Outside the Desheng Gate of the south gate of Shengjing, the flag is displayed, the soldiers are like a forest, and the emperor Taiji stands on the city tower to review the army.

The newly appointed Zhenghuang Banner Baya Lama Zhang Jing Ao Bai stood behind Huang Taiji and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the newly recruited Eight Banner armor soldiers have been transferred, with a total of 25,000 Manchurian, Mongolian and Han armor soldiers, 30,000 followers, 53,000 Clothed Aha soldiers, 20,000 newly formed Wuzhen Chaoha firearms infantry troops, 1,000 artillerymen, and 1,200 Korean national firearms soldiers. ”

Huang Taiji nodded, all the reserve forces that the Qing Dynasty can mobilize are here, plus the 200,000 troops on the front line, this is already all the troops of the Qing Dynasty, victory or defeat in one move, if it loses, it will be a catastrophe for the Qing Dynasty.

However, Huang Taiji also knew that the Qing Dynasty seemed to have a lot of troops, but in fact, only the armored soldiers had strong combat effectiveness.

The Eight Banners system is a strengthened version of the health system, the smallest unit is the Niu Lu, generally every 300 households for a Niu Lu, each household out of a banner, the father dies and the son succeeds, and the brother dies and the younger brother dies.

In the Eight Banners, the soldiers are called the banners, which are divided into the armored banners and the unarmored banners, and the reserves who are not soldiers are called the remaining dings or idle, and they are generally used as followers when they go to war, and their status is higher than that of the clothed Ahabs.

Whether or not to wear armor in the Eight Banners Army is not to see how many armor weapons there are and whether there is equipment, but to see your own ability, and only through layers of assessment can you achieve the status of armor.

Manchu men from the age of ten, like the Ming imperial examination, have to hold an examination every three years, and when they meet the standard, they become guards, have military salaries, distribute armor, and then pass the examination is a horse soldier and a Baya soldier.

In this martial environment in the early Manchu Qing Dynasty, the proportion of armored soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria was still very high, after all, the assessment began at the age of ten, and if you can't wear armor at the age of twenty, it means that there is no future in this life.

The armored soldiers and followers are combat-effective, but the newly recruited Clothed Ahabs are not, and the Manchurian soldiers will let them serve as cannon fodder.

Cui Xiang stood at the back of the military formation, his thin body was only wearing a thin military uniform, and he looked very small in the army.

He couldn't hear anyone talking on the castle tower at all, but there was a cheer from in front of him, and he also raised his hand to cheer twice, and his cheers were more to praise the majesty of Shengjing City.

On Cui Xiang's side, there were Baoyi Aha of all ages, from the fifty-year-old man to a teenager like him, everyone raised their hands numbly, and they called out weakly.

Huang Taiji on the city tower nodded with satisfaction, as if he was very satisfied with his speech.

He asked lightly, "What's going on in Liaoyang?" ”

Ao Bai hurriedly said: "Lord Baiyintu was ordered to stick to it and refused to fight, and the Ming army was helpless, and only scolded outside the city every day. ”

Huang Taiji smiled coldly: "I hope they will still be as rampant as they are now in a few days!" ”

Huang Taiji ordered: "The army is pulled, along the south of the Taizi River, digging trenches to besiege the Ming army, cutting off its grain road, digging a deep trench from Chang'an Fort, the trench needs to be eight feet deep, one zhang and two feet wide above, and extremely narrow below, so that its horses cannot cross, people cannot climb, and fall into a place where there is no toe!" ”

Huang Taiji firmly believes that in this battle, the Qing Dynasty will win!

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Outside the city of Liaoyang, in the camp of the Ming army.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, there is a huge sand table in the middle, and the generals and staff are constantly coming and going, and the Ming army has received the news of the arrival of the Qing army's reinforcements.

Yang Qili reported: "Your Highness Qiqi, according to Long Xiang's reconnaissance at night, the Qing army's hundreds of thousands of reinforcements did not come in the direction of Liaoyang, they desperately dug trenches in the area of the Taizi River and the Sancha River, and dug three big trenches in a row!" ”

Everyone watched around the sand table, Mao Yuanyi looked at the location of the Qing army's trench Chen Siliang for a long time, and said: "The slave chief intends to cut off all the connections and food supply between our army and the rear, and surround us before and after!" ”

Sun Chuanting stroked his beard and said: "Yes, since we went out to Jinzhou, we have been marching all the way, and we have penetrated nearly five hundred miles, and we are also three hundred miles away from Xiping Fort, this supply line is too long......

He added: "There is no better poison than starvation, if Jiannu cuts off the connection between our army and Xiping Fort, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Sun Yingyuan said: "Xiping Fort has Governor Hong in charge, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the three towns of Xuanda such as Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei, so they should be safe, as long as we take Liaoyang in the fastest time and break all the way, their plan to attack before and after will be self-defeating." ”

He Renlong smiled and said: "Yes, those trenching Tartars are more than 200 miles away from us, and the dishes will be cold when they come over!" If we defeat Liaoyang, those calves will only be attacked by our friendly forces in Xipingbao in turn, and they don't know how to die! ”

Everyone laughed, they all knew that the current situation was very delicate, the Tianwu Army and the Qin soldiers surrounded Liaoyang, the Qing army's reinforcements were far behind the Tianwu army, and the Ming army in Xipingbao was behind the Qing army's reinforcements, it depends on who breaks the situation first.

Yang Qili hesitated for a moment and said, "Your Highness, the last general found that Jiannu's positive white flag and positive blue flag had disappeared. ”

"Gone? What do you mean? Zhu Cihong frowned.

Yang Qili replied: "When we attacked the Qing army camp at night, the two banners were no longer there, and the last general thought that they had changed their guard and went to Shengjing, but a few days ago, I received information that a large number of Qing troops had crossed the Liao River and went west, and the banners were white and blue, and the Zhenghuang Banner, which was not collected at night and reported to Jiannu, was going to the Liao River to increase troops, and the last general could not see their movements......"

"West? To the west is the Horqin steppe, could it be that something happened to their Mongol tribes? ”

Zhu Cihong paced back and forth, looked at the map in the tent, and carefully looked at the terrain of the western front and back, left, left and right.

When he saw Yizhou, he suddenly exclaimed: "It's not good, they want to hit us back and completely cut off our food road!" ”

The generals in the tent were all shocked, looked at the terrain of Yizhou, and began to discuss.

Zhu Cihong suddenly thought of the tactics of Huang Taiji in history, and the Qing army rushed 500 miles to cut off the grain route of the Ming army, turning the tide of the war in one fell swoop.

However, the current situation and the historical situation have undergone great changes, Zhu Cihong thinks that the back road is well arranged, even if the front army loses and retreats, it can advance the actual control area of the Ming Dynasty for 300 miles, and compress the living space of the Manchu Dynasty.

At this time, even if Zhu Cihong wanted to send someone to rescue, it was too late, there was Liaoyang Jiancheng in front, and there were more than 100,000 Qing troops in the back, and it was impossible to recover and rescue.

There were nearly 100,000 Ming troops in Yizhou, Xipingbao, and Jinzhou, and Zhu Cihong believed that they could hold on.

Even so, the Tianwu Army must conquer Liaoyang as soon as possible, march to Shengjing, and solve the crisis on the back road by encircling Wei and saving Zhao.

After deliberation, the Ming army, with the Qin soldiers as the vanguard, launched an attack on Liaoyang City.

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