After negotiating with Xiaozhuang, I did not immediately cross the Yellow River and advance northward.

Instead, while waiting for the money from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he waited for Li Dingguo's troops to go to Jinan Mansion to join us.

After waiting for about ten days, Li Dingguo arrived at Jinan Mansion, and the Manchu silver taels and horses were also sent to Fuzhou.

After implementing these two things, I cooperated with Li Dingguo to officially cross the Yellow River, and quickly won Dezhou, Shandong.

On the other side, Liu Wenxiu had already recovered Xi'an and was preparing to advance eastward to fight against the armies of Mu Tianbo and Zhang Zhao who were fighting in Henan.

After standing down, the Ming army can be said to have entered the hinterland of the Central Plains in the true sense, and the light of victory is already beckoning to me.

In such a situation, Li Zicheng was greatly shaken, and sent troops south several times to block the Ming army, but all of them failed.

In the end, the two armies faced Beijing, and the momentum of encirclement was formed, and it can be said that the angels were on my side.

Unexpectedly, just when I was about to enter Cangzhou, the spies in front suddenly came back to report to me, saying that Li Zicheng and Wu Sangui were personally leading a large army, and the troops were divided into two routes, preparing to block the two Ming armies going north in Tianjin Wei and Baoding Mansion.

After hearing this, Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang didn't care at all, thinking that the Ming army was now strong and strong, and their morale was booming, so they could defeat Wu Sangui and Li Zicheng without blowing any effort.

But I don't think so, because Xiaozhuang has already told me before that Wu Sangui used a strange formation to defeat the Manchurian Eight Banners Army in successive battles, and also won two cities.

With this in mind, I asked my soldiers not to be proud, and not to throw away the fruits of victory again.

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When the Ming army was just about to take Cangzhou, Wu Sangui had already stationed troops in Tianjin, although he claimed to have 120,000 elite soldiers, but in fact there were only 80,000 horses.

Even though the Ming army crushed Wu Sangui in terms of troops, I did not take it lightly, let alone attack immediately, but sent spies into Tianjin to find out the bottom of Wu Sangui.

The reason why I want to find out is that on the one hand, I am still afraid of Wu Sangui, after all, his military talent is not weaker than any of my generals; On the other hand, the battle of Tianjin, which is related to the entire Northern Expedition, once Wu Sangui is defeated in Tianjin, then I can easily enter Beijing.

Therefore, this battle can only be won, not defeated!

Soon, the person sent out to find out the bottom came back, and after he came back, he made a table of the basic information of Wu Sangui's army and presented it to me.

I took a look, and there are three deputy generals under Wu Sangui, namely Gao Peng, Xue Zhigang, and Mao Biao!

Among these three, Gao Peng has the strongest combat effectiveness, he has been fighting with Wu Sangui in Shanhaiguan before; Xue Zhigang was the defender of Tianjin City, while Ma Biao was in charge of the 10,000 sailors in the outer port of Tianjin.

After receiving this information, I discussed with my generals how to take Tianjin for these three people.

The generals under my command offered suggestions one after another, and finally I made a decision to lure the enemy into the depths, supplemented by land attacks, and mainly to fight this battle by sea attacks.

There are three main reasons for this strategy.

First, I don't want to fight with Wu Sangui.

Second, the number of sailors in Tianjin is far inferior to that of the Ming army, and according to historical records, Mao Biao's ability to fight water battles cannot be compared with Zheng Chenggong at all.

The third, Wu Sangui's most trusted lieutenant Gao Peng, although he has excellent military ability, he is a proud and arrogant person.

Think about it, if the Ming army lured Gao Peng to take the army out of Tianjin City with a small force, would Zheng Chenggong be able to take Tianjin from the sea in one fell swoop?

Once Zheng Chenggong took Tianjin City, he could turn around and attack Gao Peng with the Ming army, so that Wu Sangui would definitely be defeated.

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After formulating the tactics, I asked Sun Kewang to lead 30,000 soldiers and horses to feign an attack on the city, intending to lure out Gao Peng.

At the same time, I cooperated with Zheng Chenggong to personally lead 50,000 sailors to garrison troops in the outer port of Tianjin, and waited for Gao Peng to leave the city before launching an attack.

As I expected, when Sun Kewang's troops came to the city, Wu Sangui really sent Gao Peng to fight.

Sun Kewang, according to the strategy I formulated, fought a battle with Gao Peng, pretended to be defeated, and then began to retreat with the Ming army.

Gao Peng was arrogant and arrogant, so he led the army to chase him out.

When I learned that Gao Peng had left Tianjin with a large army, I cooperated with Zheng Chenggong and drove into the inner harbor of Tianjin with the sailors, intending to take down Mao Biao's troops entrenched in the inner harbor and then attack the city.

However, it is very strange that when the sailors entered the inner harbor of Tianjin, I did not see Mao Biao leading his troops out to block the attack.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive, worried that the Ming army would be tricked.

But Zheng Chenggong told me that there was no need to worry at all, because the Ming army's sailors crushed Mao Biao in terms of numbers, and Mao Biao was not his opponent even if he was clever in strategy.

Originally, I wanted to wait and see before I marched, but Zheng Chenggong insisted on advancing immediately, so I could only obey him.

Almost as soon as it was dark, the Ming army arrived at the inner harbor of Tianjin.

When I was about to arrive in the inner harbor, I looked at it, and there was no trace of Mao Biao, and no one was guarding the harbor, as if I was waiting for the Ming army to attack.

When I saw this, I instantly felt that something was wrong.

Because I suspect that Wu Sangui came up with a strategy of "using the other way and giving back to the other", deliberately luring the Ming army sailors into the inner harbor of Tianjin.

You must know that in the Ming Dynasty, the inner harbor of Tianjin was a long and narrow closed port, and once it was blocked on the periphery, it was difficult to get out.

In view of this, I said to Zheng Chenggong: "Xiao Zheng, let the army withdraw immediately, this battle cannot be fought!" ”

Zheng Chenggong asked with a confused face: "Your Majesty, why?" ”

"You can't be wrong if you listen to me!"

Zheng Chenggong said proudly: "Your Majesty, I have more experience than you in water warfare." I guess, Mao Biao must have withdrawn the sailors to the shore, wanting to block the Ming army when it landed! ”

As soon as Zheng Chenggong's words fell, I heard a sound of Suosuo.

Hearing this strange sound, I couldn't help but look back, only to see rows of small boats sailing towards the Ming army on the sea of the outer harbor.

Seeing this, I was shocked and said to Zheng Chenggong: "Xiao Zheng, you must withdraw!" ”

If I'm not mistaken, Wu Sangui's dog's day really came with me to lure the enemy deeper, deliberately let Mao Biao take the sailors out of the inner harbor, and wait for the Ming army to enter the inner harbor, and then flank the Ming army from the periphery.

After hearing my words, Zheng Chenggong did not panic at all, but said to me: "Your Majesty, what are you afraid of." Even if Mao Biao blocks the Ming army from the outer port, we don't have to be afraid. I will immediately let the tail 10,000 sailors deal with Mao Biao, and you take the remaining 40,000 people to land and attack the city! ”

What he said was indeed feasible, but what I didn't expect was that as soon as he finished speaking, on the beach of the inner harbor of Tianjin, there was a sudden rush of horses' hooves, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses poured to both sides of the inner harbor.

At this moment, a general dressed in black armor and holding a long-handled war knife was on the beach, and said arrogantly: "Chongzhen, don't come unharmed!" ”

I looked at it, and it was none other than Wu Sangui's brute who was speaking.

Seeing that Wu Sangui led the army to block up, Zheng Chenggong panicked, and he shouted loudly: "Retreat, retreat!" ”

"Hahaha!" Wu Sangui laughed wildly and said sharply: "Chongzhen, with Zheng Chenggong's talent, how can he settle the world!" ”

After that, he waved his hand and shouted: "Those who capture Chongzhen alive will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver!" ”

After saying this, tens of thousands of rockets were shot at the Ming army.

Because the ships at that time were made of wood, and the waterway in the inner harbor was narrow, the ships of the Ming army were crowded together, and the rocket fired, and the ships ignited instantly, and the soldiers of the Ming army had no time to deal with it.

What's even more fucked up is that because the open sea has been blocked by Mao Biao, the Ming army sailors couldn't turn around at all, and finally got trapped in the inner harbor.

Seeing such a situation, Lao Tzu was half dead in anger, and Zheng Chenggong commanded the army to break through in a panic.

In fact, breaking through the siege now will not play much role at all, because the Ming army has no way to retreat.

In view of this, I thought for a moment that the only way to reverse the situation was to take a "decapitation operation".

The so-called "decapitation operation" is to kill the leader, leading to his military morale.

Thinking of this, I jumped onto the shore with a scimitar in my hand, ready to kill Wu Sangui with my own strength!