In the first month of the first year of the Apocalypse, Gengchen Day sacrificed to the Taimiao.

After the sacrifice, Zhu Youxiao remembered that he had been in the Ming Dynasty for four months, and he had not reunited with his family, that is, Zhu Youxiao's family. So, I took this opportunity to reunite once, when Zhu Youxiao led Zhu Youzhen and his three sisters Zhu Huiyan, Zhu Huijing, and Zhu Huiyuan to meet the Empress Dowager Liu, the Empress Dowager Liu was very excited, and she had worked hard for half her life, thinking that she would not see the light of day, but she didn't expect to be named the Empress Dowager for some reason. After the family happily had a reunion dinner, Zhu Youxiao chatted with the Queen Mother for a while, and then left the three princesses to accompany the Queen Mother, and Zhu Youxiao left with Zhu Youzhen.

Looking at Zhu Youzhen, who is only ten years old now, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but sigh in his heart, although Zhu Youzhen is very diligent and smart, it is a pity that the Ming Dynasty was already terminally ill and hopeless when he ascended the throne. Now that I have somehow run to this era, I don't know if I still have only seven years of life like in history, if that's the case, I have to plan early, Zhu Youzhen has done the legacy of "the emperor guards the country, and the king dies in the community", although he is suspicious by nature, he is also a person with backbone, which is worth cultivating. Alas, let him go to the official training school for three years to mix anonymously for three years, open up his realm, and then let him join the army and work with the army for a few years!

After the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Sun Ruyou was selected, it was accurate. Let him toss it.

At the beginning of February, Lei Mingtian reported that the 'two kicking' small cannon was basically successfully developed with the help of Song Yingxing and Bi Maokang, and Xu Guangqi found Cheng Tianying, the grandson of Cheng Dawei, who solved the problem of the rangefinder with an abacus after 20 days of hard work, and could shoot basically accurately, and the distance of the small cannonball was set to be more than 180 paces, and a batch of every 50 steps, and the ammunition was divided into two types: anti-personnel bombs and pepper bombs. Zhu Youxiao specially ordered to make some chili bombs, the purpose of which was to prevent Jianyu from rushing closer, so that he could use chili pepper bombs to spicy his eyes, so that Jianyu could not open his eyes, and his combat power would naturally decline.

Zhu Youxiao immediately mobilized Sun Yuanhua to return to Beijing, asked him to take a thousand people to practice the use of small cannons, and then ordered Lei Mingtian to speed up the manufacture of cannonballs. Finally, after half a month, 5,000 small cannonballs were made, and Sun Yuanhua's soldiers were basically familiar with the use of small cannons, so they took a hundred small cannons and went straight to Liaodong in the form of horse teams, obeying Sun Chengzong's dispatch.

In the city of Haotuala in eastern Liaodong, Nurhachi and his military advisors and sons gathered together, one by one, and were studying how to seize Liaoyang and Shenyang, some said that they would outwit and give full play to the advantages of the cavalry in field battles, and some said that they would rely on brave soldiers to storm and break the convention that Dajin soldiers could not storm and seize the city.

Nurhachi looked at these sons and the generals with great interest, and listened carefully to their discussions. Military Fan Wencheng squinted his eyes and frowned, thinking about the battle plan. This is also the pre-war practice of the Jin people, Nurhachi was taught by the military strategy of the * Lu, give full play to the intelligence of his subordinates, and these generals are almost all disciples of the * Lu, very familiar with the strategy of the war, it is these reasons, coupled with the extremely mobile cavalry, this is the myth of "the Manchurian is not ten thousand, the Manchu is invincible" in the future.

After a fierce debate, Nurhachi finally had a more complete idea in his mind. He decided to take Liaoyang and outwit Shenyang.

The specific arrangement is that he personally led the team, led his son Huang Taiji, who was good at fighting evil battles, to take 30,000 horsepower to capture Liaoyang, and then platoon his son Abatai, who was good at field warfare, led 40,000 horses to ambush Shenyang on the way to Liaoyang, and then arranged his son Manggutai, who was very powerful, to lead 20,000 troops, supplemented by military Fan Wencheng, to outwit Shenyang.

Nurhachi's battle assumption is that Liaoyang is the location of the Ming army's Liaodong Governor's Palace, as soon as he attacks Liaoyang, Sun Chengzong, who was born as a civilian official, will inevitably mobilize Shenyang's army reinforcements, and Abatai's cavalry can take advantage of the situation to wait for Lao to ambush on the way, and Fan Wencheng has already contacted Neiying in Shenyang City, so that as soon as the main force of Shenyang reinforcements comes out, the troops will inevitably be empty, and Manggutai will be able to easily obtain Shenyang under the response of Neiying.

I have to say that Nurhachi's strategy is clever, this plan is very well-arranged, and the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty in history have been frightened by his strategy and collapsed. This is almost the same as the People's Liberation Army's siege and reinforcement tactics during the Liberation War. However, there is a premise for this, that is, the besieged master will be timid, panic when he sees the besieged, and hurriedly ask for help everywhere, but he is broken by each one.

Is Sun Chengzong such a person? Apparently not. He was the most famous military strategist in the late Ming Dynasty who used literature to unify the military, and he knew that he knew that he would not be defeated in a hundred battles. Since he saw Liu Yidao for the first time, he has fallen in love with this guy deeply, he is strong in martial arts, resourceful, and hidden. Sun Chengzong had long understood that Nurhachi would inevitably use troops in the spring season, so just after the first month, he asked Liu Yidao to send Jinyi Wei, who knew Jurchen language, to disguise himself as a walking merchant and walk around the tribes of the Jin Kingdom to inquire about the news.

How many Jurchens there were, when they entered the customs, they were only 300,000 iron horsemen, and now they use 90,000 people at once, except for women and children who can't carry guns, almost the whole clan is dispatched, so you have to ask the four departments of Hulun who have just recovered to send 20,000 troops, and these 20,000 people were later sent to Abatai's ambush, which also hides the disaster, of course, Nurhachi doesn't know it now. As soon as there was a change in the people of this Jin country, Liu Yidao's men and horses immediately reported to Sun Chengzong, and as soon as the three-way army was dispatched, Sun Chengzong immediately understood Nurhachi's plan. Therefore, the plan was arranged in a targeted manner.

The specific plan is that Sun Chengzong will take 40,000 horses and horses in Liaoyang City to defend the fortified city, no matter how Nurhachi and Huang Taiji lure, they will never go out of the city to fight, but lure them to attack the city, with the help of red-coated cannons and Furlong machine cannons to kill and injure a large number of Jurchen people's vital forces, do not let them give full play to the advantages of cavalry, secretly mobilize the troops near Liaoyang to gather in the east of Liaoyang, and wait for the end of the battle in Shenyang and when Nurhachi retreats, he will attack on the whole line at ease and wait, so as to achieve the greatest results at the lowest cost. Shenyang City has 60,000 troops, sent 20,000 people to carry 20 "two kicking" small cannons, delayed the Altai 40,000 cavalry to move in the direction of Shenyang, and waited for Shenyang City to lure and annihilate the 20,000 horses of Mangergutai with the power of the "two kicking" small cannons, divide the "Hulun Four" men and horses, and attack the Altai headquarters cavalry in an all-round way, even if it cannot be completely annihilated, it must also destroy most of it. The battle plan was drawn up by both sides very closely, and the specific results of its implementation depended on the combat will and on-the-spot command ability of the generals of both sides.

On the tenth day of the first month of March in the first year of the Apocalypse, the battle first started in Liaoyang, Nurhachi led Huang Taiji and 30,000 horses to live in a place seven miles away from Liaoyang City, and then put on a siege posture, and since Sun Chengzong set the strategy of the tiger not out of the hole, he naturally would not go out of the city.

On March 11, the Jurchens chose to attack from the southeast, and for a time the Jurchens shot arrows with the momentum of covering the sky and the sun, while the Ming army chose strong archers to shoot at them with the tall city walls, which was basically equal. The Jurchens had the advantage of being physically strong and supported by horses; The advantage of the Ming army was that the city walls were high, and Sun Chuanting ordered the red-clothed cannons to shoot only at the Jurchens in distant and dense places, and the small cannons of the Furlong machine took advantage of their mobility, and more people took turns to pull the mobile cannons, and Sun Chuanting himself held the telescope given to him by Sun Chengzong to observe the movements of the Jurchens on the city tower. Sun Chuanting's heart is very beautiful, this telescope is the best used by Sun Chengzong himself, from the telescope, you can really see the mobilization and deployment of the Jurchens, and the Jurchens are blind people touching elephants.

The Jurchen attack from morning to noon, nearly 2,000 casualties, the offensive wave after wave, according to Sun Chengzong's deployment, at two o'clock Sun Chuanting released a small group of 30 cavalry from the north gate and went straight to Shenyang. And the Jurchens also pretended to stop them and let them go, as if both sides had a tacit understanding.