Faced with the evil deeds of Jiannu's massacre, Zhu Cijiu also wanted to rush to Shengjing immediately, catch Huang Taiji, execute Huang Chi, arrest all the Later Jin army, let them dig a hole, and then cut them all and bury them in the hole. But the battle cannot be fought like this, and a small unbearable will cause chaos. If you fall into Huang Taiji's trap because of a moment of anger, it will be too late to regret it!

After taking over Haizhou City, Zhu Cijing gathered all the senior generals who participated in the war and analyzed the current situation. The conclusions he came to were not optimistic. The loss of the Later Jin Dynasty in Haizhou was not great. Among the more than 50,000 enemies, the Mongolian soldiers accounted for more than 50,000, of which less than 5,000 Later Jin soldiers were eliminated!

The reason why the Mongolian and the Later Jin coalition forces abandoned the city and fled was to lure the Ming army to pursue it, and there was another possibility that Huang Taiji wanted to concentrate his troops and fight the Ming army to a decisive battle. You should know that there are nearly 500,000 left armies of the Later Jin and Mongolian coalition forces between the two cities of Dingliao and Shengjing, while there were only three legions and 300,000 people involved in the attack. Moreover, to attack the Dingliao Central Left Guard, Haizhou must leave troops to defend the city, so that the troops will be even more dispersed.

Zhu Cijing discussed with the generals, and finally adopted Sun Chengzong's suggestion, transferred Shandong defenders to station in Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Gaizhou, and transferred Cao Wenzhao's Guanning army to Haizhou to defend the city.

There are only 15,000 defenders in Shandong now. Each city of Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Gaizhou can only be arranged to garrison for 5,000 people. Isn’t it a little too small? In fact, the battlefield has been moved to northeast Liao, while Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Gaizhou are located in the southeast Liao, which is equivalent to the rear. Besides, these three cities do not stock up on food or grass. As long as Huang Taiji is not crazy, he will not divide his troops to attack these three cities that have little impact on the battle situation.

Haizhou City is different. If we attack the Left Guard of Dingliao, Haizhou City is equivalent to the retreat of the main force of the Ming army. If the retreat is cut off, it will have a great impact on the morale of the army, so Haizhou City must be garrisoned.

After more than half a month of mobilization, all the troops were in place, and the reserves of artillery shells were enough to capture the Dingliao Central Left Guard. Zhu Cijiong ordered the Tianxiong Army, Qin Army and the First Corps of the Imperial Guard set out from Haizhou City and the troops were approaching the Dingliao Central Left Guard.

In order to save time, the 300,000 army brought all the siege equipment under the city of Haizhou. Although it would take a long time to delay the road, it saved the time to build siege equipment. You should know that the siege equipment of the 300,000 army would be fast for five or six days.

The left guard of Dingliao Central can be said to be the gateway of Shengjing. Once lost, there will be no more city in the south of Shengjing. The capital of the Later Jin Dynasty will directly face the attack of the Ming army. Logically speaking, Huang Taiji should have sent a powerful general to lead heavy troops to defend the death, but what about the actual situation?

The general is definitely the general. The guard of the left guard of Dingliao Central Guard was Huang Taiji's brother, the favorite son of Nurhaci, the lord of the Later Jin Dynasty, and the concubine Abahai, the fourteenth son of the emperor, Dorgon, and the commander of the Zhengbai Banner. There is no need to say more about this Dorgon. Later, he was named Prince Heshuo Rui, his uncle regent, his uncle regent, and his father regent. He defeated Mongolia and Li's North Korea in Monan, and then led his army into the pass to fight, defeating the main force of the Ming army and the peasant uprising army, and determining the Central Plains. It can be said that he was the founder of the Qing Dynasty and the most famous super general in the early Qing Dynasty. Even Zhu Cijiu was shocked!

On the opposite side is Dorgon, Zhu Cijiu had to be very careful. He cut off the arrows on the southern city wall with a solid bullet. That is necessary; barrage attack is also necessary; is it necessary to attack directly after the barrage?

Zhu Cijiong said he was a little scared and had to test it first, so he only sent 20,000 people in the first wave, and he specifically explained: Lu Xiangsheng is not allowed to go up, Zu Dabi is not allowed to go up, and other soldiers are OK to go up. If the enemy is too fierce, retreat first and don’t fight hard.

As a result, Zhu Cijiong's chin was almost shocked, and 20,000 people actually captured it. Dorgon didn't even block it. Before the Ming army climbed the city wall, he led his army to escape! Is this fun to me?

Not only Zhu Cijiu felt it was strange, but all the generals felt it was strange. Is this called defeat like a mountain? It is absolutely impossible. Jiannu is a famous fighting nation, and Huang Taiji is not an ordinary gangster. If you want to fight, you can escape with a look of your life. That is impossible at all!

The left guard of Dingliao Central was taken down inexplicably. The battle situation was so strange that even Sun Chengzong was confused. Fortunately, Dorgon did not massacre the city, so Zhu Cijiong was able to calmly summon a group of generals to discuss the next action.

Shengjing is right in front of you. You must be beaten, but how to fight specifically?

The Later Jin side could be said to have almost no major damage. Apart from the more than 50,000 people lost in Haizhou, the Dingliao Central Left Guard was only killed by the barrage, and there was nothing else. In other words, there was nearly 500,000 coalition forces between the Later Jin and Mongolia.

On the Ming side, the Ming army now gathered in Dingliao's central left guard and three legions, with 300,000 troops. This does not mean that the army was not composed of the coalition forces of the Later Jin and Mongolians, but that there were too many cities that were captured along the way. In such places where there were plains on all sides, it would not be possible to not send heavy troops to guard them.

At the beginning, the Ming army had the advantage in numbers. The Later Jin occupied so many cities, so they had to defend this and then defend it. Once the troops were dispersed, the Ming army could form a local advantage by simply gathering 300,000 troops. Now, the Ming army had to defend it here and there, and the troops had to be dispersed. In the future Jin, all the troops were concentrated in Shengjing, so it was difficult for the Ming army to form a local advantage.

In addition to the problem of military strength and weapons, the Ming army was indeed much ahead of the Later Jin in gunpowder weapons, but the Later Jin was not without any countermeasures. At least they could make cannons, and they were five-inch howitzers. Logically speaking, Huang Taiji knew that the Ming army's gunpowder weapons were powerful a few years ago. It has been almost half a year, and he could not have had any countermeasures. But what was strange was that he really couldn't think of any countermeasures. Haizhou and Dingliao Central Left Guards were only equipped with twenty cannons, and they were placed on the city wall. They were bombarded by the Ming army, and even the arrows and cannons were all destroyed, and then there was nothing!

Zhu Cijing summoned a group of generals to discuss for a few days, and finally concluded that Huang Taiji must have a backup plan. The ultimate goal of his doing this was to lure the Ming army underestimate the enemy and advance rashly, and hurried to Shengjing City to attack the city. Then he took the backhand and defeated the main force of the Ming army in one fell swoop!

Since such a conclusion was achieved, we should not be too hasty. Zhu Cijiu became fierce and began another round of large-scale movement of troops. First, Shi Kefa led 50,000 imperial guards to Dingliao Right Guards from sea to replace Mao Wenlong, leaving only 50,000 imperial guards to station in the capital, while Mao Wenlong led 100,000 Dongjiang troops to Dingliao Central Left Guards to join the main force of the Ming army.

Then he issued an order to let all the Ming troops on the front line of Zunhua gather in Zunhua, leaving only the general of Xuanfu Hou Shilu to lead the original 50,000 defenders of Zunhua to guard Zunhua, the general of Changping You Shiwei led 30,000 troops to guard Shanhaiguan, and the remaining 100,000 troops to transfer all the remaining 100,000 troops to Liaodong, allowing Qin Yiming to lead 50,000 troops to guard Haizhou, Qin Gongming led 50,000 troops to guard Liaozhongleft Guard, while Cao Wenzhao led 100,000 Guanning Army to join the main force of the Ming army.

In this way, the number of Ming army participating in the battle in Liaodong reached a terrifying 800,000. In addition to nearly 300,000 troops stationed in cities and food, the Tianxiong Army, Qin Army, Dongjiang Army, Guanning Army and the First Imperial Guard Army were assembled outside the Left Guard City in Dingliao. A total of 500,000 troops were gathered, and all the elite troops of the Ming army were assembled to Liaodong. The Ming Dynasty wanted to devote all the efforts of the whole country to a decisive battle with the Later Jin Dynasty!

How terrifying it is to gather 500,000 troops together. The battalion alone has dozens of miles of dense military tents. The dense military tents are endless. The food and grass consumed every day are millions of kilograms, and the team transporting food and grass alone is more than ten miles long!

Not only the army, but also the artillery Zhu Cijiong made sufficient preparations. In the past two months, although Song Yingxing has been producing artillery shells with all efforts, the casting of artillery did not stop. Moreover, the production of all the Type 618 howitzers were made, and this time they were transported to Liaodong with the gathered army. In this way, the Type 618 howitzers reached a terrifying five hundred. As for the artillery shells, they have been sent over. Now nearly 200,000 six-inch solid bullets and 100,000 spikes have accumulated.

Before we knew it, spring had passed, midsummer was approaching, the weather gradually became hot, and Zhu Cijiu's heart was gradually becoming hot. The time for the decisive battle was coming, the army had gathered and the artillery was in place, so let's go straight to Shengjing.

Of course, the 500,000 army is not just about to leave. If you really dare to leave, you will go. At that time, the enemy suddenly rushed over, and you will not know how many people will be killed just by trampling on each other. Moreover, the destination must be set first. It is not that a large number of people will just run over and station at will. At that time, it will be troublesome to attack the city. The 500,000 army battalion is dozens of miles. If the siege team is stationed at the end, then when they start siege, they will have to run dozens of miles first. Do they still have the strength to climb the ladder at that time?

Therefore, before the army set off, Zhu Cijing gathered all the commanders and generals of the army to discuss the military advancement. The generals present were:

Duke Zhenguo, Taifu, Ji Liao Governor and Minister of War Sun Chengzong;

Qin Liangyu, the leader of the First Corps of the Imperial Guards;

The chief general of the Tianxiong Army, Lu Xiangsheng;

Sun Chuanting, the chief general of the Qin army;

Cao Wenzhao, the chief general of the Guanning Army;

Mao Wenlong, the chief general of the Dongjiang Army.

These can be said to be famous generals in history, and they are naturally familiar with marching and fighting. After more than an hour of discussion, the plan came out.

First, we arranged the siege troops. Although Shengjing is larger than Haizhou and Dingliao's central left guards, it is not much larger. The city wall is only about six miles wide, which means that the single-sided defenders are only 50,000 or 60,000, so we just need to send two legions to attack. The result of everyone's discussion was that the Qin army and the Dongjiang army were attacking, so these two legions were stationed in the front, and their vanguards took the lead and covered each other when marching.

Then there is the issue of defense. According to the scale of Shengjing, it can be stationed at most more than 200,000 troops. Then the Later Jin and Mongolian coalition forces still have at least 200,000 troops outside the city. These 200,000 troops have to be guarded. Zhu Cijing is in the center with the First Corps of the Imperial Guard. There is no need to consider whether Tianxiong Army and Guanning Army are defending left and right. The main thing is to set up camp under Shengjing City to ensure that they can be safe.

The final agreement was to build a large camp in the shape of a font, that is, the front army was the Qin army and the Dongjiang army, separated from the left and right, and camped three miles away from Shengjing City; the first army of the Imperial Guards was the Central Army, with 300 500 Type 618 howitzers were lined in front, three miles away from the city, and behind was the Central Army camp, and the other 200 500 Type 618 howitzers were lined in the center camp; as for the other 600 Type 317 howitzers, Type 417 howitzers, Type 518 howitzers were lined in the camps of Tianxiong Army and Guanning Army, and they were lined out on the left and right sides. If the enemy came to steal the camp, they would have to eat a meal of shells first, and then face the Tianxiong Army and Guanning Army.

After all the discussion was settled, Zhu Cijing stood up and said enthusiastically: "Tomorrow, the army will set out to attack Shengjing, drive away Jiannu, and restore Liaodong!"
Chapter completed!