Haizhou Guards. He himself brought 20,000 troops back to Shengjing. Zhu Cijing could not leave the capital for a long time, and he could not leave Shengjing for a long time.

A stunning battle between the Ming Dynasty and the Later Jin Dynasty ended like this. Both sides invested more than 400,000 troops and fought in Liaodong for nearly two months. In the end, the Ming Dynasty defeated the Later Jin Dynasty with its advantage in numbers and weapons, regained tens of thousands of square kilometers of land in the Santaizi River and Sancha River basins, and also took over Gaizhou, an important Liaodong city. From then on, the situation in Liaodong reversed. The Ming Dynasty changed from passive defense to active attack. The southeastern Liaoning was already in sight, and regaining the entire Liao Dynasty was no longer a dream.

In Liaodong, more than 200,000 Ming troops were suppressing 150,000 Later Jin troops, winning streaks, so what about Shanxi?

The poor governor of the five provinces, Lu Xiangsheng, had only 100,000 Tianxiong army under his command, and there were more than 200,000 bandits gathered in Linfen alone. He did not want to be defeated by the bandits using their number advantage, so he decided to increase his troops.

Of course, this increase in troops is not an expansion. Without the emperor's permission, he would not dare to expand the recruitment randomly. Now he is the governor of five provinces, and there are still 250,000 new recruits defending the city in the five provinces. Although they cannot be transferred all of them, it should be fine to transfer half of them? The emperor has given him full responsibility for the suppression of bandits in the five provinces. Mobilizing the defenders of various provinces should be within his power, right?

He had no time to ask for instructions. The emperor was already far away in Liaodong. He was imminent. If he accidentally suffered a defeat, he would be done. So he issued a governor's order:

The Henan garrison and the Northern Zhili garrison were ordered to draw 20,000 troops to Zezhou to assist Deputy General Zhang Hongye in guarding Yangcheng;

The Shanxi garrison and Shaanxi garrison were ordered to draw 40,000 troops to come to Hongdong quickly to help him fight the main force of the bandits;

The Sichuan defenders were ordered to draw 20,000 troops to rush to Shaanxi to help the Shaanxi defenders guard Xi'an.

With such mobilization, there will be 30,000 defenders in northern Zhili, Henan, Shaanxi and Sichuan. There are not many bandits in these four provinces, so there should be no problems. As for Shanxi, the main force of the bandits is confronting him, so other places are naturally safe. Leaving 10,000 defenders to guard Taiyuan is just a precaution.

After all the troops and horses of the five provinces were mobilized, more than half a month passed. At this time, the siege of Santaizi Fort had been lifted in Liaodong and the construction of Sanchahe Fort began.

After the 80,000 defenders in Shanxi and Shaanxi were in office, Lu Xiangsheng had already assembled 170,000 troops in Hongdong, and more than 200,000 bandits could no longer pose any threat to him. At this time, the twenty 55-type mortars sent by Zhu Cijiong also arrived. After Lu Xiangsheng asked the artillery soldiers of the Beijing Camp to demonstrate, his heart began to be turbulent. What a good thing!

Although the range of this 55-type mortar cannon is only 300 steps, it is already an unattainable distance compared to the crossbow. In addition, this thing is easy to move, whether it is used for siege or field battles, it is an unstoppable weapon!

From that secret decree, we can see that the emperor is not in a hurry to wipe out the bandits in the northwest. He just needs to bite the main force of the bandits and prevent them from growing stronger. But the problem is that the main force of the bandits is already very strong now. If they let them dominate the southern part of Pingyang and continue to develop, it will be a problem if they are suppressed or not.

Originally, he had a headache. The bandits occupied the huge city of Linfen and the giant shield in the city. Even if he had 40,000 musketeers under his command, he had no choice but to deal with them. Now it would be different with the mortar. The thick walls could not be hit, but those giant wooden shields were vulnerable in front of it. As long as the shield formation was defeated, the bare bandits behind would become targets of flintlock rifles!

As I thought about it, Lu Xiangsheng clapped his hands and fought hard, wouldn’t it be more than 200,000 bandits? Isn’t it just a bigger city? As long as they break through their shield formation, no matter how many bandits there are, it’s useless. No matter how big the city you are, you can’t defend.

Of course, siege is not a hot-headed person. When the horn is shouting, it is to seek death. If you have artillery and flintlock rifles, you still have to build necessary siege equipment, otherwise how can you climb up the city wall? In the past, when you attack Fenxi and Huozhou, you have built a batch of siege equipment, but it is used to attack small cities that are as high as two people. Linfen is a big city that is as high as three people. The original height of the ladder and the well railing are not enough.

Anyway, the new defenders also need to be trained. Lu Xiangsheng simply trained the new army and asked the veterans to build siege equipment. He prepared for another attack in a month.

This time, he didn't dare to go to the wall to build the wall. There were countless talents in the more than 200,000 bandits, and many small catapults have been built on the wall. If you dare to run down the wall to build the wall, although the launch frequency of the catapults was not hurt many people, there is no problem in smashing your caliper.

In view of this situation, Lu Xiangsheng simply ordered the veterans to build well railings and ladders directly under the city walls of Hongdong County, and the railings had to be wheeled. After the railings and ladders were built, the new recruits had almost finished their training and rushed over and captured Linfen City.

The bandits were not fools. Seeing them building so many well railings and ladders outside Hongdong City, they naturally knew that King Lu was preparing to attack Linfen, and they also began to build giant shields and catapults. For a moment, the trees near Linfen and Hongdong were all cut down, and bare mountain bags were everywhere, just like monks shaving their heads, "swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish

When Lu Xiangsheng started to attack Linfen, Liaodong also started to attack Gaizhou. However, Liaodong was full of veterans and there was no need to practice at all. Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng was not ready yet, and the other side had already started to attack the city. When he had just prepared, the newspaper of the Gaizhou victory had been delivered to him!

That's not bad. The emperor captured all the Gaizhou guarded by the Later Jin army, but he didn't even capture Linfen City guarded by the bandits. He had to hurry up, otherwise the emperor would think I was playing here!

Lu Xiangsheng was really anxious now. The next morning, he gathered a 150,000 army and rushed straight to Linfen City with siege equipment, leaving only 20,000 people to guard Hongdong.

As soon as he set out, the bandits received news, so when he arrived at the city of Linfen, a group of bandit leaders were already standing on the city gate tower at the north gate of Linfen to watch the show.

Why do they say they are preparing to watch the show? Think about it, 150,000 troops attack the big city guarded by nearly 300,000 people. Isn’t this brain-related illness? Generals with a little common sense know that your military strength must be at least twice as strong as someone else’s. You are only half of your military strength now. If you run over to attack the city, it would be strange if others don’t think you have a brain-related illness.

Lu Xiangsheng was not sick in his brain. He wouldn't have come to attack the city without those twenty mortars. Now that he has come, he is naturally a little sure.

He saw the banner of the thief leader lined up on the city gate tower, and couldn't help but curl his lips and said in his heart: "Grands, you can stand there and watch the show. Wait until I attack the city wall, and I won't chop off your heads as a chamber pot!"

The leaders of the bandits didn't know that Lu Xiangsheng had the killer weapon of the mortar. They were pointing fingers and trying desperately to mock the King of Yan Lu who was crazy.

Lu Xiangsheng glanced at the city wall. There were only twenty mortar cannons, which could not cover the entire city wall north of Linfen at all. So he picked the right part of the city wall, and the ground below was flat, pushed the well railing over, lifted the cloud ladder over, and waved the formation, and the mortar cannon racked a nail to the ground, and then shouted directly: "The well railing rushed to the formation."

The flag was waving, and 40,000 musketeers, under the cover of swords and shields, pushed the well railing and rushed towards the city wall.

The bandits on the city wall are in chaos. What a joke? You just ran to Linfen and didn't even take a breath. You didn't even call him, but you just started fighting. You rushed to reincarnate or what?
Chapter completed!