After repelling Huang Taiji, Zhu Cijiong did not let people pursue, but let the whole army rest on the spot and wait for orders. The next morning he summoned all the generals to a meeting, but this time instead of a blank sheet of paper, he hung a huge map of Liaodong, and he held not a charcoal pen, but a smooth white wooden pole.

Zhu Cijiong saw that all the generals had almost arrived, so he pointed to the map and said: "Now that Huang Taiji has retreated to Haizhouwei, hundreds of miles away from our army, what should we do next, whether to attack or defend, everyone will discuss." ”

When the generals heard this, they began to stare at the map and ponder.

I don't know how long it took, Zhu Cijiong felt that his legs were about to go numb, and none of the generals spoke. Zhu Cijiong was a little impatient, he glanced around, and found that everyone was a little cowering, looking like they were afraid of offending Long Yan, only Sun Chengzong's eyes were excited and eager to try.

Zhu Cijiong walked over directly, stuffed the white wooden pole into Sun Chengzong's hand, and said undeniably: "Taifu, you are most familiar with Liaodong, you can talk about it first." ”

With that, he turned around, turned his chair upside down, faced the map, and sat down directly.

Sun Chengzong took the white wooden pole, hesitated for a moment, then turned pale and bowed and said, "Please forgive Weichen for offending." ”

Zhu Cijiong raised his hand and pointed to the map, urging: "I forgive you for your innocence, hurry up and talk about it." ”

Only then did Sun Chengzong take the white wooden pole, crossed Zhu Cijiong, came to the map, pointed to the map, and said: "Weichen thinks that now that Huang Taiji is newly defeated, he has some scruples about our artillery, and he will definitely not easily go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with our army." We can first build a fortress on the side of the Sancha River, and then rely on this fortress to continuously repair the surrounding guards and fortresses, and weave a tight defensive network so that Huang Taiji will not be able to enter an inch. At the same time, we can also send troops to attack the Gaizhou Guard, the main defensive focus of Huang Taiji should be the north, the Gaizhou Guard in the south does not have too many soldiers and horses, as long as we take the Gaizhou Guard, the entire southeast of Liaodong can be slowly pocketed. At that time, there will be no barrier between the Liaodong Army, the Shandong Army and the Dongjiang Army under Mao Wenlong, the general soldier of Phidao, and the three armies can unite to fight against Jiannu, and there will be hope for recovering the entire territory of Liaodong. ”

Don't you think it's troublesome to build a bunker? Zhu Cijiong glanced around again, and found that all the generals were thoughtful, and they couldn't stop nodding, but no one raised objections!

Since these battle-hardened generals think it is feasible, then this method must be feasible, Zhu Cijiong clapped his hands and said: "Then come according to Taifu's wishes, the army will start tomorrow, go to the Sancha River to build a fortress, and take down Gaizhouwei." ”

Now the army assembled in Liaodong has Sun Chuanting's 100,000 Qin troops, as well as 50,000 elite Beijing battalions, and about 120,000 Liaodong troops, Zhu Cijiong and Sun Chengzong discussed, and decided to leave 20,000 Liaodong troops to garrison the first line of Santaizibao, Xiping Fort, and Zhenwu Fort, and the remaining 250,000 troops will escort the 50,000 people who originally built Santaizibao to build a city by the Sancha River.

Early the next morning, the army set up, Zhu Cijiong didn't care how the army went, the specific things were arranged by Sun Chengzong, and he himself sat on the dragon chariot, looked around with a telescope, and read Sun Chengzong's arrangements one by one, kept them in mind, and prepared for his own army to fight in the future.

Sun Chengzong has always been old-fashioned and meticulous in the arrangement of the march, although Huang Taiji has been bombarded with farts and urine, and it is unlikely that he will ambush and attack halfway, but Sun Chengzong still sent all the scouts to investigate back and forth in the vast area between the three cities of Santaizibao, Haizhouwei and Gaizhouwei.

Huang Taiji did not come to the sneak attack, but he did not stay in Haizhou Wei honestly, according to the scout's report, he actually sent about 20,000 infantry and about 10,000 cavalry to escort about 20 artillery pieces, and rushed to Gaizhou Wei.

Sun Chengzong secretly said that it was a pity, Houjin has never paid much attention to defense, and Gaizhou Wei originally had 5,000 defenders, and sent 50,000 horses to attack the city, which could be easily captured. He originally thought that as soon as he arrived at the place where the Sancha River Fort was built, he would immediately divide 50,000 troops to attack Gaizhouwei, and there were 200,000 troops blocking between Haizhouwei and Gaizhouwei, and Huang Taiji couldn't rescue even if he wanted to. But now that Huang Taiji has divided his troops to garrison, it will be much more troublesome to attack the city, and 50,000 horses will definitely not be enough, at least 100,000.

The siege of the city was originally the most troublesome thing, when the quality of the soldiers on both sides was about the same, the besieging side must have suffered a lot of casualties, and now Huang Taiji also transported twenty cannons, and the siege casualties will definitely increase greatly. But Gaizhou Wei must be attacked, and no matter how big the casualties are, it must be captured, this time it is not easy to suppress the arrogance of Huang Taiji, and the emperor led an army of 150,000 to personally drive and come to help, if you can't take Gai Zhouwei, then there will be no hope in the future.

Sun Chengzong's entanglement Zhu Cijiong didn't know, he had never led the army to attack the city, and he had no intuitive understanding of the difficulty of attacking the city, he only had a little poor experience in thermal weapon combat, or from the TV, compared to marching and commanding the battle, he might not even be as good as Zu Er.

Fortunately, the siege of Santaizi Fort has been lifted, and Zu Dashou has also been rescued, now there is no need to be so anxious at all, you can build Sancha River Fort first and then attack Gaizhouwei, with the fortress as the backing, there is no need to leave the 200,000 troops here to block Huang Taiji. As long as 50,000 horses are left, Huang Taiji will not want to capture Sanchahe Fort in the short term; As long as 100,000 horses are left, Huang Taiji is estimated to have no desire to attack. In this way, the rest of the men and horses can all go to attack Gaizhou Wei, and there is no need to worry that Huang Taiji will suddenly come out from behind when attacking the city, and engage in a two-sided attack.

Sun Chengzong reported the actual situation and his own ideas to Zhu Cijiong one by one, to see if the emperor had any better way, what could Zhu Cijiong do, he was mainly here to command the hot weapons battle, he really didn't understand the siege or anything, in the end, he could only follow what Sun Chengzong said, build the fortress first, and then talk about it after building the fortress.

Sun Chengzong is worthy of being an expert in building fortresses, under his command 50,000 people and 100,000 Liaodong troops worked together, quarrying, digging, burning bricks, and building walls in one go, 150,000 people went on the field, and the city walls on all sides were quickly raised at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the walls were completed in less than ten days.

Usually at this time, Huang Taiji would come out to dismantle the bunker, but this time he didn't come, because there was an idle and panicked Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong next to him. He took Sun Yuanhua and Sun Chuanting to pull 50,000 elite Beijing battalions and 100,000 Tianxiong troops to practice everywhere, and the gunfire and artillery never stopped.

If Huang Taiji comes over at this time, he can only play the best sparring partner, he thinks that he is born to be the protagonist, how can he do such a thing as a sparring partner, so he doesn't come.

After the wall is built, the next is the nun wall, arrow battlements, city gates, corner towers and other ancillary facilities, if these are to be carefully crafted, it may take several months, but if the function is just to be done, regardless of the appearance, it is still very fast, Sun Chengzong naturally has no time to pay attention to the aesthetics, so, in less than five days, these ancillary facilities are almost completed.

If it is a complete city, roads and dwellings must be built inside the city walls, but if it is purely used as a fortress, this is already possible. As for roads and dwellings, you can wait for the area around the fort to gradually become stable, and then recruit displaced people or military families to come and build them.

After the fortress is completed, people will be arranged, Zu Dashou seems to be a city guard specially trained by Sun Chengzong, and this time he was left by Sun Chengzong. However, this Sanchahe Fort is not the same thing as Santaizi Fort, it not only chokes the passage to the Quang Ninh Jin area, but also cuts off the connection between Haizhou Wei and Gaizhou Wei, which can be said to be the key to recovering the lost territory in southeastern Liaoning.

Therefore, Zhu Cijiong deliberately left Sun Chuanting and his 40,000 musketeers and 10,000 cavalry, plus 50,000 Liaodong soldiers led by Zu Dashou, the Ming army stationed in Sanchahe Fort reached 100,000 people, and Zhu Cijiong also left all 45 417 howitzers in Sanchahe Fort, so that even if Huang Taiji brought artillery to attack, it would be difficult to capture it.

As for the candidate for the main general who stayed behind, it is naturally Sun Chuanting, although Zu Dashou has rich experience in defending the city, but he is only a general soldier after all, and he belongs to the second rank of the general, but Sun Chuanting is the former governor of Shaanxi, and the current governor of the right capital of the five armies, both positions are the first rank, plus he is more familiar with flintlock pistols and artillery than Zu Dashou, and even Sun Chengzong has no opinion on appointing him as the main general.

At this point, Sanchahe Fort is a real fortress, 100,000 troops are stationed, the Ming Dynasty has never invested so many troops to defend a fortress since the war with Houjin, Huang Taiji knows that he will vomit blood in depression in the future, he can mobilize the most 150,000 troops now, 150,000 horses to attack the fortress garrisoned by 100,000 horses, unless Sun Chuanting and Zu Dashou are traitors, otherwise there is basically no hope to overcome.

Sun Chuanting and Zu Dashou naturally couldn't be traitors, so in the face of the fortress garrisoned by 100,000 troops, Huang Taiji could only vomit blood!

That's not all, there is another thing that makes him almost want to spurt blood is also underway: the little emperor Zhu Cijiong and the old guy Sun Chengzong actually went to attack Gaizhou Wei with an army of 150,000!

Do you want to do this! He has never been the only one who calculates others, and no one has ever calculated him like this, building a fortress to the middle, turning Gaizhouwei into a lonely city, and then surrounding the army, which is similar to the tactics he used when attacking Santaizibao, he just didn't build the fortress, blocking the road, that was the first thing he blocked people!

Of course, Zhu Cijiong and Sun Chengzong didn't go to besiege Gaizhouwei, they had already decided from the beginning that no matter how many people Huang Taiji arranged, they must capture Gaizhou City!

Not only because Gaizhou is a choke point connecting the north and south of Liaodong, but also because taking Gaizhou is equivalent to taking the southeast of Liaodong, and the more important reason is: Daming has been passively defending, defending, and defending since the Battle of Sarsh, and was attacked by Jiannu from Shenyang to Ningyuan, countless cities were conquered, but Daming never organized a decent counterattack, the only counterattack on Ningyuan, that was to take advantage of the fact that the main force of Huang Taiji was not in Liaodong, and the sneak attack was successful.

The Ming Dynasty is no longer the original Ming Dynasty, with the rapid development of the Ming military system, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army has made a qualitative leap, and now Zhu Cijiong is not short of money, food, and weapons and equipment, the only thing missing is a hearty victory, in order to announce the rise of the Ming Dynasty!

Therefore, Gaizhou City must be taken!