Cangzhou was also quickly captured, but because of the fierce resistance of the Manchus defending the city, the two guard divisions led by Gao Jie paid a relatively large price. In the end, the Ming army and the Han army in the city turned back and surrendered to Gao Jie at the city gate, and Gao Jie successfully captured Cangzhou and wiped out most of the Jiannu who were unwilling to surrender.

Cangzhou was captured, and this was the fifth day after Dolgon led his army back and rushed to the rescue of Beijing. After Gao Jie led the army to capture Cangzhou, the main army led by Cao Yue also arrived here, and he did not stop in Cangzhou, and continued to lead the fleet north.

Dezhou is more than 700 miles away from Beijing, and according to Cao Yue's estimates, it will take at least six or seven days for Dolgon's army to return to Beijing. Dolgon could get a group of men and horses to rush back in three to four days, but it was impossible for the main army to do so at this speed. The pursuing army led by Cao Bianjiao could not help but cause trouble for Jiannu.

You must know that the cavalry, which has not participated in the battle, is the main force of this pursuit, and more than 10,000 musketeers also rode horses in pursuit. The Ming army won great victories one after another, but the cavalry only had the opportunity to watch the drama and never entered the battle, which had already killed the soldiers of the cavalry. Now the task fell on them, and everyone was in a state of extraordinary excitement like clockwork.

When Dolgon's army retreated, it still adopted the previous strategy, allowing the Han army and the Korean army to break off. The morale of these servant armies, who suffered successive defeats, was extremely low, and their will to fight could not be compared with that of the Ming army. When Cao Yue arrived in Cangzhou, he received a report from Zi Cao Bianjiao, saying that the pursuing army he led had inflicted heavy losses on the broken Jiannu several times, and nearly 50,000 Jiannu had been eliminated and captured, most of which were servant troops.

Most of Jiannu's servants had been wiped out, and the Ming army pursued by Cao Yue encountered the second-echelon Mongol soldiers. The combat effectiveness of the Mongol soldiers was also far inferior to before, most of the battles were crushed at the touch of a button, and the pursuit battle was fought smoothly. Merely. Where Allah's power led by Dorgon himself went, they could not grasp it in real time, but it was believed that it was not much far from the pace of their pursuit.

Cao Yue, who coordinated the overall situation, did not expect that things would progress like this at the beginning of the Northern Expedition, and the current situation can be described as something he never dreamed of. Many times, he feels that everything is unreal, very unreal. It's just that he calmly accepted the current situation and went with the flow. If the First World War can completely dismiss Jiannu, then he will not let go of this opportunity.

The Northern Expedition was hastily struck. Cao Yue originally wanted to save Li Zicheng's rogues from fire and water, so that the remaining rogues and Jiannu would fight to the death, but looking at the current situation, the power of the rogues can no longer be used to contain Jiannu, and with the current strength of the Ming Guards, they can eliminate Jiannu and recover Beijing and the entire north. If he had known that the war with Jiannu would be like this, then he wouldn't need to keep the power of the Liukou and let Jiannu wipe them out. Jiannu wants to eliminate the rogue. will inevitably lose a lot of strength, and the Northern Expedition of the Ming Guards may be under less pressure.

However, after thinking about it, Cao Yue still felt the need to save the Liukou. After all, those are Han Chinese, and maybe many of them will become members of the Ming official army in the future. Jiannu is a captive, and he must not be allowed to kill more Han Chinese. Moreover, Jiannu conquered many places, and their power expanded further. It is possible that more Ming officials or rogues will surrender to Jiannu, so that the strength of Jiannu will not only decrease, but will greatly increase. The Ming Guards, who were equipped with a large number of firearms, did not have a hard time fighting Jiannu. It won't be difficult to eliminate the Rogues.

It is possible that after hearing about the combat strength of the Ming Guards, many rogues are afraid to defect or break away from the rogues. Just like the Jiang brothers, after hearing that the Ming Guards won one after another, they rebelled against Jiannu again, although it is contemptible to say that such a person is like this, but such a thing happened, at least it constituted a blow to the hostile forces.

On the way to Cangzhou with the warship and continue to Tianjin, Cao Yueling captured Cangzhou's Gaojie Division, and did not stop in Cangzhou, but attacked north by land, cooperating with the Daming Naval Division, which had almost arrived in Beijing, to attack Beijing, or to return to Beijing with Jiannu, who had delayed the return of reinforcements.

Having won Cao Yue's trust and being qualified to command two guard divisions to fight, Gao Jie swept away the past depression and became energetic. This attack on Cangzhou, there was no slackness, and finally repaid Cao Yue's kindness with a big victory. After receiving Cao Yue's order to implement the next strategic goal, he naturally did not hesitate and immediately acted according to Cao Yue's order.

Although Gao Jie has done many shameful things in the past, he is a tiger general after all, brave in battle, deputy has experience in leading the army, and there are more than 7,000 cavalry troops in the two guard divisions under his command. Since Cao Yue asked him to urgently reinforce the sailors attacking Beijing, in order to hurry, he immediately ordered 7,000 cavalry troops to rush to Beijing, and he led his follow-up men and horses to march in the direction of Beijing as quickly as possible.

In the process of rushing to Beijing quickly, Gao Jie did not forget the threat of Jiannu, he ordered the soldiers under his command to be fully prepared, in case of encountering Jiannu, all departments must think of cooperating with Jiannu, and not rushing, so as not to be surrounded and annihilated by Jiannu.

And just when Cao Yue and Gao Jie left Cangzhou one after another, Cao Ming, who commanded the sailors to take Tianjin Wei, had already arrived at the city of Beijing, outside the Chaoyang Gate.

Cao Ming was originally a deputy general of Cao Yue's father, Cao Wenzhao, and later returned to Datong to recuperate due to injury, but due to serious injuries, he eventually became disabled. Nian Qi was loyal to his father Cao Bianjiao, and was very strategic, Cao Yue let him serve in the water division, and finally because he could be promoted to the senior general of the water division, this time he even received the task of attacking Tianjin Wei.

As a waste person, he can still be reused by Cao Yue, Cao Ming is naturally grateful, and swears to follow Cao Yue to fight the world in this life. He also lived up to Cao Yue's expectations, and unsurprisingly captured Tianjin Wei in return.

After capturing Tianjin Wei, Cao Ming also faithfully carried out Cao Yue's arrangement, and immediately led the sailors to attack Beijing.

Because there was a volley by Jiannu along the canal, and there were also things blocking the canal, the sailor ships arrived outside Beijing a day and a half later than expected. However, they finally rushed to the city of Beijing before the main force of Jiannu who came back to help.

Because it was already known that the warships of the Ming army were attacking along the canal, Jiannu set up interceptions in the canal near Beijing, but because of the rush of time, only some wooden stakes and other things were placed. The people who were driven to do this, when they heard that the Ming officials and troops had recovered Beijing, their minds changed early, and they all looked like they were not working hard, and they were all doing things like piling in the canal, and things like stones were not moved to the side of the canal.

In the end, when they saw the warships of the Ming Guards approaching, these people took advantage of the panicked escape of the overseer's Jiannu and scattered in a crowd.

The naval warships of the Ming Guards finally arrived outside Chaoyang Gate smoothly.

When the warship was about to arrive at the canal dock, Jiannu organized forces and prepared to launch a surprise attack while the ships of the Sailor Division were not stable, but they were soon bombarded by the guns on the warships and fled back to the city wall in embarrassment.

Eventually, after clearing the Jiannu and obstacles near the dock, the sailors anchored and aimed their guns at the head of the city. (To be continued.) )