When Cao Wenzhao received the exact news, Huang Taiji had already avoided Shenlong Gorge far away, and it was only a day's journey from Haizhou. At this time, it was too late to arrange an ambush, so he could only immediately deploy defenses and accumulate a large number of troops in the east where Huang Taiji entered Haizhou to prevent Huang Taiji from entering Haizhou City.

After Huang Taiji made a long detour, he finally saw Haizhou City from a distance. It was only between him and Haizhou City that there were dense Guards troops, eyeing them at any time, ready to meet their charge.

Huang Taiji stationed his army ten miles outside the city, and was not in a hurry to contact the city. Because the arrival of Houjin reinforcements will definitely reduce the pressure in the city, he is not worried that Haizhou City will be broken after there are reinforcements.

Huang Taiji carefully observed the troop arrangement of the guards, and the next day he pulled out the camp and headed north. The north was the weakest side of the Guards' defense, and Huang Taiji chose this place as a breakthrough, so that the Guards could only move north.

In a hurry, it was obvious that the movement of the soldiers could not be very flexible, and soon a large gap appeared. Huang Taiji gave an order, and the Houjin armor soldiers rushed to the northeast and became entangled with the guards.

The Guards' guns were not very useful in this kind of contact, so Zhang Zongling ordered to meet the enemy with a white blade. In this case, the advantage of the Guards is not very large, although the sharpness of the weapons is stronger, but when the formation is unstable, the advantage of training on weekdays cannot be brought into play.

The bayonets and the cold weapons of the Houjin soldiers rattled with each other, but the casualties were not large. Huang Taiji ordered all his white armor to go into battle, and finally tore a gap, and the forward rushed to the north gate.

At this time, Yue Tuo also sent people to attack from the north gate, converged the white flag, and launched a counterattack on the guards. Zhang Zongling saw that it was not a problem, and blew the whistle to withdraw the troops and retreat. The Guards began to retreat, and then the Jin army followed in hot pursuit.

Huang Taiji ordered: "Don't chase it, go into the city." "And the red flag was pressed in the city by the guards for so many days, and the bad anger finally found a way to vent, plus after Huang Taiji lost the battle last time, his prestige dropped greatly, and the red flag didn't look down on him, so he pretended not to hear it and continued to chase forward. After a while, the Guards ran separately on both sides, revealing the Guards artillery who were waiting in front of them.

At this time, Wang Zuomin led two infantry battalions to storm the north gate, forcing Zhengbai Qi to flee into the city in fear. And the chasing red flag was separated by Wang Zuomin outside the city gate.

About a thousand people ran out of the city with red flags, and now in front were the artillery of the Guards, behind which were the new forces of the Guards, and the troops of the Guards in front were also assembled with bad intentions. Zhang Zongling laughed and said: "Rao is like a ghost, and I want you to drink Lao Tzu's footwashing water, and the white flag runs away, you can't run away with the red flag." ”

The leader of the red flag is Ye Chen, looking at the situation, he understands that today he is afraid that there will be no return. He shouted: "Killing one is enough, killing two earns one." Rush me. ”

Courage is good, of course, but how could the Guards infantry, lined up, fight with bayonets with the help of artillery? Amid the roar of the cannonballs, the firecrackers methodically released their guns, charged them, and knocked the charging Houjin soldiers to the ground.

This was already considered a massacre, and the Houjin soldiers were not able to get close to the guards at all, and they had already turned into corpses. Zhang Zongling couldn't bear to see it, and let people start to surrender: "Put down your arms and don't kill, put down your weapons and don't kill." ”

The Houjin soldiers did not seem to understand the Manchurian dialect of the Guards, and continued to make futile attacks one by one. Zhang Zongling waved his hand and said, "Since they are unwilling to surrender, then kill them all." ”

When the battlefield was quiet, the Houjin soldiers had all fallen to the ground. Zhang Zongling shouted loudly: "Clean up the battlefield, cut off all the heads, and pile them in front of the north gate for me." ”

Huang Taiji and Yue Tuo briefly exchanged views on the current situation, and at this time, the guards came to report, and the Ming army piled up the heads of the Houjin soldiers into a Jingguan and stood in front of the north gate to demonstrate. Huang Taiji and the others hurriedly went up to the city, and when they saw the piled heads, Yue Tuo's eyes were cracked, and he patted the city bricks with his hand and said: "This revenge will not be avenged, and the oath will not be a man." ”

Huang Taiji got off the city wall with a gloomy face, and said to Yue Tuo: "Now the generals of the Ming army are very different from before, and they will not do this kind of thing before. Now that they have abandoned the notion that they have always valued the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, such a Ming army is truly terrifying. ”

Yue Tuo asked carefully, "Eighth Uncle, how are we going to deal with the Ming army outside the city?" ”

Huang Taiji said: "Although they are good at attacking cities, they have to pay a great price to capture Haizhou, for the sake of the two of us, the Ming army will not be willing." ”

Huang Taiji was wrong, after he led the army into Haizhou, Cao Wenzhao immediately asked people to send a letter to Lu Xiangsheng, Lu Xiangsheng got the news, and immediately called Liu Xingzuo and said: "Ben will prepare to lead two battalions to support Haizhou, and you are guarding in Yaozhou." ”

Liu Xingzuo said strangely: "Do you have to take Haizhou this time?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said with a smile: "It's not that you have to take Haizhou, but you have to kill or capture Huang Taiji." The emperor has always believed that the importance of Huang Taiji is not inferior to Nurhachi, and this time he was imprisoned in Haizhou, so he couldn't let him escape. ”

Liu Xingzuo said: "It turned out to be Sibeile, oh, it's the little slave chieftain......"

Lu Xiangsheng smiled: "It's okay, I know you're used to it, and you haven't changed it for a while." By the way, you know Huang Taiji, do you think he is very powerful? ”

Liu Xingzuo shook his head and said: "I don't see how powerful he is on weekdays, but he is a little different from other slave chiefs, he is familiar with Han books, and he is more friendly to Han people, that's all." ”

Lu Xiangsheng understood in his heart why the emperor attached so much importance to Huang Taiji. Relying only on the Houjin people, no matter how powerful they are, how to defeat the Ming army in the field is actually not a great threat, because there are too few Houjin people.

But if the Houjin people subdue the Han people, with the help of the Han people, it may become an existence that makes the Ming a headache, although Lu Xiangsheng will not imagine that the Houjin can replace the Ming, but at least he understands that with the help of the Han people, it will be more difficult to exterminate the Houjin.

He secretly thought in his heart that the emperor must have a very efficient spy organization, and he even knew the character of these slave chiefs well. With such an emperor here, why worry about the immortality of Jiannu!

Since Huang Taiji had the possibility of subduing the Han people, Lu Xiangsheng quickly decided to leave Huang Taiji in Haizhou City at all costs. Even if you have to pay the entire first division of the Guards, you will not hesitate to do so. Da Ming is a lot of people, and a large number of soldiers can be trained at any time, and the probability of Jin appearing an understanding person is not too high, and if one appears, one must be eliminated.