In the face of Jiannu's vicious act of slaughtering the city, Zhu Cijiong also wanted to rush to Shengjing immediately, capture Huang Taiji, execute Ling Chi, arrest all the Houjin troops, let them dig a pit, and then cut them all down, push them into the pit and bury them. But the battle can't be fought like this, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, if you fall into the trap of Huang Taiji because of a moment of anger, then it will be too late to regret it!

After taking Haizhou City, Zhu Cijiong gathered all the senior generals who participated in the war, analyzed the current war situation, and came to the conclusion that the loss of Jin after the first battle in Haizhou was not large, and the Mongol soldiers accounted for more than 50,000 of the more than 50,000 enemies destroyed, of which the Houjin soldiers were less than 5,000!

The reason why the Mongol and Houjin coalition forces abandoned the city and fled, luring the Ming army to pursue is a possibility, and there is also a possibility that Huang Taiji wants to concentrate his forces and the Ming army to a decisive battle, you must know that now there are nearly 500,000 Houjin and Mongol allied troops between the two cities of Dingliao Zhongzuowei and Shengjing, and the Ming army participated in the attack with three legions, 300,000 people. Moreover, to attack the left guard of Dingliao, Haizhou must also leave an army to defend the city, so that the forces will be more dispersed.

Zhu Cijiong discussed with the generals, and finally adopted Sun Chengzong's suggestion, transferred the Shandong garrison to garrison the three cities of Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Gaizhou, and transferred Cao Wenzhao's Guanning army to Haizhou to defend the city.

To say that the defenders of Shandong now have a total of 15,000 people, and each of the three cities of Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Gaizhou can only arrange 5,000 people to garrison, is it a bit less? In fact, otherwise, now the battlefield has moved to the northeast of Liao, and Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Gaizhou are located in the southeast of Liaodong, which is equivalent to the rear, and these three cities have not hoarded important materials such as grain and 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 you go to 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 broken, the impact on the morale of the army will be great, so Haizhou City must be garrisoned by a large army.

After more than half a month of mobilization, the army was all in place, and the reserves of artillery shells were enough to capture the left guard of Dingliaozhong.

In order to save time, the 300,000 army brought all the siege equipment under Haizhou City, so that although it was delayed on the road for half a day, it saved the time to build siege equipment.

Dingliao Zhongzuowei can be said to be the gateway of Shengjing, once lost, there is no city in the south of Shengjing, the capital of Houjin will directly face the attack of the Ming army, it stands to reason that Huang Taiji should send a powerful general to lead a heavy army to defend, but what about the actual situation?

The general is definitely a general, and the guard of the left guard in Dingliao is the brother of Huang Taiji, the favorite son of the lord of Houjin Nurhachi and the concubine Abahai, the fourteenth son of the emperor, Dolgon, who was the commander of the white flag at the time. This Dolgon doesn't need to say much, he was successively named Prince Shuorui, Uncle Regent, Uncle Regent, Imperial Uncle Regent, Imperial Father Regent, he defeated Monan Mongolia and Li Korea, and then led the army into the customs to fight, defeated the main force of the Ming army and the peasant rebel army, Dingding Central Plains, can be said to be the founder of the Qing Dynasty, the most famous super general in the early Qing Dynasty, I heard that the guard will be Dolgon, even Zhu Cijiong was shocked!

On the other side was Dolgon, and Zhu Cijiong had to be cautious and cut off the arrow battlements on the southern city wall, which was necessary; Barrage attacks, that's also a must; Is the barrage followed by a direct onslaught?

Zhu Cijiong said that he was a little afraid, and he had to test it first, so the first wave only sent 20,000 people, and he specially explained: Lu Xiangsheng, not allowed to go up, Zu Dabi, not allowed to go up, other soldiers, it's okay to go up, if the enemy is too fierce, retreat first, don't fight hard.

As a result, Zhu Cijiong's jaw was about to fall off, 20,000 people were actually captured, Dolgon didn't even block it, and before the Ming army climbed the city wall, he led the army to escape! Is this funny for me?

Not only did Zhu Cijiong feel strange, but all the generals felt strange, is this called defeat like a mountain? Absolutely impossible, Jiannu is a well-known fighting nation, and Huang Taiji is not an ordinary gangster, if they want to fight, they will flee, it is impossible at all!

The left guard of Dingliao was taken down so inexplicably, the battle situation was so strange that even Sun Chengzong couldn't figure it out, fortunately, Dolgon did not slaughter the city, and Zhu Cijiong was able to calmly gather a group of generals to discuss the next action.

Shengjing is in front of you, and you must fight it, but how to fight it?

It can be said that there is almost no big damage on the Houjin side, except for the loss of more than 50,000 people in Haizhou, the left guard of Dingliao Zhongzuowei was only killed by the barrage of hundreds of unlucky ghosts, and there is nothing else, which means that there are nearly 500,000 of the combined forces of Houjin and Mongolia now.

In terms of the Ming army, the left guard is still three legions and 300,000 people in Dingliao, which does not mean that the army is not a Houjin and Mongol alliance in terms of numbers, but there are too many cities along the way.

At the beginning, the Ming army occupied the numerical advantage, and the Houjin occupied so many cities, which also had to be defended, and that should also be defended, and as soon as the troops were dispersed, the Ming army could form a local advantage by casually gathering 300,000 horses. Now it's the other way around, it has become that the Ming army has to defend here and there, and the troops have to be dispersed, and then Jin, all the troops are concentrated in Shengjing, so it is difficult for the Ming army to form a local force advantage.

In addition to the problem of strength and weapons, the Ming army is indeed much ahead of Houjin in gunpowder weapons, but Houjin is not without a little ability to fight back, at least they can also build artillery, and it is a five-inch howitzer, it stands to reason that Huang Taiji knew the power of the Ming army's gunpowder weapons years ago, and it has been almost half a year, and he can't have no countermeasures at all. But the weird thing is that he really can't think of any countermeasures, Haizhou and Dingliao Zhongzuo Wei are only equipped with twenty cannons, and they are just placed on the city wall, and they are bombarded by the Ming army, even the arrow stacks and cannons are all bombarded, and then, there is no then!

Zhu Cijiong convened a group of generals to discuss for a few days, and finally came to the conclusion that Huang Taiji must have a backhand, and his ultimate purpose in doing so was to lure the Ming army to light the enemy's advance, and hurriedly ran to Shengjing City to attack the city, and then he came out with his back hands and defeated the main force of the Ming army in one fell swoop!

Since there is such a conclusion, it can't be rushed, Zhu Cijiong was ruthless, and began another round of soldiers and horses, first let Shi Kefa lead 50,000 Janissaries to Dingliao Right Guard by sea, replacing Mao Wenlong, leaving only 50,000 Praetorian Guards to garrison the capital, and Mao Wenlong led 100,000 Dongjiang troops to Dingliao Central Left Guard to join the main force of the Ming army.

Then he ordered that all the Ming troops from Zunhua to the front line of the capital be assembled in Zunhua, leaving only Hou Shilu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, to lead the original 50,000 defenders of Zunhua to guard Zunhua, and You Shiwei, the general soldier of Changping, led 30,000 horses to guard Shanhaiguan, and the remaining 100,000 horses were all transferred to Liaodong, so that Qin Yiming led 50,000 horses to guard Haizhou, Qin Gongming led 50,000 horses to guard the left guard of Dingliao, and Cao Wenzhao led 100,000 Guanning troops to the left guard of Dingliao and the main force of the Ming army.

In this way, the number of Ming troops participating in the battle of Liaodong reached a terrifying more than 800,000, in addition to a nearly 300,000 army stationed in the city and grain and grass, outside the left acropolis of Dingliao, a total of 500,000 troops were assembled outside the left acropolis of Liaoning, the Qin army, the Dongjiang army, the Guanning army and the first legion of the Praetorian Guard, and all the elites of the Ming army were assembled in Liaodong.

How terrifying it is for 500,000 troops to gather together, there are dozens of miles of company camps alone, the dense military tents cannot be seen at a glance, the grain and grass consumed every day add up to millions of catties, and the team that transports grain and grass alone is more than ten miles long!

Not only the army, but also the artillery Zhu Cijiong has made sufficient preparations, for more than two months, although Song Yingxing has been making every effort to produce artillery shells, but the casting of artillery has not stopped, and all the production is 618 howitzers, a total of 300 guns were built, and this time they were also transported to Liaodong with the assembled army. In this way, the 618 howitzers have reached a terrifying 500 pieces, and as for the shells, they have been sent over non-stop, and now they have accumulated nearly 200,000 rounds of six-inch solid ammunition and 100,000 scattered rounds.

Unconsciously, spring has passed, midsummer is coming, the weather is slowly becoming hot, Zhu Cijiong's heart is slowly becoming hot, the moment of the decisive battle is coming, the army has gathered, the artillery is in place, so let's go straight to Shengjing.

Of course, the 500,000-strong army is not just leaving, if you really dare to say go, then the enemy army will suddenly rush over, and you don't know how many people will be trampled to death just by trampling on each other. And this destination must also be set first, not to say that a large number of people run over, just stationed at will, when the time comes, it will be troublesome to attack the city, 500,000 troops and battalions are dozens of miles, if the siege team is stationed at the rear, then when they start to attack the city, they will have to run dozens of miles first, and then they will still have the strength to climb the ladder?

Therefore, before the departure of the army, Zhu Cijiong gathered all the army commanders together to discuss the march matters, and the generals present were:

Zhenguo Gong, Taifu, Jiliao Governor and Sun Chengzong, the secretary of the military department;

Qin Liangyu, the commander of the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard;

Lu Xiangsheng, the commander of the Tianxiong Army;

Sun Chuanting, the chief general of the Qin army;

Cao Wenzhao, the chief general of the Guanning Army;

Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang Army.

These can be said to be famous generals in history, and they are naturally familiar with marching and fighting, and the plan came out after discussing it for more than an hour.

The first is to arrange the siege troops, although Shengjing is said to be larger than Haizhou and Dingliao Zhongzuo Guard, but it is not too big, the city wall is about six miles wide, that is to say, the defenders on one side are at most fifty or sixty thousand, so as long as two legions are sent to the main attack, the result of everyone's discussion is that the Qin army and the Dongjiang army are the main attack, so these two legions are stationed in the front, and when they march, they go forward and cover each other.

Then there is the problem of defense, according to the scale of Shengjing, at most more than 200,000 horses can be stationed, then the Houjin and Mongolian coalition forces have at least 200,000 horses outside the city, these 200,000 horses have to be defended, Zhu Cijiong with the first army of the Praetorian Guard Army in the center, this is not to say, the Tianxiong Army and the Guanning Army are defending on the left and right, which is not to consider, mainly how to camp under Shengjing City to be safe.

In the end, the agreed result was to set up a large camp in the shape of a zigzag, that is, the former army was the Qin army and the Dongjiang army, which were separated from the left and right, and camped three miles away from Shengjing City; The first regiment of the Praetorian Guard is the Chinese army, with 300 500 618 howitzers in front, three miles away from the city, and the Chinese army camp behind, and the other 200 500 618 howitzers are lined up around the Chinese army camp; As for the other 600 Type 317 howitzers, Type 417 howitzers, and Type 518 howitzers, they were lined up in the camps of the Tianxiong Army and the Guanning Army respectively, on the left and right sides, so that if the enemy came to steal the camp, he would have to eat a meal of shells first, and then face the Tianxiong Army and the Guanning Army.

Everything was discussed, Zhu Cijiong stood up directly, and said with pride: "Tomorrow, the army will set off, go straight to Shengjing, drive out Jiannu, and restore Liaodong!" ”