Xu Shiyang noticed this hedonistic psychology of the officers of the New Army.

In fact, since the victory in the Battle of Gaizhou, this kind of thinking has quietly grown along with the improvement of the strategic environment in Qi Province.

This is not a good thing.

It is correct to strategically despise the enemy and to assume that our side will win and the enemy will be defeated. But if you have a similar idea tactically, it is likely to be looking for death.

After all, even the Indians could find an opportunity to annihilate hundreds or thousands of European colonists, and the gap in combat power between the new army and the Tartars was not to the point of the whiteskins and the Indians.

Xu Shiyang secretly made up his mind that he must carry out an activity involving the whole army this year, so as to gather the morale of the army and the thinking of the soldiers, so as not to be corroded by the hedonistic atmosphere.

As for the next war goal, Xu Shiyang still tends to fight the Tartars in Fuzhou.

After the seizure of Gaizhou last year, Fuzhou's Wanyan Yinshu had actually lost an important strategic rear, and the supply line from Gaizhou to Fuzhou, which was several hundred miles long, was completely within the attack range of the Qi Provincial Navy.

Therefore, Fuzhou can basically be regarded as an isolated city on the Liaodong Peninsula.

If the Tartars stick to Fuzhou, Xu Shiyang doesn't mind taking Fuzhou to encircle the reinforcements and see the real chapter with the Tartars.

This strategic intent was also the main reason why Xu Shiyang was in a hurry to expand the new army to 40,000 - such a number of troops meant that the Qi army was no longer afraid of a strategic decisive battle with the main Tartar force.

Of course, in the strategic decisive battle in southern Liaoning, the Tartars must be willing to cooperate.

Not long after Xu Shiyang decided to send troops to Fuzhou, Beixinkou passed a new news: Wanyan Yinshuke stationed in Fuzhou was evacuating!

In order to prevent the Qi army from attacking and withdrawing from the queue, from the end of March, Wanyan Yinshuke sent a large number of cavalry to suppress the Qi army scouts in the north and south, so as to block the Qi army's land reconnaissance of Fuzhou.

Subsequently, the Jurchen Bo Ji Lie Shi Lie Zhining personally led the troops and established more than a dozen large-scale garrison stations between Gaizhou and Fuzhou together with Wanyan Yinshuke.

In order to ensure the retreat, Liaoyang also used the treasury with great mercy and allocated some grain and grass to Yinshuke and Lie Zhining.

After everything was ready, Yinshu could lead four thousand armor soldiers to the palace, and the rest of the old and weak in Fuzhou were taken care of by Lie Zhining, and retreated to Gaizhou in batches and stages.

By the time the Qi provincial reconnaissance ship detected the true intentions of the Tartars, there were less than 20,000 old and weak people left in the vicinity of Gaizhou, at least 80,000 men and women of various ethnic groups, carrying most of the family property, grain, cattle, sheep and livestock, and retreated to Gaizhou through the shelter of the pre-built post station.

After Xu Shiyang got the news, he sneered again and again.

As soon as spring began, the Tartars abandoned the entire Liaodong Peninsula region and implemented this costly strategic contraction.

Obviously, they had lost confidence in resisting the strategic offensive of the Qi army in the hilly terrain, and pinned all their hopes of victory on the field battle on the Liaozhong Plain, which was easy for cavalry to play.

Of course, Xu Shiyang would not run to the plains in recent years to harden the Tartar cavalry, but this made it even more impossible to let go of Yan Yinshu casually.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the second year of Longdao, the Qi army in southern Liaoning gathered three field brigades (Jingyuan, Jingyuan, and Laiyuan), all thirty independent cavalry companies (twenty dragoon companies and ten heavy cavalry companies), as well as Xu Shiyang's ten companies of guards and ten companies of traps, totaling 11,000 army field troops, 2,000 navy and marines, and 10,000 auxiliary soldiers, a total of 23,000 people, to launch an attack on Fuzhou.

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The news that the Qi army landed at the same time in the north and south of the mouth naturally could not hide the complete face of the cavalry.

However, even after knowing the movements of the Qi army, this Jurchen Bo Ji Lie was still in a dilemma.

His reinforcements, Bo Ji Lie Shi Lie Zhining are leading troops to escort tens of thousands of Fuzhou soldiers and civilians to retreat north, and now the only troops left in Fuzhou are his 4,000 armor soldiers and about 6,000 Ahha.

Of course, it is impossible for such a force to deal with the menacing Qi army.

But Fuzhou can't give up now, because there are still more than 20,000 women and children in the city who haven't had time to retreat and the last batch of property, which are valuable assets for Dajin, who is scarce in human resources, and can't give up lightly.

This situation, in fact, is very similar to last year's battle of Gaizhou, but it is a dilemma, and the side that can only bite the bullet and try to repel the enemy's attack has become the Jin army.

Yinshu didn't know if he had the good luck of Xu Shiyang (who had always blamed luck for the outcome of the Battle of Qinghe) to be able to repel an enemy with an advantage in strength.

However, he didn't have much choice, he could only try it, otherwise Wanyan Lou Room would be a lesson for him!

Of course, the Jurchens considered the possibility of the Qi army coming to attack at this time, so Yinshu Ke also made some preparations.

Although he only had 10,000 soldiers in his hands, Yinshu had prepared 4 bronze general cannons, 2 bowl cannons that could only fire shotguns, 11 tiger squat cannons, and 3 divine machine cannons.

A full 20 artillery pieces, although they are of different shapes, can be counted on these things to make a few openings in the Qi army's determined infantry phalanx, allowing the Jurchen armor soldiers to enter the white-knuckle combat that they are best at.

In addition, in order to give Aha slaves a certain combat effectiveness, Yinshu Ke equipped his Aha with a large number of 3.7-meter spears equivalent to those of Qi Junrui's soldiers, as well as about 500 muskets of various types.

These guns were specially strengthened by the three princes of Liaoyang to cover this retreat, and they were also all the firearms that could be taken out by the current position of the Jin State.

Unlike the standard muskets of the Qi army, the caliber of the Jin army's muskets varied, including those that completely imitated the standard muskets of the Qi army, as well as larger-caliber lifting guns and lighter arquebuses of smaller calibers.

All these things are equipped for Aha slave soldiers, and Yinshu can hope that they can at least have some combat power, exchange some Qi troops, and create as many opportunities as possible for the four thousand Jurchen armor soldiers in his hands.

As for whether Aha soldiers can defeat the Qi army ...... in the confrontation, they can't even think about this aspect of Yinshu.

He knew very well that the morale of the slave soldiers was simply unreliable, not to mention that the entire Jin army only had 1,500 rounds of ammunition - that is, 500 muskets were each stocked with 3 rounds, and it was a dream to expect this number to overwhelm the standard 60 rounds of Qi army musketeers.

Of course, Yinshu Ke hoped to get more ammunition rations, but the level of the Jurchens was really low, the gunpowder formula was far behind the Qi army, and the supply of sulfur was insufficient, so the annual output of gunpowder was only about 1,000 catties.

Since the beginning of the production of gunpowder, the Jurchens took out a few hundred catties to assassinate their Great Khan, and used nearly a thousand catties when attacking the Mughu, and now the remaining hundreds of catties of gunpowder are allocated to 20 cannons and 500 guns, and it is already very good to have three spare rounds.

Besides, the real trump card of the Jin army is still those real Jurchen armor soldiers, and the guns and spears in the hands of Aha soldiers are actually just a thing that attracts the opponent's firepower and allows the slaves to exert some combat effectiveness.