Two days later, Liu Juntao led the officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army to the north of the Shazhou Acropolis.

When Liu Juntao led the soldiers of the Tiance Army to advance sixty miles away from the Shazhou Acropolis, he finally encountered the Tartars' brigade of soldiers and horses.

At this time, the news that the Acropolis of Anding was captured by the Ming army had spread, and the Ming army was taken aback when he heard the news, but he did not expect that the Ming army would divide his troops to capture the Acropolis of Anding, cutting off his way to the south.

Moreover, Jia Silan has always thought that the Ming army confronting him is the main force of the Ming army, and now it seems that the Ming army in front of him is at best a second-line soldier and horse, and those Ming troops who raided Anding Acropolis and other places are the real elite!

As a result, he immediately divided his troops to the south with 50,000 troops, and strictly ordered the generals of the unified army to delay the advance of the Ming army in the south at all costs.

Then, he left 50,000 troops to garrison the Acropolis of Shazhou, and he personally led the remaining 200,000 Tartars to attack eastward, preparing to defeat the tens of thousands of Ming troops in front of him first.

In the wilderness, Liu Juntao led nearly 70,000 soldiers from all divisions of the Tiance Army to complete the formation and prepare for an attack three miles away from the Tartar camp.

However, the 50,000 Tartars who came to meet him refused to fight, and dug trenches and built earthen walls around the camp, apparently preparing to defend the camp.

Many of these soldiers and horses of the Pykeli Division came from the west of Hamiwei, and they had close ties with the countries and ministries west of the Western Regions, and they also learned a lot of civil engineering techniques and knew a lot of offensive and defensive tactics, which were already much more advanced than the nomads in the northern steppe, at least in offensive and defensive warfare.

Liu Juntao also frowned when he saw this, it seemed that the 50,000 enemy troops in front of him were not the 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers temporarily assembled in the Acropolis, but the real elite soldiers brought by Jia Silan from Hamiwei!

Liu Juntao realized that his original plan of rapid advance and two-way joint attack was probably going to be affected.

Since Gaslan was able to send tens of thousands of troops to block him, it meant that Gaslan was ready to lead the main army to attack the soldiers and horses of Shaanxi Town!

"It seems that this Gasilan really has some skills, and he makes decisions quickly, he doesn't drag his feet at all, and he is really a strong enemy!"

Liu Juntao sighed with emotion, and ordered all departments to prepare for an attack.

Since the tens of thousands of Tartar troops wanted to defend, the army would attack that day.

Liu Juntao was only worried that the time would be affected, and he didn't think that the tens of thousands of Tartar soldiers and horses could stop the advance of the Tiance Army. Although these temporary fortifications built by the Tartars look decent, they are still just an axe compared to the city defense theory that has lasted for thousands of years in China and developed into a perfect system!

"Order: The Vietnamese cavalry army will attack the east, the Zhichong army will attack the west, the Huben army will attack the south, and the three armies will attack at the same time after half an hour!"

As soon as he came up, Liu Juntao invested three armies and more than 50,000 soldiers, although there is no guarantee that the camp will be broken today, but at least it can inflict heavy losses on tens of thousands of Tartar troops.

At the same time, Liu Juntao also transferred the artillery unit attached to the Long Xiang Army to the position of the Tiger Army, strengthened the fire power of the Tiger Army, and prepared to bombard the Tartar camp with maximum firepower.

Half an hour later, all the artillery of the Tiance Army opened fire at the same time, and the fierce fire suddenly enveloped the entire Tartar battalion, covering all the 50,000 Tartar troops.

In an instant, the camp was full of fire, and there were countless Tartar soldiers who were hit, or shattered by the cannons, or fell to the ground howling in pain, and the whole army was in great confusion in a very short time.

The enemies these Tartar armies originally faced were all armed with swords, guns, bows and arrows, and even if they had encountered firearms, they were far less fierce than the Tiance Army, and they had never seen such large-scale firepower, and they were immediately dizzy.

If the two armies fought in formation, the 50,000 Tartar army might still be able to fight with the soldiers of the Tiance Army for a few rounds, at least it would make the officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army spend some effort. But now the 50,000 Tartar army has given up the power of their iron cavalry, and chooses to use positional warfare to block the speed of the Tiance army to the north, and there is no way to resist the iron curtain-like artillery fire, and even the salvo counterattack carried out by the Tartar army is extremely weak in the face of artillery fire.

Seeing this, Liu Juntao was also very surprised, he was still going to take it here for a few days, and at the same time, he was also thinking about whether to mobilize troops and horses from Suzhou Wei to support the army of Shaanxi Town in the past few days.

But seeing that the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Tartar camp were beaten and powerless, Liu Juntao suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly ordered the whole army to launch a general attack, and at all costs, be sure to take the Tartar camp within today!

The order was quickly conveyed, and the roar of the artillery of the various units of the Tiance Army was even more deafening, and after an hour, the entire Tartar camp was almost covered in gunsmoke, and the camp was full of firelight, and the original camp was also unrecognizable, and even many trenches were refilled with flying dust, and most of the earthen walls surrounding the camp collapsed!

At this time, the artillery of the various divisions had almost reached its limit, and it was necessary to stop the shelling to cool down.

Seeing this, Liu Juntao ordered the artillery departments of all departments to stop the shelling, and the officers and men of all departments launched an attack!

As the war drums of the Chinese army sounded, the artillery units of the Vietnamese cavalry army, the Zhechong army, the Huben army, and the Longxiang army stopped shelling one after another, and then the officers and men of each unit rushed to the already dilapidated Tatar camp and launched a general attack.

At this time, the soldiers and horses in the Tartar camp were already in disarray, at least four or five thousand people of the 50,000 army died in the artillery fire of the Tiance army, and the remaining soldiers and horses were also in danger, it can be said that the army has been in chaos, and the morale of the army has collapsed!

In the face of the soldiers of the Tiance Army who were killed at the same time in the east, west, and south of the camp, the remaining more than 40,000 Tartar soldiers and horses in the camp were unable to resist at all, but they shot out two bursts of arrows, and then there was no other move.

With the roar of fierce birds, the Tartar camp was broken in an instant, and the soldiers of the Vietnamese cavalry, the Zhichong army, and the Tiger Ben army rushed into the camp from the east, west, and south at the same time, and started a melee with the scattered Tartar soldiers.

"Get on the bayonet!"

The generals of the Tiance Army roared angrily, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tiance Army inserted bayonets and rushed towards the nearest Tartar rout with a roar.

The melee in the camp unfolded, but it was basically a one-sided situation, and the officers and men of the Tiance Army were progressing smoothly, and they were already strong in battle, and they were naturally captured against the Tartar army that had been defeated.

After a short time, a large number of Tartar soldiers began to flee from the gate, rushed out from the north gate of the camp, and fled for their lives towards the Shazhou Acropolis.

In this regard, Liu Juntao did not stop it, but was happy to see it happen, after all, these Tartar rout soldiers fled back, not only could not help Gan Kaslan to continue fighting, but would bring back the news of the loss of the stability guard and the fiasco of the camp battle, which would make hundreds of thousands of Tartar soldiers feel uneasy!

"Order all departments: Do not stop the Tartar rout from fleeing north, and all departments will send iron cavalry soldiers to pursue for a while and return!"

"Order!"

The heralds flew away, and soon the iron cavalry roared out of the battle formation and pursued them to the north.

At the same time, the battle in the Tartar camp was still fierce, but it was already the end of the battle, and the officers and men of the Tiance Army had completed the division and encirclement of the Tartar rout in the camp, and then launched the final attack.

In the evening of the same day, Liu Juntao commanded the officers and men of the Tiance Army to clean up the Tartar rout in the camp and its surroundings, and then rested in the Tartar camp for the night.

Early the next morning, Liu Juntao commanded the officers and men of the Tiance Army to continue to the north and kill the Acropolis of Shazhou.

At the same time that Liu Juntao broke through the Tartar camp, he also led an army of 200,000 Tartars to defeat the soldiers and horses of Shaanxi Town, and the chief officer of Shaanxi Town, Niu Ling, was defeated in this battle, losing 7,000 soldiers, and then the army retreated for 30 miles before re-encamping in a mountainous area near the Suzhou Acropolis.

After receiving the urgent report from Niu Linghe, the chief soldier of Shaanxi Town, Liu Juntao did not make a fuss, after all, there was a huge disparity in the strength of the soldiers and the enemy army in Shaanxi Town, and it was Jia Silan who personally led the troops, so it was reasonable for the soldiers and horses of Shaanxi Town to suffer losses.

Therefore, Liu Juntao ordered Niu Ling, the chief officer of Shaanxi Town, to garrison his troops in situ, seize the time to rest, and five days later, the army approached the Shazhou Acropolis again.

According to Liu Juntao's estimate, five days was enough time for him to lead his troops to the Acropolis of Shazhou and force Jia Silan to lead his troops back to help.

In order to prevent the soldiers of Shaanxi Town from thinking too much, Liu Juntao also deliberately mentioned in the order that he had defeated the 50,000 Tartar army and was advancing towards the Shazhou Acropolis, and the main army of the Tartars would immediately retreat, and the two armies would converge under the Shazhou Acropolis!

After receiving the order, Niu Linghe, the chief military officer of Shaanxi Town, also breathed a sigh of relief, and was originally worried that his troops would be eaten by the main army of the Tartars, but now it seems that it is safe for the time being.

Therefore, Niu Linghe seized the time to reorganize the army and prepared to enter the Shazhou Acropolis again five days later.

Four days later, Liu Juntao led the officers and soldiers of the Tiance Army to arrive at the Shazhou Acropolis and set up camp ten miles south of the Shazhou Acropolis.

And Gan Gasilan also heard the news, and hurriedly led the main army of 200,000 Tartars to withdraw to the Acropolis of Shazhou.

At this time, there were only more than 270,000 Tartar troops left in the Shazhou Acropolis, and in the face of the 60,000 or 70,000 Tiance Army soldiers ten miles outside the city, they did not take the initiative to attack, but began to build fortifications around the Shazhou Acropolis and set up a large camp to defend them!

On the fifth day, Niu Linghe, the chief military officer of Shaanxi Town, led more than 30,000 soldiers to arrive and set up camp 20 miles east of the Tiance army camp.

On this day, Liu Juntao received an urgent report from Hu Dexing, the governor of Shandong: after more than ten days of negotiations, the negotiations with the Dutch finally collapsed!

Liu Juntao's face became solemn again.